Chapter 190 Sit and wait for the door

Speaking of Fengyang Prefecture seems to be a big war, but in fact, the army is far less military strength than that of the Xingtian army, and its combat effectiveness is also extremely poor. The two armies have only looked across the river for a few days and did not really fight. After the soldiers and horses of the two-winged Xingtian army crossed the Huaihe River, the officers and soldiers of Fengyang Mansion collapsed directly, so the two armies hardly happened. What a decent war, the officers and soldiers easily lost the Fengyang Mansion, so there was almost nothing to mention in this battle.

But after the news of Xing Tianjun's capture of Fengyang Mansion came to Ding Qirui's ears, for Ding Qirui, it was undoubtedly like a five thunderbolt. The last time Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong captured Fengyang Mansion, Chongzhen was furious. After that, he was held responsible for killing many officials. This time, he Sitting in the south Zhili, he still lost the Fengyang Mansion. God knows whether the court will issue a decree to arrest him as a governor, and cut off his head on the charge of losing the capital.

Therefore, after hearing the news, Ding Qirui rushed back to Nanjing City from Jiujiang Mansion, and immediately inquired about the situation of the war in Fengyang Mansion. When he learned that Zhu Dadian abandoned the city and fled to Luzhou, he was so angry that he couldn't even take care of it. He scolded Zhu Dadian as a waste, but he was a The sinner who harmed the country immediately sent people to the capital to impeach Zhu Dian, asked the emperor to arrest and interrogate Zhu Dian, and by the way pushed the crime of losing Zhongdu to Zhu Dian.

But responsibility is a matter of responsibility. If Fengyang Mansion is broken, you must find a way to take it back. After all, Fengyang Mansion is the capital of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor's hometown, the ancestral tomb of the Zhu family is different from other places. If you lose it, you will lose it. You can't lose it like this, so Ding Qirui sat in Nanzhili and ordered General Huang Depower led 20,000 troops. Under the leadership of the superintendent Wanji, he immediately mobilized the officers and soldiers around Luzhou, gathered a total of 30,000 troops, and began to go north to Fengyang Prefecture. However, Ding Qirui also knew that with Huang Degong and Wan Wanji's 30,000 officers and soldiers, it was absolutely impossible to beat the more than 30,000 people who were punished thieves. It's to deliver vegetables to others. Maybe these 30,000 troops will also be damaged in Fengyang Mansion.

So when he dispatched Huang Degong and Wan Wan Ji soldiers to Fengyang Mansion, he ordered Sun Yingyuan, the general of Xuzhou, to lead 10,000 troops to rush to Fengyang Mansion, and attack the Xing Tianjun from the back. This was not enough. He then ordered Kong Zhen, the supervisor in Chuzhou at this time, to raise 10,000 soldiers and rushed to Fengyang Mansion to collect 10,000 yuan of Ji and attack Feng. Yangfu.

After mobilizing so many soldiers and horses, Ding Qirui still felt uncertain, so he then dispatched people from Huai'an Mansion to join the Xuzhou soldiers from Sizhou to Fengyang Mansion and attack the Xing Tianjun.

This time, Ding Qirui can be said to have made a lot of effort. He almost mobilized the whole soldiers and horses in the north of Nanzhili. He strictly ordered the generals not to retreat without authorization. It was necessary to recover the Fengyang Mansion, at least drove the thief army back to the area of Suzhou, and blocked the Xingtian thieves and continued to go south to threaten Nanjing City. If anyone dares to retreat in the battle, he will You have to arrest him.

Such an order is very strict. He made all the officials of Nanzhili understand that if Fengyang Mansion can't get it back, then everyone has no good fruit to eat.

After the generals in various places got the order, they were also deeply convinced, because they also knew the importance of Fengyang Mansion. Once they could not come back, the emperor in the court would definitely be furious again. It was inevitable that he would arrest and kill a group of people to pursue responsibility. Therefore, after the orders were ordered, at the end of April, they were all ordered one after another. After the soldiers and horses, they went to Fengyang Mansion.

And at this time, the court also learned the news that Fengyang Mansion was being defeated again. Chongzhen was so anxious that he cried. He ran to the temple and knelt in front of the portraits of his ancestors, and once again gave himself a guilty edict. At the same time, the angry Chongzhen then ordered him to escape to the governor of Luzhou. Zhu Dadian was arrested and sent to the capital to plead guilty.

These actions made by Chongzhen were done in one go, which was rare and quick. It can be seen that Chongzhen has been completely anxious at present. In addition to arresting Zhu Dadian, Chongzhen also severely reprimanded Ding Qirui and the prison army in Luzhou, so that he made him to make meritorious deeds and immediately recover Fengyang Mansion. Otherwise, he would also be held accountable.

Chongzhen's strict attitude undoubtedly sounded the alarm for the officials of Nanzhili. At present, they either continue to be arrested and killed, or they can only desperately take back Fengyang Mansion. Therefore, after Xiao Tianjian captured Fengyang Mansion, the whole Nanzhili was completely affected, and the road officials all the way The army rushed to Fengyang Mansion one after another.

Even the officers and soldiers in the area of Jingfu and the officers in Shandong were completely affected again at this time. Ma Ke and Bai Guangen, who were sitting in Shunde Prefecture, received the imperial edict and ordered them to lead their troops to attack Zhangde Prefecture to contain the troops of the Xingtian Army in the north. At the same time, Liu Zeqing, the general of Shandong, also received the imperial edict in Jining, so that he could immediately go out. The soldiers attacked and returned to Defu, which was also restrained behind the Xing Tianjun to buy time for the soldiers and horses of Nanzhili.

This can be said to be a hair and move the whole body. The whole Ming Dynasty was almost stirred up again at this time. Even in Sichuan, Sichuan governor Shao Jiechun also ordered the dispatch of Zhang Yingyuan, the general of Shu, out of Sichuan, down the Yangtze River, and forced Jingzhou, trying to put pressure on the Xing Tianjun from the southwest direction, forcing Xing Tianjun to give up the use of soldiers in Nanjing. .

In fact, at this time, Chongzhen no longer considered whether he could regain the Fengyang Mansion. The reason why he mobilized troops was actually only to delay Xing Tianjun and force Xing Tianjun to give up attacking Nanjing.

On the surface, it seems that the territory controlled by the court is still very large. At least Shandong, Hebei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Liangguang, Yunnan and other places are still under the control of the court. Xing Tianjun only controlled the three provinces of Shanxi, Henan and Huguang, but the fall of Huguang made the court lose a lot. Under a base of financial resources and food supply, Xing Tianjun has acquired a large area of rich land, which enables Xing Tianjun to feed more soldiers, and also obtains a relatively solid economic source.

By this time, the finance of the imperial court has become more and more difficult. In order to cope with such a large-scale war, Chongzhen once again issued orders to Xuanfu, Datong, Yansui, Ningxia, Gansu, Guyuan, Lintao, Liaodong, Jizhen, and Baoding, Jifu, Shandong, Hebei and Nanzhili at the end of April. The town increased the salary by 6 million taels. As a result, the burden on the people in various places became heavier. As soon as the news came out, there was an uproar in various places. The people cursed one by one, hoping that Xing Tianjun would quickly overturn the damn court and the government. The people of Nanzhili were moved by the wind, and a large number of people fled to Xingtian. The army's control area defected to the Xingtian Army.

Between the control area of the Xingtian Army and the control area of the government, almost every day, a large number of people fled into the control area of the Xingtian Army. The officers tried to stop it, but they were afraid of being attacked by the soldiers and horses of the Xing Tianjun, so they could only watch the people fleeing from their land in large numbers.

Chinese people all have the plot of earth love. They feel that the land is their root. Generally speaking, as long as they can still live, they will not easily abandon the land and go far away from home. At this time, they are really forced to live, so they would rather lose their own. The land also wants to escape from their hometown to ask for a way to live on the territory of the Xing Tianjun. It can be seen that in this strange circle, Chongzhen is completely irreparable.

Originally, after capturing Fengyang Mansion, Xiao Tianjian planned to immediately send troops to attack Luzhou. After attacking Luzhou, he went straight down the Yangtze River to Nanzhili. However, after he took down Fengyang Mansion, he found that this was not necessarily the best strategy. The importance of Fengyang Mansion was highlighted at this time, and the government was Shocked, Ding Qirui directly gave up attacking Huguang, went back to Nanjing, and sent troops and horses everywhere to prepare to conquer Fengyang Mansion.

So Xiao Tianjian immediately adjusted the original battle plan in the area of Fengyang Mansion. This time, they fought against Fengyang Mansion without consuming much materials and horses, and the price was very small. All departments basically maintained a complete system, and even did not even need to supplement. On the contrary, they reduced more than 5,000 officers and soldiers and captured a large number of officials. Supplies discarded by the army.

Xiao Tianjian ordered Shi Ran to immediately select 2,000 of them on the basis of this group of officers and soldiers on the basis, and selected and promoted a group of capable soldiers from other battalions, supplemented Shi Ran's men, and made him select thousands of people from among the people who defected to them, and set up directly in Fengyang Prefecture. A division is temporarily sitting in Fengyang Mansion to prepare in advance for the takeover of Nanzhili in the future. Shi Ran's soldiers and horses obviously cannot be used as the main battle army at present, but they can be used as auxiliary soldiers for the time being, and train soldiers while fighting. In time, they can gradually take over the territory occupied by the Xingtian Army, so that Xiao Tianjian does not use it. Divide the troops again and again.

The rest of the troops were also ordered by Xiao Tianjian to temporarily stop marching into Luzhou, but stationed around Fengyang Mansion, in response to the adjustment of the officers and soldiers, to give the officers and soldiers to wait for work, waiting for them to come to their own door.

For Luo Li, as soon as he arrived at Fengyang Mansion, he proposed to Xiao Tianjian that he would simply dig down the Ming Emperor's Mausoleum in the south of Daming Mansion and directly dig the ancestral tomb of the Zhu family. First, he could break the dragon vein feng shui of the Zhu family, and second, he would humiliate the current court, but his proposal was immediately Xiao Tianjian scolded him. Although Xing Tianjun is now vowing to be irresucible with the Zhu Dynasty, the sin is not on the ancestors of the Zhu family. They should give the least respect to the dead. Otherwise, although it can be attacked in the current court, it is likely to be out of control and will eventually offend the people of the world. You should know the ancients. The most taboo is that the ancestral grave has been dug up. This will damage the yin virtue!

Xiao Tianjian has no ancestral graves to dig in the world, but the court is not polite to Li Zicheng. It is said that the new third-party governor Wang Qiaonian was in Shaanxi some time ago. In order to deal with Li Zicheng, who is now in the Hanzhong area, he sent people to Mizhi to find Li Zicheng's ancestral grave and gave the ancestral grave of the Li Zicheng family. Digging, the angry Li Zicheng sent troops in Hanzhong and stormed Fengxiang Mansion. He had to kill Wang Qiaonian!

It can be seen that the ancients were very afraid of being dug the ancestral graves. Xiao Tianjian thought that he did not need to do this, and he could still overturn the Zhu Dynasty. Therefore, after taking down Fengyang Mansion, Xiao Tianjian ordered Li Shuanzhu's people to evacuate the Ming Imperial Mausoleum, and did not allow anyone to go again. Destroying the Ming imperial mausoleum, and at the same time, a group of eunuchs who were left in the Zhongdu Palace captured in the imperial city of Fengyang Mansion were sent to the Ming imperial mausoleum and gave them food to take care of the imperial mausoleum. Even the Zhongdu Palace in Fengyang Mansion City, Xiao Tianjian did not move in and sent someone to seal it without destroying it.