Chapter 560: Ying De’s name before and after his death
To be honest, the information Gao Yingdeng obtained was a bit disappointing.
Originally, Liu Shishi had a little hope in his heart, wondering if Shaanxi and Ningxia would jointly take action and the imperial court would station a batch of grain and grass in Qingyang Mansion.
As a result, the intelligence given by Gao Yingdeng was just as the generals of the Marshal's Mansion had already estimated. The Ming army had placed its grain storage camp in Xi'an Fucheng.
After the intelligence was settled, Liu Shishi was so angry that he cursed in the Chinese army commander's tent in the middle of the night.
Hong Chengchou and Chen Qiyu are not ashamed at all. What does it mean to put the grain platform in Xi'an Fucheng? It is already 500 miles from the grain field to the front line. Where is the front line in their imagination? Along Liupan Mountain!
Obviously, these dog officials have no determination to regain their lost ground!
I just want to watch the Marshal's Mansion sitting in the city of sleepiness, waiting for my grandfather to run out of food and then die.
The intention is very vicious.
At the same time, Gao Yingdeng's intelligence mentioned another incident, which was of equally great significance to Liu Chengzong.
Lord Chongzhen is serious about it.
Emperor Chongzhen prepared for this battle more seriously than before. He decided to send 200,000 taels of internal money to Taipu Temple and 100,000 taels. A total of 300,000 taels of silver were being transported to Xi'an. He also ordered Shanxi, Henan, and Sichuan provinces to withhold silver.
100,000 in salary to prepare for unexpected needs.
These two pieces of news, including the location of the grain garrison and the use of internal funds to prepare for war, were basically in line with Liu Chengzong's judgment of the army and he did not think it was false news.
It turns out that Gao Yingdeng's source of information is a bit tricky - his Tangqi crossed Qinzhou and entered the boundary of Longzhou in Fengxiang Prefecture. They walked cautiously all the way, and even went to explore the road, but they ended up on the narrow bank of Sanqiao River with him.
Thirty-two Sichuan troops met on a narrow road.
It is said that the Tang soldier was so frightened that he slowly retreated while waving the flag. However, the Sichuan soldiers on the mountain road ran very fast and shouted while running. They spoke with a Shu accent so fast that even the Tang soldiers could not hear them.
I understand, it took me a long time to figure out that these people wanted to surrender.
Gao Yingdeng came here overnight this time, not only to pass on information, but also to ask for credit for the Tang soldier named Ma Changli.
Liu Chengzong felt that the information was correct, but the surrender of this group of Sichuan soldiers was very strange, so he ordered Gao Yingdeng to take them to Longxi for custody and separate them from the army to avoid being spies of the imperial court.
"The commander-in-chief is worried that there are spies from the imperial court among them?" Gao Yingdeng thought that the possibility was unlikely, and shook his head: "I thought that even if I sent spies, I should let the Shaanxi Township Party come. At least it would be easier to win trust. We have **
The battalion is all from Shaanxi, and a group of Shu soldiers are acting as spies, which is very eye-catching."
"Eight, eight Qin military battalions, and two are considered mixed units from Gansu and Shaanxi. There are only two serious Gansu battalions."
Liu Chengzong was very familiar with the few soldiers under his opponents, so he said casually, but still with caution on his face: "What if we do the opposite?"
In fact, Liu Shishi thought it was unlikely to insist that these Sichuan soldiers were spies. But at this moment, he knew that Hong Chengchou and Chen Qiyu were busy plotting against him, and would inevitably think more deeply if there was any slight disturbance.<
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However, he really couldn't understand this matter, so Liu Chengzong simply waved his hand and said: "It doesn't matter. Anyway, send the people to Longxi first. If the language is not easy to communicate, give them pen and paper first. Why did you surrender? How do you know the location of the food storage and the contents?"
Let them write about the stupid things first, and I will send a Jia from Juerwan to talk to them, and we can always figure out the situation."
The mistress of Dajiansuo Guozhuang is proficient in the southwestern dialect and is good at being a manager. She is a good at observing words and calming people's hearts. If these Sichuan soldiers who have not returned home for several years hear the local accent, no matter what the inner story is, they will be betrayed.
Find out.
However, Liu Chengzong did not expect that before Ajia from Juerwan Market arrived, the Sichuan soldiers would report all the situations.
There is indeed a situation inside, and it is a situation that Liu Shizi could not have imagined - Deng Qi is dead.
Last year, Deng Qi's battalion had just staged a mutiny in Jingning Prefecture. It was only thanks to the care of the great scholar Wang Yingxiong that they were able to escape punishment from the imperial court. In the following months, they lived cautiously, for fear of making another mistake.
This caused the news that Lord Chongzhen had distributed internal funds to spread to the front line. Other generals sent people to Xi'an Mansion to ask for pay, but he was too embarrassed to send people because of the mutiny. He probably felt that sooner or later, he would have to pay the money and join in the fun.
Not interesting.
Liu Shizi read half of the Sichuan soldiers' report, clapped his thighs and said: Why are you so polite to the emperor? They are all officers and soldiers, and if you don't ask for them, you don't know whether the court will pay them or not?
He could no longer control that battalion of Sichuan soldiers. In Deng Qi's eyes, the soldiers mutinied and looted, which made him fearful. All the soldiers in the battalion were disobedient and noisy. In the eyes of the soldiers, he was just talking nonsense.
, a liar who doesn’t keep his word.
In the second year of Chongzhen's reign, he took them out of Sichuan and said that he would take them home after driving away Huang Taiji. After Huang Taiji left, Deng Qi was promoted to the chief military officer of Zunhua, with thousands of households in the world. They did not go home and were transferred to Xifengkou to follow Donglu.
Fight with knives.
During the Wuqiao mutiny, they were transferred to Shahe to fight against the rebels. Deng Qi said that he would take them home after fighting the rebels, and they went to fight the rebels in a bloody battle. The rebels were gone, and the rebels entered Hebei again. Deng Qi also said that after fighting the rebels, he would take them home.
The thief took them home, and they continued to fight against the bandits from Shaanxi. If Zuo Liangyu hadn't rescued them, they would have all been annihilated in Jinan.
Deng Qi was always unable to fulfill his promise. He made a wish to return home to them again and again, but he broke his promise again and again under the imperial court's urging orders.
Now that things have happened, the mood in the Sichuan barracks has been ignited. The imperial court is going to deploy them to garrison Longzhou. As the first-line troops to defend Liu Chengzong, the Sichuan soldiers are going crazy - the emperor really has no plan.
Let them live!
Then the news of Chongzhen's embezzlement reached the army, and the sergeants made a fuss. Under the leadership of his subordinate Wang Yuncheng, the general of the Liao army, they came to Deng Qi to demand payment, resenting him for deducting salary and silver.
In fact, for the Sichuan soldiers, it no longer mattered whether they were silver or not. They looked around and saw that in the chaotic future of the Ming Dynasty, they did not see a way for them to survive from the imperial court.,
But Deng Qi was not killed by Wang Yuncheng.
Wang Yuncheng didn't dare to kill him. He was a Liao soldier. He only joined this army when Deng Qi was stationed in Zunhua. Because he was good at commanding cavalry, Deng Qi relied on him. Even if he killed Deng Qi, he would not be able to win over this army, which was mainly composed of Sichuan soldiers.
troops.
But things went beyond people's expectations. This general who had been out of Sichuan for several years, fought from Shanhaiguan to Sanguan, and was invincible in hundreds of battles, did not die on the battlefield in the end, or even died at the hands of his own soldiers. Deng Qi actually ended up with a
In a very ironic way, he climbed a building and climbed over a wall to escape the military turmoil. He lost his balance and fell to his death.
The general died unexpectedly, and the leader was a general from the Liao soldiers. The entire Sichuan barracks was in confusion, and many people deserted.
The more than thirty Sichuan soldiers who fell into Liu Chengzong's hands were those who ran away from Longzhou at that time.
Liu Chengzong read the letter, clenched his fists tightly, and showed a complex look with multiple overlapping expressions on his face.
First of all, he felt sad for the way Deng Qi died. As one of the important opponents in this battle, Liu Chengzong did a lot of work, so that even though he had never met Deng Qi, he knew this person's life history very clearly, as if he really
It’s like knowing this person.
The end of life's journey is death, so death itself is not a sad thing. What matters is what you do while you are alive.
At this point, Deng Qi lived a heroic life. In the first year of Tianqi, he joined the army to suppress An Bangyan, King Qin fought against Xifengkou, drilled holes in Shahe River for Youde, and went to the Central Plains to suppress the peasant army. The fourteenth year of the army was fought every half a month.
I fought hundreds of battles and only lost three times.
As of the eighth year of Chongzhen's reign, this was the best firefighting captain who played all the games in the Ming Dynasty.
Liu Chengzong felt that it was a pity that Deng Qi was only one step away from becoming a first-class general. It was really just one step away, and it was a very simple step: run over and ask Liu Shishi to give him an arrow.
This arrow was placed in the face, causing him to fall from his horse and fall to the ground immediately in the formation. Deng Qi was a first-class general who would not be able to get around him in the future.
It's no longer possible now. If I don't die heroically, I'm afraid I'll be reduced to an unknown person like a third-rate elementary school.
A man as fierce as Li Rusong led an army of 35,000 soldiers across the Yalu River on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month. On the seventh day of the first lunar month, his troops arrived at Pyongyang City. In the early morning of the eighth day of the lunar month, he launched an attack on the Pyongyang City guarded by 24,000 men from Konishi Yingchang and broke through at noon.
Pyongyang City, before twelve o'clock that night, they drove President Konishi out of Pyongyang City, crossed the Datong River, burned, killed and drowned more than 10,000 people.
Even with the siege and pursuit, the total fighting lasted less than eighteen hours.
In the Battle of Biti Pavilion, the three thousand Liao cavalry in Zha Dashou were besieged by thirty-six Japanese Japanese, and they lasted from the 24th to the 25th.
But for such a fierce person, it would be hard to overstate how powerful he was in East Asia after the Battle of Pyongyang. People mentioned that he was still "Li Chengliang's son". Why? Because he died too easily - if he finished fighting North Korea, he would return home and report on his duties immediately
If he dies of illness, future generations will say that he is the limited-time R-god general experience card in Master Wanli’s hand, and his evaluation will rise by two levels.
Even if Xiang Yu decided to cross the Wujiang River and drowned half in the water, then the god-like overlord of Western Chu would no longer exist in later generations, and even Liu Bang, who forced Xiang Yu to death, would not have such a glorious face.
Every step in life determines the future. What you do today determines what will happen tomorrow, and what you do before death determines what will happen after death.
However, in addition to the pity and regret for Deng Qi's unexpected death, Liu Shishi was more excited.
Before the battle even started, a general fell to death. This was very unlucky for the Ming army. More importantly, Deng Qi's death caused a flaw in the Ming army's defense line at Liupanshan.
The main reason for the complicated expression on Liu Shizi's face was to endure the regret, joy and excitement at the same time, while also staring at the sand table to search for the enemy's weaknesses.
However, he did not delay for too long. He quickly thought and ordered Yulinqi to call Ma Xiang, the Tangqi commander of the Chinese army, and ordered him to lead Tangqi out in full force to cover Qinzhou, Longzhou and Zhenyuan with all their strength.
Three places where the Ming army was stationed blocked its traffic.
Ma Xiang joined the Marshal's Mansion as a surrendered soldier of Ningxia Tangqi Baidu during the Hehuang War. Since then, he has been serving as Dai Daozi's deputy. After Dai Daozi went to Tianshan, he served as his successor and led Liu Chengzong's army.
Zhongjun Tangqi.
But he and Dai Daozi are two extremes.
Dai Daozi was not born in Tangqi. He was an officer and a small leader of the Ningxia surrender army. Therefore, he was very independent. While doing the job of Tangqi, he always wanted to maintain his old profession and treat Tang soldiers as regular soldiers.
If you go to war and do something other than your job, it will go smoothly.
But Ma Xiang is different. He was born in Ye Bushu. After He Huchen defeated Huanglongshan, he started to form Tangqi soldiers. He joined Liu Chengzong in the Hehuang battle. He has been working hard and did all the work of Tangqi. This mission is of great significance.
Liu Shishi then warned him: "You have two purposes for this trip. The first is to confirm that Deng Qi is indeed dead; the second is to keep an eye on those three camps to see who moves."
The three battalions Liu Chengzong mentioned were Tang Jiuzhou's tribe stationed in Huating, Deng Qi's tribe in Longzhou, and Zuo Liangyu's tribe in Qinzhou.
"Commander, there is something unclear about my humble position."
Ma Xiang originally accepted the order with clasped fists and was about to retreat and gather his troops to go to the front line. After listening to Liu Chengzong's instructions, he thought about it and couldn't understand it, so he asked: "Even if Deng Qi dies, will these three battalions move?" p>
"Yes, if these three camps are not moving, then the so-called news that Deng Qi is dead must be false news; conversely, if Deng Qi is dead, someone from these three camps must be moving." Liu Chengzong said categorically: "
I want to see who, Tang Jiuzhou or Zuo Liangyu, can win over this Sichuan barracks!"
The subsequent mission, keeping an eye on the movements of the three battalions, was very simple for Ma Xiang, but it was more difficult for Tang Bing to confirm the news of Deng Qi's death.
"Then what if the imperial court promotes its deputy generals to lead troops and still garrison Longzhou?"
Liu Chengzong waved his hand and said that there was no such problem. He said: "Deng Qi is dead, and he really fell to death. This camp will be gone."
Deng Qi said he fell to death, but in fact he was forced to death. Forced to death by the soldiers he led, this battalion would no longer exist for the imperial court.
Because no matter what the final cause of Deng Qi's death was, as long as he did not die of illness or old age, there was only one cause of death for him in the court: corruption, perversion of the law, unfavorable mobilization, and bad treatment of the soldiers.
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The imperial court would compensate the Sichuan soldiers and then hand the troops over to others to downplay the influence of the Sichuan soldiers' grouping.
If the deputy general who promotes Deng Qi continues to lead the army and has the prestige of asking for pay for the soldiers, he will find that the real cause of Deng Qi's death is unexplained. As long as the Sichuan soldiers are still alive and able to fight, his successor will still follow Deng Qi's example.
By then, this camp will no longer belong to the imperial court.
Of course, there is another possibility. The successor is more "capable" and can fly between level bandits and rogue bandits. He can grasp the balance between robbery and chaos and solving practical problems for the court. Then this army may be able to survive.
Go down, but that's not the army the court wants.
Therefore, the imperial court will definitely assign this battalion to other general soldiers. Although this is only an expedient measure to check and balance each other, it is at least better than letting Wang Yuncheng, who forced Deng Qi to death, lead the army.
The reason why Liu Chengzong asked Ma Xiang to keep an eye on Tang Jiuzhou and Zuo Liangyu and not care about others was because they had cooperated with Deng Qi for the longest time and had the most tacit understanding, and they had the possibility of recruiting Sichuan soldiers.
Soon, the generals and brigades of the Marshal's Army received the news and rushed to the camp. For a while, Zhang Tianlin and others felt like they were in a dream when they heard that Deng Qi was dead.
They are still trying their best to find fighter planes here, but the officers and soldiers have already created fighter planes!
Soon Tangqi on the front line verified the authenticity of the news. The Sichuan troops stationed in the direction of Longzhou had all pulled out of their camps in a chaotic manner and moved closer to Qinzhou via Baoji... But they did not get close. They bumped into Ma Xiang's Tangqi halfway, and the battlefield was blocked.
Under cover, they mistakenly thought that most of the marshal's army had arrived in Qinzhou, and then retreated back to Baoji County.
This news is equivalent to confirming that Deng Qi is dead.
"Quickly report to the whole army and break camp."
When Liu Chengzong received the news from Ma Xiang during the military meeting, he immediately slapped his palm on the table, frightening all the generals to sit upright, but they saw him getting up and saying: "We march to Baoji, Zuo Liangyu saves Baoji, we
We will attack Qinzhou; if Zuo Liangyu squats in Qinzhou and does not move, we will go to Longzhou - they open their mouths, and we will go to Guanzhong to have fun!" End of Chapter