543 The road is difficult
And Xie Tingshi and Lin Jingyi, although they have no friendship with Lian Zining, they have no hatred, and naturally they will not object, Lin Jingyi even has a little more thoughts, and thinks that now is a good time for His Royal Highness King Fu to fight for the throne, but the power of the outer court is still thin, if this Lian Zining can be brought over, it will be a disguised support from Dai Zhangpu, wouldn't it be a good deal? I have made this great achievement, and when King Fu ascends the throne in the future, my own future is even more limitless!
After everyone deliberated for a while, they came to a conclusion, and Yang Shen said, "Holy Lord, we have no opinion. It's just that the people in the Northeast are thin, and I'm afraid that the scale of these twenty guards can't make up so many soldiers! β
At present, except for the high-ranking officers within the Wu Yi Army, no one knows how large the Wu Yi Army is, and everyone in the DPRK and China thinks that the Wu Yi Army is only an armed force of 30,000 or 40,000 people. Dai Zhangpu knew more or less from his daughter, so naturally he wouldn't tell outsiders.
Zhengde waved his hand: "This is not something that the court needs to worry about, it is given to Lian Zining, so it is his own business to recruit soldiers, if he can't even do this errand, what is the use of him?" There are so many barbarians like the Northeast Wild Jurchens, just catch some. β
Yang Shen stopped talking.
"Lin Xiongqi, let's draw up the purpose according to this meaning! Find an old horse with a seal. β
Lin Xiongqi hurriedly responded, Zhengde thought about it, and said: "Let Lin Yuan go, this slave is clever, tell him, let him speed up the trip, and chase back the group that went to deliver the decree in front of him." Well, if you don't catch up. That's fine. β
This is also unclear, but how can Lin Xiongqi not understand? This is clearly the revocation of the previous holy decree to punish Lian Zining, but it is still for the sake of face. Let's just put it more vaguely. This matter depends on Lian Zining's luck, if it is lucky. The first holy decree of the Qin messenger on the road grinding and chirping slowly, then the time to arrive at Lian Zining's place will be late, Lian Zining will be spared the extreme humiliation of being pulled off his pants in the whole army to the big ass, and if the first holy decree of the Qin messenger goes quickly, this board has already been beaten, then there is no way, just admit it!
Zhengde turned his head sideways to Dai Zhangpu and said, "Dai Qing, after I go back later." Your military department also drafted a document and sent someone to send it along with the holy decree, so that Lian Zining could send over the clear eyes of the officers above the small banner of the Wuyi Army. β
"Yes, Your Majesty, the minister will do it!"
Dai Zhangpu responded. But in my heart it is awe-inspiring. Generally speaking, if the emperor wants to check the list of a certain border army, there is basically only one explanation - the emperor wants to install people and transfer officers. Sometimes, even the emperor doesn't have to stick people in it. As long as the names and positions of a few people are changed, it is enough to make this army immediately change from a monolith to a disheartened heart, just imagine - what was originally a thousand households suddenly became a hundred, and the hundred households below him suddenly became his top boss, can this not be chaotic?
Obviously, Emperor Zhengde was expanding the establishment of the Wuyi Army at the same time, but also guarding against it.
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More than ten days in a flash.
The world is vast, the four fields are sparse, and if you look far away, you can see the boundless wilderness.
Tens of thousands of people walking under this high, lonely sky also give people the feeling that they are just ants.
That's all.
Heaven and earth are scarce, and on the vast land north of the Songhua River, there is a group of people walking in it.
There were about six or seven thousand people, and they were marching in a neat queue in a northeast direction.
They were in a square formation, each horizontal row was about ten men, the whole line was more than two miles long, and at the front were soldiers holding spears that were more than two feet long, and thousands of dense spears were like a forest, creating a majestic and solemn atmosphere. Behind them were hundreds of flintlock musketeers, dressed in fat red jackets, with slender flintlock pistols behind their backs, and a leather pouch at their waists, which was full of lead bullets, and looked heavy. Behind the flintlock musketeers, there are the gunners, and they are the most tired, basically every two gunners are evenly loaded with a small car, and the trolley is equipped with the slender barrel of the Franc cannon, the thick body of the Tiger Squat Cannon, and the sub-gun of the Franc cannon, the medicine bag of the Tiger Squat Cannon, and so on. There were a lot of things on this cart, and after one gunner pushed it up for a while, it was replaced by another person. β¦,
In Wu Yijun, artillery is originally a fairly easy role, they are the most technical, but it is also easy when marching, because of Wu Yijun's strong logistics capabilities, thousands of carts, plus with the invention of the Mining Supervision Bureau Zhengquanyang, his official position is here, for the things he explained, the Mining Supervision Bureau naturally did not dare to slack off, and specially allocated a part of the staff to study the rubber that can be wrapped around the wooden wheels of the carriage, after a long period of research and efforts, this rubber can now be mass-produced, Priority is given to the supply of Wu Yijun. γ
All the carts of the Yi Yi Army have been wrapped in this kind of rubber, and after being wrapped in the rubber sheet, not only the shock resistance is enhanced, the speed is accelerated, but also more things can be carried, which greatly strengthens the logistics and transportation capacity of the Wu Yi Army. Wang Dachun is also quite diligent, all kinds of things are done in an orderly manner, quite familiar, Wu Yijun is always on the march to fight, those artillery and other heavy weapons are transported on carts.
And now, the large army of Wu Yi Army has to follow Lian Zining to the north, and all the carts are mobilized to be enough, these new guards are naturally not enough, but artillery is an indispensable part, so I came up with this idea.
Behind the artillerymen, there are halberd soldiers holding halberds, and the whole team, from afar and closely, has inside and outside, and is one.
Behind these soldiers were tens of thousands of ragged people, but although they were in tatters, their complexions were quite good, and their faces were ruddy. And some of the older people, or frail children, even wore a big red fat jacket in the style of the Ming army. If you look closely, you will find that some of the Wu Yi soldiers are on their bodies. He didn't have a fat jacket, he only wore a single coat.
The people's procession stretched six or seven miles long. Bloated and slow, dozens of knights rounded them up and down, supervising them, both to see if anyone was left behind, and to prevent any of them from committing adultery. After all, the team of more than 30,000 people is quite large, and there are inevitably some miscellaneous people inside.
And sometimes. If you see an elderly and infirm person in the team fainting due to physical exhaustion, you should immediately go to the rescue and help.
This line is the 6,800 people of the 18th Guard of the Wu Yi Army, and the 30,000 untouchables led by them.
Today, it is October 13 of the 52nd year of Zhengde, and it is time for them to set off from Songhua Jiangnan. It's been the fifteenth day.
The duties of the newly built ten Wuyi Army recruits were all responsible for going to the newly conquered land north of the Songhua River that originally belonged to the Haixi Jurchens to reclaim and establish a military fort in the city. Settle down and reclaim the land. Produce food, put the Wu Yi army, the roots of the Han people, firmly rooted there!
The eighteenth guard of Wu Yijun is naturally no exception, in fact, their task is not only to reclaim Jiangbei, but also more important than others.
Their target was Sarhu.
Located on the shore of the Gulu River, it was once called Gulu Hewei by the Ming Dynasty, and can control the entire central Jurchen region, with a radiation range of more than 300 miles from the Haixi Jurchen town - Salhu.
Handed over such an important town to the eighteenth guard to guard it, and it can also be seen that Lian Zining is very serious to Zhang Qiuqiu.
After Lian Zining defeated Salhu, he went all the way to the west, until he captured Wensar City, the capital of the Haixi Jurchens, and then it was the end, and then after the sneak attack on Fuyuwei, he turned back to Zhenyuanfu.
In fact, it would be inaccurate to say that Lian Zining occupied all the territory of the Haixi Jurchens.
The original Haixi Jurchen land, west to Fuyuwei, east to the Songhua River, east to more than 1,100 li, and Lian Zining occupied this area, east to Salhu, west to Wensar City, east to about 700 li, in the east from the Gulu River to the Songhua River this vast area, there are quite a lot of Jurchen tribes. β¦,
Lian Zining really didn't have the appetite to eat the rest of the territory, just now these have almost broken Wu Yijun's strength.
The Eighteenth Guard was sent to Salhu, also to supervise the Jurchen tribes east of the Guru River, and even had the intention of waiting for an opportunity to conquer them. And although those Jurchens are counted, in fact, their relationship with the Jurchens is roughly like the relationship between the Songhua Jiangnan Jurchens and Wu Yijun, and it is not that they cannot be used for themselves.
Gulu Hewei is far away from Zhenyuanfu, and the straight-line distance is roughly less than 400 miles and 500 miles, but this straight-line distance does not represent anything.
A large plain in the northeast does not need to be found, there are roads everywhere, but this does not mean that those dense forests and large swamps do not need to be avoided, almost between Zhenyuan Fu and Gulu Hewei are large forests, as well as swampy wetlands formed by many tributaries of the Songhua River.
Only detours.
If you go around, the distance is far, about 900 miles.
The eighteenth Wei Yi can't be regarded as slow, fifteen days after departure, and now he has walked more than seven hundred miles, considering that most of them are foot soldiers, plus the drag of these 30,000 untouchables, close to fifty miles a day, which is already very slow. Now, there are still three days to go until the Guru River Guard.
In the ranks of the untouchables, Peng Shanhu was looking around with his hands crossed, and every time his eyes glanced at those Wu Yi soldiers, he was gloomy, and sighed secretly in his heart.
It has been fifteen days since the departure, and in the past fifteen days, Peng Shanhu has not lost the behavior of these Wu Yi soldiers at all.
It is precisely because of this that Peng Shanhu's heart can use the idea of untouchables to start an incident, and he can feel more and more desperate.
These Wu Yi soldiers never beat and scolded the people, as for women, property, it was not the slightest offense, they traveled a long way every day, of course these untouchables were very tired, but every time they saw those soldiers rushing in front, they also gritted their teeth and followed.
And every night, when they set up camp, they would set up tents, and then come here to help the untouchables build shelters, and they would hunt some small animals for the untouchables, and even when there was not enough food, they would give them a part of their military rations.
The smiles on the faces of the untouchables grew wider. Looking at the content of the discussion at night, it also changed from how dissatisfied with these officials and soldiers was to after Salhu. How happy life will be, being able to farm and eat food. Able to live a stable life.
According to the officers who had accompanied Uncle Wu Yi to the north, Salhu relied on the big river and forest, rich in products, fish, shrimp, birds and beasts did not know how many, the land was fertile, and the Jurchens there threw seeds into the ground in the spring, and when it came to autumn, it was a bumper harvest. In the forest inside. In the river, there are rare things such as sand gold and ginseng, which are transported to the Guannai, but they are worth a lot of money!
Peng Shanhu could already clearly feel that now, the people around him looked at those Wu Yijun in their eyes. Instead of the hatred and fear of the past, it has been filled with gratitude and reverence. They have a great identification with Wu Yijun, and what Wu Yijun has done these days has made them deeply aware of it, just like the words that those Wu Yi soldiers often say: "We are different from those soldiers in the Guannai!" β
Peng Shanhu has even seen it more than once. Some innocent and immature children, pulling the corners of the clothes of those soldiers, asked very innocently: "Uncle, can we be Wu Yijun in the future!" β
This kind of questioning, if it were replaced by the soldiers who escorted them before, it would be a burst of big-eared scrapers accompanied by heart-warming feet and kicked over fiercely, but these soldiers of the Wuyi Army touched the child's head very kindly, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, grow up, you are also our uncle's soldiers!" ββ¦,
Hearing this, Peng Shanhu was cold.
Zhang Qiuqiu sat on the horse and looked around, feeling full of ambition.
He spent the first half of his life in a mess, he only knew that it was good to have food, and it was better to be full, and if he was not only full, but also well-fed, it would be great. After joining Wu Yijun, he came to know the world step by step and knew a lot of things. also has his own ambitions, and he is honest on the outside, and he understands in his heart that he is already a very mature general at this time.
He looked up at the sky, and saw that it was almost noon, so he planned to walk a little longer, so he ordered everyone to stop and rest.
He turned around and glanced at the two carriages with blue cloth curtains not far away, and smiled in his heart: "Those people are afraid that they are going to be turned upside down, and they have all vomited." β
At this time, Zhang Qiuqiu naturally didn't know that in the dense forest not far away, there were already countless pairs of bloodthirsty and greedy eyes staring at them.
At this time, not far from the team, in the east-northeast direction, there is a gentle hillside, which is a very common terrain in the northeast, not high, about thirty or fifty zhang, the slope is very gentle, overgrown with weeds and sparse trees.
And at this time, in this sparse forest, there were thousands of people hidden, all of whom were cavalry, riding on war horses, with a hideous and expectant look on their faces, like a wolf that had been hungry for a long time, and finally found its prey.
If you look closely at their dress, you will find that their dress is the same as that of the Jurchens, these about 2,000 people, basically wearing armor, carrying sabers or maces around their waists, are obviously very well-equipped, but the armor on their bodies is dull and dusty, obviously they have not been cleaned and taken care of for some days. And their clothes are also torn, very ragged and tattered. Looking at their faces, their short and stout bodies are no different from those of the Jurchens.
Obviously, this army used to be a fairly elite force, but for some reason, it fell into such a field.
At the front of the team, a team of knights in armor, and the horses were also knights in armor, surrounded by an officer dressed as a general, the general was not young, about fifty years old, his sideburns were all gray, and his old face was quite haggard, but at this time, he looked at the Wuyi army team outside with a touch of contempt.
The team was hidden in the woods, and it was clear to look outside, but if you looked inside, it was pitch black.
If Amin was here, he would definitely be able to recognize the old general.
This person is the Wanhu Tang Gu who accompanied the resolute army to the south to conquer Zhenyuanfu, he is a Jurchen meritorious ten thousand households, more than ten years ago, when Gangyi was still ten thousand households, he was already ten thousand households. This person has always had great prestige among the Haixi Jurchens, and he is a well-known powerful faction. There is a soldier in his hands. It was several southern expeditions of the Haixi Jurchens, and he was in them, until the southern expedition a few months ago.
At that time, Lian Zining went north along the Gulu River from the Songhua River. Before Gangyi and the others noticed, they had already swept away the hinterland of the Haixi Jurchen. When the news arrived, Gangyi was unconscious and Amin was in charge. At that time, Amin used the excuse of discussing military aircraft to recruit the generals to the big tent to discuss matters, took the opportunity to kill them one by one, and controlled all the armies in his own hands, and then led the army to the west, fled to the territory of the general of Liaobei, and gained a firm foothold.
And the only one who wasn't deceived by him at that time was Tang Gu.
Tang Gu talked about his status, but he was much higher than Amin and other rising stars. And his power is commensurate with his position. Although he was only 10,000 households, he had a full 20,000 troops, second only to the 30,000 troops under Amin's command at that time. β¦,
After Amin fled, he delayed for a day in Zhenyuan's mansion, and after ascertaining the news that the hinterland had been swept away, he left the camp.
It's just that. When they escaped Jiangbei, they found that Haixi Jurchen had become a term in history, and since then. It doesn't exist anymore!
All the tribes they passed through were reduced to ashes, and all the people, known or not, were no longer alive, and had either been reduced to charred corpses that had been burned, or had simply disappeared, presumably plundered.
Tang Gu led 20,000 people, like a lost dog, and he didn't know where to go.
He thought about it carefully, Wensar City in the north didn't dare to go back, that god-like Lian Zining was leading the Wu Yi army to the south, if he bumped into him, wouldn't it be all over? It's a place to the west, and it's not something I can afford to mess with, and Amin's little rabbit cub has fled there, and he can't go by himself!
In this case, the only way to go is to the east!
So Tang Gu took his soldiers to the east, thinking of bypassing the Haixi Jurchen territory from the area between the Gulu Hewei and the Songhua River, and then turning west and going directly to Tuluting Mountain to join the Khan.
However, he thought so, and the people below him didn't.
Because of the dense forests and mires in the area passed, and there were many wild Jurchen tribes hostile to the Jurchens, this road can be described as full of dangers, and in a month, more than 1,000 soldiers have died in various accidents. And in the past few months, the number of people under his command who fled because of homesickness and unbearable suffering has reached six or seven thousand, and they can't control it, and it is useless to kill.
At this point, Tang Gu's soldiers were only 13,000, but fortunately, he swept several tribes and plundered a lot of fine war horses and brave slaves, and among the 13,000 people under his command, there were 6,000 cavalry!
Six thousand cavalry is already quite a strong force.
The strength under his hands was strong, so he naturally had a strange mind, so he appeared here.
Coincidentally, the routes between him and the Eighteenth Guard of Wu Yijun were basically parallel, so when the patrol cavalry under his command discovered the traces of the Eighteenth Guard, he had a thought.
He wanted to attack the eighteenth guard and win a big victory, first, to take revenge, and to vent his resentment that he was chased by Wu Yijun like a dog; The second is to boost the morale of his subordinates; And the third, it's a vote!
Yes, it's a vote!
What he is most worried about is that he is still a well-known figure in the Haixi Jurchens, but when he arrives at the Jianzhou Jurchens, who knows who he is? I can't say that these soldiers under my hands have to be greedy, but I am letting them idle without power. But if you can carry the heads of thousands of Wu Yi Army to defect, then the weight will be different!
With such a credit, I may go to the next level after I go!
So he sent someone to secretly follow the eighteenth guard of the ground for two days, and after confirming that there was only this one Wuyi army within a radius of dozens of miles, and it was indeed the situation and not a bait, he decided to do it.
His faith was also very strong.
In his opinion, I can't deal with tens of thousands of Wu Yi troops, but I can't deal with you thousands, right? What's more, these Wu Yi soldiers are all foot soldiers, the number is only more than 6,000, and their own cavalry is almost their own number, the same number of cavalry killing foot soldiers, is not holding a handle?
As for those tens of thousands of untouchables, if they really start a war, it would be good if they didn't add to the chaos! (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )