Chapter 294: Instigating Deserters
Subsequently, Zhu Linmiao invited officials from the Propaganda Department and the Household Department to arrange it, and he didn't fall asleep until late at night.
A few days later, thousands of dragon guards said that Quanzhou Taolin Creek went south, straight to Zheng Zhilong's hometown of Nan'an. The heavy cavalry and artillery battalions in the army were all fully manned, and they seemed to be about to fight a tough battle.
Zhu Linmiao, Zhang Jiayu and several officials of the Ministry of Industry were also in the team.
"How far is the military camp of Nalang Jingye from here?"
Zhang Jiayu took out the map, compared it again, and pointed to the bend of the stream in the distance, "Back to Your Highness, I have passed dozens of miles of Anxi, and it should be more than ten miles away." ”
"The court must have arrived there, right?"
Zhang Jiayu arched his hand and said: "Yesterday, Lord Li of the Ministry of Rites set off, and Lang Jingye has already received the order. ”
Zhu Linmiao nodded, he took the opportunity to go to Nan'an to restart the shipyard this time, and he had to solve a matter that had been delayed for a long time.
At the beginning, the Jianyu soldiers pressed the border, and Longwu fled south almost alone. However, tens of thousands of Ming troops in Fujing were indifferent, and obeyed Zheng Zhilong's order of "no resistance", so they really restrained the soldiers and watched the Qing soldiers raging.
Later, Zhu Linmi, in the name of the imperial court, ordered the garrisons in Fujing to intercept Jianyu, but no one obeyed the order. Even before the Battle of Shanguan, only Lu Chang and Song Jincheng's 6,000 men and horses came to reinforce them.
Now that the construction has been broken, the meritorious generals are naturally rewarded according to their merits, but these guys who eat the Ming Dynasty but do not obey the orders of the imperial court and avoid the enemy have not been punished.
They thought that they were numerous, and that they would not be held accountable to the people, and that the court would not do anything to them for the sake of stability.
But Zhu Linmiao knew very well that these officers were the cancer of the Ming Dynasty. If it weren't for his own special existence, Fujing would have been captured by Jianjing because of the inaction of these people.
And in history, after the fall of Fujing, these officers all defected to Manchuren as quickly as possible. Then they immediately turned south and helped Jianyu attack Guangzhou, and then fought Zheng Chenggong's Northern Expeditionary army.
Let these people stay at large, how can those Dragon Guard soldiers who shed their blood for Daming from Longnan all the way to Shanguan not be cold?
In addition, it is also necessary to let the world see that those who do not obey the orders of the court will never have good results, and the prestige of the court cannot be questioned!
This Lang Jingye is one of the representative figures, with an army of 7,000 under his command, and the station is the closest to Nan'an, which is a good material for example.
The Long Wei army marched to the Lang Jingye camp in the lower reaches of Taolin Creek and stopped four miles away, dug trenches, set up horses to resist, and the hussars went out to patrol for several miles, and they were also ready to fight.
However, less than half a mile outside Lang Jingye's camp, there were military officials who set up tables and chairs, pulled up huge banners, and wrote: The military transformation point of the Ming military department.
There were more than a dozen tents behind him, and he obviously didn't plan to leave anytime soon.
In the big camp not far away, Lang Jingye was holding the holy decree sent by the ministry yesterday morning and roared angrily at the generals: "Transformation? Don't you want to take away Lao Tzu's military power?! What kind of police officer do you want to get Lao Tzu's soldiers, dream! ”
The middle-aged officer beside him said cautiously: "General, this can't be disobeyed......
"How about I drag?" Lang Jingye snorted coldly, "I won't say it, just take your time, drag him for a year or two, and in the end, it's not over."
"I still don't believe that the imperial court dares to do anything to me, and now tens of thousands of Ming troops in the entire Fujing are looking at us. If he dares to come hard, those guys will definitely make trouble in tandem, I think he will end up then?! ”
As he was talking, a guard came in to report, "General, some soldiers are asking if they want to go outside the camp to make a transfer, oh, the system." ”
"Spin a fart!" Lang Jingye said angrily, "Who the hell dares to go out of the camp, Lao Tzu cut him!" ”
Before he finished speaking, another horse hurriedly came, and when he was far away, he said in a loud and urgent voice: "General, general, it's not good, the imperial court has sent troops to block the north side of the camp, and the camp is being closed!" ”
Lang Jingye's tremors trembled when he heard this, and he hurriedly asked, "How many people are here?" ”
"About four or five thousand."
He turned to the adjutant general and said, "Order, the whole camp is on guard, I don't believe that four or five thousand people can do anything to me!" ”
The tanma continued: "General, looking at the banner and costumes, it seems that it is the Dragon Guard under the command of the auxiliary king." ”
Lang Jingye was stunned for a moment, but still said to himself: "Don't be afraid, the court will not dare to be rude." ”
Soon, however, there was the rumbling of cannonballs, and although no shells were seen, the thunderous sound was still terrifying.
The sergeants and soldiers of the Lang Jingye battalion were shocked by this momentum, and they all shrank under the wall with their blades, but they still exchanged heads and ears in the interval between the cannons.
"Eh, in fact, it's good that the imperial court is transforming the system. My stupid nephew only joined the army a few months ago, and recently became a police officer, and now he is paid a couple of dollars a month! ”
"I've also heard that I can go home after wandering the streets for a few hours with a knife on my shoulder, and then go back to the camp and sit for a few hours."
"Don't you have to fight?"
"a fart, at most it's to clean up the bastards in the city. You don't have to use your hands, as soon as the knife comes out, you will be scared. ”
"Is there such a good thing? But I don't know why the general stopped me from going? ”
"I heard that the people from the military department are outside the camp, go and order a mao, and they will be able to work in Anxi in a few days."
A burst of cannons interrupted their conversation, and several of them looked at each other and nodded in unison.
At the same time, the Propaganda Department began to publicize the transformation of the army near Anxi and Nan'an, and called on the families of the sergeants and soldiers of the Lang Jingye Battalion to visit the camp, and the imperial court allocated travel expenses.
But if someone in the family is a soldier in Lang Jingye, when they hear that the salary is overturned, and they don't have to stay in the barracks all day, they are all immediately moved.
In addition, if you can "travel at public expense", you will see you in two days, and tens of thousands of people will come to Lang Jingye's barracks, or strictly drink orders, or cry, in short, one request - hurry up to the military department to report, and turn into a police officer.
On the one hand, the cannon shook the ears, and on the other hand, the relatives cried, and the Lang Jingye camp was crowded as soon as it got dark, and more than a dozen or even dozens of people fled the camp together. In just two days, his troops were almost forty percent less!
And except for Lang Jingye's own more than 100 personal soldiers, even if he sent others out to stop the deserters, he didn't dare - often two groups of people disappeared without a trace.
After four or five days, Lang Jingye saw that he could no longer hold back the bullets, so he had to leave the camp by order and hand over the formalities with the officials of the military department. The sound of artillery outside the camp finally stopped.
Lang Jingye and more than 100 of his own soldiers remained in the village - the military department still ordered him to take up his original post and stay still. It's just that the camp is empty, but I don't know what kind of general he is.
Zhang Jiayu also asked people to carefully identify the soldiers of Lang Jingye's department, and those soldiers and ruffians were only given the dismissal silver and ordered them to return to their hometowns, and the rest were separated near Anxi to start police training.
Soon, the matter of Lang Jingye's side spread throughout Fujing, and at the same time, the Ministry of War announced that the army would be restructured throughout Fujing.