It's April in the blink of an eye.

From Xiangyang in Jingzhou to Wuchang, the large and small cities and ferries along the way have almost lost a fine light.

Ma Jinzhong, the general under the command of Zuo Liangyu, and other general officers, were beaten and lost their armor and collapsed, and the chaotic soldiers blocked both sides of the Yangtze River.

Outside the city of Wuchang, thousands of ships of different sizes were moored at several large ferries, the largest of which was an official ship of 400 materials, with lanterns hanging from its hull. The two largest official ships were parked at the nearest part of the ferry, and the sailors in the boats were ready-made, ready to sail at any time, and there were also pro-Ding guards in small boats around.

Around the official ship, there were already a few bloody human heads, warning all the rebels that this place was not a place where they could do whatever they wanted, and they had to be carefully avoided.

In addition to this, it is Zuo Liangyu's Nanbo Mansion in Wuchang, and the Governor's Mansion of He Tengjiao, the Governor of Huguang, which is also quite quiet.

A while ago, the Baiwang army was defeated by the Qing army, and the chaotic army fled to the Wuchang area.

He Tengjiao was originally a light target governor, and the governor was not even enough for a hundred people, and there were dozens of pro-soldiers around him.

Now Daming is redeploying, organizing defense battalions in various places, and re-establishing directly subordinate battalion leaders such as Governor Biao Fubiao Town Standard, but when he arrived in Huguang, because of the existence of Zuo Liangyu, he could only stop acting for the time being.

Because of Chongzhen, everyone was counting on Zuo Liangyu to accept the adaptation and make an exact number of his million-strong male division.

The left part claims to have 500,000, but in fact it is 200,000, but more than half of them are old and weak, and the number of soldiers will not exceed Fengwan. There are less than 100,000 people, and many of them are strong men, and the number of veterans is less than 30,000 or 40,000.

Zuo Liangyu originally had tens of thousands of elites, but he was killed by Zhang Xianzhong in Taiping County, and lost more than 10,000 elites, and was later completely beaten by Li Zicheng in Zhuxian Town, and then in Jingxiang, he was defeated for many years and followed the old soldiers, and then he was burned and killed several times in Hubei, and forcibly pulled up the shelf in front of him...... There are more soldiers, and the momentum is stronger, and the court is afraid of it, but Zuo Liangyu knows in his heart that his current strength, not to mention that it is not as strong as it seems, and even Zhu Xianzhen's strength in the first war has not yet been reached.

But the number of people is the number of hundreds of thousands, and the court pinched its nose and recognized the amount of 60,000, and the food was distributed, and a lot of armor and weapons were beaten, and the strength was stronger.

As for asking him to adapt, quota, and accept the command of the civil servants at the level of the governor, that is absolutely unwilling.

Even if the emperor ordered the military aircraft department to supervise it many times, Zuo Liangyu simply ignored this chaotic life. The DPRK and China are now doubly dissatisfied with him, and he understands it. Because Huang Degong and other subordinates are honest and obedient, the Ming army everywhere accepts the adaptation.

Originally, the similarities and differences between the Ming and Qing dynasties, many systems were very similar.

However, in the use of local fees and miscellaneous fees, there are some differences between the Ming and Qing dynasties. The biggest difference is the scope of duties of the garrison battalion, including the expansion of the garrison boundaries and the allocation of expenses, the management of generals, the control of military salaries and quotas for soldiers, and the division of military affairs such as local security.

The Ming Dynasty also had battalions and these systems, but they were too coarse and not systematic, and the Qing Dynasty did a good job, and it also attracted the lessons of the Ming Dynasty, so the green battalion system of the Qing Dynasty was very thoughtful and detailed, and the control of the rating of soldiers and the size of the garrison was also very in place.

Throwing away the subtle thinking of preventing the Han army and the Han people from mastering firearms, in fact, the Qing battalion system is far better than the Ming system.

Now the Ming Dynasty has accepted Zhu Cihe's suggestion, and the barracks are set up according to the principles of geographical importance, city size, and danger in the flood pond, all the way to the garrison battalion, the city guard camp, the town standard camp and other levels.

After the number of soldiers is clear, it will be checked by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Military Department, the Governor, the Governor, the General Soldier, and the newly established Honest Government Yuan.

The implementation of the examination law, the Houlu law, the law of placing officials and other laws, the civil officials and military generals are all rising wildly, at this time, who is willing to bear the black pot for others?

With so much money, if you don't clean up the officials, you are still involved in some dirty things, isn't it crazy to lose your heart?

Once dismissed, or chased after the words since birth, that kind of end, I tremble all over my body when I think about it.

This kind of matter of checking redundant troops, re-placing generals, and establishing defense areas, Zuo Liangyu, the old fox, of course, has long smelled out that the taste is very wrong.

If it was according to the imperial court, of course he would not lose his wealth.

There is also a hint from above that his son Zuo Mengeng can lead his old department and be a general of the thief as usual.

Of course, this is to take care of Zuo Liangyu's face, Zuo Liangyu has been knighted, and his qualifications are old, so it is unreasonable to ask him to listen to He Tengjiao or other governors' moderation.

Even if it becomes a field battalion directly under the Military Affairs Department, it will be subject to the fingers of Ma Shiying and others.

When Ma Shiying was idle at home, he was a first-class military general, hanging the general's seal, what the hell is the old horse? Now dare to finger his feet on his old left's head?

So no matter what the court says, Zuo Liangyu ignored it anyway, and when he was in a hurry, he let out the wind, saying that the prince had corrupted the ancestral system, and there were villains around the emperor, and if there was a trouble, he would go to Nanjing to Qingjun's side!

Of course, this is a scoundrel who rolls on the ground and uses his strength to coerce the court.

This has to be put aside for Wanli, and he doesn't dare to borrow a hundred dares from Zuo Liangyu.

If it was in the Apocalypse year, he wouldn't dare to do this kind of thing, although many things were unreliable at the age of nine thousand, but a general soldier would make trouble, Wei Zhongxian would still not tolerate it.

Chongzhen's temper is the opposite, eating hard rather than soft, the more you beg him, the faster the head falls.

The more unruly you put on, the easier it is for the emperor to be jealous and dare not do anything to you.

However, the experience of more than ten years of practice does not seem to be working now. The emperor's edicts are becoming more and more severe, and now he does not mention the inheritance of the seal of the general of the thief, but asks Zuo Liangyu to return to Nanjing alone to report on his work.

People from the Ministry of War have come, and Governor He Tengjiao has also received a notice from the cabinet, and has repeatedly asked Zuo Liangyu to come to Nanjing as soon as possible and to go to Nanjing as soon as possible to plead guilty.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate is also inspecting Zuo Liangyu's fraudulent salary, and if there is no such thing as a serious dissatisfaction with Huang Shu, the patrol of the prison army, Huang Shu, if it weren't for Zuo Liangyu's big tree that has not fallen, born in Donglin, but Huang Shu, who has been regarded as an outlier by Donglin, has been dismissed, and the end will be even worse.

Zuo Liangyu was furious like this, although he insisted on not leaving, but he also understood that the imperial court would definitely not just forget it. The longer the top, the greater the disaster of the Zuo family in the future.

What to do next, I really have to think about it.

As Huang Zongxi said, the implementation of military admonitions is simply.

The kid surnamed Huang was simply stupid, and secretly ran to the army to ask for a meeting, and then told the crown prince that he was not, and then encouraged Zuo Liangyu to admonish the soldiers.

Now in the Xijiang area, many generals have been driven away from many subordinates, and their own powers have also been deprived.

Huang Zongxi still has a little network and prestige in the military department of eastern Zhejiang, and he promised that as long as Zuo Liangyu's soldiers move, there will also be moves in Xidong, and then hundreds of thousands of troops will come to the city of Nanjing, how spectacular.

Of course, he didn't ask Zuo Liangyu to rebel, and no one had the courage to rebel. After all, Chongzhen in Nanjing is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and it is the undisputed Ninety-Five Supreme, according to Huang Zongxi, you can ask the emperor to sin the edict, abolish the crown prince, and then choose the virtuous and stand.

Zuo Liangyu didn't even want to listen to such sub-words. Although his henchman, that is, Huang Shu, the imperial historian of the prison army, was very moved and very energetic when he heard it, Zuo Liangyu also knew that even a very small number of people in the Donglin Party agreed with such things, not to mention most of the Jiangnan Shishen and the garrisons and civilian officials in various places.

At that time, it will not only be disgraced, but it will be a major event that will take the lives of the whole family of his Zuo family!

This young man surnamed Huang was crazy, full of nonsense, Zuo Liangyu didn't dare to let him out for a while, so he had to be locked up in the army, ignore it for the time being, and talk about it later.

Unexpectedly, the situation suddenly changed, and it was a new choice, and it smashed on the top of Zuo Liangyu's head without any avoidance, at this moment, Zuo Liangyu was really dizzy, and he didn't know what to do.

The Qing army suddenly became energetic, less than two months, from Guanzhong to Hanzhong, surrendered He Zhen, less than 10,000 Manchurian soldiers plus 50,000 or 60,000 surrendered Ming troops, known as 100,000, and swept to Jingxiang.

In several major battles, Rao is Bai Wang is the general of the camp, and more than 70,000 soldiers and horses have been trained for many years, but how can they fight with the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners?

Fighting and losing, the hearts of the army and the people were lost, Bai Wang was helpless, and he was unwilling to surrender, so he came over with more than 10,000 remnants to ask for surrender. He Tengjiao is having a headache, Zuo Liangyu is disobedient, he is an empty governor, although he is an expert in infighting, he is very good at persecuting people and manipulating people's hearts, and he is also very good at stabbing knives in the back, but he still has no ability to deal with a warlord with hundreds of thousands of soldiers with his bare hands.

What he can do for the time being is to disgust Zuo Liangyu a few times in Wuchang City, and by the way, pretend to be the image of a lonely minister and a rebel, anyway, he plays the book every day and blows about his image.

In any case, his Donglin Party is a middle-of-the-road faction, with many allies in the DPRK and China, and his reputation is not bad.

In this case, He Tengjiao also let go of his hatred for the peasant army, and generously agreed to Bai Wang's invitation, and gave Bai Wang the name of a deputy general on the spot, and at the same time Feizhang entered Nanjing, reporting that Jingxiang had changed, and all the territory occupied by the rebellion had been owned by the Qing army, and the upstream was in danger, and he He Tengjiao would definitely urge Zuo Liangyu to defend Wuchang to the death, so that Dongyu could continue to bathe the river and go down.