Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 237 The army gathers
Fengyang Mansion, the central capital, is the place where the old Zhu's family thrived, and it is also the hometown of Zhu Yuanzhang, the great emperor of Hongwu.

Originally, there was no such place name before the Ming Dynasty. This place was originally called Zhongli County, which belonged to the boundary of Haozhou.

The name Fengyang Mansion was given by Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, who meant Danfeng Chaoyang.

At that time, Fengyang Mansion was incredible. There were eleven prefectures under its jurisdiction, including Hezhou, Chuzhou, Shouzhou, Luanzhou, Sizhou, Hongzhou, Suzhou, Yingzhou, Bozhou, Pizhou, Xuzhou, etc., and more than 40 states. Counties are larger than ordinary provinces.

In the Yongle Dynasty, Fengyang Mansion was gradually reduced to five prefectures and thirteen counties.

Fengyang Mansion in Zhongdu, as the land of Longxing of Lao Zhu's family, originally had a strong defense force. There are eight guards and one thousand households in the left-behind division of Zhongdu alone, with a total of more than 5 horses.

It's a pity that after more than two hundred years, the guards here have almost been tossed by greedy guard officers.

At this moment, eight guards and one thousand households can leave [-] guards, which is not bad.

In the past few years, there was another war in Liaodong, and the rebellion of the Southwest chieftain. The Ming court frantically mobilized the guards, and most of the guards in the Left Guard Division of the Central Capital were also transferred, and the transferred were all elites. Tunwei who knows how to farm.

In other words, at this moment, there are only more than 1 guards left in the left-behind division of the Central Capital in Fengyang Fucheng who can only farm.

This is also the reason why Li Zicheng thought of using cannon fodder to dig up the grave of the old Zhu family's ancestors.

He believes that the main force of the Ming Dynasty has been transferred to fight Jiannu, and the rest are basically guarding the vassal states of the vassal kings in the Central Plains. There must be no one guarding Fengyang Mansion, and it will be easy to take it down.

Unexpectedly, he just led his men and horses to the boundary of Fengyang Mansion and got a bad nose.

He walked this way to Yingchuan County, Fengyang Prefecture, which is the most affluent place among the three routes.

Originally, he wanted to gather some autumn wind in Yingchuan, and waited for this idiot Zhang Xianzhong to dig other people's ancestral graves.

I never thought that Yingchuan County, which was not garrisoned at all, was actually guarded by someone, and the city walls were densely packed with officers and soldiers!
How is this possible, where did these officers and soldiers come from?
Before he could figure out what was going on, Gao Yingxiang from the middle road and Zhang Xianzhong from the south road also sent news that Yingdong and Huoqiu also had officers and soldiers stationed there, and there were quite a few of them.

Now he was a little dumbfounded.

How to do it?

Are you still attacking the city?

It seems that he can't attack the posture of the officers and soldiers!

You must know that there are only more than 2 horses under his command at the moment, and the walls of Yingchuan County are densely packed with officers and soldiers, at least seven or eight thousand, or even tens of thousands.

It's okay for him to bully Xiangyong and yamen servants, but real officers and soldiers probably can't do it, especially if they are still standing on the city wall.

In desperation, he could only send a fast horse to inform Zhang Xianzhong, and together they went to his uncle Gao Yingxiang on the middle road to discuss.

In the simple handsome tent of the army in the middle, all three of them had dignified faces.

They really didn't expect this situation. There are so many officers and soldiers stationed in the three counties, even if they join forces, they may not be able to take down one!
Because the officers and soldiers are not fools, if they can join forces to attack one county, wouldn't the officers and soldiers of the other two counties come to support them?
Gao Yingxiang frowned and pondered for a while, then sighed helplessly: "Zao'er, if we don't forget it, we will definitely not be able to take it down even if we attack the city for a few days. If the officers and soldiers from other places come to hear the news, it will be troublesome." big."

Can this matter be settled like this?

It was not easy for him to come up with such a clever plan.

Forget it?

Run back without being laughed to death by other rebel leaders!
Moreover, just running back like this, the borrowed troops must be returned to Wang Jiayin, wouldn't he be beaten back to his original shape and turned into a small boss.

This can't be the case.

Question, what to do?

Li Zicheng was frowning and thinking, but Zhang Xianzhong had an idea: "It seems that we don't need to attack these three counties?"

This said.

Li Zicheng couldn't help but said: "If you don't fight, why don't you just sneak over?"

Zhang Xianzhong nodded repeatedly and said: "Yes, just slipped over there, why did we fight? Who of us delivered food and grass to us, naturally there is no such thing as food roads being intercepted, and we planned to bring officers and soldiers to mess around Running away, there is no such thing as being cut off. Just sneak over there, go to Fengyang City to dig up the old Zhu’s family ancestor’s grave, can’t you?”

That's right, just sneak over. Anyway, they basically rely on robbing for food and grass, and they don't have a fixed site, so there is no way out.

You idiot, you really are the material for cannon fodder!
Seeing Zhang Xianzhong's impatience, Li Zicheng naturally agreed to this ridiculous strategy without hesitation, so the three of them sneaked past with their men!

In fact, it was useless for them to sneak past.

Because Lu Xiangsheng, Minister of the Ministry of War, led the army to take the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to Huai'an in a wheeled vehicle, and then turned to the Huaihe River, and rushed directly to the vicinity of Fengyang Fucheng. It took less than three days before and after, and they ran from Xinyang Prefecture to Yingchuan It took nearly ten days to wait for the place.

In other words, Lu Xiangsheng had rushed to Fengyang Fucheng a long time ago, and had already transferred all the guards from the Left Guard Division of the Central Capital and the nearby guards. At this moment, there were at least 3 guards in Fengyang Fucheng.

Li Zicheng really did not expect that so many officers and soldiers would suddenly appear in Fengyang Mansion.

He originally thought that as long as he waited for a few days, this idiot Zhang Xianzhong would surely rush into Fengyang City and dig up the grave of old Zhu's family ancestors.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Xianzhong ran over and came back, and brought his uncle Gao Yingxiang to the door.

The three of them sat in his simple handsome tent and discussed again.

Zhang Xianzhong was unwilling to say: "Fengyang Prefecture also has officers and soldiers guarding it, and it seems that there are more of them than Yingchuan, Yingdong and Huoqiu, what should we do?"

Gao Yingxiang frowned and pondered for a while, then sighed helplessly: "Why don't we leave, the officers and soldiers obviously know what we want to do, and if we don't leave, we may be in danger."

He is playing bad face, the two nephews and uncles have discussed it a long time ago, one will play bad face and the other will play bad face, no matter what, they have to dig the third road and dig up the old Zhu family's ancestral grave!

Li Zicheng was preparing to attack Zhang Xianzhong in a strange manner, but Zhang Xianzhong slowly shook his head and said: "It may be that the officers and soldiers are bluffing. There are already tens of thousands of guards around here. Even if a lot of them are transferred, the rest will not work." , But, they can pull the city wall to scare us, why don't we try?"

Just try it!

You want to be cannon fodder so much, I have to fulfill you!

Li Zicheng nodded and said, "Okay, let's try."

In history, it is true that Zhang Xianzhong went to dig up the grave of the old Zhu family ancestor like a fool.

Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang watched the play slowly on purpose.

In fact, Chongzhen was also driven mad by them, and he was chasing Zhang Xianzhong all the way to death.

The problem was that what they met was Chongzhen, who was confused by Jiannu, and the chief assistant Wen Tiren at that time was a treacherous minister, who was dedicated to fighting for power and profit, and never cared about business.

It is not Chongzhen who is the emperor at this moment, if they want to try, it is purely courting death.

They were building siege equipment outside Hebingcheng, and the commander-in-chief Ma Shilong had already rushed from the south with [-] elite guards.

At this moment, Zhang Xianzhong was a little dumbfounded. The officers and soldiers inside and outside Fengyang City combined were at least four or five. How can we fight this way? The three of them add up to less than 8 horses!

With [-] to [-] officers and soldiers, no matter how bad it is, it will definitely not be a problem to defend Fengyang City.

In other words, it is already impossible for them to plan the grave of the old Zhu family's ancestors.

They thought that the imperial court had brought in so many troops in a hurry. How could they have imagined that the few troops that had appeared so far were nothing at all.

Behind these troops, there are 20 Shenwu Battalion iron cavalry, [-] Shenwu Battalion infantry, [-] Liaodong Army, [-] well-equipped Shenji Battalion chariot soldiers, etc. Nearly [-] troops are gathering here.

They really poked a hornet's nest now, they dared to dig the grave of old Zhu's family ancestors, they simply don't know how to write the word "dead"!

(End of this chapter)