Please ask me to be the emperor

From Nanyang Fucheng to Ruzhou, you need to pass through Nanzhao County, pass through Luyang Pass and reach Lushan County. It takes more than 300 miles to reach Ruzhou.

Originally, based on the normal speed of the Ming army infantry, which was fifty miles per day and three hundred and fifty miles per day, the total distance was seven days. Lu Xiangsheng took the white horse frost knife and arrived at the place after traveling for five days.

When he arrived at the place, Lu Xiangsheng ignored the fatigue of the troops and quickly met with Henan Bingbeidao who came to visit.

There is a Ruzhou Guard in Ruzhou, which is also the station of Henan Bingbei Road. The full name of Henan Bingbei Road is Fenxun Henan and Bingbei Road, which governs one prefecture, two prefectures and seventeen counties. Namely: Henan Prefecture, Shaanxi Province, and Ruzhou, three important places.

The chief officer of the Henan Bingbei Road met Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Yunyang. After the two parties sat down to greet each other, they ignored the greetings and quickly asked: "My surname is Wei, my name is Jie, my cousin is Yingzhi, I have seen the army."

"Now that thieves are rampant, the army and the people are in panic. Fortunately, the military gate has come, and I feel at ease. But I don't know how many troops the military gate will come to lead this time? What's the solution?"

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he couldn't help but frowned and asked, "What's the situation in Ruzhou now? Let me listen to you!"

When Wei Yingzhi heard this, he couldn't help but exclaimed: "From here to Song County and Lu's in the west, from here to Luoyang and Dengfeng in the north, from here to east Yuzhou and Xuzhou, looking around on three sides, they are all thieves!"

Lu Xiangsheng was immediately shocked. Is Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, cheating on his father? You agreed to let me come over to help you suppress bandits, but instead you suppressed more and more bandits. Bandits were everywhere in Henan. What the hell is going on?

In fact, Hong Chengchou was not to blame for this matter. He also followed the order of the Ministry of War and bumped into him in a daze. After arriving in Henan, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, just surrounded Luoyang City desperately and did not understand the current situation in Henan.

Xuan Mo, the governor of Henan who was the only one who understood the situation in Henan, unexpectedly died in battle. This led everyone to think that the bandits were only in Luoyang, but they did not expect that the land in western Henan was already full of wandering bandits.

Lu Xiangsheng listened to Wei Yingzhi, the Henan military commander, for a long time before he "understood" what was going on. It turns out that Wei Yingzhi didn't know much about it. He only knew that Song County was a branch of the "Shun bandits", the other Lu families and Dengfeng were bandits and miners, and Yuzhou and Xuzhou were just bandits.

Lu Xiangsheng stroked his beautiful beard and couldn't help but replied with a sad face: "I have 500 pacesetters and 600 rough soldiers under my command, a total of 1,100 troops. I wonder how many troops can be mobilized under the rule of Henan Bingbeidao?"

When Wei Yingzhi heard this, he couldn't help but slap his thigh with a grimace on his face, "Why the hell are you here to kill me?" There are only 1,100 people, but you dare to come here. I don’t know whether I should praise you for being brave or laugh at you for being reckless!

The first level of officialdom suppresses people to death. Although the governor of Yunyang is not his direct superior, now is the time to use troops, and Wei Yingzhi of the Henan Army Preparation Department cannot offend this person.

He had no choice but to smile bitterly and said: "Under my rule, there were Henan Guard, Hongnong Guard, Ruzhou Guard, Song County Guards for Thousand Households, Yongning Guards for Hundred Households, and Lu Family Guards for Hundred Households, a total of three guards. One thousand households, two hundred households, and 16 inspection departments.”

"Among them are 4,079 strong soldiers and 515 archers. In fact, after excluding the guards from various places and eliminating the old, weak, sick and disabled, there are only 1,050 available soldiers. Thirteen people.”

"There are only these 1,053 people who have to guard the Ersang Pass in the north and the Yuzhou and Xuzhou bandits in the east! There are even Song County thieves looking at me, so I will have trouble sleeping and eating in the morning and evening!"

"However, we have no skills to defend ourselves, so we have to mobilize some 127 archers to guard the Inspection Department of Shangdian Town. There are only 300 soldiers in the city, and the rest are supported by recruiting common people to patrol the city day and night!"

A bad premonition arose in Lu Xiangsheng's heart, and he quickly asked: "I wonder how many thieves there are in Song County?"

"I really don't know!" Wei Yingzhi replied confidently, "I just heard that there were originally 'intruders' in Song County who surrendered five hundred troops, and when the 'submissive thieves' arrived, they all surrendered to him."

"Later, Xuanmo, the governor of Henan Province, led his troops back east. Sixty-seven thousand soldiers passed by Song County and wanted to capture it. They then attacked for two days, but they couldn't defeat it. , I don’t want to be defeated!”

Headache! Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but rub his temples. He never imagined that the Ming Dynasty would be corrupted to such an extent.

When he was in Daming Mansion, he also trained 1,200 pacesetters, horsemen and infantry, and they were named "Tianxiong Army". As a result, the war was urgent and he went to Yunyang alone before he could lead the troops.

When he arrived in Yunyang, he discovered that although Yunyang City was called a prefectural city, it was actually just a dilapidated county town. Under Yunyang's rule, there were only five hundred soldiers who were old and weak, and they were all useless. However, if you leave Yunyang Fucheng, you will see mountains everywhere and thieves in the mountains.

Lu Xiangsheng, relying on his strong martial arts skills, left Yunyang City and galloped along. The road was full of barren rocks and valleys. There was no smoke or human traces for hundreds of miles.

Occasionally, one or two dove-shaped men in ragged clothes appeared above the rock caves in mid-air. They were also searching for grass roots and bark to eat. When they saw the officers and soldiers from a distance, they were immediately frightened and hid in all directions.

Lu Xiangsheng, who has been in a prosperous place for a long time, couldn't help but burst into tears when he saw this. For two months after taking office, Lu Xiangsheng spent every day in the deep mountains and valleys, thousands of miles away in an uninhabited land, eating and living with soldiers and servants, vowing to make great achievements.

With great difficulty, he begged here and there to borrow food and wages, and he was able to recruit 500 new soldiers and 600 raw soldiers, barely stabilizing the situation in Yunyang.

Yunyang is located between the Jingxiang mountains, so it is understandable that it would be so difficult. But he never expected that the vast and fertile land of the Central Plains would be so corrupted.

He wants money but no money, he wants wages but no wages, he wants soldiers but no soldiers. Even though he, Lu Xiangsheng, has great abilities, how many people can he kill with just one sword?

The two of them looked at each other for a long time, and Lu Xiangsheng suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He seemed to think of something, but he seemed to think of nothing at all. He couldn't help but ask Wei Yingzhi: "What did you just say?"

"Surrounded by mountains on three sides, there are thieves on three sides!" Wei Yingzhi said with some frustration.

"No, those last few sentences!" Lu Xiangsheng asked thoughtfully.

"Xuanmo, the governor of Henan, led his troops back eastward." Wei Yingzhi didn't know why, so he recounted it again.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he started, Lu Xiangsheng slapped his thigh and said, "Here! That's exactly what he said. Although Xuan Mo, the governor of Henan, died in the battle, where were his men and horses?"

Wei Yingzhi of Henan Bingdao couldn't help but his eyes lit up when he heard this, and he couldn't help but said with great joy: "Yes, why didn't I think of that! The army has a good plan. There are four or five generals under the governor's command, Zuo Liangyu, Li Bei and Ni Chong. Thousands of troops should stay in Kaifeng Mansion. Either follow Daliang's army to prepare the road, or follow Sui and Chen's army to prepare the road, there is no other place to go!"

"Okay!" Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but suddenly became enlightened and couldn't help but laughed, "I'll write a handwritten letter here and send someone to the Daliang Bingbei Road and Sui Chen Bingbei Road, with the Changping Commander-in-Chief Zuo Liangyu and Ni Chong, the commander-in-chief of the Beijing camp, and Li Bei, the deputy commander-in-chief, led their troops to see me!"