Why is the number of people who can be transferred under the command of Zhang Guoxing, the general soldier of Shaanxi, not as large as the number of newly compiled Shaanxi Fubiao?

Because although Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty seemed to have a very large jurisdiction, including all the jurisdictions of the three provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia in later generations, at the same time, this seemingly huge Shaanxi was divided into many administrative and military blocks. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition to the governor of Shaanxi, there are also three governors, governors of Yansui, governors of Gansu, and five border towns of Gansu Town, Ningxia Town, Guyuan Town, Lintao Town, and Yansui Town.

After such a division of land piece by piece, the so-called Shaanxi governors could directly govern only the prefectures and counties of Guanzhong and Hanzhong in Shaanxi and Gannan in Gansu in later generations.

And the place under the jurisdiction of the commander-in-chief of the middle of Shaanxi Guanzhong was only the guard army and a small number of battalions in the middle of the Han Dynasty.

At present, Zhang Guoxing has served in the Shaanxi General Army for many years, although he has no great talent, and he does not have great achievements, but he is victorious and conscientious, and he has worked hard for so many years to maintain the situation of the Shaanxi army.

Therefore, after the original governor of Shaanxi was dismissed, Zhang Guoxing was able to continue to stay in office, and although Hong Chengchou wanted to start anew, he just moved him from Xi'an to Tongguan, and he was an honest obedience.

After the Shaanxi General Military Office moved to Tongguan, the soldiers of the former idle Zhongwei Guards in the former were also given a chance to be verified.

The guards and battalions who went to the front line of Tongguan with the team continued to be treated unchanged by their guards and battalions, and those who did not go to Tongguan Pass to receive inspection and reorganization within the time limit were cut down and removed, and there was only a sum of money and food left.

In the end, more than 11,000 people, including the young and strong, the old and weak, were counted and registered under the Tongguan Gate, which was counted and registered by Zhang Guoxing, the chief soldier, and Bai Yi, the deputy envoy of the Shaanxi military garrison.

And there are many of them who are impostors and scoundrels who eat mixed rice.

In this way, in May, it was not until Hong Chengchou's Shaanxi Fubiao recruitment was completed that Zhang Guoxing, the chief military officer guarding the middle of Shaanxi Guanzhong, really figured out for the first time how many men and horses he really had: after the old, weak, sick and disabled were assigned to several craftsmen as baggage battalions, the number of healthy soldiers who could shoot bows and arrows and carry knives into battle was only 5,000.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was far away in Beijing, also fully understood this situation in Hong Chengchou's secret twists.

In the previous life, some questions that were puzzled, such as the same inland guard battalion, the thieves in other places could be pacified quickly, and Shaanxi gathered so many border troops and guards, but the chaos became the last one, and even buried the entire Ming Dynasty, these questions are now considered to have preliminary answers.

But no matter what, now Emperor Chongzhen, who knows the historical trend, is still satisfied with the result of the relocation of the Shaanxi General Army's Yamen to Tongguan.

Just such a move can dissolve many complicated problems invisibly.

A considerable number of the hereditary guards who had lived in Xi'an City for generations, as well as the battalion soldiers whose homes were in Xi'an City, were unwilling to move to Tongguan and Wuguan to the south of Tongguan, Fengling Pass to the north and other remote places, and Hong Chengchou took this opportunity to relieve the swelling of the Shaanxi army guarding Guanzhong and Hannan.

As for the various empty salaries in it, after moving to Tongguan, it will naturally see the light and die.

In this way, even if there are only 5,000 capable soldiers left in the end, it is much better than the previous muddy account.

In the more than a year since Hong Chengchou took office in Shaanxi, although the chaotic situation in Shaanxi has continued, whether it is disaster relief or immigration, and the progress has not been very great, but in recruiting and training the standard battalion of the governor and in promoting the relocation of the Shaanxi General Military Office to Tongguan, the town has been quite effective, and the results have been remarkable.

This time, after Hong Chengchou rushed to Tongguan for a few days, he left the deputy envoy of the Shaanxi military garrison, who is now stationed in Tongguan, to lead the remaining troops to stay at the passes on the first line of Tongguan, and he led 7,000 Shaanxi troops to continue eastward and arrived in Shaanzhou the next day.

Under the contact and assistance of Yang Sichang, the deputy envoy of Henan's military garrison, who had been waiting here, the army replenished grain and grass in Shaanzhou, and then turned north from Shaanzhou, crossed the Yellow River in a pre-prepared boat, and smoothly entered Shanxi from Pinglu.

After Wang Jiayin and other thieves entered Shanxi, they first captured several county towns along the Yellow Line in Taiyuan Prefecture and Pingyang Prefecture, but after capturing Yongning Prefecture, they stopped the pace of rapid expansion and did not go south to capture the capital city of Pingyang Prefecture, that is, Linfen in later generations.

Therefore, although the prefectures and counties in the south of Binh Duong Province are rumored to be rumored and wealthy households continue to flee south, they are generally stable.

It is precisely for this reason that Hong Chengchou took the army to Pinglu, after a little rest, he led the troops to continue to the north to look for fighters, and on March 16 led the army into Wenxi County, where he finally heard the news that Li Banghua, the minister of military aircraft, had arrived in Lu'an Mansion, and immediately sent a messenger to Lu'an to exchange information.

At this point, the Zhulu army arranged by Emperor Chongzhen finally entered the territory of Shanxi in mid-March and arrived at the designated location.

After learning the news that the reinforcements from the north and south had been deployed, Li Banghua also relieved himself and quickly sent an envoy to order Hong Chengchou to send a forward to the capital of Pingyang Prefecture, and on the other hand ordered Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, Sun Chuanting, the governor of Yansui, and Zhang Xiao, the governor of Shanxi, to bring some of their generals to Lu'an Mansion before 21 March to discuss a strategy for suppressing bandits.

Before Li Banghua left Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen and the Military Aircraft Department had only one general idea on how to exterminate the thieves who flowed into Shanxi, that is, if they could be exterminated, then they would strive to exterminate them all, and if they could not be exterminated, they would never be allowed to continue to flow east or south, let alone cross the Taihang Mountains and enter the North Zhili or the Central Plains.

The meaning behind it is very clear, that is, it is best to be eliminated on the spot, and it is really impossible to eliminate them on the spot, and where they should come from and where they will go back, and implement the emperor's strategy of suppressing bandits all along, that is, to compress and drive westward with all their might.

Of course, this idea of Emperor Chongzhen and the Military Aircraft Department is only at the strategic level, as for how to arrange the layout tactically, how to exterminate the thieves who are now entrenched in the Luliang Mountains of western Shanxi, Li Banghua needs to make a decision only when he arrives in Shanxi.

Li Banghua of course agrees with the idea of the emperor and the military aircraft department, after all, he is also one of the decision-makers of this strategy, but the current situation is slightly different from when this decision was made.

By March and April, the Yellow River between Shanxi and Shanxi, that is, the Yellow River behind the thieves now, had thawed, and these thieves just wanted to flee back, and there was no way out.

In this case, there is only one strategic option left.

In addition, there is another situation, according to the report of Wang Guoliang, who is sitting in Fenzhou, tens of thousands of people in the state city of Yongning Prefecture, as well as several nearby counties captured by the thieves, have been looted, and a large number of people have been driven away by the thieves.

Now there are as many as 12 thieves entrenched in the vicinity of Luliang Mountain, and the total number of people should have exceeded 100,000.

At this time, the officers and troops gathered in Shanxi, even if they were all elites, could encircle the mountains and suppress them, and there were only 30,000 people in the full battle, after all, these passes in the east of Taiyuan Mansion, Liaozhou Mansion, Lu'an Mansion and Zezhou Mansion still need to be guarded by soldiers, and in this case, it is not easy to exterminate all these thieves?

Taiyuan and Lu'an are separated by a Qinzhou, which is only three or four days away from galloping across horses.

Wenxi is not much different from Lu'an, and the distance from Taiyuan to Lu'an.

The Minister of Military Aircraft who entered the Jin Governor ordered several governors to go to the Lu'an Shang Council to suppress the thieves, of course, these people did not dare to delay and hesitate, and after receiving the order, Zhang Xiao and Sun Chuanting set off from Taiyuan on the same day.

And Hong Chengchou arranged for the chief soldier Zhang Guoxing to lead his 3,000 soldiers and horses, and after going north to Linfen, the city of Pingyang Prefecture, he left his brother Hong Qiyin to assist Wang Chengen, and led the main force of Fubiao to garrison Wenxi.