I'm really not the carpenter emperor

It's just that, now that you appear, aren't you here to send military merit?

Regarding the appearance of Chuangjun, Zhu Youxiao didn't panic at all, what was there to be afraid of, Shaanxi was guarded by Zhang Wanbang's army.

What's more, the current local government army is no longer what it used to be.

Zhu Youxiao looked furious, and said: "Order Ti to ride out of Beijing, and go to Datong as fast as possible, and let Zhang Wanbang immediately switch to Xi'an and wipe out the bandits!"

After saying this, Wei Zhongxian saw that there was no one to report any important matters, so he stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty Qizuo, the slaves are old and frail, and are not good enough to hold high positions, so I beg to retire."

Zhu Youxiao was very surprised, and the civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty were also talking about it.

However, no one dared to come forward and remonstrate in person.After all, the emperor and Wei Zhongxian stayed alone last night, who knows if the two of them are acting.

"Ning Guogong is going to retire?" Zhu Youxiao laughed, "How can I live without Ning Guogong, how can Ming Dynasty not have Ning Guogong!"

"I won't allow it!"

Wei Zhongxian immediately said: "Your Majesty, old minister..."

Zhu Youxiao laughed, and waved his big hand: "You don't need to say more about Zhongxian, I won't approve it, if you go to raise it, I will cut off my own arm!"

Chapter 954 The Encirclement and Suppression

Daming has been like this for the past few years, and it can't stop every year.

Last year, the Jurchens were just wiped out, and just half a year after they stopped, the Shui'an family gathered thirteen chieftains in Guizhou to rebel. There was a famine in Shanxi, and countless bandits appeared again.

These thieves are roughly the same as those in the Chongzhen period in history. If you have to tell the difference, it is that there are much fewer rebels now.

After all, the changes in the imperial court over the years are obvious to all.

Except for some small-scale troubles that are not scaled at all, there are only three branches in Shaanxi with more than thousands of people, namely Fugu Wang Jiayin, Suide Wang Self-Use, and Ansai Gao Yingxiang.

And dealing with these little thieves, the current Tianqi court also seems quite calm.

Sun Chuanting was transferred to Shaanxi to serve as the governor, and Zhang Wanbang was transferred from Datong to Xi'an to take up his post. Other than that, as usual, the officers and troops from neighboring provinces were not even used.

There is only one reason, and it is really unnecessary.

Zhu Youxiao has already issued an imperial edict to Sun Chuanting and Zhang Wanbang, with harsh words and a serious tone.There is only one purpose, to extinguish them with the fastest speed before they form a large scale one after another.

Zhu Youxiao wants to use the heads of Gao Yingxiang, Wang Jiayin, and Wang Ziyong to tell the refugees everywhere that the rebellion is not so easy to create.

Waiting for disaster relief, there is still a way to survive, but rebellion, there is a dead end!

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After Li Hongji and Li Guo participated in the promotion ceremony last year, they immediately returned home wearing the armor of guerrilla general and general Qian.

In their view, success and fame are just what they want to go back and brag about.

Wearing the guerrilla general's iron armor made by the imperial court, with a shiny goose-wing knife on his waist, walking on the dirt road in the countryside, enjoying the envious eyes of the villagers around him, Li Hongji couldn't say how happy he was.

This time they went out to fight because they had tasted the sweetness of Xu Gong's promotion. Both of them knew that the court was a good court, so they worked harder.

When the war started, Li Hongji, Li Guo, Liu Zongmin and others competed in bravery one by one, in order to kill as many heads as possible to earn military merit.

Even Liu Zongmin, who joined the army later than them, is now a hundred-president in Xi'an, Shaanxi.

Today is the day when Ai Juren came back after giving lectures in the Southwest for three years.

Li Hongji was waiting on the road early, and saw a person coming back under the escort of an official from a distance, and knew that it was Ai Juren.

Ai Juren had nothing to do with him, and he had no money, so he couldn't be an official, but the Southwest lecture policy gave him this opportunity.

Three years later, as soon as he came back from giving lectures, the imperial court immediately arranged for him a fat job in Taiyuan. It is said that he was still in charge of disaster relief.

"Hey, Ai Juren, where are you going, didn't you see me?" Li Hongji squatted by the side of the road and said with a smile.

Li Guo also looked at him with a smile on his face, the three people were originally incompatible, but now they seemed to be old friends whom he hadn't seen for many years.

Ai Juren was a little familiar with these words, turned around and looked carefully, and then his eyes widened.

"Li Hongji?"

"Why are you wearing the armor of a guerrilla general? Could it be...!"

"That's a good guess!" Li Hongji smiled and threw a bag of money over, "Pay it back to you, now we don't owe each other anything."

Holding the heavy silver in his hand, Ai Juren also felt a little dazed.

"It's been a three-year separation, it's really impressive! Now even Li Guo has become the chief executive of the imperial court?"

Li Guo laughed loudly, "Don't believe me, I'm not the general manager Qian in any other place, but the manager Qian under Datong Zhang Dashuai!"

"Zhang Wanbang, chief soldier of Datong? This man is amazing, a self-made famous general!" Ai Juren was a little surprised, looked at Li Hongji again, and asked quickly:

"Then you are also a guerrilla of the Datong Army now?"

Naturally, he had heard of the glorious deeds of the Datong Army defeating the more than 1 coalition troops of Lindan Khan Chahar's troops in the city of Datong with [-] troops.

Seeing Li Hongji nodding, Ai Juren took a few steps back with a look of disbelief.

He looked up and down, and said: "Aren't you doing well now? You have given lectures in Southwest China for three years, and you are about to go to Taiyuan to be an official. In charge of the salary department, that is a serious job!"

Ai Juren also smiled awkwardly, unwilling to say more.

At this moment, Li Guo suddenly looked into the distance, and said vigilantly: "Someone is riding a horse, listen to the sound, it's not a Nanma, it's a Mongolian horse that only exists at the border."

It took Li Hongji a while to hear it, and he frowned.

He knew that Mongolian horses were now the standard equipment of the Nine Frontier Army, and the imperial court had explicitly prohibited private trading.Last year, the court decided to expand the cavalry of the towns on the nine borders. Now each commander has at least [-] cavalry under his tent.

Sure enough, a cloud of dust gradually rose in the distance.

A cavalryman from Datong in light armor came galloping over. Judging by his attire, it was Zhang Wanbang's personal barracks. The cavalryman was out of breath, and he ran for a long time.

As soon as they arrived here, they shouted loudly: "Marshal's military order, Li Hongji and Li Guo immediately end their family visits and return to the town to gather. There are important military affairs!"

After all, it is the Datong Army, and the military discipline is engraved in the bones.

Almost subconsciously, Li Hongji and Li Guo clasped their fists together and said, "The last general will obey the commander's order, little brother, can you tell me what happened in advance?"

Li Guo muttered: "Yeah, why do you want to go back to town early?"

The cavalryman thought for a while, thinking that it would be okay to tell, so he said: "In all parts of Shaanxi, hungry people gathered to rebel and captured Sanshui County!"

"Your Majesty was furious and transferred Sun Chuanting to governor of Shanxi, and the commander-in-chief was also promoted to the commander-in-chief of Shanxi to assist in the suppression of bandits!"

But Li Guo laughed, "Hey, isn't this the military merit that comes to your door? You can get military merit again. These thieves are much easier to fight than the Tartars outside the pass!"

Li Hongji was much more stable. He smiled slightly and said to Ai Juren, "Let's just leave it alone. The accounts between you and me in the past have all been written off today."

After saying that, he got on his horse and led Li Guo away with the cavalry.

Ai Juren was the official of Taiyuan, and when he learned that the situation in Shanxi had changed, he couldn't care less about going back to his hometown, so he turned around and left.

The officer who protected him back was dumbfounded and asked, "My lord, don't you want to go home?"

Ai Juren said: "I won't go back, I won't go back, I'll go directly to Taiyuan to take office, I'm afraid I've already arrived in Taiyuan with my salary!"

Half a month later, Zhang Wanbang was wearing mountain armor, raised the steel knife in his hand, looked at the endless army at his feet, and said loudly:

"Soldiers, Shaanxi has undergone changes, and thieves are everywhere. We are deeply supported by the imperial court, so we have to report to the imperial court and the common people!"

"Follow me to Shaanxi, and put down the gang of thieves!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" For a moment, the loud shout broke through the sky.

Subsequently, the cavalry of the Datong Army went first, followed by the infantry, and more than [-] people marched to Xi'an, Shaanxi to join Sun Chuanting's Qin army.

More than [-] cavalrymen, armed with new-style blunderbuss guns and fine sabers hanging from their waists, galloped across the plain in front of the town of Datong.

Chapter 955

Gao Yingxiang pressed the city wall with one hand, his eyes were filled with anxiety.

Gu Junen is dressed in a literati's attire, but his clothes are tattered, even if he is an effective adviser around Gao Yingxiang like him, you can tell what the rest of the "rebel" leaders are like at a glance.

He said: "Time waits for no one, we... still have to make a quick decision."

Gao Yingxiang nodded, noncommittal.

"Is there any news from the imperial court?"

When Gu Junen mentioned this matter, he sighed deeply, "The Ming court appointed Zhang Wanbang, the deputy commander in chief of Shanxi, as the commander in chief of Shanxi, and he was given the seal of the general of the bandit, and moved to Xi'an."

"Together they were transferred to Shaanxi to aid in the suppression, as well as Taiyuan General He Renlong, Shanhaiguan Governor Wang Zhichen and other ministries. The situation is not optimistic!"

Gao Yingxiang glanced at him, this is not optimistic, this is simply a dead end!

In fact, he was also forced to take the road of rebellion.

They really can't live anymore, Shaanxi has been suffering year after year, and they all see the sincerity of the imperial court in disaster relief, but Qianglong has never suppressed the local snakes.

The disaster relief money issued by the imperial court has been exploited by officials at all levels in Shanxi and Shanxi, and in the hands of ordinary people like them, there is not much leftovers.

If you can't survive, and you can't wait for the court's disaster relief, then you have to do the opposite.

All of them knew that with the current strength of the imperial court, rebellion was actually a dead end, not to mention that Shanxi was the territory of the famous general Zhang Wanbang.

As for the current Nine Sides, it is not impossible to mobilize 30 elites to go south in a short period of time.

In Shaanxi, the uprising is in full swing. It seems that the wind is sweeping away, but in fact, many leaders know that they are just grasshoppers after autumn.

As soon as the imperial army arrived, they would just wait for death.

"Rumble..."

The ground under Gao Yingxiang's feet was trembling, a black shadow appeared on the horizon reflected on the blue bricks, and a flag with the word "Zhang" appeared in the distance.

Under Gao Zhao's banner, there is an endless army of frontier troops.

Gao Yingxiang was stunned. He thought it would take a few days for the Datong army to reach Sanshui, but he didn't expect them to arrive so quickly.

In fact, Gao Yingxiang made mistakes in his estimates, which is purely normal.

The current frontier army is no longer the Ming army when Zhu Youxiao first succeeded to the throne more than ten years ago. Due to the successive surrenders of the left-wing Mongolian tribes, Wuliangha tribes, and Monan tribes, the Ming army has a sufficient source of horses.

The cavalry of the frontier army has been equipped with two mounts each in the past few years. As the leader of the nine frontiers, the Datong army has a top-level configuration of four horses per man.

This also caused that the marching speed of the Datong army was not comparable to that of the general Ming army.

Zhang Wanbang naturally knew the dangers of the refugees to the local area, if they were not wiped out as soon as possible, there would be more and more to be wiped out, so from the moment he received the imperial edict, he marched all the way in a hurry.

It took only ten days for the Datong Army to assemble from Datong and arrive at Sanshui County.

Zhang Wanbang held the reins in his hand, and he could clearly see the "Chuangjun" standing at the top of the city through the latest binoculars from a long distance.

The faces of Gao Yingxiang and Gu Junen were clearly in his eyes.

Zhang Wanbang made a simple observation of the military appearance of these refugees, and found that most of them used the standard weapons of the guard army captured in the county.

The quality of this group of chaotic troops is uneven, and not everyone has even swords, guns and armor.

At this time, many generals of the Datong Army also saw the costumes of the refugees in the city through the binoculars, and all of them laughed.

It seems that the rebellion of the refugees, which should have caused a lot of trouble, is nothing more than a free military leader in their eyes.

At this time, the Datong army had already found a good location, and began to deploy artillery battalions, besieging the city on all sides. Zhang Wanbang's idea was to wipe out this gang of rogues with the least casualties.

Every frontier soldier in the Datong Army is an elite who has followed him for many years in the Southern and Northern Wars, and he would not change it for ten rogues.

To fight such a battle and hurt one, Zhang Wanbang felt very distressed.

Li Hongji, who had become a guerrilla general, led his horse forward and said, "Commander, the leader of the bandits in the city is called Gao Yingxiang, and he is my uncle."

"Oh? He's your uncle?" Zhang Wanbang glanced at Li Zicheng, "Then what do you mean by coming to find me?"

Li Hongji hesitated for a moment, then got off his horse, clasped his fists and shouted:

"Marshal! The general knows that my uncle rebelled. This is an unforgivable crime, but he is actually a good man. Please allow me to go to the city to persuade him to surrender!"

"Nearly ten thousand refugees in the city are innocent. If you can settle this battle without bloodshed, it will be a great credit to the commander!"

Zhang Wanbang thought for a while, and seeing that the artillery battalion had been set up, he snorted coldly.

"Forgive them this time, it's hard to escape, you and Li Guo go to the city, if you can persuade this group of rogues to surrender, I will credit you!"

Li Zicheng, as if he had received an amnesty, immediately led Li Guo and flew forward.

Standing at the top of the city, Gao Yingxiang and Gu Junen saw the officers and soldiers deploying back and forth, and surrounded the four gates tightly, and there was nothing they could do.

I was anxious, but I saw two people coming from far away.