That is, Lu Jiude is a eunuch and a close friend of Emperor Chongzhen, if he changes to a civil official or a military general, then the impeachment chapter afterwards will drown him out. But in any case, Lu Jiude's behavior is also bold enough.

Of course, Lu Jiude also asked Emperor Chongzhen to play in time. Later, Emperor Chongzhen also made up the holy decree and transferred a Ming army to Fengyang. And the one who led the Ming army also dealt with Wu Shigong, that is, Yang Yufan, the chief soldier who had meritorious service in guarding Laizhou. He is also a world-famous general who defends the city, and it can also be seen that Emperor Chongzhen attaches great importance to Fengyang. But that's all for later, so let's not talk about it for now.

According to the original Jihua, Lu Jiude's department first took a boat into the Yangtze River and went to Nanjing to receive the armament. And at this time, the eunuch in charge of Nanjing's armament was no longer hiding and pinching, and he didn't need to spend any routine, he took out all the good things, and he couldn't wait to arm Lu Jiude's troops to the teeth.

After receiving the armament, Lu Jiude's troops immediately divided into two routes, Huang De's power of 2,000 cavalry galloped to aid Hanshan County, and Lu Jiude led the main force to still take a boat, going up to Hexian County against the current, and Nanjing Jingying formed a horn momentum, blocking Liu Guoneng from penetrating into Nanzhili.

And what can Liu Guoneng do at this time? Or stand still. After the victory, Liu Guoneng first cleaned up the battlefield and really made a fortune. The level of combat effectiveness of the entire unit has also been raised by a notch.

But then Liu Guoneng didn't know what to do.

Attacking forward, he was unwilling. Attacking Hanshan County, where heavy troops are stationed, is a matter that outweighs the losses. Bypassing Hanshan County? Liu Guoneng didn't dare. Isn't it stupid to put your own troops in the middle of two Ming armies?

I can't cross the Yangtze River. Don't say that Liu Guoneng can't collect so many ships, even if he can, Liu Guoneng won't do it. The nearly 10,000 Ming troops in Hanshan County are not pigs, and when Liu Guo can cross the Yangtze River. They came halfway to attack, and Liu Guoneng had nowhere to go if he wanted to cry.

Retreat is even more impossible. Wu Shigong has repeatedly asked Liu Guo to move forward to fight the Ming army, if Liu Guo can dare to retreat, wouldn't it be sending his family to the execution ground?

Therefore, Liu Guoneng had no choice but to confront, and when Lu Jiude's troops came to Hexian, he would have more reason to stand still.

In late April, after Lu Jiude arrived in Hexian, he immediately took over the command. Because at this time, Emperor Chongzhen's holy decree also came down, and the eunuch who guarded the town was also dismissed. I went back to Beijing to guard the cold palace. And Lu Jiude succeeded him as the eunuch of Nanjing.

People were in good spirits on happy occasions, and Lu Jiude immediately ordered: launched an attack on Liu Guoneng's department. On the first day of the fifth month, the two sides fought again, with Lu Jiude arranging his main force in the middle and Huang Degong on the right flank. The soldiers and horses of the original Nanjing Jingying with the largest number of soldiers and horses were arranged on the left flank.

At the beginning of the battle, the Ming troops in the center and on the right flank won one after another. But the time to rejoice was too short. Lu Jiude soon lost his temper, and those honor guards once again let Lu Jiude see what it means to be "amazing" in combat effectiveness.

And the collapse of the left wing made it difficult for Lu Jiude to continue. In desperation, Lu Jiude could only switch from offense to defense, and also confronted Liu Guoneng's troops.

With the arrival of the rainy season. Both armies lost interest in wallowing in the mud, and gradually the two sides turned into a "sit-down war" and did not dare to enter the battle rashly.

What Liu Guoneng did. Wu Shigong was extremely annoyed, he didn't want Liu Guoneng to contain the Ming army of Nanzhili, but to consume the Ming army of Nanzhili. But he couldn't force Liu Guoneng too ruthlessly, so the current Wu Shigong, in addition to letting Ye Yufei constantly urge Liu Guoneng to fight, could only go with him.

And now the peasant army, the most wonderful performance has turned to the eight kings Zhang Xianzhong.

After the defeat in Xiangyang, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai formed a coalition army, and they first parted ways with the peasant armies of the other battalions, and then passed through Yicheng, and unexpectedly crossed the Han River again at Jingmen, and attacked Yingcheng.

The battle of Yingcheng fully demonstrated Zhang Xianzhong's wit and bravery. When he led the army to the city of Yingcheng, he did not stop, from east to west, around the city, and stopped ten miles west of the city. Only small forces composed of old and weak troops were sent out, pretending to attack the west and south gates, but not attacking with strength.

The Ming army defending the city thought that the peasant army was afraid of them and did not dare to attack the city. Then he sent troops to attack, and the peasant army gave up his baggage and fled according to Zhang Xianzhong's deployment, and the Ming army was even more arrogant, and even laughed at the peasant army for being really incompetent.

In fact, Zhang Xianzhong had already ambushed his heavy troops on the outskirts of the east and north gates of Yingcheng. Four days later, a monk actually wore a pair of iron armor that he got from a family surnamed Lin Hanlin in Yingcheng, and led more than 1,000 soldiers out of the city to challenge the peasant army. It seems to be performing "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", and the war is so strong that even the monks and monks have played out.

The peasant army deliberately threw some materials and equipment on the ground and retreated, and the ironclad monks and soldiers rushed to grab it, all of them were overjoyed, and unknowingly, they were lured into the ambush circle of the peasant army. Zhang Xianzhong gave an order, and the cavalry suddenly took the lead in charging, ending the life of the ironclad monk at once, and all the more than 1,000 soldiers who went out of the city were annihilated.

Then the peasant army quickly rushed to the bottom of the city, and the officers and troops defending the city were in chaos. I saw a ladder approaching the city wall, and the peasant soldiers went up the ladder. The iron locks of the eastern, northern, and western gates were cut one after another. In order to flee for their lives, the officers and soldiers desperately fled outside the city. The ambush soldiers outside the city swarmed out, and the county commander Zhang Shaodeng and more than 10,000 officers and soldiers all became prisoners.

Then, taking advantage of the assassination of Wu Shigong and the contraction of the entire Runing army, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai allied with 200,000 troops to the north and besieged Suizhou (now Suixian, Hubei). The defenders in the city were only five or six hundred people, and the disparity in strength was huge. The general soldiers Yang Shien and Xu Mingcheng, who were stationed nearby, knew the great power of the peasant army and did not dare to send troops to fight. Zhizhou Wang Tao led five or six hundred soldiers, risking arrows and stones, desperately resisting, but it was just like an egg hitting a stone. Two days later, the peasant army conquered the city, and Wang Tao, the governor of Zhizhou, committed suicide but died.

After the Battle of Suizhou, Zhang Xianzhong continued to go east to Guangji, and annihilated more than 300 people who had been entangled in the Guangji Dian Shi Wei time in the high mountain shop in Qizhou (now Qichun, Hubei). Then along the line of Huangzhou (now Huanggang, Hubei), Tuanfeng, Xinshengzhou, Luotian, Sandian, and Yangluo, take the small road to Anqing.

After that, the pine was broken, through Taihu Lake and Qianshan, and the camp was 100 miles, and the beacon fire reached Huai and Yang, and Nanjing was shocked again. Because Anqing was well garrisoned and the troops were relatively strong, they were unable to attack, so the coalition forces chose not to fight, returned to the division and went north, entered the Ying and Huoshan areas of Dabie Mountain, and held on to the danger. Prepare to choose a fighter plane and annihilate the Ming army again.

At this time, the Zhang and Luo coalition forces had actually followed Liu Guoneng's footsteps and formed a situation that echoed Liu Guoneng's department.

In order to deal with the peasant army, Zhang Guowei, the governor of Yingtian, spent a lot of effort to specially select the children of the talented martial arts family to form an army and stationed it in Yanjiadian. Zhang Xianzhong fought with a small force and Anqing soldiers in Qianshan Tianning Temple, because of the arrival of Zuo Liangyu's reinforcements and relieved the siege, and the peasant army was stationed in Qianshan Paradise Village.

Zhang Xianzhong mobilized soldiers here to cut down bamboo and build ships, pretending to march into Huguang's Jiashi, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the officers and soldiers, with 3,000 people as the vanguard to go eastward and arrive at Yanjiadian in the southwest of Susong County. In addition, send troops to snipe reinforcements from the direction of Anqing.

On April 27, Zhang Xianzhong arrived at Anqing's house shop and surrounded the defending corps. Shi Kefa and Xu Ziqiang, the chief soldier stationed in Anqing, immediately sent troops to the rescue, because they knew that the peasant army had strong morale and strong combat effectiveness, and it was difficult to hold on to each other, they advocated retreating to the fortress to avoid the edge of the rebel army.

So Shi Kefa ordered the deputy general Cheng Long to lead 3,000 soldiers from Suzhou, and garrison Chen Yuwang and the general Pan Keda to lead 900 soldiers from Anqing, and garrisoned them in the area of Yanjiadian, waiting for battle, rather than rushing to fight. It's just a fabrication of the situation, and the firing of cannons is a sign of solidarity. Cheng Long, Pan Keda and others, who were surrounded, saw that the food was exhausted, and the soldiers were hungry and unbearable, and wanted to take the opportunity to break through.

At noon the next day, Zhang Xianzhong ordered the troops to attack from all directions, and the defending enemy was quickly killed by the peasant army. In just one day, more than 6,000 officers and soldiers were annihilated. When Adjutant General Cheng Long saw that the peasant army rushed into the official barracks, he saw that the overall situation of the defeat of the whole army had been decided, and he would not have a good result, so he set himself on fire and died. More than 40 officers, including the guerrilla Chen Yuwang, the generals Zhan Zhaopeng, Wang Xihan, Lu Wangyou, Wang Hongyou of the Baihu, Wang Dingyuan and Zhou Jia, the general of Qian, committed suicide one after another.

General Pan Keda, garrison Zhou Guangguo and others were killed by the peasant army in the battle. Only the guerrilla Jiang Ruolai hid in the horse pen, saved his life, and waited for an opportunity to escape. And Zhang Guowei, the governor of the Heavenly Patrol, painstakingly managed this armed force composed of children of good families, and it ended with the destruction of the entire army. In the face of such a tragic situation, Zhang Guowei could only look up to the sky and cry, like mourning.

The Battle of Yanjiadian was the most outstanding battle of annihilation fought by Zhang Xianzhong since the uprising. In this battle, the time was only one day, and all the defenders were annihilated, which not only boosted the morale of the peasant army and revived the prestige of the army, but also showed the success of the peasant army's tactical application of attacking the east and west.

After Zhang Xianzhong won a major victory in the battle of annihilation of Yanjiadian, he took advantage of the victory to continue to advance eastward. Its vanguard troops had reached Liuhe and Yizhen between Nanjing and Zhenjiang, and Yangzhou was in an emergency.

So Lu Jiude asked Huang Degong to temporarily entangle Liu Guoneng's department, and he and the eunuch Liu Yuanbin personally led the Yongwei battalion of 10,000 people to help. Another 6,000 Ming army led by Liu Liangzuo also rushed to the Zhang and Luo coalition armies, and Zhang Xianzhong's good "friend" - Zuo Liangyu was of course also in hot pursuit. The attention of the officers and troops of Nanzhili was all focused on the combined forces of Zhang and Luo at once.

At this time, Wu Shigong, whose relationship with the imperial court was gradually warming, was also busy communicating with all parties. (To be continued......)