Sleepy and pillowed, turning the sky upside down Longfang County to make trouble, which gave Luo Rucai and He Yilong an excuse to fool Zhang Xianzhong to take the lead, because there were a large number of thieves in Fang County and Guanghua County, then Zuo Liangyu would definitely send troops to suppress it.

At that time, if Zhang Xianzhong does not raise things, I am afraid that he will not be able to mix in the ranks of the rebel army, after all, Luo Rucai has Zhang Xianzhong's letter in his hand.

In order to attract Zuo Liangyu's main force. Luo Rucai and several leaders of the 5th Battalion of Gezuo even dispatched some soldiers and horses to attack the two county towns of Zhushan and Yunxi.

For a time, thieves were everywhere in Yunyang, and the officials and soldiers of various counties were frightened, so that there was news that the heaven-turning dragon had gathered 100,000 people and wanted to go north to Nanyang.

As expected, after receiving the news of the turmoil in Fang County, Zuo Liangyu, the commander in charge of the reinforcements, convened the generals of the headquarters to discuss the matter of entering Fang County.

Zuo Liangyu's hometown is Linqing, Shandong, during the Apocalypse, Sun Chengzong prepared to build the Guanning Army, and Zuo Liangyu was awarded the title of Liaodong Cheyou Battalion because he was familiar with military affairs.

In the second year of Chongzhen, Zuo Liangyu went out with Ma Shilong, and made many military exploits, successively fighting in Hongqiao, Daqian Mountain and Zunhua and other places, and was rewarded by the imperial court.

Chongzhen four years, the east of the siege of the Da Ling River, the military department of the Lang Hou Sui then added Zuo Liangyu as the deputy commander-in-chief, with its reinforcement of Liaodong, has achieved Xingshan, Songshan victory, because of Zuo Liangyu's Changping army, each time to kill in front, the capture is also the most of the whole army, the imperial court merits, Zuo Liangyu is ranked first.

Due to the breeding of the Central Plains, the imperial court awarded Zuo Liangyu as the general army to aid the suppression, and repeatedly attacked and suppressed the peasant army of Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

Zuo Liangyu fought bravely, rushing to the front in every battle, although he disturbed the place, but he won many battles against the peasant army.

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, in the battle of suppressing the main force of the peasant army, he personally led the army to attack Zhang Xianzhong's own formation, and broke it, and Zhang Xianzhong was also shot by Zuo Liangyu with two arrows in the chaos, and fled for his life.

With the exploits against Donglu and Liukou, Zuo Liangyu's military horses have also expanded from the initial 3,000 to 20,000, and now they are stationed in Xiangyang, Zhang Xianzhong of Tiger Valley City and Luo Rucai of Yunyang.

Xiangyang came to the aid of the general army.

"Marshal, you give me 3,000 soldiers, and the last general will keep it and turn that sky-turning dragon into a sky-turning worm."

Zuo Liangyu's deputy general, Luo Dai, looked at the emergency battle report from Yunyang with disdain.

Wang Yuncheng, a guerrilla in the rear camp, got up and said: "Marshal, you can use a knife to kill chickens, and you don't need to shoot Deputy General Luo. ”

"Why are you going, last time you broke the sky, you have already made meritorious contributions, how can you say that this time it will be my turn Lu Ding!"

Zuo Liangyu's generals are full of arrogance, of course, they also have the capital to be arrogant, the leaders of the righteous army Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, and Li Zicheng are their defeated generals, just a bandit, and it is not a matter of being caught.

"Quiet, don't fight, the terrain of Yunyang is complicated, Zhang Xianzhong of Gucheng is at both ends of the head of the rat, that Luo Rucai is treacherous and changeable, these people are unpredictable, we will go less, I am afraid they will be designed."

Zuo Liangyu has been fighting with the peasant army for many years, and he still knows the habits of the rogues very well, and that Zhang Xianzhong has surrendered back and forth more than a dozen times, not to mention other rogue leaders.

To tell the truth, he was very dissatisfied with the strategy used by Xiong Wencan, the governor of the five provinces, to kill all the surrendered rogues, or to wholeheartedly carry out the strategy of appeasement, and now he is trapped in Xiangyang.

Hao Yongzhong, the general of Zuo Liangyu's department, asked suspiciously: "What does the big marshal mean?" ”

"Let Meng Geng take the middle battalion to guard Xiangyang, and the rest of the battalions will go out with the commander, let's go to Gucheng to enter Yunyang this time, and by the way, deter Zhang Xianzhong's dog."

Don't look at Zhang Xianzhong's 40,000 soldiers and horses, Luo Rucai has more than 30,000 people, in Zuo Liangyu's opinion, he is not even qualified to stuff his teeth.

Li Xingzhi, a traverser, flapped butterfly wings had an effect.

Zuo Liangyu, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, a few troubled heroes who stirred up the storm at the end of the Ming Dynasty, raised troops one after another, which was a month ahead of the original historical trajectory, and their marching route and marching strategy also changed a little because of the appearance of the overturning dragon.

As Zuo Liangyu expected, in the face of more than 10,000 elite soldiers from the left, Zhang Xianzhong did not dare to think of anything wrong, but gave gold and silver, and sent gifts to the officers and soldiers all the way to the border.

Clinker, after Zuo Liangyu transferred to Yunyang, just completed the siege of Shipailing, Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king of Gucheng, sent his son Zhang Wenxiu to lead the army to attack Gucheng in the name of purchasing materials.

Gucheng County made Ruan Zhixi defenseless at all, and when Zhang Wenxiu broke through the city pass, he even dreamed of asking for Zhang Xianzhong's property.

"Eat his mother, drink his mother...... The army entered the city without food! ”

"Eat his mother, drink his mother...... The army entered the city without food! ”

Zhang Xianzhong, who was determined to emulate Gao Yingxiang and become the lord of the righteous army, took advantage of the opportunity that Li Zicheng's main force was still nesting in Shangluo Mountain, held high the banner of breaking into the army, and attacked Baokangzhou, Nanchun County, and Laohekou and other places in October, coercing nearly 60,000 people, and the troops approached Xiangyang.

After hearing the report, Zuo Mengeng, who stayed in Xiangyang, thought that although there were many thieves, they could not fight, and despite the opposition of the generals, he only led 3,000 troops to drive directly to Gucheng.

Although Zhang Xianzhong was afraid of Zuo Liangyu, he was naturally fearless in the face of Zuo Mengeng, a yellow-haired boy.

In the face of the menacing Zuo Mengeng, Zhang Xianzhong used the strategy of avoiding the real and attacking the false, and sent his son Zhang Dingguo to lead the front battalion to feint to attack Xiangyang, and then Zhang Nengqi out of Laohekou and Zhang Wenxiu out of Nanchun, and broke Zuo Mengeng in Danjiangkou in late May.

Faced with the collapse of Xiangyang, Zuo Liangyu had no choice but to give up Yunyang's overturning dragon and attack Zhang Xianzhong's troops who surrendered and rebelled.

However, as soon as he walked on the front foot, Luo Ru on the back foot raised a banner in Yunyang Shu.

At the same time, the military horses of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution Left, to which He Yilong belonged, also rose up one after another.

The northern part of Huguang and the southern part of Henan suddenly got out of control.

Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai attacked together, broke through Fangshan, Zhuxian, and Guanghua counties, killed Yunyang Patrol Yu Shi Lin Mingqiu, forced landing on Yunyang Supervisor Military Road Zhang Dajing, and garrisoned Xu Qizuo, Ma Tingbao and others.

Zuo Liangyu took care of this and lost the other, tired of running for his life, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai set up an ambush in the west of Fang County, in order to lure the enemy, defeated Zuo Liangyu's army in one fell swoop, and beheaded Luo Dai, the deputy general of the left army.

In the case of successive defeats, Zuo Liangyu was afraid that the rebel army would break Xiangyang, after all, Xiangyang had a Ming court pro-vassal Zhu Yiming, and he Zuo Liangyu could not afford to take the responsibility of losing the country's pro-domain.

Zuo Liangyu, who was the most capable of fighting, retreated, and the Ming army gathered in Hubei did not dare to move.

Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai had no worries, and immediately invaded the territory of Nanyang after absorbing the Tiantian Dragon of Shimen Mountain.

The rebel army gave full play to its nature as a rogue, invaded prefectures and counties all the way, demolished city walls, beheaded unjust landlords, rich gentry, corrupt officials, and prisoners in prisons, and coerced a large number of people under the pretext of distributing grain.

By the end of July, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai had gathered 300,000 people, broke through 27 county seats, annihilated nearly 10,000 Ming troops, and approached Nanyang Mansion directly.