Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 448
"Please ask the king to order the flag card!"

"Please Shang Fang's sword!"

Wen Anzhi shook his sleeves and shouted orders.

The flag officers brought out the eighteen sets of Wang Ming flags and two Shangfang swords.

"Kneel!" Wen Anzhi ordered Wang Xiang, Zeng Ying, Tan Wen, Gan Liangchen and other generals who were kidnapped by Wuhuada.

Wang Xiang struggled hard, but refused to kneel down, and Zeng Ying also stuck her neck in disbelief.

Wen Anzhi sneered twice, and said mockingly, "This pavilion was ordered to reorganize the Sichuan army. You guys disobeyed the order and resisted the order, but you showed some real skills. Sixty-seven thousand people mutinied, but they were shocked by a single shot. Mangu's running around, but the soldiers have worked so hard to catch them for three days, do you still have face?"

"With mobs like you, what's the use of having more soldiers, besides wasting food and salaries?"

"Wine bag and rice bag!"

Wang Xiang's face was flushed with anger, he was angry and ashamed, "It's just a king and a loser. If you want to kill or scratch, don't use your tongue!"

Zhang Dai sat there and slapped the table angrily, "Don't be arrogant!" He went to Zeng Yingying to reorganize, but in the end there was a mutiny and he was arrested. Fortunately, Zeng Ying just disarmed the standard battalion and locked them up. But this is also a great shame to Zhang Dai.

Both Wang Yingxiong and Fan Yiheng sat there with ugly faces, and even their hands were trembling slightly.

Who would have expected that with Zeng Ying and Wang Xiang plus Gan Liangchen, Tu Long, Ma Yingshi, Hou Tianxi, and San Tan, the dozen or so generals would lose so badly.

Now that there is no capital at all, if you want to kill or scrape, you can only do as you please.

Even these two governors were inevitably involved, and it was difficult to get out.

"Push out the rebel generals Wang Xiang, Zeng Ying, etc., and behead them for public display!"

"Wenxiang, calm down!"

"Please keep someone under the sword!"

"They were confused for a while, but they also made meritorious service to the imperial court and Shouchuan. When this is the time to employ people, please give them a chance to pay for their merits."

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There are many who stand up and intercede.

Qin Liangyu, the president of the five provinces and the Duke of Shu, Zhang Shipeng, the admiral of the Yuying Sichuan Guilin, Yuan Zongdi, the admiral of Yuanyuan, and Yang Zhan, the admiral of the Jingluebiao battalion, all stood up to intercede.

Wen Anzhi wants to enforce the military law.

The generals begged for mercy.

a long time.

"Shu Guogong and others are willing to guarantee them, and that book will give them a chance!"

"All the officers who participated in the mutiny were resigned from their posts and arrested for interrogation. Officers above battalion officers were escorted to Nanjing to be dealt with by Emperor Hou Sheng! Officers below sentry officers were resigned from their posts and demoted by three ranks, and they went to the Jingbiao Teaching Camp to reflect, study and reform."

Wen Anzhi followed the remonstrance like a stream, and asked for Shangfang's sword, but he didn't kill any of them.

This was beyond the expectation of Wang Xiang et al.

However, the final treatment was not light. The 7 or [-] people who participated in the mutiny, no matter how they argued that they were just going up the mountain to seek an explanation, were still defined as mutiny by Wen Anzhi.

All officers above the battalion were resigned and sent to Nanjing to listen to Hou Faluo.

As for the tens of thousands of soldiers, they were originally intended to be reorganized into the Chongqing Town Camp, Sichuan Supervisor, Yunnan Supervisor, etc., and a total of about [-] soldiers would be retained.

But this time, Wen Anzhi decided that all the soldiers originally planned to be retained should be changed to auxiliary soldiers of various ministries, and the auxiliary soldiers originally planned to be retained should be abolished.

The Supervising Standards of Sichuan and the Supervising Standards of Yunnan were all newly built by other ministries.

Immediately withdraw Shunqing's general army and town camp.

The Shunqing Mansion was placed under the imperial camp, the left association of the camp was stationed in Chongqing, and the right association was stationed in Shunqing.

Wang Yingxiong was forced to resign. In the past three days, Wang Yingxiong and Fan Yiheng had also been found to be related to the mutiny.

The two resigned, and they will go to Nanjing to face the saint together. This is Wen Anzhi's favor for them, otherwise they will be locked up in Beijing.

As such.

The governors of Sichuan and Yunnan are both vacant.

Wen Anzhi directly made Fan Wenguang the governor and governor of Guizhou.

Let Zhang Dai be the governor and governor of Sichuan, and Li Gande the governor and governor of Yunnan.

The imperial court made Zhan Tianyan, the supervising army, as the tour guide in Sichuan, and Yang Qiaoran was still the tour guide in Yunnan.

Fan Wenguang, the noble governor, and Li Gande, the governor of Yunnan, each selected [-] soldiers to serve as governors, and ordered them to lead the standard battalion back to the province instead of staying in Sichuan.

The two inspectors returned with the governor.

After Zhang Dai took over as governor and governor of Sichuan, he also had [-] pacesetters. Admiral Qin Yiming of Sichuan and Admiral Yuan Zongdi of Pianyuan each led their headquarters with [-] troops to help them march westward and collect Chengdu.

Wen'an's budgetary battalion was [-], President Qin Liangyu's battalion was [-], and the imperial camp was expanded to [-], stationed in Shunqing, Chongqing, and Kuizhou.

Songpan General Soldier led [-] provincial battalions back to Songpan to garrison, and Jianchang General Cao Xun led [-] headquarters to Jianchang for garrison.

The commander-in-chief of Zhongyong Town, Ma Wannian, led three thousand white-armed soldiers on stone pillars in the town, and moved to Zunyi.

On the map, Wen Anzhi redeployed the reorganized towns.

The first group is the standard battalion of Wen Anzhi and Qin Liangyu plus the imperial battalion of [-] to [-] soldiers and horses. They are stationed on the line of Kuizhou, Chongqing, Shunqing, and the main force is still stationed at Phoenix Mountain. Go east, break through to Huguang, and be ready to join the Hanzhong war at any time.

Can be offensive and defensive.

The second group, consisting of Sichuan governor Zhang Dai, together with Sichuan governor Qin Yiming and the second general Yuan Zong, the governor of Pianyuan, joined forces with [-] troops to recover Chengdu, which had been destroyed by Zhang Xianzhong.

The remaining third group is the remaining three towns in Sichuan, with a total of [-] soldiers, Songpan Town, Jianchang Town and Zhongyong Town. They returned to their respective residences in Songpan, Jianchang and Zunyi. , to stabilize law and order and restore people's livelihood.

Among the three groups of troops, only Yuan Zongdi's 3000 people are guest troops, and the rest are already soldiers and horses in Sichuan Province.

In total, there are only [-] soldiers and horses left.

The governors of Yunnan and Guizhou each had 9000 standard battalions, and then the admiral Pixiong had [-] more, and [-] people returned to his own province.

Compared with not long ago, there were hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life, but there were actually 10,000+. This is a very fierce cut.

But Wen An's attitude is firm.

No matter how many soldiers there are, no training, no equipment, no money and food, they are all empty.

You have to be elite soldiers.

If these soldiers are integrated, there are [-], which is enough to guard Sichuan.

Coupled with 5 auxiliary soldiers, there are nearly [-] horses in total.

In order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the troops, not only elite soldiers, but also all battalions of all ministries must be unified.

Taking the battalion as the basic unit, 500 infantry battalions make up a battalion. A battalion is divided into four sentries, front, rear, left and right, plus six battalion officers and soldiers. Each sentry has eight teams under its jurisdiction, including two shotgun teams and four sword and spear teams. Two heavy musket teams (if not, two bow and arrow teams temporarily), each team has 12 people.

There are ten brave men in each team, one captain and one fire soldier.

Each whistle chief has a small team of personal soldiers, seven of them, one for guarding bravery, five for being brave, and one for fire soldiers.

The battalion officer's personal army has six teams under its jurisdiction, three teams of sword and spear teams, two teams of shotgun teams, and one team of artillery.

There are 500 officers and soldiers in the whole battalion, and 180 auxiliary soldiers, which are completely aligned with the standard of the imperial battalion.

The military salary standard is one grade lower than that of the imperial camp. Soldiers are divided into upper, middle and lower ranks, upper assistants, and lower assistants. The salary is nine points, and the daily salary of the auxiliary soldiers is eight points.

Usually half the rate is also paid, and another part is paid during the New Year's festival.

Go out to fight, and give one point of rations per day.

Those who pass the reorganization assessment will be rewarded with one tael of silver for retention, and those who fail will be given two taels of severance allowance plus one bucket of grain, and an additional six taels, but they need to withdraw it from the local government after they return to their hometown, and it needs to be divided into two years and ten taels. Two months to receive, if these soldiers did not go home after being dismissed, and did not return to their hometowns to return to the peasants, they would not be able to get the money.

Although the severance payment has been increased, if it is paid in twelve installments a year, and it is only half a tael a month, there will be less pressure for the time being, and it will even encourage these people to return to their hometowns to work in agriculture and settle down, so as to prevent these soldiers from going elsewhere To rob or be a bandit, etc.

The demobilized ones get more, but those who stay have long-term pay.

Naturally, it is better to stay.

But this time there are 10,000+ people, only less than [-] are left as auxiliary soldiers, and more than half of them will be cut off. Basically, the soldiers who participated in the mutiny this time will only stay unless they have special skills or even bravery. All will be abolished.

Those who are left have to start with the auxiliary soldiers first.

When Guidu Fan Wenguang returned to Guiyang, he was responsible for bringing Wang Xiang, Zeng Ying, Wang Yingxiong and other criminal officials back to Guizhou, and then sent them to Pianqiao. Zhu Shengli, who was in the camp, sent them to Jiangxi, and handed over them all the way to Nanjing.

Zhang Shipeng selected 1000 brave and strong soldiers from various armies. He didn't choose many veterans, but mainly picked some young, strong and brave soldiers who had not been in the army for a long time. More than [-].This is naturally a good thing, but they don't dare to easily take the veterans of the military leaders, especially the former family members of the military leaders, they dare not take any of them.

You have to make sure you lead well first, soldiers can be trained, but those army leaders and servants are not easy to lead.

Jingbiao Admiral Yang Zhan also went to pick some elite soldiers, reorganized the five thousand Jingbiao, and even changed the [-] auxiliary soldiers, all of whom were quite good young soldiers who could fight.

This time, Ma Gan, Wang Yingxiong, Fan Yiheng, Wang Xiang, Zeng Ying, Gan Liangchen and other large and small army leaders in the original Sichuan fell, and Wen Anzhi, Zhang Shipeng and the others took advantage of the opportunity to annex and select a lot of elites Soldiers, the original armor and weapons of each army leader, etc., were even more cleaned up.

In the end, Wen Anzhi also has a training camp of 3000 people, which is composed of officers below the battalion level under the mutineer leaders. They receive education and perform crimes and meritorious deeds. They can only get half of the salary, or half of the auxiliary soldiers , but when fighting, they must rush to the front and belong to the Death Squadron.

This training battalion does not belong to the regular establishment sequence of the Sichuan Army.

With the failure of the previous mutiny, and the relatively strict but lenient treatment, the reorganization this time will be much smoother.

After a few days, all the admirals, chief soldiers, generals, guerrillas, and guards had filled their camps with joy.

The tens of thousands of people left were not all old, weak and disabled, and many of them were strong, but they were picked out and all were dismissed on the spot.

Wen Anzhi didn't even consider Zhang Dai's proposal to set up military colonies.

He felt that using these people to set up military settlements would be difficult to manage and accidents would happen if the soldiers were not soldiers and civilians, so it would be better to send them all home and hand them over to local management.

Now Sichuan is full of wasteland, what is lacking is people, and what is lacking is stability, so after they go back, the local government can allocate land to them and organize production.

They can also be more motivated to go home to farm, which is much better than staying here to build military settlements.

More than half of the soldiers were reduced, especially when Wang Xiang, Zeng Ying, Gan Liangchen and others led troops to help, but there were still many soldiers and horses left behind on their respective sites. This time they were all eliminated and dismissed together according to the current standard .

Zhang Dai went to Chengdu, Ma Wannian went to Zunyi, Cao Xun went to Jianchang, and Zhu Hualong went to Songpan. They also had to go all the way to demobilize the local troops of Wang Xiang and other military leaders.

Although the number of soldiers and horses has been reduced by more than half, the combat effectiveness is obviously good. At least the armored rate has increased. After each battalion has unified 500 people, the number of armored soldiers and firecrackers has increased, and even various small artillery. , can still have artillery at the sentry level.

In standard association towns, there will also be cavalry.

Of course, the biggest advantage is not only these, the biggest advantage is that since the end of Chongzhen, the ten sheep and nine shepherds in Sichuan, the governor, the governor, the governor, the inspector, the military preparation road, the military supervision road, the president, the general soldier of the hanging seal, Indiscriminate deployment of general troops, even without mutual command, makes it difficult to command.

In the past, the governor Wang Yingxiong couldn't order the governor Fan Yiheng, and the governor Fan Yiheng couldn't order the governor Ma Gan, let alone the commander-in-chief.

Before Wen Anzhi, he could only give orders on the surface, but in fact, his words were not very effective.

There were so many orders to reorganize the army, but in the end they were not reorganized as required.

Unrestricted recruitment, blind expansion, and self-respect have caused the people in central Sichuan to be extremely burdened, and it is difficult to restore people's livelihood. They are completely divided into feudal vassals and towns. They have the final say on the military and civil affairs in the territory, let alone taxes.

If we don't deal with them, Wen Anzhi's strategy is actually empty.

It is said that it is a strategy of the five provinces, but he can't even deal with Sichuan, so what else is there to talk about.

Although they have experienced a lot of swords, guns and arrows now, fortunately there is no danger in the end. When all the ministries gathered in Phoenix Mountain, they were dealt with at once.

Fortunately, everything was planned and acted, and Wang Xiang and others also carelessly underestimated the enemy.

But in the final analysis, Emperor Shaotian's prestige is still growing. This is his greatest confidence, and it is also the reason why local generals such as Qin Liangyu, Cao Xun, and Yang Zhan are finally willing to stand with Wen Anzhi.

After the incident was completed, Wen Anzhi quickly divided the troops. Firstly, it was better to obtain food supplies on the spot. Otherwise, so many soldiers would be stationed here for a long time, and it would be impossible to supply food and grass. Aftermath.

At the same time, we must also take the opportunity to recover Chengdu and other places, restore stability as soon as possible, and prevent bandits and chieftains such as the yellow thieves from taking the opportunity to seize the territory and population.

"Is this the end of the matter?"

In the imperial camp, the chief officials of the camp sat together to discuss matters, and they still felt a little bit unresponsive. They always felt that it was too smooth for such a big event this time.

Sixty to seventy thousand people mutinied, but in the end there were not many casualties.

"I thought it would be a bloodbath before, and I was prepared for heavy casualties. I didn't expect that there were dozens of casualties in the end. Many of them were caused by twisting their feet on the mountain or falling into the valley during the pursuit. There wasn't much fighting at all."

"Well, the main reason is that Minister Wen has seen clearly the nature of these military chiefs early on, and there are not many who really dare to rebel and want to rebel. Besides, we have already prepared for it." Zhang Shipeng felt that after careful consideration It's also quite reasonable.

The key is to deal with it in a timely manner at that time, and to be prepared, otherwise, if these disorderly soldiers come up the mountain, the evolution of the matter may be completely different, and the consequences may even be unimaginable.

"Is it stable now?"

"Those military leaders were all taken over by the same pot. The officials above the battalion were sent to Nanjing, and the officials below the battalion were also teaching in the battalion. Now tens of thousands of scattered soldiers have been dismissed, and they have been given money and food. As long as they go home honestly, they can still With a collar of 12 taels of silver, do you think who insists on ignorance and death?"

"Too."

Zhang Shipeng looked at the map in front of him, "Our top priority is to quickly integrate the newly selected 3000 people. My suggestion is to mix them with the original 5000 people instead of setting up six new camps, so that the old and the new can be integrated as quickly as possible.

Also, after the reorganization is completed, they will be pulled out for actual combat training immediately. While suppressing bandits while training troops, it can also protect the people and the environment and restore people's livelihood.

The border has been cleaned up, which will also prevent thieves from coming over. "

Zhu Wanhua and others all agree.

After expanding to sixteen battle battalions, an association was added. In addition, the general director army and the general staff army each led a standard battalion directly under them, so there were four standard battalions and twelve battalions of the three associations.

"I suggest that before the Western Thieves and Eastern Captives start fighting, let's go north to take Dazhou and Tongjiang. This is the southern end of Micang Road. It is very important to control it."

Dazhou and Tongjiang County are both on the upper reaches of Qujiang, a tributary of Jialing River.

To the north of these two cities is Nanjiang and Mengba, and to the north is Micang Mountain.

Micang Mountain is also very dangerous. It separates eastern Sichuan and Hanzhong. There are dangerous mountain roads in the mountain that can be crossed. There are many checkpoints and fortresses along the way, such as Liuliguan.

Of course, to Dazhou further east, there is another route to enter Hanzhong, passing through Taiping County, crossing Daba Mountain, and heading to Hanzhong Xixiang.

To the west of Baoning, there is another road leading to Hanzhong, which is the Jinniu Road. This road is even more dangerous. Jiange, Chaotian Pass, Qipan Pass, and Yangping Pass are all guarded by narrow valleys, and no one can pass through. The dangerous road, many sections are plank roads, which is not good for the army.

Zhang Xianzhong is now going to Baoning with tens of 10 people, intending to go to Jinniu Pass on the west road, which is actually the next strategy.

But because Shunqing and Kuizhou are now in the hands of the Ming army, Zhang Xianzhong did not dare to come and fight, so tens of 10 people rushed to the Jinniu Road.

Think back to the battle of Liu Bei's attack on Hanzhong in the Three Kingdoms, more than [-] troops were blocked by Xiahou outside Yangping Pass for more than a year, not to mention how aggrieved they were nested in that narrow valley.

Later, he still found a small path, sneaked across the mountains and ridges, went around to Dingjun Mountain behind Yangping Pass, and attacked from both sides. This allowed Huang Zhong to slay General Cao Ying with his Dingjun mountain knife, and won the victory in Hanzhong in one fell swoop.

Zhang Xianzhong is now obviously imitating Liu Bei's idea of ​​Hanzhong, but facing Ma Ke and Wu Sangui, he may not be able to win.

The imperial court's decree for the Ming army in central Sichuan was to let them enter Hanzhong through Baoning, Jiange, Guangyuan, and Chaotianguan, but Shunqing and Kuizhou refused to let them go out of Huguang.

Now after the reorganization and division of troops, the Shunqing Phoenix Mountain Camp will only have [-] combat soldiers, plus [-] death squads from the teaching regiment, and a few thousand auxiliary soldiers.

It is not difficult to keep Shunqing with this amount, but it would be a bit risky if we went to the east of Baoning Prefecture to take Xiabazhou and Tongjiang, and even went north to take Nanjiang.

"I think I can give it a try!"

(End of this chapter)