These 6,000 soldiers, like Jiang Bin's frontier troops, usually trained in the Leopard Room, and were named the "Magic Spear Camp" by Zhu Houzhao.
The treatment is great!
The imperial concubine was obviously influenced by the emperor. She actually rode a horse and took Wang Yuan to the Baofang Campus to take over the troops. The guards, eunuchs and maids around her were already accustomed to this, and ran away to follow her.
"drive!"
The imperial concubine whipped forward and galloped forward.
Wang Yuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he chased after him on horseback and arrived at the school grounds in a short time.
The soldiers of the Sharpshooter Battalion had already assembled. When they saw the two of them arriving, they all knelt down on one knee and shouted: "Greetings to the imperial concubine, hello to the king's minister!"
"Pingsheng!"
The imperial concubine did not dismount at all, but jumped onto the general's platform on horseback.
These soldiers are no longer just spearmen. Some of the old and weak have been eliminated, and there are nearly a thousand of them. They are elite soldiers recruited from other troops.
There are two thousand sword players, and their weapons are shields, sabers and javelins.
There are two thousand spearmen, and their weapons are spears, sabers and javelins.
There are two thousand crossbowmen, and their weapons are crossbows and waist knives.
The imperial concubine said to Wang Yuan: "Master Wang, these soldiers will be left to you. I hope you can help your majesty defeat the Tatar bandits."
Wang Yuan said: "I will try my best."
"drive!"
After saying this, the imperial concubine left on horseback, as if she did not want to have more contact with the army. After all, she had been criticized for "interfering in politics in the harem".
Wang Yuan got off his horse, took out the documents from the Ministry of War, and handed them to Duke Ding Xu Guangzuo: "Thank you!"
"I don't dare." Xu Guangzuo's attitude was enthusiastic.
In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was the supreme commander-in-chief of the army. The Governor's Office and the Ministry of War of the five armies checked each other. The Governor's Office had the power to command troops, and the Ministry of War had the power to mobilize troops.
Before the Tumubao Incident, the Governor's Office had great power. It not only controlled the management, training, and production of the army, but could also participate in the central government's important military decisions.
After the Tumubao Incident, the Governor's Mansion was almost ignored by the Ministry of War. The management, training, promotion of generals, military information and other powers of the local troops were all taken away by the Ministry of War. Now the Governor's Mansion can only manage the Beijing camp. Various functions of the local troops
This matter only needs to be taken to the Dudu's Mansion to go through the procedures. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the procedures were simply ignored, and the Dudu's Mansion was completely turned into a decoration.
Why did Yu Qian die?
Not to mention the political struggle, the power he held at that time was too terrifying. He actually had the military and political power of the Ministry of War, and the military command and management power of the Governor's Mansion. This was equivalent to combining the power of the Ministry of War and the Governor's Mansion. How could it be possible after a new emperor came to power?
Can you tolerate such an existence?
Although Yu Qian died, the civil servants were unwilling to return the power of the Governor's Mansion that he had taken away.
The temporary duty of the Dingguo Duke Xu Guangzuo in front of him is to train these 6,000 soldiers for the Governor's Mansion. However, the soldiers are usually in the Leopard Room, so he only has a name for it, and the real training is done by others.
This guy doesn't care. As a noble, he likes to deal with literati. He loves to be lively and playful, and his beautiful calligraphy can put Wang Yuan to shame.
Well, Xu Guangzuo is still a football enthusiast. He never fails to win in every Cuju League. In the past two years, he even built his own football team.
Wang Yuan took over the troops from Xu Guangzuo and immediately announced his wartime appointments and dismissals: "I appointed Pan Gui, the commander of the Shenyang Zuowei Guards, as a staff general to lead the sharpshooting battalion in the expedition. I appointed Zhong Changsheng, the commander of the Shenyang Zuowei Guards, as a guerrilla general and led the expedition."
Shenyang Youwei Town Fu Hu Daguang was appointed as the guerrilla general and led the Shenqiang Battalion Crossbow Team; he was worshiped as the Left Guard
The governor Li Qing was appointed as the guerrilla general and led the rear team (the heavy civilian husband); the left guard and governor Li Long was appointed as the guerrilla general and commanded 200 cavalry to go out with the governor Wang Yuan!"
Shenyang left guard, Shenyang right guard and left-behind left guard are all Beijing guards, garrisoning the capital.
After Yu Qian reformed the Beijing camp, most of these Beijing guards existed in name only, and the elites were all organized into the 12th regiment camp, leaving only the old, weak, sick and disabled to maintain their appearance. Their officers were also in a mess, and they basically became a platform for promoting generals, which had long been lost. The value of the health center itself.
The six military attachés promoted by Wang Yuan at that time all had the position of Jingwei, but they usually only trained in the Leopard Room. Among them, Pan Gui did the best and had already become a fourth-rank commander. The remaining few were all from the fifth rank. Calm down.
As for the newly appointed generals and guerrilla generals, they are just military commander positions and have little to do with the rank of generals.
As soon as they heard about these appointments and dismissals, everyone knew that a war was about to begin, and they were going to fight with Wang Yuan. They ate and drank in the Leopard Room for several years, maintaining the habit of doing exercises every three days, and the leader of the army was Wang Erlang. , and all the officers and soldiers were immediately excited.
Soldiers are afraid of death because they usually cannot get military pay, they are not sure about their training, and they are afraid of defeat when they go out to fight. As long as these problems can be solved, soldiers will naturally join the war enthusiastically, and they also want to be promoted through meritorious service!
"Follow Shilang Wang to the death!" the soldiers shouted in unison.
Since Wang Yuan had taken over the army, he could no longer stay in the Bao Fang and was stationed in the military camp outside the city that day.
It was impossible to go on an expedition immediately because civilian men had to be recruited. Wang Yuan only gave him half a month, which made Shuntian Prefecture Yin dizzy. As a result, the people around the capital suffered a lot.
When the government recruited civilian men, Wang Yuan recruited some Beijing army gunners and learned how to use Franco machine guns from the Portuguese gunsmiths.
A total of 220 gunners, loaders, gun carriers and bomb carriers (excluding Portuguese gunsmiths and translators) were temporarily organized into an artillery battalion by Wang Yuan.
For the next period of time, Wang Yuan stayed in the military camp during the day and went home to accompany his wife and concubines at night. He lived a comfortable life.
Half a month has passed and the civilian laborers have not been recruited yet.
Under Wang Yuan's constant urging, it took twenty-six days before tens of thousands of civilians finally came to the military camp. The food and grass from the Ministry of Revenue were also prepared, and many horse and mule frames were also given. Shi Jie told Wang Yuan's expedition was very cooperative.
In other words, the entire civil servant group hopes that Wang Yuan will go to war as soon as possible.
The emperor's behavior was too out of character, and Jiang Bin had a bad record of killing good people and taking credit for their merits. Among the four generals, only Xu Tai was the most capable, but this old man also liked to take credit and rush forward. Such a combination of emperor and ministers is unsatisfactory. Like he can win the battle.
The civil servants hoped that Wang Erlang could tell the truth. This champion had never been defeated. Even if he was defeated, he would control the situation in the army and there would be no more "Tumu Fort Incident".
Wang Yuan spent several days rectifying the civilians and teaching them basic military orders, and then on July 6, he marched northward.
Many officials came to see him off spontaneously. The dispute between the emperor and his ministers, the civil and military disputes were one thing, but any official with a right mind did not want the emperor to be captured by the Mongols again.
The earthen fortress back then was demolished and troops came to Beijing. Even with Yu Qian's efforts to turn the tide, the Ming Dynasty's national power was severely depleted. Millions of refugees ravaged the country for decades, until Zhu Houzhao's grandfather finally put an end to the problem.
Just looking at the scale of the refugees at that time, it seemed that the country was in danger of subjugation, and the Ming Dynasty did not have the capital to cause another disturbance.