Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 365 Military Conference
"The rebels are heading towards Shahe?"

In Tanxiang Temple, Yang Menglong had a strange expression after listening to Xu Gong's report.

Xu Gong said: "Yes! I saw with my own eyes that at least [-] rebels broke out from the Laizhou city and came to kill here!"

Yang Menglong said: "These rebels are too crazy. Do they think they can defeat the imperial court's 2 troops with just [-] troops?"

Qi Hu drank the milk soup and said slowly: "Since the rebel army has never been defeated, they have begun to be arrogant... In fact, their arrogance is not unreasonable. The Guanning Army only came with more than 1000 people. Tianxiong The army only came with a thousand musketeers, and the rest of the armies are not strong. If there is no accident, the 4 army is enough to defeat the imperial court's [-] horses."

Xue Siming sneered: "Unfortunately, they missed us."

Yang Menglong chuckled: "Isn't this great? What I fear most is not that the entire rebel army will overwhelm them, but that they will retreat to Dengzhou City to be turtles. Now that they have poked their heads out, what else can we do?" ? Wouldn’t it be a pity for them not to chop it off?”

The generals of the Heluo New Army all laughed.The Heluo New Army, who had defeated the main force of Xianghong Banner head-on, shot Yue Tuo, and stabbed Huang Taiji's horse to death, really couldn't think of any reason for him to be afraid of a group of mobs.

Wu Sheng was a little worried: "The rebel army is aggressive, I'm afraid the comers are not good! General Yang, we should report to Lord Supervisor immediately, so that he can make a decision early!"

Yang Menglong said: "What decision can he make? He..."

Just as he was about to complain about Gao Qiqian, the guard walked in and reported: "Two generals, the military envoy of Lord Supervisor is here!"

Yang Menglong froze for a moment: "Why did he send a military envoy? Please come in!"

Soon, a military envoy in luxurious clothes and wearing a long sword walked in quickly, squinted at Yang Menglong and Wu Sheng, and asked, "You two are General Yang and General Wu, right?"

Yang Menglong and Wu Sheng responded in unison: "Exactly!"

The military envoy said: "Come with me. The military supervisor is going to gather generals to discuss the military situation. Come with me."

Yang Menglong and Wu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, thank God, the dead eunuch finally remembered that he was here to fight, not to provide for the elderly!Yang Menglong thought he was dead after not seeing him move for several days!The two were so excited that they couldn't say a word. They each brought a dozen personal guards and followed the envoys to the camp of the Chinese army.

When he came to the camp of the Chinese Army, Yang Menglong discovered that there was a fiery red battle flag, um, it was the battle flag of the Tianxiong Army.The well-equipped cavalry of the Guanning Army with proud expressions stood around and guarded the tent of the Chinese army. Yang Menglong curled his lips, my good guy, this is really good enough, and he actually regarded the most elite cavalry in the empire as his own bodyguards!

Wu Sheng looked at the strong horses of the Guanning cavalry, and the extremely sophisticated equipment, and almost drooled. He thought to himself, how good would it be if these equipments were given to me?Even half is fine!

Yang Menglong pushed him in.

In the tent of the Chinese army, the armor was shining, and the stars were gathered. A dead eunuch with a thin face and a beardless face was sitting at the head. his side.Beside the dead eunuch, there is also a young general with handsome features and handsome appearance waiting on him, with an affectionate demeanor, Yang Menglong thought maliciously that you guys are trying to mess with each other, right?It's a pity that one of them doesn't have the hardware at home, and he can't do it if he wants to.To his disappointment, none of the ancestral generals Zu Dabi, Zu Dale, Zu Kuan, whom he wanted to see the most, who had friendship with him, did not come, and they were still licking their wounds in Jinzhou. There was a thunderous sound.Lei Shisheng was specially in charge of the musketeers, that is to say, the Tianxiong Army only sent some musketeers, and none of the most powerful gangster battalion came.Yang Menglong shrugged dissatisfied and dimmed the star, which is not a good omen.

Lei Shisheng cast a friendly smile at Yang Menglong.Yang Menglong grinned at him, then knelt down on one knee at the dead eunuch with his chin down, and called, "Little General Yang Menglong, please see Mr. Superintendent, Mr. Governor!" At any rate, he also knew that the dead eunuch was Gao Qiqian, and that bookish civil servant was Zhu Dadian, the new governor of Shandong.

Wu Sheng also knelt down on one knee and saluted: "Last general Wu Sheng, please refer to the military supervisor, please refer to the governor!"

Gao Qiqian only focused on drinking tea and did not open his eyes to see these two people.

Zhu Dadian coughed softly, looked at Yang Menglong, and asked with a hint of a smile: "You shot and wounded Yue Tuo, the banner owner with a red flag on the Daling River battlefield, and stabbed to death the horse of the slave chief Hongtai, and you were honored by Your Majesty." Heluo town general Yang Menglong who is the contemporary champion Hou?"

Yang Menglong said seriously: "To tell you what the governor is saying, it was indeed me who stabbed the slave chief's horse to death, but it was not me who shot Yue Tuo, but one of my sharpshooters."

Zhu Dadian laughed out loud: "General Yang is really an honest man. Your Majesty has very high expectations for General Yang when he transferred the new Heluo army to Jiaodong. I hope that the general will continue to work hard and fight the enemy bravely. Don't let Your Majesty down!" "

Yang Menglong said: "This is nature!"

Zhu Dadian said to Wu Sheng again: "General Wu's ancestors were all generals of Qi's army, and he can be called a general. This time he led [-] Zhejiang troops all the way from Zhejiang to Jiaodong. It's hard work!"

Wu Sheng said: "These are my duties as warriors..."

Yang Menglong interrupted: "It's unnecessary to say that it's hard work. Giving food and grass to the Zhejiang army to keep them full is better than anything else."

Zhu Dadian was stunned: "How do you say that? Isn't food and grass distributed every day?"

Yang Menglong spread his arms and said, "It's true that grain and grass are distributed every day. The problem is that our Heluo New Army and Zhejiang Army haven't received a grain of grain or a bundle of fodder for five days. Fortunately, we brought dozens of carts with us." The food is here, otherwise there would have been a mutiny!"

Zhu Dadian was furious, and glared at the quartermaster: "What's going on?"

The quartermaster was calm and composed: "Returning to my lord, the subordinate officials distributed food and grass on time every day, but for several days in a row, I didn't see the Heluo New Army and the Zhejiang Army coming to collect it. Maybe it was because they brought enough food and grass. Would you like to eat the rough food we hand out?"

Zhu Dadian shouted: "Absurd, absurd! Are you really an old man who is blind? I think you are in charge of the military supplies of tens of thousands of troops. You work day and night. You don't even open your eyes and close your eyes. I didn't expect you to dare to let go Greedy for the food and grass of tens of thousands of troops, it is simply insane! Someone, take him down!"

At this time, Gao Qiqian finally put down his teacup, and said lazily: "Master Zhu, now that the battle is imminent, it is not appropriate for you to take down the person in charge of the army's supplies? If you take him down, who will come?" Prepare food and military supplies for the army?"

Zhu Dadian's chest heaved up and down: "But this son..."

Gao Qiqian said: "Because the battle is imminent, let him make it a crime!"

The quartermaster bowed his hands to Gao Qiqian, and said: "Thank you for not killing the supervisor, I will definitely do my best to prepare the military supplies for the army, and ensure that the military supplies are not exhausted, so as to make up for my mistakes!"

Yang Menglong sneered, and said in his heart: "I'm afraid it's corruption with all my heart and soul?" The quartermaster glanced at him intentionally or unintentionally, and the provocation couldn't be more obvious: I just embezzled your share of food and grass, and you can take me? How about it?Yang Menglong stared back provocatively: Don't be complacent, I have ten thousand ways to deal with you!
Everyone could only smile wryly.This bastard is really a suing king. He sued the minister of the Ministry of War at the military parade ceremony last year. Now the first thing he does when he comes to the Chinese military account is to sue the quartermaster. Sue, but also remind everyone: don't mess with this kid casually, he is not the one who swallows his anger!
The lawsuit came to an end, the generals took their seats, and Yang Menglong and Wu Sheng, the two hard-working young participants, were squeezed to the back.Then, a two-meter-long map was spread out and placed in front of the generals. It covered the geography of mountains, rivers, rivers, villages and towns in the Denglai area in detail.Gao Qiqian said: "The Denglai rebellion lasted for nearly a year. Denglai's life was devastated, and the people were in dire straits. Every time I think about it, the Holy One is very worried..."

Yang Menglong said in his heart: "You idiots didn't do this! Zhang Keda fucked Kong Youde out of shit last year, and those stupid civil servants insisted on appeasement, but the result was good, and the rebels were sent into Dengzhou City It's gone!" However, I'm afraid he is the only one who dares to think this way, and the others don't dare to do so. They all looked ashamed, and even burst into tears, expressing their loyalty in remorse, almost crying bitterly.Yang Menglong was extremely impressed by his superb acting skills!Pulling any of them to modern times can throw those Hollywood film stars out of the seventeenth street!Looking at Lei Shisheng again, the expression of this fierce general in the Tianxiong Army's Trident can only be described as horrible, although he didn't vomit, but it was almost the same.As if sensing Yang Menglong's gaze, Lei Shisheng also looked at him, his eyes met with wry smiles.

Those guys confessed with tears and snot in their noses, dug deep into the root of their thoughts, harshly criticized private words at the thought, and performed with all kinds of emotions on their faces, which was breathtaking.Finally, after they performed, they finally got to the point. After all, the dead eunuch called everyone here to fight, not to act.If they can't smash the siege of Laizhou City by the rebels as soon as possible and regain Dengzhou, no matter how well they perform, Zhu Youjian will still twist their heads off and use them as chamber pots.Everyone began to talk about the military situation and discuss countermeasures.The rebels recruited a large number of Shandong Liao soldiers, bought bandits and bandits, and captured a large number of Ming soldiers. In addition, nearly 6 officers and soldiers from Dongjiang Town crossed the sea to join their rebellious cause. The more than 6000 people who rebelled in Wuqiao snowballed to 8000 to 2 horses, and there were no less than [-] soldiers capable of fighting (some say [-], but this number is very problematic, because the rebels lost a half in the battle of Shahe alone. More than [-] people, when the Ming army regained Pingdu, Huangxian, Laiyang and more than a dozen counties and counties, they also encountered relatively tenacious resistance. The most important thing was that they fought for three full months when they besieged Dengzhou. Finally, the rebels Another [-] people fled across the sea by boat. If there were only [-] rebels, then those who guarded Dengzhou and fled to Liaodong after the surrender could only be ghosts), the main force was the [-] led by Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng The cavalry army is storming Laizhou City. There are also thousands to hundreds of rebels stationed in Pingdu, Huangxian, Laiyang and other counties. In addition, there are also tens of thousands of rebels and a large number of rebel families in Dengzhou. It can be seen that the rebels are still quite strong. The [-] Ming army will not have an advantage against the [-] to [-] rebels.Of course, the rebel army still has a great advantage, that is, Li Jiuzheng, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others who commanded them are all experienced warriors, while Gao Qiqian, Zhu Dadian and others commanded the Ming army. How many people in the army do not know the scum.No, the so-called discussion of the military situation is that the dead eunuch and a group of civil servants are spouting at the map, citing scriptures, cadences, while Lei Shisheng, Wu Xiang and other generals who have really struggled on the battlefield are just talking about it. While echoing the voice, generals like Liu Zeqing, Deng Ke, Wu Sheng and other generals simply entered Cao Ying with Xu Shu——not saying a word, it's not that they didn't want to talk, it's just that they didn't have a place to talk here at all.

————A group of civil servants who know nothing about the military make up the battle plan, and those who go to the front line to kill are generals who have no right to speak in the military meeting. Generals are greedy for life and afraid of death, and their execution is weak. This is the situation faced by the Ming army in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.Of course, civil servants are not incapable of fighting. Wang Yangming, for example, is invincible, so that the last time in his life when he led troops to suppress the rebellion, the rebels pissed when they heard that he was leading the troops and surrendered decisively.But there are too few evildoers who are all-rounders in civil and military affairs. Fighting scum like Yang Gao is the mainstream.

Yang Menglong wanted to speak a few times, but was forced back by the sharp gaze. He was so depressed that he could only continue to sit there and listen to nonsense, the more he listened, the heavier his eyelids became, the more he listened, the heavier his eyelids...

(End of this chapter)