Cao Wenzhao ran to Yan'an Mansion with the remnants of the soldiers, Yan'an Mansion was tense after being harassed by Zhang Chu, and the city gate was still closed at this time, and when he saw the smoke and dust raised by the cavalry running outside the city, he thought that the thieves were attacking the city again, and the soldiers who were guarding immediately sounded the alarm, and immediately there was chaos on the head of the city of Yan'an Mansion, and a large number of officers and soldiers were transferred to the head of the city, holding weapons and nervously guarding. The situation was also reported to Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides who was in the city, Hong Chengchou did not dare to slack off, and immediately went to the city to check the situation, he also wondered that the thief had just come to the city a few days ago to harass him, and he had ordered the army in front to retreat, how could this thief dare to run to Yan'an City.

The cavalry outside the city approached the city wall, and the soldiers saw clearly that the people were waving the banner of the official army, and the soldiers in the city did not dare to be careless, and shot several arrows one after another, so that the people could stop outside the range of the bow and arrows, and saw a horse running out of the ranks, coming to the city and shouting: "Is the city the governor of Hong?" I'm Cao Wenzhao. ”

Hong Chengchou followed the shouting and saw that the person who came was indeed Cao Wenzhao, with crooked armor and an embarrassed look.

Although Hong Chengchou ordered Cao Wenzhao to lead the army to withdraw, he would not be in such a hurry. Hong Chengchou understood that something must have happened, but in order not to cause more panic, he still said in a deep voice: "This governor is here, Cao Wenzhao you quickly lead the army to camp outside the city, and then enter the city to see me." ”

After hearing this, Cao Wenzhao realized that he was being chased by the security army a little recklessly, and immediately returned to the team and led the team to camp outside the city relying on the city wall. Then he came to the gate of the city and was pulled up to the head of the city by the soldiers of the city with hanging baskets.

After Cao Wenzhao entered the city, he immediately went to Hong Chengchou to report the situation in front of him, Hong Chengchou's face turned blue after hearing the report, and his hand holding the hilt of the sword trembled, this official army is really incompetent to get home, and the retreat can be like this. At this time, he couldn't attack, and he still needed Cao Wenzhao to stabilize the situation, so he could only hold back the anger in his heart, comfort Cao Wenzhao with kind words, and order him to immediately go out of the city to lead the men and horses of his headquarters to collect the remnants of the defeated soldiers, and then set up a camp outside the city to prevent the attack of the security army. Cao Wenzhao didn't care about resting, and hurried back to the outside of the city. Although the defeated officers and soldiers scattered and fled, most of them fled to the direction of Yan'an Mansion, Cao Wenzhao urged his subordinates to work hard to gather the defeated soldiers who fled back, and after a busy time, there were 10,000 people, these people were arranged to be stationed in the city, thinking that there would be some soldiers who would return, Cao Wenzhao arranged for his subordinates to continue to search, and he sat down at this time, and the whole person relaxed and felt particularly tired. I have never felt this way in the face of thousands of troops before.

The security army chased and killed for a while, watching the officers and soldiers run away and did not chase anymore, and returned to the battlefield to happily collect the heavy grain and grass abandoned by the officers and soldiers, this time Zhang Chu made a fortune again, and the officers and soldiers were eager to escape, and everything that hindered them from escaping was thrown away. Zhang Chu cleaned up the battlefield and brought all the useful things with him, and then led the troops back to Yanchang, after this battle, the officers and troops had no strength to attack the security army in a short period of time, and the crisis of prolongation was lifted.

Shaanxi general soldier Wang Chengen was fortunate not to die in the enemy's army, and fled to Yan'an Mansion with the defeated soldiers, but there were only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses left.

Hong Chengchou was also worried about his future, he had just taken over as the governor of the three sides, and even lost the battle, how to explain it to the emperor became a problem.

Seeing that Wang Chengen and Cao Wenzhao, who came to ask for sin, the anger in Hong Chengchou's heart broke out, and after reprimanding the two of them, he felt a little better, and repelled the two, Hong Chengchou calmed down and wrote a report to Emperor Chongzhen about what happened. Hong Chengchou pondered hard, and finally exaggerated Zhang Chu's power, and then put all the responsibility on Wang Chengen, and complained to the emperor that there was no soldier and no pay, and with a feeling of anxiety sent someone to send away the twist, Hong Chengchou waited for the emperor's decision, and he couldn't figure out what the Chongzhen Emperor Hong Chengchou would be, and what the result would be in the end was only resigned to fate.

Emperor Chongzhen of the Beijing division seems to have been cursed by fate, since he ascended the throne has not had a day of comfort, finally the army of Houjin withdrew from the Beijing division, and the ministers continued to fight after changing the previous policy of appeasing the thieves, transferred back Cao Wenzhao to Shanxi and Shaanxi to exterminate the thieves, immediately achieved a great victory, the whole dynasty was all cheerful, a voice of optimism, in order to expand the results of the battle, immediately sent the soldiers and horses led by Wang Chengen, the general soldier of Shaanxi and Yang Jiamo, the general soldier of Gansu, who was the king of Qin, to assist Hong Chengchou, The quelling of the rebellion of the displaced people was just around the corner, and after a while of being happy, the trilateral governor Hong Chengchou poured a scoop of cold water on him, Wang Chengen and Yang Jiamo were defeated successively, and the army suffered all the losses. The hope of exterminating the thieves was dashed, and he had no choice but to bring in his ministers again and start endless discussions, discussing how to deal with the aftermath and how to deal with Hong Chengchou and others.

Now the problem of thieves in Shaanxi has become a hot potato, no one is willing to take over, the former trilateral governor Yang He is the best example, he was originally in the court for the official to do a good job, just because of a few big words, the emperor thought that he was usable talent, was sent to serve as the trilateral governor, dozens of years old, and finally because of the disadvantage of appeasing the thieves, not only was he dismissed, but also caused the disaster of prison. Therefore, the ministers can participate less in the affairs of the thieves, and they can not speak without speaking, and the result of Emperor Chongzhen's consultation with the ministers is to make themselves angry, and no one has proposed a feasible solution.

Emperor Chongzhen finally decided that this mess should be cleaned up by Hong Chengchou, on the one hand, he believed that this failure was mainly caused by the incompetence of Yang Jiamo and Wang Chengen, and now Chongzhen did not have a competent candidate to replace Hong Chengchou, and finally the emperor issued an order to apply for Hong Chengchou, and ordered him to work hard to exterminate the thieves and make meritorious contributions, and remove Yang Jiamo and Wang Chengen from their posts for investigation, and the matter was over.

Hong Chengchou was finally relieved to receive the emperor's decree, and his official position was finally retained. Let's take a long-term view of how to suppress the bandits next.

And Zhang Chu, the bandit leader in Hong Chengchou's eyes, has been very nourishing in the past few days, and returned to Yanchang with the victorious team, Yanchang City was jubilant, Zhang Chu was welcomed like a hero, and the eldest princess was full of happiness in her heart when she followed Zhang Chu, such a person should be called a hero. In the next few days, Zhang Chu took the eldest princess around in the extension, coaxing the eldest princess very happy. At this time, there was good news that the person sent to find Lin Dan Khan came back to report that Lin Dan Khan was really able to run, not only saved his life, but also ran to Qinghai to become his Great Khan. When the eldest princess heard this, she was overjoyed, and immediately bid farewell to Zhang Chu and returned to Naturalization City to prepare to welcome Lin Dan Khan back.

The eldest princess left, Zhang Chu was idle again, he looked at the various materials seized, and decided to find a buyer for these things. (To be continued.) )