I want to be emperor

Chapter 433 Zuo Liangyu flees north

In Youzhou in May, the severe cold of the previous few months has disappeared, and it has gradually warmed up as early as March. Now in May, although it has not yet entered the midsummer, it is still relatively comfortable.

However, in the Forbidden City today, a group of ministers felt the scorching sun of midsummer in advance.

Emperor Chongzhen had been facing the officials for more than half an hour, and he didn't know how much all kinds of trash were said.

He completely disregarded his dignity as an emperor.

Cursing and cursing, Chongzhen looked at the ministers below who were pretending to be dead fish, but suddenly lost the intention to continue cursing.

They, like tumblers, let Chongzhen spray all the saliva on their faces, but they didn't even wipe it off.

Scolding them is like cursing into the air.

After pausing for quite a while, Chongzhen took a deep breath and said to the officials: "Do you really want to be ministers of subjugation?"

The officials below are still silent!
Anyone who speaks at this time is a fool...

Emperor Chongzhen is angry and doesn't say anything now, and what are you going to say now, if Chongzhen says: what do you think to do to stop the Chu thief, wouldn't you want to catch him blind.

If there is a way, they will not be sprayed here today, and the situation will not evolve into the current bad situation.

Yesterday, there was bad news from Shandong. It was said that the Chu thief fleet had landed in Changshan and Eight Islands along the coast of Dengzhou. Without the slightest courage to resist, the Chu bandits raised the white flag and surrendered before landing.

The naval warships in the direction of Dengzhou did not even have the courage to take the initiative to attack.

As a result, the Ming army stationed in the direction of Dengzhou could only watch helplessly as the Chu thieves successfully landed on Changshan Island, one of the eight Changshan islands, without firing a shot.

The Chu thieves landed on Changshan Island in a large scale, what do they want to do?
Just take a random guess and you will know that it must be a follow-up preparation for landing in Shandong, which also means that the Chu army is preparing to capture Shandong.

Once Shandong is captured, Northern Zhili will not be far away.

Combined with the series of bad news from Jiangbei, it is not difficult to make people feel that the situation has become extremely corrupt.

This spring, the emperors and ministers of the Ming court have become numb to all kinds of bad news!

In March, strategic locations such as Yangzhou and Huai'an fell one after another, and the bastard Song Zushun even took the initiative to surrender to the thieves.

And Yang Sichang, who was once placed high hopes by Chongzhen, also lived up to Chongzhen's expectations. Saying that Yang Sichang deceived the king and wronged the country not only did not give Yang Sichang a posthumous honor, but also deprived Yang Sichang of all his previous honors.

If it wasn't for Yang Sichang's death, it is estimated that Chongzhen would have to be imprisoned and executed again.

If it wasn't for the fact that the Yang family's hometown was Chu Nan under the control of the Great Chu Empire, it is estimated that the Yang family would not have escaped the fate of being ransacked.

In April, many officers and soldiers turned against the bandits on the Jiangbei front. The city of Fengyang was destroyed, and the only remaining Fengyang New Standard Army in Jiangbei, thousands of soldiers, were wiped out. Fengyang governor Zhu Dadian set himself on fire and died.

Jiangbei is completely finished!

In such a situation, how could Chongzhen not be angry.

He thought he had done everything he needed to do. Regardless of past suspicions, he re-appointed Yang Sichang, a capable minister, and tried his best to transfer frontier troops from Xuanda and Jiliao to the south, and sent central and southern Zhili, Shandong and even Shanxi to the south. Wait for the troops from other places to move south.

In the end, an army of [-] to [-] was gathered in Jiangbei.

As for money and food, he also cut down on food and clothing, and squeezed out 20 taels of silver to the various ministries on the southern front.

But what does all this bring?
The army of [-] to [-] was wiped out, Yang Sichang died of illness, Zhu Dadian committed suicide, and Song Zushun surrendered to the bandits.

The huge Jiangbei, even Fengyang, the ancestral land, was snatched by Chu thieves.

What's wrong here?
Is it Chongzhen's own problem?

No, no, Chongzhen devotes himself to dealing with military and state affairs every day, and tries his best to dispatch troops and generals to collect money and food. He has done everything he can, and even in the entire Ming Dynasty, there will be no second one who works as hard as him Diligent emperor.

So is it a courtier?

No doubt yes!

All these bastards who are officials but not doing anything have betrayed his trust.

This group of guys who failed to accomplish anything but failed to achieve success, faced with the continuous northward movement of the Chu thieves, there was nothing they could do.

At the end, still no one answered Chongzhen's question, and dozens of important officials of the Ming court in the main hall kept silent unanimously, not even daring to say a word.

Chongzhen looked at them, sighed, then turned and left.

He was completely disappointed in them.

After returning to the harem, Chongzhen ordered a number of eunuchs to go out to supervise the army, and dispatched various frontier troops to prepare to go south to Shandong and other places to fight.

Up to this time, Chongzhen still has not given up struggling, he is still trying to save the situation...

Just how meaningful is this struggle?

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On May [-]th, the Eighth Division of the Second Army of the Chu Army captured Xinyang, and cooperated with the Third Division to wipe out all the local Ming armies. The third division was fully equipped and had sufficient logistics. It had been preparing for this battle for a long time. , After passing the three passes of Yiyang, they rushed to all parts of Ruzhou Prefecture.

Immediately, it quickly advanced to Ruyang in the north. The strategic direction of the third division was very clear, that is, to capture Ruyang and Xiping, and then the second and No.16 divisions of the fourth army marched into Ye County.

There is an army under Zuo Liangyu!

In the past two years, Zuo Liangyu has used Ye County as his base to engage in the self-respect of supporting soldiers. Not only did he get himself the title of Henan General Soldier, but he also got himself the title of General of Suppressing Thieves.

What kind of governor, the governor should be polite to him.

Even the court officials in Gyeonggi all coaxed him to let him go.

Who let him control an army of [-] to [-], and supported the defense of Henan with his own strength, and strongly blocked the tens of thousands of troops of Chu thieves in Ye County.

Without Zuo Liangyu, the Chu bandits would have come out of Nanyang to abuse the Central Plains long ago.

In addition to his important role, Zuo Liangyu's domineering behavior was also the reason why Chongzhen's monarchs and ministers followed him.

How should I put it, they are afraid!

What are you afraid of?
This Zuo Liangyu behaved so domineeringly, and sometimes he made it clear that those big bosses who threatened Chongzhen's monarchs and ministers, you make me unhappy, you make me unhappy, I can't hold back the brothers under my hands, when the time comes, my subordinates If my brother can't see it, and insists on voting for Chu or even killing Youzhou to seek justice for me, I won't be able to stop it then...

Then, whether it was Chongzhen or the cabinet ministers, they all chose to follow Zuo Liangyu's temper from the bottom of their hearts. Basically, except for money and food, they would give them whatever they wanted, or even force them!
As for matters such as money and food, the imperial court really couldn't afford it, otherwise it would have given it.

This kind of Zuo Liangyu has been in Henan for the past two years, and he is actually a local emperor. In the past two years, the world only knows that there is Zuo Liangyu in Henan, but they don't even know who the governor of Henan is.

And this kind of Zuo Liangyu, when he saw the Chu thief's arrogant army coming out, several main divisions rushed towards Ye County where his main force was located.

He didn't even say harsh words, and fled northward with the main force of more than 5 people. This escape directly fled to Luoyang.

And Luoyang didn't seem to be his focus. He had just led the main force to enter Luoyang, and he had already sent more than [-] people across the Yellow River and directly stationed in Meng County, Wen County and other places on the north bank of the Yellow River.

That's not to mention, some people found that Zuo Liangyu's troops were still going northward, and it looked like they were heading directly to Yangcheng in Shanxi...

When Zuo Liangyu withdrew to the north, he did not forget to carry out his consistent military traditions, plundered all kinds of things, and even blackmailed the local clan and vassals for a large sum.

And Zuo Liangyu's operation of robbing and running not only stunned a group of officials of the Ming court, but also stunned the generals of the Chu army.

You know, in order to kill Zuo Liangyu and take Ye County, the Chu army has been planning for several years, especially the second division, No.16 division and third division of the fourth army. Fight against Zuo Liangyu's troops, especially in the open area of ​​the Central Plains in the absence of cavalry support.

This time in the battle in Henan, the Chu army also attached great importance to Zuo Liangyu's troops, and set up a fourth army specially for him, and sent the eighth division and the third cavalry brigade to help.

This is to prepare for a large-scale battle with Zuo Liangyu in Ye County, trying to defeat Zuo Liangyu's troops in one fell swoop.

In the end, Zuo Liangyu didn't even hit him...

No, when the main force of the Chu army was tens of kilometers away from Ye County, they directly oiled the soles of their feet.

This person never planned to fight the Chu army in the Central Plains at all.

When the generals of the Chu army were stunned, Zuo Liangyu, who was already leading the army across the river, showed a contemptuous expression: "You all want to let me fight the Chu thief, how can you do such a good thing?" Don't go!"

After Zuo Liangyu said a few words to himself, he looked at the large number of ships and soldiers crossing the river, and smiled!

He led troops into Luoyang before, not because he regarded Luoyang as a strategic place to resist the Chu thieves, but simply passing by to grab some supplies such as money, grain, iron, cloth, etc., and then take away a large number of craftsmen in the city .

He never planned to stay in Ruzhou, never planned to stay in Luoyang, and didn't even plan to fight the Chu bandits in the Central Plains!

From the beginning to the end, Zuo Liangyu actually never had the idea of ​​fighting Chu Jun to the death.

When I went south to Yuzhou to fight the Chu army for the first time, I also ran away when the opportunity was not good. I have been stationed in Ye County and other Henan garrisons for many years. Although Xiaozhan fought a lot with the Chu army, I really never fought the Chu army !
Now, he wouldn't have such an idea either!

(End of this chapter)