Chapter 134 Xiong Wencan's dilemma

After half a year, Xiong Wencan temporarily put down the affairs of Xing Tianjun, turned around and concentrated all his strength, personally sat in all parts of Huguang and Henan, and commanded the army to encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong and all the thieves operating in the Huguang area of Henan. It can be said to be the initial results. After the increase of troops and the salary, the strength of officers and soldiers in all places have Enhanced, especially Zuo Liangyu, the general of the lake, did not think much of Xiong Wencan at the beginning of Xiong Wencan's inauguration, nor did he listen to Xiong Wencan's schedule. However, a few months ago, after Emperor Chongzhen learned about Zuo Liangyu's performance, he personally issued an order to scold Zuo Liangyu and gave Xiong Wencan a Shangfang sword. Xiong Wencan can behead the civil and military officials who do not listen to the dispatch of the place, so Zuo Liangyu is much more honest and becomes much more obedient. Now there are more than 50,000 soldiers and horses in the area of Huguang, and more than before, they have also obeyed many orders. During this period, he has worked very hard to suppress Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng and others.

In the past six months, Zhang Xianzhong and other thieves, under his efforts, have gradually declined and began to be compressed in the territory of Huguang. After asking Yang Sichang for instructions, Xiong Wencan believes that the extermination of these thieves should be combined. Recently, he has just sent people to talk about Liu Guoneng and Liu Guoneng. He has promised to surrender to him, and Zhang Xianzhong has also been driven to the area of Baokang and hid in the mountains of Shennongjia. Seeing that as long as he exerts more strength, even Zhang Xianzhong is likely to be appeased by him. Now suddenly Xing Tianjun's efforts really puts him into a dilemma.

If he immediately transfers all his troops to Luoyang to rescue, then for the situation he has just achieved, it will undoubtedly be in vain. Zhang Xianzhong will jump out of Fangshan and Baokang immediately and immediately recover. If he wants to compress him in this situation again, I'm afraid It's really difficult.

In addition to Zhang Xianzhong, there are also several thieves who have been forced to a dead end at the moment. Once he withdraws and withdraws to deal with Xing Tianjun, then all the efforts in the past six months are in the end!

How to deal with this situation makes Xiong Wencan suddenly feel a little embarrassed. Luoyang can't be saved, but Zhang Xianzhong, a group of thieves, still wants to offend him. How can he ensure that the current situation is not out of control and can he rescue Luoyang? Xiong Wencan had a headache about this matter, so he immediately summoned his staff to discuss it.

And his staff were also a little at a loss about this matter. After discussing for a long time, they did not come up with a workable solution. Instead, they discussed it later. Some people proposed that they could transfer the garrison in Kaifeng to Luoyang first to help the defenders of Luoyang assist in the defense, delaying the offensive of the Xingtian Army, and buy a little time. In addition, let Xiong Wencan quickly contact Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, transfer troops from Shaanxi, take Tongguan to open the road to Luoyang, and restore Mianchi County. In this way, Luoyang can solve the crisis.

After Xiong Wencan solved Zhang Xianzhong and other thieves, he transferred troops from Huguang, plus the soldiers and horses in Shanxi and the soldiers and horses from Shandong, so as to destroy the criminal army in the mountains of Yuxi under one blow.

Xiong Wencan felt that the method finally proposed by the staff was feasible, so he did not delay any longer. He immediately sent someone to pass on his order. Pegasus went to Kaifeng. Chen Yongfu, the deputy general of Kaifeng, immediately led Kaifeng soldiers to Luoyang and joined forces with the defenders of Luoyang. He listened to Feng Yijun's dispatch and guarded Luo. Yangcheng.

At the same time, in order to prevent the invasion of the Xingtian Army in the east, you can order Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, to transfer 20,000 soldiers and horses from Shandong into Henan to protect Kaifeng and Guidefu and other places, ensure that the front line of the canal is not disturbed by the Xingtian Army, and you can support Luoyang City at any time.

Huang De, the deputy general of Jiangbei, led a sentry to quickly enter Henan, limited his ten days to help Ruzhou, and blocked the threat of Xing Tianjun facing Luoyang in the south. At the same time, he mobilized a sentry in Gwangju to guard Baofeng, posing a threat to the flank of the thief army.

At the same time, Xiong Wencan immediately wrote a letter and sent someone to send Pegasus to Shaanxi and hand it over to Hong Chengchou. He asked Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting to mobilized some Shaanxi troops to go out of Tongguan and attack Mianchi County. As long as he recovered Mianchi, he could threaten the flanks of the Xing Tianjun, which was enough to ensure that Xing Tianjun did not dare to act rashly against Luoyang in a short time.

After this assignment, Xiong Wencan felt that things should be manageable, and the worst could also ensure that Luoyang would not lose, and his main energy was still on Zhang Xianzhong and other road volunteers who were blocked in the area of Baokang. He planned to clean up Zhang Xianzhong's thieves first no matter what.

Sure enough, not long after the Xing Tianjun moved, Zhang Xianzhong, who hid in the area of Baokang, began to move. On the tenth day of October, Zhang Xianzhong suddenly jumped out of the area of Baokang and Fangshan and entered Gucheng, intending to cross the river to the north.

Zhang Xianzhong's action was immediately noticed by Xiong Wencan, who was sitting in Xiangyang. Then he sent Zuo Liangyu to lead his troops to meet Zhang Xianzhong and blocked him in the south of the Yangtze River so that he could not cross the north again. By this time, Xiong Wencan had already believed that there would be a connection between Zhang Xianzhong and Xiao Tianjian. Otherwise, the two sides would not cooperate so tacitly. Zhang As soon as Xianzhong got into trouble, the dormant Xing Tianjun made a big army in Luoyang. At this time, Zhang Xianzhong went to Gucheng and wanted to cross the north of the river. If Zhang Xianzhong and Xiao Tianjian were together, it would be a big trouble. The situation that Xiong Wencan had managed in the past six months was equivalent to It's in the ass.

Therefore, Xiong Wencan strictly ordered Zuo Liangyu and Chen Hongfan to stop Zhang Xianzhong day and night. Then on October 13, the two armies encountered each other in the area of Nanhe Town south of Gucheng and launched a fight.

Zhang Xianzhong also took a risk. He personally raised his horse and led his troops to fight with Luo Liangyu, Chen Hongfan and other road officers and soldiers. During this period, Zhang Xianzhong was repeatedly defeated in the north of the south of the Yangtze River. After hiding in Baokang and Fangshan, there was a serious lack of food and fodder, so that the soldiers and generals were unable to fight, and the result was a great defeat. In the end, he was blocked by the officers and soldiers in the area of Gucheng County, but in the end, he could not cross Hebei and then enter Nanyang. In addition, Xiong Wencan personally sat in Xiangyang. All the officers and soldiers did not dare to slack off and blocked the north of the river, so that Zhang Xianzhong could not cross the river.

Liu Guoneng finally couldn't hold on at this time. He accepted Xiong Wencan's request in Tanghe and announced his surrender to the government on the spot. Xiong Wencan was overjoyed to hear that and immediately gave Liu Guoneng as a guard, so that his troops were merged under Zuo Liangyu's command to obey Zuo Liangyu's dispatch.

In fact, Liu Guoneng has not worked hard. If Liu Guoneng could join forces with Zhang Xianzhong two months ago, not only the officers and soldiers can't do anything about him, but also Zhang Xianzhong may not be forced to this extent by Xiong Wencan this time.

Why is Zhang Xianzhong used to his arrogance? After crossing the river in the south, he and Liu Guoneng had a lot of slang between his subordinates in order to grab territory, so that later Liu Guoneng was quite afraid of Zhang Xianzhong. He always felt that once he and Zhang Xianzhong were together, Zhang Xianzhong would definitely annex him, and even secretly In addition to him, so he always refused to be together with Zhang Xianzhong and cross the river alone. As a result, under the command of Xiong Wencan, he was defeated in a row, so that he was forced to be desperate. In the end, he chose to lead nearly 20,000 troops under his command, simply surrendered to the court, and was accepted by Xiong Wencan to Zuo Liangyu's command.

Liu Guoneng's surrender was undoubtedly a great achievement for Xiong Wencan, and at the same time, it was a big blow to all the rebels in Huguang and Henan.

At this time, not only Zhang Xianzhong was in trouble, but also Luo Rucai and his life was not easy at this time. First, he was defeated in Shanxi and fled back to Shaanxi. He went north to Yulin and then was expelled from Shangluo in the south. Soon after, he was expelled from Shangluo sent by Sun Chuanting and went to the West Gorge to Yunyang. Originally, tens of thousands of people came to At this time, there were less than 10,000 horses left, and most of them were weak soldiers. After arriving in Yunyang, they were ambushed by the officers and soldiers, forcing Luo Ru to flee north.

Originally, Xiong Wencan thought that he could take the opportunity to exterminate or appease Luo Rucai this time, but he moved a little slower, but finally let Luo Rucai escape from the encirclement and wanted to send someone to chase him again, but at this time he received a message from Luoyang that Ruzhou was punished by Xing Tianjun in just a few days. After conquering, Ruzhou's garrison He Zigang fought to death, and Zhao Tianci of Zhizhou was captured and surrendered to the thief.

This news suddenly shocked Xiong Wencan again. Although he already knew that Xing Tianjun was attacking Ruzhou, the number of troops in Ruzhou has increased a lot in the past six months. Now there should be at least three or four thousand garrison troops. Although it is not possible to defeat the thief army in the field outside the city, at least it should be no problem to defend the city. In his In my impression, the thief army is often very poor in the means of attacking the city. It can only take the method of ants climbing the city. Most of the time, the siege can't be attacked. Although the Xing Tian army is much more powerful than the ordinary thief army, it is estimated that the siege is not necessarily more powerful. No matter how bad Ruzhou is, it can at least last for half a month or even a month. It was easy to hold on until the Huangde Power Department arrived and picked up the siege of Ruzhou, but I didn't think that as soon as he had arranged the rescuers, Ruzhou had been lost there. If Xing Tianjun was really so powerful, then Luoyang City was really in danger!

Therefore, Xiong Wencan did not dare to delay any longer. He ordered to temporarily let go of the pursuit of Luo Rucai, and then sent someone to quickly pass on his order, so that Huang Degong could rush directly to Luoyang City day and night to strengthen Luoyang's defensive strength and strictly prevent the Xingtian Army from attacking Luoyang immediately after conquering Ruzhou, preferably Huang De's function in Ruzhou. It is best to control the Xingtian Army so that it cannot go north to attack Luoyang.

And he immediately sent someone to Gucheng County to persuade Zhang Xianzhong. It is best to let Zhang Xianzhong quickly defect to the court. As long as Zhang Xianzhong is solved, he will have more troops to invest in suppressing the Xingtian Army!