When Zhu Cihong heard this, his face immediately turned overjoyed: "Father Emperor Shengming." It's just that Erchen still wants to go to martial arts to select some talents? ”

Emperor Chongzhen also laughed softly, and said, "Martial arts? That side is afraid that the talent has been withering for a long time. Eleven years ago, I only found a king to hire, but unfortunately I died in the rebellion of Kong Youdeden. Now that more than ten years have passed, I have long stopped martial arts, and it has been a long time since I was in ruin, and I don't know if there are still a few talented people who are learning there. That's it, since Brother Hong mentioned it, then it all depends on Brother Hong. It's just that in this way, are you willing to promise your father that you can leave the palace and go out of Beijing? ”

When Zhu Cihong heard this, he immediately stared at his brows, and he didn't heal for a long time.

Just when Chongzhen was about to say something, he suddenly saw Wang Chengen hurriedly bowing in front of the hall: "Holy Lord, Chen Bing has something urgent to play." ”

Chongzhen frowned slightly: "What's the matter, I have to play it at this time!" ”

Zhu Cihong's heart sank suddenly: "Father...... Liaodong, Henan, I'm afraid it's coming. ”

"Let him in!" Chongzhen's face was also embarrassed when he heard this.

Zhu Cihong secretly hid in the curtain of the apse.

Chen Xinjia came in and didn't notice Zhu Cihong behind the curtain, bowed down with a pale face, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty...... Zu Dashou surrendered the city, Xingshan, and Tashan were in a hurry again. In the land of Henan, the thief was in Suizhou on March 22 and returned to Defu on the 27th. It has become a force to encircle Kaifeng......"

"The Battle of Zhu Xianzhen ......" Zhu Cihong suddenly said in his mind.

Since the thirteenth year of Chongzhen's great drought and frequent floods and droughts, the current situation in Henan has never improved, and it has become a mess.

As for clarifying the ins and outs of the situation in Henan, it is a long story. Leaving aside how Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong rebelled, Yunyun did not mention. The cause and effect of this must also start at least last year.

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Wang Qiaonian was the right to the imperial history and the governor of Shaanxi. At that time, the governor of the three sides was Fu Zonglong, who had just been released from prison by Chongzhen.

At this moment, the position of the governor of Shaanxi trilateral military affairs is by no means a good position. His predecessor Zheng Chongjian defeated Zhang Xianzhong several times in Sichuan in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, thinking that after his success, he was forced to return to Shaanxi by his disobedient subordinate He Renlong.

For this reason, the imperial court blamed the Sichuan War, and Zheng Chongjian was dismissed from office and imprisoned.

In the end, Zhang Xianzhong raided Xiangyang and killed Zhu Yiming, the king of Xiang, and Zhu Changfa, the king of Guiyang. At this point, Yang Sichang's plot to encircle and suppress the peasant army all failed, and he died of depression. Emperor Chongzhen, who was resentful of this, suddenly became murderous, and beheaded Zheng Chongjian and abandoned his body.

As a result, the positions in Shaanxi have become a daunting path for the world's eunuchs.

Fu Zonglong was not picky, but he was loyal, but he did not delay his appointment and succeeded as the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi.

At this time, Henan was stirred up by Li Zicheng again. Luoyang was broken, the emperor's uncle Fu Wang died, and after getting the Luoyang Mansion and the Fu Wang Mansion, Li Zicheng, who was unusually wealthy, swelled in strength and raided Kaifeng, although Zhu Gong, the king of Zhou in Kaifeng Mansion, called on the army and the people to protect Kaifeng City. But at this time, Li Zicheng was already known as 500,000 soldiers and horses, and his target was Hubei Chengtianfu.

For this reason, Chongzhen had to order Fu Zonglong to march to Henan and suppress Li Zicheng.

In August last year, that is, in early August of the 14th year of Chongzhen, Fu Zonglong gathered 20,000 officers and troops and rushed to Chengtian to suppress the rebels under Li Zicheng.

At this time, the officials and troops of Chengtianfu who got the news were well guarded, so that the rebels of the uprising had no chance to change their minds and return to Henan. Seeing the rebel army running, Fu Zonglong thought that the rebel army was timid, so he chased after him, and finally went to Xiangcheng with the Hu Dawei Department led by Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, who had already joined forces with Li Zicheng.

After hearing the news, the rebel army divided its troops into small teams to create the illusion that they were going to flee to Runing, Henan. The officers and soldiers who did not scout carefully made meritorious contributions and immediately pursued them. As a result, the march was rested and unguarded, the organization was scattered, and under the onslaught of the rebel army that was still in ambush, it could not resist the rapid rout.

At this time, seeing that the situation was not good, He Renlong and Hu Dawei ran towards Shen Qiu, and Li Li Guoqi, another official army, saw that the situation was not good, and also ran. As a result, only Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, and Fu Zonglong, the governor of Shaanxi, were left in ambush.

That night, Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, successfully broke through the siege under the protection of his lieutenant Zhang Dechang and fled to Xiangcheng. Only Fu Zonglong attracted the most firepower with his direct standard battalion, so he could only hold on to wait for help, while letting Li Guoqi and He Renlong come to help, and on the other hand, he guarded the camp tent to fight against the rebel army.

It's just that He Renlong and Li Guoqi, who received the letter for help, supported their troops with self-respect, pretended to be dumb, and refused to return to help. In desperation, Fu Zonglong insisted on not surrendering to the point of cannibalism, until the mourning soldiers broke through after the food was exhausted, and was finally caught by the rebels eight miles away from Xiangcheng. After the rebels captured Fu Zonglong, they planned to use him to deceive the gate of Xiangcheng, but Fu Zonglong would rather die than give in, shouting that he was surrounded by thieves, and was killed on the spot by the angry rebels.

In October of the 14th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai successively broke through Shangshui, Fugou and other most prefectures in central Henan, and besieged Kaifeng City again after killing two Zhao'an generals, Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing.

For this reason, the imperial court ordered Wang Qiaonian, the governor of Shaanxi, to succeed him as the governor of Shaanxi in November of the 14th year of Chongzhen.

After Wang Qiaonian succeeded to the throne, he acted quickly, gathered 30,000 scattered soldiers, swore in Xi'an in January of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, and took He Renlong, Zheng Jiadong, Niu Chenghu, Zhang Guoqin and Zhang Yinggui and other officials and troops to suppress Li Zicheng in February.

At that time, Emperor Chongzhen ordered Wang Qiaonian and Zuo Liangyu to march together to suppress the rebels.

As a result, Zuo Liangyu was greedy for merit, and without consulting Wang Qiaonian, he led the Ming army to rashly march and was besieged to death in Yuncheng.

For such a superb teammate, of course Wang Qiaonian didn't want to save it, but Zuo Liangyu's letters for help were repeatedly issued, and under Chongzhen's strict orders to eagerly suppress the bandits, Wang Qiaonian had to be saved, so he had to agree that Zuo Liangyu would attack back and forth. After Zuo Liangyu hurriedly agreed, Wang Qiaonian pinched his nose and was ruthless, and in February of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, he ordered He Renlong, Niu Chenghu and other officers and soldiers to besiege Li Zicheng in three ways, and he took the general soldier Zhang Yinggui and Zhang Guoqin's four or five thousand light soldiers to attack Li Zicheng's base camp in Xiangcheng.

Wang Qiaonian's attack was completely defeated by Li Zicheng, who had been waiting for a long time with elite soldiers. With his teammates to attract firepower, Zuo Liangyu, who found a good opportunity to break through, of course broke through smoothly. However, the next Zuo Liangyu did not flank Li Zicheng before and after as agreed.

At the same time, in the face of the peasant rebels who claimed to have 500,000 soldiers and horses, the general soldiers He Renlong, Niu Chenghu and Zheng Jiadong, who received the military order to besiege them on three sides, all left without a fight, so that all Wang Qiaonian's plans were in vain, so he had to collect 2,000 remnants of the army and enter Xiangcheng, Henan Province to refuse.

On February 17 of this year, Xiangcheng was attacked by the intrusive army on the fifth day, and Wang Qiaonian was humiliated by the rebels and died.