Chongzhen for six years.

It is a stage between the Ming Dynasty and the anti-army.

This year, Tang Xi occupied Shanxi in the east, governed all the people, recuperated, and recuperated.

Secretly increase your strength.

this year.

The Shaanxi rebel army was blocked from going north to Beijing, and went south to Henan, where it fought with the Ming army for two months.

The Sichuan army was defeated and retreated, and the Ming army in Henan was disabled.

The Shaanxi rebel army strategically moved toward victory and began to build up its strength on a large scale, coercing the people to reach 500,000.

Forty rebels, led by Wang Jiayin, Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, Eight Great Kings Zhang Xianzhong, Chuang General Li Zicheng, Cao Cao, Luo Rucai, and Lao Huihui, began to move from division to unity, and there were hidden contradictions in the union.

When the rebel army was in Henan to conquer the east and west, the Ming Dynasty's tactics of encircling and suppressing Henan ended in failure.

After the absorption of the previous will not obey the order and the division of troops will not be coordinated.

Emperor Chongzhen began to seriously understand and understand the anti-army.

In August, Zhang Xianzhong occupied Nanyang, captured a large area of plains in the south of Henan, Lao Hui returned to Pofeng County into Sichuan, and began to enter the country of abundance, Wang Jiayin occupied the north of Henan, peeped into Shaanxi, homesickness and eagerness to fight back to Shaanxi, and Wang Chuang led the army into Huguang, plotting the land of fish and rice.

The rebels began to move from a combined army to a division of shares.

After the defeat of Henan, the consequences were finally revealed.

The rebels, who were not besieged in a province of Henan, began to throw wild horses everywhere.

Wherever you go, you hit it, you hit it, you grab it, you rob people, you grab money, you kill officials, you take food.

Like a plague, it began to wreak havoc in the Jiangnan region, the richest region of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time in the Ming Dynasty, the north because of the Houjin entry looting and natural disasters, the economy has completely collapsed, the government and finance can only rely on Jiangnan, although Jiangnan has been basically controlled by the landlord class, the initiator of capitalism, but at least when you want money, you can collect some to solve the financial difficulties of the imperial court.

The rebel army invaded the south of the Yangtze River, which indicated that the backyard of the Ming Dynasty was on fire, and the rebels were about to jam the throat of the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Chongzhen could certainly have expected the consequences of this triggering some force collapse.

So in September, Chongzhen set the tone in Beijing.

Chen Qiyu was appointed governor of the five provinces, and the Ming army in the five provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Henan, and Chu made every effort to contain the rebel army, and strive to extinguish the fire ignited by the rebel army in a short period of time.

Originally, among the five provinces, there should be a military strength of Shanxi Province, but Tangxi occupied the fire of Shanxi in the east, and Shanxi had been out of the control of the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Chongzhen was glad that Tang Xidong did not take the opportunity to cause chaos, even if God had eyes, where could he care about turning his head to clean up Tang Xidong at this time.

So Jin became Gan.

The Ming army of Gansu and the Ming army of Shaanxi have long been united.

In October, Chen Qiyu took office.

At the beginning of his tenure, coordination was difficult because of the different military orders in various places.

Chen Qiyu did not directly transfer troops to encircle the rebels, but convened local governors to discuss, and at the same time ordered the Ming army to begin to gather at the border of the area occupied by the rebels, and garrisoned heavy troops in the city.

Then he began to divide the provinces into commanders and generals of the Ming army, select elites, and distribute part of the arrears of food and wages.

In this way, Chen Qiyu has a fighting army in his hands, and everyone has been deducted from food and salary for a long time, so they are a little lazy and messy.

With real gold and silver in hand, a group of Ming soldiers finally had the rush to sacrifice their lives to wield their knives.

End of October.

The weather is starting to turn bitterly cold.

The consequences of the anti-army's wanton looting were highlighted.

Blindly coercing the population, but unable to feed, not self-cultivation, self-sufficiency, the weather is bitterly cold, starvation, freezing death, sickness, death, hundreds of people every day.

And in November, when the first heavy snow fell on the earth.

Chen Qiyu began to dispatch the Ming army to surround the place where the rebels gathered.

Constantly suppress the living space of the anti-army, and close the situation in a trap.

After Chongzhen adjusted his strategy, the results were finally highlighted.

The number of people that the anti-army can increase in a short period of time has not yet had time to digest, and many of the old peasants who are directly unarmed and have never seen blood are only the result of expansion in a short period of time.

At this time, as soon as the Ming army was serious, the living space of the anti-army was greatly reduced, especially in the initial period.

Basically, every day, there was a battle report of the Ming army recovering the city occupied by the rebel army, which was delivered to the imperial court.

In just November, there were more than 20 large and small cities recovered by the Ming army.

Emperor Chongzhen, who had set his sights on the land of the Great War every day in the capital, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that the strategy laid out has worked.

But after all, it was the initial stage.

As the anti-army was surrounded by the Ming army closer and closer, the compression became smaller and smaller.

Finally, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty began to counterattack.

The two sides continue to mobilize elites to fight in important strategic positions.

Thousands of people are killed and wounded every day, and both sides win and lose.

But generally speaking, the rebel army now realizes the consequences of the division of troops, that is, no one is powerless to resist the Ming army, and only by cooperating with each other and constantly assisting each other can the Ming army be contained, so that the Ming army can take care of it left and right, and delay the offensive rhythm of the Ming army.

After realizing this, Lao Huihui, who was in Sichuan, was the first to lead the army, abandoning Sichuan and moving closer to Zhang Xianzhong, who occupied the south of Henan.

Lao Huihui was really helpless, because what he met was one of the most powerful generals in the Ming Dynasty at this time, that was Qin Liangyu of the Sichuan White Pole Army.

The old female general Qin Liangyu finally exerted her might, and while blocking Lao Hui Hui to go south, she sent troops to continuously kill the small group of rebels sent by Lao Hui, killing and wounding thousands of people in just half a month.

Lao Huihui was really scared by Qin Liangyu, he didn't dare to fight a big war, he was afraid that the whole army would be annihilated, and a small battle, a dozen or so battles in a row would be a loss of soldiers.

There is really no way, Lao Huihui, who doesn't want to die in Sichuan, chooses to go north and join forces with Zhang Xianzhong.

As Lao Hui withdrew from Sichuan and returned to Henan, the rebels began to consciously converge towards Henan.

King Chuang and Chuang General began to fight and retreat, and went north in Huguang.

And Wang Jiayin also began to deploy heavy troops north of Henan to prevent the Ming army in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces from taking the opportunity to sneak attack the back.

The two sides continued to fight wars, and although the Ming army continued to compress the space of the opposing army, the effective killing and wounding of the opposing army was very few.

On the contrary, in the course of the battle, there were constantly people who killed the good and risked their merits, and slaughtered the old and the young, which made the rebels more and more resentful of the enemy, and the resistance of the Ming army became greater and greater.

A big war at the end of Chongzhen's sixth year failed to come to fruition.

The Ming army and the rebel army were entangled in Henan and Huguang.

I want to cut horizontally, and I can't kill with a knife and two cuts.

As the year approached, the war gradually began to stalemate.

At the time when the Ming army was fighting against the rebels.

In November, Emperor Chongzhen finally received information from Liu Xuehua, an agent of the Jinyi Guard lurking in Shanxi.

Heirloom jade seal!

Emperor Chongzhen was confused, and an ambition in his heart came out like a demonic temptation.

To be honest, there was already a kind of despair in the Ming Dynasty at this time.

From top to bottom of the government and the opposition, everyone has a thought in their hearts that they don't want to think about it or admit it, that is, the Ming Dynasty may be about to destroy the country.

Even when Chongzhen himself encountered setbacks again and again, he would have such desperate thoughts.

He thinks that he is diligent in government, and he does everything himself, and supports him left and right.

But the situation in Daming is still getting worse and worse.

Chongzhen didn't know where the problem was, but he knew that he might be a sinner of the Zhu family and become the lord of the lost country in history.

This kind of thing, Emperor Chongzhen has always tried his best to avoid.

He is not convinced and does not admit defeat, he is the most useless emperor of the Zhu family.

So he has always wanted to prove this, to prove this to the world, he is the master of Zhu Jiaxing, and he is the real master of this world.

If you can get the jade seal of the country.

Emperor Chongzhen had a strong reason to convince himself and the government and the opposition.

I am the chosen one, the master of the world.

Even Taizu couldn't get the heirloom jade seal, I, Zhu Youzhen, got it.

Doesn't that mean that?

So in the midst of such self-deception.

Emperor Chongzhen's desire for the jade seal of the country rose to the status of whether the country's society could last for a long time.