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Chapter 127 Wei Zhice Begs for Help from Zhending Mansion
Originally, thousands of Qing troops gathered outside the city of Zhendingfu to attack Zhendingfu city. After two days of defeat, they suddenly heard that Lu Xiangsheng led the Xuanda army with [-] horses to help them, so they left in a hurry.

However, just when Lu Xiangsheng led his troops to camp on the banks of the Hutuo River in the south of Zhending Prefecture.

The Dorgon and Abatai tribes of the Qing army who entered the bandits had gone deep into the Zhending Mansion to plunder. In Shulu, Ningjin, Gaoyi, Zanhuang and other counties, they also came to report that there were cavalry looting in the territory.

However, the Qing army under Hauge, after breaking through the counties of Raoyang and Wuqiang, swept south along the counties of Wuyi, Hengshui, and Zaoqiang, and the front line was close to Nangong County.

At the same time, the right-wing army of the Qing army was also divided under the command of the slave chiefs Yuetuo and Du Du.

Under the leadership of Du Du, the main force along the way went south along Wen'an, Dacheng, Qingxian and other counties, and went straight to Cangzhou. The front of the troops was already pointing to Nanpi County.

The other route, led by Yue Tuo, ravaged Hejian Mansion, and successively broke through several counties such as Xianxian, Jiaohe, and Fucheng. Now the army is besieging Jingzhou, and the army is approaching Gucheng County. It has the potential to attack Linqing, an important water transport town. .

However, most of the ministries of the Ming army stopped moving forward, hiding in the fortified city.

Under the order of the emperor, Liu Yuliang, the chief assistant of the cabinet who supervised the world's reinforcements on behalf of the emperor, led tens of thousands of soldiers from the Beijing camp, and stayed in Baoding City for ten months.

Chen Xinjia, the new governor of Xuanda, led the army to Dingzhou with the title of Youshilang of the leading military department, and also the censor of Youqiandu. Make sure that Yunzhen will not lose.

Director Gao Qiqian was originally ordered to enter the Hejian Prefecture to monitor the Qing army's right-wing Yuetuo tribe's captive cavalry, but he only dared to follow the Qing army far behind. The heads of more than a dozen captives rode.

After following the Qing army through Shenzhou, Gao Qiqian led the army to Zhending in the west to join Lu Xiangsheng to relieve the danger of Zhending.

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Lu Xiangsheng's troops didn't have enough food and grass. Fortunately, in the battle of Gaoyang, Haoge was caught off guard. He won a big victory and seized more than a thousand stone grains. In addition, the grain and grain donated by Gaoyang and Dingzhou's gentry and labor forces were maintained to Zhending Mansion. At that time, there were not many.

Therefore, after the army camped on the banks of the Hutuo River, he wrote a letter to Zhang Qiping, the governor of Zhending, hoping that Zhending City could provide some food and grass for the army.

Unexpectedly, the Zhending governor Zhang Qiping also had eyes and ears in Beijing, and seeing the cabinet minister Yang Sichang gaining favor in front of Emperor Chongzhen on weekdays, he also wooed him early on.

Now he even learned that Lu Xiangsheng, because of his main battle, was pushed out by Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian, so he closed the gate of the city tightly to prevent the army from entering the city.

But the army was running out of food, and each battalion had to eat one full meal a day, and began to collect wild vegetables, grass roots, bark, etc. around the surrounding area, and cooked porridge with miscellaneous grains to support the second meal.

Governor Zhang Qiping of Zhending initially promised to provide grain for one day, but when Lu Xiangsheng sent officials to collect it, they waited from noon to dusk, and turned from the south gate to the east gate, but the city gate was not opened.

Finally, a word came from inside: "It's getting late today, I only got together 1000 taels of Zheshi silver, go buy grain by yourself."

Immediately, the silver was sacked from the top of the city, and there has been no news since then.

The villagers and people in the surrounding villages and towns of Zhending were afraid of the Qing army, but they were even more afraid of the official army. They fled to the Zhending prefecture early on. They all hid in the nearby mountains.

Although Zhang Qiping of Zhending Mansion gave 1000 taels, but where can he go to buy grain for this turbulent army?
Lu Xiangsheng and all the generals under his command were very angry, but there was nothing they could do about Zhang Qiping, they couldn't attack Zhending Prefecture and seize grain.

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Xuanzhen guerrilla Zhang Cheng rode his horse on the official road north of the Hutuo River, beside him were Chen Zhong and Chen Zheng, behind them were Zhang Cheng's personal guards and more than two hundred knights at the outpost.

Since the army was stationed in Zhendingfu City, Zhang Cheng sent out a sentry cavalry every day to detect the movements of the captive cavalry in the surrounding area with a brigade.

Today, Chen Zheng led the team to go out to check and intercepted a person on the official road southwest of Zhending. The small soldiers in Lucheng are small and can't last long. Now they are fighting to break through and begging for help from Zhending Mansion.

Chen Zheng led a team to escort him to the outside of Zhending City, and saw him enter the city with his own eyes, so he reported to Zhang Cheng.

Zhang Cheng was patrolling the camp, when he heard the news, he immediately thought of something.

This time when the Qing army invaded Gyeonggi, he only knew three things in detail. One was that Lu Xiangsheng fought the giant deer against the captives and died fighting; Three, it has something to do with Wei Zhice.

In the original history, Emperor Chongzhen hated Lu Xiangsheng because of two things. The first was the death of Sun Chengzong's family, and Lu Xiangsheng was unable to rescue him in time.

Second, it was the fall of Huolu. Lu Xiangsheng was also close at hand, but he was caught by the Qing army and was unable to go to the rescue. Coupled with the frame-up of Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian, Chongzhen hated him so much that he died in battle After Julu, it was a long time before he could get a pension.

Now that I have come to this world, I can no longer make the Huolu tragedy happen again.

Zhang Cheng vaguely remembered that Wei Zhice went to Zhending to ask for help but failed, so he turned back overnight to get the deer, and rushed into the city again, saying that reinforcements would arrive soon, which boosted morale. Thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city held on for another three days before being broken by the Qing army.

Calculating that there was still time, Zhang Cheng rushed to Zhending Benhuolu's official road after dinner, waiting for Wei Zhice.

In order to prevent staggering with Wei Zhice, Zhang Cheng ordered the outpost knights to spread out on the official road with armor as a unit, and even sent teams of knights to patrol the small roads to the left and right of the official road.

Finally, at the end of You Shimo, on the official road, he met Wei Zhice who was galloping on his horse and was about to return to Huolu. Zhang Cheng didn't talk nonsense, and straightforwardly reported his family.

Wei Zhice couldn't beg for help, already disheartened, at this time he heard that Lu Xiang had been promoted to lead more than ten thousand Xuanda elites, and they were stationed near the camp, like grabbing a life-saving straw when drowning.

His dejected face was full of passion again. At that time, he begged Zhang Cheng to take him to see Lu Xiangsheng. Zhang Cheng did not deny it, and told him directly that the army could not march at night. After dawn, the camp can be set up.

At that moment, Zhang Cheng ordered Chen Zheng to lead the outpost knights back to the camp to rest, and he led Wei Zhice to Lu Xiangsheng's camp, while Chen Zhong led a group of guards to follow.

Wei Zhice followed Zhang Cheng, and the two rode on horseback. Along the way, Zhang Cheng kept inquiring about the situation of the captured deer, including the number of Qing troops, the situation of the city defense, the situation of the soldiers and civilians in the city, and so on.

He answered each truthfully, but he secretly paid attention to Zhang Cheng in his heart. He didn't expect that the young general beside him was already a guerrilla general. .

(End of this chapter)