The three thousand battalions in the capital were all cavalry units, and their number was once far more than three thousand.
Today, the Three Thousand Battalion is still the Three Thousand Battalion, but it has been dispersed into the Twelve Capital Battalions.
Xianning Bo Qiu Yue entered the capital under the imperial edict and nominally commanded 3,000 battalions, but only 2,000 cavalry were actually obtained. Some of the remaining cavalry went out with other Beijing battalions to suppress the rebellion, and some were only on paper (empty pay).
In November, he set out for the expedition. Just halfway through, Qiu Yue received an urgent report from 800 miles away, ordering him to immediately lead his troops back to the capital to aid.
Qiu Yue did not dare to neglect, so he immediately left the baggage troops with the supervisor Lu Bin and returned with only the cavalry, day and night.
When they arrived at Hejian Mansion, another cavalry flew in and Qiu Yue was completely confused.
Qiu Yue is quite powerful. In the fifth year of Zhengde, King Anhua rebelled. They both commanded, and one commanded him to raise the rebel flag. Qiu Yue was just a guerrilla general at the time. He disbanded his armor and went to see King Anhua, pretending to submit, and commanded both of them in a trap.
Zhou Ang captured King Anhua alive and put down the prince's rebellion in eighteen days.
How to describe it?
It is equivalent to someone leading two provincial-level military region commanders and one city-level military region commander to rebel, but being solved by a brigade commander in eighteen days.
At that time, Zhang Yong and Yang Yiqing were ordered to put down the rebellion, and they received news of the capture of King Anhua when they were halfway there. However, they had to find something to do when they left the capital. As soon as the two of them worked together, they simply went back to deal with Liu Jin, and Eunuch Liu was arrested.
Cut into pieces by a thousand cuts.
Qiu Yue's previous attempt to put down King Anhua's rebellion was the same as Wang Yuan's annihilation of Qi Yanming now. Both were so simple, quick and unexpected.
"The thief of Gyeonggi Province was defeated by Bachelor Wang of Hanlin Academy?" Qiu Yue felt that he had received false information.
Chi reported to the official and said: "It has indeed been pacified. Wang Xueshi sent troops on the 28th, suppressed the rebellion on the 29th, and returned to Beijing to report the victory on the 30th. Now thousands of bandits have dispersed and become refugees, and the governors of various states and counties are recruiting them. There are still more people nearby.
Thousands of thieves are riding in the Shanxi territory, and the Shanxi Guards and the border troops are encircling and suppressing them. The rest of the bandits who caused trouble in the capital were all captured and killed by Wang Xueshi in a single battle!"
Qiu Yue and the supervisor Lu Bin looked at each other and were speechless. Their exhaustion this time was in vain.
Lu Min sighed: "How quickly Master Wang put down the chaos!"
Qiu Yue smiled bitterly and said to Lu Min: "We are also relying on Bachelor Wang's blessing this time."
Both men were suddenly promoted, and Qiu Yue was worshiped as General Pingtai, with Lu Ying still supervising his army. They were ordered to summon all the garrison troops in Beizhili and led 3,000 battalions of cavalry to immediately go to Henan to encircle and suppress Yang Hu and Zhao Hao.
When you get there, you must obey the orders of the imperial censor Pengze.
Peng Ze and Qiu Yue were both close confidants of Yang Tinghe. There was no disagreement between the two in their cooperation. This appointment must have been made by Yang Tinghe.
Wang Yuan flapped his wings very powerfully. Qiu Yue's appointment was made two months earlier than in history, just because Wang Erlang easily killed the Gyeonggi bandits. In addition, because Liu Liu and Liu Qi were killed early in the battle, most of the main bandits were killed, and Shandong
It was no longer like the historical situation where more than ninety cities were captured within half a year.
Wang Yuan at least allowed more than 100,000 people to escape the fate of being kidnapped or massacred, saved more than 2 million people from the suffering of military disasters, and Shandong's economic losses were also greatly reduced.
Only Yang Hu benefited. Historically, he should have been killed at this time, and his wife also became the leader of the thieves and was called "Widow Yang". But with a wing from Wang Yuan, Yang Hu is still alive and well, and he was taken away in advance.
He followed Zhao Hao and fled to Henan.
At this moment, Beizhili and Shandong have been basically pacified, with only sporadic rebels still causing trouble everywhere.
The real main force of the rebels went to Henan, and a partial division was driven to Southern Zhili, where they almost dug up the ancestral graves of the emperor's family.
Not to mention countless lives, Wang Yuan quelled the rebellion twice, at least saving millions of taels of direct economic losses for the court and local governments, not counting indirect economic losses.
No reward is too high!
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Wang Yuan could not return to Beijing to receive the reward, so he could only lie in Liangxiang County and receive treatment from orthopedic doctors.
According to the imperial doctor, fortunately, there was no breakage or dislocation, and there was no stabbing of the internal organs, so there was no need for bone-setting treatment - it would be difficult to set the bones without surgery.
Anyway, I am just recuperating slowly now. I cannot move at will in a short period of time, and I cannot even breathe too vigorously.
The troops led by Wang Yuan suffered 28 infantry casualties, 21 serious injuries, and 104 minor injuries. Among these casualties, most of the dead and seriously injured were injured by javelins. The minor injuries were
Members were mainly caused after contact with the enemy. After all, there were still some bandits who did not collapse instantly.
More than a hundred fine cavalrymen, no casualties.
Of the eighty Jinyi Guard sentries, four were killed by thieves while inquiring about the military situation, and one was missing.
The whole army, including officers and soldiers, all received awards.
Pan Gui never killed the enemy from beginning to end. Wang Yuan specially asked for credit for his dedication to his duties. Not only was Pan Gui promoted to Hereditary Hundred Households and Guerrilla General, Pan Gui was also rewarded with ten taels of silver and five hundred guan of treasure notes.
Guerrilla generals and hereditary households belong to two different systems, and there is no connection between them.
Guerrilla generals belong to the camp system and cannot be hereditary. They can only be promoted based on merit. Moreover, for the guerrilla official position, the number of troops commanded is also very arbitrary. Generally, there are more than a thousand troops, and there are also two or three thousand troops. It is awesome to command troops.
Four to five thousand is possible.
The hereditary 100 households belong to the guard system. Pan Gui and the other five thousand-man chiefs were awarded the title of 100 households of Jingwei, not 100 households of Jinyiwei.
While Wang Yuan was lying in Liangxiang County, his soldiers had returned to Beijing in triumph.
Six thousand soldiers were unable to enter the city and had to go to the military camp outside the city. When they returned, they found that the streets outside the school grounds were already crowded with onlookers.
As the supervisor of the army, Zhu Ying rode on the horse with his head high and his chest high, and even put on a fake beard in advance, as if he was the commander of the entire army at this moment, as majestic as the reincarnation of the Three Treasures Eunuch.
Li Sanlang was temporarily entrusted by Wang Yuan to command six thousand soldiers.
When he was dozens of steps away from the common people, Li Ying suddenly blew the whistle: "The whole army is in formation... one, two, one, march in unison!"
"Boom boom boom!"
There was a rumble in their steps, and the six thousand soldiers were extremely proud. Today was the highlight of their lives.
The people watching were immediately shocked, admiring and talking incessantly:
"Look at his steps, how neat he is. No wonder he can win the battle."
"Isn't that Wei Liuzhi? He was almost beaten to death for stealing last year, and he actually became a soldier under Wang Erlang."
"More than just a soldier, looking at that, he's still an official!"
"Thanks to Wang Erlang this time, I heard that the rebels were coming to kill the capital, but he stopped them halfway!"
"Tell me, is Wang Erlang a Wenqu star or a Wuqu star? He has only been training for a long time, and he has trained these bad soldiers into elite soldiers!"
"In my opinion, Wang Erlang must have descended from Wuquxing. How can Wenquxing be so good at fighting?"
"..."
Li Sanlang suddenly shouted: "The whole army is here, salute!"
China has had military salutes since the pre-Qin period, which is actually a hand-bowing salute. Under normal circumstances, one should bend down and bow, but it is inconvenient to wear armor, so "the intermediary does not bow", so just cup the hands.
In addition to "the intermediary does not bow", there is also "the military chariot does not have the style". Normally when riding in a carriage, you should perform the Shi salute, that is, hold on to the crossbar, bow and look down at the horse's tail. If it is a military chariot, you do not need to perform the Shi salute and just hand over your hand.
Or nodding is considered a salute.
In the Ming Dynasty, when subordinate officers saw their chief officers, they had to kneel down and bow down. Non-direct subordinates could kneel down and bow down twice when they saw a general. When superiors issued military orders, subordinates had to kneel down to receive them. When meeting superiors on the way, they did not have to kneel down. When riding a horse, they encountered me.
The commander of the battalion must dismount and surrender; those who are not the commander of the battalion must just give way and wait for him to pass.
Moreover, if armor is on, both officers and soldiers only need to kneel on one knee.
Wang Yuan directly changed it. No matter which officer you see, the highest etiquette is to kneel on one knee and bow. If you are holding a weapon or marching, you only need to make a fist with your right hand across your chest.
This thing is just like playing football in the military camp. It violates the ancestral system. That is to say, Wang Yuan is a civil servant, and he is supported by the emperor. If it were a military general who did this, once someone reported him, he might lose his official position.
, serious cases were even exiled to the army.
The six thousand soldiers all raised their arms in salute. This action amazed the people in the capital, and they all felt that they were particularly powerful and heroic, and more energetic than the army they had seen before.
Returning to the school grounds, Li Ying ordered: "Xiangong Wang said that the entire army will have a ten-day holiday and will return after the Lantern Festival. Twenty people will be left to guard the military camp. This month's military pay will be doubled. Those who wish to stay can sign up on their own!"
"Li Baihu, there is a girl outside the camp, riding on horseback to see Mr. Wang." The sergeant came over to inform.
Li Ying immediately understood that it was Song Ling'er and immediately ran to the school gate.
Song Ling'er rode on the horse and asked: "Li Sanlang, why didn't Wang Yuan come back?"
Li Ying said: "Brother Ruoxu is recuperating in Liangxiang County."
"Is he injured?" Song Ling'er said in panic.
Li Ying said: "Two ribs are broken."
Song Ling'er said nothing and immediately turned the horse's head and ran towards Liangxiang County.
(The temperature has changed suddenly, and I have caught a cold. Lao Wang also likes to smoke, and he can’t write without smoking. Now his throat and nasal cavity have exploded after the cold, and he is very uncomfortable. There is only one update today, and I will make up for it tomorrow.)