Chapter 343: Divine Decree, Dismissal, Traitor
"It is advisable to stay one, besiege but not attack, and wait for the Shandong soldiers to retreat, so as to sit in trap!" In the camp, Niu Jinxing shook his feather fan and shook his head to say this sentence.
Although the rest of the generals kept shouting and shouting, they all nodded after hearing it, Li Zicheng felt that it made sense, and knew that Kaifeng was indeed impossible to go at the moment.
The new defeat of the army, the morale is declining, the troops have not gathered completely, there are only less than 20,000 people in Zhuxian Town, and taking this little soldiers and horses to besiege Kaifeng can only add another defeat, so in the end, the army decided to retreat temporarily.
Early the next morning, most of the tents of the army camp in Zhuxian Town were gone, leaving only a small number of soldiers and horses, while gathering the scattered troops around them, while preparing to wait for the Shandong army to leave and "besiege but not attack".
Last night, Gao Yigong brought news, saying that Chongzhen knew that Wang Zheng, the general soldier of Shandong, had entered Henan to reinforce Kaifeng without permission, and he was already thundered and angry, and he issued a holy decree to transfer the Shandong army back to reinforce Liaodong, so the reinforcements of the Shandong army also left in these days.
Li Zicheng almost didn't laugh out loud at that time, he naturally had that confidence, as long as the cavalry and soldiers of the Shandong Army who came to reinforce left, even if the number of Tian Jianxiu's troops surrounded outside the city was small, the Ming army in the city would definitely not have the courage to go out of the city to face the battle.
Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, led most of the people to go west and attacked Zhengzhou in one go.
Zhizhou's daughter was rewarded with a tiger Li Guo, and most of the Ming troops defending the city surrendered without much resistance, plus the Ming army and homeless people who heard the wind, the army suddenly expanded to nearly 100,000 horses, and the momentum was huge.
"Since breaking Zhengzhou, breaking into the north of the king to attack Yangwu, if you don't stop, you will take Fengqiu."
After breaking through Zhengzhou, the army was known as 100,000 people, and the Ming army had reached the point of fear of the wind, Li Zicheng led his troops to besiege Yangwu City, which was garrisoned by Wu Weizhong, the deputy general of Yangwu, and fought for three days and nights.
It is said that the Ming army guarding the Fengqiu at that time was only a thousand people, and the guards were just a garrison, but the army was nearly 100,000 people, and the hungry people in the city heard that the army was outside the city, lest the king of the city not enter the city, and rushed to break through the yamen of each crossing, and forced the guards to die in the house.
The army was invincible all the way, and gathered 200,000 people after taking Fengqiu lightly, but Li Zicheng still did not go south to attack Kaifeng again, but listened to the advice of the military advisor Song Xiance and went west to Ruzhou.
At this time, the Shandong army that reinforced Kaifeng City received the holy decree and had been transferred back for half a month, and the small part of the army left outside the city gradually became bolder, and after continuous gathering of victims, it even reached 50,000 or 60,000 people, and then besieged Kaifeng under the leadership of Tian Jianxiu, the general who stayed behind.
However, Tian Jianxiu implemented the strategy of besieging Niu Jinxing without attacking, but constantly sent people to loot wealth and grain and rice in the Kaifeng area, and attacked the wealthy gentry everywhere.
For a time, the entire Kaifeng Mansion no longer had the peaceful scene of the Shandong Army stationed at the beginning, and it became rumorful, martial law was imposed everywhere, and countless wealthy gentry died bankrupt every day.
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The reinforcements sent by Wang Zheng went to Kaifeng City to relieve the siege and won a beautiful battle, and the will of Chongzhen came down on the back foot, and it was very strict, saying that the Shandong army should not interfere in the internal affairs of Henan.
Wang Zheng has no way, he can't directly disobey the holy decree, after a few days of delay, he still withdrew Deng Heizi who went to Shandong for reinforcements, and thought it would be fine, but not long after, Chongzhen's next will came again.
“... The king of the Shandong general army was wrong in fighting for the aid of Henan, and he was not on good terms with the generals, so that Xiangyang fell, and the king of Xiang died. There must be no mistake in the Shandong army to go out of the customs to reinforce Songshan..."
On the school field outside the city, the eunuch dressed in golden and red satin had just finished reading the holy decree, but he saw that Wang Zheng, who was kneeling there, did not say anything, and the tens of thousands of Shandong soldiers standing in the school field showed a murderous aura, and the silence was a little terrifying.
"The last general doesn't dare, the post of Shandong General Army, no one can take up the post except the marshal, I implore the emperor to take back his fate!" Huang Yang knelt on one knee and said loudly with a solemn expression.
"Presumptuous, how can the emperor's will be reversed!?"
The eunuch didn't speak, but the brocade-clothed Wei Qianhu who accompanied him was "poofed" and wanted to pull out the embroidered spring knife and scolded loudly.
"Fart, what does Yang Sichang's defeat have to do with the big handsome!"
"That's it, how could our Shandong army have been defeated since it entered Henan, and it would be okay if it didn't give a reward, but now it wants to deal with the big handsome, the emperor is really confused!"
"Lao Tzu has never taken a little money from the imperial court, but now he treats people unfairly, if anyone dares to move the marshal, the old and young masters of our Shandong army will try their best to clear up the grievances for the marshal!"
However, after the reprimand, this brocade-clothed Wei Qianhu took a few steps back, and the atmosphere in the audience was not right.
Shandong soldiers are like a forest of steel guns, covered in iron armor, not only no one showed any intention to welcome the holy decree, but in the eyes of the tiger is a murderous opportunity, the first time there was chaos, almost rushed directly to the stage to spill the blood of these few Beizhili people who read the holy decree on the spot.
Dong Youyin, Deng Heizi and Gao Liang knelt down on one knee together and shouted:
"Please ask the emperor to take back his fate!"
"Please ask the emperor to take back his fate!"
At the same time, tens of thousands of regular soldiers, soldiers, and auxiliaries inside and outside the school field roared in unison, and the sound resounded through the sky, and even the eagles flying in the sky were startled, and quickly fled desperately.
The people who heard the news came when they heard the news, and they knelt on the ground to ask for their lives, and the water blocking the street was impassable.
Originally, this was a chore, and the eunuch who passed the decree actually didn't want to come, and the emperor was clearly played by Chen Xinjia and other officials, and he was determined to punish the Shandong general soldiers.
But he didn't want to think about it, today's Shandong general army is no longer Liu Zeqing, and Shandong is not the original Shandong, when it comes to the objects that the imperial court should really woo, even Zuo Liangyu, who suffered defeat and clearly did not listen to the orders of the imperial court, compared with Wang Zheng, it is nothing.
These little people can understand the truth, why can't Chongzhen, as the emperor, understand it?
At this moment, the eunuch kept retreating, there was no arrogance left on his face, his legs were trembling, and he almost sat on the ground.
"Mr. Wang, Mr. Wang, the ——, of our family is also a hard-working person, you also understand that if there is a little bit of face in the capital, who will come out to do this kind of death-seeking errand."
"The small one is a messenger.,You adults have a lot of them or let them go as a fart..."
Wang Zheng kept squatting on the ground, not saying a word from beginning to end, and after listening to the eunuch, he suddenly stood up and waved his hand.
The school field, which was still noisy at the last moment, instantly became silent, as if the sound of a silver needle falling to the ground could be heard clearly, only to see Wang Zheng raise his head and sigh heavily, and laugh self-deprecatingly:
"I don't understand, what did we do wrong, did we not obey the orders of the imperial court, or did we cause trouble, come to Liu Qianhu and talk about it."
Seeing Wang Zheng look over, Liu Qianhu, who was still scolded by words, couldn't stiffen anymore, and the embroidered spring knife in his hand fell to the ground, and he stammered and waved his hand and said:
"No, that's right, you didn't do anything wrong, Dashuai."
"What about you?" With a smile, Wang Zheng looked at the eunuch who sent the decree, and the eunuch knelt on the ground even more, trembling and unable to say a word.
"Oh——, that's it!"
Wang Zheng waved his hand, turned his back, and finally glanced in the direction of the Northern Zhili Jingshi, squinted his eyes and said:
"There must be traitors in Jingshi, otherwise the emperor will definitely not be able to make such a stupid will, according to the meaning of this commander, you should go back first and ask if this is the emperor's intention."
Hearing this, Liu Qianhu subconsciously wanted to say something, but was pulled by the eunuch, and then he didn't say anything, only to hear the eunuch smile sharply, and complimented:
"What the big marshal said is, the emperor Shengming, this time must not be the original intention!"
"Our family, our family should go back and ask clearly, otherwise we will blame Zhongliang, and that will be a matter of common anger between people and gods."