On the second day, the main force of Dengzhou Town set off, and the forward at this time had already camped by the Qi River. There were still countless rogues who had escaped that day on the mountains around Lin County, some of them had hundreds, and as soon as the sentry cavalry found out, Dengzhou Town sent a detachment of men and horses to clear them, and the road was very slow, Chen Xin hoped to let them drive as far as possible.

Lu Xiangsheng's Daimyo Mansion Tianxiong Army stayed in Cixian County to clean up those scattered bandits, and most of the Baoding soldiers of Liang Fu, the chief soldier of Baoding, also stayed in the border area between Henan and Beizhili, to prevent fish from slipping through the net to break into Beizhili, and only sent a guerrilla Huang Yonggui with more than 1,000 Baoding soldiers to Henan.

In addition to the banks of the river, the drought in Linxian County is also very severe, and many places are not barren, but lack of water to the point where no grass grows. The part along the mountain of Taihang Mountain is slightly better, there are a lot of mountain springs that can be diverted, and the canal water conservancy facilities can also be made along the Huanhe River, and the roots are not good in the farther places, and a lot of land is abandoned for a long time, and some soldiers feel that no one has cultivated it for at least several years after going to check.

In Chen Xin's previous life, the famous Hongqi Canal was in Linxian County, which led the water of the Zhanghe River to the basin of Linxian County, which was regarded as solving the problem of irrigation in Linxian County. However, Chen Xin did not have that kind of mobilization power in Linxian County, and he couldn't afford to spend that time, so he could only grab the riverside fields with the local people, and a division of the Third General Department of the Guards Battalion stayed behind to deter the local clan forces, and most of the seized grain was also left here as their start-up capital.

The people of the Tun Affairs Division began to gather the displaced people in Cixian County, Linxian County and other places, and set up the tunbao together with the group of prisoners who remained, and this place could not be repaired with a wall like Denglai, and the rammed earth city wall had to be built, which could not be completed in a short time. The other is to occupy the land, Chen Xin's instructions to the Tun Department are. If there is a dispute over the land, it may be bought for silver.

The magistrate of Linxian County was coerced by Lu Zhi, and now he didn't dare to care about the affairs of Dengzhou Town, Chen Xin also went to visit before leaving, and gave some carrots after the stick, but his statement changed again, only saying that some prisoners could not be placed, and Lu Jianjun planned to arrange for them to be in Tuntian in Linxian County, and then they would still pay taxes to Linxian County. It is a great achievement in Linxian County.

The magistrate suddenly realized, thinking that Lu Zhi wanted the landlord, so Chen Xin borrowed Lu Zhi's momentum in the middle, and the magistrate was fooled in, of course he would not go to Lu Zhi to confront him. repeatedly said that he wanted to take care of those people, and he also checked the field book overnight, and then took people to Chen Xin to show them the abandoned land where there would be fewer disputes, so the first step of Tunbao in Linxian County had already gone out.

One of the remaining divisions continued to bury the corpses in various parts of the battlefield with some prisoners, not because they were well-intentioned, because the climate was hot in May and June, and the corpses were prone to epidemics. Since they were going to set up camp here, this was what they had to do, and although one of the officials of the Agricultural Science Institute who accompanied the team said that the corpses could enrich the fields, no one, from the officers and soldiers to the homeless, was willing to bury the corpses in the fields. After the officers and soldiers left. Scattered local residents have also returned to their hometowns, only to find out that they have a new group of neighbors.

This initial stronghold was an important step for Dengzhou, which is currently slowly infiltrating the Qingzhou province to bring the ownerless land under its control. In order to receive more and more displaced people, this action is certainly in conflict with the locality. Therefore, Chen Xincai wanted to let the Dihu continue to create trouble in Qingzhou Mansion, firstly, to divert the attention of the government, and secondly, to use bandits to contain those gentlemen, and at this time, his order to Wu Jianzhong had already been issued......

In May of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the official army successively won a great victory in Shaanxi and Henan, killing more than 10,000 Liukou, and the 36th battalion ran around on both sides of Taihang Mountain, trying to find a soft persimmon, but unfortunately they did not find it, they could not deal with the border army in the north, and they could not do it in Dengzhou Town on this side of Henan, and the scope of activity was getting narrower and narrower.

Chen Xin got in touch with Cao Zhao, and the two armies marched together along both sides of Taihang to prevent the Liukou from taking advantage of the difference in the march to flow back and forth, but it was found that there were many difficulties in the implementation, and many Liukou were running into the mountains, and these two strong armies were also invincible, and the Taihang Mountains were undulating, and those Liukou had no cottages to fight, and they often pursued for a day and could not even see a few. Even the infantry in Dengzhou was like this, and Cao Zhao's cavalry was even more strenuous, so he had to slow down and advance slowly.

At the beginning of June, Chen Xin took Geng Zhongming, Zuo Liangyu and other troops into Weihui Mansion, and Deng Xi's Sichuan army was earlier than them, except for the thousand Sichuan troops led by Ma Xianglin's wife Zhang Fengyi, the rest of the Shizhu soldiers brought by Qin Liangyu in the third year of Chongzhen gathered in Weihui Mansion.

At that time, Qin Liangyu led the Shizhu soldiers to 9,000 Qin Wang, and now has been led by Qin Yiming to leave thousands of people, there is no backbone like Qin Liangyu and Qin Yiming, and the Sichuan soldiers often clamoring and shouting to return to their hometowns. On the way from Beizhili to Henan, some people left to return to their hometowns first, and now there are about 4,000 left, Deng Xi has received more than 2,000, Ma Xianglin and Zhang Fengyi have each received more than 1,000, and Zhang Fengyi's department has been transferred to Huaiqing Fucheng.

After the news of the victory in Linxian spread, Henan Governor Xuan Mo found the target and personally came to lead the East Route Army, the assembly place was set in Weihui Mansion, and the East Road army gathered, including 4,000 Dengzhou Town Regiment Training General Barracks, Dengzhou Standard Camp 700, Sichuan Army 4,000, Beijing Camp 5,000, Changping Soldiers 2,000, Daimyo Mansion Regiment Training 2,000, Henan Mao Soldiers 4,000. Among them, the strongest combat power is Dengzhou Town and the Sichuan Army, but both armies are infantry as the main force, and the other battalions are not of great use, and only Jiading can be relied on.

The number of officers and soldiers in Henan is nominally more than 20,000, but in fact, there are more or less departments, and there are many vacancies in the Beijing camp and Henan soldiers, and Zuo Liangyu is far more than that, they are stationed in Huixian County according to Xuan Mo's requirements, waiting for the arrival of the governor, and the military camps are full of military camps outside Huixian County.

The 36th Battalion could not resist the pressure of the northern border army, and after breaking through to the west and being intercepted by Xu Dingchen, they could only entrench themselves in Zezhou and move through guò to constantly contain the officers and troops, but their loose system was difficult to form a joint force, but was broken by a strong army like Cao Zhao, and it became more and more difficult. However, their style of playing when they saw a gap forced the officers and troops to often turn back to catch up, delaying the progress of the officers and troops on the North Road.

The Liukou in Henan is still chaotic, and the small group of them will drill back to Taihang Mountain when they encounter pursuit, and run to Shanxi to wander around, if the Shanxi officials and soldiers are persecuted, they will go back to the mountain.

The small shares can flow casually, but the largest shares of Zijin Liang, Chuang Wang and others cannot. Unable to raise enough food in Zezhou, they finally crossed the Taihang Mountains and entered Henan, where half of the 36th Battalion was gathered in Weihui and Huaiqing, and at last they found that their wanderings had led them into a huge encirclement.

To the west and north are the most elite border armies drawn from the nine sides, with Taihang and Wangwu Mountain in the middle, and the rolling Yellow River in the south. The Sichuan army, Dengzhou Town, and Changping soldiers in the east are the best men and horses that Chongzhen can draw, and there is the rise of Dengzhou Town. Chongzhen was absolutely unwilling to adjust the entry of the ill-intentioned ancestral army.

Chen Xin dispersed the army according to the headquarters of 1,000 and deployed between Huixian County and Taihang Mountain, Geng Zhongming and Deng Xi were between Huixian and Fucheng, Zuo Liangyu was transferred to the vicinity of Weihui Fucheng, and Henan soldiers strictly guarded the various crossings of the Yellow River. The ship has been collected, and the siege of the Liukou in northern Henan has been completed.

After this year, Jin did not come to make trouble for the time being, so that the financial resources and manpower of the Ming court were inclined to the side of the Liukou, and the Ming army blocked the Liukou on both sides of Taihang and Wangwu Mountain at the junction of Shanxi and Henan. After they left Beijing, they hurried quite quickly, and arrived at Zhangde Mansion on the tenth day of June. Since the first year of Chongzhen, the most favorable form of suppression has appeared.

The most ferocious thieves are concentrated here, and as long as the rogue bandits in this area are annihilated, most of the scourge of the rogue will be pacified. Huaiqing and other places have been fought many times. Many areas were robbed by the rogues, who rushed to Weihui's mansion like hungry wolves, just to grab enough food.

Leaders such as Zijin Liang and King Chuang noticed the severity of the form, and began to convene the leaders of each battalion to discuss the method of breaking through. In addition, the scope of looting is expanded. At this time, the emptiest thing for the official army was Huaiqing Mansion, and the rogues changed their normality. Even the fortified stockades attacked without counting casualties in order to gain more food reserves.

A few rogue bandits who had just arrived in Weihui looked down on the inland soldiers and horses, and the momentum was very strong, and they rushed to the city of Weihui to loot, Xuan Mo ordered Changping's other deputy general soldier Tang Jiuzhou to chase and suppress, and the order passed to Chen Xin was very peculiar, in addition to asking him to clear the county border of Huixian County, he actually asked him to send troops to Qingchi Liuquan Pass to defend the mausoleum of Princess Lu, in case it was dug by the rogue robbers.

Chen Xin received the order not to fight in one place, but this matter can't be avoided, in case it is really dug up, King Lu's fiefdom is in Weihui Mansion, if he is impeached, Chongzhen is most distressed by these relatives, and it is very troublesome to deal with. He had to send two hundred cavalry to rush there, and he really waited until a group of rogues was routed in a battle, and the horsemen ran away as usual.

Weihui Mansion has poured in more than 50,000 rogues, belonging to more than 10 large and small bandits, and some bandits and bandits in Henan came out to take advantage of the fire to rob, Weihui Mansion is a chaotic battle, all the rogue bandits are scurrying around, and sometimes the foreign bandits are also fighting with the bandits. The power of the officers and soldiers is not strong, and they follow behind to eat ashes, although they often claim great victories, but they are all exiles who are coerced by killing, or the heads of ordinary people.

It was difficult to achieve decisive results in such a chaotic war, and time dragged on again and again, and Chen Xin's military rations were also tight. The military rations brought by Dengzhou Town were replenished once in the Daimyo Mansion, and a lot of them had been lost after they came out, and the captured grain Chen Xin was left in Lin County, seeing that the supply was hopeless, the quartermaster had to transfer the grain from Lin County first, and then transfer the reserves of the shops in the Daimyo Mansion to Lin County by water, and in addition, he urgently purchased them from the Linqing Trading Company and asked them to continue to transport them to the Daimyo's Mansion. The loss of transfer from Linqing is very large, and the consumption on the road is thirty percent, and every time it is necessary to send troops from Dengzhou Town to escort back and forth, causing fatigue of the troops.

Chen Xin first asked Hui County for grain, but Hui County's army gathered, and Nazhi County couldn't get together so much grain even if he sold himself, Deng Xi, Geng Zhongming, and Baoding Jun's people went to Hui County every day to scold and scold, and after Nazhi County provided the grain from the county treasury, he simply hid in the county government and couldn't come out.

The hundreds of stone grain in Huixian County are not enough to stuff the teeth, Chen Xin had to go to Xuan Mo again, Xuan Mo quickly transported two hundred stones, and the reply was very polite, and the whole article was to praise Dengzhou Town, but in the end he said that there was not much military food for the time being, and the support was difficult in various places, and the transportation was also very inconvenient.

Lu Zhi didn't respond to Xuan Moxing, he gave the celebrant a bullet to impeach Xuan Mo, and it didn't work for a while. Chen Xin can't even do it, and the other guest troops are even more useless. So the Sichuan army, Zuo Liangyu and Geng Zhongming all began to grab grain in the countryside, and sometimes joined forces to fight the gentry's stockade, and Geng Zhongming grabbed half of it and handed over half of it to Chen Xin, earning a lot of money.

These soldiers can do this, but Chen Xin can't do that. Chen Xin's original supply points were in the Daimyo's Mansion, Kaifeng and Luoyang, and now they are just in a few places that don't match, and Kaifeng Mansion looks close. There are only two hundred and twenty miles, but there is a Yellow River in the middle, and after crossing the river, more than two hundred miles are all land routes.

However, military rations are the root and must be solved, so he sent the quartermaster to Weihui's mansion to ask about the price, and one stone is worth three taels of silver. Huixian killed five taels with one stone, and completely regarded the officials and soldiers as the wronged leader.

He could only urgently send an order to Wang Erya, asking her to personally rush to the Daimyo Mansion to raise grain, transport grain through the Guò Wei River to Qimen Town on the border of Weihui Mansion, and then he sent troops to escort him to the shore near the city of Weihui Mansion. Then it is transported to Huixian by land, and such a land route is only a few dozen miles, which can greatly reduce the distance.

Dengzhou Town struggled to replenish food from Lin County, and at the same time cleared the Liukou in Hui County, and successively repelled Xue Rengui and the Eight Kings of Nanying, and drove them into Taihang Mountain, and Chen Xin only knew at this time that there were three Eight Kings in the Liukou. Zhang Xianzhong is only the eight kings of Xiying.

There were battles almost every day in Dengzhou Town, except for fighting in the plains, sometimes going north into the mountains to clear the crackdowns, and ninety percent of the battles were trivial dog fights. When they chased after them, they had already run away, and in just half a month, several more small Liukou entered Lin County from Taihang Mountain, and the scattered Liukou that day gathered under their command again. Becoming a medium-sized thief, Lu Xiangsheng quickly went to chase after him. But Dengzhou Town needed more troops to transport military rations. After trying their best to beat people, they also made them surrounded by bandits, and the whole town of Dengzhou was holding back a breath, and they now knew that the Liukou's words were not called in vain.

Dozens of bandits and the officials and soldiers fought in Weihui, the rogues came and went, killing people and stealing things everywhere in the countryside, and the officers and soldiers also killed people and robbed things after chasing and running away, and when they met, they robbed each other, and the two sides won and lost each other. Zuo Liangyu and Deng Xi were directly ordered to fight the thieves everywhere with Xuan Mo, and the two also won several victories, and gradually gained a reputation on the side of the thieves.

In this kind of suffocation and chaos, everyone has been busy directing various departments to chase and fight the rogues near Fucheng, and they haven't even had a meeting. stayed up until June 13, and finally came an order, asking them to go to Weihui Mansion City for a meeting, preparing to listen to Lord Xuan's deployment to attack the main force of Liukou.

Lu Zhi has a lot of opinions about Xuan Mo, Yuan Chen Xin led the generals to fight well, he was so sideways, there was no unified strategy for half a day, and all the armies were dragged near Fucheng, completely restrained by the rogue, and now he can't give military food. And I heard that Xuan Mo had been waiting for the arrival of the Beijing camp, so he didn't hold a meeting until June 15, so Lu Zhi felt that Xuan Mo was a little cold about the strong soldiers in Dengzhou, and as soon as his temper came up, he also planned to drag it out, and replied to ask Xuan Mo to give the military rations first.

Chen Xinlai was angry with Xuan Mo, and he came to fight the rogues in Henan, but he didn't give enough supplies to the guest soldiers, and he didn't know whose head he was protecting. Now seeing that Lu Zhi is like this, he naturally stands on Lu Zhi's side and throws Xuan Mo's military orders aside like waste paper, so Geng Zhongming and Baoding's Huang guerrilla did not go, and they stirred up Xuan Mo's conference.

At this time, Xuan Mo had learned that Lu Zhi was impeaching himself, and he immediately impeached Lu Zhi for his dictatorship, and he would never lose his momentum. However, he himself found the stairs to get under the stairs, postponed the meeting to the 18th, and rushed to deliver a thousand stone of grain on the 16th, only saying that it was for Chen Xin.

Since the governor gave him food, Chen Xin got off the donkey, and after persuading Lu Zhi to agree, he followed the staff sent by Xuan Mo to Weihui Mansion for a meeting.

On the 17th, the chief generals and supervisors of each department went to Weihui Mansion for a meeting, in addition to Chen Xin's Lu Zhi here, Deng Xi and Zuo Liangyu also had a supervising army, which were sent at the beginning of the year, and that batch of four eunuchs totaled Cao Zhao, Zhang Yingchang, Deng Xi and Zuo Liangyu's army.

Chen Xin and Lu Zhi took Geng Zhongming to arrive at Fucheng on the same day, Weihui Fucheng is the county governance of Ji County, it was only added and repaired during the Wanli period, the city has more than six days, three gates, and the moat is three feet and five feet wide, which is a medium-sized city. There are more than 1,000 people stationed in the Henan standard camp nearby, more than 1,000 Sichuan troops of Ma Xianglin, plus the local Henan soldiers and horses guarding the city, which seem to be solid.

The market in the city is very depressed, and there are many people watching the excitement on the roadside, but their eyes are dull. Many of them had never heard of Dengzhou Town, and few of them knew how to read, so they were just in a daze when they looked at Chen Xin's banner.

The meeting took place at Wei Hui's prefect's yamen, and the surrounding streets were swept away by Xuan Mo's standard camp. Song Wenxian, who had already caught up with the brigade, also followed behind Chen Xin and Lu Zhi. A few people dismounted outside the wall and handed them over to the soldiers to take them away, and a few pacesetters standing guard at the door looked quite energetic.

The staff sent by Xuan Mo led a few people into the prefect's yamen, and heard that Xuan Mo was meeting the two chief military officers from the Beijing camp, and arranged for the two to wait in a side hall in the second hall. When Lu Zhi heard this, he had to wait again, and he was so dissatisfied that he didn't even drink tea. The attendant retreated to the door in embarrassment and waited.

Chen Xin drank tea happily, talked to Geng Zhongming, Huang Guerrilla and others, and waited for a quarter of an hour, and then the staff hurriedly came in and said, "Lord Chen, Husband Lu, Master Xuandu invites the two adults to go to the main hall to talk." ”

As soon as Chen Xin and the others stood up and prepared to go over, Lu Zhi slapped the table and said in a non-yin and non-yang manner: "Our family suddenly has a sudden urgency, please bring it with you." ”

He walked to the door. Said to the attendant who was staying: "Lead the way!" ”

Chen Xin smiled, sat down and watched the staff lead Lu Zhi to the thatched house, I don't know how long Lu Zhi will be in urgency, and it will be a quarter of an hour.

Song Wenxian leaned over and laughed in a low voice: "My lord, my subordinates feel about our Daming's affairs." The more people there are, the more difficult it is, and we have fought alone a few times very smoothly, and as soon as we get together with other battalions, we will be troubled. ”

Chen Xin glanced at Geng Zhongming and Huang Guerrilla, who were at the bottom, and also replied in a low voice: "I heard that the Sichuan army can fight, I don't know if I will partner with them." ”

"My subordinates heard that Deng Xi did not belong to the Shizhu Tusi, and not all of his subordinates were Shizhu soldiers. Among them, there are quite a few people who disagree with him, and the real white pole soldiers are led by Ma Xianglin and Zhang Fengyi. ”

"Oh, is there such a thing?" Chen Xin didn't know much about it, although he fought together in Linxian this time. But he didn't see Deng Xi, they were all coming and going, and after the battle of Huanshui, Deng Xi hurried all the way south. So not much is understood. Song Wenxian also heard the gossip in the Beijing Division, but later Deng Xi was indeed killed by the Sichuan soldiers.

Chen Xin remembered the bloody battle of the Hunhe River. said lightly: "I still admire General Qin, this time I heard that his son Ma Xianglin is also here, but I want to make a good friend." ”

Song Wenxian knew that Chen Xin was speaking beautifully, in fact, befriending these people had a purpose, as a strong army in the southwest region, and had a great reputation, it was always right to make friends.

He asked softly, "Do you want to prepare some gifts?" ”

"Of course." Chen Xin nodded, "But I just remembered one thing, which is better than a silver ticket." ”

Song Wenxian was about to ask, but someone came at the door again, and another staff member led a general in, the general was tall, but one eye was wrapped in cloth, Chen Xin hurriedly stood up, and the attendant introduced to Chen Xin: "General Chen, this is General Ma Xianglin from the Shizhu Xuanfu Division." ”

Ma Xianglin has been in Shanhaiguan for more than two years and is already very familiar with Dengzhou Town, he admires Dengzhou Town and hurriedly greets Chen Xin.

Song Wenxian was sighing that it was a coincidence, and he wanted to hear what good things Chen Xin could give, but he saw that Chen Xin didn't bring anything with him, so he wouldn't give the mountain armor to others.

I saw Chen Xin pick up Ma Xianglin and look at it carefully for a while, that kind of look even Song Wenxian didn't know if he was acting, Ma Xianglin was also a little strange, this person was the first time he saw him, why did he feel like he had a lot to say.

Chen Xin remembered at this time that the bloody and unyielding Sichuan soldiers by the Hunhe River, and this Ma Xianglin was also one of them, and finally escaped, Chongzhen came to the aid of Liao with the army for three years, and later participated in the battle of chasing and killing Liukou, until Chongzhen died in Xiangyang in the fifteenth year, Qin Liangyu's family can be described as full of loyalty, and even Ma Xianglin's wife is also leading the army to fight at this time.

Chen Xin sighed softly, "It turned out to be General Ma of the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, a certain million people can't afford to be a general, the bloody battle of the Hunhe River is the courage of my Ming army, so that Jiannu also knows that I am not without people in China, every time I think about this, the official is moved." ”

Ma Xianglin has also heard a lot of such words over the years, but he just said a few words politely, and Chen Xin continued: "Chen has a reluctant request here, and I also ask General Ma to forgive me." ”

"Lord Chen, please speak."

"The official has always come up with a book, called "Liaodong Heroic Martyrs", so that my Ming heroes in Liaodong will always be famous in the world, among which the generals of the Sichuan army of the bloody battle of the Hunhe River are not very familiar, it has not been completed, today to see the general, Chen is embarrassed, many years of long-cherished wishes and poured into his heart, so the official wants to ask General Ma for advice, in addition to Qin Bangping and Zhou Dunji, there are still those heroic soldiers, what are the heroic deeds."

Song Wenxian and Ma Xianglin both opened their mouths slightly, Song Wenxian never expected that Chen Xin would be able to make this move, and Ma Xianglin never thought that there would be someone willing to write a book for a martial artist, even if this person is also a martial artist, those fallen comrades-in-arms and relatives by the Hunhe River appeared in front of him one by one, he remembered that the deeds of these people could be turned into books and passed on, and his heart began to be excited inexplicably.

Song Wenxian saw that Ma Xianglin's eyes were a little red, shook his head slightly, and gave a thumbs up with his hand in his sleeve to learn Chen Xin's style.

After Lu Zhi came back in a quarter of an hour, he suddenly saw a one-eyed general chatting with Chen Xin, and he was as excited as an old friend he hadn't seen for many years.

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