Chapter 69: Take-up

The records in the official history may not be accurate at some times, after all, it is people who write and revise history.

There are often deviations between several historical books of the Ming Dynasty, recording different things, and later generations can only corroborate each other from them to find the most logical explanation, but some things are difficult to restore the whole picture after all.

However, there is no discrepancy in the record of Gao Jie's betrayal of Li Zicheng, and there is a sentence in the "History of the Ming Dynasty" that describes it very clearly.

"Self-married Xing Wu Duozhi, in charge of military funds, daily food battles."

"Jie Guo's camp, the division is in line with the test. Shi Wei Jie appearance, with it. ”

"I was afraid that I would become conscious, and I would surrender, and in August of the following year, I stole Xing's family and returned."

That is to say, Li Zicheng's wife Xing was in charge of the army, and when Gao Jie handed over the talisman in the camp tent, Xing was handsome, and the two began to have a personal affair.

Then Gao Jie was afraid that Li Zicheng would find out, so he planned to surrender, so he surrendered with Xing and the two in August of the eighth year.

Later, Gao Jie was arranged by Hong Chengchou under He Renlong.

Chen Wang knows very well that today's Gao Jie should be very panicked now, I am afraid that Li Zicheng or others have already discovered some clues.

In the original time and space, in August.

The Ming army suffered defeats one after another, and its troops were already stretched.

The troops under Hong Chengchou's command, including the recruited soldiers, were only about 12,000.

Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong gathered more than 250,000 people in the west of Xingping.

And the Liukou of Pingliang Mansion marched all the way and defeated the Ming army in a row.

Li Zicheng and Hui Dengxiang successively defeated the Ming army in Xiangle and Hutou Town, and went all the way south, and the Ming army lost its armor all the way.

The three-way army attacked from three directions, and almost all the prefectures and counties in the northwest of Xi'an Prefecture fell.

At that time in Shaanxi, Gao Yingxiang completely had the upper hand, and the Ming army led by Hong Chengchou was only on the defensive, and no one knew whether they could hold Xi'an Mansion at all.

But it was under that circumstance that when the Ming army suffered repeated defeats, lost troops, and was outnumbered, Gao Jie still chose to surrender.

The only reason was that Gao Jie was already in a state of extreme panic at that time.

Gao Jie and Xing's fornication are mostly found to have some clues, and it is difficult to continue to hide it.

And now it is August of the eighth year of Chongzhen, the time for Gao Jie to defect.

Historically, Gao Jie fled from the military camp when he followed Li Zicheng and Hui Dengxiang south.

Then he went all the way south and surrendered directly to the Ming army.

Now was the time when Gao Jie was most panicked, and Chen Wang felt that even if he didn't want to find Gao Jie, Gao Jie himself would send it to his bowl.

However, Chen Wang naturally did not pin all his hopes on Gao Jie, because it was full of uncertainty.

Resigned to fate is not Chen Wang's character, yesterday when the army just arrived and began to camp, he sent a number of teams to stay overnight.

Let the hunters and herb pickers in Chunhua County serve as guides, and cross the mountains from the trail of the two mountains, and infiltrate the rear of the camp of the Liukou.

Although the intrusive army has set up heavy defenses on the periphery, it is a night attack, and the old and weak in the rear are bloated, so it is naturally impossible to cover everything.

After Li Zicheng broke Sanshui, there were many new appendages, and it was easier to penetrate.

Calculate the time, and wait until dusk to receive the reward of the night.

Gao Jie should now be in charge of the rear camp or the middle camp, and the incident of He Renlong made Li Zicheng a little uneasy about this fellow villager who had been with him.

However, the friendship between fellow villagers is still there, and Gao Jie's prestige in the army is not low, and Li Zicheng does not have sufficient evidence.

Li Zicheng just treated Gao Jie coldly, and let him only take care of the old and weak and guard the camp after that.

Gao Jie is nicknamed the Mountain Harrier, although he is Li Zicheng's general, he also has his own banner.

In the many subsequent encounters, the military reports showed that Gao Jie commanded the rear battalion, led the troops to protect the old and weak, and no longer went to the front line.

As for the accent issue, Chen Wang naturally took it into account, the Liao soldiers must be able to send them over, and if they don't open their mouths, their original form will be revealed.

The Liao soldiers had sufficient food and salary, and most of them were strong and strong, and they were naturally clearly distinguished from the people who were unable to eat and have a stomach.

However, among the eight rounds of soldiers brought by Tang Shiping, four of them were the remnants of the original Ai Wannian.

Ai Wannian was originally a Shenmu general, and later awarded the deputy commander-in-chief of Gushan, the garrison was Pingliang, and most of his subordinates were from Shaanxi.

Arrears of wages have long been a common occurrence for Shaanxi soldiers, and they cannot receive sufficient food at all, and many of them do not have enough to eat.

After the defeat of Xiangle, the food and salary were halved again.

It was the group of militia militia that Chen Wang recruited in Pizhou at the beginning, and now they are much stronger than these Shaanxi soldiers who originally belonged to Ai Wannian.

After all, Cao Wenzhao, as the main force of the attack, will naturally not be short of food, and this time there is also the captain of the transportation brigade of Bizhou Zhizhou, so he naturally eats well and drinks well.

This time, the infiltration sent by Chen Wang was not collected at night, and they were all selected from these remnants of Shaanxi.

Twenty taels of silver per person, the reward has just been opened, and a group of Shaanxi soldiers have already been recruited.

A total of two hundred taels of silver were paid, and Chen Wang bought the lives of ten people.

The ten people were originally sentinels in the army, and they had not done anything without infiltrating behind enemy lines, and they all had experience.

Almost everyone in Chen Wangxuan dragged his family with him, had wives and children, in order to prevent him from deliberately becoming thieves and had scruples.

Ten Shaanxi soldiers received the placement silver, changed their clothes, and quietly left Chunhua City without looking back.

If you find useful information, add an extra ten taels of silver.

Listen to the camp information clearly, add another ten taels, and upgrade one level after returning to the camp.

Chen Wang did not tell them the specific content, nor did he say that he was looking for Gao Jie.

Just let them find out who the various generals who broke into the rear camp were.

For this reason, he also deliberately asked people to draw a few pictures of the flags of the generals of the army, which were mixed with Gao Jie's flags.

In order to prevent these people from being caught by mistake, the plan will be exposed.

On the first day of the invasion, not too many elites were invested, but only the starving soldiers were used as a test of attrition, and no one even climbed the city wall.

Chen Wang did not spare the gunpowder, and at the same time, during the fierce battle, he sent Hu Zhili and Chen Gong to take turns to charge and kill the reorganized Liao cavalry for a while, but they did not impact too far, and returned to the city before they reached the range of the enemy's rear firearms team.

The siege battle on the first day came to an end with the roar of several firing cannons in the formation of the breaking army.

When it was slightly dark, the intrusive army had already collected its troops and returned to the camp, leaving behind the devastation all over the ground, and most of the corpses were collected by them.

However, there are still quite a lot of corpses under the city of Chunhua, and the casualties of the intrusive army in the city have already exceeded 1,000 in a day, and many people have fallen at the foot of the city wall, and no one dares to collect their corpses at all.

When the night slowly fell, completely covering the outskirts of Chunhua City.

The troopers scattered around Chunhua did not find a few black shadows sitting in hanging baskets and were silently connected to Chunhua City.