As the Han River thawed, the movement of the Tuanshan Army and the Tartars along the banks of the river became noticeably more frequent, all of which seemed to indicate that a major war was coming.

In the afternoon of this day, in the meeting hall of the Tuansan Army in Seoul, all the generals of the Tuansan Army gathered together, and everyone looked a little excited, because today the decision was going to be made to launch the deployment of the general attack.

Zhang Li was still sitting on the main seat, and before today's military conference, he had already made a plan for the attack.

As usual, Zhang Zhang first asked the generals to discuss the current situation, and everyone also expressed their opinions one by one, focusing on one place, that is, how to inflict maximum damage on the Tartars.

After the Battle of Guangluyuan, the Tartars obviously lost confidence in the field. According to reliable sources, now the Tatars have intensified their use of the Han military flag, not only using the Han military flag for the first time, but even the Jurchen Eight Banners have begun to be mixed into the Han Eight Banners.

Now if you want to fight a war of annihilation, I'm afraid it's not so easy.

The opinions of the people are varied, and the final tension is final! Zhang Zhang made a gesture asking everyone to be quiet, and then said word by word: "From today onwards, all Tartars and Han military flags will be treated equally, and there is no need to deliberately distinguish them, they will all be beaten to the death!" ”

All the generals are a little puzzled, and in everyone's subconscious, they all hope to be able to do the greatest damage to the Tartar, so that it can play a role: the words that the Tartar most often hangs in the mouth, I heard that it is "There is no three-legged toad, and the two-legged Han army flag is not how much is there?" "If you don't kill more Jurchen Tartars, it's really a very quick thing to replenish the traitor team!

Just when the generals were puzzled, Gao Yuanliang was the first to react. He got up from his seat. The whole person looks radiant. Gao Yuanliang glanced at Zhang Zhang and bowed slightly. It means that you understand the deep meaning of tension. Then, Gao Yuanliang turned to the generals and said, "Everyone. Everyone has always believed that the Han military banner relied on the Jurchen Tartars, which in turn harmed my Ming Dynasty, and the culprit was the Jurchen Tartars. But if you think about it, this is not the case. ”

Gao Yuanliang paused, and then said: "In the past, when Qi Shaobao and Ning Yuanbo were in Jizhen and Liaodong, the Jurchens were like lost dogs, a hundred times more obedient than the Mongolian Tatars. However, after the battle of Salhu in Wanli years, my Ming Dynasty was defeated repeatedly. After decades of accumulation, there is a saying that the Jurchens are not satisfied with 10,000 and are invincible. It is precisely because of this that there are more and more traitors and two Tartars who have taken refuge in the Jurchen Tartars. Master Zhang had previously grabbed the Jurchens and beat them violently in order to destroy their psychological superiority that had been built up for decades and make them afraid of the Tuanshan army. Now the Jurchens are afraid, so they pull the Han military flag to cushion their backs, is it possible that the Han military flag is all pigs and dogs, and they don't have long brains to think about problems? ”

As soon as these words landed. The generals immediately whispered, and Zhang Zhang also bowed slightly, looking at Gao Yuanliang with a little appreciation in his expression.

Indeed, as Gao Yuanliang said, the battle has reached this point. After all, the people of the Han Army Banner are not long pig brains, and they will also plan for themselves!

Don't talk about Hong Chengchou, let's talk about Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming and others. And who is a fool?

What needs to be done now is to change the position. Beat the Han army flag to the pain. In the previous battle of Guangluyuan, Shang Kexi's troops had been defeated, and if Kong Youde, the symbol of the Han army flag, was not disabled. The Manchu strategy of driving the Eight Banners of the Mongol and Han dynasties was bound to accelerate its disintegration.

If the Han military flag is abolished, it is equivalent to cutting off one of the hands of the Manchu Qing Tartars, and it is still the most powerful right hand. Without the "servant army" such as the Han Army Banner, no matter how it was fought, the population base of the Jurchens would definitely not be able to support the follow-up strategic attack of the Tuanshan Army.

In this way, it is far better than attacking the Tartars from city to city.

Just as Zhang Zhang was about to give a military order, a small colonel suddenly walked in quickly outside and handed a piece of information to Zhang Li. Zhang Zhang was slightly surprised, if it weren't for the 100,000 urgent information, he would not have been able to break into the military conference according to the rules.

Sure enough, Zhang Zhang opened the letterhead and looked at it, and his brows were deeply locked.

Gao Yuanliang saw Zhang Li's expression like this, and he sighed in his heart, and couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "My lord, what happened?" The enemy on the other side of the Han River has not moved—"

Zhang Zhang handed the letter to Gao Yuanliang, and a few words popped out of his mouth: "I didn't expect Li Zicheng to be so fast, tsk, he actually founded the country, what is it called Dashun Kingdom!" It seems that Shandong's Lu Xiangsheng must make a move! ”

When Gao Yuanliang saw the letter, he couldn't help but gasp - not to mention Li Zicheng's founding of the "Great Shun", he also led an army of 500,000 to fight and win successes, and he actually went all the way to Jingshi!

And the most important thing is that the only combatable soldier in the north of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Sangui's 100,000 army, actually stood still in Luoyang!

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Yes, the situation in the Guannai has changed drastically, and Li Zicheng's power has swelled incomparably, and it is not even inferior to the situation in the last years of Chongzhen.

Since the beginning of spring, Li Zicheng's army of thieves with the national name Dashun has launched an operation: the first group to set off is Li Guo and Liu Zongmin, each of whom led 50,000 horses to fight the vanguard and cross the river into Shanxi.

Their task was completed surprisingly smoothly, of course, this is also an inevitable result, because Wang Pu, the chief military officer of Shanxi, has already led a large army to "take refuge" with Wu Sangui and Wu Gonggong, and now he is in Luoyang, and Shanxi has almost no soldiers to defend.

The local officials either fled in advance or surrendered, and the people were even more bewitched by the slogan "King Chuang will not pay for food", and welcomed the Dashun army by burning incense. Before Li Zicheng's remaining 400,000 troops set out, more than half of Shanxi had already become the territory of the Great Shun State.

However, Li Zicheng still set out on the first day of the first month of March to cross the Yellow River from Yumen, and on March 5, the army surrounded Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province.

After Wang Pu ran away, the strength of the Ming army in Taiyuan City compared with the Shun army, which was tantamount to "seeing a big witch": all the men and horses were less than 10,000, and more than half of them were willing to surrender. Only a small number of people followed the Shanxi governor Cai Maode to resist with all his might. However, after all, these few men and horses could not withstand the double blow of the onslaught of the Dashun army outside the city and the soldiers who wanted to surrender in the city to open the door to meet the enemy, and Taiyuan City was captured after only resisting for one day and one night. Cai Maode, the governor of Shanxi, led the remaining hundreds of people to fight with the Shun army in the city, and all of them were killed in less than half an hour, and Cai Maode himself had to retreat into the "Sanli Temple" in Taiyuan City and died by hanging.

As soon as Taiyuan fell, the entire territory of Shanxi soon fell into the hands of Li Zicheng. When the news reached Jingshi, it certainly caused the panic of the Manchu civil and military forces...... (To be continued.) )