Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Facing the menacing Qin army, Li Zicheng's Shun army could not remain indifferent.

When Sun Chuanting's Qin army arrived in Xiangfen, Yuan Zongdi led an army of [-] to intercept the Qin army.In the fierce battle on the first day, the Shun army failed to break through the Qin army's partial car formation, and retreated after losing more than a thousand people.On the second day, a battalion school of the Shun Army led hundreds of people to surrender, causing chaos in the Shun Army. four thousand.The first blocking force of the Shun Army was defeated and returned.

Then on the [-]th day of the first lunar month, the Qin army arrived in Xiangfen County, and Li Yangchun, the captain of the Shun army, led [-] troops to surrender, opening the gate of Linfen City.On the [-]th, they arrived at the city of Linfen.Chen Kexin, the shepherd of Baozhou, and Jiang Li, the state judge appointed by Li Zicheng, organized the people to defend the city.

On the evening of the 22nd, 280 people led by gentry in the city went out of the city and surrendered privately.Chen Kexin and Jiang carp were all killed.And Sun Chuanting chose two elders from among the 280 people who surrendered, and ordered them to name them one by one. If more than ten people who could not be named were suspected of being thieves, they all beheaded.As for the people in other cities, they even killed them all under the pretext of "holding up for thieves".A bloody massacre took place.

And a partial division of the Qin Army also captured Fushan County on the night of the 22nd. They also slaughtered all the residents of the city on the pretext that the old Shun Army battalion had stayed in the county.

Now that the battle is up to now, the Qin army that entered Shanxi has won one after another, and this group of improvised troops has gradually gained confidence.Moreover, because Li Zicheng's Shunjun took the initiative to show weakness, they all thought that Shunjun was nothing more than that, and their arrogance also burst forth spontaneously.

At this time, Infernal Affairs-Qiu Zhitao also believed that the time had come, and he used his position as the Minister of the Military Government to send false information to Li Zicheng, who was commanding the battle on the front line.They lied that the Jingying army in Baoding had attacked Taiyuan from the east, and the situation in the rear was critical.

But when Qiu Zhitao's false information arrived, Li Zicheng immediately sent someone to call him, and then took out Sun Chuanting's reply letter to expose him as a traitor, and sentenced him to death.

After eliminating internal hidden dangers, Li Zicheng's Shun army began to face it in an all-round way.

On the fourth day of February, Shun Army and Qin Army fought in Fenxi County.The Shun army failed in the first battle, and General Guoyi Xie Junyou was captured and killed.But this is also a flashback of the Qing army's battle in Shaanxi this time.

Since the Qin army went deep alone, it was getting farther and farther away from the rear supply base.It's spring thawing again, and the road is muddy.The Qin army's grain carts were progressing slowly, and the soldiers and horses on the front line were starving and emaciated.

At this time, someone persuaded Sun Chuanting to go back to his teacher and get food, but Sun Chuanting replied: "The teacher has done it, and he will be hungry even if he returns. It is better to break Fenxi County and eat."

Maybe it's the emperor's order.Perhaps Sun Chuanting was dazzled by the victory.But Sun Chuanting knew very well: such a temporarily kneaded Qin army would not take advantage of the current succession of victories.In one go, he rushed to Taiyuan.Then the Qin army will never find such a good opportunity to fight against the Shun army in the future.

However, Fenxi County was originally a small and poor county. After the Qin army broke through the city, they only captured a few hundred mules and horses, and the tens of thousands of soldiers were quickly exhausted.But Li Zicheng saw that the Qin army went deep into the Jedi. On the one hand, he mobilized the people to fortify the walls and clear the fields, making it impossible for the Qin army to raise food on the spot.On the one hand, he sent general Liu Zongmin with more than 1 cavalry to copy to the rear of the Qin army from the middle road, cut off the Qin army's food road in Longma Township, Hongdong County, and wanted to kill the Qin army.

Sun Chuanting was shocked when he heard the news, and the morale of his subordinates was also unstable.At this time, Li Zicheng wrote the letter of war with a big name.On the appointed date, the Qin army will engage in a decisive battle.But Sun Chuanting had nothing to do, he ordered Qin Yiming, the commander-in-chief, to stay in the barracks, and then he led the officers and soldiers from Shaanxi to retreat separately, trying to open up the food road.

The soldiers under Qin Yiming watched the Shaanxi soldiers retreat to meet the food, but they were left to starve and starve to act as scapegoats.Qin Yiming sent his own soldiers to kill and stop him, but they couldn't stop.In the end, because the morale of the army was hard to break, they had to retreat with the troops.

As soon as the blocking troops deployed by Sun Chuanting fled, the Shun army took advantage of the momentum and launched a general offensive. The Qin army was in chaos and collapsed across the board.In order to escape for their lives, the soldiers of the sidecar battalion under the command of Bai Guangen untied the horses that pulled the cart and rode on.

The cavalry of the Shun army leaped past and chased after them bravely.The infantrymen beat the officers and soldiers with big sticks, and the heads and helmets of those who were hit were shattered.The Qin army was defeated, with more than [-] dead, and tens of thousands of Jiazhan horses and mules, all of which belonged to the Shun army.Countless others were captured, captured, and fled.

In just ten days, the Qin army lost all the victories and fled for nearly five hundred miles.Sun Chuanting and Gao Jie, the commander-in-chief, collected thousands of scattered soldiers and rode across the Yellow River, passing through Dali County to Tongguan.The general Qin Yiming also led the defeated soldiers to Tongguan.

The defeat in Fenxi this time caused the only "elite army" left by the Ming Dynasty, the Qin Army, to suffer a devastating blow.Since then, there have been no Ming troops in the Northwest that could hold back the Peasant Army.

Then, while Sun Chuanting was still breathing, Li Zicheng led an army of 30 to approach Tongguan on February 3.At this time, under Yu Zilian's management, the Heiyun Army in Henan Mansion had also expanded to more than [-] troops.However, they didn't dare to fight the Shun army whose morale was high, they just stayed in Luoyang city and let the Shun army move freely.

And when the news of Sun Chuanting's Shanxi defeat reached the imperial court, Emperor Chongzhen was shocked and furious. Go to Supervisor Shangshu, use the Qin governor as a crime to clean up the remaining soldiers guarding the pass, and try to redeem yourself. It is like allowing a thief to enter Qin, and the previous crimes are counted together."

Then Emperor Chongzhen was worried that if the Shun army ignored Sun Chuanting and went eastward to take the capital directly, he "reverted to the Ministry of War to order Jin, Yu, Bao, and Dong Sifu to organize their troops and horses, and they would station themselves in the river to block the defense." , no thief is allowed to spy on the crossing."

Not long after, the imperial court ordered Bai Guangen to be promoted to be the general officer of the aid and suppression army, to hang the seal of the bandit general, and to allocate [-] soldiers, hoping that this defeated general would be grateful for his life with a good reward, and together with Sun Chuanting, he would stick to Tongguan and keep Shaanxi.

And this successive order was nothing more than a desperate struggle, because Li Zicheng did not give the remaining Qin army a chance to breathe.Although there are still [-] soldiers in the remnants of the official army that retreated to Tongguan at this time, they are already frightened and do not have much combat effectiveness.

At the end of February, the Shun army approached Tongguan.Sun Chuanting ordered Bai Guang'en, the commander-in-chief, to camp in Tongluochuan outside Guancheng, and Gao Jie, the commander-in-chief, to camp on the west hill outside the south gate. He himself drove the middle-aged men in the city to defend the city.

On the third day of March, the Shun army marched from Taojiazhuang to Guanpo and attacked bravely.Gao Jie's troops left without a fight and fled westward.Bai Guangen's troops couldn't resist the enemy, and they also collapsed.Since the wives of officers and soldiers lived in Guancheng, the soldiers scrambled to escape into Guancheng to protect their wives and children and their family members to rush out.Some soldiers were eager to enter the city and split the Nanshuiguan fence with their knives.The Shun army followed and took advantage of the situation to occupy Tongguan.Sun Chuanting and Qiao Yuanzhu, deputy envoy of the supervising army, were killed in the chaos.

If you have a friend who has been to Tongguan, you will know what it means when you see the topography of Tongguan-one man guards the pass, and ten thousand men cannot open it.But now in the Chongzhen Dynasty, the peasant army broke through Tongguan several times, as if this place was no one's land.It is true that although Guancheng is dangerous, there is no danger without brave soldiers.Once Tongguan was broken, the gateway to Xi'an was opened.

Then Li Zicheng left Ma Shiyao to guard Tongguan, and the troops continued to advance.When the Shun army arrived in Weinan, the children of Yang Xuan, the magistrate of the county, took the city to hold on, trying to resist stubbornly.But the county's Juren Wang Minggao opened the door to welcome the Shun army into the city.

On the seventh day of March, Li Guo's vanguard conquered Lintong County.Arrive at the city of Xi'an the next day.Since the elite of the Shaanxi government army had been wiped out, the defensive forces in Xi'an were very weak. Local officials left [-] Sichuan soldiers passing through Xi'an to assist in the defense.

As a guest army, the Sichuan soldiers had no food and pay.The officials in Xi'an City persuaded Qin Wang Zhu Cunshu to give some money to the soldiers to boost morale.But this request was flatly rejected by Zhu Cunshu.Anyway, these repeated incidents proved that the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty did have pig heads.

So Wang Genzi, the deputy general who defended the city, was very dissatisfied and decided to surrender to the Shun army.He wrote a letter of appointment and shot it to the city, and opened the east gate to welcome Shun's army into the city.On the eighth day of March, Li Zicheng's army occupied Xi'an, the ancient capital.Zhu Cunshu, King of Qin, was captured alive, Feng Shikong, governor of Shaanxi, Huang Jiong, the inspector, were killed, and Lu Zhiqi, the chief minister, surrendered.The Shun army immediately set about reassuring the people, and ordered that no one should be killed indiscriminately, and those who made mistakes would pay their lives.So the situation in Xi'an was quickly stabilized.

The [-] Right Battalion of the Shun Army led by Yuan Zongdi, Bai Minghe, Lan Yingcheng and others also arrived in Shangzhou, Shaanxi Province on the [-]th of March, captured the city on the [-]th, and executed Huang Shiqing, who drove the people to resist.On the [-]th, Luonan County was occupied.Successfully joined forces with the main force of Li Zicheng's command in Xi'an.

After occupying Xi'an, Li Zicheng immediately deployed to wipe out all the strongholds of the Ming Dynasty in the Northwest. Tian Jianxiu led his troops to go south to Hanzhong, pursued Gao Ruli, the general soldier of the Ming Dynasty, and opened up the passage to Sichuan; Gansu, Xining and other places.

In the next one or two months, Li Zicheng's Shun army launched a frenzied northwest offensive.

However, compared to Li Zicheng's Shun army's turbulent journey, Wu Shigong's Runing army is struggling every step of the way.Leaving aside Xue Yongli's troops who faced the superior Qing army, first talk about the [-] Runing Army who rushed to Wuchang.

When the Runing Army surrounded Wuchang City quite smoothly under the command of Wu Shigong, he suddenly found that Wuchang City had become a hard nail lingering in front of him.

Li Dingguo carried out Zhang Xianzhong's decisive order to the letter, gave up all important places outside the city, and withdrew all the troops into Wuchang City.They will take advantage of the high walls of Wuchang's strong city and the food and grass in the city that can supply the entire army and people in the city for more than a year, and step up their battle preparations, and they will hold back the pace of the Runing army here. (To be continued..)