When you are cornered, you will really hold together.

The Shaanxi rebels, who were trapped in Linxian County, began to learn to abandon dissent and return to the same path.

The Ming army came all the way north, and there was no way to retreat at this time.

The only way to choose the elite who dare to fight and fight to the death with the Ming army is to fight.

"Overlord of Chu, break the cauldron and sink the boat, the one hundred and two Qin passes belong to Chu after all, where others can beat our old Qin people, can't we Qin people pierce the Ming Dynasty, today hundreds of thousands of sons are trapped in Lin County, and the Ming army is killed, even if they die, they will crash out of the net and break it."

These are the original words of King Chuang.

End of July.

The Ming army approached Linxian.

The rebels selected 150,000 strong troops, and the women and children in the rear camp hid in the mountains, determined to fight to the death.

At the forefront of the Ming army was the general Yang Yuchun.

At the end of July, it arrived at the county seat of Lin.

Yang Yuchun is a rabbit who is happy, running fast, and thinking about taking the first place to eliminate the thief.

July 29.

Yang Yuchun arrived outside the rebel camp and lurked in the mountains and forests, waiting for a wave of stealing the camp in the middle of the night.

Late at night, Yang Yuchun repeated his old tricks and shouted the slogan of killing the enemy to get a bounty again.

But this time, there was no real money in front of him, and there were not many soldiers who were willing to believe that Yang Yuchun was empty.

In the middle of the night, Yang Yuchun led the army into the rebel camp.

But at this time, how could the rebels, who had been cornered, wake up from time to time.

The general Li Zicheng personally sat in the front camp and killed the rebels.

Li Zicheng led the crowd to pretend to be difficult to resist, luring the Ming army to go deeper, and then the army besieged it, with bows and arrows continuously.

20,000 Yang Yuchun troops under the Ming army, 8,000 dead and wounded, and the rest all knelt on the ground and surrendered.

Yang Yuchun was killed by dozens of arrows on the spot.

The rebels won the first battle of the Ming army's encirclement and suppression.

Late at night, Li Zicheng took Yang Yuchun's head into the middle camp.

The strategist Gu Junen offered a plan, disguised himself as the Ming army, raised the flag of Yang Yuchun's army, and lured the troops to the north to support, and ambushed them halfway.

King Chuang, Zhang Xianzhong, and Wang Jiayin nodded in agreement.

Then Li Zicheng personally led the elite, mixed with 2,000 Ming army prisoners, and organized 5,000 people to carry the banner of Yang Yuchun to the south.

At noon on the second day, Zuo Liangyu commanded 30,000 Henan Ming troops and Li Zicheng disguised the Ming army to meet Qigou Mountain, fifty miles south of Lin County.

Yang Yuchun's general, Zhang Zhulai, was forced to give a fake military report: "Staff General Yang Yuchun is leading the army to encircle and suppress a group of rebels, but the number of the other side is tens of thousands. ”

The person who reported the news was indeed Yang Yuchun's general, Zuo Liangyu had seen it twice before, and the 5,000 Ming army was all prepared by the Ming army led by Yang Yuchun.

Zuo Liangyu heard that he had military merits, and under his greed, he led the army to the north quickly.

To the uninhabited valley three miles south of Linxian County.

Li Zicheng led the army to enter first, and Zuo Liangyu cautiously advanced.

The two sides are separated by several hundred meters.

In the middle of the valley, Li Zicheng led the army to march in a hurry and widened the distance.

Then the rocks on the valley tumbled down, and the sound shook like thunder.

Zuo Liangyu immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops out of the valley, but the front and back roads were surrounded by boulders.

30,000 Ming troops were trapped in the valley.

In a big battle, the rebels relied on stones and firewood, which made Zuo Liangyu taste the pain of being on fire.

After the battle, Zuo Liangyu once again fled south with 2,000 remnants of soldiers through the cracks in the stone.

A rebel army behind him continued to chase and kill, Zuo Liangyu had the intention to go south to find the northbound Sichuan army, but unfortunately the rebels intercepted again and again, Zuo Liangyu could only go all the way to the west, and the distance from the Sichuan army was getting farther and farther away.

After a major battle, the living force of the Ming army in Henan was reduced by 50,000, accounting for almost half.

Li Zicheng led the army north again, and this time, there was not only the banner of Yang Yuchun but also the banner of Zuo Liangyu.

It's noon again.

Deng Xi led 50,000 Sichuan troops to arrive at 50 miles of Lin County.

This time, the information of the lure became: Yang Yuchun found the back camp of the rebel army, waiting for Zuo Liangyu to go north, and the two armies mixed into the rear camp of the rebel army this morning, but the number of the other party was too large, and it took a long time to attract the siege of the rebel army, Yang Yuchun and Zuo Liangyu Qian Qi went south for help.

When Deng Xi heard this, he fell into a contradiction, not because he saw through the anti-army disguise in front of him, but in the original plan, he waited for the white pole army to go north and then attack together, but at this time, the Henan Ming army was greedy for merit and rushed into the encircled rebel army, and he was not able to save it.

In the end, Deng Xi still gritted his teeth and decided that even if he couldn't give the rebel army a big defeat, he would send out his brother troops, after all, he was in Henan, and if he didn't save him when he saw death, he would be unable to move an inch in the future.

So the 50,000 Sichuan army went north again, this time choosing a small road, in order to avoid the encirclement of the rebels.

50,000 rebels went to the foot of Mangshan Mountain, 20 miles from Linxian County.

Suddenly, the mighty rebels rushed down from the mountain, and there were also rebels in the dense forest at the foot of the mountain.

At this time, Li Zicheng, who was mixed in the Sichuan army, also began to attack, and directly led the army to slash and kill in the Sichuan army.

Flanked on both sides, there were also anti-thieves lurking in the array.

Deng Xi kept ordering to meet the enemy and change formations, but unfortunately he had already been killed, and the Sichuan army was slow to react.

By the time he reflected on it, he had fallen into the encirclement of more than 100,000 elite rebels.

Deng Xi rushed left and right, constantly fighting.

It's a pity that he still failed to organize his subordinate Sichuan troops to concentrate on resisting.

A big battle, fought for two hours.

In the end, Deng Xi led the cavalry and a small group of foot soldiers to rush away.

The rebels still ordered the cavalry to attack and pursue.

After defeating the Sichuan army, King Chuang and Zhang Xianzhong did not stop again, led the army south, and learned from the mouth of the Sichuan army that the white pole army had approached a hundred miles away from Linxian County.

The two opposing forces have won big victories one after another, and this is the time for great victories.

So the thief leader discussed, took advantage of the momentum and went south, and defeated the white pole army in one fell swoop.

In the evening, eighty miles south of Linxian County, Houjiaji.

After the rebels arrived at Houjiaji, Wang Jiayin's strategists offered advice, so it was better to scatter into Houjiaji, pretend to be villagers, wait for the arrival of the white pole army, and take advantage of the situation to kill.

In the evening, the white-pole army hurried north.

To the Hou family set, the army took a short rest.

But it's just a short break.

The White Pole Army, which was just about to set up camp, was caught off guard by the sudden counter-army.

Fortunately, the White Pole Army is, after all, the three major soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

The battle was not chaotic, and the Ma family and his wife took the lead, constantly rushing to kill in the anti-army.

A great battle was fought until nightfall and dawn.

The two sides are constantly scuffling in the dark.

By dawn, after a great battle, both sides were exhausted.

The rebels suffered 40,000 casualties, and the White Pole Army also suffered nearly 20,000 casualties.

At dawn, the anti-army cavalry that pursued Deng Xi arrived and fought again after the White Pole Army.

With the last shred of strength, the white pole army struggled to support.

Ma Xianglin led the cavalry of the White Pole Army to fight with the anti-army cavalry.

He beheaded more than a dozen leaders of the rebel army in a row, and repelled the offensive of the rebel cavalry.

But his wife Zhang Fengyi was dying with two arrows in the war.

Ma Xianglin was heartbroken to save his wife.

So he led his army to retreat south.

After the anti-army war, he was already tired, there were many foot soldiers, and he was afraid that the Ming army would come to support him.

So he gave up going south.

End of July and beginning of August.

The war that took place in Linn County.

After killing and injuring a large number of main forces of the Sichuan Army and the White Pole Army.

It indicates that the encirclement and suppression of the Ming army in Henan ended in failure.

Perhaps, after Emperor Chongzhen, who was waiting in the capital, received the battle report, he was afraid that his eyes would be dark, and his hope would turn into disappointment.