Chapter 840: The heart is panicked
In the Dragon Boat Festival in May of the 11th year of Chongzhen, Ma Shixiu, Du Yingjin and others used the identity of the generals of the Ming army and forged official documents and military talismans to deceive the gate of Xuchang and rushed into the city to burn and loot.
The defenders were suddenly attacked and scattered, and it didn't take long for the city of Xuchang to be filled with fire, shouting and crying to the sky, and soon too many ruffians, hooligans, and proletarians joined the team of burning and looting, and Zuo Liangyu's mansion bore the brunt.
There were thousands of rebels who swarmed in, even if Zuo Liangyu's dozens of family members who guarded the home resisted desperately, it was to no avail, and the final result was that Zuo Liangyu's family was wiped out, and the accumulated family wealth was swept away by the rogue.
Ma and Du not only got a lot of money and food, but also made the expansion of men and horses more than doubled, they took 30,000 or 40,000 horses south to attack Wuyang County in one fell swoop, and the number of people and horses suddenly exceeded 50,000.
Next, they went east to attack and take the three county towns of Yuncheng, Xiangcheng and Yingdong, turning southeastern Henan upside down.
Xing Hongniang, Shangtianlong, Kaishan Axe, Black Evil God and other rogues who did not accept the Ming Dynasty's recruitment have been dormant in Funiu Mountain, Tongbai Mountain, and Dabie Mountains, and have found a God-given opportunity to kill out of the mountains one after another.
Song County, Lushan County, Tongbai County, Huoshan County, Shucheng County, and more than a dozen other county towns missed, and as many as two or three hundred officials were killed by the rogue, and more than 300,000 ordinary people were coerced.
As if there was a tacit understanding, all the rogues did not dare to touch the actual control area of the "Red Banner Army", and even walked around Huoqiu County, which was close at hand.
The rogues also knew how to collect intelligence, and learned that Tongguan was not only defended by the soldiers of the Ming Jing Battalion, but also the "Red Banner Army" was assisted in the defense, which was impregnable.
Obviously, there is the Yellow River to the north, the river to the south, and the Xiongguan Road to the west.
Luoyang and Kaifeng in the Dragon Boat Festival in May do not have a festive atmosphere, but people are panicked.
Without him, the general issued an order to evacuate the "Red Banner Army" industry in these two cities in order to prevent it from happening.
The last time the "Red Banner Army" evacuated Hanzhong, Xianyang, Xi'an and other cities, these cities were captured by the rogue without exception.
The lessons of the past, too many dignitaries and nobles still remember it vividly, and now the "Red Flag Army" is doing this again in Kaifeng and Luoyang, does it mean that this place will also fall?
King Fu was anxious, King Zhou couldn't sit still, because King Qin and King Rui had become prisoners of Liukou, and it should be better to live than to die, if Luoyang and Kaifeng fell, wouldn't they have to follow in their footsteps?
Rumors swirled, but the most credible was that the combined forces of Liukou, Jiannu, and Tartar might not be able to break through Tongguan, which was defended by the "Red Banner Army", and that they would cross the frozen Yellow River and enter Henan in winter.
Today's rogues are different from the past, known as millions of men and horses, even if the actual strength is not 500,000, it is not too much, plus 60,000 or 70,000 Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry, Henan, which is empty, is inevitable.
The fall of Xi'an dealt a great blow to many vassal kings, because the high walls of Xi'an were incomparable except for the north and south capitals.
When Hong Chengchou was stationed in Xi'an, he still had nearly 100,000 elites on the three sides of the imperial court, and such strength could not avoid the fate of being attacked by the rogues.
Due to the dispatch of a large number of men and horses out of Tongguan, the battalions in Luoyang and Kaifeng are now less than 10,000, and the combat effectiveness of these horses is much weaker than that of the border army.
It can be seen that Luoyang and Kaifeng are in danger!
Fu Wang has nothing to do all day long, he is very bored, reading the newspaper is one of his main entertainment, and it can be seen that he actually collected the "Red Flag Daily" that serialized the legend of the Condor Heroes.
Nowadays, newspapers are very fashionable, because they are worried that sometimes they can't buy them, almost every prince and noble, civil official and military general subscribes in advance, and too many deep mansions and compounds have more than one newspaper.
The "Red Flag Daily" has increased from four to eight pages to four and twelve pages, the content is richer, the advertisements are gradually increasing, and the profitability is increasing day by day.
King Fu is not worthy of the name, there is no blessing at all, this big fat prince almost became the emperor, the reason why he didn't have his turn was completely due to the Donglin party.
The hateful Donglin Party united many ministers to resist the Wanli Emperor and set up Zhu Changxun as the emperor, which led to the emergence of Zhu Changluo, the emperor of Taichang, the son of heaven in January, the carpenter emperor Zhu Youxiao, and the unexpected appearance of Zhu Youzhen, the king of the dead country.
History proves that Zhu Changluo, the Taichang Emperor supported by the bastard Donglin Party, is useless and is still a short-lived ghost without moderation.
If Fuwang Zhu Changxun is the emperor, no matter what the state affairs are, at least he is in good health, and he doesn't need to change his term twice in just seven years, and the imperial court doesn't need to repair the tombs of Emperor Wanli and Taichang and Tianqi Emperors after repairing them.
In fact, the Chongzhen Dynasty is terrible, it can't be broken anymore, the self-righteous Chongzhen Emperor has done more mistakes, and it should be better to change anyone to be the emperor.
King Fu is Zhu Changxun Zhu Youzhen's uncle, during this time I have seen a lot of articles criticizing Chongzhen, he has no ambitions and no ideas, he just wants to be a rich and free prince to chat for the rest of his life.
But the reality is very cruel, he doesn't want to cause trouble, it may be that things will provoke him, it is rumored in history that he was boiled and drunk by the vicious Li Zicheng "Fulu Soup", which shows how miserable the fate of King Fu was.
It is an indisputable fact that Henan has few soldiers, and the generals who are like torches are not optimistic about Luoyang, Kaifeng and other cities, and in order to reduce losses, they have withdrawn their industries from these places.
It is foreseeable that the danger is getting closer and closer to the blessed king, who only wants to live a prosperous life.
In order to be prepared, King Fu made a bold decision for the first time and sent his son Zhu Yousong with his two brothers Zhu Youqu and Zhu Youhua to "Hanjiang Province" to find Zhu Zhiyi, the king of Neijiang, and Zhu Zhihui, the king of Huayang.
If the environment of "Hanjiang Province" is really as good as depicted in the newspapers, King Fu will also increase his efforts to transfer industries, and when he finds that the Liukou is killing Luoyang again, he will mention going to Nanyang and Xiangyang.
Of course, Zhu Yousong was willing to leave Luoyang Mansion, a place that he was tired of, and actively prepared after getting his father's task.
Ten days later, he took his two brothers, three families, and a population of seven or eight hundred to Nanyang, took a small boat to Xiangyang, changed the river boat, went to Jingzhou, and changed the big river boat again and went down the river.
Zhu Changrun, the king of Jingzhou Mansion, is the sixth son of the Wanli Emperor and the brother of King Fu, who is dedicated to the Buddha and does not ask about the world, Zhu Yousong came to visit on behalf of his father, and was ready to persuade King Hui to send his son to "Hanjiang Province" to buy real estate for himself to leave a way back.
Huiwang Zhu Changrun is actually very stupid, and the ending is quite miserable, he doesn't understand that everyone in the world can surrender to Jiannu, but the Zhu Ming royal family can't surrender.
He chose to surrender to the Manchu Qing and was unable to survive after taking humiliation on himself, and was finally executed by the Manchus at Lingchi in Jingshi Caishikou.