From the moment the hairy pig's head begged to surrender, the people of Fengzhou had murderous intentions - this is a Zhu Chongba-style character, and it will be a great disaster in the world in the future. Fengzhou said that he only asked for the protection of commercial interests, and did not want to intervene in the internal affairs of the Ming Kingdom, and very kindly refused the refuge of the hairy pig's head, in fact, the military affairs department of Zanhua began to formulate a plan to suppress the thieves, and the Titang Division also sent people to infiltrate the Red Turban Army, according to Li Fugui's words, it was "to choose the right time to catch it all", but the situation of Xuanda suddenly changed, forcing Fengzhou to start in advance.

On November, some defeated soldiers fled back to Xuanfu, the news of the defeat of Songjin spread quickly, Xuanfu suddenly boiled - Xuan, Da two towns sent about 30,000 troops, this defeat made the vast majority of people die in Liaoxi, the Ming soldiers were generally poor, the dead people to a family like the sky falling, the military dependents knelt outside the government and cried for relief, the left-behind soldiers also made a fuss to ask for arrears, the government could not come up with money, simply dispatched troops to disperse the crowd. The military dependents could not afford to provoke the government, and under the pressure of hunger and cold, some families hanged themselves, and some begged along the streets, the tragic situation was unbearable, and the soldiers were angry, and they took off their uniforms and fled the military camp in groups, and Xuanfu Town collapsed almost instantly.

When the news reached Datong, the officials of the Criminal Department happened to come to confiscate Wang Pu's family property - most of the runaway soldiers in the Songjin War were demoted to three levels to stay in their original posts, and Wu Sangui was also promoted to the rank of admiral of military affairs, only Wang Pu took the lead in escaping and had a criminal record. Wang Pu was unlucky, but the family was tough, and the concubine Wang Xiaoliu stepped forward and instructed the family and the maid to beat the officials of the criminal department out of the palace, and then led the whole family out of the north gate and went to the statue of Liberty to complain for Wang Puming - Datong people regard the Statue of Liberty as the most just god, and no one is allowed to destroy the statue, the government grits its teeth with hatred but does not dare to touch it, and this statue has been preserved until now.

Wang Xiaoliu cried all the time, and the news that Wang Pu was unjustly imprisoned spread-Wang Pu had a lot of problems, but he was righteous, and he was good to his subordinates, and he had some prestige in Datong Town. Wang Xiaoliu took the opportunity to fan the flames, the dead are not compensated, the living are not paid, the court hurts the heavens and harms reason, and it should be smashed the official mansion, the officers and soldiers of Datong are filled with indignation, and they carry knives to the official office to reason, and the governor Liu Menggui is shocked and afraid that he will not be able to afford to be sick. When Datong was about to get out of control, Li Yu arrived in time and patted his chest to the soldiers and military dependents and assured that the imperial court would take care of everyone's livelihood, please give me some time, and I would definitely help everyone survive.

Of course, Li Yu couldn't hide the accident in Xuanfu and Datong, and it was impossible to continue to guard Liu Xingzuo's tomb, so he rushed to Xuanhua day and night, appeased the soldiers and people of Xuanfu, and immediately went to Yanghe to find Zhang Fuzhen, the governor of Xuanda, and then arrived in Datong. The situation of Datong and Xuanfu is critical, and if it is not dealt with in time, it may lead to a mutiny, and Fengzhou will inevitably be involved - Li Yu is angry and secretly scolded Yang Guozhu and Wang Pu for being two stupid people, one recklessly went into battle and lost his life, the other stupidly ran away and the whole army was wiped out, Gaoqiao set up an ambush for Duoduo, you Wang Pu surrendered and it was easy to get people, and now the head of the fourth army of Xuanda is left with a lonely palm, how to clean up this mess?

Li Yu thought about it in Wang Pu's study for a day, and finally made up his mind, sent someone to inform the officials of the Presidential Office to rush to Datong immediately, and at the same time ordered Zhang Chuanjie's division of the Right Infantry Association to be stationed in Datong, and transferred Sun Siwang, the deputy chief soldier of Datong, to take charge of the Datong garrison.

The officials of the office arrived in Datong in two days, and a new member was added to it - the original Tuntian Dao Jin Sheng, his hometown Huizhou also caused a famine, and it was impossible for him to concentrate on learning, and after thinking twice, he led a group of protégés and businessmen to Fengzhou, and accepted the position of assistant government affairs of the presidential palace and the pre-confidential affairs of the office, and finally got on the ship of Fengzhou.

After saluting the master and greeting him a few words, Li Yu sat down and glanced at the officials, and said with a grim face: "I have three things to agree, first, immediately exterminate the red bandits; second, to take over the military administration of the three towns in Xuanda Guan; Third, be prepared to go south to suppress thieves. ”

After the Qing army annihilated the main force of the most elite border army of the Ming army, of course, it would take advantage of the victory to pursue and continue to develop to the south, and the thief Li Zicheng was more dangerous, taking Ye County to kill Liu Guoneng, attacking Nanyang and killing fierce as a tiger, defeating the trilateral governor Fu Zonglong and Baoding governor Yang Wenyue, and it was a matter of time before he captured Henan and coveted Shanxi. Fengzhou can only choose to enter the customs, strengthen its own strength while limiting the development of its opponents, and win the advantage of one long and one - everyone agrees, even Liu Zhilun and Jin Sheng.

Li Fugui nodded and said: "The thieves are evil to the drought locusts, Shanxi must not be eroded again, Zhang Zixuan and they have repeatedly proposed that Fengzhou and Shanxi be integrated, this matter can not be delayed any longer, and a charter must be negotiated immediately." ”

"Datong is in the middle, and it is under our control, so let's gather people from all walks of life here to discuss this matter." Ortai thought for a moment and said.

Du Wenhuan proposed again: "The imperial court ordered Jiang Ping, the chief soldier of the river defense, to succeed him as the chief soldier of Datong, I wrote to persuade him not to come, this person is also a disciple of the Yulin general, and he dare not disobey me, but the court will definitely intervene in this kind of matter, it is better to use the Qing army and the situation of the rogue to force the imperial court to grant the prime minister of the Han people, Xuanda, the four towns of military affairs, and the general army of Datong, by the way, the general soldiers of Xuanfu and Shanxi towns are also replaced by our people." ”

"I also want to ask the imperial court to grant Lord Liu Zhilun the governor of Xuanda military affairs." Batu added.

"This is coercion, and the court will not agree." Liu Zhilun shook his head vigorously.

"So what, it's a big deal to let the imperial court get rid of the towns of Xuanda completely, the emperor released Fu Zonglong from the prison to take over as the governor of the three sides, and sent him to take 20,000 people to suppress the thieves without giving one or two salaries, but the soldiers were captured Xiangcheng, and I heard that they were tortured by thieves and died, what is the use of this kind of court!" Namur said.

"That's it, but the officers and soldiers of the three towns in the Guannai are like chickens and dogs, what are these soldiers kept for? All the troops were disbanded and rebuilt," Li Yu said indignantly as he banged on the table with his hand, "How much does it cost to dismiss the officers and soldiers, make up the arrears of salaries, and pay the military dependents?" Lao Tzu couldn't wipe his ass for the imperial court in vain, and sold the salt pond in Jiezhou to pay back. ”

The eyes of the businessmen lit up, and they immediately shouted excitedly, Du Wenhuan waved his hand at everyone, turned his face to Li Yu and said: "Han Min, there is a plan to exterminate the red bandits, this time let Lao Bai and Lao Ma go together, our army will do it first and then let the people's armies from all over the country go up, so as not to leak the news of these people." ”

"Let the Dafa Division also send people, this time we will cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, whether it is the most heinous red bandit or the official gentry who sold themselves to take refuge, they will be severely punished, and I will stay in Datong to listen to the news." Li Yu said murderously:

A large net was cast to Yongning Prefecture - to the north, and Buck led 3,000 Datong People's Army to Lan County; To the south, Zhang Daojun led the Pingyang and Zelu militias to slowly advance from the stone tower; To the east, the infantry rear association Zhou Yuji and the cavalry rear association Qiu Xianbu are advancing towards Yongning; To the west, the Dongsheng Guard cavalry joined up with the Yulin People's Army and took control of the west bank of the Yellow River. At the same time, Xinghe Wei garrison Huishan led two garrison brigades to meet with the infantry rear association battalion of Taqibu, and the people of the Titang Division led the way into Luliang Mountain. The accomplice reported too late, and when the hairy pig head got the news, a large number of Fengzhou iron horsemen had appeared near Yongning, and it was too late to run.

At this time, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers and civilian troops were rushing towards Yongning from all directions, although it was a rabble, but the people were bold, and the slogan of "exterminating the red bandits and capturing the hairy pig's head alive" shook the earth - the local gentry were really red-eyed, and threatened that "the murderer will resist his life, and the plunderer will be guilty". There are not many people who can really fight, and the thieves everywhere are frightened by the indiscriminate killing of the people's army and flee back to Yongning. Bai Xianzhi and Ma Guangyuan led the artillery right association Jin Guoding to Yongning, commanded all the armies to surround the city, and ordered the hairy pig's head to surrender.

The hairy pig is hard-headed, claiming that he has accepted the imperial court's recruitment, and the Red Turban Army is a genuine Ming official army, and will never surrender to Hulu, and also issued a war letter to fight to the death with the Fengzhou army. Bai Xianzhi and Ma Guangyuan were happy, did a group of ordinary people win the decisive battle, it was clearly a small food shortage in Yongning City, and the people were pushed out to die, this guy is bad enough!

The hairy pig's head is really bad enough, took seventy or eighty thousand people out of the city, impassionedly shouted a patriotic and loyal monarch, expelled Hu Lu nonsense, and encouraged the people to kill the Fengzhou barbarians, but as soon as the two sides started fighting, he quietly slipped back to the city and closed the door - this guy calculated, the governor of Shanxi secretly gave some guns, bows and arrows, plus captured ordnance, it was enough to defend the city, and the people were deceived away, and there were only 3,000 bandits and 10,000 young men left in the city, and the food was enough to eat for two or three months.

This is a very unequal war, the Fengzhou army on one side is armed to the teeth, most of them are veterans who have seen blood, and the common people on the other side have no armor, poor weapons, and no training, and the battle is a slaughter from the beginning - the infantry rear association, the artillery right association bow and arrow, and the cannon alternately fire a salvo, and the infantry is slowly crushed forward, not giving the other party a chance to melee at all, and the cavalry rear association also goes around the two wings to shoot a dense rain of arrows. The rain of arrows and artillery strikes of the Fengzhou army even frightened the Qing army, where could the common people bear it, like the wheat that had been cut down and fell one by one, and the white earth was instantly dyed red. The Fengzhou army killed softly, constantly shouting "those who surrender will not die", but the common people don't even know how to abandon their weapons and surrender, they run back when they are stunned, and the bandits who defend the city shoot down random arrows mercilessly, forcing them to turn back and fight again, the people want to fight but can't fight, want to escape but can't run away from the cavalry, lie on the ground and tremble, howling and crying.

The local tyrants and inferior gentry were proud, it was so easy to fight the red bandits, and the time for revenge had come, and the people's army rushed up and slashed and killed unscrupulously, and even kidnapped women and children, probably with the bad intention of human trafficking. Zhang Daojun was in front of the battle, holding a sword and stepping forward to restrain military discipline, but the people's army had its own hills, and no one took his words seriously, until the whip of the Fengzhou iron cavalry was pulled down, and the infantry soldiers sounded a warning again, and this gang of rebels began to contain prisoners.

The hairy pig's head was also trembling with fright, the opponent's combat power was too amazing, seventy or eighty thousand people, it was over after only half a day, and you must resist this gang of fierce gods. He ordered the bandits to bring all the young and strong to the city, all the guns, bows and arrows to the city, and let people repeatedly water the city wall, and then waited for the siege of the city, but the other party was not in a hurry, but had the leisure to build a snow wall around the city, and the hairy pig head was puzzled, and the artillery of the Fengzhou army came up.

Fengzhou army for the first time equipped with Hongyi cannon, with the Qing State has cast more than 20 Hongyi cannons accumulated experience, the Ordnance Department and the Baoketu Iron Works in partnership to develop a new breech gun, with the railway hall masters refined the fine iron cast barrel, the cannon is made of iron balls to coin lead to reduce the wear of the inner chamber, equipped with a crosshair, the door can be aimed at the target, the weight is only more than 3,000 catties, the 20 catties of cannon can be beaten out of five miles, the performance is no less than 5,000 catties of heavy artillery, and equipped with a special gun carriage, as long as the road is not too bad, basically keep up with the march, This was the first time it was used in actual combat, and Liu Jiping, the same acquaintance of the Ordnance Department, made a special trip to watch the battle.

The Fengzhou army wanted to practice siege tactics, and the ten newly equipped Hongyi cannons were laid out in a row, repeatedly bombarding the city wall, and a large number of mortar cannons were also hidden behind the snow wall and thrown at the city, and the cannons would actually explode, and the defenders crowded on the city were blown up, and they wanted to fight back but could not use firearms. What's even more annoying is that the other party stopped immediately after bombing a section of the city wall, and continued to fight on another city wall, and the bandits went to repair the city wall, and they were immediately hit by the guns behind the snow wall, and a few broken bricks had to leave people alive. Beaten every day but unable to fight back, the other party is clearly playing a game of cat and mouse, the bandits are more and more desperate, and in the end they are too lazy to repair the city wall, anyway, the other party does not attack the city.

Don't be in a hurry, fight slowly, and let the thieves watch their blood run out - after Ma Guangyuan and Bai Xianzhi gave the order, they got together to chat about family life, and gave the battlefield command to Zhou Yuji, Zhou Yuji simply let the departments go to fight, and the departments sent the soldiers to practice their skills in turn, anyway, they would fight when they saw each other's heads. The officers and soldiers and the people's army were very excited, they didn't expect the war to be so fun, and they had the courage to go to the city to fight indiscriminately, and the local bandits were provoked, and they fiddled with the firearms they had never learned, and as a result, the small cannon continued to explode, and also ignited the spare gunpowder, and the local bandits were even more chaotic, and some people climbed out of the collapsed city wall to escape, and they were beheaded by the people's army who were chasing after them in chaos before they ran a few steps.

Yongning City was besieged for less than ten days before surrendering, the hairy pig head really did not want to live the days of fear, the Fengzhou army could not take his life for the time being, but there were many people within the bandits who wanted his head - the rebellious thieves were not afraid of hardship and fatigue, nor were they afraid of defeat, but they were afraid of despair, every time the mountains and rivers were exhausted, there were always people who planned to cut off the head of the bandit leader and surrender to make contributions, not only to save his life, but also to get a half-official position if he was lucky. There are also such people under the hairy pig's head, fortunately, he noticed it in time and slaughtered the bandits first, but as long as this kind of thing comes out, it will continue one after another, and the hairy pig's head has been a thief for many years.

The artillery of the Fengzhou army is powerful, and it can break into the city at any time, and if it does not move, it must be waiting for civil strife in the city, rather than letting others take advantage of their heads, it is better to take the initiative to surrender the city, maybe they can save their lives - the hairy pig head wanted to be reasonable, and ordered to open the city gate to surrender, and the thief rebellion that had been in trouble for several months was easily quelled.

Now it's time to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, Zhu Yiqian, Bai Yuzhu, and Guo Linsheng of the Fengzhou Grand Law Division, arrived in Yongning, and formed a temporary law department with Zhang Daojun, the supervisor of the Shanxi Joint Defense Bureau, and Zhang Pengyun, the speaker of the Zezhou Assembly, to handle the case on the spot. Titang Division Tongzhi Fan Erxi, Shanxi Titang Institute Director Wang Mumin was ordered to arrest the criminals, Fengzhou Titang Division another signboard is Jinyiwei naturalization of thousands of households, most of the Titang officials have the identity of Jinyiwei, reputation, ruthless, within a few days of hard work from the seventy or eighty thousand captives one by one to screen out the bandits, including large and small leaders and more than 1,000 people with bloody cases directly tied to the Law Division. According to the confessions of the leaders of the bandits, many local officials and gentry secretly reported to them and provided them with financial support, and the Titang Division sent a large number of horsemen to arrest hundreds of gentry on charges of thieves.

Zhang Daojun and Zhang Pengyun admitted that the Ming law was too cruel, such as Ling Chi's execution, Zhulian relatives, etc., should be abolished, but the whipping in Fengzhou was also barbaric, and few people could survive more than 100 lashes at a time, and they thought that beheading was the most appropriate. Zhu Yiqian, Bai Yuzhu, and Guo Linsheng also felt that it was inappropriate to use whipping in the Guannei, but beheading was a punishment of military law, and it was a loss of identity for the Dafa Division to sentence the sentence of beheading, and after repeated consultations, everyone gave in and allowed the criminals sentenced to more than 100 lashes to voluntarily choose to be hanged.

In the end, more than 4,000 people were sentenced to less than 100 lashes, and about 20,000 of these people and their families were to be escorted to the Western Regions. More than 1,000 people were sentenced to more than 100 lashes, and after seeing the whips used for execution, they all chose to hang without exception, including the hairy pig's head, although he defended himself that he was a guerrilla of the official army, and there was a letter of appointment issued by the governor of Shanxi as evidence, but the provisional legal department held that the letter of appointment was invalid -- the Shanxi General Military Office had not received a notice from the governor's office, and he was still a thief with a pig's head, and this letter of appointment could only prove that the governor of Shanxi was suspected of being a thief. The hairy pig head was mad with anger, and when he went to the gallows, he wanted to loudly denounce the tyranny and shamelessness of the Toyosu barbarians, but his pants suddenly got wet, and the executioner saw the puddle of water under his crotch and put the noose around his neck with contempt.

Zhang Daojun also sighed, the hairy pig's head is also a generation of heroes, and he could have become the second Zhu Chongba, but unfortunately the opponent he encountered was too strong and he was strangled to death early.