In October of the seventh year of Chongzhen, more than 20,000 soldiers of the Yong'an Army entered Pingyang Mansion, when Pingyang Mansion bordered Shang, Luo, Shaanxi, and Hunan provinces, and the thieves were very heavy, and the officials and soldiers were corrupted to kill the good and take the merits, and the people were miserable. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Shi Gang led the Yong'an army into three battalions, from Lingshi to Jiezhou to fight for 100 miles, and the thieves and thieves won 12 battles, beheaded tens of thousands of thieves, and killed more than a dozen thieves such as the King of the Mixed World and Ji Guansuo, and the remaining thieves were shocked and retreated to Huguang.

By the first month of the eighth year, the realm of Pingyang Mansion had been calmed.

At the same time, the other four routes of the Yong'an Army also fought in Liaozhou, Fenzhou, Lingzhou, Lu'anfu, Zezhou and other places, all the way to the territory of Zezhou.

At the end of December of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the battle of Zezhou between the Yongan army and the peasant army broke out, and the Yongan army gathered 80,000 soldiers in Zezhou, with the deputy commander Huang Yang as the main general.

There are many thieves, led by the eight kings Zhang Xianzhong and Zijin Liang, and other 12 families, coercing more than 100,000 thieves, claiming to be more than 200,000 besieging Zezhou.

The battle was divided into three battles.

The first battle was for the Yongan army of 80,000 to rush to Zezhou, and the two armies fought fiercely under the city for several days, and finally the thieves were defeated.

The second battle was the Battle of Yangcheng, where Shi Lu killed the thief Zijin Liang, and his prestige was greatly enhanced.

The third battle was the pursuit of the fugitive thief at Tianjing Pass, and the local soldiers and civilians all said that the Yongan sergeant dared to take the lead and was not afraid of death, and the three battles and three victories ended with the Yongan army beheading tens of thousands.

Until the end of the first month, the whole territory of Shanxi was peaceful.

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Under such a war and reform in Shanxi, Datong Town is in full swing to prepare for the Spring Festival of Chongzhen's seventh year.

Since Xiao Yi guarded Datong a few years ago, the Spring Festival of the military and civilians in Datong Town has been getting better and better year by year, and it just so happens that there have been no major disasters in Datong in recent years, and many people have accumulated considerable wealth under the tax exemption policy in Xiao Yi's first year.

By the second year, in addition to being able to pay the full amount of taxes and grain, most families can also live a good year in peace, and they no longer have to rely on Xiao Yi's lease to cultivate the land.

This also made the grain and rice and other materials in the town of Datong overflow the treasury, and the former general Xiao also encouraged commerce and trade, and the town of Datong gradually became prosperous.

Since the victory was confirmed, the people who asked to see Xiao Yi every day for various reasons had to kick the threshold of the Marshal's Mansion, and when they saw these all kinds of people, the guards remembered an assassination incident that occurred during the Spring Festival.

Learning from the lessons of previous years, without Xiao Yi deliberately giving an order, the captain of the guard in charge of guarding the Shuaifu increased the number of guards in the Shuaifu by three to five times.

Those who came to the Shuaifu to ask for a meeting were also trembling and surprised.

Everyone thought that to Xiao Yi's level, the Shuaifu must have a lot of servants, but when they came here, they found that what they saw most in Xiao Yi's former general Shuaifu's expedition to the west was not all kinds of maids and servants, but those patrol soldiers with helmets and armor.

In addition, in the past, everyone had the impression that the Spring Festival defense would generally be relaxed, after all, the guards also needed to go home for the New Year, but Xiao Yi's defense here was more strict than usual, and those guards seemed to regard the duty of guarding the Marshal's Mansion as more important than going home for the New Year.

At the end of the first month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, it was on the way of the triumphant division of the Fifth Route Army of the Yongan Army, and a group of people from Beijing finally arrived in front of the Shuaifu.

Among this group of people, there were more than a dozen selected young and strong people from the Beijing camp, led by three horsemen, who were guarding Li Banghua, the left capital of the Imperial Palace, who was dressed in a cyan official uniform, and stopped in front of the door.

Their journey really refreshed their cognition, and the reason why they delayed for several months was because of everyone's impression of the border town.

In the eyes of Li Banghua and other nobles of Beijing, the border town has always been a bitter cold place, not to mention that this Datong town has suffered from military disasters for many years, and the Tartars and Liukou have come several times, so it is better to delay on the road for a while than to suffer here.

However, since they reached the territory of Datong Town, they found a difference, this place is like a bitter cold place, everywhere there are farmers in twos and threes ploughing, every few miles can see a conspicuous dun guard on a mountain bag, on which stand soldiers in gray and black armor.

The small village and small fort are okay, and now they are still mainly dirt roads, but when they reach the territory of the big city in the high mountain acropolis, the town acropolis and other places, the official roads are actually built into brick roads, although this kind of brick is not the bluestone bricks of the Beijing division, but it is also very convenient for transportation.

Originally, a Beijing official like Li Banghua went out of the city to the place, and he was an uncle all the way, and wherever he went, the local civil and military officials often had to come out and deliberately stutter, escort them all the way, and finally send some 'travel expenses' as a rule.

But since Xuanzhen came to this Datong, no official came out to greet him, even the local garrison, Zhizhou and others didn't seem to know, except for the cold eyes of the gray-black armored soldiers standing on the city wall, Li Banghua and his party didn't get any reception in Datong Town.

Immediately, Li Banghua was a little angry, but if he went back like this, he would let Wen Tiren see the joke, and his trust in front of the emperor would be gone, so no matter how dissatisfied he was, Li Banghua had to go hard.

Fortunately, Datong Road did not encounter any thieves blocking the road, but it was the Yongan flying horse that galloped by that frightened them a lot, and they stumbled outside the town.

When Li Banghua and the accompanying cavalry and soldiers of the Beijing camp saw the busy traffic outside the town, they couldn't believe it at first, is this still a decadent border town?

At that moment, Li Banghua and others were going to habitually ride their horses into the city, but at this time there was a small episode, and the group was stopped by a Zhenwei battalion commander who was guarding the city.

"You need to dismount to enter the city, don't disturb the soldiers and civilians in the city!"

One of the cavalry leaders who accompanied him did not have Li Banghua's forbearance, and even when he was furious, he pulled out the embroidered spring knife he was wearing, and pointed at the Zhenwei battalion commander and shouted.

"Presumptuous!"

"Do you know who Uncle Ben is? If you offend me, don't you want to live? ”

Unexpectedly, as soon as the front foot drew the knife, there was a banging sound on the city, and a column of bird guns appeared at the battlements of the city.

This is not all, the soldiers of the Zhenwei battalion who are patrolling the streets around have at least five or six teams rushed over, and seventy or eighty people surrounded these people in three layers and three layers outside.

Li Banghua didn't have a nervous look, he just observed the performance of the pedestrians around him, and to his surprise, this kind of thing often caused a panic in Beijing, but the pedestrians here not only did not have any panic, but actually let out bursts of laughter when they passed as usual.

"This is the person of Jingshi, how did Saye come to this Datong town."

"Who knows, let these heroes of the Zhenwei Battalion teach them a good lesson!"

"Hahaha..."

The Zhenwei battalion commander who was pointed at by the knife in front of him was not afraid, his face was cold, and he said coldly: "In this Datong town, I don't care where you come from, if you don't abide by the rules of the commander, kill!" ”

"Kill!"

As soon as the words fell, the soldiers of the Zhenwei battalion gathered around drank neatly, attracting the applause of the pedestrians on the roadside, and even the wine shops outside the city applauded while drinking.

That Jinyi Wei Qianhu is naturally used to flying and domineering in Beijing, but he is not stupid, this situation is already clear, either give in or die here.

This brocade guard Qianhu has not yet had the idea of serving Chongzhen and Daming loyally, and his current performance is shocking, and he finally smiled at the end of the knife.

“... Misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding, this is Li Yushi of Jingshi, who came to Datong Town to visit relatives and friends..."

Speak directly between the will be? The head was drawn to Li Banghua's body, and when he saw that the 'vicious' Zhenwei Battalion had successfully attracted his general attention, this brocade-clothed Wei Qianhu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Hearing this, Li Banghua dismounted directly, sorted out his official uniform, and said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "This official is Li Banghua, the imperial history of the left capital, and he is not here for government affairs, but just to visit relatives and friends, that's all." ”

I saw that the commander of the Zhenwei battalion waved his hand, and the surrounding sergeants immediately returned to their original state, patrolling the streets and standing guards, as if nothing had happened just now, which surprised those nobles from the capital division even more.

The general stepped forward and gave Li Banghua enough face, softened his words a little, and hugged his fists.

"It turned out to be Li Yushi, please go into the city, the Shuai's Mansion is on the street north of the Drum Tower."