On Guan Ningjun's side, to be honest, there was not much respect for the imperial power. In the early years, he even forced the governor of Liaodong to death over his pay, and he was also the eldest brother who was the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs at that time, which is evident from this.
Also from that time on, Guan Ning's army always accounted for the majority of all military expenditures in the Ming Dynasty. Even if other frontier troops were owed pay for several months or even years, and finally sold their sons and daughters to join the bandits because they could no longer survive, Guan Ning's army always accounted for the bulk of the military expenditure. That is to say, no matter how poor you are, you can't impoverish Guan Ningjun, and no matter how much you owe money, you can't owe Guan Ningjun.
Under such a situation, Guan Ningjun felt that he was the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty. It was all thanks to them that Jianlu was unable to enter the pass directly. Faintly, their Guan Ning Army is superior to other armies.
But no matter what, as far as the individual soldiers in Guan Ning's army are concerned, they certainly want to join the emperor's close brigade. However, none of their troops could enter. Instead, the border troops they looked down upon were selected into the Royal Horse Prison. It is said that military pay is higher than other armies and treatment is better. When hearing this, many people are dissatisfied.
Even if they heard about the great victory in Tianjin, they were still unconvinced. In their opinion, when the situation was so good, the Jianlu troops were allowed to escort nearly 200,000 Ming people and countless properties back to Liaodong. If it were the Guan Ning army, they would definitely take all the Jianlu troops. Those who stay in the customs.
Based on this idea, when they listened to the noise coming from the city, each one of them was holding back their energy, just wanting to take a good look at the unlucky old army. They believe that with their eyes, they can definitely see what kind of army that army is!
Even Wu Sangui actually has this idea. Therefore, they all paid attention to the south gate of the capital.
Not long after, the three major battalions came out. Just from a distance, you can see that their uniforms seem to be brand new.
Even for Guan Ningjun, the military uniforms cannot be changed frequently, so at this first glance, they couldn't help but feel a little jealous. It seems that the treatment of the emperor's imperial guards is really good!
Slowly, the army came closer and closer, and they could see more and more clearly.
The soldiers of Guan Ning's army were all looking with wide eyes, trying to see that this imperial army was actually a gold and jade army but was surrounded by defeat. The emperor was blind and chose them to be the imperial army.
However, the soldiers of the Guan Ning Army slowly looked serious one by one, because from their perspective, the army coming in front of them was definitely elite. Many sergeants, one look at their energy and spirit, and you will know that they are veterans and elites on the battlefield!
The original idea was broken, and some soldiers of the Guan Ning Army fell silent. However, some soldiers of the Guan Ning Army whispered to their colleagues in a somewhat resentful voice: "Look, that, and that, You can tell at a glance that he is a newbie, and he will probably pee his pants when he goes to the battlefield!"
Some comrades nodded in agreement; some comrades remained silent; and some comrades still told the truth: "Those must be new recruits from refugees. But looking at their energy, we had What?"
In this regard, these proud soldiers actually have to admit that even for recruits who have only been in the army for a few months, they are very good. It might not be enough to fight against the Jianlu, but if you just fight against the Rogues, it should be no problem. What's more, there are so many veterans here!
Therefore, after seeing this, the soldiers of the Guan Ning Army stopped despising this army.
When the emperor's flag appeared, Wu Sangui immediately gathered his thoughts and rushed over to see the emperor.
Emperor Chongzhen did not sit on a royal chariot. He was just riding a horse like an ordinary soldier.
In his previous life, he had never ridden a war horse, but in the past few months, he had been practicing for a while because he was preparing to lead troops to fight in the future. It was impossible for him to charge into battle, but if he just rode on horseback, there would be no problem.
"Wu Sangui, the deputy general of the right battalion of the Guan Ning Army, has met His Majesty." Wu Sangui arrived on horseback, immediately got off his horse, cupped his fists and saluted, "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
This was the first time Emperor Chongzhen saw this famous figure in history. Looking at it now, when he was young, he had fair skin and handsome appearance, and he looked like a heroic young general. His appearance can indeed add a lot of points to him.
However, from the perspective of Emperor Chongzhen at this time, his image in the original history would inevitably flash through his mind. Therefore, no matter how good the image was, it could not match the impression in his mind.
Emperor Chongzhen told himself that those were things that did not happen, and Wu Sangui could not be seen in the light of the original history. So, he responded to the original memory of Emperor Chongzhen in his mind, and suddenly discovered that the one impression he had about Wu Sangui was just the story of him taking twenty servants to save his father outside the city, and fighting with countless Tatars. However, there was nothing else special. However, now that Wu Sangui is so young, he has already become a deputy general in the elite army of the Ming Dynasty.
Generally speaking, in ancient times, filial piety was the first priority and great emphasis was placed on filial piety. Therefore, Wu Sangui's story of bravely saving his father will definitely win the favor of the Ming Dynasty, from the emperor to the common people.
However, in later generations, Emperor Chongzhen read a lot of historical time travel online articles. There are often stories like this. In order to gain reputation and get involved in official circles, the protagonist will create an image of a filial son. Anyway, he will do similar things to gain a certain amount of capital for himself.
Therefore, when Emperor Chongzhen recalled Wu Sangui's family background and his experiences, a thought suddenly flashed in his mind, could Wu Sangui be the same?
Behind Wu Sangui was the military power of the Zuwu family. He passed the military examination before he was twenty. At the age of twenty, he became a guerrilla general in Guan Ning's army. At the age of twenty-three, he was promoted to Guan Ning. He is the deputy general of the right battalion of the forward army of the army; when he was 26 years old last year, he was the deputy general of the right battalion of the forward army of Guan Ning army, which is equivalent to the deputy general of the army.
If Wu Sangui made countless military exploits, it is understandable that Ji Gong became the deputy commander-in-chief at such an age. For example, Cao Bianjiao became the deputy commander-in-chief at the recommendation of Hong Chengchou when he was twenty-six years old. However, Cao Bianjiao, the deputy commander-in-chief, had made countless well-documented military exploits and was a truly famous general, so he was promoted.
However, Wu Sangui actually had no military exploits at all. He only said that he performed well, bravely won the three armies, and bravely saved his father, and then he became the deputy commander-in-chief. He, the deputy commander, definitely has a lot of moisture!
Emperor Chongzhen was thinking about these things, and for a moment he forgot that Wu Sangui was attending the ceremony.
As a result, Wu Sangui became depressed. Originally, he thought that the emperor would be very happy to praise him. By the way, he worked hard in entering the customs. He specially named his beloved general Wu Sangui as the chief military officer of the aid and suppression, so that he should work hard and so on.
However, the emperor was completely different from what he thought. At this moment, he felt a little embarrassed.
But it's useless to be embarrassed. This is in front of the emperor, not Ning Jin.
After a while, Emperor Chongzhen came back to his senses. He asked him to get up with a smile and introduced the generals behind him: "Come, let me introduce to you. This is Wu Sangui, who bravely championed Guan Ning's army. I specially named him. Let him accompany you on this expedition!"
Hearing this, all the general soldiers surrounding Emperor Chongzhen all clasped their fists together in salute.
When Wu Sangui saw this, his heart that was a little hurt suddenly felt much better. It seemed that the emperor still valued him very much. After praising himself, is he going to make himself the commander-in-chief of the Suppression and Reinforcement Army?
While he was thinking about it, he saw a bearded general soldier grinning and saying: "It's so powerful, how about we try two moves sometime?"
One look at this man and he knew he was a Mongolian. Based on the information he had received before, Wu Sangui roughly guessed that this person should be Hu Dawei, the Mongolian commander-in-chief in the Hussars camp. He didn't seem to believe in himself or convinced himself, so he wanted to speak.
But before he could speak, Emperor Chongzhen had already said with a smile: "Don't look at his big beard, but he is actually one of my fierce generals. He is a mighty hussar, and he was promoted from a small soldier who accumulated meritorious deeds and killed the enemy. What happened in the past Let’s not talk about it, let’s talk about the fight against the Jianqi this time. He and General Yang Guozhu, here, he was the right-hand man beside Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Baoding, fighting against the Jianqi with ten times the strength, and refused to take a step back. Especially when he was stationed at the end When the reinforcements arrived, the mountains outside Jiajiazhuang were filled with the corpses of Jianluo..."
After introducing Hu Dawei, he seemed to be in a good mood, so he introduced several other general soldiers. Their deeds were all well-founded. It was not just about wiping out many bandits and killing them until they heard the news and fled. Even in this battle of Jianlu, no matter how they swarmed and fought, the results were obvious. Nearly 30,000 Tatars were defeated before and after. The heads alone numbered more than 10,000, and there were also prisoners, all of whom were captured alive. , there are quite a few.
Emperor Chongzhen introduced this, Wu Sangui has been listening attentively. At the beginning, he actually looked down upon these general soldiers. Even when the emperor introduced them and killed the thieves and fled upon hearing the news, he was still a little disapproving and felt that he should be able to do it himself. However, when he heard later that these general soldiers had made real contributions in the war with Jianlu, he was a little moved.
He knew Jianlu's strength very well among the Guan Ning army. When they heard the news about Dajie before, they listened selectively, not believing that they would be worse than them. However, at this time, with Emperor Chongzhen's personal account and the foreshadowing of the eliteness of the army he had seen before, he had to face up to the merits of these general soldiers. Even if he thought he might be able to do it, he couldn't deny the power of these general soldiers.
After Emperor Chongzhen finished the introduction, He Renlong suddenly asked: "I wonder how powerful Vice General Wu is at being crowned the three armies? I haven't heard of it before. Guan Ning's army doesn't seem to have won it in these years either." Pass Jianlu's head, right?"
He also had a martial arts background. He started out as a defender and risked his life on the battlefield. He was called He Madman before he finally rose up in the army. As a frontier army member of Yansui Border Town, it has to be said that He Renlong has always felt unfair due to the uneven distribution of military pay.
He was from Mizhi and was one of the sources of rebellion in the late Ming Dynasty. The reason why it is difficult to suppress the bandits is because many border soldiers are owed wages and cannot survive, so they have to rebel. He was actually sympathetic to these. Therefore, his army took in many fellow villagers who had been bandits in the past, such as Gao Jie and others.
If the court was fairer and could allocate some military pay from Guan Ning's army, there might not be so many soldiers from the side joining the bandits. Therefore, when he heard that Wu Sangui was coming to meet the driver and announced his identity, he immediately paid attention to him.
Although He Renlong has the image of a big boss, he is actually very sensitive to the demeanor of Wu Sangui, who is like a young man. At the first moment, he could faintly feel Wu Sangui's contempt for those who came from the frontier army. Therefore, he listened carefully, and after the emperor finished speaking, he opened his mouth to embarrass Wu Sangui.
When Wu Sangui heard what He Renlong said, he wanted to retaliate without thinking. How could he lose face in front of the emperor.
However, when he opened his mouth, he found that he couldn't seem to say anything. To win the three armies bravely? Any military exploits?
Cao Bianjiao used to follow his uncle Cao Wenzhao in the Guan Ning Army, so he naturally knew about Wu Sangui. Seeing that he was speechless at this time, he smoothed things over for him and said: "I heard that Vice General Wu ignored the 100,000 Tatars outside the city and only brought 20 servants to see his father rescued him. It can be seen from this that, He is indeed a brave general!”
"Haha, 100,000 Tatars?" He Renlong couldn't help but grinned after hearing this, "Such words can only deceive ignorant people. Is it possible that he really breaks into an army of 100,000 Tatars to save people?" ? I’ve already turned into a hedgehog! Who among us doesn’t have a rough idea of the specific situation!”
Wu Sangui's face flushed, but he had nothing to say. The people in front of them were truly killed from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. Even if you want to defend yourself, you can’t!
As He Renlong said, if we were really surrounded by a hundred thousand Tatars, let alone being shot by Jianlu, we would not have the strength to kill them. But his father had already escaped, and all he faced were a handful of pursuers. But when speaking to the outside world, of course the total strength of the Tatars is taken into account.
Seeing this situation, Emperor Chongzhen smiled secretly in his heart, and it seemed to have worked.
So, he pretended to have a serious face and said to He Renlong: "Why, don't you believe in Vice General Wu's courage?"
Before He Renlong could reply, he turned back, looked at Wu Sangui, and said with a smile: "Vice General Wu, when you go out with me this time, show your skills and show them and me how to bravely defeat the three armies." ?”
It can be made clear from these words that there is no reinforcement and suppression general, but Deputy General Wu.
However, at this time, Wu Sangui was actually only twenty-seven years old. He was considered a little eagle that had just left the nest. When he heard the emperor's words, his blood surged and his veins were excited. He immediately promised: "The general will fight bravely to kill the enemy. Live up to His Majesty’s expectations!”
