Blood from Daming

Chapter 794 Jiazhou Besieged
Emperor Chongzhen ordered Wu Zhiwang, the governor of the three sides, to lead Shaanxi governor Hu Tingyan, Yansui governor Yue Hesheng, Yulin town commander Wang Hu and other civil and military officials to work together to appease the people and suppress the bandits. After the town's border soldiers were newly defeated, they were afraid of the bandits and did not move forward. There was basically no soldiers to move in the whole of Shaanxi, which made the peasant uprising in Shaanxi intensify.

After the rebellion of Fugu Wang Jiayin, Hannan Wang Daliang, and Ansai Gao Yingxiang, especially Fugu Wang Jiayin was the most powerful. Wang Daliang and Gao Yingxiang both secretly regarded him as the leader. Zhang Xianzhong, who was hiding in Yan'an Mansion, took dozens of people to join Wang Jiayin. With Zhang Xianzhong as Yan'an Tong, Wang Jiayin was able to fight in Yan'an Mansion like a fish in water.

For the imperial court, the change of troops in Guyuan made Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia worse. The army rebelled and plundered the Guyuan state treasury together. The governor Hu Tingyan and the Yansui governor Yue Hesheng had no money and no soldiers to shirk each other. Most of the army dispersed to join various peasant uprising teams, and became the main force of the peasant uprising army in the late Ming Dynasty.

Since the rebellion of King Jiayin of Fugu, King Daliang of Hannan, and Gao Yingxiang of Ansai in July, the whole of Shaanxi has suffered from many incidents of conscripting soldiers and paying wages, and even encountered severe famines for many years. There has been no rain for many years, so that the drought in autumn has dried up and the seedlings have dried up. The people were displaced and flocked to ask for relief, but the rich people in the government seldom offered help, so that the victims plundered the weak and the strong to eat during the day, because they were hungry and cold, and they took risks.Instead of starving and waiting to die, it is better to plunder and live. The victims of the disaster either joined the peasant uprising army, or formed gangs and established themselves as kings. By the end of the first year of Chongzhen, Luochuan, Chunhua, Sanshui, Lueyang, Qingshui, Chengxian, Shaanxi Hancheng, Yijun, Central, Shiquan, Yichuan, Suide, Jiazhou, Yao, Jingning, Tongguan, Yangpingguan, Jinsuoguan, etc. were all plundered and occupied by bandits, and there were as many as 36 large camps. There are also 72 small camps, each of which has created hundreds of thousands of anti-men and horses.

Taking advantage of the Mutiny in Guyuan, when the officers and soldiers in Shaanxi and Yulin had no time to take care of it, Wang Jiayin of Fugu captured Shenmu at the end of the first year of Chongzhen with Fugu as his base, and his army reached more than 2 people. The government set up officials, and in February of the second year of Chongzhen, Wang Jiayin went south to send troops to Jiazhou.

On February 23, the second year of Chongzhen, Wang Jiayin engulfed more than 3 victims along the way and surrounded Jiazhou. Suide Prefecture, Mizhi County, and Gaojiajunzhai sent letters for help, but whether reinforcements will arrive, Maozhi County and Guo Shoubei in Jiazhou have no idea at all. The only thing they can do is to mobilize the entire city to guard, so as not to burn everything when the city is broken. .

The king of Japan, Wang Jiayin, led the army to lure Jiazhou Maozhi County and Guo Shoubei to the main Jiazhou City. After being rejected by Jiazhou Maozhi County and Guo Shoubei, Wang Jiayin led Zhang Shusheng, Ji Saner, Miao Dengyun, and Miao Deng three days later. More than 1 Chinese troops including Wu, Little Red Wolf, Zhang Liwei, Zhang Xianzhong, and Wang Guozhong were stationed in the northeast of Jiazhou City. 5000 people from the general Wang Zishun attacked the east gate, 5000 from Miaomei attacked the south gate, and 5000 from Huang Hu. People beat the west gate, Zijin Liang Wang himself used 5000 people to beat the north gate.

Wang Jia wisely took Fugu to attack Shenmu, and now that he is strong, he will attack Jiazhou City. Who knows that Maozhi County of Jiazhou and Guo Shoubei are officials who are good at comforting the people and defending the city. They spread Wang Jiayin's peasant army to burn and kill. , mobilized tens of thousands of strong and strong defenders in the city, and the soldiers and civilians of Jiangzhou City feared that the city gate would fall and hurt themselves, so everyone bravely fought to the death and fought with Wang Jiayin's peasant army for five days, leaving Wang Jiayin's peasant army behind in Jiazhou City. More than 3000 corpses, although more than a thousand casualties were paid, Jiangzhou City is still standing still.

After all, Wang Jiayin's peasant army was formed for a short period of time, and it was only suitable for fighting against the wind. When encountering a tough battle like Jiazhou City, it became exhausted and then exhausted. After the siege battle reached the third day, it became exhausted and forced to fight again. For two days, the peasant army was purely in response to the occasion. On the sixth day, Wang Jiayin had to give up the attack, surrounded Jiangzhou City and continued to induce surrender.

But Wang Jiayin never thought that Zhang Xianzhong, a cunning man who took refuge in him, made him a huge mess. It turned out that during the eight days of besieging Jiangzhou City, Wang Jiayin sent Zhang Shusheng, Ji San'er, Little Red Wolf, Zhang Xianzhong, etc. Several groups of peasant armies raided food and plundered people everywhere. At the beginning, Zhang Shusheng, Ji San'er, Little Red Wolf, Zhang Xianzhong and others robbed Wang Jiayin of thousands of people and thousands of vehicles of various properties, which made Wang Jiayin overjoyed.

Facing the crazy looting of Wang Jiayin's peasant army, those gentry and villagers who had fantasies and affection for the peasant army finally knew that these peasant army were not their own patron saints, but everyone's urging talisman, so the people of Jiazhou County began to flee , and the only way to escape is to go south to Yan'an Mansion, and there are only two options to go to Yan'an Mansion, going south from Mizhi County or going south from Suide Prefecture.

However, in the propaganda of Maozhi County of Jiazhou and Guo Shoubei, Zhou Shiqi, the Zhizhou of Suide Prefecture, and Sun Shoufa, the garrison, are honest and good officials, while Gao Guiying and Gao Yigong of Gaojiajunzhai in Mizhi County are almost bandits. After all, Maozhi County Court officials like Guo Shoubei still don’t accept Gao Guiying and Gao Yigong’s officials who care about the court like Gao Guiying and Gao Yigong. .

In Suide Prefecture, Zhou Shiqi, the prefect of Suide Prefecture, and Sun Shoufa, the garrison, tried their best to oppress and torture them. The people who handed over their money and women could still save their lives. Suide Prefecture was hit by the disaster, and more than a thousand people went to Yan'an Mansion to cry and sue. Shaanxi Chengxuan officials, who had benefited from Suide Prefecture's prefect Zhou Shiqi and garrison Sun Shoufa, spoke well of Zhou Shiqi and Sun Shoufa in front of Shaanxi Governor Hu Tingyan, misunderstood Hu Tingyan, who heard people's words, was so angry that the people who sued the people were thugs, and ordered the officials of Shaanxi Chengxuan to beat the people of Jiazhou who had sued them out of Yan'an Mansion with sticks, so as to prevent these thugs from destroying the peace and tranquility of Yan'an Mansion.

A small number of people in Jiazhou who went to Mizhi County were very lucky. The northeast of Mizhi County was quiet and peaceful, which allowed these people to escape from Zizhou to Yan'an Prefecture smoothly. Tents were set up near the stronghold, and Gao Guiying was kind-hearted and couldn't bear to embarrass these Jiazhou refugees, so she acquiesced to these refugees staying in the Gaojiajunzhai territory.

Gao Guiying not only failed to disperse these Jiazhou refugees, but also asked his younger brother Gao Yigong to send 29 soldiers to protect them. By February 7000, the number of refugees entering the protection area of ​​Gaojiajunzhai in Mizhi County reached about [-]. With little food, Gao Guiying had no choice but to help the refugees. On this day, Yan Zibin, the magistrate of Mizhi County, brought a hundred loads of relief food and a batch of old clothes to Gaojiajunzhai.

After Yan Zibin saw Gao Guiying, he found that Gao Guiying was dressed as a rich wife, and the maid beside him was still holding a baby. Yan Zibin's heart was more than half cold. But the husband is teaching his son and wants the Gao family army to help the court fight. I am afraid that the widow will die and the only son will have no hope.

Yan Zibin knew that Gao Guiying gave birth to a daughter in August last year, so he brought a congratulatory gift with him. Now Gao Guiying's daughter is over half a year old, but he has never seen Gao Guiying, the Mongolian prince. There are many people in Mizhi County and even Yan'an Prefecture. People suspected that the Mongolian prince had too many concubines, and he always abandoned Gao Guiying.

However, Yan Zibin, who knows Gaojiajunzhai very well, knows that Gao Guiying's husband should be a senior general of Datong's Xuejiajun. Support, but with Yan Zibin's understanding of Gao's army village, Xue's army's support for Gao's army village is far beyond the ability of a general of Xue's army. Yan Zibin concluded that Gao Guiying's Mongolian prince is Xue Yun's excuse.

Today I saw Gao Guiying who is plump, white and tender after childbirth, and Yan Zibin who is more determined. In fact, this is Yan Zibin's lower level, and he is not close to Yulin Zhenyue Hesheng, Wang Weisui, Dezhou Zhou Shiqi, and Sun Shoufa. He didn't know anything about the open secret that Xue Yun was Gao Guiying's husband, and he guessed wildly based on his own experience.

Yan Zibin said: "General Gao, there are bandits all over Shaanxi now, and the people of Shaanxi are in a state of misery. The governor of Shaanxi, Hu Ting, feasted on Mr. Hu and asked his subordinates to greet General Gao, whether he can send troops to relieve the people of Li."

Gao Guiying said: "My lord, Guiying told Shi Shi that Gao's army only protects the environment and the people, and doesn't listen to the tune or make up."

Yan Zibin knew that persuasion was not easy, but Gao Guiying refused without even making an excuse. Yan Zibin knew that he could not complete Governor Hu's task, but he was unwilling to continue entanglement. A foreshadowing was made.

Yan Zibin said: "General Gao's difficulties are known to the lower officials. It is really difficult for the court, so I have to greet General Gao, but people are harmless, but they are harmful to people. If the bandits invade our hometown in Mizhi County, At that time, I asked General Gao to lend a helping hand."

Now Gao Guiying had no choice but to evade the excuse and had to say: "Master Yan, Mizhi is my hometown, but if some reckless thieves enter Mizhi County, the Gao family army will definitely kill him."

Yan Zibin was delighted when he heard it, he can sit back and relax in Mizhi County, and now the whole of Shaanxi is full of bandits, do you have such a bully in the Gao family army, I don’t know when a lifeless bandit will come to your door, and you can’t help it at that time The Gao family army does not suppress bandits, as long as your Gao family army is a top-notch bandit, you will not be able to control the Gao family army in the future.

Yan Zibin talked to Gao Guiying for a while, and then he was about to get up and go to the place where the refugees in Jiazhou were located for disaster relief. He wandered around in the living room and refused to leave.

Gao Guiying watched the female soldier walking around anxiously in the living room, so she had to call the female soldier in. The female soldier brought a message, so she had to whisper in Gao Guiying's ear for a while, and Gao Guiying suddenly became furious, and she didn't want to suppress Wang Jiayin. He, Wang Jiayin, dared to pluck the whiskers from the tiger's head to seek death.

Gao Guiying waved her hand to let the female soldiers retreat, looked deeply at Yan Zibin, and said to herself that this guy came at the right time, it seems that it is inevitable that he and Wang Jiayin will join the battle, and it is impossible to take advantage of the imperial court and Shaanxi. Civil and military officials, so Gao Guiying wants to fight for the benefits of Gao's army from Yan Zibin.

(End of this chapter)