Lord of Ming Dynasty

Zhang Qiang threw the towel to the soldiers, "Why, I am just a garrison, and you are just a hundred households of the general banner. Do you want me to appoint him as the commander of thousands of households? Will other people agree? Or should I put this garrison Do it for him?"

Xuanyuan Longfei was dumbfounded, Zhou Porridge coughed and signaled him to back down with his eyes.

Tian Bin's eyeballs rolled quickly. He knew Xuanyuan Longfei. He had contacted Zhang Qiang, the Ming army several times, and fought several battles. He might not understand the opponent's military system, but these generals under Zhang Qiang were still I understand, he also knows that Xuanyuan Longfei has better contacts than others, so he flatters Xuanyuan Longfei. As for Zhou Congee, he always feels that there is a layer of separation between the two of them, he is a scholar, or Zhang Qiang's acting magistrate. If you look at it, you won't accept a rogue like him.

As for Wei Wuji, he knows a little bit about it. He belongs to the kind of general who doesn't talk big, only does things, and is loyal to Zhang Qiang. Needless to say, Hu Kui, the captain of the personal army and the leader of the cavalry, it is definitely impossible to get along with him, and only Xuanyuan Longfei is just good. Wu, a man of righteousness and the habits of the world, can be with him.

Seeing that Xuanyuan Longfei was speechless by Zhang Qiang's words, he immediately smiled and said: "My lord, I only wish to be loyal to my lord, and I only want to serve my lord. I have no other extravagant hopes. To be a small flag under my lord's hands is also a villain luck."

Zhou Porridge glanced at Zhang Qiang, saw that Zhang Qiang ignored Tian Bin at all, coughed, and everyone focused on him, and said: "Tian Bin, sir, I understand your intentions, you go first, I have to discuss things later gone."

After dismissing Tian Bin, Zhou Congee said again: "My lord, please stay in the county seat!"

Chapter 57 Trust and Loyalty

Recapture Wuyi County, but at this moment, there is no one in Wuyi County except for a thousand young and strong peasants from other places who were coerced by the Qing army to deliver supplies, food and grass for them.

Wuyi County is a barracks, a big barracks, this is a fact.

There were too many harvests this time. Four thousand Qing army captives. Originally, Zhang Qiang also captured more than 1000 captives. In addition to the previous 1000 captives, Zhang Qiang found that the captives were more than three times his own strength. This is absolutely unhealthy. And there are half of the captive reformed soldiers in his team.

This made Zhang Qiang worry that he was sitting on a castle built of sand, which might collapse in an instant.

But now he couldn't solve it for a while, there were no people in Wuyi County to recruit, and those people who had already liked him either fled or were taken away by You Haibo.

Wuyi County was not destroyed, and because Zhang Qiang used captured soldiers to repair the city wall and build fortifications, Wuyi County was more like a fortress, which was extremely strong. Unless the Qing army sacrificed another [-] cannons to attack the city, it would be one or two Ten thousand soldiers wanted to take Wuyi County, but they couldn't take it against Zhang Qiang's [-] elite soldiers who had fought for two months.

So Zhang Qiang moved into Wuyi County with peace of mind this time.

After Liu Guangyan and Ruan Dacheng twice sent troops to Wuyi County, they brought in a lot of food and materials. It was initially estimated that there were 6000 shi of grain and [-] shi of supplies. Zhang Qiang defeated nearly [-] troops of the Qing army and captured There are a lot of weapons and armor, not to mention the cloth armor, bamboo armor, paper armor, and dilapidated cotton armor, but chain mail, scale armor, and ordinary iron armor, which are enough for Zhang Qiang to equip [-] men.

So Zhang Qiang expanded his troops again this time, Zhou Porridge, Xuanyuan Longfei, Wei Wuji, Mi Chun, Mi Lin, each selected [-] trustworthy Ming soldiers from the captives, and the Han soldiers in the Han army banner were incorporated into the team .

Each of their teams has reached 100 troops. Among them, there are no more than 200 veteran soldiers of the rebel army, no more than 100 skilled soldiers of the rebel army, 200 new recruits of the rebel army, and [-] soldiers from the Qing army. The combat effectiveness of the whole team has increased again. One level, and the combat effectiveness was not affected by the expansion of the army. The only thing that affected was morale. Because [-] surrendered soldiers joined, their morale was a little low, but after a battle with the Qing army, these soldiers will completely integrate into the Zhang Qiang's team became Zhang Qiang's soldiers.

These soldiers didn't have the concept of nation or nationality, and they didn't say anything about their loyalty to the generals they were with. It was just because they served as soldiers for food, and serving whom they served was not service. They were not comparable to those generals' confidantes.

Of course, they have no loyalty to Zhang Qiang at all. Apart from Zhang Qiang asking for loyalty to his own generals, ordinary soldiers, unless he personally trains and has been baptized by the system, are still a little loyal. Strong soldiers don’t need to think about this level, and it’s useless to think about it. Loyalty is illusory and elusive. There are too many variables and too many influencing factors. The biggest influencing factor is that it seems that the Qing army has a huge advantage in unifying the Ming Dynasty. .

Hu Kui's cavalry team expanded to 300 men, and Zhang Qiang's firecracker team Zhang Qiang only believed in soldiers trained by his commanding skills, so he could only continue training with the newly selected [-] soldiers.

In fact, his bodyguards are only linked to the strength allowed by his commanding skills at all times. Two hundred soldiers are his real bodyguards. Once these soldiers are handed over, he will actually have no troops in his hands.

Before each training, he had to hand over the old troops to other people, and then he personally trained two hundred recruits.

This time he handed over the [-] firecrackers in his hands to Hu Kui, who was in charge of the general banner of the [-] cavalry, and also in charge of his firecrackers. It can be said that he was the strongest in his team. people.

Today, he is training recruits.

Milin came to pay his respects, "My lord, Lin Chengcheng wants to see you, and he hopes that your lord will give him a chance to be loyal to you."

Without even thinking about it, Zhang Qiang said, "No, it's not like you don't know. I never saw those captured generals. I don't want to make myself uncomfortable. What if he betrayed me that day?"

Mi Lin is still in charge of the transportation team and the task of guarding the prisoners, while Mi Chun has changed from a small bandit captain to a member of Zhang Qiang's general banner, and is Zhang Qiang's man.

Mi Lin's current official position is actually the same as Zhang Qiang's position for Tian Bin, the small flags add up to the total flag ranks, but because he came with Mi Chun, and he has been working hard for a long time, so Zhang Qiang gave him the same leadership as the six. The right to a hundred soldiers is because of what he did. There are fewer people and it is impossible to estimate. There are more than 6000 prisoners. Not counting the hard-core traitors in the Han army flag who were forced to work and worked to death, as well as the Mongol Tartars and the real Tartars of the Qing soldiers, there are quite a few of them, at least 1000.

Milin knelt down and said, "My lord, we used to be General Lin Chengcheng's subordinates, and we also know that General Lin Chengcheng betrayed General He Jin, and his subordinate Tian Bin also betrayed General He Jin again, but no matter what , I still hope that the Lord can give General Lin a chance to be loyal to you, he was also forced to surrender to the Qing army."

Zhang Qiang rubbed his chin, thought for a long time, but still couldn't make up his mind, "Stand back, I will give you an answer after I think it over carefully."

Zhang Qiang didn't know how to trust this peasant uprising general who had betrayed his comrades-in-arms twice for his own self-interest.

He did not dare to trust the other generals who were captured. First, his reputation was not enough, and he had not yet reached the point where others wanted to serve him. , Those who come and go, except for the substantial contribution they caused to the Qing army, they have no contribution, but are harmful, harmful to the people and Daming.

From the perspective of the Han people, they are a different kind.

And Zhang Qiang is a Han, even though he wants to fight for hegemony, to be the emperor and restore the country of the Han people, but he still stands in the perspective of the Han people, attacking the barbarians and the Qing soldiers.

"Bring Zhou Congee, Wei Wuji, and Lord Hu Kui here." Zhang Qiang said to the soldiers beside him.

After a while the three came to Zhang Qiang, Zhang Qiang told them Milin's request, Zhou Porridge slapped his thigh, "My lord, these rogues are still untrustworthy, it's better to withdraw his official position and demote him to be a soldier, otherwise, once He has two minds, and all our bases in the mountains will be exposed, so I said, can't we use such a person to do such a secret thing?"

Hu Kui said: "My lord, we have to be on guard. Not only Mi Lin, Mi Chun should also be restricted. The two of them lead us with [-] troops, which is equivalent to one-third of our troops. If Lin Chengcheng provokes this, yes We've done a lot of harm."

Wei Wuji tapped his fingers on his thigh, murmured silently, Zhang Qiang turned around, "Wuji, what do you say?"

Wei Wuji said: "My lord, your foundation is too shallow. If you don't appoint them, I'm afraid no one will be available, but you have to guard against it. If you appoint Lin Chengyang, you have to consider the balance of power, and you can't let the forces of rogues dominate our army. Daddy, otherwise, we would make wedding dresses for others, but now Lin Chengcheng wants to take refuge in you, and he has to agree to him, otherwise, who will work for you in the future, and you will keep the captured enemy generals in custody. Don’t ask, this is not an approach, and it will restrict our development.”

Zhang Qiang became interested, "What do you think?"

Chapter 58 Checks and Balances

Hu Kui and Zhou Porridge looked at Wei Wuji and waited for him to say the following.

Zhang Qiang found a place to sit down, and not far away, the newly trained firecrackers of the Ming army were practicing by themselves, walking in line.

Around, Zhang Qiang's [-] cavalry guards stood around with their swords, watching the surrounding movements vigilantly, protecting Zhang Qiang.

In the distance, Zhou Porridge, Wei Wuji, and Hu Kui's personal guards were drinking tea and chatting under the awning.

Wei Wuji thought for a while, and said cautiously: "Your Excellency can also release He Jin. If he is willing to be loyal to Your Excellency, not only will you add a brave general to your Lord, but you can also check and balance Lin Chengcheng. After Lin Chengcheng and Tian Bin The two betrayals, I think that no matter how big-hearted He Jin is, he and they used to be rogues, it is impossible to get too close to them, and he will always be on guard against them.

In our army, he does not have the support of two subordinates like Lin Chengcheng. For his own status, he will definitely rely on the adults, so that you will have two more experienced troops that can fight, sir. It is much better than our army fighting alone to face the pressure of the Qing army, at least it can let them contain some enemies. "

"Well, what Wuji said is good." Zhou Congee also agreed with Wei Wuji's opinion.

Hu Kui frowned and said: "But this still makes the rogues bigger in our army. We have to find other forces to balance them."

Wei Wuji said: "At present, it is not easy for us to gain more power in the army. Otherwise, things may turn against each other and we will not be able to balance. Our strength is enough to check and balance the strength of the rogues. Besides, I don't think Mi Chun is as nostalgic as Mi Lin. Lord, it’s still for you, my lord.”

Zhang Qiang stood up and walked around, looking into the distance, "Okay, Wei Wuji, you go and persuade He Jin, if he agrees, return his old department to him,"

He turned to Hu Kui and said, "Go and convey my order to Milin to release Lin Chengcheng, and then select some of Lin Chengcheng's old troops for him, but the number of troops should not exceed [-]."

With his hands behind his back, he turned his back to the crowd, "He Jin's strength is [-], and Lin Cheng's is [-], so they won't be able to overthrow the sky. Even with the addition of the Milin Department, their combat effectiveness is not as good as one of your brigades, and they can still be suppressed." of."

Milin's manpower is all descended soldiers and young and strong. This is because he is mainly responsible for the task of transporting food and grass. There are also some old rogue soldiers brought by Lin who were brought in before. Soldiers, these people are loyal to Zhang Qiang, and they are also Zhang Qiang's people to win over and monitor Milin.

He turned to Zhou Porridge again and said, "How is that Tian Bin's performance? Is there any sign of dissatisfaction?"

Although Tian Bin set up a tip-off and led Zhang Qiang's troops to seize the city gate, and finally caught the turtle in the urn and wiped out the Qing army in the city, so that Zhang Qiang's rebel army was able to capture more than 4000 Qing soldiers and encircle and wipe out more than 3000 Qing soldiers. He was placed in a very humble position, and went to work as a government servant for Zhou Porridge, leading fifty soldiers with a small banner to patrol the streets.

With a shrewd person like Zhou Porridge watching, and six hundred Zhou Porridge's soldiers watching, Zhang Qiang believed that no matter how shrewd this guy was, he would never be able to stand up.

Zhou Congee said: "It's quite well-behaved, the things he explained were done very well, and the tasks were overfulfilled, but some old people under him are not so well-behaved, and they complained a lot. I have already sent someone to keep an eye on them. What about those people?"

Zhang Qiang nodded slightly, very satisfied, and then said coldly: "Send someone to deal with those who complained, and give Tian Bin a warning so that he will be less dissatisfied. If he can sell He Jin twice, he can sell us." , but we have to give him a hope, that is, we still want to use him, but he must show enough loyalty, otherwise, you don’t need me to say, you will deal with him.”