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Body 160 [Suppressing bandits and making money]

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    ?Nanchangwei, the school yard.

    Li Ruolian, the general soldier of Jiangxi, inspected the troops, and suddenly drew his sword and shouted: "The Luling Zhao thief has stolen the state capital, burned, killed and looted, and committed all kinds of crimes. Now I am under the emperor's order to discuss it. With the help of all the lords, I will win the battle and win the capital.  ! Let's go, let's go!"

    Li Ruolian is sixty-nine years old this year. Historically, he was seventy-eight years old when he led the Jinyi Guards and died for his country at the gate of Beijing.

    If he hadn't been the eldest son of a military household and had to inherit the military position according to the system, he would definitely have taken the Wen Jinshi examination instead of this nonsense Wu Jinshi.  His younger brother Li Ruogui was a Jinshi Wen. During the reign of Tianqi, he served as the minister of the Ministry of punishment. He resigned because he could not be tolerated by Wei Zhongxian.

    By the way, his younger brother, Li Ruogui, was rumored to have hugged Emperor Tianqi when he was young, and Zhu Youxiao was given the title "Old Li with Golden Arms" after he ascended the throne.

    In Yuan Chonghuan's treason case, Li Ruolian was the presiding judge.

    Li Ruolian didn't find anything wrong with the trial. Emperor Chongzhen was not happy, so he asked his superior Liu Qiao to interrogate him. Liu Qiao found out evidence of Yuan Chonghuan's rebellion.

    Li Ruolian was demoted to two ranks because of this, and after several years of tossing, he was slowly promoted back, and now he was finally thrown by Chongzhen to be the general soldier of Jiangxi.

    In mid-May, harvesting of winter wheat has begun.

    "Don't trample on the crops!" This was Li Ruolian's first order.

    Both brothers Li Ruolian and Li Ruogui are well-known upright officials.  But, the capital of being an upright official is that the family is well-off, and the ancestors have occupied many military fields.  Before his younger brother was admitted as a Jinshi, he sold hundreds of acres of land at one time because he didn't have enough money.

    "Zai Xin Gong!"

    Arriving at the pier to board the ship, the governor Li Maofang, with his official Wang Siren, came over to meet him.

    Li Ruolian bowed his hands in return. Although they were unlucky in everything, there was one thing that went well.  That is, Chongzhen withdrew the eunuchs last year, and the eunuchs have not been sent back until now, so there is no need to listen to the eunuchs of the supervising army.

    The three joined forces, tens of thousands of infantry, and thousands of civilians were also recruited.

    With so many people, Wang Siren's navy couldn't hold them, so they had to use boats to carry food and grass forward, and the soldiers followed the boats on the shore.

    The farmers who were harvesting wheat were so frightened that they hid far away when they saw the officers and soldiers coming, and then looked at these people with resentful eyes.

    The three of them together trained tens of thousands of soldiers, and at the beginning of the year they had lost more than 3,000, so they urgently recruited to make up the difference.  How much money will this cost?  The Jiangxi Third Division not only had to provide military salaries, but also remitted taxes to the imperial court, so they could only intensify the exploitation of the common people, and imposed more than a dozen kinds of miscellaneous taxes.

    Marching all the way south, because of the rush of time, these officers and soldiers had no time to plunder the people.

    Ten days later, he arrived at Linjiangfu City.

    (There is a mistake in the previous article. Linjiang Fucheng is not in Fengcheng City, but in Linjiang Town of Zhangshu City in later generations, sandwiched between Yuanhe and Ganjiang. Zhao Han must first attack Linjiangfu City in order to occupy Zhangshu Town. But there are so many mistakes  chapter, the main plot cannot be modified, and we can only assume that Zhangshu Town is ten miles south of Linjiangfu City. The real situation is just the opposite, please don¡¯t take it seriously.)

    "I met Li Fushuai, I met Li Zongzhen, and I met Wang Qian."

    He Tianqu, the magistrate, led the officials at the prefecture and county levels out of the city to welcome the arrival of the officers and soldiers.  In order to save his life, he didn't care about the difference between civil and military skills, so he also respected Li Ruolian, the commander in chief.

    Li Maofang asked, "How is Bandit Zhao doing?"

    He Tianqu replied: "Zhao thief camped on the other side of the river ten miles away, blocking any passing boats, and it is temporarily impossible to find out the news."

    "Fu Shuai, set up camp first, and then send spies." Wang Siren said.

    Li Maofang nodded and said, "Okay, let's set up camp first."

    He Tianqu said: "Several people came from afar, and I set up a banquet to clean up the dust for you."

    Wang Siren frowned and said, "It's important to set up camp first."

    Ever since, Wang Siren was in charge of camping, and Li Maofang and Li Ruolian were invited into the city to eat and drink.

    This kind of eating and drinking is also necessary to get closer to each other, otherwise it will be difficult to cooperate in the next battle.

    ?The two sides set up camp ten miles across the river. Together with civilian husbands, sailors, and local bravery, there were more than 18,000 officers and soldiers.

    On Zhao Han's side, the number of the navy and the supply team was less than 4,000.

    The next day.

    Wang Siren personally led the navy to the south, with more than 40 large and small warships.

    However, Zhao Han's navy only has more than 30 large and small ships.  More than a dozen of them followed Fei Ruhe to the west, facing the officers, soldiers and navy, they could only temporarily avoid the sharp edge.

    Before Wang Siren reached the mouth of the river, he ordered the navy to stop.  He dared not go any further, for fear of being ambushed.  If the navy of the rebels rushed out from both sides of the Ganjiang River and the Yuanhe River, his navy would be surrounded.

    Standing at the bow of the ship, Wang Siren personally observed the enemy's situation,"Shameless!"

    Wang Siren scolded, turned and left directly.

    Li Ruolian was so angry that his hands trembled, and he really wanted to cut the governor down with a knife.

    Both of them didn't accept money. After they left, Li Maofang sneered and said to himself: "Why are you pretending to be clean? Where did you get your military training and salaries? Didn't you get it from the people? Are you clean without your own hands?"

    Li Maofang began to give money to civil and military officials. From the prefect of Linjiang to the county magistrate of Qingjiang, to the generals under Li Ruolian and Wang Siren, they were all fed by his money.

    Ever since, everyone supported Li Maofang wholeheartedly and devoted their energy to making money.

    Anyway, the confrontation lasted for a month, and the rebels attacked a few times, and they had already attacked.  Since the rebels didn't dare to come over, and I didn't dare to go over here, why didn't I take the opportunity to make more money?

    On the contrary, Li Ruolian and Wang Siren, two upright officials, were isolated by all the officials, as if they were abnormal.

    Wang Siren secretly found Li Ruolian: "General Town, we can't go on like this, otherwise the morale of the army and the people will be lost!"

    Li Ruolian asked: "You have worked with him to suppress bandits for a year, and there was no such thing before?"

    "Oh, he also fished before," Wang Siren sighed. "When he suppressed the bandits in Duchang County, he sent troops to loot everywhere. I could only turn a blind eye. But now, the rebel army is ten miles away.  On the other side, if he does something like this, big trouble will happen!"

    "What are you going to do?" Li Ruolian asked.

    Wang Siren said: "The Zhao bandits in Luling are treacherous. If they don't move their troops after a month of confrontation, they must set up ambushes on the Ganjiang River and the Yuanhe River. If our navy dares to cross the river mouth, they will definitely be attacked from both sides. Most of them will use a large number of small boats.  Carry out a fire attack. The navy cannot move, and the terrain is not good for our army. My original intention was to send elite soldiers to go south by land to sneak attack Xingan County, which was occupied by the rebels.  There is no way to sneak around the checkpoint."

    "If you can't make a sneak attack, how else can you fight?" Li Ruolian had no battlefield experience.

    Wang Siren said: "Cross the river and fight the rebels. We have more than 10,000 troops, and I have trained 500 archers. It may be possible to win the battle. We can't waste it here, my generals  The military discipline has been corrupted, and in the past two days, they led troops to plunder the people."

    Li Ruolian's generals are even more so, they are the command envoys, thousands of households, and hundreds of households recruited temporarily.  These guys have never fought any battles, and they are good at exploiting military households. Now they are completely exposed by Li Maofang.

    "Can we attack the enemy camp at night?" Li Ruolian asked.

    Wang Siren shook his head and said, "It's useless, there are too many enemy checkpoints. Last time I led troops to attack at night, three miles away from the enemy camp, the bandit's sentinel blew the suona."

    "Then fight!" Li Ruolian clenched his fists.

    In fact, Zhao Han's military rations are almost unsustainable, and he can last for a month at most.

    However, the governor Li Maofang gave a divine assist, and the military discipline was so corrupted that Li Ruolian and Wang Siren could not tolerate it, forcing the two to fight head-on in advance.

    This broken place is nonsense, either it is a mountain or a water, and the strength of both sides is stretched. As long as more sentries are sent to guard against sneak attacks, no matter how powerful the commander is, he will not be able to play tricks.

    Can only be tough!

    And even if it is tough, it must be the officers and soldiers who cross the river on their own initiative.

    Because Zhao Han's navy is not strong, he dare not cross the river to fight the officers and soldiers for fear of being defeated by the officers and soldiers on the river.  According to the terrain where the two rivers meet, more warships and fireboats should be prepared to encircle the officers and sailors who dare to cross the river mouth.

    Li Ruolian and Wang Siren found Li Maofang and proposed a plan for a decisive battle across the river, and they immediately quarreled with Li Maofang.

    Li Maofang hasn't got enough money yet</div&gt
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