Directly north to Yongping Prefecture, Fucheng.
Carriages loaded with grain and grass creaked past the North-South Street, followed by a group of Yongping soldiers wearing red mandarin duck jackets.
Most of these soldiers were local soldiers recruited from the nine counties and one prefecture under Yongping Prefecture. Among them were some local braves and temporarily captured strong men.
Three days ago, they were urgently recruited to Fucheng. Together with fifty carts filled with grain and grass, they set off westward overnight, heading to the starting point of the Western Expedition - the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
They will rest for a while outside the capital city, and then go to Shaanxi as reinforcements to put down the rebellion.
There are about two thousand people in this army. Except for the general soldier and the fifty servants beside him, the other soldiers are all wearing shabby armor, some even have no armor. The weapons in their hands are also various and of different lengths. No one is wearing a fire gun. There are also very few bows and arrows.
Three days after they set off from Yongping Mansion, they finally arrived at Fengrun. They stopped and stopped along the way and occasionally robbed remote villages. It was estimated that it would take some time to reach the capital.
Under the flag of the commander-in-chief who is 17 feet tall, Zhang Chun, the commander-in-chief of Yongping, looked forward solemnly.
Several servants escorted an old man who looked like a master to his mount.
"I am a civil servant, and my articles are better than those of Jinshi. I don't need any staff, so get out!"
Zhang Chun was about to send this man away when he suddenly felt that the old man looked familiar and waved his servant away.
The master was carried all the way by his servant, panting from exhaustion. When the servant was far away, he said to Zhang Chun:
"General Zhang is such a powerful official, but he doesn't even recognize me. He recognizes me."
Zhang Chun sat on his horse and looked at the old man carefully. In the distance were soldiers passing by the roadside.
He suddenly slapped his thigh, quickly turned over and dismounted, and hugged the master.
"Xue Laosan! Why did you come back?"
The master surnamed Xue quickly motioned to Zhang Chun to keep his voice low.
"General Zhang, Mr. Wu asked me to bring you a message. He and the young master are doing well in Jiangyou's hometown, so you can rest assured."
Zhang Chun glanced at his mouth.
"I didn't say hello when I left. I thought he was also killed by Liu Zhaosun. He went to Shandong and did so many great things. He almost killed me!"
This General Zhang was Zhang Chun who rescued Zu Dashou in the Battle of Daling River in history.
He was elected in the 28th year of Wanli. In the original history, in the second year of Tianqi, the east and west of Liao were lost. The imperial court was in urgent need of border talents, so Zhang Chun was promoted to serve as a minister in Shandong, and the Yongping and Yanjian routes were prepared.
At that time, there were a large number of refugees outside the customs. Zhang Chun's well-planned operation attracted the attention of the emperor. During the Jisi Incident (Note 1), Zhang Chun led his troops to participate in the battle to regain the four cities.
The following year, he took the responsibility of supervising the army's military preparation and led 40,000 soldiers such as Wu Xiang and Song Wei to the western Liaoning to rescue Jinzhou.
As a result, they were defeated and captured. Thirty-three people, including generals Zhang Hongmo and Yang Huazheng, and guerrilla Xue Dahu, were executed.
When others saw Huang Taiji, they all bowed to him, but Zhang Chunzhi did not kneel down alone.
Loyal ministers do not serve the two monarchs, which is the etiquette. If I am greedy for life, you can use me! He was ordered to shave his hair, but he refused and was put under house arrest by Houjin.
Zhang Chun was imprisoned in Sanguan Temple in Shenyang for more than ten years. During his imprisonment, he always "dressed in Hanfu" and "did not shave his head". He adhered to the Ming Dynasty clothes and the integrity of Ming officials.
Finally, he died of hunger strike.
Liu Zhaosun admired this Su Wu-style general in the late Ming Dynasty. Although Zhang Chun was working under Zu Dashou, he did not kill him. He just transferred him to Yongping and continued to be his supervisor of military preparation.
This time when the army entered Shaanxi to quell the rebellion, all the prefectures and counties in the capital had to mobilize men and horses. Yongping Mansion also mobilized fifty infantry and twenty cavalry to rush to the capital to await the dispatch of the Lord Protector.
In the past two days, Zhang Chun was busy dispatching troops to Qin.
He has no loyalty to the protector of the country. Half a year ago, when Li Mingrui, a commoner, and several honorable nobles were in the capital to "eliminate the thieves at Jingnan" and ordered the heroes of the world to eradicate Liu Zhaosun, they had two thousand soldiers and horses and were stationed in Yongping. Zhang Chun did not participate.
It was not because Zhang Jianjun was grateful to the protector of the country for his kindness.
Zhang Chun had seen the combat power of the Kaiyuan Army in Jinzhou, western Liaoning, and knew the true strength of Liu Zhaosun. Therefore, when the Xuanfu, Datong, Yulin and other frontier troops were full of confidence, the emperor was only a hundred miles away from the capital. However, the Yongping soldiers were stationary and watched the fire from the other side.
It was precisely because of Zhang Chun's caution that he avoided retaliation later. Liu Zhaosun had a good impression of this person. This time when he entered the Qin Dynasty to fight, he also gave Zhang Chun a quota of 300 people, in order to let this man Bingbeidao can make great achievements in Shaanxi and go further.
However, Zhang Chun himself did not think so. He had a close relationship with Wu Xiang, and the two had many cooperations in trade and smuggling, so a slave from the Wu family sneaked into Beizhili and sent a message to Zhang Chun to report that he was safe.
"Here is a secret letter written by Mr. Wu. I told you that it cannot be opened until you arrive at Yongping Mansion."
In the big tent, the domestic slave Xue Laosan tremblingly cut off the hem of his robe and pulled out a small note. Because he was well hidden, he was not discovered by the Kaiyuan Army soldiers when he entered Yongping Mansion.
Zhang Chun held the note in one hand, used an iron pick to brighten the heart of the candle, and looked at the note roughly.
He was born in Juren and knew how to read and write. He immediately rerolled the note and burned it in front of the candle.
"Go back and tell Mr. Wu to calm down. At present, there is no victory or defeat between the Kaiyuan Army and the Shaanxi rebels. When the time comes, I will naturally send troops and tell King Gui that there have been many people who want to be the emperor in the past two years, but it is a pity that they are all He died in the hands of Liu Zhaosun. If he didn't have any real ability, he shouldn't be in a hurry to reincarnate."
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In the north of Shenyang City, thirteen-year-old Jiang Liuer looked at the vehicles heading north on the post road and tightened the belt around his waist.
"Captain, the soldiers have all gone to fight in Shaanxi, why should we go north? Wasn't Jiannu defeated?"
A stout soldier captain tidied Jiang Liuer's cotton armor and stuffed two handfuls of urala grass into the armor.
"The Tatars have long been defeated by our Kaiyuan army. Why are we fighting the Tatars? We are going to the north to deal with the Rakshasa ghosts!"
Jiang Liuer has just turned thirteen this year. Four years have passed since the bloody battle of Hunhe River. He has also grown from that thin little boy to a nine-foot-tall, strong boy. All his family members died in the Battle of Hunhe River. At the beginning of the year, when Commander-in-Chief Qi sent people to Shenyang to recruit soldiers, he joined without hesitation. When signing up, he told the recruiter that he was already fifteen years old.
According to Kaiyuan's conscription regulations, those over the age of fifteen can serve as auxiliary soldiers, and those over the age of sixteen can serve as combat soldiers.
So Jiang Liu'er was recruited into the army as an auxiliary soldier. After three months of physical fitness and formation training, he officially became an auxiliary soldier of the First Battalion of the 11th Guards Army.
Note:
1. The Jisi Change: The Jisi Change, also known as the Hou Jin Dynasty’s attack on the capital of the Ming Dynasty,[1] took place from October 1629 (the second year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty and the third year of Tiancong in the Hou Jin Dynasty) to 1630 (the third year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty and the third year of Hou Jin Tiancong). In the first month of the fourth year of Jin Tiancong's reign), during the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty, the Great Khan of the Later Jin Dynasty Huang Taiji led his army to raid Beijing and the Ming army blocked the historical events of the Later Jin Dynasty.
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