Three hundred and sixtieth eight chapters Ming court vibration
Xingquan Mansion, the former magistrate’s office of Zhiwen of the Song Dynasty, is now located in the Imperial Palace of the Tang Dynasty.
The core high-level civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty gathered together again. On the civilian side, naturally there were cabinet members headed by Liu Bagou, Qian Mengjiu, Wang Wenhua, Ma Wei, Yang Xiucai and even Old Man Xie. On the military side,
There are far fewer generals.
The only ones who matter are Zeng Ziwen, director of the Operations Department, Fang Xitong, commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, Xie Ziwei, commander of the artillery battalion, and some mid-level officers.
As for other senior military generals, such as Hao Bainian, commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment, Li Chunjing, commander of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, Wang Shanxu, commander of the 4th Infantry Regiment, Zhou Yibao, commander of the 5th Infantry Regiment, deputy commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment concurrently serving as the first
Huang Xueren, commander of the infantry battalion, Fang Dongquan, deputy commander of the 2nd Infantry Regiment and commander of the 4th Infantry Battalion, and others were all leading their troops to fight outside at this time.
But today everyone is gathered here. Although there are few military generals, they are still the main ones. Zeng Ziwen is surrounded by everyone. Liu Bagou, Qian Mengjiu and others are asking how Zeng Ziwen is doing.
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But Zeng Ziwen didn't show any impatience when faced with these busy-talking civil servants, but explained in detail as much as possible.
Just as everyone was talking about it, a guard suddenly shouted outside the door: "Your Majesty is here!"
Immediately, everyone in the strategy conference room shut their mouths and turned their attention to the door.
In everyone's sight, a young man wearing a Confucian uniform with a golden dragon pattern embroidered on the collar walked in. This man was naturally the supreme being of the Tang Dynasty, the eternal sage in Liu Bagou's mouth, their emperor:
Li Xuan!
Li Xuan's footsteps did not stop at the door, but walked in a few steps in a row, and then sat directly on the dragon chair at the top.
At this time, all the ministers, led by Liu Bagou, saluted and shouted long live.
At this time, Li Xuan raised his right hand slightly and said softly: "Stand flat!"
At this moment, all the ministers stood up, but today was not a formal morning court, so naturally there was no need to pay too much attention to the order of positions, and Li Xuan was too lazy to wait for them to say anything about something.
nonsense.
Instead, he directly said: "Just now, Zeng Aiqing sent a military intelligence report from the frontline commander Hao, saying that the Ming army's forward has arrived at the northern border of Liping Prefecture and will attack Tongguwei soon. This commander Hao's army will
Newspaper, everyone can take a look!”
As he spoke, he glanced at Huo Shouqi, who was standing next to him.
At this time, Huo Shouqi, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy who was standing behind Li Xuan and holding a small briefcase, immediately took out a letter from the small leather case in his hand. It was the letter sent by Hao Bainian.
Everyone had only heard from Zeng Ziwen that there was a situation, but naturally they had not read Hao Bainian's letter in person.
Hao Bainian's military report is very clear. It can be confirmed from many channels that the Ming army in Guizhou has been mobilized under the order of the governor of Guizhou. More than 20,000 people have gathered in the northeast and northern areas of Guizhou, and
The Ming army in the western and central areas of Guizhou, especially in the direction of the provincial capital, totaled more than 30,000 people.
In the next half month, 50,000 people will arrive in Liping Mansion one after another!
In other words, in the past few days, the forwards of the Ming army have arrived, and in half a month, all 50,000 Ming troops will arrive.
And this time is at least one month, or even more, earlier than the time expected by the emperors and ministers of the Tang Dynasty.
Soon, Hao Bainian's military report was circulated by everyone. At this time, Li Xuan spoke again: "Do you, dear friends, have any thoughts on this?"
As the leader of the ministers, Liu Bagou was naturally the first to speak: "Reporting to your majesty, since the puppet Ming bandit army dares to offend our country of the Tang Dynasty, it should be attacked. I believe that we should immediately dispatch a large army to attack the puppet Ming army."
Thief army."
However, after Liu Bagou said that the puppet Ming thieves should be beaten hard, he consciously kept his mouth shut, because if he said how and where to fight, it would be clearly beyond his authority. Even if he, a cabinet bachelor, is a civil servant
Chief, but does not have the slightest power to interfere in military affairs.
War is a matter for the Privy Council!
So Zeng Ziwen also spoke up. As the director of the Operations Department, the details of all the large-scale military operations of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty in the near future were basically planned by him. Now that the Ming army is attacking, his Operations Department will naturally
It is also necessary to come up with a response plan.
Zeng Ziwen said: "Your Majesty, I have summoned all the staff members of the Operations Department to start formulating a battle plan. The Operations Department will come up with a complete battle plan later!"
The early attack of the Ming army was almost based on the plan previously planned by the Operations Department to attack Liping Mansion before the Ming army could react, and then go south to Guangxi to capture Guilin, Liuzhou and other places as quickly as possible, and plunder soldiers, food, wages and other resources.
, to expand the army, and then turn back and go north to Liping Prefecture, gathering the expanded troops to defeat the main force of more than 50,000 or even 100,000 people in Guizhou Province in one fell swoop, so as to completely establish the victory of the separatist side.
But Zhu Zhihai did not give them this time. Not to mention waiting for them to capture Guangxi and plunder the population and wealth. Now that they have not left Liping Mansion and headed south to Guangxi, Zhu Zhihai's army can't wait to kill them.
In fact, both Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen underestimated the Ming Dynasty, or Zhu Zhihai's importance to them.
Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen had always thought that they were making a small fuss. Even if the Ming army would send a large army to suppress it, they would not take it too seriously. The officials would waffle for several months and then slowly deploy troops.
But they forgot that they were no longer a group of small bandits, but a separatist regime with tens of thousands of troops. They had conquered an entire prefecture, and their troops had begun to expand to surrounding prefectures and counties.
More importantly, the Tang Dynasty was still a rebellious regime that officially proclaimed itself emperor. If this happened a year ago, everyone would have just treated it as a joke. But a year later, the puppet Tang dynasty and thieves were all
With tens of thousands of troops and a separate government, you still treat them as a joke?
Then it’s not the Tang Dynasty that’s a joke, but the Ming Dynasty that’s a joke.
There is no doubt that the Tang Dynasty after capturing Xingquan Mansion was really taken seriously by the Ming Dynasty. Especially in the hearts of local officials in Guizhou Province, the puppet Tang rebels had actually become a serious problem.
Otherwise, why would Zhu Zhihai be furious and then mobilize all the troops in Guizhou to try to encircle and suppress the puppet Tang rebels!
Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen still don't know that the name of their Tang Dynasty has been spread to the capital in the north with Zhu Zhihai's memorial. It is said that in a certain morning meeting, the pseudo-Tang Dynasty was discussed very formally.
The matter of thieves.
Finally, the wise and wise Emperor Zhengde issued an imperial edict. What did the edict say?
It's very simple, let Guizhou Governor Zhu Zhihai destroy the thieves as soon as possible!
As for the others, I'm sorry, there are none!
It can also be seen from this that the Ming Dynasty's rebellion against the Tang Dynasty had different reactions from various classes. Officials in Xingquan Prefecture, Liping Prefecture and other surrounding prefectures and counties feared the puppet Tang rebels like tigers.
The officials in the provincial capital were worried and angry, such as Zhu Zhihai. He must have seen the dangers of the puppet Tang bandits. Who would dare to say that they were capable of wiping out Song Zhiwen's tens of thousands of troops?
They were just a group of bandits in the ravines. Zhu Zhihai dared to slap him. Have you ever seen bandits who annihilated tens of thousands of officers and soldiers?
Therefore, Zhu Zhihai prepared to mobilize large armies from across the province to suppress the puppet Tang rebels.
The big guys in the capital were only a little surprised when they heard this, and then they might sigh: "What a troubled time, how many times have we rebelled this year? Is it the seventh or eighth time?
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That's right, for the Ming Dynasty, which had to suppress n+1 rebellions every year, a small-scale rebellion in a remote place would not be able to move the cabinet bosses. They wanted to make them truly feel
It hurts the most, but the Tang Dynasty first occupied the entire Guizhou and wiped out hundreds of thousands of Ming troops. Now it wants to make the big bosses of the Ming Dynasty make a fuss and dream.
What's more, the government has been unstable in the past two years. His Majesty's body has been getting worse and worse. From the beginning to the end of the year, he has not stopped using the medicine. And since the Prince of the East Palace made a mistake while supervising the country the year before last, he was ordered by His Majesty to shut up and reflect on his past.
It's been two full years.
The prince was ordered to seclude himself for more than two years, which led to several other princes eyeing the position of crown prince. In addition, His Majesty is old and in poor health. It is possible that he will die tomorrow.
At such a critical juncture, many big shots in the court could not be more careful.
If you are lucky in the past few years, you will rise to the next level, but if you are not careful, you will cause the disaster of confiscating your family and exterminating your family.
Compared with the chaotic situation between the DPRK and China and the dispute over the country's foundation, a small rebellion in a remote place in the southwest is nothing. Wait until the thief named Li Xuan breaks into the prosperous places of Huguang and even the south of the Yangtze River and robs the Qinhuai River.
It's not too late either.
None of the patriotic women on the Qinhuai River were snatched away. What a worry!
Li Xuan, the rebel leader in a remote place, naturally didn't know what the situation was like in the Ming Dynasty, but there was not much difference between knowing and not knowing.
Regardless of whether the big bosses in the capital in the Ming Dynasty paid attention to it or not, Zhu Zhihai, the governor of Guizhou, was enough for Li Xuan to drink!
That was 50,000 people. When he thought of 50,000 people, he felt like Alexander!
Several people, including Liu Bagou and Zeng Ziwen, spoke one after another, saying that they must fight, beat the shit out of the Ming army, capture Zhu Zhihai alive, etc. However, the detailed strategic arrangements will naturally not be discussed on this occasion, and
When Liu Bagou and the others talk about military issues, it's not like they have nothing to do with each other.
The purpose of the cabinet's participation in this meeting today is very simple, which is to let them solve the military logistics problem.
Therefore, halfway through the meeting, Zeng Ziwen said: "The war is coming, and the soldiers in the army are short of food, pay, and weapons!"
Li Xuan set his sights on Liu Bagou and the ministers of various cabinet ministries.