Anti Qing

Chapter 50 Battle Defense
In recent days, the hearts of the people in the city of Xi'an have been fluctuating, and the news that Azig went south by bypassing Yan'an and Yulin made many people tremble with fear.

Most of the people with a radius of more than ten miles came to Xi'an city to escape the disaster of war with their families.

However, the heavily guarded Dashun Army in Xi'an City did not give the people who fled here any peace of mind.

According to the "Shaanxi General Annals", in the 21st year of Jiajing, that is, more than 100 years ago, Xi'an Prefecture had a population of nearly 160 million.

Even in today's troubled times of the Ming Dynasty, Xi'an, as an important town in the northwest, is located in Guanzhong and has a population of more than 50 all year round.

After Li Zicheng established Dashun, he changed Xi'an back to Chang'an with Niu Jinxing's suggestion that "Chang'an has been the capital of emperors since ancient times" and set it as the capital of Dashun.

In Xi'an, Li Zicheng adopted a policy of hostility to landlords, officials and gentry with the idea of ​​"equaling the noble and the humble, and equalizing the rich and the poor". He did not collect any taxes from ordinary people, and promised to exempt them for three years.

Because of these policies, many people in exile began to return to their hometowns and resume production under the protection of the Dashun Army.

It can be said that Xi'an in the first half of the 17th year of Chongzhen was a peach blossom garden in troubled times.

However, due to the two-way persecution by the Qing army, the hearts of the people in Xi'an are now fluctuating, and people often flee in exile. Even the officials of Dashun have a sad attitude towards defending Guanzhong.

The news of a great victory in Tongguan suddenly came back, which immediately made people in Xi'an excited, and the soldiers and civilians were all rejoiced when they heard about it.

They waited for this great victory for too long.

When the army arrived at the foot of the city of Xi'an, the city was immediately greeted with loud gongs, drums and firecrackers, and the atmosphere was very strong.

This is also what Tian Jianxiu did on purpose. After all, this time he returned to the army in victory, instead of retreating south after being defeated in Tongguan. Making the ceremony more extravagant will help stabilize people's hearts.

Li Zicheng's decree had been sent back to Xi'an eight days ago, and the news that the Dashun army defeated the Qing army in Tongguan had already been known in the city for eight days.

As the third younger brother of the current Emperor Yongchang, the name of Little Chuang Wang Li Zijing was heard for the first time by the soldiers and civilians of Xi'an.

One pass ten, ten pass a hundred.

Li Zijing didn't know that he was already a household name in Xi'an.

Today in Xi'an, everyone knows that although Emperor Yongchang has no sons, he has a little Chuang Wang Li Zijing who is well versed in the art of war and can fight back the Qing soldiers.

The troops of the Shun Army stretched across the plains outside Xi'an City, several miles away, unbroken, with banners covering the sky and waving in the wind.

Every soldier of the Dashun Army who returned to the city held his head high and held his chest high, showing his best posture in front of the elders in his hometown.

Accompanied by the intense sound of gongs and drums, Li Zijing rode his horse into the ancient capital of many dynasties.

The city of Xi'an has been expanded several times. There is a moat outside the city wall, and the inside of the city wall is also heavily defended.

The first line of defense is the Guancheng located in dangerous places. It is said that these Guanchengs were built under the presidency of Sun Chuanting during the Chongzhen period, and they all took the dangerous place that "one man guards the pass and ten thousand men cannot open it".

After passing the Guancheng, you will arrive at the Wengcheng. Inside the Wengcheng is the outer city, and within the outer city is the inner city, which is the main city.

Each gate tower has three layers, the gate tower, the archery tower and the main tower.

The gate tower is outside, the archery tower is in the middle, and the main tower is inside. The wall between the archery tower and the main tower is the Wengcheng, and most of the refugees are now resettled in the Wengcheng and the outer city.

With the world-famous Bell and Drum Tower as the central axis, the inner city is divided into four areas with a very grand system.

The official road to the city runs from north to south, passing through the most magnificent Bell and Drum Tower and Prince Qin's Mansion. Of course, there is now the heavily guarded Dashun Palace.

Qin Fan was known as the No. [-] Fan in the world in the Ming Dynasty, and the palace was built extremely magnificently.

In the 16th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng broke Xi'an and called him King Xinshun.

The Dashun Army did not cause any damage in the city, everything was preserved intact, only the East Changle Gate was burned down.

The Qin Palace was not destroyed, and was directly used as Li Zicheng's palace, which is the current palace.

Zhu Cunshu, the last King of Qin, had no backbone. He led the defending Ming army to open the city and surrender. Therefore, he was named General Quan.

However, Zhu Cunshu's life was not easy. The Dashun army had an attitude of beating the officials and gentry of the Ming Dynasty with a stick, especially for the vassal kings.

His General Quan just had a name in vain, he didn't have half a soldier under him, and he was also under surveillance on weekdays, and his food and accommodation were not as good as before.

In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cunshu was a high-ranking vassal king.

But in the hands of the Dashun Army, he is just a middle-aged greasy man who has been raised to become fat, and he is no different from the bottom of the people.

Later, when Li Zicheng marched north to the capital, he ordered Zhu Cunshu to go with him, just to let the children of the Ming Dynasty clan in the north see it, so as to calm people's hearts.

Later, the Dashun Army was defeated at Shanhaiguan and withdrew from the capital. They were defeated all the way, and no one cared about Zhu Cunshu. The news came back last year that this guy surrendered Dorgon in the north again.

The [-] Dashun Army entered the city with chaotic footsteps, and there was an endless stream, with banners like forests.

The part of the Dashun Army that returned from Tongguan was led by Li Zicheng himself, and they had just won the victory. They had the most organized organization and high morale.

Walking on the wide streets of Xi'an, the old soldiers were restrained outside, and the Dashun army marched with a pace and drums.

There are lanterns and festoons everywhere on the street, and there are many hungry people on both sides, with disheveled faces, and they are generally people who have escaped from the war from other places.

The triumphant return of the Dashun Army represented the temporary end of the crisis from Tongguan in the south, and their lives were more stable, so they naturally welcomed them.

For the common people in Guanzhong, the Dashun Army is equivalent to their subordinate soldiers. Many ordinary soldiers who failed to advance to their old bases have their families staying in Xi'an.

The front had already entered the city, and Li Zijing led thousands of troops from the front battalion to enter the city at the front and back, and rode their horses to look back.

In the far horizon, the team entering the city is still winding along the official road like a long snake, entering from the South Yongning Gate, with no end in sight.

Not long after entering the city, a Chinese military command cavalry in blue arrow clothes rushed over and took Li Zijing to Dingmen of Xi'an.

Due to the small number of people in the front battalion, it was not assigned the task of city defense. It was responsible for guarding the western urn city, inside the Guancheng and outside the outer city.

The Andingmen Urn City occupies a small area, but it gathers all the military craftsmen's workshops in Xi'an City, and some refugees and military craftsmen's families live here.

Seeing Li Zijing riding his horse and leading the front battalion, the expressions of these people were very strange, and they were not as happy as the common people when they first entered the city.

Andingmen Urn City has the most important armory in the whole city, even in the entire Dashun—Xi'an God Hangar.

All kinds of firearms here are piled up like mountains, and the swords, guns and armor are covered with dust. The scale is more than five times that of the small armory in Tongguan.

After the First World War in Tongguan, Li Zicheng was well aware of the advantages and disadvantages of the Ming army's reserve of indigenous firearms. With this arrangement, he also intended to let Li Zijing be in charge of the firearms affairs of the entire army.

There were thousands of ordinary soldiers in the front battalion, [-] veteran soldiers, and [-] elite cavalry with full armor and armor following Li Zijing.

For the next period of time, this will be the new base of the former battalion until Li Zicheng decides where to go next.

These people can't rest for a long time.

Hao Yaoqi was originally an official of the sixth rank in charge of the flag, but was arranged by Li Zijing to temporarily lead the Jingqi. He is currently the fifth rank captain in Qianying.

After entering Andingmen Urn City, he directly took on the task of commanding soldiers to set up camps.

It has its own rules and regulations, so there is no need for Li Zijing to worry about it.

But not long after, a cavalry came rushing to summon Li Zijing to the palace to discuss matters.

Ling Qi's tone was very serious, saying that all civil and military personnel from Dashun would be present this time to agree on the battle strategies for Hanzhong and Jingxiang.

(End of this chapter)