Chapter 144 Breaking into the Army and Entering Tongguan
On the north side of the Miyun factory area, Cao Ruohai led the third brigade of new troops to leave the country and march northward. Liu Youfa and other nearby villagers rushed over to watch the team go north. They prayed in their hearts, hoping that God would bless this emperor's army.
The soldiers can return safely. It would be best to cut off some Tatar heads and bring them back, so that they will not dare to run into the customs and become bandits.
In addition to the local people, the people seeing him off were Song Yingxing, the magistrate of Miyun County, deputy general of the Xuanfu, and Tang Tong, the chief military officer of Miyun.
Tang Tong was one of the few military leaders in the Ming Dynasty. He had nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses under his command. He was the military chief of the Miyun section of the border wall. Watching the nearly 10,000 new troops leaving the border one by one, there were still some left in the factory area.
There were more than 3,000 horses. He suddenly realized that he seemed to have no control over this three-acre area of Miyun.
If you have a gun, you will be the grass-headed king. In the past, I dared to fight and was a very important figure in the garrison around the capital. I didn't expect that today I would personally send off Liu Yuanbin and Cao Ruohai, who had no status in the entire Ming military community.
The most unpromising thing about the man was that, looking at the neatly dressed New Army officers and soldiers, he unconsciously became a little groveling.
Especially when the soldiers of the First Brigade of the New Army passed by him and made a simple gesture of raising a gun, his heart beat several times. Qiangjun, it's not that Qiangjun doesn't have this murderous spirit! Just kidding,
Most of the soldiers in the First Brigade of the New Army came out of the bloody battle at Wuqiao, so they naturally have the spirit of a strong army.
"General Liu, if the New Army comes out of the border this time to fight, you can use my general. You can come to me. Anyone who can help is welcome."
"General Soldier of the Tang Dynasty, Liu should not be called Commander-in-Chief. Our New Army of Brave Guards does not have a Commander-in-Chief. Please don't praise someone too much. If a general insists on using an official title for someone, he can call Liu Commander Liu."
, His Majesty has decided to temporarily divide our Yongwei Camp into two divisions, and a certain person will be appointed as the commander of the First Division of the New Army of the Yongwei Camp." Although Liu Yuanbin politely said that he was not the commander-in-chief, in fact, deep down in his heart, he was very fond of the commander-in-chief.
I don’t like this title very much, but I think the title division commander is more useful. The total number of soldiers in the Ming Dynasty did not exceed a thousand, but at least more than a hundred. There were countless large and small soldiers, and sometimes even an important county could have two
The three generals are not like division commanders. Not only is this title the first in the Ming Dynasty, it is also the only title at present. The most important thing is that he is still the commander of the first division. Hearing this name can make people think of the leader.
Commander of the First Division? What kind of position is this? After listening to Liu Yuanbin's half-self-effacing and half-showy introduction, Tang Tong had doubts in his heart. Why does the New Army always use new terms from time to time? "Commander Liu? This New Army
What does the First Division mean?"
"Commander Tang, it's like this. Recently, His Majesty has formally formulated the regulations. The new Yongwei Camp will have another organization above the brigade. The three brigades will add some division troops and horses, totaling more than 13,000 people.
A reorganization division will complete the training of the two divisions before the year. When I came to Miyun this time, I also wanted to recruit more soldiers for the new army to gather all the troops of the two divisions. I would also like to ask Mr. Tang about this matter.
Soldiers can help me a lot."
Tang Tong paid no attention to what Liu Yuanbin said later about recruiting troops in Miyun and asking for his help. He was shocked by what Liu Yuanbin said before about the number of people in one division of the New Army! Thirteen thousand soldiers per division? That is to say
It seems that a division commander like Liu Yuanbin can suddenly become the top military leader of the Ming Dynasty! In the past, he felt that although Liu Yuanbin was in charge of the new army, in fact, his job was just a small general in charge of more than 3,000 people.
.But things are different now. The boy named Liu suddenly has nearly 15,000 troops in his headquarters. In addition, he is also the commander-in-chief of the new army, so his strength easily reaches almost 30,000.
What is the concept of thirty thousand? Huang Degong, the commander-in-chief of the old camp of Yongwei Camp, has less than ten thousand soldiers and horses. Wu Sangui of Liaodong is now the talker of General Guan Ning, and all the remaining military leaders of General Guan Ning
The total number of troops and horses we belong to is only about 40,000 to 50,000 troops. What is terrible is that the new army is still very powerful. Everyone is a general who has fought a hundred battles. Whether the troops and horses can fight can be seen at a glance.
8. Like the new army in front of him, Tang Tong could tell at a glance that none of the new soldiers here were good.
Looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, it seems that there are really few military forces that can suppress Liu Yuanbin, an upstart. Thinking of this, Tang Tong couldn't help but lower his body a little further. Is the new army so promising?
Should we send some of our disciples to the New Army for training and development? Tang Tong, who was flexible in thinking, began to get angry.
Survival and development are top priorities for everyone in the world, and Tang Tong is not the only one who is thinking about this. At the beginning of the ninth lunar month, Li Zicheng and his subordinates, who had captured Kaifeng just a few months ago, once again organized their troops and officially
A new round of expansion war was launched.
According to the judgment of Chen Xinjia, Zhu Youjian and others, the new round of combat target of the Chuang Army is Shaanxi. Li Zicheng now also has a formal staff organization and administrative system. As early as when Xiangyang was established, they decided to go to the Central Plains first and then
Fighting against Shaanxi, a strategic plan that swept the world.
At that time, there were three main opinions on the choice of strategic direction. One was that we should go directly to the north to attack the capital and make a decisive victory in one fell swoop! The other was that we should go straight to the south and seize the center of the world's wealth! Both of these opinions were discussed in the military council
Being rejected directly, Li Zicheng's final choice was to advance to Xi'an and then conquer the world.
Objectively speaking, this is a sound and strategic plan. In real history, it was precisely because he captured Xi'an that the subsequent Northern Expedition was blocked by Zhou Yuji at Ningwuguan.
The process was almost smooth and we entered Beijing effortlessly.
If he had not entered Xi'an, the generals of the Ming army would not have had the illusion that the world was about to change its master. Li Zicheng was the master of the real dragon. No one would think that a homeless thief without a hometown would be the master of the world, even if his
No matter how strong the fighting force is.
At this time, Xi'an and Shaanxi were really important to the Ming Dynasty, as important as the northern and southern capitals. Why was there no resistance when Li Zicheng went north? Look at people like Tang Tong, Jiang Xiang, and Ma Ke.
Anyone can figure it out. Today in the Ming Dynasty, half of the generals with military power come from Shaanxi, and less than half of the generals with military power come from Liaodong. When Jinzhou was still there, the generals of Liaodong were almost equally matched with the generals of Qin Bing. Now Qin Bing
The generals are actually the most powerful force in the military.
If we put aside the camps and look at the chaotic times in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, we can see a strange phenomenon. Isn’t it that the Northeast and the Northwest have always been fighting? In the early stage, the Northeast and the Northeast were fighting, and the Northwest and the Northwest.
People were fighting, and the fight ended in a decisive battle between the East and the West. In the end, the Northwest Army, represented by the Four Han generals in Hexi, destroyed Wu Sangui's Guan Ning Army! The camps were constantly changing, and the situation was also changing, but the soldiers who really fought the main force were
In fact, my origin has not changed much.
To enter Xi'an, you must first pass through Tongguan, the first pass in the world. In the entire history of China, the only real pass in the world has been Tongguan since ancient times. The other pass cities will always be younger brothers in terms of strategic and historical status, including all the current ones.
Everyone considers Shanhaiguan to be extremely important.
In mid-September, Li Zicheng led an army of 300,000 troops, passed through Shaanzhou and attacked Tongguan. At the same time, Sun Chuanting, the last famous minister of the Ming Dynasty, also gathered at Tongguan with 40,000 Qin troops.