stubborn thief

Chapter 499

Hong Chengchou did transfer, but he was not to avoid Liu Chengzong.

Speaking of Mr. Hong being wronged, he always felt that if he didn't move, the people of Liangzhou would kill him.

Although the attack on the South Road was frustrated, Yang Jiamo on the North Road was defeated and killed, the strategy of attacking from the south and defending from the north was completely broken, and the situation in Gansu had deteriorated to an unprecedented level, but Hong Chengchou still believed that he could turn the tide.

The key to turning the tide is not in Shandan, Yongchang, or Zhenfan, but in Liangzhou.

Because the three guards couldn't keep up.

It is impossible to defend. These three guards do have soldiers. Although they are not full-staffed guards, but counting the fortress defenders, there are still more than 1 banner troops inside and outside. This is because the fields are vast and the eastern part of Gansu The guards are very careful about hooking troops, and if they don't hook up enough banner troops, they can't plow the fields.

However, the battle against the rebellion in Shaanxi has been fought for five years. The good generals and elite soldiers of the guards have long been transferred to Shaanxi. , The old, the weak, the sick and the disabled who were still not selected.

What's more, the countless castles were infiltrated by Bailian disciples like sieves. For Hong Chengchou, if he relied on the defense of Liu Chengzong in these places, it would be better to kowtow and let God send a thunderbolt to kill Liu Shizi.

Yang Jiamo has proved to Hong Chengchou that it is difficult to deal with Liu Chengzong head-on with military means on the battlefield.

Do thieves rob land, kill parents, and snatch wives and daughters?Grab, kill, grab!

Even when dealing with rich and noble families, he upholds a compassionate heart unlike those born in troubled times. He confiscates their land and property, except for a few evildoers who are sentenced to beheaded.

Even if a city is captured, the people in the city will die with firecrackers. Even if there is no firecracker, they will find a way to poison the well, poisoning one to make money.

Besides, all the hooligans, servants, and the young and old who came to the city in the past three years have all been expelled from the city, except for the family members and servants who live in the city. Those who are willing to leave can go together. Together, the people migrated to Songshan, Ningxia Zhongwei and other places.

These fifteen days were originally the time he calculated when Liu Chengzong's army arrived at Liangzhouwei.

Chongzhen was able to distinguish priorities, and Hong Chengchou's letter made him realize that Liu Chengzong, who had become a climate in the northwest, was his confidant's trouble.

At that time, there will be no food for a hundred miles, deserts in the north, and barren mountains with water shortages and droughts in the south. You will have to transport grain, grass, and siege equipment from a hundred miles away, or you will have to return to Ganzhou, and you will never be able to hold your troops under the city. Are you going to spend the winter?

How can Hong Chengchou prevent Liu Chengzong from getting Liangzhou autumn grain?There is no way.

These two guys are not in the same way at all. If Huang Taiji destroys the side wall and enters the bandits, the Manchurian soldiers will naturally become more and more courageous. If they lose and go back to their hometown in Dalao, they will die. If they stay in Daming, they will die with their bald heads on their shoulders. live.

Now the farmers in Liangzhou City who had suffered losses due to harvesting wheat ten days ahead of schedule saw that Liu Chengzong hadn't come when it was time to harvest wheat, and they were all annoyed and angry. The familiar atmosphere in Yan'an Fucheng many years ago came again.

Hong Chengchou counted everything in detail, very subtle, never expected... When Liu Chengzong's morale was high, he forcibly suppressed the army and squatted in Ganzhou for a full fifteen days.

There are three other places where there are terrible floods.

If you don't come, how the hell am I going to explain to the people?
Hong Chengchou was not afraid of Liu Chengzong. Really, he was not afraid of this brave and skilled army leader who was afraid of others, because even if he lost or was captured, what would Liu Chengzong do to him?

The reason is very simple. Chongzhen very much agrees with Hong Chengchou's view that Liu Shizi cannot be allowed to return to Shaanxi... This year is a good year, definitely a good year for Emperor Chongzhen.

Therefore, Chongzhen accepted Hong Chengchou's suggestion completely and let it go. As long as Liu Chengzong is not allowed to take over the whole of Gansu, the north and the south are not connected, and he is starved for the winter, the next year will be better. Reorganize the army and practice martial arts to destroy him.

Even if you lose the battle, just set up a flag at random, and there will be thousands of peasant troops.

This is the heartache.

Even if Liu Chengzong won [-] times on the battlefield, even if the war Liu Chengzong launched during the farming season had no effect on the agriculture of the two oases of Jiuquan and Zhangye, even if he had no road consumption in transporting grain in Gansu.

The first is the Hanzhong area where the [-] peasant army gathered; the second is Yanzhou, Shandong; the third...the third has nothing to do with Emperor Chongzhen, Shenyang.

Master Hong thought to himself: How dare he?

If you let this thing go back to Shaanxi, then something big will happen.

There are too many positive buffs on Liu Chengzong.

Emperor Chongzhen's reply to him was not censure, but encouragement.

Regardless of Hong Chengchou being an official of the imperial court, no matter in official documents or privately, the leaders who raised troops in Shaanxi were always thieves, but after serving in Shaanxi for so long, he actually knew better than those leaders why they were thieves.

Hong Chengchou was very anxious about fortifying the wall and clearing the field, because he had no confidence in the two guards of Shandan and Yongchang. It was considered an acropolis, which delayed Liu Chengzong for two days; more than forty fortresses along the way, delayed for four days; Under the city of Liangzhou.

How does this make the officers and soldiers suppress?How to let the officers and soldiers fight?
Under such circumstances, as early as when Liu Chengzong was still confronting Yang Jiamo under the Gaotai City, Hong Chengchou had already made a prediction that Gansu could not hold on.

He first ordered every family member on the Wuwei Oasis to make a family card, on which was written a certain surname, age, red, yellow, black and white complexion, incomplete scars, male, female, and grandchildren in the family. Liangzhouwei's cavalry rushed to various places, checked and received the official ticket, and agreed to enter the city through the four gates when the event was near.

But he is afraid of the angry people, because the angry people in Yan'an Mansion really beat him up. When he heard that taxes were to be collected, the earthen cannons were set up outside the yamen, and Yang Yanchang couldn't stop him. The official hats were blown off, and the gentleness swept the floor!

Going south is also impossible. The Gulang Gorge is narrow, and when Liu Chengzong drove away, Hong Chengchou dared to cut off his back and cut off his grain road; the same is true for going east after passing Liangzhou.

Therefore, he did not set up a second line of defense in Shandan and Yongchang to stop Liu Chengzong. Instead, he directly ordered the people on the Wuwei Oasis to harvest wheat more than ten days in advance, and at the same time to strengthen the walls and clear the fields in the Wuwei Oasis with a radius of hundreds of miles. The old, the weak, the sick and the disabled in the two guards of Dan and Yongchang and the surrounding fortresses were given to Liu Chengzong.

As for the rest of the chores, Hong Chengchou was also ready, compiling them into books and distributing them to the defenders. Everything was detailed, and what he wanted was that Liangzhou City could not be captured.

The first is Hehuang, Qinghai, Gansu, and Lanzhou, which Liu Chengzong occupied and is currently attacking; the second is Tianjin Wei, where there is no rain this year, and the harvest is completely ruined; the third is the south of Shanxi, where the drought is worse than last year. and the fourth is Yunnan.

But what kind of strange thing is Liu Chengzong?
Did he loot places?No grab; did he kill his parents?Don't kill; does he take away his wife and daughter?Do not seize.

He even went to Qinghai and turned himself into a hero. Hami, who had abandoned his defense for a hundred years, asked him to recover. Beilu Khan died in his territory, and the pirates were driven into Uzang by him.

Whether it is Gu Bing ignoring the people, or Gu Min ignoring the soldiers, or both, no matter what, the cornerstone of Liu Chengzong's victorious heart will be destroyed. Ningxia and Yulin, which will be hungry next spring and have a little harvest this year The frontier army will be transferred again, and then Liu Chengzong will either die in Gansu, or go out obediently and become the king.

Harvest ten days in advance, which is a lot less than normal harvest.

Coupled with the more than 1 mouths in Shandan and Yongchang, Hong Chengchou is especially looking forward to Liu Chengzong's coming, and what his expression will be when he sees the white land in Liangzhou.

Hong Chengchou counted everything clearly, but he missed the fact that Liu Chengzong did not march.

As long as he can't get Liangzhou's autumn rations this year, his military rations will be insufficient, no matter how he calculates them, it won't be enough.

What is righteousness?Dayi is the looting of places by thieves.

There are only four places where there are really terrible droughts.

From the beginning of spring after the new year, all parts of Shaanxi reported to the imperial court that it rained lightly here or there; in the middle of the year, it rained lightly everywhere in Shaanxi.

This year's disaster situation made Chongzhen very happy. He saw the dawn of hope to survive the famine. Of course, it is foreseeable that this year's military pressure will be greater. Huang Taiji, Liu Chengzong and all the anti-kings will go crazy. up.

In Liangzhou, the main crop is this crop of wheat. As the saying goes, the barley is yellow in the Slight Heat, and the barley is blooming in the Severe Heat. In other places in the north, the wheat is basically harvested in the Slight Heat, but the rush harvest time in Liangzhou is around June.

At that time, I am afraid that the border will be the bank of the Yellow River in Shanxi.

He counted the food and grass carefully. Liu Chengzong didn't have enough food this winter, and He Huang was throwing it there, so he really didn't panic at all?He should have led the army to attack Liangzhou in a hurry.

He counted Liu Chengzong's military strength, supplies, recruiting and surrendering troops, occupying land, the population under his rule, and the production of food in the fields. In the final analysis, people are still in your stomach.

If the one who entered Gansu was really a Tartar sweat, it would be nothing to be afraid of. It was nothing more than blocking the Yellow River to find an opportunity to regain it. But it was Liu Chengzong who entered Gansu. However, once he returns to Shaanxi, mere Longshan can't lock him up.

In the letter, he did not shy away from the possible defeat of Gansu, but only truthfully explained the current situation he was facing and what plans he could make under such circumstances.

Even if the soldiers who fought against him fought life and death on the battlefield, after the battle, they would surrender, those who were willing to surrender would surrender, and those who were not willing to surrender would be given gifts directly, and even travel expenses would be given to them as long as they had money on them.

At the same time, I hope that Chen Qiyu, the governor of the five provinces, will take this opportunity to wipe out all the [-] rebels who were attracted to the western part of the Qinling Mountains by the Marshal's Mansion. It is expected to transfer [-] frontier troops from Ningxia and Yulin, and try to fight again in Gansu in the spring of next year. The winning rate is very high. .

Moreover, there are also rules for the food in the official warehouses in the city. If the warehouses are not opened, they will save the dying but not the hungry; if someone needs to borrow food from a wealthy family, except for keeping it for their own food, all the excess food must be borrowed; The grain, but it must be repaid next autumn, borrow ten and repay thirteen, and the government will double the repayment if it is not repaid.

It is precisely because Hong Chengchou knows this clearly that he understands how terrifying an alien like Liu Chengzong is.

As long as Shaanxi's agriculture recovers a little bit, and the civil strife subsides, Gansu, a mere corner of the country, can be destroyed without flipping hands?
Hong Chengchou was encouraged by the emperor and heard the news that Yang Jiamo set fire to himself on the high platform, so he immediately made serious preparations for Liangzhou's defense.

The defensive equipment and defenders in the city are also ready. Each battlement has a name written on the inside, and is divided into one soldier and two minzhuang for defense. Among them, the minzhuang selects two patrolmen for every 50 people to specialize in guarding the city. Violating discipline.

The key to the victory of this battle is Liangzhou. To be precise, it is not the city of Liangzhou, but the farmland outside the city.

His intention is to try his best to keep Liu Chengzong in Hexi this year, and save the last city in Gansu for Daming—Liangzhou.

These places are still dry, but the drought situation has been significantly eased this year.

If you fight against him, if you can lead the guest army to the death like Yang Jiamo, you are considered to have the hatred of Ganzhou soldiers first, very few; it is not bad for a normal army to fight against him, even if it is defeated, like Li Hongsi Running back with his tail between his legs, in Hong Chengchou's view - a good general!
Liu Chengzong is the Ming lord who came out of the hungry army and hungry people in the severe drought in Shaanxi. Even if he is a loyal minister and good general without any flaws, standing opposite him will be a buffoon in the drama.

Fortunately now, fifteen days have come, and Liu Chengzong is still squatting and laying eggs in Ganzhou. He just sent a car to join Shandanwei.

The people outside the city had harvested their fields ahead of time, stripped their houses and yards, transported rations, household items and livestock into the city, and burned the straw.

The reason why Hong Chengchou dared to make such a judgment was because he was born as a food supervisor in Shaanxi Province and was very familiar with military food transportation. Although Liu Chengzong's journey was overwhelming, in Hong Chengchou's eyes, every step Liu Shizi made to the east was one step closer to defeat.

Then Cao Wenzhao killed and surrendered, he was like that in Shanxi, and he didn’t work under my command at that time; let alone Bai Guangen, he was brought down by Cao Wenzhao, not to mention that it was you... the internal conflicts in your rebel army , it has nothing to do with me.

He rushed at this time to fortify the walls and clear the fields, transfer the people, and arrange the defense of the city, making Liangzhou city as solid as gold.

Okay, no food, let me see how you perform this winter.

The officers and soldiers are also the dolls of ordinary people, and their hearts are all fleshy. When the general gives an order, let the soldiers no matter who is facing them, they should charge and fire the guns. That is the general's army Temperance and shrewdness are not soldiers who only want to get promoted and get rich.

That's enough, don't care how the thieves came, robbing, killing, and robbing just won't work, so the government and army are always able to suppress the thieves.

Liu Chengzong is different. Entering the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty is called rich and noble, and the defeated soldiers can be recruited immediately after winning the battle.

But the worse situation is that Gansu can lose, and Gansu and Hehuang cannot be connected as one, and it is not only Gansu that will lose if they are connected.

Hong Chengchou didn't expect to beat Liu Chengzong back at all, so he wrote a letter to the emperor.

If you live outside the East Gate, you can only enter through the east gate; , Firewood, livestock, fire, cabinets, and stones were all moved into the city.

Hong Chengchou's plan to defend the city was foolproof.

Don't you always flaunt that you love the soldiers like a son and care about the people, making us orthodox officials of the court look like villains?

The food under the city was also prepared. Those guarding the city had to be fed and warm, as long as the women were young enough to survive. There were 20 people in one stove, and they ate pasta in the morning, dry rice in the afternoon, and pasta in the middle of the night.

Liu Chengzong was the only mad dog in the world who dared to run three thousand miles into the hinterland of Ming Dynasty to confront the Ming army's heavy troops, and Huang Taiji couldn't do it.

When the Ming army fought against him, more people fled than died in battle, and more people surrendered than escaped. The people in the city who were recruited simply thought that this old Shaanxi was going home, and just live a good life without messing with him.

What's there to be afraid of?not afraid.

Just one, the city that Liu Chengzong passed by was not broken.

What is the basis for the officers and soldiers to suppress thieves?Righteousness.

After all, Liu Chengzong didn't beat him face to face, and Hong Chengchou also concluded that Liu Chengzong would not beat him... He knows Liu Chengzong well, he is a Confucian general, benevolent and righteous, and never kills innocent people indiscriminately.

We don't need to nod and surrender, he has to be courteous and corporal, and he has to find someone to persuade us, right?
Delicious food and drink, I, Hong Hengjiu, have never done any bad things. I am a great talent, the governor of the three sides, and all the bad things are done by Bai Guangen and Cao Wenzhao.

In fact, compared with the simple and honest Yan'an Mansion, Liangzhou does not have the warm and hospitable atmosphere of every household, but Governor Hong can't care so much, what did the ancestors say?A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall.

The official hat is on the ground, yes.

But the official hat must never be slapped away by the mud legs again, the farmer's hands are too strong!

　good evening!

　　
　
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