"Your Majesty, it's not good for you to do this!" The prefect of Nanyang stood on the tower of Fucheng and said helplessly to Tang Wang Zhu Yujian.
We already know that since King Ning rebelled during the Zhengde period, the Ming Dynasty vassal king and his family were not allowed to leave the city where they were vassal. The primary responsibility of the local officials in the city was to guard the vassal king and his family.
family members.
But there is a well-established rule here. The scenery on the walls of the city where the vassal kings are located is okay, but if you want to do something on the city walls, you will be blocked.
"What? For the sake of the Ming Dynasty, what's wrong with my king being here? Have I left the city?" Tang Wang Zhu Yujian replied without showing any weakness.
When he learned that Nanyang Fucheng was in danger again, the Tang King Zhu Yujian resolutely took out the grain and silver from the palace and recruited soldiers in the Fucheng to prepare to defend the city. Because there were many Nanyang refugees hiding in the city, the Tang King successfully recruited 800 soldiers.
There were many people, and together with the palace guards, the king of Tang had more than a thousand soldiers.
In this regard, the prefect of Nanyang is happy to see the success. Now in order to protect the city, it is good to have more strength. Although the recruitment of the Tang Dynasty king is somewhat illegal, as long as those soldiers are active in the city, and in Nanyang
After the city is safe, disperse the recruited soldiers as soon as possible, and there will be no sequelae.
When Zhang Xianzhong's partial division rushed to Fucheng, it was just a feint to cover Zhang Xianzhong's main force from passing through Nanyang and entering Huguang. Therefore, this partial division was a little loose. Seeing that the Ming army in the city did not dare to leave the city, they
I boldly went to the residences around the city and rummaged through the belongings in the residences.
Seeing that the peasant army outside the city was so exhausted and not ready to fight at all, Tang Wang Zhu Yujian, who went to the city tower to observe the enemy's situation, was tempted. He proposed to the Nanyang prefect and General Sun Wei that they should go out of the city to fight the peasants.
The army was caught off guard.
The peasant army came and went in Nanyang Prefecture so many times. The Nanyang Prefect and Sun Wei, who had passed through several critical situations in the city, had long been frightened. Of course they did not dare to leave the city, so they used "It is difficult to attack with few soldiers!"
"The reason was that he declined Zhu Yujian.
So Zhu Yujian took advantage of the situation and proposed to let the soldiers he recruited go out to fight in the city. Anyway, if the battle was defeated, the loss would not be the Ming army that originally defended the city. Sun Wei was noncommittal about this, and although the Nanyang magistrate had some objections, he could not say anything.
The reason for the objection is that after all, the Ming army in the city did not dare to attack!
In this way, five hundred carefully selected elites, led by the leader of the royal guard, went out of the city for a sneak attack. The sneak attack went smoothly. Because the King of Tang Dynasty was good at martial arts, his guards were not just guards of honor like the guards of other vassal kings.
Rather, he is physically strong and has real talents.
But during the battle, the King of Tang was so excited that he shouted on the city wall and commanded his sneak attack troops. This made the prefect of Nanyang a little nervous. Because watching the battle on the city tower and commanding on the city tower were completely different concepts.
.However, under Zhu Yujian's strong words, the Nanyang prefect still opened his eyes and closed his eyes.
This indulgence of the Nanyang magistrate and Sun Wei laid a foreshadowing for Tang Wang Zhu Yujian's future behavior. Because if the rules were broken the first time, they would definitely be broken the second time. But this also happened a few months later.
matter, so I won’t mention it now.
The Tang King Zhu Yujian's sneak attack out of the city was not very successful in terms of results. He only killed and injured hundreds of peasant soldiers. However, the peasant army that was attacked fled Nanyang Fucheng in panic. After all, they came here in vain.
He flashed a shot, so after receiving a sneak attack, he thought that his intentions had been seen through by the Ming army, so he hurriedly retreated to prevent the Ming army from attacking Nanyang City.
What followed was a dazzling performance by the peasant army.
Let’s talk about Zhang Xianzhong’s troops first. After he discovered the Ming army’s movements in Nanyang Fucheng, he did not dare to head south into Huguang. He turned to the northeast and forced into Ruzhou City again. This change of direction first caused Lu Xiangsheng and Lu Xiangsheng who were following the pursuit.
Zu Kuan's troops were caught off guard and quickly turned around to pursue him. After hearing that Ruzhou City was in danger, Yu Zilian's Ruzhou Army also marched back to Ruzhou in a hurry. Even the Zhou Patrol Department in Ye County also took the troops who had already prepared the troops.
The prepared rotation training regiments of He Fei and Xue Yong's Nanyang Corps left Ye County and headed for Ruzhou City for rescue. It can be said that they completely mobilized the Ming army in southwest Henan.
Seeing that the Ming army was mobilized, Zhang Xianzhong's troops immediately turned northwest again, entered Henan Prefecture, and approached behind Zuo Liangyu's troops. Seeing that the crisis in Ruzhou City was resolved, the Runing army led by Zhou Xun temporarily stopped their actions, but
Yu Zilian's Ruzhou army was afraid of losing their hometown, so they rushed back to Ruzhou city.
In fact, the peasant army on the border of Henan had already divided its troops. After joining Ma Shouying's troops with Gao Yingxiang's troops, they immediately returned to Shaanxi, leaving only Gao Yingxiang's troops to attract the attention of the Ming army.
After Ma Shouying returned to Shaanxi, he united the 13th Battalion of the large and small peasant armies that had stayed in Shaanxi, marched eastward out of Tongguan, and suddenly appeared in Henan. After learning of this situation, Lu Xiangsheng and Zu Kuan immediately returned again to stop him.
In response to this peasant army, the patrolling Runing Army immediately returned to Ye County to prevent the peasant army from breaking through Lu Xiangsheng and Zu Kuan's troops and entering the area controlled by the Runing Army.
Li Zicheng's tribe, who originally stayed in Shaanxi, broke away from the entanglement of Hong Chengchou's tribe, fought in Weinan and Lintong, crossed the Huayin Nanyuan Jue Ridge in the east, and exited Zhuyang Pass. Reunited with Li Zicheng, Gao Yingxiang moved into Henan again.
However, such a transfer immediately turned Zuo Liangyu's troops into a lone army. He would face a pincer attack from the three strongest peasant armies. So in Minxiang, Henan, a big battle began.
But before introducing this battle, let us first take a look at the actions of the two Ming armies. After Yu Zilian's Ruzhou Army rushed back to Ruzhou, they only rested for one day before following Zhang Xianzhong's troops.
Chen Zhongzhi and Jiang Cheng, who had been watching from the sidelines, first heard that Nanyang Fucheng was in danger and wanted to rush to the rescue; but not long after leaving, they heard that Ruzhou City was in danger, so they rushed to Ruzhou City; and then they heard that Ruzhou City was in danger.
The crisis in Ruzhou City was lifted, and a large number of peasant troops came in from the direction of Tongguan. They rushed to Tongguan again. It really felt like a Tetris war.
But after another day of walking, an order came from Governor Lu Xiangsheng, asking them to rescue Zuo Liangyu. Lu Xiangsheng had actually discovered the danger of Zuo Liangyu from the development of the war situation, but his Tianxiong Army and Zu Kuan's Liao Army
It was necessary to block Ma Shouying's 13th Battalion heading for Huguang. Therefore, at this time, we could only mobilize the closest troops of Chen Zhongzhi and Jiang Cheng.
Of course Chen Zhongzhi and Jiang Cheng did not dare to disobey the order, but at this time, they had turned into angry birds. (To be continued...)
