It has been 20 years since Wang Er and Wang Jiayin first raised the banner of righteousness.

The rebel army of the displaced people rose and fell six times, three of which were basically quelled, Wang Er, Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang and other major leaders were killed after taking the lead, nearly one million troops were wiped out, and the backbone of the rebellion was less than 3,000 people.

During this period, there was one person who played a huge role in making the rebel army die without stiffening, and it was able to quickly make a comeback, and eventually became a prairie fire.

This person is Miao Sanguan and Peng Wuying, who are extremely cautious in dealing with them: Lao Hui Ma Shouying.

The 5th Battalion of the Revolutionary Left, which was guarded by the old Hui Ma Shouying, became the most tenacious unit in the 108 camp of the Wandering Volunteers because of the support of fanatical religious forces. They never negotiated with the imperial court, and they had no experience of surrendering and appeasement.

When Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, failed twice in a row, and finally there were only more than 300 people left, Lao Hui Ma Shouying took the initiative to join forces with Zhang Xianzhong, so that Zhang Xianzhong could quickly regain his strength, and almost broke through the central capital Fengyang City, if it wasn't for the Xiong Prince's obstruction.

Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, was captured and killed by the officers and soldiers, and the 36th battalion of the banner of Chuangzi was about to collapse at a critical juncture.

In just four months, Li Zicheng completely controlled the 36th Battalion of the Banner of Chuangzi, and then successively attacked Luoyang, Kaifeng, Xiangyang, Nanyang, and Chengtianfu. In less than half a year, he swept through the entire Central Plains, killed the five vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, and broke into the king Li Zicheng for a time to be famous in the universe, and it could no longer be contained.

Sun Chuanting is the last mobile force in the hands of Emperor Chongzhen, the only hope of Emperor Chongzhen, and the mortal enemy of the 36th Battalion of the Banner of Chuangzi.

Hearing that Sun Chuanting had left Tongguan in the east, Li Zicheng accepted the advice of Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Li Yan, Gu Junen, and others, and determined the strategic policy of "changing the flow to defending and supporting the people from the territory; first establishing the Guanzhong, and then collecting the Qin Pass; chasing the Central Plains and seizing the world; building the country and establishing the cause, and pacifying the three sides."

In order to achieve this great strategic goal, it has become an inevitable choice to eat Sun Chuanting's 150,000 army.

If you want to eat Sun Chuanting, you must first eat his "train battalion", which is also a combat goal without choice.

The train is a kind of chariot also invented by Sun Chuanting, which is loaded with a three-inch cannon, and the clothes and food of the soldiers are stored in the carriage.

To say that Sun Chuanting wanted to defeat Li Zicheng's 36th Battalion in one fell swoop, it was really a bloody investment. A total of 20,000 trains, or 20,000 guns, were built to form a train battalion.

These 20,000 artillery pieces are all the last belongings of Emperor Chongzhen, and they are also all the heavy weapons that the imperial court can put together, and they are commanded by Bai Guangen, the chief soldier.

Trains, which can be used to shock cavalry during war, can be used as a fence to ensure the safety of field troops when camping, and can also be used as a means of logistics transportation when marching, which has certain benefits for long-distance marching and fighting.

But Sun Chuanting made a huge mistake, that is, the train was completely a bulky defensive weapon, with extremely poor maneuverability, and basically could not play a role in field battles.

Sun Chuanting is just a scholar, he has neither strategic vision, nor tactical vision, and he takes it for granted.

Such a person can naturally hold on to a city for a period of time, but to capture fighters in the vast land, and then improvise, that is, to catch ducks on the shelves.

When Li Zicheng learned of the news that the Shaanxi official army had left the customs, the pro-unification army left the Huguang area and went north to Henan to meet the enemy.

The vanguard generals were Gao Yigong and Hao Shaoqi, the military division was Song Xiance, and the commander of the Ma Bu Army of 12,000 people occupied Hangu Pass, putting on a posture of defending Luoyang to the death.

On August 3, the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, under the repeated urging of Emperor Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting swore in the Guandi Temple in Chang'an City, and commanded 100,000 troops such as Bai Guangen, Gao Jie, Niu Chenghu and other troops to attack Hangu Pass in the east, and at the same time transferred people from all walks of life to attack Li Zicheng.

Unexpectedly, the defenders of Hangu Pass were about to collapse at the first touch, Gao Yigong, Hao Shaoqi, and Song Xiance then abandoned the important town of Luoyang and fled, and the vast area from Tongguan to Jiaxian was empty.

Li Zicheng's troops retreated without a fight, which made Sun Chuanting suddenly confused.

Sun Chuanting did not hesitate to invent the train, and the original plan was to use powerful artillery to slowly press the army of Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, into a narrow area, and then win the battle with 10,000 cannons.

Sun Chuanting thought he was extremely smart, and he took it for granted that he was doing things behind closed doors, but he didn't expect Song Xiance to retreat six hundred miles in one go.

In this way, the imperial army, which "represents justice", of course, cannot turn a blind eye to the towns and cities, and must "recover and occupy". As a result, they could only be forced to occupy Luoyang in early August and "attack Ruzhou" on September 8.

The battle line was suddenly lengthened, and Sun Chuanting's train battalion could only change from the front army to the rear army because of the inconvenience of moving, and the 20,000 artillery pieces became waste.

After that, Sun Chuanting's 20,000 cavalry took on the vanguard mission, and the 60,000 infantry army followed, and the battle situation began to deviate.

During this period, both Li Zicheng and Sun Chuanting made mistakes, and the battle situation swayed left and right, and no one could control the direction.

First of all, Li Zicheng and others underestimated Sun Chuanting's determination to fight, and as a result, for the sake of secrecy, they did not let the following generals understand the combat intentions, and Li Yangchun, the fourth heavenly king of the left army, surrendered.

After Li Yangchun surrendered, he reported to Sun Chuanting: The old battalion of the People's Army was in Tang County, the elite troops were in Xiangcheng, and the local civil and military officials were gathered in Baofeng.

Li Zicheng made a mistake, which was originally very beneficial to the officials and soldiers of the imperial court.

But the arrogant and ignorant Sun Chuanting immediately made a fatal mistake, which directly led him to the end of the catastrophe.

Sun Chuanting took targeted actions based on the information provided by Li Yangchun, first attacking Baofeng, beheading Chen Kexin, the Zhou Mu and others, and then marching to Tang County to kill all the families of the people's army who were placed there.

Killing people on the battlefield, that's understandable. However, Sun Chuanting actually killed more than 60,000 family members, old and young women and children left in Tang County.

This is not a soldier, but a butcher executioner. If such a person can win in the end, God will not agree.

The exiled rebels were originally people who could not survive, and the executioner Sun Chuanting actually figured out the bloody massacre to achieve the purpose of shocking people's hearts, which was not a public anger, but a heavenly anger.

On 14 September, the main forces of the official army and the civilian army fought a fierce battle in Jiaxian, the civilian army was defeated and fled, the official army was in hot pursuit, the general of Guoyi Xie Junyou was captured and killed, and Li Ziyuan himself was almost captured.

In the face of the crisis, more than half of the officers and men of the People's Army had the idea of surrendering. But immediately after hearing about the massacre in Tang County, the soldiers under Li Zicheng were all filled with righteous indignation, and the morale that was on the verge of collapse was completely stimulated.

It is also said that as long as it is a man who sees the heads of his wife and children in front of the battle, and it is a mountain of human heads, there are definitely not many people who are scared to death, and there are definitely many who are angered.

The sky is angry and resentful, and it is Sun Chuanting at this time.

When Li Zicheng received the report, he immediately saw Rentou Mountain, and then said: "Brothers, don't worry, I will kill the vassal king and burn the imperial tomb, and the crime will not be forgiven." Did you see that? You might as well fight to the death. If he wins, he can avenge his dead wife and children. If you can't win, it's not too late for you to cut off my head and surrender. ”

When there is a grievance, the wrath of heaven comes.

On the land of the Central Plains, where there had been no rain for two years, it suddenly began to pour heavily for seven days, and the water on the flat ground was as deep as three feet.

Don't miss the opportunity, and never miss it.

Li Zicheng sent his general Liu Zongmin to lead 10,000 cavalry from the small road to the rear of the official army, cutting off the connection between the official army train battalion and the forward.

In order to paralyze the officers and troops, Li Zicheng's military advisor Niu Jinxing found someone to carve a huge stone tablet as high as three zhang, wrote a battle book with blood and stood in front of the two armies, and agreed on a date to fight a decisive battle with the officers and troops, so as to involve the officers and troops.

Sun Chuanting had no choice but to order Chen Yongfu, the chief soldier of Henan, to stay in the barracks, and he himself led the officials and troops of Shaanxi to return to the division to open up the grain road.

Chen Yongfu's subordinates did not know what was happening, and when they saw the main force of the Shaanxi official army "retreating north", they thought that they were frightened by the huge stone monument in front of the battle and fled.

The main force fled, but he was left behind to starve and starve as a substitute for the dead, and Chen Yongfu's subordinates were indignant, and they all followed the Shaanxi official army to "retreat".

Chen Yongfu is also a scholar, and his heart was shocked when he heard the word King Chuang. Seeing that his soldiers "took the initiative to retreat", he simply pushed the boat down the river and retreated, and there was chaos for a while.

The People's Army took the opportunity to attack, and the entire official army collapsed. By the time Sun Chuanting came to his senses and turned around to face the people's army, it was too late.

All the soldiers of the People's Army whose wives and children were killed are now furious, and killing the murderer of the city in front of them has become the only belief.

In addition, Li Yan, Song Xiance and others sent people to publicize Sun Chuanting's "great achievements" in the Tang County Massacre, and as a result, it was not only the army of King Chuang who participated in the battle, but also the more than 300,000 people who rushed to the front line, all of whom were displaced people who had just been gathered.

In this way, Li Zicheng launched a decisive counterattack, the first of which was more than 300,000 hungry people, the second was 80,000 infantry, the third was 50,000 light cavalry, the fourth was 60,000 elite cavalry, and the fifth was more than 120,000 family members.

Revenge and hatred, bravely strive to be the first, one after another, not afraid of death. is talking about the army of King Chuang at this time.

The officers and troops broke through the first three battle formations of the People's Army, and the elite cavalry of the fourth battle formation were unable to hold on.

In the fierce battle between the enemy and us, Bai Guangen's train battalion was defeated because it was heavy and could not parry in the siege.

The rout of the train battalion set off a chain reaction, and the cavalry could not resist and fled. The shape of the battlefield changed dramatically in an instant, from two sides fighting each other to one chasing and killing the other.

The old and weak women and children of the people's army poured out of the nest, pursued all the way, chased more than 400 miles in one day and one night, and recovered all the lost territory.

In this battle, more than 40,000 officers and soldiers were directly killed, more than 70,000 surrendered in battle, and the rest fled in all directions, losing hundreds of thousands of weapons and baggage.

The 150,000 army that Sun Chuanting painstakingly put together turned from victory to defeat in the blink of an eye, and the whole army was annihilated.

In a two-month war, Emperor Chongzhen's only "belongings" were lost and became a lamb to the slaughter.

The strategic problem of the 36th Battalion of Li Zicheng's Banner was also easily solved: Taking advantage of the victory to expand the results of the battle, he seized Guanzhong in one go. It's like a storm and clouds, as simple as holding a sheep by the hand.

In October, the People's Army captured Tongguan, and Sun Chuanting died in the chaos. The people's army drove straight in, all the way to conquer, and soon surrounded Chang'an City.

On the 11th, Wang Genzi, the defender of Chang'an City, opened the city gate and surrendered, Zhu Cunshu, the king of Qin, was captured alive, and Feng Shikong, the governor of Shaanxi, committed suicide.

After occupying Shaanxi, Li Zicheng's troops pursued and suppressed the remnants of the official army in three ways, cleared northern Shaanxi, and took over the military towns of Guyuan, Ningxia, and Gansu in the northwest.

The generals of the official army, Bai Guangen, Gao Ruli, Zuo Guangxian, Chen Yongfu and others, surrendered one after another, and the "train battalion" formed by Sun Chuanting exhausted the last wealth of Emperor Chongzhen became the trophies of Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, and the elite troops also changed from more than 200,000 people at the beginning to 500,000 troops.

By the end of the 16th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, had occupied all the important towns in the northwest, turning the traditional military base of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years into his own rear.

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