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April of the ninth year of Chonghu
This is the Ministry of War to Emperor Chongzhen to report that the peasant army raided Fang, Zhuer County, the county seat is unknown, and the county order is not clear, and requires a rapid allocation of food and salary. The original title "The Ministry of War is a matter of reporting bamboo and house thieves", the editor has changed.
The military department reported the thief situation for the pond, and the staff cleared the case of the department. On the eighth day of the fourth month of the ninth year of Chongzhen, the headquarters sent the red book to the imperial front, and the lake was patrolled according to the remaining topics. It is called: Xun and Xiang are thieves, approaching Jingnan and returning to the house and bamboo, and the minister reported on the fourth day of March this year. On the 5th day of the first month of this month, according to the Huguang Supervision Military Dao Right Counselor Miao Yesterday Tu Bao, on February 29, according to the town garrison Li Maochun report, according to the Bai Zong Shao Jixian report, because of the military position stationed in Xiang, Ji Xian waited for the waterway to come, with the camp on the 22nd, the boat went to the sheepskin beach in Guanghua County for 60 miles, encountered thieves across the river, followed the first and other dating refuge boats, took the thief half crossing, and the boats were shot [0, driving the thieves to the lower stream, and countless people and horses drowned.
The soldiers took advantage of the opportunity to kill three horse thieves, and captured four live thieves, three thieves and women, and twenty-three donkeys and horses. The drowning thief did not take the head of the thief, and still cut off the situation that the first three dragons of the first three dragons of a battalion of thieves could not cross the river. On the 6th day of the first month, according to the Jianjun Dao newspaper and the Nanzhang County report, on February 26, 7, 8, and 94, there were countless thieves and burned and looted in the northeast area of Jikou, Banyan, Yongquanpu, Laoguanzui, and Wu'an Town in this county.
On the 30th, Qin and Zu two general towns commanded troops to the county, and the thieves were a little farther away, and they saw that they were now living in Shimen, Guandu River, Leijiaji and other places to burn and rob. According to the Gucheng County Newspaper: On the second day of the first month of this month, it was found that the thief had escaped from the people, Zhang Chaoyu, and the thief head Shuntian Wang was transferred back to Gucheng 1 from Xiangyang, and there were nine sentinels. On the night of the first day of the new year, he went to Zhangcun to cut off with the old camp thieves [12], but he didn't do it, and he wanted to go to Xishan, and waited for the situation, and reported the Lihetang newspaper. On the 8th day of the first lunar month, according to Xu Guomingshen, the head of the Liyang Post Station in Jingmen Prefecture, and according to the report of Ma Hu Xiao You Liu and others, on the 28th of the previous month, the thieves suddenly arrived, captured more than 20 official horses, killed dozens of citizens, and burned down all the houses.
According to Shiqiao Yishen, Zhang Liye and others, on the 29th, thieves flocked to the post and took away the horses and burned them. On the 10th day of the first month, Qin Yi Mingtang, the quasi-general town, sent the general Sun Zhenwu and Li Xiangyang of the Chinese army to lead the infantry to chase the thieves. On the fourth day of the first month, according to the official reports of the generals, chased to Damuling, there were more than 30 dead thieves and horses, went up the mountain from the slope, led the soldiers down the mountain and collided, and were killed by our soldiers.
On the same day, the quasi-prime minister Lu Minyuan wrote a handbook[1] for the meeting of the officers and soldiers of the horses, and provided emergency food matters, so that the meeting could be suppressed immediately. Shine on the thieves to the south of the Han River, Jing, Xiang, Han and Sichuan, Shu and other places with mountains 1, stretching for thousands of miles, defending the soldiers (soldiers) [defense], suppressing the soldiers, this is inevitable, and it is difficult to treat those who are difficult to treat for the future. But the thieves are on the flat ground, and the horsemen are the strongest, and the deep mountains cannot use horses. Today, there are 50,000 or 60,000 thieves, and the time and time are together, and they are rushing to the mountains from the mainland, and there are many roads from the mountains to the interior. Before the troops enter the mountain, the defense troops must be properly arranged, so as to avoid a rout.
The mountains are deep and the roads are open, and the officers and soldiers are like crossbow arrows leaving the string as soon as they fire, receiving food and grain], and it is difficult to transfer the negative luck, so it is necessary to try to take care of it first, and instruct the special officer to avoid temporary mistakes.17] As for the horsemen, they could not enter the mountain, so the chief soldier Zu Dale should suppress the thieves in the north of the Han River, taking into account Yu and Wan. The general soldier Zu Kuanyi suppressed the thieves in the south of the Han River, Jingmen and Jingzhou, in order to prepare for the Sichuan thieves to turn back, and the Kou in the mountains of Jun, Fang, Zhang, and Gushan suddenly invaded the mainland. If Qin's general army has 2,000 soldiers, Lei Shisheng's 2,000, Yang Shien's 3,000, and Huang 600 is really more than 2,400, the total can be 6,000.
If the battalion enters the mountain, and the army, security, house, and bamboo advance, although the army is single, it can also be a thief. But in this steep mountains and rocks, the farther and farther, until the Han and Xing, separated by 1,400 miles. They meet a thief somewhere, hold each other somewhere, and merge somewhere, and it is difficult to figure it out^21]. Since the ministry and the court are responsible for begging for thieves, the danger is safe, and the hardship should be suffered, it seems that it is necessary to personally supervise the advance, and with the affairs of the interior, the various courtyards are in the same boat, supervise the pacesetters, and the people are brave to fortify the city, and still receive food in many ways, so as not to interrupt the food and salary of the soldiers entering the mountains. This is the luck of the closure of the frontier, and the transfer of the union is due to the cause. On the same day, according to the Jianjundao newspaper, on the 7th day of the first month of March, according to the Yangfu Tong Sentence Xu Yangzhe, on February 20, according to the Zhushan County report, the dead thief was burning and looting in the city, and the soldiers were asked to give first aid. In the middle of the night on the 12th of this month, dozens of horses crossed to the county river street, and tried their best to refuse to keep the main book and the annals. In the morning, unexpectedly, the dead thieves came all over the mountain one after another, setting fire around them, and the sound of killing moved the sky. There were no soldiers in Naicheng, and the three of them were unable to support it, so they had to jump out of the city and ask for help. The burning and looting situation in the county is declared separately, etc.
To the road, Li Hetang newspaper. Wait a minute. Each to the minister. The minister saw that the thief crossed the river, because the minister Lu Xiangsheng sent troops to chase and suppress, so he did not go to Jingzhou, passed into the house, Baoshan, that is, Gucheng and Nanzhang also reported that the thief had gone far away, or hurriedly went to Shangluo to meet everyone, or sneaked into the deep valley to avoid the iron horse, which is unknown. In addition, there were big thieves in the north of the Han River, and Li Chen used Zu Dale to lead the troops to Wanwan to suppress the thieves in the north of the Jiangbei; Zu Kuan commanded the troops to be stationed between Jing and Xiang to prevent the thieves from plundering in the south of the Yangtze River. Gai's cavalry was inconvenient for him to travel in the mountains, so he led his infantry to pursue the poor mountains. Its strategy is sincere, but it is difficult to continue the grain, and the house, security, and two bamboo thieves have been suddenly committed, and the news of the wanton order is unclear. Receiving the report of the pond of the military road, such as Zhushan County, it is said that there are no soldiers, and it is difficult for three people to support, and it seems that the city is undefendable. His language is vague or hidden. There is no sound in Yunyang Daofu, and there is no way to block it.
Rong Chen separately checked and reported again, according to the Tang newspapers, the minister would like to meet with Prime Minister Lu Xiangsheng, Huguang Governor Wang Mengyin, Yang Fuzhi Song Zushun, corresponding inscriptions. Fu begged the ministry to check and carry it out. Wait a minute. In accordance with the holy decree, the ministers suppressed the troops into the mountains and transferred the grain, and the special officer of the selection committee tried to receive the relief [2], and arranged the defense of the troops, and all the affairs were cooperative, and the breath was corresponding, and there was no joke. Its Zhushan and other counties have lost their shape, and they are still investigating in detail. The ministry knows. Chin this. Qin Zungong held it to the ministry, sent the case to the ministry, and fitted it. To this end: a group of governors of Huguang and Guangzhou, together with the consultation, according to the topic of the internal affairs, quickly put the troops into the mountains, transfer the grain matters, I hope that the special officer of the selection committee will try to help, and arrange the defense of the army. All work together to make a horn, breathe accordingly, and fortunately don't play tricks.
A consultation of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, together with your court, is troubled to change to the Huguang patrol according to the imperial history, according to the title of the internal affairs, the rapid suppression of troops into the mountain, the transfer of grain matters, I hope that the selection committee of the special officer to try to help, and arrange the defense of the army, all the work to cooperate with the horns, breathe accordingly, fortunately do not play tricks. Its bamboo mountain and other places lost the shape of the matter, and quickly investigate the gallop, do not delay the implementation.
On the 10th day of the fourth month of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Wang Sheng, Langzhong, Feng Qi and Wang Ji were outside.