Historically, from the entry of the Qing army to the rebellion of the three feudatories, the stage was dominated by the leaders of large and small armies who supported the army and respected themselves.

Therefore, Kangxi's name is Shoucheng, which is actually a creation, and the temple is called the Holy Ancestor.

And the culprit for this evil is largely on Dorgon's head.

When dealing with these military leaders in the late Ming Dynasty, Dolgon adopted a method similar to that adopted by the Tang Dynasty Sect to appease the three towns of Heshuo during the Anshi Rebellion.

In response to this major historical lesson, Yang Chengying's approach is to eliminate the head of the army + transform the soldiers.

He sent a letter to Wu Sangui, asking him to kill the first evil, send the second evil to the mine, and reform the rest on the spot.

On the other hand, Yang Chengying sent people through the post station system to urge Kong Youde to march from Tongguan as soon as possible, forcing Li Zicheng to leave Shaanxi and go to the Huguang area.

When Kong Youde received the letter, he couldn't laugh or cry.

It wasn't because His Highness urged him to join the army, and he felt it was inappropriate; Rather, it was because he was already on his way to Shaanxi.

The Dashun army took the initiative to abandon Tongguan.

Kong Youde just wrote the news here into a newspaper and sent the beacon soldiers to send them away.

Soon, a signal soldier arrived on horseback and handed over a report from the palace: "General, Lord Hong has sent an urgent military situation."

Kong Youde took it, unfolded it, and was taken aback.

"What's going on?" Li Weiluan asked curiously.

"Lord Hong and General Meng have entered Xi'an two days ago." Kong Youde said and handed the newspaper to Li Weiluan.

Li Weiluan glanced at it and was also taken aback: "It's just effortless, Lord Hong has already sent Ma Ke south to block Zhang Xianzhong's army."

"Zhang Xianzhong is our main course!"

Kong Youde called the signal corps: "Give the report to Azig and tell the general that our army is moving forward at full speed and must enter Xi'an within three days to rest."

From Tongguan to Xi'an, it is about 264 miles, that is, it is almost 100 miles to march every day.

This is something that can barely be accomplished by the average army.

For the Liaodong Army, it was very easy.

Kong Youde then sent a report back to Hong Chengchou, detailing the situation of the army and telling him the news of His Highness's southern expedition.

Before the armies of Azig and Kong Youde arrived, the messengers arrived first.

In Xi'an's Inspector's Yamen, Hong Chengchou read Kong Youde's report and nodded with satisfaction:

"When the two armies converge, we can completely recover the northwest and lay the foundation for entering Tibet."

"I just don't know how effective the persuasion is?" One of the commanders of the Mongol cavalry who stayed in Shaanxi, Zasak Gulu Siqibu, was a little worried.

"Li Zichengdong fled into Nanyang, Li Yutian, Gao Ruli, Zheng Jiadong and others are like horses without a halter, it should not be difficult to recruit them."

As soon as the words fell, as if to confirm Hong Chengchou's words, a signal corps stepped in quickly and reported the news that Ma Ke and Zuo Guangxian had successfully persuaded a large number of former Dashun army generals to surrender.

Li Yutian, Gao Ruli, Ma De, Shi Guoxi, Wu Dading, Dong Xueli and other former generals of the Dashun Army replied one after another, expressing their willingness to surrender.

Zheng Jiadong, who was guarding Ganzhou, and Niu Chenghu, who was guarding Ningxia, also quickly replied that they were willing to surrender.

Hong Chengchou looked at their surrender table and said to the signal soldiers: "Your Highness has an order, and all the soldiers who surrender will be treated preferentially. General Quan, General System, General Guo Yi, and the like, after being incorporated into the army, should be given the same military rank and an additional level."

"In addition, the army will not be broken up and reorganized, but will only count the number of people. Then they will be sent to the town guard according to the situation of the army, and they will be given food and grass support."

After Hong Chengchou finished speaking, with a wave of his hand, the signal soldier retreated.

Gulu Siqibu was surprised and said, "Your Highness really treats the Chuang army very favorably, which is unimaginable in other armies. Isn't Your Highness afraid that they will have a chance to breathe and take the opportunity to rebel again?"

"With my character, I must have done everything to eradicate evil." Hong Chengchou said, "His Royal Highness thinks that the army is strictly disciplined, and it is a pity to kill him. Besides, Li Zicheng has reached the end of the road, so he will give his subordinates a way to live."

"Your Highness also has a benevolent side, and

Treat the Ming army completely differently."

"The Ming army is also worthy of being called an army? The thief is just an army. It is not good to fight, it is good to harm the people, and such an army is only worthy of mining."

Hong Chengchou knocked on the table and scolded the Ming army.

What he saw along the way, his head was really buzzing.

As soon as he scolded a few words, Meng Qiaofang's signal soldiers sent a report from the palace, and Meng Qiaofang and Zhang Kewang fought in the Hanzhong area.

Sun Kewang is Zhang Xianzhong's godson, how could he fight with Meng Qiaofang?

It is necessary to talk about how Zhang Xianzhong went to Sichuan.

As early as when Li Zicheng went north, Zhang Xianzhong was also thinking about his own way out.

To the east, you can't beat You Shilu. To the west, he is not Li Zicheng's opponent.

Only to the south temporarily captured some places and drove out King Gui.

Wang Zhaoling, a native of Tongcheng, saw Zhang Xianzhong's thoughts, so he proposed that Zhang Xianzhong should follow Liu Bang and Liu Bei's example to break the situation in Sichuan.

He also gave an inappropriate example, You Shilu is Eastern Wu, Li Zicheng is Cao Wei, and Zhang Xianzhong is the righteous Liu Xuande.

When these words came to Lao Zhang Xinkan, he directly sent out all the territories in Hunan and Jiangxi, and then passed through Jingzhou, which was controlled by the Dashun army, without even saying hello, and marched towards Sichuan again.

A magical scene is here.

Since Li Zicheng's main forces were in the north, the Dashun officials chose to transfer the people and avoid Zhang Xianzhong's army.

Zhang Xianzhong is also very magical, he didn't plunder the army, and swaggered through Jingzhou like a tourist.

In the central Sichuan region, thanks to Zhang Xianzhong, the main force of the Ming army has all gone, and the rest is like Fang Guoan, just a remnant of life.

But on the matter, Zhang Xianzhong's entry into Sichuan at this time is really not a good choice. Look at the book

Because unlike Liu Bang and Liu Bei at that time, Sichuan at this time was no longer the country of abundance that everyone envied, but the last days that everyone could not avoid.

This is related to a peasant army, that is, the Thirteen Yellow Families.

The Thirteen Families of Shaking Huang were originally a peasant rebel army in Hanzhong, Shaanxi, and their leaders were Shaking Tiandong and Huanglong (note that it was not the Yellow Dragon of the Liaodong Army), so it was called "Shaking Huang".

In the era of Gao Yingxiang, the two leaders followed Gao Yingxiang to participate in the transfer of battles against Henan and Anhui.

Then unfortunately met Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, who were "spicy hands destroying flowers", and the two of them were in different places with Gao Yingxiang.

The loss of the constraints of an ideal leader, coupled with its own underworld attributes, made this peasant army quickly degenerate.

Because each of them had a wooden stick, they were called "stick thieves" by the world.

There is also a set of gangster order similar to that of Brother Pao, for example, they call killing people "folding", kidnapping tickets "bringing money", sharing stolen goods "bringing money", and going out to fight "Dule".

When Li Zicheng's forces were weak, they also chose to lie dormant and only make a living by looting on a small scale.

By the time Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan for the first time, the situation had changed.

First, Li Zicheng's Central Plains strategy led to a large number of Ming troops being transferred, and second, Zhang Xianzhong killed a lot of the main force of the Ming army.

Waiting for Zhang Xianzhong to leave Sichuan, the Thirteen Shake Huang families turned into the largest force in Sichuan, killing people and setting fires, and doing all kinds of evil.

Since then, it has been out of control, leading to a sharp decline in the population of Sichuan.