The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chen Wang stared at the map in front of him, and the historical materials and documents he had read appeared in his mind.

There are very limited records in the history books about the first half of the ninth year of Chongzhen.

In particular, the history of Gao Yingxiang leading troops through Nanyang Mansion in Henan Province, entering Xiangyang in Huguang Province, and Xunyang returning to Shaanxi in March is even more ambiguous.

The records of all parties are also quite messy, but it is not difficult for Chen Wang to sort them out.

The timeline of the ninth year of Chongzhen, if it is subdivided according to the month, and the three regions of the south, north, and Guanwai, everything will be clear as it progresses slowly.

The south here refers to Henan, Huguang, and Hanzhong Prefecture in the south of Shaanxi Province, which is the area where Gao Yingxiang and other ministries are active.

The north refers to the central and northern areas of Shaanxi, which is the area where Li Zicheng and Hui Dengxiang were active.

Guanwai naturally refers to Houjin in the north.

January.

South: Gao Yingxiang and other ministries were active in Nanzhili and other places. After being frustrated, they went west to Guide and returned to Henan again.

February.

Northern battlefield: The peasant army in Shaanxi suffered heavy losses, and the mutiny in Ningxia.

Southern battlefield: Gao Yingxiang attacked Mi County and broke Dengzhou, joined forces with Zhang Xianzhong and other troops, and went south to Nanyang Prefecture.

Lu Xiangsheng ordered Zu Dale to guard Runing Mansion to the east of Nanyang Mansion, and Zu Kuan to guard Dengzhou in Nanyang Mansion, and led the army to pursue Gao Yingxiang.

During this period, the main force under Gao Yingxiang's command was not too severely damaged, but he was exhausted after being chased by Lu Xiangsheng all the way.

Although in the battle with Lu Xiangsheng, there have always been more defeats than victories, but most of the casualties were horse troops and ordinary infantry soldiers, not to mention any injuries.

But this time is actually the weakest time for Gao Yingxiang's army.

Lu Xiangsheng knew that Gao Yingxiang wanted to cross the river and enter the Xunyang and Xiangyang areas, so he informed Huguang Governor Wang Mengyin and Yunyang Fuzhi Song Zushun in advance, and ordered them to lead troops to fortify along the Han River to prevent Gao Yingxiang from crossing the river.

But after they learned the news that Gao Yingxiang was going to cross the river in advance, they still didn't hold the Han River.

Gao Yingxiang led Jingqi from Guanghua to sneak across the Han River into Xunyang, and the defense line of the Han River collapsed.

The victory in the Battle of the Han River gave Gao Yingxiang a different idea.

After Lu Xiangsheng crossed the river.Gao Yingxiang returned to fight Lu Xiangsheng again.

Lu Xiangsheng suffered a disastrous defeat in this battle. He only returned alone, almost dying, and lost the important seal of Guan Fang.

"Ming Da Sima Lugong Chronicle" records:
"The thieves entered Xiangyang from the Guanghuadu Yangpitan, or broke into Yun and Jun."

"General Qin Yiming and his deputy Lei Shisheng entered the mountains from Nanzhang and Gucheng Keqi to attack the bandits. In the later stage of Yiming's loss of justice, the bandits were unable to detect and help them, so they cut off the road around the mountain and counterattacked from behind. Lei Shisheng died in battle. "

"The male solo rides through the extreme, destroys his defenses, and then joins the soldiers."

"The frontier soldiers practice riding and shooting, so it's inconvenient to climb up and cross. The mountain air is fumigated, and they are often infected with diseases."

Gao Yingxiang led his troops to the south calmly and entered the mountainous areas of Xunyang, Junzhou and other places.

After Lu Xiangsheng collected the remnants of the army, he reunited with the generals and sent Zu Kuan to lead the Guanning army to attack again.

The Guan Ning army under Zu Kuan's command suffered from many diseases, lacked military pay, and was not familiar with the mountainous terrain, so there were many mutinies and agitators.

Lu Xiangsheng could only conscript local soldiers from Sichuan and Yunzi to hunt down the peasant army in Junzhou.

"History of Ming Dynasty Biography Volume 140" records:
"Kuan waited for the cavalry to block the pass. Lieutenant General Wang Jinzhong's army panicked, and Luo Dai and Liu Zhaoji's soldiers fled more. When they pursued them, they bent their bows and turned inward."

"Xiang Sheng dispatched local soldiers from Sichuan and Yanzi to search for Junzhou thieves."

At this time, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and other ministries were active between Xunyang Mansion and Xiangyang Mansion.

However, Lu Xiangsheng suffered a disastrous defeat, and his troops were severely damaged, and he was unable to pursue him any further, so he could only temporarily stabilize the front line and stationed troops along the Han River.

March.

After years of drought and insect plagues in Shanxi, another major famine occurred.

At that time, the hungry people had no food, so they had to eat bark and grass leaves.

When the bark and grass leaves are exhausted, people eat each other.

Nanyang, Henan, which is close to Shanxi, also experienced famine.

Wang Yu of the Tang Dynasty played keyboards in Nanyang, Henan Province, and there were some mothers who cooked their daughters to eat.

Emperor Chongzhen issued an edict to distribute [-] gold to Shanxi and Nanyang, and exempted the old and new salaries from the disaster-stricken counties in Shanxi.

In the south, Gao Yingxiang led the army to march from Yunyang and Xiangyang to Xing'an and Hanzhong.

In the north, Li Zicheng crossed Shang and Luo from Nanshan and invaded the northern part of Gongchang Mansion. After being defeated by Zuo Guangxian and Cao Bianjiao, he fled all the way to Huan County in the northern part of Qingyang Mansion.

There are very few records in the history books, only a few words, and no large-scale war broke out.

But this month also had an extremely important event. Although this event did not cause much disturbance at the time, it greatly affected the course of history-Sun Chuanting came.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, in March, Gan Xuekuo, governor of Shaanxi, was dismissed, and the new governor of Shaanxi was succeeded by Sun Chuanting.

At this time, Sun Chuanting had just recovered. Although he had a small reputation and was praised as a "frontier talent", he was promoted to be the Chancellor of Shuntian Mansion, but his reputation was limited to Shuntian Mansion.

When Sun Chuanting took over as governor of Shaanxi, not many people actually valued Sun Chuanting.

At this time, no one would have thought that within two months after Sun Chuanting rushed to Shaanxi to take office, he would do a major event - capture Gao Yingxiang alive!

April.

In April, there were not too many turmoil and incidents in the pass, but there was a major event outside the pass that made Chongzhen extremely angry-Huang Taiji became emperor.

April [-].

Outside the pass, Huang Taiji offered sacrifices to the heavens at the Temple of Heaven in Shengjing, Liaodong.

In the hinterland of Guannei, the officers and soldiers and the rogues fell into a stalemate in the Xunyang area.

It is only known that Gao Yingxiang has been active in the eastern part of Hanzhong Mansion, and there is no record of how many cities he captured.

After Lu Xiangsheng suffered a defeat in March, he has been leading his troops to stay in the Xunxiang area. The Guanning Army has many cavalry who are not familiar with mountain warfare.

Therefore, after Lu Xiangsheng discussed with Hong Chengchou, in April of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng sent Zu Kuan and Li Chongzhen to lead the Guanning Army to help Shaanxi, and let other generals guard Xunyang and Xiangyang.

Make "Qin thieves don't go out, Yu thieves don't enter".

"Ming Da Sima Lugong Chronicle" records:
"In April, the generals will be divided into Yunxiang, and the Guanning soldiers will enter Henan. Zu Dale will go to Yongning, and Zu Kuan and Li Chongzhen will go to Lingbao."

"At that time, the thieves in Henan were also suitable for entering the Wanshan Mountains at the junction of Qin, Henan, and Shu. Henan was starving, and the payment was not available. The frontier soldiers were Hungarians."

"History of Ming Dynasty Biography Volume 140" records:
"Chu, Yu bandits and Yingxiang are all in the mountains at the junction of Qin, Chu, and Shu. Xiang ascended from Nanyang to Xiangyang to advance."

"There are many thieves and few soldiers, but there is a great hunger in Henan, lack of pay, and the frontier soldiers are becoming more and more fierce."

"Chengchou, Xiangshengyi, Guanzhong Pingkuang, benefiting cavalry, marched into Shaanxi with Kuan and Zhongzhen troops, while Xiangyang, Jun, Yi, Gu, Shangjin, Nanzhang, surrounded by mountains are all bandits."

May.

In the northern battlefield, the original history is that Prime Minister Huideng, Huntianxing and Mantianxing joined forces to kill Yu Chongxiao, the general soldier of Yansui Town, so the momentum revived.

But because of the previous changes, Yu Chongxiao died at the hands of Prime Minister Hui Deng a year earlier.

The commander-in-chief of Yansui Town has now become Wang Pu, that is, Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief of Datong who first escaped in the Songjin Battle in history, which led to the collapse of the Ming army.

And now Huntianxing and Mantianxing died in the dry salt pond.

Chen Wang couldn't imagine what the northern battlefield would look like in the future.

In the southern battlefield.

Chongzhen issued an imperial edict "amnesty for the bandits in Shanshan".

However, although the imperial edict was very pleasant, it actually did not play any role.

Bao Fengqi, a staff member of the Ministry of War who was ordered to recruit, proposed to solve the problem in his memorial.

It is necessary to solve the place of placement first, and also need to first provide relief for "cattle breeding expenses" to solve their survival problems. At the same time, there must be "people who concentrate on cooking" so that they can be "livable and farmable, and have a new happy business" .

But in fact, apart from this edict, there are no other measures at all. After going around, the court still has no money and the treasury is empty.

The edict did not play any role, and Gao Yingxiang led his soldiers and horses back to Huguang Province from Hanzhong Mansion.

Then Lu Xiangsheng summoned a group of generals and school troops to gather in the Luoyang area of ​​​​Henan Prefecture, blocking his way back to the Central Plains.

same month.

On the battlefield outside the pass, Huang Taiji sent Duo Luo Wuying County Wang Azige and others to command [-] Eight Banners soldiers, and the soldiers entered the pass through the suction port and the Dushi port respectively in three groups.

Wang Zhaokun, the patrol censor, refused to fight, was defeated and died.

The Ming army retreated to Changping, and the Qing soldiers invaded Juyong and Changping North Road again.

June.

In the southern battlefield, the rogues broke through Yunxiduo County, Zhang Xianzhong and other troops joined forces to attack Xiangyang, and Huguang governor Wang Mengyin asked Lu Xiangsheng for help.

Gao Yingxiang led the soldiers and horses back to Hanzhong Mansion again, and marched all the way to the central area of ​​Hanzhong Mansion.

In June, the Qing army broke through many cities and threatened the capital, which was the change of Bingzi.

July.

In the northern battlefield, the original timeline was that after Li Zicheng broke through the siege net set up by the Ming army, he entered Suide, intending to cross the Yellow River east and enter Shanxi.

However, Shanxi governor Wu Xin led troops to fortify in time, and Li Zicheng's plan to cross the river was destroyed.

Li Zicheng then led his troops back to his hometown of Mizhi in Yan'an Prefecture, and at the same time marched to Yulin in the north.

In the southern battlefield, Gao Yingxiang left the Nanshan Mountains and planned to drive directly to Xi'an, enter Xi'an Mansion, and return to the Guanzhong Plain.

However, when the army arrived at Heishuiyu in Zhou Dynasty, they were ambushed and captured by Sun Chuanting, governor of Shaanxi, and taken to Beijing, where they were executed in Ling Chi.

Lu Xiangsheng crossed the Xihe River, went south to Huguang, pursued and suppressed the peasant army, and participated in the impeachment of the illegal things done by the Tang Palace.

same month.

The Qing army broke into Gyeonggi, captured Changping and Liangxiang, and then besieged Shunyi.

The county magistrate of Shunyi, Shangguan Jin, and the guerrilla general Zhiguoqihe commanded Su Shiyu to defend the city to the death. After the city fell, all three of them died for their country.

Kebaodi, entered Dingxing, went down to Fangshan, and fought in Zhuozhou, Gu'an, Xiongxian, Anzhou and other places.

Twelve cities were conquered, 56 battles were won, and 17 people and animals were won.

Tightly circle the capital and ravage all over Kinai.

Chongzhen urgently transferred Lu Xiangsheng to the north to defend the capital.

…………

Within seven months, the southern battlefield, the northern battlefield, and the battlefield outside the customs, all three places were in turmoil.

Although the three battlefields seem to be independent of each other, they are actually linked together.

Chen Wang is thinking about how much the changes he caused will change the course of history.

What a huge storm will be caused by the wings flapped by his own butterfly.

The rescue of Cao Wenzhao and the early joining of Gao Jie have caused changes in the northern battlefield.

However, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Lao Huihui, Gezuo Fifth Battalion and others have not been affected for the time being, and the southern battlefield is still developing along the original historical process.

The structure of Hanzhong Mansion is actually not much different from the original time and space, but the power of the bandits is weaker.

Zhang Yuan and Lu Shi encircled Hanzhong, but in the end they couldn't attack for a long time. The Hanzhong Guards regained their vitality and defended Hanzhong City.

The rogues lost their vigor, suffered setbacks one after another, and their forces continued to suffer setbacks. After Gao Yingxiang entered Hanzhong Mansion, these people also joined Gao Yingxiang's army.

Chen Wang took out the military order from Hong Chengchou from his sleeve.

It is very clear in the letter that the defense of Hanzhong should be prioritized for the safety of King Rui.

What Chen Wang wants to do now is to restore the history as much as possible without affecting the original process.

Because, no matter what, Gao Yingxiang must die.

If Gao Yingxiang had not died, the rogues would not have surrendered on a large scale.

If the rogues still choose to resist on a small scale if they do not surrender on a large scale, then Henan, Huguang, Nanzhili, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places will be even more corrupt.

History will also be completely changed beyond recognition, and everything will be unknown.

I will lose the advantage of completely losing the Prophet.

Although the butterfly effect has been triggered and the original process has been changed, the general trajectory remains unchanged.

Chen Wang is very aware of his current strength.

There are only more than 300 recruits and veterans under his command who are actually in control. Among them, there are only more than 900 cavalry, and there are no more than [-] cavalry including the guards.

Although the military equipment is excellent, it is only compared to the ordinary battalion soldiers, and it is still much worse than the elite of the Qing soldiers.

Now the combat power of those veterans under his command is at best to compete with the ordinary Qing army, and they will inevitably fall into a hard fight when they encounter the elite of the Qing army.

Chen Wang knew very well how much he had, and the military power he had now was not enough to make him inflated.

One by one, Chen Wang sorted out things slowly, and the documents and texts on the classics that he had read before emerged one by one in his mind.

"Xing'an... Xunyang..."

"Hanyin... Shiquan..."

Chen Wang glanced slowly over the map of Hanzhong Mansion on the desktop.

If any city in Hanzhong Prefecture fell, he would not be able to escape responsibility as a general of Hanzhong.

"The first priority is the safety of King Rui..."

Chen Wang's eyes flickered, considering the military order sent by Hong Chengchou.

Chen Wang's eyes gradually moved to the left, and finally stopped at Chenggu County.

The middle of Hanzhong Mansion is the Hanzhong Plain.

To go to the central part from the east of Hanzhong Prefecture, the city that must pass through is Chenggu.

In the east of Chenggu County, there are two roads leading directly to Xi'an Mansion, one is Tangluo Road and the other is Ziwu Road.

There are a lot of historical materials posted in this chapter, and there will not be so many historical materials posted in the next chapters. The plot needs, and my own writing skills are not enough, so I can't think of other better ways of writing. This way of writing should be more intuitive for everyone.