"The new champion of the Beijing Division, Hou Wangdou, Li Chuang's striker was wiped out in the first battle, according to the letter newspaper, this champion Hou Ke is a fierce general, then it is like Lu Bu, Li Yuanba and other fierce generals in the book, so that a Daguan knife has the courage of ten thousand people."

In the city of Jizhen, at this time it was close to dawn, the chief military officer of Jizhen woke up early, Zhang Shixian was almost in danger, and the nine-sided important town of the Ming Dynasty was basically replaced by Chongzhen.

Because Chongzhen has a suspicious personality, but these people he trusts failed to give him enough returns, and the general soldiers of Datong surrendered to the enemy one by one, and Ningwu Guan Shou died in a bloody battle, showing heroism.

"Isn't it brave to be brave?"

Zhang Shixian felt very strange, Wang Dou was unheard of, this kind of character should not be unknown, after Jingshi has this fierce general, what will change?

Zhang Shixian's heart was also insufficient, and he also thought about surrendering, but he was a noble line, and his ancestor was Zhang Yu, the first hero of Jingnan, although he did not attack the British duke, but his own ability was also extraordinary, but he was helpless but useless.

This is out of the "checks and balances" in the mind of Emperor Chongzhen, the British public has few leading soldiers, and the prestige in the army is very high, and the general nobles are vacant in the Beijing camp, and they are rarely sent out of the city, Zhang Shixian is also rarely experienced, and he feels that his own ability has been delayed, and he naturally has the idea of surrendering, especially after the Ming Dynasty is crumbling, this feeling is even stronger!

As a noble family, especially the kind that is one of the best, the British public line is no worse than the Chang family and the Xu family who founded the country, especially as a martyr, in Beijing, it can be called the first in the strength of the nobles, and there are countless industries around Beijing.

Now it is divided into two branches, Zhang Shixian's vein was originally abandoned, and the main family naturally wants to survive with the Ming Dynasty.

After that, he must have let Zhang Shixian establish his own power alone, and make his own choice for the continuation of the Zhang family's bloodline, and the Zhang family's master also had a son-in-law who was sent to Jiangnan, but the family advocated that Broad & Bright should live and die with the Ming Jingshi and the emperor.

The importance of this carrier pigeon, Zhang Shixian understands very well, this is for fear that he will make a choice too early and fall into a situation of no return, in fact, this choice is also difficult to make, Zhang Shixian himself is also hesitating.

At this time, when he got up, it was dark, at this time, at most, it was the third watch, but he couldn't sleep, so he asked his soldiers to put on armor for him, and he wanted to go up to the city to see the direction of the capital.

Cleaned up quickly, the pro-soldier team quickly assembled, the Zhang family has countless children, all of whom have been trained, he was promoted to the chief soldier of Jizhen, and naturally he also has his own family, more than 200 people, plus some of his acquaintances, 500 people, this is where his confidence as the chief soldier of Jizhen lies.

In fact, Jizhen is not much now, there are more than 10,000 people, in fact, although the Ming Dynasty is in chaos, but it has not reached the point of real destruction, but it has fallen into financial difficulties, which has led to today's scene!

And Jizhen, as the first important town on the nine sides, has grown from the current 100,000 troops to only more than 10,000 people now, which starts with the Jizhou Incident that year.

The Jizhou Revolution in the 23rd year of Wanli was a complete political tragedy.

There are very few records of this incident in the official historical materials, only a few sentences have been recorded in the "Records of the Divine Sect", because it was still in the period of the three major expeditions to resist the Japanese and aid Korea, the historical materials of the Korean state are quite recorded.

"In October of the twenty-third year of Wanli, the anti-sea soldiers made noise by threatening double grains, and the governors, fu, and Taoist ministers of Jizhen arrested their advocates to correct the law, and the rest of the party drove back to the south.

In the Mingshenzong Dynasty, there were many mutinies, such as the Hangcheng Mutiny in the tenth year of Wanli, the Luoding Mutiny in Guangcheng in the eleventh year, the Shuchuan Jianwu Mutiny in the thirteenth year, the Xunyang Mutiny in the fifteenth year, the Ganshan Mutiny in the sixteenth year, the Yongchang Mutiny in Yunnan in the seventeenth year, and the soldiers in the Beijing camp even made trouble in the capital in the nineteenth year of Wanli.

The main body of this mutiny is the southern soldiers who guard the nine-sided town of Jizhen, that is, the elite of the Ming Dynasty, which is usually called the Qijia army, and the incident is very simple: on October 20, the 23rd year of Wanli, the southern soldiers of the three associations of Jizhen were agitated due to long-term arrears, and Wang Bao, the chief soldier of Jizhen, deceived them into booby-trapping in the martial arts field.

But the reasons for this are outrageous:

"Records of the Peace of the Two Dynasties": When the southern soldiers of Pyongyang withdrew, they did not give the royal reward to make noise in Shimen Village, and the general soldier Wang Bao had a small grudge with the southern soldiers, so he used radical changes to confuse the military gate, and 1,300 guards booby-trapped him.

"Chao Xuanzu Record": The Jianchang battalion transferred 3,000 southern soldiers to keep them in order to prepare for the urgency of the war, and in October, after being away from home for a long time, the money and food were not given, and they plotted to make trouble; Kills more than 3,300 people.

Not long ago, these heroes who were still dominating the battlefield were slaughtered en masse.

The number of Southern soldiers killed varies from a few hundred to more than 3,300 in various accounts, but clues can be inferred from some numbers after the soldiers of Jizhen.

When they went to the peninsula twice, the southern soldiers were the Ming Dynasty troops who gave the best impression to the military and the people of the peninsula. The Korean people praised the southern soldiers led by Wu Weizhong, and they had the best reputation in the Ming army in the DPRK, and they made outstanding achievements, and this was a meritorious army, and the generals who commanded the army, Wu Weizhong, Luo Shangzhi, and Wang Bidi, were called "the three battalion generals of the southern soldiers."

The southern soldiers of Jizhen are the conscription and Zhejiang soldiers under the command of Wu Weizhong's troops, and they have suffered losses after the expedition, but they are still full of soldiers, totaling more than 3,700 people.

Two years after the mutiny, the second anti-Japanese aid to Korea began, and the military department still sent Wu Weizhong to lead the southern soldiers into the Korean War of Resistance, but at this time there was a huge gap in the number of southern soldiers, less than 2,000, nearly half of the number of troops, and it was necessary to recruit another 1,800 people to make up the number; If we extrapolate against this number, the number of Yugoslav soldiers killed in the mutiny should be about this number.

The ostensible reason for this mutiny was mainly to "reward and gather" and "increase the monthly salary", that is, to ask for arrears and gather people to make trouble; During this period, the military salary and conscription system were generally eighteen taels per year, but the Eastern Expedition was a long-distance battle, which was different.

At that time, Song Yingchang, who was in charge of military affairs, doubled the military salary of the Southern Army, reaching about 40 taels a year, and when Song Yingchang was in office, he was implemented according to this standard, the problem was that he was dismissed before the Second War to Resist Japanese Aggression and Aid Korea, and when he was dismissed, the military salary was not all paid on schedule, which became a huge hidden danger.

The reason for the troubles of the southern soldiers is not all the reason for the arrears of military salaries, and the bounty that should be received during the first Pingwa war, after all, they all went desperately with their heads, and the battle was won, but the bounty promised in advance was delayed, which is of course chilling.

Song Yingchang gave preferential treatment to the soldiers of Pyongyang, which was good, and it could improve morale and stimulate combat effectiveness, but he did not do a good job in dealing with the aftermath when he left office, and Song Yingchang himself said in a letter to Wang Xijue, the first assistant of the cabinet: Pyongyang's first-level merits have not been rewarded, and the morale of the various armies seems to be inferior to the past.

There is a deeper reason behind this; Salary arrears are a common thing in the army, and it is not uncommon for soldiers to be dissatisfied and even make trouble, why are the southern soldiers who have made great contributions to the army slaughtered? This involved another problem: the north-south struggle in the Ming army.

In fact, most of the southern soldiers in Jizhen were recruited by Qi Jiguang from the Jiangnan generation, with a total of more than 20,000 people.

In the First Pingwei War, Wu Weizhong led more than 3,700 southern soldiers from Jizhen to participate in the battle, and his performance was outstanding and obvious to all.

The Koreans commented on the southern soldiers in the "Record of Joseon Seonjo": "The southern soldiers have always moved forward regardless of life and death, and Wu Weizhong's merit is the highest." ”

"The guerrilla Wu Weizhong led the southern soldiers to attack the Mid Peony Peak Cave, and his army fought with many casualties."

However, the commander Li Rusong is the soul of the Northern Army, and in the distribution of his military merits after the war, he is obviously biased towards the Northern Army, and presses the original Southern Army's military exploits on the head of the Northern Army, such as Pyongyang's "First Narrative" merit, which was Wu Weizhong's brave first climb, and in the end, it was attributed to Yang Yuan, the general of the Northern Army.

I have to say that Li Rusong's hand is not authentic, and Wang Bidi, the general of the southern soldiers, even directly reprimanded Li Rusong for being "unwise, unbelieving, and unkind", and the subordinates reprimanded the superiors in person, which can imagine the anger of the southern soldiers.

The southern soldiers were not treated fairly, and the rewards promised in advance were not in place, and the dispute between the northern and southern soldiers within the Ming army intensified, and after the battle of Bihuguan, Li Rusong was depressed and did not make further military moves, which was an important reason.

Why did Qi Jiguang deliberately transfer the southern soldiers to Jizhen back then, just to use this as an example to rectify the atmosphere of the northern soldiers, and to train the troops, the military discipline of the Qi family army is obvious to all, even in the expedition abroad later.

But Qi Jiguang did this, it will inevitably hurt the interests of some people, and at the same time cause contradictions between the northern and southern soldiers, when Qi Jiguang was there, his prestige was great, and it was not obvious, and after Qi Jiguang died, the Ming Dynasty no longer had such a famous general to suppress the formation, and the cracks caused by this dispute became bigger and bigger.

After the death of Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang, most of the successors were northerners, and after Song Yingchang, who supported the southern soldiers, was dismissed, the southern soldiers were even more lonely, no one spoke for them, and the promised salary was not known to anyone to ask for.

At this time, Wang Bao, the chief soldier of Jizhen, was also a northerner; Therefore, the outbreak of the Jizhen mutiny is an outbreak of regional contradictions between the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, in this mutiny, the southern soldiers who lack support were booby-trapped by the resentful northern officers, and then charged with rebellion, which is the truth of the facts.

However, if you dig deeper, this reflects the shortcomings of the military system and even the political system of the Ming Dynasty.

The military of the Ming Dynasty, from the beginning of the military household system to the subsequent recruitment system, developed to the late Wanli period, has been running more and more difficult, from the root, and closely related to finance, relying on Zhang Juzheng's reform for ten years, the treasury has been enriched, but the three major levies have not been restored.

"The emperor is not bad hungry soldiers", it is estimated that Wanli, who lives in the palace, has not heard of it, and Chongzhen should not have heard of it, it is they who continue to send "hungry soldiers", "hungry soldiers" have become "thief soldiers", and finally, Daming finally died in the hands of "hungry soldiers".

The change of Jizhen, in fact, can be regarded as a warning to Wanli and the Ming Empire, as the head of the nine-sided important town, Jizhen has such a thing, it must be which systems and which links have gone wrong, and if it continues like this, the Ming Empire is very dangerous!

It's a pity that Wanli and the ministers selectively ignored and ignored it, and even the culprit of this incident, Wang Bao, the chief soldier of Jizhen, was held accountable afterwards?

Nothing, Wang Bao then replaced Dong Yiyuan to guard Liaodong, died in office, and was given the governor of Zuo after his death.

The soldiers of the southern army had just returned from an expedition for the country half a year ago, made a name for themselves in a foreign land, and bravely took the lead in the war, but these soldiers did not die on the battlefield, but were booby-trapped and killed in the station, how sad!

As a result, the soldiers have no will to fight, because this north-south dispute is a battle between the upper echelons, and how can the lower-level soldiers divide the north and the south? This is an extension of the Ming Dynasty cabinet struggle, and it is also a continuation of the party struggle, but the consequences are borne by the grassroots soldiers of the Ming army.

Therefore, after the Jizhen Incident, Qi Jiguang spent sixteen years, and the defense line that he had painstakingly built soon lost its effect, and more than 30 years after the Jizhen Incident, Dongnu drove straight in, and the important towns in the north of the Ming Dynasty were vulnerable, and they seemed to have lost their barrier effect, leaving only side walls.

Such a Ming Dynasty, no wonder it will die, this is the twenty-third year of Wanli, it has been forty-nine years, if it is not for Yang Yili to save the sky, then today, it will be the time of the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

And Zhang Shixian, a child of a family, also died in an unaware crisis; Even if he wanted to take refuge in Dashun, however, Liu Zongmin would not allow any stain on his last glorious battle, in the city, everyone else could surrender, but Zhang Shixian was sure to die!

He didn't know this, and he probably didn't have to experience it again, because at this time, he did not sleep in the mansion, but ordered his troops to go to the city, this kind of accident was not expected by many people.

Liu Zongmin came too quickly, you know, he actually arrived with the carrier pigeon domesticated by the Zhang family, and if there was no Yang Yi to intervene, the forward army led by Li Guo should have been unharmed, and the Zhang family therefore had no hope, so naturally they would not have sent a message to Zhang Shixian.

However, Wang Dou attacked Li Chuangjun's forward camp at night, and the Beijing camp ambushed all the troops to disperse Li Chuangjun's forward, this is where the hope lies, so he naturally has to send a message to Zhang Shixian and ask him to wait.

Since Zhang Shixian took office, he has been figured out by the family in the city, knowing that he does not have the habit of patrolling at night, so he swaggered and gathered the family on the street, ready to open the city gate and meet the king!

However, at this time, the general soldier's yamen was opened, the torches were lit, and it happened to meet these people!

Zhang Shixian was also stunned, he was in a hurry, and immediately shouted: "Enemy attack!" Kill! ”。

He took someone to rush into battle in person, fortunately he was wearing armor, if he didn't have armor, he probably wouldn't dare to take the lead in rushing to kill, in this era of cold weapons, armor or no armor, the difference in force is very big.

The general is brave, and his family soldiers are naturally not lagging behind, although the armor and weapons are not as sophisticated as Zhang Shixian, but they are not ordinary, at this time, they rushed up and achieved outstanding results!