The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 70
Records in official history may not be accurate at certain times, after all, it is human beings who write and compile history.

There were often discrepancies among the several history books of the Ming Dynasty, recording different things, and later research can only confirm each other and find the most logical explanation, but some things are difficult to restore the whole picture after all.

However, there is no discrepancy in the record that Gao Jie betrayed Li Zicheng. There is a sentence in "History of Ming Dynasty" that describes it very clearly.

"Since I became a wife, Wu Duozhi of the Xing family is in charge of military resources, and provides food for battles every day."

"Jie Guo's camp, the combination of the test and the test. The great appearance of the family, and the same."

"Afraid of self-consciousness, he planned to surrender. In August of the following year, he stole the Xing family and returned."

That is to say, Li Zicheng's wife Xing was in charge of the military posture, and when Gao Jie handed in the conformity in the tent, Xing's handsome appearance led to an affair between the two.

Then Gao Jie was afraid that Li Zicheng would find out, so he planned to surrender, so he surrendered with the Xing family in August of the eighth year.

Later Gao Jie was placed under He Renlong's command by Hong Chengchou.

Chen Wang knew very well that Gao Jie should be very flustered now, probably Li Zicheng or others had already discovered some clues.

In the original time and space, in August.

The Ming army was defeated one after another, and its strength was already stretched.

The strength of Hong Chengchou's troops, including the conscripted soldiers, is only about 2000.

Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong gathered more than 25 people to the west of Xingping.

And the rogue bandits in Pingliang Mansion even made great strides all the way, defeating the Ming army in a row.

Li Zicheng and Hui Dengxiang defeated the Ming army in Xiangle and Qiutou towns successively. All the way south, the Ming army threw away their helmets and armors.

The three-way army attacked from three directions, and almost all the counties in the northwest of Xi'an Prefecture fell.

At that time in Shaanxi, Gao Yingxiang had the upper hand, and the Ming army led by Hong Chengchou was only on the defensive. No one knew whether they could hold Xi'an.

But under such circumstances, Gao Jie still chose to surrender when the Ming army suffered repeated defeats, lost troops and lost generals, and had few soldiers.

The only reason was that Gao Jie was already in a state of extreme panic.

Most of Gao Jie's affair with Xing's was discovered, and it was difficult to keep it hidden.

And now is August of the eighth year of Chongzhen, when Gao Jie defected.

In history, Gao Jie escaped from the military camp when he followed Li Zicheng and Hui Deng to the south.

Then all the way south, surrendered directly to the Ming army.

Now was the time when Gao Jie was most panicked, Chen Wang felt that even if he didn't want to find a way to find Gao Jie, Gao Jie himself would send it to his bowl.

But Chen Wang naturally didn't pin all his hopes on Gao Jie, because it was full of uncertainties.

It is not Chen Wang's character to be resigned to fate. Yesterday, when the Chuang army arrived and started to set up camp, he sent out a number of nights.

Let the hunters and herb pickers in Chunhua County act as guides to climb the mountain trails from the two mountains and infiltrate behind the camp of the bandits.

Although the Chuang army set up heavy defenses on the periphery, they were prepared for night attacks, while the old and weak in the rear were bloated, so it was impossible to cover everything.

After Li Zicheng broke Sanshui, there were many new followers and it was easier to infiltrate.

Calculate the time, and wait until dusk to receive the reward of not collecting at night.

Gao Jie should be in charge of the rear camp or the middle camp now. The He Renlong incident made Li Zicheng a little worried about this fellow villager who used to be with him.

However, the fellowship is still there, and Gao Jie's prestige in the army is not low, Li Zicheng does not have sufficient evidence.

Li Zicheng just treated Gao Jie coldly, and let him only take care of the old and weak and guard the camp.

Gao Jie was nicknamed Fanshan Harrier. Although he was Li Zicheng's general, he also had his own banner.

In the many confrontations that followed, the military newspapers stated that Gao Jie commanded the rear battalion, led the guards for the old and the weak, and no longer went to the front line.

As for the accent, Chen Wang naturally took it into consideration.

The Liao soldiers must have been dispatched there, and they would be recognized before they could even open their mouths.

Liao soldiers had sufficient food and wages, and most of them were strong and strong, so they were naturally distinct from the refugees who were struggling to eat.

However, among the eight rounds of soldiers brought by Tang Shiping, four rounds were the remnants of Ai Wannian's original command.

Ai Wannian was originally a general of Shenmu, and later he was appointed as the deputy commander of Gushan to guard Pingliang. Most of his subordinates were from Shaanxi.

Arrears of payment have long been commonplace for soldiers in Shaanxi. They simply cannot get enough food and payment, and many of them can't eat enough.

After Xiangle's defeat, the food and wages were halved again.

It was the militiamen that Chen Wang had recruited in Binzhou, and now they were much stronger than the Shaanxi soldiers who belonged to Ai Wannian.

After all, Cao Wenzhao, as the main force of the campaign, would naturally not be short of food and wages, and this time there was the captain of the transport team, Zhizhou of Binzhou, so he naturally ate and drank well.

This time, Yebushou, who Chen Wang sent to infiltrate, was selected from among the remnants of Shaanxi.

20 taels of silver per person, just after the reward was issued, a group of Shaanxi soldiers had already applied for the recruitment.

A total of 200 taels of silver was paid, and Chen Wang bought the lives of ten people.

The ten people were former sentries in the army, and it's not that they haven't done things like infiltrating the enemy's rear, they all have experience.

Almost everyone selected by Chen Wang has a family, a wife and a son, in order to prevent them from deliberately committing thieves and having scruples.

Ten Shaanxi soldiers received the resettlement money, changed into their clothes, and followed the guide in Chunhua City quietly left Chunhua City without looking back.

If useful information is detected, an extra ten taels of silver will be added.

Find out the information of the camp, add another ten taels, and go up one rank after returning to the camp.

Chen Wang did not tell them the specific content, nor did he say that he was looking for Gao Jie.

Just let them find out who the generals who broke into the army in the rear camp are.

For this reason, some pictures of the flags of the generals who broke into the army were specially drawn, among which Gao Jie's flags were mixed.

The purpose is to prevent these people from exposing the plan if they miss and are captured.

Chuangjun's attack on the first day did not invest too many elites, but used the hungry soldiers as a test of consumption, and no one even climbed the city wall.

Chen Wang didn't spare the gunpowder, and at the same time, he dispatched Hu Zhili and Chen Gong to take turns leading the reorganized Liao cavalry to charge for a while during the fierce battle, but they didn't charge too far. Return to the city before the shooting range.

The siege battle on the first day came to an end with the roar of several firing cannons in the army formation.

When it was getting dark, the Chuang army had already withdrawn their troops and returned to the camp, leaving scars all over the ground, and most of the corpses were collected by them and returned.

However, there were still quite a lot of corpses under the city of Chunhua. The casualties of the Chuang army had already exceeded a thousand in one day, and many people fell at the foot of the city wall. No one dared to collect their bodies.

When the night fell slowly and completely covered the outskirts of Chunhua City.

The Chuangjun cavalry scattered around Chunhua did not notice a few black shadows being quietly connected to Chunhua City in a hanging basket.

(End of this chapter)