At this time, it was already the thirteenth day of the first month, and more than a dozen rogues and homeless people of one or two hundred thousand were all swarming towards Fengyang.

Along the way, the people who were still robbing were not the old gangs from Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan, but the small gangs formed by the local hungry people who spontaneously robbed.

Even if there are a few hundred people, the unorganized rogues will not be able to withstand a single charge of the 360 cavalry of the "Red Banner Army".

Ma Fulin led less than 1,000 people to gallop on horseback, and rushed into Huoqiu County that afternoon, killing hundreds of rogues who were still robbing their homes.

Zhang Youjun, Ni Keda, Zhang Dezheng and others posted notices all over the street to lead the family to organize the surviving people to clean up the corpses.

Zhang Xianzhong's troops suffered a blow, which directly caused more than half of the coerced people to flee, and the looted things also lost two or three percent, and many Huoqiu County people fled back to their hometowns.

After noon the next day, two thousand young men led by Zhang Dayu and others also rushed to Huoqiu County, and soon under the concerted efforts of everyone, seven or eight thousand enlightened people began to repair the city, carry bricks, stones, and wood to the bow of the ship, and prepare to guard it strictly.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, it is the Shangyuan Festival, the lanterns are hung in front of every house in Beijing, and the city that never sleeps is even more beautiful, and the laughter on the pedestrian street is full of dark fragrance floating.

The entire military and civilian eunuchs of the Beijing Division are celebrating the festival, and only Huang Han sighs at the moon.

Because he knows the major events in history, he knows that today, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other thieves will take advantage of the time when the military and civilians of Fengyang, the central capital, put off lanterns.

Historical records record that on the sixth day of the first month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, after the 13 families and 72 battalions completed the gathering and division of labor in Xingyang, the king of Chuang, Gao Yingxiang, the king of the eight kings, Zhang Xianzhong, the king of the eight kings, and Cao Wei, the sweeping king of Li Zicheng, led the people and horses to march eastward and conquered Fengyang on the night of the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month.

It's incredible, and I wonder if the historical record is wrong?

Because Xingyang is more than 1,200 miles away from Fengyang, how could Liukou have the ability to march 130 miles for nine days in a row?

Moreover, the Liukou did not rush to Fengyang, they have been attacking the villages and towns along the way and the county and county capitals, and history records that the Liukou coerced hundreds of thousands of homeless people to capture Gushi, Huoqiu, Shouzhou and Yingzhou.

In nine days, four or five cities were lost, tens of thousands of rogue people were coerced by hundreds of thousands of homeless people to approach Fengyang, and millions of people in Nanzhili were displaced.

Fengyang is the hometown of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and because it is related to feng shui, no city was built, and thousands of defenders were killed by the rogue almost without effective resistance.

Or the worst thief, after he captured Fengyang, he not only burned and looted but also wantonly burned the imperial mausoleum hall, and deliberately burned the Longxing Temple where Zhu Yuanzhang once attacked the monks.

More than 100 eunuchs such as Yan Rongxuan, Dai Wenying, and other eunuchs were all slaughtered by the rogues, and the thieves also erected the banner of "Gu Yuan Zhenlong Emperor", drank wine, ate meat, raped and plundered to celebrate the victory.

Four days later, that is, early in the twenty-first day of the first lunar month, 600 li rushed to deliver the bad news that the central capital Fengyang was attacked by the Liukou to the Beijing Division.

After receiving the report of defeat, Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was shocked and immediately fainted to the ground, and Chongzhen, who was in the early dynasty, couldn't help crying bitterly.

In the next few days, there were six hundred miles to urgently report the loss of Fengyang, and after learning the news that the ancestral tomb of the old Zhu family was cut by Zhang Xianzhong, Emperor Chongzhen was so sad that he fainted on the spot.

On the twenty-fifth day of the first month, the tenth day after the Fengyang Change, Emperor Chongzhen did not use the Huang Han to lead the troops again, and Hong Chengchou was promoted to the secretary of the military department and the governor of Henan, Shanxi, Sichuan, and Hu military affairs, and gave Shang Fang the sword.

The emperor ordered Hong Chengchou to gather troops from all roads to garrison Chu and Yu in the middle of the country, and kill as many thieves as possible while defending the land.

Chongzhen knew that it would not work at all to use soldiers without money and food, so he gritted his teeth and took out 200,000 taels of silver from the already stretched Internal Affairs Office as a salary.

Chongzhen also squeezed out 100,000 taels of silver for the carriages and horses of Taifu Temple, cashed in Xi'an City, and Shaanxi Province raised 100,000 taels of silver, and all of this silver was handed over to Hong Chengchou, who was about to lead troops out of Shaanxi.

At the same time, Huguang raised 190,000 taels of silver to recruit Zhenxiao soldiers and other Tusi soldiers, and Sichuan left 40,000 taels of taxes that should be handed over to the imperial court, and then raised 60,000 taels to raise 100,000 taels for the opening of the silver to levy 15,000 white pole soldiers out of Sichuan.

The household department kept 200,000 taels from the two Huai salt taxes and stored them in Huai'an Mansion, and at this time, of course, the silver was paid to the soldiers, hoping that they would curb the trend of the spread of the Liukou in the direction of Nanzhili.

The ancestral graves of the emperor's family have been dug up by rogues, of course, there must be people who can't eat and walk around!

Wu Zhenying, the eunuch of the Imperial Guard, Yang Ze, the eunuch of the Mausoleum, and more than a dozen eunuchs were questioned, and the left attendant of the Ministry of War worshiped the Shangshu of the Ministry of Household and the right of the Imperial History, the governor Cao Yun, and Yang Yipeng, the feudal official of the four prefectures in Jiangbei, were arrested and imprisoned, and it was estimated that there was a dead end.

The spring of the eighth year of Chongzhen was simply a disaster, and many civil and military generals recommended the Marquis of Dongping to lead the people and horses to quell the rebellion.

At the beginning of February, Hong Chengchou, who was the governor of Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang, and Sichuan provinces, led the people of Shaanxi out of Tongguan and almost set out.

Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao, Wang Chengen, You Shiwei, You Shilu, He Renlong, Deng Xi, Zuo Liangyu, Zuo Guangxian, Ai Wannian, Liu Guozhen and other Ming army generals all knew that the emperor was angry at this time, and he would definitely not be able to eat and walk around, and everyone was very hard.

However, there are also some generals who participated in the suppression of the Kou, and their men and horses are still the most capable of fighting in the Ming army that participated in the suppression of the Kou.

These horses were, of course, the cavalry of the former Guanning Army led by Zu Dabi, Zu Dacheng and Zu Kuan.

At the end of last year, their ancestors received a letter from the head of the family, Zu Dashou, and learned that Jinzhou had secretly surrendered to Jiannu, reminding them to pay attention to safety and not let their subordinates suffer losses, and choose a good time to return to Liaodong.

All the ancestral armies of the Western Liaoning Corridor knew the situation, and Zu Dabi and Zu Dacheng, who had ghosts in their hearts, would definitely not dare to enter Shanhaiguan and go to Jinzhou through the Western Liaoning Corridor.

However, from Xuanda or Yulin to Jinzhou detoured to Jinzhou and faced the big problem of insufficient supplies, the Ming army's guest soldiers basically arrived at the ground to obtain the grain and grass supplied by the local state capital.

Zu Dabi and others, due to the continuous war damage, the remaining less than 4,000 men and horses have been fighting in the interior for more than two years, and they often eat one meal and worry the next, how can they hold on to a month's provisions?

However, Jiannu and the traitors were really lucky, and Lin Danhan, who was only in his forties, died of smallpox in Dacaotan, Qinghai.

I don't know if it was because this Tartar came into contact with wine jars and bottles that had been tampered with and carried the smallpox virus when he was drinking.