Chapter 400: Yi Sun-shin’s Choice
The team that Yi Sun-Shin and Kinoshita Tokichiro belonged to was originally supposed to suppress bandits in the Huaibei area.
At the beginning, the soldiers in the company were somewhat resistant to the two aliens.
However, Yi Sun-shin spoke Chinese very well, and he had read military books. He quickly stood out among the company. He repeatedly suggested that the company commander formulate combat plans, and soon gained everyone's recognition in the company.
Kinoshita Tokichiro, on the other hand, relied on his bravery in battle and was the first to charge in every battle, and gained recognition in the company.
When their company was chasing a group of gangsters, they crossed the border between South Zhili and Shandong and pursued them into Shandong.
The team of Yi Sun-shin and Kinoshita Tokichiro lost contact with the company during another night attack.
According to the system of the Southeast New Army, only the company commander will be issued all combat maps.
At this moment, Yi Sun-shin, Kinoshita Tokichiro, and thirteen Han soldiers were separated from their company. They had no map in their hands and were completely lost in Shandong.
Yi Sunchen had given advice to the company commander and had seen the battle map. Although he could not remember the details, he led the team all the way south and prepared to return to South Zhili, but was intercepted by the Ming court's army.
However, this was not the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, but a group of Qianhu named He Shouzhong from Yanzhou Prefecture in Shandong Province, who led his own "housekeepers" to train.
Today, the Ming Dynasty's army in Shandong, apart from the new armies of the three towns, the rest are the military guards from all over Shandong, as well as the Qinwang army formed by some military tycoons themselves.
Within the Ming court system, these military tycoons, also known as generals, had their status suppressed by civil servants after the Tumubao Incident.
But this does not mean that these generals have no power. On the contrary, in the dual civil and military system of the Ming Dynasty, generals also have their own unique status.
The characteristics of generals inherited from generation to generation allowed them to form a stable military aristocratic force.
These generals have been rooted in the local area for a long time and are often officers from a certain guard post or command post. They are rich and well-connected, just like the Yu family in Nanping, who have accumulated wealth and status.
As for the Ming court's attitude towards generals, in terms of their personal future, generals could not segregate vassal towns like the warriors of the Tang Dynasty, but they were not completely powerless like the generals of the Song Dynasty.
For example, in the matter of self-recruitment for regiment training, the Ming court would often immediately confirm the recruitment of soldiers by the generals to fight, and would give officers and nobles to the generals who led the troops to serve the king, and recognized their army as a regular army.
Every time something happened on the border, a large number of generals' sons would lead their servants and private soldiers from their hometowns to the capital to serve the emperor. The emperor would also grant them corresponding positions. Even if they did not encounter a battle, they would be rewarded or simply enlisted. Join the regular army.
As for the civil servants and gentry recruiting soldiers and organizing regiment training, the Ming court's attitude was much more defensive.
For example, during the Japanese Rebellion in Nanzhili, the number one scholar Shen Kun was in Dingyou, his hometown in Huai'an. When he saw the Japanese pirates everywhere, he spent all his wealth to organize local soldiers to fight. However, after the Japanese rebellion was put down, Shen Kun was quickly framed and captured by the Jinyi Guards. He was arrested and taken to the capital to be executed.
When Su Ze was able to recruit troops during the early uprising, he relied on being affiliated with Fuzhou Bosi Yamen and Fang Wanghai's Chaoguan Hall.
The Ming court did not worry about generals recruiting troops to fight. Even if Li Chengliang had thousands of servants under his command, the Ming court would entrust his servants with important tasks and even bear military expenses for his servants.
However, if civil servants or gentry recruit troops, they will be suspected of seeking to establish local separatist regimes, and they will often strike hard and severely.
For a long time, a system has been formed in which generals send generals and troops, and gentry provide money and people to control the situation.
Shandong was originally full of guard posts. For example, Qi Jiguang was from Shandong. He was the guard post of Jining Prefecture and was born in thousands of families. After winning the martial arts examination, he began to bring his own dry food to fight against the Japanese, and was then appointed as a participating general.
The same is true for He Shouzhong. His family is a hereditary family of Renchengwei in Yanzhou Prefecture. His family has thousands of acres of fertile land. He has liked to make friends with heroes in Shandong since he was a child.
After the uprising in the southeast, He Shouzhong also sensed that chaos was about to break out and immediately began to recruit troops.
Once Xuzhou was lost, Shandong became the front line of the tug-of-war with the Southeast. The prefect of Yanzhou even directly allocated money to He Shouzhong, asking him to expand the number of regiment training members and defend Yanzhou Prefecture.
He Shouzhong has more than 500 local warriors under his command. The backbone of these people are the servants he has befriended and raised. Their combat effectiveness is not as good as the new troops in the three towns, but they are much stronger than the guardsmen.
Like Li Chengliang's attitude, these soldiers were He Shouzhong's treasures, so He Shouzhong bought them blunderbuss and trained them to use them in combat.
Li Sunchen's company was ambushed by He Shouzhong's troops after entering Shandong.
After most of Yi Sunchen's team and company were separated, they were continued to be intercepted by He Shouzhong, and they were unable to return directly south to Nanzhili.
If Kinoshita Tokichiro hadn't been alert and discovered the ambush in the mountains, their entire army might have been destroyed.
The road going south was impassable, so Yi Sun-shin called a meeting with his team to discuss how to return to South Zhili.
The other Han soldiers in the squad were also new recruits, and Yi Sun-shin was leading the squad during this period. Everyone gathered around the bonfire and looked at Yi Sun-shin, their morale was a little low.
At this time, Kinoshita Tokichiro, who was in charge of the investigation, emerged from the woods. He said to Yi Sun-shin, "
Mr. Lee, there is a big city in the north. Are we going the wrong way?"
Yi Sun-shin was drawing a map on the ground. He started to say: "How far is the big city from here?"
"About ten miles."
"That's right, that big city should be Jining Prefecture City."
"What?"
Everyone took a breath, The Ming Dynasty had stationed three new armies in the city of Jinan Prefecture, and naturally such important information could not be hidden from the southeastern intelligence network.
Although Yi Sun-shin and others were grassroots soldiers, the combat meetings of the Southeast New Army were held at the company level, and major enemy intelligence was communicated to grassroots soldiers.
Let the soldiers know why they are fighting, and let them think about how to fight, instead of using deceptive methods to send soldiers to death. This is why the grassroots of the Southeast Army have more subjective initiative than the Ming Dynasty army.
Jining Prefecture City is only a dozen miles away from me. The soldiers of the Southeast New Army are also human beings, so they will naturally be afraid.
Yi Sun-shin stood up and everyone looked at him.
During this time, Yi Sun-shin has gained the trust of the team and became the team leader.
Seeing that he was about to speak, everyone shut their mouths.
"The big city along the canal should be Jining Prefecture City. The south direction has been blocked by the Ming army, so now we have to go north, bypass Jining Prefecture City, and continue north along the Grand Canal." "Go north
. ?"
Everyone looked at Yi Sun-shin and thought he was crazy.
Yi Sunchen said: "Now there are Ming troops between Shandong and Nanzhili, and the Ming troops are clearing the country. There is no way for us to pass."
Now Yi Sunchen suspected that the bandits his company was chasing were Ming soldiers pretending to be soldiers. , deliberately led them into the encirclement of Shandong.
Mingting and Southeast had fought many times, so they naturally knew that Southeast's penetration tactics were powerful.
Now the entire border line is blocked, business travel is cut off, and even people living in southern Shandong are forcibly moved to other areas of Shandong.
In such a no-man's land, if you try to break in, you will definitely be discovered.
Yi Sun-shin said: "To the north, we don't have a map, but as long as we follow the canal, we can get to Tianjin. We have a bastion and a dock in Dagu in the southeast. As long as we reach Dagu, we can take a boat back to the southeast." Tianjin
?
When everyone heard the news, they immediately despaired. How far it was from southern Shandong to Tianjin!
But Yi Sun-shin was right. Their team had no map, and it was impossible to circumvent the Ming army's blockade.
Shandong is a province in the Gyeonggi Province, and there was a Japanese rebellion for a while, but it was quickly put down, and there has been no disaster in these years.
The Ming court's prestige in Shandong had not been lost. Several times, small teams went to nearby villages to inquire about the situation, but the gentry in the villages reported it to the government.
In the historical timeline before Su Ze's time travel, the late Ming Dynasty was so rebellious. After the Qing army entered the customs, the resistance in Shandong has been fierce. Rebels have always resisted, and many people even fled across the sea to the Qing court in Liaodong. Go to your lair to start an uprising.
In addition, Shandong is also a place where the gentry is powerful. Shandong has the highest number of officials in the country. Shandong's generals are also the most enthusiastic about recruiting troops and training.
This makes the team difficult to move in Shandong.
Without a map, I could only walk north along the canal. Thinking about it carefully, it seems that Yi Sun-shin's suggestion is not so outrageous.
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