Chapter 555: The Seventh Year of Chongzhen

The red gang is this slave chieftain who thinks that the seventh year of Tiancong is his most proud year, and everything goes well.

Because two of the other three Baylors died, and one was an adult who had been sick for many months and did not show up, he was able to make his own decisions.

The Han army led by Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming entered Korea, crossed the Han River, captured Seoul, captured Ganghwa Island, and killed the Korean lord and hundreds of Korean civilian and military generals, causing the nominal destruction of Korea.

At the end of the year, Azig sent people to escort 100,000 stone of Korean polished rice to Shengjing, and all the children of the Eight Banners would receive at least one stone each, so that the clansmen could eat white rice in the middle of winter, and the prestige of the red gang was further enhanced.

Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Zhang Cunren, Ma Guangyuan, and other generals of the Han army said that after the spring and summer at the latest, the resistance forces in the entire Korean country would be wiped out, and all counties and provinces would be completely controlled by the Daejin State.

The Red Gang issued an order to give rewards to the civilian and military generals of the Eastern Expedition to Korea, and the "Marshal of the Capital" Kong Youde became a first-class commander-in-chief, Geng Zhongming was a second-class commander-in-chief, and the rest were promoted to the first rank.

Gao Hongzhong, Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan and other traitors and civil officials saw that the generals of the Han army were outstanding and envious, jealous and hateful, but also did their best to please their masters, and the spies under their hands were simply pervasive, and even the intelligence of Huguang, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other Ming interiors could be obtained in time.

The situation in the Ming Dynasty, which has entered the seventh year of Chongzhen, has not changed fundamentally, it is simply getting worse and worse, natural disasters and man-made disasters continue to starve people everywhere, and it is full of apocalyptic scenes.

Since many places in Henan, Huguang, and Sichuan suffered the first scourge of the rogue, it was relatively easy for the thieves to obtain food supplements, and the thieves and bones robbed and killed the young lady of the official family.

The five battalions of thieves and soldiers of Lao Huihui, Guotianxing, Mantianxing, Breaking into the Collapsed Sky, and Mixed World King did not dare to compete with the "Red Flag Army" after being deflated under Xiangyang City, and they went all the way west to Sichuan to kill Pingli, Baihe, Fengxian, Xingshan and other county seats, and actually laid down Kuizhou Mansion.

The imperial court because of the repeated offenses of Hudun Rabbit, the governor of the three sides, Hong Chengchou, really had no time to take care of it, and Chen Qiyu, the governor of Yansui, was promoted, and became the right attendant of the military department and the right imperial history, and the governor of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang, and Sichuan military affairs, specializing in encircling and suppressing thieves.

Chen Qiyu, who was in power, was in high spirits, and he ordered the generals from all over the country to discuss the plan to suppress the Kou, but did not order the dispatch of the Marquis of Dongping, who was responsible for the safety of several vassal kings and more than a dozen county kings.

It may be that so far the imperial court has not made it clear which civil official commanded Huang Han, and because the Ming Dynasty has not had the current marquis to command the troops outside for a long time, the civil officials who command the troops do not know how to get along.

Chen Qiyu, who has a lot of authority but is a third-grade grade, always can't see the Marquis of Dongping who is under his command, and he has to bow down, how embarrassing should it be?

Therefore, even if the "Red Banner Army" can fight, Chen Qiyu is reluctant to command a great god like Dongping Hou, which may also be because the orders Huang Han received have always been ordered by the emperor himself.

Chen Qiyu was decisive in killing, and ordered the governor of Shaanxi to train the state garrison Shangnan to block the escape of the Liukou to the northwest, arrange for the Henan governor Xuanmo to be stationed in Lushi County to curb the escape of the Liukou to the northeast, and arrange the Huguang governor Tang Hui to garrison Nanzhang, cutting off the possibility of the Liukou fleeing to the southeast.

He led the men and horses of his headquarters to cooperate with the Tianxiong army of Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Yunyang, to attack along the line of Wulin Pass from Zhuxi Valley to Pingli.

Because Ma Xianglin and Qin Yiming's white pole soldiers did not return to Sichuan, Deng Xi, who lost six or seven thousand men and horses, returned to Sichuan to transfer troops, and this time he brought out five thousand Sichuan troops to follow Chen Qiyu to encircle and suppress the Liukou, which directly led to the emptiness of Sichuan's troops.

Fortunately, Qin Liangyu personally raised troops to defend against the danger, temporarily curbing the offensive momentum of the old Huihui, breaking through the sky and other thieves.

The main generals under Qin Liangyu are not there, and nearly 10,000 white pole soldiers are not in Sichuan.

Therefore, she had the intention to kill the thief, but she could only take a defensive position and was unable to attack, and she was really shameless in the face of tens of thousands of refugees from eastern Sichuan who fled westward.

There is a vassal king in Sichuan who is Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, who has been passed down for more than 200 years, and now there are 21 county kings.

At the end of the sixth year of Chongzhen, when the Liukou invaded Sichuan on a large scale, the county kings kept writing to ask Qin Yiming and Ma Xianglin's 7,000 white pole soldiers to return to Sichuan, and asked the imperial court to send people and horses to protect the royal family.

Later, the king of Shu and many county kings learned that the Marquis of Dongping was stationed near Jingzhou, a stone's throw away from Sichuan, and the "Red Banner Army" led by him was the most capable of fighting, and was repeatedly sent by the Son of Heaven to protect the vassal king.

Next, more than 20 Sichuan princes began to name and ask the Marquis of Dongping to protect the safety of the vassal state.

Their reasons are very sufficient, the "Red Banner Army" that entered Henan and Huguang to suppress the Kou has basically exterminated the thieves near Jingzhou, and such a strong army is 200 miles away from eastern Sichuan, and the imperial court cannot afford to seek the near and far, so it is great to transfer the "Red Banner Army" into Sichuan in time.

At a time when Sichuan was in crisis, Chen Qiyu commanded the suppression of the Kou so that the officers and troops who were pressing forward step by step had formed a trend of closing the door and fighting the dogs in Henan and Huguang, and Huang Han received the holy decree to enter Sichuan to suppress the Kou at the end of February.

Seeing that the situation in Huguang and Henan has begun to improve, Chen Qiyu's Quartet has shown the effect of performing its own duties, and a huge encirclement has been formed.

The civilian, military and military generals who participated in the suppression of the Kou were even more reluctant to see the "Red Banner Army" that could fight make new contributions, which dimmed their exploits, and many generals were unwilling to miss the credit that was about to be obtained, and no one wanted to be transferred to Sichuan, and they unanimously asked the Marquis of Dongping to defend the king of Shu and more than 20 county kings.

Huang Han never naively thought that Chen Qiyu could completely solve the rogue in the carriage gorge, and there was both chance and inevitability when he fell on the rogue and faked surrender.

Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others encountered so many dangers, and later Li Zicheng was beaten by Sun Chuanting in Shangluo Mountain to only 18 horsemen, and it was not a comeback as before, and it was even more powerful.

The officers and soldiers who encircled and suppressed the rogues actually had their own ghosts, and they might not be able to kill these thieves if they really entered the carriage gorge and fought viciously.

How cruel is it that mountain warfare is a hand-to-hand encounter, and the officers and soldiers who fight for the sake of mixed military salaries have to fight with the thieves who are "driven into the poor alleys" to fight to the death?

Starving tens of thousands of thieves to death may not be successful, and those old thieves are masters who dare to eat people.

Even if Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others die, if the general environment does not change fundamentally at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there will be other thieves who will stand out.

Originally, Huang Han was preparing to rush to the vicinity of the carriage gorge in time when the Liukou faked the surrender, and at that time, he would take over the thirty or forty thousand thieves of Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng, etc., on the grounds that he could settle these surrendered troops.