Wang Zhiliang, the governor of southern Hunan, can definitely be called a "knowledge of military affairs".
When he received the appointment, he said this to Chongzhen: "Zhao thieves are also sitting bandits. They confuse the hearts of the small people by dividing their fields. The longer they go, the more powerful they become. And the soldiers from Huguang all went north to conquer Liu."
Thief, there are no troops available in southern Hunan. Now that the gentry has been organized and trained to be brave, it will take a year to form an army that can fight. By then, the Zhao thieves have already annexed the government and merged with the county. Only by organizing and training firearms battalions can an army be formed in a short time.
, please give me blunderbuss, artillery, and gunpowder!"
Chongzhen was very generous this time and immediately ordered to allocate firearms to Wang Zhiliang.
Then, Wang Zhiliang was made to lose his temper.
The cannons are all old objects, and I don’t know which generation of ancestors they belong to. The patina of the artillery can be put into a museum.
Three thousand fire blunderbuss were given, including the three-eyed blunderbuss from the early Ming Dynasty. There were also relatively new bird blunderbuss, but if one out of ten could be used, it was considered that the ancestors had accumulated good deeds and burned high incense.
As for gunpowder, it’s not in powder form or granular form, but in the form of fucking lumps!
Does this mean that the musketeers are required to break up the lumps of gunpowder first and then use them to load and fire?
Before Wang Zhiliang left Beijing, he went to see Chongzhen again and explained to the emperor clearly the status of the arms he had received.
Chongzhen was also very angry and immediately ordered people to investigate closely.
We are still checking, but there is no need to check because the gunpowder factory was destroyed by the explosion.
It was really not a "fire dragon burning the warehouse" trick, but improper storage of gunpowder, which caused a big explosion.
Historically known as the "Anmin factory disaster": Within more than ten miles of the capital, I felt that the axis of the earth was shaking... The city walls were destroyed, and there was no room for more than ten miles in radius. The trees were all crumpled and haggard. People living and walking were lying on top of each other, and all the dead were charred...
...It was found that there were more than 10,000 casualties among the residents. Wang Fu, the factory eunuch, and Zhang Zhixiu, the bureau officer, were both dead. The arsenal was almost empty. Five thousand gold coins were given as relief.
The city walls collapsed, no intact houses could be found within a radius of more than ten miles, and the nearby weapons and equipment warehouses were all destroyed.
Poor Chongzhen, who was short of money to begin with, had to spend five thousand taels of silver to compensate the dead and injured.
Wang Zhiliang went to his post empty-handed and called officials from the Third Division of Huguang to make arrangements for the gentry to organize and train regiments.
The Third Division of Huguang was equally helpless. For several years in a row, they had paid taxes to the court while raising food and grass for the governor. Huguang was one of the main battle zones for encircling and suppressing the rogue bandits. As a result, they had no time to put out the raging rebel bandits in southern Hunan. How could they have the financial resources now?
Material and manpower to deal with Zhao Han?
Officials from the Third Division just pretended to be dead.
Wang Zhiliang had no choice but to go out personally and persuade the gentry from Yuezhou and Changde to cobble together more than 6,000 regiments of brave warriors.
At this time, news came that Zhao Thief had sent troops to Huguang.
Wang Zhiliang immediately led his troops and rushed to Changsha.
Changsha must be defended, otherwise the entire Dongting Lake Plain will be exposed to Zhao's army!
"Mr. Yu Qing, you are finally here!" Wang Qisheng, the prefect of Changsha, was so moved that he almost knelt down on the spot.
Wang Qisheng was also considered a capable minister, but his skills were all focused on construction. His political achievements along the way were building dams, cities, and canals. Fighting bandits was really not his strong point.
After Wang Zhiliang inspected the city defense, he was particularly satisfied with the newly built Wengcheng and praised: "This can protect Changsha from being lost." He then asked, "I brought more than 6,000 regiments to bravely come here. How many troops are there in Changsha?"
"More than eight thousand regiments of brave men." Wang Qisheng replied.
Yang Guanji, the magistrate of the county, suddenly asked: "I have read military books in my late life. Should I divide my troops and garrison them in the mountains outside the city to form a rivalry with the defenders in the city?"
Wang Zhiliang replied: "If you have elite troops, you should do this. But your and my troops have only a short time to organize and train. How can we divide our troops and leave the city? When using weak troops against strong ones, we cannot fight in the wild, and we must not divide our troops at will. We must use all our troops."
To defend the city. Since there is no shortage of troops in Changsha, I will mobilize three thousand regiments to go back and guard Xiangyin to prevent the Zhao thieves from bypassing Changsha and advancing northward!"
Under Wang Zhiliang's arrangement, the Changsha garrison of 11,000 people and the Xiangyin garrison of more than 3,000 people used two cities to block Zhao Han from advancing on the Dongting Lake Plain.
The Dongting Lake Plain is the core essence of Huguang. If it falls, most of Huguang will be lost.
The four Tao brothers, with more than 4,000 troops, were also arranged to garrison the city.
"Why did the governor come so quickly?" said his third brother Tao Yunfeng, "Now there are over 10,000 troops defending the city. Can more than 4,000 of us really dedicate the city at this critical moment?"
The second brother, Tao Jinzhi, was also worried: "That governor Wang seems to be really good at fighting. As soon as the governor came, the city defense was well-arranged, which is much better than the rest of us."
The four brothers are all scholars. Recently, they have been reading military books like crazy. Talking about military affairs on paper can bluff people, but they don't even know the most basic military knowledge.
The eldest brother Tao Aizhi said: "Don't panic. As long as we are the internal response, Changsha will definitely fall in one battle. The more than 4,000 soldiers recruited by our Tao family are all a mob. But look at the other regiments in the city, they are different from the Tao family's."
What's the difference between a ragtag group of people? Once there is chaos, the whole army will be defeated!"
A few days later.
"Report! Tens of thousands of thieves are coming along the Liuyang River and are already thirty miles away!"
"Explore again!"
Wang Zhiliang walked up to the tower and looked at the houses outside the city. At this moment, he felt confused.
He studied under Feng Congwu, the "Master of Guanxi", and majored in "Guanxue". The founder of Guanxue was Zhang Zai, which means "to establish a heart for the world, to establish a destiny for the people, to inherit the unique knowledge for the saints, and to create peace for all generations."
"That one.
When he came to Feng Congwu, he took Guan Xue as the basis, integrated Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism and Yangming Xue Xue, and created a brand new Guan Xue in the late Ming Dynasty.
This was true for all schools of thought in the late Ming Dynasty, showing a trend of academic integration.
For example, Zhang Bingwen studied Neo-Confucianism, which integrated the study of mind and was biased towards practical learning. Unfortunately, his backbone was interrupted by the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Although it developed into the "Tongcheng School", it lost its core concepts, leaving only textual research and prose.
Empty shell.
The predecessor of the Tongcheng School advocated practical learning, and Feng Congwu's Guan Xue also advocated practical learning.
As long as it is a school of thought seeking change in the late Ming Dynasty, they all advocate practical learning, apply what they have learned, and avoid the weak and practice the truth!
Although Wang Zhiliang was from Shaanxi, he also belonged to the Donglin Party, and his mentor Feng Congwu was the northwest leader of the Donglin Party.
Learning, doing, doubting, thinking, and perseverance are the five-character mantra of the new school of Guanxue.
Wang Zhiliang now only has "doubts", he doesn't know how to "act", nor how to "think". Before coming to southern Hunan, Wang Zhiliang studied Zhao Han carefully, and then his three views were destroyed.
Wang Zhiliang discovered that Jiangxi Zhao Thief was practicing the "Four Sentences of Hengqu", just like a wild Guan Xue disciple.
The great unity of the world means establishing the heart for heaven and earth.
Equalizing the fields and dividing the land means establishing a destiny for the people.
Restoring the missing chapters of "Mencius" and promoting academic freedom in Bailuzhou Academy are to continue the unique learning from the saints.
After rectifying the officialdom and stabilizing Jiangxi, it seems that we have the ambition to help the world and create peace for all generations.
This is not a traitor. If this person takes over the world, he will become a Holy Lord for a generation!
Wang Zhiliang didn't want to fight with such a person, and even had the urge to surrender.
However, there is no choice between eating the emperor's salary and being loyal to the emperor.
Wang Zhiliang sighed and went to inspect the city defense again.
Even though there were 11,000 garrison troops in the city, they were all brave new soldiers, and the people leading the troops were all country squires. These country squires did not know how to fight, and they had to be taught by Wang Zhiliang how to defend the city.
So damn tired!
Fortunately, the eunuch overseeing the army was afraid of death and stayed in Yuezhou Mansion and did not come over. Otherwise, Wang Zhiliang would have to concentrate on dealing with the eunuchs.
In the afternoon, Li Zheng led his army to come, a few miles away from Changsha City, and set up camp behind mountains and rivers.
Wang Zhiliang and Li Zheng both sent spies to check the situation.
Moreover, spies from both sides were in small boats, looking at each other from the air in the narrow Liuyang River.
"kill!"
Datong Army spies drove more than ten small boats and rushed towards the officers and soldiers spies.
The officers and soldiers immediately retreated, unable to catch up. They chased to a mile outside the city, and Datong Army spies went ashore to observe. One of them even had a telescope.
Immediately, they explored around and asked local people about the situation.
"Report!"
"Changsha City is heavily defended. A few days ago, senior officials arrived with reinforcements. Some said thousands of people came, some said tens of thousands of people came."
Li Zheng was a little upset at this time. He should not have waited for Huang Yao's military order. If he had immediately led his troops to attack Changsha City after capturing Liuyang County, with the Tao family as an internal agent, he might have captured it.
Sometimes, Zhao Han would hire someone to teach the officers the art of war, and Li Zheng finally realized what "soldiers are more valuable and faster".
What else can be done?
If Li Zheng's troops attack Changsha, even if everything goes well, it will take at least three to five months!
Calling Xiao Zongxian, Chen Fugui, Hu Dinggui and other officers, big and small, Li Zheng explained the situation and asked: "Let's discuss together, how to fight next?"
Wan Sitong, who had the same name as the historian of the Qing Dynasty, suggested: "How about directly bypassing Changsha and attacking Xiangyin in front?"
Li Zheng shook his head and said: "Changsha City is stuck in the river, and military supplies cannot be transported across it. Transporting supplies by land will easily be attacked. Moreover, if we fail to attack Xiangyin for a long time, our army may be cut off from the supply route, and then the entire army will be
If you are hungry, you will also be in danger of being attacked from both sides."
"What I mean is," Wan Sitong explained, "send an elite force to travel day and night to surprise Xiangyin. As long as Xiangyin is occupied, Changsha will become an isolated city."
Xiao Zongxian said: "You can send some spies to Xiangyin to inquire about the situation. If there are many soldiers in Xiangyin, leave it alone; if there are few soldiers in Xiangyin, send elite troops to surprise them."
Hu Dinggui said: "No matter how many there are, let's divide the fields in the villages and towns around Changsha first!"
Li Zheng smiled and said: "The fields in Liuyang have not been divided yet. How can we get so many people to come to Changsha to preside over the field distribution?"
"Then divide the troops and go south," Hu Dinggui said, "and divide the troops in a swaggering manner, detaching a team to help Huang Bingyuan attack Xiangtan. After Xiangtan is defeated, Huang Bingyuan can lead the main force to go north and attack Changsha with us. At the same time,
, the defenders of Changsha City, seeing our division of troops, will probably take the initiative to leave the city, and then beat their mothers outside the city!"
"This is a good idea." Xiao Zongxian expressed support.
Li Zheng glanced at everyone, nodded and said: "Since there is no objection, let's divide our troops and pass under the city to see if the officers and soldiers in the city are fooled. It's best to be fooled. If you are not fooled, we will really divide our troops and go south!"
Wang Zhiliang sat at the top of the city, watching the Datong army divide its troops and move south. He only issued an order: "Don't worry about him, just guard Changsha City."
You can throw it away in Xiangtan, but not in Changsha.
