Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Hearing Qin Liangyu's words, Wu Shigong secretly groaned in his heart.Originally, I acted with Qin Liangyu's army because I wanted to enjoy the shade under the big tree, but I didn't expect to meet an old woman with such a strong desire to fight.

However, Wu Shigong, who wanted to be there, couldn't shirk it.But Wu Shigong changed his mind: "If you go to the capital, go to the capital. Although Tongzhou is the place where King Qin's army is assembled, and there are more troops, there are more troops defending Emperor Chongzhen in the capital. It is safer there. It is not necessarily in the capital. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, how dare Tartar soldiers walk around under the watchful eyes of the capital's army?"

So Wu Shigong straightened his chest to Qin Liangyu, and said righteously: "It is our military officer's duty to protect the emperor. It is our duty to follow Qin Zongbing to the capital."

Hearing that Wu Shigong agreed, Qin Liangyu's complexion improved a lot.She made a gesture to the guard beside her, and the guard walked up to Wu Shigong, handed a big bag of things to Wu Shigong, and said to Wu Shigong, "This is the dumpling made by the marshal himself, I give you a taste."

Qin Liangyu's bodyguard is of course a female bodyguard.Before I knew it, it was the New Year's Eve of the second year of Chongzhen.These days, Qin Liangyu took these female guards to make some dumplings for the New Year.Today she also saw Wu Shigong agreeing to go to the capital together, and felt that although this bastard was very incompetent, he could still keep in mind his duty as a general, and he was even more loyal to the emperor, so she sent the dumplings made by herself to him. Give Wu Shigong some.

After thanking Qin Liangyu, Wu Shigong returned to his camp.He sighed very much in his heart: he never thought that his Chinese New Year would be spent on the march.At night, Wu Shigong lay on the bed with his eyes wide open and couldn't sleep. He missed all his relatives in the capital and Qianhusuo Fortress.

But even during the Chinese New Year, Qin Liangyu didn't let the army rest for a day, and urged the army to march towards the capital at high speed.Soon, the army arrived at a place four or five days away from the capital.

At noon that day, when the army was having lunch and resting, a few spies suddenly came back from outside the camp. The white soldiers left the camp, followed the spies and ran towards the direction the spies came back from.

Seeing this situation, Wu Shigong had a question in his heart: "Could it be that there are Tartars active nearby?" So, Wu Shigong didn't care about the cold war with Qin Liangyu, and hurriedly brought several officers and some guards to Qin Liangyu's big tent .

As soon as he arrived at the big tent, Wu Shigong happened to meet Ma Xianglin who came out of the big tent.Wu Shigong asked, "What happened?"

Ma Xianglin gave Wu Shigong a blank look, and replied indifferently: "Oh! The spies found that some rout soldiers were robbing a Zhuangzi, and the commander has already sent people to drive them away."

It turned out that this is the case, Wu Shigong also felt relieved.However, he did not go back to his camp, but took this opportunity to chat with Ma Xianglin.

After this chat, the two big men let go of their knots.The two didn't have any enmity in the first place, it was just that one was outspoken and the other wanted to use some small tricks to take advantage.During the chat, Wu Shigong found out that Ma Xianglin was Qin Liangyu's son.

While chatting, Wu Shigong asked why Ma Xianglin was blind in one eye?Ma Xianglin told Wu Shigong that he was shot blind by the arrows of the Tartars when he was fighting the Tartars.This made Wu Shigong feel awe.

Seeing Wu Shigong's expression, Ma Xianglin let out a long sigh, and said, "I'm pretty good, my two uncles died fighting the Tartars!"

Hearing this, Wu Shigong was surprised and speechless. Aren't Ma Xianglin's two uncles the same as Qin Liangyu's two brothers?Unexpectedly, although this Qin Zongbing is a girl, she is as loyal as the general of the Yang family!

At this time, Wu Shigong felt a little guilty, and he said to Ma Xianglin: "I really didn't mean to call Mrs. Qin the old woman, I just, I just..." Wu Shigong found that he couldn't find any reason to explain it.

Seeing Wu Shigong's face flushed, Ma Xianglin laughed. He punched Wu Shigong with his fist and said, "You boy, you don't speak so frankly. If you have anything to say, go tell the commander. Don't be coy here. Yes. However, your brat is really good at training soldiers, but the firearms and horses make me envious."

Ma Xianglin's words made Wu Shigong vigilant all of a sudden.He said hastily: "It's absolutely fine to let my soldiers cooperate with you in fighting. But if you want my firearms and horses, there's no such thing!"

Seeing Wu Shigong's nervous face, Ma Xianglin smiled even more joyfully. While laughing, he said, "I know, I know, you are a miser. You are a penny-pinching rooster."

After hearing Ma Xianglin's words, Wu Shigong himself laughed.

At this time, the white soldiers who had left the camp to drive away the rout returned.They captured seven or eight rout soldiers and brought back a steward from the looted Zhuangzi.

After these people were escorted into Qin Liangyu's big tent by white soldiers, Ma Xianglin also walked into the big tent, and Wu Shigong followed Ma Xianglin into the big tent.Qin Liangyu saw Wu Shigong behind Ma Xianglin at a glance, and she didn't make a sound after looking at it.

The white soldiers pushed the rout soldiers to the ground and knelt down, and the steward also knelt down to Qin Liangyu at the side.Qin Liangyu sternly asked the defeated soldiers: "Which army are you soldiers? Why are you looting in the countryside?"

Those defeated soldiers repeatedly kowtowed to Qin Liangyu for mercy, and told their origins.It turned out that they were soldiers in the army of King Qin of Shanxi.

After receiving the imperial edict from Emperor Chongzhen, Geng Ruqi, the governor of Shanxi, and Zhang Honggong, the commander-in-chief of Shanxi, took the lead and led 8000 troops to the capital, but they were the first local Qinwang troops to arrive in the capital.

However, due to the haste of the incident, Shanxi King Qin's army was not prepared for logistical support at all, and the situation was chaotic, so no one asked about the soldiers' food.Moreover, when they arrived in Beizhili, they also encountered the problem that Qin Liangyu and Wu Shigong encountered, the local government refused to provide supplies for these King Qin's troops.

At any rate, King Qin's army in Shanxi, relying on the limited food and grass they carried, made their soldiers half full and rushed to the capital.They thought that the imperial court in the capital should provide food and grass for them.

However, because the Tartars entered the customs very suddenly this time, and the court was not prepared at all, it was difficult for the court to raise a large amount of food and grass in a short period of time.

In order to solve the problem of food and grass, at this time, people in the court remembered a rule of the Ming Dynasty army.In the Ming Dynasty, in order to suppress soldiers, there were many rules that seem ridiculous in modern times.One of the rules is: soldiers are not allowed to have meals on the day they arrive at the station, and they can only have meals on the next day.

Therefore, a certain genius official came up with such an idea. He asked the King Qin's army in Shanxi to constantly mobilize and prevent them from staying in his garrison for more than a day.

When Shanxi King Qin's army arrived in the Jifu area, the Ministry of War first ordered them to garrison Tongzhou, then transferred to Changping on the second day, and then to Liangxiang on the third day. The soldiers ran to three places in three days and circled around the capital. I didn't eat a single meal, and my intestines were all hungry.

Think about it, these soldiers from Shanxi who came to the capital to serve the king risked their lives to save them, but now they were starved to death and ran an extended marathon.So their hearts are extremely indignant.

And it would definitely not work without food, so they started looting food near the station, harming the local people.But those soldiers don't know, are the common people near the capital really common people?Almost all Zhuangzi near the capital are rich and powerful.

The actions of these soldiers immediately passed through the mouths of the dignitaries to the ears of Emperor Chongzhen and the court ministers.Therefore, the imperial court believed that Geng Ruqi and Zhang Honggong had failed to restrain the troops, and ordered them to be arrested and imprisoned.

When the eight thousand soldiers saw that their commander had been arrested, they scattered and fled back to Shanxi.But in order to have food to eat on the way back, they looted along the way.Just now, some Shanxi rout soldiers looted grain in that village.

After hearing the words of those rout soldiers, everyone in the big tent was dumbfounded.They never thought that such a ridiculous thing would happen.There was no sign of the Tartars, and the army of the eight thousand Qin kings in Shanxi disappeared like this.

But the people in the big tent didn't know that the court executed both Geng Ruqi and Zhang Honggong.The two of them were the fastest to reach the capital Qin Wang, but in the end they became the fastest to reach the capital and were beheaded by the court.

The people in the big tent didn't even know that a similar situation happened in Shaanxi King Qin's army.This led to a large-scale exodus of the soldiers of King Qin of Shaanxi.After they returned to Shaanxi, most of them joined the ranks of peasant rebellion.And because of the joining of this group of soldiers with military experience, the strength of the Shaanxi peasant rebel army has also been greatly strengthened.

After hearing the words of these rout soldiers, everyone in the big tent was waiting for Qin Liangyu's handling of these rout soldiers.Qin Liangyu frowned, thought for a while, and finally waved his hand and ordered: "They are all chopped off, and the heads are hung around the camp for public display."

As a general who was very loyal to the imperial court, Qin Liangyu had some sympathy for these defeated soldiers, but she would never tolerate any deserters, no matter what their reasons were.

The surrounding white soldiers immediately dragged down the rout soldiers who were begging for mercy, and soon after cutting off their heads, they hung the heads of these rout soldiers around the camp for public display.