In the first year of Hongxing in the Ming Dynasty, the fifteenth day of the first month, the Shangyuan Festival.

North of Dasanguan, Monk Yuan.

"Rich! Pick up the silver! It's a lot of silver, pick it up......"

The original battlefield of the monk under the Dasan Pass sounded a huge shout like a tsunami, and the joy and excitement were extreme, and it was simply not the atmosphere that should be on the battlefield.

However, it is not surprising that this cheerful excitement rests on today's Monk Yuan battlefield, because a group of poor and crazy soldiers of the Guan Ning Army and the Ganshan Army saw countless silver ingots on the Monk Yuan battlefield when they were chasing the fleeing Great Western Army!

It's a lovely piece of silver! Almost all over the monk's original ...... I'm afraid there are tens of millions of taels!

Wu Sangui's subordinates are all poor, either poor generals here in Ganshan, poor soldiers, or poor soldiers who moved from Ningyuan empty-handed.

Of course, among all the poor eggs, the poorest is Wu Sangui! Others are just poor, but he still owes a lot of loan sharks...... The debt owed to Jabus has not been repaid before, in order to fight the rest of Daxi this time, he borrowed 300,000 taels of Yinzi money from the Shaanxi merchants and Jin merchants in the town of Mokou, with three points of interest, and if he does not roll, he will have to repay 100,000 and 800 taels of interest alone in a year!

And Wu Sangui can't rely on this money for printing...... It doesn't matter if you owe Jabus money, Yijin Yiwei dares to ask Uncle Guo for an account? However, the account borrowed from the town of Mokou was "guaranteed" by Zhu Cijiong, the king of loans. This guarantee is not that Wu Sangui will not be repaid by Zhu Cijiong, but that Wu Sangui will not be repaid by Zhu Cijiong!

The loan king came to collect debts, but Wu Sangui dared not to pay it back? His Royal Highness is the half-brother of Emperor Hongxing - now Zhu Cihong has no son, in case he dies young, Emperor Ming may be the one who will be the one who will be the emperor.

In addition, although the loan king is young, he can't stand the ability of others to have sons! After going to Luliang Mountain, he has accepted the daughters of twelve creditors as concubines, and he already has four sons - it can be seen that Zhu Cihong has no sons so far, that is, his finances are too stable, and there are no female creditors in the harem...... In short, if Zhu Cihong has never had a son, the son of the king of loans will be the legitimate heir to the throne.

So when Wu Sangui led his troops to chase the "panicked" Daxi Army to Monk Plain, he wanted to pick it up when he saw the silver all over the ground...... But the thought was only a flash of thought, and he knew right away that something was wrong.

It's not a good idea to throw a piece of silver on the battlefield for the enemy to pick up! It was to exchange one's own money for someone's life - after the life was in hand, most of the money would have to be taken back.

This trick is not new, how could Wu Sangui not know?

But he couldn't control the poor and crazy Shaanxi soldiers and Guan Ning soldiers...... They are all bitter "landlord soldiers", that is, they have to rely on land income to support military service. But how many crops can be grown on the land of Shaanxi and Gansu to support the huge cost of military service? Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, who owed a lot of debts, couldn't afford much money to subsidize the landlord soldiers below.

So Wu Sangui is not the only one who loses money, most of the landlord soldiers on the monk's original battlefield can't make ends meet, so they point to grabbing Zhang Xianzhong's black money to fill it!

Now when you see the silver in a place, don't you grab it with red eyes?

The strategies used by Zhang Kewang, Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Wenxiu, and Zhang Nengqi are really simple, rude, and effective!

Wu Sangui, who knew that something bad was going to happen, hurriedly sent his own soldiers to stop his poor landlords from picking up money. But who else will stop at this time? I'm afraid there are millions of taels of silver in this place, and most of the black money accumulated by Zhang Xianzhong is here, if you don't rob it now, you won't have it in the future...... Even if Wu Sangui's personal soldiers cut off more than a dozen heads in a row, the people below still didn't listen to the order, they were crazy, and they only cared about picking up silver.

Wu Sangui's army suddenly fell into chaos!

Just when Wu Sangui's subordinates went crazy to pick up money, the 13,000 cavalry who had originally rushed to be the main rearguard of the Great Western Army had stopped retreating, and then hurriedly sorted out the team, and under the leadership of Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Nengqi, they charged towards the 40,000 elite soldiers led by Wu Sangui himself, who were completely chaotic.

Under the rush, the Wu army was defeated!

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The battle of Monk Yuan on the fifteenth day of the first month of the first year of Hongxing in the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as allowing Wu Sangui to understand how powerful the Great Western Army without Zhang Xianzhong is...... It's not that Zhang Xianzhong is not powerful, but this guy is crazy, especially after entering Sichuan and becoming emperor, his spirit is almost abnormal, that is, he is normal when he is drunk.

Except for the four "eldest adopted sons" who were regarded as his own sons and Wang Zhaolin, the prime minister of Daxi Zuo who was as crazy as him, everyone else was in danger and living in fear. The generals who have a few soldiers in their hands, of course, also do everything possible to preserve their strength, so as not to lose their strength and let Lao Wansui be killed in a daze.

Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong's death is definitely good for the officers and soldiers of the Great Western Army - this matter is equivalent to King Hong going to see God before the Tianjing Incident in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom......

So the Onishi Army breathed a sigh of relief.

And the pattern of the co-governance of the four kings is actually conducive to bringing into play all the combat effectiveness of the Great Western Army - if there is not so much external pressure now, the co-governance of the four kings may become the internal strife of the four kings, but at the moment, everyone's head is hanging on the belt of their trousers, and if they want to survive, they have to die.

Therefore, the four kings of the co-governance all took out the strength of the bottom of the box to fight, and Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Nengqi, who were the most capable of fighting among the four kings, also personally led the team to kill.

And Zhang Kewang also gave up his capital, and used Zhang Wenxiu's strategy to scatter millions of silver that Lao Wansui had worked so hard to grab in the monk yuan to attract Wu Sangui's poor soldiers......

Wu Sangui really made the family miserable, not only did the 40,000 army lose more than half, but also let Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Nengqi chase all the way from the monk camp to the Qishan camp. Before they had time to arrange the camp, Zhang Kewang and Zhang Wenxiu arrived with the main force of the Great Western Army.

Wu Sangui did not dare to defend the camp, so he had to abandon the grain and grass stored in the Zhou Gong Temple, fled eastward, and ran until he reached the Xi'an Mansion City to be able to stabilize - Xi'an Mansion City and Tongguanwei were abandoned by the Great Western Army and handed over to the partial division led by Zu Kefa and Wu Guogui.

After getting the response of Zu Kefa and Wu Guogui, Wu Sangui was able to pick up a life, and the 40,000 troops who followed him to Monk Yuan plus the 5,000 people who stayed in the Qishan camp finally ran to Xi'an alive, and only 13,400 people remained...... Even if Zu Kefa and Wu Guogui's men and horses are added, Wu Sangui has only 30,000 soldiers and horses on hand.

At this time, the 20,000 Eight Banner soldiers led by Nikan and Man Dahai also drove to Shaanzhou, east of Tongguanwei......

Wu Sangui, who got the news, really had a feeling that the end was coming, and he had no choice but to invite Zu Kefa to his handsome mansion to discuss...... Or let him continue to be a traitor, right?

"This can't be done...... Zu Kefa's head shook like a rattle, "Uncle Chang, you lost so much in the first battle of Monk Yuan, can Donglu make up for the deficit for you?" You still owe a lot of money! How much is gone? Is there twenty thousand? ”

Wu Sangui cried with a sad face, "More than ...... 30,000 are there! Although some of them returned to the team one after another, the final loss was 25,000! ”

Zu Kefa asked: "How much pension does one give?" ”

Wu Sangui said: "It's fifty taels of silver...... The number of officials in 100 households will be doubled, and the number of officials in 1,000 households will be tripled, and it will be settled within three months after the war! ”

"Not counting 100 or 1,000 households, according to 50 taels per person, it will be 1.25 million taels!" Zu Kefa looked at Wu Sangui sympathetically, "Uncle, do you think you can not give this silver?" If you don't give it, can the following three hundred and thirty thousand households let you go? ”

Wu Sangui was about to cry, stealing chickens would not make rice, no, it was not a handful of rice, but more than a million taels of silver!

Zu Kefa continued to calculate: "You still owe 200,000 taels of Yinzi money to Jiale City (the name of the commercial bank), and you still owe 300,000 taels of Yinzi money to the Jin merchants in Qikou...... How much is the interest? Without two million, you can't get by! Who else can give it to you but your brother-in-law? You still want to be a traitor...... Do you deserve to be a traitor? Do you have two million? ”