Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 600

The loud shouts of killing once again permeated the whole city of Luoyang.

This ancient city has been in different hands three times. In 15 years, Chongzhen made an exchange between Guanchuang. Immediately after the governor of the three sides Wang Qiaonian died in battle, the Shaanxi army collapsed, and the Chuang army fought back and forth from Huguang to take it for the second time. This city, the traces left by the war on this city have not yet been erased, and the thick flames of war once again burned on the scarred city wall.

"Kill! Go! For the court! Kill!"

Personally supervised the battle on the front line, this time Zheng Chongjian also worked hard, roaring desperately with a hoarse voice, this time, the Shaanxi generals Gao Jie, Bai Guangen, Niu Chenghu, etc. who were newly promoted to the commander-in-chief were also considered brave, commanding the soldiers under his command Wave after wave rushed towards the city wall.

Although there is no Sun Chuanting's train battalion in history, Zheng Chongjian, who had fallen into madness, almost dismantled more than half of the cannons in Shaanxi before leaving. Thousands of cannons, large and small, continued to spray at the city wall of Luoyang, attacking to the first In the afternoon of three days, the city wall of Luoyang, which had been injured in previous wars, was finally overwhelmed and completely collapsed with a crash.

On the top of the city, the banner of Chuangzi hanging high was once again fluttering down like a kite with a broken string. Looking at his subordinates rushing into the city like a rising tide, Zheng Chongjian finally stroked his long gray hair in relief. beard.

However, what the officers and soldiers brought to this ancient city was not the light of the liberators, but unprecedented destruction. The officers and soldiers lacked food, wages, weapons and equipment, and the ability to transport mules and horses. The Qin soldiers on the three sides lacked everything, and what they fought was the idea of ​​supporting war with war. After finally getting down to a big city, it was natural to celebrate for a while.

The Ming army who entered the city first plundered Luoyang City. Zheng Chongjian also used the bandits as an excuse to suppress a group of gentry and local tyrants in Luoyang City, and collected almost 7 shi of grain and [-] taels of silver At the beginning of September, Zheng Chongjian proudly handed over the memorial to the imperial court, recovered Luoyang, and welcomed His Royal Highness Fu Wang back to his vassal at any time.

On September [-]th, Xiaofu Wang Zhu Yousong, who fled to Weihui Mansion and went to King Lu, drove back with a group of cars. Zhu Yousong was very excited to see the bruised Luoyang Mansion returning to his hands again. After that, he immediately ordered the summoning of civilian husbands to rebuild the Fuwang Palace, and then recruit beautiful women to supplement the harem.

On the other side, before King Fu returned to the town, Zheng Chongjian, urged by the impatient emperor, continued to attack the eastern part of Henan.

On September 36th, the official army regained Ruzhou and defeated the leader of the old [-]th Battalion. The family members who broke into the old camp of the army were massacred. Since then, more than half of the western part of Zhongzhou has returned to the hands of the government and the army. The decline in the past few years has been wiped out. Daming's ZTE is just around the corner.

I really thought it was the right treasure, the capital, and the Emperor Chongzhen was once again very happy, and issued several imperial edicts in succession, conferring Zheng Chongjian, who was previously unpopular, as a grand master, a Chinese military commander, and a lot of honorary titles.

However, this time the brilliant record of the Ming Army did not end there.

On the dry battlefield, the surging horseshoes of the Shaanxi cavalry raised dust all over the sky. In the dust, countless cavalry raised their whips and leaped on their horses.

On the [-]th, the main force of the Qin army and the vanguard of the Chuang army fought in Jiaxian County. Gao Jie slapped a Chuang Jun who was chased by his horse and fled, Gao Jie laughed happily.

"Crossing the blind is nothing more than that, hahaha! When I break Xiangcheng, I will take his head!"

"Lord Chief Soldier, the front is wrong, look!"

Before Gao Jie finished bragging, the soldiers in front suddenly yelled in astonishment. Amidst the dust flying, a dense black line on the horizon came into the eyes of the officers and soldiers. They were also shocked and ordered to hold up the flag to stop the pursuit. Gao Jie He raised the binoculars in astonishment, and immediately a wave of fear was revealed on his rough and dry face.

At the foot of the gray Xiangcheng in front, countless troops are moving forward. They can't see the end to the north, the end to the south, and the end to the back. The infantry holding the flag high is shouting. , The sound came rolling like muffled thunder, mixed with the army, there were also countless cavalry leaping forward, and the cannons pulled by the carriage bumped up and down.

I have seen thousands of troops and horses many times, but Gao Jie has never seen such a formation. After watching it for a few minutes, the panicked Gao Jie finally woke up, and waved his big gun backwards with a horrified order. flag.

"Retire! Retire!"

The camp is huge. In May of this year, Li Zicheng annexed Luo Rucai, Song Qingshu's old enemy, and completely placed Cao Ying under his command. He was even more arrogant. However, the huge army of one million could not help being clumsy in action. In August, Zheng Chongjian The attack on the territory occupied by the Chuang army began, and it was not until mid-September that between Xiangcheng and Jiaxian County, the main force of the official army came face to face.

However, the slow march is not without benefits. At this time, the three forces have already assaulted more than 1000 miles eastward. The whole of Henan is in a severe drought. It is impossible for the officers and soldiers to collect food on the spot. The long supply line starts from Xi'an and extends from Tongguan all the way to the central part of Henan. This line is the death spot of the officers and soldiers.

Just like during the battle in Zhuxian Town, Zheng Chongjian did not dare to order an attack lightly in front of such a huge peasant army. He confronted Li Zicheng in Jiaxian County. However, after less than four days of confrontation, a bad news came.

"What? How is that possible?"

Standing up suddenly from the seat of the Chinese army, Zheng Chongjian, the governor of Shanxi Huguang Jiangnan Jiangbei Military Affairs, who had just been promoted to the title of Minister of the Ministry of War, had a wrinkled old face full of disbelief and horror, patting the table and shouting in horror.

"Return to the supervisor, really! Ruzhou has been broken, and Liu Fangliang, the general of the army, is threatening Luoyang. King Fu is in a hurry!"

Kneeling on the ground, the messy words of the panicked messenger once again shattered Zheng Chongjian's fantasy, making his legs and feet weak, and he sat back on the seat.

This move is exactly the same as that of the Qin army in the Battle of Changping back then. The main force was attracted in front, and the light soldiers cut off the Zhao army's food road, and then completely outflanked it. It's just that Zhao Kuo, who was caught on paper, was caught by Zhao Kuo, but now he is himself.

After being absent-minded for a few minutes, Zheng Chongjian's aging face suddenly turned ferocious, as ferocious as an old goshawk, with his right hand tightly pinching the recently acquired Tianxia Bingma Mobilization Talisman.

The Little Ice Age brought most of the drought and famine in the northern hemisphere, but in the past few days it has rained heavily, and the heavy rain has soaked the firearms that the government and the army rely on so much. After a desperate charge, early in the morning, 10,000+ Qin soldiers howled loudly in the barracks. Drenched in rain, hungry and cold, with the ferocity of a lone wolf, they shouted and charged the million invaders.

Although there is no Sun Chuanting's train battalion in history, the officers and soldiers still use chariots as their main battle weapons. A total of [-] vans commonly used by frontier troops were pushed by infantry, crushing the wet muddy ground, rushing to the opposite side. The army rushed forward, and the Chuang army was also prepared in advance for the attack of the official army. Countless peasant troops ran out of the barracks in the same horn, and formed a dense army formation in front of Xiangcheng.

However, the Chuangjun is a temporary army organized by hungry people after all, and the three-sided force is after all soldiers who have received formal military training. Facing the rushing car formation, the Chuangjun archers raised their heads and shot a rain of arrows. Some of them were blocked by the light vehicles of the officers and soldiers. They charged for more than 300 meters while shouting.

Amidst the shouts of killing soaring to the sky, some helpless invaders were squeezed in through the gaps in the side vans, and immediately the officers and soldiers who had been prepared for a long time came piercing with dense spears, killing these invaders and hungry people. Stabbing down, the car is connected to the car and arranged five floors, like a maze, even if there are many soldiers intruding, they are still blindfolded and turned by this style of play.

At the same time, the cavalry of the official army was not idle. Gao Jie and Niu Chenghu led the cavalry to rely on the chariot battalion, and continued to charge towards the broken army formation. The knights of the Qin Army from the Loess Plateau continued to tear apart After fighting fiercely for more than an hour in the broken camp of the Chuang army, the Chuang army in front of them began to collapse and retreated in horror.

However, before the officers and soldiers could heave a sigh of relief, a row of large and orderly shields suddenly came into view behind the shabby and tattered soldiers and hungry people. Behind the shields, layers of spears pointed obliquely at him. Li Zicheng The famous three-wall battle method, the hungry people are followed by infantry, the infantry is followed by cavalry, and the cavalry is followed by family members. This is the second formation of the Chuangjun, which comes from the veterans who have been rebelling for many years and the surrendered officers. Shouting the same thing, facing the three-sided chariots slowly moving forward, the large shields of the infantrymen bumped into them again.

This time the battle formation was obviously much more difficult to fight. Relying on the protection of shields, the invading army rushed into the formation of vehicles in an orderly manner. Their spears stabbed the spearmen of the officers and soldiers, and there were often violent screams. The exhausted officers and soldiers were picked out from the back of the chariot formation by spears, and fell to the ground severely. The cavalry on the three sides who rushed forward were also surrounded by contradictory soldiers, knocking down one team, and immediately the other two phalanxes came from the left and right. Double-teaming over, the cavalry on the periphery were picked off their horses under the layers of spears.

During this period, the continuous rain stopped, and the gunners of the officers and soldiers came in handy, and the cannons began to roar, but soon the gunners and cannons of the Cracking Army also kicked off the prelude. The sound of roaring guns brought up a layer of white smoke.

After fighting fiercely for more than an hour, a large number of elite infantry suddenly appeared in the Chuangjun formation. Without shields, Chuangjun soldiers with plain knives in both hands emerged from the shield formation. The warrior with the big ax opened the way, jumped from the shield and spear formation to the front of the car formation, facing the crackling guns on the official and army car formation, roared and slammed the two-handed giant ax fiercely on the side car, and then With the splash of sawdust and the sound of collapse, the car disintegrated suddenly, and the soldiers behind him immediately rushed up, chopping the officers and soldiers who had been fighting fiercely for half a day into pieces.

At the same time, the sound of heavy horseshoes came overwhelmingly. From the two wings of the Chuangjun, more than [-] cavalry who had been preparing for a long time came densely to the two wings of the army. They had already charged all morning. The men and horses were already exhausted. In desperation, under the roar of Gao Jie and Niu Chenghu, the exhausted cavalry forcibly confronted the cavalry of the invading army. slumped.

The brutal war on a scale of one million lasted for another three hours, and persisted until the evening. The army finally collapsed, most of the tanks were damaged, and the exhausted army no longer had the fighting spirit. They threw away their helmets and armor and cried Fleeing backwards, some couldn't even escape, and were directly hacked to the ground by Pu Daobing, who was in full swing behind him.

Looking through the binoculars at the entire battlefield tens of miles away, in Zheng Chongjian's dizzy old eyes, the cavalrymen under his command were dragging their flags and running back in fear, and were soon replaced by cavalrymen in floral dresses roaring. Daming's military flag was cut down, and immediately replaced with a black Chuang character flag. In a moment, even the Chinese military camp standing in front of him collapsed.

Seeing the scene of the army being defeated like a mountain, his withered hands trembled, and touching backwards, Zheng Chongjian took out his Shangfang sword, and immediately shouted to the opposite side, who had rushed to the Chuang army less than ten meters away, He pulled out the sword viciously...

(End of this chapter)