It’s not that Chongzhen didn’t want to take care of Shaanxi.
But the situation in the court was extremely strange. Everyone in the court talked freely about matters in the east, but they did not dare to say anything about matters in the northwest.
Suddenly, it was as if the situation had returned to the months after the defeat of Saarhu, when the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were as silent as a cicada.
Only then did people realize that the situation was actually much worse than that of Saarhu, even much worse.
No matter how bad the military defeat in Liaodong was, there was still the protection of the Liaoxi Corridor, so at that time there were still people who dared to enter western Liaoning with Shang Fang's sword to stabilize order.
But now if Chen Qiyu's huge mobile corps is wiped out by Liu Chengzong in Guanzhong, what terrible consequences will it have? Who can enter Guanzhong to stabilize the situation?
there is none left.
The Ming army no longer has any decent regiments that can send another wave to Shaanxi.
It's not that the Ming Dynasty didn't have any available troops, it not only had them, but there were many of them.
It's just that the time is awkward, and no one who can move can be sent to Shaanxi, and the troops that can be sent to Shaanxi, without reorganization, will only be sent to serve Liu Chengzong.
Because autumn has arrived and winter is not far away.
It's freezing in Liaoze, and it's time for the annual war in the Western Liaoning Corridor.
At this juncture, the Jizhen, Xuanfu, and Guanning troops cannot move, and Shandong and Liaodong are integrated, let alone move.
Shanxi's soldiers, in the past, only guarded the northern border, but now they have to deploy heavy defenses along the Yellow River... Of course, this is in the eyes of the court. In fact, the Communist Party of China has deployed a slave camp on the Shanxi-Shaanxi border.
The commander of this Binu camp was You Hongxun.
Earlier, Dorgon led his troops to the west, intending to have a big fight with the Monan Governor's Mansion.
As a result, Yang Qi tricked him into hunting rabbits in Ordos. Seeing that he was riding a tiger, he attacked Guihua City fiercely for a few days, then led his troops to withdraw from the siege and fled to Datong.
The Hou Jin army first fought three battles in Datong with the defender Wang Pu in two days, and almost defeated Wang Pu. Because Fu Renxi and Hu Dawei from Shanxi came to the battlefield from Xuanfu to help, they withdrew elsewhere.
Wang Pu didn't dare to pursue him either.
For the Ming army, the battle report was not good-looking, but it was actually okay.
Because Dorgon actually had a lot of troops. In addition to being sick and hungry, he still had more than 17,000 capable soldiers inside and outside the border wall. They only dispersed to plunder cattle and sheep in the countryside and forts. This allowed Wang Pu to have
This is an opportunity to fight a war.
Wang Pu had a 5,000-person slave slave camp under the Xuanfu, Fu Renxi had a 3,000-person elite military battalion, and Hu Dawei had a dissatisfied gunnery battalion with only 2,000 people.
Their three camps together only have 10,000 men. If they catch up and fight, they will definitely be maimed.
The person who fought the best in this battle was Hu Dawei. He found an opportunity to join the battlefield with a gun battalion, fought with Hou Jin for a while, scared off the enemy, rescued Wang Pu and Fu Renxi, and there were almost no casualties in his headquarters.
The most fucked up person is You Hongxun who is stationed in Shanxi.
His slave camp has 3,000 people and is in the same situation as Wang Pu.
The Ming Dynasty learned from the experience of Hou Jin's invasion of Xuanda last year and established two slave preparation camps, one with 5,000 people and the other with 3,000 people. They recruited soldiers with generous salaries, and all the horses were rewarded with equipment.
It can be said that it is the most elite regiment stationed in the northern part of Xuanda, Shanxi Province.
Wang Pu's 5,000 men fought two battles at least. Although the battle was not beautiful, it was a battle after all.
The disadvantage they suffered was that the Jin army mobilized stronger later and could always fight with more troops and fewer troops on local battlefields. Even if there were more Ming troops at the beginning of the war, the support of the Jin army would come later.
The problem is that when the support of the Hou Jin Army comes, if the Ming Army retreats, it means fleeing; on the other hand, when the support of the Ming Army comes, the Hou Jin Army simply stops fighting, leaves when it needs to, and withdraws when it needs to, and is always in control.
Initiative.
Compared with Wang Pu, Fu Renxi, Hu Dawei, and You Hongxun, leading the troops was like a war correspondent.
When the Jin army arrived in Yingzhou, he was in Mayi; when the Jin army arrived in Mayi, he was in Shuozhou; when the Jin army was in Shuozhou, he went to Kelanzhou.
In fact, in this battle that took place at the turn of summer and autumn in the eighth year of Chongzhen, the cooperation between the Ming court officials and troops was extremely poor, far worse than last year.
But the one who performed even more brilliantly was actually the militiamen from Datong Town.
Dorgon's soldiers repeatedly attacked the fortress but could not defeat it because the governor Wu Gang had already issued guns and gunpowder to the fortress, and taught the people to reunite with the fortress in case of trouble.
In Yingzhou, there were even more than a dozen local warriors who brought troops to attack the prison camp at night. They were so frightened that a battalion of golden soldiers did not know what was true and had to abandon the camp overnight.
Many Jin soldiers were wounded or killed by guns and cannons, and there were reports from various forts. However, because they could not control the battlefield, many of the bodies were taken away and burned by the later Jin troops.
Even so, more than 80 Baozhai villages still recovered more than a hundred corpses and captured ten Houjin soldiers alive during the battle.
On the contrary, You Hongxun, who was an elite member of the army, did not dare to fight from the beginning to the end and left him at his grandma's house.
The most outrageous thing is that although this battalion did not fight with the Jin Army, it still suffered hundreds of casualties.
They were stationed in Shanxi and contracted the military epidemic. They dispersed and more than 300 people died.
However, at the end of the battle, the Hou Jin Army did not get any benefits because Yang Qi came out of Guihua City.
Dorgon had been guarding Yang Qi, and only sent 9,000 people into the border wall, leaving 8,000 people outside the border wall to watch Yang Qi.
But outside Datong, there is Yang Qi's territory. To be precise, it is the hometown of Yang Qi's subordinate Guitu Taiji. This is the hometown of Chahar.
Qututaiji grew up here, and no one was more familiar with the topography of this grassland than him.
After Dorgon led his troops to the border, Yang Qi and Wang Chengen led their troops to make various moves in the Manhan Mountain, making preparations for an attack. Ruitu Taiji took He Huchen all the way around and rushed back to Zhangbei's hometown to wait and wait.
Dorgon fought desperately in the pass, burned two thousand corpses alone, and robbed more than two hundred strong men and women, and more than seven thousand cattle, sheep, horses and mules.
In fact, he could rob more people. In fact, during this Western Expedition, Dorgon was also starved into Liu Chengzong Syndrome. When he saw people, he automatically calculated food in his mind, so he did not let his nobles rob people.
It was Hauge who snatched these two hundred people... He was mainly willful and would not listen to his uncle.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Angry, Dorgon directly transferred him to lead his troops to the west to join the front line of defense against Yang Qi. He first asked the baggage team to drive the cattle and sheep to the east.
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As a result, He Huchen chopped and robbed him, chased him fiercely, and robbed most of the livestock. By the time Dorgon reacted, Gututaiji had already taken He Huchen to travel north.
Dorgon was so angry that he had no other choice but to turn around and beat Yang Qi again until he returned to Huacheng, and then he set out on his way home angrily.
They went around in a circle, fought several battles, and returned empty-handed.
Therefore, Hou Jin will definitely attack Liaoxi this winter.
As long as Liaoze is freezing in winter, it will be time for the annual war in the Western Liaoning Corridor.
In the entire north, only the Southern Zhili troops were left able to move.
But the garrison in southern Zhili did not dare to move.
Shaanxi is gone, Henan is in chaos, Shandong Wuqiao mutiny corrupts all of Shandong, these are all great financial provinces of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty's finances are now supported by the Southern Zhili, which pays the most taxes and grains.
Therefore, when Chen Qiyu's heavily armed group was trapped in Shaanxi, Chongzhen had no energy left to reorganize an army and rush to rescue.
All he could do was to let Zhang Renxue stationed in Henan and try his best to eliminate Zhang Yichuan's rebels.
Then the question arises, is Zhang Yichuan... easy to destroy?
In Shaanxi, the sweeper king Zhang Yichuan is not a figure who can stand on the stage.
Especially for Liu Chengzong's Marshal's Mansion, all the officers and men were aware of the fighting power of the King of Sweepers.
People even speculated that, let alone the large battalion armed to the teeth, there was no need to dispatch Han barracks. Just two Mongolian battalions could overwhelm all five of Zhang Yichuan's battalions.
Even Zhang Yichuan himself doesn't feel that he is an extraordinary person.
After all, in terms of experience, achievements, talents, force, and power, he couldn't even make it into the top twenty in Shaanxi.
But that's Shaanxi.
The most terrifying province at the moment, the intensity of wars in recent years has been even higher than that of Liaodong, the front line of confrontation, and the number of large-scale battles has been greater than that of Liaodong.
Zhang Yichuan summoned Li Zicheng to fight on his behalf and broke the Wuguan Pass. As soon as he entered Henan, his feeling was immediately different.
"Hey, I seem to have a few more moments!"
Of course he had a moment.
In terms of qualifications, he had hundreds of people under his command in the three years of Chongzhen's reign, and they were qualified to participate in Wang Jiayin's Qingjian Conference - although we were not allowed to enter the house.
In terms of knowledge, in Qingjian's ranking at that time, Wang Jiayin was ranked first, Wang Zuogao was second, Gao Yingxiang was third, and Liu Chengzong was fourth. He knew them all.
Wang Jiayin was the eldest brother. He was asked to accept Zuo Guazi's inheritance after his surrender. Gao Yingxiang was his eldest brother, and Liu Chengzong was his immediate boss and the angel investor who burned the Fengyang ancestral mausoleum.
In terms of experience, as early as the fifth year of Chongzhen, he joined forces with the general Li Zicheng, the king of Huntian Zhang Yingjin, the king of troubled times Guo Yingpin, and Xie Zikuai Tuoyangkun. As the second generation leader of the Shaanxi bandits, he rose to prominence in Shanxi.
They penetrated Shanxi and marched north of the Yellow River through the Taihang Mountains. They fought in Wu'an in Zhangde Prefecture in Henan and Linming Pass in Guangping Prefecture in the north of Zhili. They fought against Shizhu, Sichuan, Changping, Tongzhou, and Baoding.
, famous soldiers, winning and losing with equal numbers of kills.
Then he sneaked across Henan and crossed all the way back to Shaanxi.
What kind of elite soldiers and generals in the world has he not seen?
It's just that Zhang Yichuan is among the collective of the fifth battalion of the Chuang Army, and his two moves alone are not enough to show his ability.
After all, they are all leaders of the civilian army who have experienced the baptism of war for several years, and they all have their faults.
During the time in Guanzhong, Zhang Yichuan's troops were relatively weak, but because he expanded the army frantically and organized five battalions, four of which were new refugee camps, they suddenly became extremely weak.
What's more, he also witnessed Liu Chengzong's regular army regiment tactics in Guanzhong, which even made Zhang Yichuan's inner evaluation of himself suddenly drop to his toes.
He wondered whether he had been fighting a war these years, or whether he had been taking human life lightly.
This suspicion lasted until he entered Henan.
Li Zicheng broke through Wuguan and turned south to Huguang; Zhang Yichuan led the army into Nanyang Mansion, and his first target was the Tang Prince's Mansion in Nanyang.
However, what stands in front of Nanyang is a small Neixiang county town.
This city was not easy to capture. As early as when Zhang Yichuan was still in the fifth battalion of the Chuang Army, they had attacked Neixiang under the leadership of Li Zicheng.
Because the county magistrate of Neixiang was named Ai Yuchu, Mi Zhi Ai's family, Li Zicheng's employer when he was a kid.
When he was a child, he was caught and beaten by Ai Wannian while riding the stone lion in front of his employer's house.
Later, he borrowed a loan from Ai Wannian's father, Ai Yingjia. He couldn't repay the interest, so he was caught and beaten by the government.
Li Zicheng had been beaten twice in his life by the Ai family.
Therefore, Li Zicheng attacked the city with great enthusiasm.
But they failed to capture the city that year because Ai Yuchu was also born in a border general. Ai Mu and Ai Wannian were both generals in the family. He was also a scholar, and his military skills and strategies were not bad.
As early as when the peasant army crossed the Yellow River from Shanxi and entered Henan, Ai Yuchu ordered people to plant old-fashioned fuse mines called Gundilong outside the city. The mines were set off inside the city when Li Zicheng came over.
It killed many people.
But today is different from the past.
There is no Ai Yuchu in Neixiang.
It's funny to say that Ai Yuchu was not promoted and transferred because of his meritorious service in defending the city, but was sent to the prison of Nanyang Mansion by Tang Wang Zhu Yujian.
The reason is that the King of Tang sent a letter to Chongzhen, saying that the ancestral system stipulates that local officials in the prince's fiefdom must visit him sooner or later. Now people like Ai Yuchu never come to visit him.
It can make Chongzhen angry to death.
Isn't this just looking for trouble?
This guy was only released from Chongzhen five years ago to inherit the throne. When he became the king of Tang, he kept looking for trouble. He showed his sharpness and always wanted to intervene in state affairs as a prince.
One moment he was quarreling with his courtiers over the issue of transfer of royal titles, another moment he was reporting on others for not paying homage to him, and the next moment he asked the imperial court to send extra guards. His presence was higher than that of other princes.
It was obvious that he was imprisoned in the Flattery Department by his grandfather, the old Tang Dynasty King, and he was completely insane.
Which prince in the world, who expects the local magistrate to pay him a visit sooner or later, really thinks of himself as a king?
Use chicken feathers as arrows!
Chongzhen couldn't stand the king of Tang anymore, and said to himself that I was working hard every day, the border defenses were shrinking again and again, the army was defeated again and again, and I was so poor that I couldn't do anything. I was thankful that I didn't collapse.
You are an unlucky relative who gives me eye drops every day. As soon as you succeed to the throne, you build a building in the palace to entertain guests and call it Gaoming Tower. You are the one who is smart, right?
If there is a chance, I must deal with this annoying relative who jumps up and down!
But we haven't had the chance yet. The ancestral regulations are just regulations. No one says we can ignore it, but when it is mentioned in the memorial, we must act in accordance with the regulations.
Therefore, he could only order Ai Yuchu to be arrested and brought to the judicial office for trial, and at the same time, he asked the Ministry of Rites to issue a document to reiterate the regulations to local officials and tell people that this rule was indeed in place and that you should be careful.
Then Neixiang County was easily captured by Zhang Yichuan. Even before the main force reached the city, the vanguard general Ke Tianhu had already led his troops to attack the city wall.
Then the warehouses were opened to release grain, and they swept through the forts and fortresses in various places, fighting against the royal guards and local guards all the way, but there was no one enemy that could be defeated.
Zhang Yichuan discovered that after leaving Shaanxi, his evaluation of the war returned.
It turns out that the problem with the defeat in Shaanxi did not lie with us, but with the group of people who fought fiercely in Shaanxi.
After leaving Shaanxi, we are Liu Chengzong's Henan branch. The whole person is invincible.
What about Tang County, Dengzhou, Nanyang Wei, one of them counts, whoever comes will die!
After fighting all the way to Nanyang City and surrounding Fucheng, Zhang Yichuan encountered the biggest problem since entering Henan - the plague.
Refugees from Hongnong, Lu and other places in Henan Prefecture fled into Nanyang Prefecture. His troops suddenly increased to 20,000, but the plague that followed also swept through the countryside.
In desperation, Zhang Yichuan abandoned Nanyang, turned north, and led his troops through Ruzhou to attack Luoyang, where Prince Fu's palace was located.
His army was like an army of the undead traveling through the mountains of western Henan. Those who came in front were willing to recruit troops, while those behind him were frantically reducing their numbers and dying one after another.