Chapter 365: Golden Mountain War Drums (Text)
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In mid-April, Ningshao Town was a big sacrifice army.
All the soldiers who participated in the battle of Xudu were rewarded with three taels of silver, and those who missed the battle were rewarded with one or five taels of silver each. The armies had a three-day holiday, slaughtering pigs and sheep to celebrate the victory of the battle to conquer the white-headed army. Zhai Zhe didn't have a lot of money on hand, but silver was just an object for him to enter and leave his right hand.
Eighty-two generals from the two divisions of the 6th Water Division gathered at the Dinghaiwei Station, Zhai Zhe set up 20 tables for a banquet, and 100 meritorious soldiers attended the banquet at the same time.
Zong Mao specially found a famous troupe in Hangzhou, starting with the Yue Opera "Jinshan War Drums". It cost five hundred taels of silver to invite this troupe, and Zong Mao was a little reluctant in his heart. But Zhai Zhe set the tone, if you want to please, please the best.
The one who sang the song was the singer of the Kou family of the Hangzhou prostitute family, and when she first saw it, she was very charming, and she saw that there was nothing wrong with her gestures, and she looked at a few young people in the General Military Mansion who were full of blood. Judging from her appearance alone, although Zong Mao's woman was not as good as Gu Mei in Qin Huai Bayan, she was not much worse.
When the woman tried her throat, sometimes she was like a lark in the mountains and forests, and sometimes she was like a crane in the nine heavens. As soon as the woman came on stage, she completely changed her appearance, her coquettishness disappeared, and she was dressed in a costume, like a female lieutenant general. "Jinshan War Drums" sings about Han Shizhong's breaking of the golden vulture in Jinshan Temple, and the woman is Han Shizhong's wife Liang Hongyu.
"I'm a red jade all the way
But I saw the woman in the north and the husband in the south crying and shaking the ground
The family is ruined, and the people are angry
The soldiers have no ambitions
Angry horses don't sit idle all day
With a bang, the city was broken
Flee and whip your horse
This is the loss of ambition and ambition
How can the country not be broken......"
A voice, like a cracked silk, pierced through the sky, and a sense of sadness and anger made the excitement in the banquet disappear suddenly. The one who poured the wine stopped his movements, and the one who picked up the vegetables turned his head away, until the end of the first section, and the song gradually thinned out like a swimming dragon, as if there was an afterglow surrounding the heads of everyone.
"Good!" Only then did Jun Hanmen come to their senses, and they slapped desperately.
The other generals above the garrison all held their own identities, and only Meng Kang coaxed there with the soldiers: "One more!" ”
Zhai Zheyin was in the General Soldier's Mansion, and he could vaguely hear the singing voice coming from not far away, and the heat wave was rolling in his heart. Han Shizhong fought against Jinshan Temple and forced back the 100,000 army of Jin Wushu with 8,000 sailors. Now the soldiers and horses in his hands are much stronger than Han Shizhong, but today's Jiangnan does not have the spirit of the Southern Song Dynasty.
The song he personally chosen, painstakingly, motivates the soldiers and encourages himself. If the Qing soldiers go south, he should turn the tide like Han Shizhong did in Huang Tiandang back then.
The drinks during the banquet were just a superficial taste, Zhai Zhe governed the army strictly, and it was strictly forbidden to gamble and drink alcohol in the barracks, this time it was an exception.
After three rounds of drinking, Zhai Zhe personally came to the banquet to comfort him, and said loudly: "In my Ningshao Military Town, whether it is to follow me from the north to the south, or to join our department in eastern Zhejiang, meritorious service will be rewarded, and guilt will be punished, regardless of relatives or relatives." After the army, you should urge the soldiers to step up their training on weekdays, the Central Plains thieves are wantoning, and the Liaodong Qing is poisonous, and you have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions and be rewarded. ”
"Serve the Commander-in-Chief!" Meng Kang led the shout. Some people look down on him, some people see him as a brother, and he doesn't care.
The troupe sang two episodes in the morning and afternoon, which made the rude military man fascinated. When the sun hung in the west, the song was over, and the local generals such as Xiao Zhiyan, Che Feng and Li Zhigao, who were stationed in Ningshao, returned to the camp, and the rest stayed in Dinghaiwei, only to leave the next day.
The weather was excellent, there were a few thin clouds flowing under the moon, and the sea waves behind Dinghaiwei were like fish scales in the moonlight.
Around midnight, the day was full of joy, and most of the soldiers in the camp were ready to go to bed early.
Fang Jin led a few of his own soldiers to the guard barracks to find Feng Qin and Zuo Ruo, two generals, and ordered Zhai Zhe to summon them.
Summoned in the middle of the night, there must be important matters to discuss. Zuo Ruo and Feng Qin followed Fang into the General Military Mansion, Fang Jin led the two into the General Military Mansion meeting hall, Zong Mao and Liu Suifeng were already waiting inside, several people sat down left and right, Fang Jin turned his head and went out.
None of the people in the chamber spoke, and when they each saw a few others, they knew the nature of the secret meeting. It has been a long time since this kind of military discussion has been held, and without Li Zhi'an, Xiao Zhiyan was excluded. They are all secretly excited that they can participate in this military discussion.
After waiting for a quarter of an hour or so, everyone in the hall was very patient, and no one spoke first.
A little light flashed in the garden at the door, Fang Jin carried a lantern to lead the way, Zhai Zhe approved a cloth coat and fell in the eyes of everyone, and in the shadow behind him, there was a one-armed man in gray clothes.
Everyone hasn't seen Ji Hong for a long time. Zong Mao and Feng Qin were familiar with Ji Hong in the past, especially Zong Mao, who often corresponded with Ji Hong when he was older. The two sisters, Lu Ying and Wen Ying, still visit the house often, but it is not easy to see him now.
Zhai Zhe walked up to the main seat, Fang Jin turned around and retreated, extinguished the lantern and stood guard outside the door. The moonlight is bright, and you don't need a lantern to see the road clearly.
Ji Hong sat at the end of the chamber, next to Liu Suifeng.
Zhai Zhehuan swept around and saw these familiar faces, the once enterprising young man now has wrinkles in the corners of his eyes, and the once young and young are now waiting to be in charge. In the second year of Chongzhen, he went out of the fortress at the age of nineteen and fought on the battlefield for fifteen years.
The battle of Jiangnan was a life-and-death fight, and if he was forced to live overseas, he would rather die here. The secret he knew before anyone else might not have helped him.
"Everyone here followed me from the grassland to a remote place in eastern Zhejiang, after several years of concerted efforts, now barely counted as a strong soldier, but just at the time when the building is about to fall. Ji Hong, you tell me about the shape of Jiangbei. ”
Ji Hong stood up, coughed lightly, and said: "A month ago, the Qing army went down to Shandong, Lianke more than a dozen county seats, and robbed countless people of property. ”
"Jingchu came with news that Zuo Liangyu had an army of 800,000 and lacked food and salary, so he wanted to go east along the Yangtze River and eat Nanjing. Shi Kefa, the secretary of the military department in the capital, wanted to send Hou Xun to dissuade him, but he didn't know what the result was. ”
"Liu Liangzuo, the general soldier of Shandong, Gao Jie, Xu Dingguo, and others disobeyed the orders of the court, and were unwilling to fight with the thieves and the captives."
Ji Hong's voice is very soft, and there are a few fuzzy voices in the middle, if you don't pay attention and prick up your ears, I'm afraid that you can't hear clearly in some places. After he finished speaking, he raised one arm towards Zhai Zhe to show that he was finished.
"Everybody, you understand!"
There was no good news, and everyone in the tent was silent, speculating about Zhai Zhe's meaning. Feng Qin's eyes narrowed as if he was dozing off, and Zuo Ruo and Liu Suifeng looked obviously excited. Zong Mao still participated in such a military meeting for the first time, which marked a significant change in his status beside Zhai Zhe, but it was not when he spoke.
Liu straightened up with the wind and said, "The northern border has collapsed!" Now the eyes of the entire Ming Dynasty are fixed on Sun Chuanting, who is firmly guarding Tongguan. But Sun Chuanting will be defeated, and it depends on whether the emperor will move south. ”
Zuo Ruo snorted coldly and spoke: "The military town has gotten out of control, and no one has listened to the emperor in Beijing, what will be the use of going to Nanjing?" ”
"There are still a lot of soldiers and horses in Jiangbei. For example, Zuo Liangyu, Gao Jie, Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo are far superior to Ning Shaozhen in their hands with soldiers and horses. If the emperor goes south, please greet him quickly, in order to gain support, if the emperor does not want to go south, then support the prince. If the crown prince does not come, then he will support the vassal king. Liu Suifeng's voice was short, the vibration in his throat made his voice sound like a blade scraping a stone slab, and there was a burning flame hidden in his eyes.
"Hold the Son of Heaven hostage to order the princes!" Zhai Zhe nodded secretly, only Liu Suifeng could give him such an idea.
"If the adults want to take the credit of Dai, it is best to cooperate with the Donglin Party, they will think that the adults are their own people. Today, the most powerful and famous Donglin Party is Shi Kefa, the governor of Caoyun. Liu Suifeng said, suddenly stopped his words, and frowned, "There is a problem at the moment, that is, Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, was recommended by Ruan Dacheng. Ruan Dacheng is a eunuch party, and Dong Lin and the eunuch party are incompatible. Once this problem is not solved well, it is very easy to cause chaos in Jiangnan. ”
Zhai Zhe saw that Liu Suifeng was talking endlessly, and the other few people had no chance to speak, so he waved his hand and signaled him to stop for the time being. He had already had these ideas, but the purpose of his military discussion today was not that.
"The situation is critical, whether it is Donglin or the eunuch party, the strength of the army is what it depends on. A few days ago, I recruited 3,000 young men from among the captives of the Bald Army. After Feng Qin served as the general of Zhoushan, he commanded 2,000 sailors and 500 foot soldiers, and most of the rest of the Fujian people returned to Fujian. I have 20,000 infantry soldiers and 10,000 sailors in Ningshao Town, but they are far from enough. I plan to recruit another 5,000 infantry within a year, and I will expand the number of infantry of the Zhoushan Army and the Taizhou Army to 6,000. ”
"You are all battle-hardened generals, and you know that soldiers cannot form an army without bloody battles, and these recruits should step up their training and become familiar with the army, and they will conduct more combat training!"
"Yes!" Zuo Ruo and Feng Qin spoke in unison.
"From today on, Ning Shaojun Town will restore the system of the main government in Hanzhai in the past, Zong Mao and Ma Gui will serve as the stewards of the main office, and the main government will be in charge of grain, grass, money and grain, and punishments in the army. The infantry of the Ning Shaozhong Army and the Zhoushan Army will start training in the remote area of Taizhou from May, and General Zuo and General Feng will be invited to plan the training in the principal's mansion. ”
"Yes!"
In the hazy moonlight, the generals receded.
In the following month, the Ningshao military town was greatly moved, and only Xiao Zhiyan's cavalry and 1,000 foot soldiers were left in Ningbo Mansion to garrison. The prisoners of the Baitou Army who joined the Ningshao military town moved back to eastern Zhejiang in batches and contacted the old department to return. With Zhu Dabiao and others coercing the crowd to surrender, Ningshao Town's barracks in Taizhou gradually expanded.
Zhai Zhe spent half of his time in Taizhou and half of his time in Dinghaiwei. After taking control of Zhoushan, he no longer needed to worry about Ning Shao's safety.
In fact, there has been no big trouble in Zhehai over the years, and the two biggest pirate leaders are under Zhai Zhe. Chen Huwei showed his might in the waters of Taizhou, killing all the brothers who were once in the sea, and his influence has expanded to more than 2,000 people. Zhai Zhe knew Chen Huwei's private actions, but he didn't stop it, 6 was his main battlefield, the sea of eastern Zhejiang, he only needed a barrier.