On July 3, the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Fengyang Fucheng, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, ushered in an army of more than 100,000 people, and the banners were miscellaneous, like a mixture of officials and soldiers from all walks of life.

Fengyang General Huang Degong, Nanjing Battalion Commander Lu Jiude, Zhoushan General Weng Zhiqi and other famous generals in Nanzhili are among them, and a group of people rode horses to Waixi Huamen, at this time the new imperial court garrison Jiang Dong has brought a small number of officers and soldiers here to greet them.

However, after these generals stopped, they did not rush to make the next move, and they all ordered their subordinates to be on both sides, as if they were waiting for someone.

After a while, a neat footsteps came closer and closer, and the soldiers of the Shandong Army called the four teams in a square column, and the banner of the Yellow Dragon with the word "Wang" in the formation fluttered in the wind, and came to the door under the leadership of each general.

Anton waited for Wang Zheng to stop his horse, waved his hand and dismounted, and looked up at Fengyang City, the central capital, which was already somewhat defeated.

The first to react was Lu Jiude, and when he dismounted a little funny, Huang Degong and Weng Zhiqi glanced at each other, and followed closely behind Wang Zheng with the generals of various official armies.

"The last general, the central capital will stay in Jiangdong and welcome Anton Hou!"

If it was in the past, Wang Zheng might have smiled and modest, but now, he just waved his hand slightly and didn't say anything.

Just as he was about to lead the horse into the city, Huang Yang behind him stepped forward, frowned and said:

"Master Hou, let the last general enter the city first and test the reality."

Jiang Dong's expression tightened, but he lowered his head a few points, so that people couldn't see his expression.

All this was naturally taken into Wang Zheng's eyes, but he didn't think much about it, took a few steps forward, patted Jiang Dong on the shoulder a little harder, and asked:

"The city is fully furnished?"

Jiang Dong was taken aback, his forehead sweated, he pressed the sword in his hand, and said calmly:

"Hou Ye rest assured, the imperial city has been cleaned up from his humble position, just wait for the Shandong army to enter the city."

"Hasn't the imperial city been burned by Li thieves and sacrifice thieves a few times, how can people live?"

This guy is a little abnormal, Huang Degong took a few steps forward and stared at the guard's face fiercely, Jiang Dong was even more shocked, and subconsciously took a few steps back, but was stopped by Huang Degong.

At this time, Huang Degong smiled coldly:

"Jiang Shourong, why are you so nervous?"

Weng Zhiqi also stepped forward to hold his other hand, his face was not good.

"It's... This..."

Jiang Dong's face was flushed, and he couldn't say a complete sentence to deal with it, Wang Zheng didn't notice these details, just waved his hand to show that it didn't matter, and said with a smile:

"Everyone is an official and a soldier, what do they share with each other."

During the conversation, Wang Zheng actually dragged Jiang Dong into the city, Huang Degong wanted to speak and stopped, seeing this situation, he had to order his subordinates to take precautions.

Anton Hou believes that everyone knows this, but by now, Wang Zheng's life is obviously no longer his own, and it is related to the survival and future of everyone in the entire Shandong army.

Even if Wang Zheng didn't say anything, the pro-soldier officer would not sit idly by.

They did not hesitate to draw their knives and follow closely on both sides, Huang Yang and Dong Youyin looked at each other and nodded, the soldiers of the Shandong army were like facing a great enemy, and in an instant, they transformed into a cone formation, and advanced into Fengyang with an oppressive momentum.

The speed of this transformation made Huang Degong, Weng Zhiqi and others dumbfounded, and Lu Jiude even stumbled to himself:

"Anton is not fortunate to be able to have today."

Jiang Dong was dragged by Wang Zheng's side, surrounded by Mingjia's sharp personal soldiers, he was sweating profusely at the moment, and he naturally knew what he would encounter after entering the door.

Seeing that he was about to enter the door, Jiang Dong could no longer move a step, knelt on the ground and kowtowed:

"Hou Ye is magnanimous, so that the humble duty is grateful, and he also asks the Hou Ye to enter the city first, and the humble duty does not dare to trespass!"

Hearing this, Wang Zheng didn't say a word, suddenly kicked out, and was caught off guard, Jiang Dong, who was kneeling on the ground, rolled a few times before stopping.

When he reacted, he raised his hand violently and shouted:

"Don't-"

It was too late, the archers who had already been ambushed in the city fired arrows randomly, Jiang Shan was hit by several arrows, spitting blood from his mouth, and it seemed that he was dead.

Wang Zheng was a little surprised in his heart, he was not a thief who harmed the people, nor was he a Tartar going south, this was the first time he had encountered such a thing.

At the sound of an order, the wolf-like soldiers climbed the city wall, grabbed the archers who were in ambush above, and knelt down in front of Wang Zheng one by one.

"Master Hou, what to do with these miscellaneous pieces?"

Wang Zheng took a few breaths, strode into Fengyang, and when he heard the question from the officer of the pro-soldier team, he didn't look back, and said lightly:

"All of them were cut."

The soldiers were ordered to drag them to the side of the wall, despite the archers' pleas for mercy and howls.

Lu Jiude walked to the door and saw the skulls and blood stains all over the ground, and he was a little trembling at the moment, and he couldn't take a step.

Huang Degong pulled him, and Lu Jiude reacted and hurried forward.

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Speaking of which, this Fengyang is the third capital of the Ming Dynasty.

When Hongwu founded the country, Zhu Yuanzhang first wanted to build the capital in his hometown Fengyang, so the inside and outside of Fengyang were built according to the scale and form of the capital.

However, the scale of Fengyang's capital was not completed, and only half of it was built at most, so Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Jinling to be the capital under the proposal of Liu Bowen and others.

Wang Zheng was looking forward to it, but when he came to the imperial city through the inner and outer cities, he was full of disappointment.

The earliest capital of the Ming Dynasty has been abandoned for more than 100 years, and it was burned down twice by Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng not long ago, and now only a piece of ruins remains.

But why are there so many officers and troops stationed here?

The Shandong army and other rendezvous officers and soldiers, under Wang Zheng's military order, cleared the officers and troops in the city, and did not stay in Fengyang for a long time.

This army of about 150,000 people went straight from Fengyang to Yingwuwei.

Taking advantage of the busy autumn harvest season, the Shandong army supplemented some young and strong people in the surrounding Zhuangzi along the way, and mixed these people into the auxiliary army sequence, but it was basically impossible to replenish grain and grass.

It was about the middle of July that the Shandong army finally came to the Chuzhou border.

Before Wang Zheng led his troops south, the Shandong army had already controlled Kaifeng and Guide Erfu in Henan, and also stationed troops in the Tongzhou area to the north, and mastered Huai'an Mansion along the coast.

The expansion of the Shandong army is not that Li Zicheng wanders around aimlessly, and he has to be stationed wherever he goes, such as Fengyang, the central capital, and the Shandong army has not left a single soldier or general at all.

Wang Zheng's various actions are all paving the way for the southward step.

The reason why the soldiers and horses in those places will be incorporated into foreign departments on a large scale, or will be left behind by the garrison, and the number of military council and security department will be set up, because those are all areas that the Shandong army urgently needs and must control.

With these places, the security of the core area of Shandong's six prefectures can be guaranteed, and the logistics and advance and retreat of the army from south to north can be guaranteed.

To put it bluntly, there is a buffer zone when things are not bad to the bone, so that Wang Zheng has time to choose the best way to solve it.

This time he went south, not because Wang Zheng suddenly thought of this, but because he had already started to prepare for it, and once the real time came, he would attack as quickly as possible.

Wang Zheng's real idea is that Nanjing, the area around Beizhili is chaotic and abnormal, and several of the greatest forces are fighting openly and secretly on that chessboard.

Wang Zheng is quite familiar with the history of this year, and knows that Li Zicheng and the Manchu Qing Dynasty have no scruples to go to Shandong at the moment, so it is naturally the best time to go all out to take Nanjing.

After this village, I don't know how long I will have to wait for the next store.