Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Zhang Weixian was really in trouble and couldn't express it!
There were 151,452 original horse infantry officers and soldiers in Xuanfu Town! But in fact there are not that many. According to the inventory of honest officials in the Ministry of War who can't count on their fingers, there are actually 83,000 officers and soldiers, and 32,000 war horses... And Hou Shilu's Zhenbiao Third Battalion and How many servants can there be? Thirteen thousand is a lot, right? The remaining 70,000 yuan was given to Zhang Weixian, but he still couldn't defend the small town of Changping?
But the question is, can there really be an army of 70,000 horse and infantry officers? Dream on! If the Xuanfu soldiers really had this number, even if they were old, weak and disabled soldiers, Huang Taiji would not dare to enter!
The actual number, according to Zhang Weixian's estimate, of the entire Xuan Mansion's cavalry officers and soldiers, is 30,000, which is considered too much. This time, Hou Shilu gave him at most 20,000 for the weak and old... But Zhang Weixian didn't dare to point it out!
The number of troops in the Xuanfu was determined by the Ministry of War. Zhang Weixian dares to say that there is no such thing?
He dares to say no. If Hou Shilu is not anxious, the Ministry of War must be anxious! By then, the number of soldiers in the Beijing camp will still be 120,000? If you look carefully, 20,000 people would be pretty good. If the pay of 100,000 soldiers in the Beijing camp is cut off in a year, Zhang Weixian will not become a public enemy? When the time comes to arrest Jin Yiwei for anti-corruption, there won’t even be anyone to rescue him, so he will definitely die inside!
Zhu Youjian saw Zhang Weixian sweating on his forehead, smiled and comforted him: "Mr. British, don't worry about whether the slaves will come to Changping... If they don't come, it's all your fault!
If they come, you don't have to worry anymore... There are 30,000 soldiers in Changping Town, and the Xuanfu will send another 70,000 soldiers southward. There are a total of 100,000 soldiers. Can they still hold it? Moreover, I am still guarding the imperial mausoleum. I can accept a larger loss! "
The loss was bigger... Zhang Weixian understood immediately that Zhu Youjian, the little emperor who was more treacherous than his treacherous ministers, wanted to settle the debt of the empty soldiers himself!
One hundred thousand troops and seventy thousand are empty! If everything is tied, then there will only be 30,000 troops left... Doesn't the conscience of you, a child emperor, hurt?
Zhu Youjian saw that the master was so anxious that he was almost spinning in circles, and he couldn't help but feel relieved - you have 120,000 troops in the Beijing camp! Not to mention what happened in the Jiashen year, it was already that year when you became official, right? Where were your Beijing soldiers when Huang Taiji called? Have they all retired with you?
An army of 120,000! There are so many Hongyi cannons and Fran cannons, so Huang Taiji should be defeated in a Pingcheng formation battle, right?
The results of it?
He couldn't get out of the city at all, so he had to rely on Yuan Chonghuan to save him!
Yuan Chonghuan deserves to die, and you deserve to die even more! At the time of the change, if the Beijing camp had 60,000 capable soldiers, Huang Taiji would have suffered heavy losses even if he did not die, and there would be no more four entrance battles. Even if there are no 60,000 capable soldiers, if you are less greedy and take advantage of the 60,000 you can eat, the imperial court will save more than one million to two million in salary a year...
Although he hated him to death, Zhu Youjian still couldn't fall out with these nobles. Because he is just the "King of Datong" now and is not yet able to expel the corrupt nobles from Beijing from Beizhili, he can only continue to maintain harmony on the surface.
"Old minister, I understand." Zhang Weixian could only swallow his anger and took over the task of defending Changping. "Old minister, I must strictly guard all areas of Changzhen to prevent the east invaders from disturbing the purity of the late emperors."
Zhu Youjian smiled and nodded, "Okay! Okay! I'm relieved to have a British official sitting in Changping! Okay... That's it for today's court meeting. Qian Hanlin, Chen Banban, Qi Banban , draft the edict! Immediately send it to Beijing after the edict is drafted, and let the cabinet supplement the edict.
Duke of England and Duke of Cheng, I will first issue a decree to you. You can take it and go on your way... I will wait until the cabinet completes the decree before giving you a formal edict. "
Although Zhu Youjian was freed from the control of the cabinet and nobles after leaving Beijing, he was unable to issue imperial edicts to yamen across the country through the cabinet and the Supervisor of Ceremonies as he had done in Beijing in the past.
Because many eunuchs including Bingbi, who was also the chief of ceremonies, came out, but none of the cabinet's bachelors came in Beijing. Therefore, it is more convenient for Zhu Youjian to issue an edict, but it is inconvenient to issue a formal edict.
And his edict did not work everywhere. It certainly worked in Datong Town, which he had reorganized. When he brought the Datong soldiers and Zhangqian soldiers to Xuan Mansion, of course no one would dare to be disobedient. But elsewhere, Zhu Youjian still had to pass the decree through the cabinet, so he had to endure the cabinet's procrastination... and the decline in administrative efficiency that occurred after the separation of the emperor and the cabinet was nothing if left alone in peacetime. Just follow the old rules.
The efficiency of the Ming court and government was just that, and there was no way to improve it without drastic reforms.
And if you want to carry out drastic reforms, you must have enough "broad swords" and "broad axes" in your hands!
And Zhu Youjian's behavior in organizing the army in Datong and Qingtian has exposed his true face - he is a little emperor who is more treacherous than his treacherous ministers!
Therefore, Zhu Youjian no longer dares to return to the city of Beijing, which is still controlled by nobles and courtiers... And if he, the great leader of the Ming Dynasty in the 95th year of the Ming Dynasty, does not return to Beijing, he will not be able to unified command of the Gyeonggi area. After the Ming army resisted, the Jin army fell.
Therefore, during the Wuchen Incident that occurred in the first year of Chongzhen, the Ming army in the Gyeonggi region of the Ming Dynasty was divided into three independent groups, plus some independent strongholds.
Three of the clusters are the Xuanda cluster controlled by Zhu Youjian personally, the Jingchang (Beijing, Changping) cluster controlled by the Beijing court and nobles, and the Jiliao cluster controlled by Wang Zhichen, Yuan Chonghuan, and Zhao Lijiao.
The independent strongholds are Zunhua, Yutian, Jizhou, Shunyi, Pinggu, Tongzhou, and a newly built Nanhaizi fortress - this fortress is Zhu Youjian's planned base camp in Beijing and is in Nanhaizi. It was expanded on the basis of the main camp. In fact, the bastion walls, hollow bastions, and triangular bastions were built around the Nanhaizi camp. They were not cheap things piled up with sandbags, but made of rammed earth wrapped in boulders and bricks. Cannon forts and Fran cannons were also built on the hollow bastion and triangular fort, which can be said to be extremely strong. Moreover, the internal area of the bastion is not small, enough for the family members of the knights and the soldiers of the third battalion of the Yumajian who are staying around Beijing to hide in... If the Hou Jin army can really pass through and kill the generals, they will be killed. If you are under the city of Beijing, the Nanhaizi Bastion will be of great use.
Of course, it was not easy for the Hou Jin Army to reach the gates of Beijing. They were all tough along the way!
The first hard nut they wanted to gnaw on was the new Jinshi in the first year of Chongzhen, Zunhua County Magistrate Shi Kefa, who insisted on guarding Zunhua County.
Shi Kefa officially took office on the first day of April in the first year of Chongzhen, and it has only been more than four months since then. Although it didn't last long, the work of the Shida County Magistrate was still very effective.
First, the moat outside Zunhua County was widened.
The current Zunhua County town was built when Qi Jiguang was in charge of Ji Town. The city wall is three feet thick, three feet six feet high, and 1,351 feet long. The inside and outside of the city wall are all made of blue bricks. There is also a moat three feet wide and two feet deep around the city. In addition, an additional urn was built outside the four gates of Zunhua City, which can be said to be impregnable!
After Shi Kefa arrived, he saw that the city was very strong and there was nothing to be improved, so he doubled the width of the moat that protected the city, making it seven feet wide and two feet deep.
From a distance of seven to eight feet, if you use a bow and arrow to shoot from the bottom up to a city head that is three to six feet high, the power of the arrowhead will be greatly reduced.
Secondly, Shi Kefa, who is familiar with history books, also unearthed a somewhat outdated weapon from the "History of the Song Dynasty" - the bed crossbow!
Zhu Youjian did not issue any large firearms to Shi Kefa because he was worried that Zunhua County would be breached. So Shi Kefa had no choice but to think of a way on his own. He didn't have the skills to cast cannons, so he had to find another way and build many crossbows.
Furthermore, Shi Kefa also used the generals and veterans from the Third Battalion of the Yumajian assigned to him by Zhu Youjian as the backbone, recruited strong men in Zunhua, and formed a regiment to train the army. Although the number was only 3,000, they were all strong. , and everyone works hard, and they can be called elites.
However, on the tenth day of August in the first year of Chongzhen, the entire Zunhua County was still peaceful and peaceful. No one would have expected that a bloody battle was about to start around Zunhua County!
