The Tatar scout was tied up tightly, but he was still screaming and cursing.
Wu Fan frowned and winked at Fang Xiaochun.
Fang Xiaochun walked to the Tatar and squatted down, asking in Mongolian: "Who sent you here?
There are many of you.
What are you doing in Shunde Mansion?"
It turned out that Fang Xiaochun had gone to the northern grassland to sell salt and learned some Mongolian before joining Gao Jie's command.
The Ming army all knew that the relationship between the Manchus and the Mongolians was very good.
Many Mongolians could speak Manchu and the Manchus could also speak Mongolian.
Although none of the three of them could speak Manchu, Fang Xiaochun could speak Mongolian, so he gave it a try.
The Tatar seemed not to understand at all and kept cursing himself.
"Damn, what a fool" Wu Fan was greatly disappointed.
He originally wanted to get words out of the guy's mouth and then kill him with a knife.
This way they can return with information.
But now it seems that this guy is a raw barbarian who cannot speak Mongolian, so we can only take him back to the camp for questioning.
Fang Xiaochun spread his hands and said: "This is really unlucky, Brother Wu, what should we do now?"
Wu Fan waved his hand impatiently and said: "What else can we do?
Tie this guy up and take him back together, and let the commander make a decision."
Fang Xiaochun chuckled and said, "It's better to live than to die, but it's a little tiring on the road."
"Bah, take this Tatar back, and you'll have to waste food rations along the way."
Although Wu Fan said so, he still walked up to the Tatar, and together with Fang Xiaochun, he placed him across the horse's back, and then tied him up with a rope.
"Such a heavy man, don't tire the horse again."
Wu Fan glanced at Fang Xiaochun and said, "Why don't you, Xiaochunzi, lead the horse away?"
"Ah, Brother Wu, are you kidding?"
Fang Xiaochun took a step back and said resentfully: "It's been at least a hundred miles all the way back, and the horses are carrying the Tatars, but I'm walking on two feet.
How can this make sense?"
"Haha, I was just teasing you, and you got mad.
Isn't that Tatar horse still there just now?"
Wu Fanchong pointed not far away, and Fang Xiaochun followed it and glanced over.
Sure enough, the maroon Mongolian horse was still there.
The other two horses were frightened and ran away, but this horse was still snoring and waiting quietly.
"Hey, why doesn't this beast run away?"
"I guess it's because I've been following that Tartar for a long time.
I heard that horses understand human nature when they stay with people for a long time.
Don't worry about it, just ride it.
It's an advantage for you kid."
This bay-red Mongolian horse was only hit by an arrow, and the injury was not too serious.
It could carry the load back to the camp a hundred miles away.
"Hey, it looks like this trip was not a loss.
I made a horse for nothing."
The three of them looked at each other and smiled happily.
On the ninth day of November in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen's reign, the city of Nanjing was very lively.
Huang Degong, Jin Shenghuan, and Ma Jinzhong teamed up to defeat Zuo Liangyu's rebels, and sent the heads of Zuo Liangyu and Zuo Mengeng to Nanjing along with the captured Li Guoying and other Zuo army generals.
After the rebels were escorted into the city, the onlookers threw rotten vegetable leaves and cursed the rebellious officials and traitors.
Li Guoying closed his eyes and did not dare to watch all this.
It all seemed like a dream to him.
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The former benefactor Zuo Liangyu's head was missing, and the Zuo army fell apart.
His efforts to fight to the death of the queen were completely in vain, which really makes people don't know what to say.
Li Guoying was a little unwilling.
Why did they lose in such a confused way?
After a "parade", Li Guoying and others were taken to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment.
After some simple processing, they were escorted out again and held a prisoner dedication ceremony outside the Forbidden City.
As for generals such as Huang Degong, Ma Jinzhong, and Jin Shenghuan, they were summoned to the palace to see the Emperor as an exception.
The meeting lasted for a whole hour.
It is said that the emperor also gave a banquet and left the three of them to eat in the palace.
This naturally made all the generals in Nanjing envious.
It is truly a sign of the emperor's grace that a military general can receive such treatment.
In addition to summoning Huang Degong, Ma Jinzhong, and Jin Shenghuan, the emperor also summoned Du Yinxi and Yuan Jixian.
Although these two men did not lead their troops to the forefront in the counter-insurgency process, their role was no less important than that of Huang, Ma, and Jin.
If Yinxi had not been blocked, Jin Shenghuan and Ma Jinzhong would not have been instigated to rebel, so they suddenly launched an attack and cut off Zuo Liangyu's "arms", forcing him to flee along the river in a panic.
Without Yuan Jixian's naval restraint, Zuo Liangyu would have had the opportunity to escape, and Huang Degong's pursuit and interception would probably have failed.
Maybe outsiders don't know, but Zhu Cixiang is very aware of the important role of the two, because from the beginning of his layout, Du Yinxi and Yuan Jixian were the two most important chess pieces.
Yuan and Du were both capable ministers who were absolutely loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and they were also civil servants.
There were things that Zhu Cixiang could say to them that he could not say to Jin, Ma, and Huang.
After quelling Zuo Liangyu's rebellion and recruiting a large number of Zuo army soldiers, how to deal with these troops was the first problem Zhu Cixiang had to solve.
There are hundreds of thousands of these troops.
If they still retain their original establishment, they will be a huge burden to the court every year.
But if they were all demobilized, Zhu Cixiang was worried that it would cause unrest.
The best way is to break up the original left army organization and reorganize it into battalions.
Of course, there is filth and evil in the Left Army, and there are many ruffians.
Zhu Cixiang will never allow these people to stay.
Although the selection of Zuojun cannot be as strict as the Shence Army's selection of soldiers, it must not be fooled.
Zhu Cixiang's bottom line is that there should be no ruffians left.
The scale of more than 100,000 people was too big.
Zhu Cixiang's goal was to slim down the Zuo Army, and the number of soldiers was reduced to about 80,000.
As a result, according to the organization of the Shence Army, there are forty battalions, divided into infantry, cavalry, artillery and naval battalions.
Zhu Cixiang planned to increase the number of naval battalions to at least ten naval battalions with about 20,000 people.
As for the number of cavalry battalions, it can be reduced relatively, because the water network in Huguang is dense, and more cavalry will not be effective.
As for infantry battalions and artillery battalions, they should be appropriately increased.
Because the Manchus had moved south, Li Zicheng was defeated and fled to Jiugong Mountain.
Who knows whether Li Zicheng will die in Jiugong Mountain as he originally did.
If this is the case, the Shun army will be defeated in one fell swoop.
The Eight Banners of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties would immediately turn around and attack Huguang.
In the original history, because Zuo Liangyu went east along the Yangtze River to the "Qingjun side", the entire Huguang was handed over to the Qing Dynasty.
But in this time and space, Zhu Cixiang naturally could not let the Manchus capture Huguang.
Fortunately, the Manchu Qing's attention was still attracted by Li Zicheng at this time.
What Zhu Cihong had to do was to immediately stabilize the situation in Huguang, at least to defend Wuchang.
Of course, relying solely on the original left army would not be enough.
Zhu Cixiang planned to mobilize Huang Degong into Huguang to defend the powerful enemy with Jin and Ma
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