Such a ferocious official army has become on the same page as the people of Xiangyang. When they heard that the peasant army was coming, they burned incense and saluted one after another, and welcomed them with wine and wine. Some people even took the initiative to act as guides, leading the peasant army to bypass the fortified place of Zuo Liangyu and cross the Han River from the mouth of the White Horse Cave. and also desperately carried guns for Zhang Xianzhong's troops and assisted the brigade to cross the beach.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zuo Liangyu immediately pulled out the camp and fled eastward, burning down the houses, destroying the stoves and wells, arresting all the young men and women, killing the old and weak women and children, leaving no chickens and dogs, and thousands of miles away. And in order to be able to explain to the imperial court, he even asked the general soldier Ma Xianglin of the side to stick to Xiangyang City, which had no soldiers and no food.

Before the war, Wu Shigong had sent a letter to Ma Xianglin, asking Ma Xianglin to flee to Runing in a critical situation. But Ma Xianglin was deeply influenced by his mother's "loyal monarch" thought. Before the war, he once wrote to his mother Qin Liangyu: "My son swears to live and die with Xiangyang, and I hope that adults will not think about the safety of my son!" And Qin Liangyu's reply was only one sentence: "Okay! Good! Mawu'er! ”

On October 18, the city of Xiangyang was broken, and Ma Xianglin was killed and martyred. After the news of the fall of Xiangyang reached Jingzhou, Zhu Changrun, the king of Hui, Chen Ruimo, the governor of Biyuan, and the civil and military ministers absconded, so that there was no one at the city gate. On the 20th, the peasant army occupied Jingmen Prefecture and advanced to Jingzhou. The people of Jingzhou slaughtered pigs and sheep, and held banners to welcome the peasant army. On the 22nd, the peasant army entered Jingzhou and killed the entire family of Zhu Yanyi, the king of Xiangyin in the Ming Dynasty.

It can be seen from this that Zuo Liangyu's destruction of the people of Huguang was so great that the people were looking forward to the arrival of the peasant army and rescuing them from fire and water. But in this way, Zhang Xianzhong's threat to the Runing Army also became bigger all of a sudden.

Then, the peasant army continued to march towards Chengtian. And Chengtian is today's Zhongxiang County, Hubei, and is the fief of Zhu Youhang, the father of Emperor Jiajing. Because Ming Wuzong Zhengde had no son after his death, Jiajing joined the succession. Therefore, Zhongxiang is also regarded as the "land of dragon diving", and it is the location of the tomb, so it was upgraded to Chengtian Mansion and set up two guards to defend Chengtian and Xianling.

And when the storm of peasant armies swept the land, the imperial court not only moved the general army of the province to garrison, but also transferred other provinces to assist in the defense, and ordered the governor and the governor of the province to sit in Chengtian to protect the mausoleum. But although there are heavy troops here, they can't screw the hearts of the people. When the vanguard of Zhang Xianzhong's troops arrived in Chengtian by boat, some of the local residents wrote "Welcome to the king" on the gate. Some opened the gate of Xiguan City to welcome the peasant army into the city.

On the first day of November, the peasant army conquered Chengtian. Song Yihe, the governor of Huguang, committed suicide, Li Zhensheng, the governor of the imperial history, was captured, the general soldier Qian Zhongxuan was killed in battle, and Yang Yongyu, the doctor of Qin Tianjian, surrendered. Zhang Xianzhong ordered the change of Chengtianfu to Yangwuzhou. This means that the place where the Ming Dynasty inherited the sky has been turned into a place for the peasant army to show off its might. At the same time, people were sent to demolish the Xingxian Mausoleum and excavate the Offering Mausoleum.

At a time when Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army was brilliant all the way. The Runing army has been standing still, even after the peasant army entered Huguang. None of the naval divisions and warships of the Runing Army entered. So that Zhang Xianzhong's department can smoothly cross and shuttle back and forth on the Yangtze River and the Han River.

And the main reason for this is that Huguang is the territory of the Zuo Liangyu Department of the official army. Before the Runing Army resolved the issue of the Li and Luo coalition forces in the north, it did not want to have any friction with the official army in Huguang. In addition, the expansion of the Runing Army was concentrated on the side of the army, and the construction of gunboats in the naval division had been greatly slowed down, which also made the naval division not have enough ability to block the Yangtze River and the Han River.

But Wu Shigong didn't expect Zhang Xianzhong to recover so quickly, let alone Zuo Liangyu was so poor. Even his old nest, Xiangyang, said that he would give up.

Although in terms of performance, Wu Shigong was very sad about the death of his godbrother Ma Xianglin, but he was more worried. Now that Runing's defense is empty, and Huguang's Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army is getting bigger and bigger, Wu Shigong is really afraid that Zhang Xianzhong will stab himself in the back.

"Uncle! We are only worried about the Qin army and the Chu army. Now that the Qin army has been defeated, the Chu army is strong outside and has gone to these two major enemies. And our Runing Army is also focused on the outside, where can't we go in the United States? Xue Yongli comforted Wu Shigong and said.

"So, it's really unreliable to rely on these pig teammates." Wu Shigong also shook his head with a wry smile, "We can't grind slowly in Henan Mansion." The south is our foundation, we must not afford to lose, let Yongzi and Xunzi enter the lake to encircle and suppress it! We also have to start a war again here, and strive to drive the Shaanxi thieves out of Henan Mansion within a month, and then the main force will go south to completely exterminate the Zhang thieves first. ”

"But without Commander Zhou watching in Nanyang, we can't drive the two thieves Li and Luo to the south, either forcing them to return to Shaanxi, or forcing them to cross the Yellow River, which is different from our pre-war estimate!" Xue Yongli said.

"It's best to force them into Shaanxi, as long as we catch Tongguan in our hands, a large number of Shaanxi thieves will not be able to get out. It's not bad not to transition the Yellow River, let them go to Beizhili and Shanxi to make trouble. I want to inform Yu Fool that if he wants Henan Mansion, he has to contribute himself, and our Runing Army will not do anything for him. ”

"Hmm!" Xue Yongli nodded, then she pondered for a while, and pleaded for Zhang Rubao: "That Rubao also has no rice to cook, and he can't be blamed if he can't control Jiang Mian, how about being demoted and retained?" ”

"Forget it! The whole army will report! Wu Shigong waved his hand and said, "Give him another chance." However, it is also beneficial to drive away the Shaanxi thieves, let's go to Huguang this time, and by the way, take down Ruzhou and Nanyang! Let's hold Henan in our hands first. ”

"Uncle! The little one is that I heard that Mr. Deng's brain is about to explode these days. In Runing, a group of people who lent us money surrounded him, and they wanted to get the land in Henan as soon as possible. Xue Yongli said with a smile.

"Divide the measured terra nullius first! Let these rich men be at ease first. also told Mr. Deng to stop worrying, everyone draws lots, which is also fair. However, the management of those Zhuangzi can be brought by our Runing army, especially the Zhuang Guard, and it cannot be controlled by those squires, and I don't want to make trouble in the country. As for the seeds and farm tools, they are all taken care of by the people who take the land, and in terms of manpower, we still have to take more prisoners, as long as it is the population, the old and the weak, women and children. These people must be counted as the house slaves of our Runing Army, and they will be temporarily lent to those squires, so we will no longer collect money! It's also a discount for them. ”

"But there are quite few local homesteaders in Henan, and the inner study room has been calculated, and the local land-owned people are less than 10%. The rest of the land is in the hands of the emperor's relatives and the official eunuch family, uncle, if you deal with it like this, you are afraid of causing trouble! Xue Yongli worried. (To be continued......)

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