Fighting a dog depends on the owner, knowing that Ma Shiying is the emperor's loyal dog, Huang Shu is still unyielding, not giving the emperor face at all, and even implying threats in his words, nothing more than relying on Zuo Liangyu's troops. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Zuo Liangyu, the word Kunshan, Linqing people. The official is the general of the thief, the prince is the young protector, and the title of Ning Bo.

At the beginning, he fought against the Qing army in Liaodong and was promoted by Hou Sui. Later, in the war to suppress the displaced people, he continued to expand his ranks, became more and more arrogant, and supported his own troops.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen (1642), Hou Sui was the superintendent and sent 500,000 yuan to reward Zuo Liangyu's subordinates, Zuo Liangyu and Li Zicheng fought in Zhuxian Town, Zuo Liangyu was defeated and retreated to Xiangyang. Kaifeng fought again, Zuo Liangyu did not dare to fight. Li Zicheng then attacked Xiangyang, Zuo Liangyu withdrew his troops to Wuchang, Zuo Liangyu asked the king of Chu for soldiers and food, but he did not get supplies, so he plundered Wuchang, including Cao grain and salt. After arriving in Jiujiang, he had 200,000 troops and waited and saw for self-protection. After Zhang Xianzhong conquered Wuchang, the imperial court strictly ordered troops to go out to defeat Zhang Xianzhong, who had not yet gained a stable foothold, and recovered Hanyang. After Zhang Xianzhong entered Shu, he sent troops to recover Wuchang.

Wuchang, where Zuo Liangyu sits, is a strategically important place that guards the Yangtze River and is located in the upper reaches of Nanjing, which can be said to be the key to the survival of the Zhangwu regime. Therefore, as soon as Emperor Zhu Youhua ascended the throne, he immediately sent an envoy to comfort Zuo Liangyu.

Zuo Liangyu didn't get the "merit of making a decision", secretly hated it, and did not buy the envoy of Emperor Zhang Wu, and threw aside the emperor's edict sent to Wuchang in front of his subordinates. refused to accept the holy decree, and threatened that the orphans of the former emperor were still alive, and only listened to the orders of the crown prince and the two kings of Yong and Ding, and refused to recognize anything else.

It wasn't until the imperial court was willing to crown him as the Marquis of Nanning, the crown prince and the prince, that he pretended to accept the holy decree and barely recognized the Zhangwu regime.

At this time, Zuo Liangyu's soldiers numbered nearly 100,000 and their influence spread throughout the entire Huguang region, and they were known as "800,000" to the outside world.

For this kind of feudal town that does not obey orders, Zhu Youhua did not think of solving it by force, and the reason why he has not done it for a long time is only one reason, he can't do it.

Throughout the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, there were indeed a lot of Ming troops that could fight, in order of combat power, the strongest was the Guanning soldiers in Liaodong, followed by Sun Chuanting's Qin soldiers, and then Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army, the fourth place was Hong Chengchou's Hong soldiers, and Zuo Liangyu's army could only be ranked fifth.

Time flies, and now it's not what it used to be. By the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, when the Zhang Wu regime was established, the situation was very different.

Although at this time, the Guanning soldiers in Liaodong still maintained the honor of the Ming army with the strongest combat power, but they were far away in the northeast, and with Wu Sangui surrendering the Qing army, it was impossible to expect it to be used by the imperial court. And the second to fourth places in combat power, the Qin soldiers, Hong soldiers, and Tianxiong armies, were either disbanded because the main general died in battle, or the main general was replaced and ceased to exist.

In the south at this moment, the army with relatively strongest combat power is none other than Zuo Liangyu's department, and among the four towns in Jiangbei, only Gao Jie's department and Huang Degong's department can barely match it. Compared with this left soldier who had defeated Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other fierce people, the combat strength of the soldiers and horses in the rest of the towns was much worse.

Using a feudal town to fight a feudal town, the outcome is unpredictable, Zhu Youhua can't afford to lose, and he can't afford to win, if he loses, he doesn't have to think about the ending, he just rolls off the stage, and then he is clicked off with a knife. An overthrown emperor must not end well.

If they are lucky enough to win, the winning feudal town will surely be a great achievement, and the unrestrained power will be a serious threat to the imperial court, and the winning feudal town may become a new "Zuozhen" at that time, and it is even more powerful than the "Zuozhen". Once the mutiny, the consequences are even more unimaginable.

Relying on feudal towns to shield imperial power has been proven by countless bloody histories to be unfeasible.

What Zhu Youhua can really rely on is only the 10,000 imperial battalion pro-army who are training in Nanjing, and the backbone of the officers above the rank of officer in them are all the original Fuwang Mansion Guards' cronies, this is a truly reliable and controllable force!

At this moment, the imperial camp has not yet been trained, and the so-called pulling a hair will move the whole body, and Zhu Youhua will not fight a battle that he is not sure of, so he can only treat the "Zuozhen" for the time being and play a soft and appeasement policy.

Therefore, when he saw Zuo Liangyu's spokesperson in the imperial court, Huang Shu, violently beating Ma Shiying, who actively supported him, he did not speak, nor did he pull the sidelines, but just calmly waited for everything to end. After that, he also drove Ma Shiying home. Zhu Youhua did all this, just to express a meaning: I value you very much and give you enough face! You should also restrain your subordinates and stop a little!

Zuo Liangyu, who learned of the new emperor's attitude, finally restrained a little, and once he fully recognized the legal status of the new emperor Zhangwu, he began to selectively carry out the orders of the imperial court.

Before he could defeat a few Donglin parties, he was forced to go into the wilderness, which was really unlucky. However, Ma Shiying was neither discouraged nor discouraged, and dusted off his clothes with a smile, preparing for a new day, because he knew that His Majesty the Emperor would not let himself be idle for too long.

As expected, not long after Huang Shuzhi left Nanjing complacently, Zhu Youhua issued an edict: Tell Ma Shiying to enter the cabinet quickly, and there must be no mistake.

A verbal edict recalled Ma Shiying, who was idle at home, and asked him to quickly return to the cabinet to deal with the accumulated government affairs.

The emperor is inseparable from Ma Shiying, and Ma Shiying is inseparable from the emperor, which is very clear to both sides.

Zhu Youhua knew that if he wanted to truly control the government, he had to suppress the incomparably powerful Donglin Party, and Ma Shiying was one of the most important tools to suppress the other party. The so-called "power traitor" is just a tool for the emperor to expand his imperial power.

It's just that Zhu Youhua didn't expect that the Donglin Party was so difficult to deal with, and as soon as the suppression was effective, they began to collude with the feudal town to coerce the imperial court. As a result, he became deeply vigilant, and he became more urgent and attentive to the cultivation of his cronies' armed forces. There really will be a day when it will have to be solved by force!

Under tremendous pressure, Zhu Youhua ran more diligently to the barracks.

On a shooting range on the east side of the Imperial Camp School Grounds.

Zhu Youhua, escorted by dozens of personal guards, watched the sergeants practice target shooting on the sidelines.

Hundreds of bird-gunned soldiers stood in two columns, all leaning their bird-guns on their shoulders.

A military commander next to him shouted: "Take the gun!" ”

Two columns of bird-gunned soldiers shouted at the same time: "Take the gun!" ”

With a bang, they all took the bird guns in their hands.

The military commander shouted: "Vertical gun!" ”

With a "bang", two columns of bird guns stood on the ground together.

Commanding Officer: "Reload!" ”

Two columns of gunners stuffed gunpowder and lead bullets from the cartridge ammunition into the mouths of the birds.

Commandant: "Take the cane!" ”

The two columns of bird-gunned soldiers pulled out the tongs together, stabbed them three times into the mouth, stabbed the gunpowder lead bullets solidly, and then inserted the tongs back.

Commandant: "Gun!" ”

The two columns of bird-gunned soldiers set up the bird-guns in a shooting position together.

The military commander raised the small flag and waved it violently.

The fire was blazing, smoke was rising, and crackling sounded.

Ninety steps ahead, in a row of targets, sawdust flew sideways, and most of the targets were shattered.

Zhu Youhua nodded with satisfaction and shouted "stop".

Then he walked to the front of the queue of bird guns, and casually signaled a bird soldier in the back row to hand over the bird gun in his hand to himself, and the bird soldier carefully handed over the bird gun in his hand as ordered.

Zhu Youhua looked at this bird gun, black and thick, the whole body is made of fine iron, the gun tube is straight and long, there are front sights and doors, the back of the gun is sealed with bolts, and the wooden support is slightly bent downward. At first glance, it looks like a well-made firearm.