Six thousand soldiers lined up in order, and the officers all marched out alone.
Wang Yuan shouted: "Pan Gui!"
"Here!" Pan Gui took a step forward.
Wang Yuan asked: "What does the Central Qianzong Banner look like?"
Pan Gui immediately said: "Yellow heart, red edge, blue belt."
Wang Yuan said: "Go find it!"
Pan Gui trotted to the general stage and took out the central Qianzong flag from a pile of flags.
Wang Yuan shouted again: "Zhong Changsheng!"
"Here!" Zhong Changsheng took a step forward.
Wang Yuan asked: "What does the general flag of the Central and Left Division look like?"
Zhong Changsheng replied: "Blue heart, yellow border, white belt."
Wang Yuan said: "Go find it!"
The three-month queue training originally planned was terminated early after only two months, and instead, the team speeded up the practice of identifying flags.
There was no other way, the rebels returned to Gyeonggi Province.
The Beijing camp, frontier troops and local guards troops pursued and intercepted the rebels in Shandong. Yang Hu and Zhao Hao's troops were driven to Henan, while Qi Yanming and Liu San fought back to the capital. The officers and soldiers fought countless victories, but they always failed.
The main force was unable to be wiped out, and the rebels also captured the city and territory along the way.
Qi Yanming even fought back to Bazhou, once again only two to three hundred miles away from the capital.
Wang Ruyi, the governor of Bazhou, Wang Cong, the general, Xu Chengfang, the military commander, and Wang Yong, the garrison of Zhuozhou, etc., because they only dared to defend the city and did not dare to go out to intercept it, the rebels were rampant in the Gyeonggi area, and the prefectures and counties were like no one.
In the end, it even reached nearly a hundred miles outside Beijing!
Wang Ruyi, the prefect of Zhizhou, was imprisoned for questioning, and all other military attachés were suspended without pay and demoted. The army assigned their deputies to perform meritorious service - if they could not make great contributions, these military attachés would definitely be settled by the Queen of Autumn.
Zhang Yong trained 6,000 regular soldiers, and the eunuchs Wang Fang and Wang Ming each led 3,000, and each selected 10,000 odd soldiers to guard the capital.
The remaining more than 10,000 old, weak, sick and disabled were immediately pulled into the military camp for training, and the Ministry of War ordered them to perform drills every five days. Another one was given, a censor, who was responsible for inspecting the troops in the capital and rectifying the corruption and laziness of the officers. He was promoted again.
Ning Pu, the supervisory censor, was the chief inspector of Shandong Province. He was also in charge of the farming in North Zhili and the rectification of military equipment in Bazhou and other places.
The big bosses in the DPRK and China have gone completely crazy. In just one year, they were beaten to the outskirts of Beijing three times by rebels, and they really treated the Gyeonggi area as a public toilet.
This time, they really showed no mercy and strictly rectified the military system. In just a few days, more than 30 people were brought to trial. Now they have become so famous that even those hereditary officers who have been paid all day and do not know how to fight have begun to go out early and stay late.
Return and perform your duties faithfully.
Leopard room.
Yang Yiqing, who resigned twice in a row last month and forced the emperor to protect his son as a guard of thousands of households, now suggested: "Your Majesty, the bandits have arrived dozens of miles away from the outskirts of Beijing. They must not be allowed to attack the city, otherwise the imperial court will be majestic.
Sweep the floor. I request Wang Yuan, a scholar at the Hanlin Academy, to immediately lead troops out of the city to quell the chaos!"
"I second the proposal," Sun Jiao, the Minister of Household Affairs, said, "The money and food in the capital warehouse have been exhausted. If the rebellion is not put down as soon as possible, military pay will not be issued next month. Scholar Wang of the Hanlin Academy is brave and good at fighting, and the rebels will be frightened by his name."
You will definitely be able to defeat the enemy in one battle!"
Zhu Houzhao asked Li Dongyang: "What do you think, sir?"
Li Dongyang replied slowly: "I second the proposal."
Zhu Houzhao asked worriedly: "Should Wang Erlang be allowed to defeat the enemy with only a hundred elite cavalry?"
Although Zhu Houzhao plans to expand the number of cavalrymen in the Leopard House to 500, they currently do not have high-quality horses or capable knights. Now they are still the more than 100 people Wang Yuan brought back.
Yang Tinghe said: "Didn't Scholar Wang train six thousand elites?"
Zhu Houzhao explained patiently: "The six thousand soldiers in Wang Erlang's hands were the ones left by the Beijing camp before. Zhang Yong went to pick out another six thousand young men. After selecting soldiers twice in a row, what good soldiers could be left?
?According to what Wang Erlang said, when he first entered the camp, more than half of his 6,000 soldiers were so hungry that they were skin and bones, like refugees in a famine. Now they have only been trained for two months, how can they be taken out to kill the enemy?"
Yang Tinghe thought for a while and said: "You can order Wang Xueshi to lead the troops out of the capital and camp fifty miles away from the suburbs of the capital. I don't ask him to defeat the bandits. I only hope that he can block the bandits and not let the bandits approach the city. At the same time, he ordered Xianning Bo Qiu Yue to rush to the rescue immediately.
, and Wang Xueshi formed a pincer attack from the north and the south, and then the bandits will naturally flee."
Qiu Yue, Bo of Xianning, was also a border general, with the title of Chief Military Officer of Ningxia, but he was a military attache recommended by Yang Tinghe. Moreover, as a border general, Qiu Yue commanded the three thousand battalions (all cavalry) in the capital at this time.
Qingliu people say that so and so makes friends with the generals, but in fact they are all the same.
In this chaotic situation, military merit is paramount. How could a civil servant who wants to gain credit not do his best to support military generals?
Zhu Houzhao thought about it carefully and said: "According to what Mr. Yang said, order Wang Erlang to lead more than a hundred elite cavalry and 6,000 infantry to go out of the capital to intercept the bandits. Then order Xianning Bo Qiu Yue to immediately lead 3,000 battalions to rush to the rescue.
Wang Erlang."
Li Dongyang suddenly asked: "Scholar Wang should be given a temporary position."
Zhu Houzhao said: "It is better to patrol the censor and inspect Beizhili!"
The last time Wang Yuan visited two prefectures and two prefectures, this time he visited Northern Zhili directly. He was already a governor or governor in disguise, and he had more power than a governor in operation.
It must have been a violation of the rules, but no one objected this time. The bosses even hoped that Wang Yuan would lead his troops out of Beijing as soon as possible.
Although the memorials to impeach Wang Yuan have piled up in the past two months, and Yang Tinghe and others are very dissatisfied with Wang Yuan's lucky conduct, they all agree with Wang Yuan's military ability - with two hundred elite cavalry, they can defeat Liu Liuliu
Liu Qi's head was brought back. This time he brought a larger force and thousands of cavalry to the rescue. He could kill the rebels no matter what!
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In the sixth year of Zhengde, it was the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.
As the New Year was approaching, the emperor took all the officials of the court to the gate of Xuanwu and personally gave Wang Yuan a grand ceremony for the upcoming expedition.
If we don't stop the rebels, this Spring Festival will be very sad, and we might have to defend the city on New Year's Eve.
How embarrassing would that be? In the capital of the Ming Dynasty, rebels actually came to attack the city on New Year's Eve. Although they certainly couldn't break the city, there were no city walls in the southern suburbs. The residential buildings built adjacent to the city were burned down by the rebels. Also in
Slap the court in the face hard!
Li Dongyang supported his sick body and was helped to the military camp.
In front is the emperor's guard of honor, with great rituals and music. Although it is not the oath of worship to the general, it is still very grand this time.
The school ground was empty except for Wang Yuan and the law enforcement team, as well as more than a hundred fine cavalry brought by Zhu Zhi, and dozens of sentry cavalry brought by Wu Liande.
Yang Tinghe frowned, thinking that Wang Yuan was too negligent and that the discipline of the army seemed to be very poor. Even though the emperor was here, there were no soldiers.
Zhu Houzhao asked: "Xueshi Wang, where are your infantry?"
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "We are waiting for His Majesty's review."
After speaking, Wang Yuan gestured to the law enforcement team, and the law enforcement officer immediately blew the camp whistle.
Six thousand-man teams ran out from all over the military camp. Even if they were trotting all the way, they still maintained an orderly formation. When they arrived at the school grounds, they immediately stopped to form a team. Then they held flags high, weapons in hand, and marched towards the general platform.
Come.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Every step made made a neat sound. Thousands of steps came together, giving off the momentum of thousands of troops.
Yang Yiqing had also fought in the border areas. At this moment, he was horrified and said: "Scholar Wang, is this the Beijing camp where you trained for two months?"
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "It's been more than two months. I just taught them how to identify flag orders, but they are not very familiar with them yet. I just hope they don't forget them before the battle."
Yang Yiqing was immediately speechless.
Li Dongyang stroked his beard and said: "With such elite soldiers, why worry about defeating thieves? We can just sit in the capital and wait for the good news."
Zhu Houzhao's face was already flushed with excitement. He had been here once before, and the soldiers at that time couldn't even distinguish between left and right. Now when he came again, the whole army seemed to have been completely transformed, and the formation was even more powerful than the frontier army.
In fact, they were all just like-minded. Wang Yuan was afraid that he would have a hard time training, but would be defeated by a single blow when fighting an enemy.
Yang Yiqing personally commanded the frontier army. He couldn't help but be puzzled and asked: "Scholar Wang, how many days do these soldiers exercise?"
Wang Yuan replied: "One exercise a day, and even night exercises."
"Ye Cao?" Yang Yiqing was even more surprised and asked, "Aren't you afraid of the roar of the camp? You can see clearly at night?"
Wang Yuan explained: "As long as you eat meat and eggs for a long time, night blindness can be solved. As for the camp whistle, I blow the whistle every three to five in the middle of the night. Within half a stick of incense, I must hold a torch and organize the army in the school grounds. Those who fail to come after the deadline will be
The soldiers' pay for the month was deducted, and all the officers at all levels recorded demerits. The whole team practiced extra time the next day! Now that they hear the noise in the middle of the night, how can they think about howling? They are all in a hurry to light a fire and organize the team."
Yang Yiqing couldn't help but clasp his fists and salute: "Scholar Wang is indeed a born general!"
Whether it was an exercise in one day or an army marshaling in the middle of the night, it was beyond Yang Yiqing's imagination. At the same time, he also understood that Wang Yuan definitely did not embezzle military pay.
If this kind of training method were not provided with adequate food and pay, the officers and soldiers would have caused trouble long ago!
After Zhu Houzhao lectured, he immediately read out the imperial edict and promoted Pan Gui and other six officers to the rank of fake Qianzong, that is, acting Qianzong, and promoted them to Baihu (non-hereditary).
If this battle is won, the hundred households will become hereditary, and the word "false" will be removed from the front of Qian Zong.
If the merit is huge, such as wiping out the main force of the bandit army, the six people can even directly become hereditary members of a thousand households, and they can also hope to obtain the positions of general or guerrilla.
Officers at other levels are also formally appointed.
Finally, it was Wang Yuan's turn to swear the oath. He held up a tin trumpet and said: "I will only receive half of the rations as before and send them directly to your homes. The remaining half will be taken after you come back after winning the battle. Anyway, I will not deduct you. Those who died in battle
Brothers, I promise to make arrangements for your funeral. If you fight to the death to kill the enemy, behead the enemy and capture the flag, even if you die on the spot, I will also seek a hereditary military position for your descendants. If there are those who are afraid of the enemy and flee from the battle.
, wipe your own neck to find out, don’t let me waste time killing people. Do you hear me?”
"I heard it!" the whole army shouted.
Wang Yuan raised the wine bowl: "Here, drink up this wine!"
Six thousand soldiers looked at Wang Yuan with their glasses of wine. When they saw Wang Yuan drink it, they drank it.
Wang Yuan drank a bowl of wine and put it gently on the ground: "Don't throw the bowl to vent, keep your strength to kill the enemy. We don't have many bowls in the military camp. If you drop it now, you won't be able to find a bowl to eat when you return from victory."
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"Ha ha ha ha!"
Six thousand soldiers laughed.
"Wan Sheng!" Wang Yuan drew his sword and shouted.
"Wonderful victory! Wonderful victory!"
Six thousand soldiers raised their weapons in unison, with a momentum like a rainbow and a loud sound that shook the sky.
The cabinet bosses looked at each other and were shocked. This army completely broke their inherent impression of the Beijing camp.
Wang Yuan's behavior of wearing armor to beg for food has completely won over the morale of the army!