After the death of Huang Long, Shen Shikui, who took over as the commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang River, had no good time in the past two years, when Mao Wenlong was there, the towns of the Dongjiang River had 100,000 soldiers, and the sailors were all over the sea, and the business and travel were endless, not only self-sufficient, but also went ashore from time to time to attack the Jin army, and cut off the head of the Tartar to report the merits. Separated by the sea, Jin Jun has no way to take the Dongjiang River, and he can make a fortune and make meritorious contributions, so this life is naturally extremely nourishing.

But since the death of Mao Wenlong, the former strong town of Dongjiang has fallen apart, first Liu Xingzuo and Liu Xingzhi brothers helped Yuan Chonghuan suppress the rebellion of Mao Wenlong's old department, and attacked and killed Mao's general Chen Jisheng, but the butt was not hot, Mao Wenlong's old department Zhang Tao and Shen Shikui launched a mutiny to kill Liu Xingzhi and the Jurchen soldiers he led. After Kong Youde rebelled in Dengzhou, Mao Chenglu, the son of Mao Wenlong, led 7,000 Dongjiang soldiers to participate in the rebellion, and finally ended up in a different place.

In order to open up the situation, Huang Long promised Shi Dayong to attack Lushun, intending to gain a foothold in Lushun, in order to gain more support from the imperial court.

Who knew that Huanglong committed suicide after being defeated by the enemy, and the only few remaining fierce generals of the Dongjiang River, such as Xiang Zuolin, Zhang Dalu, Shang Keyi, Shang Kejin and others, were all killed, and more than half of the 14,000 Dongjiang troops brought to Lushun were killed, and only the general Fan Dalong fled to Nanguan with the remaining more than 3,000 people, which finally left some seeds for the Dongjiang River.

Who would have thought that just these more than 3,000 kinds of children would make the relationship between Dongjiang Town and the Jinzhou Army troublesome.

Shandong soldiers and horses are not strong, and the only soldiers in the hands of Governor Zhu Dadian who can fight are the 2,000 Qi family troops in the Ming Dynasty, and the remaining 5,000 or so guards are useless at all.

Shen Shikui went to Dongjiang to take over as the chief soldier, Zhu Dadian, as his boss, naturally wanted to give him some soldiers and horses to help him, but for the Qi family's army, Zhu Dadian was reluctant, Shandong couldn't do without these two thousand Qi soldiers, give those guards soldiers, Shen Shikui himself didn't want it. In the end, Shen Shikui could only take more than 80 pro-soldier Ding to cross the sea to take over.

I thought that Dongjiang was a big town after all, not much worse than Jiubian, but there were 100,000 people under Mao Wenlong, and no matter how much I tossed in the past few years, I could leave 20,000 or 30,000 horses.

As the chief soldier of a town, he can't do it without soldiers, and the lack of soldiers under his troops in this year is as panicked as his subordinates have no food. After learning that after the defeat of Huanglong, the general Fan Dalong led 3,000 people to flee to Nanguan, Shen Shikui immediately ordered people to go and recall them. But the person who sent it came back and told him that Fan Dalong and his more than 3,000 soldiers had already been contained and reorganized by the Jinzhou Army.

Why did you Shi Dayong occupy my soldiers on the Dongjiang River!

Shen Shikui was furious, and took people to Lushun by boat to find Shi Dayong to ask for someone, who would have thought that Shi Dayong would not see him at all, today he said that he had not returned in southern Liaoning, and tomorrow he said that he had crossed the sea and returned to Dengzhou, and the day after tomorrow he said that he was occasionally infected with wind and cold and difficult to see guests, and there were 10,000 reasons why Shen Shikui could not see anyone.

He is the commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang River under the orders of the imperial court, and Shi Dayong is just a Jinzhou general, how dare he be so unpopular!

The clay figurines still have three points! Shi Dayong despised himself so much, where could Shen Shikui still bear it, and in his anger, he wanted to go back to light the soldiers and horses to settle accounts with Shi Dayong, but fortunately, his master's staff was not blind, grabbed him, and whispered to him - Lushun's Jinzhou army has at least twenty or thirty thousand people.

Twenty or thirty thousand?

This number calmed Shen Shikui, at best, there were 4,000 people under him, and he could beat 20,000 or 30,000 people.

People are definitely not coming back, I heard that Shi Dayong eats people without spitting out bones, and it is more difficult for him to swallow what he swallowed than to ascend to the sky.

But this breath is really unbearable, there is no way to fight, and this matter has no face to report to the court, if the court knows that he will not even come back with his own soldiers, will he continue to do this general soldier! Maybe Shi Dayong or the wicked person sued first, saying that he coveted his soldiers and horses.

There was no way, after sending countless people to Lushun to ask for people before and after, Shen Shikui hit the idea of the merchant ship sent to North Korea by the Jinzhou Army - he decided to detain the ship and detain the people, and see if Shi Dayong would let them go!

Since the Jinzhou army occupied Lushun, the sailors basically changed their careers to caravans, and they went to North Korea every other month, and they didn't know how the Koreans got the grain and the business that the Jinzhou army did.

swallowed his own soldiers, and made a fortune under his nose, Shen Shihel's anger in his heart can be imagined, after making the decision to detain people and detain the ship, he really had a feeling of pleasure that he had been holding back for a long time.

I thought that Shi Dayong would definitely send someone to contact him after his ship was detained, but it had been almost two months since the ship was detained, and no one in Lushun had come, but he wanted Dongjiang to raise those hundreds of sailors every day, which was really a big loss.

Just when Shen Shikui's patience was about to run out, Lushun's Jinzhou army finally sent someone, followed by a handwritten letter from Lord Hou Sui, the head of the household department.

In his letter, Hou asked Shen Shikui to put the overall situation first, immediately put the seized ships back, and never clash with the Jinzhou army.

After reading the letter, Shen Shikui's face suddenly sank, and after the master on the side took the letter and read it, he also frowned, and asked the master tentatively: "Master, should we let this ship go or not?" ”

"That's it, where is the face of this town?" Shen Shikui snorted, his heart was extremely unhappy, he didn't think that Shi Dayong was really desperate to ask for the head of the head of the household book. If he doesn't agree to this, I'm afraid that there will be no money and food from Dongjiang Town on the books of the household department.

"If you don't let it go, I'm afraid Lord Hou will not be able to explain it." The master is very considerate of the master's family, since his own master took office, he has gone to Beijing to ask for money and food twice, there is no way, who let the foundation of Dongjiang be tossed away. If the household department does not give money and food, Dongjiang will really not be able to hold on.

Shen Shikui hesitated for a long time, and then said: "Let's drag it first, does he Shi Dayong dare to send troops to fight me?" You go and tell the visitor, and say that Ben Shuai is also infected with the wind and cold, and he can't see the guests for the time being, and the matter of this ship will be discussed next month. "Shen Shikui, this is going to repay his body in the way of others.

The master nodded and said, "Then the villain will go and pass the word to Shi Dayong's people." ”

The people who came from Lushun over there heard this master say that Shen Shikui was sick, and they didn't have anything good to say, so they hugged their fists and left.

The other party came and went in a hurry, and there was no word from beginning to end except for Hou Sui's letter, which made the master confused, and told Shen Shikui that Shen Shikui was also speechless. With a headache, I simply went back to my room to sleep.

slept until midnight, but heard the shouts of the soldiers outside: "My lord, the big thing is not good, the Jinzhou army in Lushun is coming!" ”

"What?!" Shen Shikui, who woke up, jumped up from the bed suddenly, didn't care about putting on his clothes, and rushed out of the house barefoot, but he heard the shouts of killing outside.

On the fourth day of November in the seventh year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the first guard of the new army in Liaodong landed on Phi Island under the leadership of the commander Shang Kexi, ending the Dongjiang Town founded by Mao Wenlong himself.

Shen Shikui, the chief soldier of the Dongjiang River, was sent out of the country by courtesy. Phi Island was renamed Zhenyu Island, and Shang Kexi led the first guard to garrison it

Fengyang was the land of Huaiyi in ancient times, it was called Zhong Ion Country in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was called Haozhou in Sui, and it was the land of Longxing of the Ming Dynasty. One year after Emperor Taizu ascended the throne, he issued an edict to build the imperial city of Zhongdu here, and Hongwu gave the name Fengyang in seven years.

After the draw of lots in Rongyang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Yichuan, and Liu Guoneng led 8,000 thieves to approach Fengyang as the striker.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, Li Zicheng sent his nephew Li Guo to sneak into Fengyang to reconnoitre, and Li Guo brought back the news that Fengyang has three inner and outer cities, the wall is high and thick, and the south city wall is built on the slope of the north bank of the big stream in the east-west direction, with the stream as the hao; The west city wall is located at the west foot of the undulating Ma'anshan Mountain, which is surrounded by mountains; The northern wall is located on the shore of the lake, which is blocked by water; The east city wall has Dushan Mountain and Phoenix Mouth Mountain, which can be relied upon. The imperial city in the middle is made of bricks and stones, and there is a moat more than 30 zhang wide outside, two or three zhang deep, which is not easy to cross. There are 10,000 defenders in the city, and 40,000 officers and soldiers are in Tuntian outside the city, which is really a fortified fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If Mingli attacks will be difficult, it is better to outwit.

Li Zicheng adopted Li Guo's opinion, and after discussing with Zhang Yichuan and Liu Guoneng, he decided to outwit Fengyang, and ordered Li Guo to take a hundred elite soldiers, disguised as beggars, monks, Taoist priests, and peddlers' pawns, and mixed into the city.

The Fengyang Governor's Office is not in Fengyang, but in Huai'an, the affairs of the city are handled by the Governor Wu Zhenying, who asked for the news of the approaching Liukou, and called the prefect Yan Rongxuan to discuss: "According to the annual practice, the city is lit up, and the Lantern Festival is celebrated on the 15th and 16th, and the people are happy." Now the Shaanxi Liukou has been stationed 200 miles away, and if they are given the opportunity to enter, the disaster will not be small. It is better to put on the lights for the time being this year, close the city gates, and strictly prevent thieves from mixing into the city to make trouble. ”

Yan Rongxuan had just added a son, and he was scheduled to have a lantern banquet in the mansion, and he had already spread invitations everywhere, but he was unwilling to change it, so he hurriedly dissuaded: "Don't worry about it, adults. Those who are just rogues are plundering everywhere, and the attacks are small cities guarded by few people, how can they be compared with the imperial city of Zhongdu? Be careful to check the people who come and go into the city, close the city gate at night, and not let a single person in, and send more soldiers to patrol the streets, so that those grass robbers can fly in and disturb the residents? From January 13 to 17 in previous years, it was a common practice to put on the lights for five nights and stay up all night. If the lights are banned because of a few rogues this year, wouldn't it show the enemy's weakness and give people a laugh? The people have already prepared the lights, and if they ban it again, they will inevitably be resentful and speak foul language, which may damage the reputation of the adults. If it is rumored that it will go out and let Lord Futai know, how can the adults exonerate? Seeing that it is about to be evaluated for three years, the future of adults is important, and we must not make a mistake in this matter. ”

Wu Zhenying listened to this, thought for a while, nodded and said, "If it weren't for your mansion's reminder, it would have almost made a big mistake." However, those rogues still need to be guarded against, so the five-day period is reduced to three days, taking care of both the left and right. ”

Fengyang is not only Anhui, but also a rare famous city in the south of the Yangtze River, as the capital has been more than 200 years, the city palace is like the system of the Beijing division, the province of the book, the capital governor's mansion, the imperial history platform, the Taimiao, the altar of the great shrine, the mound, the square mound, the sun, the moon Sheji, the mountain and river altar, the million warehouse, the observatory, the first residence of the prince, the barracks of the soldiers, the temple of the city god, the temple of the heroes, the temple of the emperors of the past dynasties, the hall, the Zhongdu Guozixue, the drum tower, the bell tower and so on.

The Lantern Festival is second only to Nanjing, the capital of Liudu, and it is also well-known in the south of the Yangtze River. At noon on the 14th, the city's 28th Street and 94th Square were lit up with lanterns, and all kinds of lanterns were hung out in front of every house. Large families set up mountain sheds in the courtyard, placed five-color screens and cannon lamps, and hung celebrity calligraphy and paintings on all sides and strange bone Dong toys. The left-behind division of the central capital set up two Ao Mountains on the side of the Jinshui Bridge outside the south of the Imperial City Afternoon Gate, on which each plate was red and yellow, and each piece of Linjia was lit with a lamp, and the mouth was sprayed with pure water. Hongwu Street and Xuanwu Street are full of countless lanterns of various colors, competing for beauty. When the lights are turned on the next day, it is the most lively. Men, women and children have gone out to watch the lanterns, playing dragon lanterns, playing floats, running dry boats, playing flower sticks, and stepping on stilts...... A team went back and forth, stepping on the street to make a Lantern Festival, singing and singing, and the voices of people were boiling.

At the beginning of the shift, Li Guo took a few personal soldiers to mix in the crowd, wandering on the street, from time to time to see groups of beggars, wearing sheepskin rags, holding a wooden cane, holding a broken bowl, pickling around begging, knowing that the road is mostly disguised as a personal soldier, when approaching, he whispered to the city to patrol tightly, be careful to be seen through.

I was watching the lights and watching the fireworks for recreation, and I didn't realize that I walked in front of the City God Temple, it was really crowded with people, gongs and drums. Just as he was about to turn around and retreat, someone shouted to dodge and dodge, when he saw a group of men and women singing and dancing.

As the crowd watched for a long time, the second watch upstairs drummed, Li Guo and a few people squeezed out of the crowd, returned to the residence to get the blade to hide, and headed towards the Hongwu Gate in the south of the city.

At this time, a bright moon rose near the middle of the sky, illuminating the streets and alleys silvery. Li Guoyuan saw a group of Ming cavalry in full clothes, patrolling the city, hurriedly hiding in a secluded place and waiting.

Gu Junen pretended to be You Fanglangzhong, two young soldiers pretended to be children, one carried a medicine box, the other carried a medicine basket, which contained sulfur flame nitrate and a thing that should cause fire, wandering in front of the City God Temple, it is estimated that the three of them went to the back door of the temple and set the fire, and suddenly the flames were rising, and the smoke covered the moon, and the three of them ran to the temple and shouted: "There is a fire, there is a fire!" ”

The people outside were playing in the excitement, not guarding against this change, panicked, ran in all directions, and there was chaos. Gu Junen and others took advantage of the chaos to set fire everywhere, and after a while, the fire reflected half of the city. Li Guo and the others saw the fire, shouted loudly, seized the city gate, let the ambush soldiers outside the city enter, and rushed and slashed along Hongwu Street and Daming Gate.

Wu Zhenying had just fallen asleep, and when she heard that the thieves had occupied the outer city, she hurriedly led her family to flee into the imperial city, hoisted the wooden bridge over the moat, and guarded the battle in the corner tower. The city gate was opened, the moonlight was like day, a team of iron horsemen surrounded by a black horse galloped over, and the majestic general was Li Zicheng, with a wave of the horsewhip, he ordered: "Capture the palace and welcome the king into the city!" ”

Wu Zhenying, a Confucian student, has always been in the heart of Hanmo, how have he ever seen such a powerful strongman, he was so shocked that he sweated, and urgently ordered to release arrows to force back the thieves. Li Zicheng also ordered to shoot arrows at the city, and the two sides suffered casualties and stalemate. was thinking hard about the strategy of breaking the city, and suddenly saw a sky-high fire rising in the southwest, reflecting half of the sky and burning the bright moon to gold. Wu Zhenying, who was in the corner tower of the city, even looked at it, and suddenly woke up and said: "It's a big disaster, presumably the thieves burned the imperial tomb." Just as he was beating his chest, countless defeated officers and troops poured into the city, and they were killed by Li Zicheng and others, and they fled.

Li Zicheng was afraid that the officers and soldiers of Tuntian outside the city rushed to the rescue, and he was about to withdraw his troops when he heard a sudden sound of horses' hooves, and in a blink of an eye, he was close to the cut, and immediately the tall and mighty man shouted: "Zicheng don't panic, let's help you!" ”

Li Zicheng fixed his eyes and saw who Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, was!