ps: Thanks to book friends Asia Kara and Li Zhenxiu for their tips.
"Since the Superintendent has already made arrangements, the general will just obey his orders."
Faced with Fu Zonglong and Sun Chuanting's quarrels, Wang Chengyin weighed it in his mind for a long time, and finally decided that he could not openly confront these two people.
He was not afraid of Sun Chuanting, who was just a military commander, but Fu Zonglong was different. He was the governor of a place holding Shang Fang's sword, and he had great power.
If they really wanted to use his head as the deputy commander to establish their authority, the imperial court would not embarrass a newly appointed governor because of his dead deputy commander.
"Haha, okay, with you two wise ministers and generals assisting you, I believe that we will be able to defeat the tiger bandits coming to the state in one fell swoop." Fu Zonglong stroked his beard and smiled.
Regardless of whether these two people really followed his orders as the governor, as long as he bowed his head and obeyed, he would have the opportunity to use their soldiers and horses for his own use.
With the intervention of the governor Fu Zonglong, a batch of grain was quickly raised from Jinan Mansion to serve as food for the army.
The one hundred thousand taels of silver he brought from the court was not used immediately, but was reserved for future use to boost morale and reward soldiers.
Moreover, the one hundred thousand taels of silver was only an amount on the surface. In fact, the silver he brought from the capital was not that much.
The officers and soldiers of Jinan Prefecture and Liaocheng quickly moved into action.
In order to ensure the success of this battle, Sun Chuanting directly transferred Cao Wenzhao's uncle and nephew over, and their two uncles and nephews cooperated with Wang Chengyin's troops.
Wang Chengyin is not idle here either.
Only a small part of the troops under his command were left in Jinan Mansion, and the rest of the large army was sent out.
In addition to the two troops of Sun Chuanting and Wang Chengyin, Fu Zonglong also improvised a troop of more than 2,000 troops from Jinan Mansion.
Different from the troops under Sun Chuanting and Wang Chengyin, the troops under Fu Zonglong were composed of many local officers and young men, in addition to some soldiers and horses from the guards.
Among the three armies, those under Fu Zonglong's command are the weakest, but the commander of the army is Fu Zonglong. In name, all three armies must obey Fu Zonglong's orders.
The total number of these three troops of the Ming army was nearly 30,000.
Naturally, such a large mobilization of troops and horses cannot be concealed, and given the situation of the Ming army, it is simply impossible to conceal their whereabouts.
Fu Zonglong, who also understood this, never thought of concealing his whereabouts.
But he didn't just stay here in Jinan Mansion and wait.
Instead, Cao Wenzhao was sent out immediately and rushed to Qingshi Pass as the vanguard of the army.
Wang Chengyin's soldiers and horses served as the left wing of the army, Sun Chuanting's remaining soldiers and horses formed the right wing, and the central army consisted of more than 2,000 soldiers and horses temporarily recruited by Fu Zonglong.
Such a pieced together army of tens of thousands rushed all the way to Qingshi Pass.
However, the Chinese army commanded by Fu Zonglong was not marching very fast.
Moreover, while Fu Zonglong was on the road, he was cleaning up the soldiers and horses of the Chinese army under his command. Even the soldiers and horses on the left and right wings were dragged down and could not march quickly. They could only accompany the Chinese army slowly on the road.
For this reason, Sun Chuanting approached Fu Zonglong several times, hoping to speed up the march and rush to the battlefield in Laizhou earlier, and join the officers and soldiers in Laizhou to attack the Tiger Banner army in Laizhou.
However, Fu Zonglong used the excuse of purging his troops to evade Sun Chuanting's several visits.
Every time Sun Chuanting returned from the central army to the right wing of the army, he left angrily.
As time passed, there were rumors in the army that Sun Chuanting was not wanted by Fu Zonglong. At the same time, I don't know when there was a new governor in the army who was unwilling to fight against the tiger-character banner army. The reason why he hurriedly sent out troops as soon as he arrived in Shandong was Completely forced by the court.
There were more and more rumors like this, and eventually, almost everyone in the army could say a few words. As a result, the army marched slower and slower, and even became looser.
Even so, neither Fu Zonglong nor Wang Chengyin came forward to take care of it, and Sun Chuanting only restrained him a few times, and when he saw that it didn't have much effect, he let it go.
Fu Zonglong's central army and the Ming army on the left and right wings were not marching very fast, so that Cao Wenzhao, the vanguard of the army, had to slow down and did not dare to lose too much distance from the army behind him.
Snapped!
Cao Bianjiao, who walked in from outside the tent, threw the riding crop in his hand on the table, sat down heavily on a chair, and said with an angry face: "Uncle, this battle can't be fought, it's so delayed." We have walked less than twenty miles in a dragging day, and I am afraid that the tiger character in Laizhou has already gotten the news that we are rushing to Laizhou."
At this time, Cao Bianjiao was still very young, and he looked heroic with his armor and stomach on his body, and his whole person was extraordinary.
"Then what do you want?" Cao Wenzhao slapped his nephew.
The march these days also dissatisfied him.
But no matter how dissatisfied he was, there was nothing he could do.
The official level is overwhelming, let alone the problems with the governor. He is just a general. He doesn't even dare to disobey Sun Chuanting's orders, let alone come out to accuse the governor.
"Of course we have to speed up the march. Otherwise, if we continue to delay like this, I'm afraid that by the time we get to Denglai, both places will be lost, and we won't be able to reach Laizhou." Cao Bianjiao said angrily.
Anyone with a little knowledge of military knowledge can guess the purpose of the Tiger-Character Banner in attacking Laizhou. They know that the Tiger-Character Banner is for Dengzhou, because Dengzhou and Lushun are across the sea.
After all, their uncles and nephews from the Cao family had stayed in Liaodong for many years, and it was no secret to them that Lushun fell into the hands of tiger thieves.
The Tiger Banner was so eager to attack Laizhou in order to capture Dengzhou and finally open up the sea channel with Lushun.
"We only have so few soldiers and horses, and if we are too far apart from the main army, once we are alone, we will easily become the target of tiger thieves." Cao Wenzhao said expressionlessly.
Facing the tiger-character banner that had conquered several provinces, he did not dare to look down upon him, let alone treat him like an ordinary bandit.
In his mind, the Tiger Flag was a slightly inferior opponent to the Liaodong slave thieves, and was stronger than the guardsmen and horses within the Ming Dynasty.
Facing such an opponent, being a little careless may lead to one's own troops being defeated and defeated.
"But if we are marching like this now, when we arrive at Laizhou, the tiger thieves will have already been on guard. They say that this Governor Fu is a man who knows the military well. I think they are all just blown away. Otherwise, how could the soldiers be so fast?" I don’t even know the truth.” Cao Bianjiao said with a look of hatred.
He looked down upon those civil servants the most.
All of them had no skills and talked about great principles, but they were the generals who had to do the job of killing the enemy. The credit for the victory was due to the good command of these civilian officials, but the defeat was due to the generals not doing their best to kill the enemy.
"Shut up." Cao Wenzhao glared at his nephew and said coldly, "If you dare to say such things again, go back to Liaodong."
