June.

Shaanxi rebelled against the army to Wu'an.

Hundreds of thousands of rebels besieged the county seat of Wu'an.

The garrison Cao Ming and the lord Bo Wu Yingke led the people in the city, and the big households, the yamen soap officials, and the city gate guards went to the city to block the enemy.

The rebels attacked the city for three days.

They were all repulsed by the people of the city.

The houses in the city were demolished, and the bricks, stones, rubble, beams, and roofs were all pulled up to the city walls.

to three days.

The rebels besieged the city on all sides and vigorously attacked it.

In the evening, the people were killed and wounded by 5,000, the garrison Cao Ming was killed by an arrow, and the lord Bo Wu Yingke fell into the city.

The people were left ownerless, and the rebels took advantage of the situation to enter the city.

Due to the resistance of the people of Wu'an for several days, causing nearly 10,000 casualties among the rebels, the eight kings directly entered the city, regardless of men, women, and children, and the rest of the rebels followed the example of the eight kings.

The people of Wu'an City are not three out of ten.

It was at this time that the rebels entered the city one after another.

Zuo Liangyu led the Changping army to kill.

Zuo Liangyu killed, and the rebels were scrambling to enter the city.

The Ming army came suddenly, and went straight to the rear camp of the rebels.

Suddenly like a tiger into the flock, the back camp is full of women and children, young and old, Zuo Liangyu is good at killing the people, as early as in Liaodong, there was a good and risky move.

At this time, although he broke into the back camp among the women and children, the old and weak, he ordered resolutely.

Directly slash and slash.

In just one stick of incense, the Ming army has slashed thousands.

Zuo Liangyu had a good time.

In front of him, there are all black oppressive rebels, and every killing is a merit.

Zuo Liangyu was squinted by the credit in front of him, and led 20,000 Changping troops to break into the rebel army, killing deeper and deeper.

But Zuo Liangyu's killing provoked the anger of the rebels.

The old and weak women and children in these rear camps are all family members and relatives of the anti-army youth.

At this moment, he was killed by the Ming army at will.

The rebels were immediately indignant.

The Eight Kings and the others could no longer control the hundreds of thousands of young men under their command.

At this moment, the young men in the city did not even care about the people who were fleeing in front of them, and they did not even search for the gold and silver treasures in the house.

The mighty young man went straight out of the city.

This time, Zuo Liangyu completely angered the rebels.

Hundreds of thousands of rebels began to surround the 20,000 Changping troops.

and then killed them one by one.

Qingzhuang, who was stabbed red in the eyes by blood, directly ignored the long knife that was chopped, and directly exchanged his life for his life.

The rebels surrounded and killed them one by one, and the Changping army, which was compressed in an instant, shrunk into a ball.

The corpses were all old and weak, women and children.

The rebels who surrounded and killed were unorganized, but the corpses all over the ground made them fight with red eyes and muffled voices.

At the beginning of the Changping Army, it was still able to block the fighting of the rebel army, but with the passage of time.

The rebels finally broke through the ranks of the enlightened army and entered the battle.

Immediately divided the Ming army into two.

And then gradually divide again.

It has become a battle situation in which the Ming army is desperately attacked and killed by the anti-army around them.

Zuo Liangyu regretted that he had advanced too deeply at this time.

I can't pull my hand anymore.

The big battle into the afternoon.

More than 10,000 people have been killed and wounded in the Changping army, and 30,000 have been killed or wounded in the rebels.

But the depth of the encirclement has not decreased.

As more and more young people were killed and wounded, it only aroused the anger of the anti-army to kill the enemy.

Thereupon.

After evening.

There were only five thousand left in the Changping army, and they finally formed a force around Zuo Liangyu.

Zuo Liangyu saw that he was going to be buried in the chaos today.

A trace of poisonous fire was born in his heart.

But fortunately, this fashion is reasonable.

With 5,000 Ming troops, Zuo Liangyu began to break through in the direction away from Wu'an City.

After a big battle, he was already very tired, but if he didn't break through at this time, all 20,000 Ming troops would die here.

Breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat, the Ming army finally killed it when it was dark.

Then he fled into the wilderness.

Waiting for the rebels to be left behind, Zuo Liangyu was annoyed and remorseful.

Of the 20,000 Ming troops, only 2,000 remained.

A big win turned out to be a fiasco.

Zuo Liangyu had no choice but to lead the remnants of 2,000 to the south, hoping to find the Sichuan soldiers who went north to support him as soon as possible to avenge today's defeat.

Zuo Liangyu fled.

The rebels finally had time to put the battlefield in order.

By the time Wu'an had been four days later, the rebels had suffered nearly 60,000 casualties, including nearly 20,000 of the elderly, the weak, women and children.

But the biggest benefit of this big battle for the rebels was not to kill and injure Zuo Liangyu's 20,000 Ming troops.

But this battle completely stimulated the blood hidden in the hearts of the original common people, so that the young man began to transform into a soldier who dared to fight.

Clean up the battlefield, burn the corpses, re-enter Wu'an, and loot food and property.

A big battle, the army is exhausted.

Several major thieves discussed and decided to temporarily camp in Wu'an to recuperate.

While attacking the surroundings of Wu'an, he once again absorbed the nearby people.

The first major battle in Henan between the rebels and the Ming army ended in the almost total annihilation of the Ming army.

I don't know how disappointed, angry, and worried Emperor Chongzhen will be when he hears that Zuo Liangyu, who has given high hopes to him, has lost 20,000 elite Ming troops outside Wu'an City.

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In June, when the rebels were fighting with the Ming army Wu'an.

In March, when the rebel army marched north to Beijing, the Ming army also began to recover the last city occupied by Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming in Shandong, Dengzhou.

The generals Wang Zhifu and Zu Kuan led the Ming army to attack Dengzhou, and Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming were close to Dengzhou because of their proximity to the waterway, which was conducive to escaping and did not surrender to defend to the death.

The Ming army attacked the city day and night, but it was difficult to take Dengzhou.

The guerrilla Liu Liangzuo offered a plan, and gunpowder exploded the city.

At night, the walls were smashed.

The Ming army marched into the city.

Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming were caught off guard and had to resist stubbornly.

In a big battle, Kong Youde killed the deputy general Wang Laipin, but still failed to hold Dengzhou.

Seeing that the Ming army was surrounded and it was too late to leave, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming abandoned their subordinates, only took a few personal soldiers, and fled by boat, leaving the rebels surrounded by the Ming army and thrown into the sea, and the next day the seaside was full of corpses.

So far, the whole territory of Shandong has been restored.

But this also laid a foundation for Daming.

After Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming supported the boat into the sea, they had no way to go, so they could only lead their troops to the north and directly surrender to Houjin in Liaodong.

After all, the two were Ming generals and were very familiar with the terrain and side affairs of the Ming Dynasty.

After taking refuge in Houjin, it is equivalent to inserting a pair of eyes into Houjin, which can penetrate through the border cities and penetrate into the eyes of the pass.

June.

Kong Youde offered a plan to seek Lushun for Houjin.

After the two surrendered to the enemy, Huang Taiji was kind to the two as if they were worshipping their father.

Huang Taiji's means of buying people's hearts are extraordinary, and soon Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming gratefully begged Huang Taiji to let them make some contributions to Houjin.

So Kong Youde began to make his first meritorious service after investing in Houjin.

In June, Geng Zhongming led his army to attack the Yalu River.

Attract the Lushun commander-in-chief Huang Long to send a naval division north to support.

Then Kong Youde led Houjin south to besiege Lushun City.

It wasn't until the arrival of the Houjin army that Huang Long knew that he had been tricked.

Hurriedly led the army to defend the city.

At this time, the battle between the Ming army and the Houjin was often the Houjin siege, and the Ming army blocked the city gate and defended the city.

The Ming army fired artillery, and the Houjin also counterattacked with artillery.

Since the fourth year of Chongzhen, Houjin began to cast artillery after plundering a large number of craftsmen of the Ming military guard, and Huang Taiji was even more of a royal gift: a red-clothed general.

The two sides engaged in an artillery battle for a day.

On the second day, after consuming a large number of artillery shells from the Ming army, the Houjin began to siege the city.

Huanglong defended.

However, Hou Jin no longer blindly relied on his cavalry to attack the city this time, but made Kong Youde, who was more familiar with the siege, lead and command.

Kong Youde attacked the east and west, constantly mobilized the Ming army to move, and then took advantage of the chaos to steal the city.

At a critical time, the guerrilla Li Weiluan led the army to reinforce.

As a result, Houjin was repulsed.

At night, Houjin Smeared pulled the artillery to the city gate and directly hit the door.

By the time the Ming army hurriedly counterattacked, the city gate had been blasted.

The Later Jin army entered the city, and the Ming army and the Later Jin carried out street battles.

Relying on the advantage of the terrain, Houjin suffered many casualties.

But as the sky grew brighter and the Houjin cavalry entered the city, the Ming army was finally defeated and retreated.

After Huanglong was killed in battle, the guerrilla Li Weiluan led his army to resist.

In the end, he was surrounded by Houjin in the Li Mansion.

Huang Taiji personally surrendered, Li Weiluan was determined to live and die, entered the palace and self-immolated his family, and then led the army to charge into battle.

In the end, he died under the sword of the Houjin cavalry.

At this point, Lushun was captured by Houjin.