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Zhu Cihong originally thought that the imperial court did not know about this, but he just insisted on letting Zuo Liangyu be a thief and ignore the others.

But unexpectedly, there is no lack of descriptions of Zuo Liangyu in the recital.

When Zhu Cihong fought in Shandong, last year, that is, on the third day of December in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Zuo Liangyu fled east as in history. The description on the chapter is "Where I passed, I burned the house, razed the well, and the chickens and dogs were nowhere to be left, and they were empty." ”

The next day, Li Zicheng successfully attacked Xiangyang.

When the news reached Jingzhou, Zhu Changrun, the king of Hui, Chen Ruimo, the governor of Biyuan, and "the civil and military divisions absconded at night on the eighth day of the first month, and there was no one at the city gate." On the 14th, the peasant army occupied Jingmen Prefecture and advanced to Jingzhou. The people of Jingzhou slaughtered pigs and sheep, and held banners to welcome the peasant army. On the 16th, the peasant army entered Jingzhou and killed the whole family of Zhu Yanyi, the king of Xiangyin in the Ming Dynasty. Li Zicheng immediately divided his troops and went down to Zaoyang, Yicheng, Gucheng, Guanghua and other counties.

After the peasant army occupied Xiangyang and Jingzhou, it continued to march towards Chengtian. Chengtian, that is, Zhongxiang County, Hubei Province in later generations, was the father of Emperor Jiajing, Xingxian Wang Zhu Youhangfeng here. After the death of Ming Wuzong, there was no son, and Zhu Houxi entered the succession. Zhongxiang is regarded as the "land of dragon diving", and it is also the location of the tomb, so it was upgraded to Chengtian Mansion and set up two guards to defend Chengtian and Xianling. In the face of the offensive of the peasant army, the imperial court moved the general army of its own province to garrison, and transferred other provinces to assist in the defense. Let the governor and the governor of the province sit in the city to protect the mausoleum. Despite the heavy garrison, morale declined. The soldiers had no will to fight, and the people's hearts were ruined by Zuo Liangyu's generation and exacting taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

And this time. Although Sun Chuanting, who was pursuing, fought a small victory with Li Guo, a peasant army after the break. However, at this time, the Qing army attacked the left road and entered the pass from Yanmen Pass in Shanxi, intending to attack Henan and Shaanxi. For this reason, the imperial court had to urgently order Sun Chuanting to come back to help.

And Zhu Cihong is naturally helpless about this, after all, Henan still has to be protected.

So Sun Chuanting could only quickly mobilize a large army to help.

Without Sun Chuanting's pressure, Li Zicheng was suddenly extremely relaxed in Huguang.

When the vanguard of the peasant army arrived in Chengtian by boat, the local people even wrote "Welcome to the king" on the gate. Some opened the gate of Xiguan City to welcome the peasant army into the city.

On the first day of the first month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the peasant army conquered Chengtian, and Song Yihe, the governor of Minghuguang, committed suicide. Li Zhensheng, the governor of the imperial history, was captured, the chief soldier Qian Zhongxuan was killed, and Yang Yongyu, the doctor of Qin Tianjian, surrendered. Li Zicheng ordered the change of Chengtianfu to Yangwuzhou.

This means that the place where the Zhu Ming Dynasty inherited the throne has been turned into a place for the rebellious peasants to show off their might. At the same time, people were sent to demolish the Xingxian Mausoleum and excavate the Offering Mausoleum.

After the occupation of Chengtian, the peasant army continued to advance eastward. On the fifteenth day of the first month, Hanchuan County was conquered. It is only 120 miles away from Wuchang, the provincial capital, and can be reached by the Han River.

At this time, Zuo Liangyu, who was still pinned on high hopes by the court and hoped to block the edge of the peasant army, was fleeing from Xiangyang to Wuchang with his subordinates.

How could such a thief general pinned his hopes on stopping the peasant army?

In the face of the offensive of the peasant army, Zuo Liangyu had no choice but to flee along the river to Jiujiang before he could stand firmly.

On the way. Zuo Liangyu once again played his "fine tradition"

"On the 16th, the ships on both sides of the strait were captured. First of all, the small people who could not buy their own boats, entrusted the room to the grain ship, where thousands of families, with the grain ship can be trusted. So far, they will plunder. A pawn boarded the boat. Hundreds of people asked for their lives, the sound of knives and human words, and the fish flew in chaos. Poor place! On the 18th, the whole division went east. The sails cover the river, and the sound of sour weeping. Ten miles together. The two counties (referring to Hanyang and Wuchang) were fortunate to take a break. ”

After Zuo Liangyu's troops fled, Li Zicheng's peasant army passed through Liujiajia and conquered Hanyang Mansion on the 18th day of the first lunar month, capturing ships 4 or 5,000. On the 19th, he crossed the river to attack Wuchang. Due to the rapid flow of the river and the fact that the troops were not familiar with the nature of the water, many ships were sunk by the wind and waves. Li Zicheng's offensive was finally blocked, and he stopped attacking, and returned to Xiangyang via Yunmeng County on the 21st.

Seeing this, Zhu Cihong's face had become extremely heavy.

He picked up another letter, on which was the "Suppression of Soldiers and the People" issued by Li Zicheng when he advanced to Huangzhou, which also meant that Li Zicheng had gotten rid of the situation of being a rogue and began to stabilize his local power.

Thinking of this, Zhu Cihong took the text and read it softly: "In order to suppress the soldiers and secure the people: the Ming Dynasty was unkind, favored eunuchs, heavy subjects, greedy taxes, heavy punishments, and could not save the people; The Japanese army ran out, plundered people's property, raped people's wives and daughters, sucked the marrow and stripped the skin. The 10th generation of this camp is good at farming, and the teacher of benevolence and righteousness is eager to save the people. Ling Dingchengtian and De'an came to Huangzhou in person. The dispatch card informed: The people should not be frightened, and everyone should be safe. There were those who killed good people in each battalion, and the whole team was beheaded. Ermin has a long voice to welcome my king's teacher, and immediately reuse, and the rest do not have to be subdued, and the jade is inseparable. This is the case. ”

"Even the peasant army began to strictly enforce military discipline and took up the obligations of the imperial court. But the official army still destroys the people's hearts like this...... This Jiangnan trouble is really more than I imagined. Zhu Cihong thought quietly.

In Henan, the rebel army has destroyed the original power system in Henan, and no matter how Xuanhe's clan is, they have been driven into Kaifeng City, panicking like a lost dog. At this time, whether Zhu Cihong implemented reforms or established another Qiming City, their resistance could only be weak and had no foundation.

After all, millions of people live because of Zhu Cihong's thoughts, and such a huge force no longer affects them, so Zhu Cihong can naturally smoothly implement his new policy.

In Shandong, before the Qing army did not kill the heads of the people, the Confucian family and the clan caused a lot of trouble to Zhu Cihong. But when the Qing army killed the past, the hatred was naturally held back by the bandit Tartars who did all kinds of evil, and the main contradiction became the contradiction between the enemy and us, not the internal contradiction.

Therefore, Zhu Cihong's power in Shandong was finally implemented quite smoothly. At this moment, with the power of a great victory, I don't worry about the yang and the yin.

What's more, the First Battle of Yanzhou, Linqing and the First Battle of Jinan all accumulated a lot of prestige for Zhu Cihong in Shandong. Not to mention anything else, Wang Weixin, the counselor of the Yanzhou Supervision Army, Hao Fangsheng of Ziyang Zhixian County, and Fan Jiren of Ziyang Zhixian County, publicly praised Zhu Cihong's exploits in killing the Tartars to protect his family and defend the country, and the logistics of the Royal Guards Corps were particularly supportive.

It's just that the land south of the Yangtze River is difficult to say.

There are many wealthy families and clans, and the situation is complicated, and it is quite difficult to clean up military discipline alone. It's just that Zhu Cihong secretly made up his mind to clean up no matter what.

And this, in the "Twenty Discussions on Saving the Time" played by Du Yinxi, proves the importance of military discipline. Plug Yinxi is a rare doer in the late Ming Dynasty who is dedicated to resisting the Qing Dynasty and saving the country, his own ability is outstanding, hard-working and diligent, he is the prefect of Changsha for 14 years of Chongzhen, and two months ago he raised a pilgrimage to Lian Zhuo, gave a banquet to the Ministry of Rites, and was ordered to add two levels. Now it is Wuhan and Huangzhou, and he is a first-hand witness of the situation in the Huguang area. (To be continued.) )