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Deep in the mountains, the intelligence department's assassination training was in full swing; Dozens of miles away, the strategic deployment of the Beijing division is also advancing step by step. For Zhu Youzhen, it is best to solve Huang Taiji in the way of "beheading", but even if Huang Taiji is dead, it does not mean that the Manchu Qing will collapse immediately, and in the end, it is still necessary to annihilate the Eight Banners cavalry in a frontal battlefield in order to recover Liaodong and completely eliminate the threat from the northeast.

As far as the current situation is concerned, because it is the middle of winter, even if Huang Taiji wants to enter the palace again, he will have to wait until the ice and snow melt in the spring, so there is a rare temporary calm on the northern border. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhu Youzhen ordered the military factory to produce mines in large quantities. This new weapon played an important role in the battle to ambush Gao Yingxiang, and it was tested in actual combat, and it can finally come in handy at this time.

Zhu Youzhen transported these mines to the Datong site of Xuanfu in Jizhou and buried them outside the passes. In particular, important passes such as Xifengkou should be more heavily mined, so that next time if the Manchus invade the city again from the direction of Mongolia, they will have to go through the mines first and then attack the passes. Landmines are powerful and invincible, especially with strong psychological deterrence. Although with the cruelty of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it will definitely make the Han army banner, and even the captured ordinary people come to mine, and with the existing production capacity of the military factory, it is impossible to lay too many mines soon, but the speed of the Eighth Banner Army's march will definitely be greatly affected, and it will be enough to buy time for the transfer of officials and troops.

While guarding against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the top priority at the moment was to put down the rebellion in the Central Plains as soon as possible. In the past two days, there was good news again: because Henan's official army was like a broken bamboo, and it was about to reach Xiangyang, the "holy car" of Zhu Changxun, who was the first to rebel, had to move south to Yueyang, south of the Yangtze River. And on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, when Zhu Changxun crossed the river by boat, the "imperial boat" inexplicably capsized, and when it was picked up by everyone, Zhu Changxun had already drowned. He died, of course, by the "crown prince" Zhu Yousong "ascended the throne". Because he only served as the "emperor" for a few days, and died before he could "change the yuan", Zhu Yousong simply still took "Hongguang" as the year name and Zhu Changxun went to the temple "Gongzong". It's just that in order to prevent the army from being unstable, this news has been kept secret and only spread a few days ago.

Zhu Youzhen didn't care too much about this, in his opinion, Zhu Changxun, a stupid and shameless big fat man, was probably just a puppet in this rebellion, and Zhu Yousong was the core figure of the rebellion. Zhu Changxun drowned in a daze, it may not be Zhu Yousong's black hand, so that he can be the "emperor" "justifiably". Thinking about his previous life, it is rumored that Zhu Changxun was killed by Li Zicheng, and he was thrown into a boiling cauldron, and was boiled alive with several sika deer. Although he still died in the water, he finally lost a whole corpse. If you end up like this, you will take the blame, who can blame you!

Zhu Changxun's death had little impact on the rebels, but the rebels did not have a good time. Two days ago, the two vassal kings of Tang and An Ren rushed into Beijing, and they funded more than 8,000 Xiangyong recruited from Hunan to set up an ambush on both sides of the Miluo River south of Yueyang and north of Changsha, breaking the nearly 50,000 rebels temporarily put together by the "national teacher" Yun Zijian, beheading more than 20,000 ranks, and the rebels returned to Yueyang in a panic.

Zhu You's review was overjoyed, and despite the opposition of the ministers, he issued an edict to reward Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, and Zhu Youlang, the king of Anren, each with 100,000 taels of silver, and then allocated 200,000 taels from the household department to fund military supplies, and at the same time rewarded Zeng Mengxue, the brave general of the township.

From the recitals of the two vassal kings, Zhu Youzhen learned that this Zeng Mengxue was not an official or a military general, but just a man in his thirties. But this man turned out to be a military genius, and he organized the village warriors into a battalion of every 500 people according to their origins and bloodlines, a total of 16 battalions. The commander of each battalion was a relative or close friend, and these people were united in battle by clan and blood, and one person was killed or wounded, and the whole battalion was red-eyed, and the courage far exceeded that of the rebels.

And Zeng Mengxue attaches great importance to water warfare. The water network around Dongting Lake and Miluo River made it quite difficult for the rebels' large army to move, but the small fishing boats and small sampans of the Xiangyong were able to advance and retreat freely and flexibly. The rebels were harassed by Xiang Yong for many days, and finally marched in with noise, but they were not familiar with the terrain and were led by Xiang Yong to a port by the Miluo River.

The water in the harbor was not deep, and it was densely covered with reeds, and the rebels wanted to wade through it. Unexpectedly, Zeng Mengxue had already laid an ambush, and when he gave an order, fires broke out on all sides. The rebels panicked and tried to rush out of the port mouth, but they were blocked by the townsmen with dense bows and arrows, and suffered extremely heavy casualties, burning and drowning countless people.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but fall into deep thought, thinking that this Zeng Mengxue led Xiang Yong to defeat the rebels, which was somewhat similar to the historical Zeng Guofan who led the Hunan army to fight against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. What's more coincidental is that he is also surnamed Zeng, could it be that Zeng Guofan will be his descendant?

Since Zeng Mengxue was able to stop the rebels in Hunan, Zhu Youzhen made a special appointment to appoint him as the head of the Military Election Department of the Ministry of War, temporarily serving in Hunan military affairs. The principal is only a civil official of the sixth grade, and such a promotion will not cause dissatisfaction among other officials. But "temporarily administering Hunan military affairs" is powerful, and with this title, Zeng Mengxue can temporarily control all the officers and soldiers of Hunan.

On the Eastern Front battlefield, because Lu Xiangsheng broke the rebels twice in a row in Dangshan, the thieves were frightened, and Lu Xiangsheng, who had a long beard and an elegant face, got a very "hideous" nickname: King Lu Yan. Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Lao Huihui and other leaders of the "Thirteen Families" are not stupid, seeing that the combat effectiveness of the official army is extremely strong, if they still besiege Pengcheng, I am afraid that they will have to see the real king of Hades before the city is broken, so they gathered together to discuss, then scattered and fled, and the siege of Pengcheng was resolved.

In fact, the defenders of Pengcheng held out for more than a month, and they had already suffered heavy casualties, if it were not for Lu Xiangsheng and his army to arrive, in two or three days, the city would have been breached. Lu Xiangsheng came to save the lives of the people in the city. However, in this tragic battle to defend the city, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians have died heroically. Even Yan Yingyuan, who had always commanded and defended the city, was seriously injured and almost died.

As soon as the siege of Pengcheng was lifted, the road between Jingshi and Nanjing was restored. As for the scattered thieves, some of them fled north to Shandong, and the main force headed south under the leadership of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, crossed Fengyang Mansion and approached Chuzhou. Zhu Youzhen couldn't ask for this, because now that Wang Zaijin has completely controlled the situation in Nanjing, even if the Nanjing Guards Army is useless, the problem of defending the Yangtze River is not too big, not to mention the help of Ning Tieqi. As long as the main force of the official army rests in Pengcheng for a while, replenishes ammunition and supplies and continues to move south, the "thirteen families" can be blocked by the Yangtze River. Zhu Youzhen doesn't want them to wander around anymore, so it's best to fight a big war of annihilation and completely solve the problem of thieves.

Relatively speaking, what worries Zhu Youzhen is that the rebels are exercising day and night in Poyang Lake!

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