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On the muddy official road on the bank of the Yellow River, there are cars and horses like shuttles, and people are like weaving. The morale-high Beijing camp was divided into two parts, one part in front to open the way for the whole army, and the other in the rear for the whole army. The Ming army in the middle is composed of a group of Shaanxi soldiers who are disheveled and have crooked armor, they bow their heads and sigh, or dozens of people are a team, or more than ten people are a group, like a flock of sheep that has lost their heads, walking aimlessly.

In the crowd, Sun Deaf, the master of Sun Inspector, rode on a red horse, and watched with blank eyes as the once mighty army of 100,000 turned into a lost dog, and his own fate was determined because of the fact of defeat, which was nothing more than the difference between three thousand six hundred knives and one knife. Thinking of this, Sun Chuanting was sad, since sooner or later he would die, it was better to make a decision on his own, so as not to see the jailer again.

Thinking of this, Sun Chuanting reached out to touch the saber on his waist, but a hand grabbed in front of him and stopped him: "Master Inspector, don't think about it for a while, the eldest husband can bend and stretch, not to mention, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers." Leave a useful body, go to Shanxi with the standard, and then let's Xu Tu lift again, and reorganize the people! As long as we return to the capital, our soldiers in Beijing will naturally talk about what the adults have done in Shaanxi and Henan in front of the saints, and Liang Guogong will also speak up. With his old man coming out to intercede for you, there will naturally be many people in the palace in the middle of the court, and at that time, everyone will say something good for you in front of the emperor, you go back to Shaanxi to train well, and it will not be too late to take revenge at that time! ”

Naturally, it was the Tang staff general in Beijing who spoke, and they were invincible all the way from coercing or guarding Sun Chuanting, but they really responded to the sentence "Poor Kou Mo pursues the master and does not stop". Dozens of small groups of rebels who blocked the pursuit along the way, flanked and chased after the tail were beaten to the wind, and there were a lot of sporadic records along the way, and after careful calculation, the more than 2,000 people in the Beijing camp were already ranked among the average champion positions of the 100,000 people in Sun Chuanting's department!

Those Ming army stragglers who were scattered and scattered by the righteous army, seeing that there was a Ming army here, naturally it was a good shade under the big tree. They joined the marching procession one after another, and within two days, the original team of two or three thousand people snowballed into nearly ten thousand.

However, the provision of food and grass for 10,000 people is a great difficulty! Along the way, the counties and towns refused to allow Sun Chuanting's defeated troops to enter the city, and even refused to provide Sun Chuanting with grain and grass! Even the soldiers of the Beijing camp took out the silver dollars of white flowers, and they could only buy a small amount of grain and grass.

"The gentry should be killed! Generals can be killed! There are 100,000 soldiers in Shaanxi, and only the new army can be used. Camp Vitsourn is available! ”

After camping, Sun Chuanting searched for dry intestines under a bean-sized oil lamp, wrote letters to friends, and sent the inscription of the defeat in Henan to the capital.

The battle was tragic, but it was reasonable.

He Guoying, He Guoxian and other He Renlong's sons and nephews turned against the water in front of the battle, burned grain and grass, and pushed cannons. Let the Ming army, which had no fighting spirit, completely collapse. Li Guo, Gu Ying, Liu Fangliang, Gao Yigong and other generals who broke into the camp attacked from the north again, cutting the Ming army's battle line to pieces! Luo Rucai led tens of thousands of cavalry to press over from the east to the west. Liu Zongmin led more than 10,000 elites to attack and harass from the south road, forcing more than 100,000 people of the Ming army in Shaanxi to have no way out.

Seeing that he was about to fight the trapped beasts, someone suddenly found that the rebel team that was blocking in Shiping had opened the opening, and an escape route more than two miles wide was in front of him. As a result, the Ming army of the brigade discarded the weapons in their hands. Crowding each other and trampling on the road. Although those generals knew that it was a trap, they were helpless, and they were surrounded by their respective families and rushed to the road that seemed to be an escape.

However, there is a lack of one of the three around, leaving a way to survive and secretly setting up pockets. But it is also the regular way of playing for soldiers. In order to avoid the surrounded object from finding that there is no hope of escape, he fights the trapped beast and fights to the death. In this way, it will cause huge casualties to the hunters. This point is not only understood by the Jiannu in Liaodong, but also by these Shaanxi "thieves".

On both sides of the road, which was crowded by tens of thousands of Ming troops who were eager to escape, white smoke kept rising, and bursts of thunderclaps sounded. The artillery that Luo Hu had placed on both sides of the road, only a few hundred steps away from the passage, kept smashing shells at the fleeing Ming army columns.

There were also several groups of musketeers, with hundreds of people in a team, under the escort of swords and spearmen, from time to time to rush forward, and after a salvo, they quickly retreated, not seeking to kill or inflict many injuries, in order to create more and greater chaos for the Ming army.

The crowded and chaotic formation has created a huge effect on Luo Hu's harassment tactics. (If you want to refer to the scene when tens of thousands of people flock out of the exit after the stadium game, if someone throws bottles at the crowd from the left and right sides above the exit, you can see how much chaos it would cause!) Every time a cannonball fell, every salvo of firebolts caused a powerful psychological tremor on the fleeing people.

"Everyone is a fellow villager in Shaanxi! Your own people don't fight your own family! ”

The cavalry that was chasing from both flanks and the rear kept galloping back and forth around the Ming army columns that were dozens of miles long, shouting loudly for surrender.

"Let's stop fighting! Don't run anymore! Lao Tzu surrenders! ”

In the middle of the procession, some people ran out of the queue screaming, fled beyond the range of bows and arrows, and sat in the muddy water, waiting for the rebels to come.

Those who continued to run forward because of the crowd were squeezed into the trenches and off the cliffs under the pursuit of the two wings and the iron horsemen behind them. On the road of nearly 100 miles from Wulichuan to Tongguan, there were many dead and wounded.

It's a service! More than tens of thousands of Ming troops abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and there were mountains of abandoned armor, vehicles, mules, horses, equipment, and artillery. The generals of the Ming army, Niu Chenghu, Zheng Jiadong, Guan Fumin and others led the remnants to surrender to the righteous army.

"The court was ordered to lead troops out of the customs to suppress thieves, and at the beginning, the soldiers were full of horses and teng were invincible. Soldiers have the heart to serve the country...... Then he broke the thief Baofeng, and beheaded the pseudo-state pastor Chen Kexin. Then he smashed Tang County, broke it, killed all the people, and the thieves cried all over the camp. Transferred to Jiaxian, then captured the pseudo-Guoyi general Xie Junyou, and beheaded the thief. The tail is self-contained. The thieves rushed to Xiangcheng, and the army entered Xiangcheng. The thieves were afraid to surrender, and the thieves said to them, 'Fearless! I killed the king and burned the tomb, the crime is great, and I will fight to the death. If you don't win, it's not too late to kill me. And the army slept and stole in the open. It rained for a long time, and the grain truck couldn't move forward. The soldiers are hungry, and they are attacked, and they are exhausted by horses and mules. The rain did not stop for seven days and nights, and the rear army was in an uproar in Ruzhou. The thief is so big that rumors are spreading. had to return to the army to welcome food, and left Gao Jie as a later refusal. The front army has moved, the rear army is in chaos, and Gao Jie can't stop it. The thief chased Nanyang. The officers and troops fought back. The thief array is fivefold, the hungry people are outside, the second foot soldier, the second horse army, and the second horse, and the old camp is inside. Break its threefold. The thieves rode to the death, and blocked the road of our army with all the firearms of the Luo Hu's earthquake mountain battalion. Our division's formation moved slightly, and the sage of the old department of the Long Relatives clan of Gao Jie's subordinates shouted: 'The division is defeated! Follow me as a thief! 'Cover up from behind. Burning grain and grass, plundering baggage. The car overturned, the horse hung in front of the balance, the thief's iron rode and soared, the thief's hand covered the attack, and the head of the middle was shattered. Stepping on me as an empty wall, day and night. The officers and soldiers ran 400 miles wildly, and as for Mengjin, there were more than 40,000 dead and hundreds of thousands of lost weapons and baggage. ”

In his letter to his friends, Sun Chuanting told the process and reasons for the defeat in the Spring and Autumn Period. Trying to create the impression that this defeat is the death of the heavens, and it is not a crime of war.

However, at this time in the capital, it was also a feather book like fire, and the messenger was running on the road. The inscription of the document accusing him of Sun Chuanting flew into the Qianqing Palace like snowflakes.

"Sun Chuanting suffered from Guanzhong and looted fiercely. The three Qin fathers, for the sake of the safety of the country, forbearance. I only hope that I can train into an army as soon as possible and sweep away the thief atmosphere to return the world to peace. Unexpectedly, this fang was so useless, and the soldiers left Shaanxi in less than ten days, and they buried more than 100,000 troops! The ministers are all Qin people, please Your Majesty order to kill this fang to thank the Qin people, to thank the world! ”

Similar documents, in the Qianqing Palace, were carried into the Dongnuan Pavilion by the little eunuchs in baskets for Chongzhen to see. The officials and gentry of Shaanxi, the generals and eunuchs endured it for a long time, and finally waited for Sun Chuanting's defeat, such an opportunity could put Sun Chuanting to death with one blow, how could they let it go?

"Big companion, where is Sun Chuanting at this time?" After a long time, Chongzhen on the throne asked Wang Dehua beside him in a dry and weak voice.

"Sun Baigu was defeated in Wulichuan, broke out of the siege under the escort of the soldiers of the Beijing camp, crossed and retreated from Shaanxi County to Shanxi, and collected the lost generals along the way, and now there are more than 10,000 people in Shanxi. Due to the refusal of various states and counties, it is currently in the areas of Pinglu, Yuncheng, Wenxi, and Xia County. ”

Wang Dehua has an indescribable feeling in his heart at the moment. Sun Chuanting was defeated, and more than 100,000 horses were wiped out in the blink of an eye, but in this gloom, there was enough to make him feel gratified. That is the combat effectiveness of the Beijing camp!

"This group of monkey cubs has really grown a little! was able to retreat among the millions of thieves, not only did he have a thorough guard, but he also collected a lot of defeated soldiers, which can be regarded as earning a lot of face for the emperor! ”

As an armed force deeply influenced by the eunuchs, the documents that General Tang gave to the Shenji Battalion and the Imperial Horse Supervisor, naturally Wang Dehua also saw it for the first time, and in this document, General Tang proudly boasted about his achievements.

"Surrounded by tens of thousands of elite thieves, the whole division retreated, and in the middle of the trilogy, the wounded and dead were carried back one by one. Not a single horse or equipment was lost, not even a marching stove was missing. Along the way, they broke through the resistance of the thieves, and won a lot, and gathered more than thousands of guards along the way. ”

Jingying can still fight! Compared with the officials and soldiers in various places, these people are more likely to gain the trust and expectations of Chongzhen and the eunuchs. In the hearts of eunuchs such as Chongzhen and Wang Dehua, with the continuous improvement of the news of Sun Chuanting's defeat and the details of the process, the idea of training the new army in his hands was more and more established.

"Ome, make a will. Ordered people to go to the Beijing camp to pass the decree, and the general Tang had made meritorious contributions in battle, and was promoted to deputy general to rectify the soldiers and horses in Shanxi at this time. ”

"Draw up another will, the former superintendent Sun Chuanting, has a negative hope, this defeat of the army, his crime is unforgivable. ordered the deputy general Tang Mousuo to take him into Beijing to listen to the investigation. ”

To be honest, Chongzhen still doesn't know the name of the Tang general who performed well on the battlefield in Henan, but in the process of this promotion and seizure, he has a feeling of being in power. Even if you are the Governor, you only need to get a will from me to the army, and you will be a prisoner of the ranks!

"Otobe, you and several stewards and eunuchs of the Imperial Horse Prison have gathered the generals of the Shenji Battalion and the 3,000 Battalion to discuss together. Quickly get a charter out, I want to organize and train the new army of the Beijing camp in a big way! ”

"Also, you select a competent person to go to Shandong and go to Jinan to meet that great prince Li. We must be kind and good-spoken, and I must train a new army. I have to ask him to contribute people and things! ”

Wang Dehua's heart jumped suddenly, "Emperor, expand the training of the Beijing camp, and ask Shandong to send some people to help the training, Li Huayu will naturally not shirk this matter." However, if you ask him to donate goods. Serving money and food, I'm afraid this matter is difficult. It is said that he also spent a lot of money in Denglai, Shandong and other places, building water conservancy, soothing the displaced people, opening up wasteland, building ports, paving roads, and everywhere there was money to use, and the slaves and maids were worried about ......"

"Then pay according to the price! I still have some money and food in my inner treasury! Not now, but when? Chongzhen is also quite sure in his heart. He also calculated that the tariffs collected at the treaty ports of several ports at present were also recorded in the accounts on average of 200,000 or 300,000 silver dollars per month, and in addition to some expenses for supplying the palace, all of them could be used for military training, to buy weapons and grain and grass from Nanzhong, and to buy horses from Mongolia, which would only take more than half a year. A strong army is in hand again!

A Yellow River is a yin and yang world. The area controlled by the Ming army to the east and north of the Yellow River. The guards were heavily guarded, and the people of various prefectures and counties were sent to the city for defense, and the gentry everywhere were hoarsely demanding that the people donate and lose, and have money and strength to protect their homes and fields, and the tombs of their ancestors. All kinds of acres have been added, and there are a lot more silently.

In the area west and south of the Yellow River, the rebel army was jubilant.

Years. Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, and Zuo Liangyu are a sharp sword and a heavy hammer hanging over their heads, and the imperial court uses them to deal with Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai and others. In the face of these generals who relied on the imperial court, the rebels from Li Zicheng to almost all had psychological obstacles, and the psychological shadow area was extremely large.

But. Now it's different!

Gu Junen's strategy and tactics have completed two steps, and they have all achieved the expected results. To the south, Zuo Liangyu survived in the Jiujiang and Wuchang areas, nominally to prevent the rebel army from continuing to flow eastward and harassing Nanjing. In fact, if it weren't for the presence of the Nanyue Army's naval division on the Anqing River to block his way, I am afraid that he would have run to the river in Nanjing. At the same time, according to the standards of the Wanli period, the area of the gentry's tax-exempt acres was recalculated, and a unified progressive system of money and grain was implemented, and the more land there was, the more money and grain were collected, and those tenants who donated to avoid the tax on money and grain were allowed to take back their land. The land of fish and rice on both sides of the Han River became the most reliable source of food and grass for the rebels.

In Henan, the tactics of luring the enemy into the depths achieved earth-shattering results, and the more than 100,000 troops trained by Sun Chuanting in Shaanxi became a delicacy in the mouths of the righteous army. And not far away, a more tempting piece of food is also at your fingertips.

"Tongguan!"

Almost all the generals who broke into the camp were from the old Eighth Team, and the generals who participated in the Battle of Tongguan Nanyuan, looked at the Twelve Liancheng in the distance together, muttering to themselves. is brave and strong like Liu Zongmin and Hao Shaoqi, and there are tears in the corners of their eyes.

"Damn! Tongguan, Nanyuan, how many good brothers have fallen here! Today, the revenge is finally avenged! Hao Shaoqi's words expressed the hearts of the generals who broke into the camp.

The fall of Sun Chuanting's army, for the righteous army, the Tongguan in front of them is no longer an iron wall to stop them, but just a papier-mâché city, which cannot stop their eager and jubilant hearts who are eager to return to their hometown!

As long as they want, they can kick open this Guancheng on their way back to their hometown, swagger on the Guanzhong Plain, and then beat gongs and drums to Xi'an City, all the way back to northern Shaanxi.

"At that time, the generalissimo will officially ascend the throne as the emperor, and we are the founding heroes of the Eight Classics! Get an uncle and a master! Then go back to his hometown, build a house, buy a field, marry his mother-in-law, and give birth to a baby on his kang! ”

Several generals who broke into the camp were full of longing for a better life in the future, waving their horsewhips on the hill and shouting and cursing proudly towards the faintly visible Tongguan Tian.

Behind them in the Wulichuan Basin, from Shishiping to Wulichuan, within a radius of dozens of miles, people are boiling, back and forth, yesterday's battlefield, today is a lively and extraordinary bazaar.

The soldiers of the Ming army, who had laid down their weapons and removed their armor, were probably in a team of 100 people, wrapped in some clothes to protect themselves from the cold and rain, and sat in the woods and fields waiting for the greetings of the rebel soldiers. Far away from them, dozens of carts were carrying dishes and chopsticks, and hundreds of large and small pots and stoves and cooking carts were boiling water and soup for them.

"The Generalissimo has an order! Everyone is a fellow villager in Shaanxi, and if you put down your knives and guns, you are a family! Today, everyone arrived at my camp, and they didn't have anything else to eat, eat noodles! Eat buns! A small leader who broke into the camp held the sword at his waist and proudly announced Li Zicheng's military order to the thousands of Ming army prisoners in front of him.

Some of the Ming troops, who had already eaten and drunk enough and had a lot of warmth on their bodies, were energetically cleaning up the battlefield, collecting the swords, guns, armor, vehicles, banners, tents, pots, stoves, mules and horses scattered for dozens of miles, and then grouping them separately.

There were also many people shouting neat trumpets and pulling the heavy guns out of the bottom of the ditch with thick cables.

"Brother Li, we've made a lot of money this time!" Luo Rucai blinked his little eyes, looked triumphantly at the mountains of loot in front of him, twisted a handful of beard and laughed.

It's really piled up.

As for the captured knives and guns, the baggage bearers in charge of the rebels carefully made shelves out of wood on the ground to prevent them from rusting due to rain erosion. On each wooden frame, knives and guns of the same standard are placed in an orderly manner.

"Ten knives horizontally, ten more vertically! It's easy to go back and count in this way! "The officials of the rebel army kept shouting at the Ming prisoners who were temporarily used as coolies, and instructed them how to stack these knives and guns.

Luo Rucai, nicknamed Cao Cao, has been fighting for half his life, and he has never seen so many knives and guns in such a space. The stacks of knives and guns more than one person are neatly stacked with various colors of knives and guns, and you can't see the end at a glance.

"Xiao Wu, have you counted the number of these captured trophies?" Looking at the loot in their eyes, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were a little dizzy, and they felt like they were entering the city.

"Back to the generalissimo, the general, the statistics are still being counted. However, by the time of lunch, there were more than 30,000 spears, more than 10,000 knives of various colors, more than 11,000 bows, and many arrows. There are more than 5,000 baggage vehicles of various colors, more than 4,000 helmets of various colors, more than 10,000 pieces of cotton armor, more than 7,000 leather armor, and more than 4,000 iron armor and Nanban armor. ”

"What about mules, horses, and firearms? And all kinds of artillery? ”

Luo Rucai interrupted Li Zicheng's report on Wu Ruyi, the commander of the Chinese army, and found that there were no numbers among these numbers that he was eager to know.

"Firearms and mules and horses? General, firearms were collected by the Earthquake Mountain Battalion and the Artillery Battalion. I don't know about this for the time being, and as for the mules and horses, the battalions have not yet turned them in. ”

Among the various divisions of the rebel army, few of the captured mules and horses could be handed over in truthfully. Luo Rucai also knew this very well, after all, his subordinates also did the same. However, all the firearms of Sun Chuanting's hundreds of thousands of troops are only allowed to be collected by Zhang Nai's and Luo Hu's troops, which is too ugly! Your Li Zicheng's army wants to organize firearms battalions and artillery battalions, don't my Lao Luo's troops know the benefits of firearms? Thinking of Yuan Zongdi's ugly appearance in the four mansions of De'an Chengtian, Luo Rucai was angry, originally according to the agreement, the dispatch of officials was also the sixth Cao Si, but Yuan Zongdi sent all the officials of the four mansions in one go!

Luo Rucai laughed twice and rode away with his brigade of guards.

"King Chuang, now Sun Chuanting is finished, looking at the big future, no one is our opponent! Isn't it time for us to think about cutting this tumor!? Li Zicheng's Chinese army commander Gao Yigong leaned into his ear, looked at the direction where Luo Rucai was gone, and asked his brother-in-law in a low voice.

"At this time, it is not possible, there are still many of his soldiers and horses far away in Nanyang, and Lao Huihui and others have not yet sentry with us, if he is done at this time, his army will run away, and others will be cheapened in vain!" Li Zicheng had a fleeting cold light in his eyes. (To be continued.) )