It wasn't until he walked out of the camp that Wu Shigong stretched out deeply. Needless to say, this oldest yoga movement made Wu Shigong's muscles and bones relax quite comfortably. Because he was really tired today.
When they arrived at the camp at nine o'clock, Wu Shigong and other military attachés were waiting outside the Chinese military tent. They had to wait for Gao Qiqian to read the imperial edict to Liu Yulie. The content of the edict was nothing more than to exempt Liu Yulie from being dispatched by the governor.
After reading the imperial edict, Liu Yulie immediately left the camp and returned to the capital with his personal entourage, regardless of the false attempts by Zhu Dadian, the new governor of Shandong, and Gao Qi, the supervisor of the army, to stay.
Then they waited for the reinforcements brought by Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian to enter the camp and settle down. After waiting for Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian to finish their lunch with dry food, all the military attachés entered the Chinese military tent and began
The military situation was formally discussed. But in the morning, Wu Shigong just waited for it to pass.
But in the afternoon's discussion of military affairs, Wu Shigong changed from waiting to standing still. Wu Shigong was not alone. It should be said that all the military attachés in the Ming army led by Liu Yulie were at this discussion and had no say.
right.
The main people who discussed the military situation with Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian were the military attaches from the reinforcements they brought. Especially those military attaches from Liaodong, who definitely had the right to speak in the Chinese military tent and among the military attaches.
Wu Shigong and others could understand this situation. Not only did the defeated generals not show courage, they were not even qualified to speak out. But looking at the arrogant faces of those Liaodong generals, there was always something unpleasant in their hearts.
"I'm so suffocated!" It seemed that Liu Zeqing had the same feeling as Wu Shigong. So after saying this complaint, he jumped directly onto the back of his horse without stepping on the stirrups.
Seeing Liu Zeqing's acrobatic moves, Ren Lai Feng's eyes widened immediately and he stepped on his four hooves excitedly. He was ready to move and didn't know what he wanted to do.
"Don't move!" Wu Shigong slapped Renlai Feng's horse on the neck. When Ren Lai Feng calmed down a little, he stepped on the horse in stirrups.
At this time, there was a commotion around the camp. Following Zhu Dadian's order, soldiers were cleaning up the area around the camp.
After more than three months of sit-in war, coupled with the governor Liu Yulie's focus on appeasement, the army lost its fighting spirit. In the end, because Liu Yulie knew that he was about to be dismissed, he inevitably gave up on himself. Therefore, the Ming army
Military discipline is quite lax.
Therefore, although it was not as exaggerated as Liu Zeqing said that it was surrounded by brothels, there were still many tent areas around the camp. Among them were those who sold skin and meat, those who supplied soldiers with food... Anyway, it became a gathering area for merchants.
. And the entire military camp has turned into a gypsy tribe.
Of course, in this case, the soldiers in the camp had little money and could not get any military pay. In order to satisfy their desires, a group of bold underground businessmen actually colluded with the soldiers to start a business of reselling ordnance. And
Wu Shigong's Runing Battalion also found a lot of treasures from this underground ordnance black market.
At that time, Liu Yulie had already let the situation outside the camp go. But today, after Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian took office, they immediately ordered the situation outside the camp to be cleaned up and restored to the appearance of the military camp.
"The action is so big. It looks like there is really going to be a war." Liu Zeqing sighed as he looked at the tents outside the camp.
"Brother Hezhou still manages the army well and has strict military discipline. The men in our front camp are very good now. There is no such chaos around the front camp as in the main camp. Troops will be sent out the day after tomorrow. Our front camp and those from Liaodong
Soldiers are the vanguard, so we should go back early to make arrangements."
At that time, Wu Shigong strongly advocated that no one should be allowed to approach the front camp. Liu Zeqing also followed suit. In addition, Runing Camp has always maintained strict training. There is also comparison in the army, and I saw Runing Camp training like this
, other troops in the front camp also have some training, so the soldiers in the front camp are in good condition.
And Wu Shigong will not snatch these credits. Of course, he must praise the former battalion commander Liu Zeqing here. Anyway, what is the real situation, these military attachés in the former battalion all know it tacitly.
Emperor Chongzhen made up his mind this time to completely annihilate Kong Youde's rebels and no longer recruit them. Therefore, when Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian went on an expedition, Sun Yuanhua, the former governor of Denglai, was sentenced to death for being the leader of the rebellion. He and
Zhang Taotong was executed as a sacrificial flag. Former Shandong governor Yu Dacheng, Song Guanglan, Wang Zheng and others sent the garrison and confiscated the army.
Originally, according to the official rules of the Ming Dynasty and Sun Yuanhua's performance after Kong Youde's rebellion, he should not be worthy of death. However, Sun Yuanhua was unfortunately involved in the party dispute between Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru at this juncture.
Although Zhou Yanru, the chief minister, wanted to avoid Sun Yuanhua's death penalty and sought help from Xu Guangqi, Sun Yuanhua was still framed by political enemies Yu Yinggui, Li Mengchen, and Lu Zhenfei, and was even tortured in prison. Sun Yuanhua had a hard time defending himself. In the end, he could not escape death.
.It should be said that Sun Yuanhua was somewhat unjustly accused.
However, as the direct boss of Kong Youde's rebels, he launched such a huge rebellion. In addition to bringing more than a year of turmoil to Shandong, this rebellion also completely lost hope of saving the war situation in Liaodong.
, also brought a huge financial burden to the Ming Dynasty court. Therefore, judging from the results, Sun Yuanhua also deserved his death.
But from another point of view, Sun Yuanhua's death also caused the plan that he and Xu Guangqi to preside over to comprehensively study Western military systems and equipment. It had just started and then came to an abrupt end. This also made the Ming Dynasty use firearms to fight.
The Jin Army's hope has lost one possibility.
However, even this prototype of reform, which was all inherited by Kong Youde's rebels, will also show amazing combat effectiveness. As we will see later in the article. Therefore, this is indeed regrettable!
Therefore, Sun Yuanhua's talent is to be an excellent technical official, and he can be an excellent scientist in modern times. He is not suitable, especially not suitable for being an official in charge in the chaos of the late Ming Dynasty. Repeat
I sighed like this again: Men are really afraid of getting into the wrong profession!
The content of today's military meeting is to let the combined forces of Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing's front battalion, plus the 5,000 troops from Liaodong, serve as the vanguard, forcefully cross the Shahe River, and control the east bank of the Shahe River. Then cover the subsequent main force of the Ming army to cross the river, and then concentrate the Ming army.
All troops were mobilized to first relieve the siege of Laizhou City.
As for the specific arrangements for the forward. The coalition forces of Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing will first go to the upper reaches of the Shah River and block the flow of the Shah River with sandbags. After that, the Liaodong Army will directly cross the river from the exposed river bed. The coalition forces of Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing will ensure that the river is blocked.
The embankment must not be destroyed by the rebels, and it must also cover the flanks of the Liaodong Army to prevent them from being attacked by the rebels.
In a word, the dirty work will have to be done by the coalition forces of Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing. The main operations will be undertaken by the Liaodong Army. From this arrangement, it can be seen that the combat effectiveness of Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian against the original Ming Army is
Quite contemptuous.
But Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing were not so selfless as to use their own main force to confront the rebels head-on. Therefore, they were very satisfied with this battle plan.
When we returned to the front camp, the entire camp was already filled with smoke. The military attachés dispersed immediately after entering the front camp and returned to their units to make arrangements for departure.
Now the number of people in the entire front camp has exceeded 20,000. The nearly 10,000 extra people are all civilians recruited (captured) from nearby areas by the troops of the front camp in the past three months.
The number of Wu Shigong's Runing Battalion also exceeded 3,000. Among them, Wu Shigong recruited more than 800 auxiliary soldiers in the name of recruiting domestic slaves. Now the number of auxiliary soldiers in the Runing Battalion has exceeded 1,600
people.
It's not that Wu Shigong can't recruit more, because in addition to skilled craftsmen, Wu Shigong also has very high physical requirements for recruiting domestic slaves. Otherwise, compared to those civilian husbands, the treatment of Wu Shigong's domestic slaves is quite happy. Those who
Aren't all the civilians in the other troops going to crowd out the Runing camp?
Of course, when Wu Shigong recruited domestic slaves, he recruited the family members of the auxiliary soldiers together. In the past three months, Wu Shigong had sent people twice to send the recruited craftsmen and auxiliary family members back to Runing.
But this also means that the large amount of food collected by Runing Camp with great difficulty in the past period has now dropped to a level that can only last for half a month.
In addition, there are more than 200 cavalry drawn from each battalion, and they are now under the command of Wu Shigong. These cavalry have also been enriched into the cavalry of the Runing camp. Therefore, the reconnaissance and strangulation of the former army are now all done by Runing.
The camp will bear the responsibility.
As soon as he entered his camp, Wu Shigong saw a group of his soldiers gathered together, as if they were admiring something, and they were all marveling.
"Why are they all gathered together? What happened?" Wu Shigong also became curious. He handed over the reins of the crazy horse to the guards behind him and walked into the crowd of onlookers.
"Sir, Commander Liang has received something good this time!" Yu Ji, who was on the side, quickly squeezed over and said to Wu Shigong with a smile.
Seeing Wu Shigong's arrival, the onlookers automatically separated into a passage. Wu Shigong walked to the middle and saw, "Wow!", good guy, there were four cannons shining with metallic light side by side in the middle of the crowd.
"It's really a good thing!" Wu Shigong was also happy. So far, Wu Shigong has only purchased three one-pound artillery pieces from the underground ordnance black market, and this time Liang Hui's harvest will exceed the previous total.
.
"It's not that great!" Although Liang Hui was very modest in his words, he couldn't help but feel proud on his face, "This artillery is not the same as the artillery in our Runing camp. Its shells are the same as those in our Runing camp."
None. And this time with these artillery pieces, only thirty-four rounds of artillery shells were collected. This number is too small." Liang Hui explained.
Wu Shigong took a closer look, and it was indeed the case. The four artillery pieces this time were larger than the one-pound artillery, but smaller than the three-pound artillery. From visual inspection, the caliber seemed to be that of the two-pound artillery. It was not the Runing camp artillery.
standard configuration.
"It's nothing." Wu Shigong consoled him, "It's good to have artillery. Even if it doesn't come in handy this time, after we drag it back to Henan, we can ask Yang Goudan and the others to make more artillery shells. It will always be useful. This
How much money did the artillery cost?”
"Just one thousand taels of silver." Liang Hui looked even more proud.
"So cheap?" Wu Shigong was also overjoyed.
"It also comes with a hundred shields." Liang Hui's arrogant expression made people couldn't help but punch him in the face.
"Hey!" Wu Shigong, who was in a very happy mood, couldn't help but joke, "I say you, Liang Hui, if you are no longer the commander of this artillery team, you will definitely make a fortune even if you collect rags!"
Wu Shigong's joke caused a burst of laughter from the soldiers around him.
This time, the Runing Battalion not only acquired these seven artillery pieces from the underground ordnance black market, but also purchased some long guns, waist knives and shields. These were mainly used as equipment for the auxiliary soldiers.
The harvest of gunpowder, gunpowder and armor was quite small. Mainly because other troops could not sell the food for free! But some of those bulky artillery were dumped in the underground ordnance black market.
After making a joke, Wu Shigong immediately shouted: "Sanhe! Come here!"
Li Sanhe on the side immediately ran to Wu Shigong's side.
"Sanhe. Let your cavalry prepare. The army will set off the day after tomorrow, and our front camp will be the vanguard. After dinner, disperse your cavalry. In front of us, all the way to the banks of the Shahe River, as long as there is any suspicious
, whether they are men, women, old or young, we would rather kill the wrong person than let them go. And if someone wants to cross the river to the east bank of the Shahe River, we will kill them without mercy."
"promise!"
Although the rebel spies no longer dared to cross the Shahe River because of the strangulation by the Runing camp cavalry, there were still some rebel spies in plain clothes among the refugees, infiltrating to the west bank of the Shahe River to find out information about the Ming army.
Wu Shigong's order was aimed at this situation.
"Other officers also returned to camp immediately. They arranged their troops and prepared to set off the day after tomorrow. Remember! This time we are really going to fight!"
"No!", "No!", "No!"...
In the darkness, a large group of cavalry gathered behind the gate of the front camp. Dozens of soldiers pushed open the heavy wooden door, making a "creak, creak" sound.
Although it was already the end of the month and there was no bright moon in the sky, the stars in the sky were still shining with faint starlight. The mountains in the distance seemed to be covered with a layer of soot, making them look particularly hazy.
Wu Shigong stood on the wall above the camp gate, watching the cavalry driving the fast-walking horses out of the open camp gate one after another. When all the cavalry left the camp gate, they gathered together and cheered each other with deafening shouts.
of shouts.
Then, they dispersed and formed into teams of spies under the leadership of their respective team leaders. Then they formed a fan and flew straight into the distance.
Wu Shigong looked at the backs of those cavalrymen and couldn't help but feel a surge of sadness in his heart. Those cavalrymen disappeared into the dusk one after another. I don't know how many good men will never come back!
The Battle of Shahe has officially begun. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature for better and faster novels!