Chapter 34: The tangled Li Zicheng
Lishui is the ancient Chinese name for this large water system in Myanmar, and in modern society, the name of this river is the Irrawaddy River. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Although the length of the Irrawaddy River is not as long as the Yellow River, and its reputation is not as great as that of the Yellow River, because it is located in the subtropical tropics and has abundant rainfall, the flow of this river is also very large, and the water flow is about ten times that of the Yellow River, which is equivalent to one-half of the flow of the entire Yangtze River.
The river valley of Yeosu is a wide river from Myitkyina to the mouth of the sea, and its valley is home to the entire Myanmar town and population, as well as the birthplace of human civilization.
This section of the river from Myitkyina to Ba Mo is turbulent due to the cutting of the mountains, but the river channel is correspondingly narrow, and the whole section of the river flows in the gorge for about 100 kilometers.
This provided a condition for Zhu Changyuan's strategy.
At the same time as sending Kong and attacking Ba Mo, Zhu Changyuan exchanged two large ships from the system, each of which was full of construction machinery, and loaded the remaining 2,000 soldiers in the city onto the ship, sending them to where they should go and do what they should do.
As for the entire city of Myitkyina, there were only more than two hundred ironclad cavalry. Now, they also have an additional identity, that is, the group leader in each Daming Sect, each of whom can mobilize about 100 people at the first time.
The days passed slowly, and in less than ten days, the leaders or patriarchs of the six ethnic groups had been overthrown by the people below, and a new order was established.
The whole city-state of Myitkyina was filled with joy, and on the contrary, the nobles and patriarchs were worried all day long, not knowing that one day they would become the next people to be tied to the pillars and march the streets.
Even those big nobles who had a future and connections had secretly fled to the south with their money and families. However, most of the indigenous people are unable to leave their homes for various reasons.
The teachers of the Ming Sect developed rapidly, almost mushrooming like mushrooms after a rain, and gradually flooded all parts of Myitkyina.
Recently, the number of calls and text messages from Zhu Changyuan. Dramatically.
There are wives who beat him, there are holes and those who won Ba Mo to report success, and the most are the short messages sent to him by those dark piles in various places of the Ming Dynasty.
For example, Zhang Xianzhong lost in Yunnan and Guizhou, and his troops shrank to Sichuan. But after returning to Sichuan, he still couldn't get a good life, and was harassed by Qin Liangyu in Zhongzhou, Sichuan.
Although Qin Liangyu is a woman, she is the only woman in Chinese history who has entered the official history and has a separate biography, which shows this person's loyalty.
Zhu Changyuan also admires this woman who is over the age of six, and her family is full of loyalty. Loyal to the Ming Empire, his son Ma Xianglin was shot in the eye by the enemy when he was in Shanhaiguan, not only did not cowardly but also aroused the anger in his heart.
Folklore has it that Yang Men was loyal and martyred, all the men died in battle, and the twelve widows went to the west, many of which were borrowed or indirectly added to the shadow of Qin Liangyu's family.
In addition to Zhang Xianzhong's news, there are also Dolgon's, Mongolian's, and Li Zicheng's. Among them, the most important is Li Zicheng. This goods led a million people from Chang'an all the way to the march, in one breath to lay down Yulin, and later in Taiyuan Town was blocked and could not advance, but now well, after some efforts, in the case of the loss of 300,000 people, finally attacked Taiyuan, Taiyuan general Zhou Yuji drove away.
"Alas, after such a big effort, is it finally about to hit Beijing?" Zhu Changyuan looked at the text message. He smiled slightly, then put his phone away.
He was going to make a trip back to Sun Moon Island first.
is different from what Zhu Changyuan thought, Li Zicheng at this moment is a little deflated.
To be exact, he has not yet arrived in Beijing. And he was afraid.
A Taiyuan made him disgraced, and a Zhou Yuji resisted Taiyuan Town to the death, and even caused him to lose 300,000 troops. Of course, the 300,000 army was not dead, but was broken up or recovered by Zhou Yuji, but this is also terrible.
Because in addition to Taiyuan Town, this road to Jingshi. There is also Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, and most importantly, the impregnable Beijing City.
If you want to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, it is still an almost impossible task for the current Li Zicheng.
But he is Li Zicheng, he is the embodiment of revenge for Zhu Changyuan, the boss of the world's anti-thieves, and the eldest brother among the terminators of the Ming Dynasty, so he can't be afraid of various social statuses that require him.
Sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat, the current situation is no longer a question of whether he is afraid or not, but that he cannot retreat. Advance may be less likely to win, but retreat will inevitably leave no bones left.
"I want to go back to Chang'an, this battle is too difficult to fight!" Li Zicheng will not turn around, what to say, of course, what he says is also what he thinks in his heart, it is what he really thinks in his heart.
"Big brother!" Liu Zongmin was anxious when he heard this, ran to Li Zicheng's side, and said in a low voice: "Big brother, don't say such frustrating words, now the brothers are following you, all to avenge King Yanming, so as to overthrow Chongzhen, the dog emperor." Now, if you return to Chang'an, I'm afraid they won't agree. ”
Li Zicheng was in trouble.
Don't say that Liu Zongmin told him, even if he didn't say it, he understood that the current army under his command was nominally his, but in fact it was not as comfortable as his own troops used before.
The most important thing is that the generals at the grassroots level in the army did not follow him because of his fame, but because they wanted to avenge Zhu Changyuan, and recently the high-level officials all knew that Zhu Changyuan was not dead, and the people below did not know. If the people below know, the consequences can really be described in four words.
"Zhou Yuji retreated to Xinzhou, this guy is a stinky and hard stone, I can't even gnaw on it!" Li Zicheng was really frustrated and frustrated, and he didn't want to fight with this goods anymore: "In the past, in Shaanxi and Henan, I fought with the troops in those places, but I didn't expect the soldiers of Chongzhen's Nine Sides to be so elite." There is Datong behind Taiyuan, there is Xuanfu behind Datong, and there is Beijing City behind Xuanfu, when is it a head! ”
"King, you must not be discouraged!" Liu Zongmin knelt down for Li Chuang, crying and said: "Now you still have an army of 700,000 under your command, if you withdraw to Shaanxi like this, you will no longer have any hope of dominating one side in this life, and you will also laugh and be generous." ”
"Also, now that you are in the name of avenging Zhu Changyuan, there are 700,000 people under your command who are willing to die for you and obey your command. If you turn back to Chang'an now, I'm afraid that when you get to your hometown, you won't even have 7,000 people under your command. ”
Li Zicheng sighed, helped Liu Zongmin up personally, and said, "Zongmin, how can the widow not know this? It's just that you see, not to mention Beijing City, even if you want to reach Datong Town, there are Xinzhou and Daizhou in the middle, although these two places are not big, but the defense is solid, easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if we have 700,000 people, we may not be able to take it down. ”
Another reason why Li Zicheng's ambition is loose is because he knows that Zhu Changyuan is not dead now, and everything he does is likely to make wedding clothes for others.
Since he can't retreat and doesn't want to move forward, Li Zicheng has only one way, and that is to rest in place.
After the city of Taiyuan was destroyed, he asked his soldiers to build the city, and then the entire army of 700,000 began to rest without a purpose.
The reason why he said that there was no purpose was because, first, he did not think that other armies had no food, and that he had too much food to eat. Second, although his army had dead and wounded, it was a huge number, and it had just captured Taiyuan City, and its combat effectiveness was very strong and its morale was booming.
It's a pity that Li Zicheng failed to seize the opportunity.
After resting in Taiyuan City for eight days, the civil and military officials finally couldn't hold it anymore, and came out one by one to persuade Li Zicheng to continue to send troops to the north, and even many low-level generals also came to persuade him to fight in the north.
Li Zicheng had no choice but to continue to raise troops to attack a stumbling block on the way from Taiyuan to Datong: Xinzhou.
Unfortunately, Xinzhou's guard is still his old acquaintance and old opponent: Zhou Yuji.
Zhou Yuji is the chief soldier of Taiyuan, of course, whether it is Xinzhou or Daizhou, it is his subordinate territory, and now that Taiyuan has lost it, it is naturally impossible for him to run, so he can only rely on the remaining troops to defend Xinzhou.
Xinzhou City is a county seat, but the city defense is quite good, among which there were originally 5,000 defenders, plus more than 10,000 people Zhou Yuji broke out of Taiyuan City, there are exactly 20,000.
Eight days after the capture of Taiyuan City, Li Zicheng led his army of 700,000 to the outside of Xinzhou City and began to attack more fiercely.
However, Zhou Yuji in the city was not a vegetarian, relying on sufficient supplies and city defense, he resisted for more than ten days, turning Li Zicheng's army of 700,000 into 600,000. His own men are also dead.
But Zhou Yuji's life may be bigger, or maybe his kung fu is better, anyway, when the city of Xinzhou was broken, many soldiers were killed in battle, he didn't die in battle, and ran away. In one breath, he ran to Daizhou behind Xinzhou City.
The more Li Zicheng fought, the more entangled he became, how many people did Nima Zhou Yuji, and he was stunned that Lao Tzu lost 100,000 troops to pacify a small Xinzhou, so how will Nima fight in the future?
How to fight? Hit hard.
So, after resting in Xinzhou City for five or six days, King Chuang led an army of more than 600,000 people under his account and attacked Daizhou City again.
Daizhou, like Xinzhou, is a small county-level city, and the city defense is relatively in place.
The only difference is that the number of people in Daizhou City is not as large as in Xinzhou, and there are less than 10,000 defenders, which makes Li Zicheng happy in his heart and continues to attack Daizhou City.
However, although Daizhou City is small and has few people, it is not at all easier to fight than that Xinzhou, and it has been fought for ten days, but there is no result, and there are still 2,000 people in Daizhou City.
Li Zicheng's head is big now, when will this Nima hit Jingshi? (To be continued.) )