Chapter 51 Ding Qirui under Linying City

"Open the city gate, open the city gate, I am Ding Qirui, the governor of the three sides. Hurry up and open the gates. "A person is wearing a big red official uniform, but the red on his body has already receded a lot, turning into a dark red color. The self-proclaimed trilateral governor Ding Qirui had a hungry face. It looks like I've been hungry for a long time

There weren't many people around at all, no more than a thousand people at all. And they are all yellow-skinned and embarrassed, and they don't look like big officials like the governor of the three sides at all.

However, this Ding Qirui is indeed not fake.

Speaking of which, Ding Qirui is so miserable.

As soon as Yang Sichang died, no one presided over the overall situation in the southeast, Chongzhen urgently ordered Ding Qirui to take over Yang Sichang's position, but when he arrived in Xiangyang, Xiangyang said: "The big thieves are all in Henan, and there are no thieves in Huguang, please supervise the thieves in Henan." "And collect all the boats that cross the river.

Ding Qirui couldn't, so he could only transfer to Henan. As a result, several counties in Henan were closed. Ding Qirui killed the horses, and got them together with the grass to cook them and distribute them to the soldiers.

Where did he Ding Boss suffer this thief, Li Zicheng and they were still repairing in Songshan at that time. Ding Qirui didn't dare to look for Li Zicheng's matter, but he knew that the Fifth Division of Zuo Ge haunted the Dabie Mountain, so he took this one to Dabie Mountain, which is also the boundary of Henan Province.

When Emperor Chongzhen sent Fu Zonglong to serve as the governor of the trilateral to suppress Li Zicheng, the first letter from Master Ding was either anything else, or he gave up the official title of the governor of the trilateral and pushed the responsibility to Fu Zonglong. Speaking of which, there is also self-knowledge.

Emperor Chongzhen immediately approved it.

However, the good times did not last long, as soon as Fu Zonglong died, Emperor Chongzhen was furious and a little out of proportion, and immediately wrote to reprimand Ding Qirui. Ding Qirui couldn't, so he could only take more than 1,000 people around him to the north, saying that he was suppressing bandits, but in fact, he was suppressed by thieves all the way to the embankment.

It is also Henan that has become a mess of porridge, and armed groups of all sizes have surged. Ding Qirui didn't fight the banner of the superintendent, but Li Zicheng didn't find out, and even if he did, he was just a new rebel army.

The original ruling ability of the Ming Dynasty was very weak, and it was almost impossible to effectively manage the outside of the county. And Li Zicheng swept all the way, and even pulled up the county one by one, so that even the only remaining order could not be maintained. In anarchic Henan, not only the Ming Dynasty could not control the news here in a timely manner, but even Li Zicheng could not control it in a timely manner.

The city did not respond, and a few people looked in, and a man in an official robe said to a squire: "Zhang Gong, this is Ding Gong." ”

This Zhang Gong's name is Zhang Qian, he has been a magistrate in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and his official reputation is very good, and he has seen Ding Qirui, who is also an official in the northwest, he looked at it from a distance, and said for a while: "It's Ding Gong." ”

As soon as this side was confirmed, Yao Wenheng, the magistrate of the county, immediately ordered the city gate to be opened, and he took the local officials and the local squires to meet Ding Qirui.

Ding Qirui breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly took everyone into the city.

"The lower official Linying County ordered Yao Wenheng to visit Lord Ding, thieves often deceive the city in the name of officials, and they are negligent, please forgive Lord Ding." Yao Wenheng said.

"Well said. Say. "Ding Qirui's current temper has long been worn out. It would be nice to be able to go into the city and rest. "Our army is short of food on the march, can the local government supply some food?"

"Since the lord has ordered it, the lower officials will naturally handle it." Yao Wenheng gritted his teeth and said.

There is no place in Henan today that is not short of food. But after all, Ding Qirui is a high-ranking official of the imperial court, and he must not be neglected.

When Ding Qirui heard that there was food, it was easy to say anything, let alone the soldiers around him, his eyes were green when he heard that there was food. When they came out of Tongguan, there were 3,000 soldiers, although some were empty, but there were more than 2,000 people, but along the way, they were embarrassed by Ding Qirui, starved to death, and fled to escape, and now there are less than 1,000 people left.

It's been a long time since I've had a full meal.

As soon as I saw something to eat, I couldn't care about anything, although it was just some coarse grains, and I devoured them.

After Ding Qirui was full of wine and food, he talked with the local gentry in Linyingzhi County, acted like a minister, and said that the imperial court soldiers would soon arrive, and you would stick to the city with your heart. And so on. When he had free time in private, he immediately summoned the prison army Guo Zailai, who had no other skills but had six tricks, the art of wind horns.

What is the six, the art of the wind horn, is the ability of fortune-telling.

Ding Qirui asked, "Mr. Guo, do you think this Linying place can live permanently?" ”

Guo Zailai pinched the three-way long beard in his hand, looked like a fairy wind and bones, and looked like he had been promoted to an immortal, but at this moment he changed into a robe, and he didn't feel like a human character. He didn't answer, burned incense and cleaned his hands, took out six copper coins, and gently threw them on the white cloth.

Ding Qirui hadn't seen the hexagram clearly, but he had already heard Guo Zailai say loudly: "It's not good, this hexagram is very dangerous, go quickly, go slowly, I'm afraid you won't be able to go." ”

Ding Qirui has always trusted Guo Zailai, and when he said this, Ding Qirui didn't say a word, and immediately gave the order, and all the soldiers got up immediately and went north.

"Lord Ding, I see that your army is also extremely tired, why don't you rest for a day before leaving?" Yao Wenheng said.

To be honest, Yao Wenheng was both happy and worried about Ding Qirui's arrival. Needless to say, Yuncheng and Linying are less than 100 miles apart, if the Yuncheng thief army goes north, it can be said that the morning is coming. And Linying's troops are insufficient, and there are less than 1,000 men and horses of Ding Qirui, which is also beneficial. But I was worried, worried that the thief knew that Ding Qirui was here, and he didn't have the heart to attack Ying, but also had the heart to go down.

After all, Li Zicheng has been back and forth in Henan I don't know how many times, and he is familiar with the road. Yao Wenheng also knew that Li Zicheng did not have to attack the city. And Ding Qirui is the reason why Li Zicheng has to attack the city. But as a Ming courtier, this kind of fear of thieves like a tiger is obviously unspeakable.

"I am an important minister of the state, and now that the thief is in such a hurry, the saint is worried day and night, so he does not dare to neglect it in the slightest." Ding Qirui said: "Therefore, there can be no delay, you are leaving." ”

Ding Qirui didn't stop at all, he left Linying City from the north gate and went directly to Xuzhou.

Yao Wenheng still felt that Ding Qirui was loyal to the monarchy, but suddenly remembered that Ding Qirui was out of the city from the north gate, and Li Ziming was in the south? I suddenly felt uncomfortable for a while.

"The county commander, the county commander." One said loudly.

"Panic, panic." Yao Wenheng said: "What happened? ”

"The thieves sent troops, and the thieves sent more than 10,000 foot riders out of the north gate of Yuncheng and came to Linying, which was only about twenty miles away from the county seat at this time."

As soon as these words came out, the officials and gentry of Linying suddenly made an uproar. Yao Wenheng also had a blank face, and said: "Hurry up, let all the soldiers Ding Zhuang go to the city to defend it, and, also, send someone to call Inspector Ding over." ”

There was a rush in Linying City, but after Ding Qirui got the news, he would only run faster, where would he come back.

At this time, it was on the official road in the south of Linying City. Zhang Xuan has 3,000 foot soldiers, and Luo Yulong's sentry cavalry has about 2,000 horses, although Zhang Xuan's number is more than Luo Yulong's, but Luo Yulong is the main general in this battle, which is a common practice. Among the rebels, the status of the horse team was higher than that of other armies, and it was almost ironclad.

Don't want Luo Yulong to be almost the same as Zhang Xuan's department, even if Luo Yulong only has less than a thousand horses, this main general is still the leader of the horse team.

After Luo Yulong and Zhang Xuan and his entourage went out of Yuncheng, Chuang Ying and Cao Ying's army also went out of the West Gate, with 100,000 people, attacking Ye County and Xiang County, and then turning south to attack Nanyang Prefectures.

Li Zicheng went north from Xinyang, swept the Runing counties, and then swept Nanyang, for a period of time, there was no worries, even if there was an enemy, the righteous army arranged people to guard in each county, and Li Zicheng would be given a certain time to react.

Li Zicheng decided to take advantage of this time to attack Kaifeng City with heavy troops. Kaifeng City must be taken down, and Kaifeng Mansion will be used to dominate Henan counties and counties, and the righteous army will really have a foothold.

Now the action is just an interval after a big battle with the imperial court.