On February 17 of the twentieth year of Chongzhen, in Jiaxian County, Henan, Sun Chuanting's 160,000 officers and troops and Li Zicheng's more than 300,000 troops fought together. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This time, Sun Chuanting did not defend Shaanxi. If Li Zicheng's men were allowed to invade Shaanxi, the Shaanxi peasants, who were oppressed by the gentry, would undoubtedly become thieves. At that time, Shaanxi was in chaos, and Sun Chuanting couldn't clean it up.

Moreover, Henan itself has 100,000 border troops, and Sun Chuanting's invasion of Henan can join these border troops. These border armies could not defeat Li Zicheng alone, but with Sun Chuanting's 60,000 Shaanxi troops, they could form an advantage over the thieves. The current situation is offensive and undefensible, so Sun Chuanting invaded Henan.

Li Zicheng did not face Sun Chuanting at Tongguan on the border of Henan and Shaanxi, Li Zicheng believed that Henan had been plagued by famine for several years, and there was no food in the granaries of various places. The 160,000-strong army of the official army invaded the hinterland of Henan, and supply would be a big problem. Therefore, Li Zicheng placed his soldiers and horses in Jiaxian, which was far away from Tongguan, and sent a small group of soldiers and horses to constantly harass the grain routes of the officers and soldiers.

If the grain supply of officers and soldiers is cut off, there will inevitably be a major collapse.

However, Sun Chuanting used his troops in a very orderly manner, sending more than 20,000 people to protect the grain routes, and constantly transporting grain from Shaanxi and Beizhili to the front line. Li Zicheng harassed the grain road for a month, but never succeeded.

Sun Chuanting's soldiers and horses then killed Jiaxian and captured Li Zicheng's main force.

More than 400,000 people fought together, and the battlefield stretched for dozens of miles, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses had the upper hand in numbers. Although most of the soldiers were hungry soldiers, these hungry soldiers were selected to be strong and strong, and in the past few months after the capture of Kaifeng, the hungry soldiers often practiced martial arts, and they also had some combat power. Although it is not as effective as the Shaanxi army and the border army, there are many people in the army after all.

Judging from the scene, more than 100,000 officers and troops were completely surrounded by the intruding army.

Sun Chuanting frowned and looked at the battlefield, silent.

Suddenly, a 2,000-strong army of Datong town officials faltered under the siege of thieves. Surrounded by thieves from three directions, this army lost confidence in a fierce battle and retreated from the front line with a clamour.

The faces of the generals around Sun Chuanting turned pale, and they secretly said that at the beginning of the battle, there were soldiers and horses who fled, and it seemed that there were many auspicious battles.

Sun Chuanting was furious and asked loudly, "Which part of the soldiers and horses is this?" ”

The "praise painting" next to him, that is, the staff officer, said loudly: "That's the soldiers and horses of Guo Renjian, the guerrilla general of Datong Town." ”

Sun Chuanting shouted loudly: "If 2,000 people flee without a fight, they will be killed." Come on, take down Guo Renjian, and take the head of the owl! ”

Hearing Sun Chuanting's words, the surrounding generals were dumbfounded, and secretly said that this Sun Chuanting was too bloody. If the soldier fled, he was going to kill the commander?

Guo Ren, a guerrilla in Datong Town, trembled with fright, and shouted on the ground: "The governor spares his life!" Spare your life! ”

Sun Chuanting shouted angrily: "Spare your life, if my army is defeated, how many soldiers will die?" ”

The three guards walked to Guo Renjian's side, pressed him to the ground, and raised their knives to slash Guo Renjian's neck. I only saw a flash of white light, and Sun Chuanting's personal guard raised and fell, and he had already cut off Guo Renjian's head.

When the generals next to Sun Chuanting saw this scene, their faces turned pale one by one.

Sun Chuanting is going to fight to the death with the generals.

In fact, most of the invading troops were hungry soldiers, and their combat power was inferior to that of the official army. However, the 100,000 border troops have repeatedly fought with the Chuang army in Henan over the years, and have formed a tacit understanding with the thieves. Every month, the army sends some heads to the officials and soldiers to report their merits, and the officers and soldiers rely on the existence of the army to urge the court to pay for food.

If there is no invasion army, where will the 100,000 border troops get food and salary? Two taels a month's salary, in the past, it would be good to be able to get half of the total soldiers. However, since there was an army, the imperial court has paid a full amount of food and salary every month, and there are rewards from time to time, and the generals of the official army have made a lot of money.

Therefore, the 100,000 border troops fought more and more in Henan, retreating all the way to the north of the Yellow River, and did not fight a decisive battle with the Chuang army at all. The so-called self-respect of raising a coward is nothing more than that.

Then the generals met Sun Chuanting at this time.

Sun Chuanting's army was known for being strict and killing people extremely ruthlessly. Although the Shaanxi army under his rule was short of food, the military discipline was extremely strict, and every time he fought with thieves, he was playing with his life. Therefore, although Shaanxi has had the same bad years in recent years, there have been no large numbers of thieves.

Seeing that Sun Chuanting killed Guo Renjian, the generals knew that they couldn't be good today.

Sun Chuanting raised Guo Renjian's bloody head and shouted loudly: "If you dare to retreat, you will be like Guo Renjian." ”

The generals of the officers and soldiers were frightened by Sun Chuanting's momentum.

Suddenly everyone understood that it would not work to fight to the death today. With Sun Chuanting's character, even if this battle is defeated, the general who caused the defeat will be killed.

A group of general soldiers, deputy generals, staff generals and guerrillas roared out of the ranks, and rode their horses to the battle formation: "Governor, a certain person went into battle to kill the enemy!" ”

"I'll kill the thief!"

The chief generals of the officers and soldiers rushed into the war first, and the momentum of the officers and troops suddenly rose. Compared with the hungry soldiers who have been training for several months, the border army and the Shaanxi army of the official army are all professional soldiers, and their martial arts are much stronger. At this time, the officers and soldiers moved desperately, and the situation suddenly reversed, tilting more and more in the direction of the officers and troops.

Wang Pu rode his horse and rushed into the ranks of the main soldiers in Datong Town.

Datong Town is having six soldiers and horses, and 60 percent of the 15,000 people are cavalry, that is, there are 9,000 cavalry. Not only that, Wang Pu has been close to Li Zhi over the years, and bought a large number of cotton armor and fish scale armor from Li Zhi, which is very well-equipped.

Li Zhi has been fighting thieves and Tartars all these years, and he doesn't know how much armor he has seized. Li Zhi can't look down on these armors, but they are treasures in the eyes of ordinary Ming soldiers. Li Zhi sold more than 10,000 pieces to Wang Pu, and Wang Pu asked the blacksmith to equip the whole army after a little repair, resulting in more than 10,000 soldiers in the main barracks of Datong Town wearing armor.

Originally, more than 10,000 people had no fighting spirit, and they fought and retreated on the battlefield. But as soon as Wang Pu rushed into the battle to fight, the atmosphere was completely different. More than 10,000 people saw that the main generals had taken the lead, and knew that this battle had to be won, so they struggled forward one by one.

On the front of Wang Pu are more than 10,000 intruders and horses and 10,000 rogue foot soldiers.

Compared with the regular soldiers of Datong Town, the equipment and combat skills of these invading troops are inferior. Wang Pu held a three-eyed gun in his hand, aimed at the colonel in front of him, and lit the fire door with a bang. I only saw a flash of sparks on the three-eyed gun, and the junior colonel in shabby cotton armor fell in a pool of blood.

Wang Pu shot again, shot empty.

Shoot again, killing one of the thief soldiers.

After the three shots were fired, Wang Pu grabbed the three-eyed gun in turn in his hand, and smashed it like a meteor hammer. He led 500 soldiers to charge into the line of the invading army, and inserted it into the ranks of the invading cavalry like a sharp sword, rushing deeper and deeper.

The officers and soldiers of Datong Town have not fought so hard for a long time. The last time I fought to the death like this was in Jinzhou.

Finally, the horses and foot soldiers who broke into the army were crushed.

These thieves did not dare to fight with the well-equipped Datong soldiers anymore, and fled to the rear.

Wang Pu laughed, regardless of the rout, he led the soldiers and horses around the back of the invading army, and went straight to the back of the middle of the invading army.

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The officers and soldiers became more and more courageous, and after only half an hour of fighting, the invading army was defeated.

Li Zicheng's banner fell, and Li Zicheng fled with Zhang Huang, the general of the army, and fled to the southeast.

The praise painting next to Sun Chuanting was overjoyed, and shouted loudly: "Governor, win!" ”

Sun Chuanting stroked his beard, looked at the thieves who fled like ants, and groaned.