Chongzhen eight years, early winter!

The breath of winter has arrived, and although it is not yet the season to wear a padded jacket, people walking around the street can already feel a cold cold. Zhu Yuanzhang led the army to return from Guanwai and first learned about the situation in southern Shaanxi.

Under the rule of Zhu Jun, southern Shaanxi had already harvested potatoes twice, and it was considered a year of peace. The people have received two harvests of grain in this year, and they have received basic living guarantees, so their support for Zhu Jun has also begun to come from the bottom of their hearts. There were some rich families who were worried about being robbed by the poor, and at this time they also understood that Zhu Jun would not shoot at them, but only levied taxes on them. They began to hand over the township warriors in their hands to Zhu Jun to manage, and at the same time, a small number of squires agreed to become local officials in Zhu Jun.

The situation in southern Shaanxi is becoming more and more stable day by day, and the rule of the Zhu army is becoming more and more solid day by day.

On the other hand, in northern Shaanxi, the situation is relatively bad, mixed 100,000, Hengtianwang, and Chongtianzhu do not know how to govern the place at all, they first looted northern Shaanxi, and only panicked when they found that there was nothing to grab, and after buying grain from Zhu Yuanzhang, they hurried to grasp production, began to regain the hearts of the people, and sent officials to manage the place.

But they robbed first and then managed, how did the people and the squires return to their hearts?

The officials who were stationed in various places to manage internal affairs were repeatedly killed by the squires who organized the village warrior army, or were killed by the uprising of the people who did not obey the management of the rogues. When the mixed army of 100,000 retreated, the squires came out of the mountains and killed the mixed 100,000 officials stationed in the local area again.

This is repeated, and the result is a mess of 100,000 people and miserable.

In the past, the imperial court wanted to manage the place well, but as a result, the rogues fought against the imperial court and killed officials and rebelled. Now the situation has reversed, and it has become that the rogues want to manage the place well, and as a result, the good people oppose the rogues and the officials who killed the rogues rebel. Once the offense and defense are exchanged. Mixed 100,000 and the others finally understood why the imperial court had been feeling a headache against Liukou now. People drill in the mountains, and singles are not afraid of wearing shoes......

It's a bit crazy to mix 100,000 and don't know what to do.

Little did he know that he wouldn't be the first person to encounter such a situation. In the future, Zhang Xianzhong will encounter the same problems as him. caused Zhang Xianzhong to be furious and scolded: "Heaven is all things and people. There is nothing in man and no sky". He compares himself to heaven and thinks that he has given the people "all things", but the people do not accept his affection. I had to go against him, he was angry and angry, and there was no proper solution, so he thought of a genius: "Lao Tzu killed all the disobedient people, and no one will come to rebel against me." ”

After Zhang Xianzhong, the Qing soldiers also encountered the same problem, and as a result, the Qing soldiers had the same idea as Zhang Xianzhong, and Lao Tzu also came to kill. Then if you kill it, I will kill it, and Sichuan will kill ten rooms and nine emptiness, and there will be no one.

This kind of stupid and violent way of governing the country can only be imagined by rogues and uneducated savages!

In short, northern Shaanxi is like hell, but southern Shaanxi is like heaven, but unfortunately the people are not well-informed at this time, although northern Shaanxi and southern Shaanxi are not far apart, but the scene of heaven in southern Shaanxi, the people of northern Shaanxi do not know, otherwise they would have all escaped. In such a time when the information is not well-informed, the "family letter" becomes the best way to spread the news. Zhu Yuanzhang collected the families of 100,000 people and others, and wrote letters to their children one after another, telling them about the situation in southern Shaanxi, and these letters naturally spread from the mouths of the soldiers to the people......

As a result, the people of northern Shaanxi finally began a large-scale southward migration, and every day thousands of people crossed the border line and entered Luochuan, not only the people, but even the soldiers under the command of 100,000 people also fled, and the trend of landslides was uncontrollable.

On this day, Zhu Yuanzhang returned to Xianyang, Li Qingshui did not come to greet him, but he brought a group of leaders directly into the hall of Li Qingshui's office, and everyone was not polite, so they sat down next to Li Qingshui, and sent someone to invite General Cao to listen to it.

Li Qingshui and Xiao Cao didn't know what medicine he was going to sell in his gourd, so they all waited quietly to listen.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "The officers and soldiers were once again caused by the 36th Battalion, and we can be quiet here for a while......"

As soon as the words came out, Li Qingshui sighed deeply.

The red lady who had just joined the army still didn't know the situation, she saw that Li Qingshui was young, with good facial features, and dressed as a scribe, and her face was full of righteousness, so she had a good impression in her heart, so she asked curiously: "This ...... Brother Scholar, what are you doing with a sigh? Isn't that a good thing? ”

"Good thing, fart." Li Qingshui didn't care that the other party was a young girl, just regarded her as a thief, and scolded fiercely: "Of course it's a good thing for you thieves, but it's a bad thing for this palace. ”

The red lady was murdered by him, and her small mouth pouted: "What are you doing?" What did the murderer do? What's the matter with this man? ”

Xue Hongqi whispered to her next to her Li Qingshui's identity, and the red lady realized that this scholar had not surrendered yet, and he was pretending to be a court official. She felt funny in her heart, and said to Li Qingshui with a shaven of face: "What is it that the people are so good, it's all nonsense...... Let me ask you, except for southern Shaanxi, now the whole world is in the hands of the imperial court, in your words, we have a miasma here, and the rest of the place is Langlang Qiankun? Then why did the people under Lang Lang Qiankun rebel, but our people here lived and worked in peace and contentment? ”

Li Qingshui was speechless, blushing and unable to answer, so he had to snort and ignore her.

"Alright, let's get down to business." Zhu Yuanzhang ignored the quarrel between the two young men, but said seriously: "Since the officers and soldiers are not coming to us, we have another period of peace, and it is almost time to take over Xi'an." ”

When everyone heard this, their hearts woke up, Xi'an City, which was garrisoned by 5,000 officers and soldiers, was not a thing to chew, not that it could be picked up, but they didn't know what Zhu Baba had planned.

"Xi'an says it's hard to fight, so it's hard to fight, but it's also very simple." Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "I have surrounded it for a year and have not been fighting, almost waiting for this time, now the time is coming, we only need to gently push it, and Xi'an can break it." ”

Everyone didn't understand what they meant, only General Cao Cao had experienced a hundred battles, and also participated in the battle of besieging Jiancheng, knowing what Zhu Yuanzhang meant, although the two Cao were unwilling to participate in the Zhu army, and they didn't want to give advice to the Zhu army, but when they heard this kind of time, they couldn't help but come out and guess what Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to say, Xiao Cao couldn't hold his breath, so he said: "What's so proud, isn't it that the city of Xi'an is about to run out of food, just wait for them to attack the city after the food is exhausted, can they easily break it in one fell swoop?" ”

In ancient times, the army attacked the fortified city, mostly using the method of besieging the city, besieging it for a year and a half, and waiting for the food in the city to run out, and then attacking it with all its might, and the city could naturally be broken. It's not a great way to do it, just a general.

"Although there is no food in the city, there will still be casualties in a strong attack on a big city like Xi'an." Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "I want to minimize the casualties of the soldiers, so I plan to send food to the city." ”

"Delivering food? What do you mean? Everyone was shocked: "How can there be any reason to send food to the enemy?" ”

This time, even Cao couldn't figure out what Zhu Yuanzhang was playing.

Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "I sent the grain to the gate of the city, and I said that it was given to the people in the city to eat......

He made a start, and Xu Renjie immediately realized: "But it is impossible for these grains to fall into the hands of the people, and they will definitely be eaten by the officers and soldiers stationed in the city." ”

"Exactly!" Zhu Yuanzhang said: "In this way, we are good people in the hearts of the people, and the officers and soldiers have become evil people. It only needs to be sent a few more times, and the officers and soldiers need to take away the food a few more times, and the city will be self-defeating. ”

At this time, a sneer came from the side, it turned out to be Li Qingshui, and he said: "If this official is an official in Xi'an City, how can he not see through your strategy?" Just divide the grain sent in into two parts, one for the people and one for the soldiers, and the people will not be too dissatisfied. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at him without blinking, and said seriously: "Of course I know that there are people of insight in Xi'an City, who can see through this superficial strategy, but ah......" He said a but, but the one behind him didn't say anything, turned his head to look at Cao Wenzhao and said: "General Cao, what do you think?" ”

Cao Wenzhao smiled bitterly and said: "The soldiers are like bandits, how can they be restrained by a few people of insight?" What's more, even if there are people of insight in the city, there will be people who will pull them back...... Alas...... In addition, the food sent at one time does not have to be too much, if the other party really sees through the strategy, it will not be sent in the future...... It's just a matter of letting the people in the city last a few more days. ”

When Li Qingshui heard this, his face changed.

"Alright, let's go get ready." Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, Li Chujiu took the lead in walking out and mobilized food, and Zhu Yuanzhang summoned the army, and all the elite soldiers, miscellaneous soldiers, and chaotic township warriors under his command were all summoned, leaving only Tongguan and Wuguan to leave a few thousand troops to garrison, and the rest came to Xi'an City to make a strong noise.

This time the total summoning of troops, actually summoned 30,000 troops, it turned out that after a year of development, the Zhu army has levied countless new soldiers into the group, at this time the strength has doubled rapidly, of course, half of them are untrained recruits, and even mixed with a lot of village warriors, need to be left for later slow adjustment.

30,000 troops gathered under the city of Xi'an, and the momentum was impressive...... (To be continued.) )