The house is Wang Chengen's residence outside the palace. After Guo Yi entered the house, his eyes lit up. It turned out that the garden was built like a Jiangnan garden, with rockeries, pools, pavilions, courtyards and corridors, and an unknown number of rooms.
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On the way, the two young eunuchs told Guo Yi with dissatisfaction that Wang Gonggong's garden had a history. It was the private residence of the former Wei Dynasty. The current emperor wanted to know that Wang Gonggong had loyally protected the emperor when he ascended the throne, so he raided the Wei Dynasty.
It was specially given to the prince and his father-in-law.
When he saw Wang Chengen, the eunuch was having a meal, and his meal was light. There were only four dishes on the table, all of which were vegetarian. There were no servants around to serve him.
"Little Guo Yi, I have been asked to see the prince by order of my general!" Guo Yi has been a soldier for a long time, so he knows this rule. After entering the house, he knelt down first.
"Get up."[
Wang Chengen said without raising his head, and then continued to eat without saying anything to Guo Yi. It wasn't until the bowl of rice was finished that he gently put down his chopsticks. Perhaps he was a little full, so he got up and left.
Two laps.
"Why did your general send you to find our family?" Wang Chengen's voice was not loud, but he could hear it clearly, with the voice of Hejian Prefecture in North Zhili.
At that moment, General Guo Yi told Wang Chengen one by one about the heavy losses suffered by the Jinzhou Army in Xiaoguantun in the first battle and the loss of food supplies due to high altitude. Finally, he choked with sobs and prostrated, and knelt down to ask Wang Chengen to take the injustice they had suffered to Tianyan.
After hearing this, Wang Chengen nodded, but said nothing. He only asked Guo Yi which inn he was staying in in Beijing. After Guo Yi told him, a young eunuch came to take him out.
For the next three days, Wang Chengen did not send anyone to look for Guo Yi. Guo Yi did not dare to ask, and he did not dare to go out, fearing that if Wang Chengen sent someone to look for him, he would not be in trouble.
It was not until the fourth day that Wang Chengen finally sent someone to look for Guo Yi. However, the person who came did not bring Guo Yi to see Wang Chengen, but brought the words "The Holy One knows."
"The Holy One knows" is the biggest gain of Guo Yi's trip to Beijing. But since the Holy One already knew the crisis facing the Jinzhou Army, why didn't he see any movement from Gao Qiqian? There was still only a grain of food.
Although it was not allocated, the camp relied on the food bought from Lin Jiantai.
But no matter what, as long as the emperor knows his situation, Shi Dayong believes that Chongzhen will deal with Gao Qiqian impartially and will give him an explanation.
On the 27th, Pei Shaokuan told Shi Dayong a definite news. The imperial court appointed Liu Yulie, a great scholar and the right minister of the Ministry of War, as the governor-general, with full authority to command the Beijing camp, Jiliao soldiers, Sichuan army and Lu army in Shandong. He was accompanied by eight thousand people.
The Shenji battalion and fifteen Hongyi cannons were used to fight against the rebels.
This news cheered up Shi Dayong, and the imperial court finally gave up on unrealistic appeasement and changed its leadership to suppress the army! However, Pei Shaokuan's next words gave him a bucket of cold water. He told Shi Dayong that this imperial envoy
The Minister of Recruitment, Zhang Guochen, is actually the protégé of Liu Shilang. How can there be a student in the world who takes the initiative to educate, while the teacher takes the initiative to suppress the rebels? So, Liu Shilang is not here to suppress the rebels, but to suppress the rebels.
and.
After looking forward and looking forward, it was the teacher and the student who were wearing the same pair of trousers. Shi Dayong couldn't laugh or cry.
It's going to rain, and my mother wants to get married, so let it be.
Liu Yulie finally got his wish and became the governor. He was very excited and held a banquet in Beijing for three days before leaving the capital under the escort of the Eight Thousand Divine Machine Battalion. The banners were waving and the long procession stretched for ten miles.
prestige.
However, majesty is majestic, but Liu Shilang's journey is not fast, more than unhappy, and the sentence "snail crawling" is probably the most appropriate way to describe it.
After setting off from the capital, the army walked for two full days before reaching Tongzhou, and stayed in Tongzhou for three days, saying that it was waiting for the food and grass transported by canal to be ready before leaving. Yes, this food and grass is the courage of the army, how can it be done without courage?
, just wait.
Liu Shilang didn't just wait and do nothing, he had something to do. He sent Sun Yinglong, a Liao general who had some friendship with the rebel general Geng Zhongming, to persuade Geng Zhongming to surrender, hoping to divide the strength of the rebels. As long as there was chaos within the rebels, the recruitment would be a problem.
Greater certainty.
No matter how powerful the enemy is, as long as there is civil strife, he will no longer be a piece of iron. He can be attacked with emotion and reason. No matter how large the army is, it is impossible for Kong Youde to accept the appeasement dishonestly. It cannot but be said that Liu Shilang's strategy of internal disintegration is not clever.
, but he underestimated the determination of the rebel generals who followed Kong Youde in their rebellion.
After Sun Yinglong received the order, he wrote a letter to persuade Geng Zhongming to surrender. Geng Zhongming used his plan and sent a random head to him, saying that he had beheaded Kong Youde and asked Sun Yinglong to come quickly to accept the surrender. Sun Yinglong happily led the navy straight from Tianjin
Dengzhou was killed by Geng Zhongming as soon as he landed on the beach, and the dozens of naval warships he brought with him became the spoils of war for the rebels.[
Relying on the warships captured from Sun Yinglong, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming repelled the sea attack of Huang Long, the commander-in-chief of Pi Island, so that they no longer had to worry about their backs and could fully deal with the Ming army outside Laizhou City. On land,
In addition to continuing to besiege Laizhou, the rebels successively captured Zhaoyuan and Laiyang. The "Southern Expedition" Shandong's soldiers and horses even made the Lu army shrink in the big city and dare not take a step. With these victories, the rebels' arrogance suddenly increased.
He became arrogant again, and the disastrous defeats in Shahe and Xiaoguantun years ago became insignificant. Kong Youde also had more and more capital in his hands.
There has been no news from Jinzhou, and I don't know how Shao Wu and Huang An talked with the new Liaodong Governor Sun Yao, and whether Governor Sun will support Shi Dayong and the Jinzhou Army like the old man.
During the days of waiting, Shi Dayong also became more open-minded and thought more clearly. If Sun Yao did not support him, then he would take his soldiers and horses to another place. In short, as long as he did not vote for the Tatars,
, If you don’t join the bandits, you won’t be able to go anywhere.
But right now, Shi Dayong can't worry about where he will live in the future. He has to start the second step of transforming the Sichuan soldiers - letting them know whose orders they should obey.
After more than half a month of running-in, the combat effectiveness of the infantry battalion and the left and right infantry battalions has been significantly improved, and the estrangement between the soldiers has also been reduced a lot.
On the 28th, Shi Dayong decided to gather the entire army for a military parade the next day, the first day of March. The order was quickly issued to all battalions. At the same time, he appointed Counselor Zhongshu Zhao Xueqi as deputy military parade envoy, responsible for the dispatch of each battalion.
On the first day of March, the whole Jinzhou Army was gathered together. Counselor Zhongshu Zhao Xueqi had a high platform erected for Shi Dayong to review. A general military parade is not just a formality for the sergeants of each battalion to let the commander in chief take a look at their spirits.
At the same time, assassination and gunfire drills will also be conducted.
Shi Dayong went through all these processes. Although the team passing by still looked a little crooked, it was still in good shape overall.
As the flag was waved, the left battalion of the infantry conducted a fire drill, the right battalion conducted a chopping drill, and the infantry battalion also conducted some subject drills respectively, all of which went smoothly.
After all the projects were completed, Zhao Xueqi asked Shi Dayong as usual if he could deal with each battalion, but Shi Dayong said it was not possible yet. He ordered two hundred soldiers from Guocheng Department to go out, ordered people to bring his mounts, and then ordered them to fire muskets and kill them.