Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 290

In history, there are not without examples of battles with fewer victories, even hundreds of thousands of enemies, just like the battle against the Turks in the early Tang Dynasty. Xue Rengui of Tianshan scared away tens of thousands of Turkic troops.

But these were all on the open grassland, and they ran away if they couldn't beat them. This time, Song Qingshu snatched King Fu in Luoyang City, where the walls were high and the pools were deep, and he turned around and ran away.

And it was in front of thousands of officers and soldiers!
If he just watched Fu Wang die in front of him, Xuan Mo reckoned that his whole family would have to be buried with Fu Wang. Sun Chuanting brazenly gave him a way out. He really had to swallow this bitter fruit. face, and Song Qingshu's unknown firearm on his forehead, after all Xuan Mo softened and waved his hand dejectedly.

"Open the city gate!"

"Master Futai!" Chen Yongfu yelled anxiously from the side again, this time, Xuan Mo ignored him, and this very loyal deputy turned around and left in anger.

Due to the lack of oil to lubricate, the jerky city gate of Luoyang opened with a loud creaking sound, and immediately under the watchful eyes of the cannon on the forehead, more than a hundred begging soldiers strode out of Luoyang with the proud Qin people's ethos city ​​gate.

This time, the layout of the imperial court was completely disrupted!
Still unconvinced, Chen Yongfu led five hundred cavalry to follow him, intending to take back King Fu. However, within twenty miles of leaving Luoyang City, he was ambushed by Hongniang Xing's army who had been waiting for him for a long time. The corpses returned to Luoyang City in embarrassment. The news of the begging army and the large team shocked the entire Luoyang City, which was already panicked. Send it to the capital urgently.

Xuanmo, governor of Henan Province, was even more anxious. He thought that Song Qingshu and his party were just some daring small-drum gangsters, but now that the big team is up, what should he do if the bandits take King Fu to turn around and attack Luoyang City?Lost the city?Death penalty for the whole family!Losing the king is a serious crime for destroying the nine clans!What is a dilemma, Xuan Mo has tried it.

Luoyang's emergency also caused an uproar in the court. Counting, King Fu and the current emperor are still political enemies. If they lost the battle for the country back then, Emperor Taichang, the father of Emperor Chongzhen, would have been killed by Concubine Zheng. It is said that there are his elder brother, Emperor Tianqi, and him, Emperor Chongzhen. If he is a shrewd emperor, he will take this opportunity to use the hands of thieves to get rid of King Fu, and take the large tracts of land in Henan and the tea tax in Sichuan, and attract salt and salt. Returning to the state to make up for the huge financial deficit may also give the Ming Dynasty a way out.

It's a pity that Emperor Chongzhen was diligent in politics, but he was a person who wanted to save face. He was afraid that he would treat the clan harshly in the history books, so he sent Jin Yiwei to Luoyang to question Xuanmo, and the military department's order was also sent to him like snowflakes. The encircling and suppressing armies everywhere, especially Chen Qiyu, who blocked Li Zhang's army in the carriage gorge, Emperor Chongzhen even gave a death order to quickly deal with the peasant army!Back to Luoyang!Get King Fu back at all costs!
Historically, the Chaxiang Gorge was trapped for 43 days. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong almost knocked their heads to the heels, took out all the money in the camp, and were escorted to Shaanxi by the government and army for dismissal. But this time it was extremely smooth. , Chen Qiyu, who had just made up his mind just now, almost changed his mind. He opened his mouth and agreed to Li Zicheng's call for security. He only arranged more than a thousand people to guard the peasant army, and led an army of more than 4 bandits under him. He hurriedly walked on the Hanzhong Road to Henan. .

He thought there was some kind of conspiracy by the officers and soldiers, and after being escorted by more than 1000 people for more than two days, Li Zicheng had the courage to do it.

"Your Majesty, the little one is telling the truth! There is an eighty-year-old mother in the little family, and there are children waiting to be fed. Your hometown will spare the little one's life!"

The officer-army guerrilla who was still arrogant and domineering yesterday, constantly extorting money from the peasant army, was like a bear bag, knelt on the ground and kowtowed like pounding garlic. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who were opposite him, looked at each other. Take Fu Wang away?

"Qing Shu, this boy is really strong, he deserves to be my third brother!" After a while, Zhang Xianzhong came back to his senses, and then he slapped his thigh excitedly, went up and kicked Guerrilla's chest with a big kick.

"Grandpa is in a good mood today, get out!"

The subordinates were either chopped into pieces, or their noses and ears were cut off by the peasant army, and there was a lot of crying everywhere. This guerrilla army dared not stay. After rolling twice, it turned around and ran away as if it had been pardoned. Seeing that he ran more than 20 meters away from the peasant army camp, before the guerrilla could show a little happiness on his face, his expression suddenly froze, and he turned over and fell to the ground in a slump.

A carved feather arrow tremblingly stuck in the back of the heart!Putting down the bow, Li Zicheng snorted with an extremely gloomy face, left Zhang Xianzhong who was in a daze, turned around and entered the camp.

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On the other side, Henan.

It has finally been stable for more than three months, and this place has become the center of shock in the world. The first to lead the army to rush to the rescue is the Zuo Liangyu Department stationed in Nanyang. There are 2 people who dare not go out of the city, but there are more Zuo Liangyu The Liaodong army was only three thousand, and the courage of the Luoyang officers and soldiers suddenly appeared again. Hearing that the imperial court was coming to take him, Xuan Mo ordered the army to attack in four directions, looking east for the main force of the begging army for a decisive battle.

Not to mention, this fanfare operation has really achieved some results. On the edge of Yanshi County in the east of Luoyang, the Luoyang defenders discovered a large number of generals who had been looted together, and there were more than 20 lieutenants of Fuguo. The great eunuchs of Prince Fu's Mansion, have pity on this group of people who were thrown here three days ago. They are all inactive and unable to distinguish their grains. They are trapped in the caves in the barren mountains beside the city and dare not come out. They are already dying of hunger.

Especially the old ancestor who had just passed his birthday, he was frightened and frightened, and he was so hungry, he actually starved to death, relying on his status as Fu Wang's wet nurse for so many years, but no one treats her as his own after death. What happened, the starving and fainting clan eunuchs refused to take the corpse no matter what, and the sergeants also disliked the decay of the corpse, so they were thrown into that dilapidated cave and buried hastily.

From these populations, the officers and soldiers got another shocking news, that the army of begging thieves, holding King Fu hostage, was moving eastward at a fast speed, and they were going to open the seal and capture King Zhou again!
How strong is Kaifeng City?I know from Li Zicheng. Historically, Li Zicheng had opened the seal three times. Together, he had been besieged for almost a year and a half. In the end, he was able to break through by digging the Yellow River and flooding the city. If a thief said a few months ago that he would Opening the seal, the officers and soldiers of the Ming army probably laughed out loud.

But it's different now, Luoyang is also a strong city, under the eyes of everyone, isn't King Fu still kidnapped?Even Li Zicheng rebelled in the Shangzhou area, and he sent his army to Shaanxi again. He didn't even care about the matter. Chen Qiyu, who had been on the road for eight days and nine nights, hurried back from Xunyang from Hanzhong, ignored the exhaustion of the army and urged everyone to fight. The army went hand in hand to help Kaifeng.

Along the way, states and counties kept reporting that there was an army of begging thieves passing by, but after Chen Qiyu's army arrived in Kaifeng in July, not to mention the thieves, they didn't even see a ghost.

Also in July at the same time, Jin Yiwei sent by the imperial court also rushed to Kaifeng at the same time. The unlucky Xuanmo was directly taken away by the lock, and Li Xianfeng, the chief envoy of Henan, took the position of governor of Henan. Chen Qiyu, the governor of the three provinces for half a year, at the same time, another letter of appointment was sent to Shaanxi in a hurry.

As early as the fifth year of Chongzhen, the minister wrote a letter asking Hong Chengchou to be the governor of the three provinces, the governor of Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan to suppress matters. However, at that time, Emperor Chongzhen did not want to give his ministers such great power. Accepting his fate, Chen Qiyu, whose ability and prestige was lower than that of Hong Chengchou, came to preside over the siege. After suffering a big loss, he had to drag Hong Chengchou out again.

Unfortunately, this is no longer the time for the peasant army to be confined to Shanxi.

However, no matter how turbulent the north is, it has nothing to do with Song Qingshu for the time being. Transferring away from Nanyang, there was a gap in the Nanyang area of ​​Ruyang, and five thousand begging soldiers slipped out of the gaps in each mansion like loach.

Chen Qiyu was rushing desperately, and Song Qingshu was also desperately rushing, half a distance of hundreds of miles in Henan, he walked out in less than seven days, followed the route of Liu and Deng's army in the later generations, and went straight to Xinye, where Uncle Liu Huang was stationed in the south of Henan. Go, arrive at Xinye, and turn east along the Yangtze River again.

Different from the north, the continuous rainy weather soaked most of the begging army soldiers on horseback. Song Qingshu's carriage had already been thrown away in Luoyang. , this continuous rush is really not something a human would do. At this time, his eyes were full of dark circles, and he was staggering.

This kind of high-intensity march is a big test even for the beggar army. The long team often walks around, and one person falls to the ground with a plop, and some are re-set up and put on horseback. , and some just lost their breath. In such a short period of half a month, the begging army has reduced its staff by more than one-tenth.

"Commander, this is not the way to go! Now the big guy has driven far enough, everyone has reached the limit, Commander, stop and rest!"

Zhou Yuji's head is also hot now. His ancestral home is in Shandong, and he spent half his life fighting in Liaodong. This is the first time he has encountered such a rainy day near the Yangtze River. Later generations once joked that northerners froze to death when they went to the south. Even he couldn't take it anymore, seeing more than ten people under his command fell down, he couldn't help it, Zhou Yuji drove his horse forward for more than ten meters, rushed to Song Qingshu's side and begged hurriedly.

At this time, Song Qingshu himself had a fever in the rain, and his head was dizzy, but with that tenacity, he swayed on the horse and listened to Zhou Yuji's request, but he shook his head heavily.

"No! Now we are exhausted, and our combat power is not as good as before. Once we are chased by the officers and soldiers, the whole army may be wiped out. We must go into the Dabie Mountains to be safe! Please bear with us!"

Looking back, Song Qingshu tried his best to raise his voice and yelled loudly.

"Brothers, hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers didn't stop us. We have brought out the old fat man Fu Wang. You are all well-known men in the north. How can you be defeated by this light rain? Touch your crotch, you are a man, don't you?" ?”

The vulgar words caused bursts of laughter among these northern men, which could be regarded as a little boost to the sluggish military spirit, but looking back at the drizzle, Song Qingshu himself still had a headache, this time he was really a bit hasty , After going on like this, he doesn't know how many days the team can last.

But when Song Qingshu was hesitating, more than a dozen black shadows suddenly pierced through the night under the misty rain, and the guards in front of him suddenly became nervous. Feeling alert.

Fortunately, it was his own person who came, Xiao Luobo, the leader of the former battalion scouting horse.

Not caring about wiping the rainwater all over his head, he gave a notification, and Xiao Luobo hurried to Song Qingshu, his pale face that had been soaked by the rain trembled and lowered his head suddenly.

"Marshal, the new city is just ahead!"

Song Qingshu's heart finally relaxed...

(End of this chapter)