readx; Zhu Youzhen's consideration is not unreasonable. Only two days later www.biquge.info three soldiers of the First Division broke the ban, secretly rummaged out of the barracks while on duty at night, and went to the people's homes to steal things. After being discovered by the people, he actually carried out murder with a knife, killing one person and injuring two people. But when they sneaked back into the army like no one, they were blocked by the company commander who checked the post, and they were both stolen.

Zhu Youzhen was extremely angry at this case, and very rarely lashed out at Gou Ming and Li Shouyi, so frightened that the two knelt down and pleaded guilty.

"What do you say?" After Zhu Youzhen lost his temper, he snorted angrily.

"Back to the saint, of course, it is a military law practice!" Gou was obviously busy and said, "According to the seventeen prohibitions of military regulations, fifty-four beheadings, contempt for the ban, this is called a light army; stealing people's property, this is called stealing the army; Abusing its people is called a traitorous army. Several crimes will be punished together, and all three will be beheaded! ”

"It's all over just cutting the three of them?" Zhu Youzhen said angrily, "Soldiers can go out of the camp at night, is there no management loophole?" The squad, platoon, and company commanders to which they belong, as well as your two division-level generals, don't they have leadership responsibilities? I have repeatedly emphasized that the Ming Army must become a division of benevolence and righteousness, loyal to the country and the people, and every soldier must know honesty and shame, etiquette and righteousness. But it's only been two days since I became an army, and this kind of thing happened, isn't this a slap in the face? Do you know how much pressure I am under and how much effort I have put into building this new army? The court discussion is already turbulent, and you are still so uncontented, so how can I deal with myself? ”

Speaking of sadness, Zhu Youzhen slammed his fist on the table, tears coming out of his eyes. Gou was obviously so frightened that Li Shouyi kowtowed again and again: "The minister is a capital crime!" Pray for heavy punishment from the Holy One! ”

After a while, Zhu Youzhen regained his composure, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said: "Love is deeply responsible, I will only be angry if I have high hopes for you!" In this way, the three soldiers who committed the crime will be publicly beheaded tomorrow, and the squad, platoon, and company commanders will all be dismissed from their posts, and they will be severely punished with 20 military sticks; The battalion commander, the regiment commander, and the two of you, will be demoted by half a grade and fined for half a year! If there is another incident of violating the ban and disturbing the people, you two don't have to do it! ”

At noon the next day, the 1st Division openly enforced the law in the downtown area of Luoyang, beheaded the three criminals together, and severely punished the officers who had leadership responsibility. After this incident, the soldiers in the army were terrified and dared not violate military discipline; The people of Luoyang began to look at this army that had extremely poor military discipline and regarded bullying the people as commonplace.

Let Zhu Youzhen not stop there. First of all, the formation of the Ming Army was not smooth, because it had always followed voluntary and strict standards, the first division had a serious shortage, and the strength was less than 2,000 for the time being, not even a regiment was enough. During this period, some officers and soldiers from other garrisons also rushed to surrender to Chengcheng, but their original places were still under the control of the rebels, and it was impossible to carry out the reform of the military household system, so it was impossible to adapt according to a unified method. As for the recruitment of troops from civilian households, considering that the turbulent situation in Henan has a great impact on the people, it needs to recuperate and recuperate, and it has not been carried out on a large scale.

Therefore, in this case, Zhu Youzhen must first ensure that Luoyang, an important strategic node, cannot fall into the hands of the rebels again. It was difficult for the First Division to form combat effectiveness in the short term, so Li Dingguo's department, which had planned to advance westward as soon as possible, had to continue to garrison Luoyang for the time being. However, the garrison is now under the command of Jin Tongwu, and Li Dingguo and Ma Qianxue have already led hundreds of elite soldiers to Tongguan first and meet Sun Chuanting.

The battle situation in Shaanxi fed back by Li Dingguo and Sun Chuanting was the second thing that Zhu Youzhen was worried about. Gao Yingxiang, the "King of Chuang" who was in charge of attacking Shaanxi, was captured once, and after more than a year of recuperation, he is now not only strong and strong, but also more cunning. In the past, thieves used their troops like locusts crossing the border, coming and going quickly, and most of them were scattered to obtain the maximum benefit in the shortest possible time. However, in this way, the officials and troops were given various opportunities to break through, and Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, often gathered heavy troops to raid and suppress thieves, and achieved good results.

But this time it was different, Gao Yingxiang learned the lessons of the past, and gathered all the tens of thousands of cavalry under his elite in the area of Shangzhou, and only sent thieves with poor combat effectiveness to attack and harass everywhere. Shangzhou is already very close to Xi'an and Tongguan, and Sun Chuanting, these two strategic places, cannot be lost no matter what.

At present, Sun Chuanting has three generals, Xie Yong, Zuo Guangxian and He Renlong, with nearly 30,000 officers and troops, but at least 20,000 troops are needed to defend Xi'an and Tongguan, and less than 10,000 troops can be mobile. Taking these 10,000 people to fight head-on with Gao Yingxiang's tens of thousands of cavalry, even if it is not a sure defeat, there is absolutely no certainty of victory, so Sun Chuanting had to stick to Xi'an and Tongguan and wait for the support of the imperial court.

As a result, the Hanzhong region completely fell into the hands of thieves. According to the spies, the thieves looted in the Hanzhong area, which was originally relatively wealthy, but now it has been ravaged to the ground. Coincidentally, this winter is extremely cold, and countless victims have frozen to death and starved to death, even if the official army recovers this place, I am afraid that it will be difficult to recover in less than ten or twenty years.

This is not counting, the thief "has to look at Shu", and there is also the meaning of entering Sichuan from Shaanxi. It must be known that after the southwest rebellion, Sichuan's defense was extremely empty, and the only unit that was still effective was the white pole soldiers under Qin Liangyu, who were not yet in Sichuan, but still in Guizhou. Once the thieves enter Sichuan, the southwest will definitely be in chaos again, and the difficulty of exterminating it will increase exponentially.

The situation in the west is like this, and the situation in the east is also not optimistic. Yesterday, I received an urgent report from the governor of Nanzhili, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other thieves did not enter Nanjing after breaking through Fengyang, but went all the way north to Pengcheng, and now hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded Pengcheng and stormed, and the city was in danger.

Pengcheng is Xuzhou in the previous life, and it has always been an important town in northern Jiangsu. In particular, the Yellow River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal converge here, which is the hub of Cao Yun and the largest transit station for the transshipment of grain and rice goods from the south of the Yangtze River to the north. Once Pengcheng falls, not only will the material losses be heavy, but the north-south transportation will also be completely cut off, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

However, Zhu Youzhen now had no troops to send, and could only hope that the defenders of Pengcheng could hold out for ten and a half more days and a half, so that Lu Xiangsheng could rush to reinforcements after defeating Hong Chengchou. However, how long Peng Cheng can hold out, Zhu Youzhen has no bottom in his heart, and now he can only resign himself to fate.

Compared with the east and west fronts, the east front made Zhu Youzhen even more uneasy. This is because Li Dingguo on the Western Front has already offered a clever plan, as long as Gao Yingxiang is fooled, the war situation in Shaanxi will be greatly improved. However, on the eastern front, there were no effective generals and army commanders, and the officers and troops of the guards in various places were like scattered sand, and it was difficult to pose a threat to the thieves.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but think of Cao Wenzhao's uncle and nephew's Guanning Iron Cavalry, and he didn't know if their road was smooth, whether they could reach Nanjing safely?

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