Chapter 200 Chen Qiyu Was Dismissed for His Missteps, and Lu Xiangsheng Took over to Suppress the Bandits
Wang Chao looked up at the sky, where endless bright yellow national fortunes gathered. The golden sea of clouds formed by the dragon energy above had covered the entire Xi'an, and a golden dragon was circling and roaring above it.
The brilliant golden light bloomed, like a vast sun, illuminating the entire Xi'an with a golden splendor.
From a spiritual perspective, Xi'an at this time was like a kingdom of gods on earth, a holy city that suppressed the six directions and eight directions.
The golden dragon hovered above, looking around, patrolling the entire territory of the Salvation Army, and spying on the surrounding countries.
Because the Salvation Army had won many battles, the dynasty was generous in rewarding, and even the ordinary people who helped the Salvation Army received many rewards, and even military merits of the army.
And you know, if the military merits are enough, you can get a title.
However, that requires waiting until the Salvation Army is established.
This made the people under the Salvation Army full of an urgent desire to make merit, expand, and occupy the establishment of the Ming Dynasty.
Affected by this, the Golden Dragon of National Destiny above Xi'an is always filled with a desire to attack.
It seems that it is always spying on the surrounding countries, ready to pounce and bite at any time.
Feeling the vast power of the Golden Dragon of National Destiny, it seems that the whole world can be overturned with a thought, and Wang Chao can't help but smile.
However, Wang Chao immediately restrained his smile, stretched out his palm, felt the flow of energy in the world, and the little increase in energy concentration, and a sense of urgency arose in his heart.
In addition to the initial substantial improvement, the promotion of the world has actually been improving afterwards.
Until the end, the environment and energy concentration of the world reached the current limit, which is the current realm of the dynasty.
Today's dynasty represents the upper limit of the current world.
As long as the dynasty is still in this world, the realm that the dynasty reaches is the upper limit of this world.
As time goes by, the lives of this world will eventually reach the same level as the dynasty, or other existences.
Perhaps he can't compare with the dynasty, the pioneer.
However, both sides must be at the same level.
What Wang Chao can do is to improve at a faster speed, occupy the world faster, and use the people of the world as the basis and motivation for his own improvement.
He will always be at the top of all living beings and lead the way for all living beings.
Having said so much, the main point is that the energy concentration between heaven and earth is constantly increasing.
As time goes by, the energy concentration will become higher and higher, and the strong people in this world will inevitably become stronger and stronger.
Wang Chao is indeed confident that no matter how fast the people in this world improve, they can't be faster than him.
However, ordinary people's salvation army can't do it to his level.
What's more, those newly joined people's salvation army are just equivalent to just practicing.
Facing ordinary practitioners, relying on the higher quality of true qi, heaven and earth status and magical powers, they are naturally invincible and crush the heroes.
However, when they face a practitioner with extraordinary talent and years of practice, those people's salvation army who have just become regulars may not be able to crush them.
Nowadays, the witchcraft in Yunnan and Guizhou can already cause great trouble to the Salvation Army.
So what will happen next?
Will there be more bizarre and powerful secret arts? Can it cause great casualties to the Salvation Army?
Even if they die, they will enter the consciousness space of the dynasty, and even be conferred.
However, the souls that die and enter the consciousness space of the dynasty will not breed spiritual power, but they need to consume spiritual power to maintain.
Even if the dynasty does not care about that consumption now, it is always good to consume less.
Isn't it good to be alive and provide spiritual power for the dynasty to promote its realm?
Therefore, the dynasty does not want the Salvation Army to suffer heavy casualties.
And to avoid it, it is naturally to occupy the whole world as soon as possible. Without other countries, the Salvation Army will naturally not suffer heavy casualties.
Therefore, it is still necessary to speed up.
The hand that the dynasty stretched out was clenched suddenly, as if it was holding the whole world.
Just when the Salvation Army stopped expanding again and developed at ease.
Chen Qiyu's encirclement and suppression of the righteous army has also come to a critical juncture.
Although the extraordinary assault battalion was transferred away, there was a gap in the encirclement, and Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and others finally escaped.
Later, because the Salvation Army occupied Datong Xuanfu, the soldiers were greatly reduced, allowing Gao Yingxiang and others to rise again.
However, Chen Qiyu had the support of the Ming Dynasty after all, and soon recruited soldiers again.
Then he commanded the army of four provinces to encircle, Xu Dingchen was promoted to the governor of Shanxi, and the governor of Shandong Li Maofang and the governor of Henan Xuan Mo cooperated.
In addition, the governor of Huguang Tang Hui stationed troops in Xiangyang Prefecture, and the governor of Huguang Hong Chengchou was stationed at the border of Huguang to prevent the rebels from going south to Huguang.
Finally, the officers and soldiers surrounded again and began to gradually erode the vitality and territory of the rebels.
In May of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Chen Qiyu finally led Lu Xiangsheng, the lieutenant general He Renlong and others to trap Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and others again.
If it were under normal circumstances, they would most likely be extinguished.
However, on May 15, the seventh year, Gu Jun'en pretended to surrender and once again broke out of the encirclement of the government troops.
Among them were Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, etc., the Eight Great Kings had more than 13,000 people, the Scorpion Block had more than 1500 people, the Zhang Miaoshou had more than 9,100 people, and the Eight Great Kings had more than 8,300 people.
After breaking out of the encirclement, the rebel army broke through Changling Pass, Songzi Pass, Lizi Pass, and captured Huoshan, Lu'an Prefecture in Nanzhili, Yinshan Pass, Shangcheng, Gushi and other places in Henan.
All of a sudden, the rebel army, which was about to be extinguished, once again grew like a prairie fire.
If it was just that, it would be fine.
However
After breaking out of the encirclement, the rebel army immediately dispersed to prevent being surrounded by the government troops again.
After Zhang Xianzhong escaped, he once again took a large number of peasants and civilians and rushed directly to Zhongdu Fengyang.
In August of the seventh year, Zhang Xianzhong captured Zhongdu Fengyang and burned the Zhongdu ancestral mausoleum of the Ming Emperor, and all the attics and palaces were reduced to ashes.
Three hundred thousand pine trees were burned, sixty eunuchs guarding the mausoleum were killed, and more than a hundred criminals were put on the high wall.
Tens of thousands of scholars and civilians were killed, pregnant women were cut open, babies were injected into spears, and more than 22,650 public and private houses were burned.
When Wang Chao heard the news, he couldn't help but smash the table with a palm.
What's the difference between this damn Zhang Xianzhong and the Japanese pirates?
One day, he will make him regret what he did now.
He didn't mind killing. After fighting all the way, the enemies who died under the swords and guns of the Salvation Army, if not 500,000, at least 300,000.
However, the people killed by the Salvation Army were all opponents on the battlefield, or those who attacked the Salvation Army.
But the Salvation Army never killed pregnant women, infants, and innocent people, but would take them back to raise them well, or do labor.
In the future, they will be the people under the rule of the Salvation Army.
On the other side, after receiving the news, the eunuch Lu Jiude and the Fengyang General Yang Yufan led 3,000 troops to support, and the reinforcements from Yingtian Prefecture were quickly gathering towards Fengyang.
Especially Chen Qiuyu, after receiving the news, he spit out a mouthful of reverse blood and his face turned pale.
Good guy, Chongzhen was generous enough not to ask him for the crime of losing Datong Xuanfu.
Now, he actually let the bandit army dig up the ancestral tomb of the Zhu family. It would be strange if Chongzhen didn't punish him. He was not surprised that he even killed his nine clans.
After receiving the news, Chen Qiyu immediately mobilized the army and attacked Fengyang.
However, Zhang Xianzhong was not stupid. He knew that he had destroyed the ancestral tomb of the Zhu family. Chongzhen would definitely not let him go and would definitely send a large army to encircle and suppress him.
Therefore, before Chen Qiyu led his army to arrive, he had already withdrawn his troops and fled.
In the end, Chen Qiyu was empty-handed and could only chase after him.
However, before he caught up with Zhang Xianzhong, he received the imperial edict of Chongzhen.
After Chongzhen received the news that the Zhongdu ancestral tomb was burned, he was so angry that he vomited blood and fainted again.
After waking up, even though he valued Chen Qiyu very much, he was extremely angry and dismissed him from office, and directly sent Jinyiwei to arrest him and put him in prison.
Logically speaking, Chongzhen was the ruler of a country, and he had once been in the Golden Dragon of National Destiny. He could fully observe many situations within the territory of the Ming Dynasty through the Golden Dragon of National Destiny.
However, natural disasters and man-made disasters continued, and the people were living in misery.
Endless gray and black people's resentment was rising to the sky, hindering his perception and exploration.
Especially around the rebels, there was even more black air rising to the sky, covering the world.
At first, he only knew that the rebels attacked the Zhongdu Fengyang area.
But he was not very clear about what happened afterwards, until the news of the destruction of the Zhongdu ancestral tomb came.
Chongzhen then realized how crazy those damned rebels had done.
Digging up people's ancestral graves, not afraid of being struck by thunder and lightning.
On August 26, Chongzhen issued an edict to promote Lu Xiangsheng to the governor of four provinces, commanding the troops of five provinces, including Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, and Nanzhili, and granted him the imperial sword and the title of assistant minister of the Ministry of War.
In November, the rebels first attacked Yanxiang, and Lu Xiangsheng sent Zu Kuan to lead the Guanning Iron Cavalry to rescue.
The two sides met in Jiao Village on the eastern outskirts of Yanxiang. After a fierce battle, hundreds of rebels were killed.
After seeing the strength of the officers and soldiers, the rebels quickly lifted the siege and quickly moved to the southeast.
Zu Kuan would naturally not let them go easily, and immediately led the Guanning Iron Cavalry to pursue them, and finally caught up with the rebels at the foot of Jiugao Mountain in Song County.
There was a melee between the two sides, and hundreds of rebels were killed and defeated again.
After being defeated by Zu Kuan twice in a row, Gao Yingxiang and others were very annoyed and determined to compete with Zu Kuan.
Gao Yingxiang gathered all his troops and set up a battle array in Longmen Town, south of Luoyang, claiming to have 300,000 people and camps for 60 miles.
The mighty iron-blooded evil spirit rose to the sky, although it seemed a bit chaotic.
However, the spiritual power of 300,000 people combined and evolved, covering the sky for 60 miles, which was really extraordinary.
It was a pity that he couldn't even clearly see the existence of the iron-blooded evil spirit, let alone control and use it.
What's more regrettable is that Gao Yingxiang didn't expect that this battle was attacked by Zu Kuan's Guanning Iron Cavalry at night, and thousands of people were killed at once.
At the same time, Lu Xiangsheng transferred troops from various routes to prepare to encircle and annihilate the rebels.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Gao Yingxiang and others had to retreat to the southeast.
As a result, when they ran to Guliao Town in Ruzhou, they were caught up by Guanning Iron Cavalry.
Good guy, more than 1,600 people were killed by Zu Kuan and his men.
In early December, the rebel army fled to Queshan County in southeastern Henan Province, hoping to capture the county and make some money. However, the Guanning Cavalry arrived again, and more than 500 people were killed in the battle.
Zu Kuan's Guanning Iron Cavalry was too powerful, and the rebel army led by Gao Yingxiang was no match for them. .
Because of the world promotion, many of Gao Yingxiang's generals and leaders have trained their true qi.
However, the officers and soldiers are also not much behind.
In general, the gap between the two sides is still the same as in history.
So the general development is not much different from history, but the time has been advanced by one or two years.
Gao Yingxiang and others were defeated in successive battles, not only did they suffer serious losses in manpower, but also their morale collapsed.
At the end, Gao Yingxiang felt that if this continued, the team would collapse. He could not stay in Henan anymore, so he could only go east to Nanzhili.