Zhou Fenglin's family was a big landlord in Shanxi, the kind of super landlord family. When Tang Yan led his men to wreak havoc in Shanxi, Zhou Fenglin's family was a big piece of fat meat in Tang Yan's eyes, and the Zhou family was also the main military force to resist Tang Yan and his men. When Tang Yan had enough strength in his hands, he took the opportunity to destroy the Zhou family, and thus became an enemy of Zhou Fenglin. Later, Tang Yan joined Tang Tong and became Tang Tong's most important figure. Zhou Fenglin put this hatred on Tang Tong again.
Hong Chengchou wanted to surrender to Tang Tong, and Zhou Fenglin was naturally unwilling to do so. So when Hong Chengchou and his men gathered together to discuss, Zhou Fenglin secretly took his men to detain Hong Chengchou and his other confidants. On the one hand, Zhou Fenglin reported to Emperor Chongzhen that Hong Chengchou and his men wanted to surrender to Tang Tong. On the other hand, Zhou Fenglin made a desperate move and drove the entire Guanning Iron Cavalry to prepare for war, and took the lead in launching an attack on the northwest camp where Tang Tong's men were besieging the capital.
When Tang Tong sent a large army to besiege the capital, he sent several envoys to negotiate with Emperor Chongzhen. However, Emperor Chongzhen was a man of unyielding character, and the negotiations went on and on without any success. After Tang Tong eliminated the internal and external destabilizing elements, he lost the patience to continue negotiating with Emperor Chongzhen. However, he did not expect that the Guanning Iron Cavalry launched the first attack. Fortunately, Tang Tong's weapons and equipment were advanced, and they did not retreat in the sudden attack of Zhou Fenglin.
Zhou Fenglin led 100,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry and did not fight to the death with Tang Tong's army. Instead, he made full use of the mobility of the cavalry. When he saw that he could not gain any advantage by attacking Tang Tong's Northwest Camp, he quickly led his army to other places. He did not attack those cities along the way, but ravaged those places that were not protected by high city walls. This was exactly what Tang Tong was most worried about before. Before, Tang Tong was afraid that Emperor Chongzhen would do such a crazy thing. Now, Emperor Chongzhen did not go crazy, but made a general under Hong Chengchou go crazy.
Zhou Fenglin took Hong Chengchou and others hostage and drove the entire Guanning Iron Cavalry to fight everywhere. In order to stop this army composed entirely of cavalry, Tang Tong had to transfer the Jurchen cavalry and Mongolian cavalry from outside the pass. Although the infantry under Tang Tong had advanced weapons, they had no way to catch up with the Guanning Iron Cavalry. Hundreds of thousands of cavalry from outside the pass poured into the pass, and Tang Tong felt a lot of pressure. Although these Jurchen cavalry and Mongolian cavalry were under Tang Tong's command, and the upper-level commanding officers were all Han people, the grassroots officers leading the army were basically Jurchens and Mongolians. Once unrest broke out, the consequences would be enough for Tang Tong to bear.
These people were plunderers by nature. Although the commanders under Tang Tong had tried their best to restrain these cavalrymen, there were still many cases of looting civilians, and the losses caused to the north of the Central Plains were not small. This made Tang Tong extremely angry. He had always been afraid of such a thing happening, and had been trying hard to prevent Emperor Chongzhen from doing something desperate. However, he had never thought that there would be another form of desperate behavior. In order to put down the unrest of the Guanning Iron Cavalry as soon as possible, Tang Tong sent all the people who could lead troops, such as Dingguo, Yan, Chen Zilong, Hong Niangzi, and Zheng Chenggong, to the battlefield.
Thanks to the navy led by Zheng Chenggong, Zhou Fenglin's army was unable to cross the Yellow River, and the chaos caused by the Guanning Iron Cavalry was confined to the area north of the Yellow River. Because Zhou Fenglin did not dare to stop and attack those large cities, the cities in various places were preserved and did not suffer too much loss. For Tang Tong, the biggest loss was the population in the north.
, Although Zhou Fenglin realized it early and did not suffer too much loss, the hostages he held, including Hong Chengchou, fell into the hands of Tang Yan. As a result, most of the Guanning Iron Cavalry soldiers who obeyed Hong Chengchou chose to surrender, leaving Zhou Fenglin with few soldiers left. Afterwards, with the pursuit of hundreds of thousands of cavalry and more than 200,000 infantry, the unrest caused by the Guanning Iron Cavalry was finally put to an end after a month.
The angry Tang Tong regretted letting go of the man who had caused him trouble. He sent Zhou Fenglin and his men to Siberia to work in the mines. For Tang Tong, killing these people was too easy for them. He had to let them create some value to atone for their sins.
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