Li Zicheng laughed and said: "What Mr. said is exactly what I want, I think that Yongning, Yiyang, or Lingbao and Yanshi Zhucheng are all righteous people." Our division went down without much effort, the righteous people rose up, opened the city, caused a disaster, and returned to the heavens without skills. ”

He said to his nephew Li again: "Guo'er, you send someone to Guide to inquire about the situation, find out the number of troops in Guide and the number of possible reinforcements, and properly arrange internal responses to respond to our army's attack." ”

Guide City (now Shangqiu), is the hometown of the Song Dynasty in ancient times, and is the Yingtianfu Nanjing City of the Northern Song Dynasty, which was flooded later, and the Yuan Dynasty rebuilt the Guide City, and built the city again during the Jiajing period.

The city is surrounded by ten miles, there are four gates, the city wall is two zhang and five feet high, the city head is two zhang wide, and all are brick rammed earth city walls. This is the basic specification, in the past dynasties have been reinforced, above the city head, there is a corner tower female wall, also this hanging tower, the so-called hanging tower is solid wood high, protruding from the city wall, the moat is two zhang wide, there is an iron suspension bridge on the moat, the same as the city gate, the moat embankment, there are miles away from the city wall, but because of the drought for many years, the moat water has been close to drying up.

The geographical location of Guide City is very important, after Guide, the southeast is Xuzhou, the hub of Caoyun, and the northeast is Shandong.

Six years ago, in the eighth year of Chongzhen, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Lao Huihui, Luo Rucai, Ge Liyan, Zuo Jinwang and other thirteen 72 battalions of the rebel army conference Xingyang, Li Zicheng put forward the strategy of "dividing troops and orienting" operations, which was recognized by everyone, Li Zicheng followed Gao Yingxiang to fight in the east of Henan, first attacked Kaifeng, and then joined forces with Zhang Xianzhong to attack Guide.

After Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong joined forces with tens of thousands of people to surround the city of Guide, they could not attack the city for several days and suffered heavy casualties. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong saw that the city was fully prepared, and they were afraid that the reinforcements of the Ming army would arrive and be counter-surrounded, so they had to temporarily give up returning to Germany, and instead went to Fengyang, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and went to dig the ancestral grave of the old Zhu family.

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From Guide from Henan to Weihai, Shandong, there were a total of four public security brigades assisting the management committee in the transfer of immigrants, until June of the 14th year of Chongzhen, in nine months, a total of more than 800,000 immigrants were transferred to Liaodong, including more than 300,000 in Henan, and an average of about 90,000 immigrants were sent to Liaodong every month.

As a bridgehead for immigrants, Guide certainly hoarded a large amount of food and supplies.

The resettlement and transfer work of the starting point committee was strongly supported by Gao Mingheng, the governor of Henan, Wang Shixiu, the prefect of Guide, and Liang Yizhang, the prefect of Shangqiu.

This Shangqiu County is a county attached to Guofu City, and the county government is in Nanguan in the city.

The drought in Henan is serious, and the civil uprisings caused by the famine have occurred one after another, so the Guide area is not a paradise, and large and small civil uprisings are also staged in the counties under Guide, because the scale is not large, so it has not caused a major disaster.

The arrival of the various departments of the starting point committee and the security forces quickly absorbed the large number of hungry people in the vicinity of Guide Province due to the drought, which not only stabilized the local situation, but also invigorated the local economy. Whether it is a staff working in a government department or an ordinary soldier in the starting point city, the salaries are very rich, especially for those who go out on business, as well as travel allowances, and a large part of these expenses fall on Guide City.

The most welcome thing is that the Construction Corporation of the Starting Point Committee has repaired and strengthened the city wall of Guide City free of charge. As a transit center for migrants in Henan, Guide has long housed a large number of displaced people, and it is their daily routine to renovate the city wall before they are transported away.

A brigade of security forces was also stationed in the city of Guide to assist in the defense of Guide.

The original city defense army of Guide Mansion was more than 2,000 people, led by a general. It was not enough to rely on this force to defend the siege of the rogue army, and it usually required the participation of local villagers. Although the local nobles and large families are full of contradictions in ordinary times, they are even more incompatible with the rogues, and once the city is broken, they will have nothing, and even their families will be ruined. Therefore, with the addition of Xiangyong, the city defense force of Defu City can reach 5,000 people.

It was a common practice for foreign troops not to enter the city, and after coordination with many parties, only one company of troops entered the city of Guide in advance. In the later period, the good military appearance and military discipline of the security army was recognized by the local government, and there were many rogues in Henan, which intensified the defensive pressure of the city of Guide, and a brigade of security troops was finally invited into the city.

Outside the city, the starting point committee set up a reception station for displaced people, and after a series of processes such as registration, soup kitchen, sanitation and recruitment, the displaced people were sent to the city's shelter by branch to wait for transfer.

The prospective immigrants who entered the city were led by special personnel to clean the streets, clean the ditches, repair the city walls, etc., before they were transferred away.

The meticulous arrangements of the starting point committee were unanimously welcomed by the Guide government, and the fear of displaced people entering the city disappeared, as evidenced by the neat streets and increasingly strong walls of the city.

However, in recent days, Wang Shixiu, the prefect of Guide, has been a little unable to sit still, and the dynamics of the surrounding rogues show that the war is likely to burn to Guide.

In July, the Chuang army, which was wandering around Kaifeng, suddenly waved its division to the east, and successively attacked Lankao, Qixian, Minquan, Taikang, Suizhou, Ningling, Luyi, Zhecheng, Yongcheng and other county seats, and gradually approached Guide City. These counties are less than one or two days, and most of them are broken in four or five days, and there are more Qixian and Taikangzhi counties abandoning the city and leaving, only Suizhou, Zhecheng, and Ningling counties are struggling to support and desperately defend the city.

The displaced people caused by the war flocked to the east and flocked to Guide, or fled across Guide to Shandong and Xuzhou.

The arrival of a large number of war refugees suddenly became short of manpower, and the security forces had to transfer two battalions of troops to help shelter the displaced people.

The official government of Guide also mobilized and resettled the people in the vicinity into the city, and for a time the city of Guide was overcrowded, and all the people in the small city added up, at least 100,000 people.

The news of the fall of the counties under Guide Prefecture and the request for help flew to Guide like snowflakes, and Gao Mingheng, the governor of Henan Province who was far away in Kaifeng, also sent people to warn Guide.

The location of Guide is very important, after Guide is Xuzhou, Xuzhou is the Cao Yun to rush, once the Cao Yun is cut off, the north-south traffic of the Ming Dynasty will come to a standstill.

"Fuzun, at the moment, we must call on all big families to recruit villagers to help defend Fucheng as soon as possible. However, the army of thieves is claimed to be 700,000, and the rolling rogues are like locusts crossing the border, and our troops alone will certainly not last, and we must ask for help from all sides. Yang Sheng, the general of the city defense, said worriedly.

Asking for help, now the top priority is to ask for help, Wang Shixiu has been asking for help from all sides for several days, but the result is in the sea.

(The current author is still in the hospital and has saved a chapter)

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