Chapter 187 Soldiers Send Luoyang

Although Xiong Wencan also made a final effort after learning the news of Zuo Liangyu's defeat in Qi County. He wanted to transfer Zhang Xianzhong, who had been appeased in Gucheng, and Wang Guangen, Wang Guoning, Huidengxiang and others who had been appeased in Yunyang, to send troops to deal with Xing Tianjun, Zhang Xianzhong did not buy him at all, but in the area of Gucheng. The soldiers were self-respecting and asked him for food and salary. He threatened that if he did not give food and salary, he would not be able to control his soldiers and horses. If his old troops could not get food and salary and then forced him to make trouble, it would be no wonder. As for Wang Guangen and others verbally agreed to send troops, they said that the food and salary were not good, could not move, and also delayed. Reluctance to move, Li Guoqi was even more because he was defeated in Lu's army and his vitality was seriously injured, and he did not have the strength to send troops to attack Xing Tianjun again.

Xiong Wencan then sent someone to Kaifeng Mansion again to transfer Chen Yongfu and Liu Zeqing to rescue Luoyang City, but at this time, how could these two people jump into the fire pit of Luoyang? Although Li Xianfeng, the new governor of Henan, knew that once Luoyang was broken, he, the governor of Henan, would definitely be held accountable by the current emperor. However, he suffered from the fact that he could not organize a usable soldier and horse at all in Henan now. Chen Yongfu was already the last general of Kaifeng Mansion. Once Chen Yongfu came out of Kaifeng to rescue Luo Yang, if he is defeated by the Xingtian army again, then even the Kaifeng Mansion will probably be finished, so he can only report to the court and ask Emperor Chongzhen to send the soldiers of the capital to the south to rescue Luoyang. In advance, he shirked part of the responsibility for the loss of Luoyang, so as to lay the groundwork for the emperor's investigation after the loss of Luoyang in the future.

By this time, the Guizhou donkey was already exhausted, and there was nothing he could do. He could only stare at the Xing Tianjun soldiers besieging Luoyang, but there was nothing he could do.

After Yang Sichang and Chongzhen of the capital learned the news, they were even more angry and frightened. Originally, Chongzhen asked Xiong Wencan to solve the Xingtian Army within three months. Now it is good that the Xingtian Army has not been solved, but all kinds of officers and soldiers have been solved by the Xingtian Army. Nearly 100,000 officers and soldiers are under the front of the Xingtian Army. It didn't play a role. Instead, it was disintegrated by Xing Tianjun. Now Luoyang City has also become the flesh of Xing Tianjun, and it is about to be in security. Therefore, Chongzhen and Yang Sichang discussed to order Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting to personally supervise the division and lead the Shaanxi army out of Tongguan to attack Xing Tianjun again and strive to rescue Luoyang.

However, without waiting for their order, Hong Chengchou, the three-sided governor of Shaanxi, and Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, sent a report, saying that Li Zicheng and Lao Hui and other Lu Yijun once again took advantage of the opportunity of Shaanxi's transfer of troops to Henan to help Henan, and began to be active again in southern Shaanxi, and this time it was even more fierce. They are trying their best to encircle and suppress it.

This time, even Yang Sichang and Chongzhen were dumbfounded. After thinking about it, they also found that there were basically no adjustable soldiers at present. It was impossible to transfer the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp around the Beijing Division to Henan. With the arrival of summer, it also indicates that the Jiannu and Tazi outside the customs will start the annual routine. Guan Xing plundered, and the Beijing camp went south, so the troops in the area of the capital division were empty. Who would come to guard the capital division to protect them?

Therefore, although the Ming Dynasty knew that Luoyang was in danger, he was helpless and could not take out how many soldiers and horses to rescue Luoyang City. Therefore, Chongzhen finally had no choice but to order Zhangde Mansion, Huaiqing Mansion and Weihui Mansion in northern Henan to gather a soldier and horse, led by Luo Dai, a deputy general of Henan, to cross the Yellow River to help Luoyang.

However, Chongzhen's decree was issued a little too late. When he issued the order, Xiao Tianjian had led his troops to surround Luoyang City, and Yanshi County had also been captured by the Xing Tian Army. In a short period of time, even the three prefectures in northern Henan received the imperial decree, but the organizers went south. In a word, under the panic of the imperial court, only the new Henan general Zhang Renxue was transferred, leading more than 2,000 officers and soldiers to the city of Luoyang before Yanshi County was captured by the Xingtian army, and slightly supplementing Luoyang's strength.

On May 20, Xiao Tianjian personally led Liu Yaoben, Situ Liang and other troops to 15 miles south of Luoyang City and stopped. Li Shuanzhu and Luo Li also began to march not far from Luoyang City, forming an encirclement of Luoyang City with Xiao Tianjian.

At this time, there were nearly 20,000 officers and soldiers left in the camp outside the city. When they learned that the Xing Tianjun army had arrived, the army was even more chaotic.

The defenders in Luoyang, who doesn't know the power of Xing Tianjun! In the past two years, they have really fought with the people of Xing Tianjun, but many times they have lost more and won less, so much that they watched Xing Tianjun gradually nibble away the states and counties around Luoyang step by step, and finally left them alone in Luoyang City. In the past, at least they still occupied their military strength. Advantages, there is a little sense of security in Luoyang City, but now they not only have no military advantages, but also equipment advantages completely disappeared. What's more, in the first half of the year, there has been a shortage of soldiers in the army, and even the military food can't be helped. They basically rely on grabbing to eat. The military generals have long been complaining and gone. The determination to defend Luoyang to the death.

What's more, who doesn't know that the Fuwang in Luoyang City is extremely rich, and his family wealth is more than millions. However, this damn Fuwang has always been an iron rooster. He refused to take out the salary to send to the officers and soldiers to solve the problem of the soldiers' salary and grain. On the contrary, he became more and more hoarding goods in the city. Most of their officers and soldiers are also recruiting soldiers. Who can't live to be soldiers for the government? They are all born in bitterness. How can they work hard for such a royal family!

So before Xiao Tianjian led his troops to Luoyang, a large number of officers and soldiers in the army shouted the slogan that once the thief army invaded, they would never fight to the death. By this time, the military heart was basically on the verge of collapse at any time.

At this time, the magistrate Kang Meng Hui and the officials in Luoyang City, and even the old officials of Yu Zhishi, all joined forces to find the king of Fu. Even Lv Weiqi, the minister of the Nanjing Ministry of War, who was resting in Luoyang's home, came forward and begging the king of Fu to take out the money and distribute it to the guard officers and soldiers. At the same time, he offered a heavy reward to kill one thief. How much money is rewarded, how much money is rewarded for each injured thief, win the support of these officers and soldiers, and win them to defend the city for Luoyang City.

However, after listening to their requests, this fat pig-like lucky king shook his sleeves or flatly refused their demands. A dead pig was not afraid of boiling water and insisted that he had no money or food. The responsibility of defending the land should have been the responsibility of the emperor of the imperial court. How could he let these vassals? What about paying military pay? He also said that this is against the ancestral system. The vassal king must not buy people's hearts and collude with local civil and military officials in the local place to shirk it. In short, King Fu just said one sentence, "If you don't want money, you have to die.

The result was that after hearing this, Kang Meng Hui cried and took his officials out of the Fuwang Mansion, looked up to the sky and cried, staggered to the camp with empty hands to persuade the officers and soldiers to keep Luoyang City.

Things didn't change a little until Xiao Tianjian led his troops to arrive outside Luoyang City. When he heard the news that the thief army had arrived outside the city and the defenders of Luoyang was uncertain, King Fu really panicked until this time. He took the initiative to send someone to find Kang Meng Hui and told Kang Meng Hui that he was willing to take out 5,000 taels of silver. Come to help the military salary, no matter how much is left, let Kang Meng Hui find a way by himself.

After hearing this, Meng Hui couldn't laugh or cry, 5,000 taels of silver. For 20,000 or 30,000 defenders, even if everyone is divided equally, a soldier can't get less than five coins of silver. With this little money, do you want to buy officers and soldiers to die for Luoyang City? Haha! Haha! Joke!

What's more, the 5,000 taels of silver were sent out and were casually deducted by the officers along the way. When it came to the soldiers, I'm afraid there would be no more big men left. As soon as the news came out, the officers and soldiers in the whole city were even bigger. Even if a soldier fell on the guy, he took off his uniform and quit.

In fact, these things have long been expected by Xiao Tianjian. The reason why he left Luoyang's fat meat for so long is to wait for the arrival of this day. Once he sent troops to attack Luoyang City last year, the officers and soldiers in Luoyang City had not cut off their salaries and food at that time. They still had the determination to fight to the death, and he The strength is not enough to attack a strong city like Luoyang. If it is really a forced attack on Luoyang, even if it can finally capture Luoyang City, it can only be a tragic victory. In the end, under the counterattack of the court, Luoyang still can't defend it, and even the whole base in western Henan may be lost to the officers and soldiers because of the consumption of his military strength. At this time, it was really time for him to pick peaches.

On the day when he led his troops to arrive outside Luoyang City, hundreds of fugitives from the Luoyang garrison outside the city ran to the camp of Xing Tianjun. The next day, before Xiao Tianjian sent troops to attack the officer camp outside the city, thousands of officers and soldiers became deserters and defected to the Xing Tianjun side.

Although the remaining officers and soldiers have not yet fled, they have long lost their fighting spirit. The officials have asked to enter Luoyang City one after another. However, how can Kang Meng Hui and the current Luoyang soldiers and Wang Yinchang dare to let so many officers and soldiers into the city! They all know what the virtue of these officers and soldiers are. It's basically the same as letting them enter the city and letting the thief army enter the city. If more than 10,000 officers and soldiers enter the city, they will definitely rob Luoyang City. What's more, there is a shortage of food and less food in the city, and then 10,000 or 20,000 people will pour in at once. What do they eat? It is even more ridiculous to expect them to defend the city. On the contrary, it aggravates the current situation of food shortage in the city.

So Kang Meng Hui finally refused the request of the officers and soldiers outside the city, so that they continued to garrison outside the city to resist the thief's attack on Luoyang City.

When the officers and soldiers outside the city learned the news that Kang Meng Hui refused them to enter the city, there was a sudden uproar. Even the military generals did not do it this time. They rushed to the city to scold Meng Hui and the officials in the city, and even scold Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu, by name, and scolded them for their inhumanity. They regarded their lives as nothing. They should Death to the extreme.

At this time, Xiao Tianjian gave an order, and several soldiers marched side by side and pushed towards Luoyang City. As Xing Tianjun approached, these officers and soldiers who were noisy under the city could not support it. They dispersed one after another, either fled to the north of the city, or simply surrendered. Xing Tianjun turned gorgeously and became a member of Xing Tianjun, turned the knife edge, and aimed at Luoyang City.