Chapter 138: The Great War
In the 17th year of Chongzhen, in February, the Ming Dynasty was in danger, and the peasant rebels established political power one after another, Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, established the 'Dashun' regime in January, and his subordinates claimed to be one million; Zhang Xianzhong established the 'Daxi' regime in CD; 'Cao Cao' Luo Rucai had been killed by Li Zicheng; as for the remaining little liukou, they were like the hair on the old cow's body, and there were countless of them.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty has entered the period of regency of the two kings, and the Prince of Zheng Jierharang and the Prince of Rui Dolgon, all major forces are sharpening their knives, preparing to cut a piece of meat on these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. In such a situation, Emperor Chongzhen canonized a 'generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses' to lead an army of 190,000 and looked at the army of Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, in Shijiazhuang.
In Taiyuan City, the high-level leaders of the Dashun Army are all here, Tian Jianxiu, Liu Zongmin, Li Yan, He Jin, Dang Shousu, Niu Jinxing, Yuan Chengzhi, Yuan Zongdi, Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Song Xiance, Li Laiheng, Hao Shaoqi, Gu Junen, etc. are all discussing, and the Ming army suddenly appeared on the opposite side.
Only Li Yan, Yuan Chengzhi, Yuan Zongdi, Niu Jinxing, and Gu Junen have read books, and the others are either killing pigs or doing miscellaneous work, of course, Li Zicheng is not counted, he is still a post station person.
Niu Jinxing and Gu Junen, who are also strategists, have different opinions, one advocates completely defeating the military power of the Ming Dynasty with the momentum of sweeping the world, and the other advocates attacking the city first and plundering the land. Many people have different opinions, so they can't put their strength in one place, not to mention, after Li Zicheng killed Luo Rucai, the leader of the Daliu Kou, his younger brothers all have a feeling of precariousness.
Now this situation has appeared again at this juncture, Li Zicheng was extremely bored for a while, according to his idea, as long as the opposite side is defeated now, the Jingshi will not attack itself, and then the whole world will be his own, why do you want to attack the city now.
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So there was such a scene, nearly a million troops, ragged, knives, guns and sticks, banners and banners, slowly marching towards Shijiazhuang, the momentum is so big, the momentum is so strong, just like a soldier of a hundred battles. Of course, this is just an illusion, the entire high-level is dressed in brocade clothes, and the pro-army officers and men are also neatly dressed, and they have the best weapons, needless to say, and the food is not to mention; the entire coalition army has become this kind of old and new poles.
Liukou is always a liukou, because if it is not producing, it will not have a solid foundation, which is one of the reasons why Li Chuang's army, after being defeated by Wu Sangui and the Qing army, was defeated.
It is okay for such an army to fight a little tailwind, but once it reaches a stalemate stage, or is defeated, it will be the result of the collapse of the tree.
In Shijiazhuang City, when Li Chuang's army marched here, after losing the idea of delaying, Qingshanyan, the master of Qinglong Hall, also said the reason for the victory of this battle: First, in terms of overall military quality, Li Zicheng's side was just a group of helpless peasants, while his own side were veterans who had learned martial arts, participated in training, and participated in the battle of the grassland.
Second, one just mixes in and eats a full meal, while his side not only has a good welfare system, but also a clear merit system. These two points have already formed the factors of victory, do we need other reasons?
No, everyone was convinced, and the pre-war mobilization was quickly started, and the morale was monstrous, and the blood was strong.
Just when the Dashun army came to Shijiazhuang, 190,000 cavalry were already waiting for battle, black clothes and black armor into five battle formations, each with 30,000 people, leaving 40,000 reserve troops.
The big war is about to start, one side has a vast number of personnel, and the other side has an iron-blooded elite, just looking at each other from a distance.
'Woo woo woo woo ......'
'Knock knock knock ......'
This is the clarion call for the attack, this is the drumbeat of the war. Li Zicheng stayed under the banner of Shuai and looked at ......
As soon as the two sides fought, there was a disparity, one side was a martial artist, the other side was only a peasant, one side was crushed by cavalry, and the other side had only a small number of cavalry......
The Dashun army is headed by Liu Zongmin, Li Guo, Yuan Chengzhi and others, and one side is headed by Yan Beike, Qian Tong, Zheng Huanghuang and others, and the highest martial arts of the Dashun army is undoubtedly Yuan Chengzhi, but on the other side, all of them are elites, and their cultivation is higher than the other, and the lethality is needless to say.
The Dashun army is all the peasants who have been transformed into rogues, and the veterans are all those who have been robbing homes for a long time and are left after the war with the Ming army, but many people are still peasants who have been coerced, and they have no lethality and no military literacy.
They are also the most prone to collapse when the corpses keep falling to the ground, when the stumps keep falling from their eyes, when the blood sprays on their faces, they are so helpless, they are so dazed, but then they panic. Running around, desperately dodging, but does it work?
No, because this is a battlefield, and the consequences of running around are either used as a shield by one's own family or as a war exploit by the enemy. Panicked like a fawn, galloping weakly, dodging useless, they collapsed.
But on the battlefield, are people who have not received military training useful? If they are useless, they will become a burden, and the merciless fighting on the battlefield and the trampling of flesh and blood will become factors for their collapse.
These collapsed personnel often cause an immeasurable loss to their own battle formations, because their collapse and the battle formations they have set up will become useless, which can not stop the advance of the enemy's troops, but will have an impact on the battle formations in their own rear. At the same time, this emotion, this kind of incompetence, defeat, and fear will quickly spread everywhere.
The Warlord, at this time, will exert its power, hand up and down, hand up and down, without the slightest hesitation, and do not need to be soft, because they are often the most trusted troops of the main general. Will it be suppressed?
Yes and no. This mainly depends on the number of recruits on the battlefield and the number of veterans, but Li Zicheng has many veterans? Not many!
At this time, perhaps as the chief general leading the troops, he will exert his personal charm and nip this situation in the bud, but as Li Zicheng's number one general, does Liu Zongmin have it?
He didn't, because he couldn't protect himself, he was pressed and beaten by Qian Tong, the master of the White Tiger Hall, if it weren't for the guards around him, if he didn't ask for help with his life, maybe he would have died. But how long will this last? Maybe it won't be long before he's dead!
Yuan Chengzhi couldn't do anything, because his opponent was Yanbeike, when Yanbeike saw Yuan Chengzhi use the golden snake sword to kill his own gangsters with a sword, he came, and the two of them had a big battle in this ten thousand armies.
Yuan Chengzhi's master is the 'Divine Sword Immortal Ape' Mu Renqing, as the number one master in the blood, he deserves it. The apprentices taught are also extremely powerful, the eldest disciple 'copper pen and iron arithmetic' Huang Zhen, the second disciple 'Divine Fist Invincible' Gui Xinshu, and the third disciple is naturally Yuan Chengzhi.
In addition to the martial arts of the Huashan faction, the kung fu used by Yuan Chengzhi also includes the "Golden Snake Swordsmanship" and "Golden Snake Cheats" of Xia Xueyi, compared to Yan Beike's "God of War Catalogue", the two people are inseparable......
But the Wind and Rain Alliance doesn't have people with strong martial arts except for Yan Beike? No, but the Dashun army is miserable here, where do they have any martial arts masters, so the 3,000-person elite squad that Ma Zhan made out at that time was on the battlefield, and the hunters led the generals one by one.
Li Guo, Tian Jianxiu, He Jin, Dang Shousu, Yuan Zongdi, Gao Yigong, Song Xiance, Li Laiheng, and Hao Shaoqi died one after another, and they died so aggrieved, they are not martial arts masters, they are just generals, they are just generals who survived the battlefield and transformed into military generals.
The troops are getting worse and worse, because of the lack of the general's leadership, Li Zicheng looked at it from such a distance, his heart was full of bitterness, looking at the four guards around him, he really wanted them to protect his general, but he couldn't. Don't dare, because what if you assassinate yourself on the other side?
Although they are in the safest place of the army, are those generals not safe? There are a lot of guards around them, although the force value is not very high, but they are easily killed by people, so how high is the martial arts of those who attack and kill?
He knew that the general situation was gone, and he was known as a million army, and he was about to be defeated. Without them, he would have been able to sit on the supreme throne.
But why is this happening, is God really playing himself? Seeing that he was about to succeed, such an army suddenly appeared. 'Hehe......'
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In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, in February, the Dashun army and the 'Ming army' fought in Shijiazhuang, and Li Chuang's "more than one million" army was defeated here. The two sides fought for only one day, and Li Chuang's high-ranking officers were killed and wounded. King Chuang fled, passing through Pingyang Mansion, Yan'an Mansion, Qingyang Mansion, and Pingliang Mansion...... Fought fifteen times in a row, and lost all battles. King Li Zicheng died in Hanzhong Mansion!
A great battle, in just one day, made a horse war.
Along the way, the army attacked in all directions, sweeping across the entire northwest, and all the rogues either surrendered or were slaughtered.
The battle report was transmitted to the Beijing Division, and the entire Beijing Division was shaken, Chongzhen was overjoyed, and said secretly, it seems that God still didn't think about the death of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise how could there be such a talent and such an army.
While stationing the trained troops in the major provinces, they quickly dispatched officials to take up their posts. Ma Zhan did not stop, because Zhang Xianzhong had already begun to raise the butcher's knife in Sichuan. 'Zhang Xianzhong's Tuchuan' began, and Ma Zhan had to renovate the army for a short time and drove into Sichuan.
In the face of more than 300,000 Zhang Xianzhong's troops, the gang of the Wind and Rain Alliance was not moved in the slightest, because this was nothing.
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When Li Zicheng's Dashun army was destroyed, Wu Sangui was still in shock.
Chongzhen reigned for more than ten years, and from the time of King Gao Yingxiang to Chuang, generations of peasant rebels and rogues appeared. More than ten years of fighting, more than ten years of growth. And just destroyed?'
When such a victory reached the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's top brass could not sit still, what was the matter? Why was it suddenly destroyed? You must know that it was Li Zicheng, the 'King of Chuang'. It's that fast......
It's not just that the Manchu rulers can't sit still, but those generals can't sit still, such as the 'Sanshun King' Gongshun Wang Kong Youde, Zhishun Wang Shang Kexi, Huaishun Wang Geng Zhongming and others, and then Ning Wanme, Fan Wencheng, Ma Guozhu, the three Manchu Han strategists. You must know that they want to enter the Central Plains, if the Ming Dynasty destroys all the rebels so quickly, then the Manchus will be in danger!
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Ma Zhan didn't pay attention to what these people were thinking, what he had to do now was to kill Zhang Xianzhong, who was 'eating people'. 'Niang Xipi' is just a rogue who fights and robs houses, not only thinking about 'eating people' but also 'slaughtering Chuan', how can you be worthy of this place if you don't kill you.
Ma Zhan has grievances, and Emperor Chongzhen also has grievances because his daughter is disobedient. This time, the 'Li Chuang rebels' were wiped out in just a few months, and the officials he sent had successfully mastered the place. This shows that the negotiations at that time were useful, so he wanted to support the horse war with his actions.
But now he has no money if he wants money, if he knights Ma Zhan, but people also say that he doesn't need it. Now he was stumped, and suddenly he thought that this kid was not quite young, so he thought of his daughter. Recruit a son-in-law, at least put a shackle on him in the righteousness, in case he regrets it later, although this is just a useless exercise, but he still wants to give it a try.
So he called the queen and asked her daughter what she thought, and as for why, because he did not have many children, he had seven sons and three daughters, three sons died young, and one daughter died young. In other words, Emperor Chongzhen only has four sons and two daughters, and as an emperor, he can be regarded as a low-yield.
So he still has to ask, at the very least, to know if he is willing to do it. No, here's the problem. Princess Changping, who is the eldest princess, is unwilling. But Princess Zhaoping is still young, what to do, so he fell into a problem.
In other words, if Ma Zhan knew that Emperor Chongzhen was going to marry the ninth princess (played by Sun Feifei) in the blue blood to himself, tsk, what would his expression be!