Historically, Zhang Xianzhong, who once served as a catcher, an official and an army, and later became the leader of the peasant army, and called himself the Eight Kings, only became an important force in the Shaanxi peasant army around 1630. 【Reading.com】

In the original history, Zhang Xianzhong should have just been expelled from the regular army of the Ming Dynasty and was gathering people at Liushujian Fort in his hometown of Dingbian County.

But because of the huge butterfly effect caused by Wang Shuhui and the Baath Party. Zhang Xianzhong's forces, which were supposed to develop around 1630, are now a major force in a peasant army with a core strength of about 3,000 and 5,000 or 6,000 displaced people.

In 1627, because Wang Jiayin, the public leader of the peasant army, was killed by Zhang Liwei and Wang Guozhong, who were willing to accept the court's appeasement. In this chaos, Zhang Xianzhong, who was bent on rebellion, showed his true character as a qualified hero. When the Peasant Army Alliance was scattered, he led more than 3,000 of his core subordinates to fight a bloody way, from Shanxi Province, where the imperial court had the advantage of military strength, all the way to the chaotic Shaanxi.

With a quick mind, he clearly knew that the main reason why the peasant army went to Shanxi was because the economic situation in Shaanxi Province had completely collapsed. The peasant army, which had relied on plundering for supplies, could no longer be effectively supplied in the barren Shaanxi Province.

So in this case, Zhang Xianzhong made a decision and decided to lead his subordinates from Shaanxi into the always rich Huguang region.

Along the way, Zhang Xianzhong traveled through the state to avoid the county, and did not use cavalry troops to loot and attack well-defended targets such as the county seat, but only for the sake of supplies, and broke through some landlords' fortresses in the countryside. Zhang Xianzhong, who effectively saved troops, soon crossed Shaanxi from Shanxi, and then attacked all the way to Danfeng County, the county seat of southeastern Shaanxi Province, which was completely defenseless.

After all, Zhang Xianzhong is a figure who has spent several years in the army of the Ming Dynasty. He did not give the local forces any time to react, and after the troops were stationed in Danfeng County overnight, he let 3,000 troops envelop the local tens of thousands of people and attack Wuguan, the largest pass between Shaanxi and Hubei.

Under Zhang Xianzhong's sudden attack, the Wuguan, which was already loosely defended, was easily broken by Zhang Xianzhong's troops. Immediately, Zhang Xianzhong's troops, which had been repaired and replenished, broke through the county seat of Shangnan County, which was less than 50 miles away from Xiping Town, where the First Army of the Northwest of the Fuxing Army was stationed.

Speaking of which, although Shaanxi Province and Huguang Province are two adjacent provinces, the possibility of direct access to Huguang from Shaanxi is relatively small. This is because the border area between Shaanxi and Huguang belongs to the junction area of Qinling, Daba Mountain and Wudang Mountain. If you want to enter Huguang directly from Shaanxi, you will have no way out except to advance through Wuguan, which is guarded by officers and soldiers on steep terrain, under the engineering and technical conditions of a feudal agricultural society.

If it weren't for the fact that the military strength of the Ming Dynasty itself would have been very sloppy. Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army, which had only 3,000 horses under his command and had a very low level of weapons and equipment, could not break through the defense of Wuguan City with blood and blood.

Moreover, in terms of the smoothness of the road, because there is only one road in a steep valley to walk, the merchants in the Shanshan area who are generally weak in defense and afraid of bandits either pass through the Henan region and enter Huguang through Nanyang Prefecture. Or it is from the Sichuan area, along the Yangtze River down the river into Huguang. In short, there are almost no people who take the road of Wuguan.

Xiping County, where the First Army of the Northwest Army of the Renaissance Army was stationed, was the entrance area of the only valley road in Shaanxi Province that directly entered Huguang. Now this road has been built into a three-way rammed earth highway by the Baath Party, and all illegal armed forces around Xiping Town and along the "Yunxi Highway" have also been wiped out by the Baath Party.

Zhang Xianzhong wanted to enter Huguang, and now he had to face the station of the First Army of the Northwest of the Baath Party, which was fifty miles away from him.

The so-called early is not as good as the coincidence.

If you come to the book from the departure time, Zhang Xianzhong had already determined his route a month ago. Wang Shuhui's itinerary was confirmed only a week ago. But it's also a coincidence. Zhang Xianzhong, the famous emperor of Daxi in history, was about to meet Wang Shuhui in advance.

Zhang Xianzhong did not know that in Xiping Town, which was 50 miles away from him, there was a professional modernization unit with a core of 2,000 people, and an unprofessional engineering unit of 12,000 people, but also absolutely fully trained military troops, was stationed there.

Unlike Zhang Xianzhong, the intelligence system has already covered the intelligence agencies of the Fuxing Army in the surrounding counties, and they have already passed on the appearance of Zhang Xianzhong's troops.

Wang Shuhui didn't expect that he would meet Zhang Xianzhong this time. I have to say that Wang Shuhui is still quite interested in suddenly facing such a famous and controversial historical figure.

However, for the First Army Corps in the Northwest of the Fuxing Army, because they had already mastered the general number and basic combat methods of Zhang Xianzhong's troops, the corps staff believed that Zhang Xianzhong was just a group of ordinary bandits with great power. It's just that, unlike the bandits that the Baath Army faced in the past, this bandit army is armed with a large number of horses. This is the first time that the Ba'ath Army has encountered such a situation.

Although this is the first time that the Renaissance Army has encountered such a situation in actual combat, it has already conducted an unknown number of training sessions within the Renaissance Army on the combat methods of cavalry units during a large number of military exercises over the past nine years.

The Legion Staff gave a battle plan very quickly. Zhao Wanli, deputy commander-in-chief, deputy political commissar, and commander of the corps, immediately commanded the troops to begin to deploy on the preset positions outside Xiping Town in accordance with the battle plan.

Soil work is one of the basic training contents of the Renaissance Army. Why is it that the Renaissance Army is always praised and affirmed by the masses in the process of helping the masses to work? The main reason is that the level of civil work of the Renaissance Army is very high. It doesn't matter if it's to help the masses build houses or help the masses farm. The soldiers of the Renaissance Army, who are professionally equipped, skillful in their movements, and well-trained, can always do a good job in geotechnical construction.

This is also the reason why, before the arrival of the regular highway construction production and construction corps, the First Army Corps in the northwest was able to train more than 2,000 newly recruited production and construction troops in Yunyang. Because the ordinary soldiers of the Renaissance Army also have perfect methods of soil work and corresponding theoretical experience.

Because the size, number, and combat methods of Zhang Xianzhong's troops are already known. Therefore, in addition to the 2,000 soldiers with excellent military training achievements were transferred from the Highway Production and Construction Corps as reserves. The remaining more than 10,000 highway production and construction troops are still carrying out the construction of the cement plant as usual under the command of the cement plant construction experts in the industrial sector.

The two cement plants with a daily output of 1,000 tons are the target of strict bans by the government and relevant departments in modern China. However, in this time and space, these are all important achievements of the Baath Party's industrial construction work. Therefore, compared with the threat of Zhang Xianzhong's 10,000 or so military forces, which are mainly composed of people from surrounding counties, the construction of the cement plant is more important.

On the third day after the construction of the position of the First Army Corps was completed, Zhang Xianzhong's 3,000 cavalry troops drove tens of thousands of civilians from the surrounding area and appeared opposite the position of the First Army Corps in the northwest of the Renaissance Army.

Looking at the position of the Revival Army, which was completely composed of multiple layers of barbed wire, multiple trenches and various fortresses, Zhang Xianzhong became suspicious