There is an uninhabited village about sixty miles south of Kaocheng.
This village has about dozens of adobe houses. It was originally supposed to have one or two hundred villagers. However, due to repeated wars in Henan, there are already ten houses and nine empty houses, and this village has become an uninhabited village.
At this time, Zhu Gaoyuan and his ministers and a thousand Yiding were sleeping soundly in the village.
Zhu Gaoyuan did this all the way south from Tongzhou. He marched at night and tried to find an uninhabited village to camp before dawn. If he couldn't find an uninhabited village, he could only find an inhabited village, but before camping, he would arrest the villagers.
He was imprisoned and pretended to be a bandit or a rebel.
In fact, a thousand Yiding are similar to bandits and rebels.
The ordinary people who were imprisoned in a centralized manner were frightened to death. How could they know that it was the emperor who captured them?
Therefore, even if local officials from Dashun came to inquire afterwards, they would only say that it was bandits and rebels.
What's more, at this time, the Dashun army suffered a defeat at Shanhaiguan, and the entire Dashun regime was in chaos. With no one at the top to care about it, the people below would not do their best.
Various factors added up, and until Zhu Gaoyuan and his party crossed the Yellow River from Kaocheng, all Dashun troops were still confused.
Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi had been waiting along the canal. It was not until the north-south attack defeated Wang Jiayan's three thousand cavalry and captured the Ming army for interrogation that they found out that Chongzhen had already gone south by another route.
But at this time, the two of them could no longer care about pursuing Chongzhen.
Because the news of the Dashun Army's defeat at Shanhaiguan arrived.
Li Zicheng ordered the two men to immediately lead their troops north to respond.
Going back to Henan, in the evening, there was a sudden sound of rapid horse hooves on the official road in the south.
Immediately, a cavalry of post soldiers came galloping from the official road, apparently heading to the west through the uninhabited village.
However, there were still three miles away from the uninhabited village. Several khaki blankets were suddenly turned up on both sides of the official road, and then several ambushes jumped out from under the blankets.
Two of the ambushes stretched out their hands and pulled,
A stumbling rope lay across the official road.
The postman, who was galloping on horseback, had no time to react and fell to the ground in an instant together with his horse.
Several ambushes swarmed up and tied the post soldiers into a ball. They also found rags to stuff their mouths to prevent the post soldiers from shouting and attracting more thieves.
"Wubatan, you continue to lurk."
"I will take this postman to report to the Holy One."
One of the ambushes said to the other.
"Okay." Another ambushes agreed, and immediately brought a few more ambushes to cover themselves with blankets, and lurked by the official road. The previous ammo led the postmen into the uninhabited village.
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Zhu Gaoyuan woke up from his sleep and walked out of an earthen courtyard with Meng Ketu and dozens of Yiding. He happened to see Jin Xuan coming with two servants and escorting a postman from Dashun Army.
Jin Xuan said: "Your Majesty, we have captured a rogue postman."
"Your Majesty?" The rogue postman immediately looked shocked.
Zhu Gaoyuan nodded and said: "Jin Qing, please examine it and see if you can ask anything?"
Jin Xuan responded with a yes and immediately motioned to the two servants to remove the cloth from the postman's mouth.
The postman immediately shouted: "Long live, long live my lord, I am originally a tenant farmer of Master Yuan's family. I am a thief who was coerced into following. I don't really want to be a thief."
Jin Xuan said: "Which Mr. Yuan?"
The postman said: "This is Mr. Yuan Taibao."
"Your Majesty, this is Yuan Keli, the former Minister of War." After Jin Xuan told Zhu Gaoyuan, he asked the postman, "Where are you going? And for what purpose?"
The postman said: "The villain is going to Suiyang to move reinforcements."
Jin Xuan said: "Why do we need to move reinforcements? What happened to Guide Fucheng?"
The postman said: "There is a pseudo-Ming rebel army, uh no, no, no, no, it's our Ming army that is besieging the city. The pseudo-prefect Sang Kaidi ordered a villain to go to Suiyang Guard's pseudo-deputy general Ding Qiguang for help."
Jin Xuan said to Zhu Gaoyuan: "Sang Kaidi was the former prefect of Guide Prefecture, and Ding Qiguang was the former deputy general of Suiyang Guard. They just fell into disgrace and surrendered to the bandits one after another."
Zhu Gaoyuan nodded to express that I understood.
Jin Xuan asked the postman again: "Who is besieging the city?"
The postman said: "It seems to be Xu Dingguo, the commander-in-chief of the Henan Relief and Suppression Forces. Oh yes, there is also the promotion officer of Kaifeng Prefecture, a seventh-rank petty official named Husband."
Jin Xuan said: "Chen Qianfu, the official of Kaifeng Prefecture?"
"That's right." The postman nodded repeatedly, "Chen Qianfu, let's call him Chen Qianfu."
"Your Majesty, this is a crazy student." Jin Xuan said to Zhu Gaoyuan, "After failing the provincial examination in the twelfth year of Chongzhen's reign, he made a big fuss in the Gongyuan Academy. I was present at that time, so I have an impression."
“I don’t know whose path I took later,”
"The selected official arrived at Kaifeng Mansion to serve as a seventh-grade official."
"Chen Qianfu?" Zhu Gaoyuan also had a vague impression.
This person should have left his name in the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, but he was not very famous, so Zhu Gaoyuan had an impression of this name, but he was not clear about his deeds.
But I was deeply impressed by another name, Xu Dingguo.
It was this man who trapped Gao Jie and killed him, which caused the Huanghuai defense line that Shi Kefa had worked so hard to build up to be wiped out in an instant, and also caused the Hongguang court to last for less than a year.
While he was talking, other officials and nobles came over one after another.
After asking about the situation, he didn't say anything, just waiting for Zhu Gaoyuan to make up his mind.
There is no doubt that at least among the officials and nobles who followed Zhu Gaoyuan to break the siege, Zhu Gaoyuan, the emperor, has taken off the title of "mean, unkind, suspicious and suspicious" and has established absolute authority. The emperor did not consult them.
opinions, none of them dared to speak out easily.
Zhu Gaoyuan did not intend to seek the opinions of officials.
When it comes to specific administrative matters, you can seek the opinions of these noble officials, but when it comes to strategic decisions, Zhu Gaoyuan can only and must be arbitrary.
This is definitely not Zhu Gaoyuan's willfulness.
It's because Zhu Gaoyuan is a time traveler who can predict the direction of history in advance, and Zhu Gaoyuan has more than three hundred years of knowledge, knowledge and experience than people of this era.
For example, now, Zhu Gaoyuan has to make a choice - whether to intervene in the war in Guide Mansion?
Zhu Gaoyuan's original plan was to travel day and night, rush to Yizhen as quickly as possible to find Huang Degong's army, and then take Huang Degong to Yangzhou to find Gao Jie.
First annex Gao Jie's army,
Then take care of Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo.
Finally, he used the four towns to force Zhu Yousong to abdicate.
The time schedule for the entire process is very tight.
Once it is delayed for too long, anything can happen.
So if you can't delay in Guide, don't delay. Don't delay even a day.
But then again, if an idler is placed in Guide in advance, this will undoubtedly be extremely beneficial to the construction and operation of the Huanghuai defense line in the future.
Because the threat to the throne has been resolved, he will lead his army north to Huanghuai.
At that time, there will be a confrontation or even a war with Jiannu on the Huanghuai front line.
At this time, the idle piece falling in Guide can play a key role.
Therefore, whether this piece of free money will fall or not is a question, and only Zhu Gaoyuan can make the decision himself.
After pacing for a moment with his hands behind his hands, Zhu Gaoyuan quickly made a decision: "Order your troops and go to Guide Fucheng!"
"According to the order!" Jin Xuan agreed and immediately went to deliver the order. Along with the sound of horns and trumpets, the sound of horses neighing and people boiling also sounded in this abandoned and uninhabited village.
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At this time, outside the west gate of Guidefu City,
Xu Dingguozheng and Chen Qianfu discussed whether to launch a strong attack?
Xu Dingguo and Li Dingguo, their names are only one letter apart, but their abilities are worlds apart, and Xu Dingguo is not a good person at all, he is just a greedy and despicable person.
In the Ming Dynasty, he worked his way up to the rank of general soldier by working in the camp.
After the fall of Beijing, they lost their backbone and did not have the courage to go south. Because they were worried that Gao Jie, Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo would take away their military power, they simply stayed in Suizhou.
Because there was no military pay, most of his troops suddenly dispersed.
But over the past month or so, Xu Dingguo had captured more than a thousand stragglers by looting the countryside.
The nearby villages had to take shelter under Xu Dingguo in order to protect themselves, which further increased Xu Dingguo's power, which has now expanded to more than 2,000 people.
Joining Xu Dingguo in besieging the city were Chen Qianfu's more than a thousand village warriors.
Chen Qianfu's abilities were much stronger than Xu Dingguo's. It was not easy for him to be promoted to a seventh-grade official, but he could suddenly recruit more than a thousand local warriors, and he could survive in the cracks of the Dashun Army.
Since it is a joint operation, there will definitely be conflicts of interest.
Xu Dingguo asked with a smile: "Mr. Chen, you are in charge, why don't you let your people attack first?"
Chen Qianfu waved his hand and said: "Mr. Xu is wrong. Although this battle was initiated by a lower official, the main force is your troops, Mr. Xu, so it should be your troops who attack first."
Although Chen Qianfu's position was much lower than that of Xu Dingguo, he was not afraid at all psychologically.
The smile on Xu Dingguo's face suddenly froze, and he was a little angry. "Chen, are you so shameless?"
Just when Xu Dingguo was hesitating whether to simply kill Chen Qianfu and annex his more than a thousand warriors, the warriors from various villages behind him suddenly became commotion, as if something had happened.
Immediately, a village warrior leader rushed over in a hurry.
"General Town, Mr. Xu!" the leader shouted, "It's not good!"
"Li Jiyu!" Xu Dingguo was equally frightened in his heart, but scolded him calmly on his face, "Why are you panicking?"
"Uh, ah?" The Xiangyong leader named Li Jiyu huffed and said, "Cavalry, a huge cavalry is charging towards Fucheng!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a faint sound of thunder in the distance.
Immediately afterwards, everyone felt that the ground beneath their feet began to tremble slightly.
Xu Dingguo's face turned pale in an instant. Although his commander-in-chief got his job by speculating in the camp, he had fought in Liaodong and fought many battles with bandits, so he was not interested in the movements of the cavalry march.
But my memory is still fresh. Just by listening to this movement, I can be sure that the number of cavalry that came over was at least a thousand!
There are thousands of cavalry, but in the current Henan territory, they can only be rogue cavalry.
The bandit's cavalry are all veterans, and they cannot compete with the rabble under him.
"Hurry up and bring the horses from this town!" Xu Dingguo subconsciously wanted to get on his horse and run away.
