Ping An is so obvious, his head is relatively big, in case someone sees it, it will be spread to Jingshi in the future, saying that he will be safe at night, is this okay?

"Come-" People, Song Sheng wanted to ask someone to arrest Ping'an, but he felt that it was inappropriate.

After all, Song Sheng has a bottom line, and his reputation has been passed on for a lifetime, if he does this kind of thing and spreads it, his reputation will be lost.

If Song Sheng wants to be replaced by Zhang Wu and Zhu Di, he must immediately arrest Ping'an first, and then say, these two people have no bottom line.

But Song Sheng couldn't do this.

"Old general, you can't do this, don't panic, I'll leave after a few words." Ping An Dadao sat in the camp tent: "There are more people in the city during the day, and some things are not good to say to the old general, so I want to find an opportunity to talk to the old general." ”

Song Sheng said in a low voice: "The Tao is different, we don't have anything to talk about, don't harm me." ”

Song Sheng is very angry now, Ping An suddenly visited, if Zhu Di knew about this, he would not be able to tell in the future.

"I'm here to help you, why are you harmful?" Ping'an said: "Your Song family wants to be rich for a hundred years, and you have to bet on it, in case the king of Han wins, your attitude will be unlucky." ”

“。。” Song Sheng.

Ping'an smiled: "I won't embarrass you, I know that you want to go from Hanzhong, you lead the troops all the way through Hanzhong, don't leave soldiers and horses, or leave a small number of soldiers and horses." ”

Peace knew his intentions.

"I originally wanted to rush overnight and go to Hanzhong before you, but that would block the old general's retreat, and King Han didn't want to embarrass the old general."

"Does the old general understand what I mean?"

Song Sheng's face changed greatly.

Ping'an came to Chengdu before him, and according to Ping'an's meaning, he could also go to Hanzhong before him.

It's just that he didn't want to block him Song Sheng, so he let him go first.

Of course, if Ping'an is blocked in Hanzhong, Song Sheng has to fight with him, both sides are cavalry, then it will be meaningless.

Song Sheng fell into a brief silence.

Seeing that he was hesitant, Ping'an said again: "Before I came, King Han told me. ”

"King Han said—"

Song Sheng was really interested, and listened intently, he also wanted to know what Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, thought of him.

"King Han said that General Song is different from other Yan army generals, he has a charismatic personality, and what he promised, he will definitely not regret it like Zhu Di, so if you talk to him about things, as long as you get the promise of General Song, you can put one hundred and twenty hearts."

brush, Song Sheng's face was flushed, and he didn't know whether he was excited or excited.

He stared at Ping An and hesitated for a moment: "Gao Xu doesn't need to say such nice words, I will lead the troops through Hanzhong without leaving any soldiers, and pass it to the Beijing Division, Your Majesty will also suspect it." ”

Song Sheng is so experienced, doesn't he know the importance of Hanzhong, and now that he is fleeing Sichuan, if he doesn't defend Hanzhong, won't he be asking for trouble?

"If the old general says so, I can only lead the troops to Hanzhong overnight and block the old general first?" Ping An said dissatisfied.

“。。” Song Sheng.

Ping'an said: "This side is thousands of miles away from Jingshi, what will happen in the future, or the old general will have the final say?" ”

"Even if Zhu Di is suspicious, he doesn't dare to embarrass the old general."

"We won a big victory in Guizhou, a big victory in Guangxi, and now the Han King occupies Fujian, Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guizhou, nearly half of the Ming Dynasty."

"Soon it will also attack Huguang."

"The victory and defeat have been clear, it is useless for the court to have a million troops, and Zhu Di has no available generals."

"In the Jing Disaster, Sheng Yong and I almost killed Zhu Di, if it wasn't for the emperor not to kill his uncle, if it wasn't for Li Jinglong's waste, it would have allowed Zhu Di to live to this day." Ping An took advantage of the situation to blow himself.

"The old general is experienced, he should be able to see who this world will belong to in the future, the Song family's hundred years of wealth and wealth are all in the old general's thoughts."

"Besides, as long as we are Hanzhong, we are not embarrassed old generals, you retreat in a hurry, some mistakes are inevitable?"

Song Sheng was speechless for a long time.

The next day, Song Sheng's whole army set out to go to Hanzhong, and the soldiers and horses of Ping An followed closely and did not pursue.

The two sides crossed a small half of Sichuan, one after the other.

In mid-August, Song Sheng took more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, ran all the way, and finally fled to Hanzhong in embarrassment.

At this time, he was already sleepy and tired, like a homeless person, and he was still like an official army, because the news of the disastrous defeat of the official army in Sichuan had spread everywhere, and many prefectures and counties in Sichuan no longer opened their doors, nor did they support grain and grass for them.

Song Sheng led all the cavalry, unwilling to attack the city, so he could only run desperately, and when he encountered some villages along the way, he directly grabbed some food, which made the reputation of the officers and soldiers worse.

If Zhang Wu is to do this, he will most likely claim to be a rebel and stole the looting of the people to the rebels, but Song Sheng can't do this kind of thing, and he needs food, so he stinks the reputation of the officials and soldiers.

Han Zhongwei originally had a guard of more than 5,000 people stationed on this side.

When Song Sheng and them supported Sichuan, they took more than 3,000 people with them.

Now that they have returned, the original more than 3,000 people have been lost on the battlefield in Sichuan.

Song Sheng asked the remaining more than 2,000 people to guard it well, and he took the cavalry to go first, and said that the imperial court would come over in the future.

The rest of Han Zhongwei's soldiers and horses looked confused and quite depressed.

Not long after Song Sheng left, Ping An arrived with 20,000 horses.

Of course, the 20,000 cavalry siege was not suitable, but the people left behind by Han Zhongwei surrendered without saying a word.

Zhu Gaoxu got Hanzhong, and he could attack Guanzhong at any time in the future, and in turn, the officials and troops in Guanzhong wanted to attack it, which was a bit of a headache.

In the battle of Sichuan, the rebel army won a complete victory again, and in addition to more than 30,000 cavalry of more than 200,000 officers and soldiers returned to Shaanxi, only a small number of infantry could run back in the follow-up, and most of them either surrendered, disappeared, or were damaged on the battlefield.

After this battle, the rebel army received a large number of surrenders, and the strength of the rebel army and the official army underwent earth-shaking changes again.

Next, Zhu Gaoxu reorganized his troops and horses in various places, and set up his own political envoy department and capital department, according to the judges.

Cao Yu, the former political secretary of Yunnan, went to Sichuan to serve as political envoys, Chen Wen was the commander of the Sichuan Metropolitan Division, Jin Rong was the commander of the Yunnan Metropolitan Division, and Qu Neng was the chief military officer of Sichuan, commanding the Sichuan and Yunnan Divisions.

At this time, there were a total of 150,000 soldiers and horses in Sichuan, including 40,000 cavalry, which were basically composed of surrendered troops in the Battle of Central Sichuan, and only more than 30,000 were the original rebel army.

However, although most of them were surrendered, Zhu Gaoxu still used the old routine of dividing the fields and increasing salaries, disrupting and reorganizing, and then arranged for about 70,000 people to return to the garrisons and garrisons and train.

He is different from Zhu Di.

Zhu Di is now mobilizing troops and horses across the country, and a large number of guards and sergeants are being transferred, so that many military fields are no longer short of people to cultivate.

The Ming Dynasty military field was garrisoned in three points, and the tuntian was divided into seven points.

During the war, seventy percent of the soldiers were generally sent to fight, and many of the Jingjing martyrs were transferred away from the whole guard, and the military fields were left for their families and military remnants to plant.

In order to concentrate more soldiers and horses in Huguang, Zhu Di is recruiting and transferring from all over the country, and there are fewer and fewer people in the military fields, which will definitely affect the autumn harvest in the second half of the year and the output next year.

However, Zhu Gaoxu, in line with the principle of having a good army and not too many soldiers, and at the same time ensuring food, first divided half of Sichuan's 150,000 soldiers and horses back to the various guard posts to continue to garrison Tuntian.

Guarantee the production and income of military fields.

In this way, after the battle on the Sichuan side is completed, Zhu Gaoxu can go out to fight about 80,000 soldiers and horses, mainly stationed in Hanzhong and Chongqing.

Defend Guanzhong and Huguang.

In addition to Sichuan, the Guizhou Metropolitan Division was commanded by Ping'an, the Guangxi Metropolitan Commander was Wang Zhong, and Sheng Yong was the Guangxi Commander-in-Chief Military Officer, commanding both Guizhou and Guangxi.

There are 200,000 soldiers and horses in Guizhou, of which the original Sheng Yong has more than 70,000 soldiers and horses, and after defeating Xue Lu, he got 50,000 or 60,000 troops, and then broke through Guiyang and integrated the soldiers and horses of the whole territory of Guizhou, Sheng Yong already has 150,000 soldiers and horses.

When Zhu Gaoxu won a great victory in Guangxi, after collecting and surrendering troops, he got Xu Zhong's soldiers and horses, and after breaking Guilin, the total number of troops exceeded 300,000, because there were too many soldiers and horses, the pressure on food was great, and the taxes on the military fields in Guangtian were small, so he gave 50,000 to Sheng Yong, so that the number of troops in Guizhou reached 200,000.

Sheng Yong also left 50,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Tuntian for the Guizhou Metropolitan Division, so the available mobile troops in Guizhou were 150,000.

Zhu Gaoxu is in Guangxi, except for the troops of Tuntian and Guizhou, and now there are still 200,000 soldiers and horses, ready to attack Huguang in the next step.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu had no troops and horses in Fujian and Guangdong, and he already had 600,000 troops in his hands, and the situation was much better than Zhu Di's Jingnan.

In addition to the troops stationed in various provinces to ensure the storage of food and garrisons, Zhu Gaoxu's mobile strength is.

80,000 in Sichuan, 150,000 in Guizhou, and 200,000 in Guangxi, a total of 430,000 can be used to fight.

In addition, the soldiers and horses of Fujian, Guangdong, Yunnan, and Jiaozhi were not counted.

At this time, the victories of the three major battles of Guangxi, Guizhou and Sichuan accumulated a large number of soldiers and horses for Zhu Gaoxu, and at the same time, the name of a hundred battles and victories was spread throughout the Ming Dynasty.

In September, good news came out of the southwestern provinces at the same time.

Yunnan, Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Jiaozhi, the salaries of officials in seven provinces have been doubled.

The soldiers of the guard post were added five cents each, and the fields were redivided and the taxes were recalculated.

When the news came out, the world shook, and the Ming Dynasty shook.

The ratio of officials in the Ming Dynasty was about 2,000 to one, but the salary was relatively low among the dynasties in history, so corrupt officials were prevalent in the Ming Dynasty, and Lao Zhu peeled the skin and lit the lamp without control.

Now Zhu Gaoxu suddenly announced that all officials' salaries would be doubled, and he was immediately supported by all Ming officials.

To be honest, the officials don't care which of you is the emperor, and the benefits are the most practical.

Whatever righteous truths are all lip service, and whoever raises the salary will definitely support whom.

After entering September, Zhu Gaoxu, who had won the territory of several provinces, was not in a hurry to attack again.

He didn't learn from Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui's foundation was unstable, and the support from Fujian and Guangdong was not enough, so he couldn't consume the huge resources of the Qing court.

Now that Zhu Di has just ascended the throne for four years, his foundation is unstable.

His rule in the provinces was slowly stabilized, and the provincial officials and guards fully supported Zhu Gaoxu, so he was not in a hurry.

Moreover, at this time, his soldiers and horses and territory collapsed, and he had to increase his salary, and the logistics grain and grass materials were relatively lacking, so he was in great need of supplementation, and the newly surrendered soldiers and horses also had to be reorganized and integrated in order to ensure the big war in the future.

(End of chapter)