Since the fiasco of Zhuxian Town, when Zuo Liangyu retreated to the area of Huguang Fancheng, the scale of soldiers and horses in his hands was still more than 200,000, but the troops at this time were not composed in Zhuxian Town at that time.

Zuo Liangyu has practiced for many years, and there are not many soldiers and horses left, and he is surrounded by those troops who have been recruited by the homeless army, what Chang Guoan, Ma Duzhong, Ma Shixiu, the number is not less than when Zhu Xianzhen was in place, but the combat effectiveness is quite different, but such a force is still the strongest army in Daming Pass.

In real history, after the Battle of Zhuxian Town in July, Kaifeng was flooded, and then the combined forces of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai would wave their troops south and chase Zuo Liangyu's troops.

But this time was different, although in the Battle of Zhuxian Town, the Ming army composed of two governors and four general soldiers was defeated in front of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's exile coalition army, but the exile army always had to set aside reserves to defend Li Meng's soldiers and horses from the direction of Shandong, resulting in the inability to win with all their strength.

After the battle of Zhu Xianzhen, Zuo Liangyu saved some vitality to some extent, and the exile coalition army was also quite difficult, after the two sides divided the victory and defeat, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai rested the soldiers and horses in the western Henan area, and at the same time waited for the further movement of the Shandong soldiers and horses, for fear that when they acted, they would be copied back road.

After all, the continuous movement of Shandong's soldiers and horses to the south and north, who knows whether it is aimed at Henan, until January, the news that Shandong's total troops have beheaded tens of thousands was confirmed by Henan.

This great victory did not deter the soldiers and horses of the exiles, although they knew the strength of the soldiers and horses of Shandong, but the exiles did not think that the soldiers and horses of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were so strong.

This victory made the exile coalition army judge that the Shandong soldiers and horses were engaged in very mobile and large-scale battles in the north and south and in Shandong, and that there would inevitably be a long rest in the following time.

That is to say, at least within the rest time of the soldiers and horses in Shandong, the army of displaced people can carry out their own actions, and Zuo Liangyu's army will not be completely defeated. The Coalition of Displaced Men has always been unable to move freely.

In the first month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucaidi began to move south, and stationed in Qinyang and Tang County Company Camps in Nanyang Prefecture.

There were fifteen soldiers under Zuo Liangyu, the general of the thief alone, but he was frightened in Zhuxian Town, and he didn't dare to fight the opponent head-on.

I heard the news that the combined forces of Li and Luo were going south. Immediately it was a large shipbuilding ship in Fancheng. Prepare to take the opportunity to flee south by water. More than 200,000 soldiers. Flee along the waterway. That's going to have to be a lot of ships. The whole of Fancheng. Even the entire Xiangyang Prefecture artisan labor force was recruited here.

Zuo Liangyudi's soldiers and horses have never had any military discipline at all. It's all about officers and soldiers. The land passed through was lifeless. And the following is the time when the army is recruited in an unorganized manner. That would be even more depraved by military discipline. The general Zuo Liangyu was stationed in Fancheng during his station. It's hell in the city.

Originally, this Fancheng and Xiangyang were adjacent. It is also one of the six hubs of water. There are many merchants. It's also a land of affluence. When Zhang Xianzhong broke Xiangyang and conquered Fancheng. It's just against the vassal kings. Wealthy civilians were not affected. But this time Zuo Liangyu was stationed here. It really has the demeanor of some beast armies in later generations. It is known as Sanguang. The gold, silver, and copper coins in the city are all light, the young and strong are all light, and the women are all light.

Fancheng was miserable. If it weren't for the brutality of the army. I'm afraid it's going to be a big mess a long time ago. However, his side oppressed and looted fiercely. The people were finally outraged.

At the end of the first month. Someone secretly set fire to the Han River. Zuo Liangyu's soldiers and horses worked hard to build, and a large number of ships caught fire in the middle of the night. All incinerated to the ground.

Later generations say that they were sent by militia and horses. It is also said that the righteous people of Fancheng are unbearable. That's what sets fire. But this fire field does work quite well with the movement of the displaced army. The second day of the fire. The general of the Ping thief, Zuo Liangyu, received the news that the Exile Coalition Army had left Tang County.

This aroused Zuo Liangyu's ferocity even more. He ordered his soldiers to collect ships from the merchants and civilians throughout the city. After grabbing the hand, cross the river a day later. Arrived at the south bank of the Han River and relied on the northern city of Xiangyang to defend it.

Before leaving. Zuo Liangyu's troops plundered Fancheng, except that they did not slaughter the city, and the rest of the things that lost their conscience were almost done, and the gold and silver women who had been looted to the ground were all stuffed into the boat and brought to the south bank together.

Moreover, in the land between Fancheng and Xiangyang, special personnel were sent to dig traps, set up earth mines, and the artillery in the army was assumed to be on the south bank, ready for battle.

Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's army of displaced people came quickly, and arrived at the foot of Fancheng in early February, on the banks of the Hanshui River, after the army of displaced people came, the whole of Fancheng, even including the magistrates of Fancheng, wept with joy, to welcome the army of King Chuang and Cao Cao, but they were ruined too badly by the soldiers and horses of the general Zuo Liangyu.

When they arrived at Fancheng, the exile army did not rest, but directly assumed artillery bombardment on the north bank of the Han River, which were all sharp weapons of the Ming army captured in the Henan area.

Separated by a Han River, there is no need for hand-to-hand combat, and there are traps and various obstacles, the artillery position of the militia and horses cannot be deployed, and there is no suitable terrain for crossing the river.

The bold Zuo Liangyu Department also set up artillery, and bombarded the Han River and the homeless army, and thundered and shook between Xiangfan every day, but the sound of killing could not be heard too much.

To say that the people of Fancheng hate Zuo Liangyu's cruelty, and arson to the ship is a stupid trick, but the gains outweigh the losses, then Zuo Liangyu also paid the price for the previous brutality.

Seeing the confrontation between the homeless army and Zuo Liangyu's army across the river, for fear that there would be any recurrence of the war, and then let the group of birds and beasts under the general of the Ping Thief come back, someone in Fancheng took the initiative to act as the guide of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's army, and led the homeless army to Baima Beach, seventy miles west of Fancheng, and attacked by detour.

The Ming army had no defense at all, and it was only when the displaced army assumed the pontoon bridge and the army began to cross the river that Zuo Liangyu's troops reacted. 6 Lined up on the ground for field battles, hand-to-hand combat, Zuo Liangyu knew that his soldiers and horses would not have this courage and consciousness, and he himself was frightened by Zhu Xianzhen's rout.

Knowing that the army of displaced people had crossed the river, Zuo Liangyu, the general of the Ping Thief, did not make any resistance, but completely abandoned the water village on the south bank of the Han River and fled along the waterway.

Xiangyang City is the hub of the north and south, the world's Xiongcheng, this Xiangyang City has recorded countless wonderful offensive and defensive battles, but Zuo Liangyu did not dare to rely on this Xiongcheng to defend the city, and there was no trace of courage, but the army of displaced people crossed the Han River. When they arrived at Xiangyang City, the Gaomen clan in Xiangyang City did not make any attitude of defense or resistance, but simply went out of the city with cow wine to greet them, and many people felt lucky.

"Fortunately, the army came early, if the left thief enters the city, and there are millions of soldiers and civilians in Xiangyang, it will be a big disaster!"

Officers and soldiers are officials, and homeless people are thieves. At this time, the people of Huguang were afraid of officials and liked thieves, what an absurd situation this was, and it also showed how unpopular the Ming court was.

Xiangyang is a large city in the world, the location is extremely important, after Li Zicheng occupied Xiangyang City, he had the will to take this city as the capital.

At the beginning, after besieging Kaifeng City several times, Li Zicheng wanted to take Kaifeng City as his capital, but because of the obstacles of Shandong soldiers and horses. It is impossible to achieve it, but this Xiangyang City is also a good choice, and Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, simply set up the camp in Xiangyang.

And Luo Rucai and Li Zicheng's generals divided their troops and began to attack the land of Huguang, and on February 18 of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the army broke through Chengtianfu City. Song Yihe, the governor of Huguang, Li Zhensheng, and Yang Yongyu, the governor of Qintianjian, all surrendered to the exile army.

Shuntian, Yingtian, Chengtian said that the earth is Jingshi, Nanjing and Zhongxiang, the reason why this Zhongxiang can have such a name, it is because this is the hidden residence of Emperor Jiajing, you must know that before Emperor Jiajing, Xuande to Zhengde. These generations of emperors are all the bloodlines of Chengzu Zhu Di.

And Emperor Jiajing and this bloodline is already far away, relatively speaking, the imperial inheritance of the Ming Dynasty, in the Jiajing Emperor side is a new start, Zhong Xiang is the beginning of the Jiajing Emperor's birth, of course, it has its special significance, and Jingshi, Nanjing and said, is the center of the Jianghan area.

In that year, the Fengyang Emperor's Mausoleum was burned by Zhang Xianzhong, and as a result, Emperor Chongzhen issued an edict to blame himself and cry. That scene may have been a bit of a hypocrisy.

But this Zhong Xiang is where his direct ancestor is. This was also defeated by the breaking army, and the significance is really extraordinary. I'm afraid that this Emperor Chongzhen is really going to grab the land with his head.

Moreover, Li Zhensheng and Yang Yongyu, the governor of Qin Tianjian, were all local officials who were close to the local government, and they did not hesitate to surrender to Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, an army known as thieves. It undoubtedly represents the authority of the scholars of the Ming Dynasty to the center of the Ming Dynasty, and the attitude towards these thieves has changed dramatically.

On February 27, Zuo Liangyu, the general of the Ping Thief, led the army to Wuchang City, and the general of the defeated army was frustrated, but the interest of the people was still high, and the people of Wuchang were also miserable.

However, compared to Fancheng, Wuchang City still has some of its own strength, and it is also where the Chu Palace's Mansion is located, Zuo Liangyu has some scruples and does not dare to be too presumptuous.

At this time, a part of the army of displaced people had already arrived in Hanyang and was ready to cross the river to attack, but the river here was wide, the river was vertical and horizontal, and the hydrological situation was complicated, so it was easy to prepare for crossing the river.

The army of displaced people is quite close, Wuchang is panicked, and the officials in Huguang are like ants on a hot pot, desperately gathering the people and raising food.

There were some soldiers and horses in the city, but these troops had not been paid for months and years, and if they wanted to fight the outcasts, they had to come up with real money.

Although everyone came out to be officials, they have accumulated a lot of silver, but it is absolutely impossible for them to take out their military salaries to work in the army.

The officials up and down Wuchang all went to the Chu Wangfu to ask for salary, and the officials below did not pull out a dime, and they didn't expect this Chu king to pull out anything on his body.

Under the bitter pleading, the king of Chu was also quite single, pointed to the dragon chair in the palace and said:

"If you want to pay silver, there is only this thing in the Chu Palace, which can raise money for the army, so you can take it if you want!"

The dragon chair was given to the king of Chu by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of Taizu back then, and he had to kowtow when he saw it on weekdays.

No one is willing to pay, but the soldiers and horses in Wuchang City are not willing to be stupid here, everyone knows that King Chuang and Cao Cao's army of exiles has arrived in Hanyang, and there are some rumors, saying that the army of Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, is also about to arrive in Wuchang.

The demon kings of the world are all gathered in this Wuchang Mansion, and those are all demons who want to eat human flesh raw, staying in Wuchang City, and not a penny of silver will come down, so they are stumped here and waiting for death.

The soldiers and horses in Wuchang City are in the first few days of March. began to disperse in twos and threes, and the local officials in the city were also busy packing up their own property, and no one cared about restraining the soldiers and horses, and the whole thing was in chaos.

On the fourth day of the first month of March, because there was news from there again, Li Zicheng's troops of the exile army on the Hanyang side were increasing again, and the terrified Ping thief general Zuo Liangyu did not dare to stay in Wuchang for longer, so he hurriedly gathered troops and horses again. Take a boat to the east of Jinshazhu and go to Jiujiang, Jiangxi.

The so-called no wind and no waves, the news about the eight kings Zhang Xianzhong coming over is not to catch the wind and shadows, Zhang Xianzhong, who is lurking between Huguang and Henan, also saw the chaos in the entire Huguang, and decided to come over to take advantage of the chaos to get some advantage for himself, on the second day of the first month of March, he had arrived near Huangmei in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

What Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, did not expect was that because the Chengtian Mansion was broken. The whole territory of Huguang was eroded, and the officials and defenders fled one after another. This way upstream, the cities along the way were undefended, it was extremely easy, and the degree of this march was also much faster.

On March 12, a scholar Hu Mo went to Zhang Xianzhong's army to ask for a meeting, saying that Wuchang's current defense was empty. He can lead the soldiers and horses of the Eight Kings straight into Wuchang.

Wuchang Mansion is the first-class important place in Huguang, how can it be impossible to defend the emptiness, but Zhang Xianzhong, who came to Huguang this time, originally coveted this wealthy city, and he had to attack anyway, and whether there were defenders or not would not have any impact on the plan, although he would be suspicious. But he still led the army to come.

After leading the army to Wuchang, Zhang Xianzhong, who was suspicious, became incredulous, because there were indeed no defenders in Wuchang City, the entire city was empty, and the soldiers defending the city were all running away.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, except for a very few, the vassal kings were all stupid and stupid like pigs, this King of Chu was one of them, the soldiers and horses defending the city fled, and even the officials of Wuchang Mansion fled, and the Chu Wangfu still did not move.

was easily caught by Zhang Xianzhong's whole family. After opening the Chu Palace. More than one million gold and silver were seized, and the whole family of the Chu Wangfu was tied to stones by Zhang Xianzhong and put in a bamboo cage to sink the river.

Now. In addition to the Miao villages in Huguang where Liuguan is located, there are also two or three prefectures and counties in the south of Guangdong that are still under the control of the Ming Dynasty. The rest of the territory is in the hands of the army of displaced people, the land of Huguang is the granary of the world, the so-called "Huguang is ripe, the world is full" This saying began in the Ming Dynasty.

Every year, there are a large number of ships in Huguang to pull grain along the Yangtze River to the south and north to supplement the shortage of other places, and now this territory is almost controlled by the Li and Luo coalition forces.

Huguang is the main grain producing area, and it is also the hinterland of the world with dangerous terrain, and most of the areas around Huguang are the places where the Ming Dynasty has insufficient troops and empty defenses.

From the south bank of the Yellow River to the vast part of the lake, the so-called land of Heluo is in his own hands, there is such a key territory in his hands, there is such a good situation around, Li Zicheng is going to start implementing the big things he has always wanted to do, he is going to establish political power, dynasties are rising, many glorious empires are peasant armies in the early stage, but if you want to change from a thief to a force that everyone in the world notices and recognizes, you must change from that kind of loose organization.

It is necessary to have a strict organization and an orthodox name, so that people will come to join it, and it will be recognized by the people of the world as a force that competes in the world.

Establishing a regime and regularizing oneself is the first step in all this......

On the fifth day of the fourth month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng formally established political power in Xiangyang under the planning of Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and others, and the country name was "Shun", changed Xiangyang to Xiangjing, set up officials, and established a system.

There are defense envoys, government officials, state ministers, and county magistrates in the local area, and these local officials, as well as government officials, government officials, state judges, and county books.

The military general system, the entire army of displaced people, is divided into five battalions: left, right, front, rear, and middle, generals at all levels, general Quan, general system, general Guoyi, general Weiwu, captain, commander of the brigade, general of the department,

However, there are still some battalions that are run according to the old name of the old camp. For example, the one who leads 100 people is called the small master, the one who leads 1,000 people is called the big master, and the one who leads 10,000 people is the old master, and so on.

and set up guards in various places to be responsible for local defense, and there are many names for these things, but in the eyes of people who know the change of dynasties and have read the history books. These are all habitual cutscenes, and they are nothing more than the names of those Shangshu, squires, general soldiers, and generals of the Ming Dynasty.

The first step of the newly established Dashun that really attracted people's attention was to implement the military cantonment, which began to be cantonment under the management of the army

This policy is what really makes people all over the world sigh, these rogues are really ambitious, and now they have long-term plans, and the future is limitless!

According to the conventions of history, the rogues who have achieved this step can no longer be regarded as rogues. If you want to change the court, in this era, you really have to think about it carefully. After all, in the whole world, how can there be such a good momentum as Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, so smooth and prosperous, it seems that there is some vague destiny.

Of course. Li Meng is in the Ming system, and the glory and wealth are all rewarded by the imperial court, not in the bureau, and everyone thinks that it is not in accordance with the rules at most, but this momentum is much worse than Li Zicheng.

Of course, the regime. The official position is determined, but there are also some inappropriate places in this, for example, Li Zicheng calls himself the generalissimo, and Luo Rucai calls himself the general.

One is Fengtian, one is Daitian, one is the generalissimo, the other is the generalissimo, the other is the general, from this name can not see the status of the two sides, this day is the same, the people have no two masters. Look at the name. There are two of them, and there are two supreme commanders in one country. The question of who they are going to obey is a big question.

Since the battle of Zhu Xianzhen. All kinds of contradictions between Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai began to emerge, under the city of Kaifeng, because the letter written by the governor of Henan was called persuasion, which was actually a divisive letterhead, and the camp and Cao Cao's camp were tense and almost merged.

All discerning people have already seen the rift between the two sides, no matter how hot the current Liumin power is, but if this rift is not dealt with well, there is still a possibility of collapse.

Whether it is the people outside or the people inside Dashun, they are all waiting for the day when this contradiction will be dealt with or intensified......

Zuo Liangyu's fleet was empty on the Yangtze River between Jiujiang and Wuhan, and further downstream from Jiujiang, the river was a little crowded and lively.

Before the thief general Zuo Liangyu came to Wuchang City, there was a rich businessman and a wealthy merchant who saw the style, the Gaomen family, hurriedly took a boat from Wuchang City down the river, and when Zuo Liangyu's army was stationed around Wuchang City, there were a group of rich people who fled, and when the city air defense was empty, the last group of rich people in Wuchang City ran away.

Moreover, these rich families on the river are not only from Wuchang City, but also many rich and powerful families in Xiangyang, Zhongxiang and Huguangdi.

At present, these people have two places to go, on one side is the prosperous territory of Jiangnan, the land of Jiangnan, which is a place of luxury and gold, and the scenery of Jiangnan, which is a good place for these high-rollers who have taken refuge in gold, but there are also people who think that there is another good place to go.

Almost six or seven years ago, the cities of Jining Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture in Yanzhou, Shandong, gradually appeared in the ears of these rich and noble people in Huguang.

And in recent years, there have been more and more rumors about Jining Prefecture and Laizhou City, all of which are said to be prosperous and abnormal, not inferior to Jiangnan, and what is even more rare is that the local stability is incomparable, and there will never be any chaos.

Although Li Meng, the general of Zhendong, was a warrior, he had never lost a battle in these years, and he rarely heard that the Shandong army and horses had the same bad deeds as the general of the Ping Thief Zuo. Occasionally, a few merchants from Shandong came over, and there was a kind of pride and awe between their words, which was rare in these years.

Almost three-quarters of these wealthy people from Huguang went to Jiangnan, and a quarter went to Jiangbei in Nanzhili, after all, Yangzhou Mansion is also a world-famous place to sell gold.

Many times, people's choices are very casual, for the people of Huguang who are deep in the depths of 6, go to Yangzhou in the north of the Yangtze River, that is called "waist around 100,000 guan, ride a crane down to Yangzhou", go to Su Songchang, Hangjiahu, Nanjing City, that is called "there is heaven, there is Suzhou and Hangzhou", each has its own reason, and it is impossible to say who is right and who is wrong.

As for those who go to Jining City and Jiaozhou City in Shandong, they are a little unstable, and they are too eager to pursue novelty and curiosity, which is inevitably a little inappropriate.

However, many years later, many investment opportunities and preferential treatment were only opened to the businessmen of Shandong, the base of Li Meng, the Duke of Qi, and the second-class opportunities were opened to the two Huai, four prefectures and one state guarded by the Duke of Qi and the Guide Mansion in Henan, which was an explosive era.

All kinds of financial opportunities have emerged, as long as the private capital can seize an opportunity, it can ascend to the sky in one step, and become rich for several generations, of course, this is all a later story.

Although it was Huguang who lost his land and the exiled army established power, these kinds of important things, but because these areas were extremely chaotic, the news could not reach Jingshi at all.

This is still the situation that the thief general Zuo Liangyu managed to stabilize after fleeing to Jiujiang, this is the way to send someone to send a letter to the center, but the roads along the way are almost cut off, and the only place that can be walked is the line of South Zhili, Shandong, and North Zhili.

The messenger who came to Beijing from the south to the north for hundreds of miles was here to deliver these news, the main grain-producing areas of the Ming Dynasty have been occupied by thieves, and the thieves are no longer a rabble of landless peasants gathered together, but Dashun, which is called Dashun with the Ming Dynasty, this kind of seed is enough to wake up those fools in the court.

The three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty have been run by Emperor Chongzhen and the officials of Donglin into a mess, and there are enemies inside and outside.

Chengtianfu fell, Huguang was lost, King Min and King Chu were killed, and Emperor Chongzhen, who had just relaxed, was finally shaken again. The most relied on troops of the imperial court, Zuo Liangyu, the general of the Ping Thief who was also ready to be used to balance Li Meng, fled all the way, and was extremely embarrassed.

When Zhang Guowei, the secretary of the Ministry of War, brought the emergency report to the imperial court, the monarchs and ministers were speechless, and there was really nothing to be done, and in the end, Emperor Chongzhen just collapsed in his chair and said weakly:

"What did I do wrong with being so diligent...... Could it be... I can only hope for the ...... mercy."

Hearing this, Zhang Guowei didn't dare to speak, so he could only leave his seat and kneel on the ground and kowtow, and the atmosphere in the inner study was extremely depressing.

From January to May of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, there were many major events in the Ming Dynasty, there were many major events in the Manchu Dynasty, and there were many major events in the thieves, but the generals in Shandong were not most concerned about these at the moment, and now whether it was Wang Tao in Hejian Mansion, or Chen Liu in Fengyang Mansion, and even Yuan Shizhong and Jia Dashan in Guide Mansion were waiting for news from the Duke of Qi.

Li Meng is in the high position of the Duke of Qi, so there is naturally no need to use the original title of general soldier, and there are nearly 150,000 soldiers and horses in Shandong, so it is very inappropriate to divide them into generals, guerrillas, and capital divisions.

Such a big system, involving the whole body, since you want to be promoted, someone is promoted, there must be a vacant position, and there is naturally hope below, what is the soldier for, isn't it just for this wealth and glory, high-ranking officials and lords.

There is not much suspense about the fact that those few people will get good positions, but there are some rumors that two general titles will be released this time.

It's too much to see, and I don't know who has such good luck......