nanming man

Chapter 260
The 17th year of Chongzhen was destined to be a turbulent year. Beijing changed hands twice. Li Zicheng retreated to Guanzhong.

The warlords and tycoons in various places also took advantage of the turmoil in the world and the inability of the central government to intervene in the localities, and their power expanded rapidly.

Liu Zeqing, Gao Jie and others accepted hundreds of thousands of refugees from Shandong, and each supported more than [-].

Zuo Liangyu was an expert in this field, and he pulled another 60 million people to occupy Wuchang, forcing He Tengjiao to stay in Changsha.

In addition to these generals of the Ming Dynasty, the tyrants in Henan also took advantage of the situation.

Han Jiadi was assigned to Xuzhou, Li Jiyu was assigned to Dengfeng, Li Hao was assigned to Yuzhou, and Liu Xuan was assigned to Xiangcheng.

Among them, Yuzhou is in Nanyang controlled by Gao Yihuan. Li Hao's rebellion was decisively suppressed by Gao Zurong and Zhao Zhuzi at the beginning of Li Hao's rebellion.

Although the old man is a scholar, he beheaded nearly a thousand captives this time. With bloody means, he deterred the rebellion in Nanyang, and took the opportunity to wipe out several tyrants. Divide the land and reduce the tax to win over the people and stabilize people's hearts.

Han Jiadi, Li Jiyu, and Liu Xuan were active in Henan, Ruzhou, Kaifeng, and the border areas of the three prefectures, with a total of 30 million people.

Like all thieves, the three of them also faced the problem of insufficient food due to the rapid expansion of their troops.

In addition, the place where the three rebelled was in the central part of Henan, where there were enemies on all sides, and it was easy to be strangled by the counterattack of the Shun army.

For the sake of food and to be able to communicate with the Ming Dynasty, the three of them decided to go south to attack Yancheng, and then went to Runing to grab food, and opened up connections with the Nanming court, and were rewarded by the Nanming court.

The second brother Gao in Henan had a very good reputation, and none of them dared to provoke Gao Yihuan alone, so the three joined forces, with a crowd of 20, and pointed at Yancheng.

Yancheng is an important town in Henan, where Yue Fei defeated the Jin army in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Gao Yihuan also ambushed Zuo Liangyu here.

It strangled Runing's main road to the north, and Gao Yihuan had coveted it for a long time, but Yancheng was in the hands of Bai Wang's generals and was not under his jurisdiction.

At present, there are 3000 garrisons in Yancheng, commanded by Captain Zhao Mingchong. With the defense of the city and the moat, they have not been captured by the bandits.

This time there were rebellions in Xuzhou, Xiangcheng, Dengfeng and other places, and Zhao Mingchong realized that the rebels would inevitably go south to attack Yancheng and open up a channel to contact the Ming Dynasty.

He reported to Luoyang very early on, asking Bai Wangfa to send reinforcements, but Bai Wang wanted to resist the Qing army from crossing the river, so there were no soldiers for him, so he was only allowed to defend the city without sending troops over.

In desperation, Zhao Mingchong had no choice but to prepare as many rolling logs and stones as possible, and arranged for soldiers to guard the city and stand ready.

At three o'clock this day, the sky was covered with dark clouds, covering the stars and the moon, and the city was shrouded in pitch-black night.

The weather made Zhao Mingchong aroused his vigilance, and personally arranged for soldiers to patrol back and forth at the top of the city, watching vigilantly for the movement below the city.

Suddenly the soldiers on the city heard a noise, the sound of earth and stones falling into the water.

The patrolling soldiers immediately reported to Zhao Mingchong, "Captain, there is a situation by the moat!"

Zhao Ming rushed to the city wall. Although the night made him not too far away, the sounds from time to time exposed the actions of the rebels.

"Quick, launch the rocket!"

A few rockets flew across the night sky like shooting stars, and on the other side of the moat, a mass of black figures were filling the river.

Seeing that they were discovered, the rebels simply lit the torch and poured soil into the river in full swing.

Zhao Mingchong was taken aback, and hurriedly shouted: "Pass on my military order, quickly dispatch five hundred archers to the city!"

A brigade next to him reminded in a low voice: "Captain, there are not many arrows in the city. If the rebels fill up the moat, it will be difficult for us to defend the city. We must ask for reinforcements!"

Zhao Mingchong was extremely annoyed, "What can I do if Marshal Bai doesn't send reinforcements?"

"Yancheng is close to Runing. It is said that the Jiedu envoy has sent General Gao to the north. Why don't we ask him for help?" Zhang Lu was puzzled.

Zhao Mingchong is Bai Wang's man. Although Bai Wang did not conflict with Gao Yihuan on the surface, Gao Yihuan's promotion will be Bai Wang's position. The two sides are actually competing secretly, so Zhao Mingchong did not ask Gao Yihuan for help.

He didn't speak for a while, and sighed for a while, "You send someone to Runing, and ask General Gao to come over."

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In June, the weather was hot, and more than [-] high-ranking soldiers were stationed in the wilderness beside the Ru River, neatly arranged tents one after another, stretching as far as the eye can see.

The civilian husbands and mule carts recruited from various counties in Runing entered the camp one after another, which was very spectacular.

The army has been preparing for many days, and they can go north only after Gao Yihuan gives an order. However, Gao Yihuan still has a few things to explain.

For this expedition, he recruited five battalions of Jin Shenghuan, Wang Deren, Bai Wenxuan, Xu Heihu, and Wang Guangtai, and left five battalions of Zhao Daxian, Zhao Zhuzi, Wu Shizhao, Jin Xiangang, and Huang Bingzhong to guard the house. He must have an explanation.

In addition, the current situation is turbulent, and he must say something to appease the hearts of his subordinates.

On June [-]th, Gao Yihuan's confidants arrived in Runing one after another, and Gao Yihuan summoned them together to discuss matters in the big tent.

Gao Yihuan was in the Shun army in name, so Li Zicheng's failure still dealt a serious blow to the arrogance of Gao's army.

At this time, all the generals gathered in the big tent, discussing in twos and threes, Gao Zurong and Gao Yihuan, father and son, came out from behind, and many generals and confidants saluted Gao Yihuan, "See you, Commander!"

In the Chuangjun, generally only Li Zicheng's five-battalion leader, or a town official who controls a province's soldiers and horses, can be called a commander-in-chief. Gao Yihuan is just a Guoyi general, but he doesn't care. After returning from Xi'an, he began to call himself a commander-in-chief up.

Gao Yihuan has [-] soldiers, not to mention the combat power, in terms of numbers, he is only [-] less than Wu Sangui.Man Qing gave Wu Sangui a one-word king, but he didn't even get an earl, Li Zicheng was really very stingy.

Originally, people's hearts were turbulent nowadays, and Gao Yihuan wanted to call himself Song Gong or Wei Gong to stabilize people's hearts, but he was in the place of the Fourth World War, and he was too high-profile and easy to be beaten, so he just called himself Dashuai.

Gao Yihuan went to sit in front of the commander-in-chief, then raised his hands to order everyone not to be too polite, and took seats on both sides, and then said: "Li Zicheng's return to Guanzhong brought us a lot of trouble, but it also brought us a lot of opportunities. Now that the rule of the Dashun Dynasty is shaken in Henan, it is a great opportunity for us to take action to calm people's hearts and let the people of Zhongzhou know who is the pillar of Henan!"

Gao Yihuan glanced at everyone, and continued: "I know that you are very worried about the current situation, and you are afraid of being attacked from both sides. This commander told you that I have entrusted Wang Qianshi to contact Nanjing and give in to the Ming court, expressing his willingness to surrender. However We can't pin our hopes on others not attacking us. The key to a man's survival in troubled times is to have his own strength so that others don't dare to provoke us! To this end, we must be united as one, and another person who can do something An effective system links us together. For this reason, the commander-in-chief decided to set up six Caos within us to manage military, political and civil affairs, and set up five nobles to reward soldiers~”

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