When it was possible to face the destruction of the city, these officials thought of the "Red Flag Army" and took the initiative to come to Houjiazhuang to meet them, the purpose of which was to ask Dongping Hou Dongjin to kill the thieves gathered by Ma Wangye, Chaotianfei, Lone Wolf, Breaking into the Sky, and the Eight Kings.

According to the news from Lu'an Mansion, the Liukou people and horses are boundless and innumerable, spreading in the east, south and north directions, and a whole day has not passed when the eastward people and horses pass through the south of the city, I am afraid that there will be more than 100,000.

Liukou did not choose to attack Fucheng, but the Lu'an defender was already frightened by the large number of thieves, and refused to lead his troops to attack no matter what.

The state government and the civil officials were not too coercive, because they were also worried that if the general led two or three thousand men and horses out and was eaten by the rogues, the capital city might not be able to hold on.

They immediately asked for help, the farthest messenger was to find the governor of Shaanxi, Hong Chengchou, followed by Xuan Mo, the governor of Henan, and Xu Dingchen, the governor of Shanxi, for help.

Henan was broken by the rogues, which frightened many squires and scholars.

They jointly petitioned the emperor to give the governor of Shaanxi, Hong Chengchou, jurisdiction over Henan, and Xiong Mingyu, the reactivated secretary of the military department, asked the emperor to prepare to transfer Chengchou to Tongguan, the boundary of the three provinces, so as to facilitate his command.

The secretary of the military department suggested that Hong Chengchou be given more power, and the two governors of Shanxi and Henan should be controlled by Hong Chengchou, and the men and horses under the jurisdiction of Cao Wenzhao, Deng Xi, Zhang Yingchang, and Wu Xiang were all under the command of Hong Chengchou.

After thinking about it, Chongzhen rejected this proposal for some reason.

Therefore, at this time, Hong Chengchou was not yet the super-chief of the military affairs of the five provinces of Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang, and Sichuan, and his position was the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi.

Heroes emerge in troubled times, and many cattle people in the late Ming Dynasty appeared on the stage of history.

Liu Zhilun, the governor of Shuntian, had military exploits and political achievements, and many ministers proposed that he lead the Fubiao battalion and the Jizhen guerrilla battalion into Shanxi to suppress the Kou, and Chongzhen also vetoed these proposals.

He took into account that the ancestor of Liaozhen could not reassure the imperial court, and the Marquis of Dongping entered Henan with a part of the "Red Banner Army".

Chongzhen added the governor of Shanyong in four years, and last summer Yang Sichang was appointed as the governor of Shanhaiguan and Yongping Mansion last summer.

This person is quite capable of rectifying the defense and building the two wings of Shanhaiguan during his tenure, but unfortunately this territory has been in the hands of Huang Han for a long time, and Yang Sichang does not have an army as a confidant.

Chen Qiyu, who took over the post of governor of Yansui last year, gradually came to prominence, and he adopted a strategy of grasping both political and military affairs, stabilizing the locality, and suppressing the thieves.

Chen Qiyu wrote a letter about the current situation of famine thieves in Yanda and Yanda Town, and asked the imperial court to exempt Yan'an and Qingyang from land rent, and at the same time sent his deputy general Lu Wenshan to crusade against the Liukou, and won a lot.

Relatively speaking, the ability of Xu Dingchen, the governor of Shanxi, and Xuanmo, the governor of Henan, are not as good as Chen Qiyu, the governor of Yansui, and their power and strength are certainly not as good as Hong Chengchou, who has the Guanning army.

The two governors knew the combat effectiveness of the "Red Banner Army", and now that the men and horses had entered the junction of Henan, Shanxi, and Beizhili, they received an urgent request for help from the prefect and the military department, and then ordered the officials of Zhangde Mansion and Lu'an Mansion to ask the Marquis of Dongping to break the thief nearby.

The civilian, military generals who came to Houjiazhuang to meet Huang Han can be described as flattery.

They not only accompanied the smiling face, but also took the initiative to send a thousand stone of wheat, brought more than a dozen pigs and sheep, and swore that as long as Dongping Hou Ken sent troops in time, there would be 2,000 stone of grain delivered within three or five days.

Time was pressing, and Huang Han couldn't get angry with these officials to cause the rogues to build more cities and coerce more people.

If we take over 100,000 or 200,000 people at once, it will be very difficult to screen, resettle, and provide food, not because the "Red Banner Army" does not have such capabilities, but because it cannot devote all its manpower to the matter of getting population.

The main task is to eliminate the rogues and reduce the destructiveness of the rogues as much as possible, and if Henan is completely destroyed and millions of displaced people appear, the "Red Banner Army" will not be able to cope with it at all, and there will not be so much food to consume.

According to the analysis of the summarized intelligence, several groups of Liukou gave up attacking Lu'an Fucheng and went to Pingshun County, and the intention of taking the county seat was obvious.

The distance from Houjiazhuang to Pingshun County is less than 300 miles, but seventy percent of the mountain roads will affect the speed of the march, Huang Han decided to leave the artillery commander and a general cavalry, and two engineers to defend Houjiazhuang, and continue to organize people to dig irrigation wells to ensure the autumn harvest.

There were now more than 400 people in the remnants of the White Pole Soldiers who could fight, but Huang Han was not ready to take them with him, and persuaded Zhang Fengyi to stay in Houjiazhuang, telling her that if this military hoarding place suffered losses, it would be directly related to the livelihood of too many people.

Zhang Fengyi is a real person, Huang Han is the chief military officer with the general's seal, according to the Ming system, she should obey the dispatch to participate, she did not raise objections, but just took Qin Yanyi's hand and told her to pay attention to safety.

The men and horses dispatched, including the guards carrying half a thousand wheelbarrows, marched to Taihang Mountain, striving to be able to maintain the march for fifty miles a day, and arrive at Pingshun County within six days.

The "Red Banner Army" carried 2,000 stone of grain in a half-loaded wheelbarrow and could march 50 miles a day, and the rogue dragged his family and carried the looted materials and wealth on his shoulder, and the maximum distance he could walk in a day was 30 miles.

It is not alarmist that there is basically no grass left in the places where they pass, and the horses and large animals they have stolen are not only eaten grass, but the wheat seedlings in the fields are also cleaned.

The territory of Pingshun County in the Ming Dynasty was more than twice as large as that of later generations, and it was a poor place, with a total population of no more than 80,000 and a population of only more than 10,000 in the county.

This is due to the fact that Xu Mingyang, who is from Qipinzhi County, is not a wreck, not a so-called gentleman who chooses to hang himself on the county government when he finds that thieves and soldiers are overwhelming.

He actively organized defense, accepted tens of thousands of squires who fled into the county town and nearby mountain people who knew the roots, and took the lead in taking out his personal money as military pay to organize young people to actively prepare for war.

The officials, officials, and regimental trainers in the county town all took up arms to check the spies from house to house, and sure enough, they found more than 100 young and middle-aged people who could not tell their origins and had no local people to protect them.

Obviously, these people are very likely to be rogues who are preparing to cooperate with the outside world, and they can't be merciful at this time, Xu Zhixian knows that there must be people who have been wronged, but they are all sentenced to be executed.

More than 100 heads were hung on the high poles, which suddenly made the whole county town rumor, and everyone felt the danger.