Chapter 328: The thieves are gone, but the officials and soldiers are coming

"Bang!"

With a roar of rage, accompanied by the sound of slamming tables and chairs, a stout yellow-faced man shouted to his feet, his eyes glistening with thunder.

He Renlong was wearing an old iron armor, with a few feathers on the iron helmet on his head, which looked like an exotic strong man, and the armor on his body was not like the rest of the Ming generals It was an ornament, it was covered with knife marks and gun holes, and it was pitted, and it was obviously weathered.

At least, the biggest difference between He Renlong and other generals is that he can achieve his current position, which is completely due to his military exploits back then.

Not to mention ordinary thieves, just giant bandits across the Central Plains, I don't know how many of them were lost in the hands of this powerful general.

Because he dared to fight and fought hard, he often led his family to rush to the front line, like madness, so he also had a well-known name in the Ming army and the Liukou - He Madman.

At this moment, this He madman's eyes were red, and he turned around and asked:

"Liu Lie, what you said is the truth, it was really Wang Zheng of Shandong who annihilated more than 4,000 people in my Yansui army!?"

Hearing this, although Liu Lie was a little prepared in his heart, he was still trembling under the thunderous voice, and subconsciously cried:

"Yes, He Shuai, the concubine king is too much of a bully! He led the soldiers and horses of his headquarters to enter the new city on the front foot, and he led the Shandong army to kill him on the back foot, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the small ones, he actually made such a move against conscience! ”

"You must be the master of the soldiers of Yansui, Wow He Shuai~~!"

He Renlong was angry, he didn't think about it so much, and when he was about to speak, he saw a general sitting on his side come out and said:

"Liu Lie, what you kid said doesn't match the preface, why did Wang Zheng provoke He Shuai for no reason, is it..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the irascible He Renlong waving his hand, only to hear him shout indiscriminately:

"Liu Guoneng, don't forget what you did before, this is my matter of Yansui Town and the Shandong Army, it's not your turn to interfere!"

This is really a mad dog, and it bites people hard.

Liu Guoneng felt that something was wrong, and the questions that he had prepared for a stomach were all held back by He Renlong's words, and his old face turned red and sat back and stopped squeaking.

Liu Guoneng Many people may not know, but if the name "Breaking the Sky" is mentioned, many people are like thunder.

In the early years, when there was a great drought in Shaanxi and the people were struggling to make a living, Liu Guoneng and Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others rose up together, attacked the state and broke the government, and the name of breaking through the sky spread all over Jingxiang, and it can be said that he was the leader of the peasant army with the oldest qualifications.

In the winter of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Liu Guoneng and the seventeenth battalion such as the scorpion block entered the Tongguan Pass, because the governor Sun Chuanting was very strict, Liu Guo's ability to retreat from the public opinion, led the seventeenth battalion such as the scorpion block to advance to the south.

In the ten years of Chongzhen, the sound of the collapse of the sky was greatly vibrating, and it went straight to the north of the river.

Xiong Wencan, the governor of the five provinces at the time, set up several Ming troops, invited the guest troops of various towns to fight each other, Liu Guoneng was outnumbered, defeated Huangpi, and turned to Kou Henan, and the general Li Chungui made meritorious contributions and supervised the troops to chase, but was defeated by Liu Guoneng backhand.

This situation of mutual victory and defeat lasted until Yang Sichang proposed the plan of "four positive and six corners, ten sides of the net" to encircle and suppress the peasant army, Liu Guoneng was defeated by the official army one after another, and the morale of his subordinates fell to the bottom.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen ordered Xiong Wencan to supervise the army to suppress the thieves, Liu Guoneng was defeated and impoverished at this time, and was deeply afraid of being annexed by Zhang Xianzhong or Li Zicheng, and finally in desperation, he led the remnants of the 12 battalions of the righteous army in Yizhou to Fu Xiong Wencan, the governor of the five provinces.

Liu Guoneng is different from Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai and others, after he was appeased, he never mentioned the rebellion against the imperial court, and often boasted of his loyalty, and treated the Liukou brothers who were married to Jinlan in the past without mercy.

However, no matter how hard he tried, he was still not welcomed in the official army, and although the position of deputy chief soldier was not low among a bunch of generals and guerrillas, he still had no right to speak.

Hearing He Renlong's scolding, Liu Guoneng clenched his fists, and in the end he could only take a step back and stop talking.

In fact, having said that, why did Zuo Liangyu chase Zhang Xianzhong all the way before, and suddenly let him slip away uncharacteristically after arriving at the bottom of the mountain, this matter is actually related to He Renlong.

When Yang Sichang first served as the governor and prime minister to suppress the thief, he suffered from the lack of soldiers available, and knew that Zuo Liangyu was arrogant and did not listen to the order, and at that time, the Yansui army led by He Renlong fought bravely, so he promised him, and after the matter was completed, he reported to Emperor Chongzhen to confer the title of general of the thief.

Who is Yang Sichang, that is a red man in the eyes of the emperor today.

He Renlong was overjoyed, and led the Yansui army to be in the forefront of every battle, and became the vanguard of the eradication of the Liukou, but later Yang Sichang never mentioned this matter, which made He Renlong leave angrily.

After coming to Henan, he still felt unhappy in his heart, so he quickly sent someone to inform Zuo Liangyu of the incident, Zuo Liangyu was naturally furious, and refused to carry out Yang Sichang's order from then on.

This is why when Zhang Xianzhong was about to die, Zuo Liangyu did not move.

This kind of behavior that does not think about the overall situation and is full of childish atmosphere happened to the two handsomes of the Ming Dynasty, which really makes people laugh and cry.

The generals in the camp were all frightened by He Renlong at the moment, and echoed in a loud voice, saying that Wang Zheng was really not a thing, and even dared to break the rules that had been formed by the officials and soldiers for a long time, and they didn't know what was good or bad.

Listening to these words that catered to him, He Renlong felt even more reasonable, and he was convinced of what Liu Lie said.

Wang Zheng annihilated more than 4,000 soldiers and horses under his command for that little money, and if this account was not counted, it would damage his prestige as a marshal.

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On June 14, the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, countless soldiers and horses gathered under the city of Kaifeng, and it seemed that there were at least tens of thousands of people.

However, unlike the day when Tongxu County was ambushed by the breaking army, this time it was the rest of the soldiers and horses from the towns who came to Henan to help, and the soldiers of the Shandong army in the city were also a little strange.

There are more than a dozen generals on horseback in the next row of the city, and there are more than a dozen deputy commanders and generals from all over the country, as for the guerrilla generals and garrisons, there are countless of them, but most of them are soy sauce characters who follow the large army, just to fill the name, in fact, they don't have any troops at all.

Don't look like the Ming army is violent, known as the army of several towns, but in fact, the main force is Yansui Town, which has just retreated from Huguang, with less than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and the rest of the indiscriminate goods add up to only a few thousand miscellaneous soldiers.

The soldiers at the head of the city saw that the posture was wrong, and as early as when the dust and smoke were raised on the horizon outside, they called the front army general at the south gate to check it.

Gao Liang was greatly surprised when he saw it, and gave the order to defend the city early, and went back to report to the queen of the king's struggle, and was sitting on the female wall at the moment, shouting down:

"It's that part of the soldiers and horses that came, we are the subordinates of the general soldier of Shandong Wang, they are all officers and soldiers, don't hurt the harmony!"

No matter what the tone is, when these words come out, Gao Liang always feels a little like the beasts in the new city a while ago, and he suddenly feels disgusted in his heart.

After all these days, He Renlong's temper didn't go down much, and he still looked like a rejuvenating teacher asking about sin, and shouted in a kind way:

"Ah, it turned out to be a guest army in Shandong, and my Yansui Town is also a guest army, this is to help you guard Kaifeng, you can go!"

Speaking of which, He Renlong said again:

"Now these days, Henan is not peaceful!"

Although he pretended to be kind, He Renlong's acting skills were too clumsy, and the more Gao Liang looked at it, the more cautious he became, and he simply shouted loudly:

"General Soldier He, don't say more about such self-deception, please tell us as soon as possible what is going on, otherwise we won't have time to chat here, and we will go to patrol the city!"