Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Then Wu Shigong and Xuan Mo had a cordial conversation in a friendly and harmonious atmosphere.They agreed that each would be responsible for suppressing bandits in the north and south of Henan, and exchange information and work together to calm down the whole of Henan as soon as possible.

After that, the two will also cooperate with each other to try their best to prevent the peasant rebel army from re-entering Henan.For this reason, Xuanmo also agreed to Wu Shigong, and gave Wu Shigong the quota of [-] low-level officials from Runing, Nanyang, Guide and Ruzhou.

It should be said that Xuan Mo fully supported Wu Shigong.Although he also had his own goals, such support made Wu Shigong and Xuan Mo immediately form an alliance.

When the two were talking happily, Hong Chengchou also came to the back hall unexpectedly.As soon as he saw Xuan Mo and Wu Shigong, he smiled and said: "I wanted to ask Xuan Fu for someone, but I never thought that Xuan Fu would be the first to succeed, and this governor is also a gentleman. But I want to chat with you two, I don't know if you are welcome?"

Hong Chengchou saw Xuan Mo and Wu Shigong leave the banquet one after another, and couldn't help but leave the banquet to look for it.But as soon as he saw Wu Shigong and Xuan Mo talking happily, he knew that he was a step late.

So Hong Chengchou simply joined the conversation, and after some bargaining, the three reached the following agreement:

Wu Shigong will supply Hong Chengchou's army with [-] shi of food free of charge, and allow Hong Chengchou to credit [-] shi.If Hong Chengchou has a request, the Runing Army will send troops to escort the food and grass to ensure the smooth flow of food roads for the officials and troops suppressing bandits in Huguang;

The Runing Army and Xuanmo's Henan official army will jointly act to wipe out the rebels left in Henan as soon as possible.After that, on the basis of ensuring that the peasant rebel army would not re-enter Henan, five months later, Wu Shigong would personally lead the Runing Army with no less than [-] troops to join Hong Chengchou's bandit suppression army;

Hong Chengchou strongly supported Wu Shigong's idea of ​​setting up a granary along the Xinyang-Wuchang section, and issued a document to the government along the way to cooperate with the Runing Army to implement it;

Hong Chengchou will squeeze out 5000 taels of military pay per month from the military expenses for suppressing bandits to pay to the Runing Army.

This agreement also has its own merits.For Wu Shigong.The biggest achievement is to get through the road to the Yangtze River through Xinyang.And Hong Chengchou had no worries, at least he saved a lot of troops responsible for transporting grain.And five months later, another new force, the Runing Army, joined.As for Xuan Mo, he can safely wipe out the bandits in Henan in a short time.Moreover, Hong Chengchou's military expenses for the Runing Army can also reduce some expenditures in Henan.

However, in this discussion, although Wu Shigong respectfully put himself at the bottom, judging from the process and results of the discussion, he was already in a state of equal status with Hong Chengchou and Xuan Mo.

After that, Wu Shigong did not go to Xinyang, he had to make adjustments as soon as possible to meet this great change.The rest of the Ming armies also rushed to Xinyang.However, the other Ming troops were basically fine.Only Zuo Liangyu's troops rubbed against the Runing Army a few times, and after losing hundreds of people, the disgraced Zuo Liangyu rushed to Xinyang.

As soon as he arrived in Xinyang, Zuo Liangyu immediately complained to Hong Chengchou, but Hong Chengchou, who was in a good mood, ignored him at all.Therefore, the matter is over.

Chongzhen eight years in April.Hong Chengchou held a military meeting in Xinyang.In the military discussion.Hong Chengchou proposed: "There must be a long-term strategy to control the thieves. I went to Henan and the thieves went to Qin, and I went to Qin and the thieves went to Chuyu... Now we should be confident."

The essence of Hong Chengchou's plan is to press the whole court and add area defense.You know, Hong Chengchou at this time is the governor of the three sides and the governor of the five provinces. Half of the Ming Dynasty must be protected by him. He has great power and great responsibility.

According to Hong Chengchou's deployment.Zuo Liangyu, Tang Jiuzhou, You Shiwei, Xu Laichao, Deng Qi, Chen Yongfu, Zhang Yingchang and others each led thousands of troops to garrison the pass fortresses between Shaanxi, Henan, and Huguang to prevent peasant rebels from fleeing Shanxi, Huguang, and Henan.

He ordered Shanxi governor Wu Tong to strictly guard the Yellow River ferry to prevent the peasant army from entering Shanxi from Shanxi, in an attempt to block the peasant army entering Shanxi.And Hong Chengchou personally led Cao Wenzhao, He Renlong, Ai Wannian, Zhang Yingchang and other main forces back to Shaanxi.Responsible for commanding and eliminating the peasant rebel army in Shaanxi.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this plan on the surface.However, the situation changed again at this time. After a few months, the strength of the peasant rebel army has changed a lot.

Previously, Zhang Xianzhong's troops came to avoid the real situation and attack the false ones. They led the army westward from southern Anhui, entered Huguang through Huoshan and Yingshan, joined Laohuihui, Guotianxing and other troops, drove westward, passed through Zaoyang, Xiangyang, followed Yun Yanggudao, entered Shangzhou, occupied the empty Shaanxi area, Jingshangzhou once again joined forces with Gao Yingxiang and Fengxiang.

In view of the fact that the Shaanxi government army left Tongguan and entered the Central Plains, all the peasant rebels also returned to Qin.Completely played hide-and-seek with the officers and soldiers.At this time, the situation in Shaanxi was "extremely dilapidated, and the famine was abnormal", and the farmers had no hope of survival.So after the brigade of peasant rebels entered Qin, the hungry people joined in enthusiastically, and the total number of people participating in the rebellion soon reached more than 200 million.

Obediently Long Didong! 200 million people!It is a real number, not an imaginary number, which is almost half of the population of Shaanxi.Therefore, it can be said that, except for the people in the city, almost all the population in Shaanxi rebelled.

Not only that, through successive years of fighting, the peasant rebel army has trained some strong troops.More importantly, after successive victories, they had the courage to take the initiative to fight against the government and army, instead of passively resisting as before.

So there was a problem with Hong Chengchou's plan.Obviously, the total strength of the government and army is not large, and they are already powerless in the face of the huge peasant rebel army. Now that the various troops are divided into guards, there will be even fewer troops for pursuit and suppression.

At this time, the number of peasant rebels has increased greatly compared with the past, often several to dozens of times that of the official army. Facing the absolute majority of the peasant rebel army, the official army has no certainty of victory and cannot achieve Hong Chengchou's victory. The task of encircling and suppressing the peasant rebel army in Shaanxi.

On the other hand, the generals stationed in various places did not have many troops, and they could not stop the peasant rebel army at all.As soon as the peasant rebel army finds an opportunity, they will immediately look for weak ones and run around.

But what was Hong Chengchou thinking in his heart?Although he didn't know that the peasant rebel army in Shaanxi had expanded to such a scale, Hong Chengchou still knew that it was impossible to wipe out the peasant rebel army only according to this battle plan.

But Hong Chengchou had no choice.Emperor Chongzhen's six-month decree to exterminate the rebels is still in his ears, and it hasn't been long since Fengyang fell, so Hong Chengchou has to give Emperor Chongzhen an explanation for what to do.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou used this military plan to achieve his political goals: it doesn't matter if the peasant rebel army can't be wiped out in Shaanxi, as long as they can be expelled, and the rest will be done by the generals in charge of blocking.It would be best if it can be stopped, but it doesn't matter if it can't be stopped, Hong Chengchou can easily find a scapegoat.

In fact, we have already learned from the agreement between Hong Chengchou and Wu Shigong that Hong Chengchou had no illusions about suppressing the peasant rebel army within six months.His plan is: first stabilize the peripheral areas of the peasant rebel army's activities, then gradually reduce the peasant rebel army's activity area, and finally completely wipe out the peasant rebel army.

But to make all of this come true, the first thing is to fool Emperor Chongzhen.If Hong Chengchou himself lost his official position, no matter how beautiful the idea and the most perfect plan, it would be a castle in the air.

"My lord! The person we sent to Kaifeng sent a letter back: The woman said that our people have promised her, and she will have nothing to do with our Shanchuan Division from now on." Li Zhu said cautiously while peeking at Xue Zhinong's face.

"Fart! Who agreed to her?" Xue Zhinong really got angry.

"Yes...it's my little uncle!" Li Zhu replied hesitantly.

Thinking of shopkeeper Li, Xue Zhinong couldn't get angry anymore. He let out a long sigh to suppress his emotions, and then said: "Tell that woman, she was born as a member of our Shanchuan Division, and died as a ghost of our Shanchuan Division. I want to leave ? In the next life! Our Shanchuan Division has never quit!"

These days, Xue Zhinong has been in a bad mood.First of all, the Shanchuan Division is no longer the unique intelligence agency of the Runing Army. The Military Intelligence Bureau established by Xue Cunyi has divided a large part of the power of the Shanchuan Division.

And his deputy Zheng Ling also faintly became the person in charge of intelligence collection in the inner study, basically out of the Shanchuan Division's system.This made Xue Zhinong, who had won the trust of Wu Shigong before, feel a great crisis.

And now hearing that Tang Mei was leaving the Shanchuan Division, this made Xue Zhinong even more angry.Finally, there was an ace female spy who could make a move, but she wanted to leave, and there was no such thing.But now Xue Zhinong is also a little anxious, he is anxious to make some good shots for Wu Shigong to see.

After thinking for a while, Xue Zhinong said to the newly promoted deputy Li Zhu: "How are the contacts with those people in the village?"

"Just picked up! But the Land Reclamation Firm is doing similar things. My lord! Is it okay for us to do this?"

"What the hell is he doing? They are all doing things for my aunt, whoever gets it first will be credited. Order it! Do it as soon as possible!"

What Xue Zhinong wanted was to recruit those gangsters who had formed villages in Ruzhou, Nanyang, Kaifeng and other places through the relationship of selling weapons in the past, so that they would try their best to surrender to the Runing Army, so that the Runing Army could control these new areas as soon as possible. .

But because Chang Meng's land reclamation firm is also doing the same thing, so there is some overlap between the two sides' work.But Xue Zhinong can't control so much now, as long as he has credit, he will be offended if he offends the land reclamation firm! (To be continued..)