Chapter 123: The Divine Army

On May 23 of the seventh year of Zhengde, the emperor was dyed and couldn't afford it, and the queen mother decreed that King Yong would supervise the country!

As soon as the news came out, the whole country was in an uproar!

Emperor Zhengde is only in his early twenties, and he is in the prime of life, why did he suddenly become seriously ill?

The king of the ancestral vassal system of the Ming Dynasty was not allowed to return to Beijing without an edict, and King Yong had to return to Beijing by edict, how could he meet his brother's serious illness so coincidentally, and then he would have to be imprisoned?

Could it be that it is another candlelight axe shadow story reappearing?

There is no wind and no waves in the court, and there are many discussions among the people, but these obviously have nothing to do with Zhu Houwei, and now a brocade stool has been placed under the throne of the Qianqing Palace, and Zhu Houwei sits on it and officially supervises state affairs!

At the beginning of June, Li Dongyang, the first assistant of the cabinet, begged to return to his hometown on the grounds that he was seriously ill and could not bear the government, but King Yong refused to allow him, so that he would recuperate in the palace and return to the court after recovering from his illness.

Li Dongyang Zhishi, Yang Tinghe, the second assistant of the cabinet, and the successor of the first assistant, a new era opened.

In May, the Mongol-Tatar Dayan Khan Batu Mengke, commonly known as the little prince, led 20,000 troops to invade Datong, captured Baiyangkou, plundered countless livestock, and the population was thousands, and the Yongwang was furious!

Senior generals such as the general soldier, deputy general soldier, and staff general of Datong were all deprived of their posts, and Suona entered Beijing, and was later demoted to the Beijing camp for retention!

Yongwangwei Deputy Qianhu Feng Biao went to Datong and served as the chief soldier of Datong and the governor of defense!

In July, Yongwangwei 5,000 soldiers and horses entered Beijing, divided into two units and stationed in the Beijing Division 5th Military Camp and Shenji Battalion.

In September, Yongwangwei commanded Zhou Ning and the supervising army Hong Ji to implement the new military law and military management regulations in the five military camps and Shenji battalions under the order of Yongwang, but they suffered strong resistance and then riots broke out and were suppressed!

Subsequently, the commanders of the Fifth Military Battalion, the Shenji Battalion, and more than a dozen 1,000 households who participated in the riots were dismissed and imprisoned, and more than 2,000 families were discharged.

In October, King Yong ordered the abolition of the three major battalions of the Beijing Division, that is, the Shenji Battalion, the Fifth Army Battalion, and the 3,000 Battalion, and integrated them into the Shence Army.

The Shence army has a staff of 100,000, Zhou Ning is the commander of the capital, and there are five battalions, namely the Tiger Battalion, the Xiaocai Battalion, the Forward Battalion, the Shenji Battalion, and the Blood Battle Battalion, each battalion has one commander, two deputy commanders, three guards under each battalion, and six to seven thousand households under each guard.

The commanders of the Shence Army, the battalion commanders, and the Wei commanders were all held by the former Yongwangwei generals, and the middle-level generals of the original Fifth Army Battalion, the Shenji Battalion, and the 3,000 Battalions were the highest in the new army.

All those who are over the age of 35 in the Shence Army will be discharged, and then recruit new soldiers to enlist in the army!

King Yong's series of actions undoubtedly wanted to control the military power in his own hands, but the imperial court reacted indifferently.

If the civil servants of the Great Song Dynasty treated the martial artists with prevention and contempt from the bones, then the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty treated the martial arts with disdain at least.

All officials knew that Emperor Zhengde was unlikely to return to power, and these actions of King Yong were paving the way for himself to ascend the throne and become emperor, after all, only by firmly controlling the military in his hands could the throne be stable.

For civilian officials, they are content with the status quo, at least they are not willing to make extraneous branches, and all reform measures are like a flood beast for them, so as long as King Yong does not carry out reform measures, but only implements new policies in the army, they are not unacceptable.

On the stage of the school field in the bloody battle camp of the Shence Army, Zhou Ning, the commander of the army, was fighting fiercely with a thick-backed combat knife in his hand and a young general with a gun!

Zhou Ning's knife opened and closed, one move and one style were like a tiger out of the mountain, roaring arrogantly, and the young general's spear was like a poisonous snake out of a hole, and the number of offensive roads was tricky and weird, if it weren't for Zhou Ning's martial arts being superb enough, he was almost injured under the gun several times.

The young general's face is covered with a layer of gilded mask, the mask is hideous, looking at it like a ghost, fighting against the enemy, and winning three points of courage first!

No one knows the origin of the young general, only that the young general is the commander of the bloody battle battalion personally promoted by Commander Zhou Du, and he is the only battalion commander who does not belong to the old man Yongwangwei!

But everyone knows that Zhou Ning does not have the power to appoint a battalion commander at all, so the junior general can become the battalion commander, and he must have obtained the consent of King Yong.

For the officers and soldiers of Yongwangwei, Yongwang is their god!

In addition to the newly recruited recruits in Huzhou, all the soldiers who were drawn from the Beijing camp to form Yongwangwei still clearly remembered what kind of life their Beijing camp lived.

Military generals raise their families, except for the family Ding, all the soldiers eat the worst, wear the worst, and the military salary has never been taken in full, this is the customary practice in the Ming army, the civilian officials turn a blind eye, and the soldiers can only bear it.

But even so, the soldiers of the Beijing camp are better than the border army, after all, the Beijing camp guards the capital, and under the eyes of the emperor, it is impossible for the generals to eat empty salaries and drink the blood of the soldiers.

But the border army is different, the border army is high and the emperor is far away, and the Ming Dynasty needs the border army generals to guard the frontier, so even if the border army generals do something out of line, no one will ask, of course, the border army generals save their families, and they also ensure the elite combat power.

In addition, there are garrisons in various places, but the so-called garrison soldiers are, to put it bluntly, the private tenant farmers of the generals of the guards, who expect them to work in the fields with hoes, and want them to pick up knives and guns to fight, which is not to kill the enemy but to send them to death......

During the most serious period when the Japanese invaded the coastal areas, there were countless examples of thousands of soldiers in a guard station being killed by hundreds or even dozens of Japanese soldiers crying fathers and mothers, which shows how rotten the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were.

In Yongwangwei, no general dares to deduct military salaries, no official dares to go to fill his pockets openly, they can eat three meals a day and never stop meat, their military clothes are excellent, their armor is tough, their place is clean and tidy, all their use, Yongwang spares no expense!

In Yongwangwei, in addition to the hard points of practice, except that the regulations are a little harsh, there is hardly any flaw to be found.

But what is the purpose of practicing hardship?

In order for them to have a strong physique and exquisite martial arts, with these, they can fight bravely on the battlefield, and at the worst, they can make it easier for them to live!

Therefore, the soldiers of Yongwangwei have no resentment, as long as they practice not to die, they will practice to the death, no matter how difficult to accept the details of the regulations, in fact, as long as you get used to it, you will get used to it, just like the internal affairs regulations, when you get used to it, you will naturally prefer to live in a clean military house, rather than the kind of barracks full of foul smell, bedding and clothes are rotten everywhere, and exude a disgusting atmosphere.

Now the 5,000 Yongwang Guards are the backbone of the Shence Army's battalions, and whenever the veterans of the Beijing camp are tortured by the regulations, they will laugh, and then unceremoniously let them go through the disposal process.