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Volume One Songjiang Mansion Chapter 329 Li Zicheng Attacks Kaifeng

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    Zhang Lei felt very unhappy that Zhang Xianzhong was not killed. He was so obsessed with this matter that he lost interest in doing other things. He returned to Chaoxian County and watched his men training soldiers in boredom. The food supply was already exhausted.  All were distributed, and the people in the two nearby prefectures were benefited. More people came to Chaohu to join the army. Zhang Lei took the opportunity to recruit another 20,000 people, and with the troops he brought out this time, he gathered another 100,000.  This is a very huge number. This number is so big that Chongzhen is not willing to see it, so he appoints Sun Chuanting, who resigned due to political disagreements with Yang Sichang, to serve as Zhang Lei's deputy in name. In fact, he  Report Zhang Lei's movements to Chongzhen at any time.

    Sun Chuanting, also known as Boya, Baigu, Baigu, was born in Wuwei, Zhenwu, Daizhou.  In Sun Chuanting's life.  Suppressing peasant uprisings constituted the main content of his military career, which began in the eighth year of Chongzhen.  In the autumn of this year, Sun Chuanting was appointed as a doctor, and later he was promoted to Shuntian Fu Cheng.  In the ninth year of Chongzhen's reign, he was promoted to the censor of Youqiandu.  At this time, the peasant uprising army headed by King Zhengxi was occupying Shangluo, seriously threatening the Ming Dynasty's rule in Shaanxi. Gan Xuekuo, the governor of Shaanxi, failed to suppress it many times. The Shaanxi scholar-bureaucrats recommended Sun Chuanting to supervise the Qin Dynasty, and Sun Chuanting came to power in the ninth year of Chongzhen.  In March, he visited Shaanxi.  After Sun Chuanting took office, he ordered his deputy general Luo Shangwen to lead the Ming army to attack the rebel army in Shangluo area and kill King Tide.  Soon, the peasant rebel army launched a struggle to defeat Tongguan in the Guanzhong area. Sun Chuanting suppressed the most powerful Gao Yingxiang tribe in the rebel army in the Battle of Heishui Valley in Zhouzhi, Shaanxi Province, and captured and killed Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang.  When the Shaanxi uprising army suffered repeated setbacks, 17 units of the uprising army active in Henan, including Ma Jinzhong and Liu Guoneng, marched into Weinan.  Sun Chuanting hurriedly contacted the Henan Ming Army to pursue and intercept the rebels.  At the beginning of the tenth year of Chongzhen's reign, Ma Jinzhong and other troops crossed west again and entered Shaanxi, attacking Shangzhou, Luonan, Lantian and other places.  Sun Chuanting led his troops and the various Ming armies used superior force to attack the rebels Shengshiwang, Guabeiwang, Yiyifei, Zhentianwang and other troops one after another, and the area south of Guanzhong was calmed down.

    When Sun Chuanting was in charge of Shaanxi's military affairs, he continued to expand his military strength and food and salary.  There were originally 24,000 troops stationed around Xi'an and more than 20,000 fields. Later, the fields were all owned by wealthy families, and the soldiers were just on the roster.  After Sun Chuanting took over here.  After governance, 11,000 soldiers were obtained, the annual tax collection was 145,000 taels of silver, and 13,500 shi of rice and wheat were collected.  In order to completely wipe out the peasant uprising army as soon as possible, the Ming court adopted the comprehensive encirclement and suppression strategy of "Four Positives and Six Corners" proposed by Yang Sichang, Minister of War, and added 120,000 troops and an additional 2.8 million taels of military pay and silver to complete this plan.  but.  Sun Chuanting disagreed.  He believed that because the army had suffered many defeats and setbacks in repeated battles, and the people had been exhausted by successive battles, this move might not achieve the expected results.  Since Sun Chuanting knew that his plan would not be adopted, he began to inventory his private property.  He received two to forty-eight thousand silver, recruited troops and horses, and provided the manpower and resources needed for the encirclement and suppression campaign.  When the Ming court collected the amounts of troops and horses reported from various places, only Sun Chuanting's memorial was not delivered.  Yang Sichang, who had always had a quarrel with Sun Chuanting, took the opportunity to launch an attack, complaining that the court's military laws did not work in Shaanxi.  Sun Chuanting defended this situation and said: "The envoy is like Tafu, and he is a member of the county militia, so he is called the amount. Then the troops reported by the minister have already reached the amount. What's more, there are more than 10,000 horse and infantry troops recruited and trained. What's the matter?  Don't obey the ministry's advice. In the hundred days, when Shang and Luo are guarding, the ministers dare not entrust them. However, if thieves are allowed to enter Shang and Luo, and the ministers cannot control them, then they will be punished. If the ministers suppress Shang and Luo, they will be punished.  But if the time limit is exceeded, the thieves cannot be killed. Anyone who makes mistakes will definitely not be a minister."

    In this regard, he was imprisoned by Yang Sichang's plan. Later Chongzhen dismissed him as a civilian and released him, and now he is used again.  After learning that Sun Chuanting had come to his side, Zhang Lei was not willing at all. For him, he could do his own thing well and did not need anyone else to intervene.  But now that Sun Chuanting is already on the way.  It was impossible for him to directly ask Chongzhen to take back his life, but after all, he still had a way. When he was still halfway there, Zhang Lei sent someone to send one million taels of silver.  He was asked to recruit troops to fight Li Zicheng independently, saying that if the two armies joined forces, there would be too many troops and bloated institutions, which would be detrimental to the march.

    Now in the entire Ming Dynasty, Zhang Lei is probably the only one who can directly take out one million taels of silver without saying a word, because the gradually improving fleet can earn him huge profits in various places, and this little money is very important to him.  It's not a big investment.

    After Sun Chuanting received such a large sum of money, he also believed that what Zhang Lei said was reasonable. Furthermore, he also wanted to lead an army to fight against the rebellion. If he followed Zhang Lei, he would probably only be able to monitor Zhang Lei.  This was something he was extremely unwilling to do, so he listened to Zhang Lei and stopped going to Chaoxian County. Instead, he directly recruited 100,000 troops on the spot to fight against Li Zicheng.

    Li Zicheng was suddenly attacked, and he was unable to resist. He retreated into the city and could not get out. While Sun Chuanting trained these troops, he besieged Li Zicheng without attacking, which only prevented him from continuing to expand.  After disrupting Zhang Xianzhong's offensive,Xiang Sheng also went back north and together with Hong Chengchou blocked the Qing army outside the pass, and the world was once again peaceful.

    Zhang Lei was stationed in the Chaohu area, which was a deterrent to the rebels. Chongzhen had learned a lesson from before and did not dare to do anything to Zhang Lei blatantly. Zhang Lei was happy and at ease, leading several nearby mansions with his people.  The people of the state carried out post-war reconstruction work.

    Let¡¯s talk about Ruzhou again. In 1368 AD, Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty and made major reforms to Yuanxing Province. He changed the province to the "Chengbu Xuanzheng Division", which was only responsible for civil affairs, but people still used to call it the province.  , abbreviated as province, with counties (prefectures) and counties under the province.  Ruzhou is still under the jurisdiction of Nanyang Prefecture, and Liang County is included in Ruzhou, and Jiaxian and Lushan counties are under its control.  In April 1475, Baofeng County was established in the southeast of Ruzhou, and Ruzhou led three counties.  In September 1476, Teng Zhao, a native of Ruzhou who was serving as the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War at that time, and his friend Yuan Jie, the chief envoy of Henan Province, jointly petitioned Xianzong on the grounds that Ruzhou was too far away from Nanyang, which caused inconvenience to the lives of the people.  Emperor Zhu Jianshen separated Ruzhou from Nanyang and placed it under the direct jurisdiction of the province. Ruzhou became the only directly controlled state in Henan that was directly governed by the province, and was upgraded from a county-level state to a prefectural level.  In December of the same year, Yiyang County was established in the west of Ruzhou near present-day Ruyang County, and parts of the original Song County, Lushan, and Ruzhou were designated as Yiyang, and Ruzhou led the four counties of Lubao and Yi.  In the Ming Dynasty, the Central Government's Inspection and Envoys Division, which was in charge of the administration of officials, established forty-one Inspection Divisions in local areas, called Xundao. There were two in Henan, namely Henan Road and Hebei Road. Henan Road was stationed in Ruzhou.

    Ruzhou is an important route for rebels, and there are local bandits in the mountains.  Qian Zuozheng, the governor of the state, recruited more than a thousand people and suddenly attacked the bandit's lair in the middle of the night. The bandits were not prepared at all, and most of them were not killed. The others fled in panic.  Qian Zuozheng also ordered thousands of people to build a stronghold to protect themselves. The bandits had no way out, so they all surrendered.

    In the blink of an eye, another year passed. In the first month of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng took advantage of Sun Chuanting's inattention and suddenly led his army to attack Ruzhou.  Ruzhou is a rebel bandit. Li Zicheng's purpose in capturing Ruzhou is naturally very obvious. He wants to gather all the rogue bandits from here for his own use. He cannot always be suppressed by Sun Chuanting. By then, he will not  Speaking of expansion, even their own territory may not be able to be defended.

    Qian Zuozheng, the magistrate of Ruzhou, personally boarded the city tower to direct the battle with Li Zicheng, but was unfortunately hit by an arrow and died. The other soldiers held on for a month. Li Zicheng used cannon to capture the city gate, and Ruzhou fell into Li Zicheng's hands.  Li Zicheng immediately actively collected those rogue bandits, incorporated them into his own team, and gave them certain benefits to follow him. After a month of development, they gradually stabilized, so after leaving some people to garrison in Ruzhou, he personally led them  The army went to Kaifeng.  Before that, he captured Luoyang and killed King Fu Zhu Changxun, which shocked the government and the public.

    In 1368 AD, Zhu Yuanzhang changed Bianliang Road to Kaifeng Prefecture in Beijing. In 1379 AD, he gave up the title of Beijing and granted the fifth son Zhu Xi the vassalship of Kaifeng and the title of King of Zhou.  "There are as many vassals in the world as Bianzhong." The King of Zhou himself was also very wise. In addition, Kaifeng Mansion was the seat of the Chengxuan Government Envoy of Henan Province. Kaifeng became the largest city in the Central Plains. Kaifeng City was second only to Beijing and Nanjing. It was the most important city in the world.  Sexual metropolis.  The city wall is hard and thick, reaching five feet, and its defensive capabilities are extremely strong.

    After learning the news, Sun Chuanting quickly led troops and horses to go for reinforcements and fought fiercely with Li Zicheng's army outside the city. Sun Chuanting used 100,000 troops to fight against Li Zicheng's 500,000 troops. There was no winner between the two sides.  In the city, Zhou Wang Zhu Gongqiu personally took out 500,000 yuan from the treasury to pay the guards and soldiers, and also placed a reward of 50 gold for killing a thief.  He also invested his own money to build the city of Kaifeng to defend against the rebels.  When Li Zicheng attacked the city, the defenders set fire to it, and the thieves were burned to death.

    Subsequently, Zuo Liangyu led his army to assist Sun Chuanting, but without contacting Sun Chuanting in advance, many flaws were exposed. Li Zicheng seized these flaws and sent out extraordinary troops to surround Zuo Liangyu and defeat him.  Zuo Liangyu was frightened to death and stopped mentioning the need for assistance. He fled to Xiangyang with some soldiers who had finally escaped.

    While Li Zicheng was attacking Sun Chuanting, he sent people to dig caves. Since the Kaifeng city wall was thick, he was going to dig out the caves and enter Kaifeng city directly.  But it is not easy to implement this idea, because the project is difficult, and Ming troops may appear at any time to obstruct their actions.  For example, Kaifeng deputy general Chen Yongfu led his men to fight against the city and killed 2,000 rebels. General Li Xianfeng and guerrilla Gao Qian rushed to the rescue and killed another 700 rebels.  Under successive attacks, Li Zicheng's army retreated from Mi County.  Kaifeng lifted the law.

    Chongzhen was very happy about this and issued an edict to commend him, saying: "This high emperor's spirit shows mercy to the descendants of the clan and the city is not secure. It is a blessing that inspires the king's heart." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome.  Come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please go and read.)
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