Zhu Zhen is about to go fucking crazy. He succeeded in speculating during the last mutiny, but how can there be any reason to steal a chicken twice in a short period of time?
Historically, it took Zhu Zhen more than ten years before he encouraged his soldiers to stage a second mutiny.
Unfortunately, Governor Xi Shu actually cleaned up the military fields, and a bunch of officers pushed Zhu Zhen to power again. Zhu Zhen really didn't want to rebel again. No matter whether he succeeded or not, he would definitely die!
"General Zhu, you are so prestigious that everyone looks up to you."
"I must give Xi Shu some color at this meeting. Don't dare to do anything wrong just because you think he is Wang Erlang's teacher!"
"Just kill Xi Shu. If things get too big, the court will have to send someone to appease him."
"..."
Faced with swords and guns, Zhu Zhen had no choice but to bite the bullet and become the leader of the rebels. He immediately captured Datong Fucheng, with more than 10,000 troops, and was coerced by officers to attack the left guard city of Datong.
Datong Zuowei City is more than a hundred miles west of Datong Fucheng and belongs to the residence of Datong Deputy General Soldier.
Xi Shu was afraid that there would be another mutiny and he would be caught off guard by the rebels, so he led the Baofang officers and troops to station in Zuowei City, and did not dare to live in the dangerous place of Datong Fucheng.
When the rebel army came to the city, there were more than 20,000 people.
A horse rushed out and shouted towards the city: "Brothers in Zuowei City, quickly open the city gate to welcome us in and kill the corrupt official Xi Shu! We haven't been paid in fourteen years, so we all went to Beijing to make money together.
go!"
After hearing this, the local soldiers were ready to take action, and the soldiers in the Leopard Room felt as if they were facing a powerful enemy.
It’s true that we haven’t been paid for fourteen years!
The military pay of the Ming Dynasty was divided into three types: rations, monthly rations, and line rations.
Rations, as the name suggests, are food used to make a living to ensure that soldiers will not starve to death.
Monthly food can be understood as monthly salary.
Military operations such as rationing, fighting, preparation, border repair, and autumn prevention (preparing for the Mongolian invasion in autumn) require additional rations to be distributed to soldiers.
The Datong soldiers (except for those close to the Great Wall) have only received rations and line food in these years. The monthly ration is a grain of rice, and they have never seen a penny. They have not received a monthly salary for fourteen years.
How could there be so many people who would not follow the mutiny?
Zhu Houzhao also saw Xi Shu's second memorial. He was trembling with anger at this situation, and decided to fully support Wang Yuan in rectifying border affairs. The soldiers who followed the emperor to fight against the little Mongolian prince turned out to be hungry men who had not received monthly wages for many years.
Soldiers? How could this make the emperor not angry?
Zhu Houzhao personally took charge of the border area and asked Jiang Bin to check the number of troops and reissue food and salary? It was only half a year's monthly rations? Jiang Bin and others also took some advantage from it.
Xi Shu is responsible for rectifying Datong's border affairs, which is really stressful? How can he have the money to repay the wages of the entire town's officers and soldiers for fourteen years?
After the land is cleared and then divided into fields, can it indeed win over some soldiers? But how can it be compared with fourteen years' salary!
Xi Shu called the local military commanders in the city and ordered: "Restrain your subordinates, but if there are those who are submissive and follow the rebellion, if you can't solve it on your own, then commit suicide to repay your Majesty!"
Deputy Commander-in-Chief Li Jin quickly knelt down and said: "If there is anything wrong? I will come to see you with my humble rank!"
That night? Fires broke out all over the Left Acropolis of Datong. It was junior officers who led the troops to cause trouble.
The Qingtian conflict between the imperial court and the senior military attachés has been turned into a pay riot by the mutiny. Although the senior military commanders in Datong secretly instigated it, they escaped at the beginning of the mutiny. It will be difficult to punish them if they are traced in the future? At most, they are not strict with one of their subordinates.
, the charge of dereliction of duty.
There was a grand master's chair in the city tower, and Xi Shu sat on it with his sword in his hand. He turned a blind eye to the fire in the city and only ordered his subordinates to guard against a sneak attack by the rebels outside the city.
In the middle of the night? The mutiny in the city finally subsided, and several night attacks by the rebels outside the city were repelled.
The next day, Xi Shu did not defend the city. Instead, he led the soldiers from the Leopard Fang out of the city to form a formation.
Leopard Fang Sixth Battalion? Only two battalions were transferred, with a total of more than 8,000 people.
As for the rebels, although they have more than 20,000 troops, they are severely lacking in mid-level and high-level officers. Even the leader Zhu Zhen was forced to come here and was not willing to fight with the Central Army at all. As for those mid-level and high-level officers, they were instigating the soldiers.
After the mutiny, they ran away as soon as possible, and they would come back when the trouble was over.
The British Duke Zhang Lun, who was sprayed in the face by a fool in public, was the leading general sent by the emperor.
Zhang Lun didn't know how to fight at all, so he only had a name. The real general in command was Pan Gui. Among the 6,000 soldiers that Wang Yuan personally trained back then, Pan Gui was now the highest ranked, and was already the third-rank commander of the Beijing Guard.
"General Pan, you take command." Zhang Lun was quite uneasy. Eight thousand versus twenty thousand was too scary.
Under Pan Gui's command, the flag commander waved the flag, and more than 8,000 people quickly formed an array.
The chariot team is in front, and the soldiers push the wheelbarrows forward slowly. These wheelbarrows have strong wooden boards that can withstand arrows fired from the front. They also have many built-in horse-repelling facilities that can be disassembled and assembled at any time to form a horse-repelling formation.
After the chariot soldiers, there are spearmen and sword and shield soldiers.
The spear is more than three meters long, and together with the sword and shield bearer, it protects the chariot soldiers.
Then there are the gunmen and archers, who are hidden inside and ready to assemble and shoot at any time.
This was followed by artillery, protected by cavalry and reserves.
"Boom boom boom!"
The Folan cannons fired a salvo when they met, but the rebels on the opposite side didn't even have cannons, so they had no choice but to carry on and launch an early charge.
"Firegun soldiers, archers come forward! The cavalry wings are ready!" Pan Gui ordered.
The flag commander immediately waved the flag, and the musketeers and archers came forward to shoot. Two volleys were fired, which did not cause much casualties to the enemy. However, the rebel army lacked a smooth command system, and the formation instantly became chaotic and chaotic.
Some small groups of troops fled.
"kill!"
Zheng Hu, a martial arts expert who could wield a sword weighing a hundred pounds, rode out with a mace and led the cavalry to attack the flank of the rebel army.
Needless to say the rest, the Central Army was completely victorious.
Of the 20,000 rebels, more than a thousand were killed or wounded, and more than 8,000 were captured. The rest were scattered in the wilderness.
Li Jin, the deputy commander-in-chief of Datong, was dumbfounded when he stood on the tower, and he no longer dared to have any thoughts of causing trouble.
Xi Shu, who successfully suppressed the mutiny, frowned and showed no joy at all.
Datong is a mess, and he will have plenty to do in the next year or two.
Datong Town and Liaodong Town are both one of the Nine Borders of the Ming Dynasty, but the actual situations are very different.
Let's put it this way, although the garrison system in Datong Town still exists, battalions account for at least about half. In other words, the garrison system in Liaodong is dominated by the garrison system, while the garrison system in Datong is mixed.
Historically, due to the Datong Mutiny that broke out many times during the Jiajing Dynasty, Datong Town was simply converted into a garrison system - the garrison soldiers only had to farm the land and were completely reduced to serfs. The garrison officers retained their hereditary status, but with combat military positions
When it comes to level, military units no longer talk about guard posts, but only cities, forts, piers, and camps. Elite troops are all recruited.
This change began to intensify in the Zhengtong period. This was because the guards were unable to resist the Mongolian invasion, so they had to gradually switch to a recruitment system.
It seems to be a kind of military progress, but there are too many tricks!
First of all, regular wages are in arrears all year round, and only rations and wartime subsidies are paid. Secondly, once the war is not so tense, a large number of recruited soldiers will be laid off to reduce the maintenance cost of the imperial army. Thirdly, recruiting soldiers is more conducive to military generals' empty pay.
As a result, the imperial court did not know how many soldiers there were in Datong.
Not only did Xi Shu have to use force to suppress and clean up the entire Datong military field, he also had to clean up the military quota. This thing was more complicated than Qingtian and could offend all the local generals.
Xi Shu, the governor of the three sides, did not dare to leave the military camp. He had to lead troops to protect him wherever he went, otherwise he would definitely die a violent death.
What’s even more frightening is that if Mongolia invades the south, they will have to lead their own troops. The local generals do not need to take the opportunity to retaliate, as long as they stand still. Once the Mongolian army causes a catastrophe, the court is likely to convict Xi Shu and imprison him!
Although Wang Yuan mobilized two battalions of Baofang soldiers to help, the wives, children, and children of these soldiers are all in the capital. They can stay in Datong for a year, but if the time is too long, they will inevitably want to return. Moreover, the proportion of firearms in these two battalions is high, and military pay and maintenance costs are also high. In the long run,
Throwing it away in Datong will cause countless censures.
Xi Shu must strive to completely clear the land and clear troops in the entire Datong Town within a year and a half. He must also find time to suppress the mutiny. If there is a Mongolian invasion, he must take the responsibility himself.
The army's logistics is also a problem. Logistics officers are the targets of Xi Shu's attacks. These guys will definitely hold them back at critical moments!
Xi Shu thought about it and decided to clear the fields first and overthrow Shanxi Xingdusi.
The administrative seat of Shanxi Xingdusi is within Datong Fucheng. In these two mutinies, all the officials of Dusi fled, so they could take the opportunity to check the accounts.
Xi Shu led his troops to take control of Datong City, and directly sealed up the treasury and accounts of the Xingdu Division. He first issued two months of monthly rations to bribe ordinary soldiers, then audited the accounts, and impeached more than thirty military attachés of the Du Division.
Wang Yuan actively cooperated in the capital, united with the Ministry of War (Wang Qiong's territory), and transferred new capital officials from other places.
Just after he had secured the Shanxi Xingdu Division, Xi Shu encountered the big tiger again.
Clan, King Zhu Junzhang!
Datong's army pay and food supply is partly provided by itself, partly by private enterprises, and partly by transportation from Beijing.
During the Zhengde period, Beijing's movement accounted for a small proportion, and most of it was solved by local farming and the democratic movement. The democratic movement was secretly controlled by nobles and eunuchs. The Daiwang who occupied Datong was the number one force, and the Daiwang also occupied countless military fields.
Xi Shu ordered a comprehensive clearing of the fields. Although he did not attack Dai Wang for the time being, it still frightened Dai Wang. Moreover, many local military officers also secretly colluded with Dai Wang, so Dai Wang naturally wanted to vent his anger on them.
After Xi Shu took out the grain and grass from the Xingdusi treasury to reissue the soldiers' monthly rations, the democratic movement was suddenly blocked secretly by King Dai.
If this matter cannot be resolved, I am afraid that it will be difficult to provide all the rations for the entire town's officers and soldiers, and all efforts will be in vain.
Xi Shu was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and even wanted to beat Dai Wang hard.
God has eyes, but at this moment, the acting king Zhu Junzhang suddenly died of illness. The crown prince Zhu Chongyao was young and would not succeed to the throne for another three years. Xi Shu was fully capable of suppressing the orphan and widowed mother.
After successfully opening up the connection with the Dai Wang Palace, Xi Shu had caused "people's resentment boiling" in Datong. Countless impeachment memorials floated to the capital like snowflakes, and it would not have been possible if it had not been carried by Wang Yuan.
Then, the Mongolian deputy Khan Ji Nang came and led an army of 60,000 people straight to the city of Datong. Along the way, the generals defended the city to protect themselves and watched the Mongolian army go to fight with Xi Shu. They wished that Datong would be directly attacked by the Mongols.
Next, let alone Wang Yuan, even the emperor will not be able to keep Xi Shu.
Governor Xi, it’s too difficult!
It is extremely difficult to rectify the military affairs of Datong.
Internal troubles, foreign enemies, eunuchs, clans, logistics, long-term malpractice... all kinds of situations came to pass. If Wang Yuan and Yang Tinghe had not reached a political deal, Xi Shu would never have thought of staying in Datong for half a year.