Chapter 135 The Crime of suppressing the soldiers and the people
The situation in the Central Plains entered Chongzhen in October, and because of the action of Xing Tianjun, several provinces in the Central Plains were stirred up by Xiao Tianjian.
While Xiong Wencan was busy dealing with this matter, Chongzhen and Yang Sichang, who were in the capital, received the same news. Chongzhen couldn't help but be furious about this and immediately called Yang Sichang and asked Yang Sichang a trick.
Yang Sichang was also a little nervous about this news. After all, the matter of Xing Tianjun has not been a day and a half. At the beginning of the year, he told Chongzhen that after Xiong Wencan took office, he would quickly solve the matter of Xing Tianjun. As a result, the mobilized officers and soldiers not only did not solve the Xing Tianjun, but also the lost five counties in Yuxi. It could not be taken back. On the contrary, thousands of Guan Ningjun from Zu Dale and Zu Kuan were made dumplings by Xing Tianjun.
Although the guilt was blamed on Wang Jiazhen at that time, and the emperor killed Wang Jiazhen in Beijing, it was also because of this defeat that he changed Xiong Wencan's strategy, which made Xiong Wencan turn around to deal with Zhang Xianzhong and Liu Guoneng and wait for the civil army, and first dragged down the matter of Xing Tianjun.
Although Xiong Wencan still did well in office during this period, according to his strategy of opening nets, all the rebels who had been squeezed were in trouble, and Sun Chuanting in Shaanxi, who cooperated with Hong Chengchou, also defeated Li Zicheng and other road volunteers. Seeing the situation, he wanted to see the dawn, but Unexpectedly, Xing Tianjun, who had been dormant for more than half a year, suddenly launched another army. In an instant, it captured Mianchi and Ruzhou, and the front of the soldiers disappeared to Luoyang City.
Chongzhen is still quite affectionate with his uncle Zhu Changxun, Fu Wang, who was a vassal in Luoyang City. Once Luoyang has a lot of advantages and disadvantages, King Fu will definitely not be spared. With Chongzhen's temper, he and Xiong Wencan will definitely not be spared, so Yang Sichang is also quite nervous.
When Chongzhen asked Yang Sichang, Yang Sichang pretended to reply calmly to Chongzhen, saying that what Xiong Wencan is doing now is to first cut off other rebels, then gather heavy troops, and completely eliminate the criminal Tianjun, a group of thieves, in one fell swoop. Nowadays, most of the civil armies are in a desperate situation. It only needs to wait for a period of time. They can be cut off, and then it will be the end of Xing Tianjun.
However, Chongzhen was not satisfied with Yang Sichang's answer. He was concerned about what Luoyang would do now. For Chongzhen's question, Yang Sichang deduced that Xiong Wencan is now suppressing the Central Plains, and there will definitely be a countermeasure to the danger of Luoyang. However, if you want to completely solve the criminal Tianjun, it is necessary to Sanshan, Shaanxi and Henan. The province joins hands to take action against Xing Tianjun to solve Xing Tianjun as soon as possible.
For this reason, Chongzhen once again asked Yang Sichang how the three provinces were linked. Yang Sichang replied that in Henan, Xiong Wencan was the main one. After suppressing Zhang Xianzhong and other generations, he gathered troops from Shandong, Henan, Jiangbei and Huguang provinces to encircle and suppress the Xingtian Army in western Henan, which can ensure that Luoyang is fine, while Hong Chengchou and Sun in Shaanxi In the court, soldiers were sent out of Tongguan to suppress the Xingtian army from the abdomen and back, so that the Xingtian army in Henan was in a situation of being attacked by the enemy. It was expected that no matter how capable the Xingtian army was, it could not resist.
As for Shanxi, Lu Xiangsheng was ordered to mobilize the soldiers and horses in Shanxi to suppress the territory of the Xingtian Army in southern Jin, and forced the Xingtian Army to be unable to take care of each other in the north and south, so that the situation in the Central Plains could be greatly determined.
After listening to it, Chongzhen was more or less satisfied, which made Yang Sichang step up the supervision of this matter. He should not only eliminate Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong as soon as possible, but also try his best to capture Xiao Tianjian, the thief chieftain as soon as possible, and completely solve the present confidant of Xing Tianjun, the imperial court. Suffering.
In other words, at this time, the most threatening civilian army in Chongzhen's eyes is no longer Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others. After years of development, he has found in horror that in fact, like Li Zicheng and other generations, compared with Xiao Tianjian, the rising star, Xiao Tianjian's Xingtian. Jun, it's more terrible.
After all, Li Zicheng and other generations can only call it a bandit now, but Xiao Tianjian's Xing Tianjun has occupied a large area in the south of Jin and western Henan. There has been a situation in the country in the dark, and carefully reviewing the history of Xing Tianjun, Chongzhen was even more shocked to see that Xing Tianjun in the past few years. See, it can be said that he is slowly hoarding power step by step. At present, his strength is already quite strong. It can be said that his wings are abundant. In the repeated advances and subjugation of the officers and soldiers, they have shown considerable courage, resulting in the defeat of the officers and soldiers from all sides, without exception, so if it continues to develop like this, once If he takes Luoyang again, he may not be able to extinguish it again.
Therefore, Chongzhen is now worried about Xing Tianjun.
Yang Sichang withdrew from the palace and stood at the palace gate and was blown by the cold wind of October. He felt that his back was cold and right in less than half an hour, which made him sweat coldly behind him. He looked up at the gloomy sky. He said to himself, "Xing Tianjun, Xiao Tianjian, why are you so difficult to deal with? Always Do you want to jump out at a critical moment? That's all right! I can't let you go this time! I don't believe it. Can you really turn the world upside down with your own strength? Let me, Yang Sichang, deal with you this time! Let's go! Go home!"
After saying that, Yang Sichang told the people who followed him, turned around and boarded his sedan chair, quickly rushed back to the house, and began to arrange the invasion and suppress the Xing Tianjun overnight.
After Xiao Tianjian led his troops to conquer Ruzhou, he did not do much. In a short period of time, he settled the situation in Ruzhou City. In addition, his superior Tu Liang led the cavalry battalion to sweep around Ruzhou City in advance, and basically cleaned up the hostile forces around Ruzhou. In addition, because of the boundary between Ruzhou and Ruyang, the punishment The behavior of the Tianjun in Ruyang and other places has long spread all over the surrounding areas. The people have long been very disappointed with the court and the government. They can't wait for the Xing Tianjun to attack quickly. They can also become the people under the Xingtian Army and enjoy the kindness of the Xing Tianjun to them. Therefore, once the Xingtian Army has captured Ruzhou City and the border of Ruzhou. Various forces within immediately took effect one after another.
Moreover, since Xing Tianjun launched the banner of "sup suppressing the soldiers and calming the people, hanging the people and attacking the people", coupled with the prestige in Henan, and even some places such as Lushan, Baofeng, Wuyang and even Junzhou, Xing Tianjun directly sent people to find a way and ran to Ruyang County to show their intention to show their commitment, hoping that Xiao Tianjian Lead the troops to their place as soon as possible, willing to follow Xiao Tianjian's instructions, and take these places together inside and outside.
Some small rebels farther away simply led their men hundreds of miles away, and came under Xiao Tianjian's command to protect Xiao Tianjian's wings.
Xiao Tianjian naturally knew all about these things. As soon as he went to Ruzhou, he immediately sent two battalions of soldiers, so that Li Shuanzhu led him and went straight to Yiyang. The two thousand officers stationed in Yiyang were already at a loss. At this time, he was already scared. He didn't wait for Li Shuangzhu's soldiers to reach the city of Yiyang. Before crossing the Luohe River, he led the soldiers. The guerrilla led the soldiers to abandon the city first. When the soldiers fled, the official naturally could not defend Yiyang. As a result, Li Shuanzhu almost took no effort and removed Yiyang County.
So far, all the counties in the west and south around Luoyang City have fallen. The whole Luoyang City is like a stripped woman, ** under the front of the Xing Tianjun.
Xiao Tianjian stood behind his back in front of a sand table in the tent of the army in the Ruzhou camp. There were various small flags everywhere. He and Niu Jinxing and other staffs pointed out on the sand table to discuss what might happen next. Luo Li, Liu Yaoben, Zhao Erlu and other important generals also stood around the sand table. Listening to Xiao Tianjian and Niu Jinxing discussing, they can also interrupt and say their opinions from time to time.
"Now it is basically certain that it is impossible for Xiong Wencan to move to Luoyang in person in a short time. He must also focus on suppressing Zhang Xianzhong and other Lu Rebels! So it's different from our expectations. In a short time, there will be no large group of officers and soldiers coming!
Now I guess that Xiong Wencan is most likely to transfer Chen Yongfu's troops from Kaifeng to Luoyang to strengthen Luoyang's garrison, and may use the garrison of Junzhou and the troops around Gwangju and eastern Henan to come to rescue Luoyang. In addition, it is also likely to ask Hong Chengchou to send Shaanxi troops out of Tongguan to attack us!" Niu Jinxing pointed to the sand table and analyzed his guess to Xiao Tianjian and other people.
Xiao Tianjian touched his chin and hugged his arm and nodded, "Now it seems that it is really like what Mr. Niu said. Xiong Wencan will indeed not give up the fruits of victory that he is about to get, and should not personally lead the army from Huguang to deal with us!
Chen Yongfu's soldiers and horses are the nearest force he can mobilize. He will definitely send Chen Yongfu to Luoyang to assist in defense!
At present, as for the officers and soldiers in other places, the news has not been sent back, and their movements are not clear, but if Xiong Wencan does this, I'm afraid the Eighth King will be a little bad this time! This time, we also had the idea of restraining Xiong Wencan to help the eighth king, but Xiong Wencan was not fooled, and the eighth king could not blame me!
However, since Xiong Wencan doesn't come, we can't just wait like this. Luoyang is not in a hurry to move, which makes Fu Wang and Feng Yijun nervous again. Now it's not the right time to fight Luoyang. Why don't we take Baofeng and Lushan down when Xiong Wencan's army doesn't come?
A young man in a scribe's gown standing next to Niu Jinxing said, "Why didn't the commander fight first, completely isolate Luoyang City, and cut off all the channels for the officers and soldiers to help Luoyang? On the contrary, we have to delay the time and play Baofeng and Lushan first, so that Luoyang is more prepared? Isn't this contrary to the commander-in-chief's original decision?"
Xiao Tianjian took a look at the young scribe standing behind Niu Jinxing. This person's name is Li Jinde, and his name is Xiuye. He is a scholar who Niu Jinxing has just been attracted to Xiao Tianjian recently. He is also a quite talented person. Originally, if he stepped into an official career, he should have been very advanced. On the way, why did he have a bad fate? Because he offended the official with some small things, he was later framed by the official, so that his family was ruined and he was exiled to Lushan alone. He was once helped by Niu Jinxing.
After Niu Jinxing defected to Xiao Tianjian, he recommended Li Jinde to Xiao Tianjian, and wrote that the trustee went to Lushan to find Li Jinde. After receiving Niu Jinxing's letter, Li Jinde gritted his teeth and also defected. After a short contact, Xiao Tianjian found that this person was available, so he also stayed by his side to make a The counselor is now one of the counselors of Xiao Tian's fitness.
Hearing Li Jinde ask him this question, Xiao Tianjian smiled and said, "It's a good question! So everyone is here today, so let me talk about what Mr. Niu and I think! ......”