Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Compared with Li Zicheng's Dashun Army, Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Army was defeated even faster.

After the Great Western Army had just occupied more than half of Sichuan Province, Zhang Xianzhong was not inactive.In the autumn and winter of the 16th year of Chongzhen, he took advantage of Li Zicheng's Dashun Army's main force to attack Beijing, but in Shaanxi, Hanzhong and other places, the Dashun Army's strength was empty, and ordered Sun Kewang to take Hanzhong, hoping to have a tiger's mouth.

However, the Dashun Army also attached great importance to Hanzhong, an important military location in the northwest region. In addition, the strength of the Daxi Army was not as good as that of the Dashun Army, so Sun Kewang was in Hanzhong and was defeated by Li Zicheng's general He Zhen.After that, Zhang Xianzhong personally led the army to rescue, and ordered his general Liu Jinzhong to occupy Baoning Mansion, and his general Ma Yuanli Ke Shunqing to guard it.Fearing the advance of the Dashun Army, the two armies confronted each other and fell into a stalemate for the time being.

Then, in order to ensure the safety of Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong sent two generals, Pingdong and Huwei, to pacify the Hannan area northward.He also ordered the governor Zhang Guangcai to destroy Zeng Ying early in order to open the way to the east.In the winter of this year, Qiming and Zhang Guangcai of the Daxi Army marched together, but they didn't know that Li Zicheng had already replaced Ma Yu with He Zhen as the commander-in-chief.As a result, the [-] soldiers and horses of the Daxi Army were defeated by He Zhen's tribe.

After repeated fiascos, Zhang Xianzhong lost his ambition to fight for world hegemony.Coupled with his intermittent mental illness and frequent attacks, he single-handedly concocted a tragic massacre in the area under his control.

Due to the irreconcilable stance against the peasant army, coupled with Zhang Xianzhong's massacre, Ming generals Zeng Ying, Li Zhanchun, Yu Dahai, Wang Xiang, Yang Zhan, Cao Xun, etc. from all over Sichuan gathered troops one after another.The attack on the Onishi Peasant Army and the massacre of local officials of the Onishi regime posed a great threat to the Onishi regime.To this.Zhang Xianzhong carried out severe suppression, but he was also exhausted in this counter-insurgency.

Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Army, in addition to fighting against the remnants of the Ming Dynasty in Sichuan, also had to fight against the armed landlords in Sichuan.Fan Yiheng, the former governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, still served in his original position. The Hongguang court of the Southern Ming Dynasty appointed Wang Yingxiong, a former scholar, as the Minister of the Ministry of War, the governor of Chuanhu, Yungui, and military affairs, and gave Shangfang a sword to do things cheaply.Stationed in Zunyi, presided over the battle against Zhang Xianzhong.

In November of the 16th year of Chongzhen, the deputy general Zeng Ying, the governor of Sichuan in the Southern Ming Dynasty, led troops to capture Chongqing.then.Wang Yingxiong of the Cabinet Department will join the army in Zunyi, and the deputy generals Yang Zhan, Tu Long, Mo Zongwen, Jia Denglian, etc. please return to southern Sichuan.He appointed Gan Liangchen as the president, Hou Tianxi and Tu Long as his vice-presidents, and Yang Zhan as co-counselors.The guerrilla horse took the exam, and Yu Chaozong brought the defeated soldiers.Get 3 people.Then in March, Syria was captured, and the Great Western Army lost more than a thousand people.

At the same time, the deputy general Cao Ying, Liu Linchang, who participated in politics, and the generals Dahai, Li Zhanchun, Zhang Tian, ​​etc., were all controlled by Fan Yiheng, with more than [-] soldiers.They continued to attack the Atlantis Army, trying to recover the lost ground.Therefore, a canine-toothed front was formed in southern Sichuan and central Sichuan, and the Nanming army and the Daxi army launched a life-and-death battle.

In the first month of the first year of Qiongyuan, Quan Dashan led 1 troops.Send troops to Sichuan.As soon as he entered Sichuan, Li Yutian, the former governor of Sichuan during the Dashun Dynasty (formerly the governor of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty), Ma Ke (who was named Huairenbo after surrendering to Dashun), Ma De, Gao Ruli, Shi Guoxi and other officials The general led more than [-] soldiers to surrender to the Daping Dynasty.then.More than [-] soldiers from Hannan's deputy general Hu Xianghua also returned to Daping.Before firing a bullet or arrow, the whole Dashanbu got off to a good start.

Then, He Zhen, who lost two main forces one after another, felt that the situation was over, and led the remaining [-] main forces of the Dashun Army into Sichuan to surrender to the Daping Army.In this way, the legacy of the Dashun Army in Sichuan was fully accepted by the entire Dashan Department.Moreover, these [-] soldiers are all veterans who are good at fighting. In addition, those officials and generals are familiar with the humanities and landforms of Sichuan, which made the Sichuan campaign in the whole mountainous area go more smoothly.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong was leading the main force of the Daxi Army to fight fiercely with the Nanming army in the southern and central Sichuan regions.Southern Ming general Yang Zhan led troops to recapture Nanzhou County in Sichuan Province, led his division to the north, and fought fiercely with the main force of Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Army in the Jiangkou of Pengshan. Zhang Xianzhong was defeated and returned to Chengdu.

So Yang Zhan pushed towards Chengdu from the south.Wang Yingxiong also sent Zeng Ying as the commander-in-chief and Wang Xiang as the general to join forces to attack and block the eastward advance of the Daxi army.Due to Zhang Xianzhong's massacre, the Nanming army, mainly the Sichuan army, retaliated wildly. They also launched a massacre of the "rebellious" people along the way, and the people of Sichuan suffered another bad luck.How miserable are the people in Sichuan!

However, due to the great increase in the threat of the Daping Army going south, in March, Zhang Xianzhong decided to abandon Chengdu in order to resist the Daping Army going south.He also killed all his wives, concubines and children, and killed one son who was still young.

Moreover, Zhang Xianzhong also said to Sun Kewang: "I am also a hero. Don't leave your youngest son to be captured by others. You will eventually be the son of the world. The 300-year orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty may not end suddenly. It is God's will. Unrighteous."

And Zhang Xianzhong's crazy move may be to appease Sun Kewang's righteous sons. He wants to prove to Sun Kewang and them that the inheritance of the Daxi Army will not be passed on to his sons, but will be inherited by Sun Kewang and others.In exchange for the loyalty of Sun Kewang and others.But tiger venom doesn't eat its eggs, will Zhang Xianzhong's actions be useful?That is unknown.But it can definitely prove that Zhang Xianzhong at this time, his brain circuit is already different from ordinary people.

Then, Zhang Xianzhong divided his troops into four groups and ordered four generals to march northward with more than [-] troops each.In March, Zhang Xianzhong led the main force of the Daxi Army with [-] troops to leave Chengdu and go north to meet the Daping Army.In May, Zhang Xianzhong's army camped at Phoenix Mountain in Xichong.

Of course, at this time, the total strength of the Great Western Army was only more than [-], and the number of those troops was actually just a claim.

When Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to the north and passed by Jinshanpu, he became mad again and killed the people at will, even including his own troops, in order to eliminate those who were not strong enough.And when the Daping Army was pressing down on the border, some generals of the Daxi Army couldn't stand such a crazy move.So Liu Jinzhong remonstrated: "The living beings should not be killed indiscriminately."

Of course, Zhang Xianzhong didn't accept such remonstrance. Instead, he wanted to mobilize Liu Jinzhong's troops back to Jinshanpu to meet up.Liu Jinzhong was suspicious, and without hesitation, he led his [-] soldiers to the north, and the whole army surrendered to the Sichuan Army in the whole mountain.

Good guy!It seems that Quan Dashan entered Sichuan not to fight, but rather as an armed parade, to receive and reorganize the surrendered troops.

The Sichuan Army in Dashan led the Sichuan Army into northern Sichuan with Liu Jinzhong as the guide.On May 26 of the first year of Qiongyuan, Quan Dashan sent He Zhen, Ma Ke and other generals to lead the cavalry troops of the Sichuan Army to advance lightly in three groups. By surprise, they launched a surprise attack on the Western Army and defeated the main force of the Western Army.

On the morning of the 27th, the Sichuan Army met Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Army across Sun Creek.Faced with this sudden and unexpected attack, Zhang Xianzhong responded urgently and commanded the horse infantry of the Western Army to fight against the Sichuan Army on two fronts.

At this time, Quan Dashan led the main force of the Sichuan Army to arrive, and sent General Gao Ruli and others to attack the right wing of the Daxi Army, and general Shi Guoxi and others to attack the left flank of the Daxi Army.At the beginning of the battle, it was very fierce. Gao Ruli and others died in battle, and the Daxi Army also suffered heavy losses.

However, when the battle flags of the original Runing Army were slowly unfolding at the Central Army of Dashan, the officers and soldiers of the Great Western Army found their former comrades-in-arms again——Liu Jinzhong led his troops to charge.The generals and soldiers of the Daxi Army, who were full of Zhang Xianzhong's suspicion and indiscriminate killing, suddenly collapsed, and the whole army fled.

And Zhang Xianzhong was caught off guard at all, he didn't expect to be defeated so quickly.Just for a moment of hesitation, Zhang Xianzhong, who stayed in place, was exposed to the front of the battle with his twenty or so personal guards.

Since Zhang Xianzhong was wearing a boa robe and was identified by Liu Jinzhong, such an obvious target immediately attracted a volley of thousands of guns and arrows from the Sichuan army.Zhang Xianzhong immediately fell to his death at the age of 40.

After Zhang Xianzhong's death, some loyal Daxi Army soldiers snatched his body back from the formation, wrapped his body in a brocade mattress, buried it in a secluded place, and then fled away.The Sichuan Army learned of the whereabouts of Zhang Xianzhong's body from the prisoners, and took his head and dedicated it to the capital.

After this battle, more than 5 remaining soldiers and horses of the Daxi Army were beheaded, captured, and surrendered by the Sichuan Army. More than [-].In addition to some of the defeated civilians, Zhang Xianzhong's generals Sun Kewang, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi, Feng Shuangli, etc., led more than [-] remnants of the Western Army to the south, and were blocked by the Ming Army Zeng Ying's troops in Chongqing.

At this time, the Daxi Army showed the fierceness of a cornered beast, and after a fierce battle, they defeated the Nanming Army and killed the defender Zeng Ying.After that, the remnants of the Great Western Army continued to move towards Guizhou.Later, it united with Nanming to fight against the Daping Army in the southwest.

Taking advantage of the decisive battle between the Daxi Army and the Sichuan Army in the whole Dashan, the Nanming Army entered the Chengdu Plain and occupied Chengdu.After that, the battle in Sichuan evolved into a battle between the Sichuan Army and the Nanming Army.

However, this confrontation did not last long.After a few months, Nanming also fell apart.This made most of the Nanming army in Sichuan surrender to the Daping Dynasty.Only a small number of people continued to go south to Guizhou, Yunnan and other southwestern provinces as a final resistance.

And the Daping army led by Jiang Cheng, Zhao Degong and Jiang Yu, they have been following Gao Yigong and Li Guobu, and within a short period of time, they also pacified Gansu and other northwest borderlands.Since a large number of the Dashun Army also surrendered, their total number of troops quickly expanded to nearly [-].

In just ten months, the Daping Army, with more than 5000 former Runing Army at its core, swept across the entire Northwest and Sichuan Province.The final strength unexpectedly expanded to 56 people.Although these troops are divided into three and operate separately, and their combat effectiveness is also uneven, but in terms of numbers, this is already the largest army in the Daping Dynasty.

But Li Zicheng's Dashun Army and Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Army, when they faced the Daping Army's attack, fell to the ground like two weak giants.And the Daping Army also destroyed these two forces one after another.

When such a result of the battle was presented to Wu Shigong and the Daping court, the emperor and ministers of Daping were all speechless.And the question marks of a small group of people in the court who suspected that the Daping Dynasty would not last long were all swept away.

However, in the first month of the first year of Qiongyuan in the Daping Dynasty, not only the troops who went out to conquer the west, but also the battle around Shanhaiguan and the Manchus also started. (To be continued..)