Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 334
Jiangzhou Battalion is one of the 300 battalions of Chen Jin's Yangtze River Navy. It belongs to a newly reorganized army and horses. It has real soldiers and real wages. Not only does it have a thousand soldiers on the book, but there are actually a thousand soldiers.Moreover, this water battalion also imitated the Ming army, and also established a husband battalion, which was responsible for transportation and other logistics, with [-] people.

The battalion officers and others also have certain followers and servants, these are not counted in the quota of the regular soldiers.Cannons, floating cities, forts, bird guns, and armor are all fully rationed.

Not only did Chen Jin have high hopes that he called it the mainstay, and he could break the arrogance of the Ming army and navy.

"How could this be?"

Ma Degong, deputy general of the Zhenjiang Battalion, saw that the Jiangzhou Battalion surrendered, the fort fell, and two floating cities were lost. Many ships also surrendered.

Right now, the Ming army is very close to Zhenjiang. After taking over Jiangzhou, they basically declared that they have completely controlled the water surface of the Yangtze River.

After Ma Degong's Zhenjiang Xiezhen was changed to Zhenjiang Shuiying, he still guarded the Xijin Ferry under Beigu Mountain. His battalion, like the Jiangzhou Camp, was newly reorganized, with a thousand soldiers in full, plus family members. , Minfu, a total of 500 people.

Gear is also replenished.

But looking at Jiangzhou several miles away, the water battalion, which is now at the forefront, has no fighting spirit.Even the main general Ma Degong was very desperate.

"We can't keep it."

At this time, he seemed to be in Digang, Wuhu again. The Qing army chased Hongguang to Huang Degong's barracks. Hong Guang rushed to the Qing camp to surrender.

In less than half a year, has the situation reversed like this?
At this moment, Ma Degong was extremely desperate.

He wanted to surrender, but he had coerced the emperor to surrender, how could the Ming Kingdom tolerate him now?If you don't surrender, how can you keep it.

In the city of Zhenjiang.

The Zhenjiang City in the Ming Dynasty was not as profound as it was in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and it was not as brilliant as the Six Dynasties. After the Ming Dynasty established Nanjing as its capital, Zhu Yuanzhang inspected Zhenjiang and rebuilt Zhenjiang City. This time, the scope of the Zhenjiang City adjacent to Nanjing was reduced, but it was stronger than the Tang and Song Dynasties. In the era, they were all built with thick and strong super large city bricks.

After Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, Zhenjiang's serious military status declined, but its economy developed rapidly, becoming an important port city for North-South transshipment in the Ming Dynasty, and the transit trade involved many North-South goods.

Zhenjiang, where business and trade are developed, has formed 22 lanes, 93 lanes in the city, [-] lanes outside the city, [-] cities, [-] streets, [-] lanes, and eight townships under its jurisdiction.

Hongguang Dynasty once focused on building Zhenjiang's defense, but in the end it was also vulnerable and collapsed without a fight.

"Jinglue, damn it!"

Chen Jin, who had fled back to Zhenjiang City in embarrassment, was disheartened and depressed.

He still hasn't figured out why the Jiangzhou camp turned against him. The green camp was reorganized and the navy was rebuilt. After spending so much money, why did a group of rebels come out?

In January, the reward was increased from one or three taels of silver to two taels, and just now five taels of silver were paid, why are they still not satisfied?
"These people are secretly selling gunpowder. If I find out, I should kill them and arrest them all, so it won't be like this." Chen Jin deeply regretted it.

Yan Wogong sat there with a blank expression on his face.

Next to it are Huaiyang Governor Chen Tai, Governor of Water Transport, Zhang Dayou, Governor of Jiangning, Jiangning Meilezhang Jingba Mountain, and Tu Guobao, the right chief envoy who just came from Suzhou, stationed in Suzhou Meilezhang Jingkangkala, etc.

Everyone looked at him like a dead man.

"I've been pouring all my strength into the south of the Yangtze River to help you build the [-]th Battalion of Jiangnan Waterproof Division, and this is the result?" Yan Wogong stood up, "Admiral Chen, the imperial court values ​​you so much, and this strategy also strongly supports you. If you want money, give it to me." If you want food, you will get money, if you want a ship, you will get it back, if you want soldiers, you will get them back, if you want guns, you will get them back, and if you want gunpowder, you will be given priority, but in the end, you resell them and end up in the hands of the Ming army?"

"Now it's even more of a defection before the battle. Tell me, who are you right?"

"You still have the face to come back?"

Chen Jin was extremely embarrassed, so he had to say, "I am indeed duty-bound to rebel in the Jiangzhou camp, but please give me a chance."

"Opportunity? How can this strategy trust you, how can the imperial court trust you? Of your twelve battalions, which battalion can you trust?"

"This strategy now seriously doubts whether the Zhenjiang battalion can be trusted. General Bashan, please take the Eight Banners to take over Ma Degong's Zhenjiang battalion immediately. Xijindu will be garrisoned by General Bashan first."

"We'll talk about it after we find out about the Zhenjiang camp."

"If the Zhenjiang battalion rebels again, we will all die without a place to die."

Ba Shan got up, "Please don't worry, our Eight Banners will never let bright thieves go ashore."

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Xijin Ferry, Ma Degong Camp.

A servant delivered a letter to him, "Someone suddenly stuffed me with a letter, which said it was addressed to the general."

Ma Degong opened it, and after a few glances, his expression changed drastically.

"General?"

"Go and ask Liu Zhongjun and the others to come over, hurry up."

The content of that letter was astonishing. It was the decision Yan Wogong made at the meeting of senior military officers in Zhenjiang City just now. He wanted to send Bashan to pick up Xijindu, and even surrounded Zhenjiang Camp. Yan Jinglue suspected that they were the same as Jiangzhou Camp. To be transparent, someone should be sent over to conduct a comprehensive search and even interrogate.Once they are found to be collaborating with the enemy, reselling arms, or withholding military pay, they will be taken away immediately.

In a word, Yan Jinglue didn't trust them anymore.

Suspicion never existed.

More than a dozen officers arrived, and Ma Degong handed the letter to them. Some illiterate old men asked Ma Degong to tell them the content directly.

After listening.

All fried.

The reason is very simple. No one is a good bird these days. For example, Ma Degong and the others were originally from the Yongwei Battalion. There are also some problems, but they are relatively better.

Later, after Ma Degong and others followed Huang Degong and became one of the four towns of Hongguang, they quickly degenerated. There was no way not to degenerate under the circumstances at that time, because the imperial court could not provide them with enough food and salary, so they could only find their own way. Facing huge pressure from the Qing army and the Chuang army, and even the threat of internal warlords, it can only sweep the ground into soldiers and expand rapidly.

This will inevitably aggravate the problem of food and payment, and also make the military discipline loose.

Once the opening is opened, it can no longer be blocked.

Ma Degong was later surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and became a local green camp. Those whose parents didn’t love their mothers had to make a living on their own. The Jiangzhou camp sold gunpowder, and the Zhenjiang camp was no better.

Corruption and misappropriation of money for shipbuilding, gunpowder for gunpowder, and even secretly selling ships, guns, and gunpowder, and reporting their sinking are naturally routine methods.

Others such as looting, forced donations, etc., more.

In a word, no one's butt is clean.

If you really need to check it, then it's all over.

"We worked our lives for the imperial court, with our heads pinned to our trouser belts, and we were fighting with knives and fire. Now such a trivial matter, you want to settle accounts with us?" Some people were indignant. "No wonder the Jiangzhou camp wants to rebel, who the hell wouldn't?"

"General, turn against his mother."

Several officers shouted to rebel, "When the Manchurian soldiers come and surround us, don't they have the final say on whether we will be killed or cut?"

Ma Degong hesitated.

There was a hurdle in his heart that he couldn't overcome, and he didn't dare to surrender at all.

"Junzhen, there is a boat coming from Jiangzhou, saying that it was ordered by Lu Jianguo to deliver a reward edict to the general."

(End of this chapter)