The 968th retreat to Tongguan
Sun Chuanting is going crazy.
The battle on the front line was unfavorable, and the grain route was cut off by thieves in the rear, and God did not give face, and it was raining continuously.
The food and grass of the army became a big problem.
In the overseer's tent, there was a depression.
Gao Jie said: "Today's plan is to lead the army to the north, seize Ruzhou, and open up the grain route."
"Liu Zongmin must lead the army to defend to the death, and it will not be able to break through in a short time. And our army has not much food and grass left, and the thieves take the opportunity to attack the rear of our army, and the consequences are unimaginable."
Zheng Jiadong also didn't have a good idea, but just raised the hidden danger of suffering from the enemy on the abdomen and back.
Sun Chuanting said, "What General Zheng said is reasonable. Moreover, the food and grass of our army can no longer support the day of the attack on Ruzhou."
With that, he couldn't help but rub his temples again.
Headache!
"You can't advance or retreat, isn't this waiting for death?"
As soon as he thought that he might be captured alive by Li Zicheng, Gao Jie's scalp was numb.
"Chen Yongfu," Sun Chuanting turned to Chen Yongfu and said, "You lead the Yu troops to guard in Jiaxian, and our army will go south to loot the places and get as much food as possible to transport to Jiaxian."
When Chen Yongfu heard this, he was muttering in his heart.
There is not a single grain of grain in Jiaxian, so what to guard. The superintendent will not be biased towards the Qin soldiers, and deliberately set aside the Yu soldiers and reduce the consumption of food.
But the superintendent's arrangement, how dare he, a small chief soldier, not listen, so he had to hold his fists and take the order.
Sun Chuanting then ordered the troops to divide into two routes, with him and Zheng Jiadong as the first road, and Gao Jie leading the army as the first road, to search the south.
Everything that could be eaten was loaded into small carts, and enough food was scavenged before heading north to recapture Ruzhou.
Whether it was out of selfishness or not, Sun Chuanting's arrangement directly aroused the dissatisfaction of the Yu soldiers, that is, the Henan soldiers. ap.
They have a feeling of abandonment.
Chief soldier Chen Yongfu and deputy chief soldier Bu Congshan said kind words to appease, but with little effect.
The Yu soldiers abandoned the city one after another, following behind the Qin soldiers, also wanting to get something to eat.
The Qin soldiers themselves couldn't eat enough, so how could they give Yu Bing a mouthful, and the two sides almost fought.
When Sun Chuanting heard the news, he sent someone to reprimand Chen Yongfu for having no way to do so, and ordered him to quickly calm down the incident.
Chen Yongfu had no choice but to arrest the most ferocious Yu soldiers and behead them in public.
At this time, Yu Bing was even more dissatisfied.
They all felt that Chen Yongfu was the general soldier of Henan and the general soldier of Shaanxi at all, and they didn't even protect their own people, so they mutinied.
The mutinous soldiers went north one after another, no longer obeying Sun Chuanting and Chen Yongfu.
Chen Yongfu was numb, and he had to flee with the rout.
At this moment, there are only Qin soldiers and Luo Rucai's old troops on the battlefield.
Under the gloomy sky, a big banner of "Fengtian Changyi" was erected.
Li Zicheng held a bowl of wine and told heaven and earth:
Li Zicheng, a man from Shaanxi Mizhi, saluted the sky with water and wine, and was violent and unreasonable, harming the people, and doing all kinds of evil wherever the Ming army went. Today, Li Zicheng led the righteous army to suppress the soldiers and calm the people, praying to God to help my righteous army!
With that, he spilled the wine on the ground.
Then he turned around and faced the soldiers of the rebel army who were ready to attack, and said in a loud voice, "Brothers of the rebel army, there is revenge and revenge. The Ming army is no longer good, I will lead you to rush and kill, destroy the Ming army in one fell swoop, and suppress the soldiers and calm the people!"
"Suppress the soldiers and calm the people! Suppress the soldiers and calm the people!"
The soldiers shouted in unison.
On 28 March, the peasant army attacked on all fronts, and its morale was like a rainbow.
Zheng Jiadong bore the brunt of the charge, and was charged by the heavy cavalry of the peasant army, and the cart formation formed by the small carts could not resist it at all.
Along the way, the Ming army had to abandon the carts, snatch the horses from each other and escape.
Zheng Jiadong also didn't care about loyalty, snatched a horse from his hand, and escaped for his life.
As a result of his escape, the Ming army was even more chaotic along the way.
There were so many abandoned carts that they blocked the road, affecting Sun Chuanting, who came to meet.
It's really shooting yourself in the foot.
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The cart, which was supposed to harm the people, has now become an obstacle.
Li Zicheng was familiar with the terrain in this area, and when he saw that the main road was blocked, he hurriedly asked the rebel cavalry to block the small road and gallop back and forth.
The Ming army went to the path and died one by one, and went to a group to die a group.
Sun Chuanting urgently organized the Ming army to clean up the cart.
Li Zicheng also responded.
He asked the soldiers to take out the sticks that the Western army was accustomed to, and when the Ming army cleared the obstacles, they hit them with a stick.
smashed the helmet directly, and his brain burst.
This is the same as Yang Cheng commanding the Tiger Brigade Army in the year and using a big stick to drive away the Houjin cavalry.
In such a critical situation, Sun Chuanting couldn't stop crying.
The Qin soldiers he trained with great difficulty had a black heart to oppress the big landlords in Shaanxi, and he was desperate to slaughter the people to get food, just to defeat the army.
But he didn't expect that in just a few days, he would face the same fate as Fu Zonglong, Ding Qirui and others.
At the most critical moment, Gao Jie, who knew that he had been caught by Li Zicheng and was destined to die, led his subordinates to desperately open a road to protect Sun Chuanting and fled north.
Sun Chuanting crossed the Yellow River from Mengjin with thousands of defeated troops and joined up with Zheng Jiadong's defeated army.
It was only at this time that Sun Chuanting suddenly discovered that the only one who could fight at present was Zheng Jiadong, his old subordinate.
He cried even harder.
Zheng Jiadong was ashamed: "Inspector Sun, I can't stand you in the end. You...... Punish the sins of the last general."
Sun Chuanting sighed and said, "Cure a sin! Lao Zheng, if you escape, the emperor will not only not ask for the crime, but will also give you a promotion! The emperor bullies the weak and fears the hard."
Zheng Jiadong, the second monk, was confused.
Gao Jie, who was on the side, said: "Since the emperor bullies the weak and fears the hard, why doesn't the superintendent learn from Yang Chengying and also support the army and respect himself, and our Qin soldiers only listen to you."
"I can't do it. I have been educated by my master since I was a child, and I have been asked to be loyal to the king and serve the country."
Sun Chuanting wiped away his tears with a handkerchief.
Zheng Jiadong was puzzled: "Inspector Sun, you have ordered the slaughter of the city, this is something that a person who reads the books of sages can do, even dare to do this, what else dare not do?"
"This ...... I can slaughter the city, if I can pacify the thieves, I can still leave a name in history, but I can't be disloyal to the king! That's a stench for 10,000 years."
Sun Chuanting sighed and ordered, "Let's retreat to Tongguan and defend there."
"You can retreat to Shaanxi, Tongguan is not something you can defend if you want to." Gao Jie proposed.
"If the thieves enter Tongguan, will the Qin people still serve me?"
After Sun Chuanting asked rhetorically, he decided to defend Tongguan.
Compared with them, the Yu soldiers who did not have a lot of experience in escaping were miserable.
They were already surrounded by peasant armies.
The chief soldier Chen Yongfu was very panicked, Li Zicheng was blinded by one eye, how could Li Zicheng spare him.
Just when he was at a loss, Li Zicheng sent someone to send a broken wolf's tooth arrow, and told Chen Yongfu that as long as Chen Yongfu surrendered, he could ignore the previous suspicions. Shoot him in one eye, and don't care about it in the future.
Chen Yongfu then led the crowd to surrender, and Li Zicheng worshiped Chen Yongfu as the general on the spot.
Then, Li Zicheng beheaded Qiu Zhitao, who was no longer useful, and summoned the generals to discuss the next move in Ruzhou.