The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 689 Zhang Xianzhong's Disadvantage
Guangning City can be regarded as a big city in the north of Shuzhou.

At this time, there were more than [-] defenders of the Daxi Army in Guangning City. The defender was called Mei Shajia, who was the deputy general of Guangning before surrendering to Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhang Xianzhong attacked Guangning, and the general of Guangning died in battle. Everyone knew Zhang Xianzhong's cruelty. He was worried that if he persisted, he would not only lose the city, but also lose the lives of the people in the city after the city was broken.

So in the end surrender was ordered.

In order to set an example for other Ming army generals in other cities, Zhang Xianzhong accepted his surrender, not only did not kill him, but also let him continue to guard Guangning.

Dang Zhiyong, who was recognized as a guerrilla general in Guangning at that time, was also appointed as the guard of Jianmen Gate.

Zhang Xianzhong's move was not to trust these surrendered generals.On the contrary, he doesn't trust anyone except his direct descendants.

Among the heroes in the late Ming Dynasty, the most important thing for Zhang Xianzhong to stand out, run rampant in the world, and finally establish a dynasty was his superb guerrilla tactics.

In the Zhang army, the ratio of cavalry to infantry is "horse seven steps and three", and everyone in the main force has fine cavalry or is equipped with two horses. When fighting, they come and go like the wind, and they can run hundreds of miles a day and night.

Wherever he went, he looked at mules and horses the most when capturing spoils, and he didn't care about the others.

Zhang Jun has a powerful cavalry, who come and go like the wind, and their whereabouts are strange, making it difficult for the officers and soldiers to chase them.

Speed ​​brings initiative, and initiative is the key to victory.Zhang Xianzhong's troops are accustomed to "defeat the enemy by walking."

Zhang Xianzhong did not fight defensive wars in his life.Before entering Shuzhou, his strategic principle was to avoid sticking to a corner under any circumstances, and to fight at a high speed.

They have no fixed stronghold and attack target, and never stick to a city.The areas they attacked were often the places where the Ming army's defenses were weakest, so they could often avoid the real situation and win every victory.

In contrast, the Ming army is much bulkier.They are in the clear, and every stronghold must be garrisoned, always on the defensive, and the battle line is very long.

Constrained by huge logistics, they were dragged away by bandits, unable to encircle them and chase them, so they were often in a passive position.

Then after the founding of the base area, the situation changed completely.

When you become an emperor, you have to send troops around to control your own empire.Not only must there be heavy troops on the border, but troops must be stationed in every city to suppress the forces opposing him.

As rogues running around, when they gather together, they are a huge force, so powerful that no one can match them.

But once scattered to various places, Zhang Xianzhong suddenly found that his army was thrown into the sea like a handful of rice, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Because there are not so many troops to divide, he can only station thousands of people symbolically in each prefecture and county.

Even in some counties, only the county magistrate was sent by him.

In this case, in fact, there are many remote areas in Shuzhou that Zhang Xianzhong has not actually occupied.

Therefore, he had to use the generals and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty to garrison those more remote cities.

Because he didn't trust these officers and troops who surrendered, all his main forces were deployed near Jinguan City, the capital of his Daxi Kingdom.

He is still a rogue in his heart, and still maintains the idea of ​​trying to run away at any time.

Under the domination of this kind of thinking, he never really treated Shuzhou as his own territory and carefully managed it. Instead, he massacred, looted, and ravaged Shuzhou so that it turned into a hell on earth.

Li Zicheng's establishment of a country and proclaiming himself emperor gave Zhang Xianzhong a great stimulus, so he made the decision to enter Shuzhou to establish a country and proclaim himself emperor, and to fight against Li Zicheng.

But because of this, he also lost his advantage.His advantage lies in the high-speed flow.Once he stopped and turned from offense to defense, his disadvantages were revealed.

In the past, he took the initiative and the Ming army was passive.But now the officers and soldiers are starting to attack, they are active everywhere, while he is passive.

After running straight, he was forced to fight defensively, which he was not good at.

Mei Shajia's surrender to Zhang Xianzhong was also an expedient measure, and he did not have the slightest loyalty to Zhang Xianzhong and Daxi Kingdom.

After the news that the imperial army entered Shuzhou, he was already very excited, and immediately began to consider the issue of returning to the imperial court.

Last year when Li Zicheng mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops to attack the capital, Mei Shajia lamented in his heart, feeling that the Ming Dynasty was really coming to an end this time.

Before that, he had always hoped that the imperial court would send a large army to counterattack Shuzhou, but with the killing of Yuan Chonghuan and the retreat of the army, the hope in his heart became more and more bleak.

Once the imperial court is destroyed, Shuzhou will succumb to the ravages of Zhang Xianzhong, a murderous demon, for a longer period of time.

As soon as he thought that those compatriots who were born and raised in Si would suffer longer disasters, he felt a sense of despair in his heart.

It's just a pity to see that the Ming Dynasty did not perish, and a Qin King Jiangchuan was born out of nowhere, overthrowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty, defeating Li Zicheng, clearing up Japanese pirates, subduing the Southeast Zheng family, and sweeping the world in just two years. Cheers.

Meshaka's hope, which was almost completely extinguished, revived again.

Last winter, after hearing that Li Zicheng's Dashun was destroyed by the imperial court, he began to look forward to the official army taking advantage of the situation to attack Shuzhou. He was ready to respond to the imperial army at any time.

It's just that the official army didn't start attacking Shuzhou until April this year, which made him anxious.

It's just that he still has a worry in his heart, that is whether the court will pardon him for surrendering Zhang Xianzhong.

What he was most worried about was that if the imperial court did not pardon the sins of these surrendered generals, not only would his own life be in danger, but there would be many twists and turns in the process of restoring Shuzhou in the future, and many people would even be pushed to Zhang Xianzhong's side.

The land of Shuzhou is mountainous, and the mountains overlap. Although the official army's attack on Jianmen Pass was extremely fierce, the sound of those cannons could not reach Guangning City.

Mei Shajia was dressed in mountain armor, holding the handle of the knife at his waist, walking up and down the city, but his eyes couldn't stop looking in the direction of Jianmenguan.

He is eager to know the current situation of Jianmenguan.He didn't think that Jianmen Pass could stop the officers and soldiers. After all, the guard there was also his friend and former subordinate Dang Zhiyong, who had similar thoughts and thoughts as him, and the two often drank together.

And the same is true for the Jianmen defenders, who have no intention of fighting for Zhang Thief.

He knew how the imperial court treated Dang Zhiyong.

Suddenly, a soldier pointed to the official road in the distance and called out: "General, someone is coming over there."

Mei Shajia hastily looked intently, but several knights were urging their horses to gallop over.

When those knights approached, Mei Shajia took a look, the person on the horse was the guard of the sword gate, his good friend Dang Zhiyong.

"Where is General Mei? This general, Dang Zhiyong, has something important to tell. Please open the door!"

(End of this chapter)