After the official army suffered a defeat in Runing Mansion, Mo said that the civil and military courts guarding the towns in various places, even those local powerful gentry were already frightened all day long.

Those who have official status in these places rely on power, and those who do not have official status also rely on their own wealth accumulation, and they don't know how much fertile land they have encroached on from the poor people, and how much advantage they have secretly taken advantage of the imperial court.

This time the rogue is menacing, even a fool can see from the news of the successive routs of the official army how capable these paper-paste officers and soldiers are, after the initial panic, most of the people in addition to starting to form a village to protect themselves, are also casting nets everywhere to find a backer.

But looking at the five provinces of the Central Plains at the moment, there is no force that can compete with Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, although Zuo Liangyu said that he took the left part and claimed to be hundreds of thousands of troops, but the reality was that he didn't dare to stay in one place for three days, to put it bluntly, he was chased around by the army.

Therefore, this so-called "Zuoping thief" doesn't need to think about it anymore, it is already a mud bodhisattva crossing the river and it is difficult to protect itself, and the left, which is known as the strongest official army in the five provinces, is like this, and the rest are worse, and they are even more scattered.

Like He Renlong, Hu Dawei, and Li Guoqi, it was really to the point where they immediately fled when they heard the rumors of the invasion, and it is only now that many people remember Yang Sichang, who usually led the officials and troops of the five provinces to chase the thieves.

In the past, it was often said that when the governor Yang Sichang supervised the army to suppress the bandits, the situation was not good, and there were leaky nets on all sides, but Yang Sichang is dead now, but the situation is not improving, but immediately collapsed completely.

"Since Yang Sichang died, there is no one who can supervise the thief."

This sentence was said by Emperor Chongzhen when he summoned his ministers at the court meeting, which was quite helpless, and was intended to lament the erosion situation of the thieves who rose up after Yang Sichang's death, the officials and troops were defeated, and no one in the court was available.

Up to now, no one has said anything more from the officials who have always said that Yang Sichang is incompetent, because the current thieves have completely become a hot situation, and the officials and armies of the five provinces have completely collapsed.

Wang Zheng, who was in Liaodong City at that time, sneered when he heard the news, Yang Sichang was weak, but he was able to personally go into battle to supervise the division, and he kept leading the officials and soldiers to chase the thieves.

On the other hand, those generals who command the army, sneering is a housekeeping skill, once they really arrive on the battlefield, they are often the first to flee, but they are not as good as Yang Sichang.

The heroes of the five provinces naturally know a fact, King Chuang has always treated them mercilessly, and he won't even blink an eye when he kills his family.

The plain-headed people below sang songs day and night, spreading all over the streets and alleys, just waiting for the army of King Chuang to defeat the official army and attack the city, so as to rob them of all their wealth and rice grain.

The heroes searched and searched, and finally almost unanimously focused their eyes on one place, that is, Shandong Licheng, which was gathering heavy troops.

Kong Luan of Guide Mansion turned out to be a ringing horse leader, and his background was not as good as himself, but now, he is actually a guerrilla general, and now he calls himself "General Ben" when he sees people.

Speaking of which, there are many wealthy families who are actually working hard for the official body promised by the king.

From ancient times to the present, even if these local tyrants have a big family business, it is impossible to have anything to do with the official family, and they must be diligent in sending silver on weekdays.

There are still a lot of corrupt officials who have been staring at you to make mistakes, if any trick is caught, then the family business of these generations will be in vain, so after Wang Zheng gave the charter, those heroes of the five provinces really moved their minds, and the letters were sent to Licheng like headless flies.

Haoqiang are very relieved, the Shandong army is not an empty promise, and it is the best proof that Wang Zheng is not an ordinary person, not to mention the ruthless style, and some time ago, he was named a loyal martyr by Emperor Chongzhen of the current dynasty.

The earl, who is only in his twenties, is the governor of Zuodu, and he is also hereditary with iron coupons, which is too amazing, and no one can say how far it will go in another twenty years.

With this big financier in front of him, these people will not fight for their lives to protect their families and earn a career as an official, anyway, it has reached a life-and-death juncture now, even if they get on the ship of the Shandong Army.

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The current Guide Mansion is already a rumor, especially on the side of the Tuocheng line, Kong Luan has already sent several horse teams to report a day, and he will know it immediately.

Although Kong Luan had already sent an emergency document to the Shandong side, he didn't have much hope in his heart, after all, he was just a small and strong man in a place, which was very powerful, but it was really not enough in front of the soldiers of the Shandong army.

What is Wang Zheng's status now, that is the loyal martyr of the imperial court, and the Shandong Army was also named the "Mingwei Army", and now it looks like it is going to start, and Wang Zheng is not in Shandong, so the generals and civil officials stationed in the army will definitely defend their own homeland first.

It's good to have a peripheral branch like Guide Mansion, but when he encounters this situation, Kong Luan asks himself, even he won't care, because it's really not worth it.

The name of the Shandong army is not small, this year in Kaifeng Mansion three defeats to break into the king, Li Zicheng is a little jealous of Wang Zheng and his subordinate soldiers and horses, this is already a well-known thing, so even if the Guide Mansion can't hold it, Li Zicheng estimates that he will not get close to Shandong to ask for fun.

But to his surprise, not long after his distress request was sent, the Military Affairs Department in Licheng, Shandong immediately sent a reply, saying that Wang Zhengwang personally ordered to promote himself as a guerrilla general and appoint him as the chief general of the Shandong Army's foreign army in Guide Prefecture.

And when Kong Luan received the reply, he also got another news, that is, Wang Dashuai, who was in Liaodong, was still concerned about the situation inside and outside Shandong, and issued a military order in a categorical manner:

The soldiers will block, the water will come to cover the earth, and they will never give up on returning to the German government.

Unlike the usual slow rise of the imperial court, the Shandong side immediately made corresponding moves after receiving the military order.

First of all, Shao Yong, the chief general of Dongchang Mansion, and Xing Yidao, the general of Wengzhou Mansion, led the soldiers and horses of their headquarters to assemble along the Guide Mansion, and Deng Heizi, the general of the soldiers who stayed in Licheng, mobilized soldiers and horses from all over the country and led the Shandong soldiers of other state capitals to swear an oath on a certain day.

The Shandong General Army has always had the right to respond to emergencies and self-dictatorship in response to requests for help from the border areas of the six prefectures, such as Henan, Huguang, and Nanzhili.

Wang Zheng relied on this, but when he sent the secret order back to Shandong, he was actually very anxious, he was the same as most of the soldiers who came out, there was a fire at the door of his house, the old wife and children and the foundation for many years were in Shandong, what are you still doing in Liaodong?

Wang Zheng is already like an arrow, sitting like a needle felt, his judgment is naturally a little reduced, and he feels that he has won a few battles here, as long as Huang Taiji no longer drives the expedition, there will be no obvious difference in the strength of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it should be very easy to defend the city.

It just so happened that at this time, the two decrees of the imperial court were issued one after another, the first was to be the king of the king to fight for the loyal martyr, the governor of the five armies, the governor of the left capital, and the Shandong army as the "Mingwei army".

The second is that Emperor Chongzhen strictly ordered Wang Zheng to immediately lead his troops to withdraw to Shandong, and he could no longer participate in any Liaodong-related border affairs.

These two wills were only a few days apart, and although there was no rebuke in the second way, Wang Zheng still clearly felt that Emperor Chongzhen's meaning was very clear.

However, Wang Zheng didn't have the time to think about it, so he just borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, respectfully accepted the holy decree, and prepared to immediately lead the soldiers back to Shandong.