The development of Lantian is rapid, and the development of Li Zicheng in Henan is also rapid, first since Mianchi County and Li Chaosheng parted.

Li Zicheng returned to Luoyang, and immediately moved his troops south and began to target the He Renlong and Zuo Liangyu troops entrenched in the north of Henan.

Li Zicheng rested for seven days and then left Luoyang with all the grain, gold, silver and jewelry, and informed Li Chao that the dragon army came to accept Luoyang and several surrounding cities, and even Kaifeng Li Zicheng gave up all of them, only brought enough food, and then exchanged thousands of flintlock pistols from Li Chaolong, and at the same time asked Li Shichao to form a guard musket battalion equipped with new muskets.

Then Li Zicheng with a desperate determination, directly south to attack He Renlong and Zuo Liangyu, He Renlong was the first to bear the brunt, He Renlong won the support of the Henan soldiers by squeezing out Sun Chuanting, with 130,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, which can be described as a strong man.

But these soldiers support He Renlong not because He Renlong has any personality charm, on the contrary, they support He Renlong in order not to fight, in order to fight against Sun Chuanting, and let Sun Chuanting carry Li Zicheng's big thunder.

As a result, Sun Chuanting didn't resist, and the thunder exploded, which gave this group of people a huge blow, and now Li Zicheng began to target He Renlong, so He Renlong took over Sun Chuanting's work and began to become Li Zicheng's number one enemy.

Li Zicheng is not a good talker, as soon as he came up, he was a ruthless move, and directly let Liu Zongmin lead the cavalry of the battalion and Li Guo's infantry to form an encirclement, and surrounded He Renlong with a circle kick, of course, He Renlong also has two brushes, and Liu Li Erjiang fought hard, lost the base camp Xuchang, and then retreated to Zhoukou, and formed a secondary defense line in Zhoukou.

As a result, Li Zicheng may have sent Li Shichao's musketeers to help him for the second time, probably to test whether his musketeers were powerful.

In this battle, Li Zicheng took less than a month to recruit He Renlong, and He Renlong also brought 100,000 surrendered troops, Li Zicheng was very happy to directly appoint He Renlong as the commander of the way, and help them attack Zuo Liangyu, who had not yet surrendered.

As soon as Zuo Liangyu saw that He Renlong had surrendered, he was even more decisive, almost without delay, and immediately took the 30,000 horses he had collected in Henan, abandoned Xinyang, and went straight to AH, and he did not make any stop when he entered AH, but plunged into Zhejiang, entered the Jiangnan territory, and soon reached a strategic cooperative relationship with the Jiangnan gentry, the Jiangnan gentry supplied Zuo Liangyu grain and grass, and Zuo Liangyu served as the guard of the Jiangnan gentry, complimenting their property safety.

Zuo Liangyu fled so quickly, Li Zicheng directly occupied the land in the south of Henan, and began to vigorously attack the local tyrants, snatch grain land, money, and satisfy his army, and at this time, north of Henan, Luoyang Kaifeng two places have entered the control of Lantian two places, Li Chaolong occupied the two places, and began to transfer from Lantian to grow and seeds, ready for spring sowing in the coming year.

Li Zicheng was stationed in southern Henan for three months, integrating a total of 600,000 troops, and then carrying this army directly to Shandong.

Shandong political envoys are almost frightened, immediately to the court, the court is also a mess at this time, since getting the news of Sun Chuanting's defeat and martyrdom, the whole court has fallen into inexplicable panic, Chongzhen fell into hysteria, Chongzhen began to frantically want to take back Henan, so he was ready to mobilize the whole country to besiege Li Zicheng in Henan.

But he was directly blocked back by the household department, the reason is, there is no money, Chongzhen stomped his feet angrily when he heard this, and scolded the household department for being incompetent, but what is the use of the household department, now the whole world can receive taxes in Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Jiangnan provinces, plus a Lantian, but Li Chaosheng's Lantian only pays his taxes in Shaanxi, as for the Lantian expansion and occupation of Gansu, Qinghai, Hubei, half of Jiangxi, half of Hunan are all non-taxable, plus Henan has been completely occupied by thieves, Sichuan was cholera by Zhang Xianzhong, and in the land of Fujian, Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhibao were in a decisive battle, resulting in the inability of the local tax burden to be delivered on time, and it can be said that the taxes that were not rich in the Ming Dynasty went directly to half.

As for the remaining taxes, in addition to maintaining the basic operation of the imperial court, the military salaries needed by Liaodong Hong Chengchou and the Guanning army are not a penny more, and this is still the case of a complete suspension of the clan's money and food, and because of the suspension of the clan's money, the entire Ming clan surnamed Zhu was annoyed, and Chongzhen was blocked by the clan in the palace for several days.

The clan asked for money and grain, and the household department had no money to let the emperor pay from the internal treasury, and the emperor also said that there was no money, you had no money, he had no money, he had no money, and the clan couldn't pay for it.

The household department was forced to be anxious, and the very bachelor directly threw the account book to Chongzhen, Your Majesty, you can look at it yourself, let alone the transfer of troops now, even the basic salary of your old Zhu family children can't be paid, you can solve this first.

Don't look at the old Zhu family, there don't seem to be many children, but according to the estimation of Ming history experts, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants have reached more than 200,000.

Chongzhen ordered the great eunuch Wang Chengen to come forward to appease him, and he appeased him several times, and the last time the excited clan was about to beat Wang Chengen, so scared that Wang Chengen jumped and ran away.

When Chongzhen heard this, he immediately sent someone to arrest a few clans and entered the Zongren Mansion to reflect, but he didn't expect that there were more people who came to make trouble the next day, and some people even shouted that they wanted to beat Wang Chengen, and they wanted to enter the Zongren Mansion.

This time Wang Chengen was so frightened that he didn't even dare to go out of the palace gate, so he could only follow Chongzhen every day, trembling.

In fact, it's no wonder that this group of people is so excited, it's really Chongzhen who gives too much, entering the Zongren Mansion, it is equivalent to having an iron rice bowl, the food in the Zongren Mansion is good, but it is much better than these clan children mixing outside, you must know that Zhu Yuanzhang stipulates that the children of the clan are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination, are not allowed to farm, and are not allowed to do business.

If you don't send it here, won't the children of the clan here stop? Some of them are dying of starvation.

At this time, as soon as I heard that Wang Chengen was blocked at the gate and beat him, he could be imprisoned in the Zongren Mansion, and there was such a good thing in this world? Then block the door and beat Wang Chengen, which frightened Wang Chengen.

Eunuchs can not be afraid of civil and military officials, civil and military officials can only rely on impeachment if they want to kill eunuchs, borrowing the emperor's hand to kill eunuchs, but the clan does not use, the clan is essentially a family with the emperor, the eunuchs are just their house slaves, they beat the house slaves, at most they are imprisoned in the Zongren Mansion, if this is a peaceful and prosperous era, the first few emperors of the Ming Dynasty, this is a big punishment, after all, imprisoned in the Zongren Mansion, the future of this benevolent brother is ruined, but at the end of the Ming Dynasty, this is a fart.

People are dying of hunger, and it is worth it to be able to enter the Zongren Mansion for a meal!

Therefore, the clan that was about to starve to death slowly blocked the noon gate, and when they saw the little eunuch, they beat it, and if they couldn't beat Wang Chengen, they took the little eunuch to vent their anger, and when they saw the little eunuch, they beat violently, and after the fight, they waited for the Zongren Mansion to arrest people.

Zongrenfu caught a few waves, and then Zongrenfu caught too much, and he didn't do it anymore, there was no such bullying, and there was no surplus food in our Zongrenfu, you Chongzhen couldn't treat our Zongrenfu as a relief house, so Zongrenfu went on strike, and it was rotten, allowing these Zongren children to make trouble at the gate of the imperial city, and even some people wanted to release the imprisoned Zongren children, after all, this group of rice buckets did eat a lot, and the food consumed every day was not a few, and their Zongrenfu's monthly allocation was limited, and they only supported them before, They eat well, they eat fragrant food and drink spicy food.

But now that there are more people, the silver has not changed, which is tantamount to giving them a downgrade in disguise! Who can do it?

This matter is really too big, and it makes people panic, the little eunuchs don't dare to go out of the palace, but the eunuchs don't come out, and the clan uncle doesn't give up and beat the palace maids without eunuchs, anyway, this group of guys is quite livestock, as long as it comes out of the palace, they dare to fight, the purpose is to be imprisoned in the Zongren Mansion.

In the end, Chongzhen was really frightened, gritted his teeth and took out 20,000 taels of silver from his inner pocket, exchanged food for the sect master's disciples, and distributed it, which comforted them.

However, Chongzhen asked the household department to return the money as soon as possible.

The emperor's internal money has always existed, and it is also the only economic source that the emperor can have the final say, don't look at Chongzhen eating chaff vegetables, and his clothes are patched, but Chongzhen's internal money is very rich, conservatively estimated that there are one or two million taels, but this money Chongzhen has always been used as river money, which is used in the most difficult time, and usually the ministers of the court cry poor and have no money, and he does not take it out.

This is actually not to blame Chongzhen, after all, this money to take out 100,000 taels, after layers of exploitation, and finally can be implemented, may be less than 10,000 taels, this official is too black, Chongzhen always feels that his money will go directly into the wallets of these corrupt officials, there is no sense of security at all, so Chongzhen takes the money very seriously, and if he wants to move his internal money, he must make an IOU, and finally let the household pay it back.

The money is not enough, but Shandong is in a hurry, what can I do, there is really no way, some ministers suggested, can you urge Liaodong, let Hong Chengchou hurry up and fight with Jiannu, first stabilize the situation in Liaodong, the rest of the things can be handed over to Zu Dashou, Wu Xiang and the two, and do not ask for merit from the two, as long as they can drag the Jiannu at the smallest price and the least amount of silver.

Then let Hong Chengchou go to Shandong as soon as possible, bring the silver from Liaodong Province, and go to Shandong to suppress bandits!

In this way, it can ensure that Shandong is not lost, and even Li Zicheng can be defeated, after all, Hong Chengchou's military ability is also very good, wasn't it he who defeated Sun Chuanting when he broke the king Gao Yingxiang?

Therefore, Hong Chengchou must be easy to deal with Liukou, so this strategy was quickly adopted by the imperial court, and Chongzhen was also very happy, so he issued a holy decree urging Hong Chengchou to immediately fight a decisive battle with Jiannu without delay.

The news was quickly delivered to the hands of Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, and Hong Chengchou looked at the letter, his face darkened, a decisive battle?

Is it possible to win the decisive battle now?

At present, the situation in Liaodong is very delicate, last winter, Jiannu stationed troops in Jinzhou, Ningyuan border, and began a tentative attack at the beginning of the year, but Hong Chengchou knew that there was a gap between the combat effectiveness of these Ming troops and Jiannu, so he joined forces with Ma Ke of Shanhaiguan and Wu Sangui, and stationed in Songshan, Xingshan, Tashan, and the three cities in Jinzhou respectively.

But now Chongzhen has to let Hong Chengchou send troops to fight Jiannu, isn't this a joke?

After Hong Chengchou read the letter, he immediately wrote to Chongzhen, saying that the luck and suffering of Liaodong and the danger of the military situation, how could Chongzhen listen to this at this time, because Shandong came to report, Li Zicheng's forward Liu Zongmin arrived at the city of Jinan with soldiers and horses, and if the imperial court did not send reinforcements, Shandong would be gone!

When this fire burns his buttocks, who has time to watch Hong Chengchou talk nonsense, and even Chongzhen feels that Hong Chengchou is afraid of war, otherwise why wouldn't he dare to fight with Jiannu?

So Chongzhen ordered a reprimand, and after Hong Chengchou was reprimanded, he wrote to Chongzhen again, and explained the situation in detail again, but Chongzhen still couldn't listen to it and continued to reprimand.

issued five holy decrees in a row, and the last holy decree was even more ruthless, directly issuing two holy decrees, one to Hong Chengchou and one to Wu Sangui, the content is, if Hong Chengchou does not obey the order again, then Wu Sangui can take his place, take over the position of the governor of Jiliao, and fight a decisive battle with Jiannu!

To be honest, Chongzhen is really anxious, when he saw the holy decree, Hong Chengchou looked up to the sky and sighed, the sky is going to destroy my Ming!

Wu Sangui said on the side: "Don't disturb the governor, the lower officials know the current situation, if it is a decisive battle, they will be sent to death, even if the lower officials don't want to be on top, they will not replace the governor Jiliao's position as governor, please rest assured." ”

Hong Chengchou smiled bitterly: "Uncle Chang, this is the emperor's order to be violated, even if you are unwilling to replace me, the emperor will let someone else replace me, rather than hand over the Jiliao soldiers and horses to the incompetent, it is better for me to lead, although the next battle, nine deaths, but if the risk is successful, maybe it can really turn the tide of the war, the old man can only gamble!" ”

Wu Sangui hugged his fists and said, "Please command." ”

So Hong Chengchou ordered, Wu Sangui sent troops to raid the flank of Jiannu in Tashan to attract firepower, and Ma Ke led the soldiers and horses to fight a decisive battle with the Qing army in Xingshan, and he and the rear raided the Qing army's base camp, as long as the base camp was attacked, then the Qing army would be defeated.

This strategy can be said to be very risky, but Hong Chengchou has no other way, he is about to fall into a desperate situation, but he is not without any chance of winning, he still has hole cards.

Hong Chengchou waited in the barracks for a long time, and the soldiers outside said: "Lantian Tongjin caravan, Li Deqian has arrived." ”

"Please!"

Hong Chengchou immediately shouted loudly when he heard this, that's right, his hole card is Lantian!

(End of chapter)