Compared with Li Zicheng's Great Shun Army, Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army was defeated faster.

After the Great Western Army occupied most of the provinces of Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong was not unactive. In the autumn and winter of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, he took advantage of the opportunity that the main force of Li Zicheng's Dashun army attacked Beijing, and in Shaanxi and Hanzhong, the Dashun army was empty, and ordered Sun Kewang to take Hanzhong and want to pull out his teeth.

But for Hanzhong, a military important place in the northwest region, the Dashun Army also attaches great importance to it, and the strength of the Daxi Army is really inferior to the Dashun Army, so Sun Kewang's troops were defeated by Li Zicheng's general He Zhen in Hanzhong. After that, Zhang Xianzhong personally led the army to the rescue, and ordered the general Liu Jinzhong to enter the Baoning Mansion, and the general Ma Yuanlike Shunqing guarded it. Due to the fear of the advance of the Dashun army, the two armies also confronted each other and temporarily fell into a stalemate.

Then, in order to ensure the safety of Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong sent two generals, Pingdong and Huwei, to the north to pacify the Hannan region. He also ordered the governor Zhang Guangcai to destroy Zeng Ying as soon as possible, so as to open the way to the east. In the winter of this year, the two armies of the Great Western Army and Zhang Guangcai were launched together, but they did not know that Li Zicheng had already replaced Ma Yi as the commander with He Zhen. As a result, the 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Great Western Army were defeated by He Zhen's department.

After repeated fiascos, Zhang Xianzhong lost his ambition to dominate the world. Coupled with his frequent intermittent psychotic episodes, he single-handedly concocted a horrific massacre in the area under his control.

Due to the incompatible stance against the peasant army and the massacre of Zhang Xianzhong, the Ming generals Zeng Ying, Li Zhanchun, Yu Dahai, Wang Xiang, Yang Zhan, Cao Xun, etc., from all over Sichuan, gathered soldiers and horses one after another. The attack on the Onishi peasant army and the massacre of local officials of the Onishi regime posed a great threat to the Onishi regime. on this. Zhang Xianzhong carried out harsh repression, but also exhausted himself in this counterinsurgency.

Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army, in addition to fighting against the remnants of the Ming Dynasty's army in Sichuan, also had to fight against the landlord forces in Sichuan. Fan Yixuan, the former governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, still held his original post, and the Hongguang court of the Southern Ming Dynasty appointed Wang Yingxiong, a former scholar, as the secretary of the military department, the governor of Chuanhu Yungui military affairs, and gave Shang Fang a sword to act cheaply. Stationed in Zunyi, presided over the battle against Zhang Xianzhong.

In November of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Zeng Ying, the deputy general of Ma Gan, the governor of Sichuan in the Southern Ming Dynasty, led troops to capture Chongqing. Then. The king of the cabinet should be Xiong Huibing Zunyi, and the deputy generals Yang Zhan, Tu Long, Mo Zongwen, Jia Denglian, etc., invited the south of Sichuan. and Gan Liangchen as president, vice Hou Tianxi, Tu Long, and Yang Zhan. The guerrilla horse took the test, and Yu Chaozong carried the rout. 30,000 people. Then in March, it captured Xuzhou, and the Great Western Army lost more than 1,000 men.

At the same time, the deputy general Cao Ying, the political staff chief Liu Liangchang, and the generals Dahai, Li Zhanchun, Zhang Tianxiang, etc., were all controlled by Fan Yixing, and there were more than 100,000 soldiers. They constantly attacked the Great Western Army, wanting to recover the lost ground. Therefore, a dog-tooth staggered front was formed in southern Sichuan and central Sichuan, and the Southern Ming army and the Great Western Army launched a life-and-death battle.

In the first month of the first year of Qiongyuan, Quan Dashan led 90,000 troops. Sent troops to Sichuan. As soon as he entered Sichuan, Li Yutian (originally the governor of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty), Ma Ke (who was named Huairenbo after surrendering to Dashun), Ma De, Gao Ruli, Shi Guoxi and other officers and generals led more than 10,000 soldiers to return to the Daping Dynasty. Then. More than 10,000 soldiers from the subordinate of Hu Xianghua, the deputy general of Hannan, also returned to Daping. Before a single bullet was fired, the whole mountain came to a good start.

Then, He Zhen, who had lost two main forces one after another, felt that the general trend had gone, and led the remnants of the Dashun army into Sichuan with more than 20,000 main forces to surrender to the Daping army. In this way, the legacy of the Dashun army in Sichuan was fully accepted by the entire Dashan Department. Moreover, these 40,000 soldiers are all veterans who can fight well, and those officials and generals are familiar with the cultural landforms of Sichuan, so that the Sichuan campaign in the whole mountain region will go more smoothly.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong was leading the main force of the Great Western Army in southern and central Sichuan, fighting fiercely with the army of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Yang Zhan, a general of the Southern Ming Dynasty, led his troops to recapture Nanzhou County, Sichuan, led his division to the north, and fought fiercely with the main force of Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army at the mouth of Pengshan, Zhang Xianzhong was defeated and retreated to Chengdu.

So Yang Zhan forced Chengdu from the south. Wang Yingxiong also sent Zeng Ying as the general and Wang Xiang as the general to attack with the joint division to block the eastward movement of the Great Western Army. Due to Zhang Xianzhong's massacre, the Southern Ming army, dominated by the Sichuan army, retaliated frantically, and they also launched a massacre against the "rebellious" people along the way, and the Sichuan people suffered another fate. How bitter the people of Sichuan are!

However, due to the threat of the southward Daping army, in March, in order to resist the southward movement of the Daping army, Zhang Xianzhong decided to abandon Chengdu. and slew all his wives and concubines and children, and one son was still young, and he also killed him.

And Zhang Xianzhong also said to Sun Kewang: "I am also a hero, I can't leave my young son to be captured, and you will eventually be the son of the world." The three hundred years of orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty may not be extinct, and it is also the will of heaven. When I die, I will return to the light in a hurry, and I will not be unjust. ”

And Zhang Xianzhong's crazy move may be to appease Sun Kewang's righteous sons, and he wants to prove to Sun Kewang that the inheritance of the Great Western Army will not be passed on to his son, but will be inherited by Sun Kewang and others. In exchange for the loyalty of Sun Kewang and others. However, tiger poison does not eat children, will Zhang Xianzhong's behavior be useful? That doesn't know. But it must be proven: Zhang Xianzhong at this time, his sulcus circuit is already different from ordinary people.

Then, Zhang Xianzhong divided his troops into four routes, and ordered four generals, each with more than 100,000 troops, to march north. In March, Zhang Xianzhong led the main force of the Great Western Army to leave Chengdu and go north to meet the Daping Army. In May, Zhang Xianzhong's army camped in Xichong Phoenix Mountain.

Of course, at this time, the total strength of the Great Western Army was only more than 100,000, and the number of those armies was actually just a claim.

When Zhang Xianzhong led his troops north and passed by Jinshanpu, he was once again furious, killing the people at will, even including his own troops, and wanted to eliminate those who were not strong. And when the Daping Army was pressing, some generals of the Great Western Army couldn't stand such crazy moves. So Liu Jinzhong admonished: "Living beings should not be killed in vain." ”

Of course, Zhang Xianzhong did not accept such advice, but he wanted to mobilize Liu Jinzhong's troops to return to Jinshanpu to meet. Liu Jin was suspicious, and then did not hesitate to lead his 20,000 soldiers and horses to the north, and the whole army surrendered to the Sichuan army in the whole mountain.

Boy! It seems that the whole mountain entered Sichuan not to fight, but rather to carry out an armed parade to receive and reorganize the surrendered troops.

The Sichuan army in Quandashan, with Liu Jinzhong as the guide, led the Sichuan army into northern Sichuan. On May 26 of the first year of Qiongyuan, Quan Dashan sent He Zhen, Ma Ke and other generals to lead the cavalry troops of the Sichuan Army to advance lightly in three ways, and launched a surprise attack on the Great Western Army, defeating the main force of the Great Western Army.

On the morning of the 27th, the Sichuan Army met Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army across the Sun Creek. In the face of this unexpected sudden attack, Zhang Xianzhong responded to the battle in a hurry and commanded the horse infantry of the Great Western Army to resist the Sichuan Army on two sides.

At this time, Quan Dashan led the main force of the Sichuan Army to arrive, and sent the general Gao Ruli and others to attack the right flank of the Great Western Army, and the general Shi Guoxi and others attacked the left flank of the Great Western Army. At the beginning of the battle, the battle was very fierce, Gao Ruli and others were killed, and the Great Western Army also suffered heavy losses.

However, when the battle flag of the former Runing Army was slowly unfurled in the military office of the whole mountain, the officers and men of the Great Western Army found their former comrade-in-arms - Liu Jinzhong leading his troops to charge. The officers and soldiers of the Great Western Army, who were full of Zhang Xianzhong's suspicion and indiscriminate killing, suddenly collapsed, and the whole army fled.

And Zhang Xianzhong was caught off guard at all, he didn't expect the rout to be so fast. For a moment of hesitation, Zhang Xianzhong, who stayed in place, and more than 20 of his personal guards were exposed to the front of the formation.

Because Zhang Xianzhong was wearing a python robe and Liu Jinzhong's identification, such an obvious target suddenly attracted a salvo of 10,000 guns from the Sichuan army, and 10,000 arrows were fired at once. Zhang Xianzhong immediately collapsed to death at the age of 40.

After Zhang Xianzhong's death, some loyal soldiers of the Great Western Army snatched back the corpse from the battle, wrapped the body in a brocade mattress, buried it in a secluded place, and then fled. The Sichuan army learned the whereabouts of Zhang Xianzhong's body from the mouth of the captive, and he was the head of the army and dedicated it to the Beijing division.

After this battle, more than 100,000 soldiers and horses left in the Great Western Army were killed, captured, and surrendered by the Sichuan Army. In addition to a part of the scattered people, Zhang Xianzhong's generals Sun Kewang, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi, Feng Shuangli, etc., led more than 20,000 remnants of the Great Western Army to the south, and were blocked by the Ming army Zeng Ying's troops in Chongqing.

At this time, the Great Western Army showed the ruthlessness of the trapped beasts, and after a fierce battle, they defeated the Southern Ming Army and killed the defender Zeng Ying. After that, the remnants of this Great Western Army continued to move in the direction of Guizhou. Later, he joined forces with Nanming to jointly fight against the Daping Army in the southwest.

Taking advantage of the decisive battle between the Great Western Army and the Sichuan Army in the whole mountain, the Southern Ming Army took advantage of the situation to enter the Chengdu Plain and occupied Chengdu. After that, the battle situation in Sichuan evolved into a battle between the Sichuan Army and the Southern Ming Army.

But the standoff didn't last long. A few months later, Nanming also fell apart. As a result, most of the Southern Ming troops in Sichuan also surrendered to the Daping Dynasty. Only a small number of men and horses continued to move south to Guizhou, Yunnan and other southwestern provinces to make the most difficult resistance.

The Daping army led by Jiang Cheng, Zhao Degong and Jiang Xuan, they have been following and pursuing Gao Yigong and Li Guobu, and in a short period of time, they have also pacified Gansu and other northwestern frontiers. Due to the surrender of a large number of Dashun troops, the total number of their troops soon swelled to nearly 70,000.

In a short period of 10 months, the Daping Army, with more than 25,000 people of the former Runing Army as the core, swept through the entire northwest and Sichuan Province. In the end, the strength of the army swelled to 560,000 people. Although these troops were divided into three divisions and operated separately, and their combat effectiveness was uneven, in terms of numbers, this was already the largest force in the Daping Dynasty.

And Li Zicheng's Dashun Army and Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Army, when they faced the attack of the Daping Army, they simply fell to the ground like two weak giants. And the Daping Army also destroyed these two forces one after another.

When such a result was presented to Wu Shigong and the Daping court, the Daping monarchs and ministers were all shocked. And the handful of question marks in the DPRK and China that doubted that the Daping Dynasty would not last long were all swept away.

However, in the first month of the first year of the Daping Dynasty in Qiongyuan, the troops that went out to conquer not only the Western Army, but also the battle between Shanhaiguan and the Manchu Qing Dynasty. (To be continued......)