Chapter 123 Four, Six Corners, Ten Faces and Net

Several officers and soldiers have failed to attack the Xing Tianjun one after another. This is undoubtedly a very sad news for Wang Jiazhen. Once again, the officials in this battle have not been able to get a little advantage in front of Xing Tianjun. I'm afraid that the worst thing is Zu Dale and Zu Kuan's troops. In the battle of Bai Jianghe, the 3,000 Guanning army under their command were destroyed. No, Zu Dale and Zu Kuan were also captured by the Xingtian Army.

However, what Wang Jiazhen didn't expect was that Zu Dale took several family to escape from the control of the Xingtian Army a month later. When he escaped, he also brought back the seriously injured Zu Kuan. However, the place of escape was not in Yichuan, but in Yuanqu County, Shanxi Province. Zu Dale escaped from the Xingtian Army. After control, he did not return to Henan at all, but fled all the way to Guan and went to his brother's birthday.

At first, the imperial court and Xiong Wencan thought that Zu Dale and Zu Kuan were not in front of the battle. After a long time, they learned that Zu Dale had been captured by Xing Tianjun, and later fled back to Jinzhou. For the fact that the two of them could escape from the thief's nest, everyone thought that it would be a little tricky. Zu Kuan was seriously injured. Zu Dale not only escaped by himself, but also Zu Kuan escaped. Everyone thought it was a little incredible, but there was no evidence that there was something inexplicable between Zu Dale and the thief army.

Xiong Wencan wrote to the court and asked the court to plead guilty to Zu Da Le. Later, Chong Zhennian and his brother Zu Dashhou had to guard the customs for the country, and Zu Dashu was not easy to talk. When Chongzhen issued an order to arrest Yuan Chonghuan, Zu Dashu was furious and simply abandoned the capital and led his troops back to the customs. He did not do it for the imperial court. It was not that Sun Chengzong came forward to ask Yuan Chonghuan to write a letter to Zu Dashou, but Zu Dashou was not allowed to break with the court. If Zu Dale was arrested and killed this time, it was not guaranteed to anger Zu Dashou again. Therefore, after he hesitated repeatedly, Chongzhen only issued an order to remove Zu Dale's position as deputy general, so it was over, but These are all later words. The key point is that after Wang Jiazhen learned that even Cao Wenyao had broken blood in the Lu family, he knew that this trend had gone, and he had no strength to beat him again, so he had to write to the court to plead guilty.

But for Wang Jiazhen, Chongzhen is not polite. After Wang Jiazhen replaced Lu Xiangsheng, he did a mess about the matter of suppressing. Now because of the command error, the whole army of Zu Da Le Zu Kuan was destroyed. Chong Zhen spared Zu Da Le, but he could not forgive Wang Jiazhen. Even if he issued an order to dismiss Wang Jiazhen, he would send people to He was arrested, escorted to the capital to discuss the crime, and half a year later, he beheaded Wang Jiazhen in the capital.

Although Xiong Wencan suffered this defeat, Wang Jiazhen was also responsible for the crime. In addition, Yang Sichang spoke for him in the court, so he was not punished this time. Chongzhen continued to make him the governor of his five provinces, and then encircled and suppress all the rebels.

Xiong Wencan didn't expect that the first thing he did when he took office was to this extent. Only then did he know that Xing Tianjun really deserved his reputation, so he also put away the last trace of contempt for Xing Tianjun and began to discuss with Yang Sichang how to solve the current dilemma.

Before Xiong Wencan took office as the governor of the five provinces, Yang Sichang had already had a general consideration. At the end of ten years and April, he put forward his famous plan to encircle and suppress all kinds of volunteers.

Sizheng and Six Corners are simply to take Shaanxi, Henan, Huguang and Jiangbei as the Sizheng, and the four governors and suppress them, and specialize in defending Yansui, Shanxi, Shandong, Jiangnan, Jiangxi and Sichuan, for the six corners, and the six governors to defend and cooperate with each other. It is called the net of ten sides, and the governor and the two ministers of the prime minister follow the thief. , specializing in the expedition, the central idea is to intercept and surround the migrant peasant army, and then eliminate it.

Once this method was put forward by Yang Sichang, even if Chongzhen agreed to Yang Sichang's plan, and Yang Sichang also reported to Chongzhen to increase the number of troops by 140,000 and pay 2.8 million taels. Even Chongzhen immediately agreed to such a request and issued an order to implement it.

Chongzhen is such a personality. Let's not talk about it. If he doesn't believe anyone, no matter how capable this person is, he will not believe him. On the contrary, if he trusts someone, it can be said to be heartfelt trust. No matter what conditions this person puts forward, he can agree.

When he used Yuan Chonghuan, Yuan Chonghuan told him to Pingliao for five years. Chongzhen was overjoyed and immediately agreed to all the conditions of Yuan Chonghuan. However, later, Yuan Chonghuan did not fulfill his promise, so Chongzhen lost trust in Yuan Chonghuan. Although he did not believe that Yuan Chonghuan would secretly defect to the east, it was likely to It was because he was angry that Yuan Chonghuan fooled him and did not solve the construction slaves and satars outside the customs as agreed, so he still gave Yuan Chonghuan a charge of compassing with the enemy and arrested Yuan Chonghuan and executed him to death.

It is also his personality that he is mean and unkind to his ministers, which has forged his tragedy. Wen Teren is actually a very typical example. He trusts Wen Tieren and keeps Wen Tieren in a high position for a long time. He believes everything he says. As a result, Wen Tieren has been in power for so many years without doing anything good, and he specifically excludes his dissidents in the court. As a result, it has been delayed for so many years for the Ming Dynasty. If it weren't for Wen physio, Daming would not have been able to recover at all!

This is a story a little far away, but now it is the time when he trusts Yang Sichang. Yang Sichang can say whatever he wants. As long as he can help him flatten these rebels in the mainland, not to mention adding 140,000 troops, even if he adds 240,000 troops, Chongzhen is estimated to grit his teeth and agree.

After Yang Sichang's plan, all over the world began to increase troops. This time, Xiong Wencan learned to be obedient. Instead of looking for the trouble of Xing Tianjun first, he turned the spearhead and focused his attention on other volunteers. In his opinion, Xing Tianjun can't gnaw at the moment, and because of his It is constrained by all kinds of rebels, and he can't spare too much strength to deal with Xing Tianjun.

In order to deal with Xing Tianjun, we must first cut off other volunteers, so that he can completely free up his hands, mobilize enough troops, and then find trouble for Xing Tianjun.

Therefore, under the auspices of Xiong Wencan, all the officers and soldiers began to mobilize. In addition to leaving part of the surveillance of the Xingtian Army's actions, Xiong Wencan transferred Huguang, Jiangbei, Shandong and other officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress all kinds of rebels. At the same time, Sun Chuanting also increased the fight in Shaanxi. Li Zicheng, Lao Huihui and other road rebels were beaten into a pot of porridge for a while.

First of all, Zhang Xianzhong, who did not win the attack on Nanyang, according to Xiao Tianjian and his agreement, turned to Lushan. He conquered Lushan County in the first battle. After washing the air, he sent Wuyang, then conquered Wuyang County, and then gathered troops in Wuyang County and attacked and plundered everywhere. Xiao Tianjian returned his favor. He was given a batch of armor captured from the hands of the officers and soldiers, and also gave Zhang Xianzhong 200 war horses, which cheered Zhang Xianzhong's momentum in Henan, but it was precisely because he was too popular, and his action in Henan became Xiong Wencan's primary goal.

In mid-May, Xiong Wencan mobilized Zuo Liangyu and Shi Kefa and an army in Gwangju, Henan Province. In addition, he transferred Chen Yongfu to attack Zhang Xianzhong from the south of Ruzhou. Although Zhang Xianzhong claimed that there were 30,000 soldiers under his command at this time, the quality of the soldiers under his command could not be compared with that of Xing Tianjun. He won a small victory first, and then After being beaten and lost, he led more than 10,000 remnants to escape into Tongbai Mountain, and then was chased by Zuo Liangyu. He escaped from Tongbai Mountain and fled all the way to Macheng, and once again began to flow around the border between Huguang and Henan.

Cao Cao and Luo Rucai's action in Shanxi. Under the auspices of Lu Xiangsheng after the Spring Festival, he mobilized several soldiers and horses in Shanxi and went south to understand the state. After several battles, Luo Ru couldn't stand it. More than 30,000 soldiers and horses that had just gathered were scattered, and some of them were killed and some fled to the area controlled by the Xingtian Army. Luo Rucai originally wanted to lead his troops to retreat to Yuanqu County and rely on the power of the Xingtian Army to escape the army's resistance, but he was blocked outside the mountain by a part of the Xingtian Army stationed in Yuanqu County. Luo Rucai scolded Xing Tianjun for his death and had to turn to the west to escape, and once again led 5,000 remnants to cross the Yellow River and fled back to Shaanxi. Then he was chased by Sun Chuanting, fled to the Yulin area, and hid in the mountains to fight his guerrillas.

Originally, it was not easy to lead his troops to work in the Jiangbei area. In July, they were besieged and suppressed by Jiangbei and Shandong officers and soldiers. They were forced to fly west again. In August, they fled all the way back to Shaanxi along the river.

Liu Guoneng was originally active in the area of Jingxiang, but he was also attacked by Xiong Wencan. After defeating Zhang Xianzhong, Zuo Liangyu turned to Jingxiang. Liu Guo could see that the situation was not good, left Jingxiang, tried to cross Hebei, and ran east and west in the Wuchang area of the Yangtze River.

As for Li Zicheng, after obtaining a large number of "support" from Xiao Tianjian, he integrated and collected a number of Gao Yingxiang's old subordinates, raised the banner of breaking the king again, and regained his momentum. He fought with Sun Chuanting repeatedly in Shaanxi, and unexpectedly had his own victory or defeat, and initially imitated Xiao in the Hanzhong area. Like Tianjian, he stood on his feet. Sun Chuanting used troops against him many times, but he could not completely defeat it. After Li Zicheng occupied the area of Hanzhong, he also made a posture to go south to enter Sichuan at any time. Sichuan was very nervous and transferred Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers to Lizhou to prevent Li Zicheng's attack Sichuan again.

In a word, after Yang Sichang put forward the plan to open the net on four, six corners and ten sides, the officers and soldiers in all over the country have strengthened their strength, and the officials in all over the country have also begun to make great efforts to deal with all kinds of righteous troops in the country according to Xiong Wencan's instructions. In this way, in the whole ten years of Chongzhen, Yang Sichang's four main and six corners policy is still It has played a good role. All the rebels who have just recovered have basically suffered great setbacks, except for Xiao Tianjian and Li Zicheng, who have not hurt their vitality.