Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 315
Famous in history, it really occupied the Yinghuo Mountains until Chongzhen for 15 years, and then defected to Li Zicheng and went straight to Beijing's Gezuo Fifth Battalion. Now it is completely defeated.

In the last battle of Tiantangzhai, the Fifth Battalion of Ge Zuo lost more than half of them. The wounded were removed from the five battalions, and there were more than 7000 people left in the five battalions. Moreover, they almost lost all their supplies, weapons, and horses. The defeat was so close, the morale of the Gezuo Fifth Battalion was extremely low, and the most deadly point was that in places like Henan, Shaanxi, and Shanxi, the lost soldiers and horses could be replenished almost immediately, but in the Dabie Mountains of Xin County and Huoshan County, Not to mention the small number of people, most of the population was confiscated by the begging army and collected under its command.

Nominally, they still had five battalions alone, but in fact it was extremely difficult, and they had to accept Song Qingshu's reorganization. Among them, Lao Huihui, Ge Liyan, and Sweeping King were still close to him, and it could be said that they were loyal. The soldiers and horses were organized into two divisions, Ge Liyan and He Yilong had one division, Laohuihui and Troubled Times King Liu Xiyao had one division, as for Zuojin King He Jin, who had suffered relatively heavy losses and was not interested in Song Qingshu, and reincarnated king Lin Yang. The two of them joined together to form a division, with designations ranging from the First Gezuo Division to the Third Gezuo Division.

A division is full of more than 3000 people. Song Qingshu also recruited more than 2000 people from his old subordinates, Zhou Yuji's first begging division, and Li Tiezhu's second begging division, into these three divisions, and Sun Chuanting's idea , A thousand or so people were cut off from He Jinlin, who had a relatively large number of trainees, and added to the first and second divisions of Lao Huihui and Ge Liyan.

If you want to get supplies from the begging army, you have to reorganize according to Song Qingshu's requirements, and Song Qingshu's reasons are justified, and you have lost two consecutive battles because your command is too chaotic. The Gezuo Fifth Battalion had no way to refuse.

This is good, regular soldiers in the begging army are all paid. Although one month is theoretically much less than the official army’s salary, Song Qingshu will never default on it. In fact, he gets much more than the official army. After reorganization The begging work of the three divisions of Gezuo was also taken, and the first division and the second division also mixed in no less than five hundred people who followed Song Qingshu to the south to beg for work. The old subordinates of the army served as junior officers, almost directly controlled by Song Qingshu, The three masters were deprived of many people. He Jin originally hated Song Qingshu, but this time even Lao Huihui, Ge Liyan, and King Zhengshi, who benefited from him, also hated them. .

Although this time more than 1 more soldiers have been paid, even local tyrants like Song Qingshu have to start counting their lives, but it can be regarded as more than 9000 more elite soldiers, and the begging army has reached an unprecedented 1000 people. There are more than [-] to [-] males in the various production teams who are all soldiers.

With such a force in hand, I would feel sorry for myself if I didn't do something!
The south of the Huaihe River in the Qinling Mountains, although it is a mountainous area, can still be regarded as southern China, where two crops are grown a year.

All rice is planted in spring, and it can be harvested in July. After all, it is still a little north. There is no double-cropping rice in the south of the Yangtze River. , Now it happens to plant high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, and peanuts.

It’s really quite different from the north. In Henan, food is scarce. In the Dabie Mountains, food is suddenly abundant. There are more than 2000 hectares of land in the two counties. There are as many as 20 to 2 shi from the tax collection, and then spend money to buy surplus food from the mountain people, and there are another [-] shi, which is a full [-] shi. Even if you eat rice a day, one catty per person, It is enough to feed more than [-] beggars for three years.

As for northerners eating noodles, are you not used to eating southern rice?The eggs from Jishan are fried with the tomatoes brought by this soup Ruowang, and then put on the rice. Every time the meal is served, the gangsters shake off their cheeks one by one, and they don’t see how they reject it. The only fly in the ointment is that this At the beginning of the year, the sugar production was still too little, and the scrambled eggs with persimmons were only salty, and the lack of sweetness always felt unauthentic.

Spring plowing has started in this new county. The Fifth Battalion of Gezuo launched the Battle of Hejiazhai. In order to prepare for the battle and follow-up harassment, the spring plowing in Yingshan County and Qianshan, Taihu Lake, Yuexi and other places was obviously delayed for more than a month. Huoshan has finished harvesting in Xin County, while Yingshan has just started harvesting in Tiantangzhai.

Here, the time that Sun Chuanting has been waiting for for a long time has finally arrived!
The first blow was delivered by Song Qingshu to Mei Zhihuan, the former governor of Gansu who hadn't faced his face yet.

Unlike other thieves, Song Qingshu is an official thieves with an official background, and his teacher is the principal in charge of the National University, Li Jiantai of the Imperial College Jijiu!I found a few familiar Huizhou merchants and wrote a complaint against Mei Zhihuan for not staying in his hometown. He went to the Duoyun Inspection Department to do his best, robbed the merchants, and then bought a generous gift for Li Jiantai. As a congratulatory gift for Li Jiantai's promotion.

According to Chen Liuzi, the envoy sent to the capital, after finding out that Song Xian, the apprentice he had accepted in public, was Song Qingshu, the dignified beggar, Li Jiantai's expression was as if he had opened a dyeing workshop. Zhou Li's family owns 10,000+ taels of shares in Jiaduobao Company, and the annual dividends are tens of thousands of taels, and this master-student name has been passed down for a long time. I can no longer be an official, and we may not be able to keep our heads in front of our diligent Chongzhen Lord.

Unceremoniously accepted a congratulatory gift of more than 1 taels of silver, and spent more than a thousand taels of silver to impeach the censor. It was his former opponent who heard the impeachment, and immediately followed suit. It has always been a taboo for court officials to interfere in local political affairs. Leaving Jinyi Wei Tiqi to go to the Duoyun Inspection Department to trouble Mei Zhihuan.

In Huoshan, it was Song Qingshu who entertained a few Jinyiwei officials who went into the mountain to get Mei Zhihuan.

The thief entertained the factory guards, and went to capture the court officials who were against the thief. It is estimated that in the Ming Dynasty, that was the only one in the scorpion's shit!

On the third day after the factory guards were sent away, without waiting for news from them, the Qihuo army with the first division, the fourth division, the second Gezuo division, and the third division as the main force attacked once again. To Yingshan County.

This time, Yingshan Eighteen Villages really made Song Qingshu cry. The rice that had finally matured gave up every step of the way. Many small cottages attached to the Eighteen Villages simply sent people to surrender. More than 1 civilians were recruited with the army, and they marched while cutting rice. On the seventh day of the march, Yingshan County was taken down almost without bloodshed.

The initial results of the battle can be regarded as a victory for the first time. Among other things, the harvested rice alone has more than 3 shi, and the brown rice has about [-] shi. Hejiazhai and Fuzhuzhai fled without a fight. Surrendered a dozen or so, and harvested a population of more than [-], sweeping away the defeat of Miaomei and the fifth battalion of Gezuo.

It's just that standing in Yingshan County and looking south, both Song Qingshu and Sun Chuanting are frowning tightly. The next battle is the most difficult beginning of the whole battle. If you go south, you won't be far away. Tiantangzhai, where the Duoyun Inspection Department is located.

"Meet the Master!"

Ge Liyan He Yilong and Zuojin King He Jin bowed to Song Qingshu's pretentious white cloak on the top of the city wall with the three big characters "beg live handsome" written on it. They are all the leaders of the peasant army who rose up to rebel, but now, the troops have been incorporated, even though they are all their core troops, many of the officers are also their old subordinates, but starting from accepting begging for military salaries, this independence is lost.

If you dare to betray Song Qingshu and cut off the salary of the begging army, it will be fine for a month or two. After a long time, do you think the people under your command will turn against you?No one would follow a leader with no future, not even the Huier Army of the old Hui tribe.

After deliberately looking at the terrain for a while, and letting them hang out for a while, Song Qingshu turned around, cupped his fists and arched slightly with a smile on his face.

"Hehe, the two leaders came just in time. The two leaders have been complaining to Song before that there is no chance for revenge. Now, the opportunity has come! Song decided to give the opportunity to attack the vanguard to the two!"

"I believe that with the experience from last time, and now through the comprehensive training of my begging army, the elites under the command of the two will definitely be able to avenge their shame! Song will prepare a celebration banquet for the two of you in Yingshan County!"

Looking at Song Qingshu's charming smile, the expressions of Ge Liyan and King Zuojin couldn't help but suddenly changed, becoming extremely ugly...

(End of this chapter)