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Huang Kui said: "What Brother Liu said is that I have also seen those war horses, they are all high-headed horses on the Mongolian side, it seems that there are no less than 5,000 horses, worth at least 560,000 taels of silver, this Zhao Manzi is even more proud." ”

"Several, Zhao Manzi is now full of people and has an official body, I think, why don't you admit defeat," Chen Bing, the owner of "Four Seas Restaurant", said dejectedly.

Yang Degui laughed and said: "Brother Chen, I am a big Ming scholar and a martial artist, he Zhao Manzi is only a small five-grade officer, this is a fart, even a seven-grade county will also suppress him, as for five or six thousand war horses, it is nothing, on the surface, it is an increase in strength, but in fact, it is a burden, after a year and a half, I am afraid he will sell horses." ”

"What did Brother Yang say about this?" Liu Wanshi blinked his triangular eyes and asked incomprehensibly. The other two were also looking at Yang Degui suspiciously, waiting for him to break it down.

Picking up the wine glass and squeaking, he took a sip of wine, smacked his lips, Yang Degui looked at the three of them, twisted his beard with his right hand, and said with a wicked smile: "Three brothers, you do the math, how much forage and beans do these five or six thousand war horses have to eat every day, how much silver do these beans and forage cost, Zhao Guohua's entry fees and security fees, and the income from selling soap and so on, are they a lot, but he also raises a lot of people, he has to pay silver, and he has to eat, and now he has to raise those war horses, is his little silver enough?" Therefore, he can only hold on for a year and a half at most before he can stand it. ”

"I see." Liu Wanshi said suddenly.

"Not bad, not bad. This is indeed the case, Brother Yang is worthy of being a prefect, what he counts is accurate, and what he sees is far. Huang Chen and the two smiled and complimented.

With a smug smile, Yang Degui said with a sneer: "Brother Liu, you still have to repair a letter to Uncle Ling, informing Zhao Manzi of his current situation, Da Ming now needs to use more soldiers, how many times has he Zhao Manzi's thousands of people lived and consumed?" , called back and forth, his people were gone, and without those subordinates, he was still a fool. ”

Hearing this, Liu Wanshi raised his thumb in admiration and grinned: "Gao." Brother Yang is really tall. Tomorrow I will repair the book and go to Beijing. I'm definitely not going to watch him grow big. ”

"Then I'll hear the good news from Brother Liu......" Yang Degui said, laughing proudly.

Chongzhen ten years is not destined to be a quiet year, in order to sweep away the worries, on the 10th day of the first month, Huang Taiji personally conquered North Korea, and charged him with the crime of helping the Ming League.

The Qing army was like a bamboo, and even Keyiju and Anju approached the capital Pyongyang.

The king of Joseon, Yi Zongwei, led his eldest son and hundreds of officials to escape to South Hansan, and ordered his second son and his dependents to take refuge in Ganghwa Island and ask for help from the Ming court. Chongzhen ordered the commander-in-chief Chen Hongfan to transfer the town boat divisions to help. The Qing army crossed the Han River and arrived at the western garrison of South Hanseong. Huang Taiji sent an envoy to surrender. Before long, Li Liang knew that Jianghua Island had fallen, and the reinforcements were all defeated.

In this battle, Yanguli was seriously wounded and killed by a Korean ambush and was posthumously named King Wuxun.

Because of the procrastination, it was not until March that the Ming army went to sea to support, and after sending troops, it was learned that the subject country of Korea had been cleared.

After the gold does not stop, the peasant army is not willing to be lonely, the first month of Chongzhen ten years (1637) the first month of Chongzhen ten years, Li Zicheng led the army to cross the Wei River from Fengxiang, defeated the Ming army in Baoji, entered Jingyang, Sanyuan, and crossed the stars and scorpion blocks to meet. Before long, Shaanxi Fu Sun Chuanting and the general soldier Cao Bianjiao came to attack, and after seven days of fighting, Li Zicheng's army was defeated. The scorpion block descended on Sun Chuanting; The stars of the sky were defeated and walked away from Henan; The remaining seventeen were defeated in Weinan.

Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Lao Huihui, Chuang Baotian and others commanded an army of 200,000 troops, from southwest Henan through Hubei Xiang and Fan, and drove down the mighty river to the east of Hubei, and met with Zuo Jinwang and Ge Liyan, who were known as the five battalions of the left of the revolution.

After the meeting, the strength of the peasant army was even stronger, with banners waving, dazzling swords and guns, and majestic momentum.

There are more soldiers and horses, Zhang Xianzhong and others have a big heart, and their vision is also high, and they can't look down on the ordinary prefectures and counties, and they begin to set their sights on some important towns in the Ming Dynasty. On this day, in the headquarters of the coalition army, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Lao Huihui, Chuang Collapse Heaven, as well as Zuo Jinwang, Ge Li and others were discussing the target of the next attack. Except for Li Zicheng, these people almost represented the top figures of the Ming rebellion.

"Brothers, we have more than 100,000 horses, according to our Lao Zhang, if you want to fight, you will fight Nanjing City, make the movement bigger, let Chongzhen Xiaoer know that we are powerful, and Nanjing is rich, there is countless money and food, and once several cities in other places are defeated, everyone will be much better in the future. With money and food, we can recruit more people again. Zhang Xianzhong said energetically.

Lao Hui listened back, laughed, brushed his beard and said: "Brother Zhang, you have this ambition, my old horse admires it very much, but it is not me who splashes you with cold water, with our little people, we can't beat Nanjing City." ”

"Lao Huihui" is named Ma Shouying, Hui. Shaanxi Suide people. The leader of the peasant army in the late Ming Dynasty. In the ninth year of Chongzhen, after the death of Gao Yingxiang to the thirteenth year (1640), before Li Zicheng's resurrection, he was the strongest, and in the spring of the seventeenth year, he died of illness.

"Brother Ma, are you overestimating the defenders of Nanjing, with my hundreds of thousands of troops, each person will take a soak of urine out, and Nanjing will also be flooded." Zhang Xianzhong retorted unconvinced.

Ma Shouying is the oldest and strongest among these people, and he is also an important leader second only to Wang Ziyong and Gao Yingxiang. In the face of Zhang Xianzhong's rebuttal, he did not put on old qualifications, but said patiently: "Brother Zhang, I know that you are bold and have many ideas, but Nanjing is the second largest city in the Ming Dynasty, with many defenders, and the city is tall and strong, it will not be able to fight for a while and a half. ”

"yes, what should I do?" Zhang Xianzhong was stunned.

At this time, he also found that he had thought about things a little simply, indeed, Nanjing was the capital of the Ming Dynasty when it was founded, and it was not so easy to defeat it. After thinking about it for a while, he smiled and arched his hand: "Brother Ma, you are right, it is our Lao Zhang who is not thoughtful. Say it, brother, listen to you. ”

With a hearty smile, Ma Shouying said kindly: "Brother Zhang, my opinion is to fight Anqing." Anqing is located in Jiangxi, Anhui Province, and at the junction of the three provinces of Henan, it is an important land and water wharf and a military strategic location, and it is also the location of the Anhui Chengxuan Political Envoy Department. ”

"I agree with Brother Ma's opinion, just hit Anqing," Luo Rucai said with a smile.

Liu Guoneng also said loudly: "I also approve of Brother Ma." Eat persimmons to pick up soft pinch, rather than touching Nanjing, it is better to hit this softer Anqing. ”

Seeing that everyone agreed to fight Anqing, Zhang Xianzhong's eyes rolled, and he volunteered: "Brother Ma, Brother Luo, let me lead the troops to attack the city." "He wanted his subordinates to enter the city and grab some money and food.

Ma Shouying is also an old man, how could he not know the little Jiujiu in Zhang Xianzhong's heart, but he didn't pierce him, looked at him and said with a smile: "Brother Zhang said so, then it will be hard for you." ”

"Everyone is a family, Brother Ma doesn't have to be polite, I'll go and order troops to prepare for the siege." As he spoke, Zhang Xianzhong arched his hand to the other three, and walked out with a smile.

Seeing Zhang Xianzhong walking out, Luo Rucai shook his head and said with a smile: "This Jingxuan is really unprofitable." ”

Ma Shouying smiled and did not speak.

Anqing, known as Shuzhou in ancient times, is also known as Yicheng, referred to as "Yi". Located in the southwest of Anhui Province, on the north bank of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, at the mouth of the Anhui River, Anqing is known as "the throat of the Yangtze River, the first state of Wuchu Division". It is known as the "Huangmei Opera Township" in China and the origin of the quintessential Peking Opera.

The name of Anhui Province is derived from the words "Anqing Mansion" and "Huizhou Mansion". Anqing more than 2,000 years ago for the Spring and Autumn period of ancient Anhui country, Anhui Province referred to as "Anhui" is derived from this, Anqing City was built in the Southern Song Dynasty. The name of Anqing began in the seventeenth year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1147) "changed the Deqing Army to the Anqing Army" as the name of the military number, and was named by "Tong'an County" (the Sui Dynasty was established in the third year of the great cause, and the Tong'an was governed by Tong'an, now Tongcheng) and "Deqing Army" (the Northern Song Dynasty was established in the fifth year of Zhenghe, and the Huaining was governed by Huaining, now Meicheng, Qianshan County) each took one word and named it, containing the meaning of "peace and auspiciousness".

In the first year of the Qing Yuan Dynasty of the Southern Song Dynasty (1195), "the residence of Emperor Ningzong of the Southern Song Dynasty was raised, and Shuzhou was promoted to the old Anqing Mansion" (the ancient Anhui City of Qianshan is now governed), and it was also named after the house. The station of the new Anqing City today is called Yichengdu. The original name of the Dengyun slope of its place was Shengtang Mountain, and the river under the mountain was the ancient ferry port of Shengtang Bay. According to legend, Guo Pu, a poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and a feng shui artist, once climbed Tangshan to watch the Yangtze River, and there was a saying of "Yicheng here", so Anqing City was also called "Yicheng".

After the establishment of Anqing until the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was the governance of Anqing Prefecture and Huaining County, and Anqing was located at the junction of Anhui, Jiangxi and Hubei provinces, and was an important transportation hub and military strategic place in the country. Because the geographical location of Anqing is very important, and Anqing is also the "west gate" to control Jinling. Therefore, since the end of the Ming Dynasty, the governor has also held the festival to guard here.

Zhang Guowei, the word Yudi, a native of Dongyang, Zhejiang. The second year of the Apocalypse. Awarded Panyu Zhi County.

In the first year of Chongzhen's promotion to the Criminal Division, the deputy capital Yushi Yang Xiu and Yushi Tian Jingxin were all Wei Zhongxian. Seven years of promotion to the right of the imperial history, governor Yingtian, Anqing and other ten prefectures. He served as the governor of the ten prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River in the late Ming Dynasty, and later served as the secretary of the military department. After the Qing soldiers entered the customs, they would rather die than surrender and die for the country.

Early in the morning, Zhang Xianzhong's tens of thousands of horses surrounded Anqing City, only to see the banner covering the field, dazzling swords and guns, which was daunting. At the sound of an order, the siege began.

"Knock knock knock", the deafening huge war drums sounded, and the huge drum sound shook the faces of the defenders at the head of the city, and their bodies trembled slightly.