Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 917 The Central Plains and the Imperial Court (Two in One)

Xiong Wencan has a "prestige" for Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng and others.

He showed great power in Guangdong and other places, relying on Zheng Zhilong to destroy many ferocious pirates, and even slaughtered a large group of red-haired, yellow-haired black ghosts and other barbarians.

Xiong Wencan came to encircle and suppress the rogues with such a record, so he naturally had a bonus in "paper strength".

The main reason is that the two sides haven't fought each other yet, and this wave of rebels doesn't know the reality of Xiong Wencan.

Just mobilizing Xiong Wencan's Zuo Liangyu Department is enough for them.

Don't look at Zuo Liangyu's rebelliousness, he likes to violate military orders, and the soldiers under his command are bloodthirsty and looting. What he does is worse than the rebel army, and he has no military discipline at all.

But compared to other officers and soldiers, he still has some skills in fighting rogues.

Even if he can't defeat the rogues at certain times, he can kill his allies and let them attract the arrows of the rogues, so as to ensure that he can retreat unscathed.

Xiong Wencan went to various leader camps to induce surrender more than once.

Chuang Tian Tian Liu Guoneng is still hesitating at present, he is the itching student of the imperial court.

Just in terms of academic qualifications recognized by the Ming government, it is several ranks higher than this gang of illiterate rebels.

Those like He Jinzhao who have studied in private schools for several years are considered to be highly educated in the anti-thief, and Liu Guoneng is almost the best.

Influenced by the Confucian feudal ideology of loyalty, filial piety and righteousness, Liu Guoneng was forced to participate in the peasant uprising.

Until now, the mental journey is roughly the same as that of Song Jiang.

Liu Guoneng was caught in a dilemma.

One is that he is at a disadvantage in the battle with Zuo Liangyu.

The other is the fear of being annexed by Zhang Xianzhong.

Since King Gao Chuang was "cut to pieces" by the court and Li Zicheng was beaten and fled into the mountains, Zhang Xianzhong has become the primary target of the government and army.

But Zhang Xianzhong repeatedly defeated the officers and soldiers, not only killing Zuo Liangyu's brother.

He also killed his family members, and now Zuo Liangyu has only one son, Zuo Menggeng, who has not been murdered by his side.

After Zhang Xianzhong conquered Fengyang, burned the imperial tomb, and killed Zuo Liangyu's family, he became very arrogant.

Not so polite to other leaders.

This is what Liu Guoneng is more worried about.

Because of the character of Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng was really not at ease.

In any case, he treats allies far worse than Gao Yingxiang, He Jinzhao and others.

Liu Guoneng even thinks that Li Zicheng is better than Zhang Xianzhong in terms of how he treats others.

King Gao Chuang died, and King Li Chuang was beaten and disappeared in the mountains at the junction of Shaanxi, Huguang, and Sichuan.

As for He Jinzhao, he was attacking Shaanxi, how could he have time to come to Huguang and other places?

Besides, this road was blocked by Hong Chengchou, and Liu Guoneng had no intention of joining He Jinzhao at all.

He always felt that He Jinzhao was a smiling tiger, who would take advantage of military discipline to find an opportunity to kill himself.

Liu Guoneng thinks that Xiong Wencan is not Hong Chengchou.

Zheng Zhilong, the biggest pirate leader he recruited, has become an official of the court and is highly valued. It is said that the house built in his hometown is more luxurious than the prince.

Even if Hong Chengchou currently has the brand of Gao Jie, it will not be able to restore his reputation among the rebels.

Surrendering the rebels is not as beneficial as surrendering to the army?
Regardless of Guangzong Yaozu, we are also representatives of loyalty, filial piety and righteousness.

At the same time, Liu Guoneng is also disgusted with this kind of mobile combat, and lives in fear every day.

So, facing Xiong Wencan's consolation, Liu Guoneng was deeply moved.

Zhang Xianzhong's strength has indeed skyrocketed now, and he believes that only He Jinzhao can be compared with him in today's world.

He heard that He Jinzhao was attacking Shaanxi and continued to expand his territory.

Zhang Xianzhong also wants to gain a firm foothold in Huguang, Henan and other places, not to continue wandering, and to have a stable rear.

Otherwise, there is no way to repair it, and there is no way to accumulate strength.

After Zhang Xianzhong won the big victory, he wanted to occupy Nanyang, and then attack Xiangyang, so as to gain a firm foothold here, in case he could fight He Jinchao in the future.

Otherwise, under the ebb and flow of one another, there are not many opportunities for appointment.

Zuo Liangyu was the strength standing in front of Zhang Xianzhong, and he felt that he had to be careful.

Zuo Liangyu, whom Zhang Xianzhong talked about, was still taking the local women with his troops, and did not listen to Xiong Wencan's recruitment at all.

He is a fart!
As long as I have soldiers in my hands, those people have to serve me well, why don't I sit idly by to rescue the friendly army, the military discipline is chaotic, and the imperial edict makes Zuo Liangyu take the crime and make meritorious service.

But hasn't he been reinstated within three months?

What's the use of Chongzhen knowing?

Don't you have to coax yourself to serve him?

Zuo Liangyu was not only dissatisfied with Xiong Wencan at the beginning, but now he is even more dissatisfied with the fact that he sent people to appease the thieves.

Especially his family members were wiped out by Zhang Xianzhong, which made him hate him even more!

He had to seize the opportunity and kill Zhang Xianzhong.

Inside the Imperial City.

Many speech officials began to impeach Yang Sichang, but they did not wipe out the bandits in three months, but continued to increase troops and pay.

This minister of the Ministry of War is useless at all, it will only waste money and troops in vain.

He Jinzhao, the leader of the Hammer bandit, has already conquered the whole of Shaanxi, and the imperial court has almost no countermeasures against this group of people.

Some people even yelled at Yang He, the former governor of the three sides, for raising tigers, and defected to He Jinchao after being punished by the court.

Yang Sichang is Yang He's parent and son, so he must have colluded with the Hammer bandits in such a way.

In short, He Jinzhao's crimes in Shanxi are all due to Yang Sichang's secret arrangement of the song.

For these words of the speaker, Yang Sichang did not choose to quit the picker to prove his innocence, but actively confronted him.

In terms of intellectual confrontation, Yang Sichang is not afraid of these people at all.

Coupled with the emperor's preference, the result was that a group of speech officials broke their defenses.

Although the encirclement and interception proposed by Yang Sichang did not take effect immediately, it has achieved great results.

Now most of the rebel army has been suppressed, only the hammer bandit He Jinzhao is doing things in the northwest, and the court is currently unable to govern.

Zhang Xianzhong's family is the only one in the Central Plains, and Hong Chengchou, Zuo Liangyu and others are staring at them.

You can't tell when you have to do a big job.

It can be said that through Yang Sichang's action of increasing troops and increasing wages, coupled with the strategy of ten nets, the arrogance of the rebels was effectively suppressed.

Now that most of the rebels are in an extremely difficult state, coupled with Xiong Wencan's pacifying action, the unsteady ones among the rebels began to have new ideas one after another.

Chongzhen was very satisfied with Yang Sichang's ability to achieve such great results in a short period of time.

He is no longer the frizzy emperor of the past. Whatever is carried out must be realized immediately.

Now, in the repeated fights with the courtiers, he has grown a lot, and knows that some things cannot be resolved immediately if they can be brought up.

People always have to learn to grow.

The title of King Chuang has completely disappeared, which made Chongzhen extremely satisfied.

The most important rebels did not have a unified command, which gave the Ming court an opportunity to encircle and suppress.

It has been several years since the farmers of Shaanxi raised the banner. During these years, the peasant army galloped across the vast areas of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Chu, Sichuan, and Zhili in the north and south, and dealt an important blow to the Ming court.

But the rebel army did not form a unified command.

Whether it was Wang Jiayin, Zijinliang, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, etc., they formed a leadership core for a while, but none of them had a clear goal like the hammer bandit He Jinzhao.

Most of the time, they are loose alliances, do not cooperate with each other, and are even full of contradictions, unable to form a fist.

There is no way to occupy one side in a certain place for a long time like the hammer bandits, form their own base, and then grow their own strength step by step.

Chongzhen didn't feel much about He Jinchao's occupation of Shaanxi, but it was true that he felt uncomfortable.

Hong Chengchou led the main force to encircle and suppress, but He Jinchao seized the opportunity to capture Tongguan, and then prevented Hong Chengchou from returning to aid, which was troublesome.

Years of disasters in Shaanxi made it impossible for people to survive, and after so many years of rebellion against bandits, the people there could no longer survive.

Now that it is occupied by He Jinchao, can he change his fate against the sky and manage Shaanxi, a place that suffers from natural disasters every year, better?
Chongzhen was extremely disbelieving about this matter.

But He Jinzhao's postman was always a thorn in his heart, and he wished he could seize the opportunity to pull him out.

However, the development of the hammer bandits is almost the same as that of the Qing army in Liaodong. Both sides have a basic base, and the army is powerful.

For example, the last time Jingliao Hou's operation was extremely appropriate, provoking the hammer bandits and the Qing army to fight each other.

But such opportunities are rare.

The vigorous development of the peasant uprising army made Chongzhen, the supreme ruler, panic, and now he is suppressing them with both suppression and appeasement.

In different periods, different commanders adopted different emphases in the suppression and appeasement.

In the early days, Yang He's care was ineffective, so that he gave He Jinchao and others a huge opportunity for development, and was ordered by Chongzhen to be taken back to prison and "saved" by He Jinchao.

Chen Qiyu was dragged into the Imperial Prison for being futile in the campaign, and then sent out.

Yang Sichang and Hong Chengchou were mostly the chief killers, while Xiong Wencan was changed to the chief caregiver.

It has to be said that certain results have been achieved.

Both Chen and Hong proposed the strategy of encircling, chasing and intercepting, which was developed to perfection by Yang Sichang, and achieved great results.

So Chongzhen is extremely satisfied with Yang Sichang's current performance.

Chongzhen has grown, but the rebel army has also grown.

They gradually formed their own strategy in the battle between the government and the army. When the court tried to appease them, they pretended to surrender, avoided the truth and pretended to be false, and ran away if they couldn't beat them. They were unconscious from the very beginning.

When Yang He was recruiting, many people were appeased. These rebels did not think about continuing to rebel, because the imperial court had already regarded them as targets of the united front, so they would naturally give them preferential treatment.

It's a pity that Yang He can only maintain a part of the life of the recruited rebels, and the rest of them have no livelihood, so they will rebel again.

At this point in time, it cannot be said that it was a false surrender to deal with the Ming court's appeasement.

However, as they crossed the Yellow River in winter, Li Zicheng and others desperately asked for comfort, all in order to break the predicament.

Avoiding the truth and pretending to be false was forced out by the officers and soldiers, unable to fight head-on with the officers and soldiers, and had to run away in order to survive.

Even if He Jinzhao went to Shanxi, it was the same. He lost a lot of troops when he entered Shanxi, which forced the officers and soldiers to save themselves.

Today's insurgents have also learned how to set up ambushes, lure the enemy, attack the city with holes, and even start using artillery, and they have all achieved good results.

Chongzhen really felt that he could eliminate these rogues.

Because these thieves will not absorb scholars and unite with landlords and gentry, but will kill these people.

On one is that they are not united and have no stable rear and base.

Even though Chongzhen could still collect the salary increase several times, many people still agreed with the Ming Dynasty, and those who were forced would pay taxes instead of taking up a knife to resist.

The most important thing is that these people only cared about the plunder in front of them, and most of them were wiped out by the government army.

Yang Sichang said on the sidelines to further encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong, and to destroy this wave of troops, he will send troops to deal with He Jinchao.

After Nahe currently occupies Shaanxi, he will definitely spare a lot of energy and manpower to govern Shaanxi, which will give the court a lot of time to prepare.

Chongzhen nodded again and again, as far as the border of Shaanxi is concerned, within seven or eight years, it will not be able to recover its vitality at all.

The huge territory requires many troops to be stationed, and then the soldiers and horses are drawn from Shanxi, which gives Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou and others a chance.

"Is there any news about the spies who sneaked into Shanxi?"

"Return to Your Majesty, but some news has come back." Yang Sichang cupped his hands and said:
"Shanxi is experiencing severe drought again. Many people under the hammer bandit's rule are working very hard, but He Jinzhao still has to take away half of the food."

"Oh, really greedy."

Chongzhen nodded in satisfaction, and He Jinzhao was fishing.

Daming didn't collect so much taxes, He Jinzhao took half of it directly, do you want the people to live?

This kind of people has some means in fighting wars, but in terms of governing people's livelihood, they are in a mess.

The monarchs and ministers all relaxed and chatted.

At this moment, hurried footsteps sounded, and an eunuch ran in from outside, holding emergency military information in his hand.

Chongzhen's expression immediately became solemn, usually there is no good news at this time.

Yang Sichang hurriedly took it over and glanced at it quickly, his expression was a little ugly.

"What happened?"

"Your Majesty, Hammer Bandit He Jinzhao has made a move."

Yang Sichang recounted the achievements of He Jinchao to Chongzhen.

Hearing this, Chongzhen immediately became irritable, shouting: "Long Wang Shu."

A mere traitor is also worthy of looking forward to Shu?

But that's what it is.

He Jinzhao did not choose to govern Shaanxi, but actively sent troops to attack Sichuan.

King Rui and Hanzhong General Zhao Guangyuan fled to Chongqing. Chongzhen stretched out his hands to dismiss this son who had disgraced Zhao Lediao, but in the end he just waved his sleeves heavily without saying anything.

The development of the matter to the present situation really slapped Yang Sichang heavily.

His judgment on He Jinzhao was completely wrong.

Yang Sichang frowned and thought about how to break the situation.

Now that Zhang Xianzhong and others are being encircled and suppressed, Hong Chengchou's elite soldiers will not be able to withdraw their hands.

The only way to break the situation is to let Xuanda Governor Lu Xiangsheng attack Shanxi, force He Jinzhao to return to Shanxi for reinforcements, and curb his determination to enter Sichuan.

Yang Sichang hurriedly said his strategy after a little thought, and Zhu Youjian nodded repeatedly.

He Jinzhao has a lot of entrenched in Shanxi, and the hometowns of many Hammer Bandit soldiers are located in Shanxi.

He believed that He Jinzhao would rather abandon Shaanxi than have an accident happen to Shanxi.

"Quickly write an edict to tell Lu Xiangsheng to quickly counteract the traitor He Jinzhao."

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)