The eleventh year of Chongzhen can be described as a year of ups and downs, and the first half of the year and the second half of the year are in stark contrast.

In the first half of the year, almost all the anti-thieves were about to be exterminated, the situation was very good, and victory was in sight, who would have thought that in the second half of the year, bad news came one after another.

As the saying goes, how great is hope, how big is disappointment, after Chongzhen received Hong Chengchou's urgent request for guilt, the whole person sat down on the dragon chair.

This time, the strength of the Tartars far exceeded the expectations of Chongzhen and the princes of the court, at this time, the soldiers were divided into two ways to go south, attacking the city and plundering the land, raging wildly, and the daily battle report, either the city was captured, or the Ming army was defeated.

This made Chongzhen look forward to the fact that Hong Chengchou could destroy the little Hua King as soon as possible, and then return to the aid of Jingshi, who would have thought that this would be the result in the end.

At the same time, he was furious, and almost immediately wanted to issue an order to arrest Hong Chengchou and return him to Beijing, and raid his house to ask for guilt, so as to vent his anger.

Fortunately, Hong Laogou is not like Lu Xiangsheng, he can't rub sand in his eyes, and he is not as upright as Sun Chuanting, who has been imprisoned several times, but is cautious and cautious, never makes enemies with others, and gives full play to the golden mean.

This made all the princes of the court inevitably intercede for him, and at this time of crisis, it was the time to employ people, as well as Hong Laogou's past merits and achievements, Chongzhen finally suppressed the anger in his heart.

In the end, Hong Chengchou was given the title of Governor of Liaodong to preside over the overall situation, and Sun Chuanting was crowned as the governor of the five provinces, the crown prince Shaobao, the title of left attendant of the military department, and the sword of Shangfang was given, and he went out of the customs to encircle and suppress King Xiaohua.

It was also the luck of Hong Laogou, after the death of Wu Aheng, the governor of Jiliao, the court was unable to agree on a successor, and Chongzhen had originally had the intention of transferring Hong Chengchou, so the old dog escaped.

And as the imperial court's palace newspaper was sent to various places, Hong Chengchou took tens of thousands of troops to fight a decisive battle with the thieves under the city of Ruzhou, and the news of the defeat also spread.

Countless people were in an uproar, because this was the first time that the anti-thieves defeated the official army on a frontal large-scale battlefield, or Hong Chengchou's Qin army, how could everyone not look sideways and not be shocked?

For a time, the name of King Hua, who shocked several northern provinces, almost everyone knew about it, and no one knew about it, and it soared directly to the top of the anti-thief list.

At this time, Qin Yu, the king of Hua, was leading tens of thousands of troops to the east, preparing to advance into the North China Plain.

Compared to before, everything was pulled by mules, but this time it was upgraded to a horse-drawn carriage.

There are thousands of large and small vehicles, and the procession stretches for more than 20 miles, and the momentum is monstrous.

defeated Hong Chengchou's Qin army, and Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army fought fiercely with the Tatars in the north, resulting in the entire Central Plains, which could no longer threaten the existence of the Ming army of the Chinese army, which made King Qin completely let himself go.

Take the avenue, put up a big flag, and take a luxury van.

The happiest thing is the women, who no longer have to sit in baskets and be carried over mountains by mules and horses.

Of course, not all women can ride in the car, Qin Yu stipulates that only the king and the woman who has bound her feet, or a literate woman, can ride in the car, and the others can still only walk and ride a horse.

Even Niu Er, a big leader, and Qian Bin, a literati, have to ride horses and hurry, and they can't be special.

Qian Bin may have suffered the loss of not being able to ride a horse last time, although it was bitter, he didn't say anything.

After the end of the war, it took another ten days to repair, and after thinking about it again, Qin Yu decided not to rush south to Huguang first, but planned to go to the plains to recruit some people.

After all, the people of Huguang have not yet reached a desperate situation, while the people of Henan are suffering from death.

It is definitely better to recruit some young men or young women from among them than to recruit people in Huguang.

Because these people who were pulled back from the death line by him will definitely be grateful to him Hua Wang, and they will also have a strong sense of belonging to Hua Jun.

The 10,000 prisoners, of which more than 4,000 were Qin troops, were all incorporated into three infantry battalions, making the number of the three battalions increase undiminished to 3,000 per battalion, 700 sword and shield soldiers and archers, and 1,600 pikemen.

Of the remaining 6,000 or so guardsmen, the older ones were incorporated into the engineer battalion, and the others were all incorporated into the war battalion, resulting in the number of the engineer battalion reaching 8,000, and the five battalions were once again restored to the scale of 3,000 and 15,000 per battalion.

Only the young firearms were reduced to 4,000 men, and each battalion was beaten back to its original shape, only 800 men, but it finally reached one firearm per man.

Now that he has fame and strength, although Qin Yu is still ready to recruit teenagers on a large scale, he doesn't plan to let them fight with fire.

Instead, it was decided to organize the teenagers recruited in the future into a separate battalion, so that they could learn literacy and train at the same time, and after two or three years, they would either join the army or politics.

In the future, the five firearms battalions will use these 4,000 veterans as officers, recruit young men of 17 or 8 years old, and gradually expand them.

Veterans who were too young were transferred to train the newly recruited teenagers.

The number of the guards battalion and the women's battalion was still only 2,000 each, but the guards battalion had 1,500 horses, which was already quite large, and with the help of 2,000 female soldiers on tall and short horses, they galloped back and forth in the wilderness, which scared people to death.

Because the uniforms of the guard battalion and the women's battalion are almost identical, the female soldiers are almost identical except for the multiple bags on their backs, and the equipment is similar, which makes it really impossible to distinguish if you don't look carefully.

Due to the packing of all the female dependents of the big families in Ruzhou City, the number of people in the back camp has also skyrocketed, and it is almost close to more than 10,000 people, after all, the back camp has only been in and out, and the literate women alone account for 2,000.

It is precisely because of these 2,000 people that the army of nearly 50,000 people eats and drinks Lazar every day, and they are all arranged in an orderly manner, and who should eat meat, who should drink hot, and who should have sex with each other today, has never made a mistake.

The army first followed the official road, all the way to the southeast to Jiaxian, Xiangcheng, and then turned east, and arrived at the boundary of Xuzhou under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture ten days later.

At this time, it has reached the beginning of November, and the temperature is getting colder and colder, fortunately, everyone has cotton clothes, but there are tens of millions of people in the Central Plains, and how many have cotton clothes?

Along the way, the further east they went, the more solemn the faces of the people became, especially in the plains, where all the southerners and the ladies of the big families were stunned by this apocalyptic scene.

Including King Qin.

Because most of the villages along the route are deserted, at a glance, the fields are barren, and countless cracks are as dense as spider webs, and large feet can sink into them.

On both sides of the official road, you can see the white bones everywhere, and occasionally one or two fresh corpses are pecked by crows and wild dogs.

Inside a wide and quite luxurious carriage, Qin Yu still couldn't help it, lifting the curtain from time to time to watch the scene outside.

The cold wind poured in, so that the Li family and the Liu family on the side involuntarily wrapped their fur coats, and the two women did not dare to look at the scene outside, with a look of horror on their faces.

"See, this is the sin created by you big families, today you have ended up like this, don't complain about the heavens, because the heavenly way is circulating, and cause and effect will eventually be rewarded..."

Qin Yu didn't intend to let them go, so he pulled the two of them over, let them lie by the window, and taught them a righteous lesson, and from time to time there would be two slaps on the cocked buttocks.

Although the two women have completely reconciled, their position has not changed, so Qin Yu plans to start from the two of them and transform them, so that they can influence and change the minds of other big women in the future.

Even if it is a little bit, as long as they feel guilty, time can eliminate the resentment in their hearts, and in the future, they will be able to marry their subordinates and keep to themselves after giving birth to children.

Both women were ashamed and speechless.

When Qin Yu saw their expressions, he thought that his preaching had played a role, and he was very satisfied, but he didn't know that the two girls were actually embarrassed by this indecent posture.