Chapter 101 It's over

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Besides, Zhang Yan Zhang's guerrilla was protected by his own soldiers and escaped 20 miles in one breath. He ran outside the gate of Jiang County before dawn. At this time, he found that there were no pursuers behind him, so he was finally relieved.

After arriving here, Zhang Yan looked at the soldiers who followed him. In addition to more than 30 personal soldiers, the generals basically ran away. At this time, he also realized that if he went back like this, he might be beheaded immediately by the court, and immediately cried without tears.

However, his own soldiers were still a little calm. He immediately advised Zhang Yan to quickly collect the defeated soldiers and recover the losses as much as possible. As long as the soldiers were still there, the court would not kill him easily.

Zhang Yan recovered from panic and quickly scattered his own soldiers, searched in all directions, and gradually collected the defeated soldiers back.

After two days of collection, Zhang Yan finally collected the defeated soldiers under his command. However, after counting, he still wanted to cry without tears. When he came out of Taiyuan, he brought more than 2,000 soldiers and horses. Now, there are almost no horses left, and there are less than half of the soldiers left.

And according to the soldiers who came back, after the defeated soldiers dispersed, three or five groups first gathered together. They didn't know what to do. After gathering more, they began to plunder around Jiang County. The people who passed by them suffered a lot from their scourge. They also killed a lot of exiles and cut off their heads and took them. By the side, in this way, these defeated soldiers are far more harmful to the scourge in the area of Jiang County than those who feed in this area.

However, Zhang Yan finally came up with a way to let his men collect these good-killing heads. After hastily cleaning up, he sprinkled lime and stored them. In addition, he sent people to report to Taiyuan that they had encountered a large number of poles in Jiang County. Under the hard battle, they killed more than a thousand enemies, but they also lost a lot. Big, ask to return to Taiyuan for rest.

In addition, he also took people back to the area of Shijing Village and checked the camp that night. The camp was full of the bodies of his officers and soldiers, and the weights and other things were also swept away. The villagers in Shijing Village fled completely. Then he sent someone to investigate the group of thieves who attacked his camp. After Ye didn't take back the whereabouts of the people, he told him that there was a thief who fled from Shijing Village in the direction of Jiangzhou. They couldn't tell exactly where they had gone.

Zhang Yan also carefully inquired about the number of enemy troops when the attack camp occurred that night, and finally came to the conclusion that the number of thieves in the attack camp was not large, at most two or three hundred people, including dozens of horse thieves. The reason why they lost so much is that many of the dead officers and soldiers are After being killed by his own people, this conclusion was even more blocked in Zhang Yan's heart.

But at this point, the thieves have been gone for a long time. There are less than half of the defeated soldiers left under his men. The heavy artillery has been lost, and the rest of the officers and soldiers are not even worthy of knives and guns. Zhenge is completely disabled. In this way, if he goes to Henan to suppress bandits, it is purely looking for death, with Hong Chengchou. Seeing that he has the virtue of bringing soldiers, he can't guarantee that he will first label him as unfavorable and drag him out to chop it, so he can only find a way to go back to Taiyuan Mansion first and calm down this matter as much as possible. Anyway, it is impossible for him to continue to go to Henan. Give him the courage and he dare not go to Hong Chengchou. My son has reported.

Although Zhang Yan tried to suppress this matter and not make him too ugly, the official of Jiang County still stabbed him out this matter. After all, Zhang Yan's soldiers killed a lot of people in Jiang County and robbed a lot of people. Within a few days, the complaint was the bitter owner. Almost broke the gate of the county, and the local government had no choice but to report the matter here to Wu Jing, the governor of Shanxi. After hearing this, Wu Yu was furious. While ordering the thieves in Pingyang Prefecture to strictly investigate the trouble, he immediately sent someone to recall Zhang Yan to Taiyuan.

As soon as Zhang Yan arrived in Taiyuan Mansion, Wu Jing immediately ordered Zhang Yan to be arrested. Through Wu Jing's interrogation of Zhang Yan, Wu Jing came to a definite conclusion that Zhang Yan's control of the army was incompetent. He just met a thieves army of hundreds of people, and was attacked by the thief army at night and was defeated. Wu Jing was furious. He reported what he had done to the court and waited for the court to deal with Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan's family was said to have lost all his wealth and could not save Zhang Yan's life. Later, Zhang Yan was ordered by the court to dismiss his guerrilla position and directly abandoned the city in Taiyuan.

And Pingyang Mansion was nervous for a long time. It flew and checked for a long time, but because the battlefield was very clean when the Xing Tianjun retreated, it did not leave too many clues for the government. In the end, the local government did not find out a reason, but began to suspect that this group defeated Zhang Yan's pole, which was very likely. It was one of the thieves from Shaanxi who rushed into Shanxi a few years ago. Specifically, where did this group of thieves go after defeating Zhang Yan's troops? All kinds of information were very chaotic. According to their evacuation route, they retreated to the northwest after defeating the officers and soldiers in Shijing Village, so some people say it was this group of thieves. People ran to the mountains in the area of Xiangning County, west of Pingyang Prefecture, but some people said that this group of thieves should be in the mountains of Qinshui County. Of course, some people pointed out that it may be related to the newly rising group of thieves in Yangcheng County.

But specifically, when it comes to which thief this group of thieves, there is no sufficient evidence from the government, so it can't be asserted in the end. After all, because there are many thieves everywhere at this time, no one can finally determine which pole did it, but to a certain extent doubt that Xing Tianjun in Yangcheng County. On the head.

However, after investigating this matter, it was immediately covered up by another big event, because there was a big deal in the capital, and the capital mentioned here is not Beijing or Nanjing, but Fengyang Mansion, the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

At the end of the first lunar month, the officials in various places suddenly received an earth-shaking news, that is, the Zhongdu of the Ming Dynasty was suddenly captured by a large number of exiles on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The defied civilian army led by Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other leaders of the civilian army, first conquered Henan before the New Year. Yang, then changed into a people's army in all directions at the Xingyang Conference, and then divided his troops to attack and attacked for a long distance. He led hundreds of thousands of thieves to go straight into Huai and suddenly entered Nanzhili. During the Shangyuan Festival, he took advantage of the unprepared officials and troops in Fengyang Mansion to capture Fengyang, the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

Fengyang is the hometown of Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang's parents were buried here. Because they were afraid of damaging the feng shui of the royal family, they did not build a high wall like ordinary cities. Although there were 6,000 officers and soldiers left here, the civilian army really came too fast. They didn't have time to react at all, so they were The swarming of the civilian army submerged in one fell swoop, and they were defeated and fled, and Fengyang Mansion then fell.

After this group of people's army captured Fengyang, they destroyed the imperial mausoleum, burned the Longxing Temple, killed more than 60 eunuchs, and beheaded the prime minister of Zhu and thousands of officers and soldiers. It is said that Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king of the People's Army, simply raised the flag of "Guyuan True Dragon Emperor" in Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum, and drank together to celebrate his victory.

After the news spread, as soon as he heard that the emperor's ancestral tomb was dug, the Ming Dynasty could be said to be shocked by the whole country. It is said that after the emperor heard the news today, even if he cried loudly and issued an edict, the government in various places were scared. He knew that this time the civilian army finally made a big deal. He We had never thought that the civilian army could beat Fengyang in Zhongdu. Such a big thing almost made a hole in the sky.

As soon as this matter came out, no one in the court paid attention to the matter of Shanxi. After all, Zhang Yan was defeated in Jiangzhou. Compared with the fact that the emperor's ancestral tomb was dug, it was really nothing. At this time, everyone's attention was attracted to Fengyang, Zhongdu. After all, it was too close to Nanjing City, and it was broken by the exiles. In case there is another loss in Nanjing City, won't the Ming Dynasty be finished? So who else will care about such a battle that happened here in Jiang County now? So no one continued to pay attention to this matter, and everyone's eyes were focused on Henan and Nanzhili.