In the turmoil in Guangdong, the first to deliver the news was the sea ship of the maritime trade firm, but the local government did not have any news, which seems to be very incredible, but it is understandable to think about it.

The reason why the news is transmitted by sea is faster than that by land, because the best land route from Guangdong to the north is from Meiling to Jiangxi, and then from the northwest of Jiangxi, all the way there is a post delivery system. And now, because the whole of Jiangxi is occupied by anti-thieves. The news of Guangdong can only be transmitted by land, only through Fujian and Zhejiang, Fujian is a mountainous terrain, land transportation is inconvenient, and there is no perfect post system from Guangdong to Fujian.

Of course, there is another reason, that the local government in Guangdong deliberately concealed the news of the unrest, or even many officials and gentry were involved in the unrest. As previously analyzed, the news that Zhu Yousong of Jiangxi was enthroned as the superintendent of the country and that Yuan Chonghuan led the army down the river stimulated the Guangdong gentry, and in order to prevent the tyranny of Zhu Youzhen, the Guangdong gentry took risks and committed riots.

If this is the case, the situation will be very troublesome, and the weapons of Foshan cannot be counted on, and the entire Liangguang will be out of the control of the imperial court. Guangdong is already adjacent to Jiangxi, if the Guangdong anti-thieves and Jiangxi anti-thieves merge, if there are also gentry in Huguang to rebel, I am afraid it will not take much time, and most of the provinces in Jiangnan may not be owned by the imperial court.

"Didn't you brocade guards notice anything?" Zhu Youzhen looked at Liu Wenbing.

Liu Wenbing was puzzled: "The focus of Jinyiwei's layout is in the north, and now it is only sending secret agents to Jiangxi Huguang, and it is too late to lay out to the south of Meiling, not to mention ......."

Moreover, it was Xu Xianchun who was in charge of the work of Jinyiwei, and then Tian Ergeng, and Liu Wenbing, who was just a relative of Xungui, became the commander of Jinyiwei, and was only recently reused by Chongzhen and was responsible for the southern patrol and guards. The specific layout of Jinyiwei, Liu Wenbing is not clear.

"Send someone to Beijing to send an order and summon Tian Ergeng to come!" Zhu Youzhen said. Xu Xianchun was in charge of enemy reconnaissance in Liaodong, and the current governor of Jinyiwei was Tian Ergeng, but in order to stabilize the court and control the situation in Beijing after he left Beijing, Zhu Youzhen left Tian Ergeng in Beijing, and only ordered Liu Wenbing, the commander to accompany him. However, the successive rebellions in the southern provinces made Zhu Youzhen realize the lack of Liu Wenbing's ability, and at this time, Jin Yiwei was needed to intervene strongly and play a role in the southern provinces. And this kind of thing, only Tian Ergeng can do it.

It has been more than half a month since the turmoil occurred in Guangdong, and the emperor outside his body even knew until now that this was not allowed by Zhu Youzhen!

"It seems that the fact that the Jiangxi anti-thieves supported Zhu Yousong, the son of King Fu, as the prisoner of the country, stimulated the gentry of the provinces and made them see the opportunity to turn over. If this continues, I am afraid that the gentry of Fujian, Zhejiang, Yunnan-Guizhou and other provinces will follow suit. It won't be long before the world is in chaos! For today's plan, we must quickly defeat the anti-thieves attacking Nanjing with the momentum of thunder and quell the rebellion in Jiangxi, so as to deter the Quartet! Yuan Keli sighed.

From the position of the gentry, Yuan Keli understood very well the rebellious choices of the gentry in various provinces. Everyone had a good life, studied hard to gain fame, obtained an official status, and then accumulated a good land and a beautiful house, and lived a life of being a master, but the emperor wanted to deprive himself of everything for no reason, who would be happy?

The slaves are gone, the land is gone, the privileges of the gentry are gone, but they let their tenant slaves turn over and press on their heads, who can be happy? And what made the gentry desperate the most was that Emperor Chongzhen stopped the examination for no reason last year, and now he is holding examinations in Shandong and Jiangdong privately, selecting and appointing poor scholars and even those lowly businessmen as officials, which means completely abandoning the imperial examination!

This is to cut off the career of the gentry and the descendants of the family, and this is to completely subvert the current gentry class, and replace it with businessmen, poor scholars, and even ordinary pariahs!

If it weren't for the Confucian idea of loyalty to the monarch rooted in his heart, if he hadn't followed the emperor for these days, and saw that Zhu Youzhen's measures could really make the Ming Dynasty strong and make the people live a good life, Yuan Keli would have wanted to emulate those rebellious gentry!

What Aiqing said is very true. Now it seems that the Jiangxi anti-thieves are the henchmen! Zhu Youzhen nodded in agreement.

"Inspector Sun and Wen Ge should know Your Majesty's intentions, and they will inevitably quickly transfer troops to the south, I only hope that Governor Hong can hold out for a while and wait until the Henan Praetorian Guard arrives." Yuan Keli said.

"Hong Chengchou should be able to hold the city of Nanjing." Zhu Youzhen said, but there was some unconfidence in his tone. After all, the 200,000-strong army of anti-thieves is huge, and Hong Chengchou only has more than 10,000 troops in his hands.

But now, he can only choose to believe Hong Chengchou, Zhu Youzhen knows that there is not much he can do.

Now I only hope that Hong Chengchou can hold out for a period of time until Sun Chuanting and Zhang Shize lead the Henan Praetorian Guard.

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Kaifeng Mansion, Chenzhou, Zhang Shize has just won a victory, defeating Li Quan, the pioneer general of the Red Turban Thieves, and capturing Chenzhou City.

Since Wen Tiren led thousands of Praetorian Guards to Kaifeng, he took over the civil affairs from Zhang Shize, so that Zhang Shize could devote all his energy to suppressing thieves.

The army in his hands, plus the Praetorian Guards brought by Wen Tiren, combined with eight thousand people, was already a very large force.

Zhang Shize led his troops to attack continuously, and successively defeated Qixian, Tongxu, Taikang and other counties.

At that time, the red turban thief handsome Red Lady was leading troops to attack Runing Mansion, and successively occupied Ruyang, Xinyang, and Mall, because of the behavior of fighting local tyrants and inferior gentry to divide the land and land, it was very supported by the people, and the army grew to as many as 200,000. Of course, these 200,000 people are all peasants who have just laid down their hoes, and their combat effectiveness is really weak.

Therefore, tens of thousands of peasant armies often fought against the Praetorian Guards, but they were defeated by thousands of Praetorian Guards.

Seeing that the Praetorian Guards were aggressive, the Red Lady was furious, gathered an army of 80,000, and ordered her senior brother Li Quan to lead the troops and go to Chenzhou to fight Zhang Shize.

At that time, the Red Turban Thieves had Chenzhou City and an army of 80,000, and their strength seemed to be much stronger than that of the Praetorian Guard. In the eyes of the Red Lady, not to mention defeating the Praetorian Guard, at least there is no problem in holding Chenzhou.

The red lady is very smart and knows the gap between the combat effectiveness of her army and the official army, and she will definitely not be able to win if she touches it hard. gave Li Quan an order and let Li Quan stick to Chenzhou. Let Li Quan hold Chenzhou, and the Red Lady plans to personally lead the troops into the neighboring Nanzhili and attack Fengyang Mansion, the central capital of the Ming Dynasty.

Fengyang Mansion is where the ancestral tomb of the Ming royal family is located, as long as the posture of attacking Fengyang Mansion is made, the Praetorian Guard will inevitably evacuate Chenzhou and go to Fengyang to blockade. In this way, the newly occupied Ruyang Mansion can be peaceful.

The red lady wants to operate Runing Mansion as her own territory, but she also knows that if she wants to completely occupy Runing Mansion, she will need at least a certain amount of time to operate. Whether it is to stabilize the people's hearts or train elite soldiers, it will take a certain amount of time. The local tyrants and inferior gentry of Runing Mansion have been killed, and all the fields have been distributed to the poor people, as long as it develops over a period of time, it will become the most stable territory.

And before that, it is necessary to divert the attention of the officials and troops from Runing Mansion. Therefore, the red lady made a plan to defend the north and attack the east.

Strategy is good strategy, but it also depends on who the opponent is!

Although Zhang Shize only has 8,000 troops in his hands, he is the most elite Praetorian Guard!

Li Quan's 80,000 army naturally could not all be deployed in the city, but 50,000 people set up camp outside the city and became a corner with Chenzhou. If the official army attacked the large camp, the army in the city quickly supported and attacked the official army. And the official army naturally couldn't attack the city before they hit the big camp.

In Li Quan's opinion, his strategy is perfect. The battalion has sufficient troops, deep ditches dug and high walls built, and it is more difficult for the officers and soldiers to defeat it than to ascend to the sky!

However, no matter how good the strategy is, in the face of absolute strength, it is all in vain.

After Zhang Shize led his troops to Chenzhou, he couldn't rest at all, so he immediately launched an attack.

He sent 500 troops to block the four gates of Chenzhou, and then personally led 6,000 Janissaries to attack the camp outside the city of the Red Turban Army.

Although there are no Hongyi cannons, the number of artillery pieces such as the Franc machine and the tiger squat cannon in Zhang Shize's hands is as many as 200.

Two hundred artillery pieces were deployed 200 paces away from the Red Turban Army camp and launched a fierce artillery bombardment on the camp.

The sound of the cannon was like thunder, shaking the hearts of the Red Turban soldiers in the camp. They say that they are soldiers, but in fact they are peasants who have just put down their hoes for a few days, and many of them don't even know how to use weapons, so where do they know how to fight?

In the thunder, a large number of shells fell into the camp every moment, and the barracks were smashed by shells, and many Red Turban soldiers screamed, escaped from the tents, and ran around the camp.

They are all light artillery, and they use solid shells, which are actually not very powerful, and unless they are directly hit by shells, there will be casualties.

Under Zhang Shize's order, 200 artillery pieces bombarded for half an hour, causing four or five hundred casualties to the Red Turban Army soldiers in the camp, and there were thousands of collapsed camp tents. Although the casualties were not large, the morale of the Red Turban Army was already on the verge of collapse.

Seeing this situation, Li Quan, the main general in the battalion, did not dare to let the Janissaries continue to bombard, knowing that if it continued, the morale of the 50,000 troops in the battalion would have to collapse. He decisively led his troops out of the camp and prepared to fight to the death with the officers and soldiers. At the same time, he gave an order to the defenders of Chenzhou City, ordering the defenders to go out of the city and attack the flank of the Praetorian Guards.

Seeing the red turban thieves rushing out of the camp and lining up, Zhang Shize ordered to stop the shelling. In fact, most of the artillery was already hot for more than half an hour, and it was necessary to blow up the chamber if it continued to fire. The shells carried were almost exhausted, and they simply couldn't hold out for long. And the red turban thief's departure from the camp is in Zhang Shize's mind.

50,000 red turban thieves came out of the camp and lined up, and 6,000 Praetorian Guards were also on standby. In terms of numbers alone, the gap between the two sides is too obvious.

"Rush!" Relying on the large number of people, Li Quan did not talk about any tactics, and with an order, the whole army rushed towards the Praetorian Guards on the opposite side. In fact, there is no way to talk about tactics, these peasants who have just picked up their knives and guns do not understand the change of formation at all, and if they are forcibly mobilized, it will only be extremely chaotic. And Li Quan is just a family member who runs the rivers and lakes, and he doesn't know how to fight.

Tens of thousands of people charged, overwhelming, and the momentum looked very terrifying.

In the face of tens of thousands of charges, the Praetorian Guard soldiers just stood silently, unresponsive. At a distance of 200 paces, the thieves on the opposite side ran and attacked, which in the eyes of the Praetorian Guard soldiers was too stupid.

Sure enough, it was only half of the run, and there were still a hundred steps to go, and many of the Red Turban soldiers were already tired and out of breath, and the formation was even more chaotic.

After running for more than 50 steps, many of the Red Turban soldiers were already tired and gasping for breath. These soldiers of the Red Turban Army can't eat enough on weekdays, even after joining the Red Turban Army.

The army of 200,000 people, although they robbed the gentry and landlords of the entire Runing Mansion, was still stretched thin to feed so many people.

What's more, not only the army, but behind every soldier there is a family, and the food in the hands of the red lady is very tight. In the entire army, except for the generals and high-level leaders, most of them only eat one dry and one thin meal every day.

The stomach was already empty, and after running for more than a hundred steps, many of the Red Turban soldiers couldn't hold it anymore and were wheezing violently.

Just then, the Praetorian Guard moved. Under Zhang Shize's order, six thousand Praetorian Guards lined up in a neat queue to greet them. At the front were four platoons of musketeers.

When there were still thirty paces to go, the Praetorian Guard column stopped, and the musketeers raised their firearms and aimed ahead.

"Rush over!" Li Quan was still shouting in the back, but what was waiting for him was the firing of a row of firearms.

"Bang bang bang" a row of firearms shot out, and the Red Turban Army soldiers who ran in the front were directly shot three or four hundred people, many of the Red Turban Army soldiers who were still running stopped at once, but the ones behind were still running forward, and the ranks of tens of thousands of people were huddled together.

"Bang bang bang" the second row of gunners crossed the first row and began to shoot, and again hundreds of Red Turban soldiers were shot down. Seeing a large number of their comrades in front of them being shot and killed, many Red Turban soldiers were terrified in their hearts, threw down their weapons and fled.

"Bang bang bang" When the third row of firecrackers fired, most of the Red Turban soldiers cried and turned to run.

Before they could make contact, more than 1,000 people were shot and killed, which was so terrifying that it had already made many Red Turban soldiers frightened.

They are just farmers, and they have at most fought with neighboring villages for water on weekdays, so how have they ever seen a tragic situation on the battlefield?

One person escaped, driving many people to follow suit, many people fled, and the whole queue was in chaos, and it was no longer out of control.

"Don't run, we're much more than them!" Li Quan was still shouting hoarsely, but no one listened to him anymore, and even the guards around him also joined the queue to escape.

Seeing that the defeat was decided, Li Quan could only flee with him, he just wanted to escape back to Chenzhou. There were still 30,000 troops in the city, and with its tall walls, it should be able to resist the attack of the official army.

However, when Li Quan fled with the rout to the west gate of Chenzhou, he found that hundreds of Praetorian Guards were blocking the front, blocking the road into the city.

And between these hundreds of Janissaries and the city gates, hundreds of corpses lay down. However, the defenders in the city heard the order to leave the city and wanted to flank the Praetorian Guards, but they were directly repelled by the five hundred Praetorian Guards, and they couldn't even get out of the city gate.

"Bang bang bang" A row of guns flew in, and the routs around Li Quan turned around and fled, and when Li Quan was about to run away, he felt a pain in his leg and fell to the ground all of a sudden.

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