Around the twelfth lunar month of the 16th year of Chongzhen, it was a really troublesome winter. Wang Hai led 5,000 elite troops to take root in North Korea, and Datong General Chen Yongfu placed troops in Datong.

After the wealthy families in Kaifeng City were burned down by the Zhou Palace, they were trembling for a while and finally found that the Jiaozhou Camp did not mean to carry out a major purge in the city. This is to let go.

Looking at the military farms outside Kaifeng City that gathered refugees, most people in Kaifeng City realized that the power of Shandong could not be stopped at all. Don’t underestimate this military farm. During the entire Henan famine, the Ming Dynasty government wanted to do it but never started it.

Instead, all kinds of harsh taxes were imposed, and officials attacked them and forced more people to rebel.

But when this military farm in Shandong was built, it was obviously turning good people and civilians into serfs, but everyone was still willing to join us, which was equivalent to adding manpower and material resources to the Jiaozhou Camp out of thin air.

For the first time outside Kaifeng City, there were a large number of refugees, but the people in the city were not panicked, and the daily opening time of the city gate would not be shortened.

Because of the establishment of this military farm, Shandong sent a large number of personnel, but many people still needed to be recruited locally. This is also the fact that many scholars and children of Kaifeng Prefecture have found ways to eat official meals. Henan Governor Li Xianfeng smiled bitterly and found that although he had gradually handed over power to Shandong, Shandong's influence in Kaifeng Prefecture increased much faster than his handed over power.

A large number of supplies were transported to ensure that Kaifeng City, which had a vacant treasury, could survive the winter safely. Looking at the farming situation of the farmlands outside the city, everyone could also determine that there would be no need to worry about food and drink in the city next year.

The common people and wealthy families in Kaifeng City have felt peace of mind and safety for the first time in the past five years, which has made them more fond of Jiaozhou Camp.

As for the nobles and merchants in the city, the nobles smiled at the supplies transported from Shandong. Even when Kaifeng was in its heyday, the market was not so prosperous, and the goods were not so dazzling. These things from Jiangnan and overseas were indeed more exquisite.

In the past, these luxury goods and precious goods and exquisite things were not without Kaifeng City and Luoyang City. Those who may be able to afford them must be top wealthy families like Zhou Wang Mansion and Fu Wang Mansion. Now, as long as the family has money, they can still enjoy these things. Isn’t this the benefits brought by Shandong?

Those merchants were originally facing the edge of bankruptcy. Who would have thought that after Lingshan Commercial Bank entered Kaifeng, they would acquire all the goods they had in stock. Most of the goods from the merchants in Kaifeng came from Shanxi and Shaanxi. They may not be new in Henan, but they are very popular in Shandong and Zhili, North and South. Lingshan Commercial Bank is not doing a loss-making business.

However, Lingshan Commercial Bank's approach has made most merchants relieve themselves and have living money in their hands. After Kaifeng City rescued the market, the market suddenly flourished again, and they also took the opportunity to make a fortune and recover.

A large number of foreign personnel need a large number of materials to build farmlands outside the city. Some materials are transported from the Yellow River, while others need to be purchased in Kaifeng City. This also makes the business in Kaifeng City more prosperous.

The rich and noble people saw the benefits, the merchants gained real benefits, the people gained food and clothing, and civil and military officials received promises from Shandong in an earlier exchange.

If there are any people who are dissatisfied with it, it is probably the young and strong people in Kaifeng City who are willing to participate in the Jiaozhou Camp. They are said to be good families who do not serve as soldiers, but as the transportation and transportation on the Yellow River become more and more prosperous, the situation in Shandong is also becoming more and more aware of it. At this trend, joining the army to achieve fame is what a good man does.

But Shandong has high requirements for military soldiers. Even if they join the army, they often ignore it. Everyone is angry and think that Yuan Shizhong, the commander of Kaifeng City, is also a thief, and he can achieve such a position. The military soldiers under him can become soldiers from Shandong. Why can't we do it?

Currently, there are no direct military generals from the Jiaozhou camp in Kaifeng and Guide. They are only under the jurisdiction of two people, one is Kaifeng guerrilla Yuan Shizhong, and the other is Guide garrison Jia Dashan.

Jia Dashandi's position is considered a reinstatement position, but now he is a direct military general of Jiaozhou Camp, and his status has been greatly improved. Yuan Shizhong stood on the right side in that incident because his starting point is relatively high, and this time he also gave him a Kaifeng guerrilla official position.

However, the Kaifeng guerrillas in Yuan Shizhong were not the kind of military general who monopolized power. The guardian of Guide was not in Guide, but in Kaifeng. He was the deputy general of Yuan Shizhong, and some major matters were decided by both sides.

When the twelfth lunar month is approaching, the young and strong people in the inner and outer city of Kaifeng City think that there is a good opportunity, because a great enemy came from Luoyang Prefecture.

At present, outside the inner city of Kaifeng City, there are nearly a prefecture city, and the three counties are all just 6,000 people in Kaifeng's guerrilla Yuan Shi. There are too few people. The guards are some of them inadequate and will definitely recruit new recruits. This is also the habit that the rebel army developed to besiege Kaifeng City.

Before every time a large army of refugees approached the city and started attacking, the royal palace, governor's office, governor's office, and prefectural office in the city spent money to collect young and strong men and distributed weapons, so that the young and strong men could defend and guard against foreign enemies.

However, under such circumstances, the soldiers stationed in Kaifeng City in Shandong still had no news of recruiting soldiers. Many young people couldn't help but go to the military camp to inquire, and all they got were negative.

The young and powerful soldiers came soon after, and the villages outside the city were mobilized. The militias selected as the village guards team drove into the city and took their positions under the arrangement of officers and non-commissioned officers.

The village guard team in the Tuntian Village, many of which were less than three months outside Kaifeng City, were still very unfamiliar, but the soldiers educated in their work and other things will follow the rules, discipline and sticks, and will resolutely implement the officer's orders.

This is the case with these Zhuang Ding Minzhuang, who were hungry and refugees half a year ago. Although they had a short training time, compared with the current Ming Dynasty, many armies only brought the farmers to the army and sent them weapons to fight, but they were too much stronger.

Seeing these farmland farms, the young and strong people in the city realized that if they wanted to serve as a soldier in Shandong, they would have to do so. The farmland guard team and the army, one was to pay a fee and offer a reward. For refugees who were dying some time ago, this was a good benefit. Such benefits naturally had to be given to those farmers who were loyal to Shandong and were strictly controlled by strict control.

As a result, Kaifeng had a ridiculous phenomenon, that is, the children of ordinary people who could still have food and clothing. They were willing to go to the military farm to be a military farmer, in order to train in the village protection team and then join the Shandong army.

It is indeed a bit ridiculous to know about this phenomenon from the Tuntian Tianzhuang Zhuangtou and the Literary Office sent from Shandong. However, it is a pity that these young and strong civilians let them go so freely.

As a result, such a farm was specially set up outside Kaifeng City. The members of this farm were all the farm guards. Their farming task was not heavy. As long as they could satisfy their food and food, they would have a good time for military training. At the same time, the time for military training was far greater than that of ordinary farms.

This is also a new thing, called "military camp". A military camp has about two thousand people, which is equivalent to a semi-military organization. The personnel of this military camp are not serfs. The elimination of his personnel is carried out according to the militarized assessment. If there are unqualified personnel, they will be eliminated. At the same time, new people will be added.

Compared with the local genuine protection team after several months of training, even if the military camp is a good family, it is impossible for the military camp to be given priority in replenishing the army.

However, the military camp has its own unique uses. There are two military camps in total, which are used to maintain public security in Kaifeng Prefecture City and the surrounding three counties. Shandong's armed salt resident is unique in Shandong, and is related to the situation where Jiaozhou camp started its business with salt trading. It is a natural thing to maintain public security according to this armed salt resident.

But other places are different, and there is no armed salt ding in other places. Often, the soldiers stationed in the local area also have to maintain public order. This often involves distracting the energy of the garrison, and it is also very inappropriate for regular troops to maintain public order.

However, the military camp method of Kaifeng City is quite effective. Firstly, most of the military camps are local children, and they are familiar with all kinds of favors and affairs of the land. What they do. There is less resistance in the local area. Secondly, they have undergone regular military training from Jiaozhou Camp and are dispersed and distributed in various places. Ensure their loyalty and prevent the various disadvantages of collusion between local people and local children. Thirdly, local young and strong people want to join the army but are unable to do so. After all, this is a compromise method for them. Although Jiaozhou Camp can draw elite troops from it, they will not go to the opposite side.

Speaking of which, the whole world of Ming Dynasty, the one who can make good families join the army actively is probably the mighty army in Shandong.

Because of this military garrisoning measure, the leader of the military farm near Kaifeng City was praised as outstanding by Zhou Yang, Ning Qiangui and Yan Jizu during the 16th year of Chongzhen, and his future prospects were promising.

In fact, the danger of Kaifeng City at the end of November made the land controlled by Shandong Xinjin quite nervous. The residents of Zhongmu, Chenliu and Lanyang counties hurriedly avoided Kaifeng City, and the villages located between the cities were also very nervous.

Henan Governor Li Xianfeng has received reports from various villages, saying that the villages had already fled.

Li Xianfeng knew that he was still in this position, and Kaifeng guerrilla Yuan Shizhong completely let him make the decision in civil affairs, and he also came to ask about the military and political aspects, and whether Li Meng valued him.

Li Meng admired Henan Governor Li Xianfeng for so long after being able to hold on for so long, and Li Xianfeng was one of the rare high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty that Li Meng had ever met. During that meeting, Li Xianfeng's calmness was very appreciated by Li Meng. Moreover, this person was not a hard-working student, but a kind of person who knew practice, which was indeed very suitable for Li Meng's appetite.

Originally, after Yuan Shizhong arrived in Kaifeng City, Henan Governor Li Xianfeng had already begun to gradually hand over power. After the Zhou Wang family was taken to Shandong, Li Meng naturally had several deep conversations with his father-in-law.

Li Meng discovered that neither the governor Yan Jizu, who was in Shandong, Sun Chuanting beside him, nor the King of Zhou Mu Gonghao, had a low opinion of Li Xianfeng.

Since Li Xianfeng has such ability and has shown full awareness of the current situation in front of Shandong, Li Meng's subordinates are in urgent need of such talents, so they naturally need to retain them.

In today's world, people with vision can naturally see who is thriving and vigorous, who is about to set sun and till the west, Li Xianfeng has this opportunity. Of course, he cherishes it.

Who would have thought that it would be smooth sailing for a short while before such a big test came before us...

It was almost early November, and news began to come intermittently in the south of Weishi County, saying that a considerable army was heading north from the southern part of Henan, with the goal of this Kaifeng area.

In southern Henan, it is a large army of refugees, which is now controlled by Dashun. The troops coming over there must be a large army of refugees. Since Li Zicheng merged Luo Rucai, Dashun has been quite quiet. It was only when he heard that Li Zicheng sent his troops to eliminate the remnants of the Qingming Army and the armed militia in Huguang and southern Henan, in western Henan, there was no sign of major action. Has he been accumulating strength to wait for the action in autumn and winter?

After discussing with Li Xianfeng, the guerrilla guerrilla Yuan Shizhong and Li Xianfeng, he led three regiments of 6,000 troops from Kaifeng City to fortifications in Zhuxian Town.

Weishi County in Kaifeng Prefecture is actually the default dividing line between the Jiaozhou camp and the refugee army. Both sides have maintained a military gap of about a hundred miles here. Since the camp is about to take action, the Jiaozhou camp is only going to fight, although both sides should be digesting the territory and strength they have at this time, and the war should not be started suddenly.

When Jia Dashan returned to Guide Mansion, he brought two newly formed regiments. Kaifeng City left half of the regiment and the village guard team, and the army stationed to guard the troops. The remaining 3,000 people were led by Jia Dashan to strengthen the defense power in Zhuxian Town.

Henan Governor Li Xianfeng was unwilling to give up his bright future just like this. Although his duty was to concentrate on civil affairs and cultural affairs at this time, he could follow the rules of the Ming Dynasty. The Governor was actually the chief of military and political affairs in a province. Li Xianfeng simply recruited young and strong people in the city as a logistics team for transporting supplies, grain and fodder, and took him to Zhuxian Town for a generation.

Although Dashun was newly established, his control over the local area was many times stronger than that of Daming. Moreover, the jurisdiction was extremely strict in the defense of people who were not Dashun. The Shandong Salt Gang failed to arrange spies several times, and it also lost a lot of people.

The unsmooth intelligence leads to a lack of understanding of the movements of the Shun Army troops in southern Henan. All that Kaifeng guerrilla Yuan Shizhong could do is to be on guard.

When the follow-up troops led by Jia Dashan and Li Xianfeng came here, the troops in Yuan Shizhong's hands, including the young and strong civilians, could at least reach more than 10,000 people, and could barely carry out a blocking battle.

For them, there were indeed many difficulties, and Yuan Shizhong and Jia Dashan were all second-line troops. The firearms were not equipped with a lot, and the training of spear soldiers was relatively insufficient.

Think about how Dashun's soldiers would definitely select the most elite soldiers to come. Dashun's soldiers can often reach hundreds of thousands of thousands of soldiers, so how can they resist it?

During this period, I don’t know what the situation in the Dashun controlled area is, but in the Jiaozhouying controlled area, there are rapid and fast horses returning and forth, conveying various messages.

However, when he came to Zhuxian Town, Yuan Shizhong and others were looking forward to good news. Chen Liu, the general in Fengyang Prefecture, had promised that if the situation was critical, the troops he led would definitely send troops from Nanzhili to attack the flanks of the Shun Army, and the Yanzhou Army in Yanzhou Prefecture would also provide reinforcements at any time.

But in late November, more than a dozen cavalrymen ran from the Wei family into Yuan Shizhong's camp.

As soon as these more than a dozen cavalrymen entered the Shandong camp, they were arrested, but these soldiers kept saying that they were here to surrender and were just ordered to lead the way.

This news surprised the people from Henan. After asking carefully, I found out that these more than a dozen cavalrymen were subordinates of Luo Rucai's former subordinate Yang Chengzu, who came here to fight for the front station and inform him.

Yang Chengzu was the first brave general of Cao Cao's army. Of course, everyone had heard of his name. It was incredible that such a person actually led his troops to surrender.

It was at this time that everyone knew the exact news that Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai had a fire merging. Yang Chengzu was the number one favorite general under Luo Rucai. Since Luo Rucai was killed by Li Zicheng, the news that the fire merging escaped was reasonable.

According to the dozen cavalrymen, Yang Chengzu escaped from Fancheng. It was fine for the first few days, but then he was surrounded and intercepted by various troops mobilized by Li Zicheng.

According to Yang Chengzu's initial idea, he went north, headed west of Henan to Tongguan, and then went to Shaanxi or Shanxi. He defected to the government army or established himself.

But Hao Yaoqi's troops were arranged in the western Henan area, which was one of the most elite troops in the camp. The two sides fought one after another. At the beginning, although Yang Chengzu won one after another, Hao Yaoqi did not suffer much loss, but successfully delayed Yang Chengzu's more than 20,000 troops.

Then the troops led by Tian Jianxiu and Liu Fangliang rushed up. Even though Yang Chengzu was brave and even with Luo Rucai's most elite troops, he still suffered a great defeat under the siege of the opponent with the advantage, and his troops were more than half of them lost, which was the purpose of breaking through the siege.

It was almost impossible to run outward. Yang Chengzu was bold and decisive at this time, but instead fought back to the hinterland of southern Henan. This really caught the rebel army off guard.

But when they went to southern Henan, the space became much more cramped. Moreover, the armed militia in southern Henan was quite powerful, and these people would not care about the enemy's enemies and friends. Yang Chengzu's troops were also thieves and rebels, so they would definitely attack. Although Yang Chengzu had opened up the situation in Qinyang and Queshan areas, they could no longer hold on.

The first brave general of the coalition army was surrounded by mountains among the refugee army, but Yang Chengzu also had the intention of establishing himself as king. But the situation was uncontrollable.

At present, the power within Dashun is becoming increasingly integrated, and the alien being Yang Chengzu will definitely not be allowed. After all, Li Zicheng has almost finished digesting Luo Rucai's troops, but Yang Chengzu, the first confidant, was outside for a day, and Luo Rucai's old subordinates may not be at ease.

Yang Chengzu's army almost had to be wiped out. Hao Yaoqi, Liu Fangliang and He Jin led the backbone of the rebellion army to the junction of Runing and Nanyang one after another.

In this battle, Yang Chengzu only had more than 3,000 people left. At this point, Yang Chengzu could not continue to gain a foothold in the southern part of Henan. A slightly larger battle might be wiped out. It is a different story to be able to protect himself. The only way is to surrender and recruit.

When Yang Chengzu faced the official army, he almost never lost once and won every battle. What kind of Ming army was? He knew what kind of thing was that he surrendered to his defeated generals back then. He really couldn't hold back this face.

In the Queshan area, despite the lack of news, Yang Chengzu also knew that Kaifeng City is now under the protection of Shandong, and the military officer guarding the city was Yuan Shizhong of the Little Yuan Camp back then.

Yuan Shizhong was chased by the Shun Army and had no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth. Only more than a hundred personal guards were left. At that time, he thought that the heroes of the world would be removed from the list. Who would have thought that Yuan Shizhong, the Xiao Yuan camp, was actually a famous general in Shandong.

Yang Chengzu also participated in the battle on the Wo Shui side. He saw how powerful the Shandong soldiers were. In that battle, the refugee army tried their best, but was defeated by Shandong soldiers and horses, with nearly 100,000 casualties. Yang Chengzu knew it in his mind. If Shandong wanted to expand the results, it was entirely possible.

Only by surrendering to such a strong army did not wrongly accuse him of all his skills. After making up his mind, Yang Chengzu began to head north. Originally, Hao Yaoqi's troops were in the north, but Yang Chengzu used very simple means to escape. It was indeed very simple. Yang Chengzu almost gave his gold and silver savings to Hao Yaoqi.

This is a huge sum of money. Since entering Henan, Hao Yaoqi has been known for his greed for money and power. Yang Chengzu's troops are no longer in a state of failure and will not cause any harm to Dashun. If you can, you can.

Because of this small gap, Yang Chengzu led his army to break through at night and rushed northward. After passing Hao Yaoqi's level, although he had to bypass the tail of several troops and horses, the space was already quite wide and he could finally be dispatched calmly.

But south of the Weishi, Yang Chengzu led his troops and large troops to catch the secret treasures. Such a large-scale mobilization of troops was not spreading well. In the Kaifeng situation behind the Weishi, he naturally thought that the Shun Army was preparing to attack north and made a strong case.

When all powerful generals like Yang Chengzu surrender to our Jiaozhou Camp, Shandong is famous, but Li Xianfeng, Yuan Shizhong and Jia Dashan have a consensus.

That is whether Yang Chengzu was a fraudulent surrender this time, and you must be careful. Whether it is Li Zicheng or Luo Rucai, you should not do too much of such fraudulent surrender. Moreover, Yang Chengzu led more than 3,000 troops to come, and if Dashun troops took the opportunity to attack from behind.

Because of the huge size of Kaifeng City, Shandong specially cast many cannons for Kaifeng City defense. This time, all of them were brought over by Yuan Shizhong regardless of the situation.

Considering the time when Yang Chengzu and his men appeared in the southern part of Zhuxian Town, Yuan Shizhong arranged for soldiers and civilians to build a simple earthen city. To put it bluntly, he reinforced the camp and placed the cannons placed on the top of Kaifeng City. The entire camp actually had more than 40 large-caliber artillery guns, which were like hedgehogs, not including more than a dozen field guns from the five regiments under Yuan Shizhong.

Even so, Yuan Shizhong made the worst plan. If the rebel army really came, Yuan Shizhong would at least have to defend the camp and hold the other side, waiting for reinforcements from the other places. As for victory, he would not dare to think about it.
To be continued...