What? Is the matter of killing Tatars already so urgent?
After listening to Liu Yihu's words, Wu Yingxiong felt a little emotional. Such a dangerous thing as killing Tatars has now become something that everyone is scrambling for!
It seems that in the Qing Dynasty, the rabbit's tail really couldn't grow!
Thinking of this, Wu Yingxiong became more energetic. He looked at Liu Yihu and asked, "General Liu, how many capable soldiers do you have now?"
Liu Yihu smiled honestly and said: "Return to the Master. Our team has expanded very quickly. Not counting the old and weak who can only make up the numbers, the number of strong warriors alone has expanded to 6,000!"
"Six thousand? That many?" Wu Yingxiong was surprised, "How did you recruit troops?"
The number of six thousand men and women is not much at all in terms of dramas and slogans. But in today's era when the country's population is only tens of millions and certainly less than 100 million, six thousand elite soldiers is really not that small. The six guards assigned by Wu Sangui to Wu Yingxiong were less than 30,000 strong, and the average number of guards was less than 5,000.
Moreover, these six guards are only controlled by Wu Yingxiong, not led by him personally. Each guard has its own "big general", "shang general" and "general" - according to the military system formulated by Wu Sangui, the direct descendants of the Wu family army, That is to say, the leader of the "Thirty Guards" is called "General So-and-So Guard" or "General So-and-So Guard", and the deputy leader is called "General So-and-So Guard".
Among them, those called "generals" are generals who are qualified to serve as generals. Currently, only eleven people including Wu Yingqi, Wu Guogui, Wu Shicong, Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu, Zhang Guozhu, Guo Zhuangtu, Li Benshen, Ma Bao, Wang Pingfan, and Zheng Jiaolin have the title of "general".
Now Liu Yihu and Li Laishun have six thousand troops, which is theoretically more than one "guard" of the Wu family army. How can Wu Yingxiong not be surprised?
Liu Yihu did not hide anything from Wu Yingxiong, and replied "honestly": "Your Majesty, we have set up two military mansions, Shimen and Lizhou, in Lizhou. According to the methods of the Tang Dynasty's land equalization system and the government military system, Lizhou's The land was distributed to poor farmers. If a strong man from the family joined the government as a soldier, they would be given an extra piece of land, and they would also be given additional food and salary. In Lizhou alone, no less than 3,000 poor men joined the army. ! Add to that the heroes we brought from Kuidong, the number may be more than six thousand!"
"What? You divided all the land in Lizhou?" Wu Yingxiong was shocked, "Can the landowners in Lizhou agree?"
Liu Yihu smiled and said, "If you don't agree, I will send you to Chongqing Mansion to help the Crown Prince reclaim wasteland!"
"If you don't agree, will you send them to Chongqing to reclaim wasteland? You will help me to reclaim the wasteland?" Wu Yingxiong was stunned, "Why don't they go?"
Liu Yihu still didn't hide anything and said with a smile: "If you don't go, I'll behead you!"
"Just behead your head? Are you guys too cruel?"
Liu Yihu still smiled and said: "How can this be called cruelty? Those landowners have more young men than ordinary farmers. As long as they are willing to join the government as soldiers, one strong man will get an extra piece of land. A few more people will be enough. ? Even if they are still a little short, we will keep an account for them, and when they capture Changde and Jingzhou, they will make up for it. If they refuse to hand over the land and refuse to serve as soldiers, then they are doing evil to the King of the West and the Crown Prince. You are disloyal! If you are disloyal for the sake of wealth, shouldn't you be beheaded?"
In fact, the seemingly loyal Liu Yihu did not tell the whole truth. If the wealthy households in Lizhou want to avoid going to Chongqing to reclaim wasteland, they have only one way, which is to offer their nephews to join the clan. And even if you join a partnership, you will inevitably have to hand over the land in your home that exceeds the quota. But Li Zicheng will indeed give them a promise that if they have more territory in the future, they will make up for it from elsewhere.
If this is done, most wealthy households in Lizhou who don’t want to go to Sichuan to “feed pandas” will most likely have no choice but to offer their nephews to join the pandas.
As for whether he is willing to work hard after joining the gang, Li Zicheng is not worried at all. When he was the leader of the bandits, he also used to coerce the people!
Moreover, the current general trend of the world is obviously conducive to the anti-Qing Dynasty. If you join in, you might be able to become a minor hero in the founding of the country! Therefore, most of the wealthy families in Lizhou who were willing to sacrifice their sons and nephews sincerely sided with the anti-Qing camp.
As for those who were determined to fight against the anti-Qing rebels, except for a few who did not run away, most of them went to the Huguang Governor's Office in Jingzhou (now the Huguang Governor's Office is not in Wuchang, but in Jingzhou) to recruit troops.
"Being unfaithful for the sake of wealth." Wu Yingxiong thought for a moment, then his face sank, "He deserves to be killed!"
Now that he has experienced the loss of his family and his family, his mentality has become a little distorted, and his murderous nature has become more intense.
"Your Majesty!" Liu Yihu and Wu Yingxiong actually found a common language.
Wu Yingxiong nodded and said: "Six thousand soldiers are quite a lot, but fighting a war cannot rely solely on the number of people. We also need equipment, armor, food, wages, and training. Are these enough?"
"These are not enough." Liu Yihu smiled indifferently. He is actually a rebellious optimist!
"Not enough?" Wu Yingxiong was stunned, "Then how do you fight?"
"There is not enough fighting style," Liu Yihu explained, "The final general is here for this!"
Wu Yingxiong frowned: "Then let's talk about it."
Liu Yihu said: "The last general and General Li have discussed a strategy to lure the Tatars and Green Camps from Jingzhou Prefecture and Xiangyang Prefecture to Lizhou. As long as they come from Jiangbei to Lizhou, we will use three to four thousand elites to defend Lizhou. Zhoucheng and Shimencheng. The rest were guerrillas outside the city, specializing in attacking their grain roads.
The prince can take the opportunity to dispatch the elite troops of Kuizhou to attack Xiangyang and Jingzhou! "
Jingzhou Prefecture, Jingmen Prefecture and Xiangyang Prefecture together are the important towns in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River controlled by the Qing army!
Currently, there is a new Eight Banner Army stationed in a town, thousands of people stationed at the Eight Banners and the governor of Huguang, and there are also green battalions under the command of the General Soldiers of Xiangyang and Jingmen. The total number of troops on the books is close to 25,000. If the Eight Banners are included The total number of Sula slaves in the army is at least 40,000!
So many troops have formed a long snake formation in Jingzhou, Jingmen Prefecture, and Xiangyang. They can not only respond from head to tail, but also guard dangerous points. It is indeed not easy to fight. If some of them could be led to Lizhou on the south bank of the Yangtze River, it would be much easier for Wu Yingxiong to attack Xiangyang and Jingzhou.
"But how are you going to lure the Tatars from Jingzhou to Lizhou?" Wu Yingxiong asked with a frown, "Lizhou is not that important!"
Liu Yihu chuckled: "Master, the official and General Li have come up with a plan to cheat the king!"
"What? Trying to cheat the king?" Wu Yingxiong was startled by Liu Yihu's suggestion and stood up immediately, "Li Zicheng is still alive?"
"Fake life, just pretend to be alive!" Liu Yihu still looked cheerful, looking very loyal and honest, and it didn't look like he was lying at all.
He paused and then said to Wu Yingxiong: "Master, think about how much people hate Li Zicheng! If he had not really died in Jiugong Mountain back then, but had faked his death and fled to Jiashan Temple in Lizhou, pretending to be Monk Cheng lurked down and was still manipulating the Zhongzhen Camp and the Kuidong Thirteen Family behind the scenes. At the same time, he was still accumulating strength, summarizing experience and lessons, and waiting for opportunities. Now he finally waited, so he turned the other way! Look at this story. Can Kangxi? Do you believe it?"
"But why did he fake his death?" Wu Yingxiong is still a "bear" who likes to get to the bottom of things.
"Of course it is to unite the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Qing Dynasty," Liu Yihu said, "If Li Zicheng did not cheat his death, Nan Ming would not be able to join forces with Chuang Ying anyway. And if Chuang Ying and Nan Ming do not join forces, they will perish faster! "
It seems to make sense!
Wu Yingxiong thought for a while and asked again: "Is Li Zicheng dead?"
Liu Yihu shook his head and smiled naively: "Well, you know? I wasn't with him at the time, and I didn't have a big official in the camp. Even if he was still alive, I wouldn't contact him."
Wu Yingxiong stared at Liu Yihu's face for a while. He really didn't see anything, so he nodded and said: "Then let that person cheat for a while longer! As long as he can lure the Tatars from Jingzhou, even if Chongzhen It’s okay to cheat!”
"Sir, you are so wise!" Liu Yihu first put a hat on Wu Yingxiong, and then said with a smile, "Sir, you risked your lives to lead the Tatars across the river this time. How about you give them more? Some shotguns and gunpowder? Let’s kill more Tatars in Lizhou and Shimen. Wouldn’t it be easier for you, Prince, to sweep away Jingxiang?”
"That's right." Wu Yingxiong was persuaded by Liu Yihu again, "Then I will give you five hundred shotguns and two thousand kilograms of gunpowder."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
In fact, the reason why Liu Yihu offered Wu Yingxiong a "strategy to cheat the king" in Kuizhou Prefecture was not because he and Li Laishun were really fierce and willing to go all out to use the two cities of Lizhou and Shimen to attract the firepower of the Qing army in Jiangbei. But the rumor that "Li Zicheng is back" spread in Lizhou not long after the Lizhou Uprising.
Who allowed Li Zicheng to be recognized by Mr. Huang outside the west gate of Lizhou? Moreover, the old camp soldiers (small camp soldiers) who followed Li Zicheng into Lizhou also wore felt hats and green robes that they had treasured for many years. Those who have experienced that era and have seen the appearance of the Dashun Army can recognize it at a glance. That's Li Zicheng's old camp soldier!
So Li Zicheng came up with this idea of a living person cheating on his life - it was obviously a real life, but he said it was a fake life!
True or false, life or death. Let Eza, the garrison general in Jingzhou and other places and the president of Jingzhou Camp, and Cai Yurong, the governor of Huguang, guess!
And just when Liu Yihu happily headed to Lizhou with the equipment he cheated from Wu Yingxiong, the news that "that man" was back was already spreading in Jingzhou City.
In fact, in March and April of the 11th year of Kangxi's reign, this important town in Hubei, where the Jingzhou Camp, the Jingzhou General's Yamen, and the Guangdong and Guangxi Governor's Yamen were stationed, had turned into a refugee camp for local tyrants and evil gentry.
Landlords and wealthy people from the Jiangnan area of Lizhou and Jingzhou, southern Yichang Prefecture, Shinan Prefecture, and Huarong County of Yuezhou Prefecture all dragged their families and fled to Jingzhou City crying, almost emptying their small and spacious houses. Jingzhou and Seoul were overcrowded.
Among them, Lizhou has basically been controlled by Li Zicheng, while the local Kuidong tycoons in southern Yichang Prefecture and Shinan Prefecture have raised troops. Li Zicheng and Wu Yingxiong both sent people there to win over the powerful and seize the territory.
However, Li Zicheng's troops did not occupy territory in the Jiangnan area and Huarong County, which led Jingzhou. They only sent troops into "Jingnan" and Huarong County to attack the green camp soldiers there, and "borrowed food" from the local local tyrants and evil gentry. However, the local farmers became jealous when they saw Lizhou's good deeds in dividing their fields, so "Jingnan" and Huarong began to get into trouble.
And this group of landlords and wealthy people who came to flee were also dissatisfied. Every day they heard the news that outside the gate of Banqi City, they were crying for soldiers and shouting "that man has come back"!
Of course, at first, only some of the landlords and gentry who escaped from Lizhou shouted about this, but later they probably all felt that "Li Zicheng's return" would be easier to attract attention, so the local tyrants and evil gentry who came from other states also came with them. What a nonsense.
In an instant, Li Zicheng's name resounded throughout Jingzhou City!
"What does that man look like? High cheekbones, big forehead, high nose bridge, deep eye sockets, thick eyebrows, one-eyed beard and eyebrows are white. He looks to be over sixty years old, and he has ordained a monk, but he still looks the same. Very fierce!"
"That person must be Li Zicheng. Because Huang Wanlin, the old man of Lizhou Prefectural Shepherd Huang Zhisheng who was supposed to be keeping filial piety in Guangdong, was caught outside Lizhou City to greet Li Zicheng that day. He knew Li Zicheng, and he knelt down to Li Zicheng at that time and even flattered him. Calling 'Emperor, Emperor'! Although Li Zicheng later refused to admit it, before that, the leader of the rebels had already called him 'Emperor' and 'Emperor Yongchang'!"
"I saw all this with my own eyes. At that time, I pretended to be a common man and was waiting outside the west gate of Lizhou City to see the rebel leader. I thought I would see Wu Sangui, but I didn't expect to see Li Zicheng!"
"Your Majesty, what Cai Zhijun said is true! You two should report to the emperor quickly! Now there is not only Wu Sangui, but also Li Zicheng!"
The person who was kneeling in the lobby of the Jingzhou General's Mansion reporting "King Chuang's return" to Ezha and Cai Yurong was the Lizhou City Guard General Chen Dabao who had made up and fled that day.
He turned out to be a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty!
After witnessing "The Return of King Chuang", he didn't want to follow King Chuang to conquer the world. Instead, he fled to Jingzhou City to report the news to Eza and Cai Yurong!
However, Eza and Cai Yurong did not believe in the "return of King Chuang" at first. What is the return of King Chuang? Isn't this nonsense? Will there be another Chongzhen resurrection later?
So these two people had Chen Dabao imprisoned - they lost their teacher and their land, and they fled in disguise. They really disgraced the Green Camp of the Qing Dynasty! Therefore, they also reported Chen Dabao a capital crime of escaping in battle and asked Emperor Kangxi for approval.
Of course Kangxi also hated Chen Dabao, a bastard general who was only greedy for money and useless when encountering rebels, so with a stroke of his pen, he gave Chen Dabao a job in military law!
If you engage in military law, you will be beheaded!
Today is the day when Chen Dabao will be beheaded. However, while he is waiting for his beheading, the situation in several state capitals south of the Yangtze River has changed dramatically. The news of "Li Zicheng's return" has spread like crazy.
So before Chen Dabao was beheaded, Eza and Cai Yurong decided to interrogate Chen Dabao for the last time - they had to ask whether Li Zicheng was really back?
If Li Zicheng is really back, then Chen Dabao, as a witness, cannot be killed for the time being!
If the emperor wants to ask questions, how can he ask after his head has been chopped off? Even if the emperor doesn't mind, Chen Dabao can't answer it!
Eza saw that Chen Dabao had nothing to say, so he waved his hand and said to his Goshha: "Pull it down."
When he heard that he was about to be "pulled down", Chen Dabao thought he was going to be beheaded, so he screamed: "Don't kill me, I'm still useful. I want to fight Li Zicheng for the emperor!"
Cai Yurong also felt that Chen Dabao should not be killed, so he quickly stopped him and said, "Wait a minute. Wait a minute before killing the prince. Maybe the emperor will want to personally ask about Li Zicheng's return?"
Ezha didn't want to kill Chen Dabao right away, but now after hearing what Cai Yurong said, he decided to let Chen Dabao die first. After thinking about it, he said to Cai Yurong: "How about we give the emperor an eight-hundred-mile flight?" Hand over. By the way, I want to ask if you want Chen Dabao to be escorted to Xingxing?"
"I should ask Chen Dabao, do you think this is okay?" Cai Yurong actually asked Chen Dabao for his opinion.
"Okay, okay, okay." Of course Chen Dabao said "ok". What's the rush about beheading?
Maybe after meeting Kangxi, he wouldn't kill this guy. Isn't it profitable?
When Kangxi learned that "that man" had returned, he had just arrived in Wutai County, Shanxi Province. He was passing through Wutai County on a personal expedition!
It was already April of the eleventh year of Kangxi's reign, and Wu Sangui might leave Qishan at any time, so Kangxi had to rush to Xi'an as soon as possible to take charge. So half a month ago, he led the civil and military officials and harem beauties, and under the protection of the bodyguards and military guards, set off for Shaanxi in a mighty manner. He walked hundreds of miles in half a month. , was about to go to Wutai Mountain to see the monk Ama, when the news that Li Zicheng was back was sent to him.
"What? That person actually, actually came back again!"
Kangxi, who was discussing military affairs with several close ministers, took the memorial from Xiao Guizi, looked at it for a while, and then yelled!
This news is so amazing!
Li Zicheng actually came back to life. A number one rebel who had been dead for more than 20 years actually came back to life!
And not only did he survive, he also rebelled again!
What should I do? Wu Sangui had already killed half of the Qing Dynasty, and now there was another Li Zicheng. Wouldn't the Qing Dynasty be over?
(End of chapter)
