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Of course, Lao Zhang is not just killing people and not doing business.

After killing the civil servants, Zhang Xianzhong immediately appointed Zhang Kewang as prime minister, and Zhang Kewang selected talents from thousands of idle officials living in Lin'an to fill the court again.

As Zhang Xianzhong said, the Song Dynasty lacked everything, except that there was no shortage of literati and bureaucrats waiting in line to become officials.

Zhang Xianzhong's bloody massacre frightened the literati and bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty.

After the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty, these literati and officials were trampled to the soles of their feet. "Eight prostitutes, nine scholars and ten beggars", these literati and officials could only bear with it.

To put it bluntly, in the face of unreasonable butcher knives, literati and bureaucrats have no power to fight back.

What's more, although Zhang Xianzhong was tyrannical, he did not overthrow the entire class of literati and bureaucrats. Although he purged a group of old officials, he promoted a large group of depressed new officials.

This allowed those literati who passed the Jinshi examination but failed to become officials to find opportunities for promotion.

Therefore, although Zhang Xianzhong's court massacre brought him a reputation as a tyrant, it also caused local turmoil. As the new officials he promoted took office one after another, the Southern Song court stabilized again.

More importantly, Zhang Xianzhong's massacre of civil servants aroused applause among the people.

The people of the Southern Song Dynasty had long disliked these high-ranking officials.

Especially those corrupt officials who beat the bones and stripped the marrow will not be sentenced to death, which makes the people of the Southern Song Dynasty gnash their teeth.

Zhang Xianzhong not only pointed the butcher's knife at the officials of the DPRK and China, but also those corrupt officials who were dispatched to remote frontiers could not escape his butcher's knife.

So something ridiculous happened.

Zhang Xianzhong killed hundreds of civil servants, which stabilized the people's hearts in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Many people praised him as Mingjun.

Then Zhang Xianzhong started his own series of operations.

He first ordered the military generals standing in the court hall to recruit soldiers independently. Each general must recruit [-] young men, and train them into soldiers capable of fighting within six months.

Zhang Xianzhong said murderously,
"My father also knows that most of you military generals who are qualified to appear in the court hall have made great contributions to the front line before being withdrawn from the military power and let you serve as idle officials in Lin'an.

Let me tell you, from today onwards, our Great Song no longer emphasizes literature over martial arts, but emphasizes martial arts over literature.

You can use your skills as much as you want, and use as much as you have.

As long as you make enough contributions, I can make you kings with different surnames.

When you go to various places to recruit soldiers with our imperial decree, if the local civil officials do not cooperate with you, you can directly kill them.

Did you hear me? "

A group of generals said loudly with a voice ten times louder than usual, "I heard it."

"You don't have to worry about money and food. You just need to train Lao Tzu's elite as quickly as possible. Do you understand?"

"clear."

The reason why Zhang Xianzhong was not worried about money and food was precisely because he ransacked the homes of hundreds of civil servants, and he copied tens of millions of taels alone, which was enough for 50 elite soldiers to fight a two-year battle.

In fact, this is the real purpose of Zhang Xianzhong, the butcher's house raid.

Later generations say Fu Song,.In fact, there were many poor people in the Song Dynasty, and it was these officials who were really rich.

As for the Zhao Kui and Zhao Fan brothers who advocated leading troops into Luo, Zhang Xianzhong despised their military capabilities very much.

He thinks that these two people are greedy and short-sighted, with high-sightedness and low-handedness.

If a different person directed the matter of entering Luo, the defeat would definitely not be so miserable.

So Zhang Xianzhong removed the Zhao brothers from the positions of Huaixi Zhizhi envoys and asked them to go to the Jinghu area to serve as prefects.

As for the candidate to be Luo's coach, Zhang Xianzhong handed it over to Zhang Dingguo without hesitation.

He brought his adopted son to the list, and of course he wanted to let the two of them show their faces.

Zhang Dingguo doesn't know how to govern the country and the economy, but his ability to fight is more than ten times stronger than Zhang Kewang.

In June of the first year of Duanping, Zhang Xianzhong took Zhang Dingguo as his commander, and Xu Minzhi as his deputy. He led [-] cavalry and [-] Zhunxi elite soldiers. He set out from Yangzhou, bypassed the Yellow River flooded area created by the Mongols, and went straight to Guide. government.

Zhang Xianzhong also issued a strict order to Shi Songzhi, the governor of Jingxiang, asking him to raise [-] shi of grain and grass and send it to Luoyang before July.

Just after leaving Yangzhou City, Zhang Dingguo and Quan Zicai split up.

Quan Zicai led his pawns to slowly advance towards the Central Plains.

Zhang Dingguo led [-] cavalry to attack Xuzhou Mansion.

After Song and Mongolia joined forces to destroy the Jin Dynasty, although the territory was not divided, the Mongols sent Han general Zhang Rou to lead [-] elite Han soldiers to guard Xuzhou Mansion.

When Chen Sheng sent troops to the Northern Expedition, Zhang Rou saw that the Song army was powerful, so she led the Han soldiers back to Jinan in advance.

After Zhang Rou returned to Mongolia, she had always fought fiercely without fear of death. Once, in order to break through the Xiangzhou where the Jin soldiers were stationed, even two of her front teeth were knocked out.

In addition, Zhang Rou knows how to use troops, so she has to be trusted by Wo Kuotai.

As long as Zhang Rou was allowed to escape to Jinan Prefecture, when the Mongols marched southward, Zhang Rou would lead tens of thousands of Han troops southward, becoming a confidant of the Song army.

This time, Zhang Dingguo will not let Zhang Rou leave Xuzhou alive again.

It was evening when Zhang Dingguo led [-] cavalry and arrived outside the city of Xuzhou.

He led the cavalry into Jiuli Mountain and rested in the forest for one night.

On the second day, just as the sky was bright, Zhang Dingguo led the cavalry to launch a surprise attack on Xuzhou City.

Xuzhou was originally an important town along the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, with high walls and dangerous walls.

As long as the city defenders dare to fight, let alone [-] cavalry, even [-] infantry will take several months to conquer Xuzhou Mansion.

But in the territory ruled by the Mongols, all state cities are not allowed to build walls.

Those with city walls should also be stripped clean.

The reason why the Mongols prohibited building cities everywhere was because they were worried that the Song people would surrender and rebel.

The strong city wall can just resist the Mongolian cavalry who are fast horses and bows.

Xuzhou Mansion is of course no exception.

The Mongols stripped away the walls of Xuzhou City, leaving only four city gates.

This is why Zhang Dingguo dared to lead five thousand cavalry to attack Xuzhou.

When the [-] cavalry arrived five miles east of Xuzhou City, they were discovered by Han soldiers on the gate of the city.

These Han soldiers did not warn immediately.

Because Zhang Dingguo led too many cavalry, these Han soldiers thought it was a Mongol army.

Only three miles away from Xuzhou City, Zhang Dingguo began to order the cavalry to charge at full speed.

Only then did these Han soldiers realize that it was the enemy who came.

"Enemy attack!"

The Han soldiers hurriedly called Jin to warn them.

When Zhang Rou heard about the enemy's attack, she immediately organized thousands of elite Han soldiers and rushed to the east city for defense.

It can’t be said that Zhang Rou’s reaction is not fast.

If the Song army were infantry, they might have been blocked outside the city by Zhang Rou.

But the speed of the cavalry is too fast.

In just three miles, the cavalry arrived in no time.

At this time, the Han soldiers were still scrambling to set up the rejection horses.

Zhang Dingguo held a zhangba iron gun and rushed to the front of the formation first. With a flick of the gun, the two refused horses were lifted into the air.

Then the gun shot out like a dragon, stabbing seven or eight Han soldiers to death in a row.

Under Zhang Dingguo's brave demonstration, the Five Thousand Western Army shouted and fought fiercely.

In just a short time, thousands of elite soldiers were killed and fled.

"Men, don't be crazy! I, Zhang Rou, will meet you for a while!"

During the time when thousands of elite Han soldiers were stagnating the Western Army, Zhang Rou gathered more than a thousand cavalry, and then killed them with big guns.