Chapter 17 Wang Chonggu’s choice

When Zhou Mengchen was handling the Southwest affairs, the preparations for the Liaodong war were also in full swing.

This day in Liaoyang City.

Qi Jiguang, Wang Chonggu and Hu Zongxian sat opposite each other.

At this moment, Qi Jiguang, as the leader of the new generation of nobles, has the support of the chief minister, and not to mention the new military system, balancing the identities between civil and military. Of course, no matter how balanced it, it depends on the people's disc.

Ordinary people cannot support the four words of equality between civil and military officials. But Qi Jiguang is not an ordinary person.

Therefore, Zhou Mengchen appointed him as the chief general. He could really support this arsenal and be above the two civil officials.

Qi Jiguang said: "The ten battalions of southern troops have arrived one after another by sea. The cavalry of Heshuo Army has a total of five battalions, from Heshuo, and ten battalions of Beijing camps. Now there are also Shanhaiguan. Governor Wang, how about the warehouses in various places? Is it enough to supply the army?"

Wang Chonggu said: "Please give the lord some time."

Qi Jiguang said, "I'll give you some time, who's giving me some time? It's already spring. After the ice and snow melt, the army will come out of seclusion. It's only a month or two. You don't even understand the food and grass. Lord Wang, you are Mr. Yang. Actually, I don't want to make things difficult for you, but don't make things difficult for yourself. If you violate military law, even Mr. Yang may not be able to protect you. You have to think it through."

Wang Chonggu gritted his teeth and said, "Sir, please give me ten days, within ten days, everything will be clear."

Qi Jiguang said, "Ma Gui."

A general behind Qi Jiguang came out immediately, and it was Ma Gui. He said, "The last one is here."

Qi Jiguang said, "From what Governor Wang means, it means that you have encountered difficulties. If you bring your troops to the headquarters, you will temporarily be under the Governor Wang and listen to his orders."

Ma Gui immediately said, "Yes."

Qi Jiguang turned his head and said to Wang Chonggu, "That's the same thing, Brother Wang, don't miss yourself. Don't exchange your own life for others' lives."

Wang Chonggu let out a long sigh and said, "I know, I will die for the fellow Taoist who will not die." He sighed in his heart: "It's just that, I'm afraid I can't face Mr. Yang."

As it turns out, many times the centrists are inside and outside, not people.

This is how Wang Chongxian and nowadays are.

What Yang Bo wants is that both sides will make concessions. Isn’t it good to be harmonious and beautiful? By the way, it will cause the Liaodong generals to bleed heavily.

But why did the Liaodong generals never feel weak. They felt that if they make a fuss, they could take back their lives. Or, they used all their strength to resist. After all, some of theirs were attached to the Liaodong military power. If they were given up, their accumulation of generations would be gone.

Even the imperial court has not made any compensation.

This is something they cannot accept no matter what. Zhou Mengchen actually thought of giving these people some compensation, but after a little calculation, he gave up this idea. Because it is almost impossible to give a satisfactory compensation to the Liaodong general. Today, the Liaodong generals are almost the local emperors of Liaodong, and even the Liaodong governments are theirs.

Nothing can make up for such losses.

Since you are not satisfied with anything you do, you naturally don’t want them to be satisfied.

This is also the reason why Zhou Mengchen is so decisive in this matter. After all, it is a cost issue. Using a major case to wrap all these gates in and knock them out of dust is the lowest cost approach.

As for the accidental injury that happened under the collapse of the nest, it was not something Zhou Mengchen could think of.

Under such circumstances, Qi Jiguang followed Zhou Mengchen's will and was very rude to the Liaodong Army. After the Southern Army entered Liaodong, Qi Jiguang began to frequently inspect the army. Due to the lack of money, embezzlement of military pay, etc., they either removed or beheaded more than a dozen officials.

Qi Jiguang acted as if he wanted to force Liaodong generals to rebel.

This is actually Qi Jiguang's own judgment.

Although Qi Jiguang was very politically keen, he was essentially a soldier. So he often used the military method to solve problems. When he inspected the Liaodong Army, he immediately found that the Liaodong Army was not without troops that could be fought, but the number was too small. Only several battalions compiled by Yang Bo, as well as servants of the Liaodong Generals.

He finally judged through some means that the army that can be fought in Liaodong was about 50,000. Among the imperial court, there were more than 100,000. Not to mention that more than half of these troops were scattered in the hands of the generals. As their personal soldiers, each of them was only a few hundred people. Many of the tactics were not practiced. In other words, don’t expect these tens of thousands of troops to achieve strategic and tactical cooperation. It would be good if they could dominate a battlefield of hundreds, one or two thousand people, and no matter how many people were, they would have the flaws of being unable to cooperate.

This is also the configuration of the Mongolians who went south to tear the grass valley.

After Qi Jiguang figured it out, he regarded the Liaodong Army as a local chicken and a tile dog.

If both sides fight in battle, Qi Jiguang feels that he only needs one-third of the opponent's troops to defeat the opponent. By the way, the Liaodong cavalry, especially the cavalry team, have good combat effectiveness and need a battalion of Datong cavalry to cover up the battlefield.

This is still gathering, not to mention that these Liaodong troops are scattered all over the place.

Therefore, Qi Jiguang was more willing to let the Liaodong generals launch a rebellion and then quell it backhand. The matter will be over.

However, the Liaodong General is not a fool.

When I saw the southern army, there were muskets and cannons, and they marched like forests. Even when I was practicing, heavy rain suddenly came, and the military orders were constantly being ordered, and they were all shocked.

How could it be rebelled? How could it be that it could be rebelled?

However, they were reluctant to let them give up their family business. They naturally wanted to fight with literature rather than martial arts. At this time, the pressure was on Wang Chonggu's side.

Wang Chonggu followed Yang Bo's idea and softened his methods to the Liaodong generals. So the Liaodong generals felt that Wang Chonggu was not good, so he found a way to force Wang Chonggu to deal with Qi Jiguang.

Wang Chonggu had no choice.

After all, the governor of Liaodong was all under the garrison. In other words, Wang Chonggu's order was finally sent to the Liaodong generals. There were not no civil servants, but there were no county magistrates, and this level of grassroots officials. Wang Chonggu's government orders were superficial.

This is what Liaodong generals let Wang Chonggu know that Liaodong cannot live without them. It is absolutely impossible to leave them.

It also gave the Shanxi merchant lineage great benefits, asking Wang Chonggu to speak to them and face Qi Jiguang instead.

To be honest, Wang Chonggu had fought and killed people.

He didn't care about the Liaodong generals, he always cared about Yang Bo. But under this situation, as Qi Jiguang said, he could not exchange other people's lives for his own lives.

Before the army moved, food and grass would go first. The logistics matters were very complicated and I don’t know how many. Once there were problems with such a major event as the army went out of the frontier due to this matter, let the court see who would kill first?

Qi Jiguang had already shown that he would hold this shit basin on his head.

Wang Chonggu didn't want to wear this shit pot. He also wanted to enter the cabinet. After all, the current cabinet quota is Hanlin and Wuhanlin. If Wang Chonggu did a good job, he might not be able to enter the cabinet like Zhou Mengchen.

But if this thing is not done well, he may find it difficult to escape unscathed.

So a cold light flashed in Wang Chonggu's eyes, and he was about to start a killing. As for Yang Bo, he would wait until this level and explain it to him.

Qi Jiguang said, "Okay. By the way, Governor Wang asked the Liaodong Army to tell the people of the Liaodong Army that after February, they would like to bring their troops to Liaoyang. I want to review the three armies. Those who do not come will be dealt with military law. Those who have vacancies will be dealt with military law. Those who are not trained properly will be dealt with military law."

Wang Chonggu said in his heart: "This is clearly a way to let the Liaodong Army go up and down and die."

Among the Liaodong armies, there is no shortage, and the training standards of the other one can compare to the standards promulgated by the Ministry of War.

It seems to be the word death.

Actually, that's what Qi Jiguang thought.

Although he came to Liaodong to clean up the Liaodong army and go out to the frontier, as a general, he naturally refused to put the two things together. Nothing else, what a general was most worried about when he went to the battle was that his allies were unreliable or that there was chaos in the rear. So he felt that he would solve this matter before going to the battle.

It’s not that he didn’t give these paths of life, their paths of life were resignation.

The officers of the garrison were hereditary, but after a reform, Yang Bo had nothing changed in his heart, but the nominal officers of the battalion were not hereditary. They could resign.
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