Valley Emperor

In the Ming Dynasty, it is not the cabinet bosses who are most in the limelight now, nor is it Wang Yiqi, who has the title of Prince Taibao and also serves as the minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, but Zhang Yue, the governor of the six provinces and the prince's shaobao.

And the reason why Zhang Yue is so arrogant is naturally not his high official position. After all, he is at best a frontier minister, and in the official system of the Ming Dynasty, it is the real boss who enters the cabinet.

The reason why Zhang Yue is so strong is that even Emperor Zhengde has to be patient and turn a blind eye to Zhang Yue. Naturally, it is because of the army under his command!

As the first person to imitate the pseudo-Tang thief army to establish a new army, and also the most successful person, Zhang Yue's superintendent had more than 60,000 people at his peak, and this was not all the army under his command.

In fact, the army under his command, in addition to supervising the standard, also trains troops in various places, and then there are local guards who are driven by him to work as workers and peasants.

Even in the last autumn and winter battles in Nanchang, Hengyang, and Changsha, which suffered heavy losses, Zhang Yue still had a large number of troops at that time. In the past few months, Zhang Yue used various means. He recruited troops from all over Sichuan, Huguang and Guangxi, recruited a large number of soldiers to supplement his supervising and training troops, and reconstructed the former supervising army and the right army that were almost wiped out in the first battles of Hengyang and Changsha, and supplemented the heavy losses. The Inspector's Rear Army.

By August, Zhang Yue's superintendent had actually recovered to the level of the same period last year, with a total force of about 50,000. However, there were a large number of recruits and a serious shortage of guns. After all, Zhang Yue's superintendent In fact, like the Datang Army, recruits are easy to replenish, but guns are more difficult to replenish.

In addition to restoring the supervising standard to 50,000 people, Zhang Yue also re-integrated the training troops in various places, and unified them into the Huguang training army. Following the example of the supervising standard, there are five armies in the front, rear, left and right, and the number of training troops is also A lot, more than 40,000 people.

The total strength is nearly 100,000 people, but more than half of the 100,000 recruits are recruits, and only 40,000 or 50,000 can be beaten.

However, the reason why Zhang Yue was able to support such a huge army after losing Hunan and Jiangxi, and Fujian was not under his jurisdiction for a long time, was naturally not because of how much money Emperor Zhengde gave him. In fact, during the four years of Xuanping , Emperor Zhengde gave Zhang Yue less than 500,000 taels of silver for the military, but to support the army at least a few million a year, where the money came, naturally Zhang Yue used various means to **** it from Sichuan, Hubei and other places.

Why is Zhang Yue able to recruit troops and collect military funds in Sichuan? Because now Zhang Yue is still the governor of the six provinces, but his dispatch is different from before.

His dispatch has already become the commander of the six provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Huguang, and Sichuan. In short, he replaced Fujian with Sichuan.

After all, although Emperor Zhengde guarded Zhang Yue, and Zhang Yue was always defeated, he directly lost northern Hunan and northern Jiangxi last autumn and winter, and lost more than 100,000 main troops and ordinary guards, but he did not admit it. , In the current Ming Dynasty, Zhang Yue is the only strongman who can fight against the pseudo-Tang bandit army.

The strongman mentioned here is not to say that Zhang Yue’s commanding and fighting level is so awesome. In fact, he is not a qualified general, and Zhang Yue himself has never personally commanded the troops to fight against the pseudo-Tang bandit army, but because he the ability of the military.

After all, Zhang Yue is still a civil official, a statesman, not a general. His strength is that he can continuously recruit troops, search for military expenses, and then train troops by various powerful means.

Without Zhang Yue on the side of Huguang, the pseudo-Tang thieves would have already arrived in northern Huguang and even Henan.

There is also Wang Yiqi who does almost the same job as Zhang Yue, but Wang Yiqi's means are far worse than Zhang Yue's. Relying on a prosperous Jiangnan, this day is still a miserable life, even a real one. The new army of China could not be trained, only the Jiangnan new army, which had been half-baked, could only be created.

However, Wang Yiqi can support the overall situation in Jiangnan, and this ability is naturally there, and this person and Zhang Yue have the same advantage, that is, fully delegate power to his subordinates, and do his best to provide support.

In the past year, in addition to training the Jiangnan New Army, Wang Yiqi invested a lot of money and grain to support Yu Dayou.

Fujian is now also the defense zone of Wang Yiqi. Although Yu Dayou said that he has the sword of Shangfang, in essence, he is still his subordinate to Wang Yiqi, and Wang Yiqi also attaches great importance to Yu Dayou's bandit army.

Fujian has been able to resist the pseudo-Tang thief army for more than two years, and Yu Dayou has contributed greatly, because in addition to using Nan'ao Island to contain the pseudo-Tang thief army, the Ming army can only rely on Yu Dayou's broken thief army to resist. As for the local guards in Fujian Soldiers, no one can count on that.

In the past two years, although the Ming Dynasty has still not abolished the guards on the surface, in fact, up to Zhengde, down to Zhang Yue, Wang Yiqi and others, they have quietly started to throw the guards aside to play with the new army.

Zhengde compiled and trained the new-style Beijing camp in the capital, and the new army of each province in Beizhili, Shandong, Henan and other provinces. Wang Yiqi compiled and trained the Jiangnan new army in Jiangnan, and Zhang Yue, not to mention Zhang Yue, in his regular army, basically There was no sign of the guards at the top.

During this process, although the guards still existed, they actually did not participate in the front-line battles. Except for a few elite soldiers who were recruited, the rest were farming in their respective guards, or It is to participate in some auxiliary military tasks, such as escorting baggage, assisting in defending the city, etc.

Among the many new troops compiled and trained, the most successful and strongest in combat was Zhang Yue's Superintendent, and the next was Yu Dayou's Bandit Army.

Although Yu Dayou's bandit army was not large, with less than 15,000 people up to now, the equipment was not bad, the guns were complete, and they even bought 9-jin heavy guns from foreigners.

In terms of equipment alone, it is actually almost the same as the Datang Army before the reorganization.

If it weren't for the Bandit Army, the Datang Army would have marched into Fujian long ago, and it would not have been delayed until now.

Even if it is now marching into Fujian, the Datang Army is cautious. The newly established Third Army is not weak, with one infantry division and two mixed regiments, with a total strength of more than 25,000 people.

At the same time, the Datang Army also coordinated with the Navy, and also requested the Navy to send a fleet to assist in the war.

Facing the many big moves of the pseudo-Tang bandit army, although Yu Dayou, who was in Fuzhou, did not know the detailed situation, he could guess that the pseudo-Tang bandit army was going to attack Fujian.

Therefore, he has frequently traveled to and from Zhangzhou, Shaowu, and Fuzhou in the recent period, just to urge the Ming army in various places to take precautions.

But even so, he didn't have much confidence in the upcoming battle. He had the same deep understanding of how strong the Pseudo-Tang Bandit Army was like other front-line generals.

The last time the puppet thieves of the Tang Dynasty attacked Zhangzhou, although he did not fight in person, but when he brought the army from Fuzhou to Zhangzhou, what he saw and saw made him deeply know that the current thieves of the puppet Tang army Stronger than the previous two years.

The pseudo-Tang thief army is getting stronger and stronger, which naturally makes him not have much confidence in the upcoming battle.

But at this time, he received a letter from Wang Yiqi again. Wang Yiqi said that the pressure on the front lines of Anqing and Jinling was huge, and the bandit army was frequently mobilized. Come to South Zhili to assist in defense.

But Yu Dayou is not stupid, and it is naturally seen from Wang Yiqi's superficial words that Wang Yiqi asked him to transfer his main force to Jiangnan. As for the poor and remote place in Fujian, he will leave it to the pseudo-Tang bandit army.

After all, Fujian is now a huge protruding part. Once the pseudo-Tang bandit army is killed from northern Fujian, it will be enough to surround the bandit army of more than 10,000 people and tens of thousands of guard soldiers in the huge encirclement of Fujian.

As Wang Yiqi's most important army, the Bandit Army was naturally unwilling to see the Bandit Army surrounded, and in the end it ended up in the same situation as the Ming Army in Hengyang and the Ming Army in Changsha, being surrounded and wiped out.

Wang Yiqi wanted Yu Dayou to lead the army back to defend Jiangnan, on the one hand, to be able to jump out of the encirclement, and on the other hand to keep Jiangnan.

When the two armies of Hengyang and Changsha were wiped out, let alone Zhang Yue, even Wang Yiqi, other important officials of the Ming Dynasty, and even the emperor Zhengde were deeply saddened by this. That was the real main force of 60,000 elites.

Although they don't know how much Zhang Yue spent to train the 60,000-strong army, they estimate that they don't have four or five million taels of silver, so don't expect to be able to train the 60,000-strong army. After all, Yu Dayou's army of thieves is small now Some, the equipment is a little worse, but it also cost millions of silver before and after.

Zhang Yue has a lot of capital, lost 60,000 main force, and has tens of thousands more, and after taking advantage of the spring and summer to relax, he trained tens of thousands in one breath, and Zhang Yue's ability, Wang Yiqi himself It is thought that it is impossible, or that it is impossible to do.

If Wang Yiqi is the same as Zhang Yue, and he doesn't care about the consequences at all~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Jiangnan's prosperous land can earn tens of millions of taels of silver to train the army, but does Wang Yiqi dare?

Dare not!

I really want to do this. It's nothing to be impeached by a hundred officials. It's nothing to endure the anger of people and gods. It's nothing to be hung on the pillar of shame for hundreds of thousands of years. Come on, the Ming Dynasty has completely crossed over!

You must know that Jiangnan was the stronghold of the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty. If you searched for money in the lair of these civil servants to support the army, wouldn’t this just be a direct search for the money of these civil servants and gentry, and this would cost them their lives.

If you really want to rush them, it is not impossible for these Jiangnan gentry and the civil service group behind them to collectively cast thieves.

For them, the Ming Dynasty can die, but the family wealth must be preserved, and this official still has to be!

The big deal is that I will pay taxes to the pseudo-Tang Dynasty, and I can still be an official in the pseudo-Tang Dynasty!

Why did Wang Yiqi make such a guess, because he knew that many people thought so!