As Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, his record in the northwest is quite good, but he is quite arrogant and arrogant. When King Qin, Sun Chuanting, led the Qin army into the Weijing Division and was appointed as the governor in charge of the southern front, he constantly accused Yang Sichang of improper deployment and command, and the relationship with the military department was very tense.

Sun Chuanting's accusation is not wrong. Because the overall command of the defense against the Qing army this time was indeed in charge of Yang Sichang. Although Yang Sichang is also bitter, the generals of the Ming army are fighting each other (such as the contradiction between Lu Xiangsheng and Gao Qiqian); The confidence of the Ming army was lost (e.g., Sun Chuanting's own Qin army was in turmoil). But no matter what, Yang Sichang, as the commander-in-chief, always can't escape responsibility.

However, Yang Sichang's strength is not large, there are many quarrels, coupled with the old hatred with Sun Chuanting before, the relationship between the two is like fire and water, and a deep feud has been formed.

But when the Qing army left the customs, Emperor Chongzhen ordered Yang Sichang to preside over the evaluation of the merits of civil and military officials, everyone understood that Yang Sichang not only did not lose his holy family, but also was more favored, so Sun Chuanting did not dare to fight again, and he couldn't afford to hide if he wanted to be provoked.

At this time, Sun Chuanting was deaf in one ear because of the fire, and because he was not convinced by Yang Sichang, he repeatedly asked to go to work to recuperate.

But how could Yang Sichang let go of this opportunity? Now he can even lie about Lu Xiangsheng's death, and he has no psychological pressure to frame Sun Chuanting again. So Yang Sichang took the opportunity to repeatedly attack Sun Chuanting for pretending to be sick and unwilling to take up the dangerous position of governor of Baoding.

So when he listened to Yang Sichang's words again, Emperor Chongzhen was immediately furious, and he shouted angrily: "You still want to blackmail the imperial court, and you have resentment? Say a word to Luo Yangxing: Earn the edict and punish the crime! ”

Wang Chengen immediately signaled to the little eunuch who was accompanying him at the gate of the palace, and asked him to immediately convey Emperor Chongzhen's message to Luo Yangxing, the commander of the Jinyi Guard. Just said back and forth, Sun Chuanting was unlucky.

Another capable minister of the late Ming Dynasty court was lost so inexplicably. And this evil result came from Emperor Chongzhen's freewheeling. We have always said that Emperor Chongzhen was quite mean, which caused the ministers to lose their hearts. But that's not the most important thing.

As the Son of Heaven, it is best to be benevolent, but at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it doesn't hurt to be brutal as an emperor. But looking at Emperor Chongzhen's different ways of treating Yang Sichang and Sun Chuanting, he couldn't even achieve the least fairness when he was under control. Without fairness, where will the ministers return to their hearts?

On the ninth day of the fifth month of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Gucheng.

"Have all the people in the city been arranged?" Zhang Xianzhong asked Li Dingguodao.

"Hope and Nengqi have already taken two hundred brothers into the city. They have spread the news that the city is defenseless, and they have agreed to attack the city on the fourth watch. The child is willing to make a military order. Before dawn, I promised to hand over Gucheng to my godfather. Li Dingguo said.

For Li Dingguo's work, Zhang Xianzhong is still very relieved. He nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "The official dog thought that we didn't know about their troop deployment, but I didn't expect that it was already under our control. This time, we will eat a mouthful of fatty meat, and then we will go to Cao Cao in Fang County. You have to give the official dog some color and take a look. But don't be careless, there are still more than 2,000 official dogs in the city. ”

"Yes! Godfather! Li Dingguo immediately agreed. But godfather, don't worry. With the weapon you just gave to the child, it's more certain to take down Valley City. It's a pity, but if we were given some more time, we could have bought more of these weapons. ”

"Don't be too dark-hearted, you can't buy more when you have time." Zhang Xianzhong said with a smile, "Although the texture of that weapon is good. But the thief who sold it is expensive, and we can't afford to pay so much silver! ”

"Oh? Who sells it? Makes us unhappy and robs the fuck. Li Dingguo immediately raised his eyebrows.

"It's not Wu Butcher's family? Somehow, it used to be sold to us piecemeal. These days, it has become generous, and the price has fallen by 20%. I heard that they fought a battle with the Tartars in the north, and there were many dead and wounded, so they may need to raise more silver for burning and burying silver! Zhang Xianzhong said with a smile.

"His family is rich, and Butcher Wu is also good to his soldiers. The weapons they built were even better. To be honest, children are also a little greedy. Li Dingguo also laughed.

The reason why the Runing Army sold weapons to Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai and other peasant soldiers these days was not only to make money, but also to support them to rebel. Of course, the caravan of the Runing Army also blocked the situation, leaving Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai in the dark.

"Don't mess with Butcher Wu for the time being, he is a madman, if he moves his people, he will bite and hold on, it is not worth counting. Buying his family's weapons, on the one hand, his family's weapons are really good, and on the other hand, it is also a friendship. If this mountain doesn't turn around, maybe there will be a place to deal with it in the future. You should also restrain the brethren and make them be polite to Butcher Wu's caravan. Zhang Xianzhong advised.

"Yes! Godfather! ”

Just when the Ming court's plan had been decided and he was busy raising troops, Zhang Xianzhong received a secret report and felt the imminent danger from the signs of the government and the Ming army. So he decisively decided to strike preemptively, and led his troops to raise the anti-flag again on the ninth day of the fifth month of the twelfth year of Chongzhen.

However, the local government of the Ming Dynasty and the Ming army guarding the peasant army were defenseless. Although the order of the imperial court to encircle and suppress had already been conveyed, the civil and military officials headed by Xiong Wencan, the governor of the five provinces, were full of bribes and were half-hearted about the order of the imperial court's encirclement and suppression. And the peasant army also wantonly bribed and wooed those Ming soldiers at the bottom, so those Ming soldiers lost the most basic vigilance against the peasant army, and some even reported to the peasant army.

So under the cooperation of Zhang Xianzhong's internal and external forces, the peasant army easily occupied the county seat of Gucheng. Zhixian Ruan Zhiuran committed suicide by poisoning, and the patrol was killed, while Zhang Dajing, Ma Tingbao and Xu Qizuo, the superintendent of the army, were forced to surrender. Among them, the most pitiful is Ruan Zhiyou, the magistrate, who reported to the imperial court and the governor Xiong Wencan no less than dozens of Zhang Xianzhong's fraudulent surrenders, but he has been sunk in the sea, but he was reprimanded by Xiong Wencan and them again and again. It's really unwilling, and it's a little unwilling.

After that, Zhang Xianzhong demolished the city walls, robbed the treasury and imprisoned them, recruited poor people into the army to expand his strength again, and then immediately led his troops to the west. When Zhang Xianzhong left Gucheng, he wrote in detail the list, number and time of the bribes demanded from officials of all sizes in the government on the walls inside and outside the city, so that the people could clearly see the corruption of the Ming Dynasty's politics and proved the justice of his rebellion.

And the fire of war of the Central Plains peasant army was once again raging. (To be continued......)