Win the Ding 1617

On the sixth day of the first month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Ding Si said, "The thieves were trapped in the flooding of Rongyangtu, and then in Gushi. At that time, there were hundreds of thousands of Qin thieves, and they were divided into 36 routes to plunder counties."

Chang Ziyu from the Ministry of War said: "In the Central Plains, the security of the world is at stake, and today a group of bandits is flooding. Only Zuo Liangyu's brigade is in charge of Xinmian, Chen Bangzhi and others are battling Ruzhou, Chen Yongfu's army is blocking Nanyang alone, and the bandit camp is Fengtun." With thousands of officials and troops blocking them from east to west, why should the thieves be afraid and not drive them away?Begging to choose more frontier soldiers, command honest and brave generals, specially select important ministers as teachers, so that the hearts of the common people will not be broken.

The Ministry of War discussed the transfer of soldiers from the Northwest Frontier and the South, issued 20 yuan of internal funds, and more than [-] households' salaries. Hong Chengchou was ordered to lead out of the customs, control all roads in Fuzhen, and work together to suppress thieves. The period will be June.

The thieves in Henan come and go indefinitely, and the middle of Henan is especially called the hub. The east of Guanshan, the south of the Yellow River, and the north of Xiangyang extend thousands of miles.

Zuo Liangyu, Chen Yongfu, Zhao Guozhu, etc. successively beheaded the king of Xingshi in Jiaxian, the king of Chuangshi in Baisha, the king of tidy in Yiyang, and the king of sweeping in Jiayu.

However, the war in Henan seems to have been ignored by the civil and military officials in the court. Compared with the war in Henan, the war in another direction worries them even more.

According to the discussion at the Lushan Conference, taking advantage of the fact that the Ming army in Jiangbei had few soldiers and weak combat effectiveness, and the defense was empty, Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, Chuang General Li Zicheng, Eight Great Kings Zhang Xianzhong and other troops invaded the territory of Nanzhili with lightning speed.Capture Gushi, Huoqiu and Shouzhou.On the tenth day of the lunar new year, Zhang Xianzhong conquered Yingzhou.The peasant army is approaching Fengyang, the land of Minglong prosperity.

"As a result, the bandits came from Runing and secretly sent 300 strong men, pretending to be merchants' chariots, to enter Fengyang first. Some of them were consignors of brocade, peppers and dates, or monks and beggars. .”

It happened to be the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month when the peasant army arrived in Fengyang after a long-distance raid.The streets of Fengyang are like clouds of ladies and gentlemen, the lights are brilliant, the music is resonant, and the beauty is everywhere.All of a sudden, the flames were everywhere, and the exclamation continued: "The thief has arrived! The thief is here!" [

Just now, the people who were leisurely watching lanterns and guessing riddles on the streets, enjoying the fun of the peaceful and prosperous times, immediately ran wildly.But in front of the Xiying cavalry team galloping wildly.It's like a chicken in a cauldron and a fish swimming in a net.

The reason why Fengyang City wants to ensure Fengshui dragon veins is that there is no city wall, and the city wall can be defended.This gave the peasant army dominated by cavalry an opportunity to take advantage of.and.Only the soldiers and horses under the command of Yang Yipeng, the governor of water transport, are stationed here.However, more than [-] people are all street gangsters and hooligans, and it's okay to bully ordinary people on weekdays.Facing the peasant army who had moved thousands of miles away like wolves and tigers, these officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty dared to face the enemy with a gun, but turned around and ran away without their swords, guns and armor.

This is not the most bizarre thing, Yan Rongxuan, the magistrate of Fengyang, is the one.The magistrate was quite quick-witted, so he changed into a prison uniform and hid in the prison. Unexpectedly, he was discovered by the peasant army who opened the prison and released the prisoners among the criminals. king captured,

These two guys who were active in Yingshan Huoshan and surrendered to Zhang Xianzhong on the way to the east hated these parents and officials even more.Then, using the etiquette and etiquette of the grand master raising the account to try the case, Zhang Gai preached, shouted mighty, and killed Yan Rongxuan in the yamen hall of the prefect of Fengyang.

It was a battle, "The thieves burned the imperial mausoleum, burned the Xiangdian, killed 30 burnt pine trees, killed more than 27 eunuchs guarding the mausoleum, over 41 people who committed crimes against the high wall, stayed behind in Zhuguo Lane and killed [-] thieves, and died of exhaustion. Killed six officials including Wan Wenying, [-] military officials, and tens of thousands of civilians were killed. Pregnant women were dissected, babies were injected into the lance, more than [-] public and private mansions were burned, and hundreds of miles of candles were lit. Mark Gu Yuan Zhenlong Emperor, and plunder for three days."

Amid the sound of drum music, Li Zicheng led several generals, including Yuan Zongdi, Liu Fangliang, Li Guo, Li Shuangxi, Zhang Nai and others, dismounted in front of Huangjue Temple with bright armor.

This is currently the old camp of Zhang Xianzhong's West Camp.

As the monastic place of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang's Taizu, after he ascended the throne as the emperor, he became famous all over the world overnight from a dilapidated small temple with no door, and his status is noble and prominent.Also because of the experience of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty who became a monk and worshiped Buddha, in the 16th year of Ming Hongwu (1383), it was moved from Ganying, 6 kilometers southwest of Fengyang County, to the present site for reconstruction, and named it "Dalongxing Temple". Zhu Yuanzhang personally wrote "Longxing Temple Inscription on the stele, set up the monk record official abbot, and award the seal of Longxing Temple.According to the "Daming Hongwu Records": "(Longxing Temple) there are 380 Buddhist halls, Dharma halls, and monk houses."

However, all kinds of properties and materials copied from the Tianwang Hall, Daxiong Hall, Zen Hall, Jialan Hall, Patriarch Hall and Yubei Pavilion are piled up everywhere, and there are excited and eloquent peasant army soldiers and soldiers everywhere in a mess. Small bosses, groups of mules and horses were casually tied to the pillars of various trees and buildings.On the spotless ground that was originally cleaned, a lot of mule and horse manure can be seen here and there.

"I didn't expect this Huangjue Temple to be so big!"

Guarded by a group of personal soldiers and generals, Li Zicheng, who entered with high spirits, expressed his sincere admiration for the scale of the entire Huangjue Temple.

"The general Chuang didn't know something. After Zhu Hongwu won the country, the place was expanded, covering an area of ​​more than 1000 mu, and a letter was sent to the monk official. Damn, a monk leader is actually of good grade! The area here is so big , there used to be a folk song in Fengyang saying that this is where a monk rides a horse to close the mountain gate, you can imagine it!"

"If that's the case, if the Eight Great Kings win the country in the future, will they also expand the previous barracks?"

Li Zicheng and Ma Yuanli, the general of the Western Camp who came to greet him, came all the way to the front of the Daxiong Palace while laughing.

In the four copper pots outside the hall, meat and rice were being boiled. From time to time, peasant soldiers would stir the pots with their swords to see if the chickens, ducks, pigs, and sheep were cooked. [

Under the steps of the Daxiong Palace, more than 30 little eunuchs are holding various musical instruments and playing hard there.

Inside the hall, Zhang Xianzhong was having a drink with several of his generals and adopted son.

"Brother Zicheng, come and drink! This is the best wine in Fengyang Mansion!"

Zhang Xianzhong came towards Li Zicheng holding a wine bowl with drunk eyes.

"Jingxuan, I have some good news, and I'm here to tell you!"

"You go out first!"

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Xianzhong, who was still reeking of alcohol just now.Immediately, he regained his shrewd and capable expression, waved his hands to signal the soldiers to leave the hall, and cleaned up the leftovers by the way.

"Brother Li, do you have anything good to do for our old Zhang?"

"Let me ask you, along the way, how many armored soldiers are there in your west camp? How many of these southern barbarian armors are there on Maotang, Shuangxi, and Ning Yu?"

Seeing that Li Zicheng intended to inquire about his own strength, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help but stroked his beard and started fighting.

"I met a few fellow villagers from Shanxi in the Fengyang mansion, and from them, I learned something about the armor and weapons of the Southern Barbarians!"

Li Zicheng's words are amazing.Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help tearing off a few beards.

Shanxi and Shaanxi are separated by a river, and there have been good stories about the Qin and Jin Dynasties since ancient times.At that time, Shanxi and Shaanxi merchants were fighting against the needs of Huizhou merchants and other merchants.Often use the advantages of neighboring provinces.combine with each other.People usually refer to them collectively as "Western merchants".Therefore, Li Zicheng called Shanxi merchants fellow villagers.

"What? They know? Can you buy it with money?!"

Zhang Kewang, the eldest son of Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son, was born with a violent personality.I am eager to know the origin of those excellent armor weapons.

"What are you panicking about? Listen to your father Li honestly!" Zhang Xianzhong reprimanded his son, and looked at Li Zicheng with a smile all over his face, "Brother Li, go ahead."

"I originally planned to let the people in the city make cotton armor from the Lushan silk we got from Lushan, but when buying cotton cloth, the shopkeeper Qin of the silk cloth shop in the city accidentally mentioned that it started from the second day of Chongzhen. Since [-], there have been fine iron and artillery from Guangdong to the capital. And in the first battle of Zhuozhou, Liaodong Jiannu was repelled!"

"Shopkeeper Qin said that among the merchants in the capital, it is said that the shopkeeper Longshengxing outside the Chaoyang Gate in Beijing sent these armors, knives and guns to King Hongyan! And this owner of Longshengxing seems to have business in Nanjing as well!"

Having said this, Li Zicheng stopped talking, focused his eyes on Zhang Xianzhong.

"Li Shuai, what is the origin of this shopkeeper Qin? Why is he so clear about these things?" Zhang Xianzhong's general Bai Wenxuan was a little puzzled. How could a shopkeeper of a silk shop care about the origin of those weapons?

"Brother Bai, you don't know that this silk shop is owned by Shanxi businessman Wang Dengku. They have been doing business with Mongolian Tartars and Liaodong Jiannu in private. This is what he confessed. After Chongzhen suffered a loss in the second year, he was also inquiring about the origin of those weapons and refined iron. This news was found out after years of painstaking efforts and manpower. There are so many good things, they can't find out!" Liu Fangliang, Li Zicheng's general, explained the ins and outs of this matter to Bai Wenxuan.

"Nanjing?!"

Hearing such news, Zhang Kewang, Zhang Wenxiu, Zhang Dingguo and others immediately stood up with their swords, "Father Commander, let's take our brothers into Nanjing City and grab those swords, guns and armor!"

"Bastard! You son of a bitch!"

Hearing the challenge from his adopted sons, Zhang Xianzhong turned angry and cursed.However, his unscrupulous words made Zicheng's generals not dare to laugh. Zhang Kewang and others are bastards. What is Zhang Xianzhong?

"Can you fly over the Yangtze River? Can you rush into Nanjing City? Use your mind!"

Zhang Xianzhong cupped his hands towards Li Zicheng, "Brother Li, you must have made up your mind when you came here, so just say, do you want our old Zhang to contribute money or effort?"

"Eight Great Kings, we braved the wind and came to your camp. It's the first lunar month, will you give us a bowl of noodles?"

Li Zicheng's powerful subordinate Yuan Zongdi slapped Zhang Xianzhong and made a grimace.

"That's right! Let's have a drink and talk!"

For a while, a banquet was set up again in the Daxiong Palace, and two groups of people drank and talked together.

"Brother Li, my old Zhang has to advise you. You have to keep your eyes open for some things. If the water is clear, you can't raise fish. You should rectify military discipline and prevent brothers from robbing, drinking, gambling and sleeping with women. If you don't let that, who will fight for you? Everyone says we are thieves, but we are now like this, and we are already much better than the officers and soldiers! Those officers and soldiers have done more than us? At least we haven't cut off the people. The head said it was an officer!" Zhang Xianzhong's eyes were red, and he held Li Zicheng's hand and chattered.

"Jingxuan, I planned this way before I came. Right now, there are not a few gold, silver and jewelry in my camp. However, in the eyes of those of us who live among the swords and guns, these things are far inferior to those sophisticated armor and weapons. And The life-saving kit that saved your life is worth a fortune!"

"That's right! With the elite old battalion and those excellent swords, guns and armor, we can snatch any amount of gold, silver and jewelry!" Zhang Xianzhong slapped his thigh fiercely, expressing his agreement with Li Zicheng's words.

"We had to sacrifice our lives to exchange those good things before, but if we can exchange them with money now, it would be much cheaper!"

"So, I'm going to let the treasurer Qin accompany Mingyuan, and quietly go to Nanjing City to see how much he can get back. Who is suitable for your Xiying to send?"

Li Zicheng's side is Liu Fangliang.Zhang Xianzhong raised his eyes and scanned his subordinates. "Brother Li, I'll send Lao Bai here! But, how can we transport the money, the amount is too big!"

"It's okay! Eight Great Kings." Liu Fangliang bowed his hands to Zhang Xianzhong and saluted. "I discussed it with the shopkeeper Qin before. You can store the gold and silver in his account. He came forward to pay the Nanmanzi merchants for us. Wang Dengku's business also has an account in Nanjing!"

Having said that, the two families have nothing more to say.Just greet him with a big bowl of wine and a big piece of meat.

After eating and drinking, Li Zicheng stood up and said goodbye. Zhang Xianzhong sent him to the gate of the hall, and suddenly he blinked his eyes with a sly smile, "Brother Li, do you come to our old Zhang? Blame you?!"

After hearing Zhang Xianzhong's words, Li Zicheng stopped in his tracks. He was much clearer than Zhang Xianzhong about the nature of his uncle and boss. I'm afraid that if the armor doesn't have an upper body, the head will be moved.

"Then what do you say?"

Zhang Xianzhong's eyes looked around, and his eyes stopped on the group of young eunuchs who were playing hard, and he couldn't help but put his hand on the big beard on his chest.

Li Zicheng and others all know this habit of his. Whenever he has something to think about, or when he is undecided before killing someone, he will make this action. Once he has made up his mind, he will subconsciously pull down his beard. , followed by the head falling to the ground.

Sure enough, after a while, Zhang Xianzhong pulled down his beard with his hand.There was a grim smile on his face.

"Brother Li, you came to our old Zhang today to ask our old Zhang for these eggless eunuchs, but our old Zhang refused to give it to you, so you left in a fit of anger, our old Zhang! Of course It can’t make you happy either.”

"Come on!"

With a shout, more than a dozen soldiers from the West Camp drew out their swords and swords in unison, "Follow the order!"

"Let's kill this group of eggless people!"

Under the leadership of Zhang Kewang, more than a dozen personal soldiers brandished their weapons and hacked to pieces the thirty or so little eunuchs who were in charge of playing music while offering sacrifices to the ancestors.

"That's right! Brother Jingxuan is really decisive! In this way, there will be a jerk between you and me, and others will no longer doubt it!" Li Zicheng led his subordinates to straddle the horse and whip away!

In the first month, after Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and other troops captured Fengyang, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng disagreed, so they divided their troops and went east.The initial attack on Luzhou (now Hefei) was unsuccessful, and the attack on Shucheng was unsuccessful again. On the 23rd, Xianzhong led his army to capture Chao County.After four days, Lujiang was attacked again.Tomorrow, soldiers will go down to the state and kill Zhang Huashu, the governor of the state.On the first day of February, Zhang Xianzhong led his army to besiege Qianshan and overcome it.Kill Zhao Shiyan, the county magistrate.

Afterwards, Yang Yipeng, the governor of water transportation, was imprisoned by Chongzhen and beheaded Xishi because of the fall of Fengyang, which caused the mausoleum to shake.

For a while, Emperor Chongzhen went to Fengxian Temple and Taimiao to cry and worship in hemp clothes and straw shoes, and the Chinese and military ministers of the court also looked like they were dead.

Such news, in two places thousands of miles away from Beijing and Fengyang, did not even make a splash.When such news was sent to Kinmen by the Dibao and official documents, Zheng Zhilong put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hands in astonishment, "I'm fucking Yi Niang! I just said that, I didn't expect that the ancestral grave of the old Zhu's family was really buried. Planed?!"

After finishing speaking, Zheng Zhilong picked up his rice bowl and continued to eat.

"Eh? Is there anything else?"

He saw his subordinate guarding Zheng Yun who was still standing there, and seemed to have something to say.

"Commander, there is another military report. It's about the Dutch red Maoyi people of the senior officer."

"There is such a thing?! Then why didn't you say it just now? Annoy me with those useless things?!" Zheng Zhilong's face was sullen, and Mrs. Tian Chuan who was eating with him gently tugged With a touch of his robe strap, he eased his emotions.

"Just now, I saw the commander in chief having dinner, so of course I have to report the important matter to you first." Zheng Yun also defended himself when he saw this, and Zheng Zhilong, who was angry, pretended to fight.

"Say something quickly!"

After the Dutch drove Zheng Zhilong's troops into the sea, they knew that Yu Jiaolong was definitely not a character who would not fight back after suffering a loss. Moreover, since the Battle of Liuluowan, he was far behind in terms of military strength, financial resources, vitality, and morale. Far exceeds the strength of the Dutch in this area.

Therefore, as soon as Putesman came to clear the island of the settlers who might be unfavorable to him, he confiscated and registered all the knives and guns in the hands of the settlers, and stipulated that six out of ten weapons must be handed over as the most basic self-defense weapons.In addition, under the leadership of the tribes that have already been conquered, with the backing of force on the one hand, they have set foot on almost the entire Dayuan Island.The Dutch pastor who came with the army was even more active in preaching to the indigenous tribes. He actually counted more than 300 Shengfan villages on the whole island, as far as Tamsui and Yilan, and sent them to Taitung and Xiaoliuqiu. Language Wrote the Bible in Roman Alphabet!The intention is to turn these natives on the island into the Dutch allies and cannon fodder in the shortest possible time. (To be continued..)

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