At the end of August of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the Chuang army, which had stayed in Shangzhou for more than a month, finally began to re-move.

Previously, Henan Governor Li Xianfeng and others prepared to wait for Luoyang to wait for Li Zicheng to throw himself into the net, but they didn't want Li Zicheng to turn around and go straight to Shaanxi, which once paralyzed the officials in Henan.

After the Ming court learned of Li Zicheng's movements, he stepped up the arrangement of the suppression of bandits in Shaanxi, and he was relatively loose about Henan, and Li Xianfeng could only temporarily withdraw to deal with the local civil rebellion in Henan because of the rampant bandits in Henan.

Chongzhen's thirteen years of Henan, can be called a paradise of rebellion, belongs to the big stage of careerists from all walks of life, if you have a dream, then come to Henan to break through!

The thirteenth year of Chongzhen is a very painful year for Chongzhen, many things have undergone earth-shaking changes in this year, first of all, this year broke out a drought that affected the whole country, adding another fire to the people who were not rich in the late Ming Dynasty, and the drought affected the whole country, even with the rich Huguang and Jiangnan.

In addition to the drought, there are also locust plagues that follow, as if the last days of the dynasty are always not on the side of the court, and the locusts have eaten up the few grains that have been eaten, especially in Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, and Shandong.

In the context of natural disasters, the imperial court not only did not relax taxes and help the people, but intensified the collection of three salaries.

The Central Plains has always had a large population, and under the round of natural disasters, it has long been overwhelmed, and the people have been in exile, or fallen into the mountains and forests to become bandits and murderers, or exiles from other provinces, or joined the rebel army to resist tyranny, of course, the most is starvation to death on the way, forming a huge number of starvation, and starvation has caused the plague to run rampant, which is not tragic.

Even if the Ming Dynasty is full of derogatory energy to Li Zicheng, the history of the Ming Dynasty cannot but write vaguely "It is the year, the daughter of Henan Dougu", this sentence is just a simple sentence in the history books, how can we know how many families are ruined behind it?

In the 14th year of Chongzhen, the original 10,035 households in Wu'an County were 1,035 households, and in the 14th year of Chongzhen, there were 8,028 households that died, and the number of people was originally 20,325, and by the 14th year of Chongzhen, it was estimated that there were 18,450 people who had fled and died......

In such a tragic situation, the Ming court still extorted taxes, fish and meat people, there were seven clan vassal kings in Henan alone, set up cards to collect taxes, rampant in the countryside, such a court, how could it not be official to force the people to rebel?

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, uprisings in various parts of Henan rose one after another, dozens of people killed officials and robbed the road, more than 1,000 or even more than 10,000, besieged and slaughtered officials, uncountable, from homesteaders to tenants to slaves, and even ordinary landlords who supported the Ming Dynasty, all began to hate this greedy court, and those who rose up were no longer limited to the homeless people who were difficult to survive......

In this context, at the end of August of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng and others decided not to wait any longer after discussion, and the army immediately went east, all the way to Henan, and the army was determined to turn the world upside down in Henan.

After Gu Fuguang was uprooted, it was difficult for the Ming army to detect the actions of the invading army, and the Ming court itself did not attach importance to Li Zicheng, after all, although Li Zicheng had nearly 3,000 people at the moment, in fact, there were more than 1,000 soldiers, and it was obviously not to the point where the imperial court needed to pay attention to it.

However, as soon as the army entered Henan, the situation was completely different......

Under the strong promotion of Li Yan, the two major policies of "Juntian Exemption" and "Divided Field Proton" were pushed out, but Li Yan made a different explanation of "Juntian Exemption".

The so-called Juntian is also a Juntian endowment, and no matter the people and nobles, they all need to pay taxes, and there is no exemption from it.

The so-called exemption from taxation, exemption from miscellaneous taxes, all harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, all three salaries are all levied, and where there are more taxes, they will be deducted from the annual taxes in the future.

Compared with the original time and space of the average land, tax exemption, Li Yan's policy is more pragmatic, and even in order to increase the attractiveness of the policy, Li Yan also added four big words "never levy" after the tax exemption, that is, the government will never raise taxes.

In fact, there is no need to raise taxes, with the introduction of new crops, the population explosion is already a foreseeable thing, in the near future, even the poll tax will be abolished, what is the possibility of tax increases? The Manchus had proven that a population of hundreds of millions was enough to maintain the financial stability of an old empire.

Li Yan's policies on both sides undoubtedly brought hope to Henan, which was in dire straits, and for ordinary landlords, these policies were not too bad, and for the common people who were about to starve to death, these policies were too good.

So when Li Zicheng put out the battle flag of "Juntian is exempt from taxation and will never be levied" embroidered with eight elegant characters, Henan was boiling, and it is never an exaggeration to say that it is a grain win.

The two sides reached a consensus on the issue of resisting the imperial court, and soon began to fight together, counting the Henan people who gathered to defect after entering Henan, Li Zicheng's army soon swelled to more than 10,000 people.

Of course, more than 10,000 homeless people don't necessarily have much combat effectiveness, but among them are not only homeless people, but even some of the border troops who can't survive have also come to defect, Li Zicheng got rid of more than 10,000 homeless people, and doubled the number of soldiers in his hands to 2,000 people, and there are no less than 1,000 soldiers in the army brought by Yidougu and the clay pot.

Li Zicheng's strength has recovered to the same level as before the first rout, and at this time, the imperial court is still as unaware as a blind man, and it may not even be clear whether Li Zicheng has entered Henan.

After all, according to Yang Sichang's last book, Li Zicheng is a native of Shaanxi, and there are many Shaanxi people in the army, and if he really goes north, he is more likely to attack Shaanxi than Henan, so it is recommended that the imperial court focus on defending the Shaanxi area, and should focus on eliminating the local peasant army in the direction of Luoyang, and must not let Li Zicheng merge with the local peasant army in Henan, otherwise the land of Henan will inevitably be eroded......

I have to say that Yang Sichang was still very prescient, and he explained the consequences of once Li Zicheng merged with the Henan peasant army, but unfortunately he did not judge the direction of Li Zicheng's march and missed the opportunity to block Li Zicheng in vain.

In fact, this is not to blame Yang Sichang, as the person in charge of the suppression of bandits at this stage, Yang Sichang is being tortured by Zhang Xianzhong to death, and he doesn't have much strength to think about Li Zicheng's problem.

Zhang Xianzhong is like a small strong, he really can't fight with the Ming army, compared with Li Zicheng's cunning and good fighting, Zhang Xianzhong has obvious shortcomings in the military, and is the number one experience package in the entire late Ming Dynasty, but the problem is that although he can defeat Zhang Xianzhong, he can never eliminate him.

Zhang Xianzhong seems to have a kind of magic power, which can allow him to open up a new world every time he is in a desperate situation, and he can always resurrect from the ashes, such good luck has been accompanied by him to Phoenix Mountain in Sichuan, and he has no chance to resurrect by being beheaded, but Rao is like this, his four righteous sons almost made Nanming resurrect.

Yang Sichang beat Zhang Xianzhong and abandoned his armor, and cleaned up the rebel army of Luo Rucai's department, the situation was originally very good, but he didn't want to be in the harsh struggle environment, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others actually joined forces!

In July of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai's department carried out a joint venture in Baiyang Mountain, and the two sides exchanged views on the current struggle situation, and immediately decided to abandon the Huguang area heavily guarded by the official army and enter Sichuan, which is the same as Gu Junen's previous advice to Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai obviously made the same judgment as Gu Junen.

On July 19, the Zhang and Luo coalition forces marched towards Sichuan, Yang Sichang never expected to let Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai join forces, the original good situation of suppressing bandits, and instantly became not optimistic, if the Zhang and Luo coalition forces entered Sichuan, I was afraid that the whole Sichuan would be erosive, Sichuan governor Shao Chunjie originally did not deal with himself, and inevitably participated in his own book, according to the emperor's temperament, it would be difficult to save his own life at that time.

So after careful consideration, Yang Sichang simply went to Sichuan in person, sat in the town to suppress the bandits, and vowed to wipe out Zhang Luo and the others on the land of Bashu, and even wrote to Chongzhen, "Suppress the thieves and fold Chu, one drum can be finished!" ”

Then, Zhang Luo and the others gave him a big mouth, and the Sichuan army did not go through the war, except for some Tusi soldiers who could use it, the economic division of the imperial court was completely unavailable, and corruption was rampant, and the armament was not repaired.

Waiting for Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai's army to arrive, they gave up the dangerous pass to rush and run away, not only leaving Zhang and Luo a large number of heavy weapons, but also greatly improving the morale of the two armies, which was already very low.

After Yang Sichang learned about it, he was so angry that he was like thunder, but he was helpless, Sichuan officialdom was not very willing to bird him because of the governor, except for the incompetent and furious to Chongzhen to play a frenzied spray Shao Chunjie, Yang Sichang had no way, in the prevarication, the more the bandits were suppressed, the more unsmooth it became, and at this moment Li Zicheng's little movement was not enough to let the eyes of the court look over.

Of course, Li Zicheng will soon give the Ming Court a hard life......

"Raid Henan, the first in Luoyang!" Li Yan's finger firmly pointed to the small dot on the map with the word Luoyang written on it.

This is the first time that Li Yan has re-entered the military tent to participate in the military discussion since he supervised the grain and grass in the capital, and it may be that Li Zicheng remembered Li Yan's talent, and in the strategic confusion period after entering Luoyang, he specially invited Li Yan to discuss the next strategy in Henan.

Luoyang, the heart of Henan, is also the place where Emperor Wanli's favorite son King Fu is in the vassal, King Fu has worked hard for decades, coupled with the favor of his father Wanli, the wealth and treasures are only innumerable, which is undoubtedly the biggest attraction to the army.

Li Zicheng nodded frequently when he heard this, Li Yan's thoughts coincided with his and Gu Junen's thoughts, there are many advantages to fighting Luoyang, but there is also one disadvantage, that is, it can't be defeated.....

"Luoyang is the key, we all know, Luoyang can be controlled in the south, and Kaifeng can be choked in the east, of course, there are many benefits, but now Li Xianfeng has 100,000 people, not to mention the siege, even the field we are not completely sure." Tian Jianxiu was the first to frown and retorted.

Fighting Luoyang is everyone's consensus, how to fight, how to fight is the problem.

Li Yan shook his head with a smile when he heard this, and said: "Mr. Tian said that he laughed, if Li Xianfeng can really have an army of 100,000 in his hands, if he doesn't wait for us to find him, he will come to look for us, and now the situation in Henan, how can he Li Xianfeng pull up an army of 100,000?" ”

"Then how many soldiers and horses did you say Li Xianfeng had?" Yidougu was a new member of the army, and he didn't know Li Yan's ability, he had always despised scholars, and he only thought that Li Yan didn't know that the soldiers intended to embarrass him.

"It's only 20,000, and the number of soldiers who can fight will not exceed 5,000!" Li Yan stretched out two fingers and said.

"Joke, if it is really 20,000 soldiers and horses, does this Henan still need to wait for you to come? We've taken it all ourselves! "The crockpot didn't mean to respect Li Zicheng very much, after all, everyone was an independent rebel army, and they joined forces for the sake of profit, so they never had any scruples when they spoke.

When the generals who broke into the camp heard this, their brows furrowed slightly, and their faces showed displeasure, only Li Zicheng still did not change his face.

Li Yan shook his head without caring at all, and said: "The two leaders are naturally heroes in the Henan realm, and they respond to every call, and it is more than enough to pull up tens of thousands of horses......

The two leaders of the peasant army all showed satisfied expressions when they heard this, and only said that Li Yan was flattering them.

Unexpectedly, Li Yan's words changed and he said coldly: "However, even if there are 100,000 rabble, what can be done? The two leaders have 100,000 people, and they will still only be beaten by the 5,000 elites of the imperial court! ”