Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 209 Who is the most loyal
The soldier had to send a message in a hurry.

After the soldiers left, Li Jing ordered Zhou Daqing, Wang Ermao and other ministries to attack Wang Ziyong.

Li Jing also had to guard against Wang Ziyong. Every time Chen Dazhuang's artillery troops were asked to act as bandits and cooperate with Wang Ziyong to attack the city, Li Jing was careful.

After all, the power of the artillery is there, and Wang Ziyong cannot help but be jealous. Li Jing must be careful that his head is hot, and he will attack Chen Dazhuang's artillery unit by the way to snatch the artillery during the siege.

At present, Li Jing does not have many cannons, the total number is only more than [-]. Now the weather is cold and the reservoir is frozen, so the production of artillery and firearms is impossible.

Shaoqing's personal soldiers came back and reported that Wang Ziyong and others had finished their preparations, and only waited for the artillery to be fired to destroy the artillery of the officers and soldiers on the city wall, and then began to attack the city.At the same time, Wang Ziyong replied, agreeing to what Li Jing said, and asked Li Jing to abide by his promise and take down Xia County, that is, to let Wang Ziyong and others enter Zezhou.In addition, Yingshanhong and other ministries wanted to return to Shaanxi, and hoped that Li Jing could let go of the channel in Shaanxi.

Hearing that Yingshanhong and other ministries were going back to Shaanxi, Li Jing smiled and said in his heart: "These bandit leaders are not stupid. Knowing that after I pacify Southwest Shanxi, I will not allow them to make trouble in my vicinity, and I will deal with them sooner or later. , so I want to take this opportunity to leave my territory."

Thinking about it, Li Jing immediately agreed.

Zezhou is too small to support so many rogues. Then the rogues will inevitably loot around Li Jing's territory. Li Jing must focus on preventing the plague in the next few years, and he has no energy at all. To guard against bandits.Leaving a group of people, Li Jing's pressure will be much less.

Moreover, the rogues in Shaanxi gradually calmed down, Hong Chengchou began to relax, and went to a few groups of rogues to find something for him to do, so as to save him from other thoughts.

In fact, what Li Jing hopes most is to recruit rogues, but now is not the time.The so-called self-respect of raising thieves is because there are thieves in the southwest of Shanxi. Li Jing cooperated with the officers and soldiers in the name of the militia to encircle and suppress him, so the court promoted him. If there were no rogues, the court might have to focus on him.

Where did so many militiamen come from?Why is it stronger than the official army?It would be strange not to deal with him!

When the Pingyang Mansion stabilizes and Li Jing has the confidence to fight against the imperial court, it will not be too late to recruit the rogues.

I think these rogues who entered Shaanxi will not be completely wiped out by Hong Chengchou, and they will not be able to stay in Shaanxi, so they will naturally come here.

Wanting to understand this point, Li Jing stopped thinking about it, and immediately ordered his personal soldiers to order Chen Dazhuang to attack.

Following Li Jing's order, boom boom boom, three cannon shots were heard in the distance.

Hearing only three cannon shots, Li Jingjing nodded. This Chen Dazhuang was getting more and more adept at fighting, and he actually learned to test fire. He fired a few shots first to test the impact point of the shells, and then made adjustments.

It's a pity that Li Jing's current cannons are all small cannons. The main purpose is to be easy to carry, and they don't have the function of adjusting the elements. Adjusting the shooting distance and angle depends entirely on experience.

When supplies are sufficient in the future, Li Jing can design and produce large artillery with larger caliber and longer shooting distance.

After the three test firings, after a while, dozens of cannons roared at the same time, and then paused for a while.

Li Jing knew that this kind of adjustment based on experience would inevitably lead to errors, so this was the second round of adjustment.

After this round of adjustments is completed, it is time to really exert strength.

Sure enough, after a while, the sound of shelling sounded again, followed by cheers.

Li Jing shook his head, knowing that it was a shell that hit the city wall.

After shelling for a period of time, there was a burst of shouts like mountains and seas, and the rogues began to attack the city on a large scale.

Li Jing sighed inwardly. He didn't know how many families would be destroyed after the city was destroyed. Although he had told Wang Ziyong to refrain from killing, there was no military discipline for the bandits.

Li Jing was contemplating himself, when he suddenly heard the report from the soldiers outside the tent that the rogues who attacked the city were repelled, and Wang Ziyong sent someone to ask for another bombardment.

Li Jing was very surprised, and hurriedly said: "What's going on, is there still guards on the city wall?"

The soldier nodded and said: "That's right. According to the people of the king's own use, when they climbed the city wall, a large number of officers and civilians suddenly appeared on the city wall. The rogues were caught off guard and were defeated."

Li Jing was surprised, the commanding general of the officer army is very good!Obviously, the official army retreated from the city wall when the bombardment stopped, and when the shelling stopped and the bandits began to attack the city, the official army went up the city wall again.

If this is the case, then the bombardment strategy needs to be adjusted.

After meditating for a while with his eyes closed, Li Jing said to the soldier: "You ask Chen Dazhuang to inform Wang Ziyong. After two rounds of shelling, let Wang Ziyong's troops launch a feint attack, stop when they are more than a hundred steps away from the city, and then shell again, understand. Is it?"

The soldiers nodded and took orders to leave.

After a while, the shelling sounded again, and then the bandits attacked the city again, and after a while, the shelling sounded again.

After a long time, the shelling stopped, and the bandits rushed towards the city wall shouting again.

Unfortunately, not long after, there was news from the front that the rogues were repulsed again, and Wang Ziyong sent someone to request to continue the bombardment.

Hearing that Wang Ziyong was defeated again and demanded another artillery attack, Li Jing cursed angrily: "Damn it, did Wang Ziyong eat shit with so many people? Or did I think my cannonballs fell from the sky."

Li Jing couldn't help being angry. The bandits had already attacked the city wall but were repulsed by the officers and soldiers. What does this mean?It shows that the rogues are no longer willing to fight with the officers and soldiers.

During this period of time, the bandits tasted the sweetness of artillery siege, and they no longer had the confidence to attack the city as before, and wanted to attack with artillery whenever they encountered setbacks.

But the rogues don't know that artillery is not omnipotent, especially this kind of artillery that is not very powerful.

The artillery that Li Jing is using now is quite powerful in flat land combat, but when attacking a city, it mainly serves as a deterrent, and its lethality is far from enough.

Shaking his head, Li Jing knew that now was not the time to be angry.At the same time, I also know that sitting in the tent like this, without seeing the situation on the front line with my own eyes, I often make mistakes in judgment and miss good opportunities.

After thinking for a while, Li Jing said to his soldiers: "Prepare the horse, I want to go ahead and have a look."

As Li Jing said, he took the cloak from the soldiers and put it on, and was about to leave the tent when he heard footsteps coming from outside the tent, and then someone said, "Is the commander in there?"

It was Zhou Shitou's voice, Li Jing was startled, why did Shitou come?

After Hutou led the army, Shitou was naturally promoted to the captain of the personal army, but he still stayed in Jiang County.

Li Jing was away in battle, and Yuan Keli was in charge of the family affairs. Shitou took some of his soldiers to stay in Jiang County. One was for the safety of Yuan Keli and others. In addition, Shitou was beside Yuan Keli and others, and many orders were delivered through him. No one dared to question it. The most important thing was that there were stones and personal soldiers in Jiang County, which could deter some people.

There are two major law enforcement departments under Li Jing's rule. The first is naturally the law enforcement team under the Military Law Department, which is responsible for investigating and punishing illegal soldiers, and the second is the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which is responsible for supervising officials.

But compared to Li Jing's personal army, the power of these two departments is not as good. The personal army has the right to investigate not only illegal soldiers, but also officers. When encountering illegal officials, they also have the right to investigate.

In fact, Li Jing was very helpless in doing so. As his territory grew, he would inevitably promote a large number of officers and appoint a large number of officials, but it was impossible for Li Jing to know all of these people.Therefore, these people must be supervised. Similarly, the supervisors are also selected from the bottom, and it is inevitable that the behavior of favoritism and malpractice must be supervised.

Not to mention those who joined the Jishi Army later, even those leaders who followed Li Jing very early, as their status gradually improved and their conditions became better and better, it was inevitable that they would form gangs, which might form cliques for personal gain.

To supervise these people, Li Jing must use people who are absolutely loyal to him.

There is a group of people in the Ji Shi Army. They will only be loyal to Li Jing and will never collude with others for personal gain. These people are members of Li Jing's personal guards.

Most of the members of the pro-guards are orphans, raised by Li Jing, and taught by Li Jing himself for many years. In their minds, Li Jing is their father.

If one of Li Jing's subordinates is the most loyal, it must be the personal guards.

When these soldiers were still children, Gao Qi joked with Li Jing that he would test them to see if they were loyal to Li Jingzhong.

The method of the test is: Gao Qi finds those children in private, and he has to recognize a few of them as adopted sons. As long as they agree to be Gao Qi's adopted sons, he will transfer them to his subordinates for reuse.

No, Gao Qi was reported to Li Jing by those children later, saying that Gao Qi had bad intentions and wanted to adopt them as adopted sons without discussing with Li Jing.

After Gao Qi learned about it, he praised Li Jing for training these children well, and said to Li Jing with a wry smile: "If even I can't talk to these people, then no one can talk to them."

Gao Qi's words are definitely not big words. In Hongshanling, the military power is only in the hands of two people, one is Li Jing, and the other is Gao Qi. Even Yuan Keli doesn't care about the military affairs.

Because almost all the soldiers were trained by Gao Qi, Gao Qi's prestige was second only to Li Jing in the minds of the soldiers.

Even Gao Qi can't talk about these children, others naturally don't think about it, and after this incident for a long time, those children have always looked at Gao Qi wrongly, and they always look at Gao Qi with anger. wry smile.

Later, as the children got older and became Li Jing's personal soldiers, they finally realized that Gao Qi was actually testing their loyalty to Li Jing back then, and then they began to respect Gao Qi again.

This is true for Gao Qi, let alone others?

For such people, Li Jing naturally felt relieved to hand over power to them.

Moreover, these people are very self-conscious and do not feel that they have the right to interfere with the work of other departments at will.Generally speaking, unless they were caught in the act, the guards seldom interfered with the business of the law enforcement team and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which made Li Jing feel more at ease with them.

(End of this chapter)