On the eleventh day of January in the eighth lunar month of Chongzhen, shortly after the end of the New Year, Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong, two giant thieves, entangled the sweeping king, the Taiping king and other subordinates, about 100,000 people, entered the south of Zhili through Henan Runing Mansion, and conquered Yingzhou on the same day. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Due to the huge thief, most of the Ming army defending the city in Yingzhou fled when they heard the news, and in this extremely bad situation, Zhang Heming, the former secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, led his younger brother Zhang Heteng and Zhang Heling to recruit their own villagers, and the remnants of the officers and soldiers who had not yet fled worked hard to defend the city. Of course, how can such a grass-created soldier be the elite opponent of the battle-hardened rogue elite. The city of Yingzhou was quickly breached, and the thieves wantonly plundered and slaughtered, and almost all adults in Yingzhou were hell.

At this time, the three brothers of the Zhang family also became prisoners, Gao Yingxiang forced them to surrender, Zhang Heming did not comply, and the general Li Zicheng was angry, hung him upside down on a tree, and ordered the sergeant to whip him with a leather whip, but Zhang Heming had a backbone, and scolded the thief to death at the age of 84. Subsequently, both younger brothers were killed, and the whole clan was wiped out.

Yingzhou is down, and the Liukou soldiers are heading, which is the land of Daming Longxing, and the middle capital of Fengyang.

Jingshi, Qianqing Palace.

The cold wind is howling, the cold is to the bone, although the Spring Festival has passed, in the palace, the festive atmosphere of the New Year is gone, and it has returned to the depressing and gloomy atmosphere of the past.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was reviewing the recital in the Qianqing Palace, received an urgent report from Yang Yipeng, the governor of Caoyun and the governor of Fengyang.

In Yang Yipeng's 800-mile urgent report, he reported the terrible news that the Liukou had now gone down to Yingzhou and was heading straight for Fengyang. Chongzhen screamed and almost fell off the dragon chair.

"Nine buds are mistaken, nine buds are mistaken!"

Chongzhen was urgently helped up by the eunuch, and his mouth was still scolding Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

Some time ago, he received a report to Sun Jin in the matter, saying that the Liukou invaded the southeast, and it was very likely to invade the imperial tomb, on the same day, Chongzhen consulted Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, on this matter, but Zhang Fengyi comforted him and said: "The thief starts from the northwest, does not eat rice, and the thief and horse do not eat Jiangnan rice. ”

Chongzhen believed this strange theory.

If it weren't for Zhang Fengyi's current trip to Shaanxi to supervise the progress of the bandits, and he couldn't move for the time being, Chongzhen really wanted to kill him immediately.

It's just the cruel reality, but it doesn't allow him to be an ostrich that buries his head in the sand.

"Quickly pass the first assistant to the Hajj!" Chongzhen yelled at the eunuch on the side.

The eunuch who gave the order, like a frightened rabbit, quickly rushed out of the Qianqing Palace and disappeared at the end of the Danqi outside the palace.

Soon, the frightened Shoufu Wen Tiren came to the Qianqing Palace under the guidance of the eunuch.

He knelt down and saluted, and Chongzhen hurriedly asked: "Changqing, let me ask you, now that the thieves are directly invading Fengyang, what can I do, can there be a way to resist the enemy?!" ”

Shoufu Wen Tiren, who knelt on the ground, was in cold sweat on his back in this cold weather.

"Your Majesty, Fengyang is the place of my royal dragon xing, in order to protect the dragon vein feng shui for thousands of years, so there is no city wall. It's just such a defenseless city, if the enemy comes, how can it be stopped! The top priority now is to stop the Liukou on the way from Yingzhou to Fengyang and prevent them from attacking Fengyang. ”

Chongzhen waved his hand anxiously and shouted: "I know this truth. Now how to stop the enemy, but it matters! ”

Chongzhen's questioning hit Wen Tiren's weakness.

This famous traitor who is scheming and good at infighting is confused externally and in terms of military use. Now it is really difficult for him to deal with how to deal with the rogue.

However, Wen Tiren didn't dare not answer, he thought about it quickly, gritted his teeth and said: "The minister thinks that Yang Yipeng, the governor of Caoyun, should be ordered to lead the troops to Fengyang from Huai'an, where he is stationed, to block the attack of Liukou. Luo Ju, the general soldier of Suizhou, led the troops and horses of his headquarters to Fengyang to support Yang Yipeng. Then he ordered the general soldier Deng Xi to lead the Sichuan soldiers from Xinyang, Henan Province to the south of Zhili, in order to block the road behind Liukou. In the end, Zhang Guowei, the governor of Yingtian, was ordered to send Nanjing troops to aid Fengyang, and together with the above three soldiers and horses, they formed a situation of encirclement and killing on all sides, so as to completely solve the crisis in Fengyang. ”

Chongzhen listened to Wen Tiren's answer, but the gloom on his face was deeper, he could clearly feel that Wen Tiren's strategy seemed to have many loopholes, but the emperor was not good at military affairs, and he couldn't say the specific reason for it for a while.

If it seems to future generations, Wen Tiren's strategy is actually quite flashy.

First of all, the Ming army in various places, except for a few Ming troops such as Hong Chengchou who dared to fight with the Liukou, the rest of the Ming army was afraid of the Kou like a tiger, and the Ming Zhe protected themselves and avoided the Kou without fighting. Expecting such a negative mentality of the Ming army to defeat the vigorous rogue is a luxury in itself.

Secondly, the degree of organization and cooperation between the Ming armies of various ministries is extremely poor, and it is common for all kinds of wait-and-see failures, sitting back and watching the defeat of friendly forces, and even secretly dismantling Taiwan. At present, it is impossible to form an effective cooperation with the imperial court alone.

In the end, time waits for no one, the rogues travel more than 100 miles a day, the speed is extremely fast, the officers and soldiers have more steps and fewer horses, and the lack of food and salary is demoralized, and the day is only twenty or thirty miles, the two are relatively compared, and those pursuing officers and soldiers, in addition to only being able to eat ashes behind the rogue buttocks, there is really no way to catch up with the speed of the rogue invasion.

In the real history, when the Liukou attacked the city, none of the four soldiers and horses could successfully reach Fengyang, and when the Liukou captured Fengyang and plundered it, these four soldiers and horses were only halfway and did not pose the slightest threat to the Liukou.

It's just that now the situation is so urgent, and there are all vegetables on the plate, and Emperor Chongzhen doesn't have the heart and time to design and think about a comprehensive encirclement plan.

At this time, the emperor suddenly thought of a person.

That is, the current commander of the Red Fengwei is Li Xiao.

Li Xiao, a young general who captured many Tartar heads on Xuanfu North Road that day, and even captured many Tartar prisoners, left a deep impression in Chongzhen's heart.

Listening to the secret report of Jinyiwei, now Li Xiao's Chifengwei has been built vigorously and vigorously, and the soldiers and horses have also expanded a lot, Chongzhen secretly thought that if he can send this person to guard Fengyang, it will definitely greatly increase the chances of victory for the officers and soldiers.

Such a young celebrity, don't be ridiculed!

Chongzhen immediately told Shoufu Wen Tiren this idea.

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Wen Tiren hesitated.

"Your Majesty, this Red Fengwei is far away in the territory of Denglai in Shandong, thousands of miles away from Fengyang, Li Xiao's army, even if it moves day and night, I am afraid that it will not be able to catch up with the battle to defend Fengyang." Wen Tiren expressed his worries to the emperor.

The emperor's face suddenly turned gray, he was silent for a moment, and muttered: "Even so, Li Xiao needs to send troops, even if he can't catch up with the battle of Fengyang, if he can kill the Liukou tribes, he can also comfort my heart a little." ”

Hearing the emperor's helpless words, Wen Tiren's heart suddenly felt sour.

It seems that the emperor doesn't have much confidence that he can defend this Fengyang City.

The hall was silent, only a strong cold wind, which made the window paper rattle, and the atmosphere was quite depressing.

"If the emperor has made up his mind, Weichen will immediately go down to give an order." Wen Tiren whispered, breaking the silence that made it difficult to breathe.

"Okay, just like Changqing's decision, and then announce that Li Xiao rushed to Fengyang from Shandong to rescue, please Changqing quickly pass on my edict, and we must prevent the thieves from attacking Fengyang!"

"Wechen obeys the holy order."

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A few days later, Li Xiao, who had rushed back to Chifengwei, received a military order from the eunuch to send troops to rescue Fengyang in the official hall.

Li Xiao's face was as solemn as iron, but he still respectfully gave the eunuch his hard-earned silver, and Fang sent him back.

In the hall where the charcoal fire was burning, Li Xiao silently looked at the imperial military order covered with the seal of the military department in his hand, and suddenly felt an inexplicable bitterness in his heart.

He had read the history of the Ming Dynasty in his previous life, of course he knew what the outcome of this Fengyang protection battle was.

Because the reinforcements from the four routes could not arrive, Fengyang stayed behind Zhu Guoxiang, led the command of Yuan Zheng, Lu Chengyin, Guo Xisheng and other generals, with 3,000 soldiers and horses in the city, and struggled to resist more than 100,000 elite rogues, and because Fengyang City had no city walls, it was quickly defeated. Seeing that the general trend had gone, Zhu Guoxiang killed himself, and the rest of the generals either died in the battle or were beheaded by the rogues after becoming prisoners.

After sweeping away the remnants of the Ming army, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Zhang Yichuan, the king of sweeping, and the Taiping King Hui Zhubu entered Fengyang in a big way, and then showed a murderous and hideous face.

The rogues caught Yan Rongxuan, the prefect of Fengyang, who was pretending to be a prisoner and hiding in the prison, and beat him to death with a stick. Six civilian officials and 41 military attachés, including Dai Wenying, were also brutally executed. Subsequently, the rogues set fire to all the imperial mausoleum buildings such as the imperial mausoleum and the Xiangdian Palace, and wantonly dug up the imperial mausoleum and took away countless treasures in the mausoleum. And the 300,000 pines in the mausoleum area were cut down together and used as wood for arson. Subsequently, more than 60 eunuchs guarding the tomb were killed, leaving only some handsome little eunuchs who were good at playing and singing, and left them in the army as the face to vent in the future. In Fengyang City, the rogues wantonly plundered and slaughtered the people, all kinds of obscene and atrocities, innumerable, and tens of thousands of people were killed. After the robbers were taken captive, they began to set fire to it again, and tens of thousands of public and private residences in Fengyang City were burned down, and even the Longxing Temple outside the city, when Zhu Yuanzhang became a monk, was also set on fire and burned to the ground. For a time, the fire inside and outside Fengyang City soared into the sky, illuminating hundreds of miles away.

Li Xiao came back to his senses from the contemplation of history and began to seriously think about how to deal with the imperial court's military order to send troops on his own.

Now in Li Xiao's army, the only mobile force is the Chifeng General with less than 6,000 people. Chifeng has just expanded, and most of the recruits have not yet fully formed their combat power. Even if the troops were urgently dispatched south today, this journey of thousands of miles, Li Xiao could be sure that there would be no chance to rush to Fengyang within a week.

And a week later, the Battle of Fengyang in the history of the late Ming Dynasty had already ended.

Taking 10,000 steps back, even if he can successfully reach Fengyang, in Fengyang City, where there is no city wall to defend, his pitiful strength is only afraid that it will not be enough for more than 100,000 elite rogues.

After all, Li Xiao is a human, not a god.

can't be like the male protagonist in those cool texts, talking and laughing between sisters, and the captives will be wiped out.

As for the rest of the Ming army to send reinforcements, Li Xiao didn't have any hope for them at all.

If they don't drag Li Xiao's hind legs, Li Xiao will burn high incense.

Besides, these four soldiers and horses, everyone has a higher rank and military rank than themselves, and they really want to get along with them when the time comes, these guys who are incompetent against the enemy, but are good at infighting, Li Xiao may have to guard against them, and they will stab them in the back coldly.

Li Xiao, who was in an irritable mood, stood up and paced repeatedly in the room.

A thought suddenly popped up from Li Xiao's heart.

Since it is so difficult to change history, can you take advantage of your understanding of history?

Then even if Fengyang is not guaranteed, if he can make more gains, the imperial court will not blame himself for his ineffective combat and delay the fighter.

Li Xiao stood still, pondered for a long time, and with a serious look on his face, Fang gradually relaxed.

A bold plan gradually took shape in Li Xiao's mind.

In the real history, after the rogues captured Fengyang, they divided their troops and evacuated Fengyang.

One of the routes, Gao Yingxiang's headquarters was the first to evacuate and enter Henan from Taihe County, Fengyang Prefecture. Through Luyi and Qixian in Henan, it enters the mountains of Mi County.

The other way of Liukou was led by the King of Sweeping and the King of Taiping, attacked Haozhou, re-entered Xiayi, Henan, and besieged Decheng, but failed, and then continued to retreat westward. Later, in the Guide area of Henan, he joined forces with Gao Yingxiang's department and jointly plotted to enter Tongguan in the west.

There is also a way to Liukou, led by Zhang Xianzhong and others, into the territory of Luzhou Mansion, successively captured Lujiang, slaughtered Chao County, Wuwei and Anqing Mansion Qianshan, Taihu, Susong and other places, and then encountered the resistance of Zhang Guowei, the governor of Yingtian, and then entered Macheng, Hubei, and finally re-entered Henan.

These several rogues, with Zhang Xianzhong's department is the most ferocious, and the encroachment on the people of the state and county is also the deepest, when he entered Kou Fengyang, Zhang Xianzhong's department stole and dug the imperial tomb the most, and robbed countless treasures in the mausoleum, and it was also a thief that Emperor Chongzhen hated the most.

It is better to cut off one of its fingers than to hurt its ten fingers.

Li Xiao decided to take the most rampant Zhang Xianzhong, even if he couldn't cut it, he would cripple the most vicious finger.

If he can defeat Zhang Xianzhong's department, he will undoubtedly give himself a big bonus in front of the emperor. Perhaps, his own official position and military position will also be further 。。。。。。

Li Xiao then summoned all the generals and told them their battle plans.

It should be said that Li Xiao's battle plan was beyond the expectations of many generals, and although they were eager to fight, they obviously had doubts on their faces.

The most critical point, which they didn't say, is why did Li Xiao think that the rogue would act like this.

Li Xiao really can't tell them this now. After all, you can't tell them that it's because you come from the afterlife that you know the enemy's actions in advance.

However, the current generals and soldiers are accustomed to strict compliance with Li Xiao's military orders. Everyone finally accepted Li Xiao's arrangement and immediately began to prepare for the expedition.

The next day, Li Xiaoqin led the general army of Chifeng and went south to Shan County.

Li Xiao set off this time, leaving only two teams of spearmen who had not yet had time to equip armor to guard the Red Phoenix Guard.

He divided his troops into two routes, one was led by him personally, with 15 teams of shield soldiers, 28 teams of spearmen, 50 Lu Mi gunners, 200 Xuanhu heavy cavalry, 200 flying harriers, and 500 auxiliary soldiers escorted grain and grass, a total of more than 5,000 troops, directly from Chifengwei, through Laizhou, to Qingzhou, then directly south, through Linqu, Yishui, Tancheng and other places, all the way south into the south of Zhili Huai'an Mansion.

On the other hand, there was an artillery unit, Li Xiao ordered, led by Gu Zifa, the deputy head of firearms, to dismantle the artillery at the head of the Chifeng Acropolis and transport it to Tielong City together with the cannonballs and gunpowder, and then deploy at the head of Tielong City.

The cold wind was cold, the carriages and horses were sluggish, and Li Xiaojun, who was moving all the way, was like a long gray-black snake marching on the vast land, heading south.

The unpredictable future, in the distance of fate, awaits Li Xiao, who leads the army to set off.

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