Chapter 293: Shanxi Rebellion

As Tiemo received the holy decree, the entire Xuanfu immediately took action. It is true that now Zhangbei has limited funds and materials and cannot support a big war, but since the imperial court promised that Tiemo could find a way to make money by himself, it is easy to say.

For Jin Shang, it may not be possible to fight, but if they are asked to find a way to make money, it will definitely be a ghost idea. Moreover, in the military, many people have also become extremely excited. Now most people already know about Tiemo's promotion to the governor of the three provinces, although this position is only used to suppress bandits, temporary, but it means that the rank is high, even after the suppression of bandits, Tiemo's official position will inevitably be equal to it, becoming a real feudal official. There is a saying that the tide rises and the boat rises, the general soldier is promoted, and the people below are naturally promoted to heaven, but whoever can be promoted, it will be a matter of fighting for military merit. Fighting a war means military merit, and as for military salaries and materials, it is not something they should consider.

In particular, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, Li Jiucheng, Li Yingyuan and others, they have just taken refuge here, and it is precisely when they need military merits to suppress bandits, which is very suitable.

However, there is one person who has a headache, and this person is Chen Qiyu, the governor of the three sides. Chen Qiyu, who was in Xi'an Mansion, was very puzzled by the imperial court's resolution. The imperial army was able to suppress the peasant army in the north, and Tiemo played a vital role, and now the border army is headed by Xuanfu. At this time, if the iron ink is transferred away, what if Wang Ziyong's department counterattacks in a big way?

Chen Qiyu repaired a letter and sent it to the cabinet, but it was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no movement at all. Cheng Jiming and others also have their own difficulties, they naturally don't want Tiemo to lead troops into Henan, in their eyes, Tiemo is His Majesty's henchman, this person goes to Henan, who knows what will happen? In the final analysis, Tiemo and Nanzhili soldiers and horses are not all the way, and the interests represented by the two sides are different. Especially Tiemo, the governor of the three provinces, also governs the military affairs of Nanzhili, although it shows that he knows that this position is very empty, but who dares to guarantee that Tiemo will not be a moth?

The soldiers and horses of Nanzhili were transferred by the cabinet over the soldiers and horses, and the emperor Zhu Youzhen directly set aside the cabinet and transferred his confidants and beloved generals. In fact, this is not just a fight against bandits, but a struggle for their own voice in the army. Whoever can make great contributions to the affairs of Henan's bandit suppression will have a greater right to speak in the future.

Zhu Youzhen did not find trouble with the cabinet, and the cabinet naturally could not make trouble for Zhu Youzhen, and the two sides reached a tacit understanding. However, this is not a good thing for Chen Qiyu, and the situation in Shaanxi was finally brought under control.

Xi'an Prefect Yamen, in recent days, Chen Qiyu has been in a very bad mood, there are so many people in the Ming Dynasty, I don't know how many people can fight, why do you have to adjust the iron and ink in the past?

Seeing Chen Qiyu's gloomy face, Hong Chengchou had to persuade: "Inspector Chen, please calm your anger, in the past two years, the iron general army has made brilliant achievements, and there are few defeats, and he is even called the living king of Hell by the rogue." His Majesty has a lot of trust in General Tie, and it is understandable to transfer him to Henan. ”

Chen Qiyu was still a little unhappy, and snorted: "The imperial court only cares about Henan, so what about Shaanxi, they don't care?" ”

Hong Chengchou smiled wryly, and the corners of his mouth twitched uncontrollably. In fact, Shaanxi is really not as good as Henan, what is the situation in Shaanxi? What is already rotten can no longer be rotten, in the eyes of the imperial court, I am afraid that Shaanxi is the least important place.

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Everything was as Chen Qiyu expected, since Tiemo returned to Xuanhua, the peasant army in northern Shaanxi was a little ready to move. Zhang Dashou suddenly increased his troops in Ansai City, with a posture of counterattacking Hetao, Lou Daji and Heiyunlong did not dare to slack off, so they could only ask Man Gui to transfer troops and clamp down on the peasant army from the northeast. Seeing this posture, Chen Qiyu could only scold his mother in his heart, but he still honestly sent troops north to threaten the rear of the peasant army.

In the middle of May of the third year of Chongzhen, Wang Ziyong, who was stationed in Qingyang Mansion, abandoned Sanshui County, and even ignored Hong Chengchou's threat and increased his troops in Yan'an Mansion. Now Chen Qiyu is a little big, and for a while, the situation in northern Shaanxi has become grim again, and maybe in an instant, a big war will ravage Yan'an Mansion. Man Gui had a headache, and he didn't expect that as soon as Tiemo left, Liukou would have to do something.

On May 17, Man Gui rushed to Hequ City, and after listening to the statements of Heiyunlong and others, he frowned and said angrily: "This group of rogues is really easy for us to bully? Increase the troops in Ansai City, increase the troops in Yan'an, what do they want to do? Ordered to go down and guard the Yinzhou Pass and Shenmu for Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu wanted to tell this group of rogues that although the living king of Yama was gone, Lao Tzu's knife was still extremely sharp. ”

Man Gui was on fire, knowing that Tiemo's title of the living Hades was very bluffing, and he also knew that the rogues were afraid of the living Hades. However, as soon as the Living Yama King left, Liukou did things, didn't he take Man Gui as a human being?

The situation in northern Shaanxi became tense, and the two sides looked at each other, but they were not in a hurry to make a move. Man Gui was confused in his heart, since he wanted to fight, he must fight as soon as possible, why wasn't he in a hurry? Liukou is not in a hurry, and there is no need for him to be in a hurry.

Two days later, Heiyunlong rushed back from Shenmu City, and said with a worried expression: "General Man, the situation is a little wrong, before the last general came back, the rogues who were approaching Yinzhou Pass actually withdrew. ”

"Withdrawn?" Man Guida frowned, spread out the map, and called the Black Cloud Dragon closer, "This is really strange, just now there was news from Lou Daji, and the rogues who were forcing Ningxia have also withdrawn." Hey, what the hell are these rogues doing? ”

"This ....." Black Cloud Dragon was shocked when he heard this, and was stunned for a moment before asking, "How can this be?" What is the situation on the side of Inspector Chen and General Cao? Could it be that Liukou is a false move, and the real purpose is to concentrate forces against General Cao and Inspector Chen? ”

Man Gui smiled bitterly and shook his head, "The blame is here, according to the news sent by General Cao, the rogue turtles in Ganquan City can't retreat, and even the chaotic party in Wild Boar Gorge has withdrawn, and there is no sign of attack at all." ”

Heiyunlong was completely stunned, what did Wang Ziyong want to do? Concentrate on increasing troops in Yan'an Mansion, not using troops in Hetao, and not attacking Cao Wenzhao and Chen Qiyu in the south, is this crazy? There must be something wrong, Wang Ziyong will not mobilize heavy troops but do nothing. Man Gui had a calm face, called a few of his personal soldiers in, and said sharply: "Check it for Lao Tzu, if you can't find out, don't come back." ”

"Oh" a few pro-soldiers hurriedly received the order, which was really a bit difficult. There is such a big place in northern Shaanxi, but there are only a few places worth paying attention to, but there is nothing abnormal at all.

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Mizhi, when the two sides gathered heavy troops and focused on Ansai City, Ganquan City and Sanshui County, this dilapidated county town that was almost destroyed was ignored. If Man Gui's spies explored carefully, they would soon be able to find out that the situation in Mizhi City was somewhat unusual. A few days ago, the gates of Mizhi City were closed and no longer allowed to pass. The head of the city is strictly guarded, and it looks like it is facing a great enemy.

You must know that the official army has no intention of attacking Mizhi City, even if it is fighting, it is also attacking Ansai City, and Mizhi City is so heavily guarded, which is really a bit unusual. In fact, it is true that Mizhi City has secretly transferred its troops and horses from Mizhi a few days ago, and strictly guarded it, just to prevent the news from leaking.

However, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and after the spies sent by Man Gui could not find a clue, they finally set their sights on Mizhi City. When he put out the energy to investigate, the secret of Mizhi City could no longer be kept. When night fell, in the elm forest outside Mizhi City, several gray-robed men gathered together to discuss something.

According to the gatekeeper who bought it, Zhang Xianzhong led a large number of soldiers and horses to leave Mizhi three days ago, and he didn't know where to go! At this time, it is very strange, and you have to quickly notify the general soldiers. ”

"Well, there is one more thing, Sun Kewang, the fierce general under Zhang Xianzhong, did not die, and returned to Mizhi City alive."

Several men shook their heads and sighed, they could only say that Sun Kewang's life was great, and in the situation like Sanshanyuan at the beginning, Sun Kewang could pick up a life. When the news came back, Man Gui's first reaction was to inquire about Zhenxiwei and Fugu, but the reply he gave was safe and sound, and there was no trace of the rogue in the surrounding twenty miles.

Zhang Xianzhong has nearly 30,000 troops under his command, that's not three or two, if so many soldiers and horses are approaching Zhenxiwei and Fugu, it is impossible not to find out. There was no trace of enemy troops in Zhenxiwei and Fugu, and there was no trace of Hequ City, and Man Gui's head suddenly became a little big. Why did Zhang Xianzhong pull so many soldiers and horses? Went to the mountains to be a savage?

Where did Man Gui know, he really let him be right, Zhang Xianzhong's tens of thousands of troops were really in the mountains at this time. At this time, they crossed the mountains and came to the outskirts of Hancheng.

On May 20 of the third year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong, who had disappeared for many days, suddenly appeared in the north of Hancheng and launched a fierce attack on Hancheng. Because Liu Yingyu pressed almost all the soldiers and horses on the two wings of Ganquan City, the defense of Hancheng was empty, and the officials of Hancheng were not even more vigilant. In this battle, Zhang Xianzhong took Sun Kewang as the vanguard and took Hancheng in only one hour.

After capturing Hancheng, Zhang Xianzhong's troops did not stop, and the troops pointed directly at Daning City, Shanxi. Daning City can be said to be worse than Hancheng, from top to bottom, I never thought that the peasant army would come over, and when Liu Wenxiu's 1,000 cavalry raided Daning City, the soldiers guarding the gate were still chatting. The result can be imagined, the peasant army captured the city of Daning almost without much effort.

By this time, the situation was very clear. The peasant army wanted to use troops against the wealthy Shanxi, and Gao Jie, the prefect of Taiyuan, urgently dispatched troops and horses from all walks of life in Shanxi to Pingyang Prefecture, intending to block the peasant army in the area of Pingyang and Yueyang, so as not to cause trouble in the whole of Shanxi.

On May 22, the weather was dry. Gao Jie only felt upset, since he recognized the prefect of Taiyuan, he had never been so scared as now. When he thought of the nearly 200,000 rogues, he felt that his heart was about to be unbearable. Relying on Shanxi soldiers and horses, trying to block so many rogues is a dream. At this moment, Gao Jie's first thought was the Xuanfu General Soldier Tiemo. No, it's time to call him the Iron Overseer. Now the only thing that can be counted on is the border army of Datong Mansion and Xuanfu.

Especially Xuanfu, Gao Jie is not the kind of brainless who doesn't understand military affairs now, and he has also done some understanding of Xuanfu's affairs. Although Tiemo is the chief soldier of Xuanfu, the old nest soldiers of Yunfu are strong and strong, and there are no less than 80,000 adjustable soldiers and horses under his hands, which is far stronger than the strength of the general army of Xuanfu.

Thinking about what happened before, Gao Jie was a little embarrassed to ask for help, but in the face of a strong enemy, for the sake of his career, he could only write a letter to the Xuanfu with a cheeky face. Gao Jie's mind is very simple, you Tiemo, as the governor of the three provinces, is nominally in charge of the affairs of Shanxi, Henan, and Nanzhili, and now that Shanxi is making trouble, you can't ignore it.

On the same day, chaos broke out again in Shanxi. A large number of mobs have attacked the yamen in Yuci and Yueyang, and the mobs scattered and caused trouble, causing a mess in Yueyang and Yuci.

Yueyang was close to Pingyang Mansion, Yueyang was in chaos, and the defense line composed of soldiers and horses in Shanxi suddenly had a gap. And Yuci, that's even more important, where is close to Taiyuan, if the Yuci chaos can't be contained, Taiyuan will soon be affected. What makes Gao Jie even more anxious is that the old man of the Chang family, Chang Yinxu, is still in Yuci County, he is the future father-in-law of Tiemo, if something goes wrong with the Chang family, with Tiemo's character, he will not be able to settle accounts with him Gao?

Almost instantly, Gao Jie made a decision, even if Yue Yang didn't want it, he had to keep Yuci. As a result, half of the soldiers and horses close to Taiyuan Mansion were transferred to Yuci by Gao Jie. How dare Zheng Chunhe, the new chief soldier of Shanxi, disobey Gao Jie's will, and do whatever Gao Jie commands, a large number of soldiers and horses poured into Yuci, and soon controlled the situation in Yuci County. But in the same way, because too many soldiers and horses were transferred to Yuci, Yueyang's troops were insufficient, and taking this opportunity, Sun Kewang led an army of 10,000 to bypass from the north of Pingyang Mansion and penetrate directly to the south side of Yueyang.

That night, a group of men in gray and white robes quietly poured into the streets of Yueyang, and they took advantage of the rest of the city guards to suddenly attack the north gate. The Yueyang guards thought that the chaos had been controlled, but they didn't expect that there was such an enemy army in ambush in the city. This group of people is different from the rogues outside the city, they are well-trained, not afraid of death, and even rely on more than 200 people to suppress the more than 400 guards near the north city gate.

The arrow rose to the sky, Sun Kewang, who had already been ambushed outside the city, led his troops to attack the city, and the two sides should cooperate with each other, and in less than an hour, the north gate of Yueyang fell.

The North City Gate fell, and the officers and soldiers could no longer stop the footsteps of the Liukou, and by the next hour, the Liukou had occupied the entire Yueyang City. Zhang Xianzhong personally led a large army to garrison Yueyang City, and the next day he divided his troops and approached Pingyang Mansion. At this time, Pingyang Mansion was completely separated by Yueyang.

The situation in Shanxi is changing too fast, and it is overwhelming. With the fall of Yueyang City, Wang Ziyong gathered the main army and marched south from the east of Yan'an Mansion to the south of Shanxi.

By this time, Gao Jie's anxious suicide heart was gone. If Liukou is allowed to turn Shanxi into a second Shaanxi, his head will definitely have to be moved. So, Gao Jie repaired another book and sent it to Xuanhua urgently.

At this time, Tiemo, who was in Xuanhua, was also shocked by the changes in Shanxi.