Traveler Major League

Chapter 249 The first phase is completed

Since King Fu officially came to Luoyang in the 1615nd year of Wanli, he has been rewarded with a large amount of land. In these years, he has expanded his land area crazily, but neither the previous Ming Shenzong nor the current His Majesty Chongzhen have done so. The restriction caused great anger among the people. Not only the people's morale was so, but also the military morale was not stable. As early as the night of April , , the forty-third year of Wanli, seven or eight hundred people from Prince Fu's Mansion in Luoyang were entrusted with the military academy. Under Meng Chun's instigation, they "gathered to the east gate and made noise with rewards, shaking the place."

In the original history, in the 13th year of Chongzhen, King Fu Zhu Changxun was recorded to be very stingy. Henan was in the wilderness and people were eating each other." But he turned a deaf ear and "didn't give out a single penny of relief." This aroused the dissatisfaction of many people. History records: "Reinforcements. The person who passed Luo said in the spoken book or in the Taoist passage: "The prince's palace has millions of dollars, but he hates the rice and meat, and makes us hungry and dead at the hands of thieves!" '" At that time, Lv Weiqi, a country squire and Minister of War in Nanjing, was living in the city. He "heard about it" and advised him with a "big plan" to stop being a miser, but he simply refused to listen. This situation, it goes without saying, was Li Zicheng's siege. Winning provides favorable conditions.

On the 19th day of the first lunar month of the 14th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's rebel army arrived at the gate of Luoyang City. "It was very urgent to attack the northwest corner." At night, the city defenders led by Ming general Wang Shaoyu fell to the rebel army and "opened the north gate" to start the uprising. The army entered the city. Zhu Changxun hid in Yingen Temple and was captured by the rebels the next day.

The rebels hated him very much. After killing him, the wealth of Prince Fu's Mansion became the spoils of the rebels. Based on the suggestions of Li Yan and Niu Jinxing, Li Zicheng "distributed the treasury and donations of the rich in Fufu's residence to appeal to the hungry people." When distributing food and gold and silver, Li Zicheng said to everyone: "The princes and nobles prey on the poor people and treat them as cold and exhausted. I Therefore, kill them, thinking that they are like Cao Cao, and make the hungry people eat from far and near. Men over twenty who are willing to join the army, with forty gold per month, dare to give twice as much as the general. From me, you can become rich and noble, and you will die in a fight without doing anything." The words just touched the hearts of the poor people, so the people responded one after another, "millions of people rushed to go there."

At this time, it was only April of the second year of Chongzhen. Although there were natural and man-made disasters, local conflicts were not so acute. However, due to the long period of peace and the rapid advance of the people's army, various places in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty at this time Either the troops were depleted or there were no troops available. Therefore, when the people's army broke through Tongguan and headed east to Luoyang, almost all the county guards blocking the road collapsed at the first touch.

At this critical moment, Fan Jingwen, who was the governor of Henan at the time, was a famous loyal official who committed suicide by throwing his whole family into a well when Li Zicheng defeated the capital. He also knew the importance of the famous city of Luoyang. He was recommended and recruited in the early years of Chongzhen. Taichang Shaoqing, due to the tense situation in Guanzhong, was promoted to the position of censor of the capital procuratorate Youqiandu at the beginning of the second year of Chongzhen's reign. He patrolled Henan and trained troops with tens of thousands of troops by this time.

As a high-level official promoted by Chongzhen, after he heard that Tongguan had been lost, he concluded that the People's Army would inevitably leave Luoyang eastward, so he began to mobilize troops to Luoyang without stopping, determined to fight to the death with the People's Army in Luoyang.

As a result, Fan Jingwen, like many famous Ming ministers and generals before him, underestimated the bottomless generation gap between himself and the people's army. Both the organization and weapons and equipment were far beyond imagination. The feedback from the elite sentries was There is very little news, but most of the casualties are already there.

On April 402, the second year of Chongzhen, Luoyang, five hundred miles away from Tongguan, welcomed the vanguard of the First Army. In the gray sky, a twin-engine propeller Cessna-9 aircraft flew slowly over Luoyang. However, this twin-engine piston-type 10/1985-seat passenger and cargo transport aircraft is an old-fashioned private aircraft in the United States. It was discontinued as early as . However, because the structure is simple enough and the requirements for take-off and landing sites are low, it is used in North America. The branch brought it over for remote reconnaissance.

Yang Zeming, a man of medium height and wearing ordinary military uniform, held a telescope and peered down from the port window of the aircraft. He had a hard-surface noteboard placed flat on his lap and a black stick between his right index finger and middle finger. Pen, record from time to time.

The First Division of the First Army commanded by Yang Zeming had moved less than fifty miles west of Luoyang City. He couldn't sit still in Tongguan, so he took a special look, and then returned directly to the Tongguan headquarters after observing for a while. The fresh dirt on the runway was flattened hard. Yang Zeming, who had just got off the plane, hurriedly got into an off-road vehicle and went straight to the military headquarters. A few days ago, he had just completed a military meeting at the Qin Prince's Mansion in Xi'an. As a senior As an officer, he no longer had the opportunity to charge into battle. The endless military meetings made him exhausted. This was also the helplessness of many senior people's army officials.

When Liu Ze summoned him and other senior military officials back to Xi'an, the specific purpose was to see that the first phase of the plan was to complete the military occupation ahead of schedule. The next step was to remind them and focus on cooperating with the civil affairs department to take over the local government.

Yang Zeming was thinking about work arrangements, recalling the high morale of the chief officials at the meeting, and couldn't help smiling. At this time, Fan Jingwen, who was at the forefront of the Luoyang storm, was sitting in front of the desk with his brows furrowed.

Similarly, a few days ago, the eight-hundred-mile expedited imperial edict arrived with the anger of His Majesty Chongzhen. In the past few months, all kinds of bad news about the loss of troops and territory flew to the capital like snowflakes, making the new emperor less than a year after he ascended the throne. Chongzhen, who enjoyed overthrowing Wei Zhongxian and other eunuchs and had not tasted much joy of victory, faced such violent blows one after another.

According to the eunuch who delivered the decree, he said privately: "Your Majesty has appointed Duke Zhi (Fan Jingwen Mengzhang, also known as Duke Zhi). Now that the state affairs are so corrupt, how dare you not worry about the country?" He even specifically mentioned the mention in Fan Jingwen's previous memorial. When it came to the issue of military pay and food, His Majesty Chongzhen threw down two cups of tea and cursed angrily: Liu Ze is just a dog thief and a bandit, inciting the unruly people to eat wherever they go. The army has become stronger. Before, there were more than a thousand people. It has become an army of hundreds of thousands, and they are attacking important places such as Guanzhong, Yan'an, Hanzhong, and Tongguan. They have not heard of the lack of military pay and food. You, Fan Mengzhang, hold important places in Henan and have tens of thousands of troops, but you can't even get a bite of food. How shameful and incompetent it is for the imperial court to allocate funds for work!

The above words were told to Fan Jingwen in private by the eunuch who passed the order, half truthfully and half falsely. Fan Jingwen understood that without the instruction of His Majesty Chongzhen, how could this eunuch be so bold? However, this also made Fan Jingwen's face turn pale and he lowered his head to drink tea. Water, so scared that I no longer dared to say a word.

As a civil servant who leads troops with dignity, Fan Jingwen naturally has no refutation. Perhaps it is fate. At this time, because of the appearance of Liu Ze, the butterfly, he is training troops on a larger scale than in history, but he is facing a more difficult situation. The huge people's army, when he first got information about Liu Ze's uprising from the sentry, his expression was so surprised and panicked. At this time, when the final outcome had been decided, his face showed a kind of The look of relief was neither joy nor sorrow.

Just like when facing the college entrance examination, students' mood before the exam is that if they fail, they can only die to repay the king.

(End of this chapter)