Zhongdu Fengyang Prefecture is the place where the old Zhu family grew up, which is the hometown of Emperor Hongwu Zhu Yuanzhang.

Originally, there was no such place name before the Ming Dynasty. It was originally called Zhongli County and belonged to the territory of Haozhou.

The name of Fengyang Palace was taken by Emperor Hongwu Zhu Yuanzhang, and he chose the meaning of Danfeng Chaoyang.

At that time, Fengyang Prefecture was incredible. Its jurisdiction included eleven prefectures, including Hezhou, Chuzhou, Shouzhou, Lu'anzhou, Sizhou, Hongzhou, Suzhou, Yingzhou, Bozhou, Pizhou, Xuzhou, and more than forty counties, which were larger than ordinary provinces.

It was not until the Yongle Dynasty that Fengyang Prefecture gradually subsided to five prefectures and thirteen counties.

As the place where the old Zhu family was in the dragon's rise, Zhongdu Fengyang Prefecture was originally very strong. The Zhongdu Left-behind Office alone had eight garrisons and one thousand household office, with a total of more than 50,000 people.

Unfortunately, after more than two hundred years, the garrison here has been almost tossed by the insatiable guard officers.

At this moment, eight garrisons and one thousand households can have 30,000 garrisons left.

In recent years, it was the Liaodong War and the southwest chieftain rebellion. The Ming Dynasty crazily transferred the Tunwei. Most of the Tunwei who were left behind in the Zhongdu were transferred, and the transferred elite troops were basically the Tunwei who only knew how to farm.

In other words, at this moment, there are only more than 10,000 Tunwei who can only farm.

This is also the reason why Li Zicheng thought of using cannon fodder to dig out the ancestral tomb of the old Zhu family.

He believed that the main forces of the Ming Dynasty were transferred to fight against Jiannu, and the rest were basically guarding the vassal states of the vassal kings in the Central Plains. There must be no one in Fengyang Prefecture to guard it, and it would be easy to take it down.

Unexpectedly, he was disappointed as soon as he led his men to the Fengyang Mansion.

He walked along the way in Yingchuan County, Fengyang Prefecture, which is the richest place among the three routes.

He originally wanted to prepare for the autumn wind in Yingchuan, waiting for Zhang Xianzhong, who was stupid to dig out other people's ancestral graves.

Unexpectedly, there was someone guarding Yingchuan County, which was originally no one was stationed at all, and the city walls were densely filled with officers and soldiers!

How is this possible? Where did these officers and soldiers emerge?

He hadn't figured out what was going on. Gao Yingxiang from the middle road and Zhang Xianzhong from the south road also sent people to send news that there were also officers and soldiers stationed in Yingdong and Huoqiu, and there were also many officers and soldiers.

He was really stunned now.

What to do?

Still siege the city?

He seems to be unable to conquer the situation of the officers and soldiers!

You should know that he has only more than 20,000 troops under his command, and the walls on all sides of Yingchuan County are densely filled with officers and soldiers, with at least seven or eight thousand, or even tens of thousands of possible.

His men and women bullied the townspeople, and the yamen runners and other things were OK, but the real officers and soldiers probably couldn't do it, especially when they were standing on the city wall.

In desperation, he had to send a quick horse to inform Zhang Xianzhong and go to his uncle Gao Yingxiang to discuss it in the middle.

Among the simple commander's tents of the army on the middle road, all three of them had serious faces.

They really did not expect this situation. There were so many officers and soldiers stationed in the three counties, and even if they joined forces, they might not be able to capture one!

Because the officers and soldiers are not fools, they can join forces to attack a county town, but don’t they know how to come to support them?

Gao Yingxiang frowned and pondered for a while, then sighed helplessly: "Zaoer, what if we don't forget it, we will definitely not be able to get it even if we attack the city for a few days. If the officers and soldiers from other places come after hearing the news, it will be a big trouble."

Can this be done?

He finally came up with such a clever plan.

never mind?

Run back and don’t be laughed to death by other rebel leaders!

Moreover, if he just ran back like this, the borrowed people must be returned to Wang Jiayin. Wouldn't he be beaten back to his original form and become a small leader?

This cannot be done with this.

Question, what should I do?

Li Zicheng was frowning and pondering, but Zhang Xianzhong had a sudden inspiration and said, "It seems that there is no need for us to attack these three counties, right?"

This is what I said.

Li Zicheng couldn't help but say, "Will you just slip over if you don't fight?"

Zhang Xianzhong nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, slip over directly, why do we fight? Whoever transports us food and grass, naturally there is no saying that there is any food route that is intercepted. Moreover, we originally planned to lead the officers and soldiers around, and there is no saying that there is any way to break the way out. Slide over directly, run to Fengyang Prefecture City to dig the ancestral grave and run away. Isn't it okay?"

Yes, just slip over directly. Anyway, their food and grass are basically snatched, and there is no fixed territory, so there is no way out at all.

You stupid, you are indeed the material for being cannon fodder!

When Li Zicheng saw Zhang Xianzhong so anxious, he naturally agreed to this ridiculous strategy without hesitation. So the three of them sneaked over with their subordinates!

In fact, it's useless for them to slip over.

Because the Minister of War Lu Xiangsheng led his army to take a wheel boat and go directly to Huai'an, then turn to the Huaihe River, and directly to the vicinity of Fengyang Prefecture City, it took less than three days in total, and it took them nearly ten days to run from Xinyang Prefecture to Yingchuan and other places.

In other words, Lu Xiangsheng had already arrived at Fengyang Prefecture City, and had already transferred all the Tunwei, the officials and nearby guards of Zhongdu, and at present, there were at least 30,000 people guarding Fengyang Prefecture City.

Li Zicheng really didn't expect that so many officers and soldiers would suddenly pop up from Fengyang Mansion.

He originally thought that as long as he delayed slowly for a few days, Zhang Xianzhong's stupid one would definitely rush into Fengyang Prefecture to dig out the ancestral tomb of the old Zhu family.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Xianzhong ran over and came back, and brought his uncle Gao Yingxiang to the door.

The three of them sat in his simple and handsome tent and started discussing.

Zhang Xianzhong was unwilling to say: "There are also officers and soldiers guarding Fengyang Prefecture City, and it looks more than Yingchuan, Yingdong and Huoqiu, what should I do?"

Gao Yingxiang frowned and pondered for a while, then sighed helplessly: "Or we should leave." The officers and soldiers obviously knew what we wanted to do. If they didn't leave, they might be in danger."

He was a sarcastic person, and his nephew and uncle had already discussed it. One was a sarcastic person and the other was a sarcastic person. He had to dig up the third way to the ancestral tomb of the old Zhu family!

Li Zicheng was about to arch Zhang Xianzhong with a sarcastic sarcastic gaze, but Zhang Xianzhong shook his head slowly and said, "Maybe the officers and soldiers are bluffing. There are tens of thousands of guards nearby. Even if there are a lot of them, the rest will not work. However, they can completely scare us from the city wall. Wouldn't we try?"

Just try it!

If you want to be cannon fodder so much, I have to help you!

Li Zixing nodded and said, "Okay, let's go and try it."

In history, it was indeed Zhang Xianzhong and a foolish person to dig out the ancestral tomb of the Zhu family.

Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang were deliberately watching the show slowly behind.

Chongzhen was really angry with them, and he caught Zhang Xianzhong and chased him to death.

The problem at that time they encountered Chongzhen, who was confused by Jiannu, and the prime minister Wen Tiren was a treacherous minister, who was determined to fight for power and profit and never cared about his important matters, so they successfully dig out the ancestral tomb of the Zhu family.

The emperor is not Chongzhen, but they still want to try it, but it is purely seeking death.

They were working together to build siege equipment outside the city, and the general Ma Shilong had already led 20,000 elite troops in the guards to come from the south.

At this moment, Zhang Xianzhong was a little stunned. The officers and soldiers inside and outside Fengyang City were at least 40,000. How could they fight? The three of them combined have less than 80,000 troops!

Forty or fifty thousand officers and soldiers, even if they are not good, it is definitely no problem to defend Fengyang City.

In other words, it is impossible for them to dig out the ancestral tomb of the Zhu family.

They thought the court had rushed to transfer so many people, but they could not think that the number of people that appeared now was nothing at all.

Behind these men and horses were 20,000 Iron Cavalry of Shenwu Camp, 20,000 Shenwu Camp infantry, 100,000 Liaodong Army, 30,000 well-equipped Shenji Camp chariot soldiers, and nearly 200,000 troops were gathering here.
Chapter completed!