stubborn thief

Lanzhou city.

The news that Liu Chengzong captured Zhuanglang Weicheng frightened King Su. He knocked on the gate of the governor's mansion practicing state affairs with a horn lamp all night, and sent people to gallop starry night to ask Yansui governor Chen Qiyu for help.

At this moment, Chen Qiyu, the governor of Yansui, has a prestige in Shaanxi that is unmatched by anyone in both black and white. Even Liu Chengzong has to step back a little bit.

Because this person was the most likely to completely put down the rebellion among the nearly ten governors and governors in Shaanxi during the Chongzhen period.

Since the fifth year of Chongzhen, Chen Qiyu took over the official position of governor of Yansui, which brought about earth-shaking changes in the whole of Shaanxi.

In the military, since he took office, Yicheng, Xue Hongqi, Yiziwang, Jieshanhu, Liurobaozhi, Jinchipeng, Wang Chenggong, Yilong, Diamond Diamond, Fanshan Harrier, Heisha God, Renzhonghu, and five Yan Wang, Ma Mafei, Wang Denghuai, Ma Honglang, Man Tianfei... A series of leaders were attacked, beheaded and wiped out.

Economically, he opened coal mines and repaired water conservancy, trying to take advantage of the milder drought in the past two years to restore the agricultural situation in northern Shaanxi, and resettle the surrendered bandits so that they have jobs and food.

The worst thing in politics is that in the sixth year of Chongzhen, every Shaanxi feudal official who died in office wanted the imperial court to be exempted from taxes, and Chen Qiyu did it.

Emperor Chongzhen actually issued an edict exempting Yan'an and Qingyang from taxes.

This incident is actually not credited to Chen Qiyu. Everyone who died in front of him in the feudal borders has written a letter like this, but it's just his luck.

In the final analysis, it was not that Chen Qiyu's words of persuasion were too pleasant, but that Lord Chongzhen finally faced the fact that northern Shaanxi had not been able to collect taxes in recent years, and reconciled with himself with a smile.

Why the fuck did you go?
In any case, luck is also a kind of strength.

The people in Yanqing are grateful to Chen Qiyu simply because the court can be exempted from taxes. After all, for the people, the officials in the past wrote letters, but the people didn't know about it, but now that Chen Qiyu successfully wrote the letter, the people can see it.

The common people don't have high demands, and few people are willing to burn, kill and loot all day long to harm the nature and justice.

As long as you live, you can live.

Relying on the halo of exempting the imperial court from taxes, Chen Qiyu can do whatever he wants in northern Shaanxi. Even when his army marches into Yan'an, some people will secretly leave letters saying that the road is blocked and they cannot set up camp.

Compared with Hong Chengchou who came here to be beaten, this treatment is as high as Jiuchongtian.

Chen Qiyu didn't believe it at first, why is this road blocked?Is it the land of the king in the whole world, right? Where is the reason why the feudal officials lead the army to walk in their own land but say that this road is not feasible?

Who doesn't know that there are landmines in Yan'an Mansion, but the timeliness of the landmines is very short, and someone must be there to guard the fuse if it catches fire; Qi Jiguang's steel wheel does not need people to be around if it catches fire, but it can be buried in the ground for at least three to five days, and as many as eight days. On the [-]th, not to mention the rain, the landmines will lose their effectiveness due to the return of the earth's air.

Chen Qiyu didn't believe it anymore. With my prestige, would someone still want to blow me up?

He didn't believe in evil, and he insisted on leaving until the patrolling soldiers stepped on a landmine at night when the camp was set up, and the mountains and hills under the dark night sky became a flash of light.

After inspecting the residue by the military officer, Chen Qiyu believed that it was not because someone wanted to blow him up, but because the technical means of the people in northern Shaanxi were so advanced that it was unbelievable.

The people in northern Shaanxi are not idiots, they use Li Tiancheng's machine mines.

Li Tiancheng was originally a garrison in the Beijing camp, and he was good at firearms. Chongzhen made great achievements in improving landmines in three years. The imperial court set up a mine camp for him, and taught him how to use firearms and landmines.

The combination machine was originally applied by Zhao Shizhen to the bolt action of the matchlock gun. It is a mechanical device that uses gears to automatically open and close the fire door cover. Specifically, the gear is installed on the gun machine. There are two movable racks on the upper and lower sides, one of which is connected to a steel spring. Form the structure of the inner and outer yin and yang two gun machines.

Pull the trigger, the gear rotates, and the upper and lower tooth rails are one in front of the other. The Yin machine is responsible for pushing the fire door cover of the medicine pool inside the gun bed; the Yang machine with the fire tube is outside the gun bed and is responsible for igniting the medicine pool.

The name of the machine gun comes from the meaning of pulling the trigger and opening the two machines together.

This structure can protect against wind and rain, and is the most reliable bolt mechanism for matchlock guns.

On the earliest Lumi blunderbuss, the medicine pool needs to be opened and closed manually, but the machine blunderbuss can be opened and closed automatically.

It is called Xuanyuan Gun after upgrading, which is also an invention of Zhao Shizhen.

This part is a detachable long pole. The copper rain cover and the small mound heavier than the rain cover are respectively installed on the upper and lower sides of the long pole. There is a beam in the middle.

In rainy and snowy weather, insert the long pole beam into the reserved hole of the wooden gun bed. Because of gravity, the natural weight is on the bottom and covers on the top, and the matchlock is also wrapped around the lower part of the long pole.

Because the small mound is heavier than the copper cover, no matter where the gun body is aimed or even if the charge is pulled backwards, the copper cover will always be parallel to the ground, shielding the fire door and matchlock from rain.

Specifically, these things are actually parts of the bird gun. Maybe a gun is called a bird gun, but it has parts such as the machine and Xuanyuan.

The landmine coach Li Tiancheng transferred the combination device to the steel wheel landmine, which greatly increased the timeliness of the landmine. Even if it rains or snows occasionally, the landmine buried in the ground can guarantee a service life of more than two months.

The officers and soldiers in the three sides and five towns of Shaanxi have learned this skill, and there is little use for it... Firstly, the cost of making this thing is relatively high, and secondly, Lin Dan is buried in the ground in sweat. Who is it to blow up?
The officers and soldiers were reluctant to make a large number of this, but the simple people in Yan'an carried it forward, because the people in Yan'an are not the army, they need a peaceful living environment to live well.

For them, landmines are the cheapest means of defense.

You don’t need a lot of batches, just bury a few in the ground, regardless of the officers and soldiers or thieves, as long as you step on one, you will be scared and go back the same way, and people will be able to defend their lives.

For the people of Yan'an, the combined landmine has many advantages, but only one disadvantage. This thing is located in the geographical environment of northern Shaanxi, and its timeliness is a bit too long.

As a result, the younger generation responsible for planting mines in various villages often ask others: "Where did I bury the mines?"

I don't know, it's probably official.

Everyone didn't particularly care about it, who would follow the official path for a decent person?

Afterwards, I couldn’t walk on the small road. If I had to go out, I didn’t have to wear any clothes. Anyway, there was no one on the road, but I had to catch Lei Yang.

In any case, for the people of Yan'an Prefecture, resisting taxes is a victory, and the court's tax exemption is also a victory. Chen Qiyu, who can make the emperor tax-free, is undoubtedly the only official who the people do not want to send him to heaven.

After so many years of chaotic fighting, people have already made up their minds. It can be said that all of Chen Qiyu's victories are political victories.

The most commendable thing is that although Chen Qiyu is in a high position, he can still understand the psychological state of ordinary soldiers. He is very clear about the situation of the Shanxi military bandit family who is not old-fashioned, and he can use this disadvantage to his own advantage.

Just last year, in order to wipe out the Mountain Axe and Drilling Whistle entrenched in Yongning Pass in Yanchuan, he took advantage of the opportunity of Hong Chengchou leading the army westward to spread false news in the army.

Pretending that their army would be transferred to Gansu by Hong Chengchou, he ordered He Renlong to lead the army all the way west, with Chen Qiyu in the rear.

Traveling to Yanchuan, Chen Qiyu suddenly rode his horse eastward, and ordered the whole army: "Look at the direction of my horse!" The whole army immediately changed from the rear to the front, and quickly attacked Yongning Pass.

The army arrived suddenly, and the mountain-piercing ax and the sky-drilling whistle, paralyzed by the fake news, were caught off guard, so they got into the merit book in a daze.

Until the first month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Chen Qiyu was in full swing in Shaanxi.

Right now Hong Chengchou can't move in Gansu, even though Liu Chengzong hasn't marched to Lanzhou, Chen Qiyu has become the only life-saving straw in Sufan's eyes.

If anyone in the world could stop Liu Chengzong in Lanzhou, it would be Chen Qiyu.

Not only Sufan, everyone thought so, except Chen Qiyu, who didn't dare to think so.

Before the twelfth lunar month last year, Chen Qiyu was actually a little eager to try, but after the sixth lunar month of Chongzhen, Chen Qiyu didn't dare to think so, because the speed of the rebel army's march was appallingly fast, they were almost flying.

On November 24th of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the rebels spread loess on the river and covered straw door panels, galloped across the Yellow River, defeated Mianchi defender Yuan Daxu, and announced their entry into Henan.

Only five days later, on November 29th, the news of the rebel army entering Henan had not yet been spread across the Central Plains. In Tongguan, which is heavily defended, a mighty [-] troops broke through Wuguan.

In response to Hong Chengchou's actions, Chen Qiyu first drove away the King Chuang who besieged Xi'an Mansion, and then led his army westward to settle in Lintao Mansion.

At this time, it was heard that the police had returned eastward in a hurry, crossing Gongchang mansion and entering Fengxiang non-stop, before they had time to eat a warm meal in Baoji. The three cities were captured, and the vanguard of the rebel army was only a hundred miles away from Xi'an Fucheng, and the smoke of beacons could be seen everywhere.

The troops from all walks of life rushed to this end. Zuo Liangyu and Deng Qi from the Henan direction rushed all the way to Shanzhou regardless of food and water. Chen Qiyu also led the Shaanxi army to Xi'an non-stop, and most of the troops were left behind.

But what awaited them was the very quiet and peaceful Xi'an Mansion.

The rebels had already left the country, marching to the northwest was just a feint, turned around and marched south under the leadership of Chuang Jiang, and Yunxi and Shangjin in Xunyang Mansion were declared to have fallen.

The Jingxiang area where Xunyang is located is a special zone of Ming Dynasty.

This is the combined area of ​​Shaanxi, Huguang, Henan, and Sichuan provinces, starting from the end of Zhongnan Mountain in the west, Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain in the southeast, Funiu Mountain in the northeast, and Jingshan Mountain in the south.

With the advantages of waterways, the climate is between the north and the south, the mountains are continuous, the rivers are deep and the forests are deep, the southerners can plant paddy fields when they come here, and the northerners can also plant dry land when they come here.

As early as the Yuan Dynasty, due to the convenient waterway and suitable climate, it became an ideal gathering place for refugees from the north and the south. Once the political and economic environment deteriorated, bankrupt farmers from the north and the south would flood into Jingxiang from all directions.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the first large-scale rebellion started here, because the imperial court had no choice but to order the mountains to be sealed off, which intensified the conflict between the refugees and the imperial court.

Liu Tong, who was wanted for robbery during the Zhengtong period, hid in the mountains. In the first year of Chenghua, he erected a rebel flag, proclaimed himself King of Han, and attacked Xiangyang, Dengzhou, and Hanzhong.

After Liu Tong's death, Li Yuan of his ministry set up another banner to recruit the old ministry to accumulate strength. He became king again in the sixth year of Zhengtong, and was called Taiping King.

Since then, the imperial court has set up Governor Xunyang to deal with the armed forces of Jingxiang refugees, whose jurisdiction covers the adjoining areas of Hubei, Henan, Sichuan and Shaanxi, including 65 counties in five provinces, eight prefectures and Kyushu, including Xi'an.

However, the issue of armed refugees in Jingxiang was no longer a problem during the Wanli period, so the governor of Xunyang bid 6000 taels of silver per year, and there were only [-] pacesetters.

These 500 pacesetters are the entire field force of the Xunyang Mansion, but these [-] people were sent to Nanyang by the Ministry of War because Zhang Xianzhong entered Huguang last year and followed the governor Jiang Yunyi.

Li Zicheng is not like entering the land of no man, but indeed entered the land of no man.

At this juncture, Chen Qiyu almost fell off his horse when he received Sufan's request for help—this was to walk him to death.

He didn't dare to leave Xi'an mansion, even if he wanted to go to Lanzhou, King Qin would not let him go.

King Chuang was driven into the Qinling Mountains by him, General Chuang led a group of anti-kings into Xunyang, and the rebel forces around Xi'an Mansion were unprecedented. Maybe he would return to Lanzhou with his first foot, and then lose Xi'an Mansion with his second foot.

Thinking about it, suddenly a flash of lightning flashed through Chen Qiyu's mind. He thought of a person, and this person would definitely cure Liu Chengzong.

General Yang Yanchang of Yan'an!
Chen Qiyu had the official position of Minister of the Ministry of War on his body, and sent a dispatch order from the Ministry of War to Yan'an Mansion on a fast horse, ordering General Yang Yanchang to pack up the army and set off soon to the front line in Lanzhou.

Along with the transfer order, there was also a private letter from Chen Qiyu, in which he highly praised Yang Yanchang and was extremely sincere.

He said that the imperial court knew that the troops of Yan'an Camp and Yan'an Guard had been greatly damaged in the previous war with King Chuang, but Lanzhou was in dire straits at this time. It was hoped that General Yang would be loyal to the country and lead the army to help Lanzhou. Then Liu Chengzong is yours. An old opponent, only General Yang can deal with it.

Within two days, Yang Yanchang's reply letter arrived at Xi'an Mansion, saying that thanks to the great love of Futai Masters, he devoted himself to serving the country with his humble duties.

Looking at the reply letter, Chen Qiyu from the Yamen of Xi'an Prefecture heaved a sigh of relief with satisfaction.

Chen Qiyu was very familiar with the situation of the military bandit family in northern Shaanxi, and he also knew in his heart that Yang Yanchang would definitely not be as simple as he appeared on the surface.

The majestic God of War in Yan'an, every day in the castle, besides fishing, is giving birth?This guy already has twenty kids.

And if he is not sent out to fight, it seems that this guy's childbirth rate will continue unabated, maintaining the efficiency of giving birth to five children every two years and running wildly all the way.

That's the Yan'an Mansion where landmines are everywhere. If one person is a general in Yan'an, can he survive like this?

Chen Qiyu is very suspicious of Yang Yanchang being a thief.

But even with such a conjecture, after deliberation, he still thinks that transferring Yang Yanchang to Lanzhou is the best choice at this time.

Because his purpose was not to destroy Liu Chengzong, but to let Yang Yanchang go to defend Lanzhou. If he hadn't contacted the thieves, there would be no problem in defending Lanzhou;

But how to ensure that Yang Yanchang will not follow the thief?

Chen Qiyu used his little brain and came up with a clever trick. He placed his own eyeliner beside Yang Yanchang.

This eyeliner is called Ren Quan'er, and he is the commander of the Yan'an Guard.

He also sent someone to send a letter to Ren Quan'er, telling Commander Ren that you will go to war with General Yang Shen, and you will also send cronies to guard more than 30 family members of Yang Yanchang.

When this letter was sent to Yan'an Mansion, the army had already set out, and the hills and plains were full of people seeing off. People beat their waist drums loudly, and the old man and the old woman sent their sons into the army wearing red ribbons. It has been a long time in Shaanxi. This has happened before.

General Ren, riding his horse on Tupo, wore a black lacquer and gold-plated bowl helmet, and a silver-scale armor.

In the sound of military music, Ren Quan'er looked at the passing cars and horses on the official road beside him, looked past the well-equipped sergeants heading west, and looked at the direction of Yang Yanchang in the smoke and dust in front of the army formation, then he looked down at the envoy and said: "Tell Master Futai, sir, please rest assured, the humble officer is watching!"