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First of all, Zhang Xianzhong rebelled against Gucheng again, and joined Luo Rucai in Fang County, and then defeated Zuo Liangyu's army and annihilated more than 10,000 people in the left.

After the news of the defeat of the left reached the capital, Emperor Chongzhen was furious and ordered Xiong Wencan and Zhang Renxue, the general soldier of Henan, to be dismissed, and strictly ordered the governors of the enemy to tame and rationally encircle and suppress.

Zhang Xianzhong's rebellion showed that Xiong Wencan's Fuju was completely bankrupt, and as his recommender, Yang Sichang naturally had to bear the main responsibility, and naturally he had to be guilty of negligence and resign from his post as a cabinet member.

Fortunately, Emperor Chongzhen trusted Yang Sichang very much, so he returned his resignation and let him still return to the cabinet. However, the situation in Huguang has reached the point where it is out of control, and a senior officer is really needed to preside over the suppression situation. So, the holy decree came down, and ordered Yang Sichang to serve as the governor as a scholar of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War, and the Dongge University, and gave Shang Fang the sword, and the soldiers and horses of all provinces would cut it off.

Today's imperial court has few soldiers who know the soldiers, Yang Sichang is one of the best, and Emperor Chongzhen still has great expectations for him.

After Yang Sichang went to Xiangyang to preside over the suppression of the bureau, Zhang Xianzhong knew that he was powerful, and he was frightened, and he couldn't resist the formula of the imperial army, so he led his troops westward and entered the mountainous area at the junction of Sichuan and Shaanxi.

Yang Sichang is worthy of being a rare military strategist in the late Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, under his auspices, Zuo Liangyu's department finally intercepted Zhang Xianzhong's main force in Taiping, Sichuan, that is, the modern Wanyuan County Agate Mountain

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In a big battle, Zhang Xianzhong was defeated, losing more than 3,500 elite soldiers, and even the military Pan Duao was captured alive.

At that time, Zhang Xianzhong claimed to be 100,000, but the peasant army was all rogue bandits, and there was no fixed base area. Among the tens of thousands of horses, excluding the old and weak women and children and auxiliary soldiers, there are actually not many people. Therefore, the loss of more than 3,500 elites was almost a nerve-wracking loss for him.

In the next interrupted time, Zhang Xianzhong fled or escaped, and the remnants entered the mountainous area at the junction of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and it was a matter of time and patience to completely exterminate him, which was also a complete failure in a sense.

I have to say that Yang Sichang can indeed fight and deserves the title of strategist.

It's a pity that Yang Sichang has probably stayed in the court for too long and doesn't have much grassroots work experience. In addition, he is used to being arbitrary and dictatorial in his character, lacking the art of compromise and sleek means of dealing with the world, or he is not open-minded enough.

After successive battles and successes, and after making many great achievements, Zuo Liangyu became proud, and gradually did not take Yang Sichang in his eyes, which made Yang Ge Lao very dissatisfied.

In fact, the generals who led the troops in the Ming Dynasty were a little arrogant, and it was enough to appease them when necessary. For example, if the commander who led the troops this time was replaced by Sun Chengzong during the Apocalypse, he would laugh at Zuo Liangyu's pride, as long as you can win the battle. It doesn't matter if you respect your boss or not. Compared with the situation of the civil war, personal grievances are nothing.

However, what kind of person is Yang Sichang, he is a person who even Lu Xiangsheng dares to die, and he is afraid of your little Zuo Liangyu. So, he tilted the resources at hand towards He Renlong, the general soldier of Shaanxi, and began to support this obedient general.

However, this naturally caused Zuo's passive sabotage, which in turn affected the war to pursue Zhang Xianzhong. After all, the power on the left is much greater than that of He Renlong. In the end, Yang Sichang had no choice but to give up He Renlong and support Zuo Liangyu instead, which caused He's dissatisfaction. The two generals and Yang Sichang gradually fell out of harmony, and they were unwilling to work for Yang Sichang anymore.

Zhang Xianzhong took advantage of this opportunity to evade the pursuit and lead his troops into Sichuan.

Sichuan has not encountered war for many years, and the Sichuan soldiers have no combat effectiveness at all, and as soon as the peasant army enters Sichuan, it grows stronger, and important places such as Bazhou, Guangyuan, Mianzhu, and Jiange fall one after another.

When Yang Sichang moved to Chongqing, Shifang, Guanghan, Jintang, Jianyang, and Ziyang north of Chengdu also fell into the hands of the enemy

。 This area is the core area of the Chengdu Plain, which is the main agricultural production area, with rich places and lush people. After getting a great supplement, Zhang Xianzhong soared into the sky.

In November, Zhang Xianzhong took Luzhou and Longchang again. Later, he took Bazhong, perhaps the strategic initiative, and began to take the initiative to attack Yang Sichang. And on the thirteenth day of the first month of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, he broke through the fierce tiger department in Kaixian County. The imperial army was defeated, and in this way, Zhang Xianzhong's road from Sichuan to Huguang has been opened.

With the mobilization of various armies of the imperial court by him, and now they are scattered in various regions from Shaanxi to Chongqing, Hubei is empty, and Zhang Xianzhong decided to go to Xiangyang for a long distance. On the fourth day of the second lunar month, Zhang Xianzhong sent 20 cavalry to infiltrate the city pretending to be officers and soldiers. In the middle of the night, 20 people set fire to the officers and soldiers, and the city was in chaos. In the morning, Zhang Xianzhong led the main force to the city and took this important military town in Hubei without much effort, and the situation in Huguang was suddenly reversed.

After the city was broken, Zhang Xianzhong's luck was so good that he actually caught Zhu Xuming, the king of Xiangyang, Zhu Changfa, the king of Guiyang, Kuang Riguang, the governor of Xiangyang Prefecture, and Li Dajue, the magistrate of the county.

After Yang Sichang heard that Zhang Bu suddenly killed Huguang, he knew that the big thing was not good, so he hurried to Huguang, but unfortunately he was still one step late. When he arrived in Yichang and learned the news of the fall of Xiangyang, Yang Sichang was so sad and angry that he did not eat for several days, vomited blood and died.

After taking Xiangyang, Zhang Xianzhong attacked Xinyang, Henan and met Zuo Liangyu. It was probably too careless, and it actually suffered an unprecedented defeat, tens of thousands of his subordinates were captured and killed, and tens of thousands of mules and horses of all kinds were lost.

There was no way, Zhang Xianzhong could only go east again and enter Henan.

In the past two years, Zhang Xianzhong's team began to gradually expand, coupled with long-term battles, he trained an elite army by fighting. Moreover, the most serious thing is that Huguang and Sichuan have been completely eroded and dilapidated after his scourge.

The lake is wide and ripe, the world is full, and naturally Hubei and Sichuan are important tax places for the imperial court. After this war, it was no longer possible to provide even a trace of human and material support for the Ming Empire.

The most terrifying thing is that Yang Sichang's death as the only commander-level talent in the cabinet who knows the army, coupled with Hong Chengchou's capture in the Northeast Battlefield, the Ming Dynasty's governor-level commander-in-chief talent suddenly broke off.

In the following year, Sun Chuanting was available alone after the imperial court. The problem is that when Sun Chuanting supervised again, he accepted a mess and was powerless.

Zhang Xianzhong made great achievements in Huguang and Sichuan, and Li Zicheng in Shaanxi and Henan was even more unstoppable

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After Li Zicheng was defeated by Hong Chengchou in August of the 11th year of Chongzhen, he led his army to retreat into the mountains at the junction of Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Huguang. After Zhang Xianzhong rebelled against Gucheng in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng went out of the mountain, constantly convened the old department, expanded the troops, and increased his strength geometrically. Because Zhang Xianzhong's department attracted all the officers and soldiers, Li Zicheng fought very easily in Henan.

At this time, Henan happened to encounter an unprecedented drought, and the people could hardly survive, so they rose up one after another, and these were Li Zicheng's inexhaustible sources of soldiers. To put it mildly, throwing out a large piece of bread can easily recruit a large group of young people to join the army.

In December of that year, Li Zicheng broke through Lushan and Yiyang, and then entered Henan Prefecture, and then connected Yiyang, Yongning, Yanshi, Lingbao and other counties.

This time, Li Zicheng was very different from the previous mobile warfare methods, and began to run the base areas and began to recruit and reuse intellectuals, the most famous of which were Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance. The participation of a large number of intellectuals gave the peasant army a qualitative improvement and greatly increased its strength.

Moreover, after he established a complete set of grass-roots political power organs in Henan, he had a bit of a taste of competing for the world, and this hand was much more clever than Zhang Xianzhong, who was stubbornly clinging to the doctrine of using soldiers to do things.

After Li Zicheng swept the counties around Luoyang in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, he set his sights on the big city of Luoyang.

Luoyang is the largest city in Henan and an important town in the Central Plains, and its status is not trivial. In the past, the peasant army repeatedly crossed the border in Henan, all of which went around, and did not have the slightest idea of attacking Luoyang, but now Li Zicheng finally has the strength to conquer such a majestic city in the world.

On December 19, 13 years, Li Zicheng began to siege the city after receiving the internal response. In the early morning of the 21st, Luoyang fell. The Fu King in Luoyang City was also killed by Li Zicheng, and cooked the city broth with venison and set up a Fu Lu banquet.

When the news of King Fu's killing reached Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen was so calm that he cried bitterly: "I can't protect my uncle!" ”

The fall of Luoyang, in addition to the murder of King Fu, is extremely important in terms of politics and economy.

First of all, in the more than 200 years of the Ming Dynasty, there has never been a precedent for the fall of a provincial capital city like Luoyang. The fall of Luoyang inevitably makes people all over the world have a feeling: Even such a big city has fallen, is my Ming Dynasty really going to end?

Economically, the seizure of such a heavyweight metropolis was not something that the previous peasant army could imagine, and the spoils of a hundred county towns were not comparable to Luoyang

。 opened the treasury of Luoyang Mansion and opened the silver treasury of King Fu's Mansion, and Li Zicheng was almost dazzled by the treasures inside. After this battle, the peasant army will not worry about using military funds for the next few years.

After taking Luoyang, Li Zicheng learned that Kaifeng was empty, so he hurriedly led 30,000 horses, including 3,000 of the main soldiers of the Jiading level, forced to march for three days, and arrived at Kaifeng in February of the 14th year of Chongzhen, and then launched the siege of the city.

Kaifeng is the ancient capital, and its military and political status even surpasses Luoyang, and it is the political, economic and cultural center of the Central Plains. For example, Chengdu is to the three southwestern provinces and Lanzhou is to the northwest in the modern society.

Li Zicheng suddenly killed, causing panic in Kaifeng City. No matter how you look at it, Kaifeng can't be kept.

However, there was a figure in Kaifeng City----- Zhu Gongfang, the king of Zhou.

He immediately took out 500,000 taels of silver out of his own pocket and set up a reward: if the people can go out of the city to kill an enemy, they will be rewarded with 50 taels of silver, and those who shoot one will be rewarded with 30 taels of silver.

Even if you don't kill an enemy, it doesn't matter, if you can wound an enemy, or even just a brick, you will have ten taels of silver.

Officers and men who are killed or seriously injured in battle will also be rewarded with 50 taels, and lightly wounded 20 taels.

In this way, the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the city was greatly boosted.

When Luoyang fell, the tragic situation of the high-ranking officials and nobles in the city greatly shocked the officials and nobles in Kaifeng City, and the local gentry even raised the strength of the whole clan to help defend the city.

Li Zicheng originally thought that he could pick a cheap one when he attacked Kaifeng this time, but his pre-war preparations were insufficient. As a result, he gnawed hard bones, attacked for several days to nothing, and in the end, he was shot in one eye by the defenders of the city, and in desperation, he could only retreat in disgrace. This battle is known as the first battle of Kaifeng.

Because Li Zicheng lost too badly in this battle, he had a deep hatred for Kaifeng, so there was the second and third Kaifeng battles.

After Li Zicheng retreated from Kaifeng, he moved to the west of Henan, and in July of the same year, Luo Rucai and Li Zicheng were at odds and brought troops over to join the battalion.

In the same year, Li Zicheng defeated the officers and soldiers in Xiangcheng and captured the governor of Shaanxi, Fu Zonglong, alive. And successively captured Shangshui, Fugou, Xuchang and Changge in Kaifeng Prefecture.

In November, Li Zicheng captured Nanyang, captured alive and executed a large number of officials such as Mengruhu, and the Tang king was also killed

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In December, Li Zicheng took Xiangcheng.

The climate is even under Zhenping, Xinye, Tangxian, Ruzhou, Chenliu, and Tongxu.

Then, the second battle of Kaifeng began. The soldiers and civilians in the city resisted desperately, and the two sides fought fiercely for more than 20 days, and both suffered huge losses.

In desperation, Li Zicheng took the initiative to retreat in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen and turned to attack Yancheng, and the second battle of Kaifeng ended.

Although Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai did not take Kaifeng, they achieved a great victory in Yancheng and killed Wang Qiaonian, the governor of Shaanxi.

Wang Qiaonian was originally the governor of Shaanxi, and after Fu Zonglong's death, Wang took over his position. Now the main task of the governor of Shaanxi is to exterminate Li Zicheng, Chongzhen fifteen years of spring, Wang Qiaonian cobbled together 30,000 people Ma Dong out of Tongguan.

He didn't know where he picked them up, so he ordered them to recruit warriors from all over the country and send them to his army. It can be said that the soldiers do not know the generals, and the generals do not know the soldiers. Hell it would be nice if such a unit could have combat effectiveness!

This Wang Qiaonian also did a sloppy thing before leaving the customs, digging up Li Zicheng's ancestral grave, and he and Li Zicheng can be described as deep as the sea.

The enemies were very red when they saw each other, and Li Zicheng couldn't control the other troops, so he focused on Wang Qiaonian to fight.

On 13 February, Li Zicheng defeated the official army in the east of Xiangcheng, and He Renlong fled without a fight and slipped back to Shaanxi. Zuo Liangyu, who was also on the battlefield, saw He Renlong running away, and knew that he couldn't defeat Li Zicheng by himself, and besides, He Renlong's hand was too bad, which shook the morale of the troops and made them unable to fight anymore, so he also led his troops eastward.

On the 17th, Li Zicheng captured Xiangcheng, captured Wang Qiaonian alive, and then was killed.

Governor Wang died a tragic death, first with his tongue cut off, and then by Ling Chi alive.

Taking the opportunity of the great victory, Li Zicheng began to attack Kaifeng again, and the third battle of Kaifeng began.

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It was against this background that Sun Yuan made three consecutive twists and turns at the beginning of the year, requesting to lead the Ningxiang army into the Yuping Rebellion to conquer the thief army.

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