After taking Xiangyang, Li Zicheng established power there and formalized the army. At the same time, Li Zicheng began to use the bloody waiting section to eliminate dissidents, and set his sights on Luo Rucai and Ge Li Yanhe Yilong, the leader of the fifth battalion of Ge Zuo.

Luo Rucai's prestige is extremely high, and his seniority in the peasant army is higher than Li Zicheng's, and as for He Yilong, his troops are also extremely strong.

Today, the strength of the Chuang Army, Luo Rucai's Department, and the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution is equal and three-legged.

The 5th Battalion of Luo and Ge Zuo and the Chuang Army were only temporarily united to plunder Huguang and had nothing to do with it. These people can completely ignore Li Zicheng's orders, and judging from the current situation, either the three forces will disperse and do their own thing, or they will decide the winner and command the whole army. And if Li Zicheng wants to strengthen himself, he must attack them.

Li Ziwei is a ruthless person, and he is the first to strike first, and he is the first to take the lead. He designed to kill Luo Rucai, announced his guilt, and subdued his subordinates.

At the same time, on the pretext of inviting He Yilong to the banquet, he hacked He Yilong to death with a knife.

After He Yilong's death, half of the five battalions of the left belonged to Li Zicheng, and the other half fled all the way south to surrender to Zhang Xianzhong

。

By this time, Li Zicheng's strength had swelled by one or five times compared to when he opened the seal three times, and he could hardly find an opponent.

After Li Zicheng unified these two forces, he was faced with a major problem: what to do next.

Fortunately, Niu Jinxing has already set the route of Shaanxi first and Shanxi to Beijing. So, after thinking about it, Li Zicheng decided to win the audience first, establish a foundation, and then ignore the three sides and fund his troops. That is, to strengthen itself with a trilateral elite border army. Then take Shanxi to Beijing and conquer the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

So, he immediately waved his army north to meet Sun Chuanting.

At this time, Sun Chuanting happened to enter the western part of Henan with his troops, preparing to fight Li Ziji.

At this time, the Shaanxi army had no combat effectiveness after the defeat, and this time it was undoubtedly self-defeating. But Governor Sun had to send troops, because it was difficult to disobey the king's order.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen no longer had any capital in his hands, and Sun Chuanting was his only bargaining chip. He has always been anxious for quick success, pinned all his hopes on Sun's body, appointed Sun Chuanting as the secretary of the military department, gave Shang Fang the sword, changed to the superintendent, and the general system of Yingtian, Fengyang, Henan, Huguang, and Sichuan, and still supervised the three sides.

The emperor's grace is so vast, Sun Chuanting has no choice but to take a group of rabble out of the customs to fight.

The Shaanxi army entered Luoyang in early August, when the Ming Dynasty's finances were bankrupt, and Sun Chuanting's army had to raise all the needs of its own battalion. Now Henan is in ruins, and the troops cannot be replenished at all. It is said that Sun Chuanting should repair Luoyang City, store grain, and Tuntian, take this as the foundation step by step, strengthen his own strength, and then find an opportunity to fight a decisive battle.

But the pressure of the imperial court was there, and Sun Chuanting had no choice, so he led his troops all the way south to find Li Zicheng for a decisive battle.

In early September, Sun captured Baofeng and advanced to Kip County. Li Zicheng personally led 10,000 cavalry to meet the battle, and Sun Gaojie fought against Li Zicheng.

I have to say that Gao Jie is indeed a rare defender in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, this time the two are enemies, and they are very red-eyed. Li Zicheng turned out to be invincible, but fortunately, the army was all cavalry, and after suffering a loss, he immediately withdrew from the battlefield, but the Ming army had nothing to do with him.

In the era of cold weapons, cavalry is indeed the king of war

！

This battle is a rare victory, although Sun Chuanting is a rare handsome talent, but at this time it is inevitably a little inflated, extremely excited, urgently reported to the court for merit, and said wildly: "The thief heard that the name of the minister was defeated, and the minister swore to cleanse Yu, not to worry about the father of a thief." ”

In fact, this was Li Zicheng's plan to lure the enemy.

As Sun Chuanting's army continued to penetrate into southern Henan, the rear supply was difficult to order, and then the grain road was cut off by Li Zicheng's cavalry in the north, and the troops lacked food and began to be in chaos.

Entering the autumn, this year's Henan finally got rid of the drought that spanned three years, but ushered in a continuous autumn rain, as the so-called: after the drought there is a major flood.

It rained heavily for more than 10 days, and the troops were completely cut off from logistical supplies. The short, hungry and freezing soldiers were miserable. The army was unstable and began to stir, seeing that the camp was about to be bombed.

Sun Chuanting also felt that the problem was serious, and realized that he had fallen for Li Zicheng's strategy, so he ordered the main force of the Shaanxi Army to return north, nominally to open up the grain route, but in fact it was to retreat.

At this time, perhaps it was selfishness or Sun Chuanting didn't mean it at all, so he only led the Shaanxi army to retreat and let the Yu army be responsible for breaking the rear.

In this way, a catastrophe has been caused.

It turned out that Sun Chuanting went out of the customs to fight Li Zicheng in a decisive battle this time, in addition to leading the Shaanxi Army, he also took Chen Yongfu's Henan Army. Chen Yongfu is a general soldier in Henan and participated in the Battle of Kaifeng, and Li Zicheng was blinded by him when he opened the seal.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army had been beaten by years of war and had no morale at all, and the so-called spirit of sacrifice could not be talked about. And after the army is broken, no matter in any mode of war, it will have to pay huge casualties.

As a result, the Yu army was not convinced, and the Shaanxi army retreated on the front foot, and the rear foot collapsed without even decent resistance when Li Zicheng's army attacked.

The Henan army was in chaos, directly impacting the Shaanxi army in front, and the Sun Chuanting army was scattered, and then the situation was out of control.

How could Li Zicheng let go of this opportunity and take the opportunity to attack and defeat Sun Bu directly.

In this battle, Sun Chuanting trained for a year, and the New Qin Army, which was formed by squeezing out the last trace of vitality in Shaanxi, was completely annihilated. Ben killed more than 40,000 people, lost hundreds of thousands of armor, mules and horses, if it weren't for Gao Jie's bravery, Lao Sun might really die in the hands of Li Zicheng

。

In the end, under the protection of Gao Jie, Sun Chuanting only led more than 1,000 cavalry to cross the Yellow River north, and fled back to Tongguan through Shanxi, where he met Bai Guangen.

By this time, the imperial court had no more troops available in the northwest, Huguang, and Henan.

When the news reached Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen was furious and ordered Sun Chuanting to be removed from his posts as the superintendent and secretary of the military department, and he remained in Tongguan to make meritorious contributions, and ordered him to guard the pass and prevent the thief army from entering the pass west. Then, the imperial court cobbled together 30,000 soldiers in Shanxi and handed them over to Gao Jie, which was regarded as a supplement to his lost troops. It's a pity that these 30,000 people are honestly old, weak, sick and disabled, many of them used to be just ordinary people, and it is estimated that there are no more than 300 people who can fight.

The fall of Guanzhong is no longer in any suspense.

……

After receiving the Tang newspaper, Fei Hong also sighed: "I didn't expect Sun Chuanting to be so unbeaten, I think that at the beginning, the Qin army was the elite of my new army in the Ming Dynasty, stronger than the nine-sided border army, and its status in the eyes of the imperial court even exceeded that of the Tianxiong army." ”

Sun Yuan: "The Qin army, both in terms of scale and combat record, actually surpasses Lao Tianxiong. The second marshal of Qin Zhong, Hong Hengjiu and Sun Chuanting were the most relied on ministers of the Son of Heaven, and even the emperor's lifeline. It's a pity that Hong Laoheng shamefully became a traitor, and Sun Chuanting is now invincible. It can be said that the Qin army is completely finished, and there is no Qin army in the world. ”

"The Qin army is finished, and Shaanxi is also finished. Is there still an army on the Shanxi side, and Beijing is also in danger. Sun Yuan finally concluded, "Now, Huguang is also completely rotten." The future posture is that there is Li Zicheng in the north and Zhang Xianzhong in the south. The edifice is about to fall, and we must also strengthen our strength as soon as possible, so as to wait for great changes and serve the country. ”

Indeed, Zhang Xianzhong no longer has any opponents in Hunan. A while ago, news came to report that Zhang Xianzhong had taken Changsha.

At that time, the city of Changsha was inhabited by King Ji and King Hui, who also fled here from Jingzhou. In the face of Zhang Xianzhong's rapid offensive, the governor of Huguang, the governor of Biyuan and the general army of Hunan simply left Changsha City and slipped away, and they escorted the two kings to Hengzhou to defect to King Gui. As soon as these people left, the dragons of Changsha City were leaderless, and they surrendered without any resistance.

In this way, the soldiers of the eight kings took this big city without blood. Then, he conquered Hengzhou and then Yongzhou.

Then, he attacked Baoqing and Changde with lightning speed. Hunan has basically never fought since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and the Jiannu in the north, the thief army in Shanxi, Huguang, and the Central Plains seem to have nothing to do with them, and it can be said that they have been peaceful for a long time

。 When Zhang Xianzhong arrived at the door, he didn't know what to do.

As a result, a few counties in Hunan were still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and almost the entire territory fell.

Now, Zhang Xianzhong began to divide his troops into Jiangxi and Guangdong.

After Zhang Xianzhong took Hunan, he did two things that shook the world. First of all, he would salute the corporal and ask for famous people everywhere he went. After conquering Hengyang, he actually wanted to invite Wang Fuzhi, a scholar from Damingshi University, to come out of the mountain. What kind of character is Wang Fuzhi, how is he willing to sell himself as a thief, and in the end, he can't help it, Wang Fuzhi has to be disfigured and avoided, and barely escapes from the hands of the eight kings.

Another thing is that after he took Yang Sichang's hometown Changde, he remembered that he had suffered so much in Lao Yang's hands before, so he killed the people surnamed Yang in Changde, which can be regarded as punishing Yang Sichang's nine clans. Finally, the graves of Yang Sichang and his father Yang He were dug up, and the coffins were opened and the corpses were killed.

It is said that Yang Sichang's father, Yang He, had not yet decomposed, and when his body was beheaded, he was bleeding.

Although Sun Yuan hated Yang Sichang deeply, after hearing the news, he was still extremely sympathetic. So many years have passed since the past, Yang Sichang has long since passed away, and his hatred for himself and him has long been cleared.

Fei Hong: "Yes, the general can rest assured, the training of recruits and auxiliaries is underway, and there are some eyebrows, and the results can be seen in half a year at most." ”

As he was talking, Xiao Yu came in with a happy face: "General, there is a happy event." ”

Sun Yuan: "As soon as I saw your magpie appearance, I knew that there was something good, let's talk about it." ”

Yu Xiang: "Tell the general, Mr. Qingzhu wrote that the Zheng family has agreed to all the conditions of Yangzhou Town, and asked the general to go to Nanjing to talk with Mr. Yue Yan again." ”

"Okay, great!" Sun Yuan laughed: "Don't worry, if you dump him for a while, you will go to Nanjing, give orders to the three armies, and reward Dafang and the relevant people of the sailors, etc., they have done a good job on the Yellow Sea these days, Zheng Yiguan's life is sad, and he can't stand it." ”

Fei Hong: "General, it's better to go to Nanjing for peace talks earlier, the Zheng family has been crisscrossing the world for decades, deep-rooted, the ship is rotten and there are three catties of nails, so they must be prevented from recovering their luck." ”

Sun Yuan: "There is some truth in what Lao Fei said, but there is no need to rush. ”

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