While Zhang Mingwei was busy arranging Guan Ning's soldiers and civilians, an army was stationed outside Yingtianfu City in the Jiangnan area of the Ming Dynasty.
In the Chinese military tent, a general was wearing armor, but without a helmet. He was facing a map, but his eyes were obviously not on the map, and he was obviously thinking about something.
Suddenly, a soldier from outside the tent walked in and announced to the general with joy, "Commander, His Royal Highness is here!"
"Oh?" When the general heard this, he was a little surprised and quickly turned around and strode out. But before he left the tent, he immediately remembered something and immediately told the bodyguard behind him, "Quick, give me the helmet!"
Then, he strode out, putting on his helmet and tidying up.
When he arrived at the gate of the camp, he saw a group of knights coming on the road in the distance. All of them were wearing black flying fish suits and surrounded by the people in front.
After a closer look, he recognized the person in front, and quickly led the generals who came over to rush out. He knelt down on one knee, clasped his fists in his hands and said loudly, "The last general, Sun Yingyuan, has seen the prince Qiantai!"
That's right, this person is Sun Yingyuan, one of the general soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion. After receiving the order, he led the army to Yingtian Mansion to wait for the prince.
To be honest, when he first received this order, he was very puzzled as to why the prince came to Yingtian Mansion instead of staying in the capital? There's chaos outside, what if something goes wrong?
While waiting for the prince's arrival, Sun Yingyuan had actually been worried. Especially counting the time, it should be here long ago, but it has been nearly two months, so it should be here no matter how far it is, right?
Now that he saw that although the emperor looked a little tired, he was probably safe, so he felt relieved.
When Zhu Cihong saw Sun Yingyuan coming to greet him, he quickly jumped off his horse, stepped forward and personally helped Sun Yingyuan up and said, "Seeing Sun Qing here, I feel relieved."
After hearing this, he stood up and walked into the military camp to meet Zhu Cixiang, and asked with concern, "Did something happen to your highness on the way?"
"Yes!" Zhu Cixiang said with emotion after hearing this, "I really don't know if I don't leave the palace. The people of Ming Dynasty are already in such dire straits!"
Upon hearing this, Sun Yingyuan quickly comforted and said, "Your Highness, don't worry, it's all the thieves who are causing trouble. When the generals wipe out the thieves one day, the world will be at peace!"
When Zhu Cixiang heard this, he couldn't help but stop and look at him. Seeing that Sun Yingyuan was a little confused and misunderstood, he quickly replied again, "Although the bandit is indeed powerful, the general is still confident, and he is definitely not talking casually! "
If sir hadn't suddenly appeared, you would have been killed by now!
With this thought in Zhu Cixi's mind, he took another step and asked, "How many soldiers are there in Sun Qing's side now?"
"More than 8,300!" Sun Yingyuan heard this and immediately replied, "When we left the capital, we still had 10,000 troops. We lost many soldiers in successive battles!"
The Ming Dynasty's general army generally had around 5,000 to 20,000 troops under its command. However, like Zuo Liangyu, one can easily reach over 100,000 yuan, and later, even 200,000 yuan, which is definitely beyond the limit! In peacetime, such a general would have been impeached by civilian officials until he died.
In fact, with the progress of the times, separatist feudal regimes and rebellions by generals similar to those in the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms have become basically impossible to happen.
This troop limit is one reason, and another reason is that military positions are not hereditary. And local officials, except for chieftains, are not hereditary.
In addition, civilian officials who hold military and political power have tenure and are not allowed to serve as officials in their place of origin. There are also local separation of powers and so on. These measures are all very effective measures.
However, at this time, after Zhu Cihong asked about Sun Yingyuan's military strength, he understood that his husband's statement that Sun Yingyuan would die in March due to being isolated and helpless was true.
Because on his way here, there were often rumors that the bandits were about to attack, or that the bandits were about to attack. In order to ensure his safety, Li Ruolian would rather believe what he had than what he didn't, so There was a delay along the way.
In the same way, Zhu Cixi saw the miserable situation among the people, and heard rumors that the bandit army could number hundreds of thousands. Anyway, after he left the capital, what he saw and heard were signs of the country's collapse!
Not long after, we arrived at the Chinese military tent. However, before Zhu Cixiang had time to speak, soldiers from outside came to report that Duke Wei of Yingtian Mansion had come to see His Highness the Crown Prince.
After Zhu Cixiang heard this, he was a little surprised that this guy was well-informed, but he remembered that Wei Guogong did nothing at all and finally surrendered to Jianlu, so he immediately waved his hand and said, "No!"
His words surprised Sun Yingyuan. He could feel that the prince didn't like the Duke of Wei.
But he was just surprised. Anyway, he and Wei Guogong had no friendship.
But who would have expected that after just a few words of conversation, another soldier came to report that the eunuch left behind in Nanjing wanted to see him, the censor of Zuodu in Nanjing, and the six ministers...
Anyway, the dignitaries and high-ranking officials in Nanjing were all rushing over. Zhu Cixiang didn't see anything about this.
This surprised Sun Yingyuan, and he reminded him with a little worry, "Your Highness, I don't see any of them. Isn't it a bit bad?"
After Zhu Cixiang heard this, he turned around and told Li Ruolian, the commander of the Jinyiwei, "Go and tell the people outside that whoever you want to see will be summoned. The others will wait and just do what they are doing!"
Li Ruolian immediately agreed and turned around and went out.
After Zhu Cixiang watched him leave, he turned to Sun Yingyuan and said, "I'm so busy with all the things I've given you, how can I have time to do irrelevant things!"
His words surprised Sun Yingyuan again. This is the prince, who will tell the prince to do things?
Thinking this, he quickly came to his senses. Although he led the army to fight, he basically didn't care about other things. However, the imperial court rewarded Duke Xingguo, and found out that Duke Chengguo was treasonous. In particular, the former deputy general of the Yongwei camp not only became the commander-in-chief, but was also granted the title of Uncle Loyalty. He had heard about these things.
When others talk about this matter to him, they will definitely mention the matter about Xingguo Gong. Therefore, Sun Yingyuan probably knew who the gentleman the prince was talking about was!
After reaching this conclusion, he was a little curious again, what would Duke Xingguo tell the prince to do?
While he was thinking about it, he heard Zhu Cixiang say to him first, "First we need to find Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Fusong, and we also need to collect the food and pay to be shipped to the north. By the way, the most important thing is the sweet potato, which should be planted in large quantities in Fujian and Zhejiang. We need to promote it. There are other things to eat that Mr. has drawn pictures of, so we have to look for them. In addition, we have to go to Jingdezhen to bake the glass as soon as possible according to Mr.’s firing method... "
Sun Yingyuan was a little stunned when he heard this. From what he felt, what His Highness the Crown Prince said was all about how the Sir was doing, and how the Sir was doing. In short, it was Mr. Open-mouthed and silent. And he could feel that His Highness the Crown Prince had not a little bit of it. Not happy, it can even be said that he was speaking with reverence when he said sir.
At this time, Sun Yingyuan was very curious about the gentleman far north, that is, Duke Xingguo. What kind of person is that person? How could he be so capable that His Highness the Crown Prince would do what he ordered so willingly?
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Naturally, Sun Yingyuan didn't know that the gentleman he was thinking of, Zhang Mingwei, was in a meeting at this time. He heard him say to the white-haired old man, "From now on, you will be the governor of Shanyong. The placement of these Liaodong soldiers and civilians will be in Under your jurisdiction. All the things I have entrusted to you must be completed, and you must not let me down."
"I will definitely live up to the recommendation of the Duke!" After hearing this, the white-haired old man responded immediately and was in good spirits.
He was Zuo Yingxuan, who had been in the army for many years and suffered so much that his hair turned white. But now, not only has he recovered, but he has also been promoted many levels in a row, and has become a frontier official in the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that all the hardships have been rewarded, how can you not be happy!
Furthermore, the mission assigned to him by the emperor was to guard the Great Wall along Ji Town and not allow Jianlu to enter the pass and plunder. Others might be afraid of this job, but Zuo Yingxuan was not.
Not only was he able to defend the Jianlu army from attacking Changli County just by relying on Minzhuang Yamen when they invaded Changli County, but more importantly, he had the support of Duke Xingguo, and the money, food, and manpower needed were all arranged. Okay.
In addition, Zuo Yingxuan also recommended to the court the men who had helped him defend Changli City, such as Shi Guozhu, the leader of Minzhuang, and several powerful squires at the time. These people eventually became his helpers, were promoted, and assisted him in various matters of defending the Great Wall.
Of course, Zuo Ying's top general is still the new Shanhaiguan Commander-in-Chief Yan Yingyuan. Others don't know, at least in Zhang Mingwei's view, he can hold Jiangyin for so many days, so it will definitely be no problem for him to assist Zuo Yingxuan in guarding the Great Wall, especially the most important Shanhaiguan.
With the two of them, who are famous for their defense in history, defending the capital, Zhang Mingwei has reason to believe that at least in this area, the Jianlu will not be able to break through. Without the intrusion of Jianlu, the court could concentrate on exterminating the bandits.
At this time, after hearing Zuo Yingxuan's response, he nodded, then looked at Zhou Yuji and others and said, "Using your Yongwei camp as the skeleton, select soldiers from the Liaodong military household for the Beijing camp. Are they all full?" "
Rebuilding the Beijing Camp does not really mean starting from scratch. Instead, based on Zhou Yuji's 5,000 brave guard battalion, Liaodong military households were recruited and expanded to 20,000. Among them, there are 5,000 cavalry and 15,000 infantry including chariot and camp soldiers. It is equivalent to one original soldier having to lead three new soldiers.
The reason for such expansion is that it can form combat effectiveness as quickly as possible. Of course, there was nothing that could be done about it. Within this month, news came from the capital that the imperial court had lost many cities.
The most important battle of Kaifeng started in May, and there was really no time to train troops with peace of mind.
After receiving a positive reply, Zhang Mingwei stood up excitedly and immediately said to them, "Okay, let's give the Battle of Songjin a final ending! Beat the drum to send orders and start a military meeting!"
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