The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 203 Running away without a fight

Baisha Town is located more than 100 miles south of Luoyang. Although the town is small, it guards a throat on the official road from Luoyang to Ruzhou.

At this time, Wu Sangui and his army were less than forty miles away from Baisha Town, and Zuo Menggeng's army was even less than thirty miles away. Both the north and south Ming armies were only one day away from Sun Kewang in Baisha Town.

The war was about to break out, but what Wu Sangui and Zuo Menggeng never dreamed of was that at this time, the Daxi Army not only did not actively prepare for the war, but instead gave up all the food and supplies. The army marched lightly and took a small road to kill Song County. The 20 troops simply entered the mountains as if fleeing for their lives.

This scene really shocked Wu Sangui's jaw. The 20 army is not 2. Those who dare to run into the mountains are simply suicidal.

"A rogue is always a rogue. Dogs can't stop eating shit. At this time, they still want to run into the mountains. Could it be that Sun Kewang thought he could take the trail to Nanyang and attack Xiangyang instead? Or did he want to escape back to Hanzhong?"

At this moment Wu Sangui despised these rogues to the extreme.

"General, the bandit army actually came out of Hanzhong. It is unlikely that they would flee back without a fight. Most likely they wanted to take a small path to avoid our army and go to Nanyang, and then cross the Han River into Huguang."

"Hehe, then Benhou wants to see if these mice can outrun cats."

At this time, how could Wu Sangui not know Sun Kewang's plan?
It is obvious that they want to sell the Chuang army, attract the Ming army from Xiangyang, Nanyang, to the north, and then attack Xiangyang and enter Huguang.

Immediately Wu Sangui made a response. While sending orders to Tang Tong and Xiangyang, the Nanyang defenders stepped up their guard, and at the same time ordered Zuo Menggeng to lead the army to immediately go north to Luoyang. It is to lead the former army to take the road south to Nanyang.

As for abandoning the luggage and following the mountain road to pursue Sun Kewang, he didn't think about it at all.

From Wu Sangui's point of view, he just needs to lead his army to Nanyang to block the entrances of the mountains. There is no need to follow the mountain to chase these bandits.

Unless Sun Kewang has been hiding in the mountains with his army, he must pass through Nanyang Xunyang to enter Huguang.

Li Guo in Luoyang also received news that Sun Kewang fled without a fight with his army, directly abandoned food, grass and luggage, and went into the mountains.

Immediately, he was dumbfounded, and then he jumped up and cursed in anger, spurted out a mouthful of blood, and passed out directly.

There was still a chance, but Sun Kewang's fleeing without a fight not only put the Chuang army in a desperate situation, but also completely ruined the last chance of winning. Sooner or later, the Daxi army would be destroyed when they entered the mountain.

So after being rescued, Li Guo really couldn't figure out what Sun Kewang was thinking to make such an extremely stupid decision. Could it be that Sun Kewang thought he could cross the Han River before the Ming army and successfully attacked Xiangyang?
However, the rapid approach of the two Ming armies made Li Guo no longer care about the life and death of the Daxi army.

Only with Liu Zeqing's [-] army, he is still sure, but adding Zuo Menggeng's [-] army and Gao Jie's troops in the city, there is no hope of winning at all.

In addition, the Daxi Army fled without a fight, and the morale of the Chuangjun fell to the bottom for a while, especially the [-] Chuangjun among them were even more popular and had no fighting spirit.

Because of the [-] Chuangjun brought this time, only [-] of them belonged to Li Guo's direct descendants, and the other [-] belonged to other leaders.

With such morale, the ending can be imagined.

Five days later, when Liu Zeqing and Zuo Menggeng arrived in Luoyang with an army, Li Guo assembled the army to fight reluctantly, but the result was that they were defeated at the first touch.

The other generals of the Chuang army all surrendered directly. Only Li Guo fled westward with [-] to [-] remnants, but he only fled to Hongnong and was overtaken by the Ming army. In the end, he had to abandon the army and took only a thousand cavalry. Fleeing back to Tongguan.

After destroying the Chuang army, Zuo Menggeng didn't delay, and immediately turned around and returned to Nanyang, while Liu Zeqing and Gao Jie went straight to Tongguan with the surrendered soldiers and generals.

Obviously, the two wanted to take advantage of the power of victory, directly attack Tongguan, enter the northwest, capture King Chuang alive, and make great achievements in the world.

At the same time, Wu Sangui arrived in Nanyang with the former army, while Sun Kewang was still wandering around the mountains with the army.

Although the Great Western Army is good at walking mountain roads, and Sun Kewang knows the terrain and trails in this area like the back of his hand, a large number of soldiers still get separated every day.

Seeing that the marching speed of the Ming army was so fast, they rushed from Baisha to Nanyang in just five days, and marched a full three to four hundred miles, Sun Kewang was also horrified.

His original plan was to get out of the mountain ahead of the Ming army, arrive in Nanyang, and then leave some soldiers and horses to hold back the Ming army, and the army directly crossed the Han River.

In the past, according to the marching speed of the Ming army, Sun Kewang's plan was indeed feasible, but now the Ming army is no longer what it used to be.

Not to mention that the Great West Army had to take a detour through the mountain road, even if both sides took the road, the marching speed of the front army was far faster than that of the Great West Army.

"Brother, what should we do now? That bastard Wu Sangui is already waiting in Nanyang, if we go out of the mountain again, we will undoubtedly cast ourselves into a trap."

At this moment, Sun Kewang arrived at Funiu Mountain in the north of Nanyang with his army. After listening to the spies' report, Ainengqi's heart went cold. He felt that his eldest brother had really miscalculated this time and must be killed.

"Nanyang must not go any further. Let's continue westward, cross the river from Neixiang and Xichuan, and wait for the opportunity to go to Xiangyang."

Sun Kewang also had a serious face, and said after thinking about it.

"Hey! That's the only way to go. I hope the third brother can make a sneak attack, otherwise we will really be wiped out."

Ainengqi sighed. In just six days, the army had lost more than 2 people. If they continued to take detours and walk on mountain roads, they didn't know how much more people would be lost. The key is that they only carried half a month's rations in total.

Although the Daxi army entered the mountain, every move was passed on to Wu Sangui by the Ming army's spies.

Seeing that the Daxi Army dared to go west, Wu Sangui also sneered. While ordering the defenders in Neixiang and Xichuan to strengthen their guard, Tang Tong was ordered to guard against death, block all the roads and trails entering Hanzhong, and completely surround the Daxi Army. in the mountains.

But what Wu Sangui never expected was that the Daxi Army still had an elite unit that went south a few days in advance.

However, because the Ming army focused its energy on the main force of the Great Western Army, it didn't even notice this small army, allowing Liu Wenxiu to successfully cross the Han River and reach the vicinity of Gucheng without anyone noticing it.

Gucheng is located in the upper reaches of Xiangyang, only less than a hundred miles away. Zhang Xianzhong was surrendered in Gucheng, and then rebelled after surrendering, so Liu Wenxiu is not too familiar with this area.

The army directly bypassed Gucheng and divided into two. Liu Wenxiu led 7000 troops down the river and went straight to Xiangyang, while the other [-] troops took the trail south to Nanzhang and attacked Xiangyang from the south.

And the army was finally exposed, and was noticed by the defenders of Gucheng, and immediately sent the Clippers to Xiangyang to warn.

(End of this chapter)