Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 1001 News
"Why are we going to Xiangyang?" Zhang Xianzhong asked.

"Xiangyang is where Yang Sichang is stationed, and there are countless food, gunpowder, bows and knives stored there."

Xu Yixian stroked his beard: "Yang Sichang is now besieged by the Hammer Bandits in Chongqing, and he is devastated. Zuo Liangyu and other officers and soldiers are also afraid of the threat of the Hammer Bandits and dare not enter Sichuan.

So I guess Yang Sichang was very angry with Zuo Liangyu and others, so these military salaries would not have been issued without Yang Sichang's order.

Your Majesty can send someone to inquire about the news first, our army is moving slowly, and ask Luo Rucai to pretend to be our army again and confront the official army in the direction of Xunyang. "

"No." Zhang Xianzhong shook his head:
"He Jinzhao's nephew is very picky about Chongqing's siege and not attacking. He thinks that he will lead Qingqi to drive all night and head straight for Xiangyang."

"Your Majesty Yingming."

Xu Yixian also felt that he should cut the mess quickly, but he didn't think about it.

The hammer bandit can reach an agreement with his own master, so why can't he reach an agreement and cooperation with the official army?

This is all uncertain!

Xu Yixian always speculates on He Jinzhao's actions with the utmost malice. Why does he want to give his king a hand? It's not because he wants to use him.

Everyone is ready to fight for the world, how can they be peaceful?

Life and death is the norm!
In case He Jinzhao releases Yang Sichang from Chongqing and continues to pursue them after his side has not run far, it is not impossible for this kind of thing to happen.

Xu Yixian thinks that he can follow He Jinzhao's agreement, but he doesn't want to follow his arrangement right away.

After Zhang Xianzhong made up his strategy, he acted immediately.

He ran to Xiangyang at a speed of three hundred miles a day and night.

On the way, he happened to meet Yang Sichang's envoy. Zhang Xianzhong was overjoyed and killed the envoy directly to get the military talisman given by Yang Sichang.

Xu Yixian was even more overjoyed, he really wanted to sleep and sent him a pillow.

In order to be able to successfully capture Xiangyang City, he made a careful plan, bribed officials to act as internal agents, asked soldiers to pretend to be businessmen, transported cars into the city, and prepared weapons and kerosene.

Zhang Xianzhong ordered Liu Wenxiu to lead 28 cavalry to pretend to be an official army, and gallop to the city first with military amulets.

Liu Wenxiu pretended to be ordered by Governor Yang to dispatch troops. The city guards verified the amulets and believed them. They were released in Kaesong and placed in Chengtian Temple.

And just as Xu Yixian expected, Xiangyang city defense is relatively weak.

After Yang Sichang entered Sichuan, Zhang Kejian stayed in the city only as the supervisor of the army.

Led by Liu Wenxiu, the rogues who entered the city set fire to Chengtian Temple and Prince Xiang's Mansion in the middle of the night while the defenders were asleep.

Seeing the fire, the common people in the city fled for the door one after another, and there was a sudden chaos in the city.

Zhang Kejian, the supervisor of the army, hurried to the rescue and was killed by Liu Wenxiu.

The suspension bridge should be lowered in the city to welcome the large troops, and Xiangyang City will fall without a fight.

The city was in chaos, fires were set up everywhere, and the people in the city woke up from their sleep and fled in all directions.

Because no one thought that Xiangyang, as Yang Sichang's residence, would fall into the hands of thieves, the key is that there was no news at all.

Where are the bandits in the city?

The people and soldiers were all mixed with the bandits, and it was impossible to recognize the few bandits, and the big ones were all running away in the smoke.

At dawn, Zhang Xianzhong's brigade arrived, and Xiangyang officially changed hands.

After Zhang Xianzhong entered the city, he opened the prison and rescued Xianzhong's wife and concubine and military adviser Pan Duao who were captured in the Battle of Guanyinyan.

Thousands of Ming soldiers were surrendered, and countless salaries, bows and knives, gunpowder, etc. from five provinces accumulated by Yang Sichang were seized.

Capture Xiang Wang Zhu Yiming and his son Guiyang Wang Zhu Changfa alive.

Zhang Xianzhong was extremely excited to get such a prisoner and capture.

With this batch of supplements, he can make up for the previous losses.

And it can also continue to grow itself.

Xiang Wang Zhu Yiming, who was more than 70 years old with white beard and hair, was escorted to the west gate tower. He was so frightened that he knelt at Zhang Xianzhong's feet and shouted:

"Grandpa Chitose, please forgive me."

Zhang Xianzhong was extremely contemptuous of He Jinchao's behavior of not killing the vassal king very much. How could he be someone who could just let him go if he begged for mercy.

"King Xiang, you are the thousand-year-old, but if you want to call me thousand-year-old, I don't want anything else from you, as long as you use your head."

Zhu Yiming broke out in cold sweat when he heard it, not to mention his age, but who wouldn't be afraid to excuse this incident?

"The gold, silver, jewelry and antiques in the palace are allowed to be removed by Grandpa Qiantose."

"Confused, everything that killed you is mine, not to mention how can you prevent me from moving it?"

"Why does Grandpa Chitose insist on killing me?"

Zhu Yiming didn't understand how he couldn't die of old age at such an advanced age!
"Actually, what I really want to kill is not you. If you don't borrow my head, then Yang Sichang will not die."

Zhang Xianzhong said with a smile to Zhu Yiming, "I want to cut off Sichang's head, but Sichang is far away in the middle of Shu. Now I should borrow the king's head to make Sichang fall into the vassal and subdue the law."

Zhu Yiming turned pale with shock when he heard the words: "Grandpa Qiansui wait a minute, Yang Sichang is the emperor's favorite minister, even if he kills me, he will be fine."

"How will I know if I don't try!"

Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong beheaded 43 people including Zhu Yiming, Zhu Changfa, Lanyang Queen Mother Xu.

Zhang Xianzhong also opened the treasury and took out 15 taels of silver to help the hungry people, and started conscription.

Xiangyang was the domain of the princes of the Ming Dynasty and an important military town. Zhang Xianzhong took the city lightly without any pre-loss.

Prior to this, Li Zicheng conquered Luoyang more than ten days ago and executed the Fu Wang Zhu Changxun.

In just a dozen days, the Ming Dynasty lost two vassals and two princes, and suffered serious political and military blows, which greatly encouraged the struggle of the rebel army.

After all, what He Jinzhao did was more subtle, and the punishment for the feudal lord was not limited to work in the mines, street cleaning, and collecting night incense.

A great case of good education has been carried out for the people in the base area, which can even stimulate personal happiness.

Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others were extremely aggressive, and they gave Chongzhen two resounding slaps when they came up.

Yang Sichang, who was leading the army to Xiangyang, was extremely shocked when he received the news that Luoyang had fallen.

Then Li Zicheng has the strength to conquer Luoyang. It seems that his strength is not small. He must rush to Xiangyang immediately, pay the soldiers, change their weapons, and then go to suppress the bandits.

Zuo Liangyu, Liu Guoneng and others were also extremely surprised, never expecting that Li Zicheng could still eat King Fu.

But before Yang Sichang went too far, he received another news that Xiangyang City fell, and Zhang Xianzhong killed King Xiang.

Such bad news came one after another, no matter how ambitious Yang Sichang was, he was extremely embarrassed by the blow.

He couldn't help crying: "I don't have the face to see Your Majesty anymore."

Because before he set off, Zhang Kejian reminded him to pay attention to Xiangyang's defense.

But Yang Sichang thought that Xiangyang's defenses were tight and there was nothing to worry about. In addition, when he learned that Zhang Xianzhong was going to Jiangxi, he laughed at Zhang Kejian for his cowardice.

Now Yang Sichang felt that He Jinzhao had put him together, and Zhang Xianzhong had never gone to Jiangxi at all.

Because of the death of King Fu, Chongzhen was very worried about the safety of the vassal kings, especially Henan.

Just as Zhu Youjian was in Wuying Hall asking his attendants about Kaifeng Zhou King's current situation, suddenly the officials of the clan's mansion sent an urgent official document from King Fuqing (the second son of King Xiang) to the mansion of King Xiang.

Chongzhen turned pale with shock, and raised the case and murmured: "Sure enough, King Xiang is not bad, is it a catastrophe?"

He opened the memorial of the King of Fuqing and read it:
"Chang Cheng, the second son of the King of Xiang, is a vassal who defends Xiangcheng in honor of the state's favor.

Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, there was a fire at the south gate, and the whole city boiled. It was rumored that Ding Fan, a Taoist who supervised the army, also set fire to the palace of the minister's father.

The minister heard the sound of horses in his sleep, shot his head with an arrowhead, and saw the soldiers in the city fighting with each other.

At dawn, the thieves were so large that the prefect Zeng Baochen and his younger brother Jinxian Wang Changgan broke out.

The minister sent people to visit his father, only to find out that he was carried to the west tower by the thief and killed. He set fire to the city, and his limbs were ashes.

His younger brother, Wang Changfa of Guiyang, was killed outside the west city gate. The coffin of his deceased uterus was burned, killing 43 people including Mrs. Xu, wife of Queen Mother of Lanyang, Lang, concubine of Taihe, and Li.

Zhu Youjian read the report of King Xiang's second son and was extremely sad, and ordered relevant officials to prepare the funeral ceremony for King Xiang Zhu Yiming according to King Fu's specifications.

Xiang Wang Zhu Yiming inherited the throne in the 23rd year of Wanli. According to his seniority, he was the same generation of Zhu Youjian's grandfather Shenzong, and belonged to a distant uncle.

Most of Zhu Youjian's grief was due to the drastic changes in the situation. What puzzled him was why Yang Sichang hadn't reported the matter to him so far?

Yang Sichang was already in poor health due to the daily fright, and now he is even more ill.

The successive victories of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong shattered the confidence of Da Ming, the center of Chongzhen. Yang Sichang, who had placed high hopes on him and tried his best to excuse him, failed to turn him around.

Taiyuan Shanxi.

He Jinchao put aside the report sent by Yang He, and Fu Zonglong, the defeated general, deserves to see me?
Just let him stay at the border. If this kind of loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty didn't want him to go back and let Chongzhen send someone to Liaodong to die, He Jinzhao would definitely kill him.

"My lord, the latest news has just been sent back from the capital channel." Qiu Zhitao held the letter and handed it directly to Niu Youcai who was beside him.

After Niu Youcai took it, he ran a few steps and placed it on He Jinzhao's desk.

After He Jinzhao opened it, seeing Qiu Zhitao wiped his sweat, he quickly browsed through it.

"Li Zicheng quietly did a big thing, conquered Luoyang, and directly cooked King Fu to eat."

As soon as He Jinzhao finished speaking, the surrounding officials who were busy with official duties all subconsciously paused.

After all, some people here have seen this kind of thing.

The same is true of the land of Shanshan.

"My lord, this matter still needs to be publicized." Yang Yuxiu immediately thought of those feudal lords sweeping the streets.

If it wasn't for the kindness of their lord, they would have died without a place to bury them if they fell into Li Zicheng's hands.

"can."

He Jinzhao didn't care much about this kind of thing, it seemed like Li Zicheng announced to the world by killing King Fu that he was back again.

"If Hong Chengchou goes to Liaodong, there will be no one in the Ming Dynasty in Henan who can restrain Li Zicheng's offensive."

Zhang Fuzhen pinched his beard and said, "Yang Sichang must be restrained by Zhang Xianzhong in Huguang."

Everyone was thousands of miles away, so he didn't believe that with Zhang Xianzhong's temperament, he would directly follow his master's arrangement and go to Jiangxi.

"Then let Fu Zonglong go back and put out the fire."

He Jinzhao handed the letter to Yang Yuxiu who was at the side, and told them to read it and file it.

"clear."

Yang Yuxiu responded, anyway, Fu Zonglong came to find out the truth, so he could go back and make a report to Chongzhen.

Now that the Ming court is in dire straits, it needs a loyal minister like Fu Zonglong to go back to be the firefighting captain, and then die!

Most of the loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty ended up in this way. Rather than being arranged clearly by He Jinzhao, it is better to say that they were arranged clearly by Chongzhen.

"Sun Chuanting's money is not in vain. As soon as Chongzhen got the news, he also got the news."

He Jinchao affirmed Sun Chuanting's work: "It's just that it's a bit difficult to get into the Qing court at present."

"My lord, there is no rush for this kind of thing, unless someone takes the initiative to go to the Qing court to pretend to be a spy, otherwise those Manchus will not easily get along with our informants."

He Jinzhao didn't say anything anymore, but wanted to find out how Huang Taiji used so many spies to attack Daming.

In today's situation, the central plains are full of drought. Even if Li Zicheng robbed King Fu of food, he couldn't last long with the speed at which he recruited troops.

"My lord, Li Zicheng won't rest for too long when he conquers Luoyang. He is appointed to open this important place to obtain more food, and the governor of Henan and the general army will not sit still."

Ji Gui squeezed his beard and said, "They can't bear the crime of falling into the feudal lord, so they can only try their best to redeem it and kill Li Zicheng."

"I don't have any hope for these rotten officers and soldiers."

After reading the written instructions, He Jinzhao put them aside:
"I just think that if I can spend one or two more times between the Ming army and the Qing army, I will achieve my ultimate goal. After all, we shouldn't have too much expectations for Daming, they don't deserve it."

Several staff officers nodded repeatedly, how bad is the Ming army?

He Jinzhao picked up the letter from Zhao Xiaowu and Yang Wenyue, and carefully read it. The officers and soldiers in Guangdong were even worse.

Because they had almost no intention of resisting them, they all dispersed.

The Portuguese were also defeated by them, and they all surrendered. The surrendered pawns reported to the governor stationed in Malacca, and they didn't know what the negotiation would look like.

As far as He Jinzhao knows, Portugal is a bit of a waste at present, and I don't know if it has become independent from Spanish rule?

On the contrary, Zheng Zhilong said that he would send envoys to Taiyuan to discuss major issues, and there were a lot of disasters caused by road soldiers and bandits, and He Jinzhao didn't know whether the gang of pirates would arrive smoothly.

After all, the land is not as good as the sea.

Pirates on shore are not necessarily better than those on board.

"How's the situation in Yunnan?"

He Jinzhao is slowly encroaching on Yunnan, striving to connect with the Guangzhou enclave as soon as possible.

Qiu Zhitao looked through the latest news: "My lord, there are many rebellions among the chieftains in Yunnan, Duke Qian can't stop them, let them rebel.

But most of the chieftains who wanted to collude with my Hammer bandits were on the sidelines, and did not accept their heads. "

He Jinchao nodded, expressing his understanding, and then ordered:

"Dingguo has nothing to do after taking over eastern Sichuan. You can take troops to walk around southern Sichuan, watch elephants bark their teeth, kill a group of chieftains who refuse to surrender, and set an example."

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)