The first is Fan Ju's Fifth Battalion of the Left Wing. [No pop-ups. When he heard that the court had sent Sun Chuanting as the governor to control the military of the six provinces, Fan Ju was deeply worried, and he knew that Sun Chuanting was one of the few famous generals today, and his ability was far above Yang Sichang. And this person is good at fighting tough battles, as evidenced by the total annihilation of Gao Yingxiang's department.

So Fan Ju convened everyone to discuss countermeasures, and Ziyi believed that Xuzhou should be taken first, and then based on this, he would attack the city and plunder the land to expand the territory.

He and Fan Ju are both people from the Qin army, not Liukou, their vision is much higher, Xuzhou is the Central Plains since ancient times, but also the land of fish and rice, there are many rivers and lakes in the territory, rich in products, to the east can attack the two Huai, to the north can look at Shandong, to the west can covet Henan, all directions can act, so Fan Ju and Ziyi have long been eyeing this plot.

At present, Cheng Baixiong, the defender of Xuzhou, is strengthening the city defense, preparing to defend to the death, he will empty all the villages outside the city, the people will be moved into the city, all the wells are blocked, and the walls are clear, it seems that he is going to fight to the death with the fifth battalion of the left of the revolution.

Moreover, the officers and troops in Shandong are also rushing to Xuzhou day and night.

Fan Ju knew that if the action was improper, the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution would fall into great passivity, and the city of Xuzhou would not be easy to capture, and once the official reinforcements arrived, the consequences would be unimaginable.

So he told everyone his reasoning, not to attack Xuzhou, to change the target of the attack, while the official army was unprepared, to strengthen the defense of Xuzhou, the whole army marched to the southeast, to attack Yangzhou.

At this time, the Yangzhou area was an important source of taxes in the country, and there was a lot of money and grain here, especially silk, salt and iron, which accounted for almost half of the court's income. After taking here, the 5th Battalion of the Left Wing will no longer have to worry about food and wages.

As soon as this proposal came out, everyone was very excited. Yangzhou's wealth is known to the world, and if it can be defeated, it will be richer than Li Zicheng. Who doesn't blush? So there was no need to deliberate, and everyone agreed to it.

And Fan Ju has another unspeakable reason, Yangzhou is not within the scope of the six provinces, and Sun Chuanting can't control it here for the time being. Fan Ju felt that it was better to avoid Sun Chuanting at this time.

So the 5th Battalion of Gezuo, under the leadership of Fan Ju, continued to march to Xuzhou with a part of its troops, confusing the officers and troops, and the main force with the old battalion quietly went south from Suzhou, crossed the Huai River, and killed Yangzhou.

In addition, after Li Zicheng got the news of Sun Chuanting's departure from the mountain, he did not dare to slack off, at this time Li Zicheng had already led the army to Zhuxian Town in the west of Kaifeng, which was only a stone's throw away from Kaifeng. However, as soon as he heard that Sun Chuanting had been appointed as the governor of the six provinces, he immediately stopped his march and stationed his men and horses around Zhuxian Town.

Li Zicheng knew that Sun Chuanting was very visionary, and he would definitely lead the officers and troops to rescue Kaifeng in person.

Sun Chuanting is different from Yang Sichang, Yang Sichang pursued and suppressed the Zhang Luo coalition army, to put it bluntly, he just ate persimmons and picked up soft pinch, first eliminated the Zhang Luo coalition army, and then dealt with himself after freeing his hand. The Zhang-Luo coalition army was located in the Huguang area of Sichuan, which was remote and posed little threat to the imperial court, and it was Henan that really had a major impact on the situation in the world.

Yang Sichang doesn't understand, Sun Chuanting is not confused.

At this time, a lot of news about Kaifeng City has been reported, and Zhu Gongfang, the king of Zhou, has threatened that if the thieves dare to attack Kaifeng, he will take out the money and grain from the treasury and reward the soldiers, and it is even said that he has set a price to kill a thief soldier and reward one or two silver, and kill a thief leader to reward five taels of silver. For this reason, Zhu Gongfang has prepared 100,000 taels of silver, which can be regarded as a hard work.

It turned out that Zhu Gongfang, the king of Zhou, was not as dim as King Fu, he knew very well that once Kaifeng was broken, even if he had tens of thousands of family fortunes, he had to go back to Li Zicheng, and he had to learn the fate of King Fu, and he was killed or even eaten by thieves. Therefore, in addition to his own family's money and grain, he also mobilized the rich gentry in the city to donate generously, so the money and grain in Kaifeng City were very abundant. The officials, soldiers, and even residents of the city also swore to defend the city to the death, and many people spontaneously went to the city to join the ranks of the officials and soldiers.

In addition, Kaifeng guard Chen Yongfu has also cleared the wall outside Kaifeng City, a radius of 50 miles outside the city, all the people who can move into the city, all forcibly move in, and those who do not move in will be punished as bandits. In addition, all the crops outside the city were burned, the wells were filled in, the villages were demolished, and even the woods were burned, leaving no dry wood for the peasant army.

At this time, outside Kaifeng City, it was already a white land. Standing on the top of the city, you can see dozens of miles from afar.

Chen Yongfu not only cleared the walls outside Kaifeng City, but also strictly defended the city, he asked Gao Mingheng to supervise it, five households and one company, ten households and one guarantee, check the population, register and make records, and take care of outsiders and strangers. In this way, it can prevent spies from sneaking into the city.

Chen Yongfu is worthy of being a famous general in Henan, he knows the tactics of the peasant army, and always likes to send spies before attacking the city, taking advantage of the night to make trouble, and then occupy the city gate and break the city.

Gao Mingheng mobilized all the officials at all levels under his command, divided the defense area, and killed the head of whoever had an accident in any place. Therefore, there is a white land outside Kaifeng City, but inside Kaifeng City, it is a murderous atmosphere.

In addition, Li Zicheng also got the news that Fu Zonglong had already led an army of 50,000 with several generals to kill him.

At this time, Fu Zonglong's subordinates, including the general He Renlong, the fierce general Cao Bianjiao, and the governor of Baoding, Yang Wenyue, were all famous generals for a while, so Fu Zonglong was fierce and threatened to defeat Li Zicheng under Kaifeng City.

Although Li Zicheng's subordinates already have more than 200,000 people, except for the family members of the old battalion, child soldiers, and the old and weak of the army, there are only 100,000 people who can really fight. Moreover, most of these 100,000 people have only recently been recruited, and there are only 10,000 or 20,000 elite soldiers, and the rest of the people lack training and are not very disciplined, so they need to be strictly controlled.

Therefore, the situation facing Li Zicheng is also very delicate, and it can even be said to be grim.

However, the most concerned about Sun Chuanting's comeback is still the Qin army in Guanzhong.

After the king of Qin received the report, he felt that the matter was very important, and immediately invited all the important ministers around him to study countermeasures.

Li Yan first said: "Sun Chuanting's comeback is also a way that the court has no way to do. After Yang Sichang's death, there was no one who could supervise the teacher in the court, so he had to pin his hopes on Sun Chuanting. ”

King Qin said: "If Chongzhen hadn't locked him up and kept letting him lead the troops, there would never be today's situation." But at this time, when he came out of the mountain, the great tomorrow was already incorrigible, and even if Sun Chuanting had the hand to return to the sky, it was difficult to support it alone. ”

Bai Qi said: "Don't underestimate this person, I heard that the court has issued a lot of edicts in the past few days, allowing Zuo Liangyu to attack the Zhangluo coalition army, and the men and horses of Shandong are driving to Xuzhou in the starry night to block Fan Ju and the fifth battalion of Ge Zuo, and in Henan, Fu Zonglong was strictly ordered to gallop to Kaifeng, this must be Sun Chuanting's plan." ”

Zhang Yi said: "Yes, and for my Qin army, Sun Chuanting will not let it go, there must be some tricks, but we don't know it yet." ”

King Qin said: "Gu has issued a decree to order the Shehuai of Tongguan and Wang Jian of Huangling to be on strict guard, and always guard against the invasion of the official army. ”

Bai Qi said: "If the official army wants to attack, it can only be the men and horses of Jingbian, at this time, the attention of the Henan officials and troops is all in Kaifeng, and it is impossible to send out men and horses to invade Tongguan, and Shanxi ...... There was no news of the transfer of troops and horses. Therefore, it can only be Jingbian. ”

As he was talking, someone suddenly came to report: "Your Majesty, General Wang Jian has an urgent report." ”

As he spoke, he handed over a letter. King Qin took it apart and took a look, couldn't help frowning, and passed the letter to everyone, Zhang Yi took it and took a look, the general meaning of it was that in recent days, a small group of officers and cavalry suddenly appeared in the jurisdiction of the Qin army, these people came and went like the wind, out of nowhere, attacking the logistics of the Qin army, or harassing, burning, killing and looting in the villages around Huangling.

Zhang Yiyi frowned and said, "This is not like the usual practice of the official army. ”

King Qin sneered: "This must be Sun Chuanting's trick, this person is not like Yang Sichang, he pays attention to uprightness, soldiers come and go, Sun Chuanting has always been unscrupulous in order to win." He not only dares to fight big battles, tough battles, but also likes to play some small tricks, this trick is to exhaust our Qin army. ”

Li Yan said: "Exactly, a small group of people, easy to move quickly, just hit and leave, so that we can't catch it, we can't touch it, and we can't do it." At this time, Guanzhong is in the spring ploughing season and needs to be stabilized. If the people were frightened by the burning and killing attacks of the officials and soldiers and did not dare to come out to farm, the losses would be very great. ”

Zhang Yi said: "There is no military hoarding around Xi'an, and there is nothing to worry about, but Huangling has just occupied it, and has not begun to hoard fields, this county is not big, there are many garrisons, and food supplies are needed. ”

King Qin nodded: "Immediately send more people and horses to protect grain along the road." The officers and soldiers must not be allowed to cut off the food routes. ”

Bai Qi said: "It's just protecting food, it's too passive, and it takes up too many people and horses, it's easy to get tired, and it's not a way to go on like this in the long run." The only way to do this now is to exterminate or retreat these officers and soldiers who have come to harass us, so that they will not dare to step into our pass. ”

King Qin said: "Okay, this matter will be handled by you." Hmph, Sun Chuanting wanted to exhaust our army, it was indeed a poisonous plan, but he didn't expect that if he didn't come and be rude, the official army could harass my Qin army, so shouldn't my Qin army go to harass him? ”

Bai Qi smiled and said: "The minister also thinks so, the extermination of the harassing army is already a passive battle, it is better to take the initiative to attack, the king does not have to worry about this matter, the minister will teach him to take care of one and lose the other, and there is no return." ”

King Qin nodded: "In addition, Gu also wants to send an order to Wang Jian and ask him to take Jingbian as soon as possible." Sun Chuanting's eyes were on Li Zicheng in Henan at this time, the peasant army's attack on Henan contained a large number of officers and troops, and it was a good opportunity for our Qin army. ”

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