Chapter 49: Blowing the horn of the end of the Ming Dynasty
Daming's opportunity to strangle the anti-army was shattered in Chen Qiyu's greed.
From the moment when Chen Qiyu accepted the surrender of the Shaanxi anti-army out of the valley, the Ming Dynasty was destined to perish with the original traces of history.
Li Zicheng's feint to direct.
The first day of June.
At noon, the fog cleared.
The Shaanxi rebels surrendered from the valley to the valley, one side surrendered with great joy, and the other side made a feint.
For a whole day, 10,000 people were trapped in the Ming army camp.
Chen Qiyu took the Ming court as a favor, but he was only detained, but he was not bound, and all the weapons were removed and placed in the camp.
In the evening, the rebels continued to come out of the valley one after another, speeding up their progress silently.
Chen Qiyu naturally wanted to arrange the surrender only during the day, but the anti-army was just a word, which made him dispel his suspicions and became more and more urgent.
"There is no food in the valley, there is a lot of miasma, and more than 100 people are dying of hunger and disease every hour, and there is really no delay."
These words, naturally, were conveyed by the anti-army through their cronies.
Chen Qiyu thinks that he is a loyal and righteous person of the Ming Dynasty, how can he watch the anti-army people who are about to become the people of the Ming Dynasty, in the valley of deaths and injuries, all these lives are his Chen Qiyu's merits, in public and private, Chen Qiyu seems to be more anxious than others to complete the surrender as soon as possible.
For a short time, until midnight.
More than 10,000 rebels entered the Ming camp.
As more and more rebels rushed out of the valley, it seemed that with the sudden increase in numbers, the soldiers who had been sent to receive the surrender were a little flustered and too busy.
But the number of rebels is still growing.
In the middle of the night, the canyon covers the stars and the moon, and the torches are lit, but you can't see the whole picture of the gorge.
In the middle of the night, a cannon rang out in the valley.
Then the Shaanxi rebels finally tore through the face of the feint after achieving their goal, and began to counterattack the Ming army surrounded outside the valley.
The 20,000 rebel young men who were concentrated in the Ming army camp began to storm the Ming army camp after the cannon fired, and these people were unarmed, but they rushed forward, fighting and entanglement with their bare hands, and more people took the opportunity to start arson everywhere in the Ming army camp.
Soon the flames were blazing, smoke was rising, the noise was piercing, and chaos was endless.
And the mouth of the canyon, after a cannon shot.
Countless rebels took advantage of the opportunity to flood out of the valley.
The Ming army was caught off guard and was immediately killed.
Then, after the camp was in flames, the war began to reach its climax.
Groups of rebels were organized by the leaders and began to storm in all directions.
The Ming army organized resistance in a panic, but it was difficult to control the situation for a while.
Fight all night.
The anti-army was in chaos and then took the opportunity to escape from the encirclement of the Ming army for the purpose, and the Ming army took the fire fighting as the most important, in the large camp, the grain, grass, army and horses were innumerable, and the fire was slightly gone, and nearly 180,000 Ming troops were going to drink the northwest wind.
At dawn, Chen Qiyu looked around blankly, ashes, smoke, and ruins.
Then a mouthful of old blood spurted out, and he fainted.
Overnight, the victory of the anti-rebel army was shattered.
The great opportunity for the Ming Dynasty to exterminate the rebels and quell the civil strife was missed.
After that, a series of reactions are triggered.
The Ming army that surrounded the rebels bombed the camp one after another, without food or pay, and the corpses were left unburied, and the wounded were left to fend for themselves.
Chen Qiyu was seriously ill, and the Ming army became headless flies.
The army hoarded the mouth of the carriage gorge, and for a while became the eighth king of the crawl.
However, the rebels took the opportunity to break through, and although the 500,000-strong army only ran out of more than 300,000 in the end, it still left a foundation.
Zhang Xianzhong rushed into Sichuan, broke into the king and re-entered Huguang, Wang Jiayin wandered in Henan and still intended to return to his hometown Henan.
The Ming army of more than 100,000 troops waited for the imperial court to clean up the stalls.
June 15.
Hurry up, and the army will report to the Beijing Division.
Emperor Chongzhen, when he heard that the rebels had feigned surrender and broke through, first he didn't believe it, then he was angry, and finally he was sick and bedridden.
In the past, the anti-army was surrounded and killed, but now it is an endgame in front of us.
Chongzhen only wanted to cut off Chen Qiyu's head.
Two days later, Chongzhen went to court, and the ministers were speechless.
No one could have imagined that all of a sudden, a big victory would become an endgame.
However, the current situation should be cleaned up as soon as possible.
After the boycott, Chongzhen summoned the cabinet ministers to discuss for a whole day.
The next day, the holy decree was passed on again: the Jinyi guard was ordered to escort Chen Qiyu to Beijing and imprisoned, Hong Chengchou was appointed as the governor of Shaanxi, specializing in the military and political affairs of the northwest, Sun Chuanting assisted, Lu Xiang was promoted to the governor of the five provinces of the Central Plains, and the main suppression of the rebel army, Cao Wenzhao and his son took office.
The war between the Ming and the anti-army is higher than one stage, and another stage is restarted.
In July, Lu Xiangsheng, the newly appointed governor of the five provinces, selected the elite, led by the Cao family father and son, and attacked the branch of Huguang Chuang Wang in the south.
Hong Chengchou led his troops into Henan and attacked Wang Jiayin, and Qin Liangyu of the Sichuan army entered Sichuan to attack Zhang Xianzhong.
At the beginning of July, Cao Wenzhao and his son led the army to fight with the army of King Chuang in the south of the Hanchuan River in Huguang for three days, and then Lu Xiangsheng led the Tianxiong army to arrive and defeated the army of King Chuang.
The army was defeated and fled eastward.
Lu Xiangsheng and Cao Wenzhao chased after him all the way, and five days later, the Battle of Jin Shui, in the midst of the chaotic battle, the remnants of King Gao Yingxiang were surrounded by the nameless mountain.
Another day, Cao Wenzhao attacked the mountain, Gao Yingxiang was in the chaos of the army, and died in battle.
At this point,
Cao Wenzhao didn't know that Gao Yingxiang had died at his hands.
Because of the large part of the army, it was divided into three units in the war, and the leader of King Gao Yingxiang was the smallest.
During the battle, Cao Wenzhao did not have time to clean up the battlefield and continued to lead his troops to the east to pursue the rebel brigade.
So Gao Yingxiang died in the corner of the unknown nameless mountain.
In July, Qin Liangyu led the Sichuan soldiers into Sichuan and pursued Zhang Xianzhong, Zhang Xianzhong was cunning, avoided the battle and took a detour, led the Sichuan soldiers in four directions, and then encroached on them step by step.
In July, Hong Chengchou led the Qin troops into Henan and fought against Wang Jiayin, forcing Wang Jiayin to move east step by step, and had to move to eastern Henan.
In the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, there is wolf smoke everywhere, and the fight is continuous.
The financial burden of the Ming court increased day by day.
But just at the time of the big war between the two sides.
Huang Taiji led 50,000 Houjin cavalry and 20,000 Mongolian Tatars to begin to march into the steppe, under the banner of the second expedition to Chahar, all the way to the west, into the steppe, occupy the Mongolian tribes.
End of July.
Huang Taiji suddenly waved his army to the south and supplied directly to Datong Town.
Later, Jin Jurchen knocked on the pass again, avoided the heavily defended border city of western Liao, entered the pass from Datong Town, and pointed to the east of Tangxi.
At the beginning of August, after hearing about Tangxi Dong, Jin entered the customs from Datong Town.
The fast horse rushed to Taiyuan Mansion to sit in the town, and at the same time mobilized troops and horses to the north, preparing to meet Houjin.
Huang Taiji is violent,
Tang Xidong did not dare to despise it.
At the same time, after the Houjin entered the customs and the fast horse was introduced to the Beijing Division, although he had not yet recovered from the defeat, Emperor Chongzhen still cheered up and constantly issued orders to block the army.
Internal and external troubles, Emperor Chongzhen is about to be crushed.
The palpitations of the Houjin soldiers besieging the Beijing Division, Chongzhen still remembers it vividly, relatively speaking, the rebel army can't hit the Beijing Division for a while, but the Houjin can be unimpeded, and the soldiers are in the city.
On the way to Taiyuan Mansion in the northeast of Tangxi, Huang Taiji had already led his army to plunder Datong Town, and then began to kill in Shanxi.