The major directional problems have been determined, and what remains is nothing more than some technical problems. Probably for example, you can mobilize a certain department of people and horses, how long you are expected to plan for grain, grass and military salaries, and arrange boats and vehicles for transportation and baggage.

"At present, there is an abundance of money and food in the treasury, and more than 20 million silver dollars have been transferred to the cabinet account a few days ago. Although the marshal has always commanded the Nanyue army to fight, the food and salary are prepared by themselves. But this time it is for the country to hoe and rape, so that Daming has a stable environment to prosper. The Cabinet cannot be indecent. In this way, 10 million silver dollars were allocated to make food for the soldiers of the various departments who went out for this expedition, and it was also okay to make money for the settlement of the army, so that the soldiers would not have the risk of hunger and cold. It's good to go into battle to kill thieves, no worries! ”

There is a way to have food in your hands, and you don't panic in your heart. Ma Shiying is probably the chief assistant who has directly held the largest amount of silver in his hands since the establishment of the cabinet in the Ming Dynasty. He also knew that these silver coins were all obtained with the strong support of Li Shouhan and the Nanyue Army, and it was better to take them out and show favor to Li Shouhan and the Nanyue Army than to let them feed the insects on their stomachs on the account books of the silver number!

"The old horse is right! Pretty! In this way, since the cabinet has already expressed its position, then I can't be an iron rooster who can't pull out a dime! In this way, when Emperor Wanli was in power, the military salaries of the three major expeditions were all from the inner government. At present, when the army is booming, the military salaries required everywhere are huge, and I dare not compare with the Wanli Emperor. Such! I took out 8 million of the inner government silver and gave it to you, the general, to give a reward to the soldiers! ”

Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong, since Li Shouhan sent a brigade of elite men and horses from Jiangbei all the way to Nanjing to supervise the country, ascended the throne and called the emperor, although there are such bad things as the fake prince case, but, relying on Ma Shiying and Li Shouhan, the two pillars of the court, very beautiful use of the "Shun case" to fight a counterattack, and then, and vigorously implement the old system of Wanli preferential exemption rules everywhere, and recover the money and grain accumulated over the years, so he thinks that from the time he learned that the Nanyue army came to escort him into Nanjing to the present, It was the most comfortable stage of his life.

Originally! The soldiers and horses of the first brigade of the Nanyue Army went north, and immediately the soldiers and horses of the four towns in Jiangbei joined one after another, forming a huge "one army and four towns to welcome the dragon", that is, Shi Kefa and others were reluctant in their hearts, but in front of the soldiers and horses, they could only pinch their noses and admit their accounts.

"Minister, Li Shouhan, on behalf of the soldiers of all departments, thank you for your grace!" Although Li Shouhan was criticized by people outside as being domineering, in front of the emperor, all kinds of etiquette were very well done, even if there was a deviation in etiquette, but it could make people feel that his every move was from the heart.

"The general also wants to thank the cabinet!" Zhu Yousong, in the final analysis, is also a gentleman who has given benefits to others, and he is still willing to hear a few words of gratitude in his heart. Seeing that Li Shouhan is so informed and interested, he is naturally a dragon face at the moment.

"This, the cabinet did not dare to do. I don't know how many soldiers and horses the marshal will send this time, what troops will go to the expedition, how many land camps, how many sailors will be prepared, and how much grain, grass, gunpowder and other materials will be prepared? Please ask the general to assign one or two, and the cabinet will also make some preparations. ”

After all, Ma Shiying is also the governor of Fengyang, and his subordinates have some soldiers and horses, and they can be regarded as people who have led soldiers, and they know how to lead troops to fight, unlike singing on the stage, Zhuge Military Division sits firmly, shaking a feather fan to divide troops and send generals, playing the piano and burning incense, you can sit and wait for the good news to come!

His words can be regarded as speaking to Li Shouhan's heart.

At present, the brigade's Nanyue army is rushing from Liangguang, southern Jiangxi, and Fujian to all parts of the south of the Yangtze River. At the same time, more soldiers and horses are still mobilized, replenished, and trained in Nanzhong. Judging from the table submitted by the military department, there are now 30 brigades of mobilized soldiers and horses. However, far water can't solve near fire!

At present, there are a total of 10 garrison brigades and one guard brigade in the areas of Hangjiahu, Susongtai, Zhenjiang, Yangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, Gannan, and Biyuan in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Among these 11 brigades, the troops of Lu Mahong, Liao Dongzhi, Fan Xiaozeng, Wu Xing, and others in Xuzhou, Linyi, and Denglai are not included.

Eleven brigades, nearly 100 large and small gunboats of the naval division, hundreds of transport ships, and six large battalions of the land battalion of the naval division. Counting, there are more than 100,000 horses.

However, these more than 100,000 people should be stationed at key points in the vast areas from the Shanghai Trade Zone and the Hangzhou Trade Zone to Yangzhou, Nanjing, Gannan, and Yuanyuan, so as to deter those young people who have ghosts in their hearts and prevent local changes.

In addition, it is necessary to allocate at least four brigades to monitor, divide, and suppress the four towns in Jiangbei, so that those arrogant soldiers and fierce generals with bad intentions will not dare to act rashly, and buy time and space for the Nanyue Army to quickly and decisively eliminate Zuo Liangyu's Ping Thief Army!

In this way, there are very few soldiers and horses that can be used for mobile combat.

However, Li Shouhan does not see it that way.

"Your Majesty, Lord Shousuke. Although Zuo Liangyu claims to have one million soldiers and horses, there must be at least four or five hundred thousand people. However, from a certain point of view, it is just a group of swarming ants, a rabble like a native chicken and tile dog! A certain family, he personally mentioned a brigade of divisions, went to Anqing, and must either capture or behead this fang, and sacrifice it to His Majesty! ”

What the?! Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying almost thought that they had a fever and were confused, and they had misheard the words of Lord Marshal. But they quietly exchanged glances with each other, but sadly found that it was not their own fever, but the marshal talking nonsense there!

If there is no history of Li Shouhan, isn't his words exactly the copy of Sun Chuanting's question in the face of Emperor Chongzhen, claiming that 5,000 elites can level thieves? !

Historically, the trilateral governor Sun Chuanting was originally the governor of Shaanxi, Chongzhen ten years in October and the governor Hong Chengchou together with the commander of the Shaanxi official army Qin Wang, Hong Chengchou was appointed as the governor of Jiliao, Sun Chuanting was the governor of Baoding. Soon, due to the intensification of the conflict between him and Yang Sichang and others, he was worried about the disaster, so he claimed that he was so deaf that he couldn't even hear the sound of cannons, and asked for his dismissal. Emperor Chongzhen found out that he had lied about his illness, and in a fit of rage, he put him in prison. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Wang Qiaonian was defeated and died, and Zhu Youzhen remembered that he had worked very hard to suppress the peasant uprising in Shaanxi in the past, and he used it again. When summoning the right one, ask him how many soldiers he needs? Sun Chuanting squatted in the squad room for three years, did not understand the situation outside, thought that the strength of the rebel army was still the same as back then, and casually replied that 5,000 elite soldiers were enough. Zhu Youzhen was overjoyed and officially appointed him as the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi. After Sun Chuanting took over, he realized that the changes in the world had already exceeded his expectations, and he immediately said, "You must train 20,000 soldiers, and pay 1 million." Zhu Youzhen thought that he had reversed his word, and commented on the song: "The original proposal to train 5,000 soldiers can break the thief, why make a profit of 20,000?" And millions of salaries can be helped? But after being paid for a month, he went out of the customs with a curl of armor, and he tried to annihilate him, and he was not allowed to take the blame. ”

Today, when Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying heard Li Shouhan in their ears say that I can defeat Zuo Liangyu, who claims to be a million people, and can behead him or capture him alive to sacrifice prisoners, they all think that he is talking nonsense!

Even if your Nanyue army can fight again, Zuo Liangyu's subordinates still have hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses there, how can they be defeated in one battle?!

All right! Since you are all worried about the so-called Zuo Liangyu's millions, let's do the math and see how many soldiers and horses the left army has, its combat effectiveness, and how many troops can be put into the battlefield at one time.

"Your Majesty, the rebellious Zuo Liangyu Department, although he claims to be a million people in the world, but there is a lot of vanity among them, at least half of the water, his so-called million people, it would be good to have 500,000 Ding Zhuang!" Li Shouhan's words still left a lot of face for Zuo Liangyu, and also left a lot of room for himself. According to the intelligence collected from various places, in order to expand the army, Zuo Liangyu's department was from the gray-haired old man to the young man who had just sewn on his crotch, and all the only sons, deaf people, lame people, crippled people, fools, as long as they were not blind and paralyzed, were all coerced into the army.

This point is in the same vein as the national army, the national army grabbed the strong man, that is, it doesn't matter if you are an only son or not, just catch it all the way, and then, let the captured strong man die in the wind and sun in the cold and hunger. In the TV series "My Regiment Commander, My Regiment", which was a hit and slapped the face of the fruit fans, those strong men who allocated the Sichuan Army were not bad, at least they met a fake and shoddy national army commander like Long Wenwen, and they could find ways to make them eat. You must know that the national army can only eat three taels of eight-treasure rice (composed of moldy rice, sand, stones, coarse bran, rice husks, weeds, mouse droppings and small insects) at a time, and there is no oil and water, let alone any vegetables.

As for another specialty created by the national army, the widow's village on the coast of Fujian, it was widely known as early as the end of the eighties. It doesn't matter if you can stand up, put on a two-and-a-half-foot uniform, and carry a rifle, you will be arrested. However, there are also some unscientific things. Countless people have said how they have been discriminated against by the veterans of the Kuomintang Army and their families, etc., but in Dongshan County, Fujian Province, where the most robbed Zhuang men were taken away, as early as the early 1950s, the families of these Kuomintang soldiers were no longer called "enemy and pseudo family members", but changed to a sympathetic title of "family members of military disasters", which did not have obvious political discrimination against them, and did not have much impact even during the "Cultural @ Revolution". (What, from the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China to what period did you not receive any injustice?) This is clearly fake! Unscientific! You definitely didn't say this news from a foreigner! ）

Not scientific, right? There are even more unscientific ones! In Fujian, which attaches great importance to ancestral sacrifice activities, Dongshan County still has a habit that every Qingming Festival, "sacrifice Gu Gong first, and then sacrifice ancestors" is a local custom. Gu Gong, who began to serve as a senior county official in Dongshan County in the 50s, after his death, as a cadre who went south, he buried himself in Dongshan.

(The unkind author thinks that if someone vigorously promotes all kinds of good things about the national army in places like Dongshan, those local people who have little culture and do not understand humanistic feelings will be happy to have a close exchange with him that touches the body and soul.) ）

"That is, the left counter department is calculated at 500,000, and behind him is the elite of Yuan Zongdi and Hao Shaoqi's department that Li Chuang chased and killed, and in order to ensure that the back road is not lost, at least 100,000 soldiers and horses must be allocated to defend the back road. There were only 400,000 men left on the account. ”

"The so-called killing thieves need soldiers, and soldiers need to be paid, but since the birth of a certain family, all over my Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers, have always been false, receiving 10,000 salaries, only 3,000 soldiers, and they are still old and weak. Most of the soldiers set up in each battalion have very few salaries in practice. ”

"In this way, Zuo Liangyu's 400,000 virtual soldiers are only 120,000. And the old, weak, sick and disabled are mixed with it, can they have geometric combat power? Far inferior to the elite soldiers of the first brigade of ministers. ”

Although they have left a few hundred years of infamy in history, Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying are both people who have received a full set of education in the subset of traditional Chinese classics and history, and they are very familiar with history.

"Isn't the general going to follow Guo Ziyi's example and ride alone to see Hui Hui?"

At the beginning, Fugu Huaien bewitched 300,000 Hui soldiers to come to Chang'an, and Guo Ziyi's subordinates only had more than 10,000 people, but Guo Ziyi was not afraid at all, and led more than 10,000 of his subordinates to confront him from Weishui. Then, with his prestige in the Hui army, he was wise and brave enough to resolve the crisis, and used the Hui forces to repel the Tibetan soldiers and horses. Zhu Yousong said this, and it was also very good to pour a bowl of rice soup into Li Shouhan. He was compared to Guo Ziyi, the king of Fenyang, who helped the Tang Dynasty quell the Anshi Rebellion and died in the longevity of his seven sons and eight sons-in-law.

Li Shouhan pursed his lips in his heart, "If Lao Tzu wants to be the king himself, do you still need you?" Lao Tzu didn't want Lao Tzu's son to sing a drunken beating golden branch. Those boys don't have such a good temper as Guo Xuan! ”

He said a few words in his heart, and then turned his thoughts back to Zuo Liangyu's army. You must know that his analysis of Zuo Liangyu's army is still very polite and tolerant. Historically, after Zuo Liangyu's death, his army surrendered to the Qing army under the leadership of his son Zuo Mengeng. According to Duoduo's inspection, according to the standard of the Qing army at that time, there were only 30,000 horses and horses with combat effectiveness.

"Lao Tzu counted him as having 120,000 soldiers and horses with combat effectiveness, which is already expected to be lenient and lenient and widened again!" Li Shouhan sneered in his heart. "What's more, his 120,000 soldiers and horses with combat effectiveness can't go into battle with Lao Tzu at the same time, I just order the Guards Brigade and Shi Lang's boy's sailor army to stare at Zuo Liangyu's standard camp and defeat his standard camp and army, and his so-called inner camp and outer camp will collapse without a fight!"

"Sir, you are a person who has been in battle for a long time, and although the student is also a soldier, he is a soldier on paper. I don't know how the marshal plans to deal with Zuo Liangyu? Ma Shiying said politely, but his eyes were staring at Li Shouhan tightly without blinking, as if he wanted to find the answer from his demeanor and expression. And Zhu Yousong, who was sitting firmly behind the dragon book case, also stared at Li Shouhan with the expression of a drunkard who saw the best wine that had been stored in the cellar for many years.

"Your Majesty, Lord Shousuke, this matter is also very simple. The ministers of the world today are roughly divided into four batches. One is my Ming official army, and the minister's headquarters Nanyue Army is among them. One is the Qing army, in addition to the original Dongnu banners, there are also rebels who have gathered everywhere after entering the customs. One is to break into the department, this generation has fought hard for many years, although there are setbacks in Shanhaiguan, Beijing and other places, but the strength is still not to be underestimated. One is the Zuo Liangyu Department that is now entrenched in Jiujiang and confronts the naval division of our army in Anqing. ”

"Zuo Liangyu's department, although it is known as fierce, its combat power is completely on the merciful people and plundering the prefectures and counties. Since Zhu Xianzhen, the elite has been lost. The bones and spirit were shattered by the camp, and they fled in fear of the enemy. There was once a matter of running three or four hundred miles in one day and one night, and even the old thieves who broke into the camp couldn't catch up. ”

Li Zicheng broke into the camp, his new army can be called the elite, and there are the elite of the Quartet who have accumulated and gathered in the inner camp for many years. The two groups of men and horses, either directly under the jurisdiction of Li Chuang, or scattered in various departments of the camp, formed the backbone of the combat effectiveness of the camp. Supplemented by the official army that has been surrendered to various places, the strength should not be underestimated. From the minister's point of view, if there is no great unexpected variable, Zuo Liangyujun will be regarded as a chicken, a tile, a dog, and a mustard! ”

"The Qing army of Dolgon's department, with the Eight Banners of Manchuria as the henchman, the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Army as the trunk and humerus, accompanied by the rebels everywhere, there are many generals. Dongnu banners, strong cavalry, fierce infantry team, there is the former Denglai governor Sun Yuanhua spent a lot of money to build the artillery team, fire soldiers and other units as minions. In the past, the shameless ministers such as the Jiliao Governor Hong Chengchou gave advice to him and recruited the rebels, although he fought with Li Zicheng's subordinates and suffered considerable losses, but the shameless gentry and officials everywhere still surrendered at every turn with the money and grain accounts of the soldiers and horses in the city. From the minister's point of view, it was not difficult for Dolgon's Qing army to defeat Li Zicheng's army. ”

"I see!" Zhu Yousong slapped the table suddenly, "It's like the drinking order made by the guards outside when they drink and guess boxing, chickens eat insects, tigers eat chickens, and sticks beat tigers!" The left reverse department is just a group of silverfish, and Li Zicheng, the rooster, can eat them! However, he is not defeated by Dolgon, a white-fronted insect, if you want to pacify the Quartet, I have to rely on the great general's needle! ”

The students thought so! At the beginning, when the Marquis of Linqing was in charge of the military affairs of Denglai and other places in Shandong, he used the men and horses of the Beijing camp to gather the local departments and beat the slave chief Abatai to the point that only a few dozen horsemen were left and left. At the time of the Liaodong War, the county lord and his wife braved the arrows and stones in person, not afraid of artillery fire, and beat the two white flags of Manchurian soldiers and horses led by the pseudo-Rui prince Dolgon. If it weren't for the fact that the sky didn't treat me, I was afraid that Liaodong would have been pacified by then! ”

Originally! Your Li Shouhan's Nanyue Army has beaten the Qing Army's Eight Banners Manchuria Headquarters several times with one Buddha and two Buddhas Nirvana, and the Qing army has beaten Li Chuang all the way from Shanhaiguan to Shaanxi, and Li Zicheng is a person who makes Zuo Liangyu frightened.

The above is against the bottom, why worry that Zuo Liangyu can't be headed?!

The three monarchs and ministers were full of confidence in the westward expedition.

But is politics just on the battlefield?