In June of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Wang Jiayin was exterminated by Cao Wenzhao, and his subordinates jointly promoted Wang Ziyong as the leader, calling himself "King Chuang". Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In June, the peasant army was repeatedly defeated by the official army led by Cao Wenzhao.

In July, Wang Ziyong and Lao Huihui, Ba King Kong, Sweeping King, Shooting Collapse Sky, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, a total of 36 battalions, more than 200,000 horses and horses gathered in Shanxi.

One of them is not one of the camp owners.

His name is Li Zicheng, and he followed Gao Yingxiang to participate in this gathering, and because of his 'bravery' in battle, he was praised by the prince as a 'general', and his prestige began to appear.

It happened that in July, earthquakes, mosquitoes, plagues, droughts and other disasters were rampant in Daming Huguang, Jingxiang, Lizhou, Chengtianfu, De'an, Chenzhou, Yuezhou, and other places.

As a result, the black qi blocked the sky, the wells and springs flooded, the ground cracked holes, the slurry water gushed out, the corpses were everywhere, and countless palaces and walled houses of Rongfu collapsed.

The sound of the earthquake was like thunder, the ground cracked and the sand surged with the water, the houses fell and the trees were uprooted, and countless people and animals were crushed.

Displaced people and rogues once again flooded the prefectures and counties, and the provincial officers and troops used to encircle and suppress the peasant army were forced to transfer back half of them to calm the situation.

This also led to a decline in the intensity of the encirclement and suppression of the peasant army, coupled with the influx of displaced people to join, the number of thieves skyrocketed, and the official army now has no advantage in numbers.

The officers and soldiers everywhere were exhausted, and often more than 100 people encountered homeless people and thieves in the thousands, and the thieves were like bamboos all the way, and they were defeated by several officers and soldiers.

It is planned to kill two deputy generals of various prefectures, and clerks such as county orders are not counted.

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The erodent and incurable situation in the southern provinces is not only beyond Cao Wenzhao's control, but Xiao is also powerless, but he is not worried, it is only early August.

Historically, the reason why the peasant army is so strong at present is that almost all of them have contributed to the disaster situation in the southern provinces.

In the fifth year of Chongzhen, the disaster was slightly mitigated, Cao Wen Zhao supervised the officials and armies of the seven provinces to clear all sides, the peasant army was almost all the way to defeat, the prince died of resentment, and then the major leaders were killed one after another.

At this time, Xiao Yizheng was on his way to Datong Town with more than a dozen newly recruited Yongan Army recruits.

Just about half an hour ago, Xiao Yi received an official letter from Han Shimeng, the general soldier of Datong, and asked him to go to the town to narrate.

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In fact, as Xiao Yi expected, in early July, Sun Chengzong supervised the construction of Dalinghe City, and it was less than a month before the construction started, and Chongzhen changed his hexagram again.

In early August, Chongzhen issued an edict saying: "Da Ling is far away, not a city, withdraw the army to thistle." ”

Since the emperor has issued an order, the chief soldier Qiu Hejia and others immediately led the surrounding defense troops to evacuate, leaving only Zu Dashou to lead the army of 10,000 people to defend, and it really became a lonely deserted city.

Huang Taiji and the others were discussing how to take down the heavily garrisoned Dalinghe City, because if they didn't pull out this nail, it would be difficult for their Jurchen iron cavalry to plunder the pass, unless they made a detour to Mongolia, but this would inevitably come into contact with Lin Dan Khan.

When they heard that almost all the Ming troops had withdrawn, Haoge and the others were simply ecstatic, and Huang Taiji immediately ordered that Bel Azig be the general, leading the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Jurchens in tens of thousands, and marched into Dalinghe City by separate routes.

The vicinity of Dalinghe City has become a vacuum, and the Jurchens almost did not spend a single soldier, easily occupied the forts and cities near the Dalinghe, and destroyed the city after plundering.

The four roads were encircled outside the newly built Dalinghe City, digging a tree fence and enclosing it on all sides, and sending Abatai to lead 20,000 Jurchen soldiers to intercept Jinzhou Avenue for reinforcements, looking like a long-term siege.

On August 3, Zu Dashou led more than 10,000 defenders of the Daling River to fight fiercely with the Azig army under the city, and Azig first used about 8,000 people from the Mongolian Eight Banners to engage with it.

When the annual battle was fierce, Azig led the Eight Banners Army to fight out from the rear, and Zu Dashou was defeated and retreated into the city to hold out.

Houjin suddenly sent troops, Liaodong was shaken, and the chief military officers Wu Xiang and Song Wei reported that 30,000 troops went to help, and Abatai led 20,000 Jurchen cavalry to intercept.

Wu Song's subordinates were not as elite as Zu Dashou's Guanning army, 30,000 to 20,000, but they had a numerical advantage but were defeated by Houjin.

During the war, the Houjin Horse team suddenly rushed out all over the mountains, and the soldiers heard the sound of horses' hooves sounding in all directions.

Abatai led the Jurchen soldiers to chase after him, beheaded more than 1,000 people, killed Song Wei, the general soldier of the Ming Dynasty, and Wu Xiang fled back with only a few hundred guards.

On August 4, Zu Dale led an army of 20,000 to aid Dalinghe City, and in the dead of night when he arrived at Changshan, the eager Zu Dale waved his army to cross the river.

Halfway through the crossing of the river, Azig led tens of thousands of Mongolian and Jurchen cavalry of the Eight Banners to suddenly kill on all sides.

Zu Dale waited for the death battle and did not retreat, but the enemy army was very numerous, and the impact caused by the night was even worse, the Ming army was defeated and fled in all directions.

Zhang Chun, the superintendent of the army, and Zu Dale, the deputy general, were captured, and the chief military officer Zhang Jifu and other generals were all killed in battle, and Azig completely annihilated 20,000 reinforcements from Zu Dale's department, and returned triumphantly.

On the afternoon of the same day, Wu Xiang, the chief soldier who fled back to Jinzhou, led more than 10,000 troops to aid Daling River.

Less than half a day after leaving the city, he encountered 20,000 Jurchen cavalry led by Abatai, and the chief soldier Wu Fenyong took the lead, even if he was stabbed in the face, he still slashed and killed three Jurchen soldiers, and died in battle, and more than 10,000 of his troops were completely annihilated.

On August 5 of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Hou Shilu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, led 40,000 reinforcements to rush to Changshan, and encountered 50,000 troops of Azig and Abatai.

The border troops were all killed and defeated, and the officers and troops under Hou Shilu were even more unable to resist the wolf-like Jurchen Tartars.

In this battle, Hou Shilu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, was killed in battle, and 40,000 Xuanfu troops were completely annihilated.

During this period, Zu Dashou went out of the city three times to break through, but was defeated by the Mongol and Jurchen coalition forces and returned, and had to report that several reinforcements were defeated, and Hou Shilu had died in battle, so he had to stick to the city and dare not fight again.

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After hearing this, Jin invaded the west again, and Emperor Chongzhen was shocked.

First of all, the edict ordered the nearby Xuanfu general soldier Hou Shilu and the Liaodong army to come to the rescue, but he did not expect that they were all defeated by Houjin in less than three days, and the general soldiers of the four towns, Hou Shilu, Wu Xiang, Zhang Jifu, and Song Wei were all killed on the way to help, and the rest were almost completely annihilated.

For a time, people everywhere in the Beijing division were panicked, Chongzhen ordered martial law everywhere in the Beijing division, and at the same time urgently summoned Han Shimeng, the chief military officer of Datong, to lead the troops and horses into the aid of the Daling River, and gave Sun Chengzong a sword of Shang Fang, leading him to lead the troops and horses of Liaodong and Datong towns to gallop to aid the Daling River.

After Han Shimeng received the holy decree, he immediately sent the generals and guerrillas from all walks of life in Datong, and asked them to go to the town together to discuss the matter of aiding.

Among the three great victories, Chongzhen personally praised Xiao Yi who was 'brave and championed all sides', how could Han Shimeng let it go, and personally wrote a document for Xiao Yi.

At this time, the town has gathered the soldiers and horses of all the generals of Datong, and a town can no longer station so many soldiers and horses, and a huge camp rises along the wall of the town city.

This is the second time Xiao Yi has seen a large scale of Ming soldiers and horses, the first time was almost two years ago, under the city of the Jingshi Defense War, at that time Xiao Yi was full of fear and did not pay much attention to the details.

When Xiao Yi arrived at the foot of the town, he saw many flags hunting in the wind, and although this camp was unorganized, it still exuded a unique aura of slaughter in the army.

Before entering the camp, I saw the officers and soldiers walking inside and outside the camp, all wearing helmets and armor, and all I could see were sergeants wearing leather armor, cloth armor, and cotton armor.

Among them, there are also a small number of soldiers wearing iron armor and iron helmets, full of arrogance, and those are the personal guards of the generals, deputy generals, and guerrilla generals who have arrived.

Xiao also noticed that most people's armor was almost painted yellow, and with the black flags on a yellow background flying everywhere, there was a sea of yellow.