Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

At this time, the leaders of the Peasant Army such as Gao Yingxiang were a little frightened. Seeing another Ming army of tens of thousands of people constantly harassing them, they did not dare to neglect. An elite old battalion was dispatched to defend; on the other hand, they quickened their pace and wanted to pass through Nanyang Mansion as soon as possible and flee to Nanyang.

But in this way, the Peasant Army was fast, while the Runing Army was slow, which led to Wu Shigong's carefully planned operation, but he could only catch the tail of the Peasant Army brigade.

"I killed a thief with my own hands!" A son of an official and gentry shouted excitedly.Although the boy suffered some minor injuries to his arm, he still waved the sword in his hand, and a group of officials and gentry boys also surrounded him and cheered together.

In the battle just now, a small group of peasant troops happened to escape to the front of the guards, and were shot and wiped out by the ready guards.Seeing that the peasant army was basically defeated, those officials and gentry could no longer hold back. Taking advantage of Wu Shigong's unpreparedness, they rushed out with their servants.

But that kind of battle is just a make-up, and there is nothing to brag about.Only this boy just happened to meet a peasant soldier who was lying in the corpse of a peasant army and pretended to be dead. When he saw the gentry boy approaching, the peasant soldier immediately jumped up to resist, although this sneak attack made the official boy He was injured, but the peasant army soldier was finally killed by the son of the official and gentry.As a result, the only son of an official and gentry who killed someone with his own hands won the envy and cheers of all the disciples.

Seeing Hou Fangyu looking at the official's son enviously, Wu Shigong said with a smile: "Brother Chaozong! You who learn to be the enemy of thousands of people still need to envy the enemy of one man?"

Hou Fangyu hurriedly bowed to Wu Shigong and said, "In the past, it was just what I read in books, but today I just saw the battlefield. Alas!" Hou Fangyu then heaved a long sigh.

"Isn't it cruel and bloody?" Wu Shigong smiled and finished what Hou Fangyu wanted to say, "It's not romantic at all!"

"Romantic?" Hou Fangyu was taken aback when he heard this new vocabulary.However, his comprehension ability is really strong, and he understood the meaning of "romantic" in an instant, so Hou Fangyu also smiled and said to Wu Shigong: "Is it romantic! Is it not romantic!"[

Wu Shigong pointed to the corpses all over the floor.Then he said to Hou Fangyu: "No one likes to kill people, they are all born by their parents. But the court can't let them live and work in peace! I can only use the thunderbolt method!"

Hou Fangyu also nodded: "What Brother Chang Jing said is very true. My younger brother has been in the cold for ten years, and he just wants to serve the court. In the future, if my younger brother is on the imperial court, he will wipe out the evildoers and return the world to a bright future."

Although Wu Shigong was somewhat disapproving of Hou Fangyu's unreasonable rhetoric, Wu Shigong didn't need to point it out. He continued: "Brother Chaozong, one day you will be able to satisfy your ambition in the court. But on the battlefield, it is really not you. Director, this time you and all the talents have opened your eyes, will you return to Guide?"

After this period of military camp life.Hou Fangyu's sons of officials and gentry have long known that life in the military camp is very boring, but they can't save face and leave, which makes them persist until now.Therefore, after having the experience of this battle, they can already confess to everyone.

so.Hou Fangyu replied: "I don't bother Brother Chang Jing anymore. Where is Brother Chang Jing going next?"

"I'm going back to Runing too. The extermination of the Shaanxi Bandits is not a one-day achievement. So I have to go back to rest and prevent the Shaanxi Bandits from making a comeback. Don't worry, we will go back to Runing together, and then I will send troops to escort Let you return to Germany."

Since Wu Shigong wanted to withdraw his troops, Hou Fangyu was even more worried.He nodded and agreed, "Then thank you, Brother Chang Jing."

"This time you go back and bring the annual gifts I gave to the Grand Duke and Master Hou. I apologize to the Grand Duke again. I am really busy with military affairs. Otherwise, I will come to Guide and kowtow to the Grand Duke in person."

"Brother Chang Jing is too polite." Hou Fangyu quickly saluted Wu Shigong on behalf of the Hou Mansion.

"Why should our two be polite?" Wu Shigong said with a smile, "Oh! After this time, brother Chaozong will study hard behind closed doors?" Wu Shigong and Hou Fangyu chatted about homework.

"The township examination is still early. So wait until the new year. My younger brother wants to study in Jinling." Hou Fangyu replied.

"Then when you go back, bring another copy of Cheng Yi. Don't say anything polite, I don't like to hear it!" Wu Shigong joked, and then he said to Hou Fangyu: "Jinling is great! The fireworks there are also good I just remember that there are two people named Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi, my brother will have a good time there!"

After finishing speaking, Wu Shigong blinked at Hou Fangyu, showing an expression that "every man understands!".

Hou Fangyu also laughed embarrassedly.But secretly, he remembered the names of Gu Hengbo and Liu Rushi in his heart.

When the main force of the Runing Army suddenly appeared in the rear of the Peasant Army, the Peasant Army was in chaos.But before the Peasant Army could react, Zhou Xunbu, together with Chen Zhongzhi and Jiang Cheng's two Ming troops, entered the peasant army's east waist. [

Under the attack of these two elite Runing armies, the peasant army immediately lost its resistance. Gao Yingxiang and the others dropped the troops in the rear and accelerated southward with the elite of his old battalion.The Runing Army, which was entangled by the peasant army's rear, also stopped pursuing.

The battle that followed was one-sided, and there was nothing to say.The number of prisoners taken by the Runing Army exceeded [-], and more than half of the mules, horses, and luggage left by the Peasant Army in the rear.

However, Wu Shigong was very dissatisfied with such a result of the battle, because all the prisoners captured by the Runing Army were old, weak, women and children arranged by the Peasant Army in the rear, and many of them were family members of the soldiers of the Peasant Army, and they were brought back to the Runing Mansion In the future, we have to take care of the use.

The most important thing is that Li Zicheng was not even seen in this attack.Moreover, he never fought against the troops of Li Zicheng's old battalion at all, and did not achieve the effect of testing Li Zicheng's strength.Therefore, Wu Shigong completely lost the purpose of using the main force.

However, in the eyes of outsiders, Wu Shigong captured a large number of peasant soldiers, and left behind most of the peasant army's mules, horses and baggage. The income after counting far exceeded Wu Shigong's expenditure after using the main force, so it proved Wu Shigong again It is extremely wise.

Of course, Wu Shigong would not clarify the emergence of such a dumbfounding result.He also led his troops to pursue them, and honestly returned to Runing with Huhou Town and his own soldiers on the 22nd of the twelfth lunar month.

While the peasant army was fleeing south, Tang Wang Zhu Yujian in Nanyang Fucheng ordered the soldiers he recruited to attack again after he tasted the sweetness last time.

But this time the Nanyang magistrate didn't dare to let his freedom go. He asked Sun Wei to lead some soldiers in the city to attack jointly with King Tang's troops.In addition to being frightened, the peasant army also avoided the attacking Ming army, making the Ming army a small gain.

Seeing that the army he had recruited had made military exploits, Tang Wang Zhu Yujian's self-confidence inflated even more, and he quietly recruited his troops to 3000.

The panic-stricken peasant army did not settle down until they fled into Huguang.Entering Henan this time, except for the troops of Huihui Ma Shouying, all the battalions of the Peasant Army suffered heavy losses, and Emperor Chongzhen and the important officials in the court also thought that such a result was due to the establishment of two governors.

The Runing army also retreated to their defense zone, and began to watch the battle between the Ming army and the peasant army in Huguang.

Since there were only Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army and Zu Kuan's Liao Army in Huguang at the beginning, the concentrated peasant army gained the upper hand.They avoided the main force of the Ming army, wandered around the weak areas defended by the Ming army, obtained a large amount of supplies and personnel in the city and the countryside, and quickly made up for their losses in Henan.

But the good times didn't last long. After the first month of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Zuo Liangyu's and Yu Zilian's Ruzhou troops marched to Huguang one after another, so Gao Yingxiang and other departments began to divide their troops and began to run around again, trying to drag down the Ming army.

During the fleeing of the peasant army, they tried to flee to Anhui several times, but they were all defeated by the Runing army waiting on the Huaihe River, making the Xinyang-Wuchang line a restricted area for the peasant army.

Therefore, in this time and space, due to the addition of the Runing Army, the area of ​​activity of the Peasant Army is much smaller, and their strength is also much smaller.

But the vitality of the peasant army is very tenacious after all. In Huguang and other places, they still ran around wantonly, and even took the opportunity to wipe out several Ming troops who came to encircle and suppress them. Even Ming general Tang Jiuzhou died in the battle with the peasant army.

Therefore, the battle between the Ming army and the peasant army in Huguang was in a stalemate.This situation did not change until March of the ninth year of Chongzhen.

First of all, Sun Chuanting took office as governor of Shaanxi.Emperor Chongzhen could bear the dereliction of duty of Gan Xuekuo, the former governor of Shaanxi, so he complied with the people's will and promoted Sun Chuanting to take over as governor of Shaanxi.

As soon as Sun Chuanting took office, he began to sort out military affairs in Shaanxi.He continued to expand his military strength and food and wages.However, the army and fields that had been accumulated around Xi'an were originally in the hands of the wealthy family headed by the King of Qin. Sun Chuanting rectified them with an iron fist and asked the wealthy family to spit out all the fat.Although he received some criticism, he had 14 soldiers, and the annual tax collection was 5000 taels of silver, and more than 3000 shi of rice and wheat.

Then Sun Chuanting immediately mobilized his troops and ordered the deputy general Luo Shangwen to lead the Ming army to attack the rebel army in Shangluo, and killed King Qi.In a short period of time, Sun Chuanting has mastered a strong army.

But at this time, Huang Taiji outside the pass felt that he was full-fledged. He ordered the name of Jianguo to be Daqing. In fact, he changed Houjin to Daqing and Yuan Chongde, that is, the tenth year of Tiancong was the first year of Chongde.And changed Jurchen to Manchu.Finally, he fully revealed his ambition to fight for world hegemony. (To be continued..)

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