On the evening of July 13, all the soldiers of the Long Live Mountain Thousand Households Station settled in Shanhaiguan.

The four of them returned to the old place, or entered the city as a victor, because several people were more familiar with the defense of Shanhaiguan, Liu Hong gradually sent four people with their own hundred soldiers to patrol around.

After all, this place has been run by Wu Sangui for many years, and all people with impure motives must be closely monitored.

Liu Hong gradually took the first seat, on the left is Wang Yuanba, the only remaining general among the former senior generals of Shanhaiguan, and on the right of the hem is Feng Dunhou, Yan Yingyuan, and Chen Mingyu.

On the left, there are two border army guerrillas Tang Feng and Xiang Xiong, Xiang Xiong is about the same age as Tang Feng, a generation of military households, only to his generation because of the courage of the battle, tired military achievements to guerrillas.

When fighting with the Tartars, the two of them cooperated tacitly step by step, which made the Tartars suffer.

At the door, Niu Zhuang and Li Baida stared at each other, and one of them held an AKM on his chest, I have to say that the two are competent goalkeepers.

As Wang Yuanba, who knew the situation of the border army best, first gave Liu Hongjian a detailed account of the current situation of the border army, and there were more than 98,000 people registered in the Xuanfu defense line of Shanhaiguan.

But in fact, only 75,000 people are actually serving, and both the Beijing camp and the border army seem to continue the tradition of empty salaries.

Among the 75,000 soldiers in service, there were more than 9,000 guardsmen, who lacked training and had low combat effectiveness, and at the same time, their salaries were much worse than those of the recruited battalions, and their morale was not good, so they could only be reluctantly used for garrison.

The battalion is 65,000, including 50,000 infantry and 15,000 cavalry, and this 15,000 cavalry is the only remaining fruit of the entire Ming Dynasty, and it is not easy to keep it.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Hong gradually broke through the kettle and did this dangerous thing.

"Oh, General Wang, how many Guanning cavalry are left in our cavalry battalion?" Liu Hongjian asked suddenly.

Guanning Iron Cavalry, one of the three major armies in the late Ming Dynasty, the three major armies are Sun Chuanting's Qin soldiers, Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army, Yuan Chonghuan, Zu Dashou's Guanning Iron Cavalry, and the prestige of Qin soldiers and Tianxiong Army is not mentioned for the time being.

It is clearly mentioned in the "Ming Ji Beiluo" that there are thousands of "Guanning Iron Cavalry" under Zu Dashou, all of whom dare to fight, and Jianzhou is afraid of it.

The original Guanning Iron Cavalry came from 100,000 Mongolian people who returned to the Ming Court, with a number of about 3,000, and Yuan Chonghuan advocated the policy of using the Liao people to defend the Liao land and raise the Liao people with the Liao soil, which greatly increased the combat enthusiasm of the Guanning Iron Cavalry.

In addition, the Mongols were already fierce, and the Guanning iron cavalry reached 9,000 in the heyday.

During the battle, the Guanning Iron Cavalry took the lead in rushing to the enemy formation, holding a three-eyed firecracker, and first banged three shots, and after the dense shotgun attacked, the three-eyed firearm like a hammer smashed into Jiannu's head.

The battle of Ningyuan lasted from morning to noon, the corpses of the Eight Banners Army were covered in the wilderness, and the blood was flowing outside Ningyuan City, seeing that the casualties were getting bigger and bigger, Huang Taiji had to withdraw his troops.

Since then, Guanning Iron Cavalry has become famous in a war.

But now seventeen years have passed, Sun Chuanting's Qin army has died, Lu Xiangsheng and his Tianxiong army have also been mistaken by traitors, and they hate the battlefield, what about Guanning Iron Cavalry?

"Lord Hui, after years of war, many of the Guanning Iron Cavalry have been killed, and most of them were taken away when the thief Zu Dashou defected a few years ago, and now, there are only more than 800 horsemen left in the Guannei."

Of course, Wang Yuanba knew the prestige of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, but the Tianxiong Army and the Qin Army were also powerful in the world back then, but now, in his opinion, the Guanning Iron Cavalry is nothing more than that.

"That's all there is left? In that case, how about transferring these 800 people to the Banzai Mountain Thousand Households of the Official? ”

Of course, the wool has to be fattened, and Liu Hongjian also has a little drum in his heart, after all, this is the most elite army in the family.

"The lower officer will later order the Guanning Iron Cavalry Department to enter the account of the chief soldier."

Wang Yuanba is not ambiguous at all, Guanning Iron Cavalry is unique and disdains to be with other cavalry, and even such a few people can't become an establishment, it is really a chicken-like existence.

And although these Mongolians have lived in the land of the Ming Dynasty for 20 years, in addition to learning Chinese, their temperament has not changed at all, they do not obey discipline, and they always make trouble.

The chief soldier is really compassionate, and he won't have to have a headache with these vulgar people in the future.

"My lord! The results of the humble position have been judged! While thinking about it, Chang Yu came in from outside, with a bloody smell on his body.

Wu Sangui was very hard, he didn't say a word about Chang Yu's interrogation, and forced Chang Yu to do everything he could, what kind of frying and washing were used all over again, and in the end, Wu Sangui's legs were almost bone, and half of his life was gone, but he still found nothing.

Okay, okay, you're ruthless! But don't you still have your two lackeys! I don't believe that you are as hard as you Wu Sangui.

Chang Yu immediately beckoned the soldiers to sneak Wu Sangui out and escorted Tan Hong in.

Tan Hong was also very tough at the beginning, no matter how you coerced and tempted, you just didn't say it.

As a result, boiling water was poured on the leg, and the iron brush was pulled on the leg a few times, and it couldn't bear it.

What do you think you're drawing? If you survive to the end like Wu Sangui, Lao Tzu also respects you as a man, you used half of the punishment, recruited, not to mention the crime, and became a soft egg, isn't it cheap?

After Tan Hong finished explaining, in order to prevent him from lying, he brought in the 'Confucian general' Wu Zhimao.

Wu Zhimao is more familiar with current affairs, glanced at the torture instruments stained with the blood and flesh scraps of his boss Wu Sangui and Tan Hong next to him, swallowed his saliva, and shouted that I confessed, how resolute the soft egg is.

Chang Yu compared the confessions of the two and found that there was no difference, so he came to Liu Hong with satisfaction.

After listening to Chang Yu's narration, Liu Hongjian and Wang Yuanba both frowned.

Wu Sangui's strategy is not very profound, it is just an opening door, but he has a very thorough understanding of the morale of the border army.

These border troops look very brave, but in fact, most of them are strong from the outside, otherwise they would not have been able to retreat on the high walls of the pass for several years, and did not dare to go out to fight with Jiannu.

As long as the Eight Banners Army is put in, in the event of surprise, the border army will inevitably be even more of an opponent, in order to survive, as long as Wu Sangui leads his troops to surrender and save their lives, these soldiers will be grateful to him.

It really kills two birds with one stone.

"Lao Wang, is your army really so useless?" Liu Hong gradually asked Wang Yuanba as if interrogating, this guy somehow saw that the person surnamed Wang always called Lao Wang, no matter whether he was old or not.

"My lord, it's not either!" Comrade 'Lao Wang' seemed to be very useful, and he also dragged a sentence of correction.

He is already a martial artist, and he was a little flattered by the affectionate title of the new chief soldier, it seems that Lao Tzu also has a bright future, well, it seems that he has to behave well.

"The monthly salary of the infantry soldiers of the border army is one or two or six yuan, and the cavalry is two or two two dollars, but the treasury is tight, and the salary is always not in place, even if there is a salary,

Lord Wu, oh no, Wu Sangui's dog official also filled his own pockets and sent it to the soldiers, one tael and six coins became six coins, and two taels and two coins became one or two.

The families of these soldiers are hungry in the pass, so that the soldiers are very angry, and Wu Gouguan puts the responsibility on the court every time, saying that the court gave this, and he can't help it.

The soldiers were naturally prejudiced against the imperial court, so that their morale was low and their combat effectiveness was greatly affected. ”

What is the purpose of being a soldier? What kind of national righteousness do you have to do with me, Lao Tzu reads few books, and he is just a soldier to fill his stomach and not let his family starve.

Although Wang Yuanba has been suppressed by Wu Sangui in various ways, he also knows that he is tired of it, so he bows his head one by one.

"Well, it's a question, I'm the second Ao, how did Lao Tzu forget about this, and Wu Gan, the household servant, came to Lord Wu? Didn't he send for money? What about people? You won't be by that, will you? ”

After two days of busy work, Liu Hong gradually patted his head and suddenly remembered this stubble.

"Lord Commander, Lord Wu is still in prison? Rest assured, Wu Ganlai did not die or suffer, but was just locked up by Wu Gouguan. ”

Wang Yuanba had a smile on his face, in his opinion, this was another opportunity to show favor to the general soldier.

"Still laughing! Laugh at your sister, that's a member of the imperial court, Wu Sangui has already been ambushed, why don't you let people out, go quickly, please come here! ”

Liu Hong gradually said angrily, is this Wang Yuanba missing tendons?

"Yes, let's go!" Wang Yuanba doesn't know why, wasn't it okay just now? What's the fire? It's not that I don't want to let go, it's that you didn't mention it!

For the most important household departments and officials of the imperial court, Liu Hongjian specially checked the 'files' of the old men, and found that these old men were not bad, and none of them surrendered to the boar skin.

Although I don't know what the ability is, whether I can only play tricks and don't do business, but at least it's a thousand times better than those who grovel and call themselves slaves to kneel on the boar skin.

Wu Ganlai is fifty years old this year, and his health is not bad, he has been in prison for more than half a month, although the daily food in the prison is not as good as that of wild dogs, but fortunately, Wu Sangui is busy with military affairs and has no time to attack him.

So much so that when he came out of the prison, Wu Ganlai's clothes were still as neat as when he first arrived, but his face was a little haggard.

"Lord Wu, the emperor was terrified when he heard about the change in Shanhaiguan, and sent me to rescue you, fortunately, Lord Wu has only celestial phenomena, and the emperor should be able to rest assured."

Although he said so on the surface, in fact, Liu Hongjian had 10,000 alpacas in his heart, Made, Lao Tzu is here to wipe your buttocks.

"Even if a minister dies, he can't repay the emperor's grace, ashamed! Shame on you! "The thing was not done, but such a big hole was pierced, and of course Comrade Wu was a little embarrassed.

Comrade Lao Wu is also a dead eye, and he also implements the emperor's orders to the letter, and when he comes to the barracks, he begins to count people, and he turns a blind eye to Xiao Wu's (Wu Sangui)'s promises and bribes.

As a result, Xiao Wu was dragged to a small black room for reflection on the spot on the charge of disturbing the morale of the army.

The two then made a deep analysis of the current situation, and finally came to the conclusion that the reason for the low morale of the border army was the lack of money.

But the imperial court has paid silver three times this year, and the total amount has reached more than three million taels, so there is still a shortage of silver for these 100,000 soldiers? Where did all the money go?

The two looked at Wang Yuanba, and Wang Yuanba's head was not short-circuited this time.

Silver, I know where it is, it's all in the inner mansion of Lord Wu, oh no, Wu Dog Official.

Liu Hong's eyes gradually lit up!

Raid the house! Raid the house! Lao Tzu's favorite thing in this life is to raid the house!