Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

That is to say, Lu Jiude was a eunuch and a close friend of Emperor Chongzhen. If he was replaced by a civil official or a general, he would be overwhelmed by the impeachment memorial afterwards.But no matter what, Lu Jiude's behavior is also courageous enough.

Of course, Lu Jiude also asked Emperor Chongzhen to play in time.Later, Emperor Chongzhen also made up the imperial decree, and transferred another Ming army to Fengyang.And the person who led the Ming army also had dealings with Wu Shigong, that is, the general soldier Yang Yufan who made great contributions to defending Laizhou.He is also a well-known city guard general, and it can be seen how much the Chongzhen Emperor attaches importance to Fengyang.But that's all for later, so let's not mention it now.

According to the original plan, Lu Jiude's department first entered the Yangtze River by boat, and then went to Nanjing to receive armaments.At this time, the eunuch who was in charge of Nanjing's military equipment no longer hid and pinched it, and did not need to spend any routine. He took out all the good things, and wished to arm Lu Jiude's troops to the teeth.

After receiving the armaments, Lu Jiude's troops immediately divided into two groups. Huang De led two thousand cavalry to gallop to help Hanshan County, while Lu Jiude led the main force still by boat, went upstream to He County, and formed a formation with the Nanjing Jingying With the momentum of a horn, Liu Guoneng's department was blocked from going deep into Nanzhili.

And what is Liu Guoneng doing at this time?Still stand still.After winning the great victory, Liu Guoneng's first task was to clean up the battlefield, and he really made a fortune.The combat power level of the entire army has also increased by a notch.

But then Liu Guoneng didn't know what to do.

He didn't want to attack forward.Attacking Hanshan County, which is heavily stationed, is not worth the loss.Bypass Hanshan County?Liu Guoneng didn't dare.Isn't it a stupid thing to send oneself into the encirclement to place one's own troops among the two Ming armies?

It is impossible to cross the Yangtze River.Don't say that Liu Guoneng can't collect so many ships, even if he can collect them, Liu Guoneng will not do it.The nearly ten thousand Ming soldiers in Hanshan County are not pigs.When Liu Guoneng crossed the Yangtze River, they came and attacked halfway, then Liu Guoneng had no place to cry if he wanted to.

It is even more impossible to retreat.Wu Shigong has repeatedly asked Liu Guoneng to go forward and fight the Ming army. If Liu Guoneng dared to retreat, wouldn't he send his family to the execution ground? [

So Liu Guoneng had no choice but to confront.After Lu Jiude's troops came to He County, he had even more reason to hold back.

In late April, after Lu Jiude arrived in He County, he immediately took over the command.Because at this time, the imperial decree of Emperor Chongzhen also came down, and the guarding eunuch was also dismissed.Go back to Beijing to guard the cold palace.And Lu Jiude succeeded as the eunuch guarding Nanjing.

Feeling refreshed on happy occasions, Lu Jiude immediately ordered to launch an attack on Liu Guoneng's Ministry.On the first day of May, the two sides fought again. Lu Jiude arranged his main force in the middle, Huang Degong arranged on the right wing, and the original Nanjing Jingying soldiers and horses with the largest number were arranged on the left wing.

The battle begins.The Ming army in the center and the right flank succeeded again and again, but the happy time was too short, and Lu Jiude lost his temper soon. The guards of honor once again let Lu Jiude see what is called "amazing" combat power.

And the collapse of the left wing made it difficult for Lu Jiude to continue.In desperation, Lu Jiude could only switch from offense to defense.He also confronted Liu Guoneng's Ministry.

With the arrival of the rainy season, the two armies lost interest in rolling in the mud. Gradually, the two sides turned into a "sit-in war" and did not dare to fight rashly.

What Liu Guoneng did made Wu Shigong extremely annoyed. He didn't want Liu Guoneng to contain the Ming army in Nanzhili, but to consume the Ming army in Nanzhili.However, Liu Guoneng cannot be "forced" too hard, so now Wu Shigong, in addition to Ye Yufei constantly urging Liu Guoneng to play.Also can only go with him.

And now the Peasant Army, the best performer has turned to the Eighth King Zhang Xianzhong.

After the defeat in Xiangyang, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai formed a coalition army. They first parted ways with the peasant army of other battalions, and then passed through Yicheng.Unexpectedly crossed the Han River again at Jingmen and attacked Yingcheng by surprise.

The Battle of Yingcheng fully demonstrated Zhang Xianzhong's wit and bravery.When he led his army to the city of Yingcheng, he did not stop there, went around the city from east to west, and stationed ten miles west of the city.Only a small group of old and weak troops was sent out, pretending to attack the west gate and south gate, instead of attacking with strength.

The Ming army defending the city thought that the peasant army was afraid of them and did not dare to attack the city.So they sent troops to attack, but the peasant army gave up their luggage and fled according to Zhang Xianzhong's deployment. The Ming army was even more arrogant, and even laughed at the fact that the peasant army was really capable.

In fact, Zhang Xianzhong had already laid heavy troops in ambush on the outskirts of the east and north gates of Yingcheng.Four days later, a monk actually wore a pair of iron armor he had obtained from a Hanlin family in Yingcheng, and led more than a thousand soldiers, and went out of the city to challenge the peasant army.It seems to be performing "The Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", fighting so much that even monks and Taoists have come out.

The peasant army deliberately discarded some supplies and equipment on the ground and retreated. The armored monk and the soldiers scrambled to snatch them.Zhang Xianzhong gave an order, and the cavalry suddenly took the lead in charging, ending the life of the armored monk in one fell swoop, and all the more than a thousand soldiers who left the city were wiped out.

Then the peasant army rushed to the bottom of the city quickly, and the officers and soldiers defending the city were in chaos.I saw a cloud ladder approaching the city wall, and peasant soldiers climbed up the ladder.The iron locks on the east, north and west gates were cut off one after another.In order to escape for their lives, the officers and soldiers fled desperately outside the city.As early as the ambush outside the city swarmed out, the county magistrate Zhang Shaodeng and more than 1 officers and soldiers all became prisoners.

Then, when Wu Shigong was assassinated and the entire Runing Army shrank, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai allied 20 troops to the north to besiege Suizhou (now Suixian, Hubei).However, there were only five or six hundred defenders in the city, with a huge disparity in strength.Yang Shi'en and Xu Mingcheng, the commanders stationed nearby, knew the power of the peasant army well and did not dare to send troops to confront them.Zhizhou Wang Tao led five or six hundred soldiers, personally took aim at stones, and desperately resisted, but it was nothing more than hitting a stone like a pebble.Two days later, the peasant army conquered the city, and Zhizhou Wang Tao committed suicide by committing suicide. [

After the Battle of Suizhou, Zhang Xianzhong continued to go east to Guangji, and at Gaoshanpu in Qizhou (now Qichun, Hubei), he wiped out more than [-] regiments organized by Guangji Dianshi Wei Shiguang.Then follow the Huangzhou (now Huanggang, Hubei), Tuanfeng, Xinxinzhou, Luotian, Sandian, Yangluo, and take a small road to Anqing.

Afterwards, breaking Susong, passing through Taihu Lake and Qianshan Mountain, and battling for hundreds of miles, the beacon fire reached Huai and Yang, and Nanjing was shocked again.Due to Anqing's tight defense and strong military force, the coalition forces chose not to fight, returned to the north, entered the Ying and Huo Mountains of the Dabie Mountains, and held on to the danger.Prepare to choose a fighter to wipe out the vital forces of the Ming army again.

At this time, Zhang and Luo's coalition forces have actually followed in Liu Guoneng's footsteps, forming a situation that echoes Liu Guoneng's department at a distance.

In order to deal with the peasant army, Zhang Guowei, the governor of Yingtian, spent a lot of effort and specially selected the children of Caiwu Liang's family to form an army and stationed in Fengjiadian.Zhang Xianzhong used a small force to fight against Anqing Bingbei Daoist Shi Kefa at Tianning Temple in Qianshan, but was rescued by Zuo Liangyu's reinforcements, and the peasant army was stationed in Tiantangzhai in Qianshan.

Zhang Xianzhong mobilized soldiers here to cut bamboo and build boats, pretending to march into Huguang, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the officers and troops, he took 3000 people as the vanguard and went down the eastward to the southeast of Susong County.In addition, troops were dispatched to snipe reinforcements from Anqing.

On April 27, Zhang Xianzhong arrived at Huojiadian, Anqing, and surrounded the defenders.Shi Kefa and Xu Ziqiang, the commander-in-chief stationed in Anqing, immediately sent troops to rescue them. Since they found out that the peasant army's morale was strong and their combat effectiveness was strong, it was difficult to confront each other. They advocated retreating to the fortress to avoid the rebels' sharp edge.

So Shi Kefa ordered Cheng Long, the deputy general, to lead 3000 soldiers from Suzhou, and the garrison king Chen Yu and general Pan Ke to lead 900 soldiers from Anqing to garrison in a camp in the Huojiadian area, rather than rushing to fight.They just fabricated the situation and fired cannons in solidarity.The besieged Cheng Long, Pan Keda and others saw that the food was exhausted and the soldiers were unbearably hungry. They wanted to take the opportunity to break out of the siege. As soon as they moved, they were hit head-on by the peasant army and retreated.

At noon the next day, Zhang Xianzhong ordered his troops to launch an attack from all directions, defending the enemy with all their strength, and was quickly killed by the peasant army.In just one day, more than [-] officers and soldiers were all wiped out.Deputy General Cheng Long saw the peasant army rushing into the official barracks, seeing that the whole army was defeated and the overall situation was settled, and he himself would not have a good result, so he committed suicide and died.Guerrilla Chen Yuwang, generals Zhan Zhaopeng, Wang Xihan, Lu Wangyou, Wang Hongyou of Hundred Households, Qianzong Wang Dingyuan, Zhou Jia and more than [-] officers "committed suicide" one after another.

Participating general Pan Keda and defending Zhou Guangguo were killed by the peasant army in the battle.Only guerrilla Jiang Ruolai hid in the stables, saved his life, and waited for an opportunity to escape.The governor of Yingtian, Zhang Guowei, painstakingly managed this armed force composed of children from good families, and it ended in the destruction of the entire army.Faced with such a tragic situation, Zhang Guowei could only cry up to the sky, as if mourning his concubine.

The battle of Huojiadian was the most outstanding battle of annihilation fought since Zhang Xianzhong's uprising.This battle lasted only one day, and all the defenders were wiped out, which not only boosted the morale of the peasant army and revived the army's prestige, but also showed the success of the peasant army's tactics of attacking east and west.

After Zhang Xianzhong won a major victory in the annihilation battle of Huojiadian, he took advantage of the victory and continued eastward.Its vanguard troops had arrived at Nanyang and Yizhen between Nanjing and Zhenjiang, and Yangzhou was in a hurry.

So Lu Jiude asked Huang Degong to temporarily entangle Liu Guoneng's department, and he and the supervising eunuch Liu Yuanbin personally led the brave guard battalion to help.And another [-] Ming army led by Liu Liangzuo also rushed to Zhang and Luo's joint army, and Zhang Xianzhong's good "friend" - Zuo Liangyu, of course, also followed closely.The attention of the Nanzhili officers and soldiers was all focused on Zhang and Luo's coalition forces.

At this time, Wu Shigong, whose relationship with the imperial court was gradually warming up, was also busy communicating with all parties. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to m to read.)

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