Raise troops to suppress bandits

Ren Tianqi only returned to Guangling with Dongxue, Xia He, Tianbao, Tian Muzuo, Ma Benqing and the Black and White Double Eagle couple, while the rest stayed in Yangzhou. Back in Guangling, the West Courtyard added a few little girls for everyone to use.

Ren Tianqi saw that the imperial court still did not approve the document, so he wrote a letter to the bank of the Huai River to clear out the robbers and robbers, and wrote to the imperial court.

After a while, Gong Ming sent a letter saying that the two armies of the Green Dragon and the White Tiger had come to the Huai River to make proper arrangements, and hoped that Ren Tianqi would send someone to reorganize.

Here, Zhong Han and others have also returned, and they have clearly marked the people, officials, and bandits that have been inquired about in Huaixu and Xu.

Within ten days, the imperial court had a palindrome, in addition to commending Ren Tianqi's heart to serve the country and agreeing to let Ren Tianqi lead his troops to the north, but also emphasized that the bandits and bandits were not allowed to cross the Yangtze River in the south and the Huai River in the north, and half of the money and grain obtained should be handed over to the household department; all necessary armaments and materials should be submitted and reported to be supplied by the prefectures and counties to which Yangzhou belongs.

Ren Tianqi was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered to go down to reorganize the army for war, and at the same time wrote to assassinate Shi Yingguiquan to request the allocation of materials and ordnance, and repeatedly made false reports.

On this day, Huang Daoji said, the cannon sounded three times, and Ren Tianqi led the generals to lead 5,000 military horses to the road. All the female dependents, Ren Songyi's father and son, and 200 relatives and soldiers stayed in Guangling together. In less than five days, the army came to the Huai River, selected a camp, and settled down in three places, the left battalion was 1,500 fast horse troops, led by Black Eagle, the right battalion was 1,500 infantry troops, led by White Eagle, the large battalion was commanded by Ren Tianqi, with 500 heavy archers, 1,000 heavy armored horse troops, and 500 personal soldiers; and the four generals of Gao Li were separated from the left and right battalions to assist Shuangying.

When it was dark, Ren Tianqi took several pro-soldiers and Tian, Ma, Tianbao and others across the river to the Gong Ming camp, and promoted the big tent as the general of Zhengnan, and met with the generals and colonels of the big camp on the side of the Dajin Kingdom, promoted everyone on the spot, promulgated military regulations and military discipline, and ordered Gong Ming to temporarily lead the two armies. That night, the Huai River returned to camp.

In the following years, Ren Tianqi first sent secret agents out in four places, south to the Yangtze River, east to the sea, west to Dingyuan, north to Tengzhou and Feizhou, a total of 600 miles long from east to west, 800 miles long from north to south, collecting and sorting out a total of 43 cottages of large and small thieves, totaling more than 4,000 people, and more than 1,000 horses; among them, there are 17 villages south of the Huai River, including five large villages, with a total of about 2,000 people; there are more than 50 green forests and black shops and black villages, more than 2,000 people and horses, and countless treasures. Ren Tianqi wrote a chapter and sent it to Lin'an and the king of Zhengnan, clarifying the plan for the clean-up, and writing to the local government to strengthen the control of the border estuary checkpoints, and asked Longqiuzhuang to secretly help to start the clean-up.

It lasted five months, leveling all the bandits south of the Huai River and north of the Yangtze River, and obtained 450,000 taels of silver, more than 30,000 taels of gold, 2,700 horses, more than 3,000 people, and countless jewels; more than 300 casualties were also suffered by the 5,000 troops he brought into the expedition, Ai Tong was killed in battle, Gao Li lost an arm, and Tian Muzuo was wounded six times. Since then, the territory of more than a dozen counties in seven prefectures along the rivers has been peaceful and tranquil for more than ten years, with smooth wind and rain, and the ancient wind has continued.

Ren Tianqi wrote a good notebook and ordered the black and white eagles, Yuan Ren, to take 500 people to escort 200,000 taels of silver and 5,000 taels of gold to Lin'an;

No one in the court did not fail to praise each other. Hundreds of officials all rushed to send people to get acquainted, and all the yamen in Yangzhou Guangling sent people to the Huai River with heavy gifts.

Longxin Dayue, then issued a decree, in addition to rewarding the merit of pacification, and allocated a number of ordnance, armor and horses, Xu Ren Tianqi can expand the army by another 10,000, and stay on the south bank of the Huai River to standby.

As a result, Ren Tianqi recruited another 10,000 new soldiers in the south of Huaihenan, together with the original military horses and 3,000 robbers and bandits, a total of 18,000 military horses. The 3,000 bandits were organized into the Tiger Guard's own army, the 10,000 recruits were organized into 5,000 infantry troops, 2,000 heavy bows, 1,000 light attackers, 1,000 pikemen, and 1,000 short sword and iron shield men; and the 5,000 horse army was organized into 1,000 heavy armor troops, 3,000 fast horse troops, and 1,000 gunners. The 20,000 troops and horses were still set up in three large camps along the Huai River, each with a distance of 10 li, with 5,000 horse troops and 1,000 infantry troops in the left battalion, led by Shuangying; 5,000 infantry troops in the right battalion, led by Yuan Ren, who was transferred back from Yangzhou; Ren Tianqi led 7,000 old troops in the middle and transferred more than 1,000 Mongolian troops on the other side of the river to cross the river, and all of them were organized into Biao cavalry soldiers.

Ren Tianqi has been loyal to the gold lord and the old prince since he wrote, and he has paid countless tributes of gold and silver, and the saints of the Dajin Kingdom are very relieved.

Since then, Xuzhou soldiers have become famous and have become an important force that both Lin'an and Yanjing want to rely on and use.

Later, Ren Tianqi wrote to the king of the south again, asking if he could lead troops to clear the bandits and black villages in the three states of Huai, Xu and Teng.

The old prince's palindromic reply was suspended.

It turned out that Ren Tianqi's department developed too fast on the south bank of the Huai River, and was strictly disciplined, and he did not commit any crimes in the autumn, and repeatedly helped the people to build water conservancy, which was supported by the local people. Emperor Shengming, the Golden Emperor, was alert to this, and under the unclear motive of Ren Tianqi, he was afraid that Ren Tianqi would use the excuse of quelling the chaos to go deep into the territory and lead the wolf into the house, so he ordered Ren Tianqi to wait for the first class, but he still handed over the two counties in Huaizhou to Ren Tianqi for control, and the appointment of the general of Zhengnan remained unchanged.