The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 737 Look at How We Fight

But it seemed that Li Zicheng knew his intentions. After a while, Li Zicheng rode a horse and led his two relatives slowly forward.

The Ming army on the city wall was in a commotion, and Chen Yongfu's expression was also moved.

Li Zicheng came under the city wall and said loudly, "I know what Mr. Chen is afraid of."

"To be honest, in previous battles, everyone was the master. I really don't blame you. Chen Zongbing is a capable person, and I have a deep understanding."

"The Ming Dynasty is about to fall, and Chen Zongbing has to think about himself, his family, and his brothers."

"If you don't believe me, I swear to the sky today, if there is anything wrong with you in the future, will there be such an arrow?"

After finishing speaking, Li Zicheng pulled out an arrow beside him, Kacha, and broke it in public to swear.

Chen Yongfu cried loudly, and finally bowed down, determined to surrender to Li Zicheng.

Wang Weiguo, who was standing in Li Zicheng's formation, took a deep look at Deng Guangtie beside him, and said with a smile: "See, the general trend of Chuang Wang sweeping the world has become, and all the generals of the Ming court have come to surrender one after another. Our brothers Here's the opportunity to make a difference."

Deng Guangtie smiled: "Be with the general and sweep the world."

"Hahaha" Wang Weiguo laughed.

When Li Zicheng surrendered Chen Yongfu, Li Guo had just lost Gao Jie.

He didn't expect Gao Jie to be so good at running, so he could only return to Shaanxi angrily.

When I returned to Shaanxi, it was probably in mid-February 1644.

Li Guo had [-] soldiers and horses, all of them cavalry, and returned to Yan'an where Gao Jie had stayed on the fifth day of March.

At this time someone said to him: "In Shaanxi, to the north of us, there are still Yulin Town, Jiang Rang's Department, and Zuo Guangxian, two general soldiers."

At this time, the news of Bai Guangen's surrender has already come. Of course, Li Guo is full of confidence. When I was away, did you send someone to surrender?
The men replied, "Go, but the other side asked us to surrender."

"What?" Li Guo was so angry that he almost threw the table over.

Shaanxi also has the Ming army who is not afraid of death like Sun Chuanting?
The one surnamed Jiang ate the bear heart and leopard gall.

"Who knows Jiang Rang? Do you know what kind of guy he is?" Li Guo's subordinates, many soldiers from Shaanxi, asked on the spot.

Sure enough, President Qian immediately stepped forward: "The Jiang family is a general in Shaanxi, similar to the ancestors in Liaodong, and quite arrogant in the local area."

Jiang's family is Yulin Weiren, who have been generals for generations.

During the Hongzhi period (the era of Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty), the Jiang family began to prosper. At that time, Jiang Hansi, a member of the Jiang family, served as the commander of the Yulin Guard. Because of the recommendation of the censor Hu Xiyan, he entered the capital to command the affairs and served as the Yansui guerrilla general.In the 18th year of Hongzhi, he led the crowd to repel the Mongolian invasion of Ningxia.After Ming Wuzong succeeded to the throne, Mongolia aggressively invaded Xuanfu and Datong. Jiang Han, deputy commander Cao Xiong, and general Wang Ji parted ways to help and made contributions.Later, he replaced Cao Xiong as the deputy commander-in-chief and assisted in the defense of Yansui.In the third year of Zhengde, he moved to Liangzhou.In the following year, he was promoted to be the governor of the department, and served as the general officer to guard Ningxia.

Jiang Han was the first commander-in-chief of the Jiang family, and the Jiang family's generals have emerged in endlessly since then.

Up to the current Chongzhen period, Jiang Rang, Jiang Guan, and Jiang Xuan brothers, one chief soldier and two deputy chief soldiers, the Jiang family's forces, from Shaanxi to Shanxi, covered two places, and they were really the largest warlords in the area.

Moreover, they married another local warlord, the Zuo family, and joined forces. If they could be subdued, King Chuang could get at least [-] elite soldiers and a lot of resources.

As soon as Li Guo heard this, he immediately made a decision, sent troops to Yulin Guards, and insisted on forcing Jiang to surrender.

Li Guo sent troops to Yulin Town.

General Yuan Zongdi of the Right Battalion of the Chuang Army was heading north from Guyuan with [-] cavalry, looking for the general officer of Ningxia to Fumin.

Accompanying him was Niu Chenghu, the general soldier of Lintao who had just surrendered from the Ming army.

Niu Chenghu had been with Sun Chuanting before, and Tongguan was broken. After Sun Chuanting died in battle, Niu Chenghu surrendered to Li Zicheng in time and was appointed as the general soldier of Ningxia.

Now Yuan Zongdi took him to persuade Ningxia's general officer Fumin to surrender, planning to replace him with Niu Chenghu.

Guan Fumin was also a subordinate of Sun Chuanting before, and was later ordered to be stationed in Ningxia.

Yuan Zongdi's soldiers and horses came to Weizhou Station on the fourth day of March, but found that there was no one there, and there were no horses.

Weizhou Institute, also known as Weizhou Qunmu Qianhu Institute, originally had more than 100 officers and soldiers who raised horses for Prince Qing’s mansion, and King Qing had many pastures in Ningxia.

Therefore, the soldiers and horses of the Ningxia General Army rarely go out to fight.

Horses are raised here, and it is also the place with the most war horses.

Yuan Zongdi wanted to come over to snatch some horses, but he didn't expect to snatch any horses.

He could only continue going north, arriving in Lingzhou on the fifth day of March, and going down without a fight, as there were no troops stationed there.

On the sixth day of March, when I arrived at the headquarters of the Ningxia General Army, I found that there was no one there. Guan Fumin fled with the Ningxia soldiers and horses.

Prince Qing's mansion was also deserted, and the building was empty.

There was actually no one in the entire Ningxia Wei, and they all ran away.

It turned out that not long ago, someone from Yulin Wei came over and persuaded Guan Fumin to join forces with them.

Guan Fumin thought again and again, and fled to Yulinwei with 1 people and more than 3 horses.

This King Qing was also bold. Originally, the imperial family of the Ming Dynasty stipulated that the imperial family could not leave the residence. All the people in Prince Qing's Mansion also ran away.

Because at the end of the Ming Dynasty, many clans were running away, and were forced to leave the residence by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. Now as long as they can survive, who cares about the court rules.

"Damn Yulin Guard." Yuan Zongdi immediately led his troops to the east, looking for Yulin Guard's bad luck.

So on the ninth day of March, Yuan Zongdi's [-] soldiers and Li Guo's [-] soldiers sent troops to Mizhi County in the south of Yulin at the same time.

This is the hometown of Chuang Wang Li Zicheng, Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi are both locals, they are quite polite to the people here.

First occupied Mizhi with a large army, after discussing with Yuan Zongdi, Li Guo immediately sent someone to send a message again, asking the people of Yulin Guard to surrender and hand over all the soldiers and horses.

They always thought that Jiang Rang was stationed at the Yulin Guard, but they didn't know that Yan Xiong had been replaced by this time.

In March last year, Ding Yi sent Yan Xiong to occupy Yulin Guard, and got [-] elite soldiers and tens of thousands of soldiers.

After a year of training, Yan Xiong of Yulin Guard now has [-] soldiers and horses, and everyone leads troops, including [-] elite cavalry.

During this year, Yan Xiong hoarded fields here every day to train soldiers, and at the same time contacted the officials and the people, and finally persuaded the officials and soldiers to vote here after Bai Guangen surrendered.

Why didn't Yan Xiong annex Guanfumin, because Ningxia, where Guanfumin is located, is quite far away.

Moreover, Guan Fumin was not bad in history. In the end, he was forced to surrender, and the whole of Shaanxi surrendered. He was the last one to surrender when he couldn't beat him.

Facts have proved that it is reasonable for officials to care for the people, and he has no choice. At this time, only he and Yulin Town still have soldiers and horses in Shaanxi.

Yan Xiong took another [-] young men out of his army, and arranged the rest to continue hoarding fields nearby.

In this way, Yan Xiong already has [-] soldiers and horses in his hands.

There are not as many soldiers and horses on the opposite side as him.

At this time, Yan Xiong, Zhou Guangbao and other generals of the Dongjiang Township were present in Yulin Guard's general tent, and there were more than a dozen people above Qian Zong, standing aside.

Another Guan Fumin and his subordinates were on the other side of the parade, and a dozen people were also on the other side.

Yan Xiong also called Jiang Rang, Jiang Yu, Jiang Xuan, Zuo Guangxian and others to stay with Guan Fumin and others.

The Jiang Brothers and Zuo Guang first looked at each other in blank dismay, wanting to say something, but dared not say it.

"Li Zicheng's troops have arrived." Yan Xiong laughed loudly.

The faces of all the generals of the original Ming army were not good-looking, and some people already showed expressions of fear.

"The purpose of calling everyone here today is to let you see how our Dongjiang Town beat the peasant army."

Everyone's complexion changed again, and someone's eyes flashed contempt, brag, how many Ming troops were defeated by Li Zicheng, who can beat Li Zicheng now, Sun Chuanting can beat him very well, and he was wiped out.

"In recent years, we have been fighting Jiannu Tartars. It is as simple as killing pigs and dogs. The peasant army is not even as good as Jiannu. Show me later and watch how we fight."

The generals were still silent.

But the official Fumin said: "Our soldiers and horses?"

"You don't have any soldiers anymore." Yan Xiong waved his hands directly: "It's fine to watch, and after beating them, I will retrain your soldiers and horses."

Guan Fumin's face flushed red, obviously being despised by the other party, but he had nothing to say.

Ding Yi's soldiers and horses are quite capable of fighting, but there are rumors that they are all victorious in every battle.

"Wars are not based on words." Jiang Rang said unconvinced at this time: "Do you dare to fight the bandits?"

Besides throwing kerosene with a trebuchet to force us to surrender, what else would you do?
"Of course it's a field battle." Zhou Guangbao said coldly.

"It's useless to talk, just watch." Yan Xiong laughed: "Come here, give them binoculars, and arrange them to stand on the city wall."

After Yan Xiong finished speaking, he left the hall with some generals from Dongjiang Town.

Soon only the generals of the original Ming Dynasty remained in the hall.

Everyone immediately chattered and whispered.

"Old officer, you were also forced to surrender?"

"Brother, I brought my troops here to join us here to fight against the rebels." Guan Fumin smiled wryly: "I didn't expect that you were not here, and Ding Yi's people took all my soldiers and horses away."

"Why don't you go out?" Zuo Guang stared.

"They're all my brothers, the enemy is in front of me, forget it." Guan Fumin shook his head and smiled wryly.

"He's going to lose, and we're all going to die," Jiang Rang said.

"I think the soldiers here are strong and strong, and they should be able to compete with the bandit soldiers." A general whispered.

"There are so many thieves, Li Zicheng now has an army of one million, even if he defeats the enemy in front of him, what should he do next?"

Everyone's hearts suddenly turned cold, and they all felt terrible.

It was Guan Fumin who finally said: "Don't talk about it, let's go outside and have a look first."

So all the generals went up the city wall one after another.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" just after they went up to the wall, there was already a heavy horn sounding outside, and then they saw a large number of Ming troops coming out of the gate of the city.

Yan Xiong already had tens of thousands of horses here, but he didn't dispatch all the horses.

Zhou Guangbao's four thousand cavalry went out of the city first. Amid the sound of rumbling iron cavalry, the cavalry rushed out like a torrent, and then divided into two groups in an orderly manner, two thousand on the left and two thousand on the right.

The faces of Guan Fumin and others watching the battle on the city wall changed slightly.

So watching the soldiers and watching the battle, just watching Zhou Guangbao's cavalry marching out of the battle already made them feel incredible.

The cavalrymen rode four in a row, coming out continuously, not fast, but not slow, looking horizontally, they were all straight as arrows, and the distance between the front row and the back row was about the same.

Even when turning, it will be a bit chaotic, but as long as it turns, it will definitely become straight soon.

They watched from the high walls, very intuitive, and the criss-crossing was very clear.

When the four thousand cavalry arrived on both sides of the city gate, there seemed to be someone shouting loudly.

Hissing, the audience was suddenly silent, except for the neighing of war horses, the scene was quiet, and all the cavalry remained motionless.

But that's not the worst part.

Soon, the Six Thousand Step Battalion in Dongjiang Town slowly left the city.

Everyone in the [-]-step battalion wore iron armor, and many of them had iron armor given to them by cavalry.

Because many soldiers and horses are from the original Yulin Town.

The cavalry were to be used for pursuit, so Yan Xiong reduced their load and gave the infantry all the armor.

then.

Hush, huh, huh, orderly armored infantry, like a torrent of steel, walked out of the city mighty.

The most prestigious moment of Ding Yi's soldiers and horses has come. His infantry phalanx, regardless of the momentum of the soldiers, can be called the number one in the world.

The original soldiers and horses in Yulin Town have also been trained for a year, and they are definitely the best of the best.

The six thousand armored infantry walked out of the city, completely like a whole, and their movements were even more uniform, and every step they took had earth-shattering power.

The black iron armor, like a dark force, almost dared not look directly at the oppressive city walls.

I have never seen such a well-groomed soldier and horse.

Especially Brother Jiang Rang, many people below were their soldiers and horses, but now it seems that they don't recognize these people at all.

Can't believe they can be trained like this.

"It's really elite." The officials and the people were full of praise.

"You have to fight to know whether you are elite or not." Zuo Guang gritted his teeth first.

But such words are meaningless, because Yuan Zongdi and Li Guo's army also appeared on the opposite side, and they are also elite.

"This is for you, one for each of you." At this moment, Ming Jun handed over the binoculars.

Everyone looked at the telescope in their hands strangely, and after being taught, they lifted it up to look, and were pleasantly surprised.

In fact, Tang Ruowang, a Westerner, helped the Ming Dynasty write "Looking Mirror Theory" a few years ago, introducing how to make telescopes, but Chongzhen and Daming didn't pay attention to it at all, and no one cared about it. Up to now, there is no such thing in the Ming army.

Now when everyone sees it, they are all very surprised.

All the veterans present on the battlefield immediately understood that this thing is very useful on the battlefield.

"Damn, this is Jiang Rang's army? Is it a little difficult?" Yuan Zongdi was standing with Li Guo.

When the two arrived in Mizhi, they sent troops to surrender, but when they were rejected, they flew into a rage, and immediately decided to attack.

But they only brought [-] cavalry, so they mobilized the vicinity of Mizhi County and forcibly recruited [-] civilian husbands.

When I arrived at the scene today, I found out that the Ming army on the opposite side did not guard the city, and they actually wanted to fight with them.

Now the civilian husband is no longer needed, and it happens to be resolved in World War I.

However, Yuan Zongdi and Li Guo were a little apprehensive when they watched the Ming army formation.

But the fear is the fear, at this time they still didn't take the Ming army seriously.

At this time, the soldiers and horses of the two sides were less than two miles apart, and the battle was imminent.

(End of this chapter)