Chapter 7 (7) Never ask for wage arrears

Speaking of Zuo Liangyu, this person can be called a rare military genius in history.When using soldiers, he never puts on airs, does not pay attention to vigor and vigor, and only pursues the best effect.As long as there is such a person on the battlefield, the officers and soldiers must have the upper hand. The only one who recognized the value of Zuo Liangyu was Li Zicheng.So as soon as Li Zicheng saw Zuo Liangyu, he would do his best not to, and would fight to the death with the old Zuo.In order to get rid of Zuo Liangyu, Li Zicheng did not hesitate to pay a heavy price, broke through Nanyang, and killed the Tang king of the Ming dynasty in the Qilin Pavilion, hoping to give Zuo Liangyu a crime of trapping the vassal, and let Chongzhen quickly kill Zuo Liangyu.When Chongzhen saw he was fooled, he really wanted to kill Lao Zuo, and Lao Zuo was not lacking in vigilance, and had already fled to Jiangnan like a fly.

There is probably only one brother Zuo Liangyu in history who has the ability to escape from the deadly snares of Li Zicheng and Emperor Chongzhen. On the battlefield in the Central Plains, there was another strange thing. Almost all the soldiers commanded by the officers and soldiers were borrowed from Zuo Liangyu. For example, when Li Zicheng broke through Nanyang, the defender of Nanyang was called fierce as a tiger, and he died in street fighting.This fierce as a tiger, he was originally a Mongol from the Ming Dynasty. He was brave in battle, but he didn't know how to lead troops. Whenever he encountered a bandit, all his subordinates would go to the bandit for dinner.

So the imperial court ordered Zuo Liangyu to pull out 20,000 people and hand them over to Mengruhu.The 20,000 people have suffered from bad luck since then. It is said that the rogues are difficult to control, the difficulty is that this guy has no political program, no clear target direction, and even no supplies and supplies; he looks like a group of lunatics who escaped from the madhouse, going from east to west, from south to south North, even they themselves don't know where to run, so how can the officers and soldiers pursue them? But Brother Mengruhu is serious, he led Zuo Liangyu's 20,000 men, and chased after the bandits desperately. One day off.As a result, not only did they not catch up with the bandits, and they did not have a battle, but all the horses were exhausted, and finally they forced the farm donkey to make up the number.As a result, 20,000 people rode donkeys across the small bridge. They were thinner than yellow flowers, and they all looked like beggars, complaining a lot.

But this is not too bad, the worst should be the general soldier You Shiwei.He also defrauded 20,000 people from Zuo Liangyu, and then started chasing Li Zicheng madly. Starting from Luonan, everyone started running and ran to Yongning in one breath.For three whole months, the officers and soldiers ate and slept in the open air, and as a result, they all had diarrhea.The field stretches as far as the eye can see, and there are officers and soldiers squatting densely, row upon row of big white buttocks, all clenching their teeth and clenching their fists, diarrhea with all their strength.That stench filled the sky and covered the wild, and no one could get close for a hundred miles, so this battle could not be fought again.This is also called in the history of the Ming Dynasty: Qingyang bandits went south, the beacon fire penetrated the three plains, the bandits escaped quickly, and the officers and soldiers were not as good as donkeys.

In short, this Zuo Liangyu knows how to raise and use soldiers.As for the orders of the court, he would carry out those orders that conformed to the actual situation; he would pretend not to hear any orders that were blindly commanded, so he was repeatedly dismissed from office.But it's better to be dismissed than to lose his head. This is why Zuo Liangyu is smarter than others. That being the case, why is Zuo Liangyu unknown in military history? The reason is very simple. Although Zuo Liangyu is a talented military general, he lacks a clear enough political mind.Never, never, never, he shouldn't have asked the Southern Ming court for the wages he owed, and moreover, the army of 800,000 men and women marched in parallel to collect the debt.Such a serious political error angered historians and politicians, so he was completely erased from the roster of outstanding military strategists.

Zuo Liangyu's misfortune tells us: Don't ask for unpaid wages, otherwise historians will get angry. The matter of maliciously asking for salary will be put here first, but with Zuo Liangyu's unborn military prodigy, Zhang Xianzhong's revolutionary rebellion actions have become a history of his constant stumbles and defeats in Zuo Liangyu's hands.