readx; On the night of August 23, the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Xi'an City was raided by "thieves", the town guard eunuch's mansion was breached, Xi'an town guard eunuch Li Qin was burned by the fire and could not even find the ashes, the third master of Dongchang Sanada Sword was killed, hundreds of Dongchang Fanzi and Jinyi Wei died in Huangquan, only Xu Xianzhen was spared hiding in the rubble. The news www.biquge.info Pen, Fun, and Pavilion was not reported back to Beijing by Xu Xianzhen and the seriously injured Wan Qisong until six days later.

The eunuch-controlled court was in an uproar. In recent years, thieves have been blazing, and it is common to break through the prefecture and county, and it is not uncommon to die a prefect and county order, but it is the first time that the eunuch who controls the military and political power of a province or even several provinces has been "martyred". Li Qin was also a popular man under Wei Zhongxian, and the members of the eunuch party figured out the meaning of "nine thousand years old", and one after another played and impeached Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, and Gao Jie, the guard general of Xi'an.

But within two days, Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou's twists and turns also arrived. Sun Chuanting said very bluntly: he and Hong Chengchou have a division of labor, Gao Jie's department is directly under the jurisdiction of Hong Chengchou, and he is stationed in Jietongguan, so he can only dispatch Zuo Guangxian and other departments, so the change in Xi'an has nothing to do with him.

Hong Chengchou's twists and turns are even more bizarre, saying that tens of thousands of thieves invaded Xi'an, and Li Gonggong cared about the people, refused the support of the defenders of the city, fought alone, and unfortunately died heroically. Fortunately, Gao Jie and others fought to the death and repelled the thieves, and Xi'an City was regained. Now the thieves have escaped into the Qinling Mountains, in order to prevent future troubles, he has personally led a large army into the mountains to encircle and suppress.

In fact, there is no need for parties like Wan Qisong and Xu Xianzhen to introduce the situation, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that Hong Chengchou is trying to avoid trouble, and he is called a thief, but he is actually supporting the army and respecting himself. However, the imperial court is now in a hurry, and there are no generals if there are no soldiers, and there is no food for food, so he knows that Hong Chengchou deliberately lied, but there is nothing he can do about it.

At this time, the governor of Hubei Province sent another 600 miles to report urgently: "King Chuang" Gao Yingxiang re-erected the banner in Wudang Mountain in northern Hubei Province, and gathered 100,000 thieves within a few days, and has now captured Gucheng and threatened Xiangyang; The local officials and troops are simply unable to resist, and the begging court will send reinforcements quickly, otherwise Xiangyang will be in danger! ”

Wei Zhongxian was even more dumbfounded at this time, because Xiangyang was the place where King Xiang was a vassal of the king. King Xiang, a royal family that began in the Xuande period, has been passed down for eleven generations, and is one of the few princes of the Ming Dynasty. Although the carpenter emperor Tianqi did not pay much attention to other national affairs, he was "worried about everything, and he was not thin between his wife and brothers"; If Xiangyang falls and King Xiang is killed, if this two-pole emperor is angry, he Wei Zhongxian will have to walk around without eating.

He hurriedly convened the members of the eunuch party to discuss, and finally found that the only officers and soldiers who could deal with the thieves and were closer to Xiangyang were Hong Chengchou's "Hong soldiers". Therefore, Wei Zhongxian had to knock out his teeth and swallow them in his stomach, and sent a decree to comfort Hong Chengchou, and ordered him to immediately lead his troops to help Xiangyang.

Hong Chengchou had to sell cheaply, and took the opportunity to ask the court for food. Wei Zhongxian had no choice but to order the state capitals along the way to open a warehouse to labor troops, and Hong Chengchou then raised troops slowly.

Since then, the important ministers and generals who hold military power in various places have seen that the court is strong outside the court, and even if the eunuchs are just strong inside. Since Hong Chengchou can blackmail the imperial court, why can't they? Therefore, including Zuo Liangyu in Henan, Xiong Wencan in Fujian, Huang Degong in Luzhou, and others, many people have already had different aspirations.

Because of the anti-assassination of Li Qin, this series of chain reactions was triggered by Zhu Youzhen, which Zhu Youzhen did not expect. But these are all later words, of course he will not know when he just rushed out of Xi'an City. He led the Qin soldiers to retreat to the south first, and after being far away from Xi'an, they were broken into pieces and returned to Qinwangzhuang in dozens of batches one after another.

When Zhu Youzhen went out of the city to fight, the Qin soldiers in the city and the Public Security Bureau jointly took action and captured all the Dongchang spies lurking in Qinwangzhuang in one fell swoop and put them in prison. These people have only just woken up from a dream now, and it turns out that they have long been targeted by others. But now it's too late to regret it, and what awaits them is Yan Zhengang's harsh interrogation.

Inspecting the gains and losses of this battle, Zhu Youzhen felt very heartbroken. Although almost all the forces of Dongchang in Shaanxi were annihilated, which was regarded as a major harm to the people, the losses of the Qin soldiers themselves were also quite heavy, with more than 100 casualties, of which more than 30 people were killed by only Wan Qisong and Sanada Jianzheng. This was also the first real street battle of the Qin soldiers, and the shortcomings of the bird's gun, slow reloading, poor protection, and poor melee combat were exposed at a glance in the battle. The lesson of blood also made him realize that firearms are not omnipotent, especially under the existing conditions, and he should not be completely superstitious about the power of firearms, but still need to find out the most suitable way to play in combination with the specific conditions of the battlefield.

After returning to the city, Zhu Youzhen learned that Hong Chengchou plundered his troops and then abandoned the city and ran south, of course he was shocked and angry. Surprisingly, he was already out of common sense, but he didn't expect Hong Chengchou to play cards out of common sense. It seems that this person really has a problem, and sooner or later he will be a strong opponent for Qin Bing.

What is angry is that Hong Chengchou is too treacherous and ruthless, and he actually robbed the people of Xi'an in the name of thieves! It is no wonder that in history, after he surrendered to the Manchus, he fought for the tiger and killed his compatriots mercilessly. It seems that the country is really easy to change, the nature is difficult to change, and dogs can't change their!

Of course, there are still some old and weak soldiers left in Xi'an City, which are temporarily under the command of Yu Xuejun, the prefect of Xi'an. Yu Xuejun was already frightened, and the four doors were closed, for fear that the "thief" would go and return. In this way, Zhu Youzhen's original plan was realized, and the activities of the White Lotus Sect were also greatly restricted.

Qinwangzhuang and Jingyang county towns also symbolically closed their gates for half a day and reopened in the afternoon. Zhu Youzhen followed Li Zhenyan's strategy of "tightening inside and loosening outside", pretending to be obsessed with beauty, and successively visited Bao Yulian, Qi Meifeng and Li Zhenyan within half a day. As a result, he had a high fever in the middle of the night, and he couldn't be a director anymore.

Hearing that Zhu Youzhen was sick, Rui'er, who had been deliberately avoiding him, finally came to visit him. As soon as she entered the door, her face was full of anxiety, and she sat next to Zhu Youzhen's sickbed and called softly: "Lord Wang, Rui'er has come to see you!" What do you think of now? ”

Zhu Youzhen was groggy and half-open, holding Rui'er's hand and reluctantly laughing: "No... It's okay. With you by her husband's side, your husband feels a lot more at ease. ”

Rui'er just cried silently when she heard this, Zhu Youzhen peeked at it, no matter how she looked at it, it was also her own Rui'er, and even the posture of wiping her tears when crying was not the same. At this moment, he hesitated a little again, thinking to himself that he had too much heart, and she was his wife at all? But what should she explain by the mysterious person who met at night?

Just as she was thinking wildly, Rui'er said softly: "Lord, Rui'er doesn't know medical skills, unlike Sister Yulian who can help the prince, but she is really anxious in her heart. I heard that there is a Xiangji Temple in the south of Xi'an, which is very effective, and Rui'er wants to go to the Buddha and pray for the prince. ”

Zhu Youzhen's heart sank when he boarded, and secretly praised Li Zhenyan's brilliant plan, and the fox's tail was really about to be exposed!