Chapter seven hundred and seventieth Ming can die, officials can not be improper
In the Ming Dynasty, the most popular person today is not the cabinet bosses, nor Wang Yiqi, who holds the title of Prince Taibao and is also the Minister of War in Nanjing, but the governor of the six provinces, Prince Shaobao Zhang Yue.
The reason why Zhang Yue is so awesome is naturally not because of his high official position. After all, he is just a minister of the borderlands at best, and in the official system of the Ming Dynasty, the real bosses are those who enter the cabinet.
The reason why Zhang Yue was so popular that even Emperor Zhengde had to be patient and turned a blind eye to Zhang Yue was naturally because of the troops under his command!
As the first person to build a new army following the example of the puppet Tang bandits, and also the most successful one, Zhang Yue's Du Biao had more than 60,000 people at its peak, and this was not all the troops under his command.
In fact, the troops under his command not only supervise the standards, but also conduct military training in various places, and then there are also local guards who were driven by him to become workers and farmers.
Even though he suffered heavy losses in many battles in the last autumn and winter battles such as Nanchang, Hengyang, and Changsha, Zhang Yue still had a large number of troops at that time. In the past few months, Zhang Yue used various means to
Recruiting troops from all over Sichuan and Huguang, he recruited a large number of soldiers to supplement his Dubiao and military training, and rebuilt the Dubiao Front Army and Right Army that were almost wiped out in the battles in Hengyang and Changsha, and supplemented the severely damaged Dubiao Front Army and Right Army.
The Superintendent Biao Houjun.
By August, Zhang Yue's supervision had actually returned to the level of the same period last year in terms of military strength. The total strength was about 50,000. However, there were a large number of recruits and a serious shortage of guns. After all, Zhang Yue's supervision
In fact, just like the Tang Army, recruits are easy to replenish, but guns are more difficult to replenish.
In addition to restoring the supervisory standard to 50,000 people, Zhang Yue also reorganized the military training in various places and unified it into the Huguang training army. Following the supervision of the supervisory standard, there were a total of five armies in the front, rear, left, right, and center, and the number of soldiers training was also
Quite a few, more than 40,000 people.
The total strength is nearly 100,000 people, but more than half of these 100,000 soldiers are new soldiers, so only 40,000 to 50,000 people can fight.
However, the reason why Zhang Yue was able to raise such a large army after losing Hunan and Jiangxi, and at the same time Fujian was not under his jurisdiction, was naturally not because of how much money Emperor Zhengde gave him. In fact, in the four years of Xuanping
, Emperor Zhengde gave Zhang Yue less than 500,000 taels of silver in military expenses, but raising the army was at least several million a year. Where did this money come from? Zhang Yue naturally used various means to plunder it from Sichuan, Hubei and other places.
Why is Zhang Yue able to recruit troops and collect military expenses in Sichuan? Because although Zhang Yue is still the governor of the six provinces, his dispatches are different from before.
His mission has been to supervise the military affairs of the six provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Huguang, and Sichuan. To put it simply, he replaced Fujian with Sichuan.
After all, although Emperor Zhengde was on guard against Zhang Yue, and Zhang Yue always lost battles, losing northern Hunan and northern Jiangxi directly last autumn and winter, losing more than 100,000 main troops and ordinary guard troops, he still refused to admit it.
, in the current Ming Dynasty, the only strong man who can fight against the puppet Tang rebels is Zhang Yue.
The strongman mentioned here does not actually mean how awesome Zhang Yue is in commanding and fighting. In fact, he is not a qualified general, and Zhang Yue himself has never personally commanded troops to fight against the puppet Tang rebels.
The ability to train troops.
After all, Zhang Yue is still a civil servant and a politician, not a general. His advantage is that he can continuously use various powerful means to recruit troops, collect military expenses, and then train troops.
Without Zhang Yue on the Huguang side, the puppet Tang rebel army would have already reached northern Huguang and even Henan.
Wang Yiqi does almost the same job as Zhang Yue, but Wang Yiqi's methods are far inferior to Zhang Yue's. Relying on the extremely prosperous Jiangnan, his life is still miserable, and even a real
The new army cannot be trained, and the only new army in the south of the Yangtze River has been half-baked. Without the support of the border troops of 20,000 to 30,000 people and the new army in the north, it is estimated that even Jinling will be lost.
However, Wang Yiqi naturally has the ability to support the overall situation in Jiangnan, and this person has the same advantage as Zhang Yue, that is, he fully delegates power to his subordinates and does his best to provide support.
In the past year, in addition to training the Jiangnan New Army, Wang Yiqi invested a lot of money and food to support Yu Dayou.
Fujian is now also Wang Yiqi's defense area. Although Yu Dayou has Shang Fang's sword, in essence, he is still his subordinate Wang Yiqi, and Wang Yiqi also attaches great importance to the bandit-breaking army under Yu Dayou.
Fujian was able to resist the puppet Tang rebel army for more than two years, and Yu Dayou was indispensable, because in addition to using Nan'ao Island to contain the puppet Tang rebel army, the Ming army could only rely on Yu Dayou's rebel army to resist. As for the local guards in Fujian
No one can count on the soldiers.
In the past two years, although the Ming Dynasty still did not abolish the garrison soldiers on the surface, in fact, people from Zhengde to Zhang Yue, Wang Yiqi and others have quietly begun to throw the garrison soldiers aside to play with the new army.
Zhengde organized and trained new-style Beijing camps in the capital, and trained new provincial armies in Beizhili, Shandong, Henan and other provinces. Wang Yiqi organized and trained the Jiangnan new army in Jiangnan. Not to mention Zhang Yue, in his regular army, basically
There was no trace of the guardsmen on the ground.
During this process, although the garrison soldiers still existed, they actually no longer participated in the frontline battles. Except for a few elite soldiers who were drawn out, the rest were farming in their respective garrison posts, or
They participate in some auxiliary military tasks, such as escorting baggage and assisting in the defense of the city.
Among the many new armies that were organized and trained, the most successful and the most powerful in combat was Zhang Yue's Supervisor, and the next one was Yu Dayou's Bandit-breaking Army.
Although Yu Dayou's bandit-breaking army is not large in scale, with less than 15,000 men as of now, it is well equipped with complete guns and even nine-pound heavy artillery purchased from foreigners.
In terms of equipment alone, it is actually almost the same as the Tang Army before the reorganization.
If it weren't for the bandit-breaking army, the Tang army would have marched into Fujian long ago, and it wouldn't have been delayed until now.
Even if they are marching into Fujian now, the Tang Army is still cautious. The newly established Third Army is not weak. It has one infantry division and two mixed regiments, with a total strength of more than 25,000 people.
At the same time, the Datang Army also coordinated with the Navy and requested the Navy to send a fleet to assist in the war.
Faced with many major moves by the puppet Tang rebels, Yu Dayou, who was in Fuzhou, did not know the detailed situation, but he could guess that the puppet Tang rebels were going to attack Fujian.
Therefore, he has been traveling frequently to Zhangzhou, Shaowu Prefecture, and Fuzhou Prefecture in recent times, just to urge the Ming troops in various places to take precautions.
But even so, he did not have much confidence in the upcoming war. He had the same deep understanding as other frontline generals about how strong the puppet Tang rebel army was.
The last time the puppet Tang thief army attacked Zhangzhou, although he did not go into battle in person, but when he led the army to reinforce from Fuzhou to Zhangzhou, what he saw made him deeply understand that the current puppet Tang thief army
It is even stronger than the previous two years.
The puppet Tang rebel army is getting stronger and stronger, which naturally makes him less confident in the upcoming battle.
But at this time, he received another letter from Wang Yiqi. Wang Yiqi said that Anqing and Jinling were under great pressure and the bandit troops were mobilized frequently. It seemed that there was a large-scale eastward advance before the arrival of autumn and winter, and asked him to send a part of the bandit army.
Come to Nanzhili to assist in defense.
But Yu Dayou is not stupid either. He can naturally tell from Wang Yiqi's superficial words. Wang Yiqi asked him to transfer the main force to the south of the Yangtze River. As for Fujian, a remote and remote place, let it be given to the puppet Tang thief army.
After all, Fujian is now a huge protrusion. Once the puppet Tang rebel army is allowed to pass through northern Fujian, it will be enough to surround the huge encirclement of Fujian with more than 10,000 rebel troops and tens of thousands of guard soldiers.
As the army that Wang Yiqi valued the most, the Broken Bandit Army was naturally not willing to see the Bandit Bandit be surrounded and end up like the Hengyang Ming Army and Changsha Ming Army, which were surrounded and annihilated.
Wang Yiqi wanted Yu Dayou to lead his army back to defend Jiangnan. On the one hand, he could break out of the encirclement, and on the other hand, he wanted to protect Jiangnan.
When the Hengyang and Changsha armies were completely wiped out, not to mention Zhang Yue, even Wang Yiqi and other important ministers of the Ming Dynasty and even Emperor Zhengde were heartbroken over this. That was the real main force of 60,000 elites.
Although they don't know how much money Zhang Yue spent on training this 60,000-strong army, they estimate that without four to five million taels of silver, they can't expect to be able to train this 60,000-strong army. After all, although Yu Dayou's bandit-breaking army is small in number,
Some have worse equipment, but millions of dollars have been spent on them.
Zhang Yue had a lot of capital. He lost 60,000 main troops and tens of thousands more. He also took advantage of the spring and summer months to take a breather and trained tens of thousands more troops in one breath. However, Wang Yiqi's ability of Zhang Yue's
I think it can't be done, or rather I don't dare to do it.
If Wang Yiqi, like Zhang Yue, had no regard for the consequences, he would be able to earn tens of millions of taels of silver and train his army in the prosperous land south of the Yangtze River, but would he, Wang Yiqi, dare?
Don’t dare!
If you really want to do this, being impeached by hundreds of officials is actually nothing, and enduring the anger of people and gods is nothing. Even if you are hung in the pillar of shame of history and beaten for hundreds or thousands of years, it is nothing. But Wang Yiqi is afraid that he will be like this.
Do it, the Ming Dynasty will be completely overturned!
You must know that Jiangnan is the headquarters of the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty. If you plunder the money of these civil servants to support the army, isn't this a direct plunder of the money of these civil servants and gentry, and this will kill them.
If we really push them hard, it is not impossible for these Jiangnan gentry and the civil service group behind them to collectively surrender to the traitors.
For them, the Ming Dynasty can fall, but the family wealth must be preserved, and they still have to be an official!
At worst, I will just pay taxes to the Puppet Tang Dynasty, and I can still be an official there!
Why did Wang Yiqi make such a conjecture? Because he knew that many people thought so!