Chapter 60 I want to stand up in the army, and personally control the soldiers!

   "Report! Your Majesty, the sentry cavalry of my Xishan camp discovered that the people who came to Xishan were not ordinary frontier soldiers, but Tartars, slave Tartars!"

  Sun Yingyuan, who was transferred to the newly established Xishan Camp as a general because of Zhang Gui's recommendation, just got off his horse at this time, bowed in front of Tianqi, Zhang Gui and others, and immediately clasped his fists to report.

  At the beginning, after Zhang Gui mentioned that Xishan would not be tolerated by the rich and powerful bureaucrats, and Tianqi therefore decided to set up a battalion of soldiers and horses in Xishan, there was the Xishan Camp.

  Military system in Ming Dynasty was divided into guard system and battalion system.

  The battalion system is mainly to form a battalion of soldiers and horses in the form of recruiting soldiers, and guard various places.

  The number of soldiers and horses in a battalion is usually not fixed, ranging from tens of thousands to one or two thousand.

  The Xishan Camp has only 3,000 soldiers and horses, all of which are 3,000 young men selected from the newly arrived refugees after Zhang Gui selected 800 young men from among the refugees as his family.

  The 3,000 young men who were incorporated into the Xishan Camp were entrusted by Zhang Gui to Xiong Tingbi for training a year ago.

  Xiong Tingbi trained troops in Liaodong for several years, and brought his newly trained horses to fight several victories with Jiannu.

  Because of this, before Yuan Yingtai replaced Xiong Tingbi as Liaodong Economic Strategy, Nurhachi's repeated attacks on Shenyang and Liaoyang did not get cheap from Xiong Tingbi.

  It was only after Xiong Tingbi was later impeached and resigned by the speech officials in the capital, and Yuan Yingtai took office, replacing Xiong Tingbi as Liaodong Economic Strategy, that caused Daming to lose Shenyang and Liaoyang.

   It can be seen that Xiong Tingbi is good at training soldiers.

  During Xiong Tingbi’s preparation for the Armed Forces Academy, his main job was to be entrusted by Zhang Gui to train soldiers and horses of the Xishan Battalion.

   More than half a year ago, when the students of the Armed Forces Academy officially began to receive training, the Xishan Camp was handed over to Sun Yingyuan, who continued the training, and by the way conquered the nearby bandits to accumulate actual combat experience.

  Nowadays, apart from Zhang Gui's family team and the enlisted corps of the Armed Forces School, the entire military force in the Xishan area of ​​Ming Dynasty is the Xishan Battalion.

  The Army Enlisted Corps of the Armed Forces Academy is an organization composed of students and instructors of the Armed Forces Academy, with a total of more than 1,000 people.

  However, the enlisted corps is all elites from students to teachers, such as Xiong Tingbi, Ma Shilong, Shen Yourong, Lu Xiangsheng, Xia Yunyi, Huang Degong and so on.

  The aforementioned Xishan Camp and Armed Forces Academy are soldiers and horses that are directly loyal to Tianqi in the Xishan area.

  Zhang Gui's servant team is naturally directly loyal to himself.

  The soldiers and horses controlling the capital and Xiyuan guards are Zhou Yuji's Vanguard Battalion and Man Gui's Shenshu Battalion.

   Among them, Zhou Yuji's vanguard battalion is responsible for the defense of the entire capital.

The Qianfeng Battalion is a group of soldiers and horses that Zhang Gui promoted Zhou Yuji after Tianqi asked Zhang Gui to supervise the military affairs of the Beijing Camp, and asked Zhou Yuji to reorganize the strong soldiers from the Beijing Camp. It is the only existing battalion in the Beijing Camp soldiers and horses.

Man Gui was able to control the Shenshu Camp because after being recommended by Zhang Gui as the deputy commander of the capital, he performed well in the incident of Baiguan Fuque Xiyuan, was trusted by Tianqi, and was directly promoted to the commander of the Shenshu Camp. The servants under his command were also incorporated into the Shenshu camp, so he is now equivalent to the commander of the imperial guards of the apocalypse.

  After hearing that the people who came to Xishan were Jiannu, Zhang Gui was nervous, and the first thing he thought of was how to use these soldiers loyal to the emperor and his family to repel the invading enemy.

   Apocalypse is the same.

  The two looked at each other.

   "I didn't expect them to be so bold. In order to eliminate Xishan, they directly invited captives to enter the customs. As Qing said, only we can't think of it, and there is no despicable thing they can't do!"

   Immediately, Tian Qi said something to Zhang Gui in a deep voice.

"Soldiers will block the water and cover the earth! Your Majesty is a wise king, and he has already made preparations. In the area around the West Mountain, your Majesty's soldiers and horses, plus the minister's servants, total five thousand soldiers and horses, and each of them is as strong as a tower. They are loyal and brave, and they hold firearms. The armor is also top-grade, so it should be no problem to keep it."

"It's just that it's not suitable for your Majesty to be in a dangerous place. It's better to go back to Beijing. The walls of the capital are high and thick, and there are more soldiers and horses in the Shenshu Battalion and the Vanguard Battalion. It's easier to protect His Majesty. It's better to leave it to Xiong Butang to command and defend against the enemy. The Department Hall has commanded hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in Liaodong, which is a rare talent in our Ming Dynasty! Your Majesty asked him to lead the Xishan Battalion and the Military Equipment Academy to defend against the enemy in Xishan, there should be no problem."

   Zhang Gui proposed at this time.

  Wei Zhongxian immediately agreed after hearing this. Although he didn't like Xiong Tingbi very much, he had to admit that Xiong Tingbi was very reliable in commanding and fighting, so he said:

   "My lord, what Uncle Guo said is that we should hurry back to the palace. There is Xiongbu hall here, so it must be foolproof."

   "The people of the Song Dynasty ordered civil officials to control the army in order to prevent military officials from disorderly government. Now my Ming Dynasty has also become civil officials in charge of the army. However, the civil officials in charge of the army make the civil officials mess up the law, and the prestige of the emperor is also lost!"

   "How can we make soldiers and horses protect the country and the country? Only the emperor can hold it in his own hands! But how can the emperor only have one person in his hands? He can only establish his prestige in the army! How to establish his prestige? Be like Taizu and Chengzu to personally lead the army to kill the enemy!"

  Tianqi said this, and resolutely decided: "If I don't return to Beijing, I will be in Xishan. Zhang Gui will also stay here to coordinate and dispatch everything. Wei Zhongxian, you go back and strictly investigate those who came here while I was away."

   "My lord, this..."

  Wei Zhongxian glanced at Zhang Gui unexpectedly.

  Zhang Gui was also speechless, but he did not stop Tianqi. After all, he could not stop an emperor's ambition to gain power in the army, so he agreed: "Yes!"

  Seeing that Zhang Gui didn't object, Wei Zhongxian didn't want to disobey the holy will, so he agreed and left Xishan.

   "Although His Majesty has decided to personally command and defend against the enemy, this plan can still be left to the rest of the people. I think it is better to send Xiong Butang, Ma Dudu, and Shen Zongbing together to participate in the military plan."

   Zhang Gui suggested.

"allow!"

Tian Qi nodded, and smiled at Zhang Gui: "Call Lu Xiangsheng, Xia Yunyi, and that Sun Chuanting too! I think they are also very knowledgeable about soldiers, and I don't know how you can be so knowledgeable and make good use of them. Take a cold look at them." In half a year, quite a few people in the military training school are quite different from the scholars I saw in the court hall."

"yes!"

  Zhang Gui smiled slightly, responded, and asked someone to make arrangements.

  Sun Yingyuan here continued to send sentry cavalry to find out the situation of the incoming Jiannu under the will of Tianqi.

"The elders of the Jiannu Institute use the chariots to increase the weight of the armored infantry to fight on foot. Among them, the Bayala of each Niulu is the main soldier, and they are the most brave! There are also those who carry red arrows and are responsible for maintaining morale. According to the rules of Jiannu, Those who are afraid of fighting will be shot with red dots by those who bear red arrows. After the battle, those with red dots will be killed for the crime of fighting! And because of this, Jiannu soldiers and horses have become Not afraid of death!"

   Half an hour later, when Xiong Tingbi and others came to Tianqi's place, Tianqi listened very carefully to Xiong Tingbi's understanding of Jiannu soldiers and horses.

"It's no wonder that you set up training officers in the Enlisted Corps of the Armed Forces Academy and in the Xishan Camp to lead troops in assaults and preach loyalty to the emperor and serve the country. You also set up town governors to maintain military discipline, and even demanded that firearms be developed to the point of being broken. Dare has long been prepared for the future. Fighting against Jiannu, I must have recommended Xiong Aiqing to preside over the military training school for me, because he is the only handsome talent who can beat Jiannu at present?"

   Tianqi smiled and said to Zhang Gui.

  Zhang Gui smiled and said: "You can't hide anything from your majesty."

Tianqi patted Zhang Gui: "You, you have such a far-reaching mind that I didn't expect it. It's no wonder that every day in Xishan, rehearsing Tartar dramas, I should be accused of traitors and work in several large factories of Xishan Industry Division and Ordnance Division. I'm afraid that the common people have long regarded the Tartars as a great enemy."

  Zhang Gui nodded: "Almost, my request is that even a child must know who Nurhachi is."

   "Very good! So popular!"

   Tian Qi got up and said something, then asked Xiong Tingbi and others: "What do you think, how should we defend against the enemy this time?"

"There are more than 1,500 Jiannu who invaded. In Jiannu's own words, there is one Jiala and five Niulu. In my opinion, the Xishan camp can be sent out of Xishan Fort to meet the enemy. Uncle Zhang Gui Lead the servants under his command to support, and the Army Enlisted Corps of the Armed Forces Academy will stay with His Majesty in Xishan to guard."

  Xiong Tingbi said.

"No!"

  Tian Qi waved his hand and said: "My father led the military corps of the military academy to meet the enemy head-on, my uncle Zhang Gui led his family to support, and Xiong Aiqing led the Xishan camp to detour to the rear of Jiannu."

   "Your Majesty wants Jianu to come and go?"

   Xiong Tingbi asked.

  Tian Qi nodded: "That's right! At the feet of the Son of Heaven, how could they come as soon as they say!"

  Xiong Tingbi hurriedly remonstrated: "Your Majesty, no, this is too risky. Your Majesty personally meets the enemy. If there is a mistake, the consequences will be disastrous."

   "If Jiannu can sneak into the customs at will, and even if he loses, he can escape unscathed, then the consequences will be disastrous."

  Tianqi said a word, and said: "I have already realized what I mean, so there is no need to discuss it!"

As Tianqi said, he took out a secret decree that had already been drawn up and gave it to Xiong Tingbi: "In fact, I have planned for a long time. I have already drawn up an imperial decree to appoint you Xiong Aiqing as the governor of Beizhi, Shanxi, and Shandong provinces, and to control these three provinces with the title of Minister of War. All soldiers and horses, once the Jiannu are repelled by me personally, you can directly order the governors of all sides to lead the frontier troops to stop the Jiannu reinforcements outside the pass, and stop the defeated Jiannu inside the pass. If any of them refuse to do it, you can kill them directly, of course that kind Under the circumstances, they must not quit, otherwise they would be openly surrendering to the enemy."

  Zhang Gui and Xiong Tingbi couldn't help but glance at each other.

  At the same time, Zhang Gui couldn't help sighing secretly: "Tianqi is the talent of the commander who strategizes!"

   "Follow the order!"

Xiong Tingbi also responded immediately. He saw that the emperor had long been determined to win, so he didn't remonstrate any more. It was only after he left Tianqi's place that he secretly told Zhang Gui: "If the situation changes, please ask Uncle Guo directly Let Jia Dingqiang ask His Majesty to flee, other military officials who flee in battle may be executed, but Your Majesty will never kill Uncle Guo."

  Zhang Gui smiled lightly, and immediately nodded.

  (end of this chapter)