The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 101 The situation deteriorates

Chongzhen eight years, September 28th.

Gongchang Mansion, northern Qinzhou.

On a high ground beside the official road, a simple camp stands in the continuous light rain.

The fiery red flags erected outside the camp indicated their identities.

Soldiers wearing hats and holding spears stood guard on the camp wall.

In the camp, the military tents are rigorous and orderly, and the curling smoke rises and mixes with the water vapor in the air.

Under the canopy, Chen Wang was concentrating on examining the map of Gongchang Mansion placed on the wooden table in front of him.

During these eight days, he chased Li Guo all the way from Pingliang Mansion to Gongchang Mansion, and now he has crossed Qin'an and reached the northern part of Qinzhou.

Li Guo didn't deviate from the route any more, and followed his plan all the way south, and now he has reached the surrounding areas of Qinzhou.

The document for Hong Chengchou's accountability has arrived, but the wording is not too drastic.

For Hong Chengchou's accountability, Chen Wang was actually prepared very early.

After all, Li Guo's army was just a remnant soldier, and he was able to escape all the way from Qingyang Mansion to Pingliang Mansion, and then to Gongchang Mansion.

I, the guerrilla responsible for the pursuit, must be responsible.

The responsibility for this crime can be light or heavy. To put it lightly, the campaign was slow and the effect was minimal.

To put it more seriously, it was the ineffective suppression of the bandits, which caused the bandits to poison the three prefectures and disrupt the nine cities.

But Chen Wang knew very well that no matter how serious the crime was, he would not throw away the guerrilla he had just obtained.

After all, the guerrilla on him may have just taken office not long ago, and even if he made a mistake, the higher-ups would suppress him first.

First, the court will not slap itself in the face.

Second, there are not many soldiers in Gongchang Mansion, and nearly [-] bandits from the Four Heavenly Kings Li Yangji and Climbing King are now wreaking havoc in Gongchang Mansion.

Hong Chengchou couldn't spare Guanzhong now, and he didn't have any extra troops to attack, so he could only rely on him to deal with it.

Come together with Hong Chengchou's accountability, it was Hong Chengchou who asked him to be responsible for eliminating the remaining bandits in Gongchang Mansion.

Recruiting surrendered soldiers as combat power is an unspoken rule, which has not been put on the table.

But this doesn't mean that Hong Chengchou doesn't know how many auxiliary soldiers his generals and schools have raised.

Hong Chengchou was naturally clear about this information.

It is now the eighth year of Chongzhen, not the 13th year of Chongzhen. The prestige of the imperial court is still there, and the control is still strict.

Chen Wang did not hide what he had gained after the Battle of Chunhua.

Anyway, the harvest is not returned to the public, which is also an unspoken rule.

Chen Wang captured some of them and sent someone to Cao Wenzhao's account.

Originally, Chen Wang didn't think of giving part of the seized to Cao Wenzhao. He only woke up after Zhao Huailiang reminded him.

As Cao Wenzhao's servant, he can be said to have been single-handedly promoted.

In the words of the officialdom at this time, Cao Wenzhao is his benefactor.

He doesn't have to be close to everyone, and he doesn't have to give it to anyone who is captured, but he must give it to Cao Wenzhao.

If one person is captured and swallowed whole, it will be considered ungrateful and ungrateful, and will be isolated by everyone.

Not many people want to get along with a mean and ungrateful person. Shangguan will also have a grudge against this psychologically, so naturally he will not promote such a person.

This also sounded the alarm for Chen Wang.

In the officialdom, one has to be careful every step of the way, very cautious.

As long as the guerrilla military position is not lost, fines and punishments don't matter to Chen Wang now.

And in the pursuit of nearly a month, Chen Wang has not been hanging behind all the time.

Chen Wang kept Li Guo's army at around 7000 to [-], no more and no less.

If there are too many, I'm afraid it will be a big disaster in the future.

Without it, Li Guo might not be able to support Hanzhong Mansion.

But although Li Guo was not wiped out, he made a lot of military achievements.

A total of more than 340 villagers were rescued, and more than [-] people were beheaded. All of these were reported, and more or less could offset part of the negative impact.

Chen Wang looked up at the rain curtain outside the shed.

This time period is almost the time period for the autumn harvest in Shaanxi. This year, Shaanxi has not encountered a severe drought. Although the rainfall is lower than normal, it is not that there is no dripping water.

In the past month, there have been three light rains.

Li Guo seems to have understood his intention, and now he is a little bit messed up.

They stopped marching when it rained, and ordered to set up camp directly, and the distance marched every day was not far away.

Chen Wang didn't pay attention to these small problems. As soon as the rain started, he ordered the army to set up camp on the spot.

No matter what Li Guo was thinking, as long as he wanted to survive, he could only follow his plan and walk all the way to Hanzhong Mansion.

But at this stage, Chen Wang has no way to prevent Li Guo from reuniting with the Four Heavenly Kings and Climbing Heavenly Kings.

Hu Zhili had already led the recruit battalion to cut off the road from Qinzhou to the east to Fengxiang Mansion, but he had a group of recruits under his command, and only the backbone was the veterans recruited by Binzhou.

Those recruits were still hungry soldiers among the rogue army more than a month ago, and the total training time was only a few days.

Then it was marching all the way, using training instead of training during the march, and only occasionally training the formations and formations when they were not nervous.

The current recruit battalion is actually not that strong, and they have certain advantages in the face of ordinary rogues. After all, they are fully armored and have received almost a month of marching and training.

But he can't fight tough battles, and his defense is okay. Once he attacks, he will reveal the fact that he is strong on the outside but hard on the inside.

It is inevitable that Li Guo will meet with the Four Heavenly Kings and Climbing Heavenly Kings.

Once the three armies join forces, their strength will expand by more than [-] people.

After the three armies join forces, the infantry and the old and weak are not counted, but most of the fine cavalry under his command can reach more than three thousand, and the horse army should also be in the number of seven or eight thousand.

At this time, it may be extremely difficult to force him to continue walking to Hanzhong Mansion.

In the end, I am afraid that a big battle will be inevitable.

The outcome of the war will affect the ultimate success of the plan.

Chen Wang's eyes kept wandering over Hanzhong Mansion and Gongchang Mansion.

He must go to Hanzhong Mansion, otherwise once the Guanzhong War is over, waiting for him will be exhausting in Shaanxi and Shanxi.

The situation in Guanzhong is gradually becoming clearer, but the situation in the rest of Shaanxi is rapidly deteriorating.

Li Zicheng, who had escaped from Chunhua, advanced all the way to Yan'an Mansion, gathered his troops again, and at the same time joined up with some rogues who had been roaming in Yan'an before, and his momentum was revived.

The defenders of Yan'an Mansion went out to fight in the field, but they were all defeated by Li Zicheng.

Yu Chongxiao, the commander-in-chief of Yansui Town, pursued Prime Minister Tianxing Huideng all the way from Qingyang Mansion to Anding, Yan'an Mansion, and fell in ambush [-] miles west of Anding City.

Hui Dengxiang, Mantianxing and Huntianxing gathered tens of thousands of people, surrounded by three divisions, and fired all arrows.

Most of the [-] Yansui soldiers were defeated, and only a thousand remained.

Yu Chongxiao died in the battle, and the soldiers under his command desperately snatched Yu Chongxiao's body back.

Yu Chongxiao's body was covered in blood, he was shot once in the abdomen, stabbed three times in the waist, once in the mouth, and his head and neck were severed twice.

The general soldier died, the three armies in Yansui Town were shocked, and the army town was in turmoil.

The situation in Yan'an Mansion has completely collapsed and is no longer under control.

(End of this chapter)