Daming wolf ride

On the third day of March, Pei Shaokuan sold an important piece of information to Shi Dayong—Gao Qiqian already knew that the Jinzhou Army had bought grain from Lin Jiantai, and at the same time knew that Shi Dayong had borrowed troops from the Sichuan Army.

As for Shi Dayong, he was eager to get rid of the potential and then quickly, but he did not preemptively mobilized Jin Guochen's Jiliao soldiers and horses to slaughter the Jinzhou army. Instead, he wrote down Shi Dayong's various crimes in memorials and ordered them to go to the capital to escort the rebel prisoners. The famous Bai Shangyi presented this to the emperor.

He wants to use the hand of the emperor to get rid of Shi Dayong, but he still underestimated Shi Dayong's courage, he followed the steps, and he didn't want to put a harsh frontier on the political opponents and kill the meritorious generals. , but sent the lives of Bai Shangyi and the more than 300 officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp.

The price Pei Shaokuan sold for this information was not small, a total of 5000 taels of silver.

It is no longer necessary for Shi Dayong to know whether Zhao Xueqi tipped off Gao Qiqian, since everyone is dead, what is the point of asking this.He has to make a choice now, wait for the emperor to receive Gao Qiqian's black notice to remove him and escort him to Beijing for punishment, or take the risk and intercept Bai Shangyi, then fly away and do his own thing.He had no other choice, because strictly speaking, the crimes listed in Gao Qiqian's memorial were all committed by Shi Dayong, and any one of them could make him lose his official position and be punished. [

Instead of waiting to be dismissed from office, it is better to put all your eggs in one basket, put down the rebellion alone, and prove yourself to the emperor with practical actions.

In the end, Shi Dayong chose to take the risk, and he led the wolf cavalry and the personal barracks to ambush Bai Shangyi.

Unexpectedly, this ambushes had an unexpected harvest. The 6 taels of gold and silver that Lin Jiantai knocked out from Shi Dayong was actually in Bai Shangyi's team.Poor Lord Lin felt that it was not safe to carry so much gold and silver with him when the army was away, and it would be too ostentatious to send someone to escort him back to Beijing. In the end, he learned that Bai Shangyi was going back to Beijing on business, so he was overjoyed, and even hid the gold and silver in the back of Beijing. in the ranks.

But he didn't know what kind of face Lin Jiantai would have when he knew that the team returning to Beijing was ambushed and killed by unknown soldiers and all his money was robbed.

On the fourth day of March, the Jinzhou army pulled out its camp at night. Without the knowledge of most of the soldiers, the whole army turned to Shahe, then detoured to Shandong and went straight to Pingdu County, [-] miles away from Laizhou.

In Pingdu City, only a mob of more than 1000 rebels knew nothing about the officers and soldiers who suddenly came from behind from Shandong.

In order not to reveal their whereabouts, the Jinzhou army killed a magistrate, a guard and more than 600 Lu soldiers sent by Shandong to investigate on the way in.

Time, Shi Dayong is desperately fighting for time, he wants to break the peace before Gao Qi sneaks to the court to report the defection of the Jinzhou army, and the court orders the encirclement and suppression.

In the past few days when the Jinzhou army has made a great turn, the banditry in Henan has become serious.

Several years of famines have made life difficult for the people in the Central Plains. People are confused and victims are everywhere. Therefore, when some thieves from Shanshan and Shanxi broke through the natural barrier of the Yellow River and entered Henan, the people in Henan became the source of soldiers for the thieves.There was even a rogue team of more than a hundred people passing by, and it turned into a spectacle of tens of thousands of people within a day.After Chen Qiyu became the governor of the five provinces, Xuanmo, the governor of Henan, was ordered to focus his energy on the four northern Henan provinces north of the Yellow River. He did not make careful preparations for the defense of the area south of the Yellow River, resulting in a serious shortage of troops in southern Henan. .Therefore, when the bandits broke through the Yellow River, Yuan Daquan, the central military officer in charge of the defense of the Yellow River in Henan, did not expect it at all.Even if he expected it, there was nothing he could do, because he was also available as a soldier, so in the end he had to fight to the death and serve the country.

The rebel army went down to Mianchi, Yiyang, and Lushi counties in Henan within a few days. Although Xuanmo, the governor of Henan, reluctantly fought, he was only chasing after him.Xuan Mo knew that Henan's strength was no match for the outnumbered bandit army.Like Yiyang County, when the rebel army arrived, the officials in charge of the city, the city wall was decayed, so the rebel army entered the city without any effort.Another example is Lu's County, because the handprint official Jin Rushan escaped in advance and did not organize resistance, so the bandit army easily succeeded.Therefore, Xuanmo could only quickly report to the imperial court for reinforcements.

Fortunately, the deputy general Zuo Liangyu who came to aid from Changping quickly crossed the river to pursue and filled the emptiness south of the Yellow River, and the situation was slightly contained.Subsequently, Tang Jiuzhou, Li Bei and other generals also crossed the river one after another under the strict order of Emperor Chongzhen to participate in the pincer attack.

In fact, after the bandit army crossed the river, Zuo Liangyu was the only general who really took the initiative to cross the river and pursue quickly.Zuo Liangyu was originally transferred from Liaodong to defend Henan. The territory of Henan south of the Yellow River where the rebel army entered was his jurisdiction. He had to encircle and suppress the rebel army quickly, otherwise his official status would be lost.

Zuo Liangyu, who participated in the Battle of Linghe and the Battle of Jinzhou, worked very hard to suppress bandits, and his Changping soldiers were also very brave and capable of fighting.Under his attack, the bandit army that entered Henan was forced to divide into several large groups.Some stayed in Henan for activities, while others rushed out of Henan and advanced to neighboring provinces.The bandit army who remained in Henan first attacked and killed in the south, and entered Nanyang, Ruzhou, and Runing Prefectures for activities.But it was soon defeated by officers and soldiers from all walks of life.

The Guotian Star Department was defeated by Tang Jiuzhou, the general soldier who was dragged from the bed by Henan Governor Xuan Mo, and led his troops to sneak attack overnight in the wind and snow.Guo Tianxing, who was completely unprepared for the officers and soldiers taking advantage of the wind and snow to attack at night, was caught off guard by Tang Jiuzhou and suffered a big loss.

Guo Tianxing fled at night, and Tang Jiuzhou led his troops to chase for 60 li, beheading more than 400 people.The next day, they chased him to Hengshan Township in Suichuan County, Runing Prefecture, and beheaded 600 people.

Zuo Liangyu defeated a bandit army at Baoan Post in Ye County, and captured the leaders Yilong, Shangshanhu, Zhanyifei, Xiao Liguang, etc., and took advantage of the victory to pursue and sent troops into Biyang and Runing Mansions of Nanyang Prefecture.

After the Ming army from all walks of Henan showed its power, the bandit army was beaten and fled everywhere, causing a chain of guilt.On the sixth day of March, even the Jingying, which has never been looked down upon, became ill. The Liu Lingyu Department of the Jingying, which has always been underestimated, even fought a big battle in Niuti Village in Biyang under the personal supervision of Commander Liu. Victory, beheading thousands of people.Zhang Yingchang, the commander-in-chief, fought several battles in Lingbao and Pingshan, and defeated the bandit army remaining in Henan, and its leader Zhang Youyi was captured.Through these several major battles, the bandit troops remaining in Henan were basically wiped out by the official army except for a few who escaped. [

At the same time, a large number of bandits took advantage of Henan to enter Huguang, Shaanxi, and even Sichuan.Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang and other troops entered the mountain area from Lushi.Lu's mountainous area, with high mountains and high mountains, is far away from the emperor. It has always been a place where illegal miners gather.Gao Yingxiang's tribes, led by miners, entered Neixiang, and penetrated from Neixiang, Dengzhou, and Xichuan to Huguang.

At the end of March, Gao Yingxiang and others led his troops disguised as pilgrims, entered Yunxi County, which belongs to Yunyang Mansion in Huguang, and then broke into Shangjin in the north of Yunxi.Soon, Fangxian and Baokang counties were also breached.For a time, tens of thousands of rebels gathered in the territory of Yunyang Mansion.

The Yunyang area has been a headache for the government since ancient times.This is a relatively late-developed mountainous area. Its terrain is surrounded by peaks and mountains, with dense forests on the sides of the mountains.When outsiders enter, if a local guide who is familiar with the terrain leads the way, there is no distinction between east, west, north, and south.For the bandits who want to avoid officers and soldiers, this is really a good place to play hide and seek.Not only the mountainous terrain is conducive to the bandit army, but Yunyang's geographical location is also convenient for attacking from all sides.

To the northeast of Yunyang, you can connect to Xichuan and Neixiang in Henan; to the northwest, you can connect to Pingli, Xing'an, Xunyang, and Shanyang in Shaanxi; Jingmen, Yuan'an, and Yiling are connected to Huguang; its southeast can also go directly to Xiangyang from the Han River.

In the fifth year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu appointed Deng Yu as the general who conquered the south. He used troops against Yunyang and the surrounding areas for a year, and almost killed all the ethnic minorities and Han refugees who refused to accept the rule of the new dynasty in the area, and ordered the mountain to be banned. Poor people from nearby states and counties are not allowed to enter the mountains to reclaim wasteland and emigrate.But the policy of banning mountains has not prevented the immigration of a large number of refugees.Before Chenghua, there were as many as one million people.

In the first year of Chenghua, Liu Tong and Shi Long from Henan led refugees to rebel in Fangxian County.It is said that all men over the age of 11 were beheaded and killed because of officers and soldiers entering the mountains. In addition to the continuous drought, the number of refugees increased greatly. In the sixth year of Chenghua, Li Yuan, a subordinate of Liu Qianjin from Henan, rebelled again.The imperial court sent censor Xiang Zhong to governor Henan, Huguang, Jing and Xiang military affairs, sent troops to encircle and suppress, and brutally slaughtered.Xiang Zhong also forcibly repatriated the refugees in the mountains, and hundreds of thousands of them were persecuted to death.Even with such high pressure, there is still no way to stop the refugees from entering the mountains.By the 12th year of Chenghua, the number of refugees gathered in the Jingxiang area had increased to hundreds of thousands.Under the desperation of the imperial court, they had to change their strategy, separate the mountainous area at the intersection of Huguang, Henan, and Shaanxi provinces, set up Yunyang Prefecture, and govern 7 counties under the jurisdiction of Huguang.

The bandit army went deep into the Yunyang mountain area, and it was like a fish in water, like entering a human realm.The imperial court also knew that the Yunyang mountainous area was a troublesome place.Therefore, when Xiong Mingyu, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, learned that the bandit army had gone to Neixiang and Ye County in Nanyang, he had a premonition of the danger and possibility of the bandit army entering the Yunyang mountainous area of ​​Huguang.He reported to Emperor Chongzhen and asked for early preparations.When Emperor Chongzhen read this report, the bandit army had already entered Yunyang and other places, but was beaten head-on by Lu Xiangsheng, governor of Xunyang, and the bandit army could not go to Huguang, so they were forced to turn around and flee to Henan.

Victory reports from various places flew to the capital like snowflakes. The young emperor was very satisfied with the situation in various places, but he was only dissatisfied that the situation in Denglai had not yet opened.Liu Yulie, Zhang Guochen, and Gao Qiqian have tens of thousands of elite soldiers. Every time they report to the court, they say that the appeasement will be completed immediately. Dayong led the army to intercept and kill the eunuch, robbed the army's salary and led the army to defect.

Shocked by this news, Chongzhen felt unbelievable. Suffering from the fact that Cao Huachun, the factory official, was in Gusu, and Jin Yiwei had already withdrawn from all the army's eyes and ears, Chongzhen didn't know the truth about Shi Dayong's defection for a while.

In his distress, he summoned Wang Chengen and asked directly, "Do you know about Shi Dayong?"

Wang Chengen nodded and said: "The news came from Dongchang one step ahead, and the slaves know about it."

Chongzhen asked again: "Then have you ever implemented what I told you?"

Wang Chengen hesitated for a moment, then shook his head: "No."

"No?" Chongzhen was stunned, and then he was furious: "You slave is so courageous, you dare to procrastinate on the things I entrusted to you!"