Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

After Zuo Liangyu's death, the generals of his subordinates pushed his son Zuo Menggeng to stay behind, detained Yuan Jixian in the boat, and continued to lead troops eastward, occupying Pengze, Dongliu, Jiande, and Anqing successively, and the troops went straight to Taiping Mansion .

However, the Hongguang court was terrified when it received reports from the upper governor, governor, and town officials that Zuo Liangyu had rebelled and led his troops to the east. Guoan and others organized a blockade.

Huang Degong's army was transferred to Taiping Mansion in the south of the Yangtze River (the mansion is in Dangtu, governing the three counties of Wuhu and Fanchang), and Liu Liangzuo's army was deployed on the opposite bank in the north of the river.After a fierce battle, Huang Degong won a big victory and finally stopped the left army from going down the river.

But Nanming's internal strife made Zhou Xun, Xue Yong and others couldn't bear it anymore.Now or never.So Zhou Xun, Xue Yong and the others decided to disobey their orders and take advantage of this opportunity to capture Nanming in one fell swoop.

On June 5000th, Zhou Xun issued an order to conquer the South, and Zhang Biao, who was transferred to Nanyang, led [-] troops (Nanyang local troops), and [-] troops (new recruits from the Huzhuang team) were transferred to Runing, with a total of [-] troops. Fengyang, attack eastward.Xue Qiang led all the garrison troops to guard the whole territory of Henan and Huguang and resist foreign enemies from invading the territory.Zhou Xun and Zhang Biao led an army of more than [-] troops down the river, heading straight to Beijing.

On the two major battlefields of Shandong and Huguang, although there was no connection, the two units of the Daping Army launched a three-way offensive at the same time.

In the Huaiyang area, Suqian's acquisition without a fight also brought a large number of surrendered troops to the Shandong Army in the late Ming Dynasty.And among these generals, there are some ambitious people.Can't wait to be the "leading party".

And the surrender of the Nanming Army did not mean that the entire front line surrendered at the same time, in order to level the front line.The Shandong Army will definitely send troops to attack those strategic points that have fallen into its own front.

As for the attacked Nanming army, some were still hesitating, and some even just couldn't find a way to communicate with the Shandong army and surrender.So when the Shandong army came to attack, and those surrendered generals came to persuade them to surrender, they either fled watching the wind, or the whole army surrendered, and the Shandong army pushed forward the front line.It went pretty well.

Especially after those surrendered generals learned that Chi Ming was originally the leader of Wu Shigong's personal army, they praised him even more.In the military system of the Ming Dynasty, the commander of the personal army was the person most trusted by the coach.Therefore, his status is no worse than that of the leading general, and even slightly higher in status.

So those subdued generals had a small calculation in mind: if Chi Ming made great achievements, then these subdued generals would also climb a big tree and be able to be in Wu Shigong's new dynasty.gain a higher position.

therefore.These surrendered generals encouraged Chi Ming to launch an offensive.So these surrendered generals not only told a lot of information about the Nanming army, but also exaggerated the predicament facing Nanming by three points.Therefore, the enemy who causes the most damage to oneself is often not one's mortal enemy, but those former comrades-in-arms who fought back.

In fact, no one expected that although the information reported by the surrendered generals had been exaggerated a lot, the Nanming army in the Huaiyang area was even worse. The whole situation can only be described in four words - chaos.Even the civil servants and military officers who commanded the Nanming Army fell into hysteria.

After learning of the emergency situation of Zuo Liangyu's troops going eastward and Shandong Daping Army's southward invasion.Shi Kefa panicked and lost his mind.According to the Huai'an Tuiguan at that time.Ji Yingtingji, the Central Superintendent of Shi Kefa's Army, recorded: At that time, part of the Nanming army was stationed in Gaoyou, and Shi Kefa issued orders three times in one day. At noon, he ordered "all the troops do not have to go to Si, but return to Yangzhou to listen to the call";

So Ying Tingji said to the generals: "The cabinet is in disarray, how can it be a thousand miles away, such a salary, and three adjustments a day!"

It can be seen from this that even Shi Kefa is in chaos, and the orders he issued are incomprehensible, let alone other civil servants and generals of Nanming.All the troops of the Nanming Army were flying around like headless chickens, but they didn't know what to do!

The young and energetic Chi Ming finally couldn't bear such a huge temptation.In addition, he also learned from those generals that the Nanming Zuoliangyu tribe rebelled, and the Hongguang Dynasty was also caught in the internal strife, so he didn't care about asking Wu Shigong for orders, and without hesitation swung his troops into the all-out war. Attacking.

On June [-], Chi Ming led the main force of the Shandong Army to approach Xuyi, and the Xuyi defenders surrendered.However, Shi Kefa himself rushed to Tianchang on June [-] to mobilize various troops to assist Xuyi, and suddenly got a report that the Xuyi defenders had surrendered to the Daping Dynasty, so he almost completely lost control of the troops.

After that, Shi Kefa braved the rain and mud all day and all night, and ran to Yangzhou to preside over the defense of this important city in the north of the Yangtze River.On the 24th, the Shandong army entered the camp [-] miles away from Yangzhou, and the soldiers approached the city the next day.

At this critical moment, Shi Kefa called for reinforcements from all the towns, but none came.In fact, the generals of Liu Liangzuo and Yuan Gaojie, who were controlled by Shi Kefa, surrendered without a fight one after another in the past few days.

On June 25th, Li Benshen, the admiral of Gaojie’s Ministry, led the whole army to surrender to Chi Ming, and Liu Liangzuo, the uncle of Guangchang, also led his troops to surrender; Participated in the capture of Yangzhou.

At this time, in Yangzhou City, there were only the Zhongguan Battalion headed by Liu Zhaoji and He Gang, and the strength was quite weak.Due to the high city walls and the fast marching speed of the Shandong Army, the siege cannons had not yet arrived. Chi Ming sent people to recruit Shi Kefa, Huaiyang Governor Wei Yinwen and others, but they were severely rejected.

On the 27th, Li Qifeng, the commander-in-chief of Gansu Town, and Gao Qifeng, the supervisor of the army, led [-] soldiers and horses into the city. Their intention was to hijack Shi Kefa and surrender Yangzhou City to the Daping Dynasty.

But Shi Kefa resolutely said: "This is where I died. What should I do? If you want to be rich, please do your own thing." Li Qifeng and Gao Qifeng saw that there was no opportunity to take advantage of them. On the 28th, they led their troops and colluded with the Sichuan generals Hu Shangyou and Han Shangliang in the city. Go out and level off.Shi Kefa reasoned that if they were prevented from leaving the city and surrendering, they would be afraid of life, and let them go without prohibiting them.

In fact, at this time, Shi Kefa had no confidence in keeping Yangzhou City, and he was helpless in keeping the land in Jiangbei. Therefore, he had completely given up his command and left Yangzhou City alone. (To be continued..)