Chapter 66 Huai Army, Calms the Chaos
Outside the north gate of Huai'an old city, looking at the chaotic Huai'an city behind him, listening to the screams of the people in the city, Lu Zhenfei, the governor of the canal transportation, stared blankly as if he was ten years old, with tears in his eyes. Fortunately, no one saw it in the dark night.
Zheng Biao, the governor of the Caodao, was also fleeing from the city with Lu Zhenfei. He was afraid that the bandits would chase him, so he hurriedly advised: "Go away quickly, this place is dangerous and you should not stay for a long time!"
"You also ask the Ministry to leave quickly, and the thieves will be able to chase after you later!" Zheng Tai was also extremely anxious. He only had dozens of soldiers under his command, and it would be difficult to resist if the thieves came out of the city to chase him.
"I am afraid that this time I leave is a disaster for all living beings."
Lu Zhenfei murmured to himself that the Jianhe Army was used to burning, killing, looting and looting with Zuo Liangyu. When he first came to Huai'an, he repeatedly committed crimes and disturbed the people and forced hundreds of people to kill. Now that he has been openly rebelling and seizing the city, the people in Huai'an City can still have a way out!
"Turn the wolf into the house, and lead the wolf into the house. I regret not calling Jin Shenghuan to come!" Now that things have come, this Lu Department Court can do anything else besides regretting it.
"Please ask the ministry and court not to be sad anymore. The most urgent task is to quickly find reinforcements to suppress the bandits!" Zheng Biao said anxiously.
Lu Zhenfei woke up and asked, "Where are the soldiers and horses recently?"
Zheng Biao said without thinking: "There are three or four thousand soldiers in the Marquis of Funing."
"Zhu Guobi?"
Lu Zhenfei shook his head, he would rather die than go to Zhu Guobi. His first memorial after taking office was to impeach Zhu Guobi.
Zhu Guobi, the Marquis of Funing, was the governor of the Beijing camp. When Wen Tiren controlled the government, Zhu Guobi resisted the memorial and impeached the memorial. Emperor Chongzhen issued an edict to arrest his disciples and those who wrote memorials were imprisoned, and he was suspended from his salary.
A year ago, Chongzhen re-activated Zhu Guobi and asked him to lead the general Liu Zeqing and others to protect the grain in Shandong. However, when Zhu Guobi saw the treacherous rush, he left the town without authorization and led his men south to Huaiyang to station in Taoyuan County, and even detained more than 100,000 yuan of Fujian Jiejing silver.
After Lu Zhenfei took office, he could not tolerate this matter and rushed to the capital. However, Zhu Guobi dared to leave the town without his will. How could he be afraid of Lu Zhenfei's bulletin? The capital was already panicked because of the defeat of Henan's official army. The imperial court could not take care of himself and could not take care of Huaiyang's side, so the matter was left to nothing, but Lu, Zhu and the Liangzi settled.
Because of this, Lu Zhenfei forced himself to dig Zuo Liangyu's corner. He also urgently believed that Liu Zeqing from Jining went south. In addition to strengthening the river defense and not allowing the rebel army to go south, he wanted to suppress the bold Marquis of Funing.
In addition to a few marquis servants, Zhu Guobi's troops were mostly defeated soldiers he collected along the way, with only three or four thousand people and his combat effectiveness. In addition, he knew that the Lu Department Court and Funing Hou were in conflict, so Zheng Biao did not send anyone to ask for help after Huai'an was besieged. However, Zhu Guobi's troops, which are only more than 100 miles away from Huai'an City, have become the closest soldiers.
It is said that water is far away and can’t save the near fire. Judging from the current situation, going to Taoyuan is the best choice for Lu Zhenfei and his party.
Zhu Guobi was no longer angry with the Lu Ministry. He was the Marquis of the Ming Dynasty. Could it be that he would dare to stay in the door and not accept the governor of the Ming Dynasty?
But Zheng Biao didn't think about it but said that he didn't want to go anywhere, and he was in trouble for a while.
"If the Ministry and the Court does not go to Taoyuan, you can protect the Ministry and the Court and the Court to Haizhou." Zheng Tai was determined to protect the governor of the grain transport and the governor of Huaiyang to join Zheng Zhibao. He now does not trust any army except the Fujian army.
"No, Haizhou is too far away, General Zheng has only more than a thousand soldiers under him, and the village warriors have not yet been trained in the regiment, so it will be useless to go there, and instead miss the opportunity to fight." Zheng Biao firmly opposed it.
"Go to Anton!"
Lu Zhenfei also knew that Zheng Zhibao had few troops and horses, and he went to Haizhou for hundreds of miles. When they arrived, they didn't know how bad Huaian was. After thinking about it, they decided to go to the Huaian General Zhang Pengyi before discussing.
But Jin Shenghuan Chu of Sizhou didn't even think about it.
Andong is a county under the jurisdiction of Huai'an Prefecture, adjacent to Yancheng and Shanyang counties, and Huai'an Guard is also located in this county. Huai'an General Zhang Pengyi was a hereditary commander. Although he was incompetent, his victory was due to his loyalty. And Andong was not far from Huai'an. It could be connected to Haizhou, Xuzhou, and Yangzhou in the south. Zheng Biao had no objection at the moment.
The group rushed east in the dark, because they were afraid that the pursuers would not dare to fire the torch to light the lights. They stumbled along the way, and from time to time, some people fell to the ground with their feet on the air.
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In Huaian City, with the entry of the Huai Army and the killing of the rebel leader Li Shiyuan, the riots in Huaian New City were gradually subsided.
In a few areas, there are rebels robbery and murder, and some are arsoning, but the Linzi Camp and Haizi Camp are constantly expanding their controlled areas, so it is only a matter of time before these few rebels are wiped out.
After experiencing the initial panic, with the clamor of "The Huai Army will not kill locals, nor will it steal locals", and the shouts of killing outside became weaker and weaker, and fewer thieves were wandering on the streets, the residents of Xincheng gradually began to accept the fact that Huai'an was controlled by a team called Huai Army.
Compared with the gradual stability of the new city, Liancheng and the old city are still in chaos.
A large number of rebels expelled by the Huai Army flocked between Liancheng and the old city. With the leadership of the veterans under Li Shiyuan, the young and strong Hegong and the defeated soldiers let go of the robbery, causing Liancheng and the old city to be in chaos.
Some of the remaining Fujian soldiers and the canal guards who retreated from the city walls but had not yet left the city, were still resisting. The Fujian soldiers may have resisted out of helplessness, while the resistance of the canal guards and the young and strong guards in the city was more to defend their hometown.
Some rogues in Huai'an City saw chaos in the city, and they also saw that most of the thieves rushing into the city were dressed in the people, and even those who were eager to be interested also came out to pretend to be thieves and took advantage of the situation to rob.
With their familiarity with the terrain, these people rushed to the wealthy family in groups, or pretended to lead the rebels to touch the homes of officials they knew to rob. During this process, someone was killed.
In order to protect themselves, some officials and wealthy families also began to organize servants and servants to resist, which made the old city even more chaotic, and the sound of cursing and shouting at each other was endless.
Looking up on the city wall, some areas have been set on fire by rebels. If the fire is not extinguished in time, it may become a ruin after dawn.
Lu Si led the flag team to Liancheng. He originally wanted to wait for dawn to clean up the end of Liancheng and the old city, but Xia Dajun's words changed his mind.
"If you don't care, the people outside will say it is the city that our Huai Army slaughtered!"
Lu Si moved, and he must not let the Huai Army bear the charge of slaughtering Huai'an City. Under his personal command, Qin Wu's Qin-Camp and Xia Dajun's Lin-Camp to Liancheng, and drove the rebels in Liancheng to the old city by planting flags.
Without the command of the leader, the rebels could not be enemies with the Huai Army, which had the backbone, and had to run to the old city under their strong advance, which made the riots in the old city become more and more intense.
"Huai Army, quell the rebellion!"
The strip of cloth wrapped around Lu Si's right hand had been untied. With his order, thousands of Huai Army wore red cloth on the right arm of the right arm poured in from the gates of Liancheng and the old city.
The first one is in addition to the "Huai" flag, there are more than 30 bamboo poles raised high.
Seven or eight human heads were hung on each bamboo pole with a long rope.
Chapter completed!