I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 34

Chapter 033

Compared with the silver carried by the bandits, it was only a small part compared to Qin Wu's treasure house.

Of course, no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat.

Cheng Shijie said: "All the seized meat will be handed over as a compensation and reward for the casualties and soldiers of our Thousand Households. In addition, don't waste the dead or injured horse meat. Take all the horse meat back."

"Thank you, Lord Qianhu!"

Cheng Shijie wanted to reward several thousand taels of silver again this time, but he didn't feel sorry for it. It was Qin Wu's money, and Cheng Shijie didn't have any psychological burden to take other people's silver as a favor.

Although most of the weapons seized this time were tattered and tattered, they could be returned to the Qianhusuo for remanufacturing. At least one shotgun could be exchanged for the Qianhusuo.

"What about the captives this time?"

"When we go back, hand it over to the guard!"

Cheng Shijie thought that Jin Yousheng, the commander, also longed for a military merit.As an old organization, Cheng Shijie knows very well that in any organization or unit, people with strong professional ability are the easiest to get mixed up.

Just like in later generations, although he has no background, because of his strong business ability, no matter how many leaders change, his position is indispensable, unless someone can replace him.

Through the interrogation of Qin Wu, Cheng Shijie also knew how Qin Wu fought against Dengzhou Wei. Although Dengzhou Wei had eight thousand households, the only ones who could fight were Jin Yousheng's five hundred soldiers.The other thousand households more or less supported some household soldiers, which is the real combat effectiveness of the Dengzhou Guard.

Literally, Dengzhou guards are strong, but in fact, Dengzhou is just an empty air.

The morale of the military households returning from victory is absolutely different.Especially the carts full of food and belongings, thanks to the carts prepared by Qin Wu, although part of them were destroyed, most of them were still in good condition.

With more than 5000 shi of grain and more than 6 taels of silver, Cheng Shijie has more resources in his hands, and there are more things he can do.

Cheng Shijie was sitting in the carriage, and beside him were his second generals Zhang Yu and Shen Mingyu.

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "This victory is really a fluke. You two must not be complacent. There are serious problems with our equipment configuration. First of all, we must equip long-range attack weapons. We have seized more than 40 firecrackers this time. After more than 20 birdies, I don’t plan to distribute it to you two hundred households on a daily basis, I hope you don’t have any grudges in your heart.”

"Master Qianhu, what are you talking about!"

Shen Mingyu said: "Without Lord Qianhu, I, Shen Mingyu, am still working as a beggar in Dengzhou City!"

"If it wasn't for Lord Qianhu, I would still be carrying bags on the pier!"

"The establishment of our guard is not reasonable!"

Thousand households directly govern ten hundred households, but as a company-level unit, there are too many people in the cold weapon era, but there are too many people under the command of ten hundred households.

Cheng Shijie considered that his servants should not stick to formalities.The best way is to prepare according to the method of the frontier army. Cheng Shijie has too few firearms. The so-called artillery, that is, the bowl-mouth gun, has only six guns. Sprinkle pepper on a flatbread.

Under such circumstances, Cheng Shijie decided to use the firecrackers, birdcracks and bowl-mouthed blunderbuss, as well as the three artillery captured in Qin Wu's hands.

"How does Master Qianhu want to prepare?"

"Two sets of modes!"

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "The original establishment of the Thousand Households Office remains the same. There are still ten Hundred Households, each of which is in charge of one Hundred Households Office. According to the establishment of Qi Shaobao when he was in Ji Town, every 12 people form a team, and there is one person in the team. , as a small flag, each team has ten soldiers and one cook."

According to the standard configuration of the Qi family army, the team is equipped with a bird gun and Japanese sword, a cook, and a double-pointed shoulder pole.Two spearmen, with bows and arrows.There are two swordsmen, with swords, bows and arrows.There are two card sword players, equipped with rattan cards, waist knives and javelins.Two musketeers, equipped with matchlock guns and Japanese swords.There are two quick gunners, only equipped with a single-eyed quick gun, and use a quick gun instead of a stick in close combat.

Some teams also use boring palladium hands instead of knife stick hands, with rockets as long-range weapons.The three teams are one banner, and one banner is set up as the general manager, who is in charge of a thirty-pound tiger squatting on a cannon.The three banners are one division, with one hundred chiefs, one hundred chiefs have several attendants, and one is in charge of killing captives.The three divisions form one bureau, with a commander in chief.

Cheng Shijie doesn't have this kind of equipment now, so he can only simplify it.For his family soldiers, each team is equipped with four spearmen, two sword and shield players, and four gunners.

Shen Mingyu thought for a while and said, "Lord Qianhu, then we still lack a lot of equipment. Long spears are enough, but shields and firecrackers are far from enough!"

"Then take your time. Fortunately, the bandits didn't form a field battle this time, otherwise, we will suffer a lot!"

Cheng Shijie went on to say: "The plan of this thousand households is that every four teams will be one post, and there will be a post chief, which will be regarded as the general flag... Every five posts will be one division."

Zhang Yudao: "Your Excellency Qianhu, what do you mean is that the family and soldiers should be streamlined?"

"No, it needs to be expanded!"

Cheng Shijie said solemnly: "This thousand households can now support two divisions, that is, five hundred soldiers."

From the attack on Linglong Mountain, Cheng Shijie saw a way to make money. As an army, he was so poor that he was like a beggar. Governments from all over the country cooperated to suppress bandits.

Cheng Shijie wants to benefit from the achievements of officials, and the two sides cooperate for a win-win situation. Why not do it?

……

When Cheng Shijie returned to the Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu House with the captives and seized property, the news that the bandit Qin Wu led more than [-] bandits to attack the Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu House also spread in Dengzhou City.

Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, was thinking about how to retain how much grain and silver from the autumn tax to use as military expenses for the new army of Denglai, when he heard the news suddenly.

Sun Yuanhua's mood couldn't help but become very bad. He wasn't worried about the bandits attacking Dengzhou Wei Zuoqianhusuo. Any troubles were Jin Yousheng's business. But the problem was that once the bandits rushed to the state, it was evidence of his ineffective governance.

As a governor who has not passed the formal imperial examinations, Sun Yuanhua himself has to bear tremendous pressure. Although his teacher Xu Guangqi is a minister of the Ministry of Rites, Xu Guangqi is seeking to go further and enter the cabinet.

At this critical moment, he must not hold Xu Guangqi back.

"Come on!"

"What orders does Master Futai have?"

"Order Jin Yousheng, the commander of the Dengzhou Guard, to send troops to wipe out these bandits. If he can't even deal with these bandits, he doesn't need to be the commander!"

Sun Yuanhua's words were very serious and threatening.Of course, it's not just threats.The governor itself is the place where he gets on the horse to manage the army, and he gets off the horse to rule the army. Not to mention the commander of the Dengzhou Guard, even the commander of the Shandong capital is under the management of Sun Yuanhua.

Usually these bandits, rebellions and other things are actually not in the eyes of Sun Yuanhua.Now is an extraordinary time, and of course extraordinary things must be done.

Sun Yuanhua was also very aware of the fact that the guards were corrupt and could not be reused. He thought for a while and said, "Order General Zhang Tao to be ready and ready to suppress the bandits at any time!"

Sun Yuanhua was able to serve as a second-rank official in Xinjiang as a juren. In fact, it was because of his political opinions. Sun Yuanhua advocated using the Denglai New Army to cooperate with the Dongjiang Army to recover the four states in southern Liaoning and Lushun.

After the fall of the four states in southern Liaoning in the first year of Tianqi, Yuan Keli, the governor of Denglai, rebelled against the deputy general of Hou Jin, and Liu Xingzuo, the commander of the four states in southern Liaoning, rebelled against Jin and returned to Ming Dynasty. .Under such circumstances, regaining southern Liaoning would indeed help alleviate the embarrassing and passive situation of Ming Dynasty.

In the third year of Chongzhen, Sun Yuanhua was double recommended by his teacher Xu Guangqi and Liang Yandong, then Minister of the Ministry of War, and then became the governor of Denglai. His political ambition was to recover the four states in southern Liaoning.At this critical moment, he didn't want Shandong to be in trouble.

Si Yamen, the commander of the Dengzhou Guard, soon received a strict order from Lord Futai. The order was harsh, and Jin Yousheng also hurriedly summoned his generals to discuss countermeasures.

Huang Zuxin sighed: "This matter cannot be avoided!"

"But Qin Wu is fierce, and many of his subordinates are bandits from the frontier army, so it's not easy to deal with!"

"If it was easy to deal with, the grass on Qin Wu's grave would be three feet high!"

Jin Yousheng looked at the generals under his command and said: "There is no delay now. If Qin Wu breaks through Zuo Qianhu's house and engulfs Zuo Qianhu's military households, this battle will be even more difficult. Right now, we need everyone to unite and work together! "

Zhang Weihan, the former householder of Weizheng in Dengzhou, was Jin Yousheng's confidant. At this time, he immediately expressed his opinion: "Master Commander, there will be one hundred elite servants at the end, and five hundred young men will be drawn from the front thousand households!"

Although Zhang Weihan is a fifth-rank Qianhu, he still has the military rank of General Wujie, but Cheng Shijie is different. He is also a fifth-rank, and he was just a general of Wude at the beginning. Of course, an officer with the rank of Qianhu can call himself the last general of.

Thousands of households from the center left and center right expressed their opinions one after another, three hundred for you, five hundred for me, and soon the seven thousand households gathered more than [-] elites.

This is actually the basic situation of the guards of the Ming Dynasty. In general guards fighting wars, it is very impressive to draw two to 3000 people, and most of them can only draw less than 2000 people.Dengzhou Guard is a strengthened guard, so in the absence of Zuo Qianhu, there are still more than [-] military households, plus the Zhongwei and the family soldiers who command Tongzhi, Commander Qianshi, etc., and soon Gathered a full [-] elite troops.

As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, the food and grass go first.

Just as Jin Yousheng was hurriedly preparing food, grass, and weapons to support Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu Office, a clerk came from outside the door.

"Urgent military report from Zuo Qianhu Office!"

"No way, it's only been a few days, Zuo Qianhusuo can't hold on anymore?"

"Cheng Shijie is not a hereditary thousand households. It is good that he can persist for so long. You still treat him as a famous general!"

"Master Commander, how about the last general leading the cavalry to set off first?"

The voices of discussion came to an abrupt end, and Jin Yousheng stared blankly at the urgent report in his hand: "This is...how is this possible? Capture the bandit leader Qin Wu alive, behead his leader Liang Youcai, the second head of the family, below 380 people, and capture two Thousands of 150 people..."

(End of this chapter)