In fact, when the puppet Tang thief army just went south, it had already caused panic in many places in Guangxi, such as Liuzhou, in fact, before being besieged by the puppet Tang thief army, the gentry who were originally in the city had already fled a lot.

Subsequently, the puppet Tang thief army continued to go south to Xiangzhou, especially when Anjia Wharf defeated Wei Yan's 8,000 army, and even scared the people in Xunzhou Mansion and other state capitals next door to death, and many people had actually fled.

However, after the puppet Tang thief army went around Xiangzhou in a circle, it went back to Liuzhou, which made many people feel at ease, and then began to look forward to the adults above to organize an army to suppress those damn pseudo-Tang thieves, and many people who began to leave returned to the city.

But it hasn't been long now, and they heard that the puppet Tang thief army is moving south, and there are more than 50,000 people at the beginning, which frightened them.

Wuxuan City and even Wuzhou in the rear are panicked because the main force of the puppet Tang thief army is going south, many gentry have begun to flee from Wuxuan, and even Wuzhou is afraid to stay, even if the puppet Tang thief army can't beat Wuxuan and Wuzhou in the end, but when the war comes, they, ordinary people, will always suffer from the scourge of war.

Not to mention anything else, if Wuzhou is besieged by the puppet Tang thief army, it will be fine for the next two months, but if it is besieged for half a year or even longer, what will the soldiers and civilians in the city eat? When the time comes, he will either be starved to death or eaten by Yizi.

They didn't want to take such a risk, so basically people with the slightest idea began to leave Wuzhou with their families, preparing to go to the countryside first, or simply go to Zhaoqing and Guangzhou in Guangdong to escape the war.

Of course, the gentry and merchants who were able to escape from Wuzhou and avoid the war were basically the gentry and merchants, and ordinary people could not go, their roots were here, and there was nowhere to escape.

The panic of the people in the rear can be regarded as an indirect witness to the powerlessness of the officials and troops in Guangxi against the puppet Tang thief army, if the officials and troops in Guangxi can effectively contain and even suppress the puppet Tang thief army, these gentry will be so panicked, they must be drinking wine and listening to small songs and laughing about the gossip of the puppet Tang thief army.

However, now, anyone who knows a little bit about the situation can see that not to mention Guangxi, even if it is the strength of the entire Liangguang, whether this can suppress the puppet Tang thief army is two words.

Once it can't be suppressed and Wuxuan and Wuzhou can't be held, then the entire Liangguang will fall into the hands of the thief army.

This possibility will naturally cause panic among the people, cause a shock in the officialdom, and cause a shock in Beijing!

Yes!

When Li Xuan led his army to leave Liuzhou and go south, the adults in the Beijing division and Emperor Zhengde also learned about the defeat of the Guangxi official army in Xiangzhou and the fall of Liuzhou.

Originally, according to the speed of the Ming Dynasty's post station, the adults in the Beijing division should soon know, but after this defeat, it is natural that the Pegasus will not be the first time to report the unclear Pegasus, at least to determine the truth of the news, and then carefully consider how to write the excerpt, and then pass it upward, in this process, there are naturally many places that need to be considered in detail, not that the defeat is to pass the news upwards in a panic, what kind of system does it become, and whether there is a little political consciousness.

In particular, Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, had just written the excerpt of the fiasco of Xiangzhou, and then more than a dozen staff members worked together to polish it, and he had just sent someone to send it back, and the bad news that Liuzhou had been captured came in front of him.

Therefore, Wang Yue inevitably sent someone to investigate, and then thought hard about how to write this excerpt.

If you stupidly directly report the continuous fiasco, this is looking for death!

So in this excerpt, Wang Yue not only wrote that Liuzhou was conquered, but also wrote about Guilin Mansion, saying that the soldiers and civilians of Guilin Mansion fought bravely, and they had defeated the puppet Tang thief army many times in a row, thanks to the protection of His Majesty, not only kept Guilin Mansion in the attack of the puppet Tang thief army, but also killed countless thieves.

More importantly, it thwarted the conspiracy of the puppet Tang thief army to try to go south through Guilin Mansion and directly attack Wuzhou Mansion, saved Wuzhou Mansion and Xunzhou Mansion, bought time for the official army to gather troops, and bought time for the follow-up suppression and annihilation of the puppet Tang Thief Army.

Guilin is also a great victory!

Yes, you read that right, in the recital that Wang Yue presented to Jingshi, although he wrote bad news that Liuzhou was conquered, he also gave good news to Zhengde and the cabinet bosses: Guilin victory!

In addition, it is also written why Liuzhou was conquered, this is because the puppet Tang thief army came too suddenly, and the soldiers and civilians of Guangxi have not yet reacted, the puppet Tang thief army is to surround Liuzhou City, and it is extremely treacherous, and ambush in Xiangzhou to block their own rescue, which led to the capture of Liuzhou.

At the same time, they are also crying about poverty, saying that the two provinces are poor, the troops are small, the defenders in Liuzhou City are only a few thousand, and the ordnance is old and unbearable, but the thief army that has entered Guangxi has reached 50,000 people, there are 100 kilograms of heavy artillery, hundreds of bowls and mouths, and the officers and soldiers are 10 enemies, which is really difficult to sustain.

He also said that he had exhausted the troops of Guangxi, but there were no more than 10,000 soldiers, so he could only barely defend Wuxuan and Wuzhou, and tried his best to ensure that Wuxuan and Wuzhou were not lost.

But don't worry, this governor has already ordered the officers and soldiers to train hard day and night, and began to recruit Guangdong troops and the young and strong of the two provinces, ready to swear to defend Wuzhou City for the Son of Heaven and keep the two Guangyunyun!

Although Wang Yue has been quite cautious in the use of words, and has also come up with a plausible victory in Guilin as a cover, but after these two excerpts arrived in Beijing, they still caused a shock in Beijing.

In the Forbidden City, Emperor Zhengde, who was lying on the bed, watched the whole process with a frown, and then raised his head to look at the few important ministers below, and said in a weak voice: "Li went against the flow of Guizhou and Guangxi provinces, from a first-class thief to tens of thousands of soldiers, and even Guizhou Zhongfu County, and now even Liuzhou is also in the hands of thieves, what are you going to do, didn't you say that Li Cheng is just a small thief, and he can be exterminated overnight?" ”

Although Emperor Zhengde's voice was weak, this attitude of accountability was clearly expressed.

It's almost like saying that you are all waste, and you can't even exterminate a bandit, but let him become bigger.

Immediately, several cabinets below secretly glanced at each other, and finally Shoufu Xia Yan (Note 1) still stood up and said: "Your Majesty, even though this Li Reverse has been wandering for a while, but now Liangguang, Huguang and other provinces have been exhausted, and Wuzhou in Guangxi is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if the puppet Tang thief army continues to advance eastward, it will definitely be hit on the head and bleed, and when the time comes, the elite soldiers of several provinces will suppress Li Rebellion, and the Li Rebellion will be in a different place!" ”

When a few people said this, a few people next to them were muttering in their hearts: This is all nonsense!

Immediately, I saw a person come out and said: "Your Majesty, now Li Shun has a huge army of 100,000 troops, not to be underestimated, now the reason why Guizhou has fallen, only Guiyang is holding on, Guangxi Liuzhou is lost to the hands of thieves, it is because the military affairs of the provinces are not the same, Li Reverse is in Guizhou to make trouble, Huguang, Liangguang, Yunnan and other provinces are all immovable, now Li is going against the current in Guangxi, the vast army of Huguang is still immovable, in the opinion of the ministers, it is necessary to send a capable minister to coordinate the military affairs of Guizhou, Liangguang, Huguang and other provinces, so as to quickly control the situation, Destroy Li Rence! ”

After this man came out to speak, Emperor Zhengde glanced at him and saw that it was Yan Song (Note 2), a scholar of the Huagai Palace, although this statement was still a little false, but it was much stronger than Xia Yan's nonsense, at least once again put forward the suggestion of sending a minister to the military affairs of the southern provinces.

In fact, as early as a month ago, the Jingshi side had already begun to discuss whether to send an important minister and prime minister to the military affairs of several southern provinces to encircle and suppress the puppet Tang thief army.

However, at that time, there were many people who said that the puppet Tang thief army was just a first-class thief, in order to deal with a thief, he sent important ministers to supervise the military affairs of several southern provinces, this is not too much of a fuss, if there is a rebellion to send a supervisor, then our Ming Dynasty does not send a few supervisors every year, after all, this rebellion is every year, and there are a lot of them.

Therefore, although this topic was brought up and discussed at the court meeting, it ended in nothing.

It's just that Liangguang, Huguang, Guizhou and other provinces were strictly ordered to prevent Li from running against the current and exterminate it as soon as possible!

But there will be thought, it didn't take long for the puppet Tang thief army to go south to Guangxi, and captured Liuzhou in one fell swoop, and at the same time annihilated more than 10,000 Guangxi officials and soldiers, which made a group of ministers in Beijing drop their jaws!

This rebellion happens every year, and everyone is not surprised, but it is still rare to make such a huge noise as the puppet Tang thief army.

This kind of momentum is afraid that it is comparable to the rebellion of King Ning more than 20 years ago, well, it is even bigger.

But how long did King Ning's rebellion last? It was only forty days before and after, and when the official army put down the rebellion, it was also clean and neat, and Wang Shouren, who was the governor of Southern Jiangxi at the time, easily took King Ning down.

However, this Li Rebellion has been going on for several years, and at the beginning, they saw this joke-like pseudo-Tang Dynasty from the twists and turns of Su Jiakang, the county commander of Zhengtai County, and at that time, everyone didn't take it seriously, and they were right to laugh about it.

Later, I saw the puppet Tang thief army from the twists and turns of Song Zhiwen, the prefect of Xingquan Mansion, and after hearing that the official army was defeated, and even the capital of Xingquan Mansion was lost, the bigwigs of the court were naturally unhappy, so Song Zhiwen was escorted to Beijing to await trial, and now he is still in prison.

At that time, they asked Guizhou Governor Zhu Zhihai to pacify Li Shun, originally thought that this matter would be over, a provincial governor with tens of thousands of troops to fight a few first-class thieves, not a matter of hand-to-hand capture, but there I think that even Zhu Zhihai's army was defeated in the copper drum Acropolis of Liping Mansion and the city of Liping Mansion, not only the army was defeated, but even Zhu Zhihai, an upright old man, died in Liping Mansion.

This time, it has finally attracted the attention of the court bigwigs!