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Chapter 326 Chuanting was defeated and the Yellow River burst its banks!
There are only three departments in the Military Academy, and Yan Yingyuan easily found the staff department.He took the note and went to the Arms Department to get two sets of military uniforms. When he came back and put them on, he saw another observer from the General Staff Department.

"I am Zhang Yin (pseudonym of Liang Yizhang), from Baoding. What is your name?" Liang Yizhang greeted first.

Yan Yingyuan cupped his hands and said, "I am Yan Yingyuan, a native of Tongzhou, Shuntian Prefecture."

As they spoke, both men looked at each other.Just by looking at him, he felt that the other person was extraordinary.

Then the two of them talked about the current situation in the world and the military affairs of the Gui tribe, and they felt a sense of sympathy for each other.

After chatting for a while, Liang Yizhang said: "I will go to the fifth brigade of Nanjing Guard Brigade for inspection and observe the situation. I will treat Li Heng to dinner and have a talk some other day."

Yan Yingyuan nodded, "Now that the General Staff is in Nanjing, we are the only two observers. I should ask Brother Zhang for advice."

"Don't take advice seriously, let's make progress together." Liang Yizhang learned a lot of new words after joining the Wei Department.

After Liang Yizhang left, Yan Yingyuan sat in his seat and read a bunch of documents that Liang Yizhang had brought before, preparing to learn about the Yi army through these documents.

At this glance, Yan Yingyuan saw noon and found that there were still many people in the staff.

He asked a staff officer and learned that he could go out to eat, so he prepared to leave for a while and go home for lunch.

Just as he was about to leave, he saw a guard coming to the staff headquarters with a document.

After a while, I heard a personal guard brigade staff officer shaking his head and sighing: "The Ming army has indeed been defeated again. This time I am afraid that even Shaanxi will be lost."

Did the Ming army lose?

Want to abandon Shaanxi?
Yan Yingyuan was shocked when he heard this, and immediately turned back to ask the brigade staff officer, "But there is news of a battle between the Ming army and the intruders? Can I understand it?"

The brigade staff officer directly handed the relevant letter to Yan Yingyuan and said: "Sun Chuanting fought against the Chuang Army in Henan Prefecture. He won first and then lost. You can see for yourself."

Yan Yingyuan immediately opened the letter and read it carefully.

The intelligence work of the Yi army was very good. The battle between Sun Chuanting and Li Zicheng was described in detail in the letter, as if he had experienced it personally.

Sun Chuanting was appointed as the Governor of the Three Borders of Shaanxi Province. After taking office, he first planned to kill He Renlong, who barely obeyed the court's orders, and reorganized his tribe.

He Renlong was the largest military officer in Shaanxi before. He had many generals under his command, many of whom were famous generals in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, such as Gao Jie, Li Chengdong, Gao Jinku, Dong Xueli, etc.

Sun Chuanting himself brought the two Shaanxi generals Ma Ke and Bai Guangen who had previously assisted Ning Jin, as well as the newly trained supervisors, totaling nearly 2 people.

After reorganizing He Renlong's tribe, the Ming army under his command expanded to 6 to [-] people.

Then he recruited Niu Chenghu, the general general of Ningxia, Zhang Guoqin, the deputy general of the Taozhou Guard, and Zhang Yinggui, the deputy general of the Minzhou Guard.

After that, Sun Chuanting spent several months training [-] Shaanxi recruits, bringing the total number of troops under his command to more than [-].

Because of Emperor Chongzhen's repeated urging, and because Kaifeng was besieged and the situation was critical, Sun Chuanting finally left Tongguan in late March and invaded Henan Prefecture controlled by the intruders.

The Ming army was unstoppable along the way, regaining lost ground one after another, but the battle line was also getting longer and longer.

Because Henan Prefecture is almost a thousand miles away, the Chu army has already plundered all the little food. Even if the Ming army wanted to provide food to the people, they could not do it and could only transport food from Shaanxi and Shanxi.

After Li Zicheng came to Henan Prefecture, he first sent his second- and third-rate troops to fight against the Ming army and made a rout. This was not an act. These second- and third-rate intruders may have been refugees and hungry people last year, and they had no fighting ability at all. Naturally, the Ming army collapsed at the first touch.

The Qin army under Sun Chuanting almost went crazy and chased the fleeing troops to the vicinity of Ruzhou.As a result, Li Zicheng first used the "Leave Money Strategy" to disrupt the deployment, and then used elite cavalry to separate the Ming army one by one.

Today's Qin army has long been ruined under the leadership of He Renlong and others. It cannot be changed by Sun Chuanting's reorganization in a few months. It is like a mad dog when fighting against the wind. When encountering setbacks, they immediately flee.

As a result, more than 4 Ming troops were defeated. In the end, only more than [-] people followed Sun Chuanting and fled into Tongguan.

The latest news received by the Weibu Department is that Sun Chuanting is preparing to lead the remaining Ming army to defend Tongguan. As for whether he can hold on, it is hard to say.

After reading the letter, Yan Yingyuan also sighed.He guessed that the Qin army that Sun Chuanting brought out of Tongguan this time should be the last family in Shaanxi. With tens of thousands of soldiers lost in the first battle, it would be really difficult for the Ming army to defend Shaanxi.

Then he thought: I wonder what arrangements the king will make after learning this news.

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Forbidden City, Fengtian Temple.

Liu Sheng learned of Sun Chuanting's defeat half an hour earlier than staff Yan Yingyuan and others.

This didn't surprise him at all.

This is not to talk about historical inertia, but the Ming army, like the Ming court, has been rotten to the core. It is no longer possible for a few famous commanders like Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting to change the situation.

On the contrary, even if the combat effectiveness of the Chuang Army is inferior to that of the Jiannu and Yi armies, it is still a new peasant army with vigor and resilience.

Unless the Ming army can wipe out the Chuang army in one go, they will be defeated sooner or later.

Nowadays, there are hundreds of thousands of invaders in Henan Prefecture, Kaifeng Prefecture and other places, and many "elites" have been trained among them. It is extremely difficult for the Ming army to win a complete victory.

As for whether the Chu army would take advantage of the situation to invade Shaanxi, Liu Sheng didn't know.

He forgot that in history, whether the Chuang army attacked Tongguan from the front, or whether they attacked Tongguan from behind via Shangluo Road.

In short, not only did the Ming army lose tens of thousands this time, but their morale dropped to the bottom, it is very likely that the Chu army could invade Shaanxi.

As long as the Chuang army invades Shaanxi, the situation will be similar to the situation of the Chuang army in the north in history.

By then, Li Zicheng will most likely attack Shanxi in one go, enter Beizhili, and take the capital directly!

"Your Majesty! An urgent telegram has arrived from Ruyang!"

Not long after, the leader of the telecommunications team personally sent a telegram.

Liu Sheng took it and took a look, and immediately frowned, and slapped the table in a rare rage, "What do Li Zicheng's people do to eat, and they let the Yellow River burst its banks?!"

This telegram that came before and after the news of Sun Chuanting's defeat was about the Yellow River bursting its banks.

According to what was said in the telegram, a few days ago, I don’t know whether the Ming army in Kaifeng secretly dug up the river embankment, or what happened, but the Yellow River suddenly burst its embankments, flooding Kaifeng and other places!
Even the hundreds of thousands of troops led by Yuan Zongdi who surrounded Kaifeng were washed away. As for the city of Kaifeng, it was naturally flooded.

However, due to the lack of rain on both sides of the Yellow River in late spring and early summer, the flood was not too severe.

This is somewhat different from what Liu Sheng knew about the Yellow River bursting its banks in later history - he vaguely remembered that it seemed to have burst its banks in autumn, coinciding with the Yellow River's autumn floods. The water flow was very large, so a large amount of sediment was carried away by the flood. It directly buried nearly half of Kaifeng City and abandoned it.

If the flood is not severe, the refugees in Kaifeng Fucheng and surrounding areas still have a lot of chances to survive.

Of course, having a chance of survival does not mean that you will definitely survive. It depends on whether there are people to help the victims.

The invading troops in Kaifeng Prefecture are probably exhausted now, and they don't have enough food. They probably won't take care of the people in Kaifeng City and the surrounding areas who originally resisted them.

As for the Ming Dynasty, there is no need to count on it.

To save the lives of hundreds of thousands of victims, we can only rely on the Yi army!

That's several 10 people. How big of a pioneering force would it take to immigrate to North America?
Thinking of this, Liu Sheng immediately made a decision and said loudly: "Chuanggu orders, let the independent No. 14 Brigade, No. 16 Brigade, and No. 17 Brigade stationed in the south of Kaifeng Prefecture move north, and let the Sixth Brigade stationed in Guide Go west and arrive near Kaifeng Fucheng as soon as possible to rescue the victims!"

The secretariat clerk in the palace heard this and quickly drafted the king's order.

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　　
　
(End of this chapter)