Chapter 62: Bai Wang, the field envoy of the capital city
The soldiers and horses of the two battalions of King Zuojin and King Zhishi took on a completely new look after being redressed in Anlu. Most of them wore newly forged sharp weapons and purchased brand new horse gear and armor.
Military pay, military rations, horses, and baggage have all been replenished, and He Jin and Liu Xiyao are already satisfied. Although their treatment is not comparable to that of the regular troops of the Chuang Army, it is already better than their previous mobile fighting career in Jiangbei.
Much better than that.
With the clanging armor and the neighing of war horses, such a majestic reinforcements greatly calmed the hearts of the people in Suizhou.
Suizhou citizens bathed in the "peaceful season" belong to a psychologically fragile group of people. They lack resistance to rumors, rumors and any armed and unarmed attacks. When Li Laiheng checked his troops, he was ready to lead the invasion.
When the army's old troops marched north, the citizens became extremely panicked.
The situation in Suizhou is quite chaotic. Although strict punishments have strengthened the inspection of internal spies, this has further contributed to the separation of people's hearts. There are people in the city who are turning to the left. This terrible suspicion tortures the nerves of the people of Suizhou even more.
They had spent seven or eight months of peace under the rule of Chuang Jun, and they were far from tired of the stability. Because of this, the slightest disturbance could disturb the hearts of the citizens.
However, Li Laiheng still seemed quite confident. This kind of confidence made He Jin, who had always been conservative and steady in military affairs, feel a little uneasy.
King Zuo Jin did not particularly trust Commander Shao Hu's deployment of troops. After the two battalions of Zuo and Zhi arrived in Suizhou, the strength of the rebel army had reached about 30,000. Even if Zuo Liangyu came out in full force, Zuo Zhen still had the largest number of troops.
There is no obvious advantage, not to mention that the left army has come all the way to fight in an away game, and the situation is even more disadvantaged.
However, Li Laiheng split the rebel force into three groups. One force of nearly 10,000 people was led by Gao Yigong and Guo Junzhen, and went north from Dahong Mountain to the Zaoyang area. The second force of 10,000 people was personally led by Li Laiheng.
, went north to ambush.
The key city of Suizhou was defended by only the two battalions of Zuo and Zhi and a small number of soldiers and horses of the invaders.
Although such an arrangement was thoughtful, the arrangement of the troops was like loose sand, dispersing a clenched fist into three fingers that could not concentrate the strength, which seemed to create a good opportunity for Zuo Liangyu to defeat each one.
Split attacks and combined attacks have always been a common tactic used by the imperial court when encircling and suppressing the rebels, but they were often defeated by the rebels relying on their mobility advantages. Li Laiheng himself once participated in a battle where the government and army used their internal advantages to break up the split attacks. This time he actually
Following this strategy is somewhat risky.
It's not like He Jin didn't understand Li Laiheng's intention. A combined attack could give full play to the Chuang Army's strength advantage and the information advantage of the home battle. More importantly, it could block Zuo Liangyu's retreat and realize the intention of the annihilation war.
It seems that Chuang Jun intends to complete his achievements in one battle.
With many years of military experience and his understanding of Zuo Liangyu, He Jin concluded that the coming war must be a fierce and tense battle. This kind of fierce battle is definitely not an easy military game. Victory depends on the soldiers.
Fighting with both hands, some good tactical ideas and strategies can indeed increase the chance of winning, but when implemented, it still needs to rely on flesh and blood to truly seize victory.
He was not opposed to Li Laiheng's confidence, but felt that Shao Hushuai was too confident.
No matter what it is, if it is too full or overdone, it will never be a good thing.
Fortunately, Bai Wang is also in Suizhou City.
Because Li Laiheng was about to lead his troops northward, and he did not dare to easily hand over all of Suizhou to He Jin to take charge of the overall situation, he transferred Bai Wang, who was busy in the field reform in Huangzhou Mansion, to Suizhou, and asked Bai Wang to take charge of the city defense together with He Jin.
situation.
He Jin still had great trust in Bai Wang. He had fought many battles with Li Zicheng in his early years, so he naturally knew Bai Wang and knew that he was a ruthless character who didn't talk much but was very delicate and thoughtful.
Bai Wang has been busy promoting the camp system recently, and his skin color has turned many layers darker. He is only just thirty years old, but his dark skin and crow's feet caused by fatigue make Bai Wang look...
More like a middle-aged man who is at least forty years old.
Yingtian reform is not something that can be implemented by writing a few notices. Every piece of land, every tenant farmer and owner farmer, surrounding countless land, cottages and families, requires the officials of the Yingtian system to spend countless efforts and personally
Go to the countryside and go to the front line for reconnaissance. In the process, you have to fight wits and courage with the landowners and farmers who hide the land.
In some remote areas, landowners often openly launched rebellions and organized troops to attack and kill the village envoys who went to the countryside to camp. Bai Wang had some close brothers. When he went to the villages and settlements near the Dabie Mountains to inspect the fields, they were killed by the landowners.
Some were assassinated, hacked to death with knives, and some were hanged in public for several days.
Bai Wang spent countless energy and time on these places. He went through many twists and turns and commanded many battles to suppress the rebellious officials and gentry before he could barely carry out the camp and field work. It is really amazing.
He had also heard reports from many people that Bai Wang's job as the capital's field envoy was thankless and he had lost his status as a general leading troops on the front line.
The newcomer Gu Kecheng was not as good as General Guo Yi.
But Bai Wang just laughed it off. He himself knew how important the camp law was to the army. He also knew that in Li Laiheng's mind, he could single-handedly lead the reform of the land system.
What kind of trust and respect.
Nothing in the world is more important than the fields.
Bai Wang single-handedly controls the camp and field system of the Huguang Chuang Army. At this stage, it is equivalent to directly controlling most of the administrative resources of the Chuang Army.
Although Xiao He and Kong Ming in ancient times did not have such huge power.
Only Bai Wang, who was personally involved in it, knew best that after the Yingtian system penetrated its blood vessels to the grassroots level of towns and villages, the resources and manpower it could mobilize far exceeded the scope of traditional yamen.
Is this not the Qin government?
Of course, although Bai Wang had read some books, he did not have a deep understanding of classics and history. He could not directly connect the Yingtian system's absorption of grassroots resources with the Qin political system, but in Bai Wang's mind, it had
I can be very clear-headed and clearly perceive one thing: that is, the camp field system is the real core of the current army.
And it is the supreme and irreplaceable core.
Bai Wang had quite a lot of experience before joining the army. He worked as a sheepherder and worked as a clerk for Zaoli. He was very clear about the administrative efficiency of government offices. Comparing the two, compared with the traditional court system floating above the county level, the camp system
It can be said that it has penetrated into the bone marrow of the people.
If some gentry understood this truth, they could spread the rumor that the administrative system of the Chuang Army was draining the bones and marrow. However, most people may not realize how powerful the camp system is in mobilizing resources at the grassroots level before they deeply understand the Yingtian Law.
However, it is true that Bai Wang has not held a commander-level position for quite some time. Since the Battle of Luoyang, most of Bai Wang's responsibilities have been to stay at the rear, focusing on administrative aspects. He has been away from the front line for a long time, and now he suddenly returned to
In the front-line officer's seat, the people below were gossiping, which was not completely incomprehensible.
Naturally, Li Laiheng still had complete trust in Bai Wang's abilities. After all, the defense of Suizhou could be left to two men with the same qualifications as Li Zicheng, He Jin and Liu Xiyao.
For defending a city, what is more important than fighting is the ability to dispatch resources.
In this aspect, I am afraid that no one under Li Laiheng is more qualified than Bai Wang.
...that's not the case.
This time Bai Wang went to Suizhou to participate in the war. One thing he mentioned in particular was to transfer Chen Kexin, who was advancing the camp in Huangzhou Prefecture. Chen Kexin was born in Juren and had been an aide under Li Xianfeng for a long time.
His performance in managing camp fields in the jute area can be described as outstanding and outstanding (by the way, Chen Kexin and Xie Zheng, the administrative bureaucrats under Li Laiheng, both came from the Li Xianfeng shogunate).
"Jie Shuai, I revisited my hometown in Macheng. When Luo Tian was appointed as the camp envoy, he could always handle the details in an orderly manner, no matter how complicated the details were. He was quick in thinking and very incomparable. He could only do some small jobs all the time, which was really a lack of talent.
.Now that Zuozhen is under heavy pressure, it is the time to hire people. We should not confine our talents to a narrow corner and cannot expand. If we ignore the importance of place of origin and seniority and fail to appoint scholars who have submitted their services, how can we compete with the imperial court?