Huang Degong's rout, Cao Wenyao's death, the two news almost arrived in Xiangyang one after the other, Xiong Wencan's head suddenly buzzed after hearing it, and he almost fell to the ground with a cerebral hemorrhage attack on the spot, and it took a while to stabilize his mind, and he sat on the big chair and felt like he was numb.

Huang Degong is a general he values very much, during this time in the western Anhui area is impressive, and just in the new Cai Da broke the left five battalions, the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers of the Beijing battalion under his command is considerable, and at the same time added the officers and soldiers of Runing Mansion and Guangzhou, the strength of more than 10,000 troops, morale is flourishing, I didn't think that just a battle down, it was defeated and lost, 10,000 troops said no, it was gone, although Huang Degong reported the battle situation, but this defeat was too miserable!

What is this Heavenly Army, and why is it so difficult to deal with? In just one month, they first defeated Mianchi and Ruzhou, then captured Lushan and Baofeng, and now they have lost two consecutive defeats in Mianchi and Baofeng.

And although Huang Degong was defeated and saved his life, Cao Wenyao was stunned and threw his life away in Mianchi County, so who else can deal with this thief army!

Thinking about this, Xiong Wencan felt a chill in his back, he was appointed to be the governor of the five provinces, the scenery did not have a day, he was tired like a donkey every day, and he kept running back and forth at a great age, commanding these homeless troops everywhere to suppress them, and now not only did not stabilize the situation in Henan, but on the contrary, the Xingtian army became more and more troublesome, and if it went on, once the emperor was angry, this board fell, and he had to catch it with his ass.

Don't look at Chongzhen who doesn't dare to kill generals, but when he kills these civil officials, he is not soft at all, thinking that Xiong Tingbi, Yuan Chonghuan, and Yang He are not ministers who are similar to him, they were not cut by Chongzhen with a knife, Yuan Chonghuan was even Ling Chi in the city, if he is a little careless, this head is likely to be lost, at this time, he no longer has any illusions, if he can't take down this Xiao Tianjian, then his head will not be far from moving.

After considering this, Xiong Wencan's fire also came up, and he immediately summoned his subordinates and asked, "What is the thief chief Zhang Xianzhong going to do?" Could it be that he still doesn't want to caress it? ”

His staff hurriedly replied: "My lord is angry, now that Zhang Xianzhong is at the end of the road, what else can he do except surrender, as long as he goes to Gucheng again, it is expected that Zhang Xianzhong will surrender immediately, and now that Liu Guoneng has surrendered, the lord treats him so well, how can Zhang Xianzhong not surrender?" ”

Xiong Wencan really can't wait, and now he only has Zuo Liangyu, Feng Ju, Miao Youcai and other officials and soldiers at hand, if he can't solve Zhang Xianzhong, he won't be able to deal with Xiao Tianjian at all.

And for the matter of appeasement, it is not that Xiong Wencan is stupid, but he did eat the sweetness in this regard, when he was in charge of Fujian, it was precisely because of the surrender of Zheng Zhilong that he sat in the position of governor of Liangguang, and now in his opinion, if he wants to solve these rogues, he still has to rely on appeasement.

Although Zhang Xianzhong is frustrated now, if he comes hard, Zhang Xianzhong will have a trapped beast fight, it is really possible to bite back, once Zhang Xianzhong is allowed to run away again, he will be able to recover quickly with Zhang Xianzhong's fame at any time, so now Xiong Wencan is very anxious to force Zhang Xianzhong to surrender.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong did hear the news of Liu Guoneng's surrender, because he could not cross the river to join Xiao Tianjian, he was now trapped in the area of Gucheng, there was a serious shortage of food, and he had indeed moved the idea of surrendering, the reason why he wanted to delay for a while was to make some benefits, so during this time he did not lead his troops to fight with the officers and soldiers again, but took out a lot of silver, and began to send people to find a way to bribe everywhere, he had nothing else, even if he surrendered, he didn't want to be cleaned up by the government like this, and now he can see it, When there were soldiers in the world, he spoke hard, so he thought that even if he surrendered, he couldn't be split, and if he wanted to keep the soldiers at hand, he would settle down and see the limelight first.

Anyway, for Zhang Xianzhong, the surrender is a familiar road, every time he sees that the situation is not good, he sacrifices the magic weapon of surrender, and he can always get through the crisis safely, as long as he sees the opportunity, it is convenient for the horse to lead the troops to rebel, so for him, there is no difficulty in surrendering, and there is no psychological barrier.

Seeing that the sky began to gradually cool down, Zhang Xianzhong and his soldiers who were now trapped in Gucheng lacked food and clothing, and the days became more and more difficult, when Xiong Wencan's men came again, Zhang Xianzhong finally couldn't hold on, and immediately agreed to surrender to the court and accept Xiong Wencan's appeasement.

At this time, Xiong Wencan turned his worries into joy, and hurriedly wrote to the court to report the good news, and at the same time pleaded for Zhang Xianzhong, begging Chongzhen to exempt Zhang Xianzhong from responsibility.

However, Yang Sichang did not agree with his suggestion this time, and strongly advocated that Xiong Wencan urge Zhang Xianzhong to leave Gucheng first, and lead his troops to attack the old Hui and their fifth battalion of Gezuo, if the fifth battalion of Gezuo was defeated, he could be exempted from responsibility and allowed to be appeased.

But this time for Yang Sichang's suggestion, Chongzhen did not adopt, in Chongzhen's view, Zhang Xianzhong is the best to surrender now, don't make another incident, now the Xingtian Army is making trouble in Henan, and the fifth battalion of Gezuo entered Henan again, and ran to the area of Guide Mansion and Kaifeng Mansion to make trouble, if they are not solved quickly, once Zhang Xianzhong is forced to attack them, not only can they not force Zhang Xianzhong to surrender, but then Zhang Xianzhong is forced to rebel, it will be a big deal.

In fact, now Chongzhen also understands a little bit about the situation of the Ming Dynasty, the thief army has been suppressed repeatedly over the years, and the more and more they are suppressed, there are fewer and fewer people in the official army who can fight, and the current generals have also begun to have some self-respect, and they don't listen to the call very much, if this problem is not solved as soon as possible, plus the Jiannu outside the gate have been raiding and plundering south like stars every year, and he may collapse when the Ming Dynasty will collapse.

Especially after learning the news of the defeat of Huang Degong and Cao Wenyao, Chongzhen's current mind is to quickly let Xiong Wencan and the Central Plains armies free up their hands, hurry up to deal with the Xingtian Army, and solve the big trouble of the Xingtian Army, so Zhang Xianzhong asked to surrender, it was desperate for him, Yang Sichang did this, he was afraid that Zhang Xianzhong would be forced to refuse to be appeased, and it would be a big trouble.

Therefore, under Chongzhen's direct intervention, he finally agreed to Xiong Wencan's appeasement of Zhang Xianzhong, and Zhang Xianzhong finally accepted the appeasement in Gucheng at the end of Chongzhen's tenth year and announced his official surrender to the imperial court.

In order to show his sincerity, Zhang Xianzhong also asked Xiong Wencan to send someone to check his soldiers and horses, and disbanded 15,000 troops on the spot, leaving only 10,000 elite soldiers, who stayed in Gucheng to be appeased.

This finally made Xiong Wencan breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, in the past two months, on the Shaanxi side, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting finally achieved results, after Li Zicheng entered Sichuan, because the attack was not smooth, he was stubbornly blocked by Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers, so he could not lead the crowd to eat in Sichuan, so he went out of Sichuan again and returned to Shaanxi, Li Zicheng led his troops to Qinzhou first, but was blocked by Sun Chuanting's general Cao Bianjiao, Li Zicheng was defeated and fled, turned around and ran back to martial arts, As a result, Zuo Guangxian led his troops to intercept a fight, and fled again in defeat, fleeing to Shangluo, and before Shangluo was intercepted by He Renlong again, it was a good fight, Li Zicheng was defeated again and fled, and finally led thousands of troops to flee into Shangluo Mountain.

Even the five battalions of the left of the left ran to the area of Guide and Kaifeng Mansion, after entering November, because of the long-term military disasters in this area, it has long been a hundred miles of red land, and the food is extremely scarce, although the five battalions of the left of the revolution tried to beat Kaifeng, but because the city of Kaifeng is strong, and there are many cannons, the result is a defeat, and then go to the Guide Mansion, and eat another defeat, Shandong deputy general Liu Zeqing took advantage of the situation to lead the troops to threaten the five battalions of the left of the revolution, forcing the five battalions of the left after the food is exhausted to jump back to the Jiangbei area again, it seems that after entering the end of the year, The situation of suppression and appeasement has made many people in the government and the opposition see the light of day.

And in the past two months, for Xiao Tianjian, he has been busy enough, after he defeated Huang Degong, he captured Wuyang County all the way, and then turned around and pointed directly at Junzhou, and at the same time sent Liu Yaoben a soldier out of Wuyang and approached Runing Mansion.

In short, in the past two or three months, the offensive of the Xingtian Army in Henan has been very smooth, and the common people in many places have come to vote, and the officials in some places have changed color when they hear the word Xingtianjun, and the officials and soldiers know that the Xingtianjun is too powerful, so no one dares to bring troops to find trouble with the Xingtianjun.

Therefore, the operation of the Xingtian Army in Henan was very smooth, but Xiao Tianjian was not in a hurry to fight Luoyang, so he hung Luoyang somewhere, and let Feng Yijun and Fu Wang live in fear all day because they couldn't guess when the Xingtian Army would come to fight Luoyang.

And Feng Yijun's life is really not good, Luoyang City is not without soldiers, by this time Luoyang City has gathered twenty or thirty thousand officers and soldiers, but as Xiao Tianjian expected, although these two or thirty thousand horses give Luoyang City a sense of security, but it has become a big problem for them to eat, each of these soldiers is only two catties of grain a day, forty or fifty thousand catties of grain a day, which is converted into hundreds of stones of grain, and more than 10,000 stones of grain in a month, and at present, Luoyang, Henan Province, is full of civil unrest, There is no way to raise food at all, the little food that was reserved in Henan Mansion in the city before was quickly eaten up by these officers and soldiers, and the bastard of King Fu is still an iron rooster, in Henan dialect, it is a standard old turtle, saying that he refuses to take out food and silver for Feng Yijun to use, forcing Feng Yijun to worry about raising food and salary all day long, which is also the result that Xiao Tianjian wants.

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