The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 735 Huang Taiji died, Sun Chuanting went crazy

Yan Xiong put the Jiang brothers and Zuo Guangxian under house arrest, eliminated a group of old, weak, sick and disabled, chopped off a wave of old soldiers and old fritters, and arranged a large number of officers to hoard fields, and finally got 1 elite soldiers and [-] horses Among them, the Zuo family has [-] soldiers and [-] horses, which is quite rich.

Then there is the reorganization of the old routine, vigorously promoting new officers, and the soldiers divide the officers' fields, and then hoard the land, pay the salary, increase the food, a series of operations continue, coupled with strict training, the salary is paid for half a year, and it will be less than half a year. All became elite soldiers loyal to Ding Yi.

At this time, Ding Yi's minions had been blatantly launched, and he did not hesitate to grab territory and sources of troops everywhere.

Chongzhen swallowed Datong Town in 15 years, got 2 elite soldiers, and hoarded more than [-] soldiers.

Chongzhen swallowed Yulin Town in 16 years, got 2 elite soldiers, and hoarded more than [-] soldiers.

Ding Yi occupied hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland in the two towns, and the confiscated money and other properties were even more numerous.

The Zuo family of the Jiang family has been operating for decades, and all of them belong to Ding Yi.

Ding Yi swallowed soldiers and robbed money here, while Man Qing on the other side also ruthlessly attacked Daming.

Because soldiers and horses from all over the Ming Dynasty dared not move, they claimed to be 40 elite soldiers, but they didn't even shoot an arrow.

In addition, Ding Yi's soldiers and horses did not move, and the Manchu and Qing ravaged everywhere. They stayed in the territory of the Ming Dynasty for more than eight months. The 11 Qing troops still rested for a month in Yizhou (in Liu Zeqing's territory in Yanzhou), as if they were in their own Average at home.

It's strange to say that next to Yizhou is Ding Yi's Qingzhou territory. The Qing soldiers seemed to be blind, and they just robbed Yizhou instead of going to Qingzhou.

Afterwards, a large number of Yanzhou people ran to Ding Yi's territory, and even they could see that even the Qing soldiers were unwilling to go to Ding Yi's territory.

In fact, when he first entered the customs, Azig also thought about following Huang Taiji's idea, and would fight a big fight when he met Ding Yi's soldiers and horses. He even wanted to enter the hinterland of Ding Yi in Shandong, and he also considered attacking Dengzhou.

But after careful study, they realized that the place Ding Yi was defending was really difficult to attack. Ding Yi had been operating in Shandong for more than ten years, so it was impossible to enter the county.

Looting Ding Yi's common people can certainly make a fuss, but if Ding Yi is drawn into a deadly fight with them and blocks their way, it's really not worth it.

Because since entering the customs, Ding Yi's soldiers and horses have avoided everywhere, neither challenged them, let alone blocked them, and they were obviously releasing water.

Azige was so happy to grab it, so he naturally didn't want to provoke Ding Yi.

The first task for them to enter the customs this time is to grab things. If it is not necessary, they are naturally unwilling to start a war, especially with Ding Yi.

As a result, the two sides formed a natural tacit understanding that the Manchu Qing would not go to Ding Yi's territory, and Ding Yi's soldiers and horses were everywhere, and they did not move.

In the end, after eight months of happily robbing, the Manchus finally got tired of plundering and returned to the north.

At this time, their carts stretched for more than 300 miles, and it took several days to cross the Lugou Bridge. Ming generals Liu Zeqing, Tang Tong, Zhou Yuji, Huang Degong, including Shen Shikui and other powerful soldiers gathered in Tongzhou. , and also fabricated "good news" to Emperor Chongzhen.

When the Qing army left the border, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen and others joined forces to attack, trying to rob some people and wealth to return, but they were killed and defeated.

This time, the Qing soldiers entered the pass, as far as Shandong, and broke through all parts of Yanzhou.A total of three prefectures, eighteen states, 64 counties, and 82 cities were conquered.King Zhu Yipai of Lu committed suicide.Leling, Yangxin, Dongyuan and other kings all died, and more than a thousand relatives of Zhu Ming were slaughtered.The captured population was 46, more than 260 taels of gold, more than 40 million taels of silver, more than [-] cattle and horses, more than [-] treasures and satin, and thousands of carts of various wealth and resources.

These are only the property that was handed over to the treasury of the Qing Dynasty. As for the soldiers and generals who snatched it privately and collected it, they were not included in the calculation.

Huang Taiji, who was originally in a bad domestic situation, finally got a lot better after such a recovery.

The Qing soldiers won another big victory, and they despised the Ming Dynasty even more, and Ding Yi was aggressive in Liaodong.

Many civil and military generals in the Manchu and Qing Dynasties demanded to take down Shanhaiguan and completely open up the road with Daming.

As long as you can conquer Shanhaiguan, after occupying it, you can enter the customs whenever you want in the future.

But Huang Taiji is the same as in the original history. He still insists on the immediate national policy and is unwilling to attack Shanhaiguan.

It can be seen from this that Huang Taiji wanted to negotiate peace with Daming many times before, and he was sincere and sincere. They all said that he is a great man, but from this point of view, maybe his pattern is to establish the country and the Qing Dynasty, sit on an equal footing with Daming, and just keep outside the pass. Very satisfied.

But this time, many ministers in the court strongly demanded to attack Shanhaiguan, because Ding Yi's soldiers had already reached the city of Liaoyang, and the territory of the Qing Dynasty was getting smaller and smaller.

After returning to Beijing with a great victory, the generals wrote a large number of letters, and they came to Huang Taiji like a snowflake. Both the Manchu and the Han demanded to attack Shanhaiguan, formally enter the customs, and occupy the inner land of Daming Pass.

Hanchen even suggested moving the capital to Jinzhou to avoid Ding Yi.

Huang Taiji's health was not good in the past few years, but now he is bombed by courtiers every day, and his body is getting weaker and weaker.

In August, Huang Taiji died suddenly in the Qingning Palace in Shengjing. He had no heirs before his death. Hauge and Dorgon became competitors. In the end, Dorgon proposed that in order to prevent civil strife in the Eight Banners, let Huang Taiji's ninth son, six-year-old Fulin is the emperor, the emperor of Shunzhi.
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The Qing Dynasty was victorious and the Ming Dynasty was defeated. The loss of this entry was rare in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and it was comparable to the shame of Jingkang in the Northern Song Dynasty.

But Emperor Chongzhen didn't have the heart to be sad, because he didn't know how many people he had lost, how many soldiers he had killed, and how much money he had lost.

As soon as the Qing soldiers left, he quickly ordered the general soldiers from all walks of life to go back and fight the peasant army.

Because Li Zicheng is getting more and more fierce.

After Li Zicheng decided to fight for hegemony, he began to divide his troops to garrison in various places, and he no longer ran around like before.

At the beginning, Li Zicheng sacked the city and plundered a lot of land and did not defend it. When he crossed the Han River and drove into Jing, he saw that there was no soldier, so he had a plan.According to Jingxiang first, then Chengtian and De'an, and gradually to Runan, the guards were divided: General Ren Rongguang of Tongda Weizhi defended Jingzhou with [-] soldiers, and [-] soldiers guarded Jingzhou; [-] guard Yiling; Tongda Weiyou Mighty General Niu Wancai guards Yiling with [-] cavalry, Shuaibiao Duwei Zhang Li uses [-] sailors to guard Yiling; Shuaibiao Weiwu General Wang Wenyao guards Lizhou with [-] soldiers; Guard Anlu with [-] soldiers; Captain Dong Yunlin guards Jingmen with [-] soldiers; General Xie Yinglong guards Hanchuan with [-] soldiers; The Mighty General Gao Yigong and the Right Mighty General Feng Xiong each led [-] troops; the mighty General Han Huamei of Runing Guard guarded Xinyang with [-] troops;

By the mid-16th year of Chongzhen, Henan and Hunan provinces were basically occupied, and the important prefectures of Ming Dynasty in these two places were completely depleted.

Chongzhen was in a hurry to die, and kept urging Sun Chuanting to kill the thieves.

By July of the 16th year of Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting had fallen into a state of near despair:
"I know that the battle may not be victorious, but I am lucky to succeed. How can a man be able to fight the jailer again!"

On the first day of August, Sun Chuanting had no other choice, so he swore an oath in Xi'an and led the [-] troops who had finally assembled to go out.

At this time, all the reform measures Sun Chuanting carried out in Shaanxi Province were messy and ineffective, but Sun Chuanting could only hope for luck. Even if he failed, even if he was beaten to death by Li Zicheng, it would be better than returning to heaven.

The [-] troops arrived at Luoyang, and the food supply of the Ming army was already in jeopardy. The south of Shanxi, which provided the food and salaries for the army, was "pressed and urgent. There were always people who hanged themselves and died, and the transporters were drowned in the river. People are so fierce that they don't know what to do." ".

This is the end of not farming well, and it is also the end of not farming well.

Sun Chuanting didn't plant the fields well this time, and the military rations were completely insufficient.

At this time, someone suggested that Sun Chuanting build a city in Luoyang to garrison land, recruit refugees to reclaim wasteland, and solve the military supply problem.

But if Sun Chuanting could farm the fields, he would have done so in Shaanxi, so why should he come to Luoyang.

Sun Chuanting bit the bullet and resisted, and continued to lead troops to fight Li Zicheng.

In the early days of the battle, Sun Chuanting won some victories one after another, and Xie Junyou, a general of the Chuang army, was killed in battle.

However, the tactical victory was exchanged for the strategic step by step into the quagmire.

Li Zicheng also guessed that Sun Chuanting's supply was difficult, so he retreated repeatedly, widening the distance between Sun Chuanting and his rear.

After the Chuang army retreated to the southern part of Henan, the supply conditions became better and better. The food supplies from the Xiangyang base camp could be sent to Nanyang along the Baihe waterway, and then they could reach the Ruzhou battlefield after passing through Luyang Pass.

However, the supply lines of the Ming army became longer and longer. There were no waterways available to transport grain from Guanzhong and southern Shanxi, and it was very difficult to cross mountains and rivers all the way.

This is not the kind of conspiracy to set up an ambush to lure the enemy, but an overt conspiracy on the surface.

Sun Chuanting himself knew that Li Zicheng deliberately lengthened his supply line, but in order to find Li Zicheng's decisive battle and achieve the goal of a quick battle, he had no choice but to continue forward.

This scene is very similar to when the Qing soldiers entered the customs and Lu Xiangsheng died in battle.

At that time, Lu Xiangsheng had no food in his own territory, but the Qing soldiers had food. Now Sun Chuanting has no food in the Ming Dynasty, but the rebels have food.

Sun Chuanting wanted to bite the bullet and hold on, but of course the Ming army under his command could not freeze to death without demolishing houses, starve to death without looting.

Especially the two generals, Gao Jie, the deputy commander in chief, and Bai Guangen, the chief soldier, are first-class experts when it comes to burning, killing and looting.

There was not enough military supplies, so of course people were plundered along the way, and the Chuangjun's heads were not cut off, so they chopped off the heads of the common people to repay the credit.

When he was in his hometown in northern Shanxi, Sun Chuanting hated such people the most, but now, Sun Chuanting doesn't restrain them at all.

If they were not allowed to rob, the soldiers who had nothing to eat would surely mutiny, and Sun Chuanting would die.

Today's Sun Chuanting has fallen into a state of madness.

It is said that Sun Chuanting was the last good general in the late Ming Dynasty, but in terms of morality, there is still a gap with Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng would rather be without food for seven days than to rob the people of a grain of food, but Sun Chuanting probably knew how Lu Xiangsheng died, and finally decided to do something that should be done.

After he captured Baofeng, he first killed all the captives, and then killed all the people who participated in the defense of the city.

The craziest thing is that he even killed all the gentry in Kaesong who surrendered to the Ming army, and then took all their food.

It seems that he doesn't want to follow in the footsteps of Lu Xiangsheng.

Another peasant rebel general under Sun Chuanting, Fei Tianlong Zhan Zengxiu, captured Tang County where the family members of the Chuangjun lived and massacred the city.

In such a situation, the situation in the area under Chuangjun's rule has become a united struggle against Sun Chuanting.

(End of this chapter)