Aspiration

Chapter 97
Li Zicheng's capture of Luoyang really shocked the ruling and opposition parties.

In the court, in the past two years, it was mainly believed that the person who threatened the court was Zhang Xianzhong.Zhang Xianzhong was beaten, and now, Li Zicheng suddenly appeared.Emperor Chongzhen really wanted to cry but had no tears.

Li Zicheng now has 30 to [-] troops, which has become a climate, and now he has to do his best to wipe it out.

Chongzhen decreed that Sun Chuanting would take the crime and make meritorious deeds, and gather troops from five provinces to destroy Li Zicheng.

Which five provinces have troops?
Except for the troops from Shandong, Shanxi, and Hebei that cannot be mobilized to deal with Manchu soldiers, Sun Chuanting can mobilize troops from Henan, Hubei, Anhui, Shaanxi, and Hunan, totaling 40 million troops.

Sun Chuanting is ready to take back Luoyang with lightning speed.

Li Zicheng's sudden appearance surprised another group of people, namely Luo Rucai, Lao Huihui and the original peasant army of the thirteen families.

In the past two years, they all thought that Zhang Xianzhong was the only one with strength and the appearance of the Son of Heaven. Unexpectedly, Feng Shui took turns and Zhang Xianzhong was no longer able to do so. Now Li Zicheng's strength has increased sharply, and this strength has reached a terrifying level.

In just one month, he has developed nearly 30 horses, and these 30 horses are not mobs, but elite soldiers.

Speaking of fierce generals, people have to mention Li Laiheng.

"Li Guo's son?" Luo Rucai asked.

"Yes, Li Guo's son was almost killed that year, but after he recovered from his injuries, he suddenly changed into a different person, extremely powerful." Luo Rucai's military adviser Ji Gui said.His intelligence system also knew something about Li Laiheng.

"Oh, a hero is a boy. How about Zhang Kewang?" Luo Rucai asked again.

"If you meet your opponent in chess, you will meet a good talent." Ji Gui, the military adviser, replied.

What's the next step?This is what Luo Rucai really wants to consider.Li Laiheng is a general, and Li Zicheng is the leader.Luo Rucai's nickname is Cao, so he naturally has a lot of tricks in his heart.In the past, Zhang Xianzhong was a big tree, and now this big tree has been almost burned by thunder and fire, and it is impossible to recover its vitality in two or three years, so the current big tree is Li Zicheng.

How about taking refuge in Li Zicheng?
In the past two years, Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong have had a close relationship. Will Li Zicheng hold grudges?

This is a problem.

Military Ji Gui is not sure either.

"Let's try it out." Finally, Luo Ru said.

At this time, Li Zicheng was also considering this matter.After he conquered Luoyang, he had expanded his army to 30. The only thing he was waiting for was the movement of those thirteen peasant armies.

He was anxious.

Liu Zongmin was straightforward, he said: "Send some eloquent people tomorrow, and ask them if they will join hands with us, even if it is early, if it is too late in the future, even we will not agree."

Li Zicheng was amused by what he said.

Song Xiance said, this is easy to handle, let me arrange it.

His military adviser's office already has a group of such talents: diplomats, lobbyists, espionage, counselors, procurement, and even bribery, sneaking, fortune-telling, horoscopes, etc., there is no shortage of everything.

Song Xiance dispatched personnel to convince Luo Rucai, Lao Huihui, and more than a dozen leaders of the peasant army to join Li Zicheng.

After the assignment, Li Yan came in just as he was about to report on the military deployment to attack Kaifeng.

When Li Yan came in, he said to King Chuang that Luoyang had already been captured, and there were millions of hungry people in Henan, and even Anhui and Shandong had a large number of hungry people. Now it is time to formulate a series of development strategies. endowment" as the core outline for seizing power.

Niu Jinxing was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "Lin Quan, what you said is great. I am also planning this matter. After thinking about it for a few days, I haven't decided on the final attention. Now that you say that, we will use this sentence The slogan is the basic strategy. King Chuang, what do you think?"

Li Zicheng muttered to himself, "No tax for even land, no tax for even land."

Li Laiheng was happy, thinking, this is the basis for doing great things.Without a clear political platform, it is impossible to have a strong appeal.He also thought of the revolution in the [-]th century. The distribution of land by local tyrants and the subsequent agrarian revolution were the foundations of the establishment of that red regime.

Li Yan is a character.

Li Laiheng confirmed again.

Li Zicheng pondered for a while, then suddenly raised his head: "Okay. When Wang Xiaobo started the uprising in Sichuan, he used the slogan of equalizing the rich and the poor. He said to all the poor: "My disease is uneven, and now you are equal." The reasoning is the same. Lin Quan said it more thoroughly, farmers just want to have a piece of land, and they can survive if they have land. We put forward this slogan, and the people don’t flock here?”

After finishing speaking, he laughed loudly.

Li Yan was assigned to preside over propaganda affairs, and then to lead local management.Of course, it also includes security and security affairs in the occupied areas.In this way, Li Yan became one of Li Zicheng's core members.

The attack on Kaifeng is under planning.

Because the attack on Luoyang was unexpectedly smooth, the attack on Kaifeng was regarded as a very simple matter.

Song Xiance's people have already connected with Luo Rucai and others, and it is only a matter of time before they come to vote.Because Li Yan's propaganda campaign was very good, Luoyang's victory was greatly exaggerated by the people. The people said that the new emperor would soon ascend the throne, and they were secretly preparing to be the subjects of the new emperor. Therefore, many people prepared a few cards at home. Once the note with the word "Shunmin" written on it was written, once King Chuang called, he would raise the word "Shunmin" to indicate that he was from the new dynasty.

Li Zicheng continued to develop his army and was also preparing to attack Kaifeng.

Li Laiheng has arrived in Shandong.

The Manchu cavalry was floating.They have been around Dongying many times recently, they often sweep one or two hundred miles a day, and then disappear quietly.

Li Laiheng lives in seclusion in Longju Township, where Bincheng, Dongying and Lijin are located.Lao Jiu's information told him that the Manchu and Qing cavalry plundered the Kenli area a few days ago, and they did not encounter any resistance, and they were likely to continue going south.

Longju is more suitable for action and can attack from three sides.

According to Lao Jiu, the Manchus first had four banners, namely Zhenghuang Banner, Zhenglan Banner, Zhengbai Banner and Zhenghong Banner.In the 43rd year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1615), four banners were added, called the bordered yellow flag, the bordered blue flag, the bordered red flag and the bordered white flag.Their military system is one cow for every 300 people, one Jiala for five cows, and one Gushan for five Jiala (Gushan is the banner).

The ones harassing Shandong this time are two Jiala from Zhengbai Banner, ten Niulu, and 3000 troops.These people have been in Shandong for nearly two months. At first, they were mainly tentative, attacking once every seven or ten days. Recently, they burned, killed and looted almost every day.

Obviously, their goal is to contain Hong Chengchou from going out.

Hong Chengchou led the eight generals to station in Liaodong, and Jinzhou was already in sight.

Huang Taiji is another extremely talented emperor after Nurhachi. His ambition is to realize the wish of his ancestors Jurchen to govern China one day.Now, Hong Chengchou, a famous minister of the Ming Dynasty, led his troops to the north, and the eight generals gathered, which really meant a decisive battle.He had to admire Emperor Chongzhen's recklessness and courage.

Nurhachi has fourteen sons.Among his many princes, there are quite a few talents. Among them, Huang Taiji is the most accomplished person, followed by Dorgon. Huang Taiji inherits the throne. After him, Dorgon will also be the most qualified person to compete for the throne one.

This time when Hong Chengchou came to attack, Huang Taiji ordered Dorgon to lead the army. He led 4 people from the Eight Banners. There are a total of 50 elite divisions in the siege, but 50 against 13 is also an absolute superior force.)
Although Dorgon's number is small, he is confident in victory.Of course, he was worried that Hong Chengchou would fight steadily and protractedly, and the food supply of the Manchus would become a big problem, so what they needed was a quick victory.

Sending a light cavalry into the customs to harass Shandong, Hebei, and Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen would not be able to sit still, and he had to rush Hong Chengchou to attack.

Therefore, he sent two Jiala to attack the important towns in the pass.

In the early years, Dorgon led his divisions to attack the Ming Dynasty several times, all of which achieved brilliant results.In the third year of Chongde (1638), he was awarded the title of "Great General by Order", and led the army to break through the wall and enter Ziling, defeated the Ming army in Julu, and Ming commander Lu Xiangsheng died in battle.Then the troops divided into two groups and attacked Shandong and Shanxi. Dorgon's troops took a total of 36 cities, surrendered six, defeated seventeen formations, captured more than 25 people and animals, and captured a prince and a county king of the Ming Dynasty alive. Five county kings and so on.Therefore, he is already very expert in the invasion of the South.This time Hong Chengchou led his troops northward, intending a decisive battle. Therefore, Dorgon sent an elite cavalry to harass the interior and threaten Beijing at the right time, making Hong Chengchou unable to take care of both ends.He thought that as long as the surprise army that invaded the south could show its power, the probability of Hong Chengchou returning to help was more than 7000%.

This time, Ushihaqi, the vice-dutong who led the army, was also called Mele Ezhen. He led two participating leaders, a total of two Jiala, more than 3000 people, and went deep into the territory of Shandong.

Wu Xihaqi is an absolute main force of Dorgon's subordinates. From the fact that he took on the containment mission this time, it can be seen how much Dorgon trusts him.

Deputy Wu Xihaqi commanded these [-] elite Manchurian cavalry across Shandong, burning, killing, looting, and committing all kinds of evil.A few days ago, they captured Lijin County, looted everything, and then burned everything down.

Li Laiheng estimated that they were likely to go south to attack Dongying.Dongying, Shandong is close to the sea and is a rich and densely populated place.

Maybe the officers and soldiers in Shandong changed their colors when they heard that they knew that Dongying would be plundered by the Manchus sooner or later, so the guards there had almost escaped.A deputy general surnamed Zhao led five or six hundred soldiers, and he was guarding the city.

In a village thirty miles north of Dongying, all the people had fled, only a group of captured peasants were carrying supplies for the Manchus.The Manchus like everything, gold and silver treasures, brocades, coarse linen, etc., they all need.Of course, they also want women and children. Bringing them back is slave labor, which is good for their production and development.

"Let's be happy in Dongying tonight!" the deputy commander ordered.Their camp tonight is Dongying. Their soldiers can do whatever they want, which is one of the reasons why they are so powerful.

There are many reasons for the super fighting power of the Manchus.

The Eight Banners soldiers are one of the most powerful armies in China's cold weapon era.Throughout the history of ancient China, except for the Eight Banners soldiers, no soldier can conquer the whole of China with less than 4 soldiers. More than 3 Eight Banners soldiers were invincible after entering the customs, conquering cities and conquering China.What makes the Eight Banners soldiers so powerful?Mainly in the following three aspects: [-]. The harsh living environment has trained the Eight Banners to have extremely strong combat effectiveness.In the ancient Northeast, there were endless large forests everywhere. Affected by the high pressure in Mongolia, it was as hot as the tropics in summer and as cold as the arctic in winter.The Northeast at the end of the Ming Dynasty was not like it is now. At that time, it was in the Little Ice Age. In winter, it was often below minus [-] degrees. There was no heating or sufficient food. Therefore, the fighting between the nomadic peoples in the ancient Northeast was the most cruel gladiatorial fight. .The Jianzhou Jurchen, standing out among many nomadic tribes, can be said to be the product of the survival of the fittest.The Eight Banners soldiers not only have Manchurians, but also a large number of Liaodong Han and Mongols; moreover, the biggest difference between the Eight Banners soldiers and the Ming army is that the leader of the Ming army often sits behind and directs, and he does not personally go to the battlefield; In every battle, you must be at the forefront, otherwise it will be difficult to convince the crowd.Because of this, the leaders of the Eight Banners soldiers are talented kings who have really experienced experience, while most of the leaders of Mingjun are scholars selected by the imperial examination.The third reason is the continuous sitting system. If the corps leader dies, the soldiers must die; if the leader dies, the corps leader must die.Therefore, on the battlefield, we must rescue each other, and to save others is to save ourselves.It is a headache for any army to meet such a desperate team.

On the north side of Dongying, after a simple meal, Vice Commander Wu Xihaqi flew on his horse and pointed his sword at Dongying, "Brothers can have fun tonight! All the property you get belongs to you."

"Long live! Long live! Long live!"

Three thousand soldiers cheered.

(End of this chapter)