The New Year was approaching, and the officials of the Ming court were a little unhappy, and their mood was affected by the war in Guangdong.

Before there were rebellious people in Guangdong, then Wu Wenhua played the Ming army of Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian to encircle and suppress the rebellious people, plus the Ming army in Guangdong, and the 60,000-strong army encircled and suppressed a group of rebellious people who only made chaos in many counties, it should be very easy, and the big officials didn't care much about this matter.

Even officials from Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian did not pay much attention to it, and each pieced together an army of 10,000 people to march towards Guangdong.

It can be said that everyone does not care about the People's Army, but as the People's Army successively defeated the three Ming armies of Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian, and even several counties in southern Jiangxi were captured by the People's Army, even if they did not know the news of the capture of Guangzhou City, the officials in Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian panicked.

After losing the battle, they finally knew the strength of the People's Army, and they were worried that the People's Army would come over, especially Jiangxi, which was occupied by the People's Army in several counties, and hurriedly reported to the imperial court for help.

Since childhood, letters of help from Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian have been sent to the capital in turn.

Receiving the first request for help, the officials of the Ming court felt that there was nothing, but the Ming army was defeated all the way, and if it was defeated, it should be punished, it doesn't matter if the soldiers died, the Ming Dynasty was so big, and some were people.

When the second request for help came, the officials of the Ming court were puzzled, and they could understand that they had lost all the way, so they regarded it as a light enemy, after all, the Ming army in Guangdong had underestimated the enemy before, and they had to ask for support from other Ming troops.

When the third request for help came, the officials of the Ming court felt that something was wrong, the chaotic people defeated one way, the two Ming armies were still acceptable, the three Ming armies were defeated, and the Ming army of Guangdong all the way was victorious or defeated, if it was defeated, then there would be a big problem in Guangdong.

Before the New Year, the intelligence from Guangdong was finally sent to the capital, and when I saw the information, everyone from the emperor to the courtiers couldn't sit still.

The Ming army in Guangdong was defeated, the city of Guangzhou fell, and Wu Wenhua, the governor of Guangdong, Guo Mian, the current Guangdong commander-in-chief, and Ren Jianxiu, the former Guangdong commander-in-chief, were all killed in battle.

The city of Guangzhou fell, and most of the Ming army in Guangdong was killed, anyway, this was to occupy the whole of Guangdong.

It has been many years since such a big thing has happened to a chief executive.

There are also anti-thieves, rebels, and rebel armies that have a greater impact than the People's Army, but it is almost impossible for them to capture a big city like Guangzhou City, and even the capital city is difficult to capture.

Even the city of Guangzhou was captured by the People's Army, something that had not happened for many years.

"Your Minister, please send a large army to exterminate the thieves."

One minister asked to play, and other ministers echoed it, this is his own country, Zhu Yijun also wants to exterminate the thieves as soon as possible, and the matter of sending a large army to Guangdong to suppress the thieves has been decided.

However, after that, on the question of which Ming army should be mobilized to suppress the thieves, the ministers were divided into two factions, one faction believed that the border army should be mobilized to suppress the thieves, and the other faction believed that the Ming army from all over the south should be mobilized to suppress the thieves.

The border army was mobilized to suppress the thieves in the past because the border army was strong, and everyone was assured that they could quickly suppress the thieves, but the opposition believed that the border army was in the north, too far away from Guangdong, and it would take a lot of time to march, and the border army was accustomed to fighting in the north and was not familiar with the south, so it was unknown how much strength was left in Guangdong.

More importantly, it is winter now, and the weather needs to be warmer in spring to mobilize the border army, and the border army also has to guard the frontier, once the Tatars invade the frontier, it will be more troublesome than Guangdong being occupied by thieves, and I am afraid that the capital will be in danger.

For the sake of their own lives, they should not mobilize the border troops at will, and this is the idea of some ministers who oppose the mobilization of the border army.

The idea of mobilizing the Ming army from all over the south is very simple, the weather in the south is warmer than that in the north, and it is relatively close to Guangdong, so it can pass quickly and save a lot of trouble, but there are also shortcomings, that is, the Ming army in the south, especially the Ming army in the inland area, the combat effectiveness is really worrying.

In the end, Zhu Yijun made a decision to choose the latter, and ordered Song Yingchang, the right attendant of the military department, to mobilize Ming troops from all over the south to Guangdong to suppress thieves, and the number of troops was at least 200,000.

It means that the Ming court will encircle and suppress the People's Army for the third time, and at least 200,000 Ming troops will be dispatched.

Song Yingchang spent a year in the capital, and on the third day of the Lunar New Year, he packed up and went to Nanzhili, mobilizing Ming troops from all over the south to encircle and suppress the thieves in Guangdong.

In the few days after learning about the fall of Guangzhou, the information from Guangdong continued to be sent to the capital, and Zhu Yijun and his courtiers also learned about the situation in Guangdong.

With the fall of Guangzhou City, the entire eastern and northern parts of Guangdong have fallen, and Zhaoqing Mansion in the west of Guangzhou Mansion has also fallen, and more than 7,000 Ming troops in Zhaoqing Mansion City have been wiped out together.

It takes many days to send a letter from Guangdong to the capital, and it may be that in the few days when the letter is delivered, more places in Guangdong have fallen, which is something that everyone can guess.

Therefore, Song Yingchang, who was appointed by the emperor to suppress the thieves, could no longer sit still, and hurriedly left the capital, hoping that before mobilizing a large army to encircle and suppress the anti-thieves who were causing chaos in Guangdong, the anti-thieves would stay in Guangdong and not move, so that the anti-thieves could not affect more places.

Although the People's Army fought one battle after another, and the number of casualties on its own side was also very large, but with the continuous expansion of the territory of the People's Army, the belief in overthrowing the Ming Dynasty in everyone's hearts has deepened.

The overthrow of the Ming Dynasty was a slogan, a goal, and many people had this idea in their hearts, but they could not believe that it could be achieved, but with the occupation of most of Guangdong by the People's Army, confidence arose.

Ordinary people under the rule of the People's Army, this year is almost the same as the previous year, but this year their faces are full of smiles, they have obtained their own farmland, in the next year, they will accumulate a lot of wealth for themselves, the next year, they can live a good year.

The central government of the People's Army has moved to the city of Guangzhou, with the city of Guangzhou as the center, and the central government of the People's Army has begun to be busy with all kinds of affairs.

With the expansion of the territory of the People's Army and the increase in the population under its rule, the number of things that need to be busy has also increased, even during the New Year, Zhou Lei, Zhao Hong, Ding Wei and others are staying up all night to deal with government affairs.

Although it is very hard to deal with a large number of government affairs, they are not tired, seeing the People's Army defeat the Ming Army and laying down such a large territory, they seem to have seen the scene of the People's Army overthrowing the Ming Dynasty in the future, and when they think of this, they are full of motivation.

Not only the central government of the People's Army, but also the People's Army governments in Yong'an County, Haifeng County, Guishan County and other counties have dispatched officials to the newly occupied territories of the People's Army to set up county and state governments.

"From today onwards, you will no longer be oppressed and exploited, you will have your own land, and good days are coming!"