Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

"Don't say anything! There is an imperial tomb here. As long as we lose it, we will all lose our heads. I, Lao Zhu, have not treated my brothers badly since I came here. As long as the bandits are repelled this time, the lack of salary Make it all up, and all the brothers will be rewarded with five taels of silver!" Zhu Guoxiang, who stayed behind in Fengyang, shouted.

Zhu Guoxiang's promise made his own soldiers applaud loudly, but the other soldiers watched coldly from the sidelines.Although the imperial court reissued a batch of military salaries after the last mutiny, the officials such as Zhu Guoxiang divided up those big heads, and those soldiers only got some life money stuck between their teeth, so they didn't believe Zhu Guoxiang's words at all.

Because Fengyang had no city to defend, after seeing the peasant rebel army, on the 500th of the first lunar month, Zhu Guoxiang, who stayed in Fengyang, led Yuan Ruizheng, Lu Chengyin and other [-] people out of the city to attack.

When the battle started, when 1000 peasant rebels approached and tried to attack, groups of Ming troops turned around and fled.Then the entire Ming army began to collapse, and the main force of the peasant rebel army was also overwhelmed.

In the ensuing battle, Zhu Guoxiang who stayed behind in Fengyang was killed, four thousand Ming troops were killed and fled, and the remaining Ming troops knelt on the ground and raised their hands in surrender.Fengyang also has no strength to go out of the city to fight.

But in the early morning of the [-]th, the fog was so thick that you couldn't see your fingers.The peasant rebel army deployed an attack strategy under the city.The insiders who had sneaked into the city before also cooperated vigorously.At night, the peasant rebel army launched a fierce attack.

At this time, the defenders also found peasant rebels active under the Drum Tower, and rushed to report to the chief, but the chief thought it was demagoguery, and reprimanded the reporter.

But before the words were finished, the defenders became confused, and they didn't know what was going on. One by one, the soldiers knelt down and begged for mercy.The funny thing is.They didn't know where they were going to surrender. You must know that the main force of the peasant rebel army hadn't entered the city yet.

In this way, Fengyang lost his last chance to resist.It didn't take long before the peasant rebel army outside the city poured into the city.Fengyang, known as the central capital, fell into the hands of the peasant army in this way.The remaining 3000 Ming troops defending the city had no time to fight back, so they were all wiped out.

Only the tomb supervisor Yang Ze and others talked about the few officials who escaped outside the city, and only a small number of gentry in the city fled to the east and south of the city.

After Zhang Xianzhong entered Fengyang, with resentment towards the Ming Dynasty, he dug up Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral grave.They set fire to the Loudian of Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral tomb and the Longxing Temple where Zhu Yuanzhang once became a monk.A total of nearly 67 offices of governors and government offices, 2 rooms of Drum Tower and Longxing Temple, and more than [-] private houses were burned down.

Afterwards, 41 officials, including Cheng Yongning, the commander who resisted the peasant rebel army, were killed, as well as 66 Zhusheng and more than [-] eunuchs.

Moreover, the peasant rebel army also opened the prison and released the prisoners in the prison, and the "criminals" (prisoners of the clan) who were imprisoned in the high wall were also released.The prefect Yan Rongxuan hid in the prison.Put on prison clothes and pretend to be a prisoner.Hope to get away with it.In the end, he was found out by the peasant rebel army, and he was beheaded after [-] days in the hall.He really died ugly!

Then the peasant rebel army began to loot the whole city.Because the people in Fengyang are extremely poor, the concentration of wealth is quite amazing.A total of millions of gold and silver properties were plundered, and more than 60 stones of grain were seized.A large number of female family members of the clan, officials and gentry families suffered from abuse, which made Zhang Xianzhong and the others have a good time.

In addition, although Fengyang's Ming army is vulnerable.But its weapons and equipment are quite sophisticated, that is, most of those weapons and equipment are stored in the warehouse, waiting for the officials to guard and steal them, and basically they are not issued to the soldiers to defend the city.

And now it's all cheap peasant rebels.They seized a total of more than 600 mules and horses.More than 1 livestock, more than 800 pieces of iron armor, more than [-] pieces of leather armor and cotton armor, etc. The artillery defending the city was difficult to carry, but more than [-] artillery pieces such as tiger squatting guns, eagle guns, three-eyed fire guns, and bird guns were seized. There are more than [-] guns and other fire guns.In addition, countless weapons, gunpowder, etc. were seized.The equipment of the entire peasant rebel army was immediately improved several levels.

The peasant rebel army also opened warehouses to release grain, attracting the poor nearby to join them. Coupled with the subsequent arrival of large groups of people, the peasant rebel army gathered in Fengyang soon exceeded 15.

Zhang Xianzhong also sat on the "Dragon Chair" and unfurled the banner of "Gu Yuan Zhenlong Emperor", revealing for the first time his ambition to overthrow the Ming Dynasty and change the dynasty.This also made Zhang Xianzhong the No. [-] tycoon next to Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang.

And on the [-]th day of the first lunar month, Zhu Dadian and Zuo Liangyu's troops, who received the report from the Runing Army, immediately left Xuzhou's remnants of Shetatian, and headed towards Fengyang at full speed regardless of Xuzhou's persuasion.

After entering Guide, Zuo Liangyu's troops were uncharacteristically, the whole army strictly abided by military discipline, and did not harass Guide Mansion at all.When his troops passed through the city of Guidefu, Zuo Liangyu went to the city to kowtow to Mrs. Hou.

The governor of Fengyang, Yang Yipeng, was in a hurry, sending messengers everywhere to call for help, even the soldiers in Linqing, who were far away on the Grand Canal, were not spared.He only wanted to keep Fengyang.

But then came a bad news, Fengyang fell.So heartbroken Yang Yipeng just stayed behind closed doors in his own governor's office in Huai'an, waiting for his final fate to come.

After receiving the urgent report from Fengyang, the eunuch guarding Nanjing and the Sixth Ministry of Nanjing dispatched a large army on the [-]th, and assembled [-] troops to rush to Fengyang at the expense of horse damage.

As for Wu Shigong's Runing Army, after resting for two days, they joined the 2000-strong Auxiliary Corps that arrived later, and the entire army of [-] moved south on the [-]th of the first lunar month.

The Runing army did not go straight to Fengyang, they followed the path of the peasant rebel army.After bending an arc slightly, the Runing Army marched for more than [-] miles all day on the [-]th of the first lunar month, and suddenly appeared in Yingzhou at night.

At this time, in Yingzhou City, there were only some stragglers from the peasant rebel army and local green-skinned rascals who were looting. Seeing the sudden appearance of the Runing Army, they all dispersed.The Runing army regained Yingzhou City without bloodshed.

As long as Yingzhou City is defended, it will block the way for the peasant rebel army to return to Runing Mansion again. Until this time, the Runing Army was completely relieved of the safety of Runing Mansion.

In the original history, Zhang Xianzhong's troops conquered Fengyang on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, but now due to the continuous firefighting by the Runing Army, they were delayed for five days.However, the result of the fall of Fengyang has not been changed. The only thing that has changed is that those Fengyang officials can celebrate the last Lantern Festival in their lives.This really makes people sigh: "The inertia of this history is really powerful!" (To be continued...)