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Plug Yinxi said in "Twenty Discussions on Saving the Time": "Since the rumor of 'thieves combing the grate', the people's grievances have penetrated into the bones. So the thief created the saying of 'suppressing the soldiers and reassuring the people' with the head of the fool, and he followed it everywhere he went. The ministers know that those who drive the people of the world and obey the thieves will do their best. ”

This shows that in many places, the government has forced the people to rebel.

"If you want to do things, you still have to win people......" Zhu Cihong gently found a blank piece of paper and silently wrote down the name on it. Plugging Yinxi is very good, and Li Zhensheng is a loyal minister with backbone. has always had a good reputation in the officialdom, and after being captured, he did not forget to return to the Ming Dynasty, and even secretly found Sun Chuanting to cooperate with the outside world. It's a pity that in the end, Li Zicheng found out and killed Henan: "This person wants to be saved, let Jinyiwei think of a way." Plug Yinxi has returned to Huguang, it's a pity...... Otherwise, you can wrap around a little more. However, since I have to take over the duties of the prison country, I have to go to Huguang. For a while, I was not in a hurry. ”

"Li Zicheng is indeed a big trouble, but this is a defeated general, as long as Sun Chuanting does not mistake me, I am not afraid of this king. Zhang Xianzhong...... This man is a fierce enemy. Zhu Cihong flipped through the chapter again, and he clearly had a clear understanding of Zhang Xianzhong's current situation.

Later generations said that Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered Sichuan and killed only hundreds of thousands of people in Sichuan, but Zhu Cihong thought that these eighty percent were fakes by the Qing people. The Qing people did not win the country properly, the killing was too fierce, and the slaughter of the city was not counted. Murderous wilderness. When it was too peaceful, it had to be dumped on the peasant army. Zhang Xianzhong is certainly a thief and a villain, but Zhu Cihong knows that the peasant army is on the people who have taken refuge. It is not that the foundation of a country has already been decided. Who would dig themselves up at such a time? Such a self-destruction of the Great Wall can only be done by the officials and soldiers of the court.

Come to think of it. Zhu Cihong smiled bitterly and continued to look at the recital.

Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the anti-thieves who has been a fast arrester and a soldier, is an old bandit. When Xiangyang was conquered, Yang Sichang, who presided over the encirclement and suppression, died in Hubei. In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Luo Rucai's troops stayed in Henan to fight with Li Zicheng's army. For this reason, Zhang Xianzhong's troops lost a powerful ally, and their strength was suddenly weak. In addition, in August, Zhang Xianzhong was defeated in the battle with Zuo Liangyu's officers and troops in Xinyang, Henan, and his general Shahei was killed in battle, and there were many losses of soldiers and horses. After losing this battle, Zhang Xianzhong sought to join the other peasant armies. Subsequently, Zhang Xianzhong was transferred from eastern Henan to Anhui. Tongge and the left fifth battalion moved closer.

Seeing this, Zhu Cihong couldn't help but sigh.

The fifteen years of Chongzhen that he traveled through by himself was really a turning point.

Prior to this, giants like Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng were basically pressed by the imperial court, and the situation was still under control. But fifteen years later, everything was slipping out of control.

During the fifteen years of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army had been active in Anhui, sometimes fighting with the five battalions of the Revolution and the Left in this area, but it did not implement a solid joint operation. In April of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong attacked Shucheng. The defender Kong Tingxun surrendered and Keshu City. Xianzhong changed Shucheng to a victorious state, took some measures to protect production and normal life, and set up officials. Trying to establish a self-reliant regime. On the seventh day of the first month of May, Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army conquered Luzhou and killed Cai Ruxing. Next. The Grim Eye He Yilong Division also conquered the Wuwei Prefecture. In June, he was loyal to Lujiang County. The peasant army captured 300 large ships and built a large number of ships. Recruit sailors and train sailors in Chaohu Lake. Not long after, Zhang Xianzhong joined Ge and the fifth battalion of the left in Anhuikou, and there were 32 battalions of old sentinels and 24 battalions of small sentinels, "claiming to cross the river out of Wuhu and commit the southern capital." In July, the peasant army fought with the officers and troops of Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo at Jiashan in Lu'an, and the officers and troops were defeated, and there was a great earthquake in the south of the Yangtze River. The Ming court ordered the dismissal of Gao Douguang, the governor of Fengyang, and Zheng Eryang, the governor of Anlu Chitai, and Ma Shiying and Huang Peixuan respectively.

Seeing this, Zhu Cihong silently wrote it down. To be honest, he still lacks a careful understanding of Jiangnan officials.

Zhang Xianzhong received the news that the official army was reorganizing its troops and preparing for a comeback, and the 5th Battalion of the Revolution and the Left had moved to Henan in order to join forces with Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai. Zhang Xianzhong did not want to follow in the footsteps of the revolution and left, and planned to create another situation. However, after the fifth battalion was deployed, he could not support it alone, and he could not deal with the officers and troops gathered in the southeast. After careful consideration, he decided to lead his troops west into Hubei, and sent his military division Pan Duao to infiltrate Wuchang in advance "as an internal response".

On 27 September, Zhang Xianzhong's troops had already entered the Taihu Lake and Susong areas of Anhui Province, which bordered Hubei, and "joined forces for more than 20 miles." At the beginning of October, part of the army was sent to attack Huangmei, Hubei, in preparation for the whole division to enter Hubei. The imperial court sensed Zhang Xianzhong's intentions, and blocked the Huangmei area and forced Zhang Xianzhong to retreat to the Tiantianzhai Mountain area of Qianshan County, and waited for the battle. After Pan Duao was also killed, the plan fell through.

In October, Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo and others led their soldiers to march to the hidden mountains, set fire to the forests in the middle of the night, and attacked the peasant barracks. The peasant army was defeated by the officers and troops due to the sudden change and the mountainous terrain blocked. After that, Zhang Xianzhong's troops also besieged Tongcheng for a time, but because Huang Degong's officers and troops rushed to help, they did not conquer it. Just when Zhang Xianzhong was in a dilemma, Huguang was succeeded by Li Zicheng, and his former old opponent Zuo Liangyu was like a lost dog.

At the beginning of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's troops had already occupied Xiaogan, Hanchuan and Hanyang Mansion, and the troops were approaching Wuchang. Zuo Liangyu, the general of the Ping Thief, looked at the wind and fled along the river with his army to Chizhou, which is later Guichi, Anhui. In this way, the strength of the officers and troops in Hubei is naturally very thin.

Seeing this, Zhu Cihong found another piece of the county order of Macheng County, Huguang.

In the recital, it was even said that many slaves of the wealthy families in the county town had organized themselves and plotted to cause chaos. Ming Chengzu, a citizen of the city, and Hong Lou, a slave, first organized the "Liren Society" and the "Straight Road Society". Although the county order organized the official army to suppress it, the congregation Tang Zhi went to Qianshan County, Anhui Province to invite the peasant army.

Zhang Xianzhong was overjoyed and immediately led his troops to the west, conquering Huangmei, Guangji and Qizhou successively. On the fifth day of the first month of March, Qishui was conquered. It is worth mentioning that Zhang Xianzhong ordered all the family members of Xiong Wencan who lived in the city to be beheaded.

It's a pity that this big man who insisted on pacifying Neikou back then, and now his family has not fallen into good condition.

Zhang Xianzhong's troops arrived in Huguang, and Li Zicheng was also eyeing him. Huguang Provincial City is actually a soldier and ......no generals," Zhu Cihong sighed lightly and said: "It's really interesting, interesting." ”

Thinking of this, Zhu Cihong closed the cantata, looked at the thirty or fifty unfinished recitals on the table, and rubbed his temples slightly. (To be continued.) )