The Tianxiong army was destroyed, and Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the five provinces, died in battle, and the impact of such a thing in the imperial court was many times greater than that of Cao Wenzhao's death. 》，

Eight thousand eight hundred sergeants, less than five hundred people were finally evacuated, and the rest were all killed, the news reached Qinyuan County, and the thousand sergeants stationed in Qinyang County quickly evacuated, and even Lu Xiangsheng was killed, they continued to stick to Qinyang County, undoubtedly looking for death, in fact, these thousand sergeants did not have to evacuate, but unfortunately their hearts have been occupied by fear, and they will not continue to stick to Qinyang County at all.

The losses of the rogue in this war are also heavy, especially the loss of the former army, which is even greater, serving as the task of luring, and the arrangement and deployment of the battle is not particularly familiar, the front army lost one-third of its troops, the cruel fighting of the ambush war, the loss of the rogue is also very large, the whole calculation, the loss of troops is close to 20,000 people, in this case, the rogue has no heart to attack Qinyang County.

When the army led by Lu Xiangsheng was almost completely annihilated, the Chinese army led by Gao Qiqian was still more than a day's way away from Qinyang County, which showed that its marching speed was extremely slow.

Hearing the news of the battle ahead, Gao Qiqian led the army to retreat quickly, returned to Wanshan, and after staying in Wanshan for a day, he rushed to Runing Mansion to avoid encountering Liukou.

The army was stationed outside the city of Runing, and Gao Qiqian first issued an order to the governors of Shanxi, Huguang and Sichuan, asking the Weisho army to quickly rush to the city of Runing to assemble and wait for the order.

How to write a recital for the imperial court is a problem that Gao Qiqian needs to think about carefully.

Gao Qiqian is a prison army. The commander was killed, as a supervising army, under normal circumstances, he has an unshirkable responsibility, and if nothing else, he will definitely be punished by the imperial court, but Gao Qiqian is not at the mercy of others. In a short period of time, he thought of a way to deal with it and make sure that he didn't have any problems.

One by one, the folds were sent from Runing Mansion to the capital, and as the folds were sent out, Gao Qiqian slowly became calm and confident.

The news of Lu Xiangsheng's death and the destruction of the Tianxiong army spread all over the Ming Dynasty in the shortest possible time. Such news cannot be hidden.

Li Yan and others seized this opportunity to publicize Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, to the greatest extent, and at the same time exaggerated the cruelty of the battle, so that many officials and soldiers in Henan were afraid. In just over ten days, the rebel army occupied most of the areas such as Xinyang Prefecture and Wanshan, which belonged to Runing Prefecture. Gao Qiqian, who was stationed in Runing Mansion, did not dare to fight.

Liu Guoneng, the king of the world, Lin Chengcheng, the scorpion block Tuoyangkun, the sweeping king Zhang Yichuan, etc., all came to Li Zicheng, which made the rapid growth of the righteous army, and the number of sergeants soon exceeded 100,000.

Zhang Xianzhong, who was active at the junction of Shanxi and Henan, was not to be outdone, and openly played the banner of the righteous army. Expanding its own scale, there are actually many people who defect.

For a time, there was a lot of noise in all parts of Henan, and Kaifeng Fucheng, Luoyang Fucheng and other places began to be highly nervous, even Shanxi, Huguang and Sichuan. I also felt nervous.

The only stable place in the five northern provinces is Shaanxi, because there is a Zheng army stationed here, and because the governor Wen Zhenheng is not afraid of the Liukou, but the situation is still unfavorable to Shaanxi, after all, the neighboring Henan, Shanxi, Huguang and Sichuan and other places, the reputation of the Liukou is shocked, and some of the people who have been exploited either take the initiative to take refuge in the Liukou, or respect Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong and others.

No one would have thought that the Liukou, who was still cowering in the mountains not long ago, would rise in such a short time, and its influence had exceeded the scale of the Xingyang Conference that year, and the Liukou had won the support of many ordinary people, and even some of the gentry and wealthy households also showed different attitudes towards the Liukou.

The reason for this is actually not difficult to analyze, but unfortunately no one will trace the source.

Beijing, Forbidden City.

Lu Xiangsheng died in battle, the court always needs to have a statement, and the power of the rogues has grown, and the court also needs to spend energy to exterminate the rogues, and it can't let the rogues be arrogant.

At the beginning of the early dynasty, the emperor's expression was very bad, and his life was very comfortable, but he didn't expect such a big thing to happen suddenly, if Henan and other places were occupied by Liukou, it would directly threaten Beizhili.

According to the usual practice, when Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the five provinces, died in battle, the imperial court wanted to comfort him, at least to express his condolences, and at the same time give him a certain name, which was a respect for the deceased and an affirmation of Lu Xiangsheng's contribution in the battle to exterminate the Liukou.

However, the discussion at the court meeting was almost one-sided.

The impeachment of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is like a rainflake, all of which impeached Lu Xiangsheng, and this is all because of the war reports from the front, these war reports were written by Gao Qiqian of the prison army, and some of the officers wrote them, and the general meaning of the twists and turns is to accuse Lu Xiangsheng of acting arbitrarily and arbitrarily, not following the advice of Gao Qiqian of the prison army, insisting on going his own way, leading the Tianxiong Army and other parts of the soldiers, and going deep alone, which led to such a major fiasco.

Under such circumstances, Lu Xiangsheng's image has undergone earth-shaking changes, not only did he deserve his own death, but also nearly 10,000 sergeants.

Qian Shisheng, Hou Sui and others supported the impeachment of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Wen Tiren, the first assistant of the cabinet, did not say too much, but he was very uncomfortable in the early dynasty, after all, Lu Xiangsheng was the person he fully recommended and promoted, and after suffering such a major failure, he was not easy to talk about as the first assistant of the cabinet.

Zhang Fengyi, the deputy assistant of the cabinet, was very vague, and did not support or oppose the impeachment of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Because of the impeachment of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, it should be the attitude of Qian Shisheng and others, and the emperor, who was furious, did not think of anything else, and even did not think of sending someone to Henan to investigate, and immediately made a decision to reprimand Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the five provinces, who was killed, and did not give any canonization.

In this case, all the responsibility is borne by Lu Xiangsheng alone, why the rogues were able to rise in such a short period of time, why Gao Qiqian, who is a prison army, did not have timely reinforcements, all these things do not need to be investigated, the dead cannot argue, they cannot speak for themselves, and the living people are safe and sound, unscathed.

Because of his arrogant character, Lu Xiangsheng has almost no friends and no supporters in the court, and when encountering such a situation, many people can analyze the truth, and naturally no one speaks for Lu Xiangsheng.

There is only one exception to this, that is, the crown prince Shaobao, Hubu Shangshu, the right capital Yushi, and the governor of Caoyun Zheng Xunrui spoke for Lu Xiangsheng, Zheng Xunrui's recital was read out by Yang Yipeng, the cabinet minister, Zheng Xunrui believes that Lu Xiangsheng has been the governor of the five provinces, conscientious, and bent on exterminating the Liukou, and the death on foot is a major loss to the imperial court, and his behavior of taking the lead and bravely killing the enemy should be praised by the imperial court.

It's a pity that Zheng Xunrui's performance is unlikely to be valued by the imperial court, including the emperor's opinion of Zheng Xunrui, which is a little subtle, not to mention that Zheng Xunrui is in Huai'an, unable to participate in the early dynasty, and unable to defend Lu Xiangsheng in person.

The tone was quickly set, and Lu Xiangsheng did not receive any praise and was almost forgotten by the imperial court.

The next step was to determine the successor of the governors of the five provinces.

The proposal is divided into two aspects, on the one hand, the opinion suggests that Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, concurrently serve as the governor of the five provinces, responsible for the extermination of the Liukou, Shanhaiguan and Liaodong and other places, basically stabilized, Houjin has already expressed his submission, Hong Chengchou can completely withdraw from the matter of exterminating the Liukou, on the other hand, the opinion is that Zheng Xunrui, the governor of Caoyun, is responsible for the extermination of the Liukou.

Both of these opinions were put forward directly by the Cabinet.

The emperor did not accept the cabinet's proposal, but asked Yang Sichang, the secretary of the military department, to propose a candidate.

Yang Sichang directly recommended Xiong Wencan, the left attendant of the military department.

The emperor supported Yang Sichang's proposal.

The holy decree was soon issued, and Xiong Wencan, as the left attendant of the military department, served as the right deputy imperial envoy and the governor of the five provinces.

Another interesting decree was also issued at this time, that is, Henan suspended the collection of agricultural taxes that had been in arrears over the years.

The emperor denied the cabinet's proposal, and actually asked Yang Sichang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, to propose a candidate, and after Yang Sichang proposed the candidate, he immediately agreed, which made many people look sideways at Yang Sichang, which means that the emperor has trusted Yang Sichang very much, and everyone is almost certain that in determining the candidate for the governor of the five provinces, the emperor has long discussed with Yang Sichang, and such a discussion is directly bypassing the cabinet, what does this mean.

In fact, many people understand that Lu Xiangsheng has good skills, both civil and military, and has made a lot of contributions in the battle to exterminate the Liukou, but unfortunately because of reasons in the court, he could not get the gift of the court after he died.

After the news spread, the discussion in private soon appeared, most of them were upset for Lu Xiangsheng, but no one dared to stand up and speak, after all, the Donglin party and eunuchs in the court were trying their best to suppress Lu Xiangsheng, in this case, whoever dared to speak for Lu Xiangsheng would be tantamount to offending the Donglin party and eunuchs, and then they would not be able to gain a foothold in the court.

The growth of the Liukou in Henan has also caused a lot of discussion, and some people believe that the growth of the Liukou again has a lot to do with the collection of agricultural taxes in arrears by the imperial court over the years, not to mention that the emperor has decreed to temporarily stop collecting the arrears of agricultural taxes in Henan over the years.

Lu Xiangsheng's death, on the surface, did not cause any turmoil in the imperial court, but the actual impact has been formed, and this influence has been temporarily suppressed for some special reasons, but it will soon be revealed. (To be continued......)