Chapter 107: Foundation Building (9)
Sensing that the situation was wrong, he covered the chief military attache around his neck and shouted, "Why don't you hurry up and do it?" β
Before he could say a word, the strong wind next to his ears swept by, and then he heard a "snap", and the face seemed to have been hit by a piece of iron, first red, then bruised, and then the skin and flesh opened, and the blood was knocked out with a slap.
"It's good to fight, it's good to fight!"
The one who always didn't know whether he was alive or dead, spit out two knocked out teeth, red eyes, and turned his head to see who had hit him.
This look, but it's dumbfounded!
He came out of the city of Huai'an Mansion, and he was the military attache of the town mark at the time of the incident, because he saw the opportunity early, and his direct boss was friendly with Liu Konghe, so he surrendered early. In this way, even if his troops and horses are more credible, when the marching method kills people and beats people, this army of soldiers and horses has not been affected, until the situation is stable, Zhu Cihong thinks that there are a lot of pedestrians from the north to the south, which will inevitably be mixed with the fine work of Xiao Liu's battalion.
It's just that I didn't expect that the military discipline in Shandong Town was very bad, although there were a lot of killings a while ago, especially Lu Zhenfei's request for a big order, and he killed so many officers and soldiers at once in front of the governor's yamen, and he personally ordered Liu Zeming and other senior military attaches to be beheaded together, and as for those in the battalion who had blood debts or forcibly annihilated women, they also killed a lot. To this day, military discipline is still so corrupt!
He frowned and asked the boss in a daze, "What's your name, and who is your boss?" β
Although the number of soldiers and horses in front of him is less than a hundred, but all of them have iron armor, although it is only leather armor inlaid with iron plates, bloated and heavy, not conducive to action, but it has a strong protective ability, such a team, it must be the direct subordinate of any general, and it is unlikely to be an ordinary battalion soldier.
"Zhang Debiao, you bastard, you, you, you, you're really going to die!"
Zhu Cihong's voice still didn't fall, and a figure arrow shot generally had already rushed to the front of the general, "pop papa", positive and negative, and more than a dozen ear brackets went down, and the one that hit the straight mark was eaten directly, and if he was not careful, he spit out a few big teeth that were knocked out.
"Your Highness, the subordinates are not strict, and the subordinates violate the military law, and the ministers will die, ten thousand deaths!"
After beating people, the general lay down in front of Zhu Cihong again, and kept snorting his head to confess.
This person Zhu Cihong recognized that he was originally a deputy general of the town standard, named Xu Zhen, with a direct command of about three or four thousand people, because it was Liu Zeqing's direct leader of the town standard, as well as four or five hundred mules and horses, and more than 300 cavalry, which was regarded as a powerful senior general.
Seeing this person, Zhu Cihong also had to nod slightly, and said: "One thing is one thing, this Zhang made a mistake, and it has nothing to do with General Xu, general, please get up!" β
"Yes, Your Highness!"
"However, from now on, you must be cautious of your generals, if there is such a thing, even the generals are at fault!"
"Yes," Xu Zhen was sweating profusely, but he didn't dare to wipe it, so he had to bow his head and say: "The minister knows that he is wrong, and after he goes back, he must strictly order him to reprimand, and his subordinates will never be allowed to disturb the local area and the people again." β
"Good!" Zhu Cihong no longer paid attention to this general, and now at this time, it is not the time to really embarrass these generals who control the army. These generals, the small ones who have the rank of 1,000 guerrillas, directly lead troops of 2,300 to about 1,000 people, and then they are at the level of adjutant generals, and they are directly subordinate to either 2,300 or 4,000 or 4,500 people.
The core main force of about 30,000 in Shandong Town, about 30,000 recruits and strong auxiliary soldiers, and 60,000 soldiers and horses are probably commanded in this way of feudal generals.
As for the biggest military leader, of course, Liu Zeqing himself, he used his own personal soldiers and family members to form the core force, clan generals and henchmen to form the periphery of this core, and then ordinary generals and military attaches at all levels.
There are pros and cons to this method, there are too many disadvantages, and there is no need to elaborate, but there is a benefit, as long as the core is there, it doesn't matter how the periphery is broken up, and the team can be pulled up again through Latin at any time.
At that time, several powerful clans, the most significant was Zuo Liangyu, who was repeatedly broken up and re-emerged.
Of course, the elite soldiers of Zuozhen are almost gone, and now there is no combat effectiveness, which is no way.
"Zhang Debiao, do you know it's wrong?"
"The minister knows, the minister knows!" Kneeling in front of the crown prince, the general named Zhang Debiao always knew that he had only one chance, and at the moment he pulled his big mouth with a leaky mouth, and said with a crying voice: "Ministers should not disturb pedestrians and molest women at will." β
"Yes, it's your fault." Zhu Cihong nodded, turned around to look, and asked Feng Kaizhang, "What should I be guilty of?" β
"According to military discipline, of course, it is beheading."
"If you kill people in this way, I'm afraid that there will be no generals in Shandong Town who can eat with their heads saved." Zhu Cihong smiled bitterly and looked at the many generals who followed, everyone didn't dare to speak, and they didn't dare to look at the crown prince, but they all lowered their heads.
Indeed, there was no military discipline in Shandong Town before, and now it is a matter of being careful in every possible way, because it kills people and rewards silver, but it is maintained at best, if you blindly press hard and sentence you to behead after a few words, of course the military will be boiling and unstable.
Unless it is true that as Zhu Cihong said, according to the battalion bullet pressure, whoever makes a noise will be killed, but I am afraid that this army will not be used.
"Of course, I don't have to kill you in front of me." Looking at the anxious boss, Zhu Cihong groaned: "You say, how many little wives are you?" β
"This ......"
"Don't say anything," Zhu Cihong waved his hand, and a few military attachΓ©s stepped forward and held down the surname of Zhang, and when he was struggling, Zhu Cihong said: "One general can support four wives, it is definitely not enough to eat empty quotas, and it is inevitable to embezzle ordnance and food, and I don't know how much civilian property has been looted, killing you with this crime is considered unyielding, you accept your fate." β
As the crown prince, he is so clear about the affairs of the army, the generals are speechless for a while, and now they set off from Shanyang Fuzhi, and then go to Qingjiang and Shuyang, ran for almost a hundred miles, checked five or six checkpoints, and all of them were lightly dressed and horseed, so the speed was very fast, and it was okay elsewhere, it was in this card that this kind of thing happened, and the generals were all pale and afraid that the prince would be connected at will.
"Is there really someone who is born to know?"
For a while, everyone had only one idea. No matter how you look at the prince's age and experience, he can't understand so much, but the facts are in front of him, but it's not okay to be unconvinced.
Zhang Deli was beheaded, just on the side of the river beach a human head fell to the ground, at this time, the crowd on both sides of the river suddenly woke up, thunderous "meet Chitose" sound, thousands of people like waves, ups and downs, kneeling down and getting up again, and then worship!
Many ordinary people have seen the biggest official in this life, that is, a magistrate, or gongs and drums to open the way, the deacon avoids so that the people dare not look up, but there is a heroic and vigorous in front of them, looks very wise and martial, and completely conforms to the crown prince who looks like a holy monarch in the minds of the people, folding a scarf, gray cloth robe, carrying a black lacquer horsewhip, and standing on the high slope with a smile!
At this moment, many people are in tears! It's strange to say, everyone's background is away from their hometown, many of them fled from Henan, this time the chaos, everyone has a sense of landslide, in private, there are a lot of complaints about the court and Chongzhen Emperor Yanjing, but at this moment, in front of the crown prince in front of him, he beheaded a lawless officer who harmed the people in public, the knife light, the head fell to the ground, the so-called "holy monarch" image can be placed in front of everyone, originally the people were panicked, at this time, the prince is in front of him, everyone's heart is naturally very stable, Then thinking about the hardships and all kinds of encounters along the way, there are already many people crying bitterly!
"Fathers and elders, there are my Ming strong soldiers and horses in front of me, protecting the territory and the people, and protecting your peace. Go south with peace of mind! β
At this moment, Zhu Cihong has no idea of inviting people's hearts, as a monarch, as a superior, seeing the people suffer such a tragedy, all the way down, the good luck has exhausted the family wealth so far, and it is not uncommon for the bad luck to be ruined and the family is ruined. In this situation, I still want to invite people's hearts, which is too low.
Listening to the words of the crown prince, although everyone was reluctant, the team that passed the card still moved forward slowly, Wei Nuan took the former bachelor, his hair trembled like silver, and when he got closer, he was about to kneel down and salute Zhu Cihong.
"Don't do that, old gentleman!" Zhu Cihong personally supported him and said with a smile: "The cabinet system respects, and my father still gives him a seat to watch tea, saying that Mr. is not named, and now this is the case, why worship!" β
"Your Highness is heroic, and the old minister is very happy in his heart." Wei Nuancheng had a complicated look in his eyes, and his tongue was also speechless, but he couldn't say it.
In the end, he said softly: "The son of a daughter, you can't sit down, Your Highness is here to do the matter of the commander-in-chief, after all, it's not appropriate......"
"Sir, don't worry, I'll go back to Nandu in a few days."
Zhu Cihong didn't want to argue with these old ministers, and besides, this old man was also well-intentioned. Speaking of this, Chen Mingxia mentioned that the people in the southern capital Donglin and the Fushe strongly opposed him leading troops abroad, and he was even more dissatisfied with the annexation of the courtiers, soldiers and horses, he was always worried in his heart, in case he returned to Nanjing, someone came out to make trouble, no matter what, as long as there was trouble, it would be difficult to use force to suppress it, otherwise, it would be a bad reputation.
But if you don't make much fanfare and preach force, even if you suffer a loss in propaganda in Huai'an, your momentum will be weak, and when you think of those Confucian scholars and scholars, you can point out the country casually, and you can't change the past, he will have a headache!
So even if the old man in front of him is retired, and his old teeth have fallen out, Zhu Cihong is also very entrenched and not slack!
Finally, after the old man Wei got in the car and left, Zhu Cihong turned around and looked at the three women who were still surrounded with cold eyes...... They're not easy!
(To be continued)