I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 287 Chapter 280

Shanxi and Shaanxi are fighting everywhere. The battle for Dalinghe City in Liaodong is at a critical juncture, and another mutiny occurred in Shandong.

Of course the imperial court must mobilize troops to suppress the rebellion!
At the beginning of February, Yang Yufan, the general soldier of Tongzhou, and Wang Hong, the general soldier of Tianjin, led more than 6000 people to fight the rebels eighty miles away from Ye County.

The reason why the two general officers dared to rush forward was because the news they received when they were dispatched was completely different from what they had received at this time.

The information at that time showed that more than a thousand Liao soldiers rioted and destroyed several county towns, and took thousands of prisoners, gangsters, and refugees to loot their homes.

The two commanders-in-chief led several generals, guerrillas, and capital divisions, and led more than 6000 soldiers and horses. Of course, they didn't take the rebels seriously.

Who knew that the rebel army was led by Li Jiucheng, the self-appointed governor, with 1 cavalry and more than [-] infantry.

The result was very funny, because there were many rebel cavalry, the Ming army from Tongzhou and Tianjin could not escape, and half of the troops surrendered.

The two general officers and a group of generals fled into Laizhou City with just over 300 riders.

When the bad news spread to the capital, Emperor Chongzhen was furious but had nothing to do. The great eunuch Wang Kun, who was in the emperor's heart, had no choice but to bite the bullet and advise that he could mobilize the peace army to suppress the rebellion.

Clay figurines still have three parts earthy nature, let alone a great eunuch like Wang Kun.

He was bullied by Huang Yi for half a year and hated him to death. He hoped that he would never see that devil again in this life.

Unexpectedly, all kinds of phenomena showed that the emperor wanted him to continue to supervise the army, and it was the supervisor Denglai who suppressed the rebellion.

Are the Denglei rebels taking it easy?

According to intelligence, no less than [-] Hongyi cannons and more than [-] Fran cannons fell into the hands of the rebels.

As an army supervisor, is it useful for him to supervise the newly appointed Shandong Governor Xu Congzhi and Denglai Governor Xie Lian to put down the rebellion?

The two governors lost the battle and at most they were dismissed from office. I am afraid that he, the superintendent, will be killed by the emperor!
After weighing the pros and cons for three days, Wang Kun stopped pretending and decided to show his cards. If he wanted to quell the Denglai rebellion, he had to mobilize the peace army.

As for whether he will be ordered around by Huang Yi again after acting with the Xinghe Army again, he doesn't care.

But he firmly believed that the devil Huang Yi shouldn't target him.

Because he asked himself, he didn't think about revenge at all during the more than a month since he returned to the capital, and he didn't do anything that was detrimental to the Xinghe Army or Huang Yi.

Isn't following the Xinghe Army just a little bit of hardship and tiring to reap benefits?
As long as you can win the battle and get the credit, it's nothing, it's better than being sentenced to death for defeat!

Ever since, the eunuch Wang did not avoid enmity, and in front of Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun asked Xinghe army to enter the pass to quell the rebellion.

He also confessed the military discipline of the Xinghe Army he had seen with his own eyes, and vowed that as long as Huang Yi led three thousand Xinghe Army to participate in the suppression of the rebellion, Wang Kun dared to guarantee success.

Emperor Chongzhen knew about the Xinghe Army, he also knew about Huang Yi, and he also knew that Huang Yi was Geng Ruqi's son-in-law. He still clearly remembered Geng Zhanghua who joined the army in order to save his father.

In less than three years, these two teenagers have grown up, and they are both deputy generals from the second rank.

Emperor Chongzhen never minded that the civil servants and generals were young, because he himself was very young.

Thinking back when he was only 17 years old, he was able to defeat the eunuchs and force him to death for nine thousand years, is he considered young and promising?
Emperor Chongzhen has always been self-righteous, and he didn't realize how stupid he was when he disintegrated the eunuch party and forced Wei Zhongxian to death until the moment before the country's subjugation.

Now Chongzhen still feels good about himself, he values ​​Geng Zhanghua and Huang Yi.

Since Huang Yi's Xinghe Army can fight, and since Wang Kun believes that mobilizing Xinghe Army to Denglai to suppress the rebellion will surely succeed, let's transfer it!
However, Wang Kun complained that it was not that simple to reconcile the army. If there was not enough food, fodder, horse feed, and starting money, the devil would never obey the order.

At the end of February, Huang Yi received an order from the Ministry of War and Governor Xuanda, requiring the Xinghe Army to move out within half a month.

Huang Yi asked for a postponement to the beginning of April on the grounds that spring plowing had just begun and the Xinghe Army had to seize the farming season.

And it was reported that the Xinghe Army would dispatch 36 cavalry, [-] infantry, artillery, and [-] Hongyi cannons.

Because there are many cavalry and each has two horses, many grooms are needed.

And because the Hongyi cannon imitated by the Xinghe Army weighed more than three thousand catties, it was necessary to recruit a large number of civilians.

Therefore, to mobilize three thousand soldiers of the Xinghe Army, it is necessary to mobilize five thousand conscripts, 10 taels of silver, and [-] shi of horse feed and grain...

And because the rebel army had many artillery pieces, the Xinghe Army had to have more intense artillery fire to be able to win the battle. Therefore, the Ministry of War was required to allocate [-] catties of gunpowder and [-] five-kiloton Hongyi cannons.

Huang Yi was just asking for a lot of money, and didn't expect the court to really give Hongyi a cannon.

They would rather Hongyi Cannon be captured by the rebels of Li Jiuzheng and Kong Youde than give it to any group of people.

It is well known how inefficient the late Ming Dynasty was.

Huang Yi began to reply after receiving the transfer order from the Ministry of War and Xuanda, and deliberately did not rush six hundred miles.

The official document was sent back and forth, but the substantive issue did not make any progress, and it disappeared in half a month.

Going back and forth a few times, it must have gone through spring and autumn...

Anyway, Huang Yi is not in a hurry. His plan is to completely defeat the rebels when the Liaohai freezes and makes navigation impossible, and take for himself the gold and silver treasures, emeralds and agates worth millions of taels that the rebels robbed.

It is guessed that after this battle, within two or three years, the Xinghe Army will no longer have to worry about money.

In order to embezzle all the seizures, you must act independently.

It also means relying on the strength of the Xinghe Army to completely wipe out the rebels.

After half a year, it is necessary for the soldiers and horses of the imperial court to fill in the pits a few more times!

In order to avoid fighting with other Ming troops, they would be separated and seized in large numbers.

Wang Kun was not stupid. He would never go to Denglai without seeing the Xinghe Army. He personally went to the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Industry to implement the food, gunpowder, and artillery for the Xinghe Army.

Running these ministries requires not only power, but also money.

Wang Kun has no money!

He spent all his savings at the beginning to get the good job of supervising the army Xuanda.

I thought that after two or three years, I could earn a few 10 taels of silver, and throw it to the supervisor of ceremonies and eunuchs in power, and I could save one hundred and eighty thousand taels of silver.

Unexpectedly, the reality is very skinny, he, a military eunuch, returned to the capital with nothing to do.

There is no way to do things without money!
What?

Just play tricks!

Ever since, Wang Kun became even more famous, because he quarreled every day, with the Minister of the Ministry of War, the Minister of the Ministry of War, and the officials of the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry...

The Xinghe Army refused to set off without food and salaries, and without cannons and gunpowder.

The reason is simple, the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers.

The rebels have too many cannons, and not enough cannons and gunpowder to fight is going to die!

However, Wang Kun's quarrel was just a waste of time, and he was not able to ask for food, gunpowder, and artillery.

The emperor urged him again and again, and Wang Kun, who was forced to do nothing, had to cry out what happened in the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Industry these days, crying bitterly.

(End of this chapter)