Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 34
afternoon.

Ningbo Yincheng is extremely hot and humid, without a breath of wind.Suddenly a thunderbolt fell from the blue sky, the situation changed, the sky was dim, and dark clouds gathered.

"It is going to rain."

In Qian's mansion, all the gentry gathered for a secret meeting were also fanning their fans non-stop. Seeing the wind blowing, they went directly to the porch outside the house one by one.

"It's going to rain, I can't control my mother getting married." Lin Shi said to him as he opened his clothes.

Qian Sule leaned on an ebony staff, worried.

"The three of Cangshui and Huaxia went out, and they haven't heard anything back so far, and we don't know what's going on."

No news, perhaps the worst news.

Wang Zhiren, the Zhejiang Soldier, had already been recruited before, and even handed over the official seal of the Zhejiang Soldier General to the Northern Envoy and handed it over to Boluo. Now it is not easy to instigate rebellion.

As for Zhang Mingzhen, he is an old friend of Wang Zhiren, and the two have a close relationship.

"Maybe we should send someone to Zhoushan again."

During this time, Qian Sule was on hunger strike and was dying to revolt. He was exhausted physically and mentally, and he was much older, but for the sake of the current situation, he was still holding on. "Huang Binqing was a general and vice president in Zhoushan before. Bing, we are quite familiar with, this person has always acted arrogantly and domineeringly, he has often violated our people in Ningbo, merchants and people, the Tartars fought the Yangtze River, Huang Binqing led the navy in Zhenjiang, but like the Zheng family in Fujian, he fled without a fight. "

Huang Binqing returned to Zhoushan, not to mention protecting the environment and the people, but he immediately sent his men down to the counties in Ningbo to raise salaries and distribute food. He was a Guangxi general with the seal of a general who recruited barbarians, but he occupied Zhoushan to collect food and distribute salaries from the people of Ningbo, and even forcibly recruited strong men. How different is this from robbers.

How can such a person be counted on?

"What should I do?"

Those sitting here are all famous in Yin County or Ningbo Mansion, no matter Qian Sule or Lin Shiping, all of them have splendid articles and famous poems, and even all of them are Jinshi or Juren, at least they are scholars.

But now, a group of gentry sit together, feeling helpless.

They want to raise troops to respond, but they don't know how to do it.

"I can't wait any longer." Qian Sule paused on his crutches, "It's not too late, otherwise things will change. I don't think it's better to start the incident tomorrow. I'll wait until the city defense temple to gather the gentry and common people, and directly declare the righteousness."

"But we don't have soldiers?"

"There are no soldiers in Yincheng. The soldiers are in Dinghai, Shipu, and Zhoushan." Qian Sule looked determined, "Masters, if you don't succeed, you will be benevolent!"

If you wait any longer, the chances will be even slimmer, and if you start an incident early, the possibility of failure is very high, but they are unwilling to wait any longer. For the sake of their family and the world, these passionate scholars are absolutely unwilling to be like Xie Sanbin. , and even more unwilling to surrender like Qian Qianyi.

"Everyone go back separately, gather the servants of the tribe, as well as their relatives and students, etc., the success or failure of life and death depends on it!"

"Brother Shizhen and Brother Yanjia are the best writers, and they are the old Hanlin, so I invite you two to draft a letter of appeal to the gentry and common people in the city, and we will jointly sign and pass it on." Qian Sule said.

Everyone praised it, and Ge Shizhen and Shen Yanjia also did their part. They spent a lot of time and ink, and wrote a thousand-word essay in a short time. Everyone praised their talents and signed their names.

On that day, thousands of copies of the Calligraphy were copied and posted all over Yincheng.

Xie Sanbin's servant brought a copy back to him.

After reading it, I couldn't help cursing, "A group of crazy and corrupt scholars who don't know how to live or die!"

"Master, why don't we go out of the city first, go to Hangzhou or Dinghai?"

"What's so scary about a group of rotten Confucians?"

"But Mr. Chen and the others went to Dinghai to meet Wang Zongbing, and they haven't heard back yet, and they don't know if they can invite soldiers." The steward was worried.

Xie Sanbin thought he had already saved others, but he firmly believed that a smart person like Wang Zhiren would have no reason to repeat it after he was sent to the Qing Dynasty, "Maybe it was just a delay on the road. It is only a few dozen miles from Yincheng to Dinghai, and it will arrive at night."

During the conversation.

The servant came to report, "Master, Mr. Chen and the others are back, and they are asking to see you outside."

Xie Sanbin caressed his beard and said proudly, "Hahaha, it's just in time to come back, please hurry up."

Chen Xiuchen followed his servant in with a heavy heart, and a soldier followed him.

"Students meet their teachers,"

"You don't need to be polite, sit down quickly, have you seen Zongbing Wang? How is the situation?"

Chen Xiuchen introduced the person next to him to Xie Sanbin, "This is Zhang Mingbin, the Chinese army under Wang Zongbing, who came here under the order of Wang Zongbing."

Xie Sanbin said happily, "I wonder how many soldiers Zhang Zhongjun brought here?"

"A hundred light cavalry from the military camp in Zhenbiao have arrived with me, and they are just outside the city at this moment. In addition, in the morning of tomorrow, the general of the military gate will lead the town to enter the Yin. Thank you for telling me about this opportunity of meritorious service.”

"Hahaha, okay, tomorrow morning, I will wait for Zongbing Wang at the City God's Temple, and I will wipe out those rotten Confucians and crazy students."

"Xie Gong, the humble one hundred riders haven't lit a fire to cook yet."

Xie Sanbin felt displeased when he saw him come to beg for money, but temporarily suppressed it, "Ah Fu, let the butler go to the warehouse to get 100 taels of silver to give to Zhang Zhongjun."

Zhang Mingbin showed a satisfied smile on his face, "I am grateful to Xie Gong for the generous reward, but the brothers really haven't eaten yet, so please send someone to send two carts of grain, meat and vegetables."

"That's okay, I'll arrange it."

After dismissing the greedy Zhang Mingbin, Xie Sanbin hummed the tune triumphantly, and didn't even care about Chen Xiuchen saying goodbye to him with a serious face, and waved off the guests.

At the door, Zhang Mingbin patted Chen Xiuchen on the shoulder, "Chen Xiucai performed well just now, I was worried about your mess just now, if that happened, I would have to cut you with a knife."

Chen Xiuchen's face turned pale, "The matter has been settled, so let's just say goodbye."

"Don't, you have to go back with me first. After this matter is over, you have to fulfill the promise you made with His Highness and donate your family's wealth to help pay. You are leaving now, where will we find you then?"

Chen Xiuchen's face turned green and pale, but he dared not speak out when facing this tough and tough Qiu Ba.

"Let's go, Mr. Chen."

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Dinghai, dozens of miles away.

Wang Zhiren ordered to block the news of Zhu Yihai's arrival here.

Because of Zhu Yihai's arrival, Dinghai City was also busy at this time.

Wang Zhiren and Zhang Mingzhen quickly handed over the post of Chief Military Officer of Zhejiang Township, and several battalions of soldiers and horses were also reorganized.

On the school field, all soldiers are accepting new orders.

The original Zhejiang General Army Town Standard Battalion was reorganized into the Jingying [-] Battalion and the Fifth Army Battalion, and some Zhejiang soldiers were transferred to supplement the Beijing Battalion's Shenji Battalion. Thousand two, I will add more in the future.

Zhang Mingzhen was promoted to the chief army officer of Zhejiang Township. His original Shipu guerrilla battalion had 3000 troops, and half of it was changed to the commander-in-chief town standard battalion, and the other half was added to the Yongwei and Jinyi battalions.

Under the persuasion of Wang Zhiren, Zhang Mingzhen, Wu Kai, and Wang Xiang, several generals, Zhu Yihai agreed to build another battalion, called the Banner Bearer Battalion.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang once set up the Twelve Guards, which were directly under the emperor's army. The most famous of the twelve guards was the Jinyi Guard, and there were Jinwu Guard, Yulin Guard, Fu Jun Guard, Huben Guard, Bannerman, etc.

After Zhu Di Jingnan proclaimed himself emperor, twelve guards were added, such as Yanshan Guard, Daxing Guard, and Tongzhou Guard.Emperor Xuande added the four guards of Tengxiang and Wuxiang.

So the upper 26 guards were finally formed, but by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor's personal army of the upper 26 guards was basically under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, except for Jin Yiwei.

Only then did the Warriors Camp, Four Guards Camp, and Yongwei Camp be built later.

The main duty of the banner guard is to guard the gate of the imperial city, and then to be in charge of the golden drums and flags used by the imperial driver, and then to escort the left and right, and guard the palace.

This is equivalent to a royal honor guard and royal guard.

Before the fall of Beijing, from the Meridian Gate to the left and right sides of Chengtian Gate, they belonged to the banner guards.

After the Daming Civil Fortress, the defensive force of the capital actually consisted of the reorganized Three Great Battalions of the Jingying Battalion and the Warrior Battalion and the Four Guards Battalion under the command of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

At this time, when rebuilding the Bannerman Battalion, the main reason is to consider traveling in the dignified state of the prison. There is no support around him, and there is really no majesty of the state.

It was purely a matter of wanting to rebuild a royal guard of honor, and did not say that it would build another pro-army like the Guards Battalion.

It’s just that Zhu Yihai has other plans. He thinks it would be good to take advantage of this opportunity to get another army of the emperor’s own army. It just so happens that some veterans can be drawn from Zhang Mingzhen, Wu Kai, Wang Zhiren, even Wang Xiang, Feng Jixiang and others to build a standard-bearer battalion. , and add a batch of recruited young and strong recruits, it may be possible to create a new army directly under the command of the real emperor.

Although several generals only positioned the standard-bearer battalion as a royal guard of honor for the emperor to show off, but they were very careful when selecting troops. They tried to choose those who were both tall and heroic, and gave priority to those who were riding and shooting in the army. Fine veteran.

Zhu Yihai was naturally very satisfied with this, but he also mentioned one thing, that is, he didn't want to rob the generals' servants and confidantes, so it was good for each person to draw up to ten servants to the Bannerman Battalion to serve as instructors. The battalion was elected.

In the end, the generals gathered fifty elite servants to the Banner Bearer Battalion, and then picked up [-] veterans from each battalion, and the Banner Bearer Battalion was officially established.

As for the battalion generals, Zhu Yihai did not appoint them for the time being on the grounds that the battalion system was newly established, but said that he would personally take charge of the battalion affairs first.

A battalion of 550 horses was organized into four divisions based on the combat idea of ​​one head, two wings and one tail. This is also the formation created by Qi Jiguang, which is as famous as the mandarin duck formation.

This formation divides an army into four divisions, the former as the leader and the main army as the main offensive force.On both sides of the head are wings, which are surprise soldiers, protecting the flanks of the head from attack and attacking the enemy's flanks at the same time.

The tail is the supporting force, that is, the reserve team.

At the same time, the head, wings, and tail are not fixed. Whichever part of the battlefield meets the enemy first, that part is the head, and then adjust accordingly to support and coordinate with each other.

This kind of formation is quite suitable in this era. Even in the late Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan still learned this method, allowing the Hunan Army to fight according to this formation with one head, two wings and one tail, and established the Hunan Army's military system.

In modern times, for example, the three-three formation that our army is good at is because its tactical thinking is the first offense, the second cover, and the third fire support, attack, cover, and fire support. Undertake different tasks, and can be adjusted and transformed at any time.

However, Zhu Yihai felt that Qi Jiguang was the military god not far from Ming Dynasty after all, and his military system was tested in the war against the Japanese and later in the northern frontier town against the captives.

Zhu Yihai directly used it, and completely adopted Qi Jiguang’s military training in Jizhen, one battalion with three divisions, one division with two divisions, one division with four divisions, one division with three banners, one division with three teams, and one division with 12 divisions. People's organization is different, and he proposed a more concise organization.

The first battalion has about 600 people, and then there are four sentries under it, directly below the sentry is the team, there are also four teams at the first sentry, and the first team has four or ten people.

As for the battalion and sentry team, there are even fewer command levels, and they are all organized in fours and fours.

The battalion general also has the Chinese army, and the sentinel has another personal team.

When Wang Zhiren, Zhang Mingzhen, Wu Kai, and Wang Pang saw that His Highness Jian Guo actually intended to form and command the banner battalion, they just laughed it off and didn't interfere. They all thought it was just His Highness's whim, and they thought it was fun to lead troops That's all.

But how can it be so simple to lead troops?

But the standard bearer was originally just a guard of honor, so let His Highness play with it.

(End of this chapter)