Chapter 278: Zuo Liangyu Becomes Lieutenant General
In Pingdugou, in addition to supervising the training of sergeants every day, Shi Dayong spent more time reading the Tang newspaper he bought from Pei Shaokuan. The recent Tang newspapers were almost all about news about bandits from Shanshan, Central Plains and Huguang.
Shi Dayong learned from the Tang newspaper that the imperial court had dismissed Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, and asked him to remain the governor of Yansui. Chen Qiyu, the former governor of Yansui, suddenly became Hong Chengchou's boss, with the largest jurisdiction and power since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
The largest governor of the five provinces, he is responsible for the military affairs of the five provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang, and Sichuan, and specializes in dealing with bandits.
However, after Chen Qiyu received the imperial edict to be promoted to governor of the five provinces, he did not immediately use troops because the weather was too cold to use troops. Therefore, he first requested an edict to depose Yunyang Governor Jiang Yunyi who had seen the thieves fleeing, and then led the Tianxiong Army.
The famous deputy envoy Lu Xiangsheng was transferred from the Central Plains to the governor of Xunyang.
Lu Xiangsheng was a Jinshi in the second year of Tianqi. Although he was a scholar, he was good at riding and shooting, skillful in general strategy, generous and righteous. He was the prefect of Daming during the "Ji Si Change" and recruited ten thousand people to defend the capital. After the siege of Beijing, he
The three prefectures of Daming, Guangping, and Shunde were equipped with troops. The troops they recruited were not disbanded. They were named Tianxiong Army. They were elite divisions that had been carefully trained.
After Lu Xiangsheng led the Tianxiong Army to take office, Chen Qiyu became more powerful. He immediately mobilized troops and generals, deployed encirclement on all sides, and ordered the four Fu ministers of Shaanxi, Yun, Henan, and Chu to lead their troops to discuss the matter.[
The governor of Shaanxi practiced state affairs and stationed in Shangnan, blocking it in the northwest;
Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Yunyang, stayed in his house and blocked it due west.
Xuanmo, the governor of Henan, stationed himself in the Lu family and intercepted the troops in the northeast;
Tang Hui, governor of Huguang, stationed himself in Nanzhang and blocked the attack in the southeast.
Chen Qiyu led his elite troops from Nanyang to Junzhou City, Xiangyang Prefecture, Huguang, and attacked from Zhuxi in Yunyang Prefecture. They fought in Pingli, Wulinguan, Gouyangjie, Nijiagou, Jiangxi, Shishishan and other places, large and small.
In more than ten battles, good news was reported, nearly 5,000 people were killed, and 11 leaders were captured. Lieutenant General Liu Qian attacked between Pingli and Zhuxi, and guerrilla commander He Renlong and others pursued them to Ziyang and won a great victory.
In the first battle of Ziyang, He Renlong killed more than 10,000 people. Chen Qiyu took advantage of the victory and pursued it, stepped up the siege, and ordered the four governors to continue to guard the key passages in all directions. His generals He Renlong, Liu Qian, and Xia Hao guarded Lueyang and Mian County; Yang Zhengfang,
I was appointed to guard Baocheng; Chen Qiyu personally led Yang Hualin, and Liuguo Town was stationed in Yangxian County, with careful arrangements, step by step, and constantly shrinking the encirclement.
At the same time, Hong Chengchou, who had been demoted to the governor of Yansui, realized his shame and fell behind. He commanded Gansu General Yang Jiamo, Ningxia General He Huchen, Guyuan General Yang Qi and other generals to carry out an all-out campaign in their jurisdictions, and successively wiped out Huang Youcai's troops and Red Army friends.
, Du San, Yang Laochai's tribe, Hao Lin'an, Liu Daojiang, Ke Feitian's tribe, etc. However, the main force of the bandits did not suffer any losses. The bandits from various tributaries who originally fought between Shaanxi and Shanxi entered Shanxi one after another under pressure from Shaanxi.
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The person responsible for suppressing the bandits in Shanxi was Sun Xianzu, the commander-in-chief of Ningwu. Sun Xianzu was very effective in suppressing the bandits, but the more he killed the bandits, the more bandits he killed. There were thirty-six battalions of bandits in Shanxi, with a population of about 200,000.
The military reports sent to the court from Shanxi showed the names of hundreds of thieves, including the so-called Eight Kings, Sweeping King, Xing Honglang, Black God of Death, Cao Cao, King of Troubled Times, Crash into the Sky, Chuang Jiang, Man's Gypsophila, and Lao Huihui.
, King Chuang, etc. These thieves and leaders of the Communist Party use themselves as alliance leaders.
In order to suppress bandits in Shanxi, Chongzhen replaced Song Tongyin, governor of Shanxi, and Sun Xianzu, commander-in-chief of Ningwu, who had failed to "suppress bandits". He appointed Xu Dingchen, minister of Guanglu Temple, as governor of Shanxi and Zhang Yingchang as commander-in-chief of Ningwu, and constantly dispatched troops to Shanxi.
.The Yansui Town Army entered Shanxi under the leadership of generals Li Bei, Ai Wannian, and He Renlong. Lintao General Cao Wenzhao led "3,500 horse infantry officers and soldiers selected one by one and experienced many battles" to Shanxi.
Join the battle against bandits in Shanxi.
After the Shaanxi army entered Shanxi, the bandits were deeply afraid and began to escape to Hebei and Henan at the junction of Shanxi. The bandits' scope of activities expanded to the three provinces of Shanxi, Hebei, and Henan. The bandits in the central plains of Henan constituted a serious threat to the security of the capital.
Threat, the imperial court attached great importance to this and hurriedly mobilized troops and generals to contain the bandits.
In a recent Tang newspaper, Shi Dayong was shocked to see the name of an acquaintance appearing on the list of people transferred to Henan by the imperial court. This person was Zuo Liangyu. There was only one sentence about him in the newspaper - "Changping Deputy General Zuo
The Liangyu tribe led 2,450 soldiers from Changping to aid northern Henan."
Zuo Liangyu became deputy general?
Shi Dayong was a little depressed. When he was in Jinzhou, Zuo Liangyu was still a general at the same level as him. He went to Beijing to show off his victory and received no reward. Zuo Liangyu was promoted to a deputy general!
People are really incomparable, and I don’t know what kind of bad luck I have. From the day I entered the border, everything has been going wrong. Now it’s even more because I am trapped in Pingdugou. I see a lot of things in the pond newspaper.
The generals and generals were transferred here and there, and they were having a great time fighting, but he could only stare. Shi Dayong couldn't stand this humiliation for a while.
Wang Hong was really good at doing things. He actually bought wine and meat. On New Year's Eve, Shi Dayong rarely allowed the army to drink wine. He drank from a big bowl and drank hard. He immediately became drunk. How could the generals?
It was easy to carry him to the tent to rest.
The fourth year of Chongzhen ended with Shi Dayong's drunkenness.
Guo Yi, who was sent to the capital, and Shao Wu, who was dispatched to Jinzhou, did not come back. The food in the camp was in crisis again. After another delivery of 20,000 taels of silver, Lin Jiantai secretly sold Shi Dayong 200 tons of food. This time the price was higher than
It's more reasonable, but it's also exorbitantly expensive.
During the Chinese New Year, the government and the army do not want to fight, and neither do the rebels. The two sides remain indifferent to each other as before.[
The recruitment is still in progress, and it is said that the imperial envoys will come to Laizhou to meet with Kong Youde after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
With nothing to fight and nothing to do, Shi Dayong focused all his energy on training the captured soldiers and the two thousand Sichuan troops.
Just after the Lantern Festival, news came that at the request of Zhu Changfang, the king of Lu who was enfeoffed in Weihui, the emperor ordered Tang Jiuzhou to lead the Changping troops, Ni Chong and Wang Pu to lead the Beijing camp, a total of 30,000 troops to go to Henan and Bei to quell the bandits.
However, under the coordination of the alliance leader Wang Ziyong, the bandits moved at different times and fought in Shanxi, northern Henan, and southern Jinan. The official and military powers of the three provinces were not consistent, and coordination and command were unfavorable. They often focused on one thing and missed the other.
In order to unify affairs, the Henan squires petitioned the imperial court to appoint Hong Chengchou, the governor of Yansui, to supervise the military affairs of the three provinces. This was also an extension of Hong Chengchou's previous position as governor of the three provinces.
The Ministry of War thought this suggestion was very good, and decided to move Hong Chengchou to Tongguan to control the military affairs of the three provinces and unify the military operations of the three chief military officers Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Yingchang and Liu Wenhu. However, Chongzhen did not approve the decision of the Ministry of War, but took another step.
One way is to increase the power of the governors of the two provinces of Shanxi and Henan. He gave the governors of the two provinces of Shanxi and Henan the power to kill first and then report. If there are generals and generals below the guerrilla level who disobey orders and violate military orders, the governors of the two provinces can kill first and then report.
The fifth year of Chongzhen may have been a bad year. Bad news came from various places that the generals were not obedient, and there were vague rumors that the generals were caring for the invaders. For this reason, Chongzhen once again sent eunuchs to supervise the army. Chen Dakui, Yan Siyin,
Xie Wenju three eunuchs served as supervisors of Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Yingchang and Zuo Liangyu towns respectively.
Whether the emperor sends civil servants or eunuchs to supervise the army has little to do with Shi Dayong, and he doesn't bother to ask. In addition to having a headache about food, he also has another headache - the soldiers don't seem to be well trained.