At the beginning of May of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Henan Cheng announced the political envoy department, Zhangde Mansion, Anyang City.

After more than half a month of siege, the peasant rebel army finally took this capital city with a population of more than 100,000, and at this time, the entire Anyang City was simply a mess.

There are lanterns, just like the New Year.

Most of these are artisan households, happy households, merchants and other low-level ordinary people, the harder the life, the happier they laugh, because they know that when the peasant army comes, they will have a good life, at least they can receive some food and eat a few days of food.

There are also gates that are closed, and there is no end to fear.

Most of these are local tyrants, officials and gentry, rich families, and the richer they are, the more mournful they are, because they know that when the peasant army comes, their good days will come to an end, and all their property and food will be robbed, and whether they can save their lives is still a question.

There are also those who dance and run all over the streets.

Most of them were city hooligans or beggars, looking for a place to put their grain or a place for the peasant army to recruit soldiers.

At this time, the peasant army did not release grain and did not recruit soldiers, they were in a meeting!

Is there any mistake, will the peasant army still hold a meeting?

Yes, the peasant army already has the habit of holding meetings at this time, because the peasant army at this time is not one, but dozens of shares, they are not one mind, many things need to be coordinated, and if there is no meeting, it will be chaotic.

Like the famous Xingyang Conference in history, the more famous 13 families and 72 battalions of the peasant rebel army all participated, but that time they discussed how to overthrow the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and at this time they discussed how to divide the spoils.

The main attack on Anyang this time was the peasant army Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Liu Guoneng, and Li Wanqing, all of whom had tens of thousands of big leaders under their command, and more than 10 small leaders, totaling more than 100,000 horses, of which Gao Yingxiang's department had more than 30,000 people, Zhang Xianzhong's department and Luo Rucai's department also had more than 20,000 people, and Liu Guoneng's department and Li Wanqing's department had only more than 10,000 people.

The place where they held the meeting was in the lobby of the prefect's yamen in Zhangde Mansion, and at this time, the public case placed in the official cabinet had been carried to the middle of the hall, facing the gate, and placed it erected, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Liu Guoneng, and Li Wanqing sat on the back chairs on both sides of the public case, and the other ten small leaders sat on the small round piers on both sides.

Although the peasant army has a certain charter at this time, but there is no distinction between upper and lower dignity, everyone together is like a villager chatting and fart, the whole scene is noisy, Luo Rucai, Liu Guoneng, Li Wanqing and others are used to this atmosphere, they are also discussing the commendable places of this battle, Gao Yingxiang is full of smiles and turning over something, among the leaders present, only Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng are silent.

Zhang Xianzhong sat there with a frown, as if he was thinking about something, and Li Zicheng bowed his head to accompany Gao Yingxiang, as if he was looking at what his uncle was looking at, but in fact he didn't look at anything, there was obviously a look of disgust in his eyes, these dirt buns, without any rules, are really annoying!

Gao Yingxiang flipped for a while, finally raised his head, coughed, and then said loudly: "Everyone, let's discuss how to deal with the corrupt officials and local tyrants and squires in Anyang City." ”

He just said it was a euphemism, which means that let's discuss how to divide the spoils.

At this time, the leader of the peasant army is not called a leader, a leader, or anything, nor a general, an adult, or anything, but a leader, and the word zhangpan may originate from a certain dialect of Qindi, and the specific meaning is no longer available, probably the meaning of the leader.

The leaders of the peasant army finally quieted down when they heard this, in fact, Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, was not the general leader of the peasant army or the leader of the alliance at this time, and the leader of the 36th battalion of the peasant army was the king of Zijin Liang for his own use, but Wang Ziyong was not there, and Gao Yingxiang, who was the most powerful, was publicly pushed out to talk about the matter.

Gao Yingxiang did not immediately start the distribution, but turned his head and asked Li Zicheng: "Zao'er, you sent someone to spy on you, is there any honest and honest official in this Anyang City?" ”

When Li Zicheng heard this, he rolled his eyes, jujube is his small character, ordinary people don't dare to call him that, his uncle wants to call him in front of such a leader, he is so faceless.

He coughed to hide his embarrassment, and then said seriously: "No, I sent someone to inquire in the city for several days, and there is no good thing in the officials here, they are all corrupt officials." ”

Gao Yingxiang nodded, and then said loudly: "The corrupt officials and corrupt officials who were caught were tortured to force out their corrupt gains, and then dragged out and cut down, do you have any opinions?" ”

Killing corrupt officials was one of the initial goals of everyone, and everyone naturally had no opinions, and more than a dozen people applauded one after another.

Gao Yingxiang nodded, raised his hand and pressed it, signaling everyone to be quiet, and then asked Li Zicheng: "Are there any well-known good people among the local tyrant squires?" ”

Li Zicheng still said seriously: "The reputation of the old Guo family in the east of the city in Anyang is not bad, and I heard that they are the descendants of Guo Pu, a cabinet scholar during the Jiajing period. ”

Is Guo Pu famous?

Gao Yingxiang looked curiously at Zhang Xianzhong, the only scholar in this group of leaders, Zhang Xianzhong only finished thinking at this time, and said lightly: "Guo Pu is indeed a good official, honest and honest, loves the people like a son, and never puts any stinky shelves in front of the people." ”

When Gao Yingxiang heard this, he immediately nodded and said: "Okay, don't move the old Guo family in the east of the city, Zao'er, you send a management team to take people to the door of Lao Guo's house to watch, who doesn't want to harm the good people for a long time, beat them hard." ”

Li Zicheng nodded and said, "Okay, I'll send someone later." ”

Gao Yingxiang picked up the yellow book and distributed it one by one, roughly according to work, whoever contributed more when attacking the city will share more, and if he doesn't, then I'm sorry, no.

The Ming court didn't know that the Yellow Book had this use, and every time the peasant army went, they would find out the Yellow Book and turn it over well, and none of the official gentry and the local tyrants with rich assets could escape!

After Gao Yingxiang's family finished distributing, he waved his hand and said: "Okay, let's go and punish the wicked, remember not to jianyin women, don't kill innocents indiscriminately, keep half of the grain in the granary for yourself, and give half to the people." ”

When one of the leaders heard this, they all stood up and answered loudly, and then dispersed in a hurry.

Gao Yingxiang smiled and shook his head, and said to Li Zicheng, who was sitting on the side: "Zao'er, the corrupt officials and corrupt officials will be handed over to you, I'll take a look around to save these guys from nonsense." ”

Li Zicheng nodded obediently, and said honestly: "Okay, I know, uncle, you can get busy." ”

Gao Yingxiang stood up, patted him on the shoulder with relief, and then turned around and walked out of the lobby.

Li Zicheng watched Gao Yingxiang's back disappear into the distance, and then said loudly: "Someone is coming." ”

An old steward came in response to the call, came to him and arched his hand: "Young master, what are your orders?" ”

Li Zicheng stood up and said, "You send a team of people to guard outside the gate of Lao Guo's house in the east of the city, no one is allowed to enter, whoever goes in will beat him, and ask someone to come in and clean up here." ”

After a while, he ran in with a few people, moved the chairs and piers inside, put the public case back in place, and put the four treasures of the study, the order holder, the astonishing wood and other promotion supplies back to their original positions, and then arched his hand and said: "Less palm, okay." ”

Li Zicheng nodded, waved his hand, and said, "Go and bring those dog officials in one by one, and I will interrogate them well." ”

When the old team heard this, he bowed his hand again and obeyed the order, and hurriedly retreated, while Li Zicheng turned around and walked to the back of the public case and sat down.

After a while, an official in a red official uniform was put in and pushed to the ground.

If they don't confess honestly, it will be a board, if they don't say it, it's another board, and they will be beaten until you say it, and when the question is almost over, he can't say anything after he dies, so he will directly give an order, drag it out and cut it down, and the next one will follow!

During this interrogation, the entire prefect's yamen immediately cried wolf, screaming, begging for mercy, and crying endlessly.

At this time, the entire Anyang County was also crying wolf, and a group of peasant soldiers rushed to the house of the local tyrant squire, and couldn't help but say, they tied up when they saw people, until everyone was tied up, and then dragged out the big man, beat him fatly, forced all his gold and silver treasures out, and then dragged them out directly and cut them.

As for their families, they are generally used as cannon fodder in the army, and of course, there are also some peasant army leaders or small leaders who will keep their good-looking female dependents as their own.

Of course, they will not directly lead the hungry people to the granaries in the mansions of the local tyrants and squires to put the grain, generally they will gather the grain together, and then beat the gongs and drums to let the people line up to receive the grain.

Anyang is only more than 100 miles away from the Daimyo's Mansion, and the peasant army is vigorously killing corrupt officials, fighting local tyrants, and opening warehouses to help the people in Anyang City, where is Zhang Bin?

At this time, he had already led 10,000 Qi family troops in Dagu Port, this time, he did not inform Qi Panzong to bring Jinyi Wei to clear the field, because it was too late, he just parked the Zhenyuan cruiser on the sea more than ten miles away, and then ordered a hundred wheels to dock at the Dagu Port wharf, and began to unload weapons and equipment and grain and grass baggage.

This time, he brought a lot of weapons and equipment, grain and grass baggage, except for the Wuhan Iron and Steel car, all other weapons and equipment were brought, grain and grass also brought tens of thousands of stones, and even he brought more than 1,000 war horses, except for 400 tiger squatting guns, most of the rest were for pulling grain, grass and baggage and other materials, and some were also used for riding.

The fishing boats and merchant ships near Dagu Port can be frightened by this posture, the size of the wheel boat is small, that is also relative to the warship, compared to the fishing boat and the merchant ship, his volume is not small at all, only the Fu boat and the sea cang boat are a little bigger than the wheel boat, the other ships are not as big as the wheel boat at all, how do ordinary fishermen and merchants buy the Fu boat and the sea cangboat, so what they see is more than 100 "big ships" lined up in a neat formation to pounce on the port wharf!

There was a commotion in the entire Dagu port, but fortunately, when the wheels got closer, they immediately saw it, and it was clear that there were soldiers of the Ming army on it, and the people near the port were relieved.

This is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, near the Shuntianfu of Beizhili, and the soldiers of the Ming army will definitely not dare to mess around.

Of course, the Qi family army will not mess around, each wheel is a small group of twelve Qi family army soldiers, after the wheel boat docked, they immediately put on the plank, led out the war horse, and carried out the tiger squat artillery cart and grain and grass cart, the speed was surprisingly fast, and the ordinary people around were stunned.

The soldiers of the Qi family army didn't care about the people in the port, they just moved there with all their might, and after moving one boat after another, of course, the people were also quite knowledgeable, no one would be stupid to block the way of the Ming army, everyone obediently withdrew from the dock, gathered on the coast on both sides of the port and watched with interest.

In less than half an hour, more than 1,000 war horses, 400 tiger squat artillery trucks and 600 grain and grass wagons landed one after another, lined up neatly in the open space in front of the port, and the soldiers of the Qi family army on the wheels unloaded the remaining grain, grass, baggage, weapons and equipment, and began to line up around the tiger squat artillery carts and grain and grass wagons, while more than 100 wheels left the port one after another and headed for the sea, everything was so orderly.

After a while, the wheels that left the port came back one after another, but this time, there were no war horses or vehicles on the wheels, and those who came down were all Qi family soldiers carrying things, some of them were carrying grain and grass, some carrying various wooden boxes, the six hundred grain and grass carts were slowly filled, and there were more and more Qi family soldiers gathered in front of the port.

This scene is really rare, the people on both sides of the port can't help but sigh, this time it's really a feast for the eyes, you can see the Ming army soldiers landing, and it is quite elite Ming army soldiers, where do ordinary people have this opportunity!

After about half an hour, there were fewer and fewer wheels shuttling back and forth, and almost all the soldiers of the Qi family army gathered in the open space in front of the port, and the elite of the special operations battalion began to land again.

The whole landing process lasted about an hour, and all the wheels near the port dock were finally evacuated, except for one wheelboat leaning alone on the pier.

Zhang Bin took Lu Xiangsheng and Qi Yuangong and other generals to walk down from the wheel, he glanced around a little, and then took out a notebook, handed it to Qi Yuanbi, and told him carefully: "Yuanbi, you lead Wang Er, Sun Biao, Zhao Xing, Li Ji, and their four groups of elite special combat battalions to the capital with one million taels of silver to ask the emperor for a decree." ”

He had already explained in the memora that he only had 10,000 soldiers under his command, and it might be a little weak to deal with more than 200,000 peasant troops, so he asked Chongzhen to send people to rectify the military equipment of the three prefectures of Daimyo, Guangping, and Shunde, and train 10,000 new troops to come out to cooperate in the battle.

As for this candidate, Zhang Bin recommended Lu Xiangsheng to Chongzhen.

Because he was originally the prefect of the Daimyo's Mansion, he was familiar with this area, and he believed that Chongzhen had also seen his performance in the defense of the capital last time, not to mention, Zhang Bin also handed over one million taels, he believed that Chongzhen would not refuse this small request, otherwise, it would be a bit difficult to let his 10,000 army deal with more than 200,000 peasant troops.