It was almost evening, and the sleet and snow that had been pattering all day suddenly became heavier. The pedestrians on the street were walking in a hurry, and a large number of refugees who poured into the capital sought shelter from the rain on the verandahs and street corners. Their faces were full of sadness, sorrow, and helplessness. …
Chang Yu stood on the street and watched this scene quietly. Dozens of personal guards followed him from a distance. No one dared to move forward to disturb him. It took a long time until dusk fell before leaving.
The Ten Princes' Palace was located in the Wangfujing Street area in later generations, covering a large area. It was built during the reign of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty. It was specially used for those princes who were too old to live in the palace but had not yet left their fiefdoms. Later, it was mostly used as a princess palace, but Chongzhen had a young son and was very young. These ten princely palaces were mostly idle since childhood, and because they were forbidden areas for the royal family and the people stopped to visit them, they were always desolate.
Years of war have caused a large number of refugees to flood into the capital, looking for a place to stay. Although the Ten Princes' Mansion is a royal forbidden area, it is poorly managed. Many refugees have set up tents and settled here. Recently, due to the Qing troops entering the city, more refugees have entered the city. , many people find it here.
But in the evening, a large number of officers and soldiers suddenly arrived. Anyone who had seen the world could tell that these were no ordinary officers and soldiers, but the emperor's personal guards. They were frightened and thought they were arresting refugees who had strayed into the royal forbidden area. Jump and run away.
Unexpectedly, these personal guards didn't care about them at all. More and more people came from all directions, and in the blink of an eye, there were tens of thousands of people, which attracted the refugees running around to stop and watch from a distance, wondering why these personal guards were here.
Training camp!
Chang Yu was ordered to supervise all the people in the capital and mobilized more than 10,000 elites from the Beijing camp and the personal guards to prepare for the Qing army. However, these so-called elites who had not been on the battlefield for a long time were just generals from among the dwarfs, relatively speaking. They are bigger and bigger, but Ruo Luan's combat power cannot be compared with soldiers like Zhou Yuji and Huang Degong who have been fighting on the front line all year round. Even the second- and third-rate Liu Zeqing and his outstanding men can beat them to the point of not wanting them, let alone the opponent. The invincible Qing cavalry in the field.
Especially the emperor's personal guards, which sound famous and majestic, but in fact have nothing to do every day except patrolling. To put it bluntly, they are the security guards who look after homes and courtyards. Their combat effectiveness may not be as good as the private soldiers of some wealthy families. Take this kind of melon out and train it step by step for a while. It's okay to defeat the rebel army. If you defeat the Qing army, you will lose your life!
But there is a kind of helplessness called going to Hushan Mountain knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, and knowing that giving a person's head has to be done with both hands. Although Chang Yu was unwilling to do so, he had no choice. Once the Qing army left Miyun and headed south, they would let their horses plunder everywhere, trying to chase the capital. He may not be able to catch up. The small one said that the capital area would suffer, while the big one said that it had harmed several provinces just like the previous times. He had to control the losses to the minimum, so he could only send people to fill the hole!
Sharpening the sword before the battle is not quick and easy, these rookies need to master some of the most basic battlefield rules, such as drill formations, passwords, gestures, and tactical applications. More importantly, let them enter the combat state as quickly as possible.
As for the instructors, all the soldiers from the four battalions under Chang Yu are qualified for the job. Although Gong Ziying is also a rookie, he has followed Chang Yu in the north and south for several months and has gone through countless mountains of corpses and seas of blood. The combat strength of the personal soldiers has always been the first among the four battalions. It goes without saying that the other two battalions are from professional troops.
However, the four battalions under his command have not yet returned to the city. Among the commanders of the battalions, only Wuzhong is with Chang Yu, but he is half-assed. Fortunately, there are four groups of soldiers from Fengyun, Leiden and Fengyun beside Chang Yu. These troops are selected from tens of thousands of troops. Elites, all capable and skilled battlefield veterans, were appointed as instructors by Chang Yu at this time, training these elite soldiers drawn from the personal guards in the rain in this remote forbidden area of the Ten Princes' Mansion.
Chang Yu's request to the instructors was simple: let them experience the cruelty of the battlefield in advance.
The sound of wind and rain and shouts resounded through the rainy night. Chang Yu stood expressionlessly under the eaves of a broken corridor, watching the guards who were training in the rain not far away crawling and rolling in the rain and mud, and then glanced nearby to secretly watch the excitement. The refugees said calmly: "It is for them to die and to live for them."
"It's hard to say who will die and who will live. We can beat him to pieces outside the customs, and if he asks for help at the door, he will die." Wuzhong didn't understand what Chang Yu was talking about at all, and said with a vicious look on his face.
Chang Yu smiled and said nothing. Li Muxian, who was standing next to him, came over and said, "In the opinion of the governor, how long can these raw melon and eggs hold back?"
"Judging from the immortal's eyesight," Chang Yu asked him, Li Muchian gritted his teeth and frowned: "I don't know how powerful Tang Tong and Ma Ke's troops are, but based on the personal guards in front of me, I'm afraid..."
"Destroyed in one strike." Chang Yu said for him, and Li Muchian nodded slightly: "Actually, the governor's worry is not the lack of troops, but the shortage of horses. If there are enough cavalry, even if they can't stop him, they can at least delay him. They arrived."
Chang Yu's eyes showed admiration: "Fang Fang, do you know why I kept you here in the first place?"
Li Muxian looked slightly interested: "The Governor is interested in Pindao's ability to deceive and deceive."
Chang Yu laughed loudly: "You need to use your brain to deceive and kidnap. Only people with bright brains can deceive others. Otherwise, people with pig brains will only be deceived." He glanced at Wuzhong.
Wuzhong looked confused: "What are you looking at?" He felt something was wrong as soon as he said the words. Before Chang Yu could say "What are you looking at?" he hurried away. If he took a step slower, he would be kicked.
The Four Jinwu Guards and the Four Tengxiang Guards were the most elite among the emperor's twenty-six personal guards. There was not much moisture in them, so they were not as rotten as the other personal guards.
During the Taiyuan War, Emperor Chongzhen was deeply afraid that if Taiyuan failed to maintain its rule, the Ming Dynasty would be destroyed due to the prince's "immortal entrustment". When the rebels besieged the city, he sent the Jinwu Four Guards, one of the elite personal guards, there. In order not to waste the opportunity to increase combat effectiveness, Half the city's war horses were used to build a force of nearly ten thousand cavalry to rush thousands of miles to support.
A month ago, the bandits marched all the way north and approached the capital. Shi Kefa was ordered to go south to suppress the bandits. The imperial court was well aware of the consequences if Baoding fell, so it gritted its teeth and sent another elite force, Tengxiang Siwei, to support them.
The two troops left the capital but did not return. Not only did the capital have no elites to resist the Qing army, but what was terrible was that there were only a few horses left in the city. The cavalry who wanted to fight the Qing army with infantry would undoubtedly be beaten with eggs, not to mention that most of these infantry were raw melons and eggs. Those with scores above 95 have never been on the battlefield.
The lack of war horses is Chang Yu's biggest headache!
More than 10,000 elites drawn from the 16 personal guards were nothing more than vegetables in the eyes of the veterans. At this time, they were ravaged by them under the rain and snow. At the same time, another group of people were ravaged on the wasteland near You'anmen in the southwest corner. A team of troops is also undergoing brutal training.
They are from the Beijing camp.
There are three major camps in the Beijing camp. Shenji camp plays with firearms. It was previously taken away by Chang Yu. It went to fight the Tatars outside the pass and then went south to suppress the bandits. It is currently on its way back. The remaining five military camps are divided into the central army, left and right, and left and right. The five sentry troops are the main battle troops of the Beijing camp.
There are also three thousand battalions. Three thousand is an imaginary number. It is far more than three thousand. All soldiers are responsible for patrolling. These three battalions are generally used to defend the city and not go out of the capital to fight. Unless the emperor personally recruits them, they are responsible for protecting the main camp. Shenji Battalion is responsible for protecting the main camp. On the periphery, there are three thousand battalions in the center and five military camps inside.
Each of the three major camps has an admiral and ministerial commander, that is, the second-in-command is a eunuch, and the first-in-command is the governor of the Beijing camp, who is now Wang Jiayan.
