Since the New Year's Day Dynasty in the second year of Chongzhen, the edict of opening the sea was announced without court discussion, Emperor Chongzhen has always been preparing to deal with the opposition of the imperial court and the imperial historians inside and outside the court, but to his surprise, he did not wait for the opposition of the courtiers, but first waited for the military situation in Shanxi. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The courtiers did not work because of the seal of the Yamen during the New Year's holiday, and it was not convenient to submit the folds to the General Administration Department and argue with the emperor about the issue of opening the sea, but the thieves who were active in northern Shaanxi would not make trouble because the officials and people of the Ming court were in the New Year.

On the last day of Chongzhen's first year, that is, on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, Jiayin, the leader of the thieves in northern Shaanxi, who was the first to cause trouble, led his thieves to divide into several units, taking advantage of the defenselessness of the Shanxi Ming army on Chinese New Year's Eve, and successively crossed the Yellow River, which was extremely frozen in the cold winter and moon, and broke into Shanxi in one fell swoop.

These bandit leaders who were led by Sun Chuanting, He Shiyu, Ma Maocai and others in northern Shaanxi to chase and kill the officials and troops of Yansui Town, who had nowhere to hide, suddenly returned like dragons to the sea and birds into the forest.

After entering the Yellow Line in Shanxi, Wang Jiayin, Wang Ziyong and others seemed to have entered a no-man's land, and within two days of the first and second days of the first lunar month, they successively captured the three county towns of Wubao, Yonghe, and Jizhou along the Yellow Line in Shanxi, killed county officials, and plundered merchants, and Shanxi suddenly fell into chaos along the Yellow Line.

Let's say that at the end of October, the Ansai thief Gao Yingxiang led the horse thief team under his command, outside the city of Yan'an Fuzhi, after being defeated by the Ming army of Yansui Town, which was attacked from inside and outside, he led the hungry people in northern Shaanxi to break through to the north, first robbed the county seat of Anding, and then led the crowd to flee to the direction of Qingjian.

And the Fugu Thief Jiayin, the White Water Thief II, the Yichuan Thief Zuo Hang and others, after being defeated outside the city of Fushi, drove the hungry people to flee to the east, and captured Yanchang County all the way.

Sun Chuanting and He Shiyu led five thousand cavalry in Yansui Town, all the way south from Yulinwei to fight, seeing a big battle, defeated the thief army, and kept the Yan'an Mansion in Fushi City.

The next day, after hearing that most of the thieves were going east, they were breaking the city and looting all the way, Sun Chuanting, He Shiyu and Ma Maocai discussed, leaving Ma Maocai to lead the Yansui Town Supervision Army Standard Battalion under his command to continue to protect the Yan'an Mansion City and Ganquanyu, which was unwilling to be from here, and Sun Chuanting and He Shiyu continued to lead the 5,000 cavalry of Yansui Town to the east to chase the thief army.

When Sun Chuanting and He Shiyu rushed to a relatively close extension, the Fugu Thief Jiayin, the Baishui Thief II and the Yichuan Thief King hung left, and they had already gone south to Yichuan.

Sun Chuanting and He Shiyu rested for half a day in the dilapidated Yanchang County, replenished the drinking water, and after some discussion, they decided to chase south, but before they could get out of the city, they received news from Ma Maocai, the city of Yan'an, that it was the Suide thief Zijin Liang who led a large number of thieves and hungry people, and suddenly surrounded Suidezhou, and attacked day and night, and the city of Suidezhou was in danger.

When Sun Chuanting and He Shiyu heard this, they had to give up their plan to go south to catch up with the big thief Wang Jiayin and others, and instead went north to Yanchuan.

The reason why Yansui Town is called Yansui Town is because of Yan'an Mansion, and the other is because of Suide Prefecture, which is the other two important cities within the jurisdiction of Yansui Town, in addition to Yulin, which is the seat of governance.

Now although northern Shaanxi is in chaos, and the county towns have been broken, occupied and looted by thieves one after another, but the capital city and the state city have not been captured, Sun Chuanting does not want to break this precedent here.

Because compared with the county seat, the impact of losing a state town is much greater, which means that the thieves in northern Shaanxi are on the verge of getting out of control.

Sun Chuanting, who is now a governor at a young age, doesn't want to leave such an incompetent impression on the emperor and important ministers of the court who are far away in Beijing.

Speaking of which, we have to briefly talk about the relationship between the thieves in northern Shaanxi.

Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong, these big thieves, almost everyone has heard of them in later generations, but Wang Jiayin and Wang Ziyong have not heard too much, and many people may not know when they mention it.

But these two people were much more famous among the rebels in northern Shaanxi at this time than Gao Yingxiang, the Ansai horse thief.

As for Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and other people, they have not yet made a name for themselves, and they don't know where to fall into the grass.

Wang Jiayin, the fugitive from the Yansui pacification border camp, can be regarded as the first generation leader of the Northern Shaanxi Peasant Army in the late Ming Dynasty, and Wang Ziyong inherited Wang Jiayin's subordinates after Wang Jiayin's death and became the second-generation leader of the Northern Shaanxi Peasant Army.

As for the Ansai horse thief Gao Yingxiang, at the beginning of the rebellion, he was just the leader of a group of thieves who led the team to Wang Jiayin, that is, the leader of the Ansai thieves, and at this time he was still a general under Wang Jiayin, until Wang Ziyong died, he was elected as the third-generation leader of the thieves in northern Shaanxi.

And this Suide thief Zijin Liang, known as Wang Ziyong, is also the leader of a group of thieves who are attached to Wang Jiayin, defected to Wang Jiayin earlier, and is also a member of the Wang family, and is quite valued by Wang Jiayin.

This time, Wang Jiayin called on a large number of thieves to go south to besiege Yan'an Mansion, so he left Wang Ziyong, nicknamed Zijin Liang, and Zhang Yingjin, nicknamed the Monkey of the Mixed Sky, two henchmen with some men, to guard their old camp in the big ravine near Mizhi.

After the failure of the siege of Yan'an Fucheng, while fleeing all the way east, Wang Jiayin, the head of the big thief who was born as a fugitive from the Dingbian camp, also perished and sent people back to report the news, so that Wang Ziyong, Zhang Yingjin and others took the thieves to attack Suidezhou City, besieged Wei to save Zhao, and found a way to attract the official army of Yansui Town led by Sun Chuanting to the north, creating a chance for his defeated army to escape.

Wang Jiayin, who was born in the Yansui Calm Border Camp, knew where the weaknesses of the officials and troops were, knew that they were scruples about this and that, and would not be indifferent to the gains and losses of Suidezhou City.

Sure enough, Wang Ziyong and Zhang Yingjin led the men and horses, coerced and drove tens of thousands of thieves and hungry people along the way, and after going south to Suidezhou City, Chen Qiyu, who participated in the politics of Yansui, was worried that Suidezhou City would be lost, so he sent people to gallop to Yan'an and reported the situation to Sun Chuanting.

And Wang Jiayin also escaped because of this.

Half a month later, Sun Chuanting took the only 5,000 officers and cavalry in Yansui Town, who were running non-stop, all the way north, followed behind the butts of Gao Yingxiang and other thieves, and successively recovered the two county towns of Yanchuan and Qingjian, and at the same time blocked Wang Ziyong, Zhang Yingjin, Gao Yingxiang and other thieves outside Suidezhou City.

Wang Ziyong, Zhang Yingjin led the thief army, and the soldiers were outside Suide City for ten days, and after Gao Yingxiang came, the power increased greatly, but for the city defense of Suidezhou City, the thief army is still a thief army after all, and the equipment is extremely backward, except for the ladder, there is no other more effective siege weapon, and it can't be attacked twice, so it has been surrounded.

When Sun Chuanting and He Shiyu arrived with the 5,000 official cavalry of Yansui Town, Wang Ziyong, Zhang Yingjin, and Gao Yingxiang did not dare to engage in the battle, and abandoned the siege and left.

Zhang Yan, the governor of Suide Prefecture, Du Wenhuan, the guard general, and Li Yingqi, the patrol of the city, led the soldiers and civilians of Suide Prefecture, and they had been guarding for more than half a month.

The twenty or thirty thousand thieves and rebels gathered outside the city of Suidezhou immediately collapsed.

Most of the backbone of Gao Yingxiang's Ansai thieves were born as horse thieves, so they all had horses and fled all the way to the east.

And Wang Ziyong, Zhang Yingjin and others took a large number of thieves and rebels and fled in the direction of Mizhi in a hurry.

Sun Chuanting and others abandoned Gao Yingxiang, who had a small number of people, but chased after Wang Ziyong, Zhang Yingjin and others, and finally outside Mizhi City, more than 1,000 Mizhi Township soldiers led by Mizhi County Ling Chengcai once again defeated the thief army of Wang's self-use.

Sui De guarded Du Wenhuan and beheaded Zhang Yingjin, a monkey in the sky, and Wang Ziyong led hundreds of backbones of the old camp to flee to hide near Jia County on the Shaanxi side of the Yellow River.

Sun Chuanting, He Shiyu and others led the army, successively outside the city of Dasui Dezhou and outside the city of Mizhi, after defeating the thieves of Wang Ziyong's department and the rebellious people they were entrapped, while continuing to send the official army into the mountains to chase down the large number of thieves who had escaped, while escorting a large number of captured rebellious people, at the end of November, returned to the city of Suidezhou.

Sun Chuanting was originally a ruthless character in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, and for more than half a year, he also heard about Liaodong's eleven smashing method for the rebellious army, so after returning to Suide, he openly executed the eleventh smashing method for the captured and rebellious people who followed the rebellion.

Among the more than 20,000 men, women, children, and rebels who were captured by the officials and soldiers of Yansui Town and the defenders of Suide Prefecture, there were more than 11,000 young and strong people.

These young and strong men all looked the same, and they couldn't tell which ones were thieves and which ones were hungry people who were coerced.

At the same time, He Shiyu and Du Wenhuan, who were on the task of smashing and killing, didn't have the heart to distinguish at all, and two days after returning to Suide City, they disposed of these captured young men as thieves.

At three o'clock in the afternoon of the second day of December, on a loess platform outside Suide City, more than 1,100 people randomly selected from the chaotic people were pulled to the top of the platform by the officials and soldiers of Yansui Town one after another, and then beheaded to show the public.

More than 1,100 corpses were buried deep on the spot, and more than 1,100 heads were hung on specially erected pillars outside the four gates of Suide City.

The remaining more than 9,000 rebellious people were escorted all the way to Dingyu Town in accordance with the military order of the previous trilateral governor Yamen, and Chen Qiyu, a staff member and Huang Tingzheng, a staff general, with 3,000 cavalry officers and troops of Yansui Town, to Dingyu Town and carry out border reclamation.