Zhang Yingchang was dressed thinly when he rushed out of the camp, and although he wrapped a blanket around his body in a hurry, he was still shivering in the cold wind, his lips were blue, but he was just trying to escape for his life, and he couldn't take care of these stubbles at this time. ran all the way for more than ten miles, only to meet the scout team sent by the governor Yang He, and took him back to the camp.

Yang He is a clear-looking old man, he is very old, he is a Jinshi in the 32nd year of Wanli, and he served as the governor of the trilateral with the position of the imperial history of the capital, and was fully responsible for the military affairs of Yansui, Ningxia and Gansu, and controlled the governor of Hexi, Hedong, and Shaanxi, as well as the nine general soldiers of Gan, Liang, Su, Xi, Ningxia, Yansui, Shendaoling, Xing'an, and Guyuan, and was a high authority. He also has a son who is very famous, that is, Yang Sichang, who once beat Li Zicheng to only 18 horsemen in the future, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting are under his command.

Yang He himself has a gentle personality, is elegant, and is more sympathetic to the suffering of the people, so he can be regarded as a good official. During his tenure of office, he strongly advocated that the solution to the problem of thieves should be used at the same time, and that the problem of the livelihood of the thieves should be solved. In fact, this is a very insightful point of view, the root cause of the thieves is that the common people can't survive, if this problem is not solved, even if the rebellion is put down for a while, it will eventually rise again, just as Yang He said when he defended himself to Emperor Chongzhen: "The thieves are extremely poor and hungry, and they have nowhere to live. ”

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the social contradictions had intensified to the extreme, the land annexation was extremely strict, and the imperial court, princes and nobles pressed on the heads of the people like mountains, while the local gentry and landlords not only enjoyed the right to be exempted from preferential treatment, but also colluded with officials to evade grain taxes by means of guò trickery, sprinkling, and insinuation, so that most of the heavy taxes and servitude fell on the poor people. This situation could not be changed by Yang He, in fact, even Emperor Chongzhen, who was the Son of Heaven, could not touch the interests of these people, because he himself was the largest landowner, and the important ministers of the imperial court were all members of this interest group without exception. It is impossible for them to give up their own interests and take the initiative to lighten the peasants' burdens.

Historically, Yang He's pacification bureau had also achieved some results in the early days, and many giants were appeased one after another and were awarded official positions, but the imperial court did not pay food and wages to these surrendered refugees, and only ordered them to return to their hometowns after each person paid a "free death ticket". In the eyes of the court bosses, it would be a blessing of heaven not to kill you thieves, and they were still clamoring for dinner, which was really mad! As a result, these surrendered homeless people had to "collect grain" on the spot and rob the rich families of grain to survive, and then they were called "surrender and rebellion". There were many people who attacked Yang He with these examples, and Emperor Chongzhen's head was not necessarily so innocent, and finally issued an order to reprimand Yang He's strategy of appeasement was wrong, and he was dismissed from office and imprisoned.

Speaking of some things, it is difficult for modern people to understand, for example, Emperor Chongzhen once ordered the imperial historian Wu Fu to bring 100,000 taels of silver to Shaanxi to appease and give relief, and how many people did he give relief? According to records, there are 60,000 or 70,000 people in the Giant Kou God alone, and there are no less than seven or eight other thieves and thieves with more than 10,000 people, not to mention a large number of law-abiding and hungry people waiting to be fed. The 100,000 taels of silver exchanged for rice were only enough for 100,000 people to live for 50 days, and according to historical data, the people saved were "less than eleven", and the consequence was that the thieves who had just been appeased were "collecting food" along the way, and "soothing and rebelling". Ironically, after the arrest of Yang He and the abandonment of the use of the thief, the thieves prospered, and the court spent much more money to exterminate the thieves than the money spent on the appeasement, for example, after the twelve years of Chongzhen, how much did the court spend to exterminate the thieves? A total of 10.1 million taels of silver are added every year!

Yang He led his direct 3,000 governor's standard battalion and Yansui general Du Wenhuan's 10,000 town army to join forces, known as 30,000 troops, as the main army followed the "two kings" all the way south, at this time it had reached less than 40 miles away from the three forks, and Zhang Yingchang fled with cavalry, the speed was extremely fast, when they met the scouts of Yang He's army, the tide of defeat was still far behind.

When Yang He saw Zhang Yingchang, the general of Ningxia Zhendong Road looked like a wolf, not to mention all the armor and weapons, he was only wearing a single coat, a blanket, and a shoe on his feet was missing. He knew that he was guilty, and when he saw Yang He from a distance, he struggled to get off the horse, knelt on the ground, did not dare to raise his head, and crawled forward on his knees. ”

Seeing him like this, Yang He was angry and funny, snorted in his nose, after all, he cared about the military situation ahead, and said lightly: "General Zhang, please get up first, how is the military situation ahead?" While making a gesture, he asked the person next to him to bring Zhang Yingchang clothes and let him dress neatly. Du Wenhuan is a veteran general who has been accumulating years of life, and when he saw Zhang Yingchang's appearance, he already knew it in his heart, and without waiting for him to open his mouth, he confessed to Yang He, and took several generals to deploy the defense line to meet the upcoming large number of defeated troops and pursuers.

Zhang Yingchang is still confused about how his family was defeated, he didn't know that his 5,000 army was actually dispersed by the defeated army of thieves, and he was attacked by thieves. I asked my cronies in the same company, but I couldn't tell why, so I had to make up a few words according to my guesses, which were basically thieves and tricks, and suddenly the whole army pressed together, and I was caught off guard and still led my troops to fight unyieldingly, but finally because of being outnumbered, we were defeated.

Yang He has always kept in touch with the "two kings", and knows that Wang Jiayin, the boss of the "two kings", tends to recruit An, but Wang Er's attitude is a little **, but he should not object, so he has always been full of confidence in his appeasement policy. But at this time, the situation developed like this, and he couldn't help but wonder if something was wrong. Hearing that Zhang Yingchang reported that the thieves took the initiative to attack him, he sighed in his heart, and secretly said What happened inside the thieves?

Yang He was in a daze, the vanguard of the defeated army had arrived, because Yang He and Du Wenhuan were from the north of Ansai, and Zhang Yingchang did not take the same road, most of the defeated soldiers in Ningxia Town ran home along the way to Qingyang, and some of the rout soldiers also followed. At this time, the tide of defeated troops that came over was mainly dominated by thieves, and the momentum was much smaller, but Du Wenhuan had already prepared and waited for the battle, and he actually steadily blocked this defeated army from the formation.

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