The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 199
Chongzhen ten years, at the end of December.

Li Zicheng led the main force out of Baishui and transferred into Gongchang Mansion, directly taking Jiezhou.

When Hong Chengchou led the army in Nanwen County, Zu Dabi, the commander-in-chief of Ningxia, guarded Jiezhou, and Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief of Yansui, guarded Chengxian.

Participating generals Ma Ke, Sun Xianzu and other generals led the troops and horses of the headquarters and recruited the guards to guard the pass and main roads to repel the bandits.

After Li Zicheng entered Gongchang Mansion, he immediately sent a letter to the army to recruit elites.

In the 11th year of Chongzhen, the tenth day of the first month.

Li Zicheng led [-] fine cavalry, [-] horse troops, and four battalions, including General Manager Huiqi, King Renyi, King Zhengshi, and King Datian, and entered Minzhou Weizhong in the east of Gongchang Prefecture via Jiezhou.

Liugao Yingde and Tuoyangkun are still in the deep mountains and valleys of Cheng and Jie, controlling the troops and hungry soldiers under their command.

Zu Dabi was guarding Jiezhou, and his army was only [-]. Li Zicheng led the invading army to roar in.

On the 7000th day of the first lunar month, Hong Chengchou led Zuo Guangxian, He Renlong, and Gao Jie's three battalions of [-] people, went north and finally arrived at Jiezhou, where he joined forces with Zu Dabi.

After receiving Li Zicheng's marching route, Hong Chengchou made a decisive decision, raised his troops all the way northward to pursue Li Zicheng's marching route, and at the same time sent a message on a flying horse, ordering the battalion of Lintao Town to gather heavy troops to guard the checkpoint, and the exiles must not be allowed to pass through.

On the 26th of the first lunar month, Li Zicheng led the army all the way northward, passed Minzhou Wei, broke Sancha Pass, and advanced into Taozhou Wei.

After Li Zicheng entered Taozhou Wei, he besieged Taozhou Wei City with a large army, sent envoys to negotiate with the local Qiang tribes, traded horses with the Qiang people with jewels, gold and silver, and soldiers, and even recruited troops from the Qiang tribes. .

At this time, Hong Chengchou's troops had just rushed to Wei Nei, Minzhou. After he heard that Li Zicheng had reached a deal with the Qiang tribe, he didn't care about resting for a while, and immediately led his troops to the north to stop Li Zicheng's move.

On the third day of February, Hong Chengchou led the army to Taozhou Weixia, and an encounter battle broke out with the troops led by Li Zicheng.

Beheaded 860 level [-], broke through the trapped invaders outside Taozhou Weicheng, and solved the siege of Taozhou.

However, the victory of Taozhou only relieved the threat of Taozhou, and it did not help the overall situation.

Li Zicheng had already achieved his goal. He bought more than 2000 war horses from the Qiang tribe, and recruited [-] Qiang cavalry.

Although Wang Hong, the Lintao commander-in-chief, tried his best to lead his troops to intercept him, he was alone and unable to support him, so he finally retreated to Didao.

At this time, Gao Yingde and Tuoyangkun, who originally stayed in the deep mountains and valleys of Cheng and Jie, also began to mobilize their troops and launched an attack towards the surrounding area.

Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Yansui, guards Chengxian County, supporting him from left to right, but he doesn't want to fall into Tuo Yangkun's arms.

On the seventh day of February, Tuo Yangkun concentrated his forces, broke through the encirclement net while the Ming army was scattered and defended, broke into Xihe via Zhifangtoupu, and went north to Lixian County.

Although Wang Pu led his troops to pursue immediately, it was too late.

Tuo Yangkun and Gao Yingde had already led most of the troops across the Qishan Pass, and their way into Qinzhou was now unimpeded.

And Li Zicheng just happened to lead the army from Weiyuan in Lintao Mansion to Longxi City in the northwest of Gongchang Mansion.

At this time, Li Zicheng's plan was completely exposed to everyone.

Li Zi divided his troops into two groups and led the cavalry to the west. He went all the way to replenish the horses and recruit Qiang soldiers.

Tuo Yangkun led the infantry to break through the encirclement net and head north via Li County.

The final destination of the two parts is Qinzhou, where they intend to complete their meeting.

Qinzhou is located between the main roads of Gongchang Mansion, connected to Pingliang Mansion in the north and Fengxiang Mansion in the east.

At that time, no matter where Li Zicheng chooses to march, he will be able to achieve his goal-to escape.

Hong Chengchou led the troops from Wen County and marched all the way to chase them away. In fact, he was also aware of Li Zicheng's marching intentions.

But there are many things that you don’t have to do if you don’t want to do them. Just like when Li Zicheng sent troops to the outskirts of Yangcheng, at that time he had to personally lead the troops to help, otherwise he would be guilty of watching his relatives suffer, even if he was a member of the three sides. The governor can't afford it either.

As for Li Zicheng going to the northwest this time, he had to lead his troops to pursue him. If he didn't pursue him, he would be incapable of avoiding the battle and lost the city. He still couldn't bear the responsibility.

The battalion soldiers in Lintao Town couldn't stop Li Zicheng, and there was nothing he could do.

On Wang Pu's side, he had also warned in advance, but the soldiers led by Wang Pu still did not stop Tuo Yangkun, so what could he do.

It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, and the total number of generals he can control is only tens of thousands, and his strength is stretched.

He can't control the Sichuan soldiers. Sichuan is under the jurisdiction of Xiong Wencan, and the soldiers of the three rivers are now defending Sichuan.

The black gauze cap on Wang Weizhang's head, governor of Sichuan, had already fallen to the ground, and the officials were seized and sent to the garrison.

As the general of Sichuan, Hou Liangzhu's ineffective guarding put Chengdu in danger, and many cities were lost.

In addition to the battalions of Cheng and Tier, he can mobilize only the three battalions of Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao, and Chen Wang with a total of [-] troops.

The mountains in Baoning Prefecture are high and the roads are far away. On the seventh day of February, Cao Wenzhao led the army and had just arrived in Lueyang, northwest of Hanzhong Prefecture, and was preparing to rush north to help Gongchang Prefecture in Zhengzhou.

However, there is no need for defense in Zhengzhou now, because Tuoyangkun and Gao Yingde, who are entrenched in the mountainous areas of Cheng and Tier, have already entered Li County and headed north to Qinzhou.

The new order was to enlist them to continue northward and go northward to Fengxiang Mansion via Baoxie Road, so as to prevent Li Zicheng, Tuo Yangkun and other ministries from entering Fengxiang Mansion from Gongchang Mansion.

Hong Chengchou, who was in Weiyuan, couldn't hide his exhaustion at this time. From the end of ten years to the present, in the past few months, he has hardly had a day to rest peacefully.

He didn't even take off the armor on his body for many days, and just put on his clothes and fell asleep.

Hong Chengchou was approaching the year of his destiny, and his physical strength was no longer as strong as before. The constant raids and suppressions for so many years were also consuming his energy and physical strength.

With a tired face, Hong Chengchou rode on the horse and slowly moved forward along the official road.

On the official road beside him, a group of soldiers who were marching were also full of exhaustion. Their clothes were mostly covered with dust, and they looked quite embarrassed.

Hong Chengchou frowned, the wind and sand in the northwest was very strong, and it was extremely cold.

Along the way, even in furs, he still felt unbearably cold.

Even though he was wearing fur clothes, most of the soldiers under his command only had cotton clothes to wear, and many of these cotton clothes were cut corners.

Along the way, the loss of personnel due to the weather on the road even exceeded the casualties in the Battle of Taozhou.

Gao Jie led the horse and followed Hong Chengchou closely, reporting the situation in the army to Hong Chengchou.

"The weather is slowly getting warmer, and it's much warmer after entering the Gongchang Mansion. I found a batch of winter clothes from Weiyuan City earlier, and there are no reductions in the army in the past few days..."

Gao Jie pulled up Ramon's face towel over his nose and mouth, the northwest was bitterly cold, if he didn't wear a face towel in this season, the cold wind from the tube would blow over his face, like a steel knife scraping bone.

And after a while, there was no feeling on the face, and the whole face had to freeze.

Hong Chengchou nodded slightly, his eyes lowered.

Chasing all the way from Minzhou Wei, there are not a few people in the army who have lost their toes from freezing, and their hands and feet are so festered that they can't walk at all.

Snowy roads and mountain roads are difficult to walk, and there are not a few people who fell into the deep mountains and huge valleys and disappeared without a trace.

"How's the situation in the east?"

After walking for a while, Hong Chengchou suddenly raised his head and asked.

"Governor Sun has already pacified the bandits in the northern part of Hanzhong Prefecture. Hundreds of thousands of bandits and chieftains have surrendered, and the little red wolf has disappeared. Most of the tens of thousands of bandits under his command have been wiped out, and only a few teams have fled into the mountains."

"During the first lunar month, Governor Sun has been leading the army to attack in various mountains."

"Since the governor's order is issued, Governor Sun's reply is to immediately lead the troops to help Fengxiang Mansion."

Gao Jie paused for a moment, thinking for a moment.

"According to the schedule, Governor Sun should have led the troops to Baoji in Fengxiang Mansion."

"If the rogues want to go eastward through Fengxiang Mansion, they will definitely not be able to do so."

Hong Chengchou was slightly settled. After realizing Li Zicheng's plan, he immediately dispatched troops to respond, and stated all the interests involved to Sun Chuanting.

When he led troops into Sichuan to pursue Li Zicheng last year, Sun Chuanting presided over the campaign in the north of Hanzhong Mansion, and his troops were undoubtedly the closest to Fengxiang Mansion.

"How is the situation in Pingliang Mansion?"

Gao Jie's expression was a little ugly, he knew that Hong Chengchou had finished asking questions about Fengxiang Mansion, and he would definitely ask Pingliang Mansion.

He is also clear about Li Zicheng's plan. After all, he is a battalion officer and is now Hong Chengchou's direct descendant, so he naturally knows the inside story.

"There is not enough troops in Pingliang Mansion, and Guyuan Town has no troops to move around. The north and north are harassing the frontier, and some slaves have invaded the frontier from the south. Most of the soldiers in Yansui Town guard the north and are unable to help the south."

Gao Jie looked embarrassed. The situation in Pingliang Mansion was not optimistic, and it was impossible to mobilize many defensive troops.

In fact, such a situation is normal, because the field forces that the Shaanxi government can mobilize have already been mobilized by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting to attack.

It is already very good to have thousands of soldiers and horses staying in the towns.

The more he went deep into the core, the more he understood the secret, the more Gao Jie regretted it.

At the beginning, I chose anyway, on the one hand because of Xing's reasons, and on the other hand because I was not optimistic about the future.

From the first year of Chongzhen to the eighth year of Chongzhen, officers and soldiers have been suppressing them and fighting...

I thought that after all, it would be much easier to become a battalion officer and a direct descendant of the governor.

But what I didn't expect was that the current situation of the imperial court was not optimistic.

Jiannu in the north was at the height of the sun, and those frontier soldiers who came from Liaodong and chased them had no way to go to the sky, and had nowhere to go to the ground. In Liaodong, they were beaten by Jiannu.

The Mongols in the north have now been subjugated by Jiannu. Huang Taiji, the slave chieftain, proclaimed himself emperor in nine years and was in the limelight for a while.

To make matters worse, in the ninth year of Chongzhen, the entire territory of North Korea fell and was occupied by slaves.

Gao Jie has not read any books, but he knows that this situation can be described in one word - internal and external troubles.

Internal and external worries are undoubtedly the worst-case scenario...

"Send a letter to Bai Gu, asking him to dispatch 1 troops to aid Pingliang Mansion and set up defenses in Pingliang Mansion."

Hong Chengchou pondered for a moment, and already had a certain plan in his heart.

"Governor Sun has only 1 people under his command, and 1 people went to Pingliang..."

Gao Jie's eyes flickered and he hesitated.

"There are only 2000 people, I'm afraid...they won't be able to defend Fengxiang Mansion..."

Li Zicheng's fine cavalry army has more than 8 men in total, Tuo Yangkun and Gao Yingde's infantry also have 20 to [-] soldiers, and the two armies have more than [-] troops. If you include some hungry soldiers, you can easily break through [-] people.

It is true that Sun Chuanting led 2000 soldiers to the north to defend Pingliang Mansion, but since then Fengxiang Mansion has only [-] people, how can it be defended.

"I know……"

Hong Chengchou's eyes were serious and his voice was low.

"The only plan at the moment is to pass it on by Pegasus, and Baili hastened to let Cao Wenzhao enter Fengxiang mansion quickly, so that Fengxiang's problem can be solved."

There was plenty of time. After Li Zicheng and Tuoyangkun reconciled, the speed of the march was not fast with the drag of the infantry. Cao Wenzhao should be able to lead the troops to Fengxiang Mansion.

Hong Chengchou reined in his horse, and looked back at the troops behind him who were marching hard against the wind and snow.

Whether Li Zicheng broke through Pingliang Mansion or Fengxiang Mansion, he could not accept the situation.

The current situation in Shaanxi is not optimistic, and he has already been reprimanded by the emperor.

The most serious thing is that the time for the "March to suppress the thieves" is approaching.

The relationship between Hong Chengchou and Yang Sichang is not good, and the relationship between Sun Chuanting and Yang Sichang is even worse.

At the beginning, when Yang Sichang took over the post of minister of the Ministry of War and proposed the strategy of "four positives and six corners", Sun Chuanting expressed his opposition.

Although Hong Chengchou also persuaded, but with little effect.

On the surface, Yang Sichang's four-point, six-corner, ten-sided network plan seems to have a very strict military deployment and is impermeable.

But in fact, this kind of plan is more just a theory on paper. The rogues come and go quickly, and they turn into the wind, and they can concentrate their superior forces at any time.

Fortification with nets on ten sides and multiple places will inevitably disperse the troops. It is not an unbreakable copper wall and iron wall at all.

The rogues only need to concentrate on breaking through the net at any point, and the so-called drip-tightness will be shattered and become a torrent that bursts the embankment.

When the governors from all over the country reported the number of recruits, only Sun Chuanting's memorial was not sent.

Hong Chengchou knew very well that if the rebellion in Shaanxi could not be suppressed in March of this year, then Yang Sichang would not give up this opportunity to attack him.

Right now, not only may the rebellion be unable to be suppressed, but the civil uprising in Shaanxi may even expand...

Hong Chengchou looked eastward with deep eyes.

Li Zicheng will most likely choose to attack Fengxiang Mansion when he goes east this time.

There are more than [-] soldiers under Sun Chuanting's command, and their morale is like a rainbow, waiting for work at leisure.

Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao, and Chen Wang had only more than 7000 soldiers under their command. They traveled a long distance and were exhausted...

This multiple choice question is not difficult to choose.

I only hope that Cao Wenzhao can withstand the pressure and keep Fengxiang...

……

"Ming History Biography 150"

"Will Yang Sichang join as our own soldier, the above article will be slightly... expect to put down the bandits in a hundred days..."

"The court moved the book to argue about it, saying: 'It's useless, and it's not special. The soldiers have repeatedly collapsed, and the people are exhausted. I'm afraid they will die.'"

"'If you want to do it, you don't have to exhaust the thieves, but you will harm the country.' After thousands of words, Sichang will be disobedient."

"...The recruiters will be recruited and the quota will be met, but the court will not come alone."

(End of this chapter)