Siege warfare has been extremely difficult since ancient times, and the defenders have a great advantage, often winning more with less.

"The Art of War" has clouds:

"Therefore, the first army is to attack and plan, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and the next is to attack the city."

"The siege is a last resort. Repair the turret, with equipment, three months and then completed. ”

"It's been three months. It will be overwhelming and the ants will possess it, kill one-third of the soldiers, and those who will not pull out the city will also be attacked by this disaster. ”

It is still difficult to siege a city with sufficient siege equipment, not to mention a rudimentary ladder.

It is undoubtedly a fool's dream to rely on those hungry soldiers who can't eat with such a simple ladder.

Even if Li Zicheng subsequently invested in the elite horse army and elite cavalry, it was difficult to capture Chunhua.

It is also impossible to bypass Chunhua, because Chunhua stands on the road to the Guanzhong Plain.

If you go around, Chunhua City only needs to divide the cavalry to stop and attack halfway through, which can cause more than 100,000 people to fall into collapse.

As long as it was held for seven days, the ordnance and reinforcements would all arrive from Xi'an, and the siege of Chunhua would naturally be solved.

Although there are hundreds of thousands of rogues, it sounds like a huge momentum and occupies an advantage.

However, the soldiers are not more than fine, and there are not many elite cavalry and horse troops under Li Zicheng, although they have the equipment of the Liao soldiers, but some gaps can not be narrowed by relying on equipment.

Chunhua City has a favorable location, there are more than 900 Liao cavalry, plus more than 800 foot soldiers who arrived in the follow-up, plus the guards and young men who defend the city, it is really outrageous to not be able to hold it for seven days.

He Renlong was besieged in Longzhou City, and Li Zicheng led the army.

Li Zicheng attacked for two months, but in the end he still did not break through the city.

The reinforcements promised by Hong Chengchou will definitely come.

Now Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong, who are gathered at the junction of Fengxiang Mansion and Xi'an Mansion, have reached about 250,000 troops.

This is already an extremely terrifying scale, after entering the Guanzhong Plain, the Ming army has no danger except the city.

There are many Liukou cavalry, and as soon as they enter the Guanzhong Plain, they are like birds on the blue sky and fish into the sea.

Even if Cao Wenzhao is counted, there are only more than 10,000 people when the full fight is full.

10,000 to 250,000, one to 25, is already a very disproportionate number.

And Li Zicheng and Hui Dengxiang originally had 60,000 or 70,000 people, but now they have broken through Sanshui and coerced more people, and the North Road Liukou has exceeded the 100,000 mark.

Send a detachment of two or three thousand people, if Chunhua can be held, then there is no reason to put the Liukou of the northern road into the Guanzhong Plain.

The reinforcements promised by Hong Chengchou are actually the remnants of the battalion under Tian Yinglong, and there are still about 1,000 people left after integration, and the rest are transferred to other battalions.

This integrated remnant camp is now under the command of the deputy general Liu Chenggong, all the way to the north.

Cao Wenzhao led his army to Xingping and Hong Chengchou in the south to make peace, and Xingping was the main battlefield that really determined the victory or defeat of Guanzhong.

It is easy to keep Chunhua, but Chen Wang thinks about much more than just keeping Chunhua.

Now he needs a big victory, and he will exchange it for military merit and establish his current position.

Although it is difficult to be promoted, it is not difficult to be promoted.

As long as the battalion position has enough military merit, it can be promoted, and the superintendent has this power to control the battalion officers and battalion generals.

It is a bit difficult to be a general soldier or deputy general, but it is a simple matter to push a staff general and guerrilla attack.

Official products are different, they must first report to the Ministry of War and so on, and then talk about meritorious deeds.

But Chen Wang didn't care what grade it was.

Having soldiers in hand is real.

In troubled times, there are soldiers who are the king of grass.

What official products, what wives and sons, all are empty.

Daming is already full of holes and sores now, and the roots are already rotten.

Everything and glory in your hands will die with the collapse of the Ming Court.

"History of the Southern Ming Dynasty" can even be read by people who directly turn their backs, it is simply a ridiculous history.

Guarding Chunhua, Hong Chengchou's evaluation in his heart was only moderate at best, and he acquiesced in his status as a battalion general, and at that time, the number of soldiers was probably only more than 2,000 people.

But this is not enough, he needs more soldiers, he needs more power.

As a battalion soldier, he has very little autonomy, unlike the guards, who have a fixed station, can develop in the field, and even have craftsmen who make ordnance.

Once the battalion received the military order, they had to obey the dispatch and set off on the road

Many battalion soldiers and generals of the Ming army were constantly moving inside and outside the pass, and they were tired of running for their lives.

is as arrogant as Zuo Liangyu, at most at the beginning, he only delayed for a little time, and he didn't dare to really disobey the order.

As a battalion soldier, it is almost impossible to find a place to develop.

And during the Chongzhen period, there were very few places where you could farm with peace of mind.

In the early years of Chongzhen, the drought was only limited to Shaanxi, the number of people affected was not large, the grain harvest was seriously reduced, and people and animals were starving, which set off the prelude to the people's uprising.

But as time passed, the drought spread from north to south, and continued to expand.

From Shaanxi to Shanxi, then to Beizhili, then to Henan, and then to Huguang and other places.

By the thirteenth year of Ming Chongzhen, the precipitation was even less than half of that of previous years.

The price of rice per stone has even risen to five taels.

Large areas of farmland have been damaged, seedlings have withered, and crops have been lost.

Shanxi's Fenshui and Zhanghe rivers have all dried up, Hebei's nine rivers have dried up, and Baiyangdian Lake has dried up, making the people's revolt more and more violent.

Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Henan and other places were not only hit by drought, but also by locust plagues and more serious plagues.

An official in Henan said: "The drought is all over the province, the grass is withered, the water in Luo is not deep, the grass, trees, animal skins, insects and flies are all eaten, many people are starving to death, starvation carries the road, and the land is wild." ”

The famine in Shaanxi is even worse, and the record says: "In the rice market, the wood and stone noodles are exhausted, and the father and son and the couple are dissected by each other, and eight or nine out of ten are killed." ”

Nanzhili, Jiangnan, Shandong and other places are beyond the reach of the whip, and they can't go at all.

There are only two places that can be visited in the future, and the damage is not severe.

One is Sichuan, and the other is Huguang.

There weren't many paths that Chen Wang could take, and there were only a few people in front of him, and many of them were dead ends.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was not easy to be a loyal minister, and those who were loyal to the imperial court, listened to the tune and listened to the propaganda, and the examples of Ai Wannian, Cao Wenzhao, Lu Xiangsheng and others were reluctantly.

It is said that in the previous life, he did evil, and in this life he was attached, and the evil was full of evil, and he was attached to the provincial city.

Then those who served as battalion soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty may have been full of evil in their previous lives.

There is actually only one path left for Chen Wangneng to take - to take the path that Zuo Liangyu has walked in history.

Chen Wang's shadow flashed in his mind.

Zuo Liangyu was the best among the battalion generals in the late Ming Dynasty.

was not killed by the Qing army because he was tired of running for his life, he was not killed in battle because of the weak mind of the governor, and he was not casually beheaded by a civilian official.

Of course, you can't completely follow Zuo Liangyu, so this is also a dead end.

Zuo Liangyu was actually already coerced forward by the generals under his command in the later period, and he had no way to control such a huge army at that time.

It is already August, and the edict of the Ming court has been issued.

Lu Xiangsheng was appointed prime minister of the five provinces, overseeing the military affairs of the five provinces of Nanzhili, Henan, Shandong, Sichuan, and Huguang.

Hong Chengchou was responsible for encircling and suppressing the rogues in the northwest of Shanxi and Shaanxi, and Lu Xiangsheng was in charge of encircling and suppressing the rogues in the southeast.

The main body of the soldiers led by Chen Wang is still the Liao soldiers, and the establishment is also the establishment of Liao Town, and there is a high probability that he will follow Lu Xiangsheng to Henan at that time......