Chapter 511: Handsome Tent Conversation

"Everything is fine in Shandong, don't worry about Guogong!"

From Jinan to this side of the urgent letterhead, the letter is just these words, Li Meng read it in the handsome tent, directly handed it over to the pro-soldier military academy, and rode a horse to preach in various armies.

The vast majority of the soldiers in the Jiaozhou battalion did not know about the chaos caused by the cult in Linqingzhou, but the news that everything was fine in Shandong would make the soldiers feel at ease.

"I'm afraid that ten days have passed, why did you just come over these few words?"

Li Meng asked indifferently, and the messenger replied respectfully:

"Back to the marshal, Mr. Gongsun said that it is not too late to send someone over to tell the details when the marshal reports to Shandong, so as not to disturb the morale of the army, Mr. Gongsun also said that the prefect of the king made a fuss, which is indeed a trivial matter."

Calculating the time, it is estimated that the messenger who came to report the detailed news is already on the way, because the good news of his victory over the thieves has been sent to Shandong on the day of the war, which is similar to his expectations, it is indeed a trivial matter, although the prefect of the king sent someone to report urgently, but in the situation of Shandong, who can make trouble.

When they were out fighting, the soldiers and soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion were relatively young, and homesickness was inevitable.

After Yuan Wenhong, the head of the Jiaozhou battalion, heard the news, although his expression did not change, he still put his mind at ease, it had already been passed on over there, saying that Tang Er, the commander of the Ma Army, and Gao Jie, the general soldier of Ming Yansui, had already finished reading the barracks, and Li Meng would not entertain a general like Gao Jie.

For these generals above the guerrilla level of the Ming Dynasty and holding military power, Shandong has prepared a file as much as possible, especially for places like Shaanxi, where troops are sent out, Gao Jie, the general soldier of Yansui, is also a local powerful figure, and naturally there will be investigations and materials against him.

Although Gao Jie is also the chief soldier of a town, from the beginning to the time he was recruited, this kind of behavior can only be called obscene, and it is completely the style of bandits.

Such a person can actually mix into the position of the general soldier, it can be seen what this Ming Dynasty has become, such a general because he has thousands of old backgrounds brought from the Shun army, looting soldiers and horses into tens of thousands of troops, the Ming court can only use high-ranking officials to encircle such powerful generals, but Gao Jie's strength is not worth mentioning at all in front of the Jiaozhou battalion, he wants to catch more soldiers from the locality, so that he can add more chips when he surrenders, such a move is self-righteous and clever, but in the eyes of Li Meng, it only adds more disgust.

In the ranks of the Ming army, the cavalry horse team is also elite, the horse team of the Jiaozhou battalion is not only well-equipped, but also forbidden, in the equestrian and horse warfare does not show anything special, Yansui general soldier Gao Jie looks at it this way, but can not perceive how strong the Jiaozhou battalion is, it is nothing more than a lot of people.

When he came to the base camp, under the instruction of Li Meng, he arranged for Tang Er to lead him around, what kind of foot soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were, nothing more than a scoundrel poor man with weapons, and what kind of foot soldiers of the Jiaozhou camp looked like, well-equipped, high-morale, well-trained, and murderous.

No matter how confused Gao Jie was, after looking at the tens of thousands of foot soldiers, hundreds of cannons, and huge supplies in the base camp, he finally understood the extent of the difference in strength between the two sides.

With such a gap, all unrealistic delusions and clever tricks have been beaten and dissipated, and I honestly ponder what I should do in the future.

After eating a simple lunch, Tang Er passed it on to the soldiers of the Shuai Tent, and after a while, the soldiers on the other side of the Shuai Tent sent a reply, saying that it was the Da Shuai Pass.

At this time, Gao Jie was not relaxed before he came, but was a little nervous and restrained, and in the same Ming officialdom, Gao Jie naturally knew something about this Duke of Qi.

Ten years ago, he was just a child of an unemployed military household selling salt, and there were rumors that Li Meng was a fool back then, but from that time on, this military household who operated the cheap business of selling salt began to rise, and in just a few years, he stepped from a garrison, a capital division, a guerrilla, and a general to today's position as a national prince.

Purely from the point of view of promotion, Li Meng is not the fastest, after Gao Jie was recruited, he became the chief military officer of the Ming Dynasty in about five years, and it is said that some people did it in three years.

Li Meng is different, every step of his way is based on brilliant victories, these victories, from the local bandits to the big battle with the army of displaced people, but also with the battle with the Tartar soldiers and horses, relying on these undoubted military merits, is to be promoted step by step.

These victories are not the kind of Ming army generals' officialdom to kill good and risky merits, but the real enemy head, can stand anyone's inspection of the merits, and Gao Jie has also heard rumors, several wars, Jiaozhou battalion are decapitated fraud, not to do more, but to do less, it is said that the Jiaozhou battalion in the vortex water beheaded nearly 100,000, but the report to the imperial court is only a few thousand, as for the Tartar head outside the Beijing division of the Jingguan, this is the world spread.

After seeing such a scale and strength in the Jiaozhou camp today, the original rumors convinced Gao Jie, and he could be regarded as a figure who had seen the market, but he was extremely nervous.

When he came to the Jiaozhou camp commander's tent, Gao Jie had all kinds of plans, but now they were all replaced by nervousness, and followed Tang Er, the commander of the Ma army, into the tent, Tang Er in front of him knelt down respectfully, and Gao Jie couldn't help but kneel down here, but after kneeling, he didn't hear what Li Meng said, and he couldn't help but be more nervous.

Tang Er, the commander of the Ma army, kowtowed according to the rules, and Li Meng asked with a smile:

"Tang Er, for the first time, let you be in charge of a direction independently, you played well, my father is very satisfied!"

Hearing such a compliment from his own general, Tang Er was inexplicably excited, and hurriedly kowtowed and knelt down to thank him, looking at Li Meng actually didn't see himself, Gao Jie was even more worried, Li Meng asked a few words briefly, turned around and said:

"Gao Jie, huh?"

According to the rules, the two sides are still courtiers who are officials together under the Ming Dynasty, Li Meng should also politely call him a tall man, hearing this title, Gao Jie has a faint fear in his heart, under the control of the other party, his life is not in his own hands, and the other party is so hostile, Gao Jie hurriedly kneeled a few steps, stepped forward and kowtowed and said:

"Back to Qi Guogong, it is the villain Gao Jie."

"In the past few days, the gentry in Jiaxian County have written to my father, saying that you Gaojie has connived at your subordinates to enlist in the army and loot money in the past few days, is this true?"

Li Meng said plainly, but Gao Jie seemed to have a thunder explosion in his ears, and his whole body trembled, and he knelt down and kowtowed again and again, saying:

"Lord Guogong, Lord Guogong, this is all slandered by those people, the villain is bent on returning to the Guogong, how dare he have those different intentions, and go to the Guogong Mingcha, Guogong Mingcha, General Tang, you are not adjacent to the villain, I hope you will testify to the villain, explain a few words, the villain is grateful......"

Tang Er had already stood up, standing beside Li Meng as he did every day, he and Li Meng both looked at Gao Jie with disgusted eyes, Li Meng listened to the crying below, and gradually felt a little impatient, and said directly:

"Gao Jie, you now have more than 40,000 soldiers in your hands, and I will send 6,000 people to kill all your soldiers and horses, do you believe it or not?"

Hearing this, Gao Jie's body trembled even more, but thinking about what he saw and heard outside, he knew that what Li Meng said was not a lie, he knew how his own soldiers were hasty, Gao Jie even felt that Li Meng underestimated the combat effectiveness of his army, and the four thousand foot soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion were enough to completely kill his soldiers and horses.

"Lord Guogong, the villain sincerely takes refuge, if the Lord Guogong exerts thunderous anger on the villain, it will chill the thoughts of the latecomers."

Li Meng and Tang Er glanced at each other, but they smiled and said disdainfully:

"If you are a latecomer like this, this father would rather not, Gao Jie, don't be afraid, this father will not kill you, two roads for you to go, if you want to join the army, there is also your place in the army, with the appearance of your subordinates, at most you will be given a thousand generals, if you don't want to join the army, 40,000 troops, I will give you 60,000 taels of silver, your original property will not move, provided that your soldiers and horses cannot make a mess when you are dismissed and reorganized, can you agree?"

Every time he said a word, Gao Jie, who was kneeling on the ground, turned pale a little, and the trembling on his body intensified, but after Li Meng finished speaking, Gao Jie made a decision in a short time, and directly kowtowed to the ground, and said respectfully:

"The Lord Guogong is merciful, the villain has been fighting horses for many years, and he also wants to enjoy his family at home, the villain is willing to take money, the villain's soldiers and horses, the villain controls it, and there will never be a little chaos."

Li Meng finally laughed this time, nodded and said approvingly:

"Gao Jie, you are really a smart person who understands current affairs, put your heart down, and be a rich man in my Shandong place, which is a hundred times more comfortable than being a soil emperor in Yansui, as long as you are at ease for the people, my father guarantees the safety and safety of you and your family, come here, take Lord Gao down to rest first, and then return with Commander Tang!"

Several heavily armed soldiers walked in and stood behind Gao Jie, Gao Jie was also a bachelor, knowing that he was already helpless now, he didn't dare to lose his manners, or kowtowed respectfully to Li Meng, so he went down with his own soldiers, and when Gao Jie came out of the tent, Tang Er bowed down a little anxiously and asked:

"Dashuai, although this Gao Jie is a little obscene, but if we deprive him of his military power like this, the rest of the Ming court generals?"

Li Meng waved his hand and said in a solemn voice:

"Gao Jie's soldiers and horses are mostly old and weak, they are all ruffians who do evil, there is no role on the battlefield, but the scourge of the people is first-class, if they are surrendered, the matter of military discipline will be out of control sooner or later, and the army will definitely not be stationed in Henan again, and it will take a lot of effort to clean up his tens of thousands of horses, Gao Jie and other people, do you think he will be at ease after he falls?"

Hearing what Li Meng said, Tang Er also had nothing to say, but he didn't have anything to worry about, Gao Jie's soldiers and horses were real chickens and dogs for the horse team of the Jiaozhou battalion, if there were any fluctuations, it would be easy to kill them all, it was very simple, Li Meng opened his mouth and added:

"This time, a few general soldiers, that is, He Renlong and Bai Guangen, can be used, if they can take the initiative to surrender, they are ready to be arranged to go to the grassland outside the Saiwai, and the rest of the people, my father doesn't want to use them anymore, Tang Er, you don't have to worry, wait for the next return, this army will allocate three regiments for you to go together, Gao Jiejun or Tuntian or choose its strength to make up for the heavy people, if it is chaos, then kill it!"

Tang Er understood Li Meng's intentions, and hurriedly bowed down to receive the general's order, Li Meng said with a smile:

"Let you come this time, naturally not for what Gao Jie, the battle of Xiangcheng, although it is to eliminate most of the thieves, but there are also Henan and Henan, Huguang has not been cleared, originally arranged for Chen Liu to be responsible for Henan Huguang purge, and later thought that he was mostly a foot soldier, inevitably less mobile, this duke is determined to divide your horse army into two parts."

The marshal talked about his future plans, Tang Er hurriedly stood in front of Li Meng, bowed down and listened carefully, Li Meng said eloquently:

"Now there are 2,000 iron cavalry, more than 5,000 light cavalry, if you count the Shun army horse team captured on the battlefield, there are almost more than 13,000, the horse army light cavalry is divided into 3,000, and the Shun army prisoners are divided into 4,000, and they are trained and organized on the spot, you also stay here, cooperate with Chen Liu to clear the remnants of the Shun army, and the rest of the iron cavalry and light cavalry, I will keep it for you for the time being, and bring it back to Shandong first, how about it, but what is your opinion?"

Tang Er's mood was agitated, and he took a deep look, what else do you have to say, the current Jiaozhou battalion system, the most lacking is the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, the general Chen Liu, Chen Liu's command of the Xuzhou Army is set up for the Shun army in the direction of Henan, this time Chen Liu led the army into Henan, purged the remnants of the Shun army, and determined the rule of the Jiaozhou battalion over Henan, which is an errand that everyone is jealous of. The second is that Henan is the heart of the Central Plains, and there are remnants of the Shun army, how great is this feat.

Ma Jun and pro-soldiers, although these two teams have strong combat effectiveness, they can lead the position is not high, Tang Er and Huang Ping are both with the rank of general.

Originally, Wang Hai, the commander of the army, went to the Korean garrison to serve as a general, and now he is the position of the chief soldier, which makes Tang Er really envious, but he is the chief general of the Ma Army, belongs to a special army, and is a unit directly commanded by the marshal.

Who would have thought that the coach would give him such an opportunity this time, Henan is vast, and there will be many places where his horse army will be used, and Chen Liu is already in the position of the general of Zhengxi, and his room for growth is really not small.

"This is the great favor of the big marshal to the villain, and the villain is willing to lead the iron horse, sweep the Central Plains, and lay a clean world for the big marshal."

Li Meng nodded with a smile and said:

"These captives of the Shunjun horse team, you must pay close attention to the training, let them really become a force in your hands, this Li Chuang of Henan and Huguang has been operating for a long time, don't make trouble with these prisoners."

"The villain knows, he will definitely handle it carefully, please rest assured."

Another few words of small talk, Tang Er has so many things to do, that is, bowing down to say goodbye, Yuan Wenhong has been quietly waiting for orders on the side, as soon as Tang Er came out of the military tent, Li Meng groaned slightly, and opened his mouth to command:

"Pass my general's order, the fourth regiment and the fifth regiment of this army will go to Yexian to garrison, and order Chen Liu to immediately lead his troops into Nanyang Mansion, and pursue Li Chuang is secondary, give him two goals, and it is the second merit to lay down Nanyang, if you can lay down Xinye before the first month of next year, it will be the first merit!"

The land of Xinye is the key point of Henan and Huguang, Xiangyang is the hub of the north and south, the city of the world, but to go north from Xiangyang and enter Henan, Xinye is the place that must pass, with the strength of Chen Liu's troops, as long as it can hold Xinye, it is equivalent to blocking the Shun army in Huguang.

"The soldiers and horses of the headquarters of Yuan Shizhong, a guerrilla in northern Henan, were left in Kaifeng for training, and the third, fourth, and fifth regiments were taken to Henan Mansion to clear the remnants of the Shun army, and Jia Dashan led the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to Runing Mansion to clear the remnants."

Yuan Wenhong used his pen like a fly, recording them one by one, but he still opened his mouth to remind Li Meng and said:

"Dashuai, since our Jiaozhou battalion entered Henan, the gentry and righteous people of several provinces in Henan have responded, these days, the news from everywhere, saying that Henan Mansion, Nanyang Mansion, and Runing Mansion are almost righteous people, and they have risen everywhere to welcome the king, these forces ......"

Yuan Wenhong, who said this, was not excited or excited at all, and Li Meng's face was also indifferent, and even a little angry, and he said coldly:

"These people are said to be local gentry, but they are better said to be bandits in the mountains, the place is already dilapidated, Li Chuang's side has been bad, and now they want to be badly practiced again...... Forget it, this matter was handled by the people from the Inventory Division, and it made a lot of trouble, so Chen Liuyi was killed! ”

Henan is the province that suffered the most disaster throughout the day, not to mention the natural disasters, the several big forces of the thieves are almost all soldiers and horses from all over Henan.

The homeless people are making a lot of trouble, and the squires and landlords are also armed to protect themselves, and they have gone up to the mountains to set up villages, and the Shun army has been armed to confront each other, and they have been in the mountains for a long time, and they are also mutually annexed and vendettas, and they are also a little reckless, and those green forest bandits are contaminated with similar problems.

In their eyes, the people in the state capitals and counties under the mountain were all traitors and rebels who were led by the thief Li Chuang, and they were not polite to them, and they directly killed Lisuo.

These people are good at seeing the wind and rudder, although they have a deep enmity with the Shun army, but when the Shun army is strong, they do not provoke, although they claim to be the loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, but the small Ming army is often robbed by them.

Now that the main force of the army led by King Chuang has been annihilated, and Shandong is a prosperous and strong army, they naturally know that they want to rely on Toucheng, but there is also a negative effect, that is, they think they are looking to turn over, and the Shun army, which has always dared not provoke, has also collapsed and weakened, and their actions have begun to be unscrupulous.

Gao Jie's actions at that time were very in tune with these people, and they also wanted to take advantage of the Jiaozhou battalion army to get more territory and more strength, and when the army came, it was good to have a good position in the new forces, and they were valued by the Duke of Qi.

As a result, the various cottages began to annex each other, and the bold began to attack the county seats, and the timid also went to the nearby villages to plunder.

The ground in Henan is already dilapidated, and the soldiers of those Shun troops are still a little disciplined, and there are military discipline constraints, although they are defeated soldiers, and the harassment of the local is nothing, but these powerful landlords who set up villages on the mountains are extremely fierce and brutal when they do things.

Because of the captivity and killing of these people, the poor people in the local area who had lived a peaceful life for a few days combined with the Shun army squads that were scattered among the people, and fought fiercely with the militia of these powerful landlords.

For a time, all over Henan, except for the territory clearly controlled by Shandong, the rest were all in chaos, and it was a mess, and it was said that Shandong's victory was only three days, but the north of Runing and Nanyang had already begun to be in chaos.

The Jiaozhou battalion wants a dilapidated but quiet Henan, and if it wants to recover, it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources to renovate, but at present, such a chaotic situation, even if the Xuzhou army and the Ma army are dispatched together, it will definitely take more energy and time than usual.

Those landlords thought they were not afraid of life and death, caused trouble to the Shun army, and helped the Jiaozhou battalion a lot, but in fact, they slapped the horse's legs.

Li Meng's irritability is for this, now the overall situation is unfolding, Shandong has 100,000 elite soldiers, but there are many places that need to use soldiers, and now the regular army has to maintain local law and order in addition to chasing down the remnants of the enemy, how many people are involved, how much energy is delayed, it is really annoying.

"Wait and write an urgent letter, to Zhou Yang of the Tian Zheng Division, let him send more people to Henan, there is so much wasted land, we must speed up the establishment of Tuntian, the establishment of the grange, in order to be said to be stable, and Chen Liu's side, let him set off immediately after the soldiers and horses on my side take over, and use heavy codes in troubled times, and the people along the way, if there is anyone who does not obey the order, they will be killed, and they will not be soft."

Yuan Wenhong agreed, and then started writing, and said with some hesitation:

"Dashuai, Kaifeng Mansion and Ruzhou's Tuntian costs a lot, Henan Province, we still have a lot of places to use money in Shandong, and the finances for the coming year are afraid to be ......."

Speaking of this, Li Meng also understood, and patted his forehead with some annoyance, a penny is difficult for a hero, and the silver taels to be used now will cost tens of thousands of silver coins.

The soldiers in the handsome tent stood on the side with concern and concern, only Li Meng and Yuan Wenhong racked their brains there, and after a while, Yuan Wenhong hesitated and said:

"Dashuai, there is a way to be lowly, I don't know if it is feasible?"

"But surely I won't blame you?"

"Dashuai, we Shandong and Lianghuai land, how many businessmen have become rich because of private salt and foreign business, even in Jiangnan and North Zhili, there are many people who rely on us to make a fortune, these people always want to buy fields with silver in their hands to rest assured, but there are so many peaceful places in the world, there are not so many good fields for them to buy, now we open such a large territory, it is better to ......"

In the territory controlled by the Jiaozhou battalion, the field is a very sensitive issue, and Yuan Wenhong can be regarded as very bold to think of this, but he is still trembling and waiting for Li Meng's reaction.

Li Meng's very solemn face gradually thawed, and finally turned into a smile, Li Meng gave Yuan Wenhong a thumbs up, and said with a smile:

"Mr. Yuan, good idea, really good idea!!"