At the same time, in Henan.

There is an uninhabited village about sixty miles south of Kaocheng.

There are about dozens of earthen houses in this village, and there should have been one or two hundred villagers, but after repeated wars, Henan has already been ten rooms and nine empty, and this village has become an unmanned village.

At this time, Zhu Gaoyuan's ministers and a thousand Yiding were sleeping in the village.

From Tongzhou all the way south, Zhu Gaoyuan did this, marching at night, trying to find an uninhabited village to camp in before dawn, and if he couldn't find an uninhabited village, he could only find a manned village, but before camping, the villagers would be arrested and imprisoned first, and pretended to be bandits or rebels.

In fact, a thousand Yiding is also very much like a bandit.

The ordinary people who were imprisoned were scared half to death, how did they know that it was the emperor who arrested them?

Therefore, even if the local officials of Dashun came to inquire afterwards, they only said that they were bandits and soldiers.

What's more, at this time, the Dashun army suffered a defeat at Shanhaiguan, and the entire Dashun regime was in chaos, no one at the top cared about, and the people below would not do their best.

Various factors were superimposed, and until Zhu Gaoyuan and his entourage crossed the Yellow River from Kaocheng, all the Dashun armies were still ignorant.

Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi had been waiting for the rabbit along the canal until the north and south flanked and crushed Wang Jiayan's 3,000 cavalry, and after capturing the Ming army for interrogation, they knew that Chongzhen had already gone south from another road.

But at this time, the two of them couldn't care about pursuing Chongzhen.

Because the news of the defeat of the Dashun army at Shanhaiguan was delivered.

Li Zicheng ordered the two to immediately lead the army north to respond.

Turning back to Henan, in the evening, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves on the official road in the south.

Immediately, a horseman galloped from the official road, apparently to pass through the uninhabited village to the west.

However, there were still three miles away from the uninhabited village, and several earthy yellow blankets suddenly rose on both sides of the official road, and then several ambush troops rushed out from under the blankets.

Two of them stretched out their hands and pulled,

A stumbling rope crossed the official road.

The postman who was galloping on his horse didn't have time to react, and instantly fell to the ground with his horse and man.

Several ambush soldiers swarmed up, tied up the post guards with all hands and feet, and found rags to gag their mouths to prevent the post guards from shouting and attracting more thieves.

"Wujiao, you continue to lurk."

"I'll take this post man to report to the saint."

One of the Volleys said to the other.

"Okay." Another Volkswagen agreed, and immediately took a few Volkswagen soldiers to cover their bodies with blankets, and lurked on the side of the official road, while the previous Volkswagen army entered the uninhabited village with the post guards.

……

Zhu Gaoyuan woke up from sleep, and walked out of a dirt courtyard with Mengke Rabbit and dozens of Yiding, just in time to see Jin Xuan with two family members and a post guard of the Dashun Army.

Jin Xuan said: "Holy Lord, we have captured a thief pawn. ”

"Holy?" The thief's face immediately looked shocked.

Zhu Gaoyuan nodded and said, "Jin Qing, you can interrogate and see if you can ask something?" ”

Jin Xuan replied yes, and immediately motioned to the two family members to take down the cloth in the mouth of the post guard.

The post guard immediately shouted: "Long live, long live Lord, the little one is a tenant farmer of Master Yuan's family, and he is a thief who was coerced into obeying, and he doesn't really want to be a thief." ”

Jin Xuan said: "Which Master Yuan?" ”

The postman said: "Master Yuan Taibao of this dynasty." ”

"Shengshang, it is Yuan Keligong, the secretary of the Ministry of War." After Jin Xuan finished talking to Zhu Gaoyuan, he asked the post guard, "Where are you going?" And for what? ”

The postman said: "The villain is going to Suiyang to rescue the soldiers." ”

Jin Xuan said: "Why do you want to move the rescue soldiers, what happened to the city of Defu?" ”

The post man said: "There is a puppet Ming rebel army, uh no, no, no, no, no, my Ming official army is besieging Fucheng, and the puppet prefect Sang Kaidi specially ordered the villain to go to the pseudo-deputy general Ding Qiguang of Suiyang Wei for help." ”

Jin Xuan said to Zhu Gaoyuan: "Sang Kaidi was the former prefect of the Defu Prefecture, and Ding Qiguang was the former deputy general of Suiyangwei, but he was willing to fall and surrendered to the thieves one after another. ”

Zhu Gaoyuan nodded to indicate that I knew.

Jin Xuan asked the post guard again, "Who is besieging Fucheng?" ”

The post man said: "It seems that I am going to Henan to aid the general soldier Xu Dingguo, oh yes, there is also the push official of Kaifeng Mansion, a seven-grade petty official called what a husband." ”

Jin Xuan said: "Kaifeng Mansion Governor Chen Qianfu? ”

"Yes, yes." The post guard nodded again and again, "Chen Qianfu, it's called Chen Qianfu." ”

"Holy Lord, this is a madman." Jin Xuan said to Zhu Gaoyuan, "After Chongzhen's twelfth year of township test failed, he made a big fuss in the Gongyuan, and the ministers were present at that time, so I was impressed. ”

"Later, I don't know whose way I went,"

"The election official went to Kaifeng Mansion to serve as the seven-rank promoter."

"Chen Qianfu?" Zhu Gaoyuan also had a vague impression.

This person should have left his name in the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, but he was not very famous, so Zhu Gaoyuan had an impression of this name, but his deeds were not very clear.

I was deeply impressed by another name, Xu Dingguo.

It was this person who booby-trapped Gao Jie, causing the Huanghuai defense line that Shi Kefa had painstakingly managed to come to naught in an instant, and also causing the Hongguang small court to last less than a year.

As he spoke, other officials and nobles came over one after another.

After asking about the situation, he didn't speak, just waited for Zhu Gaoyuan to make an idea.

There is no doubt that at least among the group of officials and nobles who followed Zhu Gaoyuan to break the siege, Zhu Gaoyuan, the emperor, has taken off the title of "mean, unkind, suspicious and suspicious", and has established absolute authority, and the emperor has not consulted them, and none of them dares to speak out easily.

Zhu Gaoyuan did not intend to seek the opinions of officials and nobles.

When it comes to specific administrative matters, the opinions of these officials and nobles can be sought, but when it comes to strategic choices, Zhu Gaoyuan can only and must make an arbitrary decision.

This is definitely not Zhu Gaoyuan's stubbornness.

It is because Zhu Gaoyuan is a time-traveler who can predict the trend of history in advance, and Zhu Gaoyuan has more than 300 years of knowledge, experience and experience than people of this era.

For example, now, Zhu Gaoyuan must make a choice - whether to intervene in this war in Guide Mansion?

Zhu Gaoyuan's original plan was to travel day and night all the way, rush to Yizhen as fast as possible to find Huang Degong's army, and then take Huang Degong to Yangzhou to find Gao Jie.

First of all, annex Gao Jie's army,

Then clean up Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo.

In the end, he coerced the four towns to force Zhu Yousong to abdicate.

The timeline for the whole process is tight.

Once it drags on for a long time, anything can happen.

So if you don't delay in Guide or don't delay, don't delay for a day.

But then again, if there is an idle man in the early layout of Guide, this will undoubtedly be extremely beneficial to the construction and operation of the Huanghuai defense line in the future.

Because of the threat to the throne, he immediately had to lead the army north to Huanghuai.

At that time, it will be necessary to confront Jiannu on the Huanghuai line, and even fight a big war.

At this time, the idle man who falls in Guide can play a key role.

So whether this idle man falls or not is a problem, and Zhu Gaoyuan can only make his own decisions.

After pacing for a while, Zhu Gaoyuan quickly made a decision: "Order all the soldiers and horses, go to Defu City!" ”

"Yes!" Kim Hyun agreed, and immediately went to deliver the decree, accompanied by the sound of trumpets and trumpets, and the sound of horses neighing and boiling sounded in this abandoned uninhabited village.

……

At this moment, outside the west gate of the city of Defu,

Xu Dingguo is discussing with Chen Qianfu whether to launch a strong attack?

Xu Dingguo and Li Dingguo, the names of the two are one word apart, but their abilities are worlds apart, and Xu Dingguo is not a good thing at all, just a greedy person.

Before relying on the drill camp, he mixed up in the Ming Dynasty and reached the high position of the general army.

After the fall of Beijing, he had no backbone, and he did not have the courage to go to the south, because he was afraid that Gao Jie, Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo would take away their military power, so they simply stayed in Suizhou.

Because there was no military pay, most of his soldiers ran away.

But in the past month or so, Xu Dingguo has recruited more than 1,000 stragglers by plundering the township.

In order to protect themselves, the nearby villages had to take refuge under Xu Dingguo's command, which further boosted Xu Dingguo's power, which has now swelled to more than 2,000 people.

With Xu Dingguo, there were more than 1,000 villagers who besieged Fucheng, as well as Chen Qianfu.

Chen Qianfu's ability is much stronger than Xu Dingguo's, and he can gather more than 1,000 villagers to promote officials with one introduction and seven grades, and he can survive in the cracks of the Dashun army, which is really not simple.

Since it is a joint operation, there will certainly be a conflict of interests.

Xu Dingguo asked with a smile: "Lord Chen, you are the person in charge, why don't you let your people attack first?" ”

Chen Qianfu waved his hand and said: "Mr. Xu's words are wrong, although this battle was initiated by the lower officials, but the main force is Mr. Xu's soldiers and horses, so it should be attacked by your soldiers and horses first." ”

Although Chen Qianfu's position is much lower than that of Xu Dingguo, he is not psychologically frightened.

The smile on Xu Dingguo's face froze suddenly, and he was a little annoyed in his heart, surnamed Chen, are you shameless?

Just when Xu Dingguo was hesitating whether to simply kill Chen Qianfu and then annex his more than 1,000 villagers, the villagers in the various villages lined up behind suddenly commotion, as if something had happened.

Immediately, a village leader rushed over in a hurry.

"General Town, General Town Xu!" The leader shouted, "Oh no! ”

"Li Jiyu!" Xu Dingguo was also frightened in his heart, but he reprimanded quietly on his face, "What are you panicking about?" ”

"Uh, huh?" The leader of the township named Li Jiyu snorted and said, "Cavalry, there is a huge cavalry rushing towards Fucheng!" ”

As soon as the words fell, there was a faint sound of thunder in the distance.

Immediately after, everyone felt the ground under their feet begin to tremble slightly.

Xu Dingguo's face instantly turned pale, although his chief military officer relied on speculation to drill the camp, but he had also fought in Liaodong, and he had also fought a lot of battles with thieves, so he still remembered the movement of the cavalry march, just listening to this movement, he could be sure that there were at least a thousand cavalry killed!

Thousands of cavalry, in the current Henan territory can only be rogue cavalry.

The thieves' cavalry were all old pawns, and they were no match for the rabble under his command.

"Bring the town's horses!" Xu Dingguo subconsciously wanted to get on the horse and escape.