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Chapter 232 Unraveling the cocoon and revealing the truth

As Shen Shuren continued to question, the military situation they talked about was getting closer and closer to the present.
Fang Yizhi did not continue to choose the superficial statement, but threw out several court reports and other official documents to support the details.

"King Fu and King Lu did escape from Wei Hui temporarily, but they can't be regarded as completely out of danger. And His Majesty was about July [-]th, when he learned that the Chuang army crossed the Yellow River north, broke the second mansion, and killed several kings in a row, he became more and more furious. , issued a new decree, urgently urging Elder Yang Ge to fight.

Moreover, His Majesty urged not only old Yang Ge this time, but also Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, to let Sun Chuanting leave Tongguan and attack from the east, and at the same time let old Yang go from Nanyang to the north, ordering a joint attack from both sides.

You should still remember that Sun Chuanting took office at the end of March, and he had already been in office for more than three months by mid-July, barely controlling the situation in Shaanxi and Gansu.Sun Dushi was released from prison by His Majesty and was reactivated. Naturally, he was no more daring to delay than Yang Ge.

So in late July, Sun Dushi's vanguard troops had left Tongguan and arrived in Luoyang.Elder Yang Ge heard that Sun Chuanting was rushing in, and he was in a dilemma for a while, and he didn't dare to avoid the battle alone.

Zuo Liangyu was always prudent, no matter how urged by Mr. Yang Ge, he always used the excuse that he was not ready.But at this time, there was a change inside the bandits—Li Zicheng previously asked Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying's old troops to fill in the lives and stormed Kaifeng with all his might. So far, in the past four months, the worst casualties have been the former soldiers of Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying.

This time, Liu Zongmin and Li were allowed to plunder Huaiqing, Weihui and other places in the past, kill officials and tyrants of the feudal lords to plunder wealth, and pick up soft persimmons, but they let their direct descendants take advantage of it.As a result, some generals in Luo Rucai's old ministry became more and more unhappy.

In addition, Brother Shen, you wrote "The Continuation of the Thieves" before, didn't you also make up some jokes, satirizing Li Zicheng only relying on the sky to gather the generals from all walks of life, but in reality he is incompetent in attacking the fortress, and he will definitely not be able to break through Kaifeng. The machine kills dissidents, and finally the prestige plummets.

Now that these prophecies are gradually being fulfilled, Li Zicheng is also more and more guilty and suspicious of internal rehabilitation. Several old generals of Luo Rucai were killed by him under the pretext of marching law because they did not die in the battle, and returned their troops to Li Zicheng's direct line of generals.

Finally, on July 26th, a major change suddenly occurred within the Chuangjun. Two generals under Luo Rucai's command, bandit names 'Xishanhu' and 'Bang Potian',

Because Li Zicheng used too much energy to storm Kaifeng, and they were worried that Li Zicheng would liquidate them and would not use their lives, they finally contacted Zuo Liangyu and led the army to go south suddenly, surrendering to the court in Ye County and Yancheng.

Zuo Liangyu originally wanted to preserve his strength, but after winning the surrender of [-] to [-] thieves led by 'Xishan Tiger' and 'Bang Potian', he also learned that 'Li Zicheng's direct lineage has tens of thousands of elites, and Wei Hui and Daming are in the north of the Yellow River. They could not return within five or six days in a hurry, and there were many intruders staying in the city of Kaifeng, including Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying's old troops. Because Li Zicheng didn't treat people as people, they complained a lot.

Zuo Liangyu was overjoyed at this, and instead of procrastinating before, he was willing to encourage Elder Yang Ge to send troops immediately and join forces with Sun Chuanting to attack Kaifeng! "

Hearing this, Shen Shuren frowned, his first instinct was that he couldn't hear anything wrong with this situation.

But now that the result is the cause, and he knew in advance that the outcome would be Yang Sichang's defeat, Shen Shuren traced back to the source and tried to ask:
"In this way, the surrender of the 'Xishan Tiger, Bangpotian' was actually Li Zicheng's trick to lure the enemy? He has the guts to abandon [-] to [-] thieves to feign surrender to the court to lure Mr. Yang Ge and Zuo Liangyu Leaving Ye County, Fangcheng is dangerous? Leaving Tongbai Mountain and entering Kaifeng Plain for a decisive battle?"

Hearing the words, Fang Yizhi's eyes rarely showed a bit of complacency, and he said quite proudly: "It's rare, rare, there is still a military situation in the world where you all deduced the wrong brother Shen Nian-you guessed wrong this time!" By the way, Xishan Tiger and Hong Potian did not pretend to surrender, but actually surrendered.

Since Mr. Yang Ge dared to fight because of this point, he joined forces with Zuo Liangyu to attack decisively. He was sure that he would be able to win under such a situation where each other was going up and down—but, in other respects, something happened A major change caused Yang Ge and Zuo Liangyu to fall short in the end. "

Only then did Shen Shuren's expression turn serious: "It's not Zuo Liangyu's fault? That's really unexpected. I always thought that the court made all parties work together, but in the end they lost a lot. Zuo Liangyu must be the most unreliable person." The link is broken."

Fang Yizhi also shook his head and sighed, feeling a sense of destiny: "Why don't you say that good fortune tricks people? If you want me to say, if Mr. Yang Ge, Zuo Liangyu, and Sun Chuanting can cooperate sincerely and truly unite to kill Kaifeng City, and bring It is also very possible that Li Zicheng's main force will be defeated.

However, after Sun Chuanting's troops arrived in Luoyang, they tried to go west from the Sishui Pass, but encountered obstacles. Sun Chuanting's main force, He Renlong, tried to delay and avoid the battle again, trying to preserve his strength-this point, brother Shen did not think about it. Will you be surprised?

He Renlong actually has a tradition of doing this. Last year, Fu Zonglong and Wang Qiaonian, the two governors of Shaanxi Province, took the risk and died. In the end, it was not He Renlong who refused to fight.

Unexpectedly, when Governor Sun took office this time, he got a secret decree from His Majesty, saying that He Ren was too big to lose, and even fell into the second governor. He was guilty of disobedience and treason.

In the first three months since he took office, Sun Chuanting had not been released from prison for a long time. Before he had a good grasp of the place and army horses, he actually concealed this imperial decree and did not kill He Renlong immediately.

This time He Renlong refused to go forward again, and Sun Chuanting made up his mind at this juncture.On July 28th, he held a banquet in Sishui and invited He Renlong to attend a pretense meeting. Then, he captured He Renlong with his own soldiers and beheaded him after presenting an imperial decree.

After beheading He Renlong, Sun Chuanting immediately tried to let his relatives take over He Renlong's troops, but unexpectedly, there was a little trouble. Although most of He Renlong's troops obeyed Sun Chuanting's command, there were still four The famous generals Zhou Guoqing, Wei Daheng, He Guoxian and Gao Jinku led their troops to flee, and they went east to Sishui Pass and surrendered to Li Zicheng.

Sun Chuanting was afraid of hurting his own morale, so he didn't immediately inform Yang Ge and Zuo Liangyu of He Renlong's death, and he continued to march.

It was not until the second day of August, when the three armies joined forces in Zhuxian Town, Yancheng, less than two days away from Kaifeng, and when they were about to launch a general attack on the Chuang army, that Yang Ge knew the news, and he quickly blocked it to avoid it. Morale plummeted before the war.

But the three armies were also in danger because of this, and it was too late to return to the division.In addition, Zuo Liangyu heard about the cause of He Renlong's death, probably because he was worried that if he retreated at this time, he would be dealt with by Yang Ge and Sun Chuanting, so he could only bite the bullet and beat him.

On the other hand, he did not expect that the death of He Renlong would boost the morale of the Chuang army.After the four generals Zhou Guoqing, Wei Daheng, He Guoxian, and Gao Jinku surrendered, they heard that Li Zicheng was overjoyed, and the Chuang army shouted, "He madman is dead, and taking Guanzhong is like picking up mustard!" '

Afterwards, Li Zicheng took the initiative to go south with the siege troops around Kaifeng, and went to Zhuxian Town to fight Yang Gelao, Zuo Liangyu, and Sun Chuanting for a decisive battle.The officers and soldiers were afraid that after the partial division he sent to Wei Hui and Daming returned, the joint forces would be more powerful, so they had to take the initiative to fight.

On the fourth day of August, Yang Gelao and Zuo Liangyu used 13 soldiers from Huguang and 17 soldiers from Shanxi with Sun Chuanting, for a total force of 26, against Li Zicheng's main force of [-].Originally, with the better conditions of the official army armor, with the ratio of two against three, it is not completely impossible.

However, the morale rise and fall caused by He Renlong's death was too serious. Sun Chuanting's troops had no fighting spirit, but everyone in the Chuang army was brave, and he regarded the officers and soldiers as nothing.In the end, the imperial court's 17 troops collapsed in Zhuxian Town.

Sun Chuanting led the disabled soldiers back to Luoyang, and then back to Tongguan on the ninth day of August. The remaining Shaanxi soldiers he brought out were less than [-].Taking advantage of the chaos, He Renlong's old troops surrendered to Li Zicheng, and helped Li Zicheng counterattack Sun Chuanting, playing the banner of avenging He Renlong and finding accounts with the imperial court and treacherous officials.

Yang Ge Laohe and Zuo Liangyu were defeated and returned to Nanyang, and their strength was also reduced by nearly half.

Nanyang Mansion from the east of Nanyang County cannot be defended. Ye County, Wuyang and other dangerous Tongbai Mountains have been captured by the Chuang army. The mountains and rivers between Hubei and Henan are very dangerous. If he wanted to attack Henan again, he would have to break through the natural barriers of Tongbai Mountain first, or he would have to go another way.

Li Zicheng defeated the official army, but his military strength hardly decreased. He had 26 horses, and it is estimated that tens of thousands were killed in battle. However, the officers and soldiers who were encircled and captured were also quite a few. In addition, the surrender of He Renlong's old troops was enough to supplement his military strength. loss. "

Fang Yizhi explained in detail the decisive battle between Sun Chuanting, Yang Sichang and Zuo Liangyu and Li Zicheng in Zhuxian Town, Yancheng in one go.

Shen Shuren was completely dumbfounded when he heard this.

All of this is obviously different from the history he originally knew, but many places are specious.It has to be said that the inertia of history still exists.

It's not surprising that Sun Chuanting would kill He Renlong, but he didn't expect that the death of He Renlong would be the key to motivating the Chuangjun to fight back, and the morale was overwhelming for a decisive battle against killing the official army.

In history, He Renlong was lured and beheaded by Sun Chuanting on the first day of May in the 15th year of Chongzhen. Now he died three months late because of the butterfly effect, but the bad influence of his death was more serious than that of the same period in history.

According to the law of the court, the death of He Renlong can be regarded as a crime, especially for a strict emperor like Chongzhen who doesn't rub the sand in his eyes, it is not surprising.

It is true that He Renlong did not save himself from death, avoided the war to preserve his strength, and indirectly killed the previous two governors of the Shaanxi-Gansu Trilateral Trilateral.

But Sun Chuanting is so loyal and foolishly loyal to Chongzhen's rebellious orders. Whatever Chongzhen asks him to do, he will unreservedly carry it out regardless of whether he can succeed or has a chance of winning. Even killing He Renlong at this juncture is debatable. .

Of course, there is absolutely nothing to say about Sun Chuanting's loyalty to Daming, and the sun can learn from it.

It is not an exaggeration to use Yue Fei's "Sun Ri Zhao Zhao, Tian Ri Zhao Zhao" to describe Sun Chuanting's loyalty.Shen Shuren touched his conscience and said that if he compared his loyalty to Daming with Sun Chuanting, he would definitely be ashamed.

It's a pity that Sun Chuanting's complete loyalty and inflexibility also caused the same serious consequences as Yue Fei's "dedicated loyalty when he saw twelve gold medals and returned to the teacher without questioning".

My own troops, as well as a considerable number of friendly troops, were all given away for nothing because of this kind of unreserved and no flexibility.

And Yang Sichang, who had already lived a year and a half longer than the same period in history, suffered this defeat again, and he would definitely not survive.

After sorting out the truth thoroughly, Shen Shuren couldn't help sighing: "Oh, to save Daming, you have to 'win the one who is able but not the king'. Your Majesty is far away in the capital, what does he know about the frontline fighters?
His Majesty asked Sun Chuanting to attack, and he would attack without reservation, even if he killed He Renlong before the battle, he would continue to attack, so he didn't know how to adapt, it was just foolishness...

Forget it, Sun Chuanting's loyalty is impeccable. Let's not talk about the word "misleading the country". What qualifications do I have to say about him who is flexible and loyal. "

Fang Yizhi also thought so deeply, and obviously his thoughts had loosened, and he drank tea with Shen Shuren without hesitation and sighed:
"You don't need to be like this. Being loyal to the imperial court is the only way to save the country and the people in this troubled world. If you are foolish and loyal without flexibility, how can you save the sky?"

(End of this chapter)