Although facing the problem of insufficient military salary, Jiang Hao really tried hard to train some soldiers, he tried his best, scraped together some money, and began to train soldiers, but what he didn't expect was that this kind of move attracted Li Zicheng's attention.

In my Ming Dynasty, Xuanda has always been the most important frontier town, and the border army of Xuanda has always been the elite of my Ming army. Although over the years, the Xuan army has been constantly transferred to other battlefields and has been continuously consumed, so that today's Xuan army actually has no troops that can fight. But over the years, the prestige that the Xuan army has established on various battlefields is still there, and people still don't dare to casually ignore the Xuan army. This is just like the later stage of World War II, the main force of the Kwantung Army, which was once known as the "flower of the locust army", has been transferred to various islands in the Pacific Ocean, and then taught by the Americans to behave with aircraft and artillery, or simply ignored by everyone, and then on those desert islands as Bei Ye, looking for small insects everywhere to eat. The Kwantung Army that remained in Northeast China was actually a group of half-grown children who had just been requisitioned from Japan, and basically they could only be regarded as "Kwantung Cook", but because the reputation of the "Kwantung Army" was still there, even Lao Maozi had to honestly prepare for a few months before moving them, until he gained an all-round overwhelming advantage in personnel and equipment.

Although Li Zicheng also knew that Xuandajun was actually an empty shelf, after knowing that Xuandajun was training, he still felt pressure: because Xuanda could send strong troops. Therefore, just after the end of this year, Li Zicheng gathered all the generals to discuss the situation in the Xuanda region. After discussion, everyone agreed that the Ming army in the Xuanda area would be a huge threat to the Shun army in the future, so in order to be able to farm peacefully, it was necessary for the Dashun army to launch a preemptive strike against the Ming army in the Xuanda area.

Therefore, not long after the New Year, Li Zicheng had just been proclaimed emperor, and he organized an army of 50,000 and prepared to set off to destroy the still infant Xuanda army. Liu Zongmin, the number one general under Li Zicheng, took 10,000 people to serve as the vanguard, and Li Zicheng himself followed behind with the remaining 40,000 people.

In order to deter, or rather frighten, the Ming army, Li Zicheng declared that his military action was to follow King Wu's example of "hanging the people and cutting down the crime" and to completely eliminate the Ming reactionaries headed by Emperor Chongzhen. To do this, he mobilized half a million troops. Anyway, the Ming court couldn't send a civilian official to verify his soldiers. Moreover, in Chinese history, it is common practice to exaggerate the number of troops to scare opponents. In general, no one takes the number of troops claimed seriously. But even so, many times, scaring people with exaggerated numbers can still be effective. For example, at the time of the Three Kingdoms, after Cao Cao annexed Liu Biao's Jingzhou, he wrote to Sun Quan and said: "Those who are close to him will be punished for the crime, and Liu Cong will be restrained, and the 800,000 people of the Imaji Naval Army will hunt in Wu." At that time, the Eastern Wu ministers were so frightened that they were not possessed, and Zhang Zhao, who was the head of the civil ministers, simply advocated that "the plan is better than welcoming it" and planned to surrender. If Prime Minister Cao Cheng said honestly: "There are more than 200,000 troops in the water army." "I'm afraid that there will be no such effect.

All in all, this fictional number is still very scary, and the series of quick victories since then makes it seem very real. When Li Zicheng sent out his troops, he was standing in front of him the army of Zhou Yuji, the chief soldier of Shanxi, and Cai Maode, the governor of Shanxi.

Zhou Yuji is not a general from Jiangmen, he is a real soldier in the border army in the late Ming Dynasty, relying on Ying to fight bravely, he rose to the position of the general soldier of Shanxi step by step. Therefore, compared with many generals who were born in generals, such as Jiang Huang, he is more experienced in military affairs, more brave and good at fighting, but he has obvious weaknesses in other aspects, such as: he lacks enough family members, and he lacks the resources to support these family members, so although he is the chief soldier of Shanxi, the power in his hands is quite limited.

The Shun army's offensive preparations were not kept secret, in fact, the Shun army did not intend to keep it secret, they preferred to be able to scare the generals of the Ming army with exaggerated figures. Therefore, when the Shun army was preparing to attack, Zhou Yuji noticed it and began to prepare to meet the Shun army.

It's just that the army in Zhou Yuji's hands is too small, although he has been committed to eliminating the old and weak soldiers, repairing weapons, strengthening training, and accumulating levels to prepare for war, but he came from a humble background, his own foundation is too poor, and the financial crisis of my Ming Dynasty makes it difficult for him to get enough military salary, and after two years of hard work, the troops under his command who can fight are only two or three thousand people. So Zhou Yuji had no choice but to ask Jingshi for help.

It's just that at this time, Chongzhen didn't have an army that could be quickly mobilized to support Zhou Yuji. Emperor Chongzhen thought of many ways, and in the end he could only transfer 2,000 people from the Beijing camp, let the deputy general Xiong Tong take them, and send him as reinforcements.

Zhou Yuji himself had been in the Beijing camp, and he knew that many of the generals in the Beijing camp were the children of eunuchs who had obtained positions by family background and nepotism, and they would not fight at all, and most of the soldiers in the Beijing camp were old, weak, sick and disabled. Such an army was of no great use at all, but Zhou Yuji had no other army available, so he asked Xiong Tong to defend the Yellow River with 2,000 men, and then garrisoned Daizhou with those troops he had trained in two years.

Liu Zongmin led his troops to first attack Taiyuan, where Cai Maode, the governor of Shanxi, was stationed. Cai Maode is not proficient in military affairs, as a believer in psychology, what he is best at is "waiting for his spare hands to talk about his heart, and repay the king when he dies". In the case of the obvious superiority of the Shun army, he sent the main force out of the city and the Shun army to fight in the field. As a result, in just half a day, more than 5,000 Ming troops were wiped out under the city of Taiyuan, and the generals Niu Yong, Zhu Kongxun, and Wang Yongkui who led the troops to fight were also killed.

This defeat under the city was a devastating blow to the morale of the defenders, but Cai Maode at this time did not find a way to boost morale, but ran to the official office to write a testament in front of everyone. As the saying goes, "The train runs fast because of the headband." "Now Cai Maode, as the supreme commander of Taiyuan City, has lost confidence in the battle and is ready to be martyred, and the morale of his subordinates will naturally become negative. As a result, Zhang Xiong, the general in charge of guarding the city gate the next day, simply surrendered, so Taiyuan City fell into the hands of the Shun army in only two days. As for Cai Maode, he was martyred very smoothly and became a loyal minister.

Taiyuan, which was high in the city and deep in the pond, was lost in only two days, and this news shocked the Ming army in Shanxi greatly. Originally, when Li Zicheng claimed that he had an army of 500,000, most of the generals of the Ming army did not believe it, but when Li Zicheng's army took Taiyuan in only two days, many Ming generals began to believe that Li Zicheng really had hundreds of thousands, at least hundreds of thousands of troops, otherwise, how could he capture Taiyuan in such a short time?

After the fall of Taiyuan, Li Zicheng continued to march, and then, Jiang Rang, the general soldier of Yulin, who felt that he could not resist Li Zicheng's attack, took the initiative to send people to contact Li Zicheng and expressed his willingness to surrender Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng has always been very welcoming to the surrendered officers and soldiers, because in any case, the officers and soldiers are regular troops, and the general level is not bad, and many times, many crafts, they have learned from these surrendered officers and soldiers. And most of the most elite parts of his combat unit have experience as officers and soldiers.

So Li Zicheng welcomed Jiang Rang's surrender, and asked Jiang Rang to write a letter to his brother, Jiang Jiu, the general soldier of Datong, to persuade him to "abandon the darkness and turn to the light". At the same time, we continue to march forward.

Xiong Tong, the deputy general of the Beijing camp who was left by Zhou Yuji to guard the Yellow River, was naturally frightened by the lightning attack of the intruding army, and he also knew what kind of goods the 2,000 people under his command were. He estimated that if his 2,000 people fought with those Ming troops guarding Taiyuan, it was estimated that they would not even be able to hold out for a meal, but those Ming troops guarding Taiyuan did not survive the next day by relying on Jiancheng, not to mention his 2,000 people? As a result, as soon as Liu Zongmin's scouts appeared, Xiong Tong hurriedly surrendered.

Li Zicheng accepted Xiong Tong's surrender as usual, but after seeing Xiong Tong's soldiers, he didn't seem very happy. After hearing that he came out of Beijing, Li Zicheng inquired about the situation in the capital again. And Li Zicheng knew that Zhou Yuji, the chief soldier of Shanxi, was also born in Beijing, so he sent him to persuade Zhou Yuji to surrender, Li Zicheng and Zhou Yuji also had some dealings, and knew that this person was very capable of fighting, if Xiong Tong could persuade Zhou Yuji to surrender, then it would not be a loss to accept Xiong Tong's surrender and raise his two thousand garbage soldiers.

However, Zhou Yuji was a loyal minister, and when he saw Xiong Tong who came to persuade him to surrender, he was furious and said: "I have been favored by the country, how can I surrender to a thief?" Thou hast led two thousand troops, and thou hast not gone to kill thieves for the sake of the country, but thou hast come to be a lobbyist for thieves! Immediately ordered his subordinates to push him out and behead him.

Li Zicheng's army rested for a few days, continued to advance, and began to attack Daizhou, which was held by Zhou Yuji. Daizhou City is large, and Zhou Yuji has few soldiers, which is difficult to support. After resisting for several days, they retreated to Ningwu Pass.

Ningwu Pass: Ningwu Pass is the location of the general garrison of Sanguan Town. Guancheng was built in the first year of Ming Jingtai (1450 AD), in the Ming Chenghua, Zhengde, Longqing years, there are repairs. Guancheng is located on the Huagai Mountain of the remaining veins of Heng Mountain, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Li Zicheng led his troops to chase here, saw that the pass was dangerous, and saw that Zhou Yuji's attitude was very firm, and he knew that Zhou Yuji had no oil and water there, so he was very hesitant about whether to continue the attack. So Zhou Yuji sent troops out of the city to challenge, and the army naturally responded to the battle, but he didn't want Zhou Yuji's army to turn around and run, and the army chased after him.

"It's broken! Broken! You can't enter the city gates! Inside is the urn city! Liu Zongmin couldn't help but shout when he saw it. However, it was too late, seeing that the invading army had entered the urn city, Zhou Yuji gave an order, and the jack gate on the city gate was lowered, and thousands of invading troops were cut off in the urn city. The Ming army fired arrows from all four city walls, and killed more than 1,000 people in a short time. Zhou Yuji asked people to cut off the heads of these invading soldiers and hang them on the city wall to demonstrate to Li Zicheng.

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