After the beggar army absorbed the new army, the strength of the army quickly rose to more than 30,000 people, many of whom came to surrender to the court.

This is indispensable to the credit of the surrender of the official army in the Battle of Yiyang, they sneaked back to Kaifeng in private, and said to their own acquaintance Pao Ze that the begging army treats the warriors well, never arrears of salary, and is paid full food and salary every month.

The soldiers are also people, and no one wants to live a good life, so some of the soldiers recruited by the imperial court joined the beggar army alone, and some even brought their own weapons.

Yangchun March, originally the spring warm flowers, ice and snow melting, all things recovery season, but at that time was in the Xiaoice River period, even in March, Henan Province Henan Province is still a snowy, northern scenery scene, the weather is still very cold.

Yang Qianjun, the prefect of Henan Prefecture, stood on the city gate of the cold wind on such a cold spring day, looking fixedly at the begging army at the city gate, silent.

In just four months, this king Li Zicheng who came out of nowhere pulled up such a beggar army, and also had tens of thousands of soldiers, and defeated all the prefectures and counties in Henan except Luoyang County, and now he is stationed under Luoyang City, and it seems that he is going to fight Luoyang.

The thieves outside the city attacked everywhere in Henan Province, attacking the city and plundering the land, and the poor people responded in all directions, but the township officials and inferior gentry were extremely afraid.

In the eyes of these people, the county seat is unreliable, and only by coming to Luoyang, where the emperor's uncle is now in vassal, can he ensure his own safety.

The township officials and gentry who poured into Luoyang, Yang Qianjun arranged them. He also knew that the thieves would inevitably attack Luoyang next, so he immediately summoned the general Tian Wenzhong, and discussed with the officials at the prefecture and county levels, and deployed a plan to defend the city.

When Luoyang City has a gate in the southeast and northwest, the north gate is called Anxi Gate, and Wang Zhiguo, the county governor of Luoyang, is ordered to guard, the west gate is called Lijing Gate, and Zhou Shuye is ordered to be judged, and the south gate is called Changxia Gate, Yang Qianjun himself is guarded, and the east gate is called Jianchun Gate, and Wen Zhongyong, the deputy general in the city, is ordered to guard.

The people in the city are divided into four parts, and the chief of the four pieces, the chief of the first is responsible for supporting the defense of the four city gates.

The women lit fires and cooked food to feed the garrison, the young and strong went to the head of the city to assist the officers and soldiers in defense, and the children communicated between the head of the city and the city, and delivered arrows for supplies.

In view of the fact that many cities in Henan Prefecture were captured by the joint efforts of the inside and outside, Yang Qianjun specially ordered his subordinates to strictly investigate the spies, and those who were not the people in the city, or the relatives of the people in the city, were temporarily detained.

The prisoners in the city, more than 500 people, were temporarily released and used as coolies to carry huge stones to the city head at the Luohe river beach outside the city.

Luoyang is Dayi, not comparable to other states and counties in Henan Province, the defenders still have more than 100 sub-mother cannons, more than 200 tiger squat cannons, and sufficient sub-medicine.

In addition, the city wall of Luoyang City is as high as four zhang, and Yang Qianjun is very confident that he will come to the aid of the imperial army. It's just that there is a rather tricky matter for him to deal with at the moment.

The main force defending Luoyang is undoubtedly 5,000 soldiers of the official army, but these 5,000 soldiers have been owed salaries for two years.

Some soldiers even sold their weapons in order to survive, and some people were doing odd jobs to survive.

Although in recent years, even the most important Liaodong front has been in arrears, and the imperial court also has the difficulties of the imperial court, but now if you want people to work hard, not to mention rewards, at least you must make up for the salaries of the soldiers first.

This is the strong suggestion of the adjutant general Wen Houyou, if the issue of the soldiers' salaries cannot be solved.

The day when the beggar army attacked the city was the time when the army turned against the water!

At this juncture, Yang Qianjun no longer wanted to blame these Qiu Ba with words such as receiving the favor of the country in the world, why not specialize in retribution, otherwise people would really turn against the water, and Luoyang would only be afraid that it would not be protected.

The soldiers' salaries are going to be distributed, but the treasury is empty, and no matter what, the money can't be changed.

Although King Fu is in Luoyang, in the same city as Yang Qianjun, the prefect of Henan Prefecture, the vassal king has always been the target of the imperial court's key precautions, and King Fu, the protagonist of the "fight for the country", is even more so.

Since Yang Qianjun took office in Luoyang, he has not met with King Fu very often, because the clan cannot make friends with foreign ministers.

However, this time is different from the past, Li Zicheng's army is in Luoyang, separated by a wall from Zhu Changxun, the treasury has no money to pay military salaries, and King Fu is rich and invincible, even if King Fu loves money like his life, in order to save his life, I am afraid he can only give up some money.

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"Your Highness, the thieves are just outside the city, separated by a wall from you, the defenders are only five thousand, and the silver has been in arrears for several years, and now the great enemy is at present, and they need to sell their lives, so I beg you to allocate some silver taels from the treasury, which have been used as military funds. Otherwise, the defenders mutinied, and it was nothing if the lowly rank died, but the body of His Royal Highness King Fu fell into the hands of the enemy, and the consequences were unimaginable. ”

Yang Qianjun hunched his waist and looked at the giant fat vassal king in front of him who was directly connected to his head and torso, sitting like a big gourd, and went straight to the point.

King Fu is very painful, although he is rich in the world, but like his father Shenzong, he just wants to make money, he doesn't want to spend money, in addition, he has another worry.

"The soldiers belong to the imperial court, and the imperial court has an order, and the vassal king is not allowed to make friends with foreign ministers, let alone give money to the army without authorization, this matter has been passed to the capital division, I don't know what Your Majesty thinks of this king?"

Zhu Changxun was a little worried about Chongzhen's opinion.

"Your Highness, you are in a hurry. Everything here, the lower officials will definitely show the emperor, please let His Royal Highness be relieved. ”

Yang Qianjun made a guarantee.

"In that case, you can go to the treasury branch to lead the army's salary."

"His Royal Highness King Xie Fu, it's just that if you only allocate military salaries, the soldiers think that they all deserve it, and if you want to drive them to fight solidly, you must give a heavy reward."

Zhu Changxun felt pain again, he knew that what Yang Qianjun said made sense.

"That's it, you go and summon the guerrilla generals who are defending the city to the palace, and the king will give them a banquet, promise them heavy profits, and help you and others to defend the city."

"In this way, the people of Luoyang City on behalf of the lower officials thanked His Royal Highness King Fu Longen."

It was day and night, King Fu feasted all the generals, promising to kill the beggar army, reward the army with one million silver, and now reward 50,000 silver to reward the officers and soldiers.

When the people heard this, they were overjoyed.

Yang Qianjun thought that the city wall of Luoyang was high, and it was difficult for the begging army to conquer in a short time.

Besides, in Kaifeng, since receiving Yang Qianjun's distress document, he sent 5,000 people from Zuo Liangyu's department to exterminate the beggar army, and by the way, relieve the siege of Luoyang.

Zuo Liangyu followed Liu Renyu and Cao Wenzhao back then, and only after picking up the leak did he have many military exploits, but now he is leading his troops alone to fight the beggar army with a strong will to fight.

Zicheng led the army to break Zuo Liangyu's army under Luoyang City, and Liangyu only escaped with his body. The official army in Luoyang City, at the beginning, only said that the imperial army arrived, and the thieves would be defeated, and they were all thunderous and noisy.

When Zuo Liangyu's army was defeated and retreated, he was suddenly silent, looking at each other in shock, and there was a lot of fear.

More than 3,000 officers and soldiers took advantage of this opportunity to surrender to the beggar army, which greatly strengthened the strength of the beggar army.

Fan Shangxiao is very desperate, there is a relative of the emperor in Luoyang City, if Luoyang is lost, King Fu has three long and two short, he is not sure that the governor will not be sure, he is afraid that his head will also move, he knows the consequences, but he has no way to send troops to suppress the beggar army.

Most of the elite officers and troops in the entire Henan are now in the hands of Li Zicheng, so what Fan Shangxiao is most worried about at the moment is no longer the question of how to exterminate the beggar army, but the question of when to exterminate him once the beggar army takes Luoyang.

Relying on the strength of Henan Province, it was impossible to pacify the begging army no matter what, so Fan Shangxiao went up and begged Chongzhen to send the border army to help suppress the beggar army no matter what.

Fan Shangxiao heard that the Jingbian Army not only has strong combat effectiveness, does not disturb the people, but also solves the military rations and salaries by itself, and it is a pity that such a good border army is not borrowed to exterminate the beggar army.

When he went up to Beijing, it didn't take long for him to receive a cabinet court, and when he saw this court, he immediately let go of the burden in his heart and no longer had to worry about Henan's military affairs.