"It's all my fault that the first few waves of people who went south were all reincarnated by starving ghosts. They went south and robbed all the way. We couldn't get much on the way. We suffered huge losses along the way!"
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Many of Wu Sangui's soldiers resented other friendly troops for being too harsh.

We are all hard-working brothers in the border army. We finally have the opportunity to go south to suppress bandits, but we have to take advantage of this rare and precious opportunity to make a big profit. It is best to be able to make enough to last two or three years.

Wealth.

However, their Guan-Ning border army arrived later and was overtaken by several other border armies that moved south first.

And the other frontier troops who took a step forward were not kind. They did things too ruthlessly, even if they were ruthless, they left a mouthful of words for outsiders. Almost all the officialdom in the north knew about it, and the border soldiers on the southern front just fucking followed.

Like a vicious dog, he will rob money and food whenever he sees them.

Especially after a border army directly plundered a county town, it completely frightened the officials and gentry in the interior.

Looking at the momentum of these frontier troops, they are no worse than those of the bandits and Eastern pirates.

Naturally, Wu Sangui had heard of these words, but he didn't care, nor did the Guan Ning soldiers under his command.

These border army officers and soldiers have been stationed at the border for a long time, and the court has not provided them with money or food. From time to time, they have to face the threat of attacks from the East.

In order to have enough to eat, the soldiers of the border army all showed their special abilities. It was necessary to cultivate the land. They would also do some smuggling of contraband to the East, and some would go out to plunder from time to time.

And the frontier soldiers with no connections were all skinny and hungry. In order to get a bite to eat, even their wives and daughters had to advertise for customers.

As time went by, these frontier soldiers naturally became full of complaints, and at the same time they lost their scruples about many things.

For example, when there is an opportunity to go south, everyone will miss the opportunity to plunder.

It’s not about getting rich, it’s just about having enough to eat.

The above is only for ordinary border soldiers, but for senior generals like Wu Sangui who have been stationed in the border areas for a long time or even hereditary, they are also worried about money and food every day.

In order to maintain their power and maintain the army under their command, they are often in vain.

Colluded with Dongduo to smuggle contraband, organized manpower to cultivate the land, used various methods to ask the court for money and food, etc.

Going south is also of great significance to Wu Sangui and the others.

Once we go south, the ordinary soldiers under our command can have enough to eat, and can bring back some money and food to support their families.

Senior generals such as Wu Sangui can also earn a large amount of money and food to subsequently raise troops, expand the army, and build ordnance.

To transfer the border troops south to suppress the bandits, for the imperial court, it meant transferring a group of low-level warriors to fight the even lower-level bandits.

For the border troops themselves, this is an opportunity to make a fortune.

Now they were met with a cold reception outside Ruzhou City. Although Wu Sangui was angry, he didn't stupidly protest or anything like that. Instead, he gave an order and sent his soldiers in batches to investigate the surrounding areas.

After all, Ruzhou is close to the area controlled by thieves, so there must be a large number of thieves active in this area.

It is reasonable and reasonable for him, Wu Sangui, to send troops to the surrounding areas to investigate the banditry.

It is reasonable for the soldiers sent to investigate the thief to accept some money and food donated by the kind gentry.

On the 28th of the first lunar month, Wu Sangui led his army to the area around Ruzhou City, and then took advantage of the fact that the soldiers were tired from the long journey south and needed to rest and rest, and stationed outside Ruzhou City for a full half a month!

In the past half month, three thousand Guanning troops under Wu Sangui went to the surrounding areas in batches to detect bandits and eliminate local bandits.

Wu Sangui was very reliable with his soldiers. All the soldiers were sent out in batches. Even the horsemen who accompanied the army could follow him to conduct investigations, and no one would fail.

At the same time, word was passed down that all the gentry and wealthy households would take the initiative to donate fine grain, fine gold, and silver to the officers and soldiers, and they could keep half of it, and the other half would be turned over to the government as military expenses.

Except for the rations carried by the soldiers, the rest of the grain, cloth and other public materials were turned over to the public center for use as military supplies, and credit was recorded to the soldiers who turned in the larger quantities.

After half a month, all the officers and soldiers of the Guan Ning Army under his command have recovered and are strong, and everyone has brought a lot of rations and gold and silver with them.

The army's baggage also included a lot more grain, grass and other military supplies. At the same time, more than 3,000 nearby civilians were requisitioned to transport the grain and baggage.

During this period, officials in Ruzhou City sent people many times to invite Wu Sangui to break camp and leave, and also asked Wu Sangui to restrain the soldiers.

Wu Sangui always found various excuses to get over it.

Until February 14th, as the soldiers under his command were full of food and drink, they also collected a large amount of money and food.

In addition, Wu Sangui also received a letter from Chen Biqian, the governor of the Eastern Front Military Affairs and the governor of Henan, asking him to quickly go south to the Luyang Pass line to prepare for the major counterattack after the beginning of spring.

In this way, Wu Sangui slowly led an army of 3,000 people and more than 3,000 civilians who were forcibly recruited, and headed south with a large amount of food and baggage.

But Wu Sangui seemed to be very cautious when he went south.

Wu Sangui is not a stupid person. He doesn't eat and drink every day when he stays outside Ruzhou City. In fact, he has been collecting various intelligence about the fake Chu Bao thieves in the past half month.

Although some secret information could not be found, he still collected a lot of public or semi-public information.

He knew that the bandits in the south were stationed in the area of ​​Nanyang Prefecture, and there was a "Northern Route Army", which was led by the leader of the thieves, the pseudo-lieutenant general Huang Dingquan.

It is said that this thief is the right arm of the fake Chu Emperor Luo thief. He has an army of more than 30,000 people. Among them, it can be clearly determined that there are about 10,000 real gray thief and 10,000 fake gray thief.

After all, Huang Dingquan led troops to garrison in Nanyang Prefecture last summer, and fought several times with the Ming army led by Zuo Liangyu.

In such a short period of time, the Ming army did not do anything, but rather collected some intelligence.

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At one time, the Ming army had some understanding of the rural protection army under Huang Dingquan.

After Wu Sangui collected a lot of information about the thieves, he came to some conclusions of his own.

It’s not easy to protect these thieves!

It’s already been said that there are many guns. Even ordinary citizens know that security thieves are famous for their sharp guns.

However, Wu Sangui felt that having more guns and artillery was actually nothing. Their frontline troops in Liaodong also had a lot of firearms, including a pile of Hongyi cannons weighing several kilograms, and also many other firearms.
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But with so many firearms, fighting against Dongdu is not particularly difficult, and in the field, they don’t even have the courage to fight.

Guns and artillery alone cannot carry out such a sharp offensive to protect the bandit army.

So Wu Sangui turned his attention to other aspects of the Baoxiang Army, such as detailed tactics and tactics, and then looked at the morale and morale of the Baoxiang Army.

Then after reading a lot, he discovered a problem: the food and grass consumption of the anti-thief army was much higher than the normal level.

When Ming army spies on the front line were spying on intelligence, they once saw the security thieves transporting a batch of grain to a certain fortress where the security thieves were stationed.

According to the estimates of Ming army spies, this batch of food is enough to feed the more than 500 bandits in this fortress for a month.

As a result, ten days later he discovered that another grain transport team had arrived!

This shows that the food consumption of the thieves is more than three times the food consumption estimated by Ming army spies to protect the thieves.

It is also more than three times the number of officers and soldiers.

"Eat so much?" Wu Sangui couldn't help but frowned after reading a lot of information on the bandit army's food and grass consumption.

"I heard before that the Bao Thief Army had three meals a day, and they were fed every meal. I thought it was just an exaggeration, a lie used by the Bao Thieves to confuse outsiders!"

"But now it seems that this is still true!"

"Why do they do this?"

To be honest, Wu Sangui couldn't understand why the Baoxiang Army did this.

Food is so precious. This portion of food can feed an army of 30,000 people. Why only use it to feed 10,000 people?

Shouldn't the normal operation be to recruit 50,000 people, of which 40,000 will be given basic rations, 8,000 will be given normal rations, and 2,000 will be given excess rations?

In this way, with an army of 50,000, the airs can be stretched out, and at the same time, the basic combat effectiveness can be maintained, and at the same time, an elite force of 2,000 people can be armed.

Its tactical effect is much stronger than that of ten thousand people

Although Wu Sangui could not understand why the Home Guard Army did this, he was very clear that a group of Guard Army troops whose food supply was more than three times that of normal officers and soldiers must all be strong and strong men.
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At the same time, there is sufficient food and grass. If there is no arrears in food and payment, the morale of the army will be very sufficient.

Such a group of young and strong soldiers with high morale, coupled with their guns, are very deadly.

This time going south, I'm afraid it won't be easy if we attack rashly!

You have to think about it in detail later, and if you have merit and trophies, you can make a fortune. If it doesn't work, you still have to make plans early.

In short, these three thousand Guanning troops cannot be lost in the Central Plains.

These three thousand Guan Ning troops are part of the foundation for their father and son to live and work. If they are easily lost, it will be a huge loss.

Wu Sangui had some scruples, and was also wary of the troops protecting his hometown, so he moved south very slowly. During the march, he must send cavalry to investigate the surrounding area, and at the same time, he continued to inquire about the situation in the Luyang Pass area.

Before he reached Luyang Pass, he had already made up his mind not to attack Luyang Pass.

Although Governor Chen Bibid asked him to go to Lushan County and unite more than 10,000 local officers and soldiers to attack Luyang Pass, when he learned about the situation of protecting the thieves in detail, especially the situation of protecting the thieves at Luyang Pass, he came to a conclusion: directly

If he goes to attack Luyang Pass, he probably won’t be able to defeat all three thousand Guanning troops if they get in...

So this is a slap in the face!

As for Chen Biqian's orders, you can listen to them when they are beneficial, but when they are not beneficial, just pretend that Chen Biqian does not exist.

Although Chen Biqian was the governor, Wu Sangui had enough courage to ignore him.

The father and son of the Wu family are stationed in Guanning, controlling and guarding Shanhaiguan and other places, and their Guanning army is powerful.
Chapter completed!