Chapter 345 The Shaanxi Army is coming

Historically, Shen Yiyuan, Shen Yikui, Lighting the Lamp, and the Black Evil God, the thieves who started trouble in Guanzhong, were chased desperate by Wang Chengen, Guan Weixian, Yang Shien, and other Shaanxi generals, and accepted the appeasement of Yang He, the then governor of the three sides, not only preserved his name, but also retained part of his subordinates, but was dismissed and resettled back to his place of origin by Yang He. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Soon after these people returned to their hometowns to receive and resettle, Shaanxi was hit by another disaster, and these thieves also gathered to rebel again, and compared with the first rebellion in the first year of Chongzhen, the momentum was more violent, more cunning, and more difficult to pacify.

However, in this time and space, they did not encounter the indecisive and soft-hearted Yang He, but met the ruthless and ruthless Hong Chengchou.

It is said that he is ruthless because he not only exterminated the thieves, but also killed and surrendered, and as many as 50,000 or 60,000 thieves died at his hands, most of whom were captured or slaughtered after surrendering.

This time is the same, Shen Yiyuan Shen Yi Kui brothers, light lamps, black gods and other thieves, as soon as they got together, Hong Chengchou assigned his fierce generals Wang Chengen, Guan Weixian, Yang Shien, and Zhang Guoxing, the chief military officer of Tongguan, to lead the troops to clean up with all their might.

Within a month, Shen Yiyuan, who had not been in trouble for a long time, was captured and killed by Wang Chengen, and his younger brother Shen Yikui escaped and hidden.

The so-called black god Zhang Wu's department, which caused chaos in the three plains, was also quickly pacified by Guan Weixian's troops, and Zhang Wu himself and his 700 people were all beheaded for public display.

As for Zhao Si'er, who lit the lamp, that is, Zhao Sheng, he was besieged in a valley in Linyou by the elite of the Chinese army led by Hong Chengchou and the fifth battalion of Fubiao, and the desperate Zhao Si'er was besieged for several days, as in history, he chose to surrender.

And Hong Chengchou also chose to kill and surrender as he did in history, and Zhao Si'er himself and more than 1,000 people under his command were all killed.

After the slightly larger bands around Xi'an were pacified, some other thieves with smaller numbers and smaller scale fled from then on, some fled into the Qinling Mountains and fled to Hannan, and some fled to the west of Lüyang and fled into Gannan.

In January of the second year of Chongzhen, in the counties near Xi'an, and even on the entire Guanzhong Plain, although there are still many small thieves who are king in the mountains, the larger and large-scale thieves have been pacified.

In fact, in the original history, if Emperor Chongzhen had sent heavy troops to gather in Shaanxi at the beginning and go all out to clean up the chickens with a knife, the thieves would not have had a chance to sit in northern Shaanxi or southern Hannan.

Because at the beginning of the thieves' uprising, they were completely a rabble, not only with extremely inferior equipment, but also very scattered in strength, with thousands of large shares and hundreds of small units, and they were completely vulnerable in front of the officials and troops.

Often, hundreds of officers and soldiers can chase thousands of thieves to the sky and the earth, running in all directions.

Now that he encountered Hong Chengchou's 5,000 Fubiao soldiers and 2,000 auxiliary soldiers trained according to the method taught by the emperor, they were basically defeated at the first touch, and they had no power to fight back.

Really speaking, it was during the years when Yang He served as the governor of the three sides that the situation in Shaanxi was out of control, and by the time Yang He was dismissed from office and imprisoned in the fourth year of Chongzhen, the situation in Shaanxi had been completely corrupted.

Even at that time, if Emperor Chongzhen could give up Liaoxi with a strong man's wrist, retreat to Shanhaiguan, and transfer the main force of the Liaodong army into Shanxi, then the thieves would not have a chance to grow further.

It's a pity that the courtiers argued endlessly, and the young Emperor Chongzhen was also at a loss, and in the end, he missed the opportunity to exterminate the thieves again and again, so that the thieves entered the Central Plains and entered Huguang, and they could no longer control it from then on.

It is said that Hong Chengchou has gained a firm foothold in Xi'an, and after exterminating the thieves in Guanzhong and stabilizing the situation in Guanzhong, he is preparing to go north to Yan'an Mansion with Sun Chuanting, the governor of Yansui, and work together to exterminate Wang Jiayin who is entrenched in Yichuan and other places, but suddenly received an urgent military report, saying that the Yichuan thieves led by Wang Jiayin took advantage of the opportunity of the Yellow River to freeze and crossed the Yellow River to the east and fled to Shanxi.

At this time, Shaanxi was trained in state affairs according to the inspector, and Hong Chengchou's brother, who was also his most relied on personal aide Hong Qiyin, suggested to him that the soldiers under his command should rest for a while, so Hong Chengchou accepted the suggestion and took advantage of the opportunity of the fifth battalion of Shaanxi Fubiao to recuperate and sort out the government affairs in Guanzhong and Hanzhong under the rule of Shaanxi Fu.

In those counties that had been poisoned by thieves, there was a serious shortage of officials, and Hong Chengchou selected people to serve as acting officials, and at the same time reported to the imperial court to recommend appointments.

At this time, Wu Jinshi Pan Yunteng and Li Wenyun, who came to Shaanxi to serve, also came to the Xi'an Governor's Yamen to report.

Pan Yunteng, a native of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, has been personally appointed by the emperor as a general in Hanzhong, and Hong Chengchou naturally cannot be used for other purposes, and he was soon arranged to serve in Hanzhong.

And although this Li Wenyun is unknown among this batch of martial artists, after all, he is a martial artist, and he has also been trained in the martial arts hall, which is a precious wealth for Hong Chengchou.

Therefore, two days after Li Wenyun reported for duty, he was appointed as the commander of the Chinese army of the fifth battalion of Hong Chengchou's Fubiao, and specially led one of the musket teams with only 300 people.

Although the number of this musket team is only 300, the musket equipped with it is a Chongzhen front-loading flintlock smoothbore gun that Hong Chengchou secretly folded and asked for from the emperor, which is much more powerful than the many arquebuses under Zhang Guoxing, the general soldier of Shaanxi.

As soon as these matters were dealt with, the will of the imperial court arrived, and Li Banghua, the elder of the cabinet and the minister of military aircraft, was to be appointed to the Jin Governor's Division, and the auxiliary ministers, town ministers and all the officers and soldiers in Shaanxi, Yansui, Shanxi and other places were all waiting to be dispatched, and the Shaanxi army was also transferred to Shanxi to participate in the encirclement and suppression operation.

This is what Hong Chengchou expected, and what made him other than him was that the emperor really broke his wrist, and after moving to Guyuan Town, he evacuated the main force of Lintao Town from Lintao and moved to Hanzhong.

This is to resolutely open the passage for Shaanxi thieves to flee westward!

However, it is a pity that the time to open up is still a little late, and now most of the thieves in northern Shaanxi have been chased to Shanxi, even if the main force of Lintao Town withdrew to defend the defense area originally blocked in Gannan and Longxi, it will not be able to achieve the purpose of luring the thieves to the west for a while.

However, after the imperial court's decree was issued, Hong Chengchou could be completely assured of the stability of Hanzhong, with the transfer of the main force of Lintao Town, the area south of the Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi will be as stable as Mount Tai, and he, the governor of Shaanxi, will have a real border army available in the future.

Soon after receiving this will from the imperial court, Hong Chengchou met with Gao Shiming, the great eunuch who came to Shaanxi to sit in the town and move the defense and prepare for the establishment of Jinyi Weixi Town, and arranged for Shaanxi to participate in politics and practice state affairs on the spot, fully cooperate with Gao Shiming, and assist in handling these important court affairs.

A few days later, after hearing that Sun Chuanting, the governor of Yansui, had set off for Jin with the army of Yansui Town, Hong Chengchou left a regular barracks and two auxiliary battalions in Fubiao, Shaanxi to guard Xi'an, and then left Xi'an with four of the five battalions in Fubiao, Shaanxi, and went east to Tongguan according to the route given by the imperial court.

Today's Tongguan, under the strong advocacy of the imperial court and the full promotion of Hong Chengchou, has taken on a new look after nearly a year of reconstruction.

Not only the east side of Tongguan Guancheng was rebuilt with a tall urn city, but also a tall urn city was rebuilt on the side facing Guanzhong and Xi'an.

Today's Shaanxi General Military Mansion has long been moved from Xi'an to the Guancheng of Xiongguan, and the original Tongguan Deputy General Wang Chengen is now serving as the deputy general of Shaanxi to help Hong Chengchou lead the five battalions of Shaanxi Fubiao.

After arriving at Tongguan, Hong Chengchou ordered the chief soldier Zhang Guoxing to select 3,000 elites and follow him to Jin to suppress thieves.