In the lobby, although the charcoal fire was blazing, and bursts of heat filled the entire hall, the howling cold wind outside the door, outside the closed door, also improved this brilliant hall no matter what.

However, after Zhang Yuan had a speech in the puppet prefect of Xi'an, the temperature of the originally lively, hopeful and relaxed lobby dropped suddenly, which had to make the governor Li Yingzhi, who had fallen on his shoulders, feel cold, and unconsciously tightened the robe on his body.

No one paid attention to this small action, but it fell into the eyes of Zhang Yuan, who was observant, and this action made Zhang Yuan happy, lost, and frustrated.

The worry is, is this the end? Could it be that the entire Ming Province can't fight a thief who has just risen? If you can't avenge yourself even with the strength of a province, when will your hatred end?

For a while, if you let the thief continue to get away with it like this, wouldn't it be the goal of self-respect for raising a thief? Make your official promotion faster? Make yourself more capable of self-preservation? Therefore, those who are attached to their own big tree are not as good as Qian Zhongjun, such as Zhou Ji, the governor of Yansui, and Hong Chengchou, who was the new official.

Whether to fight or not to fight, in fact, is in the hands of Governor Li Yingqi, and the second chief soldier who really controls the military power according to the rules is naturally just an ornament.

However, now that he is fighting, with 30,000 newly recruited, Ding Zhuang, a homeless man who can't even stand in formation, not to mention the complicated big array, he has to fight against the thieves, and no matter how conceited he is, it is a joke.

Second, once the battle is defeated, then look around, not to mention the enemy, it is these colleagues, they will fold and drown themselves under the mountain that will never turn over.

Now, Li Yingqi regrets a little that at the beginning, his hand was not stretched too long, but now, he is looking for a person who has no top cylinder, who is to blame? Self-inflicted, as if that's it.

He was hesitating, but a sudden incident made him have to make up his mind.

Just when everyone was in a dreary and no one wanted to bear the burden of post-war responsibilities, a cronie hurriedly ignored the rules of the military conference that was being held, and directly pushed open the heavy door and ran in.

Li Yingqi was about to scold him for losing his officialdom, but the cronies handed a notice to Li Yingzhi regardless of it. Hurriedly rushed to his ear and reported: "The proprietor, there is an urgent report outside, the Qin Wang soldiers have mutinied, and they have returned to Shaanxi one after another, causing disaster to the place, my lord, please have an idea." ”

This gentle whisper in his ears was like countless thunderbolts continuously roaring in Li Yingqi's ears, shocking his five souls and seven senses, and the whole person no longer had the slightest sense. Seeing the strange situation, colleagues stepped forward to inquire about visiting, and in Li Yingqi's eyes, they all became fish without water, and the mouths on the faces that had been distorted, and the ones that had no sound were closed, shaking in a trance.

Chilling all over, he looked at the brazier raised from the coke produced by the thief base at his feet, which originally felt extremely scorching, but now he felt that it was only red and red, but he couldn't send out any warmth, and the whole hall was dark and cold, colder than thirty-nine days, and the cold had frozen his entire body, so that he tried hard to move, and it was extremely difficult to give his subordinates who were full of anxiety even a reluctant smile.

"Disperse, disperse." Seeing that things were not good, the prefect who was originally stuffy and gourd-like made a rare decision this time, made a decision, and solved the governor's crisis.

The door to the lobby creaked open and shut, and everyone in the congregation panicked, but the few people who were close to each other remained silent.

The chief soldiers Du Wenhuan, He Renlong, Zhang Yuan, and the helpless prefect quietly waited for the governor to inform him of the contents of the official document. Time was in this unbearable wait, slowly flowing in the wood carving clay sculpture of the governor, the governor was cold, but everyone here was sweating.

The news is definitely not good news, or it would not have made the governor, who has always been calm and calm, so panicked, so what bad news would it be? Everyone is no longer prepared.

"Your Excellency, your Excellency." Here, the prefect is the only one who can really dare to wake up the governor, and it is not a way to wait like this, so the prefect Zuo Lianggong stepped forward and gently called out to the governor with a pale face.

After being called a few times, Li Yingcai sighed, woke up, and saw that there were only four people left in the empty lobby, Ze Yuan was the protagonist of this event, some words, some things, could not be hidden from them no matter what, so he coughed, tried to straighten his body, slowly raised his head, and handed the official notice with water in his hands to everyone.

"Look, the current situation has eroded to such an extent, what should we do next? I also hope that all colleagues will work together to turn the tide. Li Yingqi pleaded in a bloodless low voice. This is unprecedented, something that has never been done, he is used to being arbitrary, and he thinks very highly of himself, but now, without controlling most of Shaanxi, life and death are full of vigor and gratitude, and some are just full of panic and misery.

This document was handed out, four people, you look at me, I look at you, but no one is willing to be the first to read it, although, according to the rank, it should be the prefect first.

However, at this time, priority means responsibility, and no one wants to get into trouble.

"Lord Commander, let's take a look." The governor handed the official document in his hand to Du Wenhuan.

Du Wenhuan clearly felt the relieved voices of several other people around him. I had no choice but to step forward tremblingly and take the piece of paper, which was as light as a feather, and now, at this time, I felt that it was as heavy as Mount Tai.

The document is very straightforward and detailed, but the more you look at it, the more frightening it becomes.

When Du Wenhuan had no choice but to read the official document, cold sweat had already trickled down the gap in the helmet, covering his eyes, but he had already ignored wiping, so he handed Zuo Lianggong the paper slip that made a noise due to his shaking hands, and after that, he finally handed it to He Renlong.

He Renlong read the official letter, only to feel that his eyes were dark, and his huge body sat down suddenly.

It's over, it's all over, fight hard, fight hard, that's all.

The official letter was sent by Yang He, which described in detail the current situation, especially the current situation of Qin Wangbing, which was what made everyone frustrated.

In October of the second year of Chongzhen, the Manchurian aristocratic army invaded on a large scale, broke the border wall from Zunhua and Jixian areas in Hebei, and captured Zunhua, Yutian, Sanhe, Xianghe, Shunyi and other counties, and the troops reached the city of Beijing. Wang Yuanya, the governor of Zunhua in the Ming Dynasty, committed suicide, and Zhao Shujiao, the general soldier of Shanhaiguan who came to the rescue, was killed. Emperor Zhu Youzhen was panicked, gullible the eunuch's words, fell into the anti-plot set up by Huang Taiji, and arrested Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, and imprisoned (soon executed). The chief soldier of Liaodong, Zu Dashou, was frightened, pulled up the team and ran back to Shanhaiguan. In order to save the crisis, the imperial court ordered all localities to supervise the king of fire and urgency. Zhang Honggong, the chief soldier of Shanxi, followed the tone of the military department and led 5,000 Jin soldiers to come to the rescue, and Geng Ruqi, the governor of Shanxi, also volunteered to lead more than 3,000 officers and soldiers of the Fubiao Battalion and the Taiyuan Battalion to rush to King Jifuqin. Yang He, the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, Mei Zhihuan, the governor of Gansu, and Hong Chengchou, the governor of Yansui, should also send more than 17,000 elite soldiers from various towns, led by Wu Zimian, You Shilu, Yang Qi, Wang Chengen, and Yang Jiamo, the commanders of the five major towns along the border, and enter the Weijing Division. In addition, the officers and troops under the command of Fan Jingwen, the governor of Henan, Wei Zhaocheng, the governor of Jiangxi, and Liang Yingze, the governor of Yunyang, were also sent to the aid (26).

After the army of Zhang Honggong, the chief soldier of Shanxi, arrived in the Jifu area, the military headquarters ordered it to be stationed in Tongzhou, and on the second day it was transferred to Changping, and on the third day it was transferred to Liangxiang.

However, according to the regulations, the army is not allowed to open grain on the day it arrives at the flood area. The Shanxi soldiers were transferred to three places in three days, but they did not receive rations for three days. The soldiers were so indignant that they plundered food near the station. The imperial court also ordered the arrest of Geng Ruqi and Zhang Honggong for failing to restrain the army. When the 5,000 elite soldiers saw that the governor and the general soldiers were in prison for questioning, they dispersed in a hurry and fled back to Shanxi. After the incident became serious, the Ming court not only did not investigate and deal with the inappropriateness, but instead executed Geng Ruqi and Zhang Honggong.

The trilateral armies of Shaanxi also repeatedly mutinied on the way to King Qin.

Because the general soldier Wu Zimian withheld the rations, extorted the sergeants who were unwilling to join the guard to pay bribes and steal and sell military horses, the soldiers were strongly dissatisfied, and many deserted and left without saying goodbye. Zhang Mengjing, the governor of Yansui, died of grief because of this.

The army led by Mei Zhihuan, the governor of Gansu, and Yang Jiamo, the general soldier of Ganzhen, also mutinied when they arrived in Anding County (now Dingxi, Gansu) in the first month of the third year of Chongzhen. According to the oral accounts of the participants, the reason for this mutiny was that the defense journey was as far as 6,000 miles, and no food was distributed to settle down; The commander of the army was forced by the strict order of the imperial court to drive the soldiers away quickly. The soldiers were heavily loaded with armor and guns, and they were in great distress, and "in a few days they were all overwhelmed." They said indignantly, "It is better to die here than to die here." So under the leadership of Wang Jincai, Yin Dengke, and Wu Tianyin, they rose up to resist, and killed the generals Sun Huaizhong, Zhou Daochang, and Lian Dengkui, who came forward to stop them. seized the battalion's salary, "Jiema Xichi", and returned to the garrison on his own. When he arrived in Lanzhou, he was killed by the traitor arranged by the governor Mei Zhihuan, and the leader of the mutiny, Wang Jincai, was killed. After the rectification, part of the army continued to march eastward to Qinwang, and some of those who were resolutely unwilling to go were sent back to the garrison.

The mutiny of King Qin's soldiers not only disrupted the military deployment of the Ming court and involved the energy of local officials, but also the soldiers who participated in the mutiny often did not dare to return to the army, and many of them wandered and joined the peasant uprising in groups. In this way, a considerable number of forces originally used to suppress the peasant uprising were transformed into forces against the Ming Dynasty. They have received military training and have combat experience, which is of great significance for enhancing the combat effectiveness of the peasant army. Especially the thieves, it is the first choice of those mutinous soldiers, Yichuan County ordered Zhao Zi to collect the rout on the grounds of collecting the rout, but no longer returned the rout, and there was no follow-up several times, so it has been affirmed that Zhao Zi rebelled.

There is only one way in front of everyone, and the extermination of the thieves can only take care of themselves, and there is no hope for the regular army.

After the deathly loneliness, Li Yingzhi looked at the staff members with different expressions, and asked softly, "Next, what should we do next?" ”