According to Zhu Yihai's temper, Awu, a useless person who has no skills in fighting and is very powerful in robbing and harming the people, should just lead the troops to kill him.
But a group of people around him said that he should be appeased. Not only Wang Zhiren and Zhang Mingzhen said so, but also the accompanying officials such as Shen Chenquan also had this attitude.
Zhu Yihai was so angry that he had no choice but to suppress his anger temporarily.
"Then Gu gave him a chance and sent someone to convey the order to him, asking him to gather the rebels immediately and come here to listen to the order."
Dong Zhining, who was originally born in Ningbo Liukang, was awarded the post of judge of Dali Temple at this time. He volunteered and was willing to go to deliver the decree.
After Ma Jixiang personally led a group of Yongwei battalion light cavalry to protect the imperial envoy Dong Zhining and rushed to deliver the order, Zhu Yihai ordered to rush to Cixi County to rest and wait for Chen Wu to arrive.
Along the way, Zhu Yihai remained silent, feeling extremely angry.
Speaking of which, in troubled times, there were countless generals like Chen Wu, almost all of them. But Zhu Yihai was angry, especially when he encountered this kind of situation just after leaving Ningbo, he was even more unwilling to tolerate it.
He wants to reverse this trend and doesn't want to continue like this.
This Chen Wu brought tens of thousands of people from Jiaxing Fuhai to Ningbo and robbed them as soon as he arrived. The generals and officials thought this was normal.
How is this normal?
If everyone thinks this way in the future, why bother and just surrender?
After arriving at Cixi County, Wang Zhiren personally took charge of guarding the county town, with six battalions of men and horses, four battalions stationed inside the city and two battalions outside the city.
Cixi County in the Ming Dynasty was not actually Cixi in later generations. Cixi County in later generations was actually the Sanshan Station of Linshan Guards of Shaoxing Prefecture at this time. Cixi in the Ming Dynasty was on the left side of the Ningbo River, separated from the Fucheng by the Cixi River. Only thirty or forty miles.
Zhu Yihai waited around in Cixi, but he didn't see Chen Wu coming to plead guilty, nor did he see his rebel soldiers coming according to the order.
Dawn.
Zhu Yihai summoned everyone.
"For half a day and a night, Chen Wu has not been seen, and not a single soldier under his command has come. Sir, what do you say?"
"It's better to wait!" Shen Yanjia suggested.
"The war is in chaos and it will take some time."
Zhu Yihai said, "You can't just sit back and wait, thinking that you have to be prepared with both hands. Governor Wang and General Zhang, please mobilize for battle and take action when it's time to take action."
"Your Highness, Chen Wu has more than ten thousand soldiers under his command. We only have six battalions of new soldiers. We only have a few thousand soldiers. Two-thirds of them are new recruits. We should not start a war easily." Xu Dianchen dissuaded him.
"There are only tens of thousands of defeated deserters, so what is there to be afraid of? How can a group of deserters go north to fight against the invaders if they don't dare to fight?"
"Just wait a little longer, maybe it's already on its way."
Everyone didn't want to fight, or they didn't have much confidence in their few battalions of new soldiers. When they heard that there were tens of thousands of soldiers, they became a little panicked.
Zhu Yihai had no choice but to wait.
In the afternoon, Ma Jixiang finally came back, but Dong Zhining and Chen Wu were nowhere to be seen.
"Where is Chen Wu, and where is Dong Pingshi?"
Ma Jixiang was a little embarrassed. He originally wanted to make a contribution and show off in front of the supervisor, but who knew that after a very hard trip, he ended up messing up the errand.
"The minister and Dong Pingshi were galloping along the way, and encountered several groups of rioters. It was very dangerous. Finally, they met Chen Wu in Matsuura. After reading out the decree to him, Chen Wu..."
"How is Chen Wu?" Zhu Yihai asked impatiently.
"Chen Wu said that he had just withdrawn from the Jiaxing Tartar army. He had no baggage and no food and grass, so he had no choice but to send troops to the countryside to collect food. However, the squire and landlords refused to pay the food, so some soldiers and generals followed They had a conflict, and it was all for a reason and helpless. Please forgive me, Your Highness."
"I want to ask you, where is Chen Wu, and where is the director and judge?"
Ma Jixiang hesitated to continue. It turned out that after Chen Wu met them, he learned that there was now a Highness Lu Jianguo in Ningbo. He also heard that Jianguo was leading the Sixth Battalion to Shaoxing, etc. Chen Wu then made several requests.
The first request was for payment. He said that they had no food and payment now, and more than 10,000 brothers were still hungry. Please ask the supervisor to provide food and payment. Chen Wu asked for one hundred thousand taels of silver.
The second request was to ask for an official. Chen Wu heard that Wang Zhiren became the governor of the Beijing camp, Zhang Mingzhen, a guerrilla from Shipu, became the commander-in-chief of Zhejiang, and even Huang Binqing of Zhoushan was granted the title of Su Lupp, so he asked the supervisor to grant him the title as well.
Earl, it would be nice to have another governor.
The third request is that he hopes that the supervisor will allow him to lead his men to station in Ningbo, or station in Wenzhou.
"Is this a request he made personally?" Zhu Yihai asked, his face already very ugly and his tone very low.
Ma Jixiang also knew the temper of His Highness Lu Jianguo. If Chen Wu made these demands to Emperor Hongguang, it would not be too much. Even if he made them to Chongzhen, who hanged himself one or two years ago, it would be fine.
But this request from Lu Jianguo is too much.
Who is Lu Jianguo? He is a ruthless person.
When Taizhou beheaded the envoys who surrendered to the north, and when Ningbo killed Xie Sanbin, they all carried out swords to kill people in person.
Supervisor Guo would not agree to these requests made by Chen Wu at all.
The fact was just as he expected, it was indeed impossible for Zhu Yihai to agree.
"Where are the directors and judges?" Zhu Yihai asked again.
"Chen Wu stayed with Dong to review affairs and observe the appearance of the army." Ma Jixiang said this, which was actually taking Dong Zhining as a hostage.
"Snapped!"
The angry Zhu Yihai slapped his hand on the table and stood up angrily, "What a courageous dog!"
Wang Zhiren, Zhang Mingzhen and others also looked at each other. They can only say that this Chen Wu is very courageous and has a big appetite.
"No need to say anything, mobilize troops and put down the rebellion immediately!"
Zhang Mingzhen asked the crowd to come forward and said, "I would like to lead our camp to guard the banner, go straight to the Songpu bandit camp, and take the head of the rebel Chen Wu as a sacrifice!"
Capture the thief first. Capture the king first. A general like Chen Wu who flees with his troops will not have much fighting spirit. What's more, now that both parties know their identities, Chen Wu is still waiting for a reply from here, and may still be thinking about how to bargain.
He would never have thought that the Jianguo, who only had a few thousand troops, would dare to attack him.
After all, normal people think that Chen Wu, who has an army at this time, must vigorously win over him, especially the newly self-proclaimed Supervisor of the Kingdom.
Therefore, Zhang Mingzhen thought that by taking a surprise, he led a battalion of soldiers directly to the bandit camp, and there was a high chance that he could kill Chen Wu. When Chen Wu died, his defeated troops would be scattered even more.
You can recruit them easily.
"Okay." Zhu Yihai agreed decisively, and then made some arrangements, asking Zhang Mingzhen to lead the Zhenbiao Battalion to wait until dark before taking action, and at the same time sent the Second Yongwei Battalion to assist.
Wang Zhiren, on the other hand, led the Second Battalion of the Beijing Battalion to attack Chen Wu's scattered rebels in different places. If he wanted to attack, he had to be decisive and leave no room for error.
Not only must Chen Wu be captured, but all of his major officers must also be captured.
"Those who dare to resist will be killed without mercy. Those who abandon their weapons and surrender will be spared death and taken to Cixi to await their fate."
Zhu Yihai originally wanted to go to suppress the rebels in person, but a group of people disagreed. They felt that leaving the Banner Battalion and Shenji Battalion was not enough.
Some people even suggested withdrawing to Ningbo Fucheng now, on the grounds that Fucheng has high walls and is not safe enough here.
Zhu Yihai is very confident about this battle, and Wang Zhiren and Zhang Mingzhen also feel that there is no danger.
Chen Wu claimed that he had thousands of soldiers and horses, but they estimated that there was a lot of water. They crossed the sea from Jiaxing. There could not be too many people, only a few thousand at most. Among these thousands of people, it is estimated that only some were soldiers, and some might be soldiers.
Families even followed those who fled.
As for the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and horses in the south of the Yangtze River during the Ming Dynasty, everyone knows very well that even the soldiers on the nine sides are in disgrace, let alone Chen Wu, the Jiaxing commander appointed by Emperor Hongguang. At most, he can only have a team following him in Liaodong.
The servants who have fought in battles are better at fighting, and the rest are the servants of the officers at all levels.
Now it's relatively dispersed, so there's no pressure to fight this battle.
Although their battalions are small in number, after all, they have been washed away by the waves, and the old and weak in the original Zhejiang battalions have been eliminated and the elite have been retained. The newly recruited soldiers are all young and strong, and both Wang Zhiren and Zhang Mingzhen are both young and strong.
They are veterans of the military.
Wait until dark.
Zhang Mingzhen led the second battalion of Zhenbiao and Yongwei to dispatch first, choosing to attack at dark in order to be silent and catch Chen Wu off guard. In essence, this battle was not a confrontation between the two armies, but a beheading operation.
Later, Wang Zhiren and his lieutenants each commanded a battalion to attack.
In Cixi City.
Zhu Yihai didn't sleep.
Half an hour after he waited for Zhang Mingyang and the others to set off, he called Zhang Mingyang and Mattim.
"Leave the flag bearer and the four hundred auxiliary soldiers from the two battalions of Shenji, and the rest will follow me."
"Your Highness, where are you going?"
Zhu Yihai asked his soldier Yang Boxing to get the cotton armor for him, and said calmly, "Of course I'm going to quell the chaos."
"Your Highness?" Zhang Mingyang, who had always been calm, couldn't calm down anymore. This was not the arrangement before.
"Shen Wenzhong."
"Wei Chen is here."
"You stay here. If anyone comes, pretend you are alone and rest here and send them away."
"I don't dare." Shen Wenzhong quickly shook his head.
However, Zhu Yihai had already inserted his flintlock musket into his waist, "I am now Zhu Wu, the commander-in-chief of the Banner Battalion, and I will personally fight in this first battle to quell the chaos."
"Your Highness, how can it be a child's play if there are no swords and guns on the battlefield?" Zhang Mingyang couldn't help but get annoyed.
"Zhang Qing, I am not the emperor of peace, and I will not be able to enjoy peace in the future. I want to supervise the country immediately, and fight for peace with swords and guns. So from now on, stop grinding, check the equipment quickly, and set off.
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Mattim from the Shenji Battalion looked calm. Although he was now Lu Jianguo's guerrilla general, he still positioned himself as a mercenary leader. His Highness Lu Jianguo gave him a generous commission and also gave him several bonuses.
I received the reward for the first time, and my brothers were very satisfied.
So let alone Lu Jianguo going to fight in the middle of the night, they are also willing to go to Daoshan.
What's more, for these mercenaries, they are eager to fight, because fighting not only reflects value, but also creates extra income.
"What are you afraid of? Two battalions of men and horses are protecting you. Do you dare not even leave the defeated army? In this case, there will be no talk of going straight to Huanglong in the future?"
Zhu Yihai, who had packed up, carried two hand guns, a sword and a bow, and a bird gun.
"Hurry up, General Zhang will finish his work soon, and we won't even be able to get a mouthful of soup."
Zhang Mingzhen wanted to block the door to prevent Jian Guo from going out, but he stood there and hesitated for a while, and finally did not block the door. When Jian Guo walked out, he followed him involuntarily.
In fact, deep down, he quite likes this kind of supervising the country, and is even more eager to participate in this battle to quell the chaos.
As he followed Jian Guo out, he defended himself in his mind, saying that he would lead two battalions of soldiers to protect Jian Guo, nothing would happen, nothing would happen.
Aren't emperors like Liu Bang, Liu Xiu, Cao Cao, Li Shimin, Liu Yu, Chen Baxian, Zhao Kuangyin, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Di all experienced battles and conquered the world immediately?
Maybe Taizu will appear, and Ming Dynasty will also give birth to a mighty emperor on horseback?
