Chongzhen Undergraduates

"Small boy, why are you talking to Lord Li?" Gao Yigong hurriedly smoothed things over, he didn't want Li Laiheng to offend the Tiandihui.

"Master Li, don't mind, this kid is spoiled." Gao Yigong hurriedly asked Li Ming to take a seat.Li Ming's big butt was crowded in the middle of a chair, and the flesh was squeezed to the edge of the chair.

"There's nothing to worry about." Li Ming said with a smile: "The emperor has personally explained that if I fail to handle the errands and delay Li Junchang's important affairs, I will have to smoke the fat on my body. How dare I neglect it? I won't be rushing all night coming."

Li Ming played it lightly, revealing in his words that he knew and was very familiar with the emperor, which made Li Laiheng sit up straight quickly.Just kidding, it is true that the emperor likes Li Laiheng, but Li Laiheng is not the only confidant of the emperor.

"Excuse me, Master Li, where is this food?" Li Laiheng asked in a different tone.

"Wutai Mountain." Li Ming pointed in the direction of Wutai Mountain with his fat fingers.

Li Laiheng was still a little puzzled: Can there be food in Wutai Mountain? Gao Yigong immediately understood, and he gave Li Ming a thumbs up: "Master Li is tall."

It is self-evident to talk about who was the biggest landlord in ancient times. For some reasons, I will not discuss it here, and you can make up your own mind.Anyway, the Ming army easily added ten days of military rations in Dai County, and then headed towards Yunzhou.

Three years ago, Jiang Xiang surrendered and rebelled against Wu Sangui.In the following year, Dorgon personally supervised the battle and besieged the city for more than nine months. After the city was broken, the Qing army carried out the most brutal massacre of Datong. Except for 23 members including Yang Zhenwei who sacrificed Jiang Xiang's head and his family members, all other officials The soldiers and civilians slaughtered and demolished the Datong city wall by five feet.

Since then, Datong has become a deserted city. Datong was abolished, no officials were established, and the government was moved to Yanghewei, named Yanghefu.

"No wonder you don't see any common people as soon as you leave Yanmen Gate. They were all slaughtered by Tartars!" Riding on his horse, Li Laiheng looked at the dilapidated houses on the side of the road and the beggar-like people in ragged clothes. Panic.

Compared with Jiangnan, it looks like two civilizations here.Now in Jiangnan, people are discussing how much oil they can eat in a year to raise a fat pig.

And here, it's the end of March, and the pots of the common people are full of wild vegetable leaves, elm money, and some people are even eating tree bark.

"Suiwazi, do you still have your thousand catties of sweet potatoes?" Gao Yigong asked.

"The horses are all fed." Li Laiheng said.

"Take out some of our black bean cakes and distribute them to the people here." Gao Yigong said.

"But that thing is for feeding animals?" Li Laiheng said.War horses need to be fed with concentrate, otherwise they will lose fat.Therefore, there are a lot of bean cakes in the grain and grass carried by the first cavalry army, which are specially used to feed horses.

"Don't use bean cakes as food." Gao Yigong scolded: "Look at what these people eat, can it be called food?"

"Humans are not as good as animals!" Li Ming sighed while sitting in a cart. He couldn't ride a horse at all, and no horse could carry it.

"Fatty, if you skip a meal, the five households here will not be hungry." Li Laiheng and Li Ming also got to know each other well, jokingly said.

"Brother, there is nothing wrong with what you said. I plan to wait for the days to be peaceful, and ask the emperor to transfer me to Yunzhou area. This way I can lose weight. The emperor said before that as long as I can lose weight, I can live at least ten years longer." Li Ming said .

"Fatty, is there any way to make some more food?" Li Laiheng asked.

"This...is too difficult." Li Ming frowned.

"There is no food, and horse feed is fine." Li Laiheng looked at the fat man eagerly.

"Yes, but I'm afraid of delaying the military situation. If you act fast enough, you may be able to get some horses..." Li Ming said in a low voice.

"Where is it?" Li Laiheng immediately regained his spirits when he heard that, if he could still get the horse, he would be able to take Gao Yigong with him.

"Chahar, Lin Dan Khan's old department." Li Ming said seriously.

E Zhe is the son of Lin Dan. Lin Dan Khan himself has been at odds with Hou Jin. After being defeated by Huangtaiji, his son E Zhe surrendered and Jin was placed in Yizhou, Liaodong.After that, Ezhe's son Boermin rebelled, and finally weaved into the Eight Banners and returned to Chahar.

The area after the westward movement of the Eight Banners of Chahar is generally in the adjacent areas of Zhangjiakou, Wumeng and Ximeng.Located in the area of ​​the four banners on the west wing in the central and eastern part of today's Wumeng, from north to south are Chahar Zhenghuang Banner, Chahar Zhenghong Banner, Chahar Xianghong Banner, and Chahar Xianglan Banner.

"Mengqi?" Li Laiheng was a little frustrated. He was not afraid that he would not be able to beat him, but that he was afraid that the opponent would run away if he was beaten.

"Although it is Mengqi, the emperor sent people to contact him last year. Now that Dorgon is dead, Houjin has no one left, and we are going to deal with their enemy Horqin. As long as the army pulls over to prove it In terms of combat power, Boermin is a sensible person." Li Ming added.

"So you Tiandihui people have figured out the situation?" Li Laiheng asked.

"It's been seven years since I returned to Shanxi, and it's not just that I've grown a body." Li Ming grinned.

"And married Aunt Sifang?" Li Laiheng laughed.

"It was a marriage bestowed by the emperor himself." Li Ming looked proud.

Chapter 5 Seventeen: The opponent's indiscriminate methods

The name Tianjin appeared in the early years of Yongle.As a military center, Tianjin was officially established in the second year of Yongle (1404), followed by Tianjin Zuowei in the following year, and Tianjin Youwei in the following year.

With the increase of population, the development of commerce, numerous affairs, and the occurrence of lawsuit disputes, the garrison could no longer manage this commercial city with mixed military and civilian populations. Tianjin director.

It was Hong Chengchou's expectation that the Ming army went to Tianjin in the Northern Expedition, or it shows that the military operations of the army have been calculated step by step by Hong Chengchou so far, and there is no more accident than him.

Even Hong Chengchou was secretly pleased when he saw the Ming army approaching Tianjin step by step.

When Liu Tichun and Yuan Zongdi's army arrived in Cangzhou, they found that it was an empty city, not to mention the defenders, not even the people.

"Old Liu, shall we march steadily or quickly?" As a subsidiary of this army, Yuan Zongdi had to obey Liu Tichun's order, which was Zhu Youjian's order.Just like Gao Yigong obeying Li Laiheng in the direction of Yunzhou, an army must have a leader.

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, we won't get any supplies after leaving Dezhou. The road looks not far away, but no one knows what's ahead. Look, Cangzhou can't even see a person. It's very strange. !” Liu Tichun sighed.

"What could be wrong? It's nothing more than the fact that Hong Chengchou's tricks in the First World War in Texas were reported to my subordinates to be broken. These traitors dare not play any more indiscriminate methods, so they can only run for their lives." Yuan Zongdi said to his subordinates, "fire I am very proud of the record of taking millet from the middle.

"It's not that simple. If Hong Chengchou can be defeated so easily, you and I can lead the troops to recover the capital." Liu Tichun said.

"Your suggestion is good, or we can go directly to Bazhou and then directly to the capital." Yuan Zongdi said.

"If I really listened to what you said, I would probably be surrounded by the enemy without going to Bazhou, believe it or not?" Liu Tichun said.

"Report: The vanguard troops are blocked by the enemy."

Before the two of them finished talking, the enemy situation appeared, which was always just right.

"What happened?" Liu Tichun didn't dare to be careless. At any rate, tens of thousands of lives were in his hands, so he had to be cautious.

"The military information sent from the front said that a battalion encountered the enemy's main force in Qing County, and it was a large army of nearly 20 people." Liu Tichun frowned, lost in thought.

"Nonsense, the entire Houjin can now gather 30 young men who can serve as soldiers. There are big cities everywhere around here. Hong Chengchou is crazy to send 20 people to block our way. Does he not want the capital? "Yuan Zongdi insisted on his own views.

"It's useless for us to talk more, let's go and have a look together." Liu Tichun tidied up his attire, took the spurs and left.

A day later, half of the Ming army's division had pressed up.There was no need to wait to be on the front line in person, all the "leaders" from each unit crowded in front of Liu Tichun and kept arguing.

"These bastards tie the people together and take them to the trenches. Our artillery can't fire, and the infantry can only be beaten when they go up. How can we fight such a battle?"

"That's right, it was hard to attack. The enemy was hiding among the common people, and they suddenly stabbed them. My battalion has already killed more than a dozen people in this way. It's really unjust."

"The key is that most of them are ordinary people. There are eight-month-old babies and old ladies in their 80s. We have to take care of food and drink after being rescued. We fought in the camp for a day, and when we came back, we saw that all the food was given to these people. If you eat it, the Huotou army can’t even cook.”

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Complaints are full, and a tent is full of complaints. After all, the Ming army does not adapt to the current combat habits.If a few years ago, the army would not have taken into account the life and death of ordinary people, and it would have been a very good officer and soldier not to kill the good and pretend to be meritorious.

"How many people have you rescued?" Liu Tichun asked.