Chapter 129: Dividing the Troops and Orienting the Troops

At the beginning of the fourth year of Chongjing, Sun Chuanting was appointed governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, in charge of the suppression of bandits in Shaanxi and Sichuan

Sun Chuanting deserved to be one of the rare generals at that time, as soon as he arrived in Shaanxi to take office, he immediately reorganized his troops and horses, sent troops to Sichuan, and recovered the lost territory

Entering Sichuan, the first rogue he encountered was Zhang Xianzhong's department, Zhang Xianzhong didn't know how powerful Sun Chuanting was, drove the troops to fight, and was killed by Sun Chuanting was defeated and fled, seeing that the situation was not good, he simply entered the territory of Huguang, and went north into Henan As the saying goes, persimmons should be picked up and pinched, and it seems that Zhang I in Henan is the weakest, don't bully him, bully whom

Sun Chuanting recovered the area of Bazhong, and then led the army to Chengdu

Gao Yingxiang and other rogues, since the capture of Chengdu, have looted in the surrounding areas, and it seems that there is no resistance in Sichuan, but no matter who encounters Qin Liang's desire department, they will not get any good fruit to eat

Gao Yingxiang thought that Qin Liangxiang was too annoying, and decided to lead a large group of rogues to destroy Qin Liangxiang first, and he didn't want Qin Liangxiang to know the terrain in Sichuan, so he relied on the geographical advantage to fight with the rogues and hit the rogues several times

This time, Sun Chuanting's army came, with a great victory Zhang Xianzhong's might, it can be said that the momentum is like a rainbow Kou saw the southern region of Sichuan, still in the hands of the imperial court, the terrain in Sichuan is treacherous, it is very unfavorable to escape, and it was decided to leave Sichuan first, in order to preserve the vitality So, under the leadership of Gao Yingxiang, the soldiers and horses detoured into Huguang again and rushed into Henan

As soon as he entered the territory of Henan, he heard that Li Zicheng was attacking Xingyang, Xingyang was in the east of Bishui and Hugao Pass, and west of Zhengzhou, which has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times in the Central Plains

After Gao Yingxiang heard this, he immediately drove his troops to reinforcements At the same time, Gao Yingxiang was also thinking, why was Li Zicheng so bold that he dared to attack Xingyang Chongdi

Li Zicheng from the carriage gorge after the breakout, is simply a different person, he thinks that if you want to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, it is not enough to just make a small fuss and wander around, you must do something to shock the world Henan is the weakest, let go here, but Luoyang, Kaifeng and other big cities, not his current strength can be captured, even if it is Zhengzhou, it is not easy to fight, but Zhengzhou's soldiers and horses are certainly not as much as Luoyang and Kaifeng, relatively speaking, it can be softer, and he is more and more convinced, he attacked Xingyang, and the soldiers and horses in Zhengzhou City will definitely not dare to gallop to help

Don't really say it, really let Li Zicheng guess correctly, his soldiers attacked Xingyang, Zhengzhou's soldiers and horses did not dare to reinforce at all, but just told Kaifeng urgently, please Governor Zhang I continue to send troops to reinforce the previous Liukou immediately Henan, Zhang I continued to take a breath, and now I heard that Liukou is back, and bold, and dare to attack Xingyang He knew that if Xingyang was lost, he really couldn't explain to the court, so he sent the deputy general Luo Min to lead 10,000 troops to reinforce Xingyang

Luo Min is also a relatively brave general, rushed to Xingyang, and to Li Zicheng's blockade, because Li Zicheng wanted to divide troops to strangle Xingyang, and on the other hand, he had to divide troops to defend Zhengzhou, so when he fought with Luo Min's army, there were more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the two sides fought an evenly matched At this time, if the soldiers and horses in Zhengzhou City came out to help, the outcome was probably unpredictable, but the Zhengzhou prefect and the Zheng King in the city were worried that Zhengzhou would lose, and they did not dare to send reinforcements at all, so they only watched from the wall

At the critical moment of the battle between Luo Min and Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, who fled into Henan, rushed to Luo Min, and gave Luo Min a bāng in the back, and the officers and soldiers killed were holding their heads and running away, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong converged in a hurry, and the momentum was loud, although Zhang I continued to mobilize a certain number of troops, but he did not dare to easily reinforce them

After January, the grain and grass in Xingyang City was urgent, the officers and soldiers began to loot the people in the city, the people in the city were not rich, and they were about to be unable to eat, after all, this is also the hardest hit area, the people in the city did not open here, the price of grain is not ordinary Gao, the people in the city could not bear it, and rose up to resist, Li Zicheng seized the opportunity to conquer Xingyang when the city was in turmoil

To tell the truth, there is not no food in Xingyang City, those officials and gentry and rich people have food at home, but when the soldiers are in the city, they are unwilling to take out the food, and now it is good, Li Zicheng conquered Xingyang, and these people can only die with food

Li Zicheng took out the grain of these people, and part of it was given to the people, and he immediately won the support of the people of Xingyang, and many people were willing to follow Li Zicheng

Xingyang victory, Gao Yingxiang and other rogue soldiers and horses, all the way to plunder, but also rushed to more than 200,000 rogue in a row, gathered the leader of Xingyang City rogue in the sea temple to meet the alliance, known as the "Xingyang Conference" this alliance, the participation of the rogue has thirteen families and seventy-two battalions, the head of the rogue Gong publicly recommended Gao Yingxiang as the leader of the alliance, in charge of the anti-Ming cause

In the meantime, Li Zicheng put forward an opinion, which is called "dividing troops and orienting", that is to say, our righteous army should not gather together now, so that it is not only easy to be wiped out by the officers and soldiers, but also affect our development

This proposal was unanimously approved by the leaders of all the families, and then began to plan, who went to which side was discussed, and Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong were responsible for the Eastern Expedition

Now attacking Zhengzhou, or Kaifeng and Luoyang, is not very in line with reality, especially since people have already prepared, how to fight they are also afraid that the imperial court will organize an army and come to encircle and suppress, and after the Xingyang Conference is over, the leaders of each family will begin to act according to the opportunity

Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong all the way into Huaibei, can be described as a broken bamboo, and the soldiers and horses of South Zhili really did not expect that the Liukou dared to rush in, and did not take effective countermeasures for a while, so that the Liukou was driven straight in

Of course, the Liukou did not dare to fight Nanjing, the Xu family of the Duke of Wei in Nanjing City hurriedly mobilized soldiers and horses, ready to meet the enemy, but unfortunately the soldiers and horses did not wait for Nanjing, they got the news, the Liukou had already hit Fengyang City, Xu Hongji was in a hurry, what is Fengyang, that is the land of Longxing in the Ming Dynasty, the ancestral tomb of the Zhu family is there, there can be no loss, once there is a loss, no one can afford this crime Xu Hongji and the governor of Nanzhili immediately sent troops to Fengyang

The defenders of Fengyang City are too weak and have no ability to fight, as soon as the army arrives, they will conquer Fengyang in one day and take Fengyang, needless to say, in addition to looting, even the ancestral tomb of the Zhu family has been dug up

Digging the ancestral grave of the Zhu family, Gao Yingxiang also knew that the Ming army would inevitably report the revenge, Nanzhili could not stay for a long time, led the soldiers and horses to turn around and wait until Xu Hongji's army arrived, there was no trace of the Liukou, what he saw was only a mess The ancestral grave of the Zhu family was dug up, Xu Hongji was so frightened that he was full of cold sweat, and the governor of Nanzhili was not as good as him, so he turned his back on the spot

A series of defeats were transmitted to the Beijing division again, Sun Chuanting first subdued Sichuan, which was gratifying, but then the Liukou first captured Xingyang, severely defeated the officials and troops, and followed the Liukou is chaos all around, and the southern provinces, no matter where they were, there were Liukou The most important thing is that Fengyang was lost, and the ancestral grave of the Zhu family was dug up

The previous things are easy to handle, Xingyang is lost, and the governor of Henan who you and I continue to do it should not do it anymore, go home

In the past few years, the rogues have been running around, but they used to be noisy together, but now they are making trouble separately, and they are strictly ordered to supervise everywhere, and the general army will go all out to encircle and suppress it

But in the end, Fengyang, the ancestral grave of the Zhu family was dug up, which was a headache

This time, Zhang Yan couldn't sit still, took the emperor, and personally summoned the ministers in the Yuteng room, that appearance, eyes are not eyes, nose is not nose, if it weren't for the demeanor, she would have scolded but even so, her voice was not good, "Years of bandits, more and more rogues, now ...... Now even the ancestral grave of my Zhu family has been dug up...... You guys...... What do you people eat? ”

The ministers who dared to speak, sat honestly one by one, none of them dared to speak, their eyes were all focused on Yue Su's body, and their faces were all nervous as if they had no one of their own, leaning back on the chair, half-squinting their eyes, no one knew what was going on in his heart

Lord Yue Shen ** instantly, rushed up to the arch, "Qi Yu Emperor, Qi Yu Empress Dowager, in the past two years in the suppression of bandits, the imperial court has successively killed the leader of the Liukou Wang Jiayin and Wang Ziyong, the results are not small Ran Liukou is very tenacious, this is the ministers and other unexpected, although they first went down to Chang'an, and then Kecheng, but the heaviest are difficult to escape a defeat, the minister believes that with the governor Sun Chuanting sitting in Sichuan and Shaanxi, the Liukou is there, and there is no chance to lose Xingyang again, all of them are the incompetence of the governor Zhang I, the loss of the warplane, has now been dismissed, the cabinet is drafted, Xiong Wencan, the political envoy of Shandong, took over as the governor of Henan, and expected that Xiong Wencan's ability would be able to clear the Henan Liukou and conquer Fengyang, which was really unexpected, as soon as the imperial army arrived, they fled in a hurry, and it can be seen that the Duke of Erwei and the governor of Nanzhili had already asked for guilt, and the minister thought that a little reprimand would be enough, and strictly ordered them to urge the soldiers and horses to defend the Henan border, in order to prevent the Liukou from entering the situation again, and the Central Plains soldiers and horses went all out to conquer and suppress, and it was expected that within three years, the Liukou could be eliminated."

"Within three years, you will be able to clear out the Liukou, Lord Yue, can you be sure of this?" As soon as Yue Su's words were finished, Han Yi, who had been sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai platform, suddenly opened his eyes and asked out loud

"Yes, Yue Qing's family, now that the rogue is strong, it will be cleared within three years, you don't want to perfunctory Your Majesty and the mourning family" Zhang Yan also said

For Zhang Yan, the ancestral grave of the Zhu family was dug up, and now it has become a reality, and if you want to make up for it, there seems to be no way, you can't kill the Duke of Wei, the dead are not as important as the living after all, as long as you can clear the Liukou and keep the Ming Dynasty, this is more important than anything else, so after listening to Yue Su say that after three years of purging the Liukou, Zhang Yan couldn't help asking

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