July of the 14th year of Chongzhen

Shanxi, Taiyuan Mansion, He Shouguang received Zhang Zhongmou's order.

Han Bing said: "What did the hall chief say?"

He Shouguang handed him the document to see.

I saw that it was written, according to the discussion of the Military Administration Department, the decision is as follows:

First, stay in Taiyuan Mansion in Shanxi Province for a long time and establish tight fortifications.

Second, in the area swept by the thieves, the Ming army must be empty, and in the name of military management and grain collection, take over the state capitals, clean up the guards, empty the local officials, and establish an administrative system.

Third, the land should be cleared and returned to the Shandong government, and the displaced people or floating captives should be mobilized to open up the wasteland for farming, and coordinate with various departments in Shandong to build roads and build various infrastructures.

Fourth, we must go all out to recruit and surrender the bandits of Li Zicheng's subordinates, and we must break them up and re-conduct training and ideological education.

Fifth, we should go all out to recruit and strive to train no more than 500,000 recruits.

Sixth, on the grounds that the bandits have not been cleared and the residence is not safe, all the residents of the town will be relocated to the prefecture and city for unified management.

Seventh, establish a household registration system, and register every resident who enters the jurisdiction and issue an identity certificate.

Eighth, the vacant town, in coordination with various departments, all demolished and built into factories for future commercial activities.

Ninth, fully take over all the mineral deposits in Shanxi, and if there are resistors, they will be killed on the spot.

Tenth, fully accept the displaced people outside Shanxi, and reasonably lease the land to them for farming.

Su Xiaoguang finished reading it and said: "I still underestimate the director's determination to achieve great things, this is to eat the rhythm of Shanxi."

Han Bing said: "Yes! With such a careful deployment, all aspects have been taken into account.

Tang Liang, the commander of the first company, said: "In the past few years, everything in Shandong has basically matured, and it is not a problem for the director to want a Shanxi.

Tong Ming said: "I am a big man and I don't understand anything, but I know that the people of Shanxi have been saved, and they no longer have to live a hard life of precariousness and suffering from the last meal without the next meal."

He Shouguang used to be a native of Shanxi, but now he has the ability to save the people from fire and water, and he is also very excited in his heart.

He said, "Yes! It's not easy for the people!

Report!

He Shouguang said: "Come in!"

A guard entered: "We in Fenyang, Zhongyang, and Pingyao found that a large army was approaching.

Han Bingdao: Visually, how many people are there.

The guard said: "I can't see the number of people clearly in the night, the team is divided into three rows, marching in two ways, the speed is very fast, the matter is urgent, so I will report it."

He Shouguang said: "You four, go and have a look."

The crowd said: "Yes!

Then get into a military jeep and drive in the direction of Fenyang.

Fenyang County

From the moment the order was issued, Li He, the platoon commander of the platoon, led 200 guards to touch the city at night, solve the night patrol bandits, open the city gates, and take the opportunity to eliminate the bandits with less than 1,000 people in the city, occupying Fenyang County.

In just two days, all the surrounding small county bandits were quietly uprooted. The handover was taken over by a large force and fortifications were arranged.

Li Zicheng has been receiving the news of Li Yan's fiasco

Li Zicheng has not been in a very good mood since the last time in Shandong, and he He Shouguang has been fighting smoothly. In desperation, he had to retreat to Shanxi, he learned a lesson, began to run Shanxi, but also fed a lot of people, but the historical vision was limited, he could only see this step, he let people invent firearms, but unfortunately the quality of iron is not good, there are often boring, and many craftsmen have been killed. It's not as good as a bow and arrow!

When Li Zicheng received the news of Li Yan's fiasco yesterday, he was in an even worse mood, and scolded Li Yan for not being a good thing. But in order to keep Luliang Mansion, he still sent 400,000 troops and tens of thousands of grain and grass to support.

The army was led by Li Zicheng Xinfu Li Guo, and marched towards Luliang City.

Li Guo, who was dressed in iron armor, rode a high-headed horse, and was triumphantly marching towards Luliang City.

Because of Li Zicheng, he ordered him to take Li Yan and take over Luliang City himself.

Adjutant General Bao Sansheng said: "General Li, there is Fenyang County in front, why don't you rest first and then set off."

Li said: "It's okay, divide the three armies, that is, set up camp."

Upstairs in Fenyang County,

Li said hurriedly: "Company Commander Tang, looking at their appearance, it seems that they are going to enter the county, and we only have 20,000 troops now, which is contrary to the original plan, what should we do now."

As the commander of the second company, Tang Hao was also very helpless in his heart, if they let them find out, the plan would all fail, and he had a 20,000 men and horses against an army of nearly 400,000, no matter how good the weapons were, they couldn't carry a lot of people!

Tang Hao gritted his teeth and said, "If it really doesn't work, let's start fighting."

Cai Dongming, deputy company commander, said: "I have an idea, isn't there a platoon not far in front of us?" Let them fire a few shots to get their attention.

Tang Hao said: "No! The risk is too great, and it is forcing the lives of the brothers to death.

Li said: "In order for the plan to go smoothly, the necessary sacrifices are necessary.

Cai Dongming said: "Yes! Otherwise, it's too late.

Tang Hao said: "Okay! Brothers, I'm sorry.

Lee gestured into the distance, meaning to let them release their guns and then retreat.

At this time, the deputy general of the bandits below had already begun to step forward to call the door.

I only heard him say: "We are General Li Guoda's march here, and we want to go inside to rest, please guard the door of the general."

Tang Hao delayed: "Who knows which way you are, I'll go to our general first, you wait a minute."

Bao Sansheng said: "Bold, who doesn't know the name of our General Li Guo, open the city gate quickly." Otherwise, wait a minute, make you look good.

Who knew that the other party didn't pay attention to him at all, and the person was gone.

Li Guo suddenly felt that something was wrong, and just wanted to speak.

Suddenly, not far away, a gunshot rang out, and several bandits died in the ranks.

Li Guo shouted: "It's not good, the enemy is attacking, chase me."

It turned out that the one or two hundred people ran backwards after firing a few shots.

The army of bandits did not set up camp, but immediately set out to chase after them.

One or two hundred men ran and released their guns, and from time to time some of their brothers were shot by stray arrows, and their movements were slowed down, and they were slowly led into an ambush circle.

Li Guo led the army to chase for a while, and the more he thought about it, the more wrong he became, and shouted: "It's not good, we have a plan to retreat quickly."

This is the time.

Su Xiaoguang roared: "Brothers, beat me hard."

Time

Li Guo and Bao Sansheng found a big stone and hid.

An hour later, the shelling stopped and the gunfire stopped.

Su Xiaoguang said with a loudspeaker: "Everyone listen, you can't run away, those who surrender will not die, put down their weapons, and walk out with their heads in their hands."

Then many of the bandits did so and came out. Cold weapons, piled up into a hill.

Han Bing sent 20,000 troops to clean up the battlefield and maintain order in battle.

Taiyuan Mansion

Han Bing took the battle report and read it:

There were 300,000 able-bodied people in battle, 50,000 old, weak and disabled, a total of 350,000 people, 2 million catties of grain and grass, and countless cold weapons.

Escorted up, several soldiers took Li Guo and Bao Sansheng to the conference hall.

He Shouguang said: "General Li, don't come to Wuyang!" ”

Li Guo snorted: The winner is the king, the loser is the coward, if you want to kill, you have to scrape, listen to the respect.

He Shouguang said: "You are quite tough, but you, such a valuable general, have to exchange something with your uncle Li Zicheng."

Li Guo snorted: "You are despicable and shameless, what kind of ability is a sneak attack, you have a kind of head-on battle with General Ben."

Su Xiaoguang smiled: "Your uncle didn't teach you, aren't soldiers tired of cheating?"

He Shouguang said: "Take it down, take care of it, this is a very valuable person."

After saying that, everyone laughed.

Two days later, Li Zicheng received the news that Li Guo had been killed, and he was so angry that he overturned the table.

It took a long time to calm down.

The messenger gave him a letter, and when he read it, he killed the messenger.

It turned out to read:

Your Excellency King Li Chuang, get out of the south of Shanxi, I can spare your life, if you intend to redeem your nephew Li Guo, 30,000 taels of silver

Zhang Xun respectfully.

Come on, please ask the military advisor Song to give advice

Yuncheng, government office, study

Li Zicheng and Song Xiance are discussing something.

Li Zicheng said: "How many troops do we have now.

Song Xiance calculated: "Over there is Li Yan, there are 30,000. On Liu Zongmin's side, there are 150,000, on our side there are 100,000, and in other counties there are about 80,000. After deducting the old, weak and disabled, there are about 300,000 soldiers who can fight.

Li Zicheng said: "How can it be reduced so much all of a sudden."

Song Xiance said: "The main thing is that this time it was calculated and sneak attacked, and almost a single soldier did not come back.

Li Zicheng said: "You mean that the whole army will be wiped out.

Song Xiance: "It may not be possible that the whole army will be annihilated, but it is certain that it will be killed."

Li Zicheng said: "Who is this Zhang Xun, there are so many powerful firearms."

Song Xiance: "King, if I didn't guess wrong, it should be He Shouguang's department last time!"

Li Zicheng said: "You mean, Nas in Shandong."

Song Xiance: "It shouldn't be wrong, with such powerful firepower, there is absolutely no second person."

Li Zicheng said: "Then what should we do now."

Song Xiance: "From the current point of view, we still have the strength to fight, but the result may not be what we want to see."

Li Zicheng said: "What to say!

Song Xiance: "Even if we win, our strength will inevitably be damaged, and when the time comes, the local villagers or forces are not vegetarians, and they will definitely take the opportunity to eat us."

Li Zicheng said: "Then do you mean surrender?"

Song Xiance: "It's not enough to surrender, have you noticed that Zhang Xun's department doesn't seem to want to kill them all, but is just driving us away."

Li Zicheng handed him the letter and said, "Look at it."

Song Xiance: "That's true.

Li Zicheng: "What do the military advisors think about this?

Song Xiance: "This Zhang Xun's ambition is not small!

Li Zicheng: "How can you see it?"

Song Xiance: "This Zhang Xun wants to occupy Shanxi, and then annex Hebei, Zhejiang, Anhui, Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places. Form an encirclement and then control the capital.

Li Zicheng exclaimed: "Is this possible?

Song Xiance: "As long as an effective line of defense is formed, you can prevent the king from entering the army, and you can coerce the Son of Heaven to order the candidates."

Li Zicheng: "Isn't he afraid that all the people in the world will fight together?"

Song Xiance: "It depends on whether he can form an effective line of defense."

Li Zicheng sighed: "Then what are we going to do now."

Song Xiance: "Seek peace, then withdraw from the south of Shanxi, and then make a plot."

Li Zicheng said: "Then where are we going."

Song Xiance: "Xi'an! It is one of the ancient capitals of the Six Dynasties, and we can build a capital there.

Li Zicheng said: "That's good, just listen to the military advisor."

Half a month later, Li Zihou sent someone to negotiate, expressing his willingness to withdraw from the south of Shanxi, and willing to pay 30,000 taels to redeem his nephew Li Guo. Five days later, Li Zicheng led his army to Xi'an, where the people were once again baptized by thieves.

On August 17 of the same year, Chongzhen learned that the Shanxi thieves had retreated, and ordered Zhang and his son to withdraw from Shanxi.

On September 7 of the same year, Zhang Xun asked for the promotion of the two provinces to the capital, which was unexpectedly approved by Chongzhen.

Forbidden City, the Imperial Study.

Zhu Youzhen, who was in a state of interest, said: "Big companion, do you say that this is still the world of Lianlian?"

Wang Chengen said: "Naturally, it is the emperor's world.

Zhu Youzhen said: "This Shanxi has fallen into the hands of Zhang's father and son, which is really hateful.

Wang Chengen said: "Slave, there is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not.

Zhu Youzhen said: "Say! You are not guilty.

Wang Chengen said: "I heard that Shanxi has reached the point of cannibalism, and the emperor can't pay a little tax in his hands, so it may be a good thing to hand it over to their father and son to toss." At that time, if the situation improves, the emperor can also send additional taxes to their father and son.

Zhu Youzhen said: "Big companion, why didn't you think of this couplet? Well, you have a good idea.

Wang Chengen said: "The emperor just didn't think about it for a while, and the slave just helped the emperor reminisce and reminisce."

Zhu Youzhen accepted it shamelessly, and said, "Well, it must be like this."