Ma Mingfeng laughed and said, "I always heard that Yang Chengzu is an open-minded man, one is one, two is two. It is impossible to do something like fake joining. If you don't really defect, then you are not Yang Chengzu."

When Yang Chengzu heard this, he sighed: "Governor Ma is indeed well-known and is the only official general who makes General Luo feel afraid of it."

Ma Mingfeng smiled faintly, but said ashamed in his heart.

In fact, Ma Mingfeng did not believe in Yang Chengzu? He just believed in his confidant Li Dayong. With Li Dayong's shrewdness, he must have long judged that Yang Chengzu had truly surrendered, so he led Yang Chengzu into his tent.

It is precisely because of this that Ma Mingfeng was so happy after hearing that Yang Chengzu was willing to surrender.

However, Ma Mingfeng actually had doubts in his heart. Yang Chengzu was Luo Rucai's confidant general. Now he actually surrendered to him. There must be a reason for this. Could it be that Luo Rucai was really killed?

Ma Mingfeng was really shocked, but he felt that only this could explain why Yang Chengzu was willing to surrender.

So Ma Mingfeng asked, "Is General Yang coming to me because something happened to General Luo?"

When Yang Chengzu heard this, he said with admiration: "The master is as expected, Yang is very impressed! Yes, ten days ago, the thief used the excuse of General Luo and the governor to secretly colluding with the governor, and attempted to be unfavorable to the thief, and then killed General Luo. He Yilong and He brothers. Many generals were afraid of the thief's thief's stance and turned against each other. Yang was dissatisfied, so he led the seven thousand cavalry under his command to join the thief. Anyway, they were wronged, so they were wronged enough!"

"Seven thousand cavalry?" Ma Mingfeng was very excited after hearing this news. You must know that most of his team in Kaifeng City were infantry. Although there were two thousand cavalry in total, the two thousand were just infantry riding horses. The real function of riding horses was just to facilitate the road, but not real cavalry.

Because real cavalry must be proficient in cavalry combat formations and sufficient experience in killing enemies, not infantry riding horses.

Ma Mingfeng knew that Yang Chengzu was the commander of Luo Rucai's cavalry battalion. He was commanding not only the most elite cavalry in the entire rebel army, but also he was well versed in cavalry tactics and cavalry training methods, which was undoubtedly an extremely valuable asset for Ma Mingfeng.

From then on, Ma Mingfeng had initially gained the capital to compete with the Chuang Army and the Qing Army. An army had only infantry and no cavalry, and would inevitably be in a passive position in war. Therefore, Ma Mingfeng could only defend the city under normal circumstances, but it was different with cavalry. Not only could he be able to defend but also had the strength to attack, but he also had certain abilities in field battles.

Of course, the biggest disadvantage of the Henan Army is its insufficient troops. If it is a small-scale annihilation war, it will be fine. However, even if there are tens of thousands more people, he will not be so arrogant.

But no matter what, these seven thousand cavalry are a big reliance for him, which will make him more confident when fighting against the rebel army.

At the same time, Ma Mingfeng thought of another point. At least for now, Li Zicheng was eager to completely digest the annexation of Luo Rucai's soldiers, and had no time to interfere in the great migration. By the time he completed the integration and the great migration was completed, the situation was decided by that time. In addition to attacking Kaifeng with all his might, Li Zicheng had to withdraw from Henan.

Ma Mingfeng was very calm and immediately wrote the memorial about Yang Chengzu's surrender, and specifically mentioned the merits of Xie Sanshe blind Li Zicheng, and ordered people to send them to the capital in an expedited manner, asking Chongzhen Holy Tribunal.

Three days later, Chongzhen received Ma Mingfeng's report and was very satisfied. It seemed that Ma Luan had already learned the lesson from the last time and knew how to report it in advance.

Revival then issued an order, appointing Yang Chengzu as the general. At the same time, in order to praise Xie San for his contribution, Xie San was directly appointed as the guerrilla general, and ordered Yang Chengzu to still command the troops of his troops. Xie Sanzhe led the soldiers who had captured and surrendered while guarding Kaifeng. At the same time, he issued a special order to express verbal commendation for Ma Mingfeng's move to migrate.

When the imperial edict was passed down, Yang Chengzu and Xie San were both grateful to Ma Mingfeng because they would not have been able to obtain such a high position without Ma Mingfeng's recommendation, especially Yang Chengzu, who was directly appointed as a general from a rebel leader and could still command his own army. During this period, it would have been impossible without Ma Mingfeng's advice.

However, the confidants under Ma Mingfeng were still a little dissatisfied. After Ma Mingfeng did such a big thing, Chongzhen actually only verbally commended him, not even at all substantial, especially Yu Zhenlong, Liu Zhaolin and others, who made great contributions, but have not been awarded formal military positions until now.

This also made these people lose confidence in Chongzhen. They knew that with such an emperor, great things would never be possible. Ma Mingfeng's approach was correct. If he wanted to achieve great things, he would probably have to wait for the emperor to replace him in the end.

However, they were confused in their hearts. Although Chongzhen had all kinds of problems, the thieves could really fight to the capital? The emperor would really change people? If the emperor had changed, would even lose the capital? At that time, the complete Ming Dynasty would not be an opponent, and can the Ming Dynasty, which only half of the country, be able to defend it?

However, no matter how confused they are, these people cannot say these words. Seeing that Ma Mingfeng is very sure of everything, they think Ma Mingfeng should have a solution.

In the following days, the immigration work continued. Because Ma Mingfeng knew that Li Zicheng had no time to care about the people in Henan now, he took the opportunity to speed up the pace of immigration. Under his strong supervision, the immigration speed further accelerated, and finally completed this great work two months after the immigration work began.

In the past two months, Henan immigrated one million people, of which more than 400,000 went to Lufeng area, more than 200,000 went to Anqing, more than 100,000 people went to Daming and other places north of the Yellow River, and more than 200,000 crossed the Yangtze River and arrived in the Jiangnan area.

These millions were the people's power saved by Ma Mingfeng from the rampage of the rebellion army. This not only allowed the rebellion army to lose the opportunity to replenish manpower and material resources, but also left the spark of life for the redevelopment of Henan in the future. It is of great significance. Ma Mingfeng felt that this could be comparable to the famous retreat between Britain and France in the world war three hundred years later.
Chapter completed!