Chapter one hundred and seventy-six yamen discussion
On August 13, Li Zhi led his army to Anqing City.
There were already large armies gathering outside the city. After Yang Sichang proposed the four-right and six-corner encirclement and suppression plan, the emperor ordered all towns to carry out reinforcements and suppress the thieves. At this time, the reinforcements and suppression troops from all walks of life gathered under the city of An0qing. The Ming Dynasty military uniforms were mandarin duck war jackets, which were red.
, at this time, I saw a red cloud rolling under the city from a distance.
Li Zhi and the sentries who came up to inspect checked the documents and then led the troops to approach Anqing City. There was no unified camp under the city. Each army camped separately outside the city, which looked a bit chaotic. Compared with Lu Xiang's promotion the year before,
During the prime minister's time, the army camp was organized in an orderly manner to support the suppression of the army. Li Zhi lamented that Xiong Wencan was obviously not as effective at running the army as Lu Xiangsheng.
Li Zhi found a higher place to set up camp and lit a fire to make food.
As soon as Li Zhi camped under the city, he saw the envoys he had sent to An0qing in advance coming over. Seeing Li Zhi, the three envoys raised their hands and said: "General, Xiong Wencan, the Prime Minister of the six provinces, has arrived in An0qing. General
Chengyi goes to see you early."
Li Zhi nodded and asked casually: "Is there any news in the city?"
The three envoys looked at each other and said: "There is news from Anqing City that the first assistant, Wen Tiren, has taken office!"
Prime Minister Wen Tiren has retired? Li Zhi was stunned when he heard the news. Li Zhi remembered that he was rejected by Wen Tiren when he sent glass wine sets, and secretly thought that this man was an upright official, why did he suddenly become an official? Did he offend someone?
But what happens in the capital is none of my business.
Soon, three messengers from Xiong Wencan came to Li Zhi's camp to find Li Zhi and asked him to go to the prefect's Yamen in the city to discuss matters. Li Zhi took the Ministry of War to write a document and walked into the prefect's Yamen in the city.
Li Zhi entered the main hall of the yamen and saw a dense forest of iron armor. Dozens of military attachés from the Ming Dynasty wearing armors stood on both sides of the main hall, discussing military affairs there.
Sitting in the main hall was an elderly civil servant in his sixties, with a medium build, a long beard, and wearing a second-grade crimson official robe. He was probably Xiong Wencan, the prime minister of the six provinces. To Xiong Wencan's right sat a civil servant wearing a third-grade civil service uniform.
The third rank is the rank of Minister of the Ministry of War. The person wearing this official robe is probably Zhang Guowei, the governor of Anqing. Next to him are the prefect and other civil servants.
Li Zhi checked the documents, walked into the main hall, walked all the way to Xiong Wencan, and said loudly: "Tianjin Fanjiazhuang guerrilla Li Zhi has met the Prime Minister!"
Hearing Li Zhi's name, Xiong Wencan's eyes lit up and he said loudly: "Is this the guerrilla general Li Zhi appointed by the emperor?"
Li Zhi quickly replied: "The last general is Li Zhi!"
Xiong Wencan laughed loudly and said: "General Li's arrival has made our army even more powerful! General Li is a guerrilla general at such a young age, which is quite impressive!"
"Your Excellency, the Prime Minister has given you the award!"
Hearing Xiong Wencan's praise of Li Zhi, and seeing that Li Zhi was only twenty-one or two years old, all the middle-aged and elderly generals had a trace of disdain in their eyes.
Xiong Wencan asked Li Zhi: "General, has the road been peaceful all the way from Tianjin?"
Li Zhi replied: "At the end of the day, the horse army encountered two thousand thieves. They have been driven away and more than six hundred of them have been beheaded!"
Hearing Li Zhi's words, the entire military attache in the main hall was in a state of excitement. Beheading more than 600 people, this was a great victory! Zuo Liangyu defeated the bandits in Qianshan on February 27th, which was called a great victory.
However, more than a thousand people were beheaded. Later, Zuo Liangyu was so arrogant that he robbed women. The emperor did not pursue him because of his meritorious service. But Li Zhi met an army of 2,000 cavalry on the way to Anqing and beheaded him easily.
More than six hundred levels, and to say so lightly...
Is this saying that other military attaches who fought hard are incompetent?
Sure enough, after hearing Li Zhi's words, a military attache standing in the military attache's team on the right was a little angry and snorted coldly: "A small guerrilla dares to kill good people and take credit, boasting about capturing and killing six hundred people."
The thieves and horsemen are really lawless!"
Li Zhi glanced at the military attaché who was speaking, raised his hands and asked, "May I ask what this person's name is?"
Before the military attache could answer, a tall military attache in front said loudly: "This is Zhao Zhu, the general under Zuo's command! Do you have any objections to the guerrilla general?"
Zuo? I thought it was Zuo Liangyu. It turned out that this person was a military attache under Zuo Liangyu. I didn’t know how I managed to irritate this Zhao Zhu, making him make sarcastic remarks.
Li Zhi said loudly: "My troops captured and killed an army of 600 horses. This was witnessed by our eight thousand troops and horses, and there are also captured horses and horses as evidence. If the generals don't believe it, you can go to our camp one by one."
ask."
Hearing Li Zhi say that he had eight thousand soldiers and horses, Zhao Zhu obviously couldn't react. A guerrilla general usually has one or two thousand soldiers and horses. Even the guerrillas in the big camp in key defense areas don't get paid at all.
There are only 3,000 soldiers and horses. Generally, there are only 3,000 to 6,000 people under a general army tent. Zuo Liangyu, as the reinforcement and suppression general, has more soldiers, but only 6,000 people. How come Li Zhi, a guerrilla, has so many people under his command?
Eight thousand people?
If one battalion of guerrilla soldiers is used to feed 8,000 people, can these 8,000 people have enough to eat? Without military pay, how can these soldiers have the morale to fight in battle?
When the military attachés heard Li Zhi's words, they looked at each other several times, their eyes full of confusion.
After all, Xiong Wencan is over sixty years old. He has experienced a lot in Fujian and Guangdong, but he is more ambitious than other military attachés. He stroked his beard and said: "The first level of the guerrilla general's military exploits will be determined by me after I verify it. If there are no mistakes,
I will give credit to the guerrilla general."
Li Zhi said happily: "It all depends on the army."
Zhao Zhu still didn't believe that Li Zhi could capture more than 600 level cavalry troops, and he snorted heavily. The other military attachés looked at each other a few times, their eyes full of suspicion.
After Li Zhi and Xiong Wencan finished speaking, they retreated and stood at the end of the group of guerrilla generals.
Xiong Wencan sent Li Zhi away, looked at Zuo Liangyu, and said with a smile: "General Zuo's army is strong and powerful, and it is the best among all armies! I intend to use General Zuo's six thousand soldiers as my personal soldiers. General Zuo intends to
How about next?”
The soldiers who are selected as the prime minister's personal military camp will always follow the prime minister in advancing and retreating. The personal soldiers generally choose the strongest soldiers and horses among the armies, which is an honor in itself. And following the prime minister in advancing and retreating, the prime minister will report his merits and rewards.
Naturally, they will take care of it, and you can get a lot of benefits when the time comes.
When ordinary people hear that the Prime Minister has such a proposal, they will definitely agree immediately.
Of course, after being selected as a personal barracks, the general who unified the army would not have the autonomy to command. Zuo Liangyu relied on his troops to fight tough battles, but he was very arrogant and unwilling to hand over the command of troops and horses to Xiong Wencan.
He raised his hands and said: "The government already has two thousand Cantonese troops as its own troops, why do we need Zuo?"
Xiong Wencan was a little embarrassed when he was rejected by Zuo Liangyu, and said: "The two thousand Cantonese soldiers are new recruits and are not familiar with battle formations. I intend to disband them."
Zuo Liangyu said loudly: "Please forgive Zuo for not wanting to do this!" After saying this, Zuo Liangyu looked at the other military attaches arrogantly, smiled and said: "Liangyu has something going on in the army, and I can't discuss it with you.
The military situation is over, please resign!"
Under the surprised eyes of all the military attaches, Zuo Liangyu flicked his cloak and strode out of the main hall of the magistrate's office with three of his subordinates, heading out of the city.
The generals looked at each other, some unable to react. Why is Zuo Liangyu so arrogant and completely disobeying the Prime Minister's command?
It turns out that the head has strength this year, so can it still be done like this?
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