Time is not waiting for me, but also to seek merit, with Ma Gui as the main general, Xiao Ruxun as the deputy general of the 5,000 Ming army in the rectification of a day after the joint attack, Xiao Ruxun left Chen Xie to lead 500 soldiers to stay in Pingyu City to supervise the city wall, and his wife Caiyun said goodbye. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Because Xiao Ruxun's department is extremely good at using firearms to fight, Ma Gui is the main general, and all the scattered bird guns and Franc machine guns are handed over to Xiao Ruxun's department to form a "firearms battalion", which is commanded by Xiao Ruxun to enhance the firepower of the army.

All the soldiers in General Xiao Ruxun who could use the bird gun were combined to form a 700-person bird gun team and a 300-person vehicle artillery team, and the 1,000-person firearms battalion was completed, becoming the absolute trump card of the 5,000-person Ming army attacking the town of Ningxia this time.

According to everyone's joint analysis, Xiao Ruxun believes that Bibai will distribute the main force of the army in the area of Yuquan, Mingsha Prefecture, Lingzhou and confront the main force of Wei Xuezeng's department, and the troops in hand are tight, and the loss of the previous 9,000 people is extremely great.

In order to keep the battle situation secret, Xiao Ruxun did not send someone to inform Wei Xuezeng of this operation.

The army set off at dawn, marched towards the location of Ningxia Zhencheng, the first day all the way was smooth, except for the forward enemy sentry cavalry killed a few lone rebel defeated soldiers, there was no formed rebel army, until the next day, when the army marched nearly 100 miles, the sentry cavalry returned, met the rebels occupied by Yaofu Fort, Ma Gui immediately decided to attack the city, by the way grabbed a few tongues to ask the rebels about the situation, looking for a breakthrough.

Ma Gui arranged for the Ming army to take advantage of the dark night, suddenly dispatched, besieged the city on all sides, and did not use firearms, so as not to shake the rest of the rebels, after an hour of raid battle, this small castle guarded by only three or four hundred people was successfully breached, the Ming army suffered very little losses, and the resistance of the rebels was also very weak, almost after the Ming army went to the city, they knelt on the ground and begged for mercy and did not dare to fight again.

Ma Gui tied up the commander of this castle, one by one, brought it to himself, and Xiao Ruxun Xiao Ruhui interrogated together, this always cried bitterly and said that he did not want to be a thief, but he was a thief from the garrison, his parents and family were all taken away by the rebels to Ningxia City as a threat, forcing them to do things for the rebels, for the lives of their families, they had to be thieves, now that the official army is here, it means that the counterinsurgency is smooth, they dare not resist, and they are willing to make a mistake and tell the officials and soldiers everything they know.

Xiao Ruxun and Ma Gui looked at each other and nodded together, so Xiao Ruxun said: "As long as you honestly tell us everything you know, we will naturally not embarrass you, and we will try our best to save your family for you. ”

The general immediately kowtowed and expressed his willingness to make amends for his crimes, and was willing to take a hundred brothers to quell the rebellion with the army, and then to kill or listen to the respect, and only asked the general to forgive his family and not cause harm.

Magui agreed.

According to this general said, the specific situation of the 47 forts in Hexi that they know is almost the same, and there are 500 to 3,000 garrisons on the surface, but in fact, the situation of officers eating empty salaries over the years is quite serious, and the army of Taizu's old system is divided into two garrisons and eight points of tuntian, and the garrison is combined, and the soldiers are in the peasants, Taizu once proudly declared that "I raise millions of soldiers, and do not consume a grain of rice and grain for the people", but the reality is that after Chengzu, the military system is becoming more and more erosive, and the officers of the generals rely on their power to privately swallow the military land. There are also local powerful people who collude with garrison officers to occupy military land, and the benefits are evenly distributed.

Therefore, the tuntian system on the entire border has existed in name only, and the number of military households in various places has been serious, and there are still six or seven percent of the better ones, and in some areas where the number of people fleeing is huge, there are actually only two or three percent of the troops defending, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined, so the reason why the 47th Fort in Hexi surrendered so quickly without fighting is not that they don't want to fight, but that they can't fight at all, and there are only three or five hundred old and weak soldiers in the castle, and even some castles are only defended by dozens of veterans, and they can't talk about defending the city at all, and they can't even close the city gate and are directly breached.

Ma Gui was very angry when he heard this, and angrily accused the corrupt officers of being strong and harmful, and Xiao Ruxun and Xiao Ruhui glanced at each other, and the meaning couldn't be clearer.

The Ma family has always been squeezed out of the edge by the nine sides, not taken seriously, Gai Qi is not from the Han people, and the Xiao family is well versed in the truth, although it has not done anything hurtful, but to say that the Xiao family did not benefit from it, it is too high to look at the Xiao family, of course, this point is very clear to the nine side generals, and the sharp decline in the combat effectiveness of the military household is due to the system, not human power can be recovered, the nine sides of the slightly elite army are recruited, and it is an open secret that the door recruits private soldiers to guard.

In order to occupy the military field and profit from it, the gate will eat empty salaries on a large scale, and then those who are a little ambitious and a little responsible will recruit private soldiers to enhance their strength, and those who are irresponsible and just want to live a mess will simply lie in the money bag and eat empty salaries.

The civil officials came to cover up the imperial history, or simply bribed it, and everyone knew it very well, so they kept the emperor Lao Tzu in the dark, and the generals and troops who dared to resist were getting fewer and fewer, and the Mongols who were beaten by the army in the early Ming Dynasty never appeared again, and the situation of being suppressed appeared again.

It's just that Xiao Ruxun didn't expect that the land west of the river, the border of the country, such an important Ningxia town, was taken down by Bibai so easily, it turned out that this is the reason, they actually stretched out their hands to the strategic place at the most edge of the country! The Ming Dynasty's abandonment of the Hetao is already a strategic move, if Ningxia loses again, it will once again reproduce the situation of erosion in the northwest of the Northern Song Dynasty!

In the face of the surging tide of rebels, those nominal garrisons could not resist at all, and they did not want to die, so they could only surrender, and were forced to take their own private soldiers to follow the thieves, and then left their deputies to guard the city.

Xiao Ruxun persuaded Ma Gui in anger, and persuaded him to take the counterinsurgency as the first priority, and talk about the rest later.

"If this situation is not contained, Ningxia Town will be in vain! How can I turn a blind eye?! ”

Magui's sense of justice is bursting.

Xiao Ruxun smiled helplessly, and said: "The nine-sided general door is not to say that it is the same qi and branches, at least it is also a grasshopper on a rope, and if you move a ring, you will not be without a backer, and the involvement is too wide, you and I can't do anything at all, even so, don't be too ambitious, first put down the rebellion, make war achievements, improve the official position and status, and then think about something else." ”

Ma Gui thought for a long time, shook his head helplessly and sighed, and agreed to Xiao Ruxun.

The three of them discussed, the main force of the rebels is all on the front line and the main force of the Ming army is confronted, and the rear defense is almost zero, so our army can completely smash the rebels' nest, raid Ningxia Zhencheng, completely disrupt the strategic deployment of the rebels, and give the rebels a great psychological deterrent.

The three of them maintained a high degree of unanimity, so Ma Gui ordered, regardless of these forts, directly rush to the direction of Ningxia Zhencheng, and attack the fortress directly.

The surrendered man stood up and said that he had many friends and comrades in the Forty-Seven Forts, and was willing to persuade them to take the initiative to open the city anyway and atone for their sins.

Next, the two-day forced march began, under the leadership of Ma Gui and Xiao Ruxun, the Ming army of five thousand people who were full of food and drink and nourished their spirits began to march forcibly, all the way to the west, two days all the way to meet more than ten fortresses, several of them were the arrival of the army, the city guards saw the situation and took the initiative to open the city, Ma Gao persuaded the eight castles to take the initiative to open the city, Ma Gui did not even bring the army to them to open the city anyway, and then joined the counterinsurgency force to atone for the crime, all the way down, there are more than 500 more than 500 anyway troops in the army, Together, they were incorporated into the vanguard army.

Along the way, Xiao Ruxun actually found that he did not encounter a main force of the rebel army, and he was completely beaten down all the way, without encountering any obstacles, it is enough to imagine how unpopular this rebellion is, if it is popular, their progress will definitely not be so fast, but before, the progress of the rebels is also very fast, it is enough to imagine that the Ming Court has no loyal courtiers here, just to see whose fist is big, as long as the object is not the Mongols, then it seems that following the rebels is not a fatal thing.

The death of the Ming Dynasty is really in Wanli, this is true, but the deeper things are difficult to change, just like in 1997, the bamboo in Europe all bloomed and died overnight, not for any other reason, but its mother is from Hubei, China in 1907, since the moment of birth, it has been doomed to perish, no matter how many plants are reproduced, they will die at the same moment, Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, will also think of this?

Xiao Ruxun felt that Zhu Yuanzhang must have not expected it, otherwise Zhu Yuanzhang would not have killed all the heroes and would have left Zhu Yunwen with a rattan whip without thorns, nor would he have thought that his strong sons would not rebel against the young and weak little grandchildren he loved, let alone indulge his descendants to become the biggest social tumor of the Ming generation, almost sucking the blood of the Ming Dynasty.

Now, this world has fallen into the routine of hiding needles in civil officials.

How to save this giant who is sick from the bottom of his lungs and is only one step away from being terminally ill?

Xiao Ruxun's Daming plot is too heavy, and he is a little confused.