Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 226 Chaos in the North ([-])

(I want to hear more of your voices, I want to receive more of your suggestions, search and pay attention to the WeChat public account "qdread" now, and give more support to "Vow to Die at the End of Ming Dynasty"!) Taiyuan, Shanxi, four In the battalion department, Li Taiping was sitting at the table looking at a letter in his hand.The writer of the letter was Azige, Prince Jingyuan, Prince of Tartarism.Li Taiping has read this letter several times. The letter is very short, but the content is by no means simple.

"It's a strategy to slow down the troops, this is the tartar's strategy to slow down the troops." After putting down the letter, Li Taiping sighed.

It's just that although Li Taiping knew that this was the opponent's plan to delay the attack, Li Taiping was still very moved.It's not just the security group that is instigating the forces under the command of the Tartars, but the Tartars are also constantly thinking about recruiting the forces of the security regiment bandits.

The Tartars have long coveted the Fourth Battalion entrenched in the half-province of Shanxi.If he can be recruited, not only can he take back half of the province, but he can also get a hundred thousand soldiers, which is a very profitable business.Moreover, the Fourth Battalion is the strength of one's own archenemy, so if one ebbs and the other rises, the influence will not only be doubled.

Therefore, in this letter, the Tartars generously gave Li Taiping a title—King Dingxi.At this time, the four most attention-grabbing traitors in the world are the four princes—Kong Youde, King of Dingnan, Wu Sangui, King of Pingxi, Shang Kexi, King of Pingnan, and Geng Jimao, King of Jingnan.Now Dingnan King Kong Youde is dead, and the Tartars threw out another Dingxi King's prince.

Such titles are not insignificant. You must know that some of the traitors who made great contributions to the Tartars were only earls and marquises, and some were even exonerated for their crimes.Ma Degong, who once captured Emperor Hongguang of the remnant Ming and surrendered to the Tartars with Tian Xiong, was arrested by the Tartars because he looted property and was defeated by Zhu Chenggong's troops when he conquered Xiamen.Such a meritorious descendant can be treated like this by the Tartars, which shows how much the Tartars value Li Taiping.If this king's letter is followed, there will be another big traitor in the world.

However, Li Taiping read the letter repeatedly, and what he hesitated in his heart was not whether he wanted to seek refuge with the Tartars.Although the Fourth Battalion has become his own army now, there are many people who resist the Tartars in the army. He can lead the big guys to fight for independence, but he cannot lead everyone to surrender to the Tartars.The word anti-Tartar has become the spirit of the Fourth Battalion. If this spirit is gone, the Fourth Battalion will immediately fall apart.So whether Li Taiping wanted it or not, he couldn't seek refuge with the Tartars.

The situation in the Fourth Battalion is not good now. Although the Tartars transferred Wu Sangui to go south to Hunan, and Li Guohan went to Baoning Prefecture in Sichuan, now only the Moergen Group is left to suppress northern Shaanxi.It seems that the Tartars have fewer troops, but the strength of the Fourth Battalion and Wang Yongqiang's troops is also weak.After several years of fighting between the two sides, northern Shaanxi has almost been turned into a wasteland, and there are more than one in ten people left.The barren land could no longer support many soldiers, and at this time the conflict between Wang Yongqiang and Siying gradually deepened.For a little food, the two sides will even start to use their swords and guns.Many times, Wang Yongqiang asked Li Taiping for support money and food, but Li Taiping himself was not rich, and there were 10,000+ rebels in Shanxi to support besides his own regular army.Therefore, Li Taiping could only refuse.This deepened the conflict between the two sides. In the end, Mei Renxin, the training officer of the Fourth Battalion, could only withdraw to Shanxi with thousands of exhausted regiments, completely abandoning the base of Shaanxi.

Fortunately, either because he was afraid of the huge strength of the Fourth Battalion, or because he didn't want to do things that made his loved ones hurt his enemies, Wang Yongqiang didn't send his troops to the east to come to Shanxi to beg for a bowl of food.Instead, Gao Youcai, Sun Shishou, Jia Wu, Liu Xiangguo, Liu Hongcai and others were sent to plunder Ningxia Mansion and Qingyang Mansion in Gansu Province.Although Gansu is poorer than Shaanxi, but now that northern Shaanxi is broken, and southern Shaanxi has no strength to go, Wang Yongqiang can only go to Gansu to find food.In this way, the flames of war in Shaanxi reached Gansu again.

It's not just that the war in Shaanxi is not going well, Li Taiping's army to conquer the East has not completed the original idea.In order to attack Zhili from Jingxing Pass, Li Taiping assembled four columns and ten independent brigades, with a total of [-] troops to counterattack Pingding.The war went smoothly at the beginning, and the East Conquering Army won many battles, conquered Pingding Prefecture, attacked Jingxing from Niangziguan, and lost in one battle.Just after leaving Jingxing and arriving at Zhengding Mansion, the army of Tartars came suddenly.

Zhengding Mansion is located in a plain area, where the cavalry is everywhere. Tens of thousands of Mongolian and Tartar cavalry came at a high speed.Even though the dispersed troops struggled to support, they did not change the fate of destruction in the end.After the First World War, more than half of the army conquering the East was lost, so Li Taiping had to retreat to Jingxing with the remnants of the defeated generals, and then retreated all the way back to Shanxi.Because of this failure, the original strength of the Fourth Battalion was no longer there, and Ji Yanwu, Ren Zhen and others from the Independent Brigade were killed in this battle.

After returning to Taiyuan, due to the great loss of strength, Li Taiping gave up Xinzhou under the attack of Prince Azig of the Taziying, and Kan Pei, the captain of the fifth column, led the remnants back to Taiyuan.So far, the Tartar army has approached the city of Taiyuan.

The war crisis, everything goes wrong, Li Taiping is worried.Facing the peace talks with the Tartars, Li Taiping deliberately procrastinated, but Azig's tens of thousands of troops approached the city, and it really couldn't be delayed for long.

In fact, when Mei Renxin put forward the prophecy "Chuang Wang is dead, the world will be peaceful", Li Taiping was extremely excited.He sometimes even thinks that he can really do what the prophecy says.Wasn't the former Ming Taizu also a young general under Liu Futong and Han Lin'er?Now that he is also a general of the security regiment, maybe he can be like the former Ming Taizu?Because of such ambition, Li Taiping sent his army eastward, and finally suffered a defeat.At this time, Li Taiping forgot that Zhu Yuanzhang succeeded by hiding behind Liu Futong and Han Liner. Now the situation of the Fourth Battalion and the security regiment is exactly the opposite. .

Now that the illusion is disillusioned and the enemy army is coming to suppress him, Li Taiping only feels extremely tired for a moment. At this moment, he no longer fights for his own ambition, but fights to rule millions of soldiers and civilians.At this moment, Li Taiping really hoped that the headquarters would send a large army to help, but he also knew that no matter the relationship between the Fourth Battalion and the headquarters, or the fact that the headquarters had to resist the attacks of the Tartars, it was doomed that there would be no reinforcements from the headquarters.Not only the headquarters, but also the first battalion, second battalion, and sixth battalion will not receive reinforcements.While dividing the Tartars, he was also divided by the Tartars.

After much consideration, Li Taiping wrote back a letter to Azig, saying that he did not like the title of King Xi, but wanted the title of King Jin.Li Taiping knew that there was no prince like King Jin in the Tatars, so he bargained for the price.

"Hey, if you can delay it for a day, let's delay it for a day! Maybe it can be delayed until the battle situation changes!" Li Taiping sighed.He, who used to be aggressive in the past, is now under heavy pressure and can't breathe. His previous ambitions have faded dramatically, and what Yu Jin is looking for is nothing more than a word of peace. (My novel "Oath to Death at the End of Ming Dynasty" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lucky draw gift for everyone! Open WeChat now, click the "+" sign on the top right to add Friends", search the official account "qdread" and pay attention, hurry up!)
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