Henan in June.

War is like wildfire, burning from the northeast.

There were hundreds of thousands of anti-army troops and more than 100,000 Ming troops.

Zuo Liangyu was defeated in Wu'an City, and only 2,000 of the 20,000 Changping troops remained.

The Sichuan army Deng Xi and the Ma family and his wife were ordered to go north to Henan day and night.

However, the distance is long and the time is prolonged, which is more and more beneficial to the anti-army.

While cleaning the battlefield and looting the city, he coerced the people and coerced the army.

50,000 died, and another 50,000 looted in the blink of an eye.

When the flood receded, the people were homeless and had no land to cultivate, and there were many people who rebelled against the army and spontaneously joined the army.

In mid-October, the rebels abandoned Wu'an and began to move south.

Henan is mountainous in the north and south, plain in the south, and the terrain is different from the north and south, so the population in the south is more than that in the north.

If the rebels want to gain momentum, going south is the only way to go.

Just as the Sichuan army was on the way north, the rebel army had attacked the city and plundered the land all the way, attacked Cizhou and occupied Anyang, and in a blink of an eye, it had occupied most of the area of Zhangde Mansion in the northeast of Henan.

So he coerced the people again and looted the big households.

End of June.

The rebels went south again.

This time, in the attack on Wei Hui's mansion, he was ruthlessly cleaned up by Yang Yuchun, a general of Henan.

Yang Yuchun, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will often meet the spring with only one surname.

He is also a little brave and a little strategic, but he is almost the same as Zuo Liangyu, and he loves to be greedy and good at wine.

The rebel army went to Weihui Mansion, and Yang Yuchun led the Ming army to defend the city.

At the critical moment, this person also has a bit of courage.

While coercing the big families in the city to support the wealthy families, several chests of gold and silver treasures were placed at the head of the city.

The big families in the city knew that once the rebels entered the city, they would inevitably bear the first harm, so they were very cooperative.

And the Ming army in the city, who has been deducted from food and salary all the year round, is shy in their pockets, and dares to give up their lives when they look at the gold and silver at this moment.

So the anti-army fought for several days, and attacked the city wall several times, but they were all repelled by the Ming army.

After 20,000 dead and wounded.

Seeing that the morale of the Ming army was still greatly boosted.

King Chuang, Wang Jiayin, Zhang Xianzhong and others discussed it, and felt that they would bypass Weihui Mansion and continue south.

Blindly being dragged by Weihui Mansion is to give up the time to the anti-army.

When the rebels retreated, Yang Yuchun was naturally a great achievement.

But this person is very dishonest, said that there is a reward for killing the enemy, after the war, the reward is a reward, but on the basis of the original ten taels of silver per person, half of it is directly deducted, and there is no mention of the Ming army on the city that died in battle.

So Yang Yuchun ambushed a shadow of hatred in the Ming army under his command.

People are like this, if you say give three taels, you will kill the enemy for the silver, but if you say give ten taels, the result will be reduced by half, which will naturally provoke the soldiers to hold a grudge in their hearts.

As soon as the rebels moved south.

Yang Yuchun made another decision, that is, to take the initiative to send troops to pursue the rebels, he knew that the Sichuan army was on the way north, and he only had more than 10,000 Ming troops in his hands, so it was naturally difficult to resist hundreds of thousands of rebels.

But he can pick up the cheap, waiting for the Sichuan army to fight against the rebels, even if he sneaks on the side a few times, he can earn a lot of credit.

The position of the general can also be raised by one level.

In addition, even Zuo Liangyu was defeated, but he defended Wei Hui and killed a lot of enemies.

In this way, he is naturally arrogant and indulgent, coupled with his greed.

I had the idea of following the rebels to the south and waiting for an opportunity to sneak attack.

But at this time, Yang Yuchun ignored the hostility of the army towards him.

The rebels bypassed Wei Hui and headed south.

This time, instead of going east, he continued to move south along the border of Zezhou, Shanxi.

In order to bypass a few garrison cities, in case of encountering a Yang Yuchun, wouldn't there be a lot of casualties?

So at the end of June, the rebels arrived, close to the county seat of Jiyuan in Zezhou.

And at this time, the Sichuan army finally went north.

The two sides are about to meet in Jiyuan City.

The 50,000 Sichuan Army Deng Xi was the chief general, the 50,000 white-pole army led by the Ma family and his wife, plus the 50,000 Ming army in Henan Province, against hundreds of thousands of anti-army.

As early as when Chongzhen ordered the Sichuan army to go north, the ministers of the court said that the Sichuan army and the white pole army accounted for three, the Mao army accounted for one, and the 150,000 army to suppress the thieves could be guaranteed.

The 150,000 army is the largest number of troops invested by the Ming Dynasty in the war against thieves over the years.

It is inevitable that the DPRK and China will not be relaxed.

The Ming army blocked the rebel army outside the city of Jiyuan.

It's a mountainous place.

Outside the city, there is a plain.

When the rebels heard that more than 100,000 Ming troops were coming to surround them, they did not dare to relax, nor did they dare to divide their troops to break through.

I had no choice but to set up a position outside the city and make a posture of a showdown.

At this moment, there are many rebels, but dragging their families and wanting to divide and transfer their troops will only be eaten up by the Ming army one by one.

Helpless, only hard resistance can be done all the way.

The scouts of the Ming army learned that the rebels had set up camp outside the city, and they were no longer in a hurry.

While dispatching the surrounding troops to gather, they took a short rest.

At the end of June, last year's heavy rains were gone.

The weather is hot and the earth is scorching.

The Ming army wore uniforms, fortunately, they had adapted to it all year round, but the rebels took off their clothes one after another.

This day is about to enter July.

The Ming army marched to confront the rebels outside the city.

The large camps on both sides stretched for dozens of miles.

In the middle of the camp, several generals deliberated.

Zuo Liangyu proposed to concede noon and wait until the afternoon to attack in the evening.

Yang Yuchun and others seconded the proposal.

But Zuo Liangyu's proposal was strongly rejected by Deng Xi and the Ma couple.

According to what the two sides have seen, they are from Sichuan, and the Sichuan heat is very hot here, and most of the Sichuan troops can withstand high temperatures.

If the fighting starts in the morning and the noon is very hot, firstly, the physical strength will be exhausted, and secondly, the opposing army will be unable to endure the heat, and it will inevitably lead to slackness, and at this time, the Sichuan army is more heat-resistant than the anti-army, so it can take the opportunity to increase the offensive, break the anti-army thieves in one fell swoop, and kill all sides.

Zuo Liangyu's proposal was to seize power, but unfortunately his troops were beaten to pieces.

There are no soldiers in his hands, and he is not hard to speak.

The Henan Ming army followed the big slip, the Sichuan army went east and they went east, and the Sichuan army pointed to the west and they pointed to the west.

So he did what Deng Xi and the Ma couple said.

The first day of the seventh month.

In the morning, the sun rises and the sun rises.

The Ming army began to set up camp.

The anti-army naturally acted accordingly, and the two sides were one mile apart, and each team faced each other.

Then a cannon rang out.

The artillery shells of the Ming army were the first to fall into the rebel army.

As soon as the shells came out, the prelude to the great battle began.

The armies began to rush towards each other.

Ten thousand people galloped, and the earth shook.

As soon as it was 300 meters away, a rain of arrows rose into the air, covering the sky and shouting to kill the sky.

From the sky, the mighty army was like a tide, mixed together.

The fight between the two sides began.

Blood splattered, bodies were thrown away, screams were repeated, and corpses were trampled into mud.

The Ming army relied on the military formation, and the anti-army relied on many people.

The cavalry fought on the periphery, and the archers each shot at the rear of the opponent.

The fight is like a quagmire, trapping both sides in it, deeper and deeper.

The Ming army relied on armor and swords to constantly break into the rebels, and the rebels mostly relied on wooden shields to constantly block the Ming army's offensive route, and the fighting on both wings was the most intense.

At the beginning of the war, the Ming army had the upper hand, relying on equipment and battle formations, killing and injuring the opposing army like killing chickens and slaughtering sheep, and after fighting for an hour, the anti-army relied on a large number of people, and the Ming army fell into encirclement and began to recover the decline.

The two sides fought, and in a blink of an eye, noon passed, and the hottest afternoon had arrived.

The army fights and consumes physical strength, and the scorching sun sweats but cannot replenish water and food.

As the war entered the afternoon, the scorching sun became even cooler.

The situation is exactly as Deng Xi and Ma said.

Deng Xi led the pro-army and the Ma couple to fight into the depths of the rebel army, and fought several major thieves among the rebels.

In just half an hour, more than ten thieves have been beheaded.

The Sichuan army exerted its strength, and the Ming army's military formation suddenly went deeper, and they went towards the rebel camp in one go.

Many of the rebels have lost their strength and find it difficult to hold on.

Wait for the Sichuan army to enter the large array of the rebel army.

Deng Xi and the Ma couple killed more than ten generals in a row.

Wang Jiayin took the lead in starting to collect his troops.

The rebels began to march towards defeat.

At this point, the battle is decided!