Chapter 69: Zhang Xianzhong's Disadvantages (Page 1/1)

Guangning City is a big city in the north of Shuzhou.

At this time, there were more than 20,000 defenders of the Great Western Army in Guangning City, and the defender was called Mei Shajia, who was the deputy general of Guangning before surrendering to Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhang Xianzhong attacked Guangning, the main general of Guangning was killed, Zhang Xianzhong's brutal celebrity is well known, he is worried that he will hold on, not only can not keep the city, I am afraid that after the city is broken, the lives of the people in the city will not be saved.

So in the end the order to surrender.

Zhang Xianzhong, in order to set an example for the Ming generals in other cities, accepted his surrender, not only did not kill him, but also let him continue to defend Guangning.

At that time, Dang Zhiyong, who recognized the guerrilla general in Quang Ninh, was also appointed as the general of Jianmen Pass.

Zhang Xianzhong's move is not to trust these generals. On the contrary, he believed no one except those of his descendants.

Among the heroes in the late Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong was able to stand out, run rampant in the world, and finally open a dynasty based on the ground, the most important thing is his amazing guerrilla tactics.

In Zhang's army, the ratio of cavalry to infantry was "seven steps and three horses", and the main force was equipped with fine cavalry or double horses, which came and went like the wind during battle, and could run hundreds of miles in a day and night.

Everywhere he went, he liked mules and horses the most when he captured the booty, and the others didn't care.

Zhang's army had powerful cavalry, coming and going like the wind, and its whereabouts were strange, making the officers and soldiers chase after them.

Speed leads to initiative, and initiative is the key to victory. Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates are accustomed to "going to the enemy." ”

Zhang Xianzhong did not fight defensive wars in his life. Before entering Shuzhou, his strategic principle was to avoid stubbornly defending a corner under any circumstances and to conduct high-speed mobile operations.

They have no fixed strongholds and offensive targets, and they never defend a city. The areas they attacked were often the weakest places for the Ming army, so they could often avoid the real and win the victory.

In contrast, the Ming army was much heavier. They were in the open, and each stronghold was to be garrisoned, always on the defensive, and the battle line was very long.

They are constrained by huge logistics and dragged along by rogues, and they cannot be surrounded at all, and they cannot catch up if they want to chase them, and they are often in a passive position.

Then, after the opening of the country, the situation completely changed.

When you become an emperor, you have to send troops around to control your empire. Not only was there a heavy presence on the border, but there were also garrisons in every city to suppress the forces that opposed him.

As rogues wandering around, they gather together as a huge force, and their momentum is so great that no one can defeat them.

But once dispersed to various places, Zhang Xianzhong suddenly found that his army was like a handful of rice thrown into the sea, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Because there were not so many troops to divide, he could only station so many thousand people symbolically in each prefecture and county.

There are even some counties, and only one person from the county order was sent by him.

In this case, in fact, there are many remote areas in Shuzhou that Zhang Xianzhong did not actually occupy.

Therefore, he had to use the Ming Dynasty to surrender troops to garrison those more remote cities.

Because he didn't believe in these surrendered officers and soldiers, his main forces were all deployed near Jinguan City, the capital of his Great Western Kingdom.

He's still a rogue in his bones, and he still maintains the idea of running away at any time.

Under the domination of this kind of thinking, he never really regarded Shuzhou as his own territory and carefully governed, but killed, looted, and ravaged on a large scale, so that Shuzhou became a hell on earth.

Li Zicheng founded the country and became the emperor, which gave Zhang Xianzhong a great stimulus, so he made the decision to enter Shuzhou to establish the country and become the emperor, and fight against Li Zicheng.

But because of this, he also lost his advantage. His strength lies in the high speed of flow. Once he came to a standstill and switched from offense to defense, his weaknesses were revealed.

In the past, he took the initiative, and the Ming army was passive. And now the officers and troops are on the offensive, taking the initiative everywhere, and he is passive.

After struggling to fight a defensive battle, he was forced to fight a defensive battle that he was not good at.

Mei Shajia surrendered to Zhang Xianzhong, which was also an expedient measure, and he did not have the slightest loyalty to Zhang Xianzhong and Daxiguo.

After the news of the imperial army's entry into Shuzhou came, he was already excited in his heart, and immediately began to consider the issue of returning to the imperial court.

Last year, when Li Zicheng attacked the capital with hundreds of thousands of troops, Mei Shajia lamented and felt sad in his heart, feeling that the Ming Dynasty was really going to end this time.

Before that, he had always hoped that the imperial court would be able to send a large army to counterattack Shuzhou, but with the killing of Yuan Chonghuan and the defeat of the official army, the hope in his heart was getting slimmer and slimmer.

Once the imperial court perished, Shuzhou would succumb to the ravages and trampling of Zhang Xianzhong, a murderous demon, for a longer time.

The thought of the people who were born and raised in Sri Lanka will suffer a much longer calamity, and he feels a sense of despair in his heart.

It's just that the sky is pitiful, the immortal Ming Dynasty, a Qin king Jiangchuan was born, destroyed the Manchu Qing Dynasty, defeated Li Zicheng, cleared the Japanese Kou, surrendered to the southeast Zheng clan, swept the world in just two years, its momentum is fierce, and its invincibility makes people dizzy and cheering.

The hope of Meshajia, which was about to be completely extinguished, came back.

In the winter of last year, after hearing that Li Zicheng's Dashun was destroyed by the imperial court, he began to look forward to the official army taking advantage of the situation to attack Shuzhou, and he was ready to echo the imperial army at any time.

It's just that the official army didn't start attacking Shuzhou until April this year, which made him wait for a long time.

It's just that he still has a concern in his heart, that is, whether the imperial court will pardon him for the crime of surrendering to Zhang Xianzhong.

What he is most worried about is that if the imperial court does not forgive them for the sins of these generals, not only will it be difficult to save his own life, but I am afraid that there will be many twists and turns in the process of recovering Shuzhou in the future, and even many people will be pushed to Zhang Xianzhong's side.

The land of Shuzhou is mountainous, the mountains are overlapping, and although the offensive of the official army to attack Jianmen Pass is extremely fierce, the sound of those cannons cannot reach Guangning City.

Mei Shajia was dressed in mountain armor, with his hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist, and walked around the city, but his eyes kept looking in the direction of the sword gate.

He was eager to know the current situation of the Sword Gate Pass. He didn't think that Jianmen Pass would be able to block the official army, after all, the guard there was also his friend and former subordinate Dang Zhiyong, and his thoughts and thoughts were similar to him, and the two often drank together.

And the defenders of the Sword Gate are the same, they have no intention of fighting for the thief.

How the imperial court treats the party Zhiyong, he knows in his heart.

Suddenly, a personal soldier pointed to the official road in the distance and shouted: "General, someone is coming there." ”

Meshagar hurriedly looked intently, but it was several knights who were urging their horses to gallop over.

When the knights came to him, Mei Shajia looked at it and saw that the person on the horse was the guard of the Sword Gate, his friend Dang Zhiyong.

"Where is General Mei, this general is wise and brave, if you have something important to tell you, please open the door and let you go!"

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