328. Eunuch Prison Army
When the officials next to them heard this, they broke out in a cold sweat: Meng Guozuo, do you have a brain? With such a transfer, the soldiers from the four provinces have been transferred to Taihang Mountain, what are you going to do? With so many soldiers gathered together, if several generals who led the army got together to discuss, they suddenly reversed...... If you don't know it, it's a re-enactment of the Chenqiao mutiny...... How could the emperor agree?
Yes, the emperor is not a pig-headed Ah San, how can such a stupid suggestion be adopted? When the centralized system of feudal monarchy developed to the generation of the Ming Dynasty, the management of military attachΓ©s was already careful and careful, vigilant and vigilant, and no emperor would be stupid enough to gather the troops of the four provinces together to play, so that if he was not careful, he would have to play his own throne.
Emperor Chongzhen's brows really wrinkled deeply, as a man who is an emperor by profession, he also has his limited surname, although the suppression of bandits is important, but the balance of power is even more important to him, a large group of rogues may subvert his country, but a large group of troops gathered together, it is also possible to subvert his country, and the threat surname is greater than that of the rogue.
"You can't even solve a few rogues, I can't trust you!" Chongzhen pushed the reason for not being able to trust them to the reason for not being able to act effectively, in fact, the officials all understand that the ineffective action is not the real reason, the more powerful the fight, the more reliable the guy, the more he can't believe it.
Chongzhen's brain began to spin desperately, and his eyes swept around the hall, this hall was full of civil and military, and he swept it at a glance, but none of them were trustworthy to him, how could this be good?
That's right! Chongzhen suddenly woke up in his head, I can't trust these officials, why don't I transfer some trustworthy people to supervise them?
If you want to say that Chongzhen is the most trustworthy person, of course, it is the eunuch who grew up together...... The emperor's profession is not easy to do, he lacks friends to play with since he was a child, and he can only mix with the eunuchs in the officials.
Chongzhen's eyes turned back, and standing behind his dragon chair were several close eunuchs, some of whom listened to the use in the imperial study, some of whom were in charge of the celebrant of ceremonies, some of whom were responsible for purchasing in the palace, and who were responsible for meals, clothing, and records of the "Notes on Residence...... He searched for a while in the middle, and soon found the four most obedient and trustworthy young eunuchs.
Chen Dakui, Yan Siyin, Xie Wenju, Sun Maolin...... Listen to the order. "Emperor Chongzhen, ba, la, ba, la, ba, la, ba, ba
The eunuchs were startled, they were named and listened to the order for no reason, and they were shocked by whoever changed them, they also thought that the emperor knew about the trivial matter of their embezzlement card, and they were so frightened that they couldn't figure it out, these guys hurriedly walked to the hall, trembled all over, knelt in a row, and waited for Chongzhen to announce the decree...... Oh, it's a verdict!
Unexpectedly, Emperor Chongzhen actually said seriously: "I appoint you as the Inner Army, and serve as Hong Chengchou, Zhang Yingchang, Zuo Liangyu, and Deng Xi respectively...... of the Overseers. β
"Overseers?" The eunuchs froze, and they didn't react for a long time.
The civil and military officials in the hall also froze, and they didn't react after a long time.
After a long period of silence and depression, the eunuchs finally figured out that they had gained a shortage of fat! Lucrative post! This is definitely a fat shortage! What a terrible position the prison army is, thousands of soldiers and generals of an army, all under the jurisdiction of the prison army's mouth, it is really to be windy and rainy.
"Emperor Xie!" Chen Dakui, Yan Siyin, Xie Wenju, Sun Maolin and other eunuchs kowtowed like pounding garlic.
"The emperor can't ......" The civil officials also knelt in an uproar: "If the eunuchs are abused, and the disadvantages of the Wanli and Apocalypse dynasties will be opened, and the country will not be ......"
Chongzhen rolled his eyes: "Wanli and Tianqi dynasties both have the disadvantages of eunuchs, why are there no wanderers all over the world?" After I ascended the throne, I cut off Wei Zhongxian and his gang, according to your words, it is to get rid of the bad government, and it should be the peace of the four seas, right? Why did you make the rogue so jubilant......"
Officials: "......"
"Needless to say, I've made up my mind...... Chen Dakui, Yan Siyin, Xie Wenju, Sun Maolin, a few of you have given me a good job of supervising the army, and you must do a good job of 'supervising discipline', and don't let me down. β
"Emperor Xie ......"ββ
Chongzhen six years, early spring, outside Baishui City!
A fast horse galloped on the training ground, and the woman on horseback was graceful and toned, and she was dressed in red to make her hot. I saw that she was clamping the horse's belly with the strength of her legs, and with her free hands, she pulled out a light bow, twisted her body, and shot an arrow at the target on the side of the training ground.
The people are beautiful, the posture of archery is beautiful, but it's a pity...... The arrow was not very well pointed, and it slashed a foot away from the target and fell into the dust.
"Yikes! Missed again! Riding archery is really not so easy to practice. Xue Hongqile stopped his horse, his face full of unhappy expressions.
"It's okay!" Zhu Yuanzhang said beside him: "When the battle is approaching, the enemy army forms a spear formation, and all of them are people in the past and vertically, and your current riding and archery skills are enough to deal with it." β
"Pounce!" Xu Renjie laughed beside him: "That's ...... The enemy army stood in a large formation of hundreds of feet and vertical feet, if Sister Xue Hongqi missed an arrow by one foot, it was really a peerless archery. β
"Are you going to die?" Xue Hongqi pinched his fist at Xu Renjie.
The two were laughing, and the two hundred horsemen under Xue Hongqi's command also swept past the training ground one after another, and they also followed Xue Hongqi's example, holding the horse's belly with their legs, and shooting arrows with their bows...... But their standard is much worse, some are not used to using only their legs to control their horses, and as a result, they almost fall off their horses, and some do not know how to use bows and arrows at all, and the arrows are crooked and do not know where they fly after they are shot...... Xue Hongqi's face was extremely ugly: "Eighth Brother Zhu, you said that my soldiers can't learn the tactics of the Mongols, it's really not nonsense, just their information, I think it's ...... I don't have to learn mounted archery, so I'll still practice the tactics of the Jin Guoren. β
"Hmm!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Chaotic formation with cavalry shooting, and then charging into formation with heavy cavalry, the Jinren's style of play relies less on the art of riding and archery, even if the shooting is not accurate, it doesn't matter, as long as it can disturb the enemy army." β
"yes, yes! It's perfectly fine to miss a foot or something...... Seeing this kind of archery that misses a foot off, the enemy will definitely laugh. Xu Renjie interjected in a weird way.
Xue Hongqi didn't want to pay attention to him at all, she turned around and said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Then please ask Eighth Brother Zhu to guide the formation method of the little sister heavy cavalry, how to line up, how to put on the armor of the horses?" The little sister is confused. β
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, sat down with her, picked up a branch and wrote and drew on the ground, and talked about the several cavalry teams that the people of the Jin Kingdom liked to do, Xue Hongqi listened carefully, after listening, she had a whim, and asked: "Brother Zhu, I heard that Mr. Storyteller said that there is a kind of serial horse in "Water Margin", the horse wears a vest, and the person wears iron armor, and only shows his eyes...... Teach an army of 3,000 horses, make a row, a company of thirty horses, and chain them with iron rings...... Is this kind of serial horse powerful? β
"Hah!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "That's the author of "Water Margin" nonsense, think about it, thirty horses are locked together, if one horse is killed by the enemy, won't the other twenty-nine horses be dragged to the ground?" So how to fight? In fact, according to the historical records, the Jin people really used iron locks to lock up horses to fight, but because of the poor operation, they were easily defeated by the light infantry of the Southern Song Dynasty, and they never fought like this again. β
"Uh...... So what does a real heavy cavalry look like? Xue Hongqi couldn't help but ask.
"In fact, in our thousands of years of Chinese history, the only one that can really be called heavy cavalry is the Tiefutu during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, which is the only kind of cavalry that not only wears heavy armor for people, but also for horses, but this kind of cavalry is very expensive, and the effect of actual combat is not good, and then it was slowly abandoned." Zhu Yuanzhang patiently explained: "When the heavy cavalry arrived in the Jin Kingdom, they no longer had complicated vests, but only set up a baffle on the front chest and face of the horse to prevent the horse from being shot by a bow and arrow head-on when charging. β
"In other words, my heavy cavalry only needs to protect the face and chest of the horse, and then get an iron armor for the knight on the horse?" Xue Hongqi hurriedly wrote this down, and the more she talked to Zhu Yuanzhang, the more she admired Zhu Yuanzhang's excellent insight, he really knew everything in heaven and on earth.
"Okay, okay, Sister Xue Hongqi, don't keep occupying Zhu Bugling, okay?" Xu Renjie came over from the side: "Brother Zhu, it's time to review the crossbow team I trained." β
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and stood up, and Xue Hongqi naturally followed over to watch the excitement. I saw that the six hundred crossbowmen trained by Xu Renjie were lined up in a neat queue, waiting for the leaders to come to review, their standing method was more peculiar, in the front and back, standing in three rows, and the vertical columns were not neat, but slightly staggered a little bit. About a hundred paces ahead of their queue, there was a long row of targets, apparently for the show.
Xue Hongqi looked at this peculiar misplaced formation, and immediately smiled: "Generalissimo, you guy is really stupid, the trained soldiers can't even stand up straight...... What does this staggered station mean? I thought they were soldiers brought out by the monkeys. β
"Hey, that's why women have long hair and short knowledge!" Xu Renjie said proudly: "Our standing method is called three-stage shooting, you know a fart." He waved his hand and said loudly to the crossbowmen: "Everyone, listen, Sister Xue Hongqi is the boss of the cavalry team, and she has always thought that crossbows, a weapon that cannot be used on horseback, are garbage, can you be convinced?" Hey, if you don't want to be underestimated by women, cheer me up and show Sister Xue Hongqi how you play crossbows! β
(To be continued)