Pingdugou, in addition to supervising the training of sergeants every day, Shi Dayong spent more time looking at the Tangbao house copy that he bought from Pei Shaokuan. The recent Tang newspapers are almost all about thieves in Shanxi, the Central Plains, and Huguang.

Shi Dayong learned from the Tang newspaper that the imperial court had dismissed the trilateral governor Hong Chengchou and asked him to remain the governor of Yansui, and Chen Qiyu, the former governor of Yansui, became Hong Chengchou's boss and became the governor of the five provinces with the largest jurisdiction and the greatest power since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, responsible for the military affairs of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang, and Sichuan, and specialized in handling thieves.

However, after Chen Qiyu received the holy decree to be promoted to the governor of the five provinces, he did not immediately use troops, because the weather was too cold to use troops. Therefore, he first asked for the dismissal of Jiang Yunyi, the governor of Yunyang, who had fled when he saw the thieves, and transferred Lu Xiangsheng, the deputy envoy of the Daimyo who led the Tianxiong Army, from the Central Plains to the governor of Xunyang.

Lu Xiangsheng is a jinshi in the second year of the Apocalypse, although he is a scribe, but he is good at riding and shooting, skillful and strategic, generous and righteous, and was a daimyo prefect when he "has changed", and once recruited 10,000 people into the Weijing Division. After the siege of Beijing, the three prefectures of Daimyo, Guangping and Shunde were garrisoned, and the recruited men and horses were not disbanded, and the Tianxiong Army was an elite division that had been carefully trained.

After Lu Xiangsheng led the Tianxiong Army to take office, Chen Qiyu was like a tiger with wings, immediately dispatched troops, arranged sieges on all sides, and ordered the four ministers of Shaanxi, Yun, Henan, and Chu to lead troops to fight.

Shaanxi governor Lian State Affairs was stationed in Shangnan and intercepted in the northwest;

Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Yunyang, was stationed in the house and bamboo, and intercepted it in the west;

Henan Governor Xuanmo was stationed in Lu's and intercepted in the northeast;

Tang Hui, the governor of Huguang, was stationed in Nanzhang and intercepted in the southeast.

Chen Qiyu led his elite troops from Nanyang to Junzhou City, Xiangyang Prefecture, Huguang, and attacked from Zhuxi in Yunyang Prefecture, and fought in Pingli, Wulinguan, Gouyangjie, Qijiagou, Ganxi, Lion Rock and other places, and all reported good news in more than ten battles, killing nearly 5,000 people and capturing 11 leaders. The deputy general Liu Qian attacked between Pingli and Zhuxi, and the guerrilla commander He Renlong and others pursued to Ziyang and won a great victory.

Ziyang killed more than 10,000 people in the first battle. Chen Qiyu took advantage of the victory to pursue, stepped up the siege, and ordered the four governors to continue to hold the key passages in the four directions, and the generals He Renlong, Liu Qian, and Xia Hao guarded Luoyang and Chuxian; Yang Zhengfang and Yu Shiren guarded Baocheng; Chen Qiyu personally led Yang Hualin and Liu Guozhen to stationed in Yangxian County, carefully arranged, step by step, and constantly shrinking the encirclement.

At the same time, Hong Chengchou, who was demoted to the governor of Yansui, was ashamed and marched backwards, commanding generals such as Yang Jiamo, the general soldier of Gansu, He Huchen, the general soldier of Ningxia, and Yang Qi, the general soldier of Guyuan, to go all out to suppress in their jurisdiction, and successively exterminated Huang Youcai's department, Red Army Youyou, Du San, Yang Laochai's department, Hao Lin'an, Liu Daojiang, and Kefeitian's department. But the main force of the thieves did not suffer losses. The tributary thieves who had been fighting between Shaanxi and Shanxi were forced to enter Shanxi one after another under pressure from Shaanxi.

In Shanxi, it was Sun Xianzu, the chief soldier of Ningwu, who was responsible for suppressing the thieves, and Sun Xianzu was very helpful in suppressing the thieves, but the more he killed the thieves, the more he did. There are 36 battalions of thieves in Shanxi, the number is about 200,000, and there are hundreds of thieves in Shanxi's military newspaper to the imperial court, including the so-called Eight Kings, the King of Sweeping, Xing Red Wolf, the Black Killing God, Cao Cao, the King of Troubled Times, the Collapse of the Sky, the General, the Sky Full of Stars, the Old Huihui, the King of Chuang and so on. These thieves jointly elected the king as the leader of the alliance for his own use.

In order to suppress the thieves in Shanxi, Chongzhen removed Song Tongyin, the governor of Shanxi, and Sun Xianzu, the general soldier of Ningwu, who were ineffective in "suppressing bandits", and appointed Xu Dingchen, the secretary of Guanglu Temple, as the governor of Shanxi, and Zhang Yingchang as the general soldier of Ningwu, and constantly transferred troops to Shanxi. The Yansui Town Army entered Shanxi under the leadership of generals Li Bei, Ai Wannian, and He Renlong. Cao Wenzhao, the commander-in-chief of Lintao, led "3,500 Mabu officers and soldiers who were selected one by one and had been in battle repeatedly" to Shanxi to join the battle against bandits in Shanxi.

After the Shaanxi official army entered Shanxi, the thieves were deeply frightened and began to escape to Hebei and Henan, which are at the junction of Shanxi, and the scope of the thieves' activities expanded to the three provinces of Shanxi, Hebei, and Henan. The thieves in the Central Plains of Henan posed a threat to the safety of the Beijing Division, and the imperial court attached great importance to this and hurriedly dispatched troops to encircle the thieves

In a recent Tang newspaper, Shi Dayong was surprised to see the name of an acquaintance appear on the list of the imperial court transferred to Henan, this person is Zuo Liangyu. There was only one sentence about him in the newspaper -- "Changping deputy general Zuo Liangyu led 2,450 Changping soldiers to aid northern Henan." ”

Zuo Liangyu became a lieutenant general?

Shi Dayong was a little depressed, when he was in Jinzhou, Zuo Liangyu was still a general at the same level as him, he went to Beijing to offer victory, and he didn't get any reward, but he Zuo Liangyu was promoted to a deputy general!

People are really incomparable to people, and I don't know what bad luck I have gone, since the day I entered the customs, everything has not gone well, and now I am trapped in this Pingdugou and do nothing, seeing that a large number of general staff officers and generals in the Tang newspaper are transferred around, and they are very happy, but they can only stare dryly, and this grievance Shi Dayong really can't stand it for a while.

Wang Hong really has a hand in doing things, and he actually bought the wine and meat back. On Chinese New Year's Eve, Shi Dayong rarely allowed the army to drink wine, and he drank it in a big bowl, and when he drank it violently, he immediately fell drunk, and the generals finally carried him to the tent to rest.

Chongzhen's four years ended with Shi Dayong's drunkenness.

Guo Yi, who was sent to Beijing, and Shao Wu, who was transferred to Jinzhou, did not come back, and the food in the camp was in crisis again, and after paying 20,000 taels of silver again, Lin Jiantai secretly sold 200 loads of grain to Shi Dayong. This time the price is a little fairer than last time, but it is also sky-high.

During the Chinese New Year, the officers and soldiers did not want to fight, and the rebels did not want to fight, so the two sides did not ask each other questions as before.

The matter of the appeasement is still in progress, and it is said that the imperial court envoy will come to Laizhou to meet Kong Youde after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

There was no battle to fight, and there was nothing to do, so Shi Dayong put all his energy on the training of the captive soldiers and the two thousand Sichuan troops.

Just after the Lantern Festival, news came, saying that at the request of Zhu Changfang, the king of Lu who was sealed in Weihui, the Son of Heaven ordered Tang Jiuzhou to lead the Changping soldiers, Ni Chong and Wang Pu to lead the Beijing battalion soldiers, a total of 30,000 troops to go to the northern Henan Ping thieves.

Under the coordination of the alliance lord Wang for his own use, the thieves fought in Shanxi, northern Henan, and southern Jinan, and the military powers of the officials of the three provinces were different, and the coordination and command were unfavorable, and they often took care of one at the expense of the other.

In order to unify the powers, the Henan squires asked the imperial court to use the governor of Yansui to supervise the military affairs of the three provinces, which was also an extension of Hong Chengchou's previous position as the governor of the three provinces.

The Ministry of War thought that this suggestion was very good, and decided that Hong Chengchou should be transferred to Tongguan to control the military affairs of the three provinces and unify the command of the military operations of the three chief military officers, Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Yingchang, and Liu Wenhu. However, Chongzhen did not approve the resolution of the Ministry of War, but adopted another method - to increase the power of the governors of Jin and Henan provinces. He gave the governors of the two provinces of Jin and Henan the power to cut down first and then play, and if any of the generals and guerrilla generals below the level of the staff did not listen to the command and violated the military order, the governors of the two provinces could cut the commanders first and then play.

Chongzhen's five years may really be unfavorable, and bad news that the generals are not very obedient has come from all over the country, and there are vague rumors that the generals are raising their own respect, so Chongzhen once again sent eunuchs to supervise the army. Three eunuchs, Chen Dakui, Yan Siyin, and Xie Wenju, were successively dispatched to serve as the supervisors of Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Yingchang, and Zuo Liangyu.

The emperor sent Wenchen or eunuch to supervise the army and Shi Dayong had little to do with it, and he didn't bother to ask, in addition to having a headache about food, he also had a headache about another thing - soldiers didn't seem to be very trained.