The ancient city of Langzhong, surrounded by water on three sides and backed by mountains on the other, is already a camp for begging soldiers.
This important town in northern Sichuan Province is the capital of Baoning Prefecture. Although it is a prefectural city, because it was chosen to build the city at a bend of the Jialing River, the east, west and south sides of the city are all the Jialing River, and there is Panlong Mountain in the north, so the land that can be used to build the city is limited, so the ancient city of Langzhong is The area is small. After the arrival of tens of thousands of begging soldiers and hundreds of thousands of family members led by Zhu Youjian, the ancient city of Langzhong and its surroundings immediately became a state of chaos.
Zhang Lun, the governor of Sichuan, also led a large number of Sichuan officials to Langzhong. While listening to the orders before driving, he also tried his best to raise food to supply these beggar soldiers and their families. Although the beggar soldiers were formed from hungry people, Zhu Youjian's military management methods were always strict and of course did not tolerate the sergeants' misbehavior. Moreover, after settling in for a while, various training tasks were suppressed. Most of the 30,000 to 40,000 beggars, plus 7,000 to 8,000 elite soldiers in front of the tents, did not camp in the city. Instead, they set up camp at the foot of Panlong Ridge in the north. They also occupied several ancient temples and Taoist temples. They had to train every day, several times. Thousands of people were running up and down the mountain, and from time to time there would be "thunder and firecrackers", which made the officials, gentry and people in Langzhong City restless.
The family members of the begging soldiers living in Langzhong City are even more annoying. Hundreds of thousands of people crowded into the small city and occupied many houses of common people and officials. They called them temporary loans, but they didn't ask the owners if they agreed? These people have nothing to do, and they are extremely poor and hungry people. Now that they have the little emperor supporting them, what good can they do? Stealing, fighting, and extortion happened every day. And as long as no one is killed, no one can take care of it. Zhang Lun, the governor of Sichuan, couldn't help but a group of gentry cried and begged, and ran to Zhu Youjian to complain. But Zhu Youjian didn't take it seriously at all... In his previous life, these Shaanxi beggars were all common people and gentry in Sichuan. They became tenant farmers and oppressed them. I don't know how many they killed! What does this matter now?
Zhu Youjian's business now occupies the office of the prefect of Baoning Prefecture. In Langzhong City, this area is the only one in good order. The tall knights in front of the tent were arrayed all around and guarded closely, and no stray people were allowed to collide. When the local officials and gentry of Baonyeong Prefecture came in and out from here, they all sighed in their hearts: Sichuan people's life is miserable! Anshe is not at peace, so many begging soldiers and a begging emperor have come again... I really don't know when the pain will be over and the joy will come?
In the streets, a small group of knights were galloping past. The first knight was holding a red tooth flag, which was the flag of the chieftain's office in the Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan areas. These knights are not big, and the horses under their crotches are all small. Only behind the tooth flag is a tall peach horse riding a tall woman wearing a python robe, which is particularly eye-catching.
Seeing this tall woman riding her horse, the Sichuan people on both sides of the street cheered: "Mrs. Ma is here, Shizhu, Mrs. Ma is here! Langzhong is saved, Sichuan people are saved..."
This Mrs. Ma whom Sichuan people call her is none other than the world-famous Shizhu chieftainess Qin Liangyu. Qin Liangyu's husband's surname is Ma, and his given name is Qiancheng. It is said that he is the descendant of General Fubo Ma Yuan... This ancestor is quite old, and it is difficult to tell whether it is true or false. However, Ma Qiancheng's ancestor Ma Dinghu came from the Western Army of the Song Dynasty, and there is no doubt that he followed Wu Hao to Sichuan. Therefore, the ancestral home of Shizhu Chieftain Ma's family is also Shaanxi. Strictly speaking, he is also the predecessor of these "begging soldiers" brought to Sichuan by Zhu Youjian!
Qin Liangyu's husband, Ma Qiancheng, was thrown into prison in the 41st year of Wanli for offending Qiu Chengyun, the eunuch of the supervisory army. Because he had contracted an illness before being imprisoned and could not get medical treatment after being imprisoned, he died of illness early. After Ma Qiancheng's death, many Sichuan officials complained on his behalf, so Shizhu chieftain was still retained, and Ma Qiancheng's position of propaganda envoy was inherited by his son Ma Xianglin. But Ma Xianglin was young at the time (actually not too young, he was 17 years old), so the power of Shizhu Chieftain has been controlled by Qin Liangyu until now.
Although this Qin Liangyu is a female and comes from a Shili family (the bureaucratic landlord class), she is a strange woman who does not like red makeup and prefers martial arts. Not only does he like martial arts and military books, but he is also tall and shapely, with a height of nearly six feet (mingchi), which is more than 1.80 meters! And it's not long and thin, but tall and strong, which looks quite scary.
What's even more rare is that this Qin Liangyu is also good at training troops and is good at battle formations!
Shizhu was originally a small place. When Qin Liangyu's husband Ma Qiancheng was in charge, there were only three to four thousand local soldiers, and they were not very powerful. But in the hands of Qin Liangyu, a famous white-pole soldier was produced within a few years. In the Battle of Hunhe against Hou Jin Dynasty, Shizhu's white pole soldiers formed a spear formation and severely damaged Nurhaci's Eight Banners soldiers. If it had not been for the surrender of Hou Jin's Ming army artillery bombardment, which destroyed the white pole soldiers' spear formation. The Battle of Hunhe may have been the turning point in the decline of the Later Jin Dynasty.
The performance of the white pole soldiers in the Battle of Hunhe also attracted the attention of the Ming Dynasty monarchs, so after the war, Qin Liangyu was sent back to his hometown to recruit troops. As a result, as soon as the soldiers were recruited, they encountered the She Chongming Rebellion. Therefore, Qin Liangyu and her newly recruited soldiers stayed in Sichuan to participate in the war against the rebellion, which lasted ten years! Although he fought hard and achieved many victories, Qin Liangyu also deeply felt the decline of the Ming Dynasty in the southwest.
The Yang family in Bozhou who rebelled during the Wanli period was superior to the She family in Yongning and the Shuixian family in terms of military and financial resources. However, under the siege of the Ming Dynasty soldiers, it was wiped out in a few months. How many years has it been? The chaos in She and An has not ended in ten years!
The reason why She and An could not be wiped out in ten years was not actually the strength of these two thieves, but the weakening of the Ming Dynasty's army. In addition, the demise of the Yang family chilled the hearts of the chieftains in the southwest.
Although there are hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers currently confronting the She and An armies, except for the more than 10,000 stone pillars and white pole soldiers, the performance of the other ministries is really disappointing - the officers and soldiers of the imperial court are listless, and there are too many vacancies, and the battle There are too few soldiers to attack. However, most of the local soldiers transferred from Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan did not work hard, and many even secretly communicated with Shuixi!
Shuixi is a chieftain, and they are also chieftains... It’s not as if their lips are dead and their teeth are cold, but they still feel the sadness of a rabbit dying and a fox dying!
In fact, this feeling of sadness has been lingering in the hearts of various chieftains in the southwest since the demise of the Yang family in Bozhou.
How could the Yang clan's chieftain regime of more than seven hundred years be said to be gone?
Not to mention that the ordinary chieftain was unhappy about this matter, there were even a group of people in Qin Liangyu's husband's family who were dissatisfied. However, Qin Liangyu's brothers and nephews all followed Qin Liangyu to lead the army, and became Bashu generals from the family of poetry and books. They had the same interests as the Ming Dynasty, so they suppressed the dissatisfaction among Shizhuma's family... But most of the chieftain families are not consistent with the Ming Dynasty!
The chaos in the southwest is probably far from over!
When Qin Liangyu was thinking deeply about her thoughts, she and her soldiers had already arrived outside the front-end campus of Emperor Xing.
A knight who was clearing the way in front suddenly reined in his horse, turned around and shouted to Qin Liangyu: "Old lady, there is no way forward... there are soldiers!"
Qin Liangyu then raised his head and looked forward, and found that in the school field ahead, there were already a line of soldiers with spears like a forest.
Thousands of fierce soldiers formed an impressive formation, but they were as quiet and motionless as a mountain.
Qin Liangyu was also surprised. She has been leading troops for more than ten years and is also a master. Of course she can tell that the elite soldiers lined up in front of her are unusual!
"Old lady, those are child soldiers!"
The knight who opened the way said another sentence at this time.
Qin Liangyu quickly took a closer look, and sure enough! Each of these soldiers has no hair on their mouths and their faces look small. They are all young soldiers!
"Is this person the same as Mrs. Ma, the chief military officer of Sichuan?"
A big man with a yellow face wearing a green military attache uniform walked quickly towards Qin Liangyu and his party, smiling and asking questions.
Qin Liangyu looked at the yellow-faced man and felt a little disgusted, "I, Qin Liangyu, have come with an order!"
"Well, it's Zhang Xianzhong, the commander of the Youth Army Battalion Qian in front of the tent. I've met Mrs. Ma!" This man turned out to be Zhang Xianzhong. He was now commanding a regiment of Youth Army detachment formations on the school field. Unexpectedly, he met Qin Liangyu.
Zhang Xianzhong smiled and said: "I've heard long ago that Lord Long Live summoned Madam Ma to Langzhong... But I didn't expect that Madam Ma would come in a light carriage without letting anyone know. So it's a coincidence, Lord Long Live I am not in the city today, but went out to hunt with some Mongolian queens. However, Counselor Gao and Governor Zhang are on the way now, so I will go to ask them to come out to greet them immediately. Please ask Mrs. Ma to wait here."
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