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Chapter 425 In the second year of Qianyuan, the war began!

In the past, Mingrui King Zhu Changhao was the banner, and in fact, a small force led by Sun Chuanting was said to occupy Hanzhong, but in fact it only occupied the western and central parts of Hanzhong Prefecture, Xing'an Prefecture in the east, and the surrounding three counties of Ziyang, Hanyin, and Xunyang It was captured by the Yi army in the autumn of last year (the Fourth Division led by Shen Wandeng).

In addition, the Hanzhong forces actually control a small area to the south of Fengxiang Prefecture, as well as the southern part of Gongchang Prefecture and Minzhou Wei.

Previously, after Li Zicheng took possession of Xi'an Prefecture and other places, he sent a large army to attack these places.

However, because there are many dangerous passes in Fengxiang, Hanzhong, Gongchang and other places, some of them can even be said to be able to be blocked by one man and cannot be opened by ten thousand men. At this time and space, Li Zicheng's strength is far less powerful than in history.

So he followed the advice of Niu Jinxing and others, first went east to capture Shanxi and Beizhili, captured the capital, occupied Dayi, and then turned back to deal with Sun Chuanting.

This allowed the small Ming forces in Hanzhong to persist for a few more months.

After the Yi army captured Xing'an Prefecture and Sichuan, they sent many envoys and Xunfeng guards into Hanzhong to try to persuade Sun Chuanting to surrender.

It didn't have much effect at first, but when news came that Li Zicheng had attacked the capital and Chongzhen had hanged himself to die for his country, Sun Chuanting's attitude changed obviously.

As for the King of Rui, Zhu Changhao, he was the most cowardly - before the capital was captured by Li Zicheng, he learned that the Mei army was the most powerful in the world, so he prepared to surrender.

Therefore, when Sun Chuanting's attitude changed, there was no big obstacle for the small forces in Hanzhong to conquer Wei.

Only then did he make up his mind to surrender to Damei with Zhu Changhao...

"It is a wise move for Sun Chuanting to submit to me, Da Wei."

Later, Li Zicheng abandoned the capital and fled back to Shanxi. When he looked at the power in Hanzhong again, he felt even more like a stick in his throat, and he was not happy.

Years ago, he established the Sixth Division of the Standing Army and the Beijing Garrison Division through the Military Academy.

It can be seen that history may have its general trends and inertia, but individual destiny and some specific events can be easily affected by various factors and produce different results.

When Liu Sheng went north before, in addition to the Secretariat personnel, the Military Affairs Council, the Government Affairs Council, and the Supervisory Council also sent accompanying officials.

Therefore, Liu Sheng has a team around him that allows him to formally issue various military and government orders.

The military and political officer is still Yuan Shizhong's old partner, Duan Lei from the Guards.

As a result, the Shun army reduced its forces in the east and guarded Shanxi and Henan Prefectures. In the west, troops were mobilized and preparations were made to attack Hanzhong after the beginning of spring.

First, the Hanzhong forces blocked the Shun army from marching south to attack Sichuan; secondly, Hanzhong Prefecture was considered one of the top three sacred places in Shaanxi. Without Hanzhong Prefecture, Shaanxi would have lost a large amount of money and grain income; thirdly, from the north of Shaanxi (Guanzhong) It is not easy to attack Hanzhong, but it is easy to attack Xi'an Prefecture and other places from Hanzhong.

Sun Chuanting learned of this situation through some of his own intelligence channels and Xunfengwei's intentional disclosure.

After putting down the telegram, Liu Sheng said to the secretariat clerk in the palace: "I am ordering Shen Wandeng, Yuan Shizhong, Zhou Yuji and the brigade-level generals of the Guards Army to come to the capital for a meeting."

The commander of the Sixth Division was the previously chosen candidate, Yuan Shizhong, the former commander of the Seventeenth Independent Brigade. The deputy division commander is Liu Erhe, the former commander of the 16th Brigade of the Standing Army (affiliated to the 4th Division).

With such sighs in his mouth, Liu Sheng felt even more emotional in his heart - compared with the historical ending of dying in Tongguan, Sun Chuanting's fate has obviously changed.

The division's staff officer was transferred to Liang Yizhang, the inspector of the Military Academy. Now that the Ming Dynasty was dead, Liang Yizhang no longer had to worry about his relatives being implicated, so he changed his name back to his original name.

What's more, he still has a telegraph machine to keep in touch with Nanjing, which is enough to ensure control of Nanjing and the southern provinces.

He knew very well that after the news came that the capital had been breached, the Ming Dynasty had lost the hearts of the people in Hanzhong. If Li Zicheng sends a large army to attack after the spring begins, Hanzhong will probably not be able to defend it.

As for the brigade commanders of the three brigades of the Sixth Division, they are He Bojing, Liu Erhe, and Liu Yuchi, and the brigade deputy commanders are Zhang Dengke, Zhu Chengju, and Yuan Shicheng.

Among these brigade-level generals, except Liu Erhe, who was transferred from the Fourth Division, the others basically came from the independent 17th Brigade originally led by Yuan Shizhong.

As for the middle and low-level generals and ordinary soldiers, they were mainly from the original 17th Independent Brigade, and the rest were mostly drawn from the 2nd Nanjing Garrison Division that followed Liu Sheng northward. Similarly, in the newly formed Beijing Garrison Division, except for some soldiers and horses from the Yongwei Battalion under the original Zhou Yuji after reorganization, most of the remaining soldiers came from the Nanjing Garrison Second Division.

At the beginning, after Liu Sheng's army entered Nanjing, he used the Ming army under Zuo Liangyu and others, the Nongming army of Gezuo's five divisions, and the Nongming army left by Zhang Xianzhong, totaling more than 200,000 people as his military resources. In addition to absorbing some elites into the standing army, Liu Sheng Among them, those who did not meet the requirements for soldiers were eliminated, and the remaining soldiers were reorganized into ten Nanjing garrison brigades.

In terms of overall organization, it is called the Nanjing Garrison Army, which is actually divided into two Nanjing Garrison Divisions and four independent brigades.

In peacetime, he is mainly responsible for patrol affairs in the outer city of Nanjing and the task of eradicating bandits in the entire southern Zhili area. He will also be transferred to other places to participate in wars.

For example, when Yang Heqing captured Zhejiang last year, Liu Sheng deployed two Nanjing garrison brigades that had been trained in advance to participate.

Last year, the Second Division of the Nanjing Garrison Army went north with Liu Sheng. It did not appoint a formal division commander. Instead, Li Guoying, who was the brigade commander, served as the temporary division commander. In fact, the three brigades were like the Guards, directly under the command of Liu Sheng.

Over in Nanjing, since there are personal guards, it is obviously too much to use ten brigades of garrison troops to take charge of military affairs such as city defense.

This time Liu Sheng took the opportunity to form the Sixth Division of the Standing Army and the Beijing Garrison Army to directly cancel the Second Division of the Nanjing Garrison Army.

Therefore, the newly formed Beijing Garrison Division was appointed with Zhou Yuji as the division commander and Li Guoying as the deputy division commander. The division military and political officer is Xu Yu (formerly the military and political officer of the 16th Brigade).

The division's staff officer is Zhang Bocheng - this man was originally a boy born in the Ming Dynasty. Although he came from the sixth period of the military and political class of the Yi army, he made many suggestions and meritorious services in the army, so he was promoted very quickly. Now he is directly transferred from the standing army staff to the garrison army division staff. .

As for the three brigade commanders of the garrison division, they are Zhou Mianwei (brother of Zhou Yuji clan), Li Guoying, and Ma Jinzhong (from the Peasant Army, nicknamed "Hun Shiwan"), who was later recruited and demoted to the Ming Army. Under Zuo Liangyu, during the Battle of Xinye After being captured by the Wei army, he surrendered to Wei).

There are five brigades of the Guards, the Second Division of the Standing Army, the Sixth Division of the Standing Army, and a Beijing Garrison Division. Liu Sheng originally thought that it would be enough to garrison the capital and the North Zhili border.

But now that the small forces in Hanzhong have surrendered to Wei, and the Shun army intends to attack Hanzhong after the beginning of spring, the Yi army must send troops to Hanzhong Mansion - whether it is to deal with the Shun army's attack, or to reorganize the Hanzhong Ming army that surrendered to Wei, they need to have Enough of the army.

Although Sichuan has the 3rd Division of the Standing Army led by He Lianyue and the 15th Brigade led by Wen Yan (deputy commander of the 4th Division and commander of the 15th Brigade), Sichuan Province in the Ming Dynasty was quite large. Whether it is the chieftain, the Sichuan-Tibet border, or the Sichuan-Yunnan border, there needs to be a standing army guarding it to make people feel at ease.

Therefore, after much thought, Liu Sheng decided to transfer two brigades of the Fourth Division back to Sichuan, and then the Fourth Division would guard Hanzhong.

But as a result, Beizhili's military strength was slightly insufficient.

Liu Sheng convened a meeting of generals to solve this problem.

In the second year of Qianyuan, it was the third day of the first lunar month.

After a military meeting in Wuying Hall, Liu Sheng ordered that four more Beijing garrison brigades be reorganized based on the current system of the Nanjing garrison, with the Ming Ming army and a small number of Shun troops as the main sources of troops...

Time passed by on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month and reached the twentieth day of the first lunar month.

Shen Wanteng had already led two brigades of the Fourth Division to leave Beizhili.

At the same time, the reorganization of the Ming army under the command of Yuan Zhou Yuji, Zhang Fuzhen, Li Huaxi and others has also achieved initial results. The Beijing garrison division and four independent garrison brigades have initially formed an army. They only need to strengthen training to have good combat effectiveness.

Considering that the Shun Army would attack Hanzhong, Liu Sheng ordered the Beijing Garrison Division to take over the defense area of ​​the Second Division of the Standing Army last year (Yanqing Prefecture, Huailaiwei, and Baoan Prefecture with Juyongguan as the core).

Peng Youyi led the second division north to Xuanfu. While guarding against the Mongols in the north, he also made a move to attack Datong to contain the Shun army and prevent it from attacking Hanzhong with all its strength.

On the other side, two more Beijing independent brigades were sent south to cooperate with the Wei army in Shandong and Henan, preparing to capture Shunde, Guangping and Daming prefectures that were still partially occupied by the Shun army, and then capture all of Northern Zhili.

As a result, before the land of Hebei could wake up from the ice and snow under the blowing spring breeze, war broke out again...

(End of this chapter)