The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 93
By the second day, the atmosphere in the entire camp was almost completely different from the previous day.

Chen Wang could clearly feel that the recruits in the camp seemed to be getting closer to each other.

Even the energy and spirit are not comparable to those of yesterday, and there is a feeling of refreshment.

There is no coincidence in military training, it just lies in practicing more and practicing diligently.

There is no such thing in this world that you only need to practice the formation, walk forward, arrange the army formation, and after the recruits have trained for the first time in less than a few weeks, they can kill the Quartet.

This might be possible against bandits and lowly organized rogues.

But once faced with a regular army or a strong army, those recruits who have been trained for several weeks can only be regarded as massacres.

Although the military training methods of later generations have been summarized and summarized, there are still various analytical improvements, which are quite scientific.

But no matter how scientific it is, it is impossible to violate the rules and train a strong army in a short period of time.

Therefore, in the next seven days, Chen Wangquan let these recruits practice the most basic formations and formations, and did not teach other things.

In the next seven days, it was the same as the refugee soldiers recruited in Binzhou before.

All the captains and vice-deputies were elected by ordinary soldiers, and of course it was Chen Wang who finally announced the appointment.

As for the Deputy Banner General and the Banner General, they were selected from among the recruits originally recruited in Binzhou.

The captain of the Binzhou army will serve as the banner chief, and the team deputy will serve as the deputy banner chief.

Officers with a hundred generals and above are not set up for the time being.

This army Chen Wang is ready to hold it firmly in his hands.

From the chief executives at the bureau level to the chief executives and chief executives at the department level, Chen Wang is ready to appoint his cronies.

When Hu Zhiyi brought people back from Liaodong, he was appointed directly.

Anyway, the new military battalion didn't have any establishment, and none of the generals or generals had reported themselves, so there was nothing unreasonable or unreasonable about directly appointing them.

Chen Wang was going to let Hu Zhiyi and Hu Zhili be the commanders-in-chief of the new army battalion, and the last battalion would be under direct control temporarily.

As for the two thousand generals in the Ranger Battalion, one of them, Chen Wang, was naturally given to Chen Gong, who would be in charge of Liao Qi.

The other President Qian appointed Tang Shiping to lead the team.

Zhao Huailiang, on the other hand, was the deputy in charge of the logistics.

Although there are few talents under Chen Wang's command now, at least he can set up a simple team, which can be regarded as a kind of progress.

On the eighth day, a military order flew in from the south.

It can be said that the military order that came from it completely disrupted Chen Wang's original plan.

Chen Wang originally thought that he would be able to train his troops steadily for a period of time and be able to garrison in Ningzhou.

The reason was Li Guo, a tiger who escaped from Sanshui with the rear cavalry after receiving the news of Chunhua's defeat.

More than half a month has passed since the Battle of Chunhua.

Li Zicheng fled south with Jingqi all the way, but the pursuers of Xi'an Mansion did not stop him.

Li Zicheng led his troops through Sanyuan, Fuping, and Pucheng in Xi'an Prefecture, broke through several villages and towns, expanded his team to more than [-] people, and fought all the way to Yan'an Prefecture.

Li Guo, on the other hand, led more than [-] cavalry from Sanshui, and headed directly to Ningzhou, and then went southwest from Ningzhou to Pingliang Mansion.

The situation in Pingliang Mansion, which had already settled down, was thrown into chaos again.

The soldiers of Pingliang Prefecture went to battle, and after being defeated by Li Guo once, they dared not go out to fight again.

Many villagers who had been repatriated back to their hometowns were coerced into thieves, and now Li Guo has gathered almost ten thousand people under his command, and they are looting Pingliang wantonly.

So Hong Chengchou ordered him to lead the army to pursue Li Guo, and expelled Li Guo from Pingliang Mansion.

At the same time, Gao Jie and Liu Chenggong were ordered to wait for Zuo Liangyu in Chunhua City, and lead the troops southward with Zuo Liangyu.

At the same time, Chen Wang also received news about Li Zicheng and Li Guo within two days.

The Chuangtianwang and other tribes that were defeated at the foot of Binzhou City before have now joined the three tribes of Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, and Ma Huihui.

The current situation is very different from the historical situation.

But even when the rogues from Pingliang Mansion and Qingyang Mansion had already been defeated.

Gao Yingxiang still chose to advance eastward. After plundering Fufeng, Wugong and other places, and joining forces with Zhuang Tianwang and other troops, the main force of the rogue bandits reached a terrifying 30 people.

The banners of the 30 army covered the sun, and the team stretched for hundreds of miles. The scouts sent by Hong Chengchou could not see the whole picture at all.

30 is only a rough estimate, and the exact number is not known at all.

Chen Wang felt that the situation was not good. The Ming army led by Hong Chengchou suffered a defeat in Xingping and retreated towards Xianyang.

The order given to Gao Jie was to order him and Zuo Liangyu to garrison Sanyuan City and guard against the enemy.

The situation seemed to be very unfavorable for the Ming army. Hong Chengchou's move was obviously ready to abandon Xianyang.

Otherwise, Hong Chengchou should order Gao Jie and Zuo Liangyu to lead the army and go directly to support Xianyang.

The course of history has changed, but the results shouldn't change much.

Hong Chengchou now has few troops under his command and can only maintain the defensive with difficulty.

Although there are many rogue bandits, their offensive capabilities are extremely weak. The Ming army basically cannot lose if they only fight defensively.

But the Ming army has no way to deal with the bandits for the time being.

The army led by Gao Yingxiang was not a mob led by Gao Yingen and Li Zicheng.

More than half of the elite of the 36th Battalion are now under Gao Yingxiang's command, and their field combat capabilities are far better than the other two.

Chen Wang held the military order in his hand, but said nothing.

Although all the plans were disrupted, Chen Wang saw an excellent opportunity...

Li Guo is currently stirring up storms in Pingliang Mansion, Hong Chengchou can safely send him to lead the army to pursue at this time.

Obviously because of his performance in Chunhua Great Victory, he won Hong Chengchou's trust.

At the same time, he now has more than 800 elite Liao cavalry and more than [-] elite infantrymen in his hands, a total of [-] people.

Although those battalion soldiers are remnants, they are also old soldiers who fought with Ai Wannian, Liu Chenggong and others.

There is an idea in Chen Wang's mind now, an idea that cannot be told to other people.

He wants to learn what Li Chengliang played in Liaodong - "raising the bandits for self-respect".

Now Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Ma Huihui and other elites of the 36th Battalion are all concentrated in the Fufeng area, marching towards Xi'an Mansion, and posing an offensive posture.

However, the real purpose of Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and others was to leave Shaanxi again and escape to Henan through Tongguan.

Although the drought in Shaanxi eased a lot in the eighth year of Chongzhen, there was still a lack of food. They took a large number of people along the way, but the food became more and more stretched.

It was a last resort for them to flee to Shaanxi. After all, Hong Chengchou would gather together and encircle him.

At that time, they suffered successive defeats and suffered heavy losses, so they had to withdraw to Shaanxi.

But right now, they have already replenished their troops in Shaanxi, so naturally they want to enter Henan again.

The famine in Shaanxi lasted for a long time, which is almost unheard of.

According to the records in "Hannan Xujun Zhi":
"In the first year of Chongzhen, the sky in Shaanxi was as red as blood."

"Five years of famine, six years of floods, seven years of autumn locusts and great famine, eight years of drought in Xixiang, floods in Lueyang, and the destruction of all houses."

"Nine years of dry locusts, ten years of no autumn crops, 11 years of summer migratory locusts covering the sky, 13 years of severe drought, and 14 years of drought."

Shaanxi was the most severely affected place in the late Ming Dynasty, and it was not a place to stay for a long time.

Shaanxi does not have enough food to support such a large population, so it must break into Henan again and advance towards Huguang and Nanzhili.

Now in Pingliang Mansion, and the adjacent Gongchang Mansion, there are not many traces of bandits.

All the bandits gathered in the Fufeng area of ​​Fengxiang Mansion, ready to attack Xi'an.

Li Guo led his troops to escape to Pingliang Mansion because he had no choice but to stay behind by Li Zicheng to prevent Zuo Liangyu from sending troops to attack Sanshui.

But I didn't expect Li Zicheng to be defeated in Chunhua, and a large number of troops fled north.

In the capital city of Qingyang Prefecture, Yu Chongxiao brought three thousand soldiers from Yansui Town.

Where did Li Guo dare to confront Yu Chongxiao, he could only lead his troops to flee in the direction of Pingliang Mansion.

Now Li Guo can't do anything alone, he is just struggling with his best.

Chen Wang's idea of ​​"raising the bandits' self-respect" is just an idea, not exactly the same as Li Chengliang's.

If you can chase Li Guo into Hanzhong, then it would be the best.

It is now September, and the Guanzhong War is about to break out.

As long as it lasts until October, Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong will retreat in the direction of East Wanghe River.

As long as there is a slight delay, Li Guo will miss the only chance to catch up with the large army.

At that time, if Li Guo wanted to survive, the only way out was to flee to Hanzhong Mansion.

At this time, the bandits in Hanzhong Mansion were still in chaos, and the defenders were empty.

Chen Wang remembered very clearly that Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and other ministries rushed into Hanzhong again in the ninth year of Chongzhen.

If you are chasing Li Guo all the way into Hanzhong, then it is best to get stuck at a very important point in time.

Then there will be sufficient reasons and excuses to stay in Hanzhong.

Hanzhong Prefecture is now also part of Shaanxi, but it has not been affected by the drought much.

When droughts continued to break out in various parts of Shaanxi, Hanzhong Mansion encountered floods during the reign of Chongzhen, and they were not frequent.

Throughout the late Ming Dynasty, large-scale famines appeared in all parts of the north and south.

The north was the hardest hit, and then spread from the north to the south.

However, Sichuan, Huguang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangnan, and Hanzhong are not affected by disasters.

Chen Wang knew exactly how Zuo Liangyu achieved substantive separatism in history.

"Li Zicheng..."

A slight smile appeared on Chen Wang's face.

He thought it was bad luck to meet Li Zicheng repeatedly.

But thinking about it now, Li Zicheng is his lucky star.

In the first battle in Qiutou Town, he encountered Li Zicheng, and he was promoted to general manager.

The second battle in Chunhua was against Li Zicheng again, but he immediately became a guerrilla.

Li Zicheng's escape in Chunhua gave him another excellent opportunity.

"When we meet again in the future, I will definitely thank you well..."

　I owe [-], and I will make it up this month! ! !
　　The state has gotten better.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)