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This poem from 300 years later perfectly interprets the general trend of today's begging army.

For the soldiers of the begging army who were entrenched in the vicinity of Xi'an Mansion and occupied the whole mansion victoriously, the situation of horses being put in Nanshan and swords and guns being put into storage did not exist.

Whether it is the remaining Ningxia Town in the north, the 50,000 trilateral elites brought by Hong Chengchou, or the remaining Hanzhong and Linzhao Mansions, they are all huge threats.

Fortunately, the local official system of the Ming Dynasty strictly forbade the garrison of the local guard station to act cross-border without orders, otherwise the Ming army of about two guards in North Sichuan Province would have entered Hanzhong Mansion to jointly defend against the enemy.

But at the moment, they can only dryly look at the three-way beggar army entrenched near Xi'an, which has already freed up their hands at this moment, ready to conquer the east and west.

According to Li Jing's order, Tan Wusuo led the main force of the 5th and 15th Battalions of the 5th Brigade, with 10 newly organized independent capitals, to gather near Zhen'an, with a strength of about 6,000 troops.

Then go straight to the border with Sichuan Province to defend, ready to change tasks at any time and invade northern Sichuan.

The second route, Zhang Erma, deputy commander of the personal guard brigade of the begging army, personally commanded the two dissatisfied battalions and five new independent battalions, with a total strength of about 4,000 people, out of the Lingtai, with Fengxiang Mansion as the general attack target, this road is not the main force, but the task is also quite important, that is, to clear the obstacles for the army, and at the same time to deal with the flanks of the two armies.

On the third road, two battalions and five newly organized independent capitals under the personal command of Li Mao of the Fourth Brigade went west from Pingliang Mansion to attack Gongchang Mansion and Linzhao Mansion, completely bringing these two areas into the arms of the beggar army.

The Third Route Army faced the most complex situation, but it was also the most relaxed.

The complication is due to the fact that Gongchang Mansion and Linzhao Mansion have the largest area, the largest number of cities, and the harshest environment involved.

But at the same time, he is also relatively the most relaxed, because most of the main troops and horses drawn by Hong Chengchou this time are from these two prefectures, and Cao Wenzhao, the chief military officer of Linzhao, was successfully eliminated by the begging army in the early decisive battle of Yan'an Mansion, and its main elite no longer exists, and it is conservatively estimated that the above two prefectures, the army of the local guard of the Ming Dynasty will not exceed 3,000 people.

The soldiers of the begging army who remained in the area occupied by Shaanxi were also roughly divided into three groups.

The first road is Guo Sheng's department, his original troops sent west to attack Yulin, but now it has been changed to garrison Yan'an Mansion, the garrison force to ensure the retreat of the army, there are roughly two original main battalions, but their tasks are the most onerous.

Not only to monitor the army that may be dispatched at any time in Yansui Town, but also to guard over more than 100,000 thieves and prisoners of the official army, fortunately, Li Jing has already ordered to select and train 20 new independent capitals among the prisoners, of which 10 will be strengthened and assigned to the first brigade as a supplement to the strength of the first town in the future.

The remaining ten, as a necessary garrison force to occupy the Shaanxi region, were unified and reorganized in Yan'an Prefecture, and officers were placed to brainwash these regularized soldiers, and after the establishment was restored, they were transferred west to various fortresses and carried out key defenses.

Therefore, these 6,000 regularized soldiers are now the most important force supplement in Shaanxi, because in the five prefectures far away in Taiyuan Prefecture, the newly formed troops are still carrying out intensive training in large quantities, and the road is far away, so it is difficult to replenish them smoothly and on time, and the newly occupied land, with weak troops, is simply unable to resist Hong Chengchou's return to the division.

This second road is Chen Da's new Sixth Brigade, but this brigade is still an empty shelf for the time being, after being separated from the Fifth Brigade, there are only two main battalions for the time being, although it has as many as six new independent capitals, but the total strength is still only about 4,500 people.

This way, no longer scattered garrisons, but gathered the seven main forces of the two main battalions, with two new independent capitals, in the north of Pingliang Mansion, along the Xi'an, Zhenshu, Pingyu and other places to assemble and expand, into a defensive formation, to guard against the north may go south at any time The elite of the main force of the three sides.

The third road is the main force of Li Jing's first battalion of personal guards in Anbian, and the two dissatisfied battalions that were temporarily organized into the sixth and seventh battalions of the personal guards, with a strength of about 4,000 people, and they are the absolute main force to resist the elite of the main forces on the three sides.

The rest of them included a battalion of the Qinwei, a battalion of the Fourth Brigade, and a battalion of the Fifth Brigade scattered in Yan'an, Pingliang, Qingyang, Xi'an, and other places.

And once the field division movement is in place, even if the begging army completely gains a foothold in the border of Shaanxi, relying on the Shaanxi peasants who are close to three million behind it, even if Hong Chengchou's troops run the war horse to death, and the blade of the war knife is curled, it will no longer be the opponent of the beggar army.

At this time, Li Jing led a personal guard of 100 men and horses, and there was a capital originally belonging to the Fourth Brigade, which was stationed in Anhua to coordinate and command all the armies in a unified manner.

"The imperial court sent a trial imperial history to inspect all parts of Shanxi, and sent a document asking me to go to Datong to meet me?" Holding the official document in hand, Li Jing couldn't smile bitterly, this was already seven days ago, because Dai County went to Shaanxi, and his whereabouts were uncertain, the soldiers who reported the letter had to look hard before handing over the letter to him.

"Send the letter back and ask Zheng Renbao to deal with it together, saying that I am sick and have no time to take care of official business," Li Jing immediately wrote a letter, asking the herald to quickly bring it back to Dai County.

It was in his temporary residence that he opened the letter.

The content is very simple, the court is anxious, can't sit still, the situation in Shaanxi, three changes a day, and because of the chaos in Shanxi, there is a problem with the transmission of information in Shaanxi, the news that the court gets is also vague, and I can't figure out the specific situation so far, but what Li Jing wants is this, he is terrible that the court poured all the soldiers and horses of Datong Town to attack him, so he has been trying to drag out time.

This is the best, there is enough time to digest the newly occupied area of Shaanxi, as long as the threat of Hong Chengchou is solved, then even if the imperial court comes to its senses, there is no need to be afraid.

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"Master, I'm Kang Ming, there is an urgent report, has the master ever slept peacefully?"

The night is deep, the northwest wind is howling, there are no pedestrians on the street for a long time, in a mansion on East Chang'an Avenue, Xiong Mingyu, the secretary of the Ming Army, has long been asleep, but there is a nervous knock outside the door at this moment.

"How rude it is late at night, there is something to discuss tomorrow." Xiong Mingyu said unhappily when he heard this, if it weren't for his cronies and housekeepers outside, he wouldn't have asked someone to drag him down and beat him with a stick.

If it was in the past, Kang Ming might have retreated when he got this sentence, but tonight's situation is really special, "Master, the Holy Commander has come to summon the master, please get up quickly." ”

"What?" Xiong Fate was shocked, and sent a eunuch to invite him late at night, and there must be an earth-shattering event.

Last time, it was the decisive battle of Daling River in Liaodong that was lost, and the saint sent someone to summon him in the middle of the night, but fortunately, the Tartars in the east withdrew soon after the victory, although they lost the elite 10,000 people in Guangning, but it did not cause turmoil in the country.

At that time, the hidden danger of the Tartars in the east was temporarily eliminated, and Li Jing, the giant of Taiyuan Mansion in the west, was also recruited, although there were hundreds of thousands of thieves in Shaanxi and Shanxi, but fortunately, the place could barely be suppressed, and the only thing he was worried about was Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde in Shandong.

But fortunately, the imperial court concentrated the Henan General Army, the Baoding General Army, the Shandong General Army and the Caoyun General Army and other elite soldiers and strong generals to the east, secretly thinking that within a few months, the rebellion could be quelled.

Without continuing to think, Xiong Yuming turned over, put on his official robe, and immediately went out, and saw his housekeeper and a eunuch standing outside the door, so he quickly confessed.

Before the eunuch came to summon him, he also got a strict order, and at this moment, looking at the sky, he was displeased and said, "Please enter the palace quickly with me." ”

"Hey, please." Xiong Mingyu wanted to write a flattery to him, but the eunuch went out without stopping, and he sighed in his heart, this is something important and something special happened.

I hurriedly chased after it, and this time I didn't arrange an official sedan chair, but directly asked my family to take a horse, quickly followed the inner supervisor, and bowed my head to go up, "Dare to ask this angel, what is the urgency of my emperor's recruitment of ministers?" ”

Without a trace, he handed over a letter of silver, but the eunuch just accepted it with a smile and said in a low voice, "Xu is that there is a letter from the west." ”

In mid-October, Lin Dan Khan of the Mongolian Hetao tribe led 30,000 households on the left wing, in the name of the Ming Dynasty's treachery, and went south successively, trying to plunder the three sides and the Xuanda line.

Thinking of this, he was not only shocked in his heart, but also remembered a past event.

After the Holy Emperor ascended the throne, the border generals killed the Mongolian tribes, and even killed the ministers sent by Lin Dan Khan to Ying Tianfu to ask for rewards, resulting in the second year of Chongzhen, Lin Dan Khan raised 150,000 Mongolian iron cavalry, and the soldiers broke Datong, if it were not for the desperate rescue of the soldiers and horses of Xuanfu and Shanxi Town, I am afraid that the Great Wall would have to become a new territory of the Ming Dynasty.

The threat of the Mongol Tartars is imminent, and the Jianyu in the east is also almost inseparable, out of the city to fight, almost no Ming army is their opponent, the main elite of the three sides, are now fighting with the Mongol Tatars, if the news tells our emperor to convene the ministers late at night to discuss, this will be either a big victory, or a big defeat.

If it's the former, it's okay, naturally everyone is happy, and the promotion should be a reward, not to mention, now in the treasury, you can starve to death.

But if it is the latter, no, without the latter, Xiong Mingyu is the military secretary of the imperial court, how can he not know the general trend of the country today, the Ming Dynasty seems to be strong outside, but in fact, there is no silver in the inner treasury, and the continuous battle on the front line in Liaodong and Shandong has exhausted the last trace of silver in the treasury, and even now even the capital officials' Yulu will not be issued.

If the Shaanxi front is defeated again, then the imperial court can only open its eyes.

In this way, when I entered the palace late at night, I just arrived at the main hall and was about to meet the Holy Emperor, but I was stunned by a notebook smashed down from above. (To be continued.) )