Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 489 Saigon
A dozen Jinyi guards, escorting a man in a yellow robe, walked slowly in the rain in frustration, and the pursuers behind had already thrown off.

The first person wearing a yellow robe is naturally the emperor Zhu Cihuan.

Just now, when he was fleeing from Wuzhou to Nanning, when he passed through Xunzhou, he was suddenly attacked by Qing Guogong Chen Bangfu's army. The concubines selected in Guangdong were all hijacked.

If it wasn't for Zhu Cihuan's innate sensitivity to danger and the heavy rain to cover him, he would have rushed past on horseback, otherwise he would have suffered too.

Zhu Cihuan regretted it, he regretted it just like his elder brother Zhu Cihong, regretted that Yang Chao should not be regarded as a thorn in the side, so what about Yang Chao's monopoly, what about Cao Cao, at least Han Xiandi could still be prosperous and rich in Cao Cao's hands.

But as for him, Zhu Cihuan, he ran away again and again, and escaped again and again as a bereaved dog.

In all fairness, Zhu Cihuan didn't feel that Yang Chao was so authoritarian. When he was in Nanjing, his brother Zhu Cihong didn't seem to be coerced by Yang Chao. In many cases, his brother was very rude to Yang Chao, but Yang Chao He has never resisted, and although he can't escape from the court, he has never threatened the emperor or the court with his troops.

Zhu Cihuan couldn't help but imagined, if he had ascended the throne in Nanjing instead of going to Fujian, would Yang Chao treat him like his brother and make him a complete emperor.

If Yang Chao was around, he would be happy as the emperor, at least he wouldn't have to run around.

But none of Zhu Cihuan's ministers spoke well of Yang Chao. It turned out that it was not he, the emperor, who was afraid of Yang Chao, but those ministers!
When Zhu Cihuan wanted to understand this truth, he saw the reinforcements. Qu Shixu, the Minister of War in Nanning, sent Jiao Lian, the chief soldier of Nanning, to welcome Zhu Cihuan.

Qu Shixu was a loyal man. When Zhu Cihuan fled to Guangxi for the first time, he was able to settle down with the support of Qu Shixu. Later, after Wang Deren turned his back on him, a group of Cantonese who had made great contributions welcomed him back to Guangdong. Sitting in Guangxi as Minister of the Ministry of War, he declared that he would guard this place for the imperial court.

In fact, it was because of internal strife that Qu Shixu would not have good results in Guangdong. Sure enough, after Zhu Cihuan returned to Zhaoqing, a party quickly formed here. With the help of Wang Deren's troops, Guangdong officials Ding Kuichu and others continued to impeach Qu Shixu, because they When they were in Guangxi, they were often angry with Qu Shixu. Now that Feng Shui is taking turns, they naturally have revenge and complaints.

But that is already in the past tense, and the group of people fighting for power and profit will probably never have a chance to fight again, and now only Qu Shiqi's party is left.

Nanjing.

Yang Chao was much calmer than Zhu Cihuan.

With a heavy army in hand, he naturally has more room to move around.

It's just that the troops in hand don't seem to be enough.

Then call in the reserves.

As early as last year, Yang Chao sent military training officers to the counties. In Nanzhili, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Shandong, there are more than 300 prefectures and counties, large and small. Bandit Anmin, for more than a year, these soldiers have completed all kinds of training, and they can fight immediately when they are added to the army.

A county in three hundred prefectures has a total of 400 soldiers in the corps, and 300 people are transferred to a total of 10 people.

"Recruit 10 people to join the army, and at the same time retrain 20 people. There are so many refugees in Shandong and Henan that need to be resettled, and it is easy to recruit 20 people."

Yang Chao immediately took action. This time the Qing army attacked from all directions, so Yang Chao still felt that the troops were insufficient. Compared with the Qing army, Yang Chao's 50 soldiers did not have an advantage. The Qing army trained 30 Eight Banners recruits , In addition to the integration of the Eight Banners forces, Dorgon can also draw 40 veterans of the Manchu, Han, and Mongolian Eight Banners, a total of 10 Eight Banners soldiers.Hong Chengchou had no less than [-] Huguang Green Battalions, and this time more than [-] soldiers from Guangdong were surrendered. King Sanshun, Wu Sangui and others also had nearly [-] elite Han troops.

The total strength of the Qing army is no less than 80.

Since the Qing army was playing violent games with Yang Chao, Yang Chao, who has the advantages of manpower and material resources, needn't be less than them, and he has also formed an army of 80.

It's just that recruiting troops is easy, but selecting generals is difficult. The art of war says that generals are selected first in the selection of troops, and Yang Chao just doesn't have rich and qualified generals in his hands.

People like Wang Pu and Zhao Kang are suspected of being selected as generals among dwarfs if they can become the general army. After several years of training, the ones who are barely qualified are Li Wuliu and a lot of men. The strategic vision of others is still poor. Quite a lot.

However, Zhao Kang's strategy for attacking the Daming Mansion this time was good. After asking, he found out that Li Yuanyin, his lieutenant general, was mainly making suggestions.

This Li Yuanyin fought with Gao Jie since he was a child, and has more combat experience than Wang Pu and others. The most important thing is that Li Yuanyin is still a scholar. Although the theoretical knowledge is not as powerful as the literati boast, it is also hundreds of thousands of years old. The essence of war summed up by the elders may not be useful to literati, but if a general has rich actual combat experience and can combine military theory, it is easy to cultivate a strategic vision.

A general only has rich combat experience, and he is just a brave general. With rich combat experience and the ability to combine military theory, he is a handsome talent with a strategic vision. Yes, but those general soldiers who can barely read and write are really not optimistic.

"Experience is important in tactics, but theory is inseparable in strategy!"

Yang Chao couldn't help sighing, the fact is true. Many men and Li Wuliu who are more serious about reading and writing and have been willing to study hard are more advanced than others. Lu Mo's reading ability is the strongest, but his battle experience is less Not as good as the others, but commanding troops to fight is much safer than Wang Pu. At least this time, if Lu Mo goes to attack Kaifeng, he will definitely not be easily attacked by Wu Sangui.

However, it may be unrealistic to improve the strategic awareness of your subordinates in a short period of time.

"Li Yuanyin!"

This Li Yuanyin is not bad. When he was in Wuhu, he led the cavalry to block Hauge, and finally captured Hauge alive, so he was promoted to lieutenant general.

But asking Yang Chao to promote him as the chief soldier, Yang Chao felt a little uneasy. After all, this was the rest of Gao Jie's army, and most of Gao Jie's soldiers were sent to the Mekong River to open up wasteland after several years of hard work as prisoners. I can't guarantee that this person has no resentment in his heart.

"It's better to let him stay with Zhao Kang and continue to make suggestions. It's more appropriate for the two to work together!"

Yang Chao thought to himself.

"Partner! One article and one weapon!"

Suddenly Yang Chao couldn't help being a little funny, feeling that this is the configuration of the chief officer and political commissar of later generations.

After secretly laughing, Yang Chao was stunned for a moment, yes, why can't he use this method for reference.

There are still some scholars with rich theoretical knowledge in the army. Wouldn't it be possible to get the best of both worlds by organizing these people to form a staff group to advise the chief officer?

Thinking of this, Yang Chao immediately took action and asked Huang Yuan to organize an exam. Unlike the last exam for military officers, the last exam was more focused on military skills. This time it was based on strategy, and three questions were asked: the first It was the analysis of the reasons why Wang Pu failed to attack Kaifeng twice, and he asked the examinees to write out their deployment as the commander; the second was to analyze how to attack our army from the perspective of Wu Sangui; the third was to stand on the How to deploy Yang Chao's position.

Then paste the names, break up the files, and distribute them to various armies, so that officers above the general level can analyze the pros and cons.

In the end, a hundred recognized as the best were selected, and they were added to the general soldiers, and a non-ranked soldier joined the army, who was responsible for planning military aircraft, similar to the staff of later generations.

In addition, there are some outstanding characters like Li Yuanyin. Yang Chao plans to focus on training, and Li Yuanyin is one of them. As if he can prove his loyalty, Yang Chao does not mind promoting him to be the chief soldier. There is another character named Wu Risheng, who is more Special because he is a literati.

Wu Risheng was originally a staff member under Shi Kefa's tent. When Yangzhou was besieged, he escaped from the siege and fled to Guazhou with dozens of warships and sailors. Later, he was arranged by Yang Chao to lead the sailors under Lu Mo's tent. Shang Kexi built a large warship in Jiangxi and then attacked Huizhou, defeating the sailors under Lu Mo's tent.

Later, this Wu Risheng stood out precisely because he defeated Shang Kexi. His sailors came from Guazhou. They were not elite, but their water skills were good. Shang Kexi attacked Huizhou, and Wu Risheng's navy defeated almost the entire army. Annihilated, and then these sailors and warships were expanded into his own army by Shang Kexi.

Although the battle was defeated, Wu Risheng planted some nails for Shang Kexi. It turned out that most of the sailors who surrendered were arranged by him. Later, when Lu Mo counterattacked Shang Kexi, these sailors jumped into the water immediately. , the ship was scuttled and Shang Kexi was defeated.

Wu Risheng was therefore promoted to lieutenant general.Obviously, he is different from the officers in Yang Chao's army. Yang Chao's officers were all made step by step, but he first had the theory, and then through practice, he achieved the same goal by different routes. Obviously he is also a qualified officer.

What Yang Chao didn't know was that in the original history, Wu Risheng organized the Taihu Uprising, and he used the same method to defeat the Qing army. Thousands of ships gathered on Taihu Lake, which caused the Qing army a headache.

From Wu Risheng, Yang Chao couldn't help but think that literati are also very capable, such as Zhu Dadian in Jinhua.

But Zhu Dadian's character is not good, he is too corrupt, Yang Chao dare not use him, if he embezzles the military salary, it will be a bad thing.

But Zhu Dadian is not the only literati who can fight, Yang Chao immediately thought of two people.

"Hey, why did you forget these two people!"

Thinking of these two people, Yang Chao couldn't help getting a little excited. The national hero, one is Yan Yingyuan. This is beyond dispute. No one knew the history of the Jiangyin classics, so they immediately sent someone to inquire. Sure enough, Yan Yingyuan was still in Jiangyin, still doing the history in obscurity, and the county magistrate was another classic history, Chen Mingyu.

Ma Wenwen wrote and transferred Yan Yingyuan to Wang Pu's army to join the army. I hope he can stand out like he did in history.

The other person was Zhang Huangyan. It took a lot of trouble to find this person, because this person first went to Fujian with Zhu Cihuan, and then went to Guangdong. He disappeared for a while, and after more than a month he appeared by himself. After passing the Qing soldiers, he took a detour to find Zheng Chenggong and voted for Xie Fei.

Yang Chao simply instructed Xie Fei to keep this person, but because this person is a juren, has a reputation, and has been serving as a civil servant in the military department and the military department, so it is not easy to give him a military post, so he asked the military strategy to keep him in the army. Zhang Huangyan, on the other hand, wanted to regain Guangdong and welcomed Zhu Cihuan back, happy to stay in the army, and even dragged Zheng Chenggong to send Zhu Cihuan a letter, expressing his willingness to stay in Xie Fei's army as a supervisor.

Although many talents were selected for a while, there was still a shortage of generals, especially the main generals who were used to fighting.

"It's time to call Song Kyun back. It's such a waste to keep him in Saigon."

Yang Chao turned his gaze to the south.

Three thousand miles south along the coastline of China, where there is a wide delta called the Mekong Delta, along a river called the Ang Thong River, a group of Chinese craftsmen found an optimal location for the construction of the port, passing through After one year of construction, it is already a port of considerable size, capable of docking thirty large ships.

Yang Chao named this port Saigon.Coincidentally, this place is really close to Saigon in later generations, and An Thong River was gradually called Saigon River because of the name of Saigon, and this river was actually renamed Saigon River in later generations.

(End of this chapter)