Chapter 197 Drag and Drag

Wu Yong personally entered the city of Pingyang Mansion before the New Year. All the generals were ordered to come to Pingyang Mansion to wait for Wu Jing's dispatch. This time, because Hong Chengchou's affairs in Shaanxi were not over, he could not spare his hands to come to Shanxi to deal with Xing Tianjun, so he sent two elite soldiers, He Renlong and Zuo Guangxian, to Shanxi to cooperate with Wu Yong. Insupy the Xing Tianjun.

And Wu Yong was ordered to make great efforts this time. He mobilized a large number of soldiers and horses from the Jinzhong area, and even transferred Hu Dawei, the general who guarded Shuozhou, and Xu Dingguo, the general of Shanxi, who guarded Taiyuan, together, and gathered nearly a large number of officers and soldiers and villagers. This time, he planned to completely take the Xing Tianjun from the land he was responsible for this time. Erase it.

After he arrived in Pingyang Mansion, he immediately began to understand the situation of Xing Tianjun. Various details have sent some information about Xing Tianjun back to Pingyang Mansion.

After listening to his officials' report on the situation of Xing Tianjun, Wu Jing was a little relieved and summoned the military generals such as Xu Dingguo, Hu Dawei, Zuo Guangxian and He Renlong in the government office.

"I am very gratified that you can come to Pingyang Prefecture on time. This time, the progress of the Xingtian Army depends on the cooperation of all the generals! I hope you don't disappoint me and Governor Hong!" After receiving the meeting of the generals, Wu Jing said to the four people.

He Renlong and the other four immediately replied with one voice, "I would like to listen to the dispatch of Lord Futai!"

"Good! Let's not talk about it. This time, the suppression of the Xingtian Army can be said to have concentrated the elite soldiers of Shanshan and Shaanxi, with more than 40,000 troops. Judging from the information received by this officer, the Xingtian Army is only 5,000 to 6,000 people. If we have so many soldiers this time, but we can't eliminate them, then it is ours What a great shame!

I have now found out that Xing Tianjun has begun to withdraw troops from Qinshui, Zezhou and Yuanqu, intending to shrink into the Yangcheng boundary to resist stubbornly. In this way, it will be more conducive to us to suppress it!

The day after tomorrow is the Spring Festival. As soon as the Spring Festival is over, on the seventh day of the first lunar month, you will immediately divide your troops to attack Yangcheng, so as to fight for this group of thieves! This time, you should go hand in hand. You can't give the thief army any chance to quickly recover Qinshui, Zezhou and Yuanqu County, completely squeeze it into the boundary of Yangcheng, and completely eliminate this group of thieves within a period of one month!

I don't know if you generals have any questions? Wu Yu said confidently to the four generals this time.

Hu Dawei and the other four immediately clenched their fists and said to Wu Yong, "I would like to listen to Futai Lord Jun!"

After receiving the order, Zuo Guang first said to Wu Jing, "Your Excellency Futai, there is still one thing I want to show you!"

Wu Wei glanced at Zuo Guang first, nodded and said, "General Zuo, if you have anything to do, just say it!"

Zuo Guangxian immediately clenched his fist and said, "The inferior position has just led the troops to Jiang County, but at present, the soldiers under the command of the inferior position have not received the salary for five months. If they want to set out after the Spring Festival and suppress the thief army, I'm afraid that these generals under the command will make trouble! Please also ask Lord Futai to solve part of the military pay for the inferior position first! Otherwise, I'm afraid that the soldiers will not work hard!"

Wu Yu felt that his head was big as soon as he heard it. At present, these soldiers and generals are getting more and more arrogant. Before the battle has begun, the first thing is to ask for money first. From the beginning of this year, there has been a new shortage of new money in the court. Emperor Chongzhen once again issued an order to send more troops, and Shanxi has also under a lot of pressure. Now the ground in Shanxi is not calm. It's already very difficult to raise these salaries. If it weren't for Xing Tianjun's terrible trouble, he really didn't want to mobilize the army to suppress it now!

At present, Zuo Guang first proposed to ask for military money. Wu Jing was quite big, so he asked Zuo Guang first, "I don't know how much money General Zuo needs to raise for you?"

Zuo Guang took a big hand and immediately said, "There are more than 6,000 soldiers under his command, and they have been short of pay for nearly five months. In this way, even if they first reissue the soldiers' pay for three months, it will cost at least 50,000 taels of silver!"

After listening to this, Wu Yong took a breath of cold air. Zuo Guangxian really opened his mouth. His mouth was 50,000 taels of silver. If he had so much money, he didn't have to worry about money every day, but he didn't give it. After all, Zuo Guang came to help him this time. If he didn't pay them, Not to mention whether their group of soldiers will contribute to suppressing the bandits, if there is a mutiny in Jiang County again, then this time the hard-won organized entry and suppression will be bad again!

So after calculating in a embarrassment, he coughed and said to Zuo Guangxian, "At present, Shanxi is also short of money. 50,000 taels of silver can't be taken out now!" But since General Zuo has said it, although I am in a dilemma, I still need to find a way to help you raise some military money. Let's do this! Although 50,000 taels can't be taken out, I can still allocate 20,000 taels of silver to you first. You can take them first and send them out. After destroying this group of criminal soldiers, the rest of the soldiers will find another way to help you plan!"

Although Zuo Guangxian was not satisfied with the number Wu Yu promised, at least it was better than nothing, so he only agreed.

With the example of Zuo Guangxian, He Renlong immediately quit. He also proposed that his soldiers had been short of pay for a long time, and asked Wu Yong to also allocate a batch of military pay. In this way, a good military meeting finally became a meeting to ask for military pay.

Wu Yong was very angry, but he couldn't get angry now, so he suppressed his anger and promised to allocate 10,000 taels of silver to He Renlong, and the rest will be talked about later.

Xu Dingguo and Hu Dawei are better. When Wu Jing mobilized the soldiers in Shanxi, he had already allocated a batch of military pay to them, and this time he did not jump out to ask for pay.

After setting this matter of military salary, Wu Jing talked about the suppression of bandits again. After some discussion, he finally had to postpone the day of the uprising for a few days, and changed it to the 12th and 14th of the first lunar month before the soldiers and horses to act together.

After Xu Dingguo, Hu Dawei and other four people took orders, they returned to their respective armies and began to prepare.

Although He Renlong has the name of He Madman and is very brave when fighting with the Rebels, at the same time, he is not strict with his generals. In addition, the court often defaults on the food and salaries of the generals. In order to recruit soldiers and buy horses to strengthen his strength, He Renlong usually opens his eyes to the generals. Close your eyes and don't restrain them much.

Therefore, these officers and soldiers are average at the level of war, but they are familiar with the matter of harming the people. This time, they came from Shaanxi to Shanxi, and the people along the way were unlucky. Along the way, the officers and soldiers plundered the people on the grounds of requisitioning grain, and forcibly robbed the women to accompany them. For fun, after arriving at the station, the scosma of their station was smoky. Even some rich families could not escape the bad luck and were secretly taken away by them as bandits to get money.

Not only the officers and soldiers under the command of He Renlong, but also the other officers and soldiers are not much better. Zuo Guangxian, Xu Dingguo and Hu Dawei's subordinates are basically the same virtue, so that the people around their station can't live at all.

Wu Wei also received a lot of complaints. Wu Wei was so angry that he scolded these guys in the government office that his subordinates were not strict, and even sent people to the camp to reprimand them, so that he could control his generals and not do such a thing again.

In this way, these talents restrained a little and began to restrain their generals, no longer blatantly letting them harm the people.