Chapter 61: Lost it all
"This is impossible, I object."
After listening to Wan Sicheng's proposal, Wang Jiang was the first to express his objection. He followed Wang Yi back then, although he was not responsible for military affairs, but after listening to it, he knew some basic things. Later, Chen Wen was in charge of military affairs. Although the two of them had not even worked together for a year, Chen Wen told him a lot of truths in disobeying the imperial edict of Weizhoushan and the strategy of entering Jinhua. At this time, Wan Sicheng, a scholar who might not even read military books, would naturally be rejected by him.
"The way of military strategists is to avoid the real and the virtual. As long as we are fast enough, we can definitely capture Yuyao. At that time, with Uncle Chang's talent, we will be able to train more soldiers. With more soldiers, we will speak in front of Chen Wen even more."
Wang Jiang did not intend to compete with Chen Wen at the beginning, but he also guessed a little wrong. Wan Sicheng had read "The Art of War" before. Even if the above chapters were not understood, he could still memorize many things. This is the basic quality of a literati.
But these days, he also saw that the mob of the Ming army, who claimed to rebuild Dalan Mountain, was led by Huang Zongxi, probably replaced Wang Yi's position, and he was still in charge of the financial plan. At the same time, Zou Xiaonan, Huang Zongyan, Wansicheng, and Wansi brothers who had worked in Feng Jingdi's army, assisted them. The training of soldiers was handed over to Jiang Han and Shen Diaolun, among which Jiang Han was responsible for actually leading the troops, and Shen Diaolun had experience in supervising the army, and he could not only supervise the army, but also assist Jiang Han in imitating the methods Chen Wen had in Dalan Mountain.
According to the plan, the work of restoring the hamlet at first, organizing the farmland and collecting taxes will be the future. In this way, the Wan brothers who have no administrative experience will be relatively idle. Of course, among these people, those who have no administrative and military experience, are only their brothers - Wang Jiang, Shen Diaolun, Zou Xiaonan and Jiang Han, and Huang Zongxi, among the Huang brothers, once formed the Shizhongying Transition Sea Battle. Although they ended in a crushing defeat, they also had some experience, while Huang Zongyan served in Feng Jingdi's army.
In this way, only the brothers in charge are inexperienced among the few people in charge. However, this did not delay them from exerting their remaining energy. This was the case with Wansicheng's proposal.
"If you avoid the real and the weak, you must have an army. How many soldiers are there in Yuyao? Do you know that we are all full of young men and women. If we see those green camps not scared away, we can still expect them to seize the city?"
"Didn't that remnant of the eunuch party lead the new recruits back then?"
"Nantang Camp had been practicing for several months before fighting against Tibiao Camp. It had previously defeated the Central Camp on Dalan Mountain. Chen Wen's military training methods were not comparable to ordinary warriors, but had obtained the true teachings of King Qiyang and Qi Shaobao."
"We have Qi Shaobao's books, can we scholars be worse than him?" With disdain on his face, Wanscheng immediately expressed his thoughts: "Then train troops as soon as possible."
Can you understand the words?
Then, those who know how to eat will definitely make it!
Wang Jiang really couldn't explain this to them. He had presided over the common affairs in Dalanshan, but he had seen too many verbal people who were polite but had no idea about the practice but were confident. For such people, give them a pit to let them continue talking, but don't give them a chance to participate in the practice, otherwise it will only mess up the matter.
"To train soldiers, we must first let the soldiers and their families live in a place to eat and be able to have enough food to calm down the training. This is what we are doing now."
"When will you start to recover the lost land? It's too late to let the remnants of the eunuch party take the lead. Wouldn't it be a loss of his original intention?"
Wan Sicheng's father Wan Tai was a famous official in the Donglin Fushe. His eight sons were Si Nian, Si Cheng, Si Cang, Si Chang, Si Xuan, Si Da, Si Bei and Si Tong. Later generations claimed to be the Balong of Wan family, and they were all talented people from Ningbo. In fact, we can see a little from now on.
During this period, the excuse used by Huang Zongxi and others was Chen Wen, a military man who was a military man, who was in chaos in the eunuch party. The Wan family was originally a military general in the early Ming Dynasty. General Wu Yi, Wan Guozhen, and General Wuliu, and the commander of Ningbo Wei, were below Wan Zhong. It was not until Zhengde Dynasty that he had a Jinshi and turned to the imperial examination. When Chen Wen was mentioned here, he only talked about the remnants of the eunuch party, but never mentioned the military man's chaos in the power of the country, and did not give others a chance to fight back.
However, just ten days of working with these people made him feel tired. This feeling was that he had never been so tired with Wang Yi's defeat and fighting until the Ming army in Dalan Mountain entered its heyday. He had never been so tired with Chen Wen's assistance.
"It turns out that you can't work with a guy who only knows how to talk nonsense, and it's not enough to bother with explanations."
Wang Jiang did not say this, but just expressed his disagreement with Wan Sicheng's party-torn thinking and continued to work on his affairs. However, after Wang Jiang left, Wan Sicheng showed a thoughtful look.
"Uncle Shi, I'm afraid Uncle Chang is not one of us, so I must be careful."
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"The Zhejiang King's Army is good everywhere, but it's too strict and everything is in charge, as if there is nothing to ignore."
"Just be content. Let's follow Ma Shuai, and it's still pretty early. The bandits in Jiangxi..." As he said that, the man coughed twice unconsciously, and then said: "The rebels in Jiangxi, more than fifty generals, were trained like something. We were mentally prepared and obedient. We were less beaten. If we say that, we have to thank Ma Shuai for thinking about us well."
During the rest days, the two officers from the Taizhou Green Camp gathered together to have a drink, talking about the things in the martial arts school and the recruit training camp. Especially the military laws of the Ming army in Zhejiang, the regulations were strict, and there was not so much gray income, which made them, the officers of the Qing army, very uncomfortable.
"Don't worry now. With the military strategy of the Duke of the Kingdom, sooner or later, there will be a uncle. At the worst, there will be a seal reward for you. Even without these, there will be a lot of land and a vocational position. Don't lose all the big ones for those little profits."
"Wow, I haven't seen you for a few days. Your filial son's words are matched with our military supervisor. I think you don't learn cavalry anymore, but you can become an military supervisor."
"I think I have to pass the review even if I haven't followed the Duke in the battle."
After several months of training, the four newly built war barracks have completed basic training and are entering the battalion for running-in training. For these four battalions, Chen Wen awarded Tiantai, Ruian, Huangyan and Wenling as numbers, and obtained the names of four counties in Taizhou and Wenzhou. After these four battalions are formed, he can free the other war barracks from the garrison task and then fight to the death with Hong Chengchou.
This was a plan that had been made, but when news of Wang Jiang being kidnapped by Huang Zongxi came, Chen Wen suddenly had a bad premonition.
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"Police-Xian Huang, your slave and tenant, it's better to form a guard."
After half a month of repairs, the restoration work of the camp has basically been completed, and the training of troops must be started as soon as possible.
Before the uprising, everyone had agreed in advance that since they wanted to learn Chen Wen's military training methods, they would learn thoroughly. The servants and tenants in their families brought them together and trained them with other soldiers. The personal relationships are not allowed to be mentioned again and completely broken up. However, many of them have feudal personal relationships with the leaders of the leaders, and the problem lies in this.
"Governor Jiang, you should be just a blunt person if you have something to say. If you say half of it, you may lose the openness of a gentleman, right?"
When Jiang Han spoke to Huang Zongxi, Huang Zongyan answered first, and he was quite rude in his words. He looked at his younger brother with a look of surprise. Huang Zongxi turned to Jiang Han and said, "Governor Jiang, isn't this matter discussed before?"
"I discussed it before, but..." Halfway through, Jiang Han turned to Huang Zongyan.
"Hui Mu, you said!"
Seeing that his brother had already shown an unhappy look, Huang Zongyan had to bite the bullet and said, "I was practicing for the first time yesterday, and the soldiers worked very hard. Today, I will inevitably get up later, but Governor Jiang has to perform the whipping punishment..."
After Huang Zongyan said this, Huang Zongxi immediately understood. If it were others, Huang Zongyan would probably not talk too much. The ones who were punished must be from their Huang family, or from their slaves and tenants.
"The army is pointed at the army, and the three-way drum will be killed immediately. If the light ones are still in the air, the light ones will have to insert arrows. Since it has been decided before, the soldiers will be trained according to the method of Duke Xiu, even during the training period, whipping fifty is naturally indispensable."
"Governor Jiang, you are the chief general, but you have to be polite to the soldiers. Isn't it true that the word "compliance" is not?"
"Of course not. Since we have agreed, we must persist. Duke Xiu has never been in power, and we cannot do this. I heard from Master Shen that Duke Xiu also encountered this problem back then. Not only the captain and soldiers, but also Yin Yue, the boss of Dongyang, was punished together. Even the soldiers were policing. Duke Xiu was punished personally, and there were a battalion of powerful soldiers in Nantang. If you whip a few times, you must be in power. Can you still train this soldiers?"
"That eunuch party remnant has always been too harsh in his use of the method. If he doesn't read the books of sages on weekdays, he will not have a kind heart in his heart, so he will be today..."
Even if they use the remnants of the eunuch party and the military slandered the government to slander Chen Wen, they had to follow Chen Wen's method when training troops. Otherwise, even they knew that the rebel army would be difficult to be the opponent of the Green Camp soldiers. This is a contradiction, especially reflected in the mentality, which makes some of the people who do not understand military affairs at all despise some of the things that are most valued by Qi Jiguang, who was Chen Wen and Chen Wen's law, such as the importance and seriousness of military law.
"Enough!"
After hearing enough of the dispute between his second brother and Jiang Han, the general, Huang Zongxi was really upset. Over the past few days, he has been in charge of the affairs of this newly established rebel army. He has only had a little experience in leading troops, but he was the first and the two of them. Unexpectedly, there was such a thing today, and his anger broke out immediately.
"Hui Mu, you do things under Uncle Chang, so how can you interfere in military affairs at will? Leave this matter to Governor Jiang, and you go back and do things."
After bombing his younger brother, Huang Zongxi did not say anything more to Jiang Han, but just asked him to act according to the military laws formulated by everyone's memory of the Ming army's military laws and regulations of Zhejiang.
As a result, he also suppressed the soldiers below for a few days. Unexpectedly, not long after, the matter of committing military law broke out again.
"What did you say? The people are going up the mountain?"
That year, he brought the remnants of Shizhong camp to retreat into Siming Mountain and stationed in Xizhan Temple. However, because soldiers sneaked and harassed the people, they were gathered and besieged by mountain people, and the entire army was wiped out. Huang Zongxi went out for something and was able to escape this disaster, but he was afraid of the people in the mountains. Even when the Ming army in Dalan Mountain was in full swing, he rarely entered the mountains. Instead, Huang Zongyan joined Feng Jingdi's subordinates.
He rushed to the gate with a group of people and saw Wan Sida instructing the soldiers guarding the gate to drive them away. Huang Zongxi was the banner of rebuilding the Ming army in Dalan Mountain. The Ming army in Dalan Mountain was originally very famous in the Simingshan area. He originally planned to inherit it in order to speak more vigorously when facing Chen Wen, so he naturally refused to ruin his reputation.
After retreating the soldiers guarding the gate, Huang Zongxi asked the people about their purpose. After inquiring, he found out that it was today that the soldiers were resting. After going down the mountain, several officers and soldiers stole a few chickens from the mountain to make their teeth. They were discovered by the mountain people and chased them all the way to the old camp.
"It was him who stole our chickens, and he and him."
"Damn, you said I'll eat it after eating. I came here to bully our Dalanshan King's Division, no one?!"
When pointed out in public, the officers and soldiers retorted, completely different from the embarrassment he had just been chased by a group of mountain people.
Seeing this, how could Huang Zongxi not understand the tricks here? But he was about to deal with it, but he saw Wansi saying, "Sir, I have invited these heroes for a while. They have all been killed and bloody. They are enough to be the courage of a soldier. I hope to spare them this time. After the matter is done, I will explain the law clearly with their generals."
"Military laws and regulations are too complicated, and it is normal for me to remember them for a while. Please forgive me for a while."
Wansi is a great man who is "agreeable for talented people". To put it bluntly, he has had some contact with some heroes in the world. Huang Zongxi could tell at a glance how these heroes in the world were. Maybe he had really seen blood, but he might not be a good soldier when he was in the formation. At least under the standards of Qi Jiguang and Chen Wen, he would never want such people.
However, the Wan family and the Huang family have a close connection. Huang Zongxi and Wan Tai are both Mingshishu and Wan Tai, and Wan Tai is still a teenager, but Wan Tai's sixth son, Wan Siya and youngest son, Wan Sitong, have already worshipped under his disciples and are considered his students. The second-year-old Wan Sicheng, the Wan family, who came with the same family, was defeated in the Simingshan coalition that year. After Huang Zongyan was captured by the Qing army, he also robbed the court with him and rescued his brother with his own hands.
If Huang Zongyan had pleaded with him in this matter, his elder brother would be as stern as his father, but he could not let him be stern. However, this student has always been obedient, and Wan Sicheng still saved his younger brother's life, and he was pleading for him on behalf of him, which made Huang Zongxi hesitate.
"This is a first-time offender, and will not be investigated. If there is a next time, both crimes will be punished."
After compensating the Shanmin Jin, Huang Zongxi did not punish those officers and soldiers who committed the crime, so he raised it high and let it go.
Looking at all this from afar, Jiang Han recalled the severe punishment for theft of people's property in Chen Wen's military law, and then asked an officer beside him: "Brother Chen, how should he punish this criminal when Duke Zhonglie was alive?"
The person Jiang Han asked was named Shen Jiabao, a native of Ningbo and a descendant of the Shen family in Shiqiao. He was originally a leader of the Ming army camp in Dalan Mountain. After escaping Siming Lake by chance, he hid in the mountains with his own women. Relying on his understanding of the terrain, he escaped the two mountain washings in the fourth year of Yongli and the fifth year of Yongli. His luck was excellent.
Later, when he learned that Chen Wen had gained a foothold in Jinhua, he had planned to go and serve, but his wife was pregnant and could not start the journey. This time, Huang Zongxi and others threatened to rebuild the Ming army in Dalan Mountain, so he defected to him because he was an old man from the Ming army in Dalan Mountain and was quite skillful in martial arts. So he made up for the lack of a guerrilla general under Jiang Han and helped train these more than 300 soldiers.
"If you want to talk about Wang Jingluo, it is also a very strict military governance. If you dare to steal things from the people, you will be a camp that passes through arrows. If you have a little value, you will be beheaded and displayed in public. How can you be like this now?"
Seeing Shen Jiabao's disdainful look on his face, Jiang Han turned to the prisoners who were surrounding Wansida and couldn't help but sigh.
Chapter completed!