In September of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the situation of the people in the Central Plains was like a weed on the earth, the wildfires could not be burned, and the spring breeze blew and reborn, in the final analysis, the imperial court was unable to help.

Supervisor Yang Sichang sat in Yiling and ordered Li Zicheng to surrender. Li Zicheng roughly replied, "Descend Nima!" (self-contained mantra). The consequences of a hard mouth were very serious, and Yang Sichang mobilized a large army and surrounded Li Zicheng in the belly of the Brazilian Fish Belly Mountain.

With this encirclement, Li Zicheng's situation was very bad, and the angry Yang Sichang tried his best to kill him. Many of Li Zicheng's subordinates couldn't bear it and surrendered out of the mountain. But Li Zicheng still gritted his teeth and insisted, but the people were panicked, and the team was not easy to lead.

Li Zicheng had no choice but to make a surprise move to solve the problem of unity of the team, otherwise it would be over. Because Liu Zhongmin, who is the most warlike and loyal, has said that he is going to surrender.

At this time, Li Zicheng put a strange trick and a big move, he said to Liu Zhongmin and others: "Everyone says that I have a destiny, if you don't believe it, go to divination." If the result of the divination is not good, then kill me and take my head to surrender. "I don't know how he got it, anyway, these turtle generals went to find a place for divination (swore to the gods).

The results of the divination are good luck three times in a row, and I don't know how to get it anyway, so it's actually easy to fake this thing.

After Liu Zhongmin's divination was over, he went back, first went to see Li Zicheng, first went back to his residence, killed his two wives (Zhongmin also killed his two wives), and then went to see Li Zicheng and said: "I want to swear to die and obey the king." ”

What's even more fucked up is that there are a lot of people like Liu Zhongmin who do this, not one or two, many people who believe in the results of divination, in order to show their determination, go back and become their own woman, and come back and say to Li Zicheng, now that I have done it, no one will be verbose to surrender in the future. Anyway, everyone has one heart and follows the boss to the end. (When the strong men in the army heard this, they also killed their wives and swore to obey Li Zicheng)

After playing such a heinous trick, Li Zicheng burned his baggage, took less than 100 cavalry, and arrived in Henan via Yunyang and Junzhou, catching up with the drought and locust plague in Henan, and Li Zicheng, who had less than 100 people, pulled up the team in one breath.

At this time, the severity of the disaster in Henan was jaw-dropping, people ate each other, there was no way to go alone, and there was no way between villages. There is even a tragedy of a father eating his son and a husband eating his wife. According to historical data, this is the first change in the Ming Dynasty in 200 years. This is a natural disaster, but at any time, a natural disaster is a force majeure. However, natural disasters may not be invincible, but Daming not only has natural disasters, but also man-made disasters.

With the famine came the popular uprising, Li Jiyu was in Henan Mansion and Ruzhou Mansion, and the hungry people were attached to him, gathering 50,000 people. There were also Ai Yi, Hou Si, Meng San, and so on, all of whom had thousands of hungry people following. The hungry people broke through the new wilderness, fell into the river yin, and the urgent report documents were like snowflakes. Lao Dangdang, Yidougu, Pole Runner, Song Jiang, Yilong, Li Zhenhai, etc., gathered in the Taihang Mountains. There are too many bosses of all sizes to count. Either occupy the mountain as the king, or claim the king and hegemony in a certain earthen fence, anyway, in this year, the most worthless thing is human life. If you don't have food to eat, you eat people.

Yuan Shizhong in Kaifeng gathered tens of thousands, and Yuan Laoshan in Shouzhou also had tens of thousands of horses. Even Shandong has been greatly affected. Yanzhou Li Tingshi and Li Dingxuan conspired to rebel, and the Shandong Branch of the Military Investigation Bureau of the Tiance Army detected it, and the local security army attacked overnight and was nipped in the bud. These two brothers, surnamed Li, were hung with street lamps in Yanzhou! There were more than 100 followers who served as foils.

The Central Plains is in chaos, and countless people are homeless. With the cooperation of the security forces, the starting point management committee set out to establish an immigration route from Henan to Weihai, Shandong.

In Shandong, because of the operation of the Tiance Army for several years, the whole province is quite stable, so the main safety transportation work is in Henan.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs has set up a largest collection center for displaced people in Guide (Shangqiu), Henan, and "when you arrive in Guide, you will have food to eat", which is a slogan propagated among the displaced people, as long as you can reach Shangqiu, the rice and white noodles are open to eat.

The starting point management committee has set up a number of recruitment departments in Shangqiu, such as the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Railways, the Construction Corporation, the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Minerals, etc. If you want to go to Liaodong to farm, divide the fields and farm tools. If you want to go to Liaodong to work, the salary is good.

For the homeless who had nothing and were about to starve to death, the conditions offered by the starting point committee were simply irresistible.

Anyway, as long as 500 people are recruited, one person will be given some dry food, and the security army will send it away in the direction of Shandong, and in the form of a relay, there are also several reception centers in Shandong.

Now Henan has become a pot of porridge, and the people of the Propaganda Department have borrowed a few armored vehicles of the Tiance Army, equipped with loudspeakers to publicize in the surrounding areas, and they do not go far, and in the long run, they still need to be spread by word of mouth.

At this time, Li Zicheng plunged into Henan, which was a good time.

At a critical moment, Zhang Xianzhong's goods entered Sichuan, and this time it was lively. The main force of the officers and soldiers was chasing and killing Zhang Xianzhong, and they couldn't take care of Li Zicheng, who was beaten into a cripple. Zhang Xianzhong was the most powerful group among the thieves at this time, and Zhang Xianzhong, who rushed into Sichuan, restrained the main force of the officers and soldiers.

In December of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng occupied Yongning, killed the king of Wan'an, and broke forty-eight villages west of Bear's Ears. Then lay down Yiyang and Yuncheng, and gathered 100,000 people.

At this time, two important scholars defected to Li Zicheng, one was named Li Yan and the other was Niu Jinxing.

Historically, the defection of these two people changed Li Zicheng's fate. From the beginning of these two defections, Li Zicheng temporarily changed his strategy of killing and began to buy people's hearts.

Yang Sichang was used by the imperial court again, and he was also eager to make meritorious contributions, and he was eager to clear the bandits within one day and return to the court in triumph. In order to kill Zhang Xianzhong, Yang Sichang ordered: "Pardon the crimes of the peasant army general Lao Huihui and others, only Zhang Xianzhong will not be pardoned, and those who capture and behead Zhang Xianzhong will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver", which is a strategy for division and disintegration.

Zhang Xianzhong declared: "Those who come from the Pavilion Department (Yang Sichang) will be rewarded with three silver coins." ”

Yang Sichang wrote in a letter to Song Yihe, the governor of Huguang: "Strange disasters fell from the sky, and the servants vomited blood and were sad, and they were tied to death, and there was nothing to say. At this time, Yang Sichang felt powerless, not because he didn't want to fight, but because of the change in the situation, He Renlong and Zuo Liangyu began to support their own troops, and they didn't listen to greetings anymore.

In other words, these two people have seen his essence clearly, Lao Tzu has an army to fight, and you can't help me. This was the current situation that Yang Sichang faced at that time.

In the first month of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming army was defeated at Guanyin Rock. In February, Zhang Xianzhong's army moved from Mianzhou to Hanzhou, and the defending general Fang Guoan fled, and then successively captured Shifang, Xianzhu, Anxian, Deyang, Jintang, and invaded Jianzhou and Ziyang from the waterway.

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