His Majesty the Emperor, who is far away in the south of the Yangtze River, has no illusions about Sichuan and Shaanxi. In his latest strategic plan, he has no hope in Sichuan, Shaanxi or even Huguang. He just hopes to unite the anti-Ming forces here and be able to contain or even restrain the Ming Dynasty.
Just delay the march of the Qing army.
The real battle has to be fought by the emperor and his royal camp.
The Huguang camp, the Yunyang camp, the Sichuan-Guixing camp and the Shaanxi-Gansu camp were just idle chess pieces given to the emperor out of desperation. I hope they can play some role in the future.
The emperor even said it bluntly when talking to several of his confidants. As long as Sichuan can hold Chongqing and Yunyang can hold Yunyang, it will be fine. There is no need to think about anything else now.
If you think too much, you will worry about gains and losses, and even have more fantasies, and you may make mistakes.
Those loyal soldiers far away in Sichuan, as well as the civil servants, military officers, generals and warlords who had their own agendas, actually did not know the emperor's attitude. Even if they knew, it would not change their minds.
In troubled times, everyone wants to grab territory, military power, and even food and salary.
Shunqing Mansion, Phoenix Mountain, Pengzhou.
The various troops in the camp are back. They conducted actual combat training this time and achieved good results.
At the military meeting chaired by Jinglue Wen Anzhi, Zhang Shipeng, the admiral of the Guihang camp in Yuyingchuan, and several generals of the camp reported to everyone.
They swept through the surrounding area for more than a hundred miles and wiped out countless thieves and robbers, large and small. No group of thieves could withstand their sweep, especially since their attack was so fast and violent that they basically didn't give the thieves any time to react.
Even if the thieves occupy some dangerous positions, they are still defeated by the imperial camp.
Each of these officers in the imperial camp became more fierce than the last, and the eyes of the soldiers in the imperial camp were also reddened by the rewards. The officers were all taking the lead and fighting hard, so the soldiers had nothing to hesitate about.
Not to mention, the way Zhang Shipeng and the others recorded their merits immediately after the war and then distributed rewards, which was as satisfying as daily wages, made these soldiers even more excited.
The soldiers of the late Ming Dynasty could not be deceived by short-term drawings, but it was too exciting to be paid and rewarded.
Even the Shizhu Baigan soldiers in the army are already the elite of the Sichuan army. Although the Baigan soldiers suffered heavy losses in the late Ming Dynasty, and today's Baigan soldiers are not as elite as those in Tianqi and Chongzhen years, they are still the best among the local soldiers and can go forward.
Whether they were working for the court or suppressing bandits, when had they ever received such good treatment?
Not only is the salary calculated on a daily basis, but the minimum is one cent and three silver per day, and an additional one cent of silver is paid every day for fighting. This means that every time a battle is fought, a reward is given. There is also collective skill even if there is no head skill. Even if you are an auxiliary, sometimes you will be paid.
There are also rewards for hard work.
This time I went out to suppress bandits and train troops, rather than go out to make a fortune.
The stone pillar where the white pole soldiers are located is actually a poor place. After all, a chieftain would not be a chieftain if he were not poor. The people who come out to carry the white pole soldiers are ordinary poor people among the chieftains. They have little capital and can only risk their lives.
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Chieftain soldiers fought for the imperial court and had no pay themselves, but relied entirely on rewards.
But in the past, how much money could you get for working for the imperial court? How many people actually got it?
But on this trip, Kaaba was given a reward of silver and additional food before departure. Every battle was immediately rewarded, and additional rewards were given for those captured by the bandits.
Even if you are unlucky and get injured, as long as you are not injured on the back, you will still be compensated according to your level.
If you are unlucky enough to be beaten to death, as long as you die on the battlefield, you will still receive dozens of taels of pension, and even extra money for burial.
In short, the Sichuan soldiers had never fought such a rich battle before.
Therefore, although these officers from the south of the Yangtze River are more ruthless than the others, no one is very disgusted. After all, they are really rich in money.
They wanted to hug such a Shangguan tightly.
The officials are vying to be the first, fearing that they won’t get a chance to play. The soldiers want to make more contributions and get more rewards. The thieves and bandits around here are all rewards in their eyes.
The original plan was not to come back so soon, but because everyone was too fierce, they went around non-stop and raided every place without waiting for one. They even went to fucking night battles in order to attack a few more village dens and some camp heads.
In the end I had to come back and polish it off.
Not a single bandit camp is still standing in the surrounding area.
No matter how dangerous your village is, what's so great about it in the eyes of those chieftains and other Sichuan soldiers? None of them are familiar with the terrain in Sichuan. No matter how dangerous the mountain is, they can climb it as if they were walking on flat ground, just like the fucking special forces.
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Zhang Shipeng's report was so long that my mouth was dry.
There is also a complete written report, how many days the troops were deployed, how much food was spent, how many villages were destroyed, how many heads were beheaded, how many thieves were captured, how many people were rescued, how many supplies were seized, and how many achievements the soldiers performed.
How many rewards were given out?
Every stroke of pen is recorded in detail.
Even outside the military meeting tent of the Fenghuang Mountain Camp Manager, the soldiers marching in the camp brought many bags, opened them, and poured out a pile of left ears.
Countless left ears from the annihilated bandits were piled up there to form a hill, and the scene was very shocking.
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When Zhang Shipeng finally finished his report, the big tent became quiet.
Everyone was shocked by this report.
Even the Five Provincial Manager Wen'an was a little shocked. These data were so detailed. In such a short period of time, they were able to annihilate so many bandits and achieve such great results.
The place was filled with governors and general soldiers who came from all over the country.
After a while, Sichuan Governor Ma Gan spoke first, with a somewhat skeptical tone, "How is it possible to destroy so many villages, behead so many prisoners, and capture so many people in such a short period of time? Even if we work around the clock, we can't do it, right?
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"With so many villages, even if one is destroyed in a day, how many can be destroyed in so many days?"
Regarding Governor Ma's suspicion, Zhang Shipeng was very calm, "When we attacked the first village, the whole battalion was dispatched. Although only the charge battalion fought in the end, all 6,800 people from the battalion participated. We captured the village.
, the storm battalion only took half an hour, but it took us a total of one day from attack to evacuation."
"But after we destroyed the Black Dragon King's stronghold, we divided our troops and fought according to the camps. It took us two days, and each of the ten battalions destroyed another stronghold."
"Then, each battalion felt that five hundred men was a bit too much, so they divided their troops again. One battalion was divided into about one battalion, and some were divided into four sentries. In the end, some even sent out only one or two teams to break a stockade...
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"Actually, we basically didn't encounter any thieves who could be beaten. We basically spent our time marching. The steep roads in the northern Sichuan Mountains made it inconvenient to move, which caused us a lot of trouble and wasted a lot of time."
Ma Gan didn't believe this explanation.
"Are all those thieves dead? In just a few days, you can destroy so many villages and annihilate so many thieves. Even if there are so many pigs, scattered in so many places in this time, it is impossible to catch them all, right?
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"Ma Fuyuan, if there are really so many pigs, we really can't catch them so quickly. In fact, the name of our imperial camp is quite useful. Of course, the soldiers of the imperial camp are also very brave. Our soldiers I often rush all the way and then raid the bandits' stronghold. The thieves often collapse at the first touch. Most of them surrender very quickly, and basically they don't encounter any tough battles..."
"Of course, this is also related to the fact that the imperial army is here. Many large groups of bandits have already followed far away. Those who stay nearby are not considered strong."
"I still don't believe it!" Ma Gan shook his head.
As the governor, Ma Gan was a civil servant, but he had also served in Sichuan for a long time. He started from the bottom and relied on military merit. Only after Zhang Xianzhong made a name for himself could he become the governor.
He knew very well that fighting a war was not that simple, and even suppressing bandits was not easy.
"Could it be that you went into the mountains to kill good people and take credit?" Ma Gan pressed. The Ming army in central Sichuan often did this kind of thing. Even before when the imperial court was still powerful, the officers and soldiers from the Nine Borders also did this kind of thing.
Zhang Shipeng retorted, "As a high official of the imperial court, Governor Ma should not talk nonsense."
Deputy Admiral Zhu Wanhua slapped his hand on the table, "You surnamed Ma, don't slander anyone. If you can produce evidence, I will cut off your head and let you play with it as a ball. But if you can't produce it today, , you must apologize to all our imperial soldiers!"
When Ma Gan's confidant Zeng Ying, the deputy governor of Sichuan, saw this, he stood up unceremoniously, slapped the table and shouted, "My surname is Zhu, don't think you are so arrogant because your father is a bachelor. Your father is the governor of Huguang." Grand Bachelor, you are not our Sichuan Superintendent, you are so arrogant, what qualifications do you have to dare to slap the table on Governor Ma?"
"We are all leading troops, and no one can fool anyone. How can we fool others when we go out for a walk, pack a few sacks of ears and come back, and say how many thieves we have killed?
If you didn’t damn well take credit for killing the good ones, I would have used all the dead people’s ears out there as food and drinks!”
Zeng Ying, nicknamed Mr. Zeng, was the most powerful general under Ma Gan. He was very famous in central Sichuan. When he regained Chongqing, he also made great achievements. However, because he was a powerful general, he used his own power to save people and felt that Sichuan It is impossible for the Guixing Battalion to achieve such a feat this time.
He insisted that they were taking advantage of the situation.
Originally, this camp was composed of elites drawn from various ministries in central Sichuan. Due to the emperor's will, everyone could only give face to Wen An, especially with Qin Liangyu, an old senior, taking the lead.
But the soldiers who were sent there were eventually sent back and the soldiers were left behind. This made everyone very unhappy.
Immediately afterwards, Wen Anzhi provided the best armors and weapons to the camp, and also gave them higher food and salary, but still gave them priority. This made everyone very dissatisfied.
On the one hand, Wen'an was so generous in supporting the camp, but on the other hand, he was constantly asking the rest of the Sichuan Army to reorganize, asking them to reorganize according to their quotas, eliminate over-staffed troops, and so on.
The contrast is strong and the dissatisfaction becomes even more intense.
It is too outrageous to go to camp to repay his merits now. Ma Qian used this to attack, which is what he should do. Zeng Ying scolded Zhu Wanhua in front of Wen Anzhi, which was even more profound.
Shen Yuantai, the camp commander, is responsible for supervising the army and is naturally responsible for recording military achievements. He stood up with an ugly expression, "As the commander of the Sichuan-Guihang camp, I, Shen Yuantai, dare to report the military exploits, seizures and other records in this report from Admiral Zhang." The head on the item guarantees that there is absolutely no falsehood. Please seek justice, Mr. Jinglue!"
"These are the military merits and honors earned by the soldiers of the imperial camp, and no one can tolerate any slander!"
The atmosphere was tense and tense for a moment.
Mr. Zeng laughed and scolded, "You're so damn crazy. I will never allow anyone to enjoy the best treatment everywhere in our Sichuan territory, yet dare to openly kill good people and take credit for their success. Such a random thing must be done. There must be someone involved in this matter."
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Sichuan Governor Wang Yingxiong and Yunnan Governor Fan Yiheng also stood up at the right time. On the surface, they were trying to stop the fight, but in fact they were adding fuel to the fire. They also wanted to investigate the matter carefully.
"Okay, then let's investigate and get to the bottom of it. What's black can't be whitened, and what's white can't be blackened!"
Jinglue Wen Anzhi said slowly, with a calm and calm look on his face!