The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 730 Don't look too ugly

In September of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen (1642), under constant urging of Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting decided to fight the peasant army again. He took Gao Jie as the central army, and transferred Zuo Yi, Bai Guangen, Zheng Jiadong, Niu Huchen and other troops out of Tongguan to enter. Henan attacked the peasant army, and Li Zicheng, Wang Weiguo, and Luo Rucai led their troops to meet them.

Because he knew that the peasant army was powerful, Sun Chuanting was very cautious, and first sent another general of the peasant army, Niu Chenghu, who had recruited security, as a vanguard to lure the Chuang army into the ambush circle by feigning defeat.

To be honest, his strategy is good, but the Ming army in his hands is no longer the elite Qin army that he hoarded and trained before. Compared with the Chuang army, they are more like a peasant army, and the Chuang army is more like an official army.

Sure enough, Li Zicheng's troops were fooled and fell into an ambush. The Chuang army turned around and collapsed. It seemed that it was going to be the same as when Sun Chuanting defeated Gao Yingxiang last time, and it was about to end again.

Just when Li Zicheng ordered the retreat, Wang Weiguo suggested that food, grass, materials, gold, silver and treasure should be discarded as soon as possible to stop the enemy.

Chuangjun threw all kinds of gold and silver treasures everywhere, throwing them all the way.

Now, many of Sun Chuanting's soldiers and horses were surrendered by the former peasant army. They could see these things there.

At this time, he had two elite subordinates, one was Bai Guangen, who had participated in the Battle of Songjin and survived. This old fritter was smarter. Seeing the defeat of the Chuang army, he was not in a hurry to pursue, and followed far behind.

The other Gao Jie is also Li Zicheng's old brother. He cheated on Li Zicheng's wife. He knew that he and Li Zicheng would never die.

Because the rear is picking up treasures, only Gao Jie in the Ming army caught up, and the lone army went deep.

When they retreated to Zhongtou (thirty miles northeast of Jiaxian County), Wang Weiguo and Li Zicheng saw that only Gao Jie rushed forward, and the Ming army was in chaos, and they were all scrambling for treasures.

The two looked at each other and laughed.

Wang Weiguo said further: "In my opinion, we are considered to be officers and soldiers."

Li Zi laughed, waved his hand on the spot, and organized a counterattack.

At this time, Luo Rucai, their rear team, also arrived with soldiers and horses, and the rest of the invading troops also recovered quickly from the defeat, reorganized their teams, and turned around to attack the Ming army.

Gao Jie had few people and many intruders, so he was beaten and defeated in an instant.

The Ming army, which was busy scrambling for trophies, had almost no combat effectiveness.

Zuo Yan and Xiao Shending will take the lead in fleeing.

The subordinates of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai did not fight for the spoils, but chased down the Ming army all the way, and killed the Ming army in a disastrous defeat, losing thousands of troops and a large number of horses. The deputy general Sun Zhixiu and 78 generals died in battle.

At this time, it was raining heavily, and the food and quilts of the Ming army could not be transported. They were hungry and cold, and they robbed the unripe green persimmons in the persimmon gardens of ordinary people to eat. Therefore, this battle was jokingly called "Battle of Persimmon Garden".

Sun Chuanting was furious after winning first and then losing. He decided to severely punish Zuo Xie and Xiao Shending who took the lead in fleeing.

Xiao Shending was beheaded for public display, but someone suggested that Zuo Ye could not be killed, because his father was Zuo Guangxian, who came from a family of generals in Yulin.

Zuo Guangxian was the general who dealt the biggest blow to Li Zicheng in the early period of the Peasant War in the late Ming Dynasty, and he had a wealthy family and a deep foundation in officialdom.

Before the Battle of Songjin, Hong Chengchou dismissed his official position and replaced him with Bai Guangen.

Although Zuo Guangxian had been dismissed by Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting still did not dare to deal with his son lightly, and asked Zuo Guang to pay two thousand horses to compensate the loss of the officers and soldiers.

At this time, Zuo Guangxian had been idle at home, recuperating at the place where Jiang Rang was stationed in Yulin.

But he actually took out two thousand horses.

It can be seen how powerful and financial the Zuo family was in Yulin at that time.

You must know that Ding Yi could not produce even a thousand horses before he occupied Jeju Island.

After the Battle of Persimmon Garden, Sun Chuanting discovered a huge problem for the officers and soldiers. It rained heavily that day, but the heavy rain did not only fall on the officers and soldiers, but also on Li Zicheng, Wang Weiguo, and Luo Rucai. Why did the officers and soldiers have no food? Does the peasant army have food?

The problem here is much more serious than a mere military failure.

After Sun Chuanting returned to Shaanxi, he decided to take out his previous method of checking the three guards in Xi'an, and promote it throughout Shaanxi to solve the logistics supply problem.

Only by solving the problem of logistical supplies can the army be adequately trained and organized and disciplined.

Sun Chuanting "recruited warriors, opened up farmland, repaired utensils, and accumulated millet, and one of the three families produced a strong man." At the same time, he started to set up a car camp.

Judging from the general trend of the decisive battles between the Ming army and the peasant army and Qing soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty, the use of chariots in large-scale battles is indeed outdated (except for Ding Yi's soldiers and horses), but Sun Chuanting used this method for the sake of To adapt to the low tactical level of the Ming army at that time.

The role of the car battalion is not only to defend against the enemy's cavalry, but the most important thing is to surround your own army, give them a sense of security, and prevent them from scurrying around.

The elite cavalry in Shaanxi were given to Li Zicheng by Fu Zonglong, Wang Qiaonian, and Ding Qirui in previous battles.

If he didn't use the car battalion, Sun Chuanting really had no other way to ensure that his soldiers would not turn around and run away when facing the cavalry charge.

After defeating Sun Chuanting, Li Zicheng's prestige in the peasant army was greatly shaken.

Because the former Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang died in the hands of Sun Chuanting.

With the help of Wang Weiguo and Wang Weiguo, Li Zicheng annexed He Yilong, Luo Rucai, and Yuan Shizhong, incorporated He Jin, Liu Xiyao, and Lin Chengcheng, and established his absolute authority. The establishment of government offices and garrison troops, and the garrison of fields, already have the appearance of a new court.
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In October, news of Sun Chuanting's disastrous defeat by Li Zicheng reached Ding Yi in Datong.

And he got a piece of news that there is another big man in the military circle of Shaanxi next door, who is very rich.

how rich
In order to save his son, he gave Sun Chuanting two thousand war horses.

This man is Yulin General Zuo Guangxian.

There were two Zuo Guangxians in the Ming Dynasty, one was the younger brother of Zuo Guangdou, a civil servant, and the other was Zuo Guangxian, a general from Yulin.

The former is now from Anhui, and the latter is from Yulin, Shaanxi.

Zuo Guangxian is so rich that he can take out two thousand war horses at once, Ding Yi's eyes immediately fixed on him.

You must know that Zuo Guangxian is idle at home.

In the original history, he only heard that Bai Guangen had voted for Li Zicheng next year, and immediately ran out of Yulin with his people to join Li Zicheng.

"Over there in Yulin, what's the situation now?" Ding Yi summoned Ge Hongshan, the intelligence officer, to ask.

Ge Hongshan said: "Yulin, Shaanxi is the headquarters of Yansui General Army, an important town on the nine borders. It is now called Yulin General Army. The general army is Jiang Rang, who is Jiang Tuan's elder brother."

"There is a local snake in Yulin, the local Zuo Guangxian."

"The Zuo family came from the local guard, and Zuo's father once served as the commander of the Yulin Guard."

"Zuo Guangxian, starting from Wei Xiaoqi in Yulin, successively served as the general banner and Qianhu, and was transferred to Shenjingbao, Xuanfu at the beginning of Chongzhen. Transferred back to Yansui Town to train firearms. Zuo Guangxian followed the new governor of Yansui (later promoted to the governor of the three sides) Hong Chengchou to encircle and suppress the peasant uprising army during his stay in Shaanxi. The guerrilla was promoted to the Shaanxi General Army (Guyuan General Army).

In the first month of the 12th year of Chongzhen (1639), Hong Chengchou was transferred to be the governor of Jiliao to deal with the Manchus. "

Before the battle of Songjin, Hong Chengchou fell out with this beloved general for some reason. It seems that Zuo Guang was the first to meet the enemy and let Hong Chengchou down. He dismissed him and replaced him with Bai Guangen.

Since then, the Ming Dynasty has not employed him, and he has been at home in Yulin.

Such a former chief soldier who was idle at home unexpectedly handed out [-] war horses to Sun Chuanting, and Ding Yi immediately became very interested in him.

"How about Jiang Rang?" Ding Yi asked again.

"Your Excellency drove away the Jiang Guan brothers, and Cai Maode, the governor of Shanxi, recommended the two to the imperial court as Yulin's deputy commander-in-chief."

"The imperial court has not responded yet. It is said that some people in the imperial court have objected. There are three brothers and three soldiers in the same town. It is estimated that the three of them will be transferred."

Ding Yi thought for a while, then smiled and said, "The intelligence department thought of an excuse. Let's find a way to conquer Shanxi, enter Shaanxi, swallow up the soldiers and horses in Yulin Town, and rob all the wealth and war horses of Zuo Guangxian and the Jiang family."

"..." Ge Hongshan was dumbfounded.

In the past few years, Mr. Ding was cautious, wretched and developed, and won the battle in Liaodong without making a fuss.

Lord Ding has become more and more arrogant this year. He robbed the palace, expelled the general soldiers, and monopolized Datong. Now he wants to fight to the next door and ignore the court at all.

But Ding Yi wants to tell them that Chongzhen will be finished in at most two years, and they definitely don't believe it.

Don't do it now, wait until next year Zuo Guang will go to Li Zicheng with his horse and a lot of money?
Of course you have to do it quickly.

Seeing the dark lines on Ge Hongshan's face, Ding Yi called Yan Xiong over again: "You two should work together and find a way to get into Yulin, Shaanxi, that, don't look too ugly, keep a low profile, keep a low profile."

Yan Xiong also had black lines on his face, Mr. Ding, you forcibly robbed the Daiwang Palace, can you still call it ugly, can you still call it low-key?
So in the 15th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng swept the world, and the Ming Dynasty was in turmoil. Ding Yi was trying to find a way to annex other towns of the Ming army everywhere, so as to sweep the world for himself in the future and reduce resistance.

Ding Yi was thinking of a way, but God gave him a chance.

As mentioned earlier, Huang Taiji's current domestic situation is also very bad.

In June of the 15th year of Chongzhen, Xia Liang was almost completely wiped out due to the cold winter in the Manchu and Qing Dynasties.

In addition, there were natural disasters everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, and the price of grain in the south of the Yangtze River rose to 15 taels a shi. At that time, the aged brown rice brought into Shengjing by the eight emperors sold for [-] taels, and the polished rice was [-] taels a shi, which was in short supply.

In addition, Ding Yi occupied Gaizhou and Haizhou again. Although Huang Taiji won the Battle of Songjin, there were tens of thousands more Han troops, and the food pressure further increased.

So he decided again to negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty.

Chongzhen, who was also in a bad situation, immediately decided to negotiate a peace as if he had found a bosom friend.

However, because of the mistake of Chen Xinjia's family boy, Minister of the Ministry of War, the peace negotiation was leaked, and the whole world knew what happened.

As soon as Chen Xinjia died, Huang Taiji's peace talks fell through.

The key point was that Bao Chengxian, his peace negotiating ambassador, was also stabbed out in the capital. Chongzhen simply did nothing and executed Bao Chengxian.

Huang Taiji heard that Xun's seven orifices were smoking, and kept scolding the villain Chongzhen in Shengjing.

He had already wanted to negotiate peace with Chongzhen twice, and was turned against by Chongzhen twice.

Coupled with the fact that the domestic situation is very bad at this time, food prices are soaring, and the eight major Shanxi merchants have been killed by Ding Yi, and they can hardly survive. Huang Taiji finally decided to launch the fifth battle of entering the customs.

　I just found out that one chapter was missing, and I copied the missing publications of the other seven, but it didn't affect the overall situation, anyway, it was copied.

　　
　
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