Huang Taiji brought tens of thousands of elite troops and swaggered in. After looting once, they swaggered back along the same route. In the process, Ming's Xuan Daqiang army had lost the courage to go out of the city to fight the Jin army. Only Cao Cao

Wen Zhao relied on his own bloody bravery to sneak attack Huang Taiji. However, he was defeated, and the remaining soldiers only dared to stay behind the Jin army from a distance.

After the Jin army withdrew from a fortress, they immediately swarmed forward and took the great achievement of regaining the lost territory into their own hands. Among them, there were two people who fought for the same victory. It was almost a loss.

The face of the Ming Dynasty.

After the army of the Later Jin Dynasty withdrew from the Great Wall and returned to the grassland, Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, immediately sent someone to report the victory to the court. In the military report, Zhang Zongheng was eloquent and told how he would fight Huang Taiji for 300 rounds and how he would prepare for the battle.

No chaos, how to regain the lost ground and other matters were written exactly once.

At the end, he wrote a sentence, "The reason why this battle was won was due to the emperor's wisdom above and the lives of the soldiers below. I dare not ask for rewards for my merits, which are insignificant." He gave the credit to Chongzhen.

However, Zhang Zongheng's words were really thrown at a blind man. Even though the court was sometimes deceived by some reports from local officials, Xuanda was different from other places. Xuanda was too far away from the capital.

It's so close, if you fart in the capital, it will stink for three days. At such a close distance, even if the court doesn't know all the situations as if they were there, it can clearly understand the basic direction.

Palm.

After Zhang Zongheng's letter of victory was delivered to the capital, it is said that the whole court was in an uproar. Among them, Chongzhen even threw it to the ground and cursed, "How dare you bully me like this, traitor?"

The final result was obvious. In an extremely rare moment of unity of opinion from top to bottom in the imperial court, Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Zongheng and the governor Hu Zhanen were all convicted and sent to the army.

However, Cao Wenzhao's bravery and obedience really aroused the favor of some civil officials, including Wu Di, the governor of Shanxi. As soon as the order was issued, Wu Di, the governor of Shanxi, wrote a letter recommending Wenzhao to know the soldiers and be good at fighting, and asked him to be arranged

Come to Shanxi.

Chongzhen considered Cao Wenzhao's past performance and the fact that Cao Wenzhao ambushed Huang Taiji outside Tianzhen City. At this time, news also reached the capital, so he ordered Cao Wenzhao to be the chief military officer in the suppression and allowed him to perform meritorious service and atone for his sins.

At this time, the rebel army was blooming all over the Central Plains, galloping back and forth with great momentum. However, Henan Commander-in-Chief Zuo Liangyu, Shandong Governor Zhu Dadian, and Yunyang Governor Lu Xiangsheng and others were not indifferent. Under the attack of these people, the rebel army's momentum was greatly reduced.

It quickly turned from prosperity to decline.

As a last resort, a large number of rebels passed through Shangluo Road and returned to Shaanxi, where they started. In Shaanxi, they are familiar with everything here. They know every mountain, every river, and every bridge. Here, the government

The prestige in the hearts of the local people has declined to the extreme, and the people even fight with these bandits, and the people trust them more than the government and the army.

However, if you want to survive in Shaanxi, you have to face the God of Death in Shaanxi, the Dinghai Shenzhen in the northwest, and Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides. In the hearts of the rebels, Hong Chengchou is like a living king of hell, which has the effect of stopping children from crying at night.

However, God once again favored these rebels. In the winter of October of the 7th year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen, at the suggestion of his courtiers, sent eunuchs Zhang Yuanheng and Cui Liang to Xining Guard to monitor the tea horses, with the purpose of collecting tea.

While trading horses, they also recruited more war horses for the imperial court to supplement the official army.

However, this group of eunuchs are inherently greedy, and placing them in the already delicate city of Xining is like throwing a spark into an oil barrel, causing a fire to rise in the sky instantly.

On October 27th, Huang Cheng from Nianbo and Ma Anbang from Xining Zhenhaibao successively raised troops to rebel against the Ming Dynasty. The guard eunuch Zhang Shouli, guard Ding Kongyin, Li Benlong of the Chinese Army, and Zhang Erjing of a hundred households were killed in the battle. Huang Cheng, Ma Anbang and others then occupied Xining City.

The fall of Xining was indeed a surprise to Hong Chengchou. Unlike Sichuan, Xining belonged to Hong Chengchou's defense area. If Sichuan was lost, the court might not blame Hong Chengchou, but if Xining was lost, the court would definitely blame him. As a last resort, for the sake of speed,

The battle was decided quickly, and Hong Chengchou personally led the army. He traveled day and night and took 7 days to arrive outside Xining City.

However, just when Hong Chengchou left Xi'an, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zi and other rebels also knew that the opportunity was rare, so they gathered in Fengxiang and divided their troops into two groups, one heading north to attack Longxi and contain the Shaanxi general He Renlong, and the other

Route 1 is the main force, led by Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng personally. Route 1 heads east and goes straight to Xi'an.

On the fourth day of November in the seventh year of Chongzhen, just when Hong Chengchou had just arrived at Xining City, the rebel army heading west had already surrounded He Renlong in Longxi, and the other main force had already arrived at Xianyang City in the west of Xi'an.

On November 6, Hong Chengchou repaired for 1 day and began to attack the city. At the same time, the Gao and Li coalition forces began to attack Xianyang. On the 10th of November, Xianyang city was defeated. The Gao and Li coalition forces looted Xianyang city for 3 days and burned Xianyang to the ground.

, and then headed east to Xi'an.

On November 13, Hong Chengchou took only 7 days to break through the city of Xining controlled by the rebels. The rebels surrendered to Hong Chengchou one after another. Hong Chengchou pretended to agree, and then held a banquet in his mansion, waiting for the surrender just after the banquet.

When the rebels were drunk, Hong Chengchou's axemen and swordsmen who had already ambushed him rushed in and chopped the unconscious rebels into pieces.

After Xining settled down, Hong Chengchou learned that the bandits were attacking Xi'an, and he was immediately worried. Xi'an was Hong Chengchou's base and the leading city in the northwest. If Xi'an fell, it would definitely have a great impact on the court's reputation in the northwest.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou ignored the soldiers' march of hundreds of miles and forced the soldiers to march eastward despite repeated battles. The soldiers complained and suffered terribly. In order to maintain the morale of the army, Hong Chengchou issued a 4-kill order, which means greed for life and fear of death, and he will not stop and kill.

; Those who spread rumors and tricks to deceive the soldiers shall be killed; those who are dumbfounded and do not respond when summoned are killed; those who are injured and sick to avoid conquest shall be killed.

These four kills were specifically aimed at the soldiers who were complaining and full of complaints. This order shocked the whole army. The march speed obviously accelerated a lot.

The 130,000-strong coalition forces of Gao and Li attacked Xi'an with a great victory. The governor of Shaanxi practiced state affairs and defended the city to the death. The coalition attacked for 20 days in a row, but failed.

At this time, Hong Chengchou had arrived in Longxi. When the rebels under Longxi City learned that Hong Chengchou had arrived with his troops, they were frightened on the spot. When they saw Hong Chengchou's army, they didn't have the courage to fight, so they immediately abandoned it.

The besieged Longxi hurriedly retreated. The siege of Longxi was immediately lifted.

When the Hong soldiers under Hong Chengchou saw this situation, their morale was greatly boosted and everyone was in high spirits. The dust of the past few days disappeared in this instant. Hong Chengchou seized the opportunity and led the army to pursue a 20-mile pursuit and captured more than 30,000 rebels.

But return it.

Later, Hong Chengchou and He Renlong gathered their troops with the troops in Longxi City and agreed to rest for one day and continue to rush to Xi'an the next day.

At the gate of Xi'an City, Gao and Li also received news about Hong Chengchou. In particular, the West Route Army fought with the Hong Army at the gate of Longxi City and was defeated by the Hong Army in less than half a day. They pursued it for 20 miles and returned in defeat.

Extremely afraid.

If Hong Chengchou is really so capable, what can they do even if they capture Xi'an? The backhand will be taken back by Hong Chengchou. But if they cannot capture Xi'an and are trapped under the city of Xi'an, and wait until Hong Chengchou arrives, they may really die without a burial place.

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As a result, different voices began to appear among the rebels. Some people believed that it would be unwise to have a head-on conflict with Hong Chengchou. It would be better to abandon Xi'an first and then attack other small counties to gather advantages, so that one day they can compete with Hong Chengchou's army.

Only when there is a head-on confrontation can we attack Xi'an again.

However, as soon as this voice appeared, it met with great opposition, among which Cao Cao, Luo Rucai, and Lao Huihui Ma Shouying were the most fierce. In their view, Hong Chengchou has not yet arrived today, and the rebel army has already heard the voice and collapsed, so the morale of the military

Wouldn't morale be completely exhausted? If we meet Hong Chengchou again in the future, how can we have the courage to fight?
Chapter completed!