It was extremely hot in Yincheng, Ningbo, and there was no wind. Suddenly a thunderbolt fell from the clear sky, the wind and clouds changed, the sky dimmed, and dark clouds gathered.
"It is going to rain."
In Qian's Mansion, all the gentry who had gathered for discussion were also shaking their fans because of the morning heat. When they saw the wind blowing, they came directly to the corridor outside the house one by one.
"It's going to rain. I can't control my mother's marriage." Lin Shitui opened his clothes and said.
Qian Sule was leaning on an ebony staff and was worried.
"Cang Shui and Hua Xia went out, but there is no news of their return, and we don't know what the situation is."
No news may be the worst news.
Wang Zhiren, the commander-in-chief of Zhejiang Province, had previously accepted the recruitment and even handed over the official seal of the commander-in-chief of Zhejiang Province to the Northern Envoy and handed it over to Boluo. Now it would be difficult to instigate rebellion.
As for Zhang Mingzhen, he is an old friend of Wang Zhiren, and the two have a close relationship.
"Maybe we should send someone to Zhoushan again."
During this period, Qian Sule was on hunger strike and wanted to revolt. He was exhausted physically and mentally, and he was much older. However, he was still holding on for the sake of the current situation. "Huang Binqing was a general and deputy general in Zhoushan before.
We are also familiar with Bing. This person has always been arrogant and domineering, and has often harmed our people, merchants and people in Ningbo. The Tartars crossed the Yangtze River and Huang Binqing led the navy in Zhenjiang. However, like the Zheng family in Fujian, he fled without fighting.
"
Huang Binqing returned to Zhoushan, not only to protect the country and the people, but he immediately sent his men to the counties of Ningbo to collect wages and distribute grain. He, a general of the Guangxi Army, had the seal of a barbarian general, but he occupied Zhoushan to collect grain and distribute grain from the people of Ningbo, and even raped young men.
This is no different from a robber.
How can you expect such a person to be successful?
"What should we do?"
Those sitting here are all famous in Yinxian or Ningbo Prefecture, whether Qian Sule or Lin Shipeng, all of them have beautiful articles and famous poems. They are all even Jinshi or Juren, at least they are scholars.
But now, as a group of gentry sit together, they feel helpless.
They wanted to raise troops to respond, but they didn't know how to do it.
"We can't wait any longer." Qian Sule paused for a moment with his crutch, "It's better not to delay things, otherwise things will change. I don't think it's better to take action tomorrow. I'll wait until the city defense temple to summon the gentry and common people and directly announce the action."
"But we have no soldiers?"
"There are no soldiers in Yincheng. The soldiers are in Dinghai, Shipu and Zhoushan." Qian Sule looked determined, "Masters, if you don't succeed, you will be benevolent!"
If they wait any longer, the chance will become even slimmer, and if they start the rebellion early, the possibility of failure is very high, but they are unwilling to wait any longer. For the sake of their family, country, and world, these passionate scholars are absolutely not willing to be like Xie Sanbin.
, and even less willing to surrender like Qian Qianyi.
"Everyone goes back and gathers his tribesmen, servants, relatives, students, etc. Life or death depends on this!"
"Brother Shizhen and Brother Yanjia are the best writers. They are the old Hanlins. I will ask you two to draft a message to the gentry and common people in the city. We will jointly sign and pass it on." Qian Sule said.
Everyone praised it, and Ge Shizhen and Shen Yanjia also did their part, wasted no time in writing, and wrote a thousand-word essay in a short time. Everyone who read it praised it for their talent, and signed their names with their seals.
On that day, thousands of copies of the memorandum were copied and posted all over Yin City.
Xie Sanbin's servant took a portion and gave it back to him.
After reading it, I couldn't help but curse, "A bunch of crazy rotten scholars who don't know how to live or die!"
"Master, why don't we go out of the city first and go to Hangzhou or Dinghai?"
"What's so scary about a group of rotten scholars and crazy people?"
"But Mr. Chen and the others went to Dinghai to meet General Wang, but they haven't heard back yet, and I don't know if they can invite soldiers and horses." The steward was worried.
Xie Sanbin thought he had saved people, but he firmly believed that a smart man like Wang Zhiren had no reason to repeat the surrender once he had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. "Perhaps it was just a delay on the road. From Yincheng to Dinghai, it is only a few dozen miles. We will arrive in the morning and in the evening."
In the conversation room.
The servant came to report, "Master, Mr. Chen and the others are back and are looking for an audience."
Xie Sanbin stroked his beard and said proudly, "Hahaha, you're back just in time, please hurry up."
Chen Xiuchen followed the servant in with concern, and there was also a soldier beside him.
"Students meet their teachers,"
"No need to be polite, sit down quickly. Have you seen Mr. Wang? How is the situation?"
Chen Xiuchen introduced the person next to him to Xie Sanbin, "This is Zhang Mingbin, a member of the Chinese Army under General Wang. He came here on the order of General Wang."
Xie Sanbin said happily, "I wonder how many soldiers and horses Zhang Zhongjun brought?"
"One hundred light cavalry from the military camp in Zhenbiao have followed me. They are outside the city now. In addition, early tomorrow morning, the military gate general will lead Zhenbiao into Yin. The military gate took the things that Xie Gong sent people to mention before and said a lot.
Thank you for informing me of this opportunity to make meritorious service."
"Hahaha, okay, early tomorrow morning, I will be waiting for General Wang at the Chenghuang Temple, and then I will catch all those rotten scholars and crazy people."
"Thank you, Mr. Xie. The one hundred knights who hold this humble position haven't made a fire to cook yet."
Xie Sanbin was unhappy when he saw him coming to ask for money, but he suppressed it for the time being, "Ah Fu, ask the housekeeper to go to the warehouse to get one hundred taels of silver and give it to Zhang Zhongjun."
Zhang Mingbin showed a satisfied smile on his face, "I'm grateful for the generous reward from Mr. Xie for my humble position, but the brothers have not eaten yet. I also ask Mr. Xie to send someone to send two carts of grain, meat and vegetables."
"That's no problem, I'll arrange it."
After sending away the greedy Zhang Mingbin, Xie Sanbin hummed a tune proudly. Even Chen Xiuchen said goodbye to him with a worried look on his face, and waved to see him off without paying attention.
At the door, Zhang Mingbin patted Chen Xiuchen on the shoulder and said, "Chen Xiucai did well just now. I was worried that you just acted recklessly. If that happens, I will have to chop you with a knife."
Chen Xiuchen's face turned pale, "The matter has been settled, so let's just say goodbye."
"No, you have to go back with me first. After things are over here, you have to fulfill the promise you made to His Highness and donate your family's money to support your family. You are leaving now. Where can we find you then?"
Chen Xiuchen's face turned blue and white, but faced this tough Qiu Ba with a sinister face, he dared not speak out in anger.
"Let's go, Mr. Chen."
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Dinghai, dozens of miles away.
Wang Zhiren was ordered to block the news that Supervisor Zhu Yihai had arrived.
Because of Zhu Yihai's arrival, Dinghai City was also busy at this time.
Wang Zhiren and Zhang Mingzhen quickly handed over the post of chief military officer of Zhejiang Town, and several battalions of troops were also reorganized.
On the school field, all soldiers and generals are accepting new orders.
The original Zhejiang General Army Town Biao Camp was reorganized into the Beijing Camp 3,000 Battalion and the Fifth Military Battalion. Some Zhejiang soldiers were also transferred to supplement the Beijing Camp Shenji Battalion. The three major battalions of the Beijing Camp will temporarily consist of 3,060 men and horses, with one battalion per battalion.
One thousand and two, and will be added later.
Zhang Mingzhen was promoted to the chief military officer of Zhejiang Town Japanese Army. Half of his original Shipu guerrilla battalion of 3,000 troops was changed to the general army town Biao camp, and the other half was added to the Yongwei and Jinyi battalions.
Under the persuasion of generals Wang Zhiren, Zhang Mingzhen, Wu Kai, and Wang Xiang, Zhu Yihai agreed to build another battalion, named Bannerman Battalion.
After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang established the Twelve Guards, which were the emperor's direct personal troops. The most famous of these twelve guards was the Jinyi Guards, and there were also Jinwu Guards, Yulin Guards, Fujun Guards, and Huben Guards.
Flagbearer Guard, etc.
After Zhu Di Jingnan became emperor, twelve more guards were added, such as Yanshan Guard, Daxing Guard, Tongzhou Guard, etc. Emperor Xuande added four more guards, Tengxiang and Wuxiang.
As a result, the Upper Twenty-Six Guards were eventually formed. However, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Emperor's personal troops, except the Jinyi Guards, were basically all under the jurisdiction and control of the Ministry of War to a greater or lesser extent.
Only then did the Warriors Camp, Siwei Camp, Yongwei Camp, etc. that were later built.
The main duties of the standard bearer guard are to guard the gates of the imperial city, and then to control the golden drum and flag used by the imperial commander, and then to escort the imperial commander to the left and right, and to stay in the imperial palace and so on.
This is equivalent to a royal guard of honor and a royal guard.
Before the fall of Beijing, the left and right sides from the Meridian Gate to the Chengtian Gate were guarded by flag-bearing guards.
After the Ming Dynasty Tumu Fortress, the garrison force of the capital actually consisted of the reorganized three major battalions of the Beijing Camp and the Warrior Battalion and the Four Guards Battalion commanded by the Royal Horse Supervisor.
At this time, the main reason for rebuilding the Flag Bearer Camp was to consider traveling in a dignified way as a supervisor. Without any support around him, there is really no dignity of a supervisor.
They just wanted to create a new royal guard of honor, and there was no talk of building another pro-military force like the Brave Guard Battalion.
But Zhu Yihai had other plans. He thought it would be good to take this opportunity to build another emperor's personal army. It just so happened that he could now mobilize some veterans from Zhang Mingzhen, Wu Kai, Wang Zhiren, and even Wang Xiang, Feng Jixiang and others to build the flag-bearer camp.
, and adding a group of young and strong recruits, we may be able to create a new army that is truly under the direct command of the emperor.
Although several generals only regarded the flag-bearer battalion as a royal guard of honor to support the emperor, they were also very careful when deploying men and horses, trying to select those who were tall and heroic, and also gave priority to those who were capable of riding and shooting in the army.
A fine veteran.
Lao Zhu was naturally very satisfied with this, but he also mentioned one thing, that is, he didn't want to steal the generals' servants and confidants by ruthlessly fighting for love, so each person could only choose ten servants at most to serve as instructors in the flag-bearer camp, and the rest of the soldiers would try their best.
Choose from the camp soldiers.
Finally, several generals gathered fifty elite servants to the flag-bearing camp, and then selected 500 veterans from each battalion. The flag-bearing camp was officially established.
As for the camp generals, Zhu Yihai did not appoint them for the time being on the grounds that the camp was newly established. Instead, he said that he would personally take charge of the camp affairs first.
A battalion of 550 men and horses was organized into four groups based on the fighting idea of one head, two wings and one tail. This was also the formation created by Qi Jiguang, and is as famous as the Yuanyang Formation.
This formation divides an army into four parts. The former is the head, which is the main force, and is the main offensive force. The two sides of the head are the wings, which are the surprise troops. They protect the flanks of the head from attack and attack the enemy's flanks at the same time.
The tail is the support force, the reserve force.
At the same time, the head, wings and tail are not fixed. Which part on the battlefield is the first to engage the enemy will be the head, and then adjust accordingly to support and coordinate with each other.
This formation was quite adaptable in this era. Even in the late Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan still learned this method and asked the Hunan Army to fight in this formation with one head, two wings and one tail, and established the military system of the Hunan Army.
In modern times, for example, the three-three formation that our army is good at is because its tactical thinking is first attack, second cover, third fire support, attack, cover, and fire support. Therefore, the main three-three formations at all levels are, respectively.
Undertake different tasks and can be adjusted and transformed at any time.
However, Zhu Yihai felt that Qi Jiguang was the military god not far from the Ming Dynasty after all. His military system was tested in the battle against Japanese and later in the northern border towns.
Zhu Yihai used it directly and used it exactly like the previously established Yongwei Battalion. One battalion with three units, one unit with two divisions, one unit with two divisions, one division with four bureaus, one bureau with three flags, one flag with three teams, and one team with ten units during Qi Jiguang's training in Ji Town.
The two people's preparations were different, and he proposed a more concise preparation.
A battalion has about five to six hundred people, and then there are four sentries. Directly below the sentry is the team. There are also four teams in one sentry, and there are four teams in each team, and ten people in each team.
The battalions and sentries have even fewer levels of command, and they are all organized into four-four formations.
The camp commander also has a Chinese army, and the sentry commander has a personal guard team.
Wang Zhiren, Zhang Mingzhen, Wu Kai, Wang Xiang and others saw that His Highness the Supervisor of the Kingdom actually intended to personally form and command the flag-bearer battalion, so they just laughed and passed without interfering. They all felt that this was just a whim of His Highness, who thought it was fun to lead the troops.
That’s all.
But how can leading troops be so simple?
However, the standard guard is just a guard of honor, so let His Highness have some fun with it.
