Blood from Daming

Chapter 822

When Ji Tianen heard that Third Sister Xu said that she had something to do with Xue Yun, he immediately became discouraged. Jad couldn't understand Third Sister Xu, but he didn't dare to provoke Xue Yun's woman easily, so he left the good job of cleaning the battlefield to Wen Xiangjiao. Leading the Hangzhou caravan quickly left the Gwangju battlefield.

Third Sister Xu won the spoils that originally belonged to the Hangzhou caravan. She secretly thought that Xue Yun, the little enemy’s signboard, was really good. As long as Xue Yun’s resource was used well, Wen Xiangjiao would still have a bright future in Jiangnan. After seeing her elder brother Xu Hongru, Third Sister Xu encouraged Xu Hongru occupied Runing Prefecture to form an alliance with Xue's army.

On September 8, the Wenxiangjiao Army broke through the city of Runing and gained a large amount of soldiers and supplies. The power of Wenxiangjiao increased greatly. By October, it successively captured Luoshan in the north, Xixian County, and Xinxian County in the southeast. , Gushi, and Jinzhai, just did not take down Shangzhou, and connected the southern part of Runing Prefecture. In this way, the number of Wenxiang Sect's lives expanded to more than [-] people, and many dangerous believers under Wang Haoxian from the south came to vote.

The flourishing of Wenxiang Sect in Henan shocked the Ming court. Emperor Chongzhen learned that the governor of Henan, Fan Jingwen, was defeated because he was attacked by the Xue family army. Xue Zongyu, a member of the Beijing Battalion, joined the battle.

According to the instructions of Hangzhou merchants, Ji Tianen successively pulled out seven copycat villages that were enemies of the Hangzhou caravan in Ye County, Ruzhou, Nanyang Prefecture, Henan Province, Yanshi, Henan Province, and Jiyuan, Huaiqing Prefecture, massacred more than 7000 people, and captured Livestock, food, gold and silver, etc. are worth more than 30 silver. These seven cottages are both people and bandits, and their family backgrounds are indeed rich. Ji Tianen is generous in his work, and the seized property is divided into three parts. , A share is distributed to all the people in the Hangzhou caravan.

The soldiers of the Xue family army who walked out of Henan received a reward of 30 taels of silver, and everyone in the Hangzhou caravan, regardless of the merchants, got a share. It is even more doubled. How many people have no windfall, no wealth, no night grass, no fat? The life in the village gradually became a part of Xue's army step by step.

The Hangzhou caravan arrived in Jiangzhou at the end of October, and was welcomed by Lord Li of Zhizhou, Wang Dajun of the garrison, Lei Batian and Wen Cunyang of Wupingguan. The Hangzhou caravan rested in Jiangzhou for three days, and the next step was the most difficult to go to the north of Pingyang , there are the troops of Zuo Prime Minister Wang Ziyong of the Jiayin Department of the Valley King of the Yijun Prefecture in Shaanxi Province, and Zhao Sheng's men and women who light the lamp in Qingjian. a little left.

The influence of the Xue family army in Pingyang Prefecture is not very great. This year, the Xue family army of Datong went south to Jiangzhou twice to protect the merchants, and Wang's own troops disappeared without a trace when they saw that the Xue family army was strong and strong. The troops for their own use demanded protection fees and forcibly took away [-]-[-]% of the Xue’s army’s goods. Jiangzhou’s Xue’s army could not afford such a loss.

At the welcome banquet in Jiangzhou City, Ji Tianen said: "Dajun, why didn't Datong hit Wang Ziyong's gang hard?"

Wang Dajun said: "General Ji, if we have too many people, the king's own troops will not come. If there are few people, they will come to grab the goods. They even left a special receipt, saying that after they have sat down in the country, they will pay double the property with the receipt."

Ji Tianen said: "It's just something, where is the king now, I want to meet him."

Wang Dajun said: "General Ji, after Wang Ziyong occupied Daning, Yonghe, and Pu counties, Wang Ziyong's old battalion was stationed in Pu County. Now Wang Ziyong has more than 8 troops."

Li Zhizhou said: "General Ji, Datong is also planning to attack Wang Ziyong. Wang Ziyong held peace talks with Datong Daming, claiming that he belongs to the Xue family's coalition in Shaanxi. Because of the lack of supplies, he temporarily borrowed from the Xue family's caravan to attack the city in the future. If you have gained something from the looting village, you will immediately double the compensation to Xue's army, this Wang Ziyong is just perfunctory and deceitful."

Knowing that Li Zhizhou had defected to the Xue family army, Ji Tianen knew that Xue Yun was thirsty for the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty, regardless of their incorruptibility and corruption. There are few civil servants. As far as Ji Tianen knows, Xu Yuanlang, the prefect of Hangzhou, is the most important one, and the current staff member of the Minister of War, Yu Anxing, has made the history of Taiwan Island. If Taiwan is a country, it is the prime minister. Taiwan is a province. The governor and a staff member all occupy such a high position, Li Zhizhou's future is limitless.

Ji Tianen asked Li Zhizhou: "Lord Li, the last general has just arrived and I don't know how deep it is. Please teach the last general the strategy to defeat the invaders."

Li Zhizhou twirled his beard and said: "Wang Ziyong's power is too large to be governed. Datong is unwilling to weaken the Fugu rebel army to throw rat sacrificial vessels, and now we are asking my wife to contact Wang Ziyong. The outcome of the negotiations between the two parties will determine whether Datong will send troops. The key is General Ji, the struggle for hegemony still depends on the sword."

The situation in Jiangzhou is very special. Because Li Zhizhou went to Beijing Chengqin King once, he was disappointed with the Ming Dynasty, so he took refuge in Gao Guiying. Li Zhizhou's wife refers to Gao Guiying. For those who are close to Datong, the Xue family army in the small Jiangzhou has a faction of civil and military forces.

Ji Tianen said: "Master Li, the general is ordered to pass through Datong at the end, and he has no time to soak mushrooms with the king himself."

Li Zhizhou said: "General Ji, the safest way is to wait for the outcome of Madam's negotiations. If you rush to Datong in a hurry, you will inevitably have conflicts with Wang's own rebel army."

Ji Tianen said: "Lord Li, the king can't use the refugees from Shaanxi for himself, and the general will kill him as long as he has soldiers and horses from his headquarters."

Ji Tianen only has Xue Yun in his eyes, and he doesn't stand in line with Miss Yu, Yan Sanniang, and Mrs. Gao. He used to hang out with Xue Liu and Yang Zhenlei, but later got close to Xue Polu. The tendency between Lei and Xue Polu is very weak. If Ji Tianen must choose, Ji Tianen is more optimistic about Yan Sanniang. This is mainly because Ji Tianen is not familiar with Miss Yu and Mrs. Gao.

Ji Tianen's tone is really too loud, Wang Dajun and Lei Batian are also madmen in Xue's army, they belong to the kind of guy who dares to break into the army without losing the battle, but Li Zhizhou doesn't believe it, you General Ji only With 3000 troops and more than 1000 carts to protect, Wang Ziyong is a huge bandit with nearly [-] soldiers.

So Ji Tianen told Li Zhizhou about the power of muskets. Li Zhizhou admired the firearms of Xue's army, otherwise he would not have embraced Chongzhen's thick legs, and would have taken refuge in one of Xue Yun's concubines instead. Are you optimistic about the future of the Xue family army? The future of the Xue family army is supported by firearms, but Ji Tianen said that the firearms are amazing. If so, the Xue family army would have overthrown the Ming court long ago, and they still need to continue fighting with Chongzhen.

However, seeing what Ji Tianen said was so swearing, Li Zhizhou had no choice but to believe it. Ji Tianen decided to go to Datong in three days, and Jiangzhou still had a thousand trucks of goods in Datong. Li Zhizhou discussed with Wang Dajun and Lei Batian. The opportunity to go to Datong, the thousand cars of goods will also be transported to Datong, and Lei Batian will order 1000 people from Qijiangzhou and Wupingguan to protect the convoy.

The day before he left, Ji Tianen strongly invited Li Zhizhou to visit Datong. Ji Tianen wanted to strengthen Li Zhizhou's determination to join Xue's army by attacking Wang Ziyong. Li Zhizhou hesitated for a long time, and also wanted to go to Datong to meet Xue Yun's wife Miss Yu, Xue Liu, Yang Zhenlei and others finally nodded and agreed to go to Datong Mansion with Ji Tianen.

On the first day of November in the third year of Chongzhen, Ji Tianen and Li Zhizhou led 4000 carts and more than 1000 people to leave Jiangzhou City. In addition to Lei Batian's [-] troops, Li Zhizhou also brought a thousand Jiangzhou Minjun, Ji Tianen casually asked Lei Batian to bring Wen Cunyang with him.

The huge caravan left and arrived at Pingyang Mansion. The soldiers and civilians of Pingyang Mansion were shocked to see such a huge caravan. When they learned that it was the Hangzhou caravan escorted by Xue Jiajun, the civil and military officials of Pingyang Mansion were secretly happy. Self-use has blocked the Xue family's financial resources, and now the Xue family is also in a hurry. They dispatched more than 2000 vehicles at a time, and 8000 to [-] people armed the merchants.

The officials, soldiers and civilians of Pingyang Mansion know that the Xue family army is strong enough, but there are more than 1 people with seven or eight thousand armed forces, and they use 10 horses to fight against the Shaanxi bandit king. Almost no one is optimistic about Ji Tianen's caravan, so naturally no one follows Xue's army's caravan. Datong made a fortune, but waited for the destruction of this caravan of the Xue family army, so that the Xue family army of Datong had to suppress the bandits for the people of Shanxi.

The Hangzhou caravan continued to move forward. On the fifth day of November, the Hangzhou caravan traveled [-] miles north of Zhaocheng, and was surrounded by rebels coming from all directions. Li Zhizhou beside Ji Tianen was pale, and Wen Cunyang was also trembling slightly. Ji Tianen roughly estimated All of a sudden, Wang's own troops will not be less than [-].

With the experience of the battle of Gwangju, the Hangzhou caravan quickly formed a car formation with large carts, enclosing all the coachmen and civilian husbands in the car formation, while Ji Tianen led 1000 Musketeers from the headquarters, Xue Dahan 1000 troops, Lei Batian There are 2000 troops from Li Zhizhou, 7000 civilian troops, and more than [-] caravan bodyguards. A total of more than [-] armed forces are lined up outside the car formation.

There is no way for Wang Ziyong to rob the property of Xue Jiajun 1. There are nearly [-] soldiers under him, and there are more than a dozen women and children waiting for food and drink. Since he borrowed [-] carts of property from Xue Jiajun in April this year, although he was afraid for a while, but Xue's army did not send troops to attack him. Wang Ziyong knew that Xue's army had scruples, so he became more courageous. He would grab whoever he caught. With the increase in strength, Wang Ziyong became very impatient with Xue's army's perfunctory.

Although Wang Ziyong claimed that he was a rebel army who did justice for the heavens, in fact the team kept beating, smashing, looting and burning. To put it bluntly, he called a large group of bandits. Wouldn't it be better to let the brothers drink the northwest wind? This time I heard that Xue's army's huge caravan went north to Datong Mansion.

(End of this chapter)