Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 428 Warlord
Sichuan.

His Majesty the emperor who is far away in the south of the Yangtze River has no illusions about Sichuan and Shaanxi. In his latest strategic deployment, he does not place any hope on Sichuan, Shaanxi or even Huguang. Just delay the Qing army.

The real battle had to be fought by the emperor and his imperial camp.

The Huguang camp, Yunyang camp, Sichuan-Guizhou camp, and Shaanxi-Ganza camp are just idle moves made by the emperor in desperation, and I hope they can play some role in the future.

The emperor even said bluntly when talking to several confidants, as long as Sichuan can hold Chongqing, and Yunyang can hold Yunyang, it will be fine, and don't think about the rest now.

If you think too much, you will worry about gains and losses instead, and even have more fantasies, and you may have to make mistakes.

Those loyal soldiers far away in Sichuan, as well as those civil servants, military generals and warlords who have their own thoughts, actually don't know the emperor's attitude. Even if they know, it will not change their minds.

In troubled times, everyone wants to grab territory, seize military power, and even fight for food and pay.

Shunqing Mansion, Phoenix Mountain, Pengzhou.

The battalion ministries are back, and they have achieved good results in actual combat training this time.

At the military meeting presided over by Jinglue Wen Anzhi, Zhang Shipeng, the admiral of the Yuying Chuangui camp, and several generals of the camp reported to everyone.

They swept the surrounding area for more than a hundred miles, and wiped out countless thieves, big and small. No group of thieves could stand up to their sweep, especially when they attacked so quickly this time, they basically didn't give the thieves any time to react.

Even if the thieves occupy some dangerous points, they still lose to the imperial camp.

The officers of the imperial camp were fiercer than each other, and the eyes of the soldiers of the imperial camp were also reddened by the stimulation of the rewards. The officers were all leading the soldiers without hesitation, so there was no hesitation for the soldiers.

Not to mention, the way Zhang Shipeng and the others recorded meritorious service immediately after the war and gave out rewards every time, that kind of happy day-to-day wage payment made these soldiers howl even more.

Empty painting cakes can't fool the soldiers of the late Ming Dynasty, but the cash reward is too exciting.

Even the Shizhu white soldiers in the army are already the elite of the Sichuan army. Although the white soldiers suffered heavy losses in the late Ming Dynasty, and today's white soldiers are not as elite as the Tianqi Chongzhen years, they are still the best among the local soldiers. Whether they are working for the court or suppressing bandits, when have they been treated so well?

Not only is the salary calculated on a daily basis, but at least one penny and three silvers a day, and an extra penny a day for wars. This means that every time a battle is fought, there will be a reward. There is also collective merit without the first-level merit. And rewards for hard work.

This time I went out to suppress bandits and train soldiers, it might as well be said that I went out to make a fortune.

The stone pillar where the white pole soldiers are located is actually a poor place. After all, the chieftain is a chieftain. If he is not poor, he is not a chieftain. The people who come out to carry the white pole soldiers are ordinary poor people in the chieftain. They have no capital and can only fight with their lives. .

The chieftain soldiers fought for the court, and they had no salary themselves, and they all relied on rewards.

But in the past, how much money could you give for working for the court?How many of them actually got it?
But this time, before departure, Kaiba was rewarded with silver and added rations. Every time a battle was fought, the reward was given out immediately, and there was an extra reward for those captured by the bandits.

Even if you are unlucky and injured, as long as your back is not injured, you will still be compensated according to your level.

Those who were beaten to death due to bad luck, as long as they died on the battlefield, there were dozens of taels of compensation, and even extra money for burning and burying.

In short, this kind of rich battle is something that Sichuan soldiers have never fought before.

So although these officers from the south of the Yangtze River are more ruthless than one another, everyone is not very disgusted, after all, they really paid for it.

They wished they could hug such a superior.

The officials are afraid that they will not have the chance to play, and the soldiers want to make more contributions and get more rewards. The bandits, big and small, in the surrounding area are all rewards in their eyes.

Originally, they didn't plan to come back so soon, but it was because everyone was so fierce, they surrounded and raided everywhere non-stop, not waiting for one place, and even fought a few more camps, some camp leaders, and returned their mother's night battles.

In the end, I had to go back and light up.

There is not a single thief village standing in the surrounding area.

No matter how difficult and dangerous your village is, in the eyes of those chieftain soldiers and other Sichuan soldiers, what is so great about it?None of them are familiar with the terrain in the middle of Sichuan, no matter how dangerous the mountain is, they can climb it as if they are walking on flat ground, they are all like special soldiers.

Zhang Shipeng's report was very long, and his mouth was dry.

There is also a complete written report, how many days the troops were sent, how much food was spent, how many villages were wiped out, how many heads were beheaded, how many thieves were captured, how many people were rescued, how many supplies were seized, and how many contributions the soldiers made. How many rewards were paid.

A pen, all recorded in detail.

Even, just outside the large tent of the military conference of the Fenghuang Mountain Camp, the soldiers in the camp brought many pockets, opened them, and poured out a pile of left ears.

The pile of left ears of countless exterminated thieves and bandits formed a hill there, and the scene was very shocking.

When Zhang Shipeng finally finished his report, there was silence in the big tent.

Everyone was shocked by the report.

Even Wen'an, the five provinces' economic strategy, was greatly shocked. These data are really detailed. In such a short period of time, they were able to annihilate so many bandit villages and achieve such great results.

The governors and generals who came from all over the house were full.

After a long time, Ma Gan, the governor of Sichuan, spoke first, with a somewhat suspicious tone, "How is it possible to wipe out so many villages, behead them, and capture so many prisoners in such a short period of time? Even if we keep working day and night, we can't do it, right?" ?”

"There are so many villages, even if one is destroyed in a day, how many can be destroyed in such a few days?"

Regarding Governor Ma's doubts, Zhang Shipeng was very calm, "When we attacked the first stockade, the whole battalion was dispatched. Although only the assault battalion fought in the end, all 800 people from the whole battalion participated. To capture this stockade, The assault battalion only took half an hour, but we spent a total of one day from attack to evacuation."

"But after defeating the Black Dragon King's stockade, we divided our troops into battalions and fought according to the battalion. It took us two days, and each of the ten battalions captured another stockade."

"Then, each battalion felt that 500 men was too much, so they divided up again. One battalion was divided into about one battalion, and some were divided according to four sentries. In the end, some even sent only one or two teams to break a village... ··”

"In fact, we basically didn't encounter any thieves who could fight. We basically spent all our time on the march. The steep and dangerous roads in the northern Sichuan made it inconvenient to travel, which caused us a lot of trouble and wasted a lot of time."

Ma Gan didn't believe such an explanation.

"Are all those thieves dead? In just a few days, so many villages and so many thieves can be wiped out. Even if there are so many pigs, it's impossible to catch them all in so many places in this short time, right? "

"Mafuyuan, if there are really so many pigs, it is really impossible for us to catch them so quickly. In fact, the name of our imperial camp is quite useful. Of course, the soldiers of the imperial camp are also very brave. Our soldiers I often rush all the way, and then raid the thieves' villages. The thieves are often defeated at the first touch, and most of them surrender quickly. Basically, they have not encountered any tough battles..."

"Of course, the imperial army came here. Many large groups of thieves and bandits have already traveled far away, and those who stay nearby are not considered strong."

"I still don't believe it!" Ma Gan shook his head.

As the governor, Ma Gan is a civil servant, but he also served in Sichuan for a long time. He started from the bottom and started his career with military exploits. He became a governor by beating Zhang Xianzhong.

He knows very well that fighting a war is not that simple, even if it is to suppress bandits, it is not easy.

"Could it be that after you entered the mountain, you killed the good and pretended to be meritorious?" Ma Gan asked, the Ming army in Chuanzhong did a lot of this kind of thing, even when the imperial court was still strong in the past, the officers and soldiers on the Nine Frontiers did it a lot.

Zhang Shipeng retorted, "Governor Ma is a member of the imperial court, so don't talk nonsense."

The deputy admiral Zhu Wanhua even slapped the table with his slap, "You surnamed Ma are spitting blood, if you can show evidence, I will cut off your head and kick it for you, but if you can't show it today , you have to apologize to all our imperial soldiers!"

Seeing this, Ma Gan's confidant, Zeng Ying, the deputy admiral of Sichuan, also stood up unceremoniously, slapped the table and shouted, "My surname is Zhu, don't think you are a university scholar. You dare to be so arrogant. Your father is the governor of Huguang. You are not our supervisor in Sichuan, you are so arrogant, what qualifications do you have to dare to slap the governor Ma on the table?"

"We are all leading the army, and no one can fool the other. Go out for a while, put a few sacks of ears and come back, dare to say how many thieves have been wiped out, how to fool ghosts?
If you didn't kill the good and take the credit, I would eat all the dead people's ears outside as wine and vegetables! "

Zeng Ying, nicknamed Mr. Zeng, is the most powerful general under Ma Gan's command. He has a high reputation in Sichuan. When he regained Chongqing, he also made great contributions. It is impossible for the Guixing camp to have such a feat in this dispatch.

He insisted that they took credit for it.

Originally, this camp was composed of elites drawn from various ministries in central Sichuan. Due to the emperor's will, everyone could only give Wen An's face, especially Qin Liangyu, an old senior, who took the lead.

However, the soldiers who were sent in the past were eventually returned to the officers, and the soldiers stayed behind. This made everyone very unhappy.

Immediately afterwards, Wen Anzhi provided the camp with the best armor and weapons, and gave them a higher level of food and wages, and the supply was still given priority. This made everyone very dissatisfied.

On the other hand, Wen'an was so rich in supporting the battalion, but on the other hand, he kept asking the rest of the Sichuan Army to reorganize, to reorganize according to their quotas, to abolish supernumerary troops, and so on.

The contrast is strong and the dissatisfaction is growing.

It is too outrageous to go out and repay meritorious deeds now, and it is only right for Ma Gan to use this to make trouble. It is even more meaningful for Zeng Ying to scold Zhu Wanhua in front of Wen Anzhi.

Shen Yuantai, the superintendent of the camp, is in charge of supervising the army, and of course he is also in charge of the records of military achievements. He stood up with an ugly face, "I, Shen Yuantai, as the superintendent of the Sichuan and Guizhou camps, the military achievements and other records in this report of Admiral Zhang, I dare Guaranteed by the head of the project, there is absolutely no falsehood, please Master Jinglue to uphold justice!"

"These are the military exploits and honors earned by the soldiers of the Imperial Battalion with all their efforts, and there is absolutely no room for anyone to slander them!"

The atmosphere was tense and tense.

Mr. Zeng laughed and scolded, "Fucking crazy, I will never allow someone to enjoy the best treatment everywhere in our Sichuan territory, but dare to openly kill the good and pretend to be meritorious, so recklessly, there must be someone result!"

Governor of Sichuan Wang Yingxiong and Governor of Yunnan Fan Yiheng also stood up at the right time. On the surface, they seemed to persuade the fight, but in fact they added fuel to the flames. They also hoped to investigate this matter seriously.

"Okay, let's check it out. Check it out. If it's black, it won't be white, and if it's white, it won't be black!"

Jinglue Wen Anzhi said slowly, with a calm expression on his face!
(End of this chapter)