Henan Guide Mansion, the righteous army gathered here, the momentum is huge, the surrounding Ming court officials and soldiers have guarded the city, closed the city gate, do not dare to fight, but afraid that the thief army will fight, it is also a strange phenomenon. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, this is not to blame them, because the local Ming army and military households are scarce, especially in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the land is fertile, and there are many guards, after the founding of the country for more than 200 years, all the clans, local squires, and generals of the guards have been invaded and occupied from generation to generation, and when it is the turn of ordinary people and military households, they have nothing to live.

Therefore, it is inevitable to leave the household registration and become a fugitive, taking the six or seven layers of military households fled from the guard post on the nine sides as an example, the situation in Henan is even more serious, because it has not suffered any major war, this area has become one of the craziest places to occupy farmland and military fields, and even the vast majority of military households have become the private property of the garrison generals, who cover up the household registration and output of the military households below and profit from it.

With the help of the identity of the imperial court generals, they became new landlords one by one, counting the donations received by local scholars and the land encroached upon by the clan, leaving even less for the military households, they not only had to pay enough military land output to the imperial court every year, but also paid rent to the generals for the remaining part, and finally left for themselves, even less than ordinary peasants.

Because of their identity, it is determined that this court will not be destroyed, they will always be the status of military slaves, if they flee, they will be treated as deserters in accordance with military regulations and war laws, and the military generals can even directly behead them after reporting to the Yamen of the Imperial Division, so that unless the whole family flees, a single military household will not dare to escape easily.

According to the situation of Guide Prefecture, the two thousand households stationed here and the one thousand households transferred in after the ravages of the rogue should have a total strength of more than 3,300 people, but in essence, except for some kind of temporary conscripted peasant soldiers, their strength did not even exceed 1,500 people, and this was only when the rogue threatened so many people.

As for the combat effectiveness, only God knows, it is enough for them to barely rely on the city walls to garrison, let alone take the initiative to go out of the city to attack the arrogant thieves!

"What a thief, these officers and soldiers are all carrying turtle shells, and life and death are not out of the city." Zhang Xianzhong, the rogue general who gathered in Guide Mansion, has recently shown his majesty, and he doesn't even know why he suddenly feels confident.

If Li Jing was here, he might tell him that in his life, he fought with the official army, won and lost each other, and finally went to Sichuan to claim the king, and established a short-lived Daxi regime.

Zuo Liangyu, this rumored to be a hunn who specializes in beating Zhang Xianzhong, counting Zuo Liangyu's achievements, in fact, there is not much brilliance, this person, notoriously bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, when the thieves are strong, he leads the army to fight, and has always avoided fighting, no matter how arrogant the thieves are, he does not send a soldier to attack, most of the time to protect his own strength.

But it can be regarded as a big joke for the pair of people who love and kill each other, Zhang Xianzhong, who is famous for fighting to the death, and Zuo Liangyu, who is afraid of bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, once they fight, except for the resurgence of Gucheng in history, Zhang Xianzhong hit Zuo Liangyu by surprise, and any other time, Zuo Liangyu ran away in embarrassment whenever he met Zhang Xianzhong, no matter what the circumstances, Zhang Mou, who could fight, ran away in embarrassment, and even many times there were only a few people left around him barely survived.

Even in the end, Yang Sichang supervised the army on the way to Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong was about to collapse by Zuo Liangyu who went west and He Renlong who went south, as a result, Zhang Xianzhong sent a letter to Zuo someone who didn't know whether it existed or not, which contained a key sentence, that is, the army will make meritorious contributions, most of them are flat thieves, who is flat, it is my old Zhang who beats him, otherwise you can have today's status?

If I am destroyed one day, then your trick of raising self-respect in the past will rarely be seen through by the imperial court, and when the country is pacified, the swords and guns will be put into storage, and the horses will be released in Nanshan, so how will the general deal with himself?

In this regard, He Renlong led his troops to return to the north, Zuo Liangyu collected his troops and returned to Hubei, Zhang Xianzhong escaped with his life, captured Xiangyang after regrouping, killed King Xiang, and killed Yang Sichang, the first assistant at that time.

"What if you get out of town? What if the city is broken by us? Have you forgotten what happened to us in Liaozhou last year? Even if we barely occupy Liaozhou, we can't defeat the main force of the official army that came to pursue! Li Zicheng already knew the news that Wang Ziyong and Gao Yingxiang's two rebel armies were exterminated at this moment, but he didn't know that the Qin army was rapidly moving south, and the Ming army had no time to look eastward, but even if he knew, he couldn't stop it, after all, the Qin army advancing east was more ferocious than the Ming army.

"That's right, but let's just continue to stay in Guide Mansion and wait for that so-called Kong Youde to bring troops to receive our troops?" Zhang Xianzhong said with some unhappiness, it is said that the leader of the rebel army, who is unwilling to live under others, should not obey the order from the west, but who made the other party's fist big.

And now the situation is getting worse and worse, in the south, it is the three commanders of the Huguang Xingdu Division who have completely blocked the provincial border, and in the west, it is the main force of the 40,000 Ming army led by Lu Xiangsheng, which cannot be touched, let alone continue to flee westward into Shaanxi and Shanxi, which must be beaten to death by the Qin army.

And to the north, it is the Yellow River natural danger, in addition to the Ming court's Beijing camp and the elite under the command of the governor of Baoding are also deployed along the river at the same time, the righteous army not to mention crossing the river to flow to fight, I am afraid that just after crossing the river, it was surrounded by the Ming army who rushed to hear the news.

At present, only by going eastward and converging the so-called 50,000 Dongjiang Town army, there is a way out, and the military rations going south through Tianjin, with the help of the cover of the caravan, are hidden in the mountains around Dingtao and Cao County, and they only need to go east, they can get thousands of stones of grain to eat, and can get the help of three thousand iron horsemen in Dongjiang Town, once they gain a firm foothold in Shandong, from then on it is the dragon into the sea, the wild goose spreads its wings, and it is out of control.

"I can also see some movement, the one in the west, although the strength is strong, but against the landlords of the whole world, I'm afraid it's not so easy and pleasant, after all, he is determined to be in the world, not to kill all the people in the world, so this is our opportunity, you see, in Henan and Xuanhua City, they are all dragged down by their forces, and the Ming army does not dare to go south to deal with us," Li Zicheng said to Zhang Xianzhong through the words of the Qin army messenger who arrived a few days ago,

"So as long as we march eastward, converge with Kong Youde, attack the Ming army in the hinterland of Denglai, and strive to capture the land of Shandong in the future, it will be our brother's!"

Seeing Li Zicheng talking with a smile, Zhang Xianzhong was a little uneasy, he raised his head and asked in a low voice, "If Kong Youde relieves Denglai at that time, sits on the so-called 50,000 Dongjiang soldiers and horses, and coerces us and others, what can I do?" ”

"I'm afraid that he will do something, we also have seven or eight soldiers and horses in Guide now, and the total is at least 100,000 people, besides, didn't the Qin army messenger say it clearly? Kong Youde is a native of Liaodong, he has a deep grudge with the Shandong region, it is impossible to completely integrate together, then our brother defeated the Shandong Ming army, and agreed with him that after the victory, take Shandong and Nanzhili to the junction of the two provinces for us to station, then he has the advantage of cavalry, and will inevitably wave his army to Henan, and even to the north to attack Jingshi and Liaodong, and we,"

"What do you mean is that at that time, he will share Shandong with Kong Youde, and he will go to the Central Plains and Liaodong, and our brothers will take Jiangnan as a place to settle down?" Zhang Xianzhong's eyes gradually showed a fierce light, after all, the result of this kind of plan is very different from their current situation.

"Yes, at that time, we will take the land south of the Yangtze River, recruit soldiers and horses, and wait for Kong Youde and Li Jingxiaoer to fight in the north, no matter who wins or loses, they are dying, and then we will wait for the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang to unify the hinterland of the Central Plains from south to north, and you and I will share the country." I have to say that Li Zicheng thought well, even in a desperate situation, he could ask him to come up with such a beautiful thing, and he did it according to his preparations.

Of course, who will say clearly what will happen in the future, when Zhu Di, the king of Yan, coerced King Ning to rebel together, and said that the world would be divided equally in the future, the result was that King Ning, who was divided in Liaodong, changed his title to Nanchang, and even the soldiers and horses of the three guards of the palace were restricted, and the descendants of later generations were slashed, who to reason with?

Zhang Xianzhong also didn't believe this, anyway, everyone will rely on their own means, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang unified the Central Plains from south to north with the elite of the two Huai landlord groups, before that, he first defeated Chen Youliang who was entrenched in Nanchang and Jingxiang, so this Jiangnan is also divided.

Su Song and Zhejiang must be the top priority, and Huguang and Jiangxi, after two hundred years of rapid development, is not bad, then these two have to fight a little, before they can decide the priority, before that, they have to meet with Kong Youde, together to attack Shandong, gain a firm foothold and then try to go south.

"It's so decided, the two of us will coerce the remaining soldiers and horses, first embezzle a small share, and then go east to Cao County and join Kong Youde's Liaodong soldiers and horses, and attack Denglai to the east together, and after defeating the imperial army and horses, we will try to do other things." This kind of beautiful thing, of course, has to be done, Zhang Xianzhong is not stupid,

"Okay, that's it!" Li Zicheng saw that he agreed, so he immediately ordered the generals of the two rebels to enter the account, because in the same period of history, Gao Yingxiang and Wang Ziyong attracted the main force of the Ming court encirclement and suppression troops in the west, so Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who entered Guide in the east, also gradually showed their talents, and now, and incorporated some of Wang Gao's generals, and the strength is great.

Among them, Li Zicheng has 4,000 young and strong people, and more than 20,000 women and children are coerced, falsely claiming 100,000.

And Zhang Xianzhong has 2,500 young and strong people, more than 10,000 women and children, and 80,000 falsely claimed.

The two departments were combined, and they embezzled some women and children and small groups of military horses of the righteous army nearby, and the actual number of men and horses was more than 50,000, of which only seven or eight thousand could fight, all the way back to Germany, to Cao County. (To be continued.) )