Chapter 85: Little girls deserve a hot bed, so they are called Zizi
Today is New Year’s Eve. Snail wishes everyone a happy New Year in advance. I wish all my book friends good luck in the Year of the Tiger, and may the Tiger and Tiger bring strength!
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Ever since Emperor Chongzhen summoned the ministers and courtiers, there has been a lot of discussion in the court. The suppression of Sichuan, Chu and Yu provinces has once again become the focus of people's attention. Many court officials and censors have taken the opportunity to criticize and impeach Chen Xinjia and Yang Si. Chang two people.
They even made far-fetched rumors that after the defeat of Tongguanyuan, Li Zicheng once attached himself to Zhang Xianzhong and became one of his subordinates. Since Zhang Xianzhong had been forced into Sichuan by Yang Sichang, it shows that Li Zicheng fled to Henan from Sichuan.
Others vividly said that Li Zicheng had been surrounded by officers and soldiers somewhere in eastern Sichuan, and then broke out of the encirclement before rushing into Henan. And this somewhere in eastern Sichuan, after several months of adding branches and leaves, finally formed a The complete story of Li Zicheng being besieged in "Yu Fu Zhu Mountain".
What's more, there are rumors that Chen Xinjia, the Minister of War, told the outside world that Li Zicheng fled to Henan from Shaanxi and was not from Sichuan in order to cover up Yang Sichang's responsibility for the unfavorable campaign against the bandits.
When Chen Xinjia heard the rumors attacking him, he actually laughed them off.
He is a soldier, so he naturally knows more than others about many military matters such as suppressing bandits. Moreover, Emperor Chongzhen also has great trust in him and will not be affected by these rumors.
Chen Xingjia knew that in the autumn of last year, a small group of Li Zicheng's troops came out to collect grain in the Xing'an area of Shaanxi Province. Later, another group of troops rushed into Henan from near Wuguan. There was never any military report that Li Zicheng had gone to eastern Sichuan.
Emperor Chongzhen also knew that Li Zicheng had never been to eastern Sichuan. After all, he believed more in the military reports sent back by the eunuchs supervising the army on the front line. Therefore, although the courtiers later attacked Governor Yang Sichang, none of them believed it. No one dared to mention in front of him that Li Zicheng entered Henan Province from Sichuan.
They just dare to spread rumors in private!
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Emperor Chongzhen had fled to northern Henan for Zhu Yousong, the prince of the Fu clan. In addition, there were other fleeing clans in urgent need of relief, and the treasury was very empty. In the end, he had no choice but to raise this donation in the palace.
Emperor Chongzhen himself gave out 10,000 taels of silver, Empress Zhou gave 4,000 taels, Concubine Tian gave 3,000 taels, Concubine Yuan gave 2,000 taels, Prince Zhu Cixiang also gave 1,000 taels, and Queen Yi'an of Ciqing Palace gave out 1,000 taels. In addition, concubine Xuanyi Huikangzhao of Cining Palace and concubine Wen Dingyi of Emperor Kao each had 500 taels each, making a total of 31,000 taels of silver.
The day after Chongzhen summoned the ministers, the old prince-in-law Ran Xingrang was ordered by the emperor to lead a group of officials from the Ministry of Rites in Beijing and eunuch Wang Yumin to northern Henan to express condolences to the prince of the Fu clan and to provide relief to the descendants of the clans who had fled.
But Emperor Chongzhen in the palace was still having trouble sleeping and eating. He was anxiously waiting for news from various places. What worried him the most was where Li Zicheng in Yu Province would attack again, the whereabouts of Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, and the whereabouts of the two thieves Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai. There is a critical situation in Liaodong where the Donglu are besieging Jinzhou.
In addition, he was also extremely concerned about Superintendent Yang Sichang's next deployment of "suppressing thieves".
As the overall situation in the Central Plains deteriorated, Emperor Chongzhen became more worried about the two thieves Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai entering Chu from Sichuan.
Just a few days ago, he received a report from Yang Sichang from Yunyang, Sichuan, and learned that Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai had defeated the enemy's fierce and fierce army in Huangling City, Kaixian County, and were about to leave Sichuan and enter Chu from Kuizhou.
Yang Sichang said in his memorial that he was sailing east from Yunyang, and had sent the supervisor Wan Yuanji to ride Qingqi from the dry road to Kuizhou in an attempt to block the "thieves" from leaving Sichuan and prevent them from returning to Chu. However,
As for the result, there is no new news yet.
Chongzhen was very afraid that the situation in Huguang would be like that in Henan. He kept asking in his heart: "Where is Zhang Xianzhong now? Has the Xian thief ever left Sichuan?"
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On December 25, the 13th year of Chongzhen's reign in the Ming Dynasty, at Mao hour, the sky was not completely bright yet. There were still sparks outside Kaifeng City, and even more, there were puffs of light smoke rising into the sky.
Groups of bandits began to work nervously before they had breakfast. The surrounding area outside Kaifeng City was like a large construction site, with large logs piled up in rows, and many refugees were coerced into building and climbing into the city.
Ladders and other equipment.
There were piles of new bonfires lit in the rebel camp. It was time for the fire soldiers of each team to build pots and light fires to prepare breakfast for the rebel soldiers.
In the entire Kaifeng City, there is only a group of thousands of horse infantry soldiers in the northern position outside the West City that is relatively stable. They gather together in groups, each sorting their belongings and wiping their armor and weapons. The cavalry are mostly taking care of themselves.
of war horses.
Tong Shoushan is now in charge of a hundred-man cavalry team. Most of the team are old brothers. Only a dozen of the cavalry are horse thieves from a small group of local mountain bandits in Henan Province that Liu Fangliang assigned to him.
Li Zicheng's principle for these new deserters and bandits from various places was that they should use them but dare not fully trust them. They had to observe them before they could truly be incorporated into his core team.
However, Tong Shoushan and his group surrendered nearly a hundred cavalry at one time, and they were reluctant to allocate them to the outside team. This time, they gathered a hundred people into a team and mixed with the old camp cavalry.
Fortunately, they were all born at night, and usually had some gangster spirit. They did not strictly abide by military rules and disciplines like regular soldiers, so everyone believed that they were escaped frontier troops from Datong, Shanxi, and
Their accents are also quite similar.
What's more, there are many Shaanxi frontier troops in the intruder army, as well as many official troops and frontier troops from other places. Li Zicheng has always believed that as long as he feeds them and lets them take over after they win, these former officials will
The army will fight for itself.
What's the point of being an official? Isn't it just that when you're full, you can have fun and be free?
Bao Jiqiang was not wearing armor at the moment. He packed up his belongings, looked at the horse, then walked to Tong Shoushan and sat on his saddle, saying: "Brother Tong, you said King Chuang can conquer Kaifeng."
A city?"
Tong Shoushan leaned on an old wicker chair and said lazily: "I heard that young general Zhang Nai wanted to steal the west gate of Kaifeng yesterday. If it succeeds, now we will be the most popular in the city.
Grabbing meat and drinking wine, we brothers will hug a little girl and lie down in the hot quilt, what a pleasure!"
As he spoke, he spat out a hay branch he was holding in his mouth, turned over, and said, "I'm hungry, let's go and see when we can start cooking."
Bao Jiqiang stood up and dusted himself off, but he did not move. Instead, he waved a brother over and said, "Go and see when the team will start. Tell him that the leader of the team is urging him!"
He turned his head and saw Tong Shoushan tinkering with a dry smoke gun. He quickly took out the fire stick, squatted down and blew it for him. He watched Tong Shoushan take a strong puff and exhale a large cloud of smoke, and then
He couldn't help but cough.
I just heard him curse softly: "Damn it, this thing is really better than our Beizhaguan!"