After explaining some details of the newspaper to Chen Hong, such as how much to buy a copy, what the storyteller would say, how the children on the street would organize themselves, etc., Chen Hong withdrew.
Zhu Zaijing looked at his face just now and felt sick in his heart.
"Feng Bao."
"The slave is here!"
"This Chen Hong will cause big trouble in the future. You have to keep his skin tight from time to time!"
Feng Bao smiled mysteriously and said, "I understand!"
Afterwards, Zhu Zaijing really had no intention of reading the memorial, so he changed into plain clothes and took a few people directly to the main camp of the Fifth Army Camp.
The Five Military Camps, the Three Thousand Battalions, and the Shenji Camp were the military forces that followed Zhu Di north and south in the early Ming Dynasty and swept away the disobedient brothers around the Ming Dynasty. Their core backbones all came out of the blood sea of the Mountain of Corpses with Lao Si during the Battle of Jingnan. .
This was also the most glorious period of the Ming Dynasty's military power.
The three major battalions have different arms and division of labor. The fifth military battalion is a mixture of infantry and cavalry and is the main attacking force.
The Three Thousand Battalion was originally composed of 3,000 Mongolian cavalry who surrendered to Lao Si. It was originally a mercenary and made a considerable contribution in Lao Si's fifth Northern Expedition. It was later expanded to 70,000 people and was mainly composed of cavalry. , is a flanking army whose main tasks are assault and charge, as well as raiding.
The Shenji Battalion was the first firearms unit in the world and the first unit to adopt three-stage shooting tactics, leading the West by more than 200 years.
The majority of the 200,000 elite troops destroyed in the Tumu Fort Incident were the three major battalions of the capital.
In the third year of Jingtai, Emperor Zhu Qiyu of the Ming Dynasty ordered Yu Qian, the Minister of War, to reorganize the Beijing camp. So he selected a total of 150,000 people from the three major camps and divided them into 10 battalions, called Tuanying. However, after Zhu Qizhen, Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, was restored to power, Yu Qian was killed, the regiment camp system was abolished, and the old system of three camps was restored.
During the Chenghua period of Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty, the Beijing military system changed again. Zhu Jianshen, Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty, restored the regimental battalion system and increased it from the original 10 battalions to 12 battalions.
This is the current Twelve Regiment Battalion, and it is also the main body of the Beijing Battalion's military strength.
The three major battalions are still there, but they are no longer at the previous level. The elites are all in the 12th regiment camp, and only a group of old and weak people are left in the three major battalions.
The main defense force of the capital also became the 12th Regiment Battalion.
Zhu Zaijing planned to conduct a surprise inspection. When he came to the military camp, he sent someone to call Zhu Xizhong over.
Zhu Xizhong is not only the commander of the Jinyi Guards, but also the commander of the 12th Regiment Battalion and the 5th Army Battalion. He has also served as the commander of the Shenji Battalion before.
Zhu Zaijing waited silently in front of the military camp. After a while, Duke Cheng Zhu Xizhong came to the emperor tremblingly.
"minister…"
"Shh!" Zhu Zaijing motioned him not to speak.
Zhu Xizhong looked horrified. Just now, he was discussing the structure of the human body with several concubines in the Duke's Mansion, as if he was going to fight ten, when suddenly several people came in and said that the emperor wanted to inspect the fifth military camp.
What!
The emperor has left the palace.
What! !
We have arrived in front of the Fifth Army Camp.
What! ! !
"TMD, why are you so frightened? You'll get frightened easily!" Looking at the emperor on horseback, Zhu Xizhong cried in his heart.
"You are the complete opposite of your father. You can't go out even if you beat me to death. You feel uncomfortable if you don't go out for a whole day. You really can't take any time off!"
"Who is a good emperor who doesn't stay in the palace and runs around here and there every day?"
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty..." Zhu Xizhong looked at the emperor.
Zhu Zaijing got off his horse and patted Zhu Xizhong on the shoulder.
"Today you will take me to inspect the Fifth Military Camp and see how you run the army after becoming the commander of the Fifth Military Camp!"
Zhu Xizhong was stunned for a moment, his mind going blank.
"Also, if you dare to expose my identity in front of others, you will reap the rewards!"
Zhu Zaijing glared at him, but stood behind him, pretending to be his subordinate.
Suddenly, Zhu Xizhong felt a cold feeling on his back.
Zhu Zaijing said behind him, "Today I am a servant of your family. Please show me the daily life of the fifth military camp, okay?"
"well…"
Zhu Xizhong swallowed and walked forward with weak legs and feet.
There were a dozen soldiers standing guard in front of the camp. When they saw Zhu Xizhong coming, they put away their playful smile before and stood up seriously.
Zhu Zaijing knew at a glance that these people couldn't even stand straight, and they were weak at first glance.
"Master!"
A soldier said flatteringly.
"Hey...hey..."
Zhu Xizhong didn't care about others at all, he just felt like there was a huge mouth behind him that was going to swallow him up at any moment.
After entering the military camp, Zhu Zaijing saw a very ridiculous scene.
No one here was wearing armor before. The dozen or so people outside just now seemed to be for outsiders to see, so they were wearing armor.
At a glance, most of the people in the military camp are middle-aged people in their 40s and 50s, all of them skinny and dark-skinned.
There were a few people gathering to fight cocks, another group of people were drinking tea and chatting, and some were whistling and urinating behind the tent.
Everyone saw Zhu Xizhong, nodded and bowed, their faces full of flattery.
"Master!"
Zhu Xizhong was startled by this sound and glared at a soldier who came to find him.
"What are you doing?"
"The hundreds of soldiers you sent to build the mausoleum for Duke Ding and his family were already sent yesterday."
………
Zhu Xizhong was petrified on the spot.
His feet seemed to be nailed to the ground, unable to move a step, and he had no courage to look behind him.
Zhu Zaijing lowered his head and sighed deeply.
Ten steps!
After only ten steps from the main entrance of the camp, Zhu Xizhong showed him the outstanding effect of running the army.
Zhu Xizhong heard the emperor's sigh and thought that it was over for today.
I dared to look back, but I didn't expect that the emperor had already turned around and was walking back.
The soldier was still chattering and reporting.
"Dingguo Gong and his family also said that after the mausoleum is built, they will personally come to pay homage to the Duke... Gongye?"
"Your Majesty...Your Majesty"
"Master, there is no one named Bixia here, Master? Master?"
…
Returning to Qianqing Palace, Feng Bao saw that the emperor's face was darkened, and he knew that the situation in the military camp must have made the emperor very dissatisfied.
He walked up to serve tea and patted the emperor's back silently, trying to calm him down.
Zhu Zaijing's face was cold, and ten thousand grass and mud horses were running through him.
Zhu Xizhong, who was late, walked in gently and knelt down without saying a word.
"Feng Bao!" Zhu Zaijing's angry voice was trembling.
"The slave is here!"
"You come and teach Duke Cheng Guo a lesson and tell him about the Gengxu Revolution."
"yes!"
"In June of the 29th year of Jiajing's reign, Duke Cheng Guo, I led the army to invade Datong. The commander-in-chief Zhang Da and the deputy commander-in-chief Lin Chun were both killed in battle. Qiu Luan, who was appointed commander-in-chief of Xuanda for bribing Yan Songzi Yan Shifan, was in panic Fearing that there was nothing he could do, he bribed me with a lot of money to move the invaders to other places and not to invade Datong.
In August, Anda moved his troops eastward. On August 14, he entered Gubeikou and killed and plundered countless officials and civilians in Huairou and Shunyi. The Ming army collapsed at the first touch. Anda Chang drove into the interior and camped at Gushan, twenty miles east of Luhe River. The capital was under martial law in places such as the northeastern part of today's Tongzhou) and Rukou.
Since the Tumu Revolution, the capital has been without police for a hundred years. Now that Anda suddenly came to the city, I was extremely frightened and at a loss. At that time, the number of soldiers in the capital was all fictitious, and the imperial army was only 40,000 to 50,000, half of which were old and weak, and half of which were served by the families of internal and external admirals. He also lacks war equipment and armor, and is unable to defend the capital! "
"How many soldiers and civilians died that time?" Zhu Zaijing looked at Zhu Xizhong and asked Feng Bao indeed.
"In the Gengxu Incident, the Mongolian troops plundered two million people and animals in prefectures and counties, causing the imperial court to lose all face! More than tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians were killed or injured!"
