The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 740
Yan Xiong rolled his eyes, and said at this moment: "Your Majesty, the officers and soldiers of Yulin Town fought bloody battles with the bandits just now. Although we were lucky enough to defeat the bandits, we suffered heavy casualties."

"My lord, please bring out some silver and reward the brothers."

"Bold, you actually want to blackmail the prince, and Zhenbei Bodingyi taught his subordinates like this?" Hu Jun, the chief eunuch of the palace, was furious: "It's a crime worthy of death."

When Hu Jun said this, the faces of Jiang Rang brothers and Zuo Guangxian and others changed drastically.

What else can Ding Yi not do?Datong directly robbed the palace.

Shi Yangsheng, head of the palace, looked gloomy, and cupped his fists towards the direction of the capital: "I will definitely report what happened here to the imperial court."

At this time, the officials and people nearby were trying their best to wink at him and Hu Jun, which was to remind them that you don't care whose territory you are on.

But Yang Sheng and Hu Jun thought that the officials and the people wanted to stand out.

Hu Jun said in a sharp voice: "Vice President Yan handed over the military power to the general commander. You go to Datong quickly and ask Ding Yi to come and see the prince."

Zhu Zhuo smiled and nodded with a look of reason.

Before Yan Xiong could speak, someone below murmured, "Who wants to see our uncle?"

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Zhou Guangbao was clad in iron armor, walking with a rattle, and had just climbed up to the top of the wall.

There was a broken arrow on the iron armor on his left shoulder. It should have been shot at him, but it was broken by him. It looked fierce.

Hu Jun was not afraid, and with a superior expression, he said coldly: "It was the prince who summoned Ding Yi."

He said the word "Wang Ye" emphatically, which was to remind Zhou Guangbao that your uncle is younger than Wang Ye.

"Is Ningxia very remote? Don't you know what's going on outside?" Zhou Guangbao murmured to Yan Xiong after he came up.

Zhu Zhuo, Yang Sheng, and Hu Jun were dumbfounded.

But don't tell me, Ningxia is really biased. The former general officer of Ningxia, Fumin, only appeared in the official history when the Ming Dynasty died.

Jiang Rang almost never appeared in the official history, and Jiang Tuan appeared a few times at any rate, first surrendering to Li Zicheng and then to the Qing Dynasty.

What happened outside at this time, they are in the countryside in these remote places, they don't know at all.

Seeing them stunned, Zhou Guangbao grinned, pulled out his long knife, and took a sharp step forward, "Bang", the handle of the knife hit Hu Jun's nose fiercely.

"Ah!" Hu Jun screamed in horror, and squatted down on the spot, covering his nose: "It hurts me to death."

When he raised his head and cried, his nose and face were covered with blood.

"Kneel down for me." Zhou Guangbao pressed a knife on Hu Jun's neck.

Hu Jun was so frightened that he didn't even think about it, so he thumped and quickly knelt on the ground.

"My lord, help me." Hu Jun cried.

Qing Wang Zhu Zhuo and Chang Shi Yang Chang were dumbfounded, and looked at Zhou Guangbao in disbelief.

Zhou Guangbao's clothes looked similar to that of a general. In Zhu Zhuo's eyes, a general of this level was not worth mentioning.

"You—you—what are you doing?" Zhu Zhuo trembled.

Yang Sheng's mouth moved, he wanted to say but didn't dare.

"Old Zhou you?" Yan Xiong didn't expect Zhou Guangbao to be more fierce than him.

He wanted to report to Ding Yi before making a decision, but Zhou Guangbao couldn't wait.

"What nonsense are you talking to them? Lock them up first. If you have any silver or gold, check them first, and report to uncle later." Zhou Guangbao turned his head and said, "Come here, take them down."

"You guys are rebelling." Yang Sheng finally called out at this moment.

Before he finished speaking, bang, Zhou Guangbao hit him in the face again with the handle of the knife.

"Well..." Yang Sheng's eyes went dark, he was hit with a plop, and fainted on the ground.

When Ying Wang Zhuzhuo clamped his legs, he felt the sphincter twitch violently, almost urinating in fright.

A group of soldiers came immediately and took Hu Jun, Yang Sheng and Zhu Zhuo down.

Yan Xiong saw it, and now that he had done it, he had no more fears, and quickly grabbed Zhou Guangbao: "Under interrogation, where are the silver winter melons in Prince Qing's residence?"

Zhou Guangbao chuckled, and shook the knife in his hand: "Look, I'm here to ask."

He strode the three of them down the city wall.

Ding Yi's subordinates openly humiliated the royal family of the dynasty, and they wanted to plunder the silver and wealth, and directly stared at the officials and the people.

Guan Fumin couldn't help trembling and said: "Will Vice General Yan also surrender the bandit soldiers?"

"Don't panic, commander-in-chief, let's get some money, these clans refuse to give money, why are brothers willing to fight desperately with the bandits?"

"We and Uncle are still loyal to Daming."

No one would believe that Yan Xiong said he was loyal to Daming.

"Hey" Guan Fuming sighed and shook his head.

If he hadn't seen the battle between the officers and soldiers and Li Guo just now, maybe he would have thought about how to help Zhu Zhuo, but now he couldn't think about it at all, so he could only pray to God secretly.

One day, Zhou Guangbao asked about what was hidden in Prince Qing's Mansion, and the next day he brought two thousand soldiers and horses, one thousand hoarded soldiers, and hundreds of carts to Ningxia Prince Qing's Mansion.

There were only a few hundred Chuangjun guarding there, and when they saw the Ming army coming, they immediately dispersed, abandoning the city and running away.

Zhou Guangbao went back and forth three times, digging and packing, before transporting all the silver from Prince Qing's Mansion back to Yulin.

The strange thing is that during this period, there was no Chuangjun to go to Ningxia.

Chuangjun not only did not go to Ningxia, but also did not go to Yulin again.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yan Xiong frantically trained troops and hoarded fields in Yulin. He got the Ming army from Yulin and Ningxia towns, [-] horses, and currently has [-] soldiers and horses.

On the contrary, Ding Yi of Datong has only [-] soldiers and horses in his hands, which is [-] less than Yan Xiong.

While training his troops, Yan Xiong divided his troops to guard the county government, and at the same time transported tens of thousands of horses to Datong for Ding Yi.

Zhou Guangbao led [-] troops to garrison Suide Prefecture, Tan Enjie led [-] troops to garrison Mizhi, and He Bao led [-] troops to garrison Jiazhou.

He himself led [-] soldiers and horses to guard Yulin Guard.

In the whole of Shaanxi, these four places are still under the control of the government army.

At the end of April, Yan Xiong had annexed all the servants and cronies of the original Ming generals, including the officials and civilians. All the Ming generals were recruited into Yan Xiong's army except for two cronies who served as messengers.

Everyone has to retrain, as before, some people can't bear the pain, and the final result is that a group will be killed, and the remaining ones will be much more honest.

By May, there were 2 soldiers and horses here, and more than [-] soldiers were hoarded.

Yulin is surrounded by grain fields, as long as the fields are hoarded carefully, there will always be some production.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, he went to Chongzhen to hang himself, and there was no shortage of food here. It can be seen that the frontier soldiers here can still guarantee self-sufficiency.

At this time, Chuangjun and Ding Yi's soldiers and horses formed a good tacit understanding in Shaanxi. The two sides took the line of Yan'an, Guyuan, and Lanzhou as the boundary.

The south is all controlled by Chuangjun, and the north is not controlled by Chuangjun.

It's not that Li Zicheng doesn't want to fight Yulin, he has no time to manage Yulin, and he is no longer in Shaanxi.

It was March when Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi came to fight Yan Xiong.

In March, Li Zicheng's army was already on the way to the capital of Daming. Tomorrow was within reach, and Li Zicheng could still go as far as Yulin, Shaanxi.

After defeating Sun Chuanting last year, Li Zicheng's entire army entered Shaanxi, and then according to the set goal, sent a force to sweep Shaanxi, and at the same time attack Shanxi from Shaanxi, preparing to enter Northern Zhili from Shanxi and take the capital directly.

This is a strategy they have decided on long ago.

Last year (the 16th year of Chongzhen (1643)) in December, Li Zicheng sent the forward general Deng Guangtie across the Yellow River and entered Shanxi. On the 21st, he captured Pingyang and killed more than [-] people including the King of Xihe. The general of Pingyang Chen Shangzhi surrendered.

As a result, prefectures and counties in Shanxi collapsed one after another, or surrendered in hope of the wind, without any resistance, and the Qin and Jin regions were all occupied by the rebels.

At this time, Li Yan suggested that "you can get it by passing it on".

So on December 16, the 1643th year of Chongzhen (23), Li Zicheng sent people to the counties and counties of Shanxi to say: Advocate righteousness and propose the general of the battalion to be ordered to conquer.Since ancient times, the rise and fall of emperors has been a sign of the hearts of the people.Yeer Ming Dynasty, the big numbers have come to an end.Severe punishment and severe punishment, the people can't bear their lives.Birth my Holy Lord, benevolent and live well, with one stroke of the flag of righteousness, Haiyu will return to his heart.Crossing the Henan Province and destroying Henan and Chu, entering the Guanxi and sweeping the Three Qin Dynasty.To appease the officials and appease the people, and set up generals to defend the border, the great cause has been decided.Only Jin and Yan, who have been trapped for a long time, can't bear to sit and watch.The head of the special task force led 50 soldiers from Chang'an on the [-]th of this month, and marched separately as a forward.My lord raised millions of soldiers behind him, and he did not commit any crimes.For the first card, the military officer, etc., engraved the time to measure the situation, dedicated the city to accept the seal, and made an early picture of Juelu.If you are obsessed with obsession and refuse, Xu Er, the gentry and the people will bind and offer, not only rewarding you, but also protecting the lives of people everywhere.If the officers and soldiers fight together, the soldiers will break the city, and the jade will not be separated, what a regret!
Just like in history, every year at the end of the dynasty, almost all the calls can be passed down, and wherever the calls come, all tremble and surrender.

In January, Li Zicheng founded Dashun in Xi'an and renamed it Chang'an. At the same time, he began to levy taxes and banned the villagers from short coats.Three hundred mules were sent from each county to requisition millet and thousands of stones. They fought hard and plundered rich houses to help them pay.

The payment is for the army to fight.

One month later, Li Zicheng sent troops directly from Xi'an to Shanxi.

On the second day of February (3, 10), Li Zicheng led 50 yuan to build [-] ships in Shazuokou, and collected more than [-] private boats to cross the Yellow River and go to Fenzhou (now Fenyang) and Yangcheng (now Yangcheng County, Jincheng City) , and then went to Puzhou (now Yongji).

On the third day (3, 11) went to Huaiqing (roughly in today’s Jiaozuo, Henan Province) and killed King Zaiyu of Lujiang. At that time, the new King Fu fled from Song to Huaiqing. Escaped and went to Weihui (now Weihui City, which belongs to Xinxiang City, Henan Province) Yilu King (Zhu Changhao, nephew of Shenzong Zhu Yijun, attacked Lu Wang in the 46th year of Wanli (1618), and granted Weihui the state)

In a blink of an eye, most of Shanxi was lost.

On the fifth day of February, Li Zicheng's troops approached Taiyuan.

In the original history, Cai Maode, the governor of Shanxi, organized 5000 troops to defend Taiyuan, and the city was destroyed.

But this time in history, it was when Li Zicheng's troops were thirty miles away from Taiyuan.

Cai Maode, the governor of Shanxi, and Xie Zhiliang, the general of Taiyuan, fled to Datong with Shanxi civil and military officials and more than 5000 soldiers and horses, and took refuge in Ding Yi.

The history here has deviated from the original history, mainly because Ding Yi arrived in Datong.

At this period in history, Xie Zhiliang, the general soldier of Taiyuan, had been ordered to lead the army to King Qin, and took five thousand elite soldiers from Taiyuan to the capital. Halfway there, the capital was destroyed, and Xie Zhiliang could only take his troops to the south of the Yangtze River to support Hongguang After Emperor Hongguang was destroyed, he supported Emperor Longwu and finally died together with Emperor Longwu.

This will be because Ding Yi is stationed in Datong. Chongzhen expects him to watch Ding Yi. He has never tried to move him. When Li Zicheng's former army opened up the road to the capital, Chongzhen wanted to send a letter to call him King Qin. Can't get out of Beizhili.

So Xie Zhiliang will always be stationed in Taiyuan.

Li Zicheng's [-]-strong army entered Shanxi from Shaanxi, depending on the spread of Shanxi, the city of Taiyuan was also turbulent.

On the third day of February, a messenger from Datong came to Taiyuan.

The person who came was General Xu Bicheng who was just summoned by Ding Yi from Lushun.

Xu Bicheng is one of Ding Yi's few generals who is always steady and able to stand alone.

At first, Ding Yi asked him to defend Fuzhou, and then Japan, and later when Xu Wei went to Japan, Xu Wei also felt that only generals who could stand on their own would be sent to defend one side.

Xu Bicheng didn't have many advantages in fighting, but he certainly didn't have any shortcomings. He was relatively stable and tried not to make mistakes. Ding Yi fought a few battles with Houjin soldiers in Liaodong when he was young. make mistakes.

After Xu Bicheng came to Taiyuan, he persuaded Shanxi Governor Cai Maode and Taiyuan General Xie Zhiliang to go to Datong and give up Taiyuan.

Cai Maode, the governor of Shanxi, refused. This man died in the battle in Taiyuan in history. He was an absolute loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty and an honest and good official.

Xu Bicheng could only use the method taught by Ding Yi to persuade him: "Taiyuan is an important town in Shanxi with a large population. If you resist desperately, after the bandits break through the city, you will surely slaughter the city to vent your anger. How can Master Cai bear it?"

Cai Maode was furious: "Could it be that the whole city surrendered?"

"You follow us to Datong." Xu Bicheng said, "Give Taiyuan to the bandits."

Cai Maode said again: "If the bandit soldiers go to Datong again, where will you retreat? Why doesn't Zhen Beibo bring troops to garrison Taiyuan?"

Xu Bicheng said: "The thieves' ambition is in the capital. After they break through Taiyuan, they will divide their troops. One will go from Taiyuan to Zhili in the north, and the other will go to Datong."

"At that time, we will defeat the bandits in Datong, and then fight back to Taiyuan to cut off their retreat. Together with the soldiers and horses of the capital, we will surround the bandits from left to right and destroy them in one battle."

Cai Maode must have been a civil servant, and he was also confused in commanding wars in history. Hearing this, it seems to make sense.

But what he didn't know was that the reason why Ding Yi asked him to give up Taiyuan and didn't want to defend Taiyuan was because Li Zicheng would go east to take the capital after he captured Taiyuan.

Ding Yi wanted to stay in Taiyuan, and Li Zicheng couldn't fight him to the death.

Li Zicheng is now leading an army of 50. Of course Ding Yi does not want to confront him head-on. Ding Yi has already made arrangements, so there is no reason to confront Li Zicheng head-on now.

After cheating on Cai Maode, Xu Bicheng found Xie Zhiliang in private.

Xie Zhiliang is a general in charge of the army, so it's not easy to fool around, but just now Xie didn't hum, Xu Bi deliberately understood.

"Uncle Jing Yue is the leader of the army. What we say to Governor Cai must not be the same as Uncle Jing Yue." Xu Bicheng opened his mouth and said.

Xie Zhiliang smiled when he heard the words: "What's the best opinion of Uncle Zhenbei?"

"Get out of Taiyuan, Bo Jingyue led his troops to bring all the food that Taiyuan can take away to Datong."

"When the bandits break through Taiyuan, the main force will go to the capital."

"It will be much easier for us to defeat the bandit army."

Xie Zhiliang smiled and said, "This is exactly the same as Governor Cai said."

"It's not the same." Xu Bicheng said with a smile: "Then we will take down the entire Shanxi, sweep all the bandit soldiers in Shanxi, and cut off the way for the bandit soldiers to retreat."

"When Li Zicheng's main force arrives in Beizhili, all the soldiers and horses of our Shandong, Jizhen, Tianjin, etc., will gather in Beizhili and destroy Li Zicheng in the first battle."

Xie Zhiliang's face changed drastically, and he stared at Xu Bicheng in disbelief.

(End of this chapter)