The illness came and went, and the defeat was like a mountain. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is not subject to human willpower.

And the one that is happening in Shigou can be said to be the last counterattack launched by the official army on the border of Shaanxi, and it is finally gradually failing.

Du Wenhuan and Zhang Zongchang no longer have the desire to continue fighting, and the cavalry of more than 1,000 thieves who have outflanked them from the left flank have begun to enter the battlefield one after another.

The officers and cavalry who were trapped in the mud pond swamp, except for the sharp-eyed and barely escaped rear 300 cavalry, the rest were dragged by the thief infantry and could not move at all.

And on the middle line, the officers and soldiers who heard the thunderous trampling sound no longer had the luxury of winning, and they did not have the harsh military law and associated punishments like the beggar army.

So basically, they don't have to think about it, just run for their lives, once they die in this place, their families face losing the breadwinner of the family, and thus they will be destitute, and even go to the point of starvation in a famine year.

All this, the imperial court will not care, now even the military salary has been deducted in the years, even if the pension silver is issued, starting from the cabinet, through the Ministry of Household and Military Affairs to the Shaanxi Metropolitan Yamen, and then to the military town of a series of military generals and military attachés, will eat the silver cleanly, even only two or three taels of silver in hand, what is this enough for?

"Defeated, defeated~"

The entire army array, in an instant, was almost all defeated, the demoralized officers and soldiers exposed their backs to the soldiers of the beggar army, and the weapons and banners that stood in the way were thrown everywhere, barely hindering the speed of the beggar army's pursuit.

On the right flank of the official army, more than 200 cavalry also began to forcibly turn their horses' heads and began to gallop towards the rear, but now, it is not that they can walk away when they say they can go, the front and right sides are all their own infantry troops, running everywhere, and on the left is the truncated mountain range.

However, the strong desire to survive forced them to no longer care about the love of the robe, but to beat the war horse under the crotch hard, and ran forward at any cost, and anyone who dared to hinder their escape was mercilessly knocked to the ground, and then let the war horse trample over and gallop away into the distance.

Du Wenhuan was escorted by three personal guards cavalry, and he would not go to the north, but Zhang Zongchang could not accept the end of failure, and went up with his sword, although he knew that it was useless, but not everyone could accept this painful defeat, and he had no capital to make a comeback.

Even if he barely escapes back, it is nothing more than being looked down upon, and his return to the court one day is the result of being imprisoned and questioned.

Before he died, after being addicted to a chief military officer, Zhang Zongchang felt that he was worth it, the court treated him well, and he should be crowned a governor after his death.

He thought so, and then patted his horse to meet the cavalry of the beggar army and launched the final sprint, more than a dozen pro-soldiers behind him, looked at each other, all of them let out a burst of strange screams, and then rushed up without hesitation, they were all Zhang Zongchang's relatives or family members, willing to die for him.

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"Thick burial."

When Chen Da came up with his personal guards, he only saw a corpse with eyes as wide as a bull, three bullet holes fired from the fire hammer on the polished shiny armor, two dents hit by the hammer, and an obvious gap in his Fan Yang iron hat, stained with dried blood.

Beside him, there were still dozens of disorganized corpses, some beggars, but more!

It is Zhang Zongchang's pro-soldier family.

In this battle, Linzhao Town and Ningxia Town, the last elite soldiers who could fight in the field, were defeated, almost all the infantry were captured and annihilated, and the fleeing cavalry, under the pursuit of the begging army horse team, one by one due to lack of horsepower and was captured, under Chen Da's strict order, Du Wenhuan fled in the direction of the direction, there were three hundred people chasing it alternately......

"One broke Yulin, two broke Yansui, three broke Ningxia, and Shaanxi was all in my hands."

Li Jing laughed, not minding at all that he was leading the rank of Yansui Chief Military Officer, but he was doing the job of annihilating Yansui Officers and Army.

At the cost of 287 killed and 69 seriously wounded, Chen Da's department completely annihilated the officers and troops of Gansu Town and Linzhao Town, beheaded 471 people, captured 2,100 people, and beheaded Zhang Zongchang, the chief soldier of Linzhao in the imperial court, and 21 members of the deputy general.

And Guo Sheng and Zhang Erma's two armies of tens of thousands of elites, east and west, Yang Qi and Wang Chengen's remnants, retreated to the garrison of Yansui Town, and asked for help from themselves in the starry night, but they are the last so-called commander of the thief army, aren't they throwing themselves into the net.

Under the small plan, Zhang Erma pretended to be a battalion of Yansui Town to return to the official army, and easily deceived the two out of the city, and captured them with one drum, Yansui Town was occupied, and more than 200 disobedient officers and soldiers were killed, and the rest were all captured.

From Daizhou in the east, to Gansu in the west, to Ningxia in the north, and to Hanzhong in the south, he has fallen into the hands of Li Jing, and at this time, he is no longer satisfied with the land of Shaanxi.

Sichuan in the south and Shanxi in the east have been stared at by him.

On February 15 of the fifth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, in 1632, Li Jing was formally established in Xi'an, Shaanxi, and internally called Fengtian Chengyi the generalissimo of civil and military affairs, and the governor of the begging army, and played to the Ming Dynasty, sending the death of Yang Qi, the general soldier of Guyuan, Du Wenhuan, the general soldier of Ningxia, and Zhang Zongchang, the general soldier of Linzhao.

Counting these three, plus Ma Shilong, the former commander of the Shaanxi Suppression and Reinforcement Army, Yang Jiamo, the chief soldier of Gansu, Cao Wenzhao, Wang Chengen, etc., the former Linzhao General Soldier Cao Wenzhao, Wang Chengen, etc., the imperial court lost seven commanders in a row within three months, and the three governors of Shaanxi, Gansu, and Yansui, the three princes of Qin, Su, and Han, Yang He, and Hong Chengchou, and more than 70 civil and military dignitaries from Shaanxi Province.

And now Zhang Fengyi, the chief military officer of the Shaanxi Prefecture and the governor who can act as a minister, has become the only two remaining generals, and the imperial court has no soldiers and no food on the one hand, and the situation in Shandong has changed drastically in February on the other hand.

Xu Congzhi, the governor of Shandong, died when he was defending the city, Xie Lian, the governor of Denglai, was unable to support alone, and the general army of Tianjin and Baoding, who quelled the chaos, was defeated, and the new general army of Shandong was defeated in Laizhou.

Dongjiang Town rebellion again, the chief military officer Huang Long's family was killed in Denglai, this month, stationed in Jinzhou and Lushun Dongjiang Town six or seven thousand men and horses rebellion, after being defeated by Huanglong, crossed the sea by boat to Denglai territory, and Li Jiucheng, Kong Youde rebels after the confluence, the main force of the rebels has reached 6,000 cavalry, 30,000 foot soldiers and horses.

Shaanxi and Shandong, Shanxi, which is more important, is no longer a choice for the imperial court.

So on this day of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen officially issued an edict to transfer elite soldiers from all over the country, in addition to guarding Dongjiang Town and Tartar's Liaodong soldiers and horses, transfer Yang Yufan, the chief military officer of Tongzhou, Wang Hong, the chief soldier of Tianjin, Deng Xi, the chief military officer of Zunhua, and the rest of the general military officers Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, Chen Hongfan, Mu Wenshou, Zhang Tao and other general military officers of eight towns entered Shandong to quell the chaos.

The situation in Shanxi is also changing three times a day, and the front line of Xuanda has been in full swing to mobilize the elite to go south to Jinnan to quell the chaos, therefore, at the beginning of February, the Ming Dynasty officially issued an order to canonize Li Jing with the rank of general in the west, and the commander of the remaining Ming troops in Shaanxi continued to suppress thieves, but he was no longer expected to make any achievements.

Just hope to be able to keep Xi'an and Yan'an and not retreat.

Therefore, in the establishment of Xi'an on February 15, Li Jing distributed all the seals of the local civil and military officials in Shaanxi to the generals and hung them on their waists, saying:

"The general soldier of the first town of the begging army, leading Guo Sheng, the general soldier of the North Shaanxi Road, commanding two brigades of the first town, and the whole army of 11,000 people, stationed in Yansui, Yulin, and Ningxia towns."

"The general soldier of the second town of the beggar army, Zheng Renbao, the chief soldier of the east road of Shanxi, commands the two brigades of the second town, and the whole army of 11,000 men and horses, stationed in Daizhou, Xinzhou, and Lanzhou."

"The general soldier of the third town of the begging army, Zhao Mosheng, the chief soldier of the West Road of Shanxi, commanded two brigades of the third town, and the whole army of 11,000 men and horses, stationed in Baode, Yongning and Yan'an Mansion, Shaanxi."

"The general soldier of the fourth town of the begging army, leading the general soldier of Shaanxi West Road, Li Mao, commanding two brigades of the fourth town, and the whole army of 11,000 people, stationed in Gansu, Linzhao, Minzhou, and Gongchang Mansion."

"The general soldier of the fifth town of the begging army, leading the general army of the South Shaanxi Road, Tan Wu, commanding the two brigades of the fifth town, the whole army of 11,000 people, stationed in Hanzhong, Fengxiang, Xi'an."

"Liang Sijiu, the general soldier of the cavalry town of the begging army, commanded five battalions of the cavalry town, and the whole army of 9,000 men and horses, moved to Pingliang."

"The beggar army taught Ning You, the chief soldier of the town, and the commander taught five battalions of the town, with 9,000 men and horses, and moved to Qingyang."

"Chen Da, the chief soldier of the begging army, commanded five battalions of the town, and the whole army of 9,000 people, moved to Xi'an."

"Zhang Erma, the general soldier of the begging army in Shaanxi Left-behind Town, commanded the whole Shaanxi and Ningxia garrison brigades, Yulin garrison brigades, Gansu garrison brigades, Yansui garrison brigades and Guanzhong garrison brigades, Hanzhong garrison brigades, a total of six garrison brigades, eighteen garrison battalions, and ninety garrisons, with a total of 27,000 men and horses."

The whole army of 100,090 men and horses drilled day and night, reorganized armaments, and prepared to cross the Yellow River east and go south to Sichuan at any time.

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Just when the imperial court was in full swing to pacify Shandong and stabilize Shaanxi, the Houjin Tatar regime in Shenyang, Liaodong, also began to assemble troops, and this time, they no longer attacked Liaodong, but set their sights on Lin Dan Khan north of the Yellow River.

Later Jin Khan Huang Taiji is now also full of ambition.

First, in the Battle of the Daling River, he defeated the Ming army, contacted the last fortress of the Ming army in Liaodong, forced the Ming army to retreat to the fortified city, and killed and wounded tens of thousands of Ming troops by the way.

Taking advantage of the great victory in the Battle of the Great Ling River, he first took the opportunity of unsheathing the saber and killing his mother to invite favor, and demoted the third Bel Mang Gurtai to Dorobelle, plus the second Bel Amin who had been imprisoned early, he had essentially taken sole control of the Houjin power.

Under these circumstances, the Great Belle Daishan decisively asked Huang Taiji to respect the south alone, and no longer dared to sit with him to discuss matters.

"Hetao will freeze to death and suffer countless frostbites in the cold of the last year, and this expedition to Chahar must clear the last obstacle to the unification of Mongolia." (To be continued.) )