From the first year of Chongzhen to the present, the peasant uprising has lasted for fifteen years.
During these fifteen years, although the peasant army rose and fell, its rise and fall were uncertain, and even reached the point of starting a prairie fire, it never captured any provincial capital.
What does provincial government mean?
The only thing more important than the provincial capital is the capital.
If even the provincial capital is breached, will the capital be far behind?
From this perspective, once the provincial capital is breached, it can almost herald the end of a dynasty.
Especially Kaifeng.
It is not only the provincial capital, but also the essence of the Central Plains.
Since ancient times, fighting for the world has been called fighting for the Central Plains. If all the essence of the Central Plains falls into the hands of the enemy, Guo Zuo will be at the end.
Therefore, when Li Zicheng came to Kaifeng City for the third time, and his military strength was far greater than before, Chongzhen went crazy.
He quickly gave an order to Governor Ding Qirui, and he would never allow any mistakes in opening the seal.
Well, despite being incompetent and immoral, the only person Chongzhen could place his hope on was Lao Ding.
There was no way, Fu Zonglong and Wang Qiaonian ran away, and Yang Wenyue died.
Looking around the court, Chongzhen suddenly realized that he had no one available to him.
Even if Lao Ding is really not trustworthy, he can only catch up with his ducks.
This is the predicament of the Ming Dynasty today, and it cannot be changed.
It’s not like Chongzhen didn’t take the medicine to regret.
He released Sun Chuanting, who had been thrown into prison for two years, and asked Sun Chuanting to resume his duties as governor of Shaanxi and organize and train the army again in an attempt to save the situation.
In the capital, at the entrance of the prison of the Ministry of Punishment.
Sun Chuanting walked out unsteadily.
Looking up at the sky, the stinging pain from the hot sun finally made his feelings come alive.
He returned to the human world and could do something again.
An old servant of the family had been waiting here for a long time, and he quickly came over with tears in his eyes.
"It's great that the master has been released from prison. My mistress has been waiting for a long time and is looking forward to the day of reunion."
Sun Chuanting regained consciousness and allowed his servants to help him take off his prison uniform and put on a comfortable Taoist robe.
"Stop chatting, pack your bags quickly, and follow me to Shaanxi to take up the post."
The old servant's movements were stagnant, his expression full of dissatisfaction.
"Sir, can this Ming Dynasty be saved? All the capable people have run away, so why should I sacrifice my life?"
Sun Chuanting was as cold as ice and scolded him on the spot.
"Asshole! I have been in charge of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, and all the people in the world have returned. Li Zicheng is just a defeated general under me, why should I be afraid?"
The old servant was scolded so badly that he didn't dare to say anything anymore, so he had no choice but to do what he was told.
Although Sun Chuanting was wrongly accused and imprisoned for a long time for nothing, he still thought about the Ming Dynasty. After being released from prison, he went straight to Shaanxi without any delay.
But when they arrived at the place, Lao Sun was dumbfounded.
Shaanxi is so empty. Looking around, there is nothing you want.
people?
Either they all ran away or they all died.
After leaving the city of Xi'an and arriving at Tongguan, apart from the white bones, there was not a single person in sight.
money?
Only rats were running wildly in the treasury of Shaanxi, and their shrill cries seemed to mock his wishful thinking.
Faced with Chongzhen's strict order to send troops, Sun Chuanting finally felt powerless.
In view of the cruel reality, Sun Chuanting reported to Chongzhen, hoping to recruit Shaanxi locals to join the army, and use the heroic and fighting characteristics of the Qin people to use Qin to control Qin and deal with Li Zicheng.
However, in order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to train 20,000 elite soldiers, which requires a military salary of one million.
When Chongzhen saw the request for money, he was very unhappy on the spot.
But now that the matter was over, he just wanted the siege of Kaifeng to be lifted, so he verbally agreed.
But Chongzhen's agreement was conditional.
He demanded that Sun Chuanting must send troops to rescue Kaifeng within one month after receiving his military pay.
Sun Chuanting had just come out of prison and intended to revive his ambitions, but by this time, everything had disappeared.
It is really difficult to be a subordinate when you meet such a master!
Under the supervision of the supervisor Su Jing, Sun Chuanting had no choice but to send troops to Tongguan and march into the Central Plains.
Even so, his action was too late.
At this time in the Central Plains, the war situation has been decided.
Return to Kaifeng.
Ding Qirui took office again, fearing that Chongzhen would behead him if he delayed any further, so he quickly sent orders to various Ming armies and rushed to Kaifeng.
But at this time, the essence of the Ming army had already been exhausted. Although they are said to have a crowd of 180,000, and there are generals such as Zuo Liangyu, Hu Dawei, Yang Dezheng, Fang Guoan, etc., they are far inferior to Li Zicheng in terms of quantity and quality.
On May 13th, all Ming armies arrived at Zhuxian Town and refused to take a step forward.
All the generals made good plans.
Rushing to Kaifeng City to fight Li Zicheng has no chance of winning.
They had no choice but to station themselves in Zhuxian Town to threaten Li Zicheng's flanks.
If Li Zicheng can be frightened and forced to withdraw his troops, then everything will be fine.
If Li Zicheng is determined and turns around to attack, it will be easier for everyone to run.
Sure enough, Li Zicheng was very stubborn.
Since ancient times, there has been no belligerence in attacking a city.
The first two times he opened the seal, Li Zicheng paid a heavy price and still failed to defeat it.
This has already created a psychological shadow on Li Zicheng.
If possible, try not to attack the city.
As long as he tries to eliminate the Ming army's effective forces in the wild, isn't Henan his?
Heroes throughout the ages have understood this principle: save people and lose land, and both people and land will survive; save land and lose people, and both people and land will be lost.
Only the idiot, Principal Jiang, doesn't understand.
So Li Zicheng turned around, leaving only a small number of troops to monitor Kaifeng, and hundreds of thousands of troops rushed towards Zhuxian Town.
At that time, Yue Fei defeated the Jinwu technique here and preserved the vitality of the turbulent Song Dynasty. Now here, another decisive battle to determine the fate of the Central Plains is about to come.
Zuo Mengeng, who was far away in Jinan, had all the intelligence on the battlefield.
At this time, he frowned, obviously caught in a difficult problem.
And he couldn't tell him what was difficult, otherwise there would be endless troubles.
But this problem must be solved, otherwise, there will be big trouble on the road to unification of Xia Kingdom in the future.
After thinking about it, at this time, there was only one person he could trust.
"Third brother, you are personally responsible for this matter. You must be careful and there must be no mistakes."
Zuo Fu sat in the shadows, making it difficult to see his expression.
But for the first time in his life, he hesitated about Zuo Mengeng's order.
"Master, is there really no room for change?"
Zuo Mengeng let out a long sigh and raised his hand to rub his forehead.
"What will happen to him if he continues to live?"
Zuo Fu paused, obviously thinking of something.
He quickly hardened his stance.
"I'll do it, there won't be any flaws."
Zuo Mengeng held his hand.
"You have been wronged."
Zuo Fu just shook his head.
"The young master said that the world is the largest. No one can stop me from rejuvenating China. In this case, what is there to fear?"
(End of chapter)
