Although Sun Chuanting captured Baofeng, his vitality was also greatly damaged, the military rations had long been cut off, and the city of Baofeng was empty. Li Yangchun, who was anxious to make meritorious contributions, offered Sun Chuanting another suggestion: "The old camp of thieves is in Tang County, and attacking the old camp can save the urgent need." ”

Sun Chuanting was overjoyed, and ordered Li Yangchun to lead the way, and personally led the soldiers and horses to quietly rush to Tang County. There were really not many thieves in Tang County, and they were captured by the official army in one fell swoop. Sun Chuanting ordered the slaughter of the whole city, tens of thousands of thieves' families died, Sun Chuanting robbed a large amount of food and property, and happily returned to Baofeng.

Li Zicheng was furious, and the whole army came to attack Baofeng. Niu Jinxing persuaded him to wait for reinforcements from all walks of life, but Li Zicheng refused. 9。 Leaving Niu Jinxing to wait for the other troops, he rushed to Baofeng with 30,000 cavalry in the starry night, and wanted to fight with Sun Chuanting. Sun Chuanting secretly set up an ambush and waited for Li Zicheng's army to send him to the door. Li Zicheng camped under Baofeng City, and in the middle of the night, a fire suddenly broke out in the camp, and the whole camp was in chaos. Gao Jie, Bai Guangen, and Li Yangchun killed from three sides, and Sun Chuanting also opened the city gate to lead the army to kill. Li Zicheng could not resist the enemy, and fought and retreated. The army retreated fifty miles, and was burying the pot to cook, Niu Chenghu, and Lu Guangzu led the army to kill it. The army did not have time to eat, and fled.

Li Zicheng and others came to Jiaxian hungry and tired. Sun Chuanting then pursued and killed, and the Jiaxian thief general Guoyi General Xie Junyou led troops to help, and met the pioneer Gao Jie. 7。 The two fought for twenty or thirty rounds, Gao Jie's deputy Li Chengdong hid under the shadow of the flag, aimed accurately, raised his hand and shot an arrow, and shot Xie Junyou's mount, Xie Junyou was lifted under the horse and captured alive by the officers and soldiers. Gao Jie took advantage of the victory to chase and kill, but Li Zicheng could not resist the enemy and walked away. Gao Jie snatched the banner of Li Zicheng's Chinese army and cut it into two sections.

Li Zicheng led his troops to burn Yunxian and fled to Xiangyang. Sun Chuanting led more than 100,000 troops to besiege Xiangyang and attacked day and night. Kaifeng defeated Chen Yongfu also led his troops to participate in the battle, and the officers and soldiers were huge. Gao Jie, Li Yangchun and other troops called their brothers outside the city and went to surrender. Seeing that the general trend had gone, some thieves jumped out of the city one after another, and the people in the city were in turmoil. 6。

Li Zicheng recruited the generals; 'Hugh panicked, the lone king killed the king and burned the tomb, sweeping away countless officials and soldiers. Even if the nine clans are wiped out, it will be difficult to resist the emergency. Now reinforcements from all walks of life can arrive, if you are defeated, you can take my head, and it is not too late to surrender to the enemy. 'High One Gong Dao; 'The king has looked down on us, and now which one of you here can retreat?' The king dies today, and we wait for tomorrow to die. Chongzhen is a person with a small belly, how many frank gentlemen are there in the court officials? Under the nest, there are no eggs, and we follow the king to live and die, and there is no double heart. All the generals swore to live and die with Xiangyang.

After Sun Chuanting won a series of victories in Henan, he changed the worried mentality when he first came out of the customs, and his expression suddenly became invigorated. 7。 However, he also faced a great difficulty, that is, a serious shortage of food. At this time, the weather was also very bad, and the heavy rain continued for more than ten days, which made the problem of lack of food and pay for the officers and soldiers more serious, and thus the more corrupt the military discipline became.

Bai Guangen's troops in Ruzhou rose up first because of the lack of food, and refused to fight again. There is a great drought in Henan, and the harvest is out of harvest for thousands of miles. The people are starving all over the wilderness, where will they go to collect military rations? At this time, the thieves and reinforcements from all walks of life have been killed. 8。

Sun Chuanting gathered the generals and asked: "The thief brigade is gathered, and our army is short of food and grass, is it going to advance or retreat?" ”

Bai Guangen said: "The army has been without food for many days, and the soldiers are feeding on the grassroots, how to deal with the war? It is necessary to divide the key points, step by step, and retreat the whole army, so as to move backwards, so as to be the perfect strategy. ”

Gao Jie said: "If you leave without a fight, you will definitely be ridiculed." Besides, where can the 100,000 hungry soldiers go? Where can we supply so much food and grass for the army? It is better to fight to the death, because the food is to the enemy, or you can turn the crisis into safety. ”

Sun Chuanting said to Bai Guangen: "The general's courage is far less than that of General Gao. 9。 So he ordered the whole army to fight.

Bai Guangen returned to the camp to gather everyone: "Sun Chuanting knows how to advance and does not know how to retreat, and 100,000 hungry soldiers are like feeding tigers with meat." Gao Jie can fight and let him fight, and the eight thousand children of our department don't want to die here, so they can retire to Tongguan with me. So Bai Guangen did what Wang Pu did when Songshan retreated, led his men and horses to embrace the chariot, and drove south overnight.

Seeing this, Sun Chuanting knew that the army's heart had moved, so he could only order the whole army to retreat. Sun Chuanting ordered Gao Jie, Li Yangchun led the troops to open the way, and Chen Yongfu led the army to postpone.

As soon as the army left, Chen Yongfu's subordinates shouted: "Sun Chuanting has run away, let me wait to be a substitute for the dead ghost?" So the whole camp was in chaos and rushed to flee. 1。 Chen Yongfu couldn't suppress it even after cutting a few, so he had to retreat with the crowd.

Li Zicheng personally led the Xiangyang soldiers and horses out of the city to pursue. The official army retreated to Nanyang, the ambush soldiers paused, Tian Jianxiu, Hao Shaoqi, and Li Guo's three-way army outflanked them, and the dust covered the sky and the sun, I don't know how many people and horses there were?

Niu Jinxing set up five formations for the army, the first of which was the newly recruited hungry people, each carrying a big stick, and when he saw the enemy, he picked up the big stick and smashed his head to pieces, which frightened the officers and soldiers. The second is the infantry, holding a long contradictory card, specializing in dealing with the cavalry and death squads that rush into the formation. The third is cavalry, which is also three layers, only allowed to advance, not retreat, if the front retreats, the back can kill it. The fourth is the elite iron cavalry, followed by the old battalion, and the fifth, which is full of women's troops and baby soldiers, with no combat effectiveness.

Gao Jie and Li Yangchun also knew that this battle was a battle of life and death, and they all sent capable soldiers to rush to kill. Sun Chuanting also strictly ordered all departments to advance without retreating. After three hours of fighting, the officers and troops broke through the triple. The fourth elite iron cavalry saw the officers and soldiers rushing over, and beat their horses to meet them. The officers and soldiers had already exhausted their strength and had no food in their stomachs, Li Chengdong and others fought for a few rounds, but their strength was exhausted, so they could only barely respond to the battle, and they had no power to fight back. 6。 Li Yangchun was picked under the horse by He Jin with a shot, and was trampled into meat by the iron horseman. The invading army took advantage of the situation and stormed the flanks of the officers and soldiers' front

As a result, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers were encircled. As a result, the officers and soldiers were completely in a state of passive beating. Bai Guangen's train battalion fought on muddy land, not only could not wield its might, but became a burden, and it was impossible for the soldiers to even parry and fight back, so how could they take care of the "train"? In order to escape for their lives, they untied the horses pulling the cart, abandoned the "train", and hurriedly rode for their lives.

Gao Jie and his subordinates who followed later, saw that the soldiers in front of them were as dense as ants, and they all stood stupid one by one. 3。 Gao Jie looked at Siye from a high place, but saw that the soldiers of the army were huge, the flags were like forests, the war drums were noisy, and the soldiers were overwhelming.

Gao Jie couldn't help but blurt out: "What can I do about this?" This...... I can't hold it, I can't hold it! ”

It turned out that Li Zicheng's wife, Xing Shi, who is now Gao Jie's wife, said to him: "I see...... I think we'd better run for our lives first! ”

Gao Jie nodded, and then led his subordinates to retreat in a hurry. As soon as Gao Jie's troops retreated, all the armies supervised by Sun Chuanting were defeated. Governor Li Zicheng led He Jin, Yuan Zongdi and several other generals to pursue him closely, chasing him for 400 miles in one go, and the chariots of the officers and soldiers were thrown all over the ground, blocking his escape. Li Zicheng ordered that no pick-up was allowed, the iron rode in front, the big stick was behind, and the horse stepped on the stick, which was miserable.

The officers and soldiers ran 400 miles in one day and night, and Li Zicheng led his troops to chase and kill 400 miles. Sun Chuanting rode across Yuanqu alone and fled into Mengjin before he could get a respite. The defeated army continued to meet in Mengjin, Sun Chuanting patted his chest and cried. In this battle, 40,000 soldiers and horses were lost, dozens of generals, and hundreds of thousands of weapons were loaded. Knowing that Bai Guangen had retreated from Ruzhou to Tongguan, Sun Chuanting took 40,000 or 50,000 remnants of the defeated general, detoured to Hebei and Shanxi, and entered Tongguan.

Sun Chuanting was about to petition for guilt, but he knew that the holy decree had arrived in Tongguan first, and the eunuch said in a sharp voice: "Sun Chuanting, the governor of the three sides, has spent countless military funds since he took office, but he has lost his teacher and land, and he is very disappointing. should have been punished severely, but if you think that you have made great merit first, you can change the sentence to defend Jinzhou and atone for your crimes. ”

Sun Chuanting didn't know whether to be happy or painful at the moment, and soon after, Li Zicheng entered Tongguan and soon occupied the entire territory of Shaanxi.