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"Reporting to the division chief, deputy division chief, an urgent letter has been sent from the Second Battle Barracks." A soldier came to the room, holding a letter in his hands.
Zhengsun Chuang, the deputy division commander closest to him, took the letter, opened the envelope, and said to the soldier who sent the letter: "Okay, let's get down!"
"Yes." The soldier turned and left the room.
Chen Xunping, who was sitting at the table in the room, said at this time: "Could it be that the soldiers and horses of Shandong Beiwa Dusi have entered Henan and arrived in the Yifeng and Lanyang areas?"
The news that the Ming Dynasty mobilized Shandong's Beiwa Dusi to come to Henan had long been known by the Tiger Character Banner's Foreign Intelligence Bureau, and the news was immediately sent to the Tiger Character Banner's army in Henan.
"I received news a few days ago that the soldiers and horses of Shandong Beiwa Dusi have just passed Yanzhou Prefecture, and it is impossible to arrive in Henan so soon." Sun Chuang shook his head at first, and then asked, "Could it be Xiao Wu and the others? problem occurs?"
Chen Xunping curled his lips when he heard this and said: "What can happen if their Second Battle Camp stays outside Kaifeng Fucheng? If you ask me, maybe the Second Battle Barracks can capture Kaifeng Fucheng."
"Just thinking about good things." Sun Chuang joked with a smile. He opened the letter he took out of the envelope and read it in front of his eyes.
The content of the letter took up more than half of the paper, and he quickly read the content written on it.
He immediately laughed and walked towards Chen Xunping with the letter in his hand. At the same time, he said: "You are so sure that this guy Xiao Wu really took over Kaifeng Fucheng. The letter asked us to take credit for him." Woolen cloth!"
"Haha, if we really want to capture Kaifeng Fucheng, I will personally ask the military commander for his credit." Chen Xunping took the letter with a smile, held it in front of his eyes and read the contents.
Sun Chuang picked up the teapot on the table, poured a glass of water for the other party and himself, and said: "It seems that the Ming Dynasty has run out of energy. The local government is full of bureaucrats who only care about themselves and do not serve the country. How can we do this?" The country will not be subjugated.”
"This is a good thing for us." After reading the letter, Chen Xunping put the letter aside and picked up the teacup on the table. "If the Ming Dynasty were all loyal ministers and good generals who dedicated themselves to the people, how could we have the Tiger Flag today? I'm afraid I am still fighting slaves and bandits in Liaodong, and you are still your mountain king."
Sun Chuang used to be a bandit in Panjiazhai, but later joined the Tiger Banner with the head of Panjiazhai.
"I was forced by the government to go up the mountain and do weeding. If the government hadn't forced the people to lose their livelihood, how could I have risked my head by going up the mountain and doing weeding?" Sun Chuang defended himself.
Datong has very few fertile farmlands. When disaster strikes, the people have no choice but to sell their fields or borrow grain from the gentry's families at high interest rates if they want to survive.
Under the situation of compound interest, the next step is to sell children and daughters, and then the rent and interest owed will increase. In the end, either the whole family will run away, or they will be squeezed out by the rent and compound interest. A little value.
The timid ones could only be squeezed out of the last bit of profit and water and then exposed to the wilderness. The bolder ones simply fled with their families and fled to other places. However, more of them were captured and beaten to death.
For those who are most courageous, they may simply turn into bandits. Life will be easier, but it is still a precarious life.
Even in precarious days, there are bandits who have turned into bandits on many hills in Datong. Except for a few of these bandits, most of them were forced to go up the mountains and turn into bandits under the joint force of the government and the gentry.
In the Datong Shanxi area, there are many people in this situation like Sun Chuang.
"It's good to be a bandit, but if you're not a bandit, how can you have the opportunity to join the Tiger Banner, and now you have become the deputy division commander of the First War Division." Chen Xunping said with a smile.
Sun Chuang curled his lips and said, "Come on, come on, you, a deserter, are no better than me, a bandit."
"Ha ha."
Chen Xunping laughed.
After the laughter stopped, he said in a relaxed tone: "Originally, I wanted to go to Daming Mansion after we captured Zhangde Mansion, but now that Kaifeng Mansion has been captured, there is no need to go to Daming Mansion anymore. Speaking of which, The prefect of Daming Prefecture should thank his colleagues in Kaifeng Prefecture."
"Lu Xiangsheng, the prefect of Ming Dynasty, should thank his colleagues in Kaifeng Prefecture. These people saved him." Sun Chuang said with a smile.
Daming Mansion is next to Zhangde Mansion, but it is the boundary of Beizhili.
Chen Xunping said: "Previously, Li Xunfu sent someone to deliver a letter and said that if we caught this Lu Xiangsheng, we must spare his life. It seems that this is not enough to satisfy Li Xunfu's wish."
The Li Xunfu he mentioned was not the Ming Dynasty governor, but Li Shuheng, the Henan governor appointed by Huzi Banner.
"It's strange to say this. You said Li Xunfu has only been in Henan for a long time. How could he care about a prefect in Beizhili for no reason?" Sun Chuang asked curiously.
At the same time, he looked at Chen Xunping.
The relationship between Chen Xunping and Li Shuheng is not a secret. Most of the middle and upper-level officers of Tiger Character Banner know about the relationship between the two.
Chen Xunping, who heard this, said: "You don't understand this. Governor Li didn't even straighten things out in Henan. How could he care about the prefect of Beizhili? If my guess is correct, he really cares about Lu Xiangsheng's lord."
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Sun Chuang took a breath after hearing this.
Then he said: "There is nothing special about this Lu Xiangsheng. For this reason, I have also learned some of his resume. This person was a Jinshi in the second year of Tianqi. He first served as the head of the household department, was promoted to Yuanwailang, and finally came to be a daimyo. The magistrate, but I heard that he is a good official and manages the Daming Prefecture just fine. Although it is not as good as the prefectures and counties of our Tiger Flag Mu Shou, it is worse than other prefectures under the Ming Dynasty. But based on this alone, the lord does not need to take it seriously. he."
"Ask me, how do I know?" Chen Xunping spread his hands.
He was not a roundworm in the lord's belly, so how could he possibly know what Liu Heng was thinking.
Sun Chuang said: "How about we send troops to Daming Mansion to test it out, maybe we can figure out what's going on?"
"I'm sick. I'm going to send troops to Daming Mansion just because of your curiosity. I'm crazy to accompany you to do this." Chen Xunping ridiculed.
Sun Chuang said with a smile: "I just said casually, taking Henan will be enough for us to digest for a while. Taking another famous mansion will do more harm than good, and I am not stupid."
"Okay, don't think about this Lu Xiangsheng thing. We will naturally encounter it when we send troops to Beizhili in the future. Now we should think about which troops to send to the Yifeng area to block the soldiers of Shandong Beiwa Dusi who want to enter Henan. Horse." Chen Xunping said.
The state capitals in Henan were basically captured by the Tiger-Character Banner army. The next step was to switch from offense to defense, hold on to the captured territory, and block the government troops who wanted to enter Henan until the Tiger-Character Banner completely digested Henan.
