Chapter 313 There is chaos, breaking into the camp and provoking

At the end of April, Wang Zheng led the Shandong army to Kaifeng, Henan.

The speed of the Shandong army's march was not in a hurry or slow, it was always marching in formation, and Wang Zheng scattered the sentinels and horses, although there were many small things, but there was never any big chaos.

It is also infuriating, Yang Sichang's order said well, after the Shandong army left the country, all the food and military supplies were provided by the local government as appropriate.

When I first came out of Shandong and was in Guide Mansion, it was okay, maybe it was closer to Shandong, there were fewer chaos, and the local prefect's yamen and official army had not broken up a lot, and they were also doing their best to supply the Shandong army.

However, if you talk about the treatment after coming to Kaifeng Mansion, Wang Zheng is simply not angry, the house leak coincided with the overnight rain, and the Shandong Army Baggage Battalion could only bring a month's military rations, but on the first day he led the army into the Kaifeng territory, and the next day he cut off all military supplies.

The yamen everywhere said that they were "trying their best to prepare", but everyone knew that this was a perfunctory statement, and the guest army was aiding and suppressing, and what food supplies they wanted needed to be their own ideas, which was also an unwritten rule, because the imperial court was simply unreliable.

Originally, Wang Zheng also made this psychological preparation, but he didn't expect the situation to be like this, the place was full of white bones and starving corpses, if you want to buy food from some villages, don't even think about it.

After the news sent back by the sentinel horse, Wang Zheng suddenly realized that Henan had been suffering from a famine for a long time recently, and in this famine, locust plagues and droughts came one after another from time to time.

The local government was too busy to take care of itself, and after reporting to the imperial court, a large part of the disaster relief silver and grain distributed were greedy by officials at all levels, and finally the salary in hand was a drop in the bucket, which was simply a hardship for the people.

It was not that the local prefect yamen turned a blind eye to the orders of the governors, but that there was no way to help the officers and soldiers who were attacking and suppressing them, and the little materials used to support the local garrisons were insufficient, and they fled day and night.

Moreover, the officials and soldiers who invaded and suppressed had already made their reputations extremely bad by warlord-like figures such as Zuo Liangyu, so there is an unusual phenomenon among the refugees and people everywhere now.

Seeing the officers and soldiers dodging as if they had seen grass bandits, seeing the real rogue but it seemed to be a real righteous army, competing to open the door to "meet the king", plus Li Zicheng adopted the strategy of Song Xiance and Niu Jinxing, at least the military discipline of breaking into the camp is still very good now.

Compared with Zuo Liangyu and other court officers and soldiers who went around killing people and setting fires to solve the problem of food supply for their subordinates, the people obviously understood which side should support more when they were poor.

Hearing that Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, was already in Henan, and tens of thousands of people had gathered in the camp overnight, and whether there were any officials and troops stationed in Kaifeng Prefecture, the officials and soldiers in various places were shocked and frightened, and nearly half of the men and horses were scattered one after another within a few days.

These people either fled under duress, or they turned around and joined the various units of the Chuang Army and the Peasant Army.

With the addition of these former Ming troops, Li Zicheng was even more powerful, and he heard that he had successively broken through several county towns, and implemented the great joy of opening warehouses and releasing grain and killing corrupt officials and squires.

Kaifeng Mansion is an important place in Henan, and the prefect in Kaifeng City has been shocked when he hears the news of the peasant army uprising everywhere, and the official army in the city continues to break up day and night, and there are no more people left now.

In the same situation, the prefect's yamen was also in a mess, and there was no effective decree at all that could alleviate the urgent need, but the result was that Han Youde, the Xuzhou garrison, came to aid in the starry night and led hundreds of Xuzhou soldiers to enter Kaifeng City, which stabilized the hearts of the people.

Of course, Han Youde's escape from Xuzhou to Kaifeng City was naturally not completely kind, because it was completely hopeless over there, and he couldn't hold it if he stayed.

On the second day after entering the city, Han Youde went to the prefect of Kaifeng and asked him to write a letter to prove his loyalty and fearlessness, which had nothing to do with the current chaos in Xuzhou.

At present, Han Youde is the only help in Kaifeng, and the prefect has to do it in order to win his heart, who knows that Han Youde's abacus is very loud, and even Kaifeng City has already thought of a way out that Kaifeng City can't hold.

Recently, the most rumored is that Yang Sichang's old thief transferred a guest army from Shandong to aid Henan, speaking of the person who led the troops, it is not to be underestimated, it is the Shandong general soldier Wang Zheng who attacked Jiannu Xingjing in a surprise attack.

Therefore, Han Youde also has the idea of coercing the prefect and the prefect's wife to leave, and then Wang Zheng should also throw a rat bogey.

The Shandong army that entered Henan this time was the only elite of the imperial court in the northwest, and it was heard that there had never been any defeat, and even beheaded 3,000 Jiannu in Liaodong.

This kind of merit does not need Wang Zheng to sell himself and boast, the imperial court will naturally help sing the praises of virtue, and those civil officials in the Liuke Corridor are also squandering their pen and ink, and articles such as those who are not worldly feats are flying to various places, so even Li Zicheng, who is far away in Henan, occasionally has heard of Wang Zheng and the Shandong army.

Of course, the peasant army knew very little about Jiannu, and all they heard was how the border army in Liaodong was defeated by the Qing army, and how brave Jiannu was, but they had never seen it with their own eyes and no one believed it.

Even if Li Ziben is a himself, he has no worries about the Jurchens who rose in the northeast, and feels that he is the first in the world.

Many leaders of the peasant army are also secretly wondering whether this Shandong army will be as famous as Zuo Ying, but secretly it is just an embroidered pillow.

The prefect of Kaifeng heard that there was such an army entering Henan, and now it has reached the boundary of Kaifeng, so he hurriedly mobilized officials at all levels of Kaifeng Mansion, and he also had to pull out a batch of food and pay to Wang Zheng to send it over.

Wang Zheng was flattered, he really didn't expect that this Kaifeng prefect would be able to change his mistakes and be as good as himself, but he didn't know that this guy was secretly hiding his thoughts.

After the Shandong army accepted such a batch of food and salary, even if it owed a favor to the Kaifeng prefect yamen, if something happened at that time, the Shandong army would be able to open its mouth if it asked the Shandong army to rescue Kaifeng.

Besides, with Wang Zheng's relationship, Han Youde should not be too presumptuous.

However, Wang Zheng had just arrived in Tongxu County with the Shandong army, and when he was about to receive the food, he heard bad news, saying that the front foot of this batch of food and salary for the Shandong army left Kaifeng City, and the back foot was robbed by the camp.

The time was just a few days ago, and now the officers and troops escorting it have been dispersed.

Li Zicheng's approach is equivalent to a naked declaration of war in Wang Zheng's eyes, and besides, he has just entered Henan with the Shandong army, and the food and salary are directly robbed, which is equivalent to being slapped in the face.

Henan is so big, there are rogues everywhere, the camp comes and goes like the wind, for a while Wang Zheng really didn't know where to start, but one thing he still knows is that the people's will is not something that can lay the foundation overnight, and the camp has been operating in Henan for so many years, and it is already the desire of the people.

If the Shandong army wants to protect itself, it can only look at it from the upper class of local heroes and squires and landlords.

These local tyrants and squires and landlords are often the targets of the slogan of breaking into the camp, they are rich and powerful, and even the imperial court and the north and south have a lot of connections, but they are very disappointed in the court officials and soldiers, but these people really have nothing to rely on except the court soldiers and horses.

At this time, if Wang Zheng fights a beautiful victory, and then throws an olive branch at them, even if he makes any unreasonable demands, these people will not tremble and catch them.

(End of chapter)

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