Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 147
"Qian Shouzhi, please draft an edict for me, and tell Shi Kefa and Zhang Yong, don't tell me how heavy the casualties are, and don't tell me how many casualties, I just want Kaifeng City."

"In addition, Shen Liangru, the Henan procuratorate, was sent to serve as the Henan Fujun envoy to replace the emperor to appease and reward the sergeants in the army."

Just now, Shen Liangru didn't change his face when he faced such a bloody scene on the execution ground. It can be seen that he has great courage, much stronger than ordinary Confucian scholars who dare not even watch a chicken being killed.

Coupled with the fact that he was originally a high-ranking official in Henan, Zhu Cihong believed that Shen Liangru must be capable of accomplishing this task well.

Qian Qianyi, as the leader of literati in the south of the Yangtze River, has great literary talent and the ability to rely on horses to wait for him, and he has been in the cabinet for a while, so it is easy to draft a simple imperial edict, and he will write it for Zhu Cihong in a short time up.

"Look for a captain in Jinyi to escort Shen Liangru with an infantry with a general banner. Today we will go to Zhang Yong and Shi Kefa."

Fengqiu County is only more than thirty miles away from the Yellow River, and the straight-line distance to Kaifeng City is only more than 100 miles. Although there is the Yellow River in the middle, it only takes one day to travel faster.

Even if the army marches at a speed of fifty or sixty miles a day, it can be reached in two days.

Shen Liangru suddenly learned that he was appointed by Zhu Cihuang as the envoy of the Henan Fujun. He wanted to go to the army to condolences and reward the soldiers. He didn't even have time to notify his family. He packed his clothes, pens, inks, papers and inkstones into a package, and then handed it to the long attendant. Then, under the escort of Captain Jin Yiwei, he headed south all the way.

His trip this time was much easier than Yue Qijie's last time, because Zhu Cihong came to Henan from Huainan via the Yellow River water transport, so now the waters of the Yellow River and Huai River are full of navigable ships.

Moreover, there are newly built docks on both sides of the strait for loading and unloading supplies, so if he wants to cross the river, he just needs to find a dock and show his official seal, and there will be a lot of people rushing to serve him.

Thanks to Zhu Cixiang's plan to attack along the Yellow River and Huaihe River, both sides of the Yellow River, especially in Kaifeng, are now full of civilians providing logistical assistance to the army.

Most of them are refugees and young adults from Shandong and Huaihe Rivers. They were worrying about how to make a living on the land and survive the Jiashen year full of hardships.

Coincidentally, Zhu Cihong was about to launch troops to recover the Central Plains, and he just enlisted them as civilian husbands, which solved their livelihood problems.

Although it is the duty of the subjects of the world to accept the king's requisition and bring their own dry food to work, few kings would really do that, because it would almost push the common people to a dead end.

Naturally, Zhu Cihong was even more incompetent. He is an ordinary person from modern times, and he knows how difficult the life of the people at the bottom is.

"Excuse me, who is your honor?" Just after Shen Liangru and the others set foot on the land on the south bank of the Yellow River and walked for dozens of miles, they met a group of patrols on foot.

These patrols were soldiers sent out by Zhang Yong to carry out daily patrols outside the siege camp. Their main task was to pay attention to abnormal figures and situations near Kaifeng City, and report them to the general shogunate.

After all, the whole of Henan is now in the hands of Li Chuang, except Guide is completely in the hands of Zhu Cihong, and the situation is very unclear.

Although they were spared from participating in the brutal siege battle, they suffered a lot more. The armies of Zhang Yong, Gao Jie, Shi Kefa, and Liu Zeqing were mainly infantry, and the few horses were all equipped to the most elite soldiers.

Therefore, the soldiers of these patrols can only run back and forth in the wilderness for thousands of miles with a pair of iron feet.

"With your blind eyes, can't you see your rank?" Before Shen Liangru could answer, the captain of the Jinyi Guards pointed at Shen Liangru's official uniform and cursed at the captain of the patrol.

As soon as Shen Liangru received Zhu Cihong's order, he rushed over non-stop, so he didn't even change his official uniform, and rode over directly wearing his third-rank Henan inspector's scarlet robe.

"You little one has blind eyes, I hope you will forgive me." Hearing the captain of Jin Yiwei yelling at him, the patrol captain hurriedly apologized.

In fact, he could tell that Shen Liangru was an official, but he, an ordinary person, could understand the rank and clothing of court officials. In ancient times, there was no Du Niang, so he had no way to ask online.

"Don't be so rude." Captain Jin Yiwei still wanted to scold, but was stopped by Shen Liangru.

"I am the inspector envoy of Zheng Sanpin Henan, and the envoy of Henan Fujun. I was ordered by the emperor to meet General Dingyuan and the Shige Department in the army." Shen Liangru politely told the patrol captain his identity and purpose.

"It turned out to be the procurator, but the little one has no eyes and blind eyes, and offended the lord, please forgive me." Only then did the patrol captain realize that the person standing in front of him was the procurator, one of the three highest-ranking judges in the province, and he was so frightened that he hurried Kneel down and beg for mercy.

You must know that according to the procuratorial envoy, it is not easy to send a person to prison for squatting, or even beheading.

Although the patrol captain had become a soldier and was no longer an ordinary citizen, he was still terrified of such a high official from the bottom of his heart.

"Stop being polite and take me to the camp to see the general." Shen Liangru was anxious to see Zhang Yong. He needed to hand over Zhu Cixiang's edict to Shi Kefa and Zhang Yong as soon as possible.

"Yes." After hearing Shen Liangru's words, the patrol captain obeyed and quickly led them from the front.

As he walked, Shen Liangru suddenly thought that he still had a very important task, which was to condolence and reward the army.

But the problem is that I don't even know how many troops are around Kaifeng City, and I don't even know the morale and problems of the soldiers.

"Let me ask you a few questions, how long has the general led you to attack the city, how many of you are there, and which part of the army is mainly attacking the city now." Shen Liangru expressed all the doubts in his heart in one breath.

"My lord, it's been less than half a month. The thieves in the city are very tenacious, and they even pushed out the common people in the city as targets, wanting us to throw them at you."

"As for the number of the army, I don't know. After all, you know that I am a small officer, so I am qualified to know these things. If you ask those uncles and generals, it is about the same."

It is not surprising that the patrol captain has no idea how many Ming troops there are in the city of Kaifeng. Even in modern times, if the establishment of an army is clearly written on paper, you may not be able to know how many troops there are in the army. people.

Otherwise, it would not have happened that foreign spies and bribers counted heads and cars at the gate of the flower planter's military base.

(End of this chapter)