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Chapter 49 Form

It is August of the 17th year of Chongzhen. Half a month has passed since Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing were killed. The reactions of the four towns in Jiangbei have come out. The news of Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing being killed to their garrison. Liu Liangzuo's subordinates Xu Yong, Fang Guoan, Zhang Tianlu and Zhang Tianfu claimed that the court was unfair and killed important officials on false charges. They raised the anti-flag flag without hesitation.

Following Liu Liangzuo's subordinates, Liu Zeqing's subordinates Li Hongji, Li Huajing, Shi Fengyi, Huang Guoqi and others immediately launched a rebellion after hearing that Liu Zeqing was executed by the court.

Gao Jie's subordinates Li Chengdong, Li Benshen, Bai Yongfu and others became undecided because Gao Jie was only under house arrest and not killed. After the court sent an envoy and Gao Jie's handwritten letter to appease him, the three of them had the idea of ​​watching the change. In addition to asking the court to release Gao Jie as soon as possible, they would not take any action or be ordered to attack Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing's rebellious subordinates.

However, Gao Jie's other strong general, Hei Huzi, ignored it and followed Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing's subordinates, raised the anti-flag flag and were the first to attack Huang Degong's garrison. Hei Huzi's behavior was not so much about seeking justice with Gao Jie, but rather about robbing territory by himself.

Heihuzi is brave but not scheming. He originally thought that there was a rebellion between Liu Liangzuo's tribe and Liu Zeqing's tribe. The Hongguang Dynasty was already shaky, and his colleagues would rebel like him. He was afraid that he would not be able to grab the territory if he was too late. He attacked without discussing with others. He was ambushed by Huang Degong's tribe Tian Xiong and Ma Degong, who were prepared, and surrounded Heihuzi's tribe. Li Chengdong, Li Benshen and others hated Heihuzi's behavior regardless of Gao Jie's safety. After getting the letter, he would not save him at all. A few days later, Heihuzi and his subordinates were killed and exhausted, becoming the first general to be killed in the rebellion of the three towns in Jiangbei.

Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing's remaining troops led an army of more than 200,000 horse-striking troops and rushed towards Nanjing in a fierce manner. However, the military disciplines of the two units were already poor and they lost their commander. Their military disciplines were even worse. The troops were busy burning, killing, looting, and raised their troops for ten days. The troops marched less than fifty miles a day, and marching five miles a day on average.

For Huang Degong, the slower the rebels' marching speed, the better. He could calmly mobilize one of the generals to defeat them, but it only made the people in Jiangbei suffer. After the two towns, nine out of ten houses were empty on the march route of the two armies, and the people fled one after another, the fertile land was abandoned, and the houses were ignited. The people who escaped slightly slowly became dead bodies behind them.

After receiving Huang Degong's memorial, Wang Fu felt relieved. As expected, Liu Yu was not worried about it. It was only a matter of time before Huang Degong wiped them. It was Gao Jie, Li Chengdong, and Li Benshen who were troubled by Wang Fu were undoubtedly the rare generals, and their troops were also elite. If they could attack the two riot troops under the court order, they could not only greatly speed up the speed of eliminating the riot troops, but also Huang Degong's troops could be drawn in advance to face Zuo Liangyu's possible attack, so that Nanjing could be safe.

But if Li Chengdong and Li Benshen were ordered, he would let Gao Jie go back. Wang Fu did not dare to take this risk. Although in Wang Fu's memory, Gao Jie did not surrender to the Qing Dynasty, but the murder of the two Lius had changed. No one could say whether Gao Jie felt that he was compromised and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

If Gao Jie really surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and hooked up the Qing army in advance, the situation would be too dangerous. Wang Fu thought about it, but he still dared not let Gao Jie out of the mountain. Who knows whether it would hurt people or how many people would be injured at that time? What's more, even if Gao Jie had no intention, he would definitely make great contributions after he was ordered to suppress the rebels in the two towns. At that time, Wang Fu would still have a headache for Gao Jie's military discipline.

A blacksmith must be strong himself, Wang Fu sighed.

"Your Majesty, today is the first day for the Yulin Guard to become an army. The emperor is scheduled to pay each Yulin Guard a month's military salary to the Yulin Guard in the afternoon. Now it's time to set off." Li Qi reminded.

"Okay, let's go to the Yulin Medical School."

The Yulin Guard's schoolyard in the past no longer felt empty. Although the newly recruited Yulin Guard recruits and 3,000 veterans did not make the schoolyard unable to accommodate them, it also made the entire schoolyard look like there was no more room.

The recruits were one thousand more than the original plan of 7,000. This one thousand were used for elimination in training. Wang Fu estimated that these recruits had at most two months of training and might have to be pulled on the battlefield in less than one month at least. They had to put pressure on them. Only when they were facing the danger of elimination at all times could their training be the most hard.

At this time, everyone had stopped training. They had told that today was the day to issue military pay. The emperor would come to the scene in person to personally issue military pay and bounties to the recruits who had obtained the top 100 recruits in the selection. The bounty was not high. The first place was only ten taels of silver, and the first place was reduced to one tael, which cost about three hundred taels of silver in total.

In the future, this kind of reward will be held once a month in the army and will be conducted at the same time when paying military salaries. Of course, the rewards will not depend entirely on running results. According to training requirements, shooting, equestrianism, archery and other subjects will be included in the assessment.

Wang Fu was not a soldier and had not received systematic military training. Wang Fu could only explore and advance if he trained a suitable new army as soon as possible. Fortunately, this new army had 600 backbone members who had been trained by Yan Yingyuan for several years, which supported the new army.

Du Dashan and Li Xiaoshan stood behind Sun Kexian with their waists straight. They were already Sun Kexian's personal soldiers. In that test, Du Dashan surpassed from four to five thousand and 50,000. During the journey of more than two miles, he actually ran into more than nine hundred. During the second long-distance run, Du Dashan won the first place with his extraordinary physical fitness. Although Sun Kexian did not like Du Xiaoshan's slickness, he still did not break his promise and recruited both of them as personal soldiers.

"Brother, look, is the emperor here?" Du Xiaoshan poked his brother's back and pointed at a group of people coming from afar. Nearly a hundred people wearing imperial guards' uniforms rode on the tall horse. In the middle was a carriage, with a large yellow umbrella that was more than meter high and wide as wide as meter. Under the big umbrella, a man with a yellow robe and a fat figure sat faintly.

"Don't talk." Du Dashan quickly warned in a low voice.

Although the two brothers were already silent enough, Sun Kexian still heard it and turned around and glared at them fiercely. Fortunately, there were whispers everywhere else on the school ground at this time. The Du Dashan brothers' quiet conversations just now did not seem particularly harsh.

After all, these new Yulin Guards have only started training on the first day, and it is impossible to implement orders for the time being. Under the shouting of the chief officer, the buzzing whispers quickly subsided, and the entire school ground returned to silence.

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