This Kaifeng victory also gave Emperor Chongzhen and the Ming court a shot in the arm. Emperor Chongzhen immediately asked Henan's Runing Army and Heiyun Army to step up their pursuit. The Qin army of Sun Chuanting, the governor of the three sides, was ordered to speed up the exit of Tong Pass and flank the Li and Luo combined forces in Henan Province.

At the beginning of the year, when Wang Qiaonian was defeated and died, and Emperor Chongzhen reactivated Sun Chuanting from the edict, he asked him how many soldiers he needed when he summoned him? And Sun Chuanting's "Tears in the Iron Window" has been sung for three years, and he doesn't know the situation outside, thinking that the strength of the peasant army is still the same as back then, so he casually replied: 5,000 elite soldiers are enough.

However, as soon as Sun Chuanting arrived in Shanxi, he understood that the peasant army was already as powerful as a man, and the Qin army was no longer worthy of its name, so his strategic thinking immediately changed to support troops and refuse to defend Shaanxi, unwilling to fight out of Tongguan.

In June, Kaifeng was besieged, and Emperor Chongzhen repeatedly urged Sun Chuanting to go to help, but Sun Chuanting always emphasized that the soldiers were not paid enough and could not go out to fight. And said: "You have to train 20,000 soldiers, and you must pay 1 million." ”

This Shangshu suddenly angered Emperor Chongzhen. Since Yuan Chonghuan in the first year of Chongzhen, these superintendents of the unified army have repeatedly boasted about Haikou and occupied their positions. Then he increased the weight to the imperial court, and threatened the imperial court, there was a kind of appearance that he would not give up until he reached his goal, how could this not make Emperor Chongzhen angry?

In comparison, although Yang Sichang always asked for a huge amount of food and salary supply back then, he never deceived Emperor Chongzhen, the eldest son of this dwarf, no wonder Emperor Chongzhen trusted him so much.

Indeed, Sun Chuanting may not have deliberately deceived Emperor Chongzhen this time, but Emperor Chongzhen will not care about those objective reasons. He thought that Sun Chuanting was going back on his word, so he commented on the song: "The original proposal to train 5,000 soldiers can break the thief, why make a profit of 20,000?" And millions of salaries can be helped? But after a month's salary, he went out of the customs with a curl of armor and tried to annihilate him. Don't take the blame for it. ”

In this case, Sun Chuanting was a little helpless. After killing the commander-in-chief He Renlong and rectifying military discipline, he stepped up his military training and prepared to go out of the pass with trilateral forces to fight a decisive battle with the peasant army.

But at this time, Kaifeng was already in danger, and Emperor Chongzhen was impatient, and issued an edict to patrol the four towns of Yansui, Ningxia, Gansu, and Guyuan, urging Sun Chuanting to go out. Sun Chuanting once again said that the soldiers were newly recruited, lacked training, and could not fight. And Emperor Chongzhen refused to consider his opinion. So Sun Chuanting was forced to leave the school.

In September, the Qin army took the general soldier Gao Jie as the central army, and transferred the general soldiers Zuo Xian, Bai Guangen, Zheng Jiadong, Niu Chenghu and other troops, a total of more than 20,000 people out of Tongguan.

At this time, the combined forces of Li and Luo had already suffered setbacks in Kaifeng City. After they retreated to Henan Mansion, they were a little uncertain about where to go next. It happened that at this time, I heard that the Qin army was out of the customs. Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were very nervous. They were afraid of being flanked by the Runing army and the Qin army. Another fiasco.

But then the Li and Luo coalition forces found that the Runing army had stopped on the border of Henan Province and was no longer advancing, which made them a little relieved. So the Li and Luo coalition forces placed the secondary troops on the border of Henan Province to confront the Runing army, and then placed a large number of old and weak women and children, preparing to use the old and weak women and children to entangle the footsteps of the Runing army when the Runing army attacked urgently. The main forces of the Li and Luo coalition forces were concentrated. First of all, deal with the Qin army that has just come out of the customs.

On the first day of October, a major battle broke out between the two armies in the Ruyang County area. Before the war, Sun Chuanting ordered the general soldiers Zheng Jiadong, Gao Jie, Zuo Xun and other troops to set up an ambush, and the general soldier Niu Chenghu led the troops to fight. Wait until the blade is ready. Ushibe disguised defeat and retreated backwards. Li Zicheng's camp was really caught in the ambush, the official army ambushed the soldiers, and Niu Chenghu's troops also turned back to fight to the death. The peasant army was defeated and withdrew to the east.

So the Qin army was in hot pursuit, and the peasant army began to repeat the old tricks, throwing down a large amount of property. The Qin army saw that the peasant army had dropped a lot of armor and materials, and they all scrambled to grab things, and the whole army became chaotic.

When Luo Rucai's troops saw that Li Zicheng's camp had failed, and the Qin army was in a mess fighting for property, he immediately seized the fighter plane to attack, and deserved the title of the first field battalion of the peasant army.

And the Qin army was caught off guard, Zuo Xun and Xiao Shending's troops were the first to rout, and his troops couldn't help but flee. The peasant army turned defeat into victory, killing thousands of officers and soldiers, 78 generals, and capturing a large number of war horses and baggage, while the Qin army escaped and captured countless people.

Sun Chuanting hurriedly collected more than 8,000 defeated troops and immediately retreated into Tongguan. In order to strictly enforce military discipline, he beheaded Xiao Shending to show the public. Because Zuo Xun was the son of the general Zuo Guangxian, he was only fined 2,000 war horses to atone for his crimes. And Sun Chuanting was negligent in impeachment, and Emperor Chongzhen was helpless, so he had to instruct him to make meritorious service and redeem himself.

And in this battle, the Runing army was completely watching from the sidelines, gloating at the defeat of the Qin army. As for Sun Chuanting's Qin army, it was a big injury. And the Ming Dynasty's once most powerful trilateral army disappeared in this way, and then they were completely reduced to the situation of local security forces, and could only maintain law and order in this area of Xi'an.

You say! How can I explain to my godmother? How will you face her old man in the future? Is Zhang Rubao deaf? I don't even dare to take it to heart. Let him block the Yangtze River and the Han River, and he dares to put Zhang Xianzhong into Xiangyang. Let him, the commander of the water division, not do it, go home and nurse the child! Wu Shigong saw Huguang's latest battle report and was immediately furious.

The officers of the Runing Army in the tent were all silent. Seeing that Wu Shigong's anger couldn't be ended for a while, Xue Yongli secretly waved his hand and asked the officers to retreat first.

"Uncle! Condolences change! General Ma is also loyal to the country, and General Qin will not be angry with your uncle. Xue Yongli advised.

And Wu Shigong was also a little tired when he got angry, he sat down on the chair, picked up the teapot on the table, took a few sips to the teapot spout, and then said to Xue Yongli: "Actually, it's nothing for Zhang Thief and Zuo Fool to fight, I'd better them die together." But in a fit of anger, the left fool dared to withdraw the army from Xiangyang, so he threw my big brother Ma in the city; Brother Erqi Ma is really solid-eyed, and he has already let him see that the situation is not good and flee to our Runing, and he has to be loyal to the country, what is there to protect in this Ming Dynasty? ”

When Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army made a comeback in Shucheng Dongshan, it was attacked by the Runing army from two sides. Fortunately, Zhang Xianzhong was as cunning as a fox, and successfully took the main force across the Yangtze River and jumped out of the encirclement of the Runing army from the Chizhou area.

After that, Zhang Xianzhong, who did not have the "attention" of the Runing Army, began to flourish. He connected the stone platform and entered the Panyang Lake in the east, and seized 300 large ships in Shuangqiao, and built a large number of ships, recruited sailors, and trained sailors in Panyang Lake. At this time, Zhang Xianzhong's infantry army also had 32 battalions of old sentry and 24 battalions of small sentry, and the strength exceeded 100,000.

In July, in order to curb the wanton rampant operation of Zhang Xianzhong's troops, Nanjing sent more than 30,000 troops to the general army Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo's troops, and then fought fiercely with Zhang Xianzhong's troops and were defeated by Zhang Xianzhong's troops on the frontal battlefield. During the battle, the loss of officers and soldiers exceeded 10,000 people, and the entire Jiangnan was shocked by the strong strength of Zhang Xianzhong's troops.

After that, Zhang Xianzhong was unwilling to stay here and was besieged by the officers and troops gathered in the southeast, so he began to move to other places to open up another situation.

After careful consideration, Zhang Xianzhong decided to lead his troops west into Hubei, so he sent his military division Pan Duao to infiltrate Wuchang in advance "for internal response". In late August, Zhang Xianzhong's troops had already entered the border with Hubei, and they had been jointly operated for more than 20 miles. At the beginning of September, part of the army was sent to attack Huangmei, Hubei Province, in preparation for the whole division to enter Hubei.

However, the troops of the Runing Army in Huguang strictly implemented the conservative strategy, they were only stationed in the Runing Army in the Huguang and Nanzhili areas, their own territory, and covered the southern part of Runing, and they did not attack at will in other areas. In addition, the Hubei region is basically Zuo Liangyu's territory, so the Runing Army is happy to see the westward advance of Zhang Xianzhong's troops.

However, Zuo Liangyu did have two brushes, and he concentrated his main force, which was to block the westward advance of the peasant army in the Huangmei area and defeat Zhang Xianzhong's troops in the joint operation of other officers and troops in Huguang.

Due to the defeat in the battle, Zhang Xianzhong was forced to return to the Tiantianzhai Mountain Area of Qianshan County and waited for the battle. And Pan Duao, who was lurking in Wuchang, was also captured and killed by the government because of Shen Huilin's informant. As a result, Zhang Xianzhong's plan to march into Hubei was temporarily blocked. Then, Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo and other soldiers who followed behind led the soldiers to the hidden mountains, set fire to the woods in the middle of the night, and attacked the peasant barracks. The peasant army was defeated by the officers and troops due to the sudden change and the mountainous terrain blocked.

The successive defeats made Zhang Xianzhong a dilemma. However, at this time, a partial division he had sent to Lu before completely disrupted the good situation of the Huguang official army.

In order to cope with the westward advance of the main force, Zhang Xianzhong sent Li Dingguo to lead 5,000 men to the south of it. However, Li Dingguo quickly dispatched troops and immediately rushed into the weak area of the Huguang official army. After that, Lianketong Mountain, Chongyang, and the two peasant armies took refuge, plus the poor people who joined the army, the number of people and horses exceeded 30,000 at once.

Then, Li Dingguo's ministry crossed the river in the Honghu area and Keqian River. And the main force of Zhang Xianzhong's department also immediately changed to the main one, and followed Li Dingguo's department towards Xiangyang.

In October, Zhang Xianzhong's troops arrived in Jingmen, and the force swelled to 200,000 at once. And Xiangyang, which is the residence of General Zuo Liangyu's mansion, has become a period of chaos.

Before that, in order to be ready to flee at any time, Zuo Liangyu built warships in Xiangyang, and the money, grain, and people who built the ship were wantonly scraped from the people near Xiangyang. The common people of Xiangyang hated the Zuo Army to the bone marrow, and they secretly set fire to the ships built by Zuo Liangyu. Zuo Liangyu was furious when he heard the news, he simply let go of Xiangyang, and immediately made a big rope in Xiangyang City, looted a group of merchant ships loaded with military supplies and captured women's money and transported away first, and he led the army to defend Xiangyang and Fancheng, preparing to block the advance of Zhang Xianzhong's troops. (To be continued......)