On February 10th, this day is the Spring Festival, Qinhuai, Fujian, Jiangnan and other places in Donglin Fushe scholars traveled together, Song Zhengyu, Hou Fangyu's major talents have written inscriptions for this prosperous scene.

On the riverbank, in the cloud building, the singing and dancing girls compete with each other, the scholars rack their brains for the laughter of the celebrities, and the hundreds of people outside the building laugh and laugh, and the singing and dancing are leveling.

Shandong Licheng, firecrackers roar together, children in the company of adults to catch up here, business travel in the city and outside the city gathered, all want to catch a good fortune in this Spring Festival, although there is no prosperity in Jiangnan and other places, but also as usual peaceful.

However, located in the northernmost marshal's mansion in Licheng, there was no laughter, the atmosphere was depressed and heavy, Dong Youyin, Huang Yang, Gao Liang, Deng Heizi four generals stood beside Wang Zheng, and the rest of the generals were arranged left and right in a civil and military manner.

The chief generals of the six prefectures in Shandong, the officials of the cities and battalions, the military council department left and right the military council, and the heads of various places and sub-offices all looked heavy, and this Spring Festival was really not very good.

In the first month of the new year, the largest locust plague in Shandong broke out in history.

Marshal Li Beixingwen, the governor of Tai'an Prefecture, Jinan Prefecture, said that the blue and yellow locusts came all over the world, and everywhere they passed, there was no grass, and the people had no harvest, and now they all rely on the grain stored in the farm to make a living.

However, this is not all, after the locust plague is only the beginning, followed by another drought that has not been seen for many years, the rain recorded in the local state records has been half a year ago, many experienced farmers know in their hearts, this spring season has not rained, it can be seen that this year's harvest is not optimistic.

Since Wang Zheng led Shandong, it can be regarded as a terrible understanding of the disasters of this era, and the major droughts and small disasters have never been interrupted, and it has just arrived at the Spring Festival. I was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, but I caught up with such a catastrophe that has not been encountered in decades.

"This is the document of Li Zhi, the governor of Tai'an, Dashuai, what should I do?"

Guan Qingtian finished reading it at a glance, and there was indeed some worry in his eyes, although there were quite setbacks in the past few years, but in general it was still within the controllable range, and this year's catastrophe is afraid that it will cost a lot of savings.

"What else can I do, send grain from the inner library to Tai'an Prefecture, and the silver will be transported over five thousand taels first, and it will not be enough!" Wang Zheng did not hesitate at all, and suddenly paused when he said this, and looked around the lobby with squinted eyes:

"If anyone dares to covet this batch of disaster relief silver grain, don't blame the marshal for turning his face and not recognizing people, now is an eventful season, pass the military order down, and change half of the regular barracks in various places to a three-component batch rotation, there must be no mistake!"

"Yu Dashuai, just last month, the thieves captured Ruzhou, Zhizhou Qian Zuozheng is nowhere to be found, and Yang Duchen led the officials and troops of the five provinces to be defeated by Zhang Xianzhong in Kaixian!"

At that time, Zhang Xianzhong fled to Kaixian, Yang Sichang led the army to chase to Yunyang, and ordered the rest of the generals to go to Huangling City, Kaixian County, Zhang Xianzhong set up an ambush in all directions, the total army was as fierce as a tiger, and the general Liu Shijie was in battle with him.

Liu Shijie led the family of the headquarters to go deep into the Liukou array, invincible, Zhang Xianzhong was a little afraid, thinking that the imperial court had enabled Sun Chuanting, so he climbed high and looked carefully, looked left and right but did not see the banner of the Qin army, so he was relieved to order to continue the siege.

Zuo Liangyu led the army behind, saw the smoke and dust in front of him, and had already fought with the Liukou, but there was no intention to fight against the enemy, the left army had no fighting spirit, and they would all wait and see, this flaw was discovered by Zhang Xianzhong, so he carefully selected hundreds of strong men to sneak in the valley, and galloped down with a tall shout.

Zuo Liangyu was shocked when he heard the report, ran away first, the left army collapsed, He Renlong's Yan Sui soldiers have been watching the movement of the left army, seeing that the other party has retreated, it is also immediately defeated, at this time Liu Shijie is still fighting, but the rout of the left army and Yan Sui soldiers made the rest of the officers and soldiers confused, and they were suddenly scattered by the morale of the rogues.

"The left army and the Yansui soldiers were defeated first before seeing the shadow of the thief, and the officers and troops were defeated at the first touch, and they rushed to flee."

Due to isolation, the general Liu Shijie and the guerrilla Guo Kai, and the son of the general soldier fierce as a tiger, Meng Xianjie, were all killed in battle, although the fierce tiger barely broke through but was wounded, and since then he has never been willing to participate in any battle to encircle and suppress the rogue.

"Ah——?h

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, last year the Shandong army had already fought a battle with the Chuang army in Tongxu County, Henan, and defeated them, and the quality and combat effectiveness of the other party were already somewhat understood, but what they didn't expect was that the speed of the Chuang's army to regroup was so fast, so quickly to break through Ruzhou.

"These rabbles have never come to trouble our Shandong army since the First World War, but the armaments of the officers and troops in other places are slack, and they will collapse at the touch of a button."

Huang Yang sighed, with both anger and unwillingness in his eyes.

At this time, a regular soldier came in a panic, and Wang Zheng was immediately a little angry when he saw it, and forcibly said:

"What's wrong, why are you so flustered!"

"Hello Dashuai, it's not good, Xiangyang... Xiangyang fell, King Xiang was killed! ”

"What!?"

In mid-January, Zhang Xianzhong defeated the official army in Kaixian, how could he break through Xiangyang in less than a month, and Yang Sichang always took Xiangyang as the rear of the military government, and hundreds of thousands of salaries and armor were gathered in the city.

After Xiangyang was captured, Zhang Xianzhong received a large amount of ordnance, money and food, and he would definitely be like a tiger.

After Zhang Xianzhong defeated the official army in Kaixian, he felt that the time had come, and immediately led his troops out of Sichuan, galloped three hundred miles in one night, caught up with Yang Sichang's messenger who went to Xiangyang to give orders, killed him and took his military talisman, and then deceived the deputy general at the south city gate with twenty-eight horsemen, and mixed into Xiangyang City.

On February 5th, the fire broke out in the middle of the night, the residents saw the fires everywhere, they all thought that the city of Xiangyang was broken, and they were shocked to go out of the city, and the officials and soldiers could not stop it, at this time, Sun Kewang and others led the army outside the city to attack the city on all sides, and in less than an hour, Xiangyang fell.

Zhang Xianzhong killed Zhu Yiming, the king of Xiang, held his head, and said in the Nancheng Tower:

"I want to borrow the king's head to make Yang Sichang fall into the law by trapping the vassal, and the king will lose his trust and fall into favor, and the world will be decided."

......

"Dashuai, the lord of Jinan Mansion will report to Liu Guineng's residence."

After carefully reading this newspaper, Wang Zheng was already a little unable to accept the blows that came one after another in the past few days, and laughed angrily in the lobby.

Everyone didn't know why, but none of them dared to say more.

After Li Zicheng captured Ruzhou, the army rose again, and when he heard that Wang Zheng had left Henan, he immediately led the army to make a comeback and besieged Kaifeng City with the attitude of a victor.

This happened just a few days ago, when Kaifeng City was rebuilt by Wang Zheng, the city wall was more than five zhang thick, Li Zicheng attacked several times and was repelled by Liu Guoneng, there was no way for a while, but he was afraid that the reinforcements of the Shandong army were a little urgent.

The military advisor Song Xiance proposed: You can let the homeless people cover with cave cars, and the soldiers dig holes into the city, and Kaifeng can be broken.

At this time, Kaifeng patrolled the infant city according to Gao Mingheng, and the king of Zhou learned that it was Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, outside the city, and knew that he would be punished after the city was broken, so he opened the inner treasury and took out a million taels of gold and silver to recruit strong men to kill the enemy, and sent the servants of the palace to make rice to feed the army.

Of course, the housekeeper of the Zhou Wangfu personally boarded the camp gate and found Liu Guoneng, the commander of the Shandong Army stationed in Kaifeng, but before he could speak, he saw Liu Guoneng waving his hand.

"A certain person was ordered to lead 3,000 soldiers in the army to guard Kaifeng, and it is useless to say more! Liu has always been loyal and prudent, and when he was in this dilemma, he should repay Wang Shuai's great kindness with his life, but he only died! ”

After speaking, Liu Guoneng sent someone to report to Licheng on the one hand, and told Chen Yongfu, the deputy general of Kaifeng, to guard the city and personally lead the Shandong army to fight against the city.

In that battle, the Shandong army was 3,000 like tigers and wolves, Liu Guoneng lived up to the name of the original breakthrough, led the grassroots generals to rush to the front, and still did not retreat half a step in the eyes of the soldiers and civilians in the city, and the head of the righteous army was 2,000 hanging on the city.

At this time, Kaifeng governor Li Xianfeng led the Kaifeng guerrilla general Gao Qian to come to the aid, the Ming army in the city was greatly inspired, rushed to fight, and killed more than 700 levels of the army, Li Zicheng suffered a big defeat and retreated to Mi County, gathered the remnants of the army, and fought again at a later date.