The Red House starts from Liaodong

Chapter 537 Zhuxian Town

Kaifeng.

The [-] elite soldiers from the three major battalions came from the west of Liaoning. Although they did not belong to the same place, they were all brought out by King Zhongshun.

They are all old subordinates of King Zhongshun.

Equipped with a large number of Franco cannons, bird guns, cavalry and chariot soldiers equipped with three-eyed guns, they belong to the most sophisticated army at present.

They are all from military households and have a well-established organization.

In contrast, the refugee army.

After the dragon came out of the mountain, the strength of the army increased greatly. There are also veterans of hundreds of battles, but the military equipment is not as good as that of the Zhongshun King, and the organization is not as good as the Zhongshun King.

Even he was like this, not to mention the rest of the refugee army who followed him to fish.

Long Zai led the main force to besiege Kaifeng, and the rest of the refugee army attacked the surrounding areas and cooperated with each other.

It is also a tacit understanding that has been handed down from Shaanxi.

Like wolf pack tactics.

The old, the weak, the sick and the disabled hold back the localities, making it impossible for the localities to form a joint force.

When King Zhongshun entered Henan, the first thing he encountered was these refugee troops, like chopping melons and vegetables, their fighting power frightened the old thieves.

Entering Kaocheng, Henan from Caoxian County, Shandong Province, wiped out thousands of refugee troops, crossed the Yellow River, and repelled the refugee troops of Ningling and Suiyangwei.

Then there is Qi County, Chen Liu.

Push all the way straight to Kaifeng.

"The idea is tricky, blah blah."

In desperation, even black words were spoken.

"What about the new king who is still in Kaifeng?"

"The dog officers and soldiers are powerful, let's live in peace."

"The new king's fate is great."

The refugee army who had just joined Long Zaiqian was frightened and scattered, ready to escape from Lifeng Mansion, not daring to fight King Zhongshun.

at this time.

Long Zai already knew the news from the south.

But he didn't pay attention.

There is no shortage of horses in the Northland.

Horses are important military supplies. Even when food was in short supply, the dragon did not kill the horses.

None of the refugee troops who have survived until now have killed horses, and the old bandits have horses for everyone.

The rebel army without horses has long been wiped out by officers and soldiers.

"Although the opponent's firearms are powerful, the firearms can only fire a few rounds. We have a lot of cavalry, so we rushed over in one breath."

Long said in front.

fear death?

The current old thief is really not afraid of death.

It's just that they won't die meaninglessly. When a tough battle is needed, the old thieves can really charge against the casualties.

The generals quite agree.

then.

The new king led more than [-] horse infantry and rushed to Chenliu on his own initiative to fight the decisive battle with King Zhongshun.

Artillery fire continued.

There are many swords and guns.

The army is heavily armed.

Rush again and again.

A mess was left everywhere, and the refugee army was defeated.

"color."

"color."

"color."

After a great victory, King Zhongshun gave an order to reward the garrison, and the cattle and sheep were sent to the camp. The soldiers in the army shouted and their morale was high.

"Although we won, the thieves and bandits are really powerful. We should not underestimate them. We must take advantage of the victory and pursue them, so as not to give the thieves a chance to make a comeback."

Tumen sighed.

On the previous battlefield, the bandits were not afraid of death, and they attacked their own positions time and time again. If it were an ordinary army, it would not be certain who would win the battle.

King Zhongshun nodded.

The battle with the so-called new king this time changed his impression of the bandit army since he entered Shandong.

No wonder there is nothing to do with the thief army everywhere.

"We hurriedly marched from Denglai and traveled thousands of miles, and finally lifted the siege of Kaifeng, but we were exhausted, so we rested all night and waited for dawn before pursuing."

King Zhongshun sent a large number of cavalry to kill the rebel army.

Unless the rebels give up their infantry, they won't be able to run away.

Losing the infantry, the rebellious army returned to the old situation of last year and became a dog in the water. They could only flee around, at least they could not shake the country.

"This king has ordered Liu Mingxian and Li Jian's two troops to go south to cut off the retreat of the bandit army. The two of them dare not disobey this king."

Hearing what King Zhongshun said, Tumen smiled.

And Cheng Zhixin from Sichuan, I heard that guy is very ambitious.

King Zhongshun sent someone to contact him very early on, asking him to go north to join forces with King Zhongshun, and to encircle the bandit army with the other two troops.

He even refused to obey King Zhongshun's military order on the grounds that the Sichuan bandit Kou Tianyong's fate was not settled and he would not give up easily.

This is something Tumen never expected.

Who gave him the courage.

I really thought that the thieves could turn the world upside down, determined the current situation, and put my own life in vain.

King Zhongshun will not spare him.

……

Denglai rebelled, and the capital was under martial law.

Day two.

The urgent report from the capital made King Zhongshun put away his smile, and ordered with a serious face, the army chased and wiped out the remnants of the bandit army.

Long Zaiqian led the remnant army at the Sunjia Ferry by the Yellow River, but was blocked by officers and soldiers on the other side of the Yellow River, unable to cross the river.

Going around the city of Zhengzhou, he was blocked by Liu Mingxian at Hulao Pass.

He changed course again to the south, and was blocked by Li Jian at Dazhou Mountain.

According to King Zhongshun's plan, Cheng Zhixin went north, just to cut off the retreat of the bandit army in Xinzheng. Unfortunately, King Zhongshun didn't expect Cheng Zhixin to reject his transfer order.

Long made a big circle in front of him, and King Zhongshun led the army of his headquarters, and he had already gone south to Wei's.

Surrounded on three sides.

Originally, King Zhongshun was in the east, but now he is in the south.

And the east side left a gap.

Long had wandered around for more than ten years and had keen insight, so he led the remnants back to Kaifeng.

The two sides were like cats catching mice, and after going around, they returned to Kaifeng City.

pity.

King Zhongshun's arrangements were strict. Although he mistrusted Cheng Zhixin, within half a month, he quickly made up for the loopholes.

All the armies encircled Longzai in Zhuxian Town.

Zhuxian Town has become a desperate place for the refugee army, and there is no way to escape.

Clearly victory was in sight, but King Zhongshun's complexion became more and more ugly. Tumen was ordered by King Zhongshun to disappear in the camp.

"If you want to surrender, it's still the same old saying, cut off our heads and use them as money for your lives."

The new king laughed.

As if he really didn't care about his own head.

Speculative thieves would have already run away if they could.

Over ten years of uneasiness created many hardships for Long Zaiqian, but also built him a firm army.

Among the Jedi, no one chose to surrender.

Instead, death erupted.

"Killing one is enough money, and killing two grandpas is still profitable."

"Following the new king to this day in this life, I have no regrets, and I died a worthy death."

then.

The officers and soldiers were unable to attack the small town of Zhuxian.

Waves of offensives were all repelled by the refugee army.

Even the officers and soldiers were terrified by the way of fighting together, their morale dropped, and no one wanted to attack the city, forming a confrontation.

"Anyway, the bandit army has been surrounded. How much food do they have in their hands? If they don't surrender, they will starve to death."

"Yes, there is no need to waste the lives of soldiers."

Liu Ming was unwilling to fight again.

Li Jian was also unwilling.

King Zhongshun looked at Zhuxian Town in the distance, the flag flying on the top of the city, and the big word "Xin", looked so dazzling.

Many things recently, in order not to affect the morale of the army, are only hidden in his heart.

The Denglai incident caused panic in the capital.

The decree issued was chaotic, let the south send troops to the north, and let him lead the troops to defend the capital.

He was also worried about the rebellious army, and then ordered him to destroy the rebellious army first, and then withdraw his troops back to Beijing.

Willful haste.

In today's situation, the situation in the capital is getting worse day by day.

Food is not ready.

Without a unified dispatch, the Southern Army lost its order. Some arrived in the capital immediately, and some did not even leave the territory.

King Zhongshun was afraid.

Jin Jiang's army didn't move sooner or later, but it happened at this time.

Based on what he knew about Tang Qing'an, the other party was not such an impatient person.

Is Jin Jiangjun really rebellious?

he does not know.

In fact, if the Jinjiang army really made a mess, with such a chaotic situation, the southern army who rushed over would be just a sheep.

Because the Jinjiang army can easily attack more with less and maintain absolute strength.

Even Zhejiang soldiers and Fujian soldiers are not good.

It's not that their combat effectiveness is not good, but that the imperial court's organizational power is not good enough, and they can't play the role they should have.

A war is not a fight.

Fighting requires more organization. Whichever side is better organized and fully utilizes its advantages will have a higher winning rate.

What is the situation of the Jinjiang army? The capital can't find out, and they dare not gamble.

but.

The Southern Army, who came to the rescue in a hurry, encountered the embarrassment of having no food to eat.

The land of Dazhou is too vast.

Unlike the ecology of the grassland, you only need to bring enough cattle and sheep, and the "food" can follow the army by itself.

Call wherever you go.

Farming civilization is like a production line, one of which is indispensable.

Sufficient organizational power is required to feed the army.

With the current national conditions of Dazhou, there is no absolute advantage in productivity, and the organizational strength is like a half-waste.

Therefore, the northern army can only fight in the north, such as Jiubian, Gansu, Qinghai, and Northeast.

Southern troops can only fight in the south.

For example, fighting against the Japanese along the coast, pacifying the rebellious people in Guangdong, fighting Annan, fighting Burma, and fighting against Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and the British army.

Unless there is an enemy that is difficult to deal with, the elite soldiers of the whole country will be mobilized.

For example, the battle of Sarhu in Liaodong.

A large number of elite soldiers from the south marched thousands of miles to the northeast, looking for an opportunity to fight the barbarians immediately, because they could not afford to delay.

In order to reduce the consumption of long-distance food transport by the guest army, the local soldiers and guest soldiers were urged to join forces to fight the enemy quickly.

Otherwise, the longer you stay, the worse it will be for the local area.

Because relying on one place alone cannot afford to support a large army to fight, and the more than [-] troops and countless civilians transporting grain from the interior to the northeast, the Great Zhou has accumulated many disadvantages, and it is also unaffordable.

and so.

In the situation a few years ago, the rations that should have been supplied to King Zhongshun's army were supplied to more than [-] southern troops like pepper flour.

The food originally prepared for [-] soldiers and the civilians who delivered the food was enough for them to eat.

But it is not enough to feed more than [-] soldiers and civilian husbands.

The final result was that King Zhongshun had no food to eat, and the more than [-] Southern Army guarding Gyeonggi had no food to eat.

Everyone can't eat enough.

The consequence was that some southern soldiers dispersed in a hurry, some southern soldiers saw that the situation was wrong and retreated back, and some southern soldiers grabbed food from the people.

Who is to blame for this.

It's hard to say.

Blame southern soldiers?You can't say starve yourself to death, can you?
The refugees in the north revolted against the court in order not to starve to death, and the soldiers in the south were also ordinary people, and they were also unwilling to starve to death.

Blame the court?
The court is also innocent.

The Jinjiang army made a rebellion, did they not deploy troops to protect Gyeonggi because they were not prepared, and did not take any action when they saw the country was subjugated?

Blame Jin Jiangjun?

The Jin Jiang army really did not rebel.

This is called the time of day.

According to the ancients, it is also called the national fortune.

King Zhongshun was anxious to die.

[-] elite soldiers were brought out to fight against more than [-] disorderly troops.

After all, the civilian army is a civilian army, and overall it is still scarce in combat readiness. It is not as good as the elite soldiers selected by King Zhongshun from the three major battalions of the Liaoxi Army.

Just give King Zhongshun another two months.

Whether you are the dragon first or Tian Yongming, you will die in his hands.

God played a joke on him.

The subordinates were unwilling to fight, and King Zhongshun dared not tell them the truth.

lack of food.

Start with the lack of allies.

Liu Mingxian, Li Jian and other generals first notified them, and after a few days, they asked King Zhongshun again.

Due to internal and external troubles, King Zhongshun ordered to continue to attack Zhuxian Town.

Take Zhuxian Town and release food.

People thought that King Zhongshun was dissatisfied with their previous attitude and had no choice but to urge the army to attack the city again.

But now the tens of thousands of refugees in Zhuxian Town are the hardest bones among the tens of millions of refugees.

To defeat them, kill them.

Even if the officers and soldiers have powerful firearms, and the walls of Zhuxian Town are in ruins and collapsed countless times, they can still kill one thousand enemies and lose six hundred while attacking the city.

Day after day.

The food shortage finally caused panic.

The soldiers did not realize that the refugees must die, because the demands of the two were different.

Each general asks for food every day.

This is the end.

Zhongshun Wang prestige gradually lost.

In winter, is there food in the Northwest?
No.

The large households with food have long been robbed by refugees.

There is no food in the local area, and there is no food in the court.

The refugee army in Zhuxian Town still has food in their hands, but the officers and soldiers are now unable to launch an attack.

If you don't eat for three days, you will lose your strength.

He didn't eat for seven days and couldn't stand up on the ground.

King Zhongshun tried his best to save himself and survived for a month, and died on the eve of the collapse of the army.

People say that King Zhongshun died in a hurry.

Because he didn't die, the army still had to collapse.

King Zhongshun is dead.

The news spread immediately, and tens of thousands of elite soldiers dispersed, some of them directly surrendered to the militia, begging for rations.

Some waited to die in the camp.

Two outcomes.

Run, no one has the strength to run.

Tens of thousands of elite soldiers are all in the hands of the dragon.

Who let the rest of the militia see King Zhongshun's power, all of them were unwilling to resist and escape, only Long stayed in front and stood firm.

The frontier army is elite, the rebel army is elite, and the Northeast and Gyeonggi are elite.

The army in Long Zaiqian's hands is no longer a civilian army, but includes the elite of the northern land.

From officials and people.

Kaifeng was besieged for the second time.

soon.

The city of Kaifeng was broken, and Long Zai slaughtered the honorable officials and squires near the city, and took out food to alleviate the food shortage of the army.

Tumen, who ran from Kaifeng to Guide Mansion and knelt and kowtowed everywhere, hanged himself when he heard it.

The two attendants shared the money and ran away, and no one dealt with the aftermath.

The old watchman saw him and buried him in a mass grave outside the city.

at night.

The mass graves are full of green lights.

~~~~~~
Denley reports.

It wasn't the Jinjiang army's rebellion, it was an internal rebellion of the Jinjiang army, and the rebel troops had been wiped out by the Longshan camp.

but.

Already useless.

A lot can happen in a few months.

……

"What is the meaning of Marquis Ping Liao? Don't you want to meet miscellaneous family?"

The six subjects who came to congratulate him went back to the court, and one of the eunuchs was left behind.

It was inconvenient for Lin Ruhai to come forward, so Zhu Wen received the eunuch Lu Li.

"Where is the father-in-law's hometown in the south?"

Zhu Wen avoided talking about it and changed the subject.

"Hey, how do you know Zajia is from the south?"

Most of the eunuchs in the palace who call themselves our family are from the north, and those who call themselves miscellaneous are mostly from the south.

When Zhu Wen was chatting with Lin Ruhai, he heard Lin Ruhai talk about it.

Most of the eunuchs are also ordinary people.

Ordinary people love money, let alone castrated eunuchs, they love money even more than ordinary people.

People have descendants, but eunuchs have no descendants.

In his later years, he had to be rich to rely on his nephew when he went out of the palace, otherwise no one would take care of the eunuch.

Lin Ruhai used to be in charge of Yangzhou's salt administration, and not only had to deal with officials, but also honored officials and eunuchs.

According to Lin Ruhai's disclosure, eunuchs are not easy to deal with, because they don't value the feelings of outsiders, but pay more attention to interests.

It is even more difficult to use friendship to make good eunuchs.

The best way is to talk about the hometown with the eunuch, starting from the hometown, the exchange of interests can be regarded as an opening.

And through the eunuch's claim, it can be judged that the eunuch came from the north and the south, which opened up the topic of both parties.

Lin Ruhai talked a lot.

Zhu Wen tried Lin Ruhai's method, and it really worked.

The eunuch Lu Li asked curiously, and after some conversation, the atmosphere gradually eased, and the two were able to communicate normally, and gradually understood the eunuch's purpose for coming.

……

Tang Qing'an was walking in the yard wearing a long gown.

The specific things are done by the full-time officials below.

Worried about officials not doing a good job and only caring about enjoying themselves, there are supervisory departments and road inspectors to check and inspect, worrying that officials will be in the same boat.

Then there is no need to do anything.

Officials have become filthy, which shows that the social atmosphere has been corrupted.

What I should think about is how to govern the social atmosphere, and govern from the source, otherwise it will be just a waste of effort.

There are policies above and countermeasures below, don't underestimate this famous saying.

Until Zhu Wen brought the news, Tang Qing'an asked Zhu Wen to sit down and talk.

"Eunuch Lu should have something else to say from the emperor, and it's inconvenient to tell the outside world, so I have to meet with the general in private."

"What should it be?"

Tang Qing'an asked.

Zhu Wen shook his head.

"Eunuch Lu is tight-lipped, so I can't ask."

"I guess it should be about moving the capital."

Tang Qing'an understood.

The cause of King Zhongshun's death is said to be caused by the Jin Jiang army.

In this regard.

Tang Qing'an didn't bother to pay attention.

Tang Qing'an accepted the gift list from Prince Zhongshun's mansion.

People are gone.

Accepting the gift from Prince Zhongshun meant that he would not hold grudges against King Zhongshun, otherwise the family members of Prince Zhongshun would be even more flustered.

not only.

He also asked Chen Deyan to tell Chen Deyan that if Tumen's body could be found, it would be better to bury him.

This person.

I'm sorry for Zhou.

It's the nobles of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the Jia family is sorry for the Tumen family.

(End of this chapter)