Chapter 353: Zhu Xianzhen’s defeat, private discussion, inner house

On June 23, after being an ostrich for a long time, the 400,000 official troops in Zhuxian Town, south of Kaifeng City, finally discovered, or finally admitted that they had been killed in deep death.

In the past few days, everyone has been huddled in the camp town, and they don’t even do the sergeant to investigate. They just hypnotize themselves in the camp. This morning, the soldiers who went out to fetch water came back and said that there was no water left. The officials of each battalion were furious and beat these lazy guys up. Several hot battalion officials even chopped their heads and hung them up. A few of them had better tempers, and they also pulled these boys into the camp to parade. The army was approaching, and everyone was in a very depressed mood. These bastard pawns dared to be lazy and did not move military laws. Is there any military discipline?

However, the second wave of those sent out to fetch water also came back and said that there was no water available. Things were abnormal and it was a monster. The camp officials were not willing to be self-disciplined. Of course, they did not dare to send people to investigate themselves, so they had to report to the Grand Marshal and the Governor. They were procrastinating and procrastinating. The Grand Marshal and the Governor barely drew more than a hundred selections from their own town and governors, and issued rewards, so that they could go out for a tough investigation.

Of course, this hard probe only went out for one mile and came back to report the news. The river where the army fetched water had been cut off by the civil engineering operations of the camp, and any place around which might retreat was dug deep and wide trenches by the camp, and the army had become a turtle in the jar.

The closest to the east is the Yang Wenyue camp of the Governor of Baoding, who also contacted the strongest rebel troops. Several forts were built in front of the rebel camp, and the cannons were placed on the fort, and bombarded the officers and soldiers' barracks every day.

The most powerful soldiers in the hands of the governor of Baoding, Yang Wenyue, are the so-called car and artillery battalions. The firearms are powerful. They have also relied on car and artillery battalions and trespassing camps to shoot each other these days. However, in this battle, the accumulated problems of the past are undoubtedly revealed this time. For example, the enemy is far beyond the range. They start shooting with nerves and fire unscrupulously until the ammunition on the position is exhausted, and then stop nervously.

But the result of this is just a waste of ammunition. On June 21, the ammunition of the chariot and artillery battalion was exhausted.

After eliminating the threat, the artillery that broke into the camp began to open fire at Yang Wenyue's local camp without any scruples. Yang Wenyue's subordinates, who had suffered heavy casualties, had no other way except to retreat.

But an army of 400,000 was piled up in such a narrow area. If Yang Wenyue's Baoding troops moved, there would be no room for him to move, and the entire position began to become chaotic. Many soldiers often hoped that the rebel army would be able to invade. If they were to end it, they would always be more powerful than suffering in such a life-and-death way.

On June 22, the fast horses that had been changing horses thirty miles along the way were quickly transferred from Guide Mansion to the camp of the rebel army west of Zhuxian Town. The troops in Shandong were not moving any abnormalities.

Li Zicheng and Cao Cao Luo Rucai, who received this news, finally felt relieved and sent out orders one by one. The decisive battle was today. The soldiers and horses within a radius of dozens of miles were noisy, and hundreds of thousands of troops were constantly mobilized to the predetermined combat position. Among the forwards who made the first strike against the enemy, the general of the general of the camp, Liu Zongmin, and the fourth guard of the Cao Cao camp, Yang Chengzu, all led the backbone troops to the front. This was also a booming military group. They were determined to fight, which was in sharp contrast to the group that was already in the deep and deep in the opposite direction.

On June 23, the Ming officers and soldiers on the east side of Zhuxian Town almost cleared the 400,000 officers and soldiers with military strength north of the Huai River and were entrenched in Zhongzhou for nearly half a year and claimed to be fighting the refugee army, almost never fought a battle with the camp. He let the refugee army come and go in Henan and arrange it calmly.

In the end, although the officers and soldiers selected the battlefield of Zhuxian Town, the Li and Luo coalition forces chose the most suitable time and direction to start the battle.

Before the war, the Ming Dynasty's official army was even more like a stupid pig. It only made a few attempts to attack, and then allowed the opponent to cut off the waterway, dig long trenches, and build solid fortifications. Let the opponent calmly encircle himself in Zhuxian Town. This place has become a dead place.

In addition to the Shandong troops, the court had no longer mobilized some reinforcements. Shandong troops did not send troops for various reasons.

On June 23, the local government troops were trapped in Zhuxian Town, and the reaction was exactly the same as those who were blocked by the Tartars in Songshan during the Battle of Songshan.

The morale of the army was fluctuating. In the early morning of June 23, General Zuo Liangyu, the siege general, led his army to flee first. Then General Yang Guozheng, General Hu Dawei and the two divisions of General Hu Dawei also dispersed, and the troops of the supervisor Ding Qirui were also dispersed.

The noise in the camp in the middle of the night was a taboo, let alone the desperate escape, and the Ming army, which was known as 400,000, collapsed in an instant.

At this time, the skylight first appeared. The Li and Luo coalition forces heard the movements on the opposite side. Although they were preparing for a big battle, a decisive battle, and a bloody battle, they suddenly got the fruits of victory, which surprised everyone, and even worried that it was the official army's lure the enemy. But everyone was old military affairs and could see at a glance that this was definitely not fake. With an order from the commander in the tent, the troops that had been ready to set off were directly sent out. The cavalry that broke into the camp took the lead, and the brigade followed, like huge waves in the sea, sweeping towards the Ming officers and soldiers on the opposite side.

The Ming Dynasty official army, which was extremely panicked, could withstand the pressure of breaking the camp behind the camp like the collapse of the sky and the earth, and could not hold on. It completely collapsed, like a ball of loose sand.

The troops of the general Zuo Liangyu, who was the best in the thief, ran the fastest, and arrived first in front of the deep ditch. The cavalry dismounted one after another and prepared to climb through the deep ditch.

But before the people had climbed out, the fleeing troops behind rushed over again. At this time, the offensive of the camp had been launched, and the officers and soldiers who arrived later were already scared. All formations no longer existed. As a result, before the people in the ditch had climbed out, they were overwhelmed by the people behind. The army trampled on each other. The soldiers drew out weapons to kill the people around them to avoid being trampled into meat paste. However, all this was futile...

The people behind were filled in the ditch by the people behind, row by row. The so-called front and rear followers, and they were probably just so. The trench that was several meters deep and several meters wide was soon filled with corpses of people. The people behind them did not care about the ease of their colleagues and comrades, and they stepped across the ditch. However, there were blockages in front and pursuers behind. The officers and soldiers who were depressed had no intention of fighting at all, and the scattered troops became pigs and sheep slaughtered by the camp.

Under the escort of three or four personal soldiers, Zuo Liangyu fled south. All the flag seals were lost. Ding Qirui, Yang Wenyue, Hu Dawei, Yang Guozheng and other civil and military officials also took a few and dozens of followers and fled to the southern part of Henan desperately.

The Li and Luo coalition forces followed behind and concealed the killing. They chased them from Zhuxian Town for hundreds of miles south, completely defeating the 400,000 officers and soldiers.

By the end of June, the Li and Luo coalition forces seized more than 12,000 horses. There were countless supplies and military funds, and many soldiers of the officers and soldiers surrendered directly to the Li and Luo coalition forces. Suddenly, the refugee army had expanded from one million before the war to one million.

The court originally expected that this battle would stabilize the situation in the world, and even if there was no decisive victory, it would also prevent the refugee army from becoming increasingly fierce.

For Li Meng, a million refugee army and 400,000 officers and soldiers are all troubles regardless of their combat effectiveness. Let these two troubles be consumed and fought with each other first, and pick the advantage by yourself. If you fight with the snipe and clam, the fisherman will benefit. This is indeed a good deal.

After all, I just don’t know if Huang Taiji, who is outside the pass, thinks that way, probably his thinking is similar.

But now, the decisive battle in Zhuxian Town is a total joke. The performance of the Ming Dynasty's official army is even more a joke, and it is a pig and sheep that are wrapped in a fence to be slaughtered.

After this battle, the strength of the Li and Luo coalition forces did not weaken at all. Instead, it was because the Ming army's military-funded horses and a large number of veteran soldiers from the Ming army joined, and their strength increased greatly.

These old soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were like native chickens and tiles in the official army. They were not paid or eaten, and joined the camps of Chuangzhan and Cao Cao. Because of their combat experience and skills, they could receive much better treatment than in the official army, and they also showed much better combat power.

In the thought of troubled times, what is the purpose of everyone buying their lives to fight? Isn’t it just to get a full stomach and get a few money for the money? The government army cannot do it, so it naturally has no combat power. If you can barely do it in the camp, you will naturally work hard to fight.

"The emperor issued an order four days ago to pardon Hou Xun, the former Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, who was in the imperial prison, and to be the governor, replacing Ding Qirui, who is currently in Runing City, and to transfer the Shanxi general Xu Dingguo, and the Beijing camp soldiers to Henan to rescue emergency. At the same time, he sent an imperial envoy to arrest Ding Qirui and imprisonment. Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, was demoted to the sect, and Yang Guozheng, the general, abandoned the city and asked for a beheading."

In early July, Jinan City was already quite hot. After Li Meng finished training outside the city every day, he would handle government affairs in the water pavilion beside Daming Lake to make the place cool.

After the capital issued an order, the official newspaper and the Tang newspaper were often abandoned because the Daming Post Station was systematically abandoned and could not be delivered to various places in time. Because of this, Shandong, under the name of Lingshan Trading Company, a delivery system was seen between the capital and Jinan using the merchants and the Chemadian as nodes.

Ensure that the news from the capital can be transmitted to Jinan City and Li Meng as soon as possible.

The water is surrounded by the wind, the pavilions and pavilions are hot outside, but it is still quite comfortable in the water pavilion. However, the few people present have no comfortable expressions, and they are all listening to Yuan Wenhong reading the newspaper aloud.

This recitation is also one of the basic skills of literati. Yuan Wenhong's voice is clear, but he reads it clearly. In addition to Li Meng and Sun Chuanting wearing an iron mask, two confidant generals Wang Hai and Tang Er were also staying here.

I don’t know how many times I have said the sentence “The Ming Dynasty is over”. Until now, Sun Chuanting has practiced quite calmly, just listening quietly there.

With the analysis and remarks, Li Meng's mood gradually calmed down. He sat back on the chair and spoke:

"Taking the investment of the canal transport lijin has made the finances much more abundant, Shandong will recruit 30,000 troops this year. In this way, the Qingzhou army in Huaiyang land does not have to prepare to come back and support at all times."

Just as I was talking about this, I heard a soldier outside chanting loudly on the preaching:

"Master, someone asks for a visit!"

Anyone who spreads the story outside that says "someone asks for a visit" without indicating his name and identity is just a few people from the Shandong Salt Gang report this way, which is to avoid outsiders in the house.

Since Li Meng sent someone to arrest and inquire, it has been almost a month since Li Meng sent someone to ask. Li Meng was just a confirmation of this matter, and it didn't matter.

The order was issued, and armed salt deputies from all over the country, close wealthy families, Lingshan Trading Company, and Shandong Salt Gang local organizations all reported the news. Since those few net-like inspections, no one has mixed into Shandong ground from the port to move.

Especially in poor places like Shandong, except for wealthy places like Jiningzhou, Jinan Prefecture City, and Linqing, there are no southerners coming. It is quite conspicuous to get in and it is easy to be distinguished by people.

Since no one has been infiltrated as spies, the Zheng family and the Tartars are not so urgent. The power of Jiaozhou Ying at sea is very weak and cannot stop the Zheng family from running to the sea. Moreover, both sides have large private salt business, so they are not in a hurry to deal with it.

Huang Ping walked into the house with the information he had found. The reason why he came so late and brought it here in person was because the information he found was really shocking and could not be reported casually. He had to confirm the news through various aspects.

Then Zheng San is not a character of Sanzhen and Jiulie. On the one hand, the other party threatened with physical evidence, and on the other hand, he seduced a large sum of gold and silver. He also thought very clearly about how to choose.

The Shandong Salt Gang has been operating in Lingshan Private Port for many years, and there are other relationships on board and off the boat. Zheng San was asked to get on board and ask again, and use these relationships to inquire. After nearly ten days of information collection, someone specially sorted it out. After confirming that there was no new news, Huang Ping personally sent it to Li Meng.

With a "slam" sound, Sun Chuanting suddenly dropped the tea bowl in his hand, and heard Huang Ping telling the series of information he had inquired about during this period. At first, he didn't feel anything. When he heard the court sending people to discuss peace, as Huang Ping's statement, Sun Chuanting's anger became increasingly uncontrollable.

In the end, he, who had always been cunning, could no longer suppress his anger. He ignored Li Meng's side and threw away the tea bowl in his hand in anger.

He stood up and gritted his teeth and cursed:

"Don't be fooled, the Tartars are tigers and wolves. They cut their own flesh and blood to feed animals, but they can't feed them all the time. Chen Xinjia is a treacherous minister, a treacherous minister, and the one above... the one above..."

Sun Chuanting struggled for a long time but still couldn't say it. He sat down on the chair dejectedly, even though there were outsiders in the room. He took off his iron mask, covered his face with his hands, raised his head and sighed, and was speechless for a moment.

A minister named Chen sent a land envoy, Ma Shaoyu, who was able to send peace talks in the court, not to mention that the only minister of the Chen family who could send peace talks was Chen Xinjia. With the Ming system, peace talks such as peace talks that had not been seen in three hundred years. How could this minister of the Ministry of War be able to handle the land? It must be someone instructed.

Whoever instructed him was, who else could there be except Emperor Chongzhen?

No matter how Sun Chuanting operated and planned it in Shandong, he was a minister who had been loyal to the Ming Dynasty for decades. Emperor Chongzhen was so supreme. Even if he knew who the person behind the scenes was, he still couldn't scold him.

After thousands of years of inheritance, no matter what the situation in the world is or how chaotic and destructive it is, the responsibility is rarely borne by the emperor. It has always been the responsibility of treacherous ministers, villains, and monsters.

Zhao Gou killed Yue Fei, which was Qin Hui's slander and treacherous plan. Emperor Jianwen reduced his vassals and aroused the Jingnan battle. It was Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai and other pure Confucian slander. The change of Yingzong's Tumubao was because of the manipulation of the eunuch Wang Zhen, Emperor Zhengde's nonsense, the Eight Tigers and Qian Ning were evil, Emperor Jiajing was foolish, that was Yan Song's manipulation. As for Emperor Tianqi, that was Wei Zhongxian. As for the Chongzhen period, Wen Tiren, Qian Qianyi, and Xue Guoguan were all treacherous ministers who were seen by the world. Without him, Emperor Shengming would have been dictatorial, and the world would have been peaceful and peaceful.

In the end, the emperor has no responsibility. He didn't see the Ruan brothers shaking their boats in the story book "Water Margin" and sang the song and chopped off the heads of the treacherous ministers and sent them to the Zhao Wang family.

No matter what the situation is, no matter what the situation is, the emperor is always right, at most he is a person who is not aware of others. However, as the highest leader of the entire empire and the representative of the greatest power, the emperor must be responsible for everything below, including what his ministers do.

All under the world is the king's land, and the shores of the land is the king's minister. The emperor enjoys such huge rights, and he also has to bear the same huge responsibility.

As long as he sits in the position of the emperor, he has no reason to refuse. He will be responsible for his subjects, if he cannot do this.

His empire was in chaos and was attacked by foreign enemies. That was his responsibility. To talk about such destiny and evil deeds as a person, that was a joke.

Although the truth is said, the concept of supremacy of imperial power has been deeply rooted in people's hearts. The last emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Xizong of Tang, also had a comment in "Book of Tang" that "a very good appearance".

Not to mention Emperor Chongzhen, who has always been named "diligent", after Sun Chuanting's treacherous minister in front of him, the so-called "upper" behind him must be the "crazy monarch", but he can't say it anyway.

Not only Sun Chuanting, this is the case, but even Li Meng has been in this era for so many years and was in awe of the emperor and imperial power at the beginning.

Starting from a salt dealer, with the protection of the eunuchs in Nanjing, we walked up step by step and went to the position of being the generals of the four prefectures. These are all the benefits obtained in the system and the benefits of the land. Naturally, if you want to continue forever, it is also good to be a wealthy and peaceful general.

But when it was the small battle in Qihe County, Jinan Prefecture, there was no friendly army beside Li Meng, who was fighting alone, looking like a wolf or a tiger, completely different from the Tartar cavalry described in modern film and television media. This was the sudden realization.

He realized that in this era, he would soon face darkness and destruction. If he did not take the initiative to survive, he would definitely follow this era to destruction.

What do you want to do? If you are still in this system, even if you are arrogant and domineering, you are still restrained everywhere. Then Zuo Liangyu is not abiding by the law. But he will still be led by the court in the general direction. The Zhuxian battle to the ground almost consumes 90% of his strength, but he still has to fight.

You can't expect this system to help you, you can only be unique and take a completely different path.

In the eyes of people of this era, Li Meng could not escape the hat of an ambitious person no matter what, but in order to survive in this troubled times, to avoid the slavery of barbarians for this nation, and to avoid the darkness of the entire China for the next few hundred years, this infamy was also borne by the burden of this infamy.

What Sun Chuanting wants to scold but doesn’t scold him may be the reason for Li Meng’s ambition…

The world is a game of chess, and Li Meng didn't play well, so he was naturally quite depressed, but for his family in Jinan Prefecture, he was really happy.

It is rare for men to fight outside to stay at home, and the whole family is always happy. Especially Li Hong, the child is a little older and is even more crazy. The so-called deep love between father and son is not a question, but Li Meng gives him enough freshness. As a result, whenever father and son meet, Li Hong is extremely excited.

But in this position, private affairs are the so-called public affairs. Not to mention, Li Meng's inner relatives also have the identity of an inner tent. After dinner, the old eunuch Liu Fulai is old and prone to exhaustion. He chats for a few words after the meal and goes to the back house to rest.

This night, Mu Yunyao was with Li Meng. Strictly speaking, the two sides were newlywed, but when they got along, they were already like an old couple.

For Mu Yunyao, being able to talk to Li Meng and getting along for a while is happiness...

But the topics talked about made Li Meng a little amused. The old couple is a description, but Mu Yunyao is not old after all, and sometimes she doesn't know what public or private is, or she thinks that this is Li Meng's private affairs.

"This morning, Commander Huang sent someone to send a copy of the matter in Jiaozhou, and Sister Gu also listened to them through the screen to talk about it."

Mu Yunyao smiled, but it was a shameful thing. Li Meng shook his arms and walked around the house. This was also a relaxing activity before going to practice military training and reading during the day. When Mu Yunyao said this, Li Meng shook his head and said as he walked:

"Since there is a chance, I always have to do something, let them see how this leader is doing something wrong and how he loses the face of our Ming Dynasty!"

Li Meng said with a smile, but suddenly thought of a question. Sometimes Li Meng himself would think of this question, but he was unwilling to say it out. Now it is the bedroom in the inner house, which is also a first-class private place. The couple had no shyness at all. Li Meng stopped and asked in a joke:
To be continued...