Jiannu passed Jizhou and approached Gyeonggi, and the government and the opposition were shocked. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Tongzhou, as the gateway to the capital, entered a state of total martial law, and everyone was only allowed to enter and exit. The people of Jinyiwei and Dongchang in Tongzhou City came out like locusts, and the whole city arrested the spies, and for a time the beggars in Tongzhou City, regardless of men, women, and children, were all imprisoned, and the slightest resistance was killed. With the exception of the beggar, any other suspicious person was also arrested without giving any reason.

The people of Dongchang took the opportunity to collect a lot of money, and the rich families in the city were all blackmailed by them, and those who did not hide it were dragged to prison on suspicion of being a spy.

Although there are a few people in Tongzhou Jinyi Weizhong who have made a windfall by taking advantage of this, the overall situation is better. The first is that the command of Jinyiwei makes Luo Yangxing relatively strict, and Jinyiwei is better than Dongchang itself, and the second is that Tongzhou Jinyiwei is usually led by Li Jingting, who is also a strict person to his subordinates.

Not only in Tongzhou City, but also in the area outside the city within a radius of twenty or thirty miles, there are also secret agents of the factory guards everywhere.

For a time, the people in Tongzhou were panicked, and everyone was in danger. However, the effect is also significant, and almost all the northern beggars in Tongzhou should be captured. Although there are still a small number of people hiding in the city, under the extreme martial law, no one can get out of the city, and Houjin will definitely not be able to get any more information, and it is impossible to copy their usual tricks of combining inside and outside.

Jiannu was advancing westward, the imperial court was urgently deploying, and the army of King Qin was gathering at an extremely slow pace.

In fact, a few days after Jiannu broke the wall, the imperial court had issued a series of edicts to all localities, requiring the armies of all localities to quickly march to defend Gyeonggi. However, there were many responders in various places, and few actually sent troops. It is said that it is still being convened, or it is said that it is choosing an auspicious day to start, but the most common excuse is: the food and salary are not enough, and they are being raised. The border army at the end of the Ming Dynasty had a very strange rule, that is, it didn't matter if you owed some money in normal times, but once the army was going to fight, you had to pay a sum of money first, and then another one after arriving at the destination. If there was no pay, the soldiers were likely to cause trouble, and this is how many mutinies came.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court smashed the silver on the Ningjin defense line, so most of the garrisons everywhere were extremely short of salaries. The so-called army did not move the grain and grass first, and no one dared to command the army without pay, which is also the main reason why the 400,000 Qinwang army could not reach the capital in the end.

But there are exceptions.

In the case of insufficient salaries, the governor of Gansu, Mei Lianzhi, with a loyal and patriotic heart, took Yang Zhaoji as the general and the kingdom as the general and vanguard, and rushed to King Qin with thousands of soldiers.

On November 28 of the second year of Chongzhen, the army of King Qin of Gansu arrived in Yuzhong County. Because there was no silver before the promotion, there was always a saying in the army that the army would pay silver after arriving in Yuzhong, and the soldiers were very excited. You must know that Gansu is the most serious area in the country, and the arrears are as high as 60%. However, until the evening of the same day, the soldiers did not see any sign of paying the silver, so a few bold veterans gathered some people and went to the county yamen to ask about the salary.

To say that the county order of Yuzhong County is also unlucky, what is the matter with the salary of the army that he has a county order? However, it is rumored in the army that the salary and silver have been transported to Yuzhong, and it is within the county office. This may have been said casually by an officer who was tired of being asked, but the county order was unlucky. Since the money is here, who are you looking for?

A large group of soldiers ran to the county office in a menacing manner, and the county magistrate did not dare to slack off, and quickly explained to everyone that I really don't have any money, and I don't believe you went in to search for it. Unexpectedly, these red-eyed soldiers were not polite, so they really tied him up, and then went in to search for money.

Of course, there was no money, but in this way, it attracted the kingdom of the generals. When the kingdom saw that the county government had gathered so many soldiers, and the crowd was angry, and his heart was not good, this was a mutiny!

To say that the wrists of this kingdom are also very hard, they immediately grabbed the five or six veterans who took the lead, and then whipped them, trying to suppress this momentum.

This is a very normal way to deal with mutiny, and it cannot be said that he did something wrong.

But the problem is, he met the wrong people.

When he was whipping the veterans who took the lead in stirring up trouble at the entrance of the yamen, several other veterans came out with the county order.

When the kingdom saw it, the leader turned out to be a boss who was promoted by himself!

His name is Li Zicheng! Li Zicheng! Li Zicheng! He said important things three times.

The kingdom knows this guy named Li Zicheng very well, this guy first killed the creditor in his hometown because he wanted to repay the debt, and then killed his wife because his wife and others **, and finally he was desperate, so he took his nephew to his own door together. I saw that I was a fellow villager with him, and my ancestors had some connections and some sympathy for him, so I left him behind, and gradually promoted him to be the president.

The kingdom's mental activities at the moment are full of remorse, he never thought that he would treat Li Zicheng so well, this kid would even have to take the soldiers to make trouble and block himself.

But what he didn't expect was still to come, and he didn't have a chance to figure out the rest in his life.

When Li Zicheng saw that the kingdom was whipping those soldiers, he thought that the kingdom was not going to be good about this matter. If the mutiny were to be taken into account, it would be a felony to behead the head.

Li Zicheng didn't want to take such a risk, so he killed the kingdom without saying a word.

Then by the way, he stabbed the prefectural commander to death again.

This decisive, ruthless and unexpected way of dealing with it made him instantly become popular.

Li Zicheng lifted their heads and made a declaration to the people below, "Brothers, why did we join the army? I just want to live! Now that the officials don't let us live, they want me to starve to death, exhaust to death, and die in battle.

When the soldiers below heard this, they all immediately felt that it made sense. If the court doesn't pay him, what kind of soldier should we be for him? It's better to be a rogue, oh no, it should be called a "righteous army." As a "righteous army", at least you can go to the rich man's house to "levy salary", if you have food, you will die and die full, it is better than starving to sell your life to the emperor.

So the bottom immediately responded, and the crowd was indignant, and immediately said the opposite!

Li Zicheng fled overnight with more than 600 soldiers gathered at the yamen. When Yang Zhaoji heard the news, he immediately sent troops to chase after him, wanting to extinguish this spark. Unfortunately, the soldiers who were sent to chase Li Zicheng didn't want to do it for a long time, and after catching up with Li Zicheng, they said, yes, let's stop fighting, or we can work together.

Li Zicheng heard this, this is good! In this case, why don't you go back and inquire about it, and see if there are any brothers who don't want to do it?

So he took one or two thousand people to touch it back with courage, and Yang Zhaoji saw that he was back again, of course he sent troops to fight again.

As soon as the two armies connected, the people on Li Zicheng's side began to ask each other, hey, buddy, do you still want to do it in the original unit? Do you want to come to join us?

In this way, more and more Gansu troops began to rebel, and as a result, the number of soldiers who participated in the mutiny exceeded those who did not!

Gansu Governor Mei Lianzhi had no choice but to run back to Ganzhou with more than 1,000 people. And the hot-blooded Yang Zhaoji was unwilling, and took the remaining 300 or so people to Beijing alone, vowing to be diligent to the end!

As for Li Zicheng, there were already two or three thousand men under his command at this time, and in order to avoid the strangulation of the official army, they immediately fled to Hezhou and other places.

A generation of heroes finally broke out of their shells!