Be the emperor from the postman

Song Yihe was very worried about Chengtian's guards.

As for the guards of Xianling, when they heard that the hammer bandits were attacking, they fled screaming.

He even boldly took away some sacrificial objects, and the chasing Hammer bandit soldiers burned down the Xiangdian of Xianling.

Gao Yigong didn't give him much time, and directly sent troops to burn down the wooden fence that the Ming army had placed outside the city.

Even the city walls were burned through due to disrepair.

Simply drumming down.

Song Yihe, the governor of Huguang, hanged himself. Li Zhensheng, the censor who guarded the tomb, and Qian Zhongxuan, the general soldier, were all captured.

Li Zhensheng was also from Mizhi County, Shaanxi Province, and he was a clean official. Gao Yigong asked him to surrender because of his fellow countrymen.

But Li Zhensheng believed that he had nothing to do with the two masters, and it was impossible to join forces with the rebels. He would kill if he wanted to, and then he asked for benevolence and benevolence.

The rest of the civil servants and generals of Ming Dynasty were so frightened that they kowtowed repeatedly to express their surrender.

The Hammer bandits are too domineering, and they don't even talk about their fellowship.

The face of the first grade of high school does not change, since you want to be decent, then I will help you to save it.

The local gentry came out to meet the hammer bandits, and seeing Li Zhensheng's righteousness, they prayed for a generous burial, so as to demonstrate the benevolence and righteousness of Marshal He.

Gao Yigong stared seriously at the gentry representative in front of him, and smiled:
"Bury him generously? Then don't we need to bury the soldiers who died in the siege of the Hammer Bandit?"

"Naturally, we should also be buried together."

"He is also worthy to be buried with the soldiers who died in the battle of my Hammer Bandit. What a joke!"

Gao Yigong waved his hand, and immediately the officials stepped forward and grabbed the gentleman, holding him to preach to the people.

What evil has this person done, even if it is reported, the situation is true, and he can get the priority to select hammer bandits to divide the land for rent.

As a result, all those gentry who wanted to speculate trembled.

Because this kind of thing is simply not something they can handle.

It's like it doesn't matter who comes here to be the county magistrate, they have to be the masters when the time comes.

If the county magistrate wants to collect enough taxes and duties, he has to rely on these gentry, and there are some ways to rectify the county magistrate.

Although I can't let you go up, there are ways to keep you from going up.

But now the Hammer bandits don't like them at all.

The hammer bandit naturally did not stop, but Zuo Liangyu, who followed him, continued to move forward.

With this group of rout soldiers making propaganda, all parts of Huguang became more and more shaken.

Zuo Liangyu led the army to flee from Xiangyang to Wuchang, and asked the king of Chu for 10 soldiers.

The king of Chu was not a fuel-efficient lamp. In the 31st year of Wanli, he ordered his subordinates to beat the governor of Huguang who had a grudge with him to death without punishment.

Especially after 60 years in power, the money in the palace is piled up like a mountain.

I don't have a good impression of Zuo Liangyu Chu Huakui, especially when he asks him for money.

But the local officials in Huguang didn't think so. They gathered in the Chu Palace. Even if Zuo Liangyu's military discipline was not good, he still had the strength to defend the city.

The premise is that these soldiers are fed.

So they all persuaded the king of Chu to pay.

But King Chu, a man in his seventies, could still be deceived by these courtiers!

"You have a lot of wealth, why don't you use it to work in the army?"

These words directly made many courtiers speechless. This is a state matter, and what we spend money to protect the wealth of your Zhu family's descendants.

Why should we pay?

Zhu Huakui, king of Chu, stroked his beard and pointed to the gold-encrusted chair bestowed by the Hongwu Dynasty: "This king only has this to serve as an army, and has no other money."

But who dares to take this thing?

It's just that the king of Chu is playing a scoundrel here, but he doesn't give money!
Huguang civil servants and generals became more and more disappointed, so they waited for the hammer bandits to arrive, changed their courts, or secretly hung their seals and escaped.

In short, let our group of courtiers give up their family and waste their money to protect your Zhu family, don't even think about it.

The vanguard of the hammer bandits has already broken through Hanchuan County, which is only 120 miles away from Wuchang, and it can rely on the flow of the Han River.

Zuo Liangyu got a reply from the king of Chu that he would not pay the salary, so he ordered the soldiers to raise the food and various ships by themselves.

He wanted not to leave a single boat on the shore for the hammer bandits, so as not to be caught up by them quickly.

Zuo Liangyu ordered all ships on both sides of the strait to be plundered, but he failed to gain a foothold in Wuchang and fled directly to Jiujiang.

As a result, thousands of houses on both sides of Wuchang were looted by the left army.

I didn't even know who was yelling that the hammer bandits were coming, a soldier immediately ran onto the boat to row away, and a large number of people on the shore yelled at each other without getting on the boat, etc.

Many people were reluctant to throw away the looted wealth, and naturally fought for the ships.

And Zuo Liangyu didn't have the heart to deal with it. After he gave the order, he asked people to collect the boats and prepare to continue to escape.

Fighting and arson on the shore happened almost every moment.

Under the sounds of knives and human voices, many corpses floated on the river bank, staining the bank red.

After the efforts of Zuo Jun, there was really nothing left, a thousand miles away, and Jiangzuo was shaken.

The next day, Zuo Liangyu led the whole army to the east, and for a while, the mast sails covered the river, and the sound of crying stretched for several miles.

Gao Yigong conquered Hanyang Mansion and captured a large number of ships, so there was no need to go to Wuchang to collect ships.

The only thing to pay attention to is that the troops are not familiar with the water, or the boating skills are not good, so the boats are often overturned by the wind and waves during the trial voyage.

After Zuo Jun's exaggeration, the Hammer bandits did all kinds of evil.

But He Jinchao immediately ordered people to print the Hammer Bandit's call to the king of Qin wantonly.

Tell the people in Huguang that they came here to suppress the soldiers and calm the people.

The emperor of Ming Dynasty was fatuous and incompetent, favored eunuchs, reused treacherous villains who could only take imperial examinations but had no practical ability, did not give relief to victims of disasters, but only increased taxes.

All the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty liked to embezzle and accept bribes, charged heavy taxes on the people, and punished innocent people with criminal laws at every turn.

The officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty plundered people's property, raped their wives and daughters, and slaughtered wantonly.

I, He Jinchao, am a postman in Ganquan, Shaanxi. My ancestors were all farmers. In the past, I almost starved to death.

Since the second year of Chongzhen, he fought against the Ming Dynasty, and now he is on the throne of Qin Dynasty, with the title of Sledgehammer.

One is to overthrow the rule against the Ming Dynasty and swear to kill the emperor Zhu Youjian, who is against the Ming Dynasty, and to give literate and illiterate people a chance to display their ambitions;

The second is to kill corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the world, abolish the three rates and exorbitant taxes, so that everyone has fields, everyone has clothes to wear, everyone has food to eat, and saves the people from the fire and water.

The third is to kill the anti-Ming officials and soldiers who oppressed the people, and to avenge the people who died under their swords.

He Jinchao released a small number of words, and he definitely expressed his steps and appeals.

After all, there was no rogue before who wrote a public call to kill the Ming emperor and spread it widely.

He Jinzhao directly declared that Zhu Youjian was a fool, counted his crimes, and relying on Zhu Youjian's conscience, you don't want to live well, you will die sooner or later.

Even if Zhu Youjian ordered many times to say that he loves the people like a son, how many people can believe it?

No matter how hard it is for the common people, this is his true portrayal.

He Jinzhao revealed his family background, and also announced to them that I had the same tragic experience as you.

The hammer bandits represent the interests of the poor and poor people, and they are determined to fight the decaying Ming Dynasty to the end.

Killing corrupt officials is highly recognized by the people.

The emperor's thing is illusory, far away in the sky, and most people think about the emperor plowing the land with a golden hoe.

But the people who harm them on weekdays are all corrupt officials who are right in front of them. These people just rely on their official clothes to legally violate the common people.

If you want to be a commoner with a flat head, just wait to be bullied by subordinate officials!

Now that the hammer bandits are here, you have fields to farm, clothes to wear, and food to eat. Why don't you come to welcome the hammer bandits?

Finally, in response to the Ming court's slogan of suppressing peasant uprisings as suppressing thieves and calming the people, and using troops as a last resort, the slogan of suppressing soldiers and calming the people was proposed.

From the various actions of Zuo Jun, it can be seen who is the thief in the eyes of the people!
As soon as the words of suppressing soldiers and reassuring the people were publicized, the people in Huguang and other places who were oppressed by the left army warmly welcomed the arrival of the hammer bandits, hoping that they could uphold justice.

The hammer bandits were unstoppable, and then recruited a large number of people who could row boats to help transport troops across the Han River.

The news that He Jinzhao's attack in Huguang went smoothly could not escape Li Zicheng's eyes and ears.

He originally wanted to go south to Huguang after taking down the Runing Mansion, so he had already sent many people in disguise to various places in Huguang to inquire about the news and contact the gentry who could be wooed.

As a result, many gentry were cut off by the Hammer bandits holding a trial meeting, and the remaining small landlords did not dare to resist. As long as they divided their families, they could still keep their fields.

It is easy to separate families, and if there is the cohesion of the past, I am afraid that it will not work at all.

No one is willing to give up the part they got, and a large number of descendants of small landlords who did not have much autonomy in the past also responded to join the peasant association formed by the hammer bandits, so as to ensure their own vested interests.

Li Zicheng and others who were chasing after the victory in Henan Province and entered the Runing Mansion recently discovered that what Ge Liyan He Yilong said was true.

The officers and soldiers here are gathering more and more, and they are bound to prevent them from going south to Huguang.

King Chong of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxi, knew that the uprising army would be difficult to defend, and he was afraid of falling into the fate of King Fu and King Tang. He advocated opening the door and surrendering, but was stopped by Wu Raw.

If a Ming prince like you wants to surrender, he must also surrender to the hammer bandits. Even if he is punished to sweep the floor, he can still save his life. If he surrenders to other bandits, if he doesn’t kill you today, he will kill you tomorrow.

I also hope that King Chong can take out the money from the mansion and reward the soldiers, so that Runing City can be kept from being quickly breached.

Anyway, even if they surrendered, the money in the mansion would not be able to be kept, so it is better to learn from King Zhou of Kaifeng.

King Chong nodded again and again, he was originally inherited from elsewhere, because the real lineage of King Chong had died out.

Capital.

The memorial sent by Song Yihe before his death made Chongzhen very dissatisfied with Zuo Liangyu's cowardly escape and looting.

But Chongzhen considered that he had an army of 20 after all!

He must defend the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Nanjing, especially the fierce offensive of the hammer bandits. Zhu Youjian had no choice but to write to the Ministry of War to ask them to persuade them:

"Xiangcheng fell, Ming Dharma is in place, congratulations on the great power of the dynasty, Zuo Liangyu pityed him for his long labor, and ordered him to make atonement for his crimes."

Naturally, Chongzhen would not take the initiative to reveal the "scandalous incident" between him and the Hammer bandit.

It's just that he secretly scolded He Jinzhao in his heart for being a dishonest person.

He didn't have much money to give He Jinzhao, and he planned to drag He Jinzhao until the war outside the pass was over.

Now it seems that if Daming hits a stick in the east and a stick in the west, it can still produce money and food to support Liaodong.

However, Huang Taiji of the Qing court had to support 10,000+ troops on the front line, which was really beyond his reach.

Now the one who wants to fight the most is Huang Taiji.

What Zhu Youjian didn't expect was that He Jinzhao actually predicted his prediction, didn't give him a chance to procrastinate, and directly sent troops to Huguang quietly.

Zhu Youjian has nothing to complain about the current situation.

Everyone is not at the same level in military planning.

Chongzhen is equivalent to spending money to buy peace for a year. Before the cooperation ends, everyone has already made a plan for both parties because of their own interests.

But for the sake of this handsome man, Chongzhen ordered him to be rewarded for his "very bravery", rewarding Zuo Liangyu with 60 taels of silver, four sets of clothing materials, and 3000 taels of silver to the soldiers.

Specially sent eunuchs and military officials to Huguang to rush to his barracks, and must send this heart to him, and convey the emperor's intention to "resolve to make meritorious deeds, and wipe out Inverse Hammer as soon as possible".

Zhu Youjian had more far-reaching considerations in order to win over Zuo Liangyu in this way, and he wanted to turn the tide.

He previously sent the cabinet's second assistant Wu Sheng to Huguang to supervise the division, and he needed to rely on Zuo Liangyu's military strength.

In the end, I don't know how the battle ended like this.

So Zuo Liangyu has an army of 20 in his hands, no matter whether he is an elite or not, he can't threaten the hammer bandits and other bandits, as long as he can threaten Zhu Youjian.

No matter what big mistake he made, Zhu Youjian had to coax him.

The same is true.

In view of the successive fall of Xiangyang, Jingzhou, Chengtian and other places, Chongzhen summoned his courtiers to discuss countermeasures. There were many tears on the spot, but there was nothing he could do.

When the hammer bandit He Jinchao sent troops to Henan, they threatened Huguang and cut off their thoughts of moving south. They had already cried bitterly once.

Now continue to cry, I am afraid that I have no emotions.

I cry too much for some things, cry for the sake of crying, what can I think of?

If Huguang was acquired by He Jinchao, then Nanjing would fall and the water transportation would be cut off. How could the capital support it?

Therefore, Chongzhen wrote a decree to Wu Rai, the governor of Huguang, to give a bullfighting uniform with 100 taels of silver, and pass it on to each yamen for quick discussion and distribution.

However, after receiving the order, Wu Raw asked the emperor to dispatch another [-] elite soldiers to go to Nanjing by himself.

In fact, under Gao Jie's suggestion, Wu Sheng first resisted Li Zicheng in Runing, Henan Province for a while to get a respite, and then went to Nanjing.

According to He Jinzhao's temperament, this person will definitely rest and recuperate after conquering a province, so they will have more room to maneuver when they go to Nanjing.

But what Chongzhen was worried about was the important land of Huguang!
He was very dissatisfied with Wu Lan's memorial, so he stayed and refused to send it, saying that he would ignore it.

Yang Sichang became more and more ill.

Wu Lu's request was refuted by Chen Xinjia, and the [-] elite soldiers needed were difficult to gather at once. Nanjing was too far away from Huguang, so it seemed that there was no need to retreat.

Wu Lu justified himself: "Zuo Liangyu is domineering and domineering, and he refuses to use his life. Now he has retreated to Jianghan. If the minister has a heavy army, he can control the strong thieves when he advances, and he can control the arrogant and handsome when he retreats. Otherwise, the reputation of the supervisor will be damaged.

The minister went out to march eastward, taking care of Nanjing and Huguang, not retreating. "

In short, the supervisor Wu Sheng is also the master who has traveled thousands of miles and occupied Nanjing.