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Chapter 427 Sun Chuanting’s experiences

Sun Chuanting was actually quite dissatisfied when he first learned that the vanguard troops sent by Damei to support Hanzhong were only more than 10,000 people.

In his opinion, there was no shortage of soldiers and horses in Dawei near Hanzhong, such as Sichuan and Henan.

Take Sichuan as an example. When the Yi army captured Sichuan last fall, they claimed to have dispatched hundreds of thousands of troops. Even if some of the troops withdrew from Sichuan, there should be 70,000 to 80,000 left, right?

In addition, after the Wei army entered Sichuan, the Ming army in many places was formally surrendered to the Wei army - how could there be 50,000 to 60,000 such troops?

Even if some troops are needed to guard the Sichuan-Yunnan, Sichuan-Tibet border and other places, at least 50,000 to 60,000 troops should be allocated to support Hanzhong.

As a result, only one brigade came, with no more than 10,000 people.

It should be noted that when the bandits attacked Hanzhong, they used tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. The Tai army only came with more than 10,000 men, which was only a drop in the bucket in terms of the Hanzhong war situation, and it was difficult to have a big impact at all.

In addition, this incident shows that the people in the Da'ei court who were responsible for handling affairs in Hanzhong lacked military strategy. Or maybe Liu Sheng didn't pay enough attention to Hanzhong and Sun Chuanting.

As a result, after a few days of guarding Yixian County with a regiment of the Yi Army, Sun Chuanting's mind completely changed.

These more than 3,000 Yi troops first broke the siege of Yi County, and in the following days, they repeatedly repelled tens of thousands of Shun troops attacking the city, which greatly boosted their own morale.

Now Sun Chuanting even believed that if there were tens of thousands of such an elite Wei army, they might be able to defeat the hundreds of thousands of thieves who attacked Hanzhong this time.

In addition, the regiment actually has about 1,200 gunmen (two musket battalions), and 600 elite sword players - these sword players are all wearing double armor (chain mail, cotton Armor), a few generals even wore three layers of armor (plate armor).

In today's Xi County, although there are four to five thousand Ming troops taking orders from him, the main defense of the city is already done by the Yi army.

The Tai army called it "hand grenade". Although its power was slightly inferior to that of the previous Ming army's large bombs against thousands of enemies, it was more convenient to throw and the power was not bad. It shined several times in the city defense battles of Xi County. The intruders who were about to board the city retreated in embarrassment.

Just at this time, five cavalrymen came running from the south. Wang Guangtai, the leader of the regiment, read the slogans and recognized the seal, and then came to Sun Chuanting and said: "Supervisor Sun, these people are our army's messengers. Let them in."

While Sun Chuanting was looking at the busy figures of the Yi army officers and thinking, it didn't take long for all aspects of the affairs on the city wall to be taken care of.

Sun Chuanting already knew that this was inseparable from the establishment of the position of "military and political officer" in the Yi army.

In addition, there is an artillery post, carrying ten "army guns" - although this gun has an ordinary name, its power and range are greater than most Hongyi cannons. It is quite light and can be pulled by a horse at a trot.

But one thing that shocked Sun Chuanting the most about the Eijun army was that everyone was literate, could do math, knew current affairs, and understood the truth.

Take the regiment supporting Yi County as an example. All the soldiers in the army have excellent cotton armor, which is enough to allow them not to be afraid of the cold in this still cold early spring, and to have good protection on the battlefield.

What impressed Sun Chuanting the most was the trumpet "Ten Thousand Enemies" equipped by the soldiers of the Yi army.

Sun Chuanting nodded, "Okay."

In addition to being equipped with hundreds of steel knives like sword players, the more than two hundred people are also equipped with double-layer armor. In addition, they are also equipped with a short blunderbuss, and they can ride horses. They are all very skilled.

In addition to the army artillery, the regiment also has more than one hundred tiger squatting artillery pieces.

This made him not only admire Liu Sheng, whom he had never met before - the Ming Dynasty had a set of quite mature rules and methods for military construction, but Liu Sheng was able to make better innovations on this basis, which shows that he must have military talent. amazing.

After a few days of getting along, he already had a deeper understanding of the Yi army and how elite the Yi army in front of him was.

In addition, Sun Chuanting was also deeply impressed by the guards of the regiment, an elite group of more than 200 people who were suspected to be the regiment leader's servants.

There were only five riders, and even if they were disguised as thieves, it would be difficult to accomplish anything after entering the city. Not to mention, Wang Guangtai has conducted multiple identifications to confirm that they are the messengers of the Yi army.

After the messenger entered the city, he handed over the secret message. After it was translated by a confidential military officer, Wang Guangtai learned the content of the secret message and soon approached Sun Chuanting with a happy face.

"Supervisor Sun, good news, our division will arrive in Hanzhong soon!" "Oh?" Sun Chuanting also looked happy after hearing this and asked, "Do you know where Commander Shen is marching to now?"

According to Sun Chuanting's knowledge, division commanders in the Yi army were often called division commanders by their subordinate generals.

He commanded three brigades, with more than 35,000 people in the entire division, which was roughly equivalent to the total number of soldiers in the previous Ming army.

There are no certain rules for the generals of the Ming army to lead their troops. Some of them can only command thousands of people, while some of them can command tens of thousands of people.

However, if the soldiers of this division are as elite as the regiment supporting Yi County, then the weight of Shen Wandeng, the division commander, will be quite heavy.

This time, the main force sent by Damei to support Hanzhong was the Fourth Division led by Shen Wandeng.

Only one brigade came before, and the southward offensive of the intruders was stopped at Baoji and Xixian. Now that the remaining two brigades are coming, they may be able to make the intruders retreat completely.

Wang Guangtai smiled and said: "When I wrote the letter, the master had already entered Xing'an Prefecture, and now I am afraid that he will have to cross Hanyin."

"That's good! That's good!" Sun Chuanting also smiled.

In the second year of Qianyuan, on February 13th, Shen Wandeng first led two brigades to support Xi County, and defeated more than 50,000 Shun troops near Xi County.

On February 16th, he moved to Baoji and defeated another 50,000 to 60,000 troops besieging Baoji.

Two consecutive defeats not only caused the Shun army to lose troops and generals, but also the Shun army that escaped became frightened of the Ei army.

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Fengxiang Mansion, Qishan.

In the large tent of Emperor Li Zicheng of Dashun Yongchang, everyone from Li Zicheng to the guards guarding the tent frowned.

Because the current situation in Dashun is unfavorable, even ordinary soldiers can see it.

The previous defeats at the hands of the Qing and Yi armies in the east were fine, but now they were marching south to capture Hanzhong, with an army of hundreds of thousands, but they only captured a few counties in Fengxiang Prefecture, making it difficult to make any further progress.

Now, in the two battles of Xixian and Baoji, 50,000 to 60,000 soldiers and horses were lost.

No matter how you look at it, Dashun is like a grasshopper after autumn and cannot hold on for long.

At this moment, Li Zicheng's expression was extremely gloomy. Seeing that no one said a word in the tent, he felt a dull pain in his blind eye again.

Then he surrendered his gaze to Li Yan and asked, "Commander Zuo, what do you think about the current situation?"

Although Li Yan still served as Zuo's military advisor, he continued to oppose several of Li Zicheng's policies after entering the capital (including pursuing stolen money to provide subsidies). He also secretly protected Ming officials who were unwilling to surrender, and even disappeared with a former Ming prince who was in the rebel army. , the princess may be related to him, so he was quickly ignored by Li Zicheng and has become a marginal figure.

However, the current situation of Shunjun was difficult, and Niu Jinxing and others did not have a brilliant military strategy. Even if Li Zicheng was unwilling to do so, he had to ask Li Yan for advice.

Li Yan, who was also frowning, couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this: "We have suffered two consecutive defeats. Although we still have more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in Dashun to mobilize, the morale and morale of the army are not there, so it may be difficult to invade Hanzhong."

Li Zicheng said displeased: "Then we won't attack Hanzhong? What if Liu Sheng frees up his hands in the future and sends more troops to attack Guanzhong from Hanzhong?"

Upon seeing this, Niu Jinxing immediately said in a strange tone: "What Military Advisor Zuo said, could it be that you want your majesty and me to wait and wait for death, right?"

Li Yan glanced at Niu Jinxing with disgust, but was too lazy to explain. Instead, he thought thoughtfully and said, "If we can't occupy Hanzhong, Guanzhong will be really difficult to defend. Therefore, there are actually only three ways in front of us in Dashun now."

(End of this chapter)