In the leap November of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's army marched south, and the troops pointed directly at Xiangyang. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At this time, it was Zuo Liangyu's department that guarded Xiangyang, during the battle of Zhuxian Town, due to Zuo Liangyu's escape, the Ming army was defeated, and although Zuo Liangyu ran all the way back to Xiangyang, he was also panicked, and inquired about the court's news intentions.

At the same time, that sense of uneasiness made him desperately recruit rebels and recruit young people, especially after getting the news from the Xuanfu Times, the kind of thousands of people pointed out that his reputation was ruined, which made Zuo Liangyu jump like thunder at the same time, and accelerated the pace of collecting soldiers.

What kind of rogue and local bandits, green-skinned wanderers, those who come do not refuse, and soon the number of subordinates under his command will reach 100,000, known as 300,000.

However, the number of salaries given by the imperial court was limited, so the soldiers who exceeded the salary were all collected from the local people, and the Ping Thief Army looted at will, killed people at will, plundered people's property, raped people's wives and daughters, and did all kinds of evil, and the people of Xiangyang suffered greatly and hated Zuo Liangyu to the core.

The local people brewed a mass response, and as soon as Li Chuang's army arrived, they opened the door and surrendered the thieves. It is impossible for Zuo Liangyu not to notice the situation in Xiangyang Mansion, and he also confided in the post, "At this time, the people's response is overwhelming. ”

After the battle of Zhuxian Town, he had no fighting spirit, and only built a large ship in Xiangyang Mansion, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he fled downstream along the Han River. was building hard, but unexpectedly, the people of Xiangyang had already hated Zuo Liangyu to the bone marrow, and secretly set a fire to burn down the ships built by Zuo Liangyu.

Zuo Liangyu was furious and shocked at the same time, just as a group of merchant ships passed by, Zuo Liangyu immediately snatched away these merchant ships, loaded with a large number of military supplies, and the captured women's belongings for his son Zuo Mengeng to transport them first.

He himself led his army to defend Xiangyang City and Fancheng City. intends to fight with Li Chuang here, after all, this is his territory, and Zuo Liangyu is unwilling to give up until the last moment.

Li Zicheng's army entered Huguang in a mighty way, and on the way, he released the very famous "Suppressing the Soldiers and the People" by Gu Junen, which said in the text.

"In order to suppress the soldiers and secure the civilian: the Ming Dynasty was unkind, favored eunuchs, and valued Kedi. Greed for taxes. Heavy punishment cannot save the people. The Japanese army ran out of divisions and brigades, plundered people's property, and raped people's wives and daughters. Spinal aspiration and skin peeling. The camp is good at farming for the 10th century. A teacher of righteousness and righteousness. To save the people, come to Huguang in person, and send a card to inform: the people should not be frightened. Each is physiological. There were those who killed good people in the camp, and the whole team was beheaded. Ermin has a long voice to welcome my king's teacher, and immediately reuse, and the rest do not have to be subdued, and the jade is inseparable. This is the case. ”

At this time, the military discipline of officers and soldiers was unspeakable, and the ballad of thieves combing the grate was rampant everywhere, which can be said to be a typical example of the people's resentment of the soldiers, and the typical example of the Ping Thief Army, all looking forward to the arrival of Li Chuang.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the famous minister Plug Yinxi once had a sparse saying: "The minister knows that the people of the world drive the people and follow the thief, and the soldier will do his ......."

It can be said that the situation of the military damage at that time.

At this time, Li Chuang's army was relatively strict because Li Yan and other literati joined, and Li Zicheng even issued an order: "Those who kill one person are like killing my father, and those who commit adultery with a woman are like adulterous mothers." ”

The prohibition of orders in the army was in stark contrast to the officers and soldiers at that time, so many people had completely different attitudes towards soldiers and thieves.

"When a thief comes to another city, there are those who wait for him, and there are those who have bread and bread, and there are those who have bows and arrows...... Far and near are attached, and they no longer think that they are thieves ......"

For the officers and soldiers, in the middle of the 14th year of Chongzhen, the army commanded by Zuo Liangyu braved the snow to arrive in Yuzhou, and the local "soldiers and people are all lurking on the female wall, watering the frozen city, and sticking to it for the thief. ”

In addition, this article is very clever, only talking about suppressing the soldiers and reassuring the people, and it is for saving the people, so that the teacher of benevolence and righteousness can be urgently promoted. He also emphasized military discipline, and those who killed good people were all beheaded, so not only the people were excited, but also the gentry were watching.

As soon as Li Zicheng's army entered Huguang, the people burned incense and saluted, and the livestock and wine were welcomed from afar, especially the people of Xiangyang Mansion volunteered to act as a guide for Li Chuang's army.

At this time, Zuo Liangyu's army was densely defended in Xiangyang City and Fancheng, and those guides led the army to bypass Zuo Liangyu's fortified place and cross the Han River from the mouth of the White Horse Cave.

This white horse crosses the Pu River, the Wujia River below, the second ferry is Jiaji, the upper reaches of the Han River, it is about 50 miles in the west of Xiangyang City, it faces each other across the water from Fancheng, especially the end of the forest is a large sandy beach, which is very suitable as a place to cross the river.

When Li Zicheng's army fought to cross the estuary, the local people returned to death to carry guns and cannons for him, and assisted the brigade to cross the beach.

He didn't have the heart to fight, and soon pulled out the camp and fled, not changing his bad habits before leaving, burning and looting in Xiangyang Mansion, burning houses, razing wells, leaving chickens and dogs with nowhere to go, and thousands of miles were empty.

After Zuo Liangyu ran away, all the officials in Xiangyang fled, and Li Zicheng got Xiangyang City without much effort, and then divided his troops into Zaoyang, Yicheng, Gucheng, Guanghua Zhucheng in Xiafu, and Suizhou in De'an Mansion.

On the fourth day of the first month of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's army went south from Xiangyang again, and the news reached Jingzhou, Zhu Changrun, the king of Minghui, Chen Ruimo, the governor of Biyuan, and the civil and military divisions, absconded at night on the eighth day of the first month, and there was no one at the city gate.

On the 14th of the lunar month, Li Zicheng's army entered Jingzhou, the people of Jingzhou killed pigs and sheep, raised flags to welcome, and on the 16th, Li Zicheng killed the whole family of the king of Xiangyin who surrendered.

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At this time, Song Yihe, the governor of Huguang, the general soldier Qian Zhongxuan gathered in Chengtianfu to offer the tomb and protect the mausoleum, here was originally Zhongxiang County, for the father of the Jiajing Emperor Xingxian Wang Zhu Youhang fiefdom, Zhu Houxi into the succession of the unification, Zhong Xiang was regarded as "the land of the dragon dive", upgraded to the Chengtian Mansion, set up the Chengtian, Xianling two guards to defend.

At the time of the wax moon, Xiangyang, De'an, Jingzhou fell in succession, a crane tended to inherit the sky to protect the tomb, accompanied by the patrol according to the imperial history Li Zhensheng, the deputy envoy Zhang Fengzhuo, the remaining staff general Shen Shouchong, Zhong Xiangzhi County Xiao Han and others.

Song Yihe started the township, not ten years of Bingjie Yue, high merit is taboo, Yu Shiwei Zhou Yun sparsely ugly slander a crane, especially when Song Yihe saw the supervisor Yang Sichang, because Yang's father was named Crane, in order to avoid it, he wrote "Song Yiniao" on the name post, which was cited as a joke.

In fact, Gong Jinglun is full of knowledge, knows how to be opportune, and let the governor come, tired of miraculous skills, and practiced 2,000 standard camps, teaching to sit. Entering and stopping solemnly painted one, a good family elite soldiers, and purchased 2,000 bird guns on the east road, the prestige was added, and the thief fled from the wind.

The thieves attacked Runing in the south, and went forward to rescue, Runing City had fallen, and Zuo Liangyu's army disturbed Xiang and Fan, and a crane was sparsely corrected. Under the wax moon, hundreds of thousands of Li Chuang's troops came to Chengtianfu. The public bows his armor. The day and the generals worked together, and the Ling army changed the wood for the city.

However, Li Chuangjun's accumulated salary was burned, the smoke was pure Deshan, and Song Yihe and others were defeated and retreated to the city. Zhang Fengzhuo, the deputy envoy of the sub-patrol, walked into the mountains. The thieves committed the sacrifice of the tomb. Destroy the Temple.

Hundreds of thousands of troops besieged Fucheng, and Song Yihe did not disarm at night, and he fought with all the armies. Bloody battle for five days and nights.

When the vanguard of the intrusive army arrived in Chengtian by boat, some of the local residents wrote the words "Greeting the king" on the gate, and some were ready to open the gate of Xiguan to welcome the intruding army into the city.

On the first day of the first month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the local people opened the city gate, the thieves swarmed in, the Chengtian Mansion was broken, the total soldier Qian Zhongxuan was killed in battle, the Fubiao camp was exhausted, the patrol according to the imperial history Li Zhensheng was captured, and Yang Yongyu, the doctor of Qintianjian, surrendered.

Song Yihe went down to the city to fight in the streets, wiped his blade to kill several thieves and died, and then added the title of governor, and the mound was built as a shrine, and he set up a monument.

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After Li Zicheng captured Chengtian, he changed Chengtianfu to Yangwuzhou, continued to wave his army to the east, and captured Hanchuan County on the fifteenth day of the first month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, which was only one hundred and twenty miles away from Wuchang Fucheng, and could be reached by the Han River.

Zuo Liangyu, who fled all the way from Xiangyang to Wuchang, had not yet stood firm on his heels, and saw Li Zicheng's army rolling in, and continued to flee down the river to Jiujiang, and on the 16th captured several ships on both sides of the strait.

The people of the time said that the left army was evil: "First of all, the small people who could not buy their own boats, entrusted their rooms to grain ships, and thousands of families could be trusted with grain ships." As for the general plunder, a pawn boarded the boat, hundreds of people asked for their lives, the sound of swords and human words, the fish flew in chaos, pitiful! On the 18th, the whole division went east, covering the river with sails, and the sound of sour weeping was ten miles away. The two counties were fortunate to have a little rest. ”

After Zuo Liangyu's troops fled, Li Zicheng's army passed through Liujiaji, and on the 18th day of the first month, they conquered Hanyang Mansion and captured ships 4 or 5,000. On the 19th, they crossed the river to attack Wuchang, but because the river was turbulent and the intruders were not familiar with the water, many ships were sunk by the wind and waves, and many thieves were drowned alive.

The fear of Huguang and Jiangnan's mountains and rivers surged into the hearts of many campers, most of whom were from Shaanxi and Henan, and after arriving in Huguang, they were actually very unaccustomed to it.

At that time, Luo Rucai and others argued with Li Zicheng, thinking that going south to Huguang was not suitable for the development of their various departments, in fact, there was a certain truth, looking at the vast river, the water was turbulent, and Li Zicheng was afraid.

It was also at this time that Li Zicheng decided to stop the large-scale raid on Huguang, and returned to Xiangyang via Yunmeng County.

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Because of the brilliant results of this southern expedition and the capture of Chengtianfu, Li Zichengzhi was full of pride, and the ministers also strongly persuaded Li Zicheng to become the emperor, Li Zicheng was moved, but Niu Jinxing thought that the time was not yet ripe, and Yang Yongyu, the doctor of Qintianjian who surrendered, was as frightened.

Earlier, in order to show his loyalty, he asked Li Zicheng to excavate and destroy the tomb, but when he just dug it, the whole valley was like a thunderstorm, which scared many thieves who dug the tomb to the soul, Yang Yongyu was also very afraid, and he fell seriously ill after going back.

At this time, it is also believed that there is something different in Xianling, which proves that the dragon spirit of the Ming Dynasty is still there, and the emperor is not yet there.

Yang Yongyu claimed to know astronomy, geography, etiquette, and the art of war, and was still the mysterious doctor of Qin Tianjian, Li Zicheng trusted him a lot, although he was moved, he still obeyed Niu Jinxing and his will, did not call the emperor, and temporarily called Fengtian the generalissimo of civil and military affairs.

At the beginning, Li Zicheng attacked the city and plundered many lands, and crossed the Han River, drove into Jing, and saw that there was no soldier, so he had a basis and plotted Jingxiang as the foundation.

So change Xiangyang to Xiangjing, change Tianfu to Yangwuzhou, repair the palace of King Xiang, build Changyi Mansion, divide the army and guard the strategy, set up officials and posts, and Niu Jinxing served as the prime minister, and set up six governments: officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers.

Yu Shangyou is also the servant of the government, Xiao Yingkun is the servant of the household government, Yang Yongyu is the servant of the Li government, Qiu Zhitao is the waiter of the military government, Deng Yanzhong is the waiter of the criminal government, and Yao Xiyin is the waiter of the labor government.

At the local level, each province has a defense envoy, each province has a governor, and according to the complexity of affairs, the prefecture has a prefecture and a magistrate, and the prefecture has a state pastor, and a large prefecture has a prefecture, and the county has a county order, a chief bookkeeper and other officials, and each official is awarded a seal letter to the secretary.

In terms of the military system, further rectification was carried out, and the five battalions were improved, which were divided into five battalions: center, left, right, front, and rear, and the flag colors were divided.

Set up the general of the principal and deputy powers, and the generals of the system, with Tian Jianxiu and Liu Zongmin as the generals of power. Tian Jianxiu was generous and could win the hearts of the people, so he ordered him to supervise the affairs of the camps, Liu Zongmin was qualified, acted as Li Zicheng's right and left hand, and commanded the Zhongquan pro-army.

With Liu Fangliang, Yuan Zongdi, Li Guo, and Liu Xiyao as generals, Gao Yigong and Li Yan are on the left and right, and they are pro-trust.

The five battalions are mainly for siege field battles, and there are local guards, first by Jingxiang, and then set up by Chengtian, De'an, Jingzhou, gradually and Runan, with the general Ren Rongguang of Tongda Guard, with 6,000 soldiers to guard Jingzhou Mansion, and 2,000 to guard Jingzhou City.

With the mighty general Niu Wancai of Tongda Wei, 600 cavalry, and 600 sailors of Zhang Li, the commander of the handsome standard, guarded Yiling. Shuai Biao mighty general Wang Wenyao guarded Lizhou with 6,000 soldiers, and Yang Wuwei Guoyi general Bai Wang guarded Anlu with 3,000 soldiers......

They also set up military attachés at and above the county level to command the local armed forces.

By May of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng Xiangyang regime sent officials to set up a place, north to the south bank of the Yellow River, south to Hunan Lizhou, Anxiang, Huarong and other places, quite large-scale.

In terms of people's livelihood, it was announced that "no urging science" and "no grain will be levied for three years", providing cattle and seeds for the poor, and ordering the protection of cattle. ”

He also said: "The thief bans killing and cultivating, and Zhang officials set up officials to confuse the people's hearts and establish their roots." ”

In the same year, Zhu Yizin, the supervisor and discipline promoter of Huguang Yunyang Prefecture, also said in the book: "The thief also gave cattle seeds, helped the poor, livestock, and farmed mulberry, which is a long-term plan...... This is a situation where the people are attached to the thieves but not the soldiers, and the thieves have food and the soldiers have no food......"

Li Zicheng established the Xiangyang regime and urgently needed a large number of officials, but the gentry were mostly on the sidelines and were suspicious of the thieves.

Li Zicheng in the first month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen to take the exam, the title is "three points of the world has two", but there are few people to take the exam, Li Zicheng was furious, ordered all the students to come to the exam, at that time there were quite a few people who would rather throw themselves into the water than go, so they ordered the evasion to be punished with capital punishment, and then said: "There are those who do not pre-test, slaughter their families." ”

Because of the coercive nature of opening a scholar, scholars did not have the freedom to refuse to participate in the imperial examination, and all beings had to go out, and on the day of the examination, there were those who were angry and scolded for the text, those who were sentimental and cried for the text, and those who were afraid of misfortune and reluctant to do so.

Li Zicheng was angry again, and said loudly: "I cut my ancestors like mowing grass, but I am benevolent and righteous, and I don't kill them, only kill those who scold and cry, and those who don't do it will cut off their ears and noses, and they will be imprisoned for life." ”

At that time, there were many unruly people who cut off their noses and ears, and the gentry were even more afraid, saying: This is the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, and the disaster of the Southern Tang Dynasty Wuguo is also.

Fleeing one after another, Li Zicheng has been vacant for a long time as the local talent he needs.

There are also government servants Yu Shangyou recommended the gentlemen of Jingzhou, and they became the next signs, and Jiangdong raised people Chen Wance and Li Kaixian in the recommendation. (To be continued.) )