Chapter 10: The Storm Comes

In May, Cao Wenzhao led 50,000 Ming troops to besiege Qinzhou, broke into the king to set up a high city, and guarded the city day and night.

The two sides fought for seven days, and the Ming army suffered 7,000 losses, but there were many people in the city, and it was difficult to help.

On May 13, Cao Wen ordered from Zi Cao to Jiao, and rushed to Qinyuan with 30,000 people in the starry night to attack the Qinyuan rebel army, and brought more than 10,000 Ming troops to fill 50,000 alone, and attacked the city at night.

On the afternoon of the 14th, Cao Bianjiao led 30,000 Ming troops to gather 20,000 and the Ming army outside Qinyuan City to seize the city at night.

The Ming army besieged Qinyuan City in three ways.

When the time came, the rebels were difficult to hold onto, and the city was broken.

The remnants of the rebel army took advantage of the chaos to break through and moved to Qinzhou, but Cao Bianjiao set up an ambush halfway.

The rebels were in a hurry, difficult to organize, and suddenly 20,000 rebels were killed, 10,000 were captured, and Qinyuan Chengpo killed 7,000 rebels and captured 10,000 women and children with the army.

On the 15th, King Chuang of Qinzhou received a report of the loss of Qinyuan, and led 100,000 troops to attack Cao Wenzhao's military camp at night.

Cao Wenzhao was outnumbered and surrounded by the rebels, and then killed and wounded thousands of people with his own strength, and then broke through and led the remnants of 5,000 Ming troops to the west.

In the early morning of the next day, Chuang Wang and Chuang General led more than 100,000 anti-army people in the city to move eastward.

There were many anti-army personnel, and women, children, and the elderly walked slowly with the army.

In order to prevent the Ming army from encircling on the way, King Chuang ordered the general to break off, and ordered his nephew Li Zicheng to lead 20,000 young men all the way to Wuxiang to assist the eight kings in attacking the Ming army in Wuxiang, while he sat in the middle camp.

Cao Wenzhao ran west to meet his servants, and then went east to pursue King Chuang.

However, at this time, it rained heavily day and night, the mountain road went south, and the Ming army was running for several days, and the march was slow.

On the evening of the 20th, General Chuang led an army of 20,000 troops to suddenly rush to the outside of Wuxiang City, and raided the Ming army camp outside the city in the middle of the night.

The eight kings took advantage of the situation to kill, and the two of them attacked, and the Ming army of 20,000 was annihilated by the rebels in one fell swoop.

After that, the general led the troops and the eight kings to return to the division to rescue the king.

On the 22nd, Cao Wenzhao chased to Cao Fengshan between Qinzhou and Wuxiang, and the two sides had a big battle.

Because most of the elite soldiers under the king of Chuang were taken away by the generals, so they were defeated and retreated, and had no choice but to retreat to the mountain, Cao Wenzhao led 40,000 Ming troops, several attacks, were blocked by the boulders of the anti-army, just at this time, the generals brought their troops to come, and directly killed.

Cao Wenzhao is leading the army to storm the king on the mountain, the battle is critical, the general is killed, the rear camp from the son Cao Changjiao led the army to resist the general, but there are few people, the future is sudden, and the Ming army retreats step by step.

Helplessly, Cao Wen Zhaoming Jin withdrew his troops and led the army to the west again.

The heavy rain was slippery, and the general had no intention of pursuing, and after meeting the king of Chuang, he set off for Wuxiang again.

On the 25th, he and the eight kings Zhang Xianzhong met in Wuxiang.

At this time, there were 150,000 people left in the rebel army, and 50,000 people left in the Ming army.

On the day of the destruction of Qinyuan City, under the rule of Xu Dingchen, 30,000 border troops secretly entered the city and occupied Qinyuan.

Wait for the Shaanxi Ming Army to coordinate the offensive order.

May heavy rains still,

In mid-May, when Cao Wenzhao attacked Qinyuan, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, led an army of 70,000 to secretly rush to Hancheng, which was across the river from Hejin.

View the Yellow River line, the junction of Shaanxi and Shanxi, only the Hejin section, the river surface is narrower, the water flow is gentle, before the anti-army Wang Zuohang led the Shaanxi anti-army to kill to Shanxi, is the way through.

Hong Chengchou led the army to go secretly, and Han Cheng led the army into Pingyang once the war in Shanxi stabilized.

However, after months of heavy rains, the river suddenly increased and the river level increased.

Hong Chengchou led the army to Hancheng, only to realize that it was not a momentary force to lead the army to cross the river and attack Pingyang.

Therefore, he kept pushing the instructions to besiege Binh Duong again, holding down the boat while looking for other possible directions and opportunities to cross the river.

On the second day of the destruction of Qinyuan City, Tang Xidong got a battle report.

Hearing the battle report, Tang Xidong stood in the hall for a long time without saying a word.

It was finally broken by the Ming army.

Tang Xidong knew that the abacus of occupying Qinzhou had failed.

But fortunately, there was no flood in Binh Duong, and the army personally strengthened the river dam day and night, and the entire people of Binh Duong knew about it.

Although it didn't get Qinzhou, it at least got the hearts of the people of Pingyang.

With the will of the people, Tang Xidong's rule over Binh Duong was more stable.

It can also be regarded as a lost harvest of mulberry elm!

Although it is inevitable to be disappointed, it can be regarded as self-comforting.

But as May passed and he received a battle report from the front line, Tang Xidong's heart became more and more solemn.

On the 16th, King Chuang abandoned Qinzhou City and transferred to Wuxiang.

On the 18th, the Ming army of Qinyuan City was stationed.

These were all things that Tang Xidong could predict.

But at the same time as the Qinzhou war, there was also Zezhou.

On the 20th, the Ming army of Lu'an Mansion suddenly invaded Zezhou and fought against Wang Jiayin's army.

The two sides fought for several days in Gaoping and Lingchuan, and each suffered casualties.

Wang Jiayin entangled the Lu'an Ming army while attacking Lu'an from Changpingguan.

Then he drove straight in, connected the two cities of Changzi and Handian, and then went south to attack the Lu'an Ming army.

When Tang Xidong got the battle report, the expression on his face was very playful.

The Lu'an Ming army has been sticking to Lu'an Mansion, Tang Xidong knew that he was afraid that the rebel army would pass through Lu'an, but suddenly the Lu'an Ming army, which had been standing still, suddenly entered Zezhou.

This is the court is coming to pick peaches.

The two places of Qinzhou and Zezhou that Zhao'an said at the time of Zhao'an belong to Tangxidong, and now they always tear open this layer of dead skin and become an empty word.

This is Emperor Chongzhen warning him that it is time to contribute, and if he does not contribute, he is not qualified to take benefits.

But at this time, the new army under Tang Xidong was still building river defenses on the southern and western fronts, and there were still a few days before it was completed.

Emperor Chongzhen must not know that the road that Tang Xidong pointed out to Wang Jiayin before was to attack and occupy Lu'an.

As soon as the Lu'an defenders came out, it was exactly what Wang Jiayin wanted.

Lu'an Mingjun fought with Wang Jiayin for several days until the end of the month.

Wang Jiayin invested heavy troops to eliminate the Ming army, a large number of anti-army, little by little encroachment on the Ming army, 26th, finally hit the Ming army, and then Wang Jiayin directly left Zezhou, straight into Lu'an.

On the third day, Huguan was captured, and on May 30, Lu'an Fucheng was occupied.

Then the army went north and continued to attack the city and plunder the land, intending to occupy the entire city of Lu'an.

Just after King Chuang and the Eight Kings met, the Wuxiang rebels finally began to prepare to abandon Qinzhou.

While leading the army out of the city to fight with the Ming army led by Cao Wenzhao, he went north to directly attack Yushe in Liaozhou.

Hearing that the rebel army was attacking Liaozhou, Xu Dingchen, the governor of Liaozhou, hurriedly mobilized a large army to block it.

The two sides fought several battles outside the city of Yushe, and they were helpless with each other, and at this time, King Chuang and the Eight Kings transferred their armies again, and went up to the northeast and directly to the southeast.

Xu Dingchen had no choice but to hastily divide his troops.

The anti-army fought on three fronts, pestering Cao Wenzhao on the one hand, not seeking to kill or injure the Ming army, and on the other hand, attacking Liaozhou on two fronts.

At the end of May, Xu Dingchen transferred a large army to support the Ming army outside Yushe City.

Then, the rebels were killed and retreated, but on the same day, the rebels broke through the Ming army stationed in the southwest of Liaozhou, and then killed the city of Liaozhou.

Liaozhou is in an emergency.