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In the autumn, Li Zicheng dug the Yellow River and flooded Kaifeng, and finally captured Kaifeng in Sanwei, successively beheaded Fu Zonglong, the governor of Shaanxi, Wang Qiaonian, and defeated Sun Chuanting in Henan.

In the Central Plains, thieves are no longer thieves, and the official army is no longer an official army.

But for the Baitou army in eastern Zhejiang, Li Zicheng's victory did not bring any improvement to their situation. Chen Zilong coordinated the relationship between the county governments, mobilized the defenders of Jinhua Mansion, Shaoxing Mansion and Quzhou Mansion to divide troops to defend various passes, and locked the Baitou army in the deep mountains.

Ning Shaojun Town Fengqin has been fighting for a long time, returned to Zhoushan Island to rest, and when he returned, he selected 3,000 strong men from the captured Baitou army. Zhai Zhe transferred Li Zhi'an's foot soldiers to replace the encirclement and suppression of the Baitou army.

To the west of Ningshao is the mountains of eastern Zhejiang, to the east is the sea, and to the north is the Qiantang River and Hangzhou are the upper passages to the south of the rich Jiangnan. When Zhoushan Island was obtained, the lid that hindered the east side of Ningshaojun Town was lifted, and the coastal islands in eastern Zhejiang were all under Zhai Zhe's control.

Zhai Zhe stayed in Shaoxing Mansion, remotely controlled the movements of Li Zhi'an and Zuo Ruo's soldiers and horses, and was not in a hurry to attack. Winter was approaching, the Baitou army was trapped and died in the mountains, Zhai Zhe ordered Zuo Ruo and Li Zhi'an to announce that the ordinary mountain people who escaped from the mountains and surrendered were all exempted, and let the children of Zhedong in the army tell everywhere. Xu Du saw that the general trend had gone, and the secret envoy contacted Chen Zilong to ask for surrender.

The messenger Pegasus, the iron hooves stepped on the ice, Chen Zilong urgently summoned Zhai Zhe and met in Fuyang, Hangzhou. Fuyang was the gathering place for Hangzhou to transport grain and grass to the army in eastern Zhejiang, and he set up a grain and grass camp here.

Zhai Zhe rushed to Fuyang, and it snowed lightly in Jiangnan, and Chen Zilong wore a gray fox skin. After the business alliance was spread out in Jiangnan, fur became more and more popular in Jiangnan, and the Chen family was also a famous family, and Chen Zilong was not exempt from vulgarity.

Seeing that Zhai Zhe and his own soldiers were not afraid of the cold of winter, and only wore a jacket, Chen Zilong secretly smacked his tongue.

Zhai Zhe was in full charge of the encirclement and suppression of the Baitou Army, and Chen Zilong had to ask for his opinion before making a decision, although he already had an idea in his heart.

After a few brief greetings after meeting, Chen Zilong said the purpose of summoning Zhai Zhe here.

"Chief Zhai Bing, please surrender, what do you think?"

Zhai Zhe replied very simply, "Good thing! The soldiers fought hard, and it was not easy for the white-headed army to hide in the deep mountains to encircle and suppress, so that eastern Zhejiang could shed less blood, of course I was willing. ”

"With Zhai Zongbing's words, I am relieved!" Chen Zilong smiled. It is already the norm for the military town to raise self-respect, and Zhai Zhe is so easy to talk about, which makes him a little surprised.

"The people are thieves, mostly because of hunger and cold! If those big households in eastern Zhejiang can take two or three percent of the grain out, the Baitou army will not be able to do anything. ”

Zhai Zhe is repeating what Lu Xiangsheng said back then, but it is no longer a parrot, but his feelings in Jiangnan for two years. Only in Mongolia, he will not have a painful pain in the suffering of the Ming Dynasty. It is impossible for a person like Xu Du to be as desperate as a thief in Shaanxi.

Just looking at the land of Ningshao, seventy percent of the land is concentrated in the hands of the gentry, and many people voluntarily hang the land in the name of the gentry in order to pay rent to the gentry to evade the taxation of the imperial court. In this way, the officials and gentry colluded to evade land taxes, and the court taxes were increasingly depleted. Otherwise, with an empire as big as the Ming Dynasty, how could it not even be able to raise a million soldiers? The imperial court's conscription and salary all fell on those powerless and powerless small people. With the expropriation and natural disasters again, it is no wonder that the displaced people in the Central Plains are becoming more and more powerful.

Chen Zilong was silent. He didn't understand the reasoning.

"I read the two books I took from you. If Daming has a few more officials like Lord Chen, there may still be some hope. Zhai Zhe's two rows of teeth were exposed, as if he was telling a joke. He courted Chen Zilong. Chen Zilong will not belong to him now, but the world situation will change, the building will collapse, and it will not be able to support it with just a few martial artists.

Chen Zilong was not angry, and said faintly: "In this case, it is better for Zhai Zongbing to say less." ”

Kaifeng was breached, Sun Chuanting lost Henan, and the Ming Dynasty really didn't have many soldiers and horses that could fight. Li Zicheng's department is like the rising sun, and he has already shown his vitality. Zuo Liangyu hid in Chudi, clearly not following the orders of the court. Now the eyes of the general soldiers of all departments are focused on Sun Chuanting, who retreated to Tongguan, if Sun Chuanting can defeat Li Zicheng, Daming can still take his last breath.

The matter of recruiting is under the control of Chen Zilong and Zhejiang Patrol Zuo Guangdou, and there is nothing to do with a general military general like Zhai Zhe. Leaving Fuyang County, he did not rush back to Shaoxing, but went straight to Li Zhi'an's barracks at the foot of Kuocang Mountain.

In less than half a year, the six counties in eastern Zhejiang had already restored their former order. The soldiers and horses of Ningshao Town are strictly disciplined and never disturb the people, and the people see the cavalry galloping on the official road, so that they are on the side of the road but are not flustered.

There are ravines around Kuocang Mountain, and those who are not familiar with the road walk here will accidentally go around into the deep mountains and valleys, or walk to the cliffs. Li Zhi'an's army was stationed on a hillside more than 20 miles away from Likuocang Mountain, surrounded by dozens of miles of sentry posts, blocking the road for the Baitou army to go out of the mountain and preventing rice and salt and other materials from entering the mountain.

Zhai Zhe arrived at the barracks and asked Ji Hong to pass the message, and he and Xu Du met at the Kuocang Mountain Pass.

The two have been old friends for several years, and Xu Du has a bold personality, which leaves a very good impression on Zhai Zhe. In Xu Du's eyes, Zhai Zhe is not a bad person, at least it was not a fake to bravely save Lu Xiangsheng back then, and he never bullied the people after he was reinstated as the chief soldier, and the soldiers and horses under his command were strictly disciplined.

At this point, it would be purely self-inflicted to talk about those threats. By the time all the illusions were shattered, Xu Du had regained some of his former pride and ease, and his face was gloomy.

Zhai Zhe put soft armor on his padded jacket, and he was no longer as free and easy as in the grassland. The age of being so young and frivolous, drawing a sword and being a beauty has passed.

"You begged the sleeper to surrender, and I didn't object."

"I thought, maybe I was wrong!" Xu Du seems to have a lot of troubles that he can't understand.

"You're not wrong, but I'm not wrong either." Zhai Zhe pointed to a large smooth stone not far away, and motioned to sit side by side with Xu Du.

"I used to fantasize that you wouldn't attack me, thinking that you and I could figure it out secretly. But you are an officer and soldier, and I am a thief. I have nothing in my hand, what can I exchange with you? Xu Du smiled bitterly.

"It's me who can't stop you!" Zhai Zhe pointed out otherwise. If it weren't for him, Xu wouldn't have done it so quickly.

"You and I are not wrong, what is wrong is the way of this world." Xu Du let out a long roar, and several birds flew out of the forest.

Zhai Zhe hesitated for a while, but decided to remind: "If you surrender, the court may not be able to tolerate you." ”

"Since Wozi promised me, he will naturally be sure."

Xu Du's wrenched hands exposed the uneasiness in his heart.

As the saying goes, you have to go your own way. Zhai Zhe will not force Xu Du to death, he can't force it if he wants to. Such a son of an official eunuch really does not have the momentum of turning back like the thieves in the green forest of Shaanxi, just like Song Jiang in "Water Margin", who is also bent on recruiting An.

When the snow covered the pine forests on the mountain, more than 30,000 hungry white-headed soldiers retreated from the top of the mountain. There are also a few people who do not believe in the imperial court and decide to stay in the mountains to suffer.

Xu Du and more than 200 other small leaders were arrested by Zuo Guangdou, the Zhejiang Patrol, and the Jinhua Mansion Prison. Zhai Zhe ordered Ji Hong to secretly take the Xu Du family to Ningbo Mansion and hide it, including a mother in her sixties and a seven-year-old toddler Xu Yiyang.

The counties of eastern Zhejiang spent the Spring Festival in a kind of celebration of the aftermath of the catastrophe.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Zuo Guangdou ignored Chen Zilong's bloody opposition, and beheaded Xu Du and many leaders outside Jinhua Mansion to deter the thieves.