Yongcheng, a small county town in the easternmost part of Guide Prefecture, across the border of Yongcheng County is Nanzhili Fengyang Mansion, there is a Mangdang Mountain here, because Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, killed the snake in this uprising. Therefore, it is also known as the "Land of Hanxing".

However, in the past few days, the land of Hanxing has not been able to rise, because it was occupied by the peasant army, a small county with a total population of less than 100,000, was attacked by more than 300,000 peasant troops, Yongcheng County Commander saw the overwhelming peasant army rushing over, and directly fainted, so Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong did not take the initiative to open the city and surrender without much effort The "defenders" in the city surrendered.

Just kidding, hundreds of villagers brave hundreds of thousands of thieves, people don't bring any weapons, climb the city wall with their bare hands, rush up, kill you, do you kill it, this battle can't be fought at all!

300,000 peasant troops were stationed around Yongcheng for a day of rest, the next day, in the morning, Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong stood side by side, standing on the gate tower of the east gate of Yongcheng, outside the east gate, more than 100,000 peasant soldiers were quickly packing up their tents, packing up, and it seemed that they were preparing to "go on the march".

Zhang Xianzhong seemed a little unhappy, and he didn't even bother to say anything, until his subordinates had almost cleaned up, he bowed his hand to Gao Yingxiang slightly: "King Chuang, farewell." ”

Gao Yingxiang said enthusiastically: "I wish the Eight Kings a victory, and then I will go to Fengyang to celebrate the Eight Kings." ”

Zhang Xianzhong arched his hand again, meaning for a moment, then turned around and strode towards the east gate.

Li Zicheng looked at Zhang Xianzhong's departing back, frowned slightly, and said: "Uncle, these eight kings are too arrogant, no matter how you say that you are also the leader of the seventy-two road righteous army, what kind of attitude does he have." ”

Gao Yingxiang shook his head and said with a smile: "Forget it, he is not my general, there is no need to be submissive to me, and the eight kings have such a temper, you don't know, he may be angry because he didn't become the leader of the alliance, don't worry about this, as long as he is willing to send troops to cooperate with us." ”

Li Zicheng said meaningfully: "Uncle, there is only one emperor!" ”

Gao Yingxiang glanced at him in surprise, then shook his head and said with a wry smile: "The world is so big, how can there only be one emperor, don't you know how many princes there are in the Zhou Dynasty, as long as they are willing to respect me, the co-lord of the world, there is no need to force it." ”

When Li Zicheng heard this, he no longer spoke, but muttered to himself in his heart: "King Zhou is indeed the co-master of the world, and in the end, he was abolished!" ”

He didn't pay much attention to the other leaders of the peasant army, but this Zhang Xianzhong, he was very jealous, not because Zhang Xianzhong had a bad temper, but because he saw ambition in Zhang Xianzhong's eyes, this guy is definitely not the kind of lord who is willing to condescend to others.

Zhang Xianzhong is indeed very unhappy, he thinks that his ability is much stronger than Gao Yingxiang, and his qualifications are not worse than Gao Yingxiang, the only thing that is almost is the number of his subordinates, the quantity is actually a joke, he wants to be like Gao Yingxiang, as long as he is a young man, he can recruit more than 200,000 troops, the problem is to be able to fight, a group of rabble, no matter how many there are, what's the use, it's just a waste of food!

Gao Yingxiang seems to be powerful at this time, but in fact, he doesn't have much combat effectiveness, if he really puts himself right, he is definitely not an opponent.

Zhang Xianzhong is indeed not wrong about this, it can be seen from the final ending of Gao Yingxiang and even Li Zicheng that the rabble, no matter how many tricks there are, it is useless.

In the first battle of Heishuiyu, Gao Yingxiangkong had more than 100,000 troops, but in the end he was defeated by Sun Chuanting with 20,000 Qin troops, and even he himself was captured by Sun Chuanting, and finally ended up with a thousand cuts.

Li Zicheng is even more exaggerated, the army behind him is 500,000 or even 1 million at every turn, but in front of the Qing army is vulnerable, on the other hand, Zhang Xianzhong, when he died, there were only more than 200,000 horses, Li Dingguoguang took his 100,000 Western army to fight the Qing army can not find the north, if it is not for the final Sun Kewang and Li Ding's domestic strife, the Qing army wants to occupy the entire south, I am afraid it is wishful thinking.

Of course, at this time, Li Dingguo and other good seedlings were cut off by Zhang Bin, and Zhang Xianzhong did not have any powerful generals for the time being, but his tactics of attacking the city did not change, that is, to send the elite to sneak into the city first, and then lead the main force to raid.

Because at this time, the entire Ming Dynasty is full of displaced people, everywhere is the peasant army, everywhere is the Ming army soldiers who come and go, his trick, can be described as tried and tested, the most famous in history is Li Dingguo led twenty horsemen to outwit Xiangyang, think about Xiangyang such an important town was attacked by Zhang Xianzhong, Fengyang is such a small county, how can it be possible to block his move inside and outside.

Zhang Xianzhong seems to be a rough man, but he is not reckless at all when fighting, although he knows that the defenders of Fengyang are only a few thousand, but he did not underestimate the enemy, but sent dozens of elites to pretend to be various identities to sneak into Fengyang City first, and he took his army, rushed all the way, and went straight to Fengyang Mansion City.

Fengyang Mansion City is more than 300 miles away from Yongcheng, Zhang Xianzhong's marching speed has reached more than 100 miles a day, when Fengyang Guard General Zhu Guoxiang received the news, Zhang Xianzhong has been less than 100 miles away from Fengyang Mansion City, that night, he led more than 100,000 troops to surround Fengyang Mansion City, and at this time, the defenders of Fengyang City are only more than 4,000 people.

Zhu Guoxiang hurriedly only sent two groups of fast horsemen to the capital and the southern capital Jinling for help, and he didn't know when the reinforcements would arrive.

It's a pity that the Mandate of Heaven is not on the side of Daming at this time, or not on Chongzhen's side, early the next morning, the inside and outside of Fengyang Mansion was filled with dense fog, and the visibility was less than ten steps away, and Zhang Xianzhong even brought a cloud ladder, and the fog had not yet dispersed, so he commanded the army to start attacking the city!

What's even more terrifying is that "innumerable" thugs suddenly appeared in the city of Fengyang Mansion, fanning the flames everywhere, if the defenders don't pay attention to them, they can even run to the city gate, Zhu Guoxiang was overwhelmed, tired of coping, less than an hour, Fengyang City was broken by the peasant army, although Zhu Guoxiang led the army to resist desperately in the city, but could not stop the pace of more than 100,000 troops, in the end, Zhu Guoxiang killed himself in despair, and all four thousand defenders died!

After Zhang Xianzhong entered the city, he caught Yan Rongxuan, the prefect of Fengyang, and in front of the people, after counting his crimes, he was executed, and then he led the army to dig up the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum, looted the gold and silver treasures inside, and cut down hundreds of thousands of pines and cypresses around the Imperial Mausoleum, and burned the entire Imperial Mausoleum!

The ancestral tomb of the old Zhu family was dug by Zhang Xianzhong, which lasted for decades, and the imperial mausoleum that cost millions of taels to build was also burned by Zhang Xianzhong, the fire lasted for several days and nights, Zhang Xianzhong also wreaked havoc in Fengyang Mansion for a few days and nights, he killed all the relatives of the old Zhu family and all the rich families in Fengyang Mansion City, and searched out the food in their homes and distributed it to the local poor people, and they were very busy.

Zhang Xianzhong showed off his might in Fengyang Mansion for two days, and Chongzhen received the news that Fengyang was besieged, which really scared Chongzhen to the soul, and he hurriedly ordered the Southern Capital Military Department to quickly mobilize men and horses to support Fengyang, and strictly ordered Chen Qiyu, the governor of the five provinces, to immediately lead the army to support.

It's a pity that everything was late, when Chen Qiyu received the will, Zhang Xianzhong had already burned down the imperial tomb, and besides, he only had 50,000 horses under his command, so he couldn't rush to Fengyang Mansion at all.

Gao Yingxiang stayed in Yongcheng not to watch a play, he had already agreed with Zhang Xianzhong that Zhang Xianzhong would only attack Fengyang and dig the ancestral grave of the old Zhu family, while he was responsible for blocking the main force of the Ming army led by Chen Qiyu, the governor of the five provinces.

Therefore, Chen Qiyu had just led the army to Yongcheng, and was blocked by Gao Yingxiang, who was waiting for work!

50,000 officers and soldiers attacked the small county town where "only" 200,000 thieves were stationed, it stands to reason that they should be captured, but unfortunately, Chen Qiyu is not Lu Xiangsheng after all, he is just a pure civilian official, and he can't personally lead the army to rush to the city wall, and the peasant army that killed him cried and shouted his mother, helpless, although the peasant army under Gao Yingxiang was just a gang of "rabble" in the eyes of Zhang Xianzhong, but it was not vulnerable, Chen Qiyu stormed for three days, and the Ming army suffered heavy casualties, but still failed to take this small Yongcheng!

At this time, Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing, who were harassing near Guide Mansion City, also rushed over when they heard the news, and they attacked back and forth, eliminating Chen Qiyu's 50,000 officers and soldiers in one fell swoop.

To his surprise, he had just retreated to the city of Defu, and Gao Yingxiang joined Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing and went straight to Fengyang Mansion, leaving Yongcheng behind!

Three days later, Gao Yingxiang, Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing led the army to Fengyang Mansion City to join Zhang Xianzhong, nearly 400,000 troops rested in Fengyang Mansion City for three days, and ransacked the vicinity of Fengyang Mansion City.

Chen Qiyu waited hard for reinforcements from various provinces to arrive, but he waited for the news of the evacuation of the Yongcheng thieves, and he didn't care if it was a trick of the thieves, if Fengyang was conquered by the thieves, he would die!

He could only dare to lead another 50,000 troops to Yongcheng, and as a result, he found that the thief really ran away!

He stubbornly led the army to the direction of Fengyang Mansion City, and walked carefully for nearly five days, he finally arrived at Fengyang Mansion City, and at this time, the thief had already run away, leaving only the burned and devastated Imperial Mausoleum!

Chen Qiyu was so frightened that his soul was scared, this is the emperor's ancestral tomb, it was burned by the thieves, the emperor will definitely be thundered and angry when he knows it, he is really dead now!

However, he didn't dare not report it, if he dared to conceal such a big thing, Chongzhen knew that he had to punish his nine clans, so he could only hurriedly write a letter of letters, describe the situation in Fengyang Mansion in detail, and then order someone to send it to the capital in an urgent manner for 800 miles.

Next, he could only stay in Fengyang Mansion City, waiting for Chongzhen's thunderous wrath to come!

Chongzhen received the news, was stunned for a long time, then put on mourning clothes, ran to the Taimiao, knelt under the ancestral tablet and cried for a while, and ordered all the court officials to be vegetarian and vegetarian to handle official business to show mourning.

At this time, the whole capital was in a panic, and the court officials were all restless, not because the royal ancestral tomb was dug up, but because they were afraid of Chongzhen, who was so angry that he was crazy!

After worshipping the ancestors and ancestors, Chongzhen finally went crazy, such a shameful and humiliating, how could he not wash it away.

At this time, no one dared to stop the angry Chongzhen, not even Wen Tiren.

Chongzhen is really going crazy, the ancestral graves have been dug up, what are the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty doing to eat, from the capital to Fengyang, as long as it is related to this matter, don't even think about running!

The first thing he thought of was Yu Anxing, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and then he found out that this Yu Anxing was like a secretary of the Ministry of War, this guy was even more idle than the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, the affairs of Liaodong, he had never seen Yu Anxing in charge, everything was handled by himself, and he had never seen Yu Anxing in charge of the anti-thief affairs, or he was in charge of it!

In fact, most of the eunuch party officials have this virtue, no matter what position they are in, they only think about fighting for power and profit, and they don't care about business at all, like the military department of the Tianqi Dynasty, Cui Chengxiu, the imperial history of the left capital, is also this virtue, what Liaodong's Jiannu, the southwest's Anluxe Rebellion, the southeast's pirates, and the northwest's peasant uprising, Cui Chengxiu has never taken care of it, his only achievement is to compile the list of Donglin Party members and non-Donglin Party members into "Comrade Zhulu" and "Tianjianlu" respectively, and dedicate it to Wei Zhongxian to help him promote his peers and fight against dissidentsSo that almost all the upright courtiers were degraded, and those who waged their tails and begged for mercy were promoted.

Chongzhen is not an apocalypse, he at least has a brain, what is this kind of corpse vegetarian food in the military department still doing, if this Yu Anxing takes care of things a little, how can the situation in the Central Plains be so corrupted, and how can the thieves easily take Fengyang Mansion City!

In a fit of anger, he directly issued a holy decree to dismiss Yu Anxing and cut him down, so that this guy would get out of the house immediately.

Immediately afterwards, it was Chen Qiyu, the governor of the five provinces, he originally thought that this Chen Qiyu was a thief wizard, but he never thought that this guy had been in office for a few months, and he had achieved nothing!

He didn't care how many soldiers and horses Chen Qiyu had, and no matter whether the soldiers and horses from various provinces came to gather on time, he only knew that he gave Chen Qiyu enough power and enough trust, but this guy not only failed to exterminate the rebels, but also let the rebels capture the central capital Fengyang Mansion and dig up the ancestral graves of his old Zhu family!

With such a "wine bag and rice bag", why was he blind in the first place, let him be the governor of the five provinces, he was angry, and directly ordered Chen Qiyu to be removed from his post and investigated, and ordered Jinyiwei to go to Fengyang immediately and escort Chen Qiyu back to the capital for trial.

There is also Yang Yipeng, the governor of Fengyang, Yan Rongxuan, the prefect of Fengyang, and Zhu Guoxiang, the guard of Fengyang, are all dead, this guy is not dead, it is unreasonable, there is no need to interrogate, he was directly arrested and cut!

In fact, this Yang Yipeng is really a little wronged, because he is not only the governor of Fengyang, but also the head of the household department, who is specifically responsible for the governor Caoyun, usually in Jinling or Xuzhou Governor Caoyun, Fengyang He can't go to Fengyang a few times a year, Fengyang is lost, and it really has nothing to do with him.

However, Chongzhen is crazy with anger at this time, it doesn't matter if you have anything to do with it, let's cut it first!

Immediately afterwards, what Fengyang patrol according to the imperial history, the commander of the central capital left behind in the division, the commander of Wu Pingwei, the commander of the Flying Eagle Guard, etc., etc., as long as there is a little responsibility, all of them will be dragged out and cut!

After a frenzied slashing and killing, he finally sobered up a little, and at this time, he finally began to reflect on his own mistakes, and issued the first 'edict of guilt' to the whole world, admitting the mistakes of the court and himself to the subjects of the world, and hoping that everyone can work together to exterminate the anti-thieves.