In October of the 11th year of Yongli, Chen Wen left Guizhou and returned to Wuchang to preside over the meeting, while Li Dingguo hurried back to Kunming soon after entering Guizhou. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe possibility of war in the southwest has gradually disappeared as the commanders of the two armies continue to open up geographically, but in the northwest, the flames of war have long been rekindled.

Half a year ago, Zhang Tianfu, the general soldier of the Han and Qiang in Shaanxi of the Qing Dynasty, played the banner of the general army of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty and led the people to oppose the Qing Dynasty. Upon hearing the news, Ma Zhixian, the governor of the three sides of Sichuan and Shaanxi, immediately organized the Ganshan Green Battalion to encircle and suppress Zhang Tianfu's department, but Zhang Tianfu was defeated in the first battle.

The reason for this is that with the gradual pacification of the Gansu-Shaanxi Anti-Qing Movement by the Manchu Qing Dynasty in previous years, and Hong Chengchou's formation of the Southeast Economic Standard in response to the rise of Chen Wen, a large number of Gansu-Shaanxi Green Battalions with strong combat effectiveness were mobilized to the south.

Next, the southeast Jingbiao was defeated in Jiangxi, and few were able to escape back to Shaanxi, and many of them were directly absorbed by Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, and the combat effectiveness of the Ganxi Green Battalion was greatly reduced due to the flood of new soldiers, and it was naturally defeated by Zhang Tianfu's old battalion.

As soon as Zhang Tianfu won the war, he widely publicized the news of the Manchu Qing's several defeats in Jiangnan, and trumpeted that the Manchus were now strong in the outside and in the middle, and soon the anti-Qing movement in Gansu and Shaanxi showed signs of resurgence.

In the next few months, Ma Zhixian organized several encirclement and suppression, and as a result, Zhang Tianfu seemed to have the ability to predict, and he was able to jump out of the encirclement circle every time, and once after jumping out of the encirclement, he went around the back of Ma Zhixian's army and gave him a dull stick.

With Zhang Tianfu's divine help, the scale of the anti-Qing movement in Gansu and Shaanxi became larger and larger, and he soon gained a firm foothold in Gansu. On the side of the Qing army, the 50,000 Guanning army of Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, and the 3,000 Han army banners of Li Guohan, the guard of Gushan Ezhen Morgen, needed to be stationed on the front line of Hanzhong and Baoning to prevent the Ming army from moving north; The two thousand Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners of the Four Banners on the Right Wing of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, were stationed in Xi'an to defend the provincial capital. As a result, the Qing army in the Shaanxi and Gansu areas fell into the dilemma that the elite troops did not dare to move, and the fish belly troops could not be defeated.

At the beginning of July, Ma Zhixian was seriously ill and could not be a director, and he was succeeded by Zuo Liangyu's generals, only the governor of Sichuan in Baoning, and Li Guoying, the famous general of the green camp who defeated Liu Wenxiu in the first battle of Baoning in the sixth year of Yongli.

Li Guoying knew that the troops were good at guarding, and he also had a certain degree of understanding of Zhang Tianfu's department, so he simply asked for a holy decree to mobilize Wu Sangui's Guanning Army, supplemented by Li Guohan's 2,000 Han army flag, and launched a meeting to suppress Zhang Tianfu's department with the absolute superiority of troops.

By the middle of October, the main force of Zhang Tianfu's department was besieged in Xiningwei, and the Manchu army surrounded it. As long as those newly rising anti-Qing rebels do not have Zhang Tianfu's headquarters as the backbone, Li Guoying believes that they can be wiped out by relying on the green battalion at that time, and there will be no need to work these elite troops.

"I arrested Zhang Tianfu this time, but Ben Shuai wants to ask this guy, the court treats him so favorably, but he led the troops to rebel, what is it for?"

At the end of last year, the Qing court ordered Zhang Tianfu to lead the elite of his troops into Beijing, in order to restore the strength of the Han army flag by raising the flag mentioned by Shunzhi and Liu Cheng. As a result, before the arrival of the holy decree, Zhang Tianfu took the lead in complaining about his illness, and the matter dragged on until this year, and after this year, Zhang Tianfu shirked it with various excuses.

In this regard, the Qing court was very puzzled, especially Zhang Tianfu's brother Zhang Tianlu committed suicide in Suzhou, and was also established as a loyal minister by the Manchu Qing Dynasty Today, is there still a way for him to retreat if he does not raise the flag. For this reason, the Qing court issued an order to reprimand Zhang Tianfu, but the will arrived at the station, but Zhang Tianfu killed the angel in public, cut off the braids, and raised troops against the Qing.

Zhang Tianfu's subordinates were all brought by him from Jiangnan, and they were also the old subordinates who had followed their brothers for many years, and their loyalty and combat effectiveness were very high, which caused great trouble to the suppression situation in Ganshan, and the anti-Qing fire that was close to extinguishing before looked like it was about to reappear again.

In recent years, there have never been a few people who resisted the Qing Dynasty, and there were many people who turned to the Manchu Qing Dynasty officers to raise troops to resist the Qing Dynasty, and there was a big chaos in Shaanxi alone, and other officers such as Ma De and others also abounded. However, Zhang Tianfu was a banner man of the Han army, and his brother was the same, and even died for the Manchu Dynasty, so it was really unexpected that such people would rebel.

Wu Sangui's nephew, who is also the general under his command, Wu Yingqi, said so, and the generals also nodded frequently, even Wu Sangui, Li Guoying, Li Guohan and others. In this regard, their expressions were all confused, but if they wanted to know the truth, they still had to wait until the day the city was broken.

"Lord, the imperial court has lost Jiangnan, and now the grain is cut off, if it is not for the conquest of North Korea, I am afraid that the banner people in the capital will be short of food. Now like this, it is really costly to besiege it, so let's capture the city as soon as possible, return to the station, and save some money and food for the imperial court. ”

What Li Guoying is saying is the current fact: Shaanxi Province alone has the highest military expenditure in the whole country, and in the eighth year of Yongli alone, it was as high as 3.11 million taels of silver, followed by Huguang and Guangdong provinces together, which was only more than 2.8 million taels, and the other provinces were only one million taels.

Chen Wen rose in Zhejiang, and the military spending of Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces rose sharply, especially between the seventh year of Yongli and the eighth year of Yongli, the formation of the southeast economic standard made Jiangxi's military expenditure once climbed to more than two million taels of silver, but compared with Shaanxi's military expenditure, it was still not on the same level.

Over the years, Chen Wen has been cutting the source of military spending for the Qing Dynasty as always, but things in this world have their own advantages and disadvantages, and the financial revenue has been decreasing with the loss of land. In particular, in the eighth year of Yongli and the ninth year of Yongli, the former caused the Manchus to lose control of Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Fujian provinces in just a few months, while the latter lost a series of important financial lands in northern Zhejiang, Jiangnan, and Huainan, which was a devastating blow to the Manchus' finances, which were already unable to make ends meet.

Now, relying on the plans of Hu Quancai and Liu Cheng, the Qing army marched eastward and conquered Korea, thereby increasing a large amount of income. However, a mere North Korea really can't compare with Jiangnan, and the huge fiscal deficit still exists, and the admonitions that Li Guoying just made to Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui also understands that this is by no means groundless.

"What Li Zhijun said is very true, this king deeply cares, every day that passes under the army in this city, the court has to pay a lot of money and food for it, and those of us who are slaves still have to think about saving some for the emperor."

Li Guoying is the governor Yes, Li Guohan can be regarded as a real and unknown supervisor, but Wu Sangui's official position, title, and the proportion of his subordinates in the army of the commander all make Wu Sangui the actual commander of this army. At this moment, Wu Sangui affirmed Li Guoying's statement, and even if the decision to start attacking the city tomorrow was made, all the generals and generals also retreated to the camp to make preparations.

The Acropolis of Xining, founded in the 19th year of Hongwu, has a defense system composed of four gates and four corner towers, but the city wall is not very strong. The earliest Xining Acropolis is the masterpiece of Geng Bingwen, the veteran of Changxing, who is good at guarding in the Battle of Jingyan, and later came to Wanli for three years, when Xining Bingdao Dong Ruhan led the people to strengthen the city wall project on a large scale, the wall base is made of large stones, and the wall is inlaid with bricks, as if it is already a strong city in the northwest.

The besieging Qing army attacked the whole army the next day, and the east of the city was the main direction of attack, and it was also the core of the Qing army -- Wu Sangui's more than 10,000 troops and Li Guohan's 2,000 Han army banner camp direction, while the other three sides were besieged by the green battalion who participated in the suppression, so as not to be found by Zhang Tianfu to achieve a breakthrough.

The Qing army had the advantage of its own strength, without the slightest cover-up, Zhang Tianfu was a general, so he could naturally see the way out, even if the main force was transferred to the east of the city to deal with the siege battle, the other directions were only a small number of troops and horses of the headquarters to cooperate with the righteous army to assist in the defense. With the failure of the last persuasion, the siege battle officially kicked off.

The main attack of the Qing army was Wu Sangui's army, he had 30,000 soldiers and horses in the Guanning army headquarters at Shanhaiguan, which was the absolute main force of the Ming Dynasty at that time to guard the Shanhaiguan gate, Li Zicheng captured Beijing, Wu Sangui annexed Tang Tong and some other Ming army soldiers, about 20,000. This total of 50,000 troops has always been Wu Sangui's headquarters of soldiers and horses, and it is also a boulder used by the Manchu Qing to block the road from Sichuan to Shaanxi and crush Yungui.

However, this time the army attacked the city, and Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses always seemed a little weak. The first offensive was quickly repulsed by the defenders, and Wu Sangui's Guanning army retreated without even suffering any losses, but instead threw a lot of siege equipment under the city.

Wu Sangui was very dissatisfied with the incompetence of his subordinate generals, and publicly whipped Wang Pingfan, the military general who led the attack, and immediately began to prepare for the next round of offensives.

Wu Sangui's headquarters soldiers and horses are like this, and Li Guohan can't understand it, but he is not so much to help the war, but to come to supervise the army, so he can only continue to wait and see the situation.

In the second offensive, Wu Sangui's will to fight was significantly enhanced, but the firmness of the defenders became even more insurmountable. The defenders were so what they expected, because they were Qing troops, Zhang Tianfu was also a Qing army before, after the Qing army broke through the city of the anti-Qing rebel army or the Ming army, everyone was psychologically prepared for what kind of fate the people in the city would be, so Zhang Tianfu's defense this time can be described as extremely resolute.

The second offensive soon failed, but this time, as the troops of Wang Ping's division retreated, the east gate of the Xining Acropolis was also directly opened, and the cavalry of the brigade was killed, making it clear that Zhang Tianfu wanted to further expand the results of the battle, so as to eliminate more Qing troops and reduce the pressure for the next defense.

However, the gap between the forces of the two sides was too large, and the cavalry was even more so, seeing that Zhang Tianfu had miscalculated, Wu Sangui also asked Li Guohan to send cavalry to try to seize the city gate while dispatching troops to meet Wang Pingfan, so as to end the battle as soon as possible.

For the sake of the financial pressure of our Qing Dynasty, Li Guohan had to lead the cavalry of the Eight Banners of the Han Army to attack and go straight to the Xining Acropolis, and handed over the infantry and artillery to the Ministry to be in charge of the commander.

Li Guohan led his troops to attack, bypassing Zhang Tianfu's cavalry, which had already formed a regiment with the cavalry sent by Wu Sangui to help, and the gap between them and the city wall, and rushed into the Xining Acropolis from the city gate with arrows from the head of the city.

Things were going too well, especially the gates closing so slowly, it didn't look like the reaction of a veteran general. However, the war horse was galloping, and Li Guohan thought that at this time, he and the cavalry in the vanguard were already in the city, but when he saw the layout in the city, a thought suddenly exploded in his mind.

"Hit the mark!"

Inside the east gate of the Acropolis, it is only a few dozen paces away, and a low wall half a person high has been built in front of it and in the streets and alleys on both sides. In front of the low wall were neatly arranged horses and antlers, and behind the low wall, there were archers, drawing bows and arrows pointing at them from afar. When he looked back, the archers above the city had already reversed course, and had targeted them just as the archers in the city did.

"Run!"

Li Guohan gave an order, and his subordinates were all veterans who had been in battle for a long time, and they reacted extremely quickly. However, the terrain is narrow, it is not easy for the war horses to turn around, and more cavalry is constantly pouring into the city. Soon, with the swing of the handsome flag on the head of the city, the Eight Banners Cavalry, which had already been in chaos, ushered in a storm of arrows.

At the same time that the plot was reversed in the city, the same array of handsome flags just now waved, and the cavalry of Wu Sangui's department and Zhang Tianfu's cavalry, who had already been in a group, also let go of their contradictions with each other, and rolled towards the Eight Banners cavalry who had not yet entered the city like brothers. At the same time, as Wu Sangui's handsome banner echoed, the Guan Ning army, which had not participated in the battle, turned its guns under the leadership of the officers and directly killed the infantry and artillery of the Eight Banners......

Defected before the battle, such a drama was not staged in Qujing, Yunnan, but made up for this scene outside the Xining Acropolis, nearly 4,000 miles north of Yunnan. Wu Sangui and Zhang Tianfu were unintentional, and Wu Sangui's son-in-law Hu Guozhu led part of the cavalry to intercept the rout of the Eight Banners Army and the Green Battalion on the way to prevent the news from leaking prematurely.

In the afternoon, the battle was completely over, with the two thousand Han army and eight banners to guard Wu Sangui for many years on the solid mountain Ezhen Morgen guard Li Guohan was shot to death in the Xining Acropolis, the infantry outside the city was crushed by more than ten times their own opponents, even Li Guoying who was sitting outside the West City Gate was captured by Wu Ying, and even with the help of the surrounding terrain of Xining Wei, there were very few defeated soldiers who could escape, which can be called a complete victory.

"Zhang Shuai has worked hard, he can have this great victory, Zhang Shuai has made great contributions, and this king asked the court for Zhang Shuai's credit."

After solving Li Guohan, Wu Sangui removed the reins that bound him, and he was very happy. It's just that the court in his mouth is no longer the Qing court with its capital in Beijing, but the Yongli small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty that is now temporarily living in Kunming.

"The prince has a good reputation, and the last general is just trying to save his life, thanks to the king's clever calculation, he played with these Tartars in applause, and he had this great victory. With all due respect, the court can canonize the King of Qin, the King of Jin, the King of Shu and even His Royal Highness the King of Yue, with the prince's great martial arts over the years, how can there be a prince title to be considered humiliating. The last general followed the tail of the prince, and it was the greatest honor to establish a meritorious career. ”

Hearing this, Wu Sangui laughed, and then said to Zhang Tianfu and the generals under his command: "The ancients said that Gou is rich and noble, don't forget each other. How I, Wu Sangui, treat people, all of you have seen it yourself. Not much else, this time this glory and wealth, this king should share it with all the kings! ”