Chapter VIII The Situation

"This month, the thieves went down to Tang County, and they are preparing to attack Suizhou, Lord Inspector. Are we going to Suizhou to rescue Suizhou? Li Benshi said cautiously.

Fu Zonglong's beard and hair were all white, and his two years in prison seriously damaged Fu Zonglong's health.

Fu Zonglong is a veteran and a veteran, and he became famous during the Apocalypse. At the beginning, after Shenyang was captured by the Tartars, Fu Zonglong asked the governor of Liaodong, but did not make the trip, and later the Shuixi clan made a rebellion, Fu Zonglong participated in the pacification, and it was also very prestigious at that time.

However, Fu Zonglong's temper is stinky enough, and if he says something good, he is upright, and if he says something bad, it is stinky and hard.

During the Chongzhen years, he was dismissed from office after several uprisings, but he did not become an official for a few days.

For example, the last time he became an official, it was Yang Sichang who promoted Fu Zonglong as the governor of Sichuan. Fu Zonglong spent two years in Sichuan and was promoted to the secretary of the military department. It stands to reason that he should inherit Yang Sichang's favor, but Fu Zonglong does not.

He impeached Xiong Wencan, who was also defending Yang Sichang. thinks that Xiong Wencan's matter of appeasing Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai will never succeed. Yang Sichang was very embarrassed, but at that time, Yang Sichang was favored, and a little trick would make Fu Zonglong anger Emperor Chongzhen. And Fu Zonglong's temper of not admitting his mistake made Chongzhen lose his temper.

Fu Zonglong doesn't admit his mistake, that doesn't mean that it is Chongzhen who is wrong.

How can Chongzhen admit it. Chongzhen was bent on killing Fu Zonglong. But there were many people who pleaded for mercy, and the result of everyone's handling was to let Fu Zonglong go home, but Chongzhen was unwilling and sent Fu Zonglong to prison.

In a trance, two years passed.

In the past two years, the world has been turned upside down.

Zhang Xianzhong was appeased and then rebelled, Yang Sichang committed suicide in defeat, and Chongzhen needed a member of the important minister to replace Yang Sichang's position and exterminate the righteous army. recommended Ding Qirui first, but Ding Qirui is so unbearable that even laymen can see it. Chongzhen only needs to find someone again.

Chongzhen rummaged through the entrainment, and there were not many people left.

At this time, Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, recommended Fu Zonglong. Chongzhen had to use it as a last resort. Reappointed as Governor of Qin.

As soon as Fu Zonglong arrived in Xi'an, he immediately mobilized the Qin soldiers, He Yilong's department, and then mobilized the Sichuan army, and recruited the old department by himself.

It has a very high status among Fu Zonglong's supervision.

"Nope." Fu Zonglong shook his head and said, "Don't go to Suizhou." Take a detour to Xiangyang and go to Chengtianfu. I don't want to be Yang Sichang's second. ”

Li Benshi immediately understood what was going on.

What did Yang Sichang die for, that is, the loss of two vassal kings, and where is Chengtianfu? It is the modern Zhong Xiang, but the status here in the Ming Dynasty is quite special, it is because of Emperor Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing's father was named King Xing, he was sealed here, and later Emperor Zhengde died without children. Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne from here to Beijing.

Now the tomb of Emperor Jiajing's father, King Xingxian, is still in Chengtianfu.

The Chongzhen Emperor is the Jiajing Emperor lineage, and the Jingling Tomb of the Xingxian King can be said to be one of the ancestral tombs of the Chongzhen Emperor. When Zhang Xianzhong burned the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum, although it was only a mound of clothes, there were also many ministers who couldn't eat and walked around. And Yang Sichang is a lesson from the past, the loss of the two feudal kings, Yang Sichang can only commit suicide to revenge

Therefore, if something went wrong with Jingling in Chengtian Mansion, Fu Zonglong would be reduced to the same fate as Yang Sichang.

Fu Zonglong immediately ordered that the army, which was originally chasing behind Li Zicheng, made a detour to Xiangyang without engaging Li Zicheng and went straight to Chengtianfu.

Li Zicheng immediately knew about the movement behind this.

Li Zicheng was about to call Luo Rucai, and the two discussed how to deal with it.

In fact, when Li Zicheng went south from Songshan, although there was a reason why the grain was about to run out, he actually got the news that Fu Zonglong had left the customs from Shaanxi.

However, after Fu Zonglong left the customs, he faced a situation that he could not imagine, Henan was so dilapidated that he could not supply food to the army, and Fu Zonglong had no choice but to raise food and go south slowly, so that Li Zicheng could go quite calmly along the way.

"Brother Luo, this situation, Brother Luo's opinion is ---?" Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai met alone, a map was hung in the tent, Luo Rucai looked at it, but saw the details of the dotted markings.

Red indicates that it is the righteous army, and black indicates that it is the official army, only to see a map, black and red staggered, with Henan as the most, almost red and black to spread the entire map, the north of the south Zhili is not peaceful, the most conspicuous red is Li Zicheng's joint venture, just in the Tang County this location. And a black arrow flashed from the west of Nanyang and headed towards Xiangyang. And in the east of Nanyang, there is also a black spot that is very eye-catching, Luo Ru knew that it was where Yang Wenyue was, in the east of Yang Wenyue, there was a piece of red, which was the joint army of Zhang Xianzhong and the fifth battalion of Zuo Ge, but a piece of black that was very close to them, that was Zuo Liangyu's department.

When Li Zicheng was repairing in Songshan, no one else was idle, Yang Wenyue tentatively attacked the mountain several times, was killed and defeated, knowing that Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were in a joint camp, and now it is not what it used to be, and it is not capable of the enemy, so he retreated to Runing, and wanted to take Runing as the foundation, gather other imperial soldiers and horses, and work with him to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng.

And Zuo Liangyu since Xinyang, can be regarded as biting Zhang Xianzhong to death, Zhang Xianzhong was defeated by Zuo Liangyu, and then converged with the five battalions of Zuo Ge, everyone fought with Zuo Liangyu together, and for a while did not have the upper hand, nor did they fall behind, and they were fighting fiercely. How successful or not, the news has not yet come.

And there is a piece of red, that is the small Yuan camp, Yuan Shi Zhong.

After three years of famine in Henan, the people were struggling to make a living, and the hungry people in Henan not only defected to the rebels from all walks of life, but also some of them set up their own poles. There are simply so many bandits entrenched in various places, with all kinds of names, why Yuan Shizhong's department is called Xiao Yuan Ying, is because there is a person surnamed Yuan called Yuan Laojiu, who rose up first, so Yuan Shizhong can only be called Xiao Yuan Ying.

However, compared to those bandits, Xiao Yuanying can also be regarded as a rising star. At this time, he was playing against Lu Jiude. Although Lu Jiude is a eunuch, Lu Jiude's subordinates are not eunuchs, and Lu Jiude's subordinates are Jingying soldiers. To be precise, it is the soldiers and horses of the Imperial Horse Supervisor

And when it comes to the soldiers and horses of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, I have to mention a few names, Zhou Yuji, Huang Degong, these people are all from the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and Huang Degong's department is near the left, he can get Huang Degong's support at any time, and Xiao Yuan Ying is not a Shaanxi Lao Kou who has fought for decades after all. Therefore, they were defeated repeatedly, but the hungry people fought one after another for a bite to eat, and after each defeat, they immediately recovered.

Although Kaifeng Mansion has a little troops, where is the capital of Henan Province, it must not be moved lightly. For a time, between the rebels and the official army, there was a stalemate.

However, stalemate is the most stable and unstable situation, and at this time, if either side can win a few battles in a row, it can immediately suppress the situation. At least that's what Chongzhen meant, let Fu Zonglong specialize in thieves. After exterminating Li Zicheng, he pacified the other rogues one by one.

However, Luo Ru only knew about Li Zicheng, and when Li Zicheng said this, he didn't ask for advice, but just be polite.

"What is Brother Li's opinion?" Luo Rucai said politely.

Li Zicheng grabbed the words without hesitation and said: "Our righteous army has always been you to fight you, I will fight mine, don't care how they fight, we have to fight Suizhou and De'an first, at this moment it is the rice ripening season, De'an Mansion has a harvest in one season, and you can also raise soldiers for several months, when the time comes, we can sit still, I'm afraid Fu Zonglong can't sit still." Whether it's a fight or a walk, it's in our hands again. ”

This was a major advantage of the rebels in fighting with the official army.

Regarding the behavior of the righteous army, after Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai discussed, they could make a decision, but Fu Zonglong could not do so. You must listen to Chongzhen's command, sometimes the generals below can sit still, but Emperor Chongzhen can't sit still.

Emperor Chongzhen had already been figured out, and he couldn't wait to engrave two words on his head, "Urgent." ”

And for the rebels, the primary problem is food, after all, the pressure to feed more than 100,000 people is quite great. Any other encirclement and suppression can be released first, and grabbing grain is the first place. Therefore, Luo Rucai did not object to this plan.

Li Zicheng got the support of Luo Rucai, and immediately sent the news down, and the army hurried south.

Immediately, the army conquered several passes of the Ming army on Tongbai Mountain, and the army entered the Huguang territory. The soldiers pointed directly at Suizhou.