Chapter 152: Come to Xiucai
After Zhu Youxiao left Hebei and entered the Beijing Division, Luo Sigong's plan was officially implemented, and the situation in Hebei suddenly began to become tense. Sure enough, as Luo Sigong expected, not everyone went to Handan immediately after receiving the official documents from Huang Zunsu and Xiong Tingbi. After the Datong incident, all the officers and soldiers in Xuanfu Town knew what it meant to go to Handan.
Wang Erxin, the general of Yongning of Xuanfu, Gao Chengxun, the general of Xuanfu Dushi, and Wang Yingshen, the guerrilla of Xuanfu, refused to go to Handan because they were sick. Yongning City is the east road of Xuanfu Town, with heavy troops, and Dushi City is the upper north road of Xuanfu Town, which also has heavy troops, and the soldiers and horses of the two cities add up to 30,000 people. And Wang Yingxin is good friends with Wang Erxin. Of course, in addition to these three people, there are many people who also claim illness and refuse to go.
But Yang Yingrui, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, had just taken office, and he had no foundation in Xuanfu for the time being, so he could not shirk it, and he immediately went to Handan after receiving the official document.
For such a situation, both Huang Zunsu and Luo Sigong had already prepared, and the two decided to conduct a clean government review of the officers who had already arrived, and then complete the reorganization of the army under their control after the review.
Xuanfu Town is an important town on the nine sides, which belongs to the important area of Gyeonggi, and if Xuanfu Town is broken, the entire Beijing Division will be completely exposed to the attack of the enemy. This prevents the integrity review process from being sustained for too long.
Fortunately, this kind of work is very handy for Jinyiwei, Jinyiwei also has thousands of households in Xuanfu, and he still knows more about the situation in Xuanfu. In order to speed up the review work, Luo Sigong transferred a large number of Jinyi guards from the Beijing Division to assist.
In just one month, the censorship of Hebei military officials was over. Although the results of the examination were crude, they were able to identify the corruption of officials, and even obtained a lot of evidence of corruption among other civil servants.
"There are still some officers who have not come to Handan to report, how should we deal with it?" Chen Si asked.
"Admiral Chen, now you will reorganize the army that has completed the review, and as for the other officers, let me wait and then consider how to deal with them?" Huang Zunsu said.
"At the time of the examination of the officers, except for the Xuanfu, the other guards had already completed the reorganization, and our Tiger Leaping Army had now expanded to 40,000 people, and the last general thought that in order to complete the reorganization of the Xuanfu, it was necessary to use the momentum of thunder to make the Xuanfu armies dare not move." Chen Si suggested.
"What does Mr. Yang think?" Huang Zunsu asked.
"Xuanfu is an important town on the nine sides, an important place in Gyeonggi, Xuanfu must not be chaotic, a chaos will definitely endanger the central government, and the general will think that it should be used strong." Yang Yingrui said.
"This official thinks that he can send an official letter to the officials who have not arrived again, and if he does not come again, I should ask His Majesty for instructions and send troops to announce the government." Luo Sigong suggested.
"This matter cannot be delayed for a long time, and it will change after a long time. It will be handled according to the opinion of Commander Luo. Huang Zunsu thought for a while and said.
"The last general thinks that at this time it is necessary to send troops to seize Jimingyi, the east and west cities of Shunshengchuan, and Geyubao, and other places, the officers of these places are now in Handan City, and the garrison is empty, once these places are controlled, even if there is turmoil in Xuanfu, they will not be able to threaten the central government. On the contrary, if it is seized by others, the preemptor can not only threaten the capital division, but even send troops to Baoding Mansion and other places, and we will definitely not be able to control the whole situation at that time. Chen Si again suggested sending troops.
"Admiral Chen, wait for me to ask Your Majesty before making a decision, after all, sending troops to the Xuanfu may cause unease in the entire Xuanfu." Huang Zunsu politely refused.
"This official thinks that what Admiral Chen said is extremely true, Your Majesty has given me the right to act cheaply, and this official thinks that we can send people into Xuanfu first to reorganize the Xuanfu army, and if the situation changes, we can also rely on the reorganized Tiger Leap Army to stick to Xuanfu." Luo Sigong made a compromise proposal.
"Then according to the advice of Commander Luo, first send people into the Xuanfu to reorganize the Xuanfu army." Huang Zunsu thought about it carefully, and finally agreed with Luo Sigong's opinion again.
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Lai Xiucai, since joining the new army, he got this nickname, more than a year has passed, his original name is no longer remembered, everyone remembers his "Lai Xiucai" nickname. Lai Xiucai had been following Xiong Anwen before the Battle of Mubang, and then Xiong Anwen went to the Begging Army, but he was left in the Longteng Army, and now he has been transferred to the Tiger Yuejun Army as the commander of Qian.
When he first joined the new army, he still seemed a little weak, but after experiencing several lives and deaths, his temperament and even his appearance have undergone fundamental changes. He has seen too many lives and deaths on the battlefield, and has killed more people, and he has a kind of evil aura that he can't hide all over his body.
And the change in appearance mainly comes from the battle of Datong, in the first battle of Datong, Lai Xiucai was slashed by a cavalry with a big brain, and this knife happened to be cut in his face, fortunately, when this knife was cut, he avoided it quickly enough, but he was slashed in the face. But the knife also allowed him to recuperate in the wartime hospital for more than ten days, and the injury was healed, but it left a scar on his face that can never be erased. This hideous scar made him even more angry, so that Lai Xiucai, who originally looked weak, no longer had a trace of scholarly breath.
"Scars are the best medal for a soldier." This sentence came from Zhu Youxiao's mouth in this era, and this is also Lai Xiucai's favorite sentence, and he often puts this sentence on his lips.
This time, he was ordered to go to Geyubao to reorganize the army. Geyubao belongs to the middle road of Xuanfu Town, is the station of the general of the middle road of Xuanfu Town, and there is a saying in history that "there is Geyubao first, and then there is Xuanhua City". In addition to Geyu Fort in the middle road, there are ten fortresses such as the Longmen Acropolis, the Great and Small Baiyang Forts, and the garrison has reached 30,000.
When Lai Xiucai arrived, the entire Xuanfu Town was already full of rumors, the army's morale was unstable, and morale was extremely low. If someone invades Xuanfu at this time, it will almost take no effort to defeat the entire Xuanfu and bring troops to the capital. Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao defeated Lin Dan Khan in the Battle of Datong, so that the surrounding Mongols did not dare to move.
After coming to Xiucai, he immediately gathered all the 30,000 troops in Geyubao, but now in fact, the garrison of the entire Geyubao is only 20,000, and nearly thirty percent is already empty.
According to historical records: Xuanfu Town is one of the original four-sided towns, the original number of officers and soldiers was 150,000, but in the Hongzhi and Zhengde periods, Xuanfu only 67,000 officers and soldiers remained, of which more than half of the soldiers were recruited, and the number of military households had been reduced by more than half.