The rebels came back and besieged Luoyang, and Chongzhen was anxious.

Zhu Changxun, the blessed king in Luoyang City, is his own uncle, if he is caught and killed by the thief, he will lose his face as the emperor, and his own uncle can't protect him, you are embarrassed to say that you are the emperor!

Chongzhen couldn't afford to lose this face, so he hurriedly issued an order and ordered the new governor of the five provinces, Wu Zhenying, to quickly mobilize people and horses to rush to Luoyang to support, no matter what, he had to drive the thieves away and relieve the siege of Luoyang City.

He believes that this difficulty is not very great, because at the beginning of Huaiqing Mansion was occupied by more than 200,000 anti-thieves The main force occupied most of the city, and King Zheng in the city was in danger, Lu Xiangsheng only led 20,000 horses to rush up, and finally not only defeated the anti-thieves, but also captured more than 100,000 people, and at this time, the siege of Luoyang anti-thieves seemed to be only more than 100,000, and Wu Zhenying, the governor of the five provinces, could mobilize 40,000 Shanxi soldiers and guards nearby, and there should be no problem in relieving the siege of Luoyang City.

Wu Zhenying is in Taiyuan Mansion at this time, because there are now a total of 60,000 horses left in the five northwestern provinces, and the Shanxi border soldiers and guards account for 40,000, so he wants to control these 40,000 horses in his hands first, and then slowly plot the military power in Zhang Bin's hands.

Unexpectedly, before he had time to control the 20,000 guards led by Xu Dingchen, the governor of Shanxi, the five northwestern provinces rebelled against thieves, and King Fu in Luoyang City was in a hurry, and Chongzhen issued an order, strictly ordering him to immediately lead the army to rescue King Fu and relieve the siege of Luoyang City.

Where did he dare to run to fight the thieves, he was just an ordinary civil official, and he wouldn't be able to fight at all, if it weren't for Wen Tiren's relationship, let alone the governor of the five provinces, he wouldn't be qualified to be the governor of the three sides.

He is not even as good as Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou has also suppressed the peasant army and slaughtered tens of thousands of unarmed prisoners, he doesn't even know what the peasant army commander looks like!

Of course, he didn't want to know what the peasant army commander was like, fighting with the anti-thieves, don't be kidding, he didn't even dare to kill the chickens, let him kill the anti-thieves, how dare he go.

After thinking about it for a while, he made the same choice as Hong Chengchou, that is, to delay time.

He seemed to be very positive, and after receiving the holy decree, he immediately set off with 20,000 Shanxi guards, but he did not go straight to Luoyang, and ran to Pingyang Mansion in the southwest of Shanxi, so he stopped and issued an order, ordering the 10,000 Qin troops stationed in Xi'an and the 10,000 Sichuan troops stationed in Hanzhong to come and converge.

Xi'an is more than 1,000 miles away from Pingyang Mansion, Hanzhong is farther away from Pingyang Mansion, and there is also Qinling in the middle, the Sichuan army is afraid that it will take a month to rush over, he thought, Luoyang City is high and deep, and the anti-thieves will definitely not be able to attack it, and it will not take a month, and the anti-thieves will probably give up and run away, and at that time, he will not have to fight with the anti-thieves.

He is completely whimsical, Li Zicheng is not a little sure how to run to attack Luoyang City, Luoyang, as the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, is indeed a high and deep moat, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but Li Zicheng has ordered dozens of elites under his command to pretend to be the guards of the nearby Hongnongwei to blend into the city, no matter how strong the city is, it can't prevent the attack from the inside, and it is only a matter of time before Luoyang City is broken.

Li Zicheng's subordinates were looking for an opportunity to open the city gate and welcome King Chuang in, but Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, who were plotting against Xiangyang, took the lead.

At this time, the defense of Xiangyang was not tight, and the Huguang Xing Dusi only sent a soldier to rectify the defense of Xiangyang City, and the people who were responsible for defending the city were not regular Ming troops at all, just thousands of lazy guards.

Zhang Xianzhong may have gained a little inspiration when he defended Xing'an Prefecture to resist the attack of the imperial army, at that time he could defend a small state city and fight with tens of thousands of imperial army for several hours, and also made the imperial army pay the price of thousands of casualties, if he can take Xiangyang, one of the most powerful cities in the world, even if it is 100,000 imperial army, he may not be able to capture it.

He knew quite well that at this time, the total imperial army of the entire five northwestern provinces was less than 100,000, and the imperial court was fighting with Jiannu in Liaodong, and there was no force to encircle and suppress them for a while.

That is to say, as long as he takes Xiangyang, at least, in a few months, the imperial court has no way to take him, there are these few months, plus the wealth of Zhu Yiming, the king of Xiangyang City, he doesn't know how many people he can recruit, and when the time comes, even if the imperial court sends 100,000 troops, he is not afraid!

The so-called starvation of the bold and the cowardly, Zhang Xianzhong's courage has always been big, and the big one is terrifying, he heard that the 10,000 Sichuan army white pole soldiers in Hanzhong were also transferred, and immediately made a plan with Luo Rucai to attack Xiangyang City.

Their plan is actually very simple, it is nothing more than to send spies, when the internal response, open the city gate, Li Zicheng used this trick, and he also used this trick.

At this time, he did not force Xiangyang City, so the gates of Xiangyang City were still open during the day, but there were people stationed at the gates everywhere, and it was very easy to get in.

This time, he was also ruthless, and even personally took hundreds of guards and masters, disguised as traders, and infiltrated Xiangyang City, while Luo Rucai led more than 100,000 troops to hide in the west of Xiangyang City, more than 30 miles away in the remnants of Daba Mountain.

On this night, the moon was dark and the wind was high, it was the day when Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai agreed to raid Xiangyang City, when he first arrived, Luo Rucai led more than 100,000 troops to run out of the hidden place and rushed to Xiangyang City in the dark, and Zhang Xianzhong also changed into night clothes with more than 100 elite subordinates, lurking in the shadows near the western city wall.

When the time came, the sky had just shown a glimmer of light, and Zhang Xianzhong led his elite to sneak up to the west city wall.

At that time, it was the time when people were most sleepy, and these guards guarding the city did not need to go to the morning or anything, most of them relied on the arrow stacks and the female wall to fall asleep, and only a few people were forced to stand there on duty, but these people were also nodding like quails, and they were about to fall asleep when they stood.

At this time, there were only four or five thousand guards stationed in Xiangyang City, and they had to take turns to be on duty, so there were only three or four hundred people in each class and each city wall.

Zhang Xianzhong took his elite to kill all the way, whether they were asleep or not, touched it, covered their mouths, and then wiped their necks with short blades, so they silently killed nearly two hundred defenders before they were discovered.

However, it was too late, and there were only a hundred people on the city wall, who were not their opponents of the anti-thief elite at all, and soon Zhang Xianzhong led his elite to kill all the guards on the west city wall, and put down the drawbridge, and then, he ran down with people to open the west gate.

At this time, Luo Rucai had already led the army to a place less than two miles outside the city, and when he saw Zhang Xianzhong's code from a distance, he did not hesitate to wave his army and rush into Xiangyang City.

When the defenders in Xiangyang City reacted and organized the team to prepare to recapture the West Gate, Luo Rucai had already led thirty or forty thousand cavalry to rush into the city, but there was no need to think about it, no matter how many thousands of guards were, they were not the opponents of more than 100,000 anti-thieves, and before the hour, the entire Xiangyang City was taken.

Now Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai are developed, and there are not only Xiangwang Zhu Yiming but also many local tyrants and squires in Xiangyang City, and they robbed them all together, and they actually looted nearly three million taels of silver, and the grain was as much as one million stones!

They directly slaughtered Zhu Yiming, the king of Xiang, and a group of local tyrants and inferior gentry, and took out more than 100,000 taels of silver and nearly 100,000 stones of grain to help the victims, within a few days, the reputation spread throughout Huguang, I don't know how many hungry people, homeless people rushed to run, and their men and horses also swelled rapidly, less than ten days, it reached 150,000.

Xiangyang, an important town in Huguang, was conquered by anti-thieves, and Zhu Yiming, the king of Xiang, was slaughtered by anti-thieves, and the news was transmitted back to the capital, Chongzhen couldn't help but be shocked, the siege of Luoyang has not been solved, Xiangyang was taken by anti-thieves, and Zhu Yiming, the king of his uncle and grandfather, was also slaughtered by anti-thieves, how is this good!

In a hurry, he immediately summoned Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, to discuss countermeasures, and Zhang Fengyi really lived up to his "talent and cowardice, knowledge of darkness and cunning, work for profit, and skillful in avoiding trouble." The evaluation is fragmented, but I can't say why.

At this time, even if it was useless, because Chongzhen had no one available, he simply ordered Zhang Fengyi to supervise Fuguang, responsible for recapturing Xiangyang and exterminating the rebels.

At this time, Huguang didn't have a single soldier at all, so he went to supervise what division, isn't this going to find death!

So, as soon as Zhang Fengyi returned to the mansion and was about to leave, he suddenly fell ill, and the illness was quite serious, the diarrhea did not stop, he couldn't be closed at all, and he was only half a life left in less than a day.

What's going on here?

Of course, he was faking his illness, strictly speaking, he was taking laxatives and deliberately making himself have diarrhea.

The laxative he ate was the rhubarb medicine that Cui Wensheng poured into Guangzong at the beginning, rhubarb Tongli, everyone knows this, but if you eat too much rhubarb, you will have diarrhea like dysentery, and most people also know this, but no one will risk drowning to death and eat rhubarb.

Guangzong was poured by the eunuch Cui Wensheng, but Zhang Fengyi poured it for himself, because he didn't dare to go to Huguang to die, rather than supervising Fuguang, who was angry and cut off his head by Chongzhen, and even raided his family to exterminate the clan, it is better to eat rhubarb and pull the ball to death, so that at least he died of illness and would not harm his family.

Eating rhubarb to pull yourself to death, is there such a fierce person?

There really is, this phoenix wing really ate rhubarb medicine to kill himself in history!

There were many such strange things in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, and many ministers, not knowing whether it was to get rid of their crimes, or to follow Mingguangzong under Jiuquan, chose to take rhubarb medicine madly to pull themselves to death!

Not to mention anything else, just the book of the Ministry of War, there are two of them who swallowed rhubarb medicine in fear of crime and died, Zhang Fengyi is one, and the other Liang Tingdong is also afraid of the enemy and cowardly, afraid that Chongzhen will be angry, and he will implicate his family after killing him, and he also frantically swallowed rhubarb medicine and pulled himself to death!

Now Chongzhen was dumbfounded again, he specially ordered the imperial doctor to visit, this Zhang Fengyi is really diarrhea, and he has half a life left, of course, the explanation given by Zhang Fengyi is that he has a cold, so the diarrhea does not stop, he dare not say that he is afraid of sin and swallows medicine.

Chongzhen really believed this reason, because his father also had a cold, diarrhea did not stop, and he died.

This is the official explanation, the situation in the palace at that time was extremely complicated, Chongzhen was just a child, and he didn't know how his father died.

Later, the Zhejiang Party teamed up with Wei Zhongxian to deceive the Apocalypse, saying that Guangzong had a cold, diarrhea did not stop, and died, the Apocalypse believed it, and of course Chongzhen, the little brother, also believed it, otherwise, if it was such a big crime to murder the emperor, it would be a river of blood that could not be killed!

This military department is "sick", and the governors of the five provinces are on the way to Luoyang to relieve the siege, what should I do?

Do you let the thieves occupy Xiangyang and leave it alone?

Of course, this is impossible, Chongzhen was forced to be helpless, so he had to ask Zhang Bin for help again, and asked him to think of a way, divide some people, and temporarily clean up the thieves.

Zhang Bin received the emperor's implicit will, pursed his lips and smiled, and then listed the distribution of Liaodong's current troops one by one on the fold, and sent it back to Chongzhen, so that Chongzhen could see if Liaodong could transfer people.

At present, although the strength of the entire Liaodong army has reached an unprecedented 200,000 troops, there are also more areas to be defended, and almost all the troops are scattered.

Shanhaiguan, Jizhou Town's border soldiers plus the Liaodong Army only have a total of 15,000 people, and there are only so many people stationed in the world's first Xiongguan, can there be less;

Guanningjin defense line, five cities plus more than ten fortresses a total of more than 30,000 people stationed, on average, a city is only 5,000 people, a fortress is only 2,000 people;

On the first line of the Santaizi River, there are five fortresses, with a total of only 25,000 people stationed, and each fortress is only 5,000 people;

On the first line of the Liaohe River, there are five fortresses, except for the 20,000 Liaohe Forts, each of the others is 10,000, and the opposite bank of these fortresses can be connected to the Jiannu control area, and it is possible to face the sneak attack of the main force of Jiannu at any time.

In the southeast of Liaodong, Gaizhouwei, Fuzhouwei, and Jinzhouwei, nearly 600 miles of newly recovered areas, a total of 20,000 people were stationed, and they also had to face an army of 50,000 or 60,000 Jiannu, which was seriously insufficient;

Haizhou City is stationed with 80,000 troops, but the opposite Liaoyang City can be stationed with more than 200,000 Jiannu main force, 80,000 troops to withdraw a part, in case Jiannu crazy attack, Haizhou City is lost, the back of Gaizhou Wei, Fuzhou Wei, Jinzhou Wei will face the main force of Jiannu, do the people here dare to transfer away?

Chongzhen looked at Zhang Bin's performance, and was immediately speechless, as Zhang Bin said, unless he gave up the newly recovered Haizhou Wei, Gaizhou Wei, Fuzhou Wei and Jinzhou Wei, and fully retreated to the front line of the Liaohe River, otherwise, Liaodong will have to increase the number of people, and if the people and horses are also transferred, the situation in Liaodong may collapse at any time!

Is it really to give up the newly recovered Haizhou Wei, Gaizhou Wei, Fuzhou Wei and Jinzhou Wei?

Of course it's impossible, it was not easy to recover this place and return it to Jiannu, how could Chongzhen make such a will!

Just when he couldn't think hard, there was bad news in Luoyang, Li Zicheng used the spies planted in Luoyang City, and the inside and outside should be combined to break the city, and the Fu King Zhu Changxun was thrown into a cauldron by Li Zicheng and cooked with a few deer, what a "Fu Lu banquet"!

Chongzhen received the news and was completely dumbfounded, his own uncle was cooked, and Luoyang City was also occupied by thieves, what should I do?

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