Volume 10 Chapter 9 The Northwest is in danger of the four thieves

It is said that now the post pawns have become fragrant and sweet, the most famous post pawn in history, it is rumored that he rebelled against Li Zicheng, the king of the post because he lost his post job, what happened now? He is definitely better than the post pawn now, although he is still just a general, but his uncle Gao Yingxiang, the king of Lao Chuang, has become the leader of the rebel army at this time, and his status has risen because of this, and he has become the number two person in the rebel army.

Since the terrifying encirclement and suppression of King Lu Yan in the fourth year of Chongzheng, the Ming court seems to have forgotten the rebels in the northwest, leaving only 50,000 soldiers and horses to guard the first line of Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi, and all the other soldiers and horses have been transferred!

This is a rare and good opportunity, after the king of Zijin Liang took 100,000 righteous troops to rest in the mountains at the junction of Shanxi and Henan for a few months, he began to march to Huaiqing Mansion in Henan. Gua baby!

Henan was simply a paradise for the rebel army, full of royal family members, landlords and gentry everywhere, ordinary civilians were either domestic slaves of the royal family or tenant farmers of the landlords and gentry, the people were very resentful, and the foundation of rebellion was better than that of Shanxi and Shaanxi.

The rebel army in Henan can be described as a fish in water, less than a year to recover, not only won Huaiqing Mansion, but also expanded to more than 300,000 people, just when Wang Ziyong was ready to show his strength to create a career, an accident happened.

If you want to say that this accident can only be blamed for not fully understanding Zhu Cijiong's meaning, you said that you should stay in Henan and honestly clean up the moths of the clan? He didn't know which tendon was wrong, he heard that Daming and Houjin had a big battle in Liaodong, it seemed that the fight was quite tragic, and he was ready to take advantage of the situation to take the capital and overthrow Daming in one fell swoop!

Well, this is also blamed on the "Beijing News" propaganda is a bit excessive, the battle in Liaodong is described as extremely tragic, although it is reported that the Ming army has won a complete victory, Liaodong has been recovered, and Jiannu fled back to his hometown, but the movements of the Ming army behind it are impossible to appear in the newspapers, plus Zhu Cijiong sent Sun Chuanting this way Qin army to deal with the rebel army, and it was also sent to Xi'an to garrison, which made Wang Ziyong completely misunderstood, he thought that the Ming army must have suffered heavy casualties, and the newspapers were all blown, what a big victory, Didn't you see hundreds of thousands of troops transferred over, and finally 100,000 people came back!

Sun Chuanting originally strictly obeyed the emperor's orders to guard in Xi'an, even if the rebel army occupied the entire Huaiqing Mansion, he didn't move, according to the emperor's will, as long as they don't attack Kaifeng Mansion, they don't have to pay attention, besides, he also knows that it is not too much of a problem to defeat more than 300,000 rebels with just 100,000 horses under his command, but it is simply a dream to annihilate them all, and when the time comes, they will drill into the mountains again, and they will still run in vain.

It's good to die, this king used it for himself, like a convulsion, to gather a large army and go straight to the capital, although he knew that the 300,000 rebel army would definitely not be able to capture the capital, but it was also a great sin to let them enter the Shuntian Mansion and shock the holy car! As soon as he received the news, he immediately led 100,000 Qin troops to rush to the direction of the capital day and night, and finally intercepted the rebel army in Wu'an, where the border between northern Henan and the capital was located.

There's nothing to say, crackling is a beating, where did the 300,000 righteous army do more than 100,000 well-equipped Qin troops, the Tianxiong army led by Lu Xiangsheng and Lu Yan is fierce, but there is only one madman in it, this Qin army is a crazy man, this Qin army is especially 100,000 people are all crazy, seeing the righteous army is like beating chicken blood, if it weren't for Sun Chuanting's repeated strict orders to maintain the formation, they are afraid that they will directly pounce on it and rob it crazy, it is all money, a head is worth at least ten taels of silver!

The rebels were simply stupid by their posture, the general army was repeatedly ordered by the leading generals, and even sent the supervising team to stand behind with a bright machete to intimidate them to rush forward, what kind of people are these Qin troops, looking at their eyes like a hungry wolf seeing a fat sheep, if it weren't for the leading generals shouting hoarsely there to maintain the formation, it is estimated that they would have rushed up in a swarm.

Originally, the rebel army still had a way to face the Ming army that was not equipped with artillery, and as soon as the giant shield of several inches thick was erected, the shield wall was together, and no matter how powerful the musket was, it was useless. This time the Qin army did not bring artillery, if they ran over with artillery, I am afraid that the rebels will rush to the capital, and they will not be able to catch up with Wu'an, but the tactical literacy of the Qin army is too high, and the rebels who are three times their own will not panic at all, and the speed of the formation is amazing.

The righteous army does not have their tactical literacy, and there is no discipline when marching, the 300,000 army stretches for dozens of miles, and it is extremely troublesome to command.

Now everyone in the Qin army is equipped with a new type of flintlock pistol, as soon as the stacked wave formation starts, the bullet will cover the righteous army like rain, and the righteous army will immediately scream after a rain of bullets, and many people in the front row have been beaten into a sieve, and even the king himself has been shot in the abdomen, what else to fight, hurry up and run away!

The battle ended inexplicably, and most of the rebels didn't know what was going on, only to hear a crackling sound in front, like firecrackers, endlessly, and then there were countless terrible screams in front, and then everyone began to run away.

After running for more than ten miles, everyone stopped to rest for a while, and the generals of the rebel army found that their leader, Wang Ziyong, had been shot, and at this time he had lost too much blood, his face was pale, and he couldn't even speak in pain.

The 300,000 army was suddenly leaderless, and the generals of the righteous army also knew that without the command of King Zijin Liang for his own use, none of them would listen to anyone, and this battle could not be fought, so it was better to retreat to Huaiqing and wait for the king to use his own injuries to recover.

The righteous army retreated like this, Sun Chuanting didn't even chase it, he arranged defense in Wu'an, and sent a fast horse to ask the emperor, and within a few days, Zhu Cijiong's instructions came, very simple: Did the thief return? If the thieves go back, you should also go back to Xi'an.

Okay, the rebel army has already returned to Huaiqing, Sun Chuanting is loyal to the emperor, since the emperor asked him to go back, then go back, he really led the Qin army back to Xi'an like this!

King Zijin Liang is destined for his own use, in history he was also injured in Wu'an in the sixth year of Chongzhen, and died of illness in Jiyuan not long after returning to Huaiqing, and he also couldn't escape the fate of being injured and dying in Chongzheng in the sixth year, and he died of illness soon after he returned.

As soon as the king died, the generals of the rebel army did not obey anyone, and finally simply divided his team and then parted ways!

They didn't dare to fight in the capital, they finally understood that there was a tiger's ass that couldn't be touched, and it was okay not to go, as soon as they went, the Ming army would go crazy to block them, and no one could stand the madness; They didn't dare to go to Shanxi, it was King Luyan's lair, and if King Luyan was provoked back, they would also have no good fruit to eat; They didn't dare to go to Shaanxi, Sun Chuanting was guarding there, wouldn't it be to seek death if they went!

Thinking about it, it was safest to stay in Henan, so the rebels began to spread to the southeast, and soon Henan became the hardest hit area of the rebellion, and the whole territory of Henan was full of rebels.

You must know that Henan is the world of the royal family, the children and grandchildren of the seventy-two princes and princes of the county have multiplied, and the number has reached a terrifying more than 100,000, it can be said that at least half of the royal family is in Henan, the righteous army and the royal family are real mortal enemies, no two words, catch one and kill one, and the royal family of Henan who killed the emperor cried and shouted, and the twists and turns for help flew to the capital like snowflakes: the anti-thief is the kind of the old Zhu family, the emperor is coming to save us!

The regent Zhu Youzhen was naturally anxious when he saw the twists and turns of the call for help, and persuaded Zhu Cijiong to send troops to encircle and suppress the thieves again and again, but Zhu Cijiong had already prepared:

After a while, he said perfunctorily, although the Houjin were beaten away, but they did not lose any troops, they are now annexing the Mongolian tribes in Monan, and their strength has even exceeded the past, I must send a large army to defend the line of the Great Wall, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable!

After a while, he said perfunctorily, the maritime power Netherlands has occupied the treasure island, and they are gathering men and horses to prepare to invade the Ming Dynasty, and I must lead a large army to resist!

After a while, he said perfunctorily, Dongying began to move again, I must take strict precautions, that is a wolf, let them go ashore Daming will never have peace!

It was delayed again and again, until the ninth year of Chongzheng.

Under the deliberate connivance of Zhu Cijiong, the entire Henan was almost turned upside down by the righteous army, except for Kaifeng and Luoyang, almost all places were plundered by them, Henan's royal family and clan relatives have become their dead souls under the knife, and more than one percent almost all hid in Luoyang City, and the righteous army from all walks of life has snowballed like looted money and grain, with a total of five or six hundred thousand, and the righteous army can be said to have reached its heyday seven or eight years ahead of schedule!

With so many people, horses, food and grass has become a big problem, what should I do when Henan is wreaking havoc? You must know that although the drought in Henan has improved at this time, there is still no food to grow, and how long can the army of 500,000 or 600,000 people who rely on the looted grain eat, and then the grain will run out? Are they all starving to death?

In this case, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Lao Huihui, Luo Rucai, Ge Liyan, Zuo Jin Wang, Reincarnated King, Shooting Collapse Heaven, Hengtian King, Mixed 100,000, Guo Tianxing, Nine Dragons, Shuntian King and other thirteen families and 72 battalions of rebel army gathered in Xingyang, Henan Province to hold the Xingyang Conference to discuss the plan to overthrow the rule of the imperial court.

At the meeting, Gao Yingxiang, who was the most powerful, was elected as the new leader of the rebel army, and Gao Yingxiang's nephew Li Zicheng also showed his outstanding military talent, proposing a joint operation and a clever plan for attacking from all directions:

One route was Gao Yingxiang who led an army of 200,000 to the west, waiting for an opportunity to sneak attack and seize Xi'an;

One route is that Li Zicheng himself led an army of 100,000 to attack Luoyang, waiting for an opportunity to kill Zhu Changxun, the most prestigious Fu King among the royal family;

One route is that Zhang Xianzhong led an army of 100,000 to the south, attacked Xiangyang, and waited for an opportunity to kill Zhu Yiming, the highest-ranking Xiangzhong king in the royal family;

Along the way, Luo Rucai led the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution and other rebels with a total of more than 100,000 to attack Fengyang Mansion, the capital of China, and waited for the opportunity to dig up the ancestral grave of the old Zhu family!

The magic of this plan lies in the uncertainty of the four roads, each road can be a feint, each road can be turned into the main attack, and the four roads are the place that must be saved for the Ming court, after all, the strength of the imperial court is limited, and it will definitely be good to be able to save one or two roads at that time, and the other roads will inevitably be easy to get, as long as they succeed all the way, the little emperor will inevitably be in chaos, and then their opportunity will come.

In the eyes of the leaders of the rebel armies, this is indeed a wonderful plan, and the court will inevitably be in chaos because of this, but is this really the case? Let's see the next breakdown.