After listening to Qin Liangyu's words, Wu Shigong secretly complained in his heart. Originally, he and Qin Liangyu's army moved together to enjoy the shade under the big tree, but he did not expect to meet an old woman with such a strong desire to fight.
However, Wu Shigong, who wanted to be there, could not shirk it. However, Wu Shigong changed his mind and said: "If you go to the capital, just go to the capital. Although Tongzhou is the place where King Qin's army is gathered, and there are more troops, there are more troops to defend Emperor Chongzhen in the capital. On the contrary, there are more troops in the capital.
It’s safer. It’s not like the Tatar soldiers dare to sneak around in full view of the capital’s army?”
So Wu Shigong raised his chest to Qin Liangyu and said righteously: "It is the duty of our military attachés to protect the emperor. It is our duty to follow General Qin to the capital."
Hearing that Wu Shigong agreed, Qin Liangyu's complexion improved a lot. She signaled to the guard beside her, and the guard walked up to Wu Shigong, handed a large bag of things to Wu Shigong, and said to Wu Shigong: "This is
The dumplings made by the commander himself are here for you to try."
Of course, Qin Liangyu's guard is a female guard. Before she knew it, it was New Year's Eve in the second year of Chongzhen. These days, Qin Liangyu took these female guards to make some dumplings to prepare for the New Year. Today she also saw Wu Shigong and agreed to go to the capital together.
, she felt that although this hunky boy acted very erratically, he could still remember his duty as a military general and was loyal to the emperor, so he gave some of the dumplings she had made to Wu Shigong.
After thanking Qin Liangyu, Wu Shigong returned to his camp. He sighed in his heart: He didn't expect that he would spend this New Year on the march. At night, Wu Shigong lay on the bed and slept with his eyes wide open.
No, he missed all his relatives in the capital and Qianhusuo Fortress.
But even during the New Year, Qin Liangyu did not let the army rest for a day, urging the army to march towards the capital at high speed. Soon, the army arrived at a place that was still four or five days away from the capital.
At noon that day, when the army was having lunch and resting, several spies suddenly came back from outside the camp. After they entered Qin Liangyu's tent, after a while, a Qianhu under Qin Liangyu led two or three hundred people.
The white-pole soldiers left the camp and followed the spies in the direction they came back from.
Seeing this situation, Wu Shigong had a question in his mind: "Are there Tatars operating nearby?" So Wu Shigong didn't care about the cold war with Qin Liangyu, and quickly took several officers and some guards to Qin Liangyu's tent.
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As soon as he arrived at the big tent, Wu Shigong happened to meet Ma Xianglin coming out of the big tent. Wu Shigong asked: "What happened?"
Ma Xianglin rolled his eyes at Wu Shigong and replied nonchalantly: "Oh! The spies discovered that some broken soldiers were robbing a village, and the commander-in-chief has sent people to drive them away."
It turned out that Wu Shigong was relieved. However, he did not go back to his camp. Instead, he took this opportunity to chat with Ma Xianglin.
As soon as they chatted, the two grown men let go of their feelings. They had no grudges to begin with. One of them was just talking out loud, and the other wanted to use some small means to take advantage. And during the chat, Wu Shigong realized that,
It turns out that Ma Xianglin is Qin Liangyu's son.
While chatting, Wu Shigong asked about the reason why Ma Xianglin was blind in one eye. Ma Xianglin told Wu Shigong that he was blinded by a Tatar arrow when he was fighting with the Tatars. This made Wu Shigong in awe.
Seeing Wu Shigong's expression, Ma Xianglin sighed and said, "I'm pretty good. Both of my uncles died in the war with the Tatars!"
After hearing this, Wu Shigong was speechless in surprise. Aren't Ma Xianglin's two uncles the same as Qin Liangyu's two brothers? Unexpectedly, although Qin Zongbing was a female streamer, she was a member of the same family as the Yang family generals.
Loyalty!
At this time, Wu Shigong felt a little guilty. He said to Ma Xianglin: "I really didn't mean to call Mr. Qin the old woman. I just, I just..." Wu Shigong found that he could not find any reason to explain.
Seeing Wu Shigong's blushing face, Ma Xianglin laughed. He punched Wu Shigong with his fist and said, "You kid, you don't even speak so readily. If you have anything to say, go tell the commander. Don't be so coquettish here."
However, the soldiers you have trained are really good, but the firearms and horses make me jealous."
Ma Xianglin's words suddenly made Wu Shigong wary. He quickly said: "There is absolutely no problem in letting my soldiers cooperate with you in fighting. But if you want my firearms and horses, there is no way!"
Seeing Wu Shigong's nervous look, Ma Xianglin smiled even more happily. While laughing, he said: "I know, I know, you are a miser. You are an iron rooster who never plucks his hair."
After listening to Ma Xianglin's words, Wu Shigong himself laughed.
At this time, the soldiers who had left the camp to drive away the defeated soldiers came back. They captured seven or eight of the defeated soldiers, and also brought back a steward from the village who had been robbed.
After these people were escorted into Qin Liangyu's tent by the white pole soldiers, Ma Xianglin also walked into the tent, and Wu Shigong followed Ma Xianglin. Qin Liangyu saw Wu Shigong behind Ma Xianglin at a glance, and she looked at it without making a sound.
The white-armed soldiers forced the defeated soldiers to kneel on the ground, and the steward also knelt down to Qin Liangyu. Qin Liangyu asked the defeated soldiers sternly: "What kind of army are you soldiers? Why are you robbing in the countryside?"
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Those defeated soldiers repeatedly kowtowed to Qin Liangyu and begged for mercy, and told their origins. It turned out that they were soldiers in the army of King Qin of Shanxi.
After receiving the edict from Emperor Chongzhen, Prince Qin, Shanxi Governor Geng Ruqi and Shanxi Commander-in-Chief Zhang Honggong took the lead, leading 8,000 troops to the capital. They were the first to arrive in the capital from the local troops of Prince Qin.
However, due to the haste of the incident, Shanxi King Qin's army was not prepared for logistical support at all, and the situation was chaotic, so no one cared about the food problem of the soldiers. Moreover, when they arrived in Beizhili, they also encountered the same situation that Qin Liangyu and Wu Shigong encountered. The local government did not
The problem of being willing to provide supplies for these King Qin’s troops.
At any rate, King Qin's army in Shanxi relied on the limited food and grass they carried to make their soldiers half-full and rushed to the capital. They thought that the court in the capital should provide them with food and grass.
However, because the entry of the Tatars was very sudden and the court was not prepared at all, it was difficult for the court to raise a large amount of food and grass in the short term.
In order to solve the problem of food and grass, at this time, people in the court remembered a rule of the Ming Dynasty army. In the Ming Dynasty, in order to restrain the soldiers, there were many rules that seem very ridiculous in modern times. One of the rules was: soldiers
Meals are not allowed on the day you arrive at the station, and can only be served on the next day.
So, a certain genius official came up with such an idea. He asked King Qin's troops in Shanxi to constantly mobilize and not let them stay in their garrison for more than one day.
When the army of King Qin of Shanxi arrived in the Jifu area, the Ministry of War first ordered them to garrison in Tongzhou. The next day they were transferred to Changping, and on the third day they were transferred to Liangxiang. The soldiers traveled to three places in three days and circled around the capital.
I haven't eaten a single meal, and my intestines are so hungry.
Think about it, these soldiers from Shanxi who came to the capital to serve the king risked their lives to rescue him, but now they were starved to death and even ran an extended marathon. So they were extremely angry in their hearts.
It was impossible to live without food, so they began to loot food near the camp and harm the local people. But those soldiers did not know, were the people near the capital really ordinary people? Almost all Zhuangzi near the capital belonged to powerful people.
The actions of these soldiers were immediately reported to the ears of Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers of the imperial court through the mouths of the powerful. Therefore, the imperial court believed that Geng Ruqi and Zhang Honggong failed to restrain the troops, and ordered the two men to be arrested and imprisoned.
When these eight thousand soldiers saw their commander being arrested, they dispersed and fled back to Shanxi. However, in order to have food to eat on the way back, they looted along the way. Just now, some of Shanxi's defeated soldiers were killed in that Zhuangzi.
Looting food from there.
After hearing the words of the defeated troops, everyone in the big tent was dumbfounded. They had never thought that such a ridiculous thing would happen. There was not even a trace of the Tatars, and the 8,000 King Qin's army in Shanxi just disappeared into thin air.
But the people in the big tent didn't know that later the imperial court executed both Geng Ruqi and Zhang Honggong. The two of them were the fastest to reach the capital, King Qin, but in the end they were the fastest to reach the capital and were beheaded by the court.
The people in the big tent didn't even know that a similar situation happened in King Qin's army of Shaanxi, which led to a large-scale flight of King Qin's soldiers. After they returned to Shaanxi, most of them joined the peasant rebellion.
Went. And because of the joining of this group of soldiers with military experience, the strength of the Shaanxi peasant rebel army was greatly strengthened.
After listening to the words of these defeated soldiers, everyone in the big tent was waiting for Qin Liangyu to deal with these defeated soldiers. Qin Liangyu frowned, thought about it, and finally waved his hand and ordered: "Behead them all, and hang their heads on the
Demonstrate to the public around the camp."
As a general who was very loyal to the imperial court, Qin Liangyu sympathized with the fate of these defeated soldiers, but she would never tolerate any deserters, no matter what their reasons were.
The surrounding soldiers with white poles immediately dragged down the defeated soldiers who were screaming for mercy. Soon, after beheading them, they hung the heads of these defeated soldiers around the camp for public display.
