Chapter 363: The Great Western Army (1)

Zhang Huangyan also believed that the Qing army in Nanzhili was strong, and today the Qing army was repulsed, and the losses of the Ming army were more than several times that of the Qing army, and it was not conducive to the Ming army to continue fighting.

The three decided to withdraw, and Huang Degong retreated south with his troops, not far from Liyang to Huizhou Mansion, but it was necessary to pass through Guangde Mansion and Ningguo Mansion.

These two places have not yet been captured by the Qing army, Huang Degong led the troops through quickly, and when the troops arrived at Ningguofu, suddenly another rebel army was waiting here.

The leader of the rebel army was Jin Sheng, Jin Sheng was a jinshi in the first year of Chongzhen, and when he heard that the city of Nanjing was broken by the Qing army, he raised the rebel army in Ningguo Mansion to resist the invasion of the Qing army.

He learned that Huang Degong came to Ningguo Mansion with His Majesty, and brought thousands of righteous troops to provide grain and grass for Huang Degong's department in Jingde County, Ningguo Prefecture.

If it weren't for Jin Sheng's supplies, even if his troops arrived in Huizhou Mansion, there wouldn't be many people left.

Jin Sheng met Emperor Hongguang in the army, and after Emperor Hongguang abandoned the city of Nanjing, he realized the hot and cold state of the world, and appointed Jin Sheng as the secretary of the military department, and Jin Sheng also suggested that Huang Degong retreat to Huizhou Mansion and resist the Qing army with Congshan Pass.

and told Emperor Hongguang and Huang Degong that his protégé Jiang Tianyi had already led troops to garrison Congshan Pass, and as long as the army arrived at Congshan Pass, they could immediately start defending.

While speaking, the Qing army pursued the soldiers quietly, Huang Degong asked Jin Sheng to take His Majesty to retreat first, he led the troops to break off, Jin Sheng was reluctant to give up Huang Degong, but still respected Huang Degong's order, and took Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong and the righteous army to retreat to Huizhou Mansion.

Huang Dequan led his troops and horses to snipe the Qing army in Jingde County, and the Qing army's forward troops were led by Geng Zhongming, and the two armies fought in Jingde County.

Geng Zhongming was also a general of the Ming army before, and after surrendering to the Qing army, he fought the army that was also the Ming army, and it was a fierce advance, I don't know how many Ming troops were defeated by him.

In order to cover His Majesty's retreat, Huang Degong had to hold out here longer, he drew his sword and fought street battles with the Qing army in Jingde County.

The Qing army did not have many soldiers and horses, and Geng Zhongming was also very curious that Huang Degong could completely withdraw with his troops, why did he have to fight a decisive battle with him in Jingde County?

He didn't know that Emperor Hongguang was in Jin Sheng's righteous army, and since Huang Degong was going to fight a decisive battle here, he also decided to annihilate Huang Degong's troops here.

The two armies were killed in the dark, and Huang Degong's troops gradually could not resist the attack of the Qing army, and another righteous army rushed to support Huang Degong, which was the righteous army led by Wu Yingji in Guichi County.

The rebel army along the way was almost a peasant army, and its combat effectiveness was not as good as that of the bandits, but they all rushed to the battlefield against the Qing army as always.

Thousands of rebels launched an attack from the rear of the Qing army, and the rebels carrying hoes, kitchen knives, and nail rakes were, in Geng Zhongming's view, a group of straw bale troops.

But it was such a group of straw bale troops, they simply overturned the rear army of the Qing army, the rear army of the Qing army collapsed, and the front army also collapsed immediately.

After the Qing army was defeated, Huang Degong and Wu Yingji joined forces, Huang Degong was moved by the righteous army, and ordered the soldiers to give the Qing army armor and weapons on the battlefield to the righteous army, enhance the strength of the righteous army, and then retreat towards Huizhou Mansion with the righteous army.

Jin Sheng escorted Zhu Yousong to Congshan Pass, after Zhu Yousong came to Congshan Pass, the soldiers and civilians of Congshan Pass shouted in unison, Zhu Yousong's heart was surging, a group of scum in Nanjing City, when the Qing army came to the city, they were all turtles with shrunken heads, and then looked at the Congshan Pass Righteous Army, Zhu Yousong's confidence doubled.

Soon after, Huang Degong and Wu Yingji came with troops, Zhu Yousong thought that Huang Degong died after the break, but he didn't expect Huang Degong to come back, and returned to Congshan Pass with another righteous army, the Ming army had more than 40,000 soldiers and horses in Congshan Pass, Zhu Yousong once again ordered the world's soldiers and horses to come to Congshan Pass to King Qin.

There were still no soldiers and horses to come to Congshan Guanqin Wang, but fortunately, after the Qing army captured most of Nanzhili, there was no spare strength to launch an attack, and Haoge took his troops to recuperate in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River.

Another unit of the Qing army, led by Duoduo, launched an attack on Huguang.

The Huguang region was divided by the Dashun Army, Zuo Liangyu, and He Tengjiao, of which the Dashun Army occupied the northern part of Huguang, Zuo Liangyu occupied the southern part of Huguang, and He Tengjiao occupied the entire western part of Huguang.

Three troops

This is all a hostile relationship, Duoduo's army entered Huguang, and a war broke out with the Baiwang division of the Dashun army, which was the only army of the Dashun army that was not defeated.

In the face of the Qing army's attack, Bai Wang's troops and the Qing army fought back and forth, and Duoduo was also surprised that Huguang's Shun army was quite powerful, but what surprised him even more was that other soldiers and horses from Huguang were sitting on the mountain watching the tiger fight.

Among them, He Tengjiao led his troops in Yuezhou, and watched the battle between the Qing army and the Dashun army, Zuo Mengeng was even more outrageous, and took the Zuo army to sing and dance in Wuchang Mansion to promote peace, hoping that the Dashun army would defeat the Dashun army, and also asked people to send a cart of grain and grass to Duoduo to show the attitude of the left army.

Duoduo and the Dashun army fought fiercely in De'an Mansion, Li Zi wanted to lead the Shaanxi Dashun army to attack Datong Mansion in Shanxi, and had mobilized the rear battalion and the middle battalion to launch a raid on Datong Mansion in August, but Bai Wang's department was raided by the Qing army, and he had to give Bai Wang reinforcements to defend the grain production area of Huguang.

In order to give Bai Wang a strong reinforcement, Li Zicheng mobilized Li Houying, Yuan Zongdi's right battalion two soldiers and horses as the forward, Liu Zongmin's middle battalion as the Chinese army, and went all out to help the Huguang battlefield.

Yuan Zongdi's troops and horses were fast, and it took only ten days to arrive at De'an Mansion, where he joined Bai Wang, and the two armies faced the Qing army's attack, and they cooperated very well, and the Qing army's several attacks were repulsed.

Duoduo saw that he had a tough confrontation with the Dashun army, and he was cheap Zuo Mengeng and He Tengjiao, so he changed his strategy and ordered Hong Chengchou to recruit the scum in the Dashun army and the Ming army, and this move really worked.

Hong Chengchou gave full play to his wisdom and talents, and actively recruited surrenders for the Qing army, and under the temptation of silver and high-ranking officials, more than 20 generals above 1,000 generals in Zuo Mengeng's department surrendered to the Qing army.

In the battle with the Qing army, Bai Wangbu had their own victories and defeats, but the losses were still greater than the Qing army, and in the face of the temptation of the Qing army, Bai Wangbu surrendered to the enemy with seven generals above the captain.

The generals of the Dashun army were dumbfounded, why did their subordinates become so uncompetitive, Yuan Zongdi comforted Bai Wang, the rear camp and the middle camp were about to arrive in De'an Mansion, so there was no need to worry about the lack of troops.

Hearing this, Bai Wang's mood was much better, he issued a surrender order in the army, there were surrenderers, and the three clans were punished, and under Bai Wang's high-pressure policy, the tide of the Dashun army surrendering to the enemy was finally contained.

The Dashun army finally settled down, but the Qing army achieved a major result, Hong Chengchou and Duoduo actually recruited Zuo Menggeng's entire army.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians of the Zuo family in Huangzhou Mansion and Wuchang Mansion changed their faces overnight and became a member of the Qing army.

Zuo Mengeng didn't listen to the insults outside, and didn't know why he suddenly surrendered to the Qing army, after he surrendered to the Qing army, he said that he was unwilling to continue in the army, and he was willing to give up military power.

Duoduo wished that he would be like this, let the troops escort Zuo Mengeng and other generals to the capital for retirement, the troops with low combat effectiveness in the Zuo family army were dismissed, and the remaining tens of thousands of young and strong people were all incorporated into the green battalion soldiers, Duoduo was very surprised, Zuo Mengeng had hundreds of thousands of troops, why were there only so many young and strong people?

Although there are fewer people, after all, after swallowing Zuo Menggeng's territory and soldiers and horses, Duoduo's move broke the balance of power in the Huguang region, He Tengjiao and Bai Wang did not dare to fight with the Qing army.

Li Zicheng was also deceived by Zuo Mengeng's surrender to the enemy in Shaanxi, this Zuo Mengeng did not have the slightest shadow of his father, sat on hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians, and became a slave of the Qing army without a shot, Li Zicheng also scolded Zuo Mengeng, but he scolded and scolded, and he still had to reinforce the Ming army in the Huguang area.

This time, he left Liu Fangliang's soldiers and horses to have the strength to fight, and this infantry horse was also used to resist the Qing army of Datong Mansion to attack Shaanxi.

We can only hope that Liu Zongmin, Li Guo and other generals can defeat the Qing army, and the Qing army, after digesting and absorbing Zuo Mengeng's troops, once again launched an attack on the Dashun army.

Hundreds of thousands of Qing troops were divided into three troops to attack De'an Mansion and Xiangyang Mansion, the Dashun army divided troops to resist, and Yuan Zongdi and Bai Wang fought with the Qing army in De'an Mansion.

Liu Zongmin and Li Guo fought with the Qing army in Xiangyang Mansion, and the two armies continued to donate blood in the Huguang area, and He Tengjiao, who was in the west of Huguang, turned a blind eye.

After Yingtianfu was broken by the Qing army, he asked people to contact the Chongzhen court in Shanxi.

Zhu Youzhen has long seen through He Tengjiao, who is completely unworthy, but he has no ability to become the governor of Huguang region.

In order to inspire He Tengjiao to fight against the Qing army, he pinched

He Tengjiao was appointed as the governor of Huguang, Henan and Jiangxi provinces, so that He Tengjiao could send troops to attack the Qing army and take Henan back.

However, He Tengjiao's center is still against the Dashun army, thinking that the Dashun army is in front of him, and he needs to fight with the Dashun army, as for the Qing army, which is still far away in Huguang, even if it is called, the Dashun army must be destroyed, so that it is possible to attack his territory in the west of Huguang.

He Tengjiao was short-sighted, let the Qing army annex Zuomengeng's department, and watched the Qing army attack the Dashun army.

He Tengjiao ignored it, refused to send troops on the grounds that the Huguang soldiers and horses had not yet formed combat effectiveness, and asked the soldiers and horses of Huguang not to support the Dashun army, but fortunately, he did not attack the Dashun army.

The Dashun army fought alone, Bai Wang confronted the Qing army head-on in De'an Mansion, Yuan Zong's first department waited for the opportunity to raid, but was defeated by the main force of the Eight Banners led by Duoduo, Bai Wang was not allowed to retreat to the north, on the way to retreat, Bai Wang's troops rebelled, killed Bai Wang's handsome army and surrendered to the Qing army.

Bai Wang's other generals also dispersed, and the news reached Yuan Zongdi's army, Yuan Zongdi was shocked and retreated to Xiangyang Mansion with his troops overnight.

After retreating to Xiangyang Mansion, Li Guo and Liu Zongmin fought fiercely with Wu Sangui in Xiangyang Mansion, and Wu Sangui's troops and horses were mainly green battalion soldiers, and their combat effectiveness was not as good as Duoduo's troops.

The two armies fought in Yicheng, Xiangyang, and Zaoyang one after another, and the Dashun army fought on its own, and the Qing army was unfamiliar with the place and was defeated by the Dashun army one after another.

However, Bai Wang was killed by the rebels, and the whole army was scattered, which caused the rear camp and the middle camp to be unstable, and after Yuan Zongdi retreated to Xiangyang Mansion, Duoduo led the main force of the Eight Banners to Xiangyang Mansion.

Hundreds of thousands of Qing troops besieged Xiangyang Mansion, and the three armies of the Dashun Army were killed, but they were still defeated by the Qing army, and were forced to abandon Xiangyang Mansion and retreat to Yunyang Mansion in the northwest, which was also the last territory of the Dashun Army in Huguang.

After the Qing army occupied Xiangyang Mansion, it had to stop the pace of attack, not because the Qing army was insufficient, but because the battle line was too long, and the rebel army rose in the occupied area.

The Qing army won a great victory in the Central Plains, but Zhu Youzhen was in a hurry, and he asked Wang Chengen to send an envoy to the Dashun army, and Li Jiantai to send an envoy to Daxi, asking the two hostile forces to send troops to resist the Qing army.

Li Zicheng's troops were severely injured by the Qing army in Huguang, and he would fight the Qing army to the end without Wang Chengen's persuasion.

Li Jiantai came to the land of Bashu, at this time in the land of Bashu, Wang Yingxiong, who presided over the military struggle with the Great Western Army, was a little contradictory, he was appointed by Emperor Hongguang to be the secretary of the military department and a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, supervising the military affairs of Sichuan, Lake, Yun and Gui, and Li Jiantai was the minister of Emperor Chongzhen.

He did not kill Li Jiantai, but he was also lukewarm to Li Jiantai, but also angrily reprimanded Li Jiantai for surrendering to the Dashun army after the Dashun army broke through the capital, Li Jiantai was not ashamed, and said to him: "Wang Dudu, I was ordered to come here to invite the Daxi Army to go out of Sichuan to fight against the Qing army. ”

Wang Yingxiong also recognized the horror of the Qing army, and believed that with the strength of the Ming army, it could not confront the Qing army, and it was indeed necessary for the Great Western Army to go out of Sichuan to fight the Qing army.

But the Great Western Army and the Ming Dynasty have been fighting for many years, and Zhang Xianzhong, the emperor of the Great Western Army, is a strange person, Li Jiantai can persuade him best, but if he can't convince him, I am afraid that the head will be cut off by Zhang Xianzhong.

After Li Jiantai was breached in the capital, he surrendered to the Dashun army, and later returned to the imperial court to persuade Shi Kefa to return to the Chongzhen court for Emperor Chongzhen.

He strongly asked Wang Yingxiong to escort him to the territory of the Great Western Army, and he would persuade Zhang Xianzhong to do the rest, Wang Yingxiong was moved by his persistence, and ordered the general Yang Zhan to escort him to the territory of the Great Western Army.

Yang Zhan is also a famous general, after escorting Li Jiantai to the territory of the Great Western Army, he did not immediately retreat, but Chen Bing was on the border between the Great Western Army and the Ming Army, and strengthened Li Jiantai's courage.

After Li Jiantai came to the territory of the Great Western Army, he was punched and kicked by the soldiers of the Great Western Army, until the arrival of Zhang Xianzhong's son Li Dingguo, Li Dingguo was a very capable general under Zhang Xianzhong, and when he saw Li Jiantai coming alone, he must have come to negotiate peace with Daxi from the Ming court.

He ordered the soldiers who beat Li Jiantai to be dragged out and beaten with 20 military sticks, and then treated Li Jiantai with courtesy.