In fact, the strategy of the Ming army was not correct. Because the rebels have a huge hidden danger, that is, logistics!

At this time, the Ming army should adopt the strategy of holding on tightly and attacking frequently, and tightly drag the rebels who were huddled together. Let them feel the crisis all the time and always come together.

You know, the rebels also have a name called Liukou. In other words, they simply do not have a stable base. There is no stable source of supplies. All food and supplies were plundered. In this way, enough food and supplies can be raised initially. When they had looted everything they could get, there was no way to sustain the area.

You can think about it, in places where transportation is underdeveloped, planting is underdeveloped, and there is no logistics industry to transport food, nearly a million people gather together, how many materials do they consume every day? Therefore, as long as the Ming army bites the rebel army tightly, keeps attacking, puts pressure on the rebel army, and does not let them disperse, it can drag the entire rebel army apart.

But unfortunately, the Ming army at this time lacked a comprehensive command system. And the officials of the provinces beggar-thy-neighbor, just hope that there are no rebels in their own territory. There was no idea of actively encircling and suppressing the rebels.

So the quietness of the Ming army gave the rebels time to assemble their ranks. When the rebels found that the local area had been emptied, they began to go their separate ways. Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng's men and horses went to the Hanzhong area. Lao Huihui and other five battalions attacked Huguang, Li Zicheng and others entered Hanzhong, and Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to Xinyang. At this point, the rebel army began a full-scale flow, and it was no longer difficult for the Ming army to block them.

The year 1634 was very unfriendly to the Ming Dynasty. This year, Zhang Xianzhong confidently went to the Shang and Luo areas in Yangxi. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong joined forces to capture Chengcheng and approached Pingliang and other prefectures and counties. On February 28, Zhang Xianzhong and other 13 battalions of volunteers entered Hannan from Henan Shang and Luoxi out of Tongguan. In March, the Lao Hui and other troops also returned to Shaanxi from Sichuan, and the peasant rebel army united again to become a powerful force.

In April of the same year, the imperial court received a notice that there has been no rain in Shanxi and Shaanxi since August last year. The official wrote: "The people are hungry and cannibalistic." The people are hungry and chaotic, and the Ming will kill more good and risky achievements. The counties of Zhongzhou are more afraid of officers and soldiers than "thieves"

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In June, Governor Chen Qiyu and Yunyang Fuzhi Lu Xiangsheng joined forces in Shangjin. At that time, most of the peasant army units entered Hannan, and Chen Qiyu led the army westward after learning about it, and appointed the four governors of Shaanxi, Yunyang, Huguang, and Henan to encircle and suppress the Hannan peasant army.

The peasant army Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Li Zicheng and others saw the Ming army assembled, and when they evacuated, they mistakenly took the Chezhou Gorge in Xing'an (now the Han River valley east of Shiquan in Shaanxi Province). There are mostly ancient plank roads in the canyon, and the mountains on all sides are steep, easy to enter and difficult to exit.

At that time, it rained heavily for more than 20 days! The trapped peasants were exhausted and exhausted, and Li Zicheng used Gu Junen's method of deceitful surrender to lure Qiyu and the generals to stop the attack with heavy treasures. As a result, Chen Qiyu agreed. By July, the rebels had escaped from Chezhou Gorge, and about 36,000 people had escaped. These people are the backbone of the rebel army!

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After Chen Qiyu was arrested by the imperial court, Hong Chengchou was ordered to take charge of the military affairs of Shaanxi, Jin, Chu, Henan, and Sichuan provinces with the secretary of the military department, and prepared to encircle and suppress the peasant army on a larger scale.

In December, the peasant army Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and other troops went out from eastern Shaanxi to Nanshan, entered Henan, Lianke Chenzhou, Lingbao, Bishui, Xingyang and other places, and the momentum revived. Emperor Chongzhen urgently ordered Hong Chengchou to go out of the customs and join forces with Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, to encircle and suppress the peasant army.

In June of the same year, the Later Jin Emperor Taiji unified southern Mongolia and went west for the second time to conquer Har. In July, the Houjin army returned to the division, and in the name of "disturbing its territory, killing its people, and hiding people" in the name of the Ming border generals, it entered the upper fort on the eighth day of the seventh month and entered the siege of Xuanfu. The defenders of Xuanfu launched an artillery bombardment, but they retreated to Yingzhou, plundered Datong, and captured the victory fort. At that time, the Beijing division was shaken, and he hurriedly ordered the chief soldier Chen Hongfan to guard Juyong, and the governor Ding Kuichu and others to guard Bauhinia and Yanmen.

Subsequently, the Houjin army attacked the Xuanhe region in four ways. At that time, many castles along the border were lost, and the Jin army attacked Lingqiu. Jiang Bingcai, the county governor of Lingqiu, recruited troops to hold on, garrisoned Shiqi, put the chief Chen Yanwu, Ma Ruzhi, Zhang Biao in the classics, taught Lu Dengfu, and died in battle. After the city was broken, Jiang Bingcai, the magistrate of the county, hanged himself, and his family was martyred. Shocked from near and far!

Therefore, this year is a very unfriendly month for Daming. But this year was very friendly to Liu Pei. Liu Pei is here with smooth wind and rain, and everything is successful!

Liu Pei is really not idle. Because Liu Pei has already begun to put his hands together

It stretched into the western part of Shandong and the eastern part of Henan. Both areas are commercially thriving, densely populated. It is of great significance to Liu Pei.

The first to be sent out by Liu Pei were still underworld elements. If these underworld elements are simply dispatched, they may not be able to successfully seize the local underground world. You know, the richer the area, the stronger the underground forces.

But when the Killing Gods of the Intelligence Bureau got involved, the nature of the matter changed! The leaders of the local gangs were assassinated, and the officials and officials in the government who were closely connected with the gangs would die without explanation. Others will be threatened or bribed, and they will only be able to act as if they don't help each other.

By the time these things are done, half of the local gangs will be gone! All that's left is to fight each other and completely annex each other! So for a while, there were gangs fighting in many places in Shandong and Henan!

Gangs fighting each other like this are nothing more than a dog-eat-dog game in the eyes of the government. Anyway, as long as there is a lot of filial piety from these gangs, it will be fine. Even if you change to a new gang, you can't get their money!

But what I didn't expect was that this situation is getting worse in these areas! For example, in the Texas area, there were gangs of hundreds of people fighting in broad daylight!

Gangs on both sides actually lined up like armies and attacked each other in the middle of the city. And the tactics used by all parties are quite good!

The main forces of both sides of the battle are attacking each other in the square, and the transition between attack and defense is extremely fast. At the same time, there are people on the flanks who use the dense cobweb-like lanes inside the city to intersperse and try to outflank the other party's flanks! The most outrageous thing is that both sides actually sent hired Jianghu masters to try to carry out the decapitation tactic, although neither side succeeded!

And in the process of fighting between the gangsters of the two sides, there were actually a lot of standard bows and crossbows in the teams of both sides! This can scare the government a lot! In the end, the army had to be dispatched to disperse the crowd. It also took a lot of effort for the local government to cover up the matter.

There are endless things like this happening all over the place, but it's just that Texas is making a bigger fuss. So it's a headache for the governments everywhere!