Blood from Daming

Chapter 841 Gao Yingxiang’s Defeat

By the end of August, the Qing army had conquered a total of twelve cities, winning more than 20 battles, large and small, and plundered nearly 20 people and animals, including countless property. The Xue family's army crossed the line, and on September [-], they took [-] livestock and a large amount of supplies they had looted out of the cold mouth calmly. Civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty.

It took four days for a large amount of human and animal supplies to get out of the pass. The Ming army feared the Qing army would lure the enemy into a trap. They watched the Qing army return with a full load. After the Qing army left the pass, Zhang Fengyi, Minister of the Ministry of War, pretended to report to Chongzhen: " Kill the enemy to the third level", the court officials wrote letters to impeach Zhang Fengyi, Zhang Fengyi knew that he would suffer a serious crime, and deeply hated that the officers and soldiers refused to use their lives, and did not want to go to prison and die in the barracks.

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However, Azig did not take too much advantage. It is said that the mantis catching cicadas and orioles were behind, and the Xue family army and the Mongolian army who had been waiting outside the pass rushed forward, abruptly snatching human and animal supplies from Azig. It is common sense When retreating, the elite soldiers should be at the back, but Azig actually put the luggage behind and led the elite forward. When the Xue family army and the Mongolian army arrived, Azig watched helplessly that all the human and animal supplies he had plundered were robbed.

Azige was afraid that Xue's army would not dare to return to the army to fight, so he let Xue's army and the Mongolian army return full of human and animal supplies. Azige returned to Shengjing with only [-]% of the human and animal supplies. After avoiding death, he severely reprimanded Azig who was proud and underestimated the enemy. Considering that he met the Xue family army, Huang Taiji did not punish Azige. neighboring North Korea.

After the Emperor Chongzhen rewarded Qin Liangyu, the heroine, he set his sights on another Qin Wang general, the right deputy capital censor and Huguang governor's military assistant, Lu Xiangsheng. On September 22, Lu Xiangsheng was appointed governor of Xuanda and Shanxi military affairs. Except for Datong and Jiangzhou, the military affairs of Datong and Shanxi are basically half-disabled governors. Lu Xiangsheng asked to resign from the post of Governor Xuanda and Shanxi Military Affairs. The camera dealt with Xue Jiajun in Datong and Jiangzhou.

Lu Xiangsheng had no choice but to go to the Xuanfu to take up his post in dejection, but the Xue family army gave Lu Xiangsheng a lot of face, and sent the looted human and animal supplies to Lu Xiangsheng for disposal. This made Lu Xiangsheng very surprised. He suspected that the previous imperial court's policy towards the Xue family army was wrong. Lu Xiangsheng sent and returned the human and animal supplies impartially. , the people in Gyeonggi were not injured again, and the atmosphere in Xuanda and Shanxi was much more relaxed. Both Xue Jiajun and Lu Xiangsheng were thinking about their own ideas.

At this time, there was also a happy event in the Ming Dynasty. In July of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, defeated the most powerful Gao Yingxiang in the uprising army in the Battle of Heishuiyu in Ziwu Valley, Shaanxi, and captured Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang. He was very happy to learn that Gao Yingxiang was captured, and ordered Shaanxi Governor Sun Chuanting to escort Gao Yingxiang to Beijing, and held a prisoner offering ceremony. After the ceremony, Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang was executed by Ling Chi.

It turned out that in the first month of the ninth year of Chongzhen, the peasant army broke into Wang Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng led his troops to encircle Luzhou in the east, and took Hanshan and Hezhou; The frontier general Zu Kuan and the guerrilla Luo Dai were defeated at the Wuli Bridge in the east of the city.

Afterwards, the peasant army was repeatedly defeated. From Zhulongguan to Guanshan, the corpses were piled up in the ditch, and the Chushui did not flow. After the defeat of the peasant army, they crossed Sizhou and Xuzhou in the north. The peasant army suffered heavy losses and began to divert to the territory of Henan. After retreating, Lu Xiangsheng quickly chased into Henan to encircle and suppress the peasant army. The peasant army finally fled to the inner village of Nanyang Prefecture and the Xichuan Mountains. In mid-March, Chuang Wang and others returned to Shaanxi one after another.

Lu Xiangsheng quickly chased into Henan, and deployed various armies to encircle and suppress them. For a while, the sound of killing was loud in Henan, and blood and flesh flew everywhere.The peasant army finally fled to the inner township of Nanyang Prefecture and the Xichuan Mountains, and Lu Xiangsheng had no choice.So far in March of this year, Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, Chuang general Li Zicheng and others have returned to Shaanxi one after another.

Not long after Jianlu Huang Taiji sent Doro Wuying County Wang Azige as the leader and other [-] troops from the Eight Banners to attack the Ming Dynasty, the center of gravity of the Ming army turned to Gyeonggi, and Lu Xiangsheng, the right deputy capital censor and servant of the Huguang Governor's military department, also sent troops north to King Qin. Sun Chuanting, the censor of Youqin capital and Shuntian government office, replaced Gan Xuekuo, who had failed in suppressing the bandits, as the governor of Shaanxi. This time, Emperor Chongzhen finally used a Qin governor with all talents in civil and military affairs.

Sun Chuanting is an expert in military affairs and economics. After Sun Chuanting took charge of military affairs in Shaanxi, he continued to expand his military strength and food and pay. He farmed more than 2 items around Xi'an, and selected 1000 elite soldiers from more than [-] officers and soldiers. Taxes, silver and food have all increased.

After Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang and Chuang General Li Zicheng fled back to Shaanxi, Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou carried out a division of labor. For several years, Shaanxi and Shanxi suffered from drought, pests and famine year after year.Hungry people have no food, so they have to eat bark and grass leaves. When the bark and grass leaves are exhausted, people eat each other. There are even mothers who cook their daughters to eat. Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang has nowhere to look for food in the mountainous area of ​​southern Shaanxi. People are hungry and horses are exhausted. In order to get out of the predicament, he decided to take a small road to attack Xi'an and give the official army a surprise attack.

Sun Chuanting, who is familiar with the art of war, learned that Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, had suddenly disappeared, so he guessed that Gao Yingxiang wanted to follow the example of Wei Yanzhi, a general of the Shu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period. Military strategists tried to smuggle in many times, but no one succeeded. Sun Chuanting immediately made military deployments and set up an ambush in Heishuiyu, Zhouzhi County, the only way that Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang's tribe must pass, preparing to wipe out Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang's tribe with ease.

In mid-July of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang's troops appeared in Zhouzhi Heishuiyu and entered Sun Chuanting's encirclement. The two sides fought fiercely for four days. The state of hunger gradually became unbearable during the war, and the encirclement circle of the officers and soldiers became smaller and smaller.

At the critical moment, Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang's subordinates Ganji Zhang Er and Yidou Gu Huanglong rebelled.In the chaos, the traitors took away Gao Yingxiang's soldiers and mounts. Gao Yingxiang was surrounded by the officers and couldn't escape, so he had to take off his armor and hide in the grass. The officers searched the mountains and captured Gao Yingxiang alive.

Sun Chuanting took advantage of the victory and fought two big victories in Weinan and Xianyang Beiyuan. For a while, his reputation rose, and his reputation even overshadowed Governor Hong Chengchou. Gao Yingxiang's defeat had a shocking effect on the militia. Xie Zikuai surrendered to Sun Chuanting, and soon Xie Zikuai rebelled and was killed by Wu Dading, who was installed by Sun Chuanting. is a heavy blow.

The governor of the five provinces, Hong Chengchou, was less lucky. He had just taken over the battle against Li Zicheng and other troops in northern Shaanxi.Governor Youqian Capital Yushi Wang Ji killed him because he couldn't pay, and the hungry soldiers asked for pay without making any noise.

Ding Qirui, the deputy envoy of military preparations, was helped by the capital Xiong Dahai to lead the army to suppress them. He captured the seven leaders and executed them immediately. Army Qiqi Wang was in Shangluo Mountain. In May, Deputy General Luo Shangwen killed Qiqi Wang in Shangluo Mountain.In May, Xiong Dahai cooperated with He Renlong to defeat Li Zicheng's troops in Anding again. Ding Qirui benefited a lot from Xiong Dahai. .

After another defeat in Hanzhong in September of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng fled to the high mountains of Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Hubei.But soon Li Zicheng's troops suffered repeated defeats in the Tongguan area. In August of this year, he led the remnants of his troops to hide in the mountains at the junction of Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Huguang provinces.

After the Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang and the Chuang General Li Zicheng were killed and defeated, Emperor Chongzhen intensified the "Fengtian Justice Generalissimo" department of Zhang Xianzhong, Wen Xiangjiao, and Jianwen's descendants. The troops moved to Hubei, Henan, and Anhui, broke through the siege and interception of the officers and troops many times, entered Henan to attack Xuzhou, killed Zuo Liangyu's brother Guerrilla Pan Keda and others, and seized tens of thousands of supplies, but Zhang Xianzhong was alone, and began to fight with the officials. The army negotiated peace and planned to deceive the court with false recruitment.

Although Wenxiangjiao has the weapon support of Hangzhou Xue's army, the resources of the Runing Mansion under its control are limited. After several years of war, Wenxiangjiao has almost no soldiers to recruit. After the defeat of Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, Chen Yongfu, deputy general of the Henan government army, general Xue Shisan, and general Xue Zong of the guest army attacked Wenxiangjiao Capital Mall.

After Wenxiangjiao's capital and shopping mall was destroyed, the officers and soldiers murdered and set fire everywhere. Zhongxing Fulie Emperor Xu Hongru escaped from the palace, and was chased by general Xue Shisan for a scuffle. He was robbed by Grand Marshal Xu Sanjie, and General Xu Laoqi was chopped into meat by Xue Zong's troops.

On October 1th of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Fulie Xu of Zhongxing was seriously injured and died. Grand Marshal Xu Sanjie packed up less than 3000 remnants, and the family members and people of logistics and supplies almost lost everything. Chen Yongfu, the deputy general of Henan who was chased in Yingshang After a while of fighting, Xu Sanjie fled to Fengyang Mansion in the central capital with only more than [-] Qingqi.

In October of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Fujian general Zheng Zhibao received reinforcements and cooperated with Zhejiang and Henan officials to encircle and suppress the troops of "Fengtian Justice Generalissimo". Xue Bo, who joined, chased after Huang Xida, the "General of Fengtian Justice".

Although Huang Xida had an army of 8000, he faced Xue Shisan, Xue Zong, and Xue Bo's 4 troops and lost seven battles. The 1 troops left were less than [-]. The whereabouts of the white-clothed scholar, "Marshal of Fengtian Justice", is unknown. Since then, Huang Xida has started to fight guerrillas in Zhejiang, and some children of the Huang family also secretly contacted the patriarch Huang Xisheng.

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