In the blink of an eye, Chongzhen's second year entered the twilight spring season in mid-April. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this moment, Huang Taiji, the Great Khan of the Later Jin Kingdom, is still carrying the Zhenghuang Banner directly under him and the Zhenglan Banner of Sanbeile Mang Gurtai, chasing the three savage Jurchens who refuse to belong to the mountains and fields, further strengthening his strength.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, made his own decisions on the use of troops in Shanxi and Fujian, and then devoted his attention to the progress of various undertakings in the land of Gyeonggi.

As for Zheng Zhilong, who was far away in Tong'an, Fujian, he finally couldn't ignore his own foundation, leaving his brother Zheng Ming and his uncle Huang Cheng to assist his younger brother Zheng Zhibao to sit in Tong'an, and he personally led half of the sailors and land divisions who docked in Jinxia and other places, crossed the sea in a big way, increased the troops of the Thousand Households in Dongfanwei Bon Port, and was preparing to fight with the Dutch red-haired ghosts.

And Li Banghua and others, who were far away in Shanxi, finally determined the whereabouts of the thieves and ushered in an opportunity to enter the army.

It is said that after Zhang Xiao, the governor of Shanxi, and Sun Chuanting, the governor of Yansui, left Lu'an Fucheng, they soon returned to Taiyuan, and Zhang Xiao and Sun Chuanting discussed it slightly, and they concocted it in the same way, and in the name of discussing to prevent thieves from invading Taiyuan, Zhu Qiugui, the king of Jin who had sealed Taiyuan, was invited to Zhang Xiao's governor's yamen.

As soon as Zhu Qiugui arrived, Zhang Xiao read the emperor's will to him.

Of course, Zhu Qiugui was a hundred reluctant in his heart, but Zhang Xiao and Sun Chuanting had the holy decree of the current emperor as a basis in their hands, and they couldn't help Zhu Qiugui not comply.

Historically, after the Shanxi Rebellion, several Shanxi governors and commanders went to the Jin Palaces to persuade the then Jin King Zhu Xianxuan (the son of the current Jin King Zhu Qiugui) to donate money, but Zhu Xianxuan refused.

However, these governors and commanders had nothing to do about it, because they did not have the emperor's will, so whether the Jin Wangfu donated or not, whether they gave food or not, it all depended on the will of the Jin Wangfu.

Without the holy decree of Emperor Chongzhen, they threw a rat and did not dare to use force against the Jin Palace, but at this time, Zhang Xiao and Sun Chuanting were not used to Zhu Qiugui.

Zhang Xiao has been the governor of Shanxi for two or three years, and he has long been dissatisfied with the Jin Wangfu in Taiyuan, and at this time he came to Zhu Qiugui with the holy decree, so naturally he would not be as low as he was when he solicited money and grain for disaster relief before.

Historically, the current Jin King Zhu Qiugui died of illness when Chongzhen was three years old, and his son Zhu Xianxuan inherited the title of King of Jin.

And this Zhu Xianxuan is even more strange than his father, in the winter of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's army has already arrived in Taiyuan City, seeing that Taiyuan City is about to be lost, the then governor Cai Maode went to him to donate money and reward the soldiers who defended the city, so as to stimulate morale, just like that, he refused, and said that this was a matter of the imperial court, and it had nothing to do with him, so angry that Cai Maode almost fainted on the spot.

As a result, Cai Maode, the governor of Shanxi who had no food and no salary, soon lost his prestige, and the soldiers guarding the city mutinied and defected to the enemy under the pressure of hunger and cold.

After he was caught by Li Zicheng, he soon surrendered to the army, although he was forced to give all his property to save his life, but his wife and daughter's family were abused and killed by the army, and he himself was taken all the way to Beijing by Li Zicheng, before he died, he witnessed the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.

It's hard to say whether he regretted standing by before the city of Taiyuan was broken, but the answer given to him by history was that he, as the prince of the Ming clan, had only one way to die after the death of the Ming Dynasty.

When Li Zicheng retreated to Beijing, he sensed that the general trend had turned, so he beheaded all the Ming princes captured along the way, and this Jin king was among them at that time.

Of course, some people say that on the way back to the west, Zhu Xianxuan, the king of Jin, took advantage of the chaos to escape the clutches of the defeated soldiers of the Dashun army, surrendered to Wu Sangui, who came to chase him, and then was presented to Dolgon by Wu Sangui, and then was escorted back to Beijing and beheaded.

However, in any case, without the protection of the Ming Dynasty, almost none of these Ming clan vassal kings who had been standing by and watching before ended well.

Emperor Chongzhen is doing this now, it seems that he is a little unsympathetic and unkind, but in fact he is providing them with opportunities, after all, it is much better to lose some money than to end up with a personal death and the destruction of the country and the laughter of the world.

Fortunately, Zhu Qiugui, the reigning king of Jin, did not dare to resist and disobey Emperor Chongzhen's will in the face of Emperor Chongzhen's will, but only demanded that the various branches of the Jin Domain's royal mansion should bear it together, and supply money and grain in installments.

Zhang Xiao and Sun Chuanting were not in urgent need of food and salary at this time, so they did not pursue him too much and agreed to Zhu Qiugui's request.

After meeting with Zhu Qiugui, the king of Jin, the food and salary for the encirclement and suppression of the Liukou were fully guaranteed, and Zhang Xiao and Sun Chuanting quickly divided labor.

Zhang Xiao, the governor of Shanxi, continued to sit in Taiyuan, responsible for the defense of Taiyuan and the transportation of grain and grass, while Sun Chuanting led his army west through the Fenshui Valley at the southern end of Yunzhong Mountain as agreed, and then went north.

On the third day of the first month of April, Sun Chuanting led 7,000 Ma Bujun from Yansui Town to arrive at Loufu County, and the county commander Fei Jiayu reported that no trace of thieves was found near Loufu.

After learning of this situation, Sun Chuanting left the general Huang Tingzheng with a thousand infantry, staying in the strategic place of Loufu, and then divided the troops into two routes, one led by Sun Chuanting himself, along the Fenshui tributary north to Lanxian, and the other route was led by the general soldier He Shiyu, and continued along the Fenshui River valley, north to Jingle, to meet the Shanxi Town Supervision Army from Ningwu Pass to the south of the Imperial Shi Wang Jiazheng Department.

Before Sun Chuanting led the main force to the county seat of Lanxian County, the striker Du Wenhuan sent someone to report that he had found traces of thieves and horses.

On the evening of April 4, Sun Chuanting led the Yansui army to arrive outside Lanxian County, which was surrounded by mountains, but was shocked to find that Lanxian County was already dilapidated, and the city was full of unburied corpses, and the county government had been burned to the ground, and the personnel did not know where to go.

At night, Du Wenhuan, the forward who was patrolling outside the city, found hundreds of fleeing people in a valley on the outskirts of Lan County, and took them back to the county seat to ask, only to know that just two days ago, the army of thieves had defeated Lan County, and among them, there were at least two battalion heads, Chuang Camp and Hui Hui Camp.

Early the next morning, Sun Chuanting sent people to lead the remaining people in Lan County to bury the corpses in the city and clean up the garbage in the city, and at the same time sent people to rush back to Taiyuan to deliver the message and report the thief to He Shiyu who went north to Jingle.

At the same time, Du Wenhuan also led the vanguard to continue to search for the traces of the thieves who broke into the camp and returned to the camp.

Two days later, in Lanxian County, Sun Chuanting, who was anxiously waiting for news, finally waited for the exact news, and He Shiyu, who went north to Jingle, made contact with Wang Jiazheng's guerrilla attack on Wang Lian's troops from Ningwu Pass.

The news brought by Wang Jiazheng's subordinates was that Jingle County, a strategic place in the upper valley of Fenshui, had fallen into the hands of thieves, and Wang Jiazheng's subordinates had retreated to Ninghua, sixty miles north of Jingle.

According to the enemy situation reconnoitred by the guerrilla Wang Lian, although this bandit army was numerous, it was divided into two parts, which were the camp of the Ansai thief Gao Yingxiang and the return camp of Ma Shouying.

After Sun Chuanting received the news from He Shiyu, on the one hand, he ordered He Shiyu to set up camp in the Fenshui Valley south of Jingle and wait for the main force to join the division, and on the other hand, he ordered Wang Jiazheng's Wang Lian to stick to the Ninghua Station, and never let the thieves go north to Ningwu Pass, so as to escape out of the Fenshui Valley.

After learning the news of breaking into the camp and returning to the camp, Sun Chuanting felt a lot more at ease.

For these thieves, his greatest concern is not that they are guarded in danger, but that they have no fixed place to live and are wandering around.

Now that they have been found in the Fenshui Valley, this is definitely good news.

The upper valley of Fenshui is relatively closed, with the Yunzhong Mountains on the east side and the Luya Mountains on the west side, and the Fenshui River flows slowly between the two mountains.

The location of Jingle County is in this north-south direction, about 100 miles long valley, to the north is Ninghuasuo, Ningwuguan, to the south is the outlet of the upper valley of the Fen River, another strategic place Loufu.

Therefore, after learning the news that the thieves occupied Jingle, Sun Chuanting was overjoyed, and left 1,000 troops in Lan County, led by the guerrilla Tao Xiqian to guard, and then the remaining 3,000 cavalry set off from Lan County and quickly went north along a trail at the southern foot of Luya Mountain.

However, before he could go north, he encountered a sentry sent by Du Wenhuan, saying that the forward 500 cavalry led by Du Wenhuan encountered a large army of thieves in a river valley fifty miles ahead.

After Sun Chuanting got the report, he was not angry but happy, and immediately galloped all the way with the main force of 3,000 horsemen, intending to quickly respond to and support Du Wenhuan, but only traveled more than ten miles to the north, and he met Du Wenhuan himself, who led the army to the south.

Du Wenhuan saw Sun Chuanting's banner from a distance, stopped the war horse, turned over and went to the ground, and said eagerly: "My lord, at the exit of the thirty-mile mountain road ahead, there is a large army of thieves stationed. ”

At this time, how could Sun Chuanting have the kung fu to cure his crimes, looking at Du Wenhuan who was covered in blood, knowing that he must have experienced a hard battle, after listening to him at this time, he immediately said: "Since you are a striker, it is also a common thing for soldiers to be attacked in ambushes, be cautious in the future, and don't take it as an example!" ”

After saying this, Sun Chuanting continued: "Can you find out the details of the thief army?" ”

Du Wenhuan hurriedly replied: "The thief army at the crossing, under the banner of breaking generals, looks like it should be the camp of the Ansai thief Gao Yingxiang!" ”