The peasant army burned down the central capital, which had completely angered Emperor Chongzhen, and in order to exterminate the peasant army, he had exhausted all available methods.

After Lu Xiangsheng conquered the southeast, his troops were only 20,000, all of whom were Huguang soldiers. At this time, Hong Chengchou of Shaanxi also had no soldiers at hand. Emperor Chongzhen was also generous, adding 70,000 troops to participate in the encirclement and suppression, and later sent another 20,000, and all of them were elite divisions drawn from Liaodong.

In order to convey to the people of the world that he will destroy the thief army, Emperor Chongzhen also issued an edict in October.

"I am a good virtue, a great unification, and the intention is to renew with the world, and use the old ancestors. Unexpectedly, he relied on non-people, and then the captives were rampant...... The land was ravaged again, and the living creatures were reborn. Heart-wrenching, how can it be embarrassing! If you don't eradicate it......"

Lu Xiangsheng, who was supported by the imperial court and respected by the emperor, was greatly inspired, and intended to show his strength in Henan and Huguang.

Lu Xiangsheng is worthy of being one of the most capable commanders in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, and as soon as he took office, the situation in Henan suddenly changed.

The peasants who entered Henan attacked in all directions. One fought from Song County in Henan Province to Runing Mansion, and then entered Kaifeng Mansion, besieged Mi County, and then retreated to besiege Xinyang and was defeated. Helpless, I can only go south into Xiaogan, Hubei, Yingshan.

The other army was also driven by Lu Xiangsheng to the Huang'an area of Hubei.

It can be said that the war situation in Henan has undergone earth-shaking changes. But at this time, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng suddenly arrived in Henan, and the balance of strength suddenly tilted in the direction of the peasant army.

Gao and Li stayed in Shaanxi and did not go east to Henan with other peasants, and originally, Hong Chengchou no longer had any strength. But at this time, something big happened. When the official army and Li Zicheng were at a standout, Gao Jie, the general who ranked third in the camp, surrendered to the imperial court.

Gao Jie is the most effective cadre under Li Zicheng, controlling more than half of the elite of the camp. Li Zicheng's wife, Xing Shi, was in charge of military resources and was responsible for grain support. I don't know why, these two people actually had a personal relationship, Gao Jie was worried that the matter would be exposed, and he was retaliated by Li Zicheng, so he simply surrendered to the official army with the Xing family.

One of these two people is in charge of the army, and the other is in charge of money and food, not to mention that most of the elite of the camp have gone, and the materials in the army have been swept away, and they are about to run out of food.

Gao Jie's rebellion changed the balance of power in Shaanxi, and Hong Chengchou was overjoyed to get Gao Jie's talent, and the two joined forces to pursue Gao Li.

At this moment, Gao Jie alone is enough to wrestle his wrist with Gao and Li, plus Hong Chengchou. Moreover, Gao Jie was familiar with the combat methods of the peasant army.

At this time, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng were invincible, and they were defeated repeatedly, and they were driven out of Shaanxi and fled all the way to the east. After Lingbao joined forces with Zhang Xianzhong and other peasants, he attacked Luoyang in the east and defeated Zu Kuan, the general soldier of Liaodong.

The high walls of Luoyang City were thick, and the peasant army was in a hurry, and the imperial court reinforcements arrived.

The peasants who were blocked in the siege abandoned Luoyang, scattered into several roads, and divided their troops to attack.

Zhang Xianzhong defended the most Ruzhou in the south, to Song, was defeated by the general soldier Zu Kuan, killed thousands of elite soldiers, and had to escape from Henan again. This battle is known as the great victory in Ruxi.

Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng went to Gong County. At this time, Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly transferred Zu Kuan to the north and defeated him with Baisha and Longmen.

Gao and Li had no choice but to go south to Runing, besiege Xincai, attack Queshan and Guangshan, and then be defeated.

At this time, the number of people in the camp was much larger than when they were in Fengyang last year, reaching an astonishing 100,000. However, the power has weakened considerably.

Most of these 100,000 people are people from Shaanxi, including more than 20,000 women, 20,000 Ding Zhuang, people's husbands, old and young, more than 20,000 auxiliary soldiers, and more than 10,000 elites.

After two battles between Henan and the soldiers and horses mobilized by Lu Xiangsheng, the number of troops was reduced to 70,000, and the strength was seriously damaged.

The newspaper in Sun Yuan's hand published a memo written by Lu Xiangsheng about Emperor Chongzhen, which said: "In the past two months, I have been running for my life between Ru, Wan, He, and Luo, and I have been crying very busy. There are many thieves and there are thousands of prisoners, but they are not yet evenly matched. It is necessary to exterminate the king of Chuang first within the first two and three months of the ninth year of Chongzhen, and the remaining thieves can be annihilated. ”

"There are about 70,000 thieves who break into the king, and 30,000 or 40,000 elite horsemen, this thief is no less than An and Shi ...... This thief has fought three times in Shaanxi and Hongheng Lao, recently entered Henan, and he fought twice, captured about 20,000 dead and wounded, and still has 50,000, still a strong enemy! ”

In this excerpt, Lu Xiangsheng said that there were still 30,000 or 40,000 elite horsemen in the camp. According to Sun Yuan's understanding of the army of this era, it is estimated that only three to five thousand can be the elite of the battlefield. There must be a suspicion of exaggeration in Lord Lu's words, and it is understandable that he does not say that the enemy is outnumbered, and it is inconvenient to ask for more money and food from the emperor.

The above is the situation of the imperial court's encirclement and suppression of the peasant army outside of this year.

In his previous life, although Sun Yuan had been in the forum for a long time, he knew a rough idea of this period of history.

Now, when I have mastered the detailed historical materials with one hand, I can't help but sigh: "What a Lu Xiangsheng, it's really amazing!" "This person is also leisurely fascinated.

Lu Xiangsheng was originally a civilian official, but since he took charge of the army, he has reversed the appearance of civilian officials sitting in the old camp and strategizing in the rear. Since the second year of Chongzhen, this Lord Lu has formed an army, fought with Houjin and the peasant army, and has rich experience in warfare, during which he was seriously injured. is really a horse general, a horse horse, a first-class person in the world.

After he supervised the military affairs of the five provinces this time, the imperial court swept away the previous decline of the peasant army, and in only half a year, he defeated hundreds of thousands of peasant troops in Henan to hide in Tibet, and also indirectly supported Hong Chengchou in Shaanxi.

Up to now, the prestige of Inspector Lu has shaken the world, and like Hong Chengchou, it has become the two pillars of the Ming Dynasty's encirclement and suppression of the peasant army.

Seeing this, Sun Yuan not only admired Lu Xiangsheng a lot, but also sighed, this peasant army is really fast, within a year, from Anhui to Hubei, to Henan, and then to Shaanxi, and then back to Henan, it really comes and goes like the wind.

When you encounter this kind of enemy who smears oil under your feet and practices liukouism, even if you are the reincarnation of Sun Wu, you will be helpless

"On the surface, the damage to the camp is huge, and the situation in Henan has been clear. If that's the case, there's nothing to do with me Sun Yuan. Sun Yuan looked at the fire and muttered, "Maybe wait a few days, and someone in Nanjing will come to lock me Sun Yuan." ”

At the beginning of the year, the local military pairs of Huai, Yang, and Nanzhili were all transferred there. Now that the war situation in Henan is very good, it is estimated that Nanjing will also take a big breath of relief, relax completely, and begin to deal with the backlog of official affairs in the past.

Maybe Sun Yuan's case has already been put on the agenda.

"What did the general say?" The boss who was busy in the south asked.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's not going to change, this history isn't going to change." Sun Yuan's gaze fell on Lu Xiangsheng's share again.

Although Lu Xiangsheng dealt a great blow to the Chuang army, he was still very worried: "I expected five or six bands of thieves, and when they saw that the soldiers were gradually gathered, they joined forces with King Chuang, and their power was even greater." Now the king's tribes are running to the southeast and the southeast, and they are in a very crisis, Huang, Feng, Si, Huai, and Yang. Therefore, I am starrying south. ”

"It will come, the army will come to Nanzhili, and at that time, it will be my Sun Yuan's chance to get out of trouble." Sun Yuan perked up and asked, "Boss Guan, what day is it now?" ”

Guan Tao: "If you go back to the general, November 29, there is still a month to go before the New Year." ”

"There is still ...... month," Sun Yuan smiled.

Guan Tao: "What does the general mean?" ”

Sun Yuan: "Perhaps, in another month, we can go out to fight." ”

Boss Guan was puzzled: "The thief army is far away in Henan, how can it be possible to hit Nanzhili, impossible, impossible." ”

Sun Yuan didn't explain either.