Chen Wang stared at the map in front of him, and the historical materials and documents he had seen also appeared in his mind.

The records in the history books for the first half of Chongzhen's ninth year are extremely limited.

Especially in March, Gao Yingxiang led his troops through Nanyang Mansion in Henan Province to Xiangyang and Xunyang in Huguang Province to return to Shaanxi.

The records of all parties are also quite messy, but these are not difficult for Chen Wang to sort out.

The timeline of Chongzhen's nine years, if it is subdivided according to the month, as well as the southern, northern, and foreign regions, everything will be very clear when it is slowly advanced.

The south here refers to the area of Hanzhong Prefecture in Henan, Huguang, and southern Shaanxi Province, that is, the area where Gao Yingxiang and other departments are active.

The north, on the other hand, refers to the central and northern regions of Shaanxi, that is, the areas where Li Zicheng and Hui Dengxiang were active.

Guanwai naturally refers to the Houjin in the north.

January.

South: Gao Yingxiang and other troops were active in Nanzhili and other places, and after being frustrated, they returned to Henan again after returning to Germany.

February.

Northern Battlefield: The Shaanxi Peasant Army suffered heavy losses, and Ningxia mutinied.

Southern Battlefield: Gao Yingxiang attacked Mi County, broke Dengzhou, joined forces with Zhang Xianzhong and other troops, and went south to Nanyang Mansion.

Lu Xiangsheng ordered Zu Dale to garrison Runing Mansion in the east of Nanyang Mansion, and asked Zu Kuan to garrison Dengzhou in Nanyang Mansion, and led the army to pursue Gao Yingxiang himself.

During this period, the main force under Gao Yingxiang was not too badly damaged, but it was already exhausted from being pursued by Lu Xiangsheng all the way.

Although there have always been more defeats and fewer victories in the battle with Lu Xiangsheng, most of the dead and wounded were Ma soldiers and ordinary infantry hungry soldiers, not to mention any injuries.

But at this time, it was actually the weakest time for the army under Gao Yingxiang.

Lu Xiangsheng knew that Gao Yingxiang wanted to cross the river to the south and enter the Xunyang and Xiangyang areas, so he informed Wang Mengyin, the governor of Huguang, and Song Zushun, the governor of Yunyang, in advance, and ordered the two to lead troops to fortify along the Han River to prevent Gao Yingxiang from crossing the river.

But after the two learned in advance that Gao Yingxiang was going to cross the river, they still did not hold the Han River.

Gao Yingxiang led the elite cavalry from Guanghua to smuggle across the Han River into Xunyang, the Han River defense line collapsed, Huguang governor Wang Mengyin and Yunyang Fuzhi Song Zushun did not dare to fight, led the army back to the city.

The victory in the Battle of the Han River gave Gao Yingxiang a different idea.

After Lu Xiangsheng crossed the river. Gao Yingxiang returned to fight Lu Xiangsheng.

In this battle, Lu Xiangsheng suffered a heavy defeat, only returned on a single horse, almost fell, and lost an important seal of defense.

The Annals of Sima Lu Gong of the Ming Dynasty records:

"The thief enters Xiangyang from the actinization degree sheepskin beach, or Tuyun and Jun."

"Qin Yiming, the chief soldier of Gonglu, and Lei Shisheng, the deputy general, entered the mountain from Nanzhang and Gucheng to attack the thief, and in the later stage of Yiming's disobedience, the thief was helpless, so he cut off the road around the mountain, counterattacked from behind, and Lei Shisheng died in battle."

"The public single rider is from the absolute stream, and the defense of the pass is destroyed, and then it is with the soldiers."

"The border soldiers practice riding and shooting, it is inconvenient to climb and wade, the mountain air is fumigated, and they are often infected with diseases."

Gao Yingxiang led his troops calmly southward and entered the mountainous areas of Xunyang, Junzhou and other places.

After Lu Xiangsheng gathered the remnants of the army, he met with the generals again and sent Zu Kuan to lead the Guanning army to attack again.

The Guanning army under the command of Zu Kuan was already suffering from many diseases, lacked military salaries, and was not familiar with the mountainous terrain, so there were many mutinies and agitators for a while.

Lu Xiangsheng could only recruit the native soldiers from Sichuan and Xiaozi to hunt down the peasant army in Junzhou.

"History of the Ming Dynasty, Biography of the Ming Dynasty, Volume 149" records:

"The cavalry is wide, it is not conducive to obstructing the pass, the deputy general Wang Jinzhong is in an uproar, Luo Dai and Liu Zhaoji are fleeing, and the pursuit is inward-looking."

"Xiangsheng is to transfer Sichuan and local soldiers to search for Junzhou thieves."

At this time, Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong and other departments were active between Xunyang Mansion and Xiangyang Mansion.

However, Lu Xiangsheng suffered a heavy defeat, and his troops were seriously damaged, and he was unable to pursue again, so he could only temporarily stabilize the front and station troops along the Han River.

March.

After suffering from drought and insect plague for many years, Shanxi suffered another great famine.

When the hungry people had no food, they had to eat tree bark and grass blades.

The bark and the blades of grass are all gone, and they are cannibalistic.

Nanyang, Henan, near Shanxi, also suffered a famine.

Tang Wang Yu played Henan Nanyang hunger, and even his mother cooked his daughter to eat.

Emperor Chongzhen issued an edict of 3,500 gold to help Shanxi and Nanyang, and exempted Shanxi from the old and new salaries of the disaster-stricken counties.

In the south, Gao Yingxiang led the army from Yunyang and Xiangyang to Xing'an and Hanzhong.

In the north, Li Zicheng crossed Shang and Luo from Nanshan, invaded the northern part of Gongchang Prefecture, and was defeated by Zuo Guangxian and Cao Bianjiao and fled all the way to Huanxian County in the north of Qingyang Prefecture.

There are few records in the history books, only a few words, and no large-scale wars broke out.

But there was also an extremely important event in this month, although this event did not cause much turmoil at the time, but it greatly affected the course of history - Sun Chuanting came.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, in March, the governor of Shaanxi, Gan Xuekuo, was dismissed, and the new governor of Shaanxi was replaced by Sun Chuanting.

At this time, Sun Chuanting had just recovered, although he had a small reputation and was praised as a "side talent", so he was promoted to Shuntian Mansion, but his reputation was limited to Shuntian Mansion.

When Sun Chuanting took over as governor of Shaanxi, not many people actually valued Sun Chuanting.

At this time, no one would have thought that Sun Chuanting would do a big thing in less than two months after he rushed to Shaanxi to take office - capturing Gao Yingxiang alive!

April.

In April, there was not much turmoil and incidents in the Guan, but there was a major event outside the Guanzhen that made Chongzhen extremely angry - Huang Taiji was proclaimed emperor.

April 11th.

Outside the gate, Huang Taiji sacrificed to the heavens in the Temple of Heaven in Shengjing, Liaodong, "practiced the position of the Son of Heaven", and was honored as "Emperor Kuanwen Rensheng", and the country was named "Great Qing", and changed to Yuan Chongde.

In the hinterland of Guannai, the officers and soldiers and the rogues were in a stalemate in the Xunyang area.

It is only known that Gao Yingxiang has been active in the eastern part of Hanzhong Prefecture, and there is no record of how many cities he captured.

After Lu Xiangsheng suffered a defeat in March, he has been leading his troops to stay in the Xunxiang area, and many cavalry in the Guanning army are not accustomed to mountain combat.

Therefore, after Lu Xiangsheng discussed with Hong Chengchou, in April of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng sent Zu Kuan and Li Chongzhen to lead the Guanning army to aid Shaanxi, and let other generals guard Xunyang and Xiangyang.

So that "the mother of the Qin thief is out, and the mother of the thief is in".

The Annals of Sima Lu Gong of the Ming Dynasty records:

"In April, the generals were divided into Yunxiang, and the Guanning soldiers entered Henan, and ordered Zu Dale to go to Yongning, and Zu Kuan and Li Chongzhen to Lingbao."

"When the thieves in Henan are also suitable for entering the ten thousand mountains at the intersection of Qin, Henan and Shu, Henan is hungry, and the salary is not available, and the border soldiers are Hun and Huns."

"History of the Ming Dynasty, Biography of the Ming Dynasty, Volume 149" records:

"Chu, Yu thieves and Yingxiang are all in the ten thousand mountains at the intersection of Qin, Chu and Shu, and Xiangsheng marches from Nanyang to Xiangyang."

"There are many thieves and few soldiers, and Henan is hungry and lacking, and the border soldiers are raging."

"Chengchou, Xiangsheng, Guanzhong is flat, the cavalry is good, and the army of Kuan and important towns enters Shaanxi, while Xiangyang, Jun, Yi, Gu, Shangjin, Nanzhang, and the surrounding mountains are all thieves."

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May.

In the northern battlefield, the original history was that Hui Dengxiang, the three divisions of Chaotianxing and Mantianxing worked together to kill Yu Chongxiao, the chief soldier of Yansui Town, so the momentum was revived.

But because of the previous changes, Yu Chongxiao died at the hands of Hui Dengxiang a year earlier.

The general soldier of Yansui Town has now become Wang Pu, the general soldier of Datong who was the first to flee in the Battle of Songjin in history, which caused the collapse of the Ming army.

And now the Mixed Sky Star and the Sky Star are even more dead in the dry salt pool.

What the battlefield in the north will look like in the future, Chen Wang can't imagine it.

On the battlefield of the South.

Chongzhen issued an edict of "amnesty for the mountain and Shaanxi from the group of thieves".

But although the edict was very beautiful, it did not actually play any role.

Bao Fengqi, a member of the staff of the Ministry of War who was ordered to go to Zhaofu, proposed to solve the problem in the recital.

It is necessary to solve the problem of placement first, and it is also necessary to first provide loans for "cattle breeding" to solve the problem of its survival, and at the same time, it is necessary to have "people who concentrate on cooking" in order to achieve "livable and farmable, and a new happy business".

But in fact, except for this paper edict, the rest of the measures were not at all, and the court still had no money and the treasury was empty.

The edict did not play any role, and Gao Yingxiang led his soldiers and horses from Hanzhong Province back to Huguang Province.

Later, Lu Xiangsheng summoned a group of generals and colonels to gather in the Luoyang area of Henan Province, blocking the way back to the Central Plains.

In the same month.

On the battlefield outside the pass, Huang Taiji sent 100,000 soldiers from the Eight Banners of Doluo Wuying, the king of Azig, and others, and the soldiers entered the pass from the suction mouth and the monolith mouth in three ways.

Wang Zhaokun, the imperial historian of the patrol gate, refused to fight, and was defeated and died.

The Ming army retreated to Changping, and the Qing soldiers invaded Juyong and Changping North Road again.

June.

In the southern battlefield, Liukou broke through Yunxiduo County, Zhang Xianzhong and other troops attacked Xiangyang, and Wang Mengyin, the governor of Huguang, told Lu Xiangsheng that he was in a hurry.

Gao Yingxiang led the soldiers and horses back to Hanzhong Mansion again, and marched all the way to the central part of Hanzhong Mansion.

The Qing army broke through many cities in June and threatened the Jingshi, which was a change for Bingzi.

July.

In the northern battlefield, the original timeline was that after Li Zicheng broke through the encirclement network set up by the Ming army, he entered Suide and wanted to cross the Yellow River east into Shanxi.

However, Wu Sheng, the governor of Shanxi, led his troops to fortify in time, and Li Zicheng's plan to cross the river was ruined.

Li Zicheng then led his troops back to his hometown of Mizhi in Yan'an Prefecture and marched to Yulin in the north.

In the southern battlefield, Gao Yingxiang went out of Nanshan, waved his army to drive directly to Xi'an, entered Xi'an Mansion, and returned to the Guanzhong Plain.

However, when the army reached Zhou to Heishuiyu, he was ambushed and captured by Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, and taken to Beijing, where he was executed by Ling Chi.

Lu Xiangsheng crossed the Xihe River and went south to Huguang to pursue the peasant army and participate in the impeachment of the illegal deeds committed by the Tang Dynasty.

In the same month.

The Qing army entered Gyeonggi, captured Changping and Liangxiang, and then besieged Shunyi.

Shangguan Xin, the magistrate of Shunyi, the guerrilla general, and Su Shiyu all commanded Su Shiyu to defend the city, and after the fall of the city, all three were martyred.

Kebaodi, into Dingxing, Xiafangshan, Zhanzhuozhou, Gu'an, Xiongxian, Anzhou and other places.

Twelve cities, fifty-six battles were victorious, and 179,820 men and animals were gained.

Tightly around the capital division, all over the country.

Chongzhen hurriedly transferred Lu Xiangsheng to the north to defend the capital.

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In the past seven months, the southern battlefield, the northern battlefield, and the battlefield outside the border were all in turmoil.

Although the three battlefields seem to be independent of each other, they are actually connected.

Chen Wang is thinking about how much the changes he has caused will change the course of history.

What a huge storm will be set off by the flapping wings of this butterfly.

Saving Cao Wenzhao and Gao Jie's early entry have already made changes begin to change on the northern battlefield now.

However, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Lao Huihui, and the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo were not affected for the time being, and the southern battlefield was still developing along the original historical process.

In fact, the pattern of Hanzhong Mansion is not much different from the original time and space, but the power of the Liukou is weaker.

Zhang Yuan and Lu Shi jointly besieged Hanzhong, but in the end, they could not attack for a long time, and the Hanzhong Guards recovered their vitality and held the city of Hanzhong.

Liukou lost his sharpness, suffered setbacks one after another, and his forces continued to be frustrated, and then these people also joined Gao Yingxiang's army after Gao Yingxiang entered Hanzhong Mansion.

Chen Wang took out the military order from Hong Chengchou from his sleeve.

The letter is very clear, requiring the defense of Hanzhong to give priority to the safety of King Rui.

What Chen Wang wants to do now is to restore history as much as possible without affecting the original process.

Because, no matter what, Gao Yingxiang must die.

If Gao Yingxiang didn't die, then the rogue wouldn't have surrendered on a large scale.

If the Liukou surrender on a large scale still chooses to resist stubbornly, then Henan, Huguang, Nanzhili, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places will be even more erosive.

History will also be completely unrecognizable, and everything will be unknown.

You will lose the advantage of completely losing the prophet.

Although the butterfly effect has now been triggered and the original course has been changed, the general trajectory has not changed.

Chen Wang is very clear about his current strength.

The only people under his command now are more than 6,300 recruits and veterans, and there are only more than 900 cavalrymen, and there are only 1,000 cavalrymen including the personal guards.

Although the armament is excellent, it is only compared to the ordinary battalion soldiers, and it is still much worse than the elite among the Qing soldiers.

Now the combat power of those veterans under his command is at most to compete with the ordinary Qing army, and when they encounter the elite of the Qing army, they will inevitably fall into a bitter battle.

Chen Wang knew very well that he had a few catties and taels, and the military power he had at his disposal was not enough to make him swell.

One thing after another was slowly sorted out by Chen Wang, and the documents and words on the classics that he had read before appeared in his mind one by one.

"Hung Yen...... Xunyang ......"

"Hanyin...... Stone Springs ......"

Chen Wang's gaze slowly swept over the map of Hanzhong Mansion on the table.

If any city in Hanzhong Mansion fell, he could not escape responsibility as a general in Hanzhong.

"The safety of the first Rui Wang is ......"

Chen Wang's eyes flashed, and he considered the military order sent by Hong Chengchou.

Chen Wang's gaze gradually moved to the left, and finally stopped at Chenggu County.

In the middle of Hanzhong Mansion is the Hanzhong Plain.

If you want to go from the eastern part of Hanzhong Province to the central part of the province, you must pass through the castle fortress.

To the east of Chenggu County, there are two roads that can lead directly to Xi'an, one is Fu Luo Road, and the other is Meridian Road.