Chapter 132 Domineering

However, when the army led by Li Rusong arrived at the city of Ningxia, it set up a camp and refused to be ordered by the governor of the three sides, Wei Xuezeng.

Although the Ming Dynasty suppressed the rebels under the city was nearly 120,000, it was divided into several parts. Wei Xue once led several soldiers in the northwest towns, Li Rusong led the three-sided reinforcements, and Ye Mengxiong led the Gansu reinforcements. Although there were many imperial troops under the city, except for the four towns in the northwest, the soldiers and generals were not uniformly dispatched, and Wei Xuezeng could not command Li Rusong.

Also, after the reinforcements from the three sides arrived, Wei Xue once invited the military supervisor Mei Guozhen to act in the matter, but Mei Guozhen looked down on Wei Xuezeng and believed that the Ningxia chaos army was not something Wei Xuezeng could do and would not meet him. Although both of them were under the city, they used letters to each other. In this way, the governor and the military supervisor could not work together, and the initial cooperation was difficult to coordinate.

After a large army led by Li Rusong and Mei Guozhen arrived in Ningxia City on the evening of the 30th, they set up the army's camp in the northeast, next to the camp of Li Rubai, Li Ruzhang and others.

In this army, including the vanguard of the Xuanfu Army of Li Rubai and Li Ruzhang, and the 2,000 Li Rusong's 2,000 servants, plus Yuzhe's Xuanfu Army, Xuanfu Town sent more than 10,000 reinforcements. The rest were reinforcements from Datong, Liaodong and other towns. Speaking of which, more than 10,000 people were boundless, the reinforcements were trapped in the military camp, and the continuous line could not be seen at a glance.

After arriving at the local area, because the weather was still hot, reinforcements came all the way, and they had already been trapped and hungry and thirsty. After setting up the barracks, the soldiers hurriedly fetched water and cooked. Li Rusong kept his horse and took a military general on the three sides to watch the city. Huang Laifu was naturally followed.

The barracks of the Wuzhai Fort army were not far from Li Rusong's central army camp. When they saw the strong camps built by the Wuzhai Fort army and the barracks were full of energy and elite soldiers, Li Rusong's eyes even more surprised.

The generals surrounded him also had different expressions. When they saw Huang Laifu's servants by the Yellow River, they had not said anything. After all, the generals and deputy generals of a town spent huge financial resources to raise hundreds of elite servants. However, thousands of elite soldiers appeared, all of which were comparable to those personal soldiers and servants under the Admiral, which was very strange.

With Li Rusong's strength, he only raised three thousand servants. What is the origin of this deputy general of Shanxi Town Huang Laifu? He has so much money and food to support his army? Many people whispered.

There was also a caravan stationed next to the barracks of Wuzhaibao. The noise inside also made everyone curious. Li Rusong frowned, and Li Rubai rode his horse beside him and whispered for a while. Li Rusong nodded, looked at Huang Laifu, and said nothing more.

Huang Laifu followed everyone, just cursed in his heart: "Grandma's bear, Li Rusong is unhappy and really hard to get along with. It's also unlucky to have such a boss."

Everyone walked around the city, and in the past, the town was a prosperous and busy time, but it was devastated. Several months of war made the city a desolate place.

After a roundabout way, Li Rusong stopped his horse and just looked at the city ahead, thinking about it. The generals of each army did not dare to disturb him, and they all stood aside.

Suddenly, Li Rusong's horse whip whip blew a crisp sound in the air. When he turned around, everyone was busy following him like a tide.

After returning to the camp, people were called horses and neighing, and smoke from cooking was constantly coming, and the smell of various meals came from time to time. Especially when passing by the camp of the Wuzhaibao army, a smell of food mixed with the strong smell of meat came, making the generals salivate, and even Li Rusong looked strange. Long-distance marching was not easy, and the food and drink along the way were very simple. The generals had not eaten meat for a long time.

After a closer look, many soldiers were looking in the fence beside the Wuzhai Fort military camp, looking inward. They were mostly reinforcements from new towns. When they were drinking their porridge and eating dried vegetables, they were involuntarily attracted by the fragrance. Seeing that the Wuzhai Fort soldiers were all red and had good food and well dressed, many people were generally envious and jealous.

Looking at the Wuzhaibao caravan camp next to it, there were also military generals coming and going in and out. It seemed that there were people from all the military camps under the city, and a few were the personal soldiers of the three-sided governor Wei Xuezeng. The merchants and friends kept shouting, and various business was booming.

Huang Laifu coughed, attracting everyone's attention, and then he smiled and said, "Admiral, brothers, it's hard for everyone to come all the way. Brothers, I'm shameless today and be a host. Please join us to join the camp for a night banquet. Also, the camp of the caravan next to me is the caravan coming to Wuzhai Fort in Shanxi Town. The goods are rich, not only are there sufficient grain and rice, but also various foods, such as canned lunch meat, ham sausage, dried fish, dried tofu, shredded sauerkraut, salted eggs, etc. If you want to buy it, you can discuss it with the caravan, which is good and cheap."

All the generals, including Li Rusong, stared at Huang Laifu, as if they couldn't believe what Huang Laifu said. Is this deputy general or a businessman? At the same time, they were moved by Huang Laifu's words.

Li Rubai stepped forward and smiled and said, "General Huang is right. I have never tired of eating the canned lunch meat in his Wuzhaibao caravan for a long time. I have to eat every meal. It's a pity that the amount is small and expensive, but it's a waste."

Li Ruzhang also said: "That's right, the canned lunch meat is delicious."

Li Rusong's face slowed down and said, "Okay, then thanks to Deputy General Huang's good wishes, everyone will enter the camp."

The next day, the three-sided governor Wei Xuezeng sent someone to invite the general Li Rusong, the general officer of the Shaanxi military affairs, Zhu Zhengse, the general general of Ningxia, Mei Guozhen, and Ye Mengxiong, the governor of Gansu, to go to his military camp to discuss military affairs. Wei Xuezeng was also preparing to take advantage of Li Rusong and Mei Guozhen tonight, and everyone strengthened their relationship.

However, Mei Guozhen did not go, Li Rusong, Zhu Zhengse and Ye Mengxiong went. When Li Rusong came to Wei Xuezeng's Central Army camp with a swagger, he saw Wei Xuezeng, Ye Mengxiong and Zhu Zhengse, and several civil servants were sitting on the top of the speech, and everyone had a great time talking.

Seeing Li Rusong come in, his eyes were all on his face. However, Li Rusong just said indifferently: "Governor Wei is here to discuss what military affairs?" As he said that, he sat in the guest seat without hesitation.

Everyone was stunned, and Wei Xuezeng was speechless. In his impression, Li Rusong should have saluted him first and bowed down. Then Wei Xuezeng asked him up with grace, and then everyone spoke in a harmonious manner.

Who knew that Li Rusong was not good at all, so he just sat beside him? What's going on? You know, although the admiral and the governor were at the same level, theoretically, they met with each other on a regular basis. Then at this time of the Ming Dynasty, the civil and military officials were inferior. Usually, the generals would kowtow when they met the governor of the same level, let alone the governor. Just take a step back and say that if they don't kowtow, they would always be good.

I have heard of Li Rusong as being domineering and arrogant. When I saw him today, it turned out to be like this. Wei Xue once felt that he had been insulted and his face turned gloomy. When Zhu Zhengse, the governor of Ningxia next to him, he felt very uneasy when he saw him.

Li Rusong served as the admiral as a military general, commanding reinforcements from Liaodong Town, Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, Shanxi Town and other places with great power. Similar positions have always been held by civil servants. A military general has already made many civil servants dissatisfied. In addition, Li Rusong broke the precepts and was still so arrogant and did not know how to advance or retreat. If all the generals learned from them, what else could the civil servants do?

It's really tolerant, but who can't bear it?

Ye Mengxiong was still calm, but Zhu Zhengse stood up suddenly and scolded Li Rusong and said, "General Li, how are you so rude to the Governor? Do you still have the dignity of the superiority and inferiority in your eyes?"

Li Rusong snorted disdainfully, raised his face and just looked at Zhu Zhengse without saying anything.

Zhu Zhengse was so angry that her whole body trembled. He pointed at Li Rusong and said, "You, you... a man, you are so arrogant."

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When Li Rusong went out, Wei Xuezeng, Zhu Zhengse, and Ye Mengxiong were still sitting in the tent in a daze. Just now, Li Rusong talked endlessly about his plans to Wei Xuezeng because when he was inspecting the city yesterday, he discovered a wonderful way to attack the city.

However, because Wei Xuezeng is still in a state of confusion, it is hard to say whether he can listen to it.

Only Zhu Zheng was so angry that he decided to write a letter to impeach Li Rusong, but after his memorial was uploaded, it was like a rock sinking into the sea and there was no splash of water. It was not until a long time later that Emperor Wanli responded and simply criticized Li Rusong, but his official position remained unchanged. At this time, the battle in Ningxia was approaching its end.

Li Rusong talked about his wonderful method of siege, which was to ask tens of thousands of reinforcements to prepare tens of thousands of cloth bags filled with soil, which would be of use to him. The generals under the city did not understand Li Rusong's meaning very well, except for Huang Laifu from later generations.

However, with Li Rusong's order, countless officers and soldiers under the city were busy, and they were busy. Three days later, tens of thousands of cloth bags filled with soil were ready.

On August 10, 1592, on July 3, the 20th year of Wanli, Li Rusong ordered the siege.
Chapter completed!