Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 37
At the same time, in Henan.

There is an uninhabited village about sixty miles south of Kaocheng.

There are about dozens of earthen houses in this village, and there should have been one or two hundred villagers, but due to repeated wars, Henan has already been empty, and this village has become an uninhabited village.

At this time, Chongzhen's monarchs and Yiqian Yiding were sleeping soundly in the village.

All the way south from Tongzhou, Chongzhen did this all the way. Marching at night, trying to find an uninhabited village to camp before dawn. If you can't find an unmanned village, you can only find a village with people. , and pretended to be bandits or rebels.

In fact, a thousand barbarians are also very similar to bandits and soldiers.

The little ordinary people who were detained in a centralized place were frightened to death. How did they know that it was the emperor who arrested them?

So even if local officials from Dashun came to investigate afterwards, they would only say that it was bandits.

What's more, at this time, the Dashun army suffered a defeat in Shanhaiguan, and the entire Dashun regime was in chaos. No one at the top cared about it, and the people below would not be dedicated to their work.

Various factors superimposed, until Chongzhen and his party crossed the Yellow River from Kaocheng, all Dashun troops were still ignorant.

Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi had been waiting on the sidelines along the canal until Wang Jiayan's [-] cavalry were crushed by the north-south attack and they were captured by the Ming army for interrogation.

But at this time, the two could no longer care about chasing Chongzhen.

Because the news of Dashun's defeat at Shanhaiguan was sent.

Li Zicheng ordered the two to immediately lead the army north to meet them.

Turning back to the Henan side, there was a sudden sound of horseshoes on the official road to the south in the evening.

Immediately, a postman galloped from the official road, apparently going through the uninhabited village to the west.

However, three miles away from the uninhabited village, several khaki blankets suddenly turned up on both sides of the official road, and then several ambush soldiers rushed out from under the blankets.

Two of the ambush soldiers stretched out their hands,
A tripping rope lay across the official road.

The postman, who was galloping with his horse, had no time to react, and fell to the ground with his horse and man in an instant.

Several ambush soldiers swarmed up, tied up the postmen in a hurry, and stuffed their mouths with rags to prevent the postmen from yelling and attracting more thieves.

"Wubatan, you guys continue to lurk."

"I will take this postman to report to the Holy Majesty."

One of the ambush soldiers said to the other.

"Okay." Another ambush army agreed, and immediately took a few ambush soldiers to cover their bodies with blankets, and then lurked by the official road. The previous ambush army brought postmen into the uninhabited village .

……

When Chongzhen woke up, he brought Meng Ketu and dozens of Yi Ding out of an earthen courtyard, just in time to see Jin Xuan bringing two servants and escorting a postman from the Dashun Army.

Jin Xuan said: "Your Majesty, we have caught a thief and postman."

"My lord?" The rogue postman immediately showed a look of shock.

Chongzhen nodded and said: "Jin Qing, please interrogate and see if you can ask something?"

Jin Xuan replied yes, and immediately signaled the two servants to take off the cloth ball in the postman's mouth.

The postman immediately shouted: "Long live, long live, the younger one is originally a tenant farmer of Mr. Yuan's family. He is a thief who was coerced into following. He doesn't really want to be a thief."

Jin Xuan said: "Which Master Yuan?"

The postman said: "Master Yuan Taibao in this dynasty."

"Your Majesty, it's Duke Yuan Keli, Minister of the Ministry of War." Jin Xuan asked the postman after talking to Chong Zhen, "Where are you going? And what is it for?"

The postman said: "The villain is going to Suiyang to move reinforcements."

Jin Xuan said: "Why do you need to move rescuers? What happened to Guide City?"

The postman said: "There is a puppet rebel army, er, no, no, no, it's our Daming army that is besieging Fucheng, and the puppet prefect Sang Kaidi specially ordered the villain to ask for help from the puppet lieutenant general Ding Qiguang of the Suiyang Guard."

Jin Xuan said to Chongzhen: "Sang Kaidi was the former prefect of Guide Prefecture, and Ding Qiguang was the former deputy general of Suiyang Wei. They just surrendered to the bandits successively."

Chongzhen nodded to show that I understand.

Jin Xuan asked the postman again: "Who is besieging Fucheng?"

The postman said: "It seems to be Xu Dingguo, the commander-in-chief of my aid in the suppression of Henan Province, oh yes, there is also a pusher from Kaifeng Mansion, a seventh-rank official named Fu."

Jin Xuan said: "Chen Qianfu, the official promoted by the Kaifeng government?"

"That's right." The postman nodded repeatedly, "Chen Qianfu, my name is Chen Qianfu."

"My lord, this is a crazy student." Jin Xuan said to Chongzhen, "After Chongzhen failed the provincial examination in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, there was a riot in the Gongyuan. The minister was there at that time, so I have an impression."

"I don't know whose door I took after that,"

"The selected officials went to Kaifeng Mansion to serve as the seventh-rank promotion officials."

"Chen Qianfu?" Chongzhen was also vaguely impressed.

This person should also have left a name in the history of Nanming, but he is not very famous, so Chongzhen has an impression of this name, but he is not very clear about his deeds.

On the contrary, I was deeply impressed by another name, Xu Dingguo.

It was this person who trapped and killed Gao Jie, causing Shi Kefa's painstakingly managed Huanghuai line of defense to come to naught in an instant, and also caused the Hongguang court to persist for less than a year.

While speaking, other officials and nobles came over one after another.

After asking about the situation, they didn't speak, just waiting for Chongzhen to make up his mind.

Undoubtedly, at least among the honorable officials following Chongzhen's collapse, the emperor Chongzhen has already taken off the title of "mean and ungrateful, suspicious and suspicious" and has established absolute authority. The emperor did not seek their opinions , none of them dared to speak up easily.

Chongzhen also did not intend to seek the opinions of officials Xungui.

When it comes to specific administrative affairs, the opinions of these officials can be sought, but when it comes to strategic choices, Chongzhen can only and must be arbitrary.

This is definitely not Chongzhen's self-willedness.

It is because Chongzhen at this time is a traveler who can predict the direction of history in advance, and Chongzhen has more than [-] years of knowledge and experience than people of this era.

For example, now, Chongzhen has to make a choice-whether to intervene in this war in Guide Mansion?
Chongzhen's original plan was to travel all the way day and night, rush to Yizhen as quickly as possible to find Huang Degong's army, and then take Huang Degong to Yangzhou to find Gao Jie.

First annex Gao Jie's army,

Then clean up Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo.

Finally, he took the soldiers from the four towns and went north to fight against Jiannu.

The schedule for the entire process is tight.

Anything can happen if you procrastinate.

So if you can't delay in Guide or don't delay, don't delay even a day.

But then again, if a player is laid out in Guide in advance, it will undoubtedly be extremely beneficial to the construction and operation of the Huanghuai defense line in the future.

Because the threat to the throne was resolved, he would lead his army northward to Huanghuai.

At that time, there will be a confrontation with Jiannu on the front line of Huanghuai, and even a war.

At this time, the leisure piece that fell into Guide can play a key role.

So whether or not this idle coin falls is a question, and only Chongzhen can make his own decision.

After pacing with his hands behind his back for a while, Chongzhen quickly made a decision: "Order all the soldiers and horses, and go to Guide City!"

"Observe the decree!" Jin Xuan promised, and immediately went to deliver the decree. Accompanied by the sound of trumpets and horns, the sound of horses neighing and people boiling also sounded in this abandoned uninhabited village.

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At this moment, outside the west gate of Guide City,

Xu Dingguo is discussing with Chen Qianfu whether to launch a strong attack?
Xu Dingguo and Li Dingguo have one letter difference in their names, but their abilities are worlds apart, and Xu Dingguo is not a good thing at all, just a greedy and contemptible person.

Before relying on the drilling camp, he got to the top position in the Ming Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty.

After the fall of Beijing, they lost their backbone and did not have the guts to go south, because they were worried that Gao Jie, Huang Degong, and Liu Liangzuo would take away the military power, so they simply stayed in Suizhou.

Because there was no military pay, most of the soldiers under his command ran away and scattered.

But in the past month or so, Xu Dingguo recruited more than a thousand stragglers by looting the village.

In order to protect themselves, the nearby villages had to take shelter under Xu Dingguo's command, which further boosted Xu Dingguo's power, which has now expanded to more than [-] people.

Together with Xu Dingguo to besiege Fucheng, there are more than a thousand Xiangyongs of Chen Qianfu.

Chen Qianfu's ability is much stronger than Xu Dingguo's. It is not easy to be able to gather more than a thousand townspeople with a seven-rank official, and survive in the cracks of the Dashun Army.

Since it is a joint operation, there will definitely be a conflict of interests.

Xu Dingguo asked with a smile: "Master Chen, you are the person in charge, why not let your people attack first?"

Chen Qianfu waved his hand and said: "Xu Zongzhen's words are wrong. Although this battle was initiated by the lower officials, the main force is Xu Zongzhen's soldiers and horses, so your soldiers and horses should attack first."

Although Chen Qianfu's position is much lower than that of Xu Dingguo, he is not afraid at all psychologically.

The smile on Xu Dingguo's face froze for a moment, and he was a little annoyed, Chen, are you shameless?
Just when Xu Dingguo was hesitating whether to kill Chen Qianfu and then annex more than a thousand of his Xiangyongs, the Xiangyongs of the various villages lined up suddenly became agitated, as if something had happened.

Immediately, a village brave leader rushed over in a hurry.

"Zongzhen, Xu Zongzhen!" The leader shouted, "It's not good!"

"Li Jiyu!" Xu Dingguo was equally terrified, but reprimanded calmly, "Why are you panicking?"

"Uh, ah?" The leader of the township brave named Li Jiyu uttered an oh, and said again, "Cavalry, there is a huge cavalry charging towards Fucheng!"

As soon as the voice fell, there was a faint sound of thunder in the distance.

Immediately afterwards, everyone felt that the ground under their feet began to tremble slightly.

Xu Dingguo's face turned pale in an instant. Although his commander-in-chief was obtained by speculation, he had fought in Liaodong and fought many battles with bandits, so he was concerned about the movement of the cavalry marching. But the memory is still fresh, just listening to this movement can confirm that there are at least a thousand cavalrymen killed!
Thousands of cavalry, in the current border of Henan, can only be rogue cavalry.

The thief's cavalry are all old soldiers, and it is by no means that his mob can compete.

"Bring the horses from this town!" Xu Dingguo subconsciously wanted to get on his horse and run away.

(End of this chapter)