They all want to surrender to themselves, but they refuse to surrender to Sun Chuanting. It may be because they are the highest court officials in Shu, and surrendering to them will get the best treatment.
Of course, it is also possible that he wanted to show his last love to Li Zicheng. Because in this case, his main force would have to disperse to recruit Anliu thieves, and he would not be able to pursue Li Zicheng directly in one go.
Of course, no one will say what the reason is. In fact, Zhang Mingwei didn't mind too much about this.
Because he had no intention of killing Li Zicheng now, otherwise, he would not adopt this strategy.
Whether it's Zhang Xianzhong or Li Zicheng, they'd better keep cleaning up the toast for themselves.
In addition, Li Guo and the others still had great achievements. If they had not acted so quickly, not only would they have had to fight more battles and kill more people, but there would also have been a reoccurrence of thieves holding the place hostage in the areas controlled by Li Zicheng. This will do great harm to local people's livelihood.
For these reasons, Zhang Mingwei did not delve into the reasons. He just sat in Chongqing and went to recruit bandits from various places. In addition to appeasing the local area, he also sent an order to Sun Chuanting to come to Chongqing.
At this time, Zhang Mingwei looked at the people below. In addition to basically agreeing to their requests, he also asked: "What are your plans in the future? I promised before that I will not force you to do anything." !”
Li Guo was the most happy. When he heard the sound, he came out of the queue, clasped his hands and said: "My lord, I will go to Dongjiang Town to listen to Liao Dongbo's order to attack Jianqi!"
Regarding the matter here, he has rescued so many old brothers, no longer fights with each other, and has a great future, so he has no worries. As for Li Zicheng? He has already experienced it, so this is the only way!
Hearing this? Zhang Mingwei nodded with a smile and said: "Is that so? Based on your contribution in Shu and your ability, I will recommend you as the deputy general of Dongjiang Town to assist Liaodong Bo to strengthen Dongjiang Town?" We must clean up the captives."
The deputy general of Dongjiang Town? Also known as the deputy general.
After Li Guo heard this, he immediately responded: "I will obey your orders!"
When Yuan Zongdi saw it, he also went out to report: "The last general is also willing to go to Liaodong to fight against Japanese invaders!"
In addition to him, including Gao Yigong, Hao Yaoqi, etc.? These Li Zicheng's subordinates all expressed the same meaning.
After hearing this, Zhang Mingwei also understood that they did not want to fight against their former master.
If it were anyone else, they would feel that their sincerity in surrendering to the court was not genuine enough, would they be unhappy, and might even force them to do it.
But Zhang Mingwei doesn't want to do this. For someone with a rough background, morality is the bottom line. He won't like people who have no bottom line.
Now there are Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, the two biggest thieves in Yunnan and Guizhou. None of their men want to face them, and Zhang Mingwei doesn't care because he has other arrangements.
After they all expressed their intention to fight Jianlu, Zhang Mingwei said with a smile: "I can agree to all your requests, but there will be some minor adjustments."
Upon hearing this, especially the newly surrendered bandit leader, he became a little nervous. They didn't know if Duke Xingguo wanted to test them.
However, Zhang Mingwei did not make them suspicious, but immediately said: "It's unrealistic for all of you to go to Dongjiang Town. It's just an island. To fight Jianlu, you don't necessarily have to go to Dongjiang Town. Li Laiheng went there first. At that time, he was under the command of the Shanhaiguan Commander-in-Chief."
Hearing this, these newly surrendered bandit leaders breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that it was just a small adjustment, so there would be no problem.
However, Zhang Mingwei has not yet finished his words: "To attack the Jianlu, my plan is to start by cutting off the Jianlu's wings. Those Mongols helped the tyrants to do harm, and they also caused great harm to the Ming Dynasty. Just last year, they also Following Jianlu's orders, he attacked the important towns on all fronts and caused harm to many border areas. Among them, Qin and Jin were the worst!"
The bandits were all in Shu and were not very clear about this matter. Only a few of them had some information when they captured Sun Chuanting's men.
Moreover, most of them are from Shaanxi, and also from northern Shaanxi. They have known about the Mongol Tatars' invasion of the pass since they were young. Of course they won't take kindly to this.
When they heard Duke Xingguo's words, they immediately understood and hurriedly came out one by one to express their wishes strongly.
"My lord, let the general go and deal with those Tatars!"
"That's right, if you don't deal with them severely, you won't even know how many eyes Lord Ma has!"
"Blood debt must be paid with blood. I have wanted to kill them for a long time!"
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Seeing that his morale was ready, Zhang Mingwei nodded and said seriously: "Anyone who dares to invade the Ming Dynasty will have to pay the price with blood. The ancients once said that those who offend strong men will be killed no matter how far away they are. Now I want them to know, Anyone who dares to invade the Ming Dynasty will be punished no matter how far away they are!"
This sentence has become very common on the Internet in later generations, and it can be said to be quite cliché.
But for these bandits in front of them, most of them heard about it for the first time. However, the domineering power revealed in these words was the most to their liking. Therefore, upon hearing this, everyone immediately became excited and shouted, "Even if they are far away, they will be killed."
Therefore, Zhang Mingwei made arrangements. After reorganizing the bandits' army, he sent them out to retaliate against the Mongolian Tatars outside the Great Wall from Shaanxi to Shanhaiguan.
It is expected that a force of 150,000, including Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi, Yuan Zongdi, Gao Yigong, Hao Yaoqi, Tian Jianxiu and others, will sweep across the entire Mongolian Tatars adjacent to the Ming Dynasty border.
Later, Li Zicheng's old troops such as Yuan Zongdi, Gao Yigong and Hao Yaoqi went to Dongjiang Town to take up guerrilla military positions to strengthen their strength there; while Li Dingguo, Ai Nengqi, Liu Wenxiu and Tian Jianxiu went to Shanhaiguan to Become under Yan Yingyuan's command and enhance the strength of Shanhaiguan.
The land of Yunnan and Guizhou has many high mountains and primeval forests, which are not suitable for cavalry.
And time should also be set aside for Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng to harm those chieftains. In addition, officials who can manage local areas need to be prepared and trained, which also takes time.
Therefore, for the war in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty, it is better to slow down rather than rush, and the correct approach is to advance slowly and reduce the territory of the bandits.
The focus of the next war will still shift to Liaodong to completely eliminate the Jianlu!
This is Zhang Mingwei's plan.
However, this matter cannot be rushed. It will take time to reorganize the bandit army, and it will take time for the court to send people to take over. In addition, Zhang Mingwei’s Shu territory must be digested and the results will be seen and a model will be formed before he can leave with confidence. .
What he meant was also told to Sun Chuanting, who rushed to Chongqing later.
Sun Chuanting certainly had no objection to this.
In fact, the most suitable method for war in Yunnan and Guizhou is to recruit and train soldiers and horses on the spot. Otherwise, the climate, water and soil issues alone could cause a lot of men in the north to lose their numbers.
Sun Chuanting, who has led soldiers for many years, naturally pays great attention to these matters.
Most of the recruited bandits are from the Qin Dynasty and from the Central Plains. It is most appropriate to transfer them to fight the Mongolian Tatars and Jianlu captives, which also makes the recruitment of bandits very meaningful. It was like the imperial court suddenly had hundreds of thousands more elites and its strength increased greatly, which was definitely beyond Jianlu's imagination.
However, there was one thing he couldn't figure out about his arrangement for Duke Xingguo.
Even in Zhang Mingwei's arrangement, he seems to be very attached to the chieftain territory in the southwest of Shu. Is it worth spending so much energy?
He had already had his opinions before, but now that he was face to face with Duke Xingguo, with his temper, he would definitely speak out.
I saw Sun Chuanting bowing to Duke Xing, and then asked with a serious face: "My lord, there is something that I can't understand. Maybe I am stupid. Please give me an explanation."
Hearing this, Zhang Mingwei smiled slightly and said, "If you have anything to do, just say it!"
Therefore, Sun Chuanting became rude and said seriously: "Now that money and food are limited, I thought that we should concentrate our money, food and troops on suppressing thieves and regaining the wealthy areas first. In this way, not only the money and food can be replenished in time, but also It is easy to govern and taxes can be collected. However, the official’s arrangement is entirely focused on the numerous chieftain territories in the southwest of Shu. The official believes that this is putting the cart before the horse and is not an urgent matter at the moment!”
After finishing speaking, he felt that the meaning of the question was too obvious, so Sun Chuanting quickly added: "Perhaps this official is stupid and doesn't understand the profound meaning of the Duke's arrangement. I would like to ask the Duke to give me some advice."
Even though I said that, it was actually more of a polite statement.
How could Zhang Mingwei not be able to see Sun Chuanting's true thoughts? He was not a very well-connected person, and it was all written on his face.
However, Zhang Mingwei didn't mind and said with a slight smile: "The chieftains are all local emperors and are outside the jurisdiction of the imperial court. This is absolutely not allowed. It is a convenient move to complete the conversion and return to the country while the army is gathering in Shu. Otherwise, if we go back and focus on rehabilitating people, the cost will be many times higher."
Sun Chuanting had actually thought of this reason, so it was not surprising.
He also had an idea about this matter, so he immediately replied: "Although it is indeed the case, but now the money and food are limited, and there are many wastes waiting to be revitalized, why does the Duke pay attention to those poor mountains and rivers? The lower official thinks that it is almost enough. Wait for it later. If you have the energy, just take care of it."
Hearing this, Zhang Mingwei couldn't help but laugh, looked at Sun Chuanting and said, "Do you really think that those chieftain territories are all barren and poor?"
Sun Chuanting was stunned for a moment and thought to himself, isn't it?
But since Duke Xingguo said this, there must be something inside, but he should be sure of one thing, so he replied: "It's hard to say about other places. At least there are many chieftain territories in the southwest of Shu. In this way, it was because the imperial court looked down upon them that they let the chieftains take care of themselves. But the Duke seems to be more interested in that side. I don’t know why?"
