In other words, Lu Jiude was an eunuch and a close confidant of Emperor Chongzhen. If he had been replaced by a civil servant or a military general, the subsequent impeachment memorial would have drowned him out. But in any case, Lu Jiude's behavior was bold enough.
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Of course, Lu Jiude also asked Emperor Chongzhen for the report in time. Later, Emperor Chongzhen also supplemented the imperial edict and dispatched another Ming army to Fengyang. The person who led the Ming army also had dealings with Wu Shigong.
, that is Yang Yufan, the commander-in-chief who had meritorious service in guarding Laizhou. He was also a world-famous general who defended the city. It can also be seen how much Emperor Chongzhen attached great importance to Fengyang. But this is a story for another day, let’s not mention it now.
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According to the original plan, Lu Jiude's troops first sailed into the Yangtze River and arrived in Nanjing to receive military equipment. At this time, the eunuch in charge of Nanjing's military equipment no longer hid it, and did not have to spend any money. He took all the good things.
When I came out, I wanted to arm Lu Jiude's troops to the teeth.
After receiving the weapons and equipment, Lu Jiude's troops immediately divided their troops into two groups. Huang De led 2,000 cavalry to gallop to aid Hanshan County, while Lu Jiude led the main force still by boat, upstream to He County, and formed a formation with the Nanjing Jingying Camp.
They formed a horn and blocked Liu Guoneng's troops from going deep into southern Zhili.
And what was Liu Guoneng doing at this time? Still standing still. After winning the victory, Liu Guoneng's ministry first cleaned up the battlefield, which made a huge fortune. The combat effectiveness of the entire army also improved by a notch.
But Liu Guoneng didn't know what to do next.
He was unwilling to attack forward. Attacking Hanshan County, where the heavy troops were stationed, was not worth the gain. Bypassing Hanshan County? Liu Guoneng did not dare to. Placing his troops between the two Ming armies, wouldn't this mean that the gain would outweigh the losses?
Is it a stupid thing to send yourself into a siege?
It's not possible to cross the Yangtze River. Don't say that Liu Guoneng couldn't collect so many boats. Even if he could, Liu Guoneng wouldn't do it. The nearly 10,000 Ming troops in Hanshan County are not pigs. When Liu Guoneng can cross the Yangtze River, they will
If Liu Guoneng were to attack halfway across the river, he would have nowhere to go even if he wanted to cry.
Retreating is even more impossible. Wu Shigong has repeatedly asked Liu Guoneng to go forward and fight the Ming army. If Liu Guoneng dares to retreat, won't he send his family to the execution ground?
Therefore, Liu Guoneng had no choice but to confront him. After Lu Jiude's troops arrived in He County, he had even more reason to hold his troops back.
In late April, Lu Jiude rushed to Hexian and immediately took over the command. Because at this time, Emperor Chongzhen's imperial decree also came down, and the guarding eunuch was also dismissed and returned to Beijing to guard Leng Palace.
Lu Jiude succeeded him as the eunuch guarding Nanjing.
People were in high spirits at happy events, and Lu Jiude immediately ordered an attack on Liu Guoneng's troops. On the first day of May, the two sides started fighting again. Lu Jiude arranged his main force in the middle, Huang Degong on the right wing, and the largest number of original troops.
The troops and horses of the Nanjing camp were arranged on the left wing.
As soon as the battle began, the Ming troops in the center and right wing succeeded one after another, but the time of happiness was too short-lived. Lu Jiude soon lost his temper. Those honor guards once again showed Lu Jiude what "amazing" combat effectiveness is.
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The collapse of the left wing made it difficult for Lu Jiude to continue. In desperation, Lu Jiude could only switch from offense to defense. He also confronted Liu Guoneng's Ministry.
With the arrival of the rainy season, both armies lost interest in wallowing in the mud. Gradually, both sides turned into a "sit-down war" and did not dare to jump into battle rashly.
What Liu Guoneng did made Wu Shigong extremely angry. He did not want Liu Guoneng to contain the Ming army in Southern Zhili, but to consume the Ming army in Southern Zhili. However, he could not force Liu Guoneng too hard, so now
Wu Shigong, apart from letting Ye Yufei constantly urge Liu Guoneng to fight, could only go with him.
As for the current peasant army, the most outstanding performer is Zhang Xianzhong, the Eighth King.
After the defeat in Xiangyang, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai formed a coalition. They first separated from the peasant armies of other battalions, and then passed through Yicheng. At Jingmen, they unexpectedly crossed the Han River again and attacked Yingcheng by surprise.
The Battle of Yingcheng fully demonstrated Zhang Xianzhong's wit and bravery. When he led his army to the gate of Yingcheng, he did not stop, but circled the city from east to west and stationed ten miles west of the city. He only sent out troops composed of old and weak troops.
A small group of troops pretended to attack the west gate and south gate instead of attacking with strength.
The Ming army defending the city thought that the peasant army was afraid of them and did not dare to attack the city. So they sent troops to attack, but the peasant army abandoned their baggage and fled according to Zhang Xianzhong's deployment. The Ming army was even more arrogant and even laughed at the peasant army for being really incompetent.
In fact, Zhang Xianzhong had already ambushed heavy troops on the outskirts of the east and north gates of Yingcheng. Four days later, a monk actually wore a pair of iron armor that he had obtained from the Hanlin family of Lin in Yingcheng, and carried a thousand
The rest of the soldiers went out of the city to challenge the peasant army. It was like performing "The Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", and the battle was so intense that even the monks and Taoists were beaten.
The peasant army deliberately discarded some materials and equipment on the ground and retreated. The armored monks and soldiers scrambled to grab them. Everyone was overjoyed and unknowingly, they were lured into the ambush of the peasant army. Zhang Xianzhong gave an order, and the cavalry suddenly took the lead.
They launched a charge and ended the life of the armored monk in one fell swoop. All the more than a thousand soldiers who left the city were wiped out.
Then the peasant army quickly rushed to the city, and the officers and soldiers guarding the city were in chaos. I saw a ladder approaching the city wall, and the peasant soldiers climbed up the ladder. The iron locks of the east, north, and west gates were cut off one after another. The officials
In order to escape for their lives, the army desperately fled out of the city. The ambushes who had been waiting outside the city swarmed out and attacked, and the county magistrate Zhang Shaodeng and more than 10,000 officers and soldiers were all captured.
Then, taking advantage of the assassination of Wu Shigong and the shrinkage of the Runing Army, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai allied with 200,000 troops to go north and besieged Suizhou (today's Suixian County, Hubei Province). However, there were only five or six hundred defenders in the city, and the strength of the garrison was huge.
The commander-in-chief Yang Shien and Xu Mingcheng who were nearby were well aware of the powerful power of the peasant army and did not dare to send troops to fight. Wang Tao, the prefect of the state, led five or six hundred soldiers, risking his own life and fighting hard, but it was just like an egg hitting a stone. On the second day,
Later, the peasant army conquered the city, and the prefect Wang Tao committed suicide.
After the Battle of Suizhou, Zhang Xianzhong continued eastward to Guangji, and at Gaoshanpu in Qizhou (today's Qichun, Hubei), he annihilated more than 300 regiment training personnel gathered by Guangji Dian Shi Wei Shiguang. Then along Huangzhou (today's Huanggang, Hubei),
Tuanfeng, Xinshengzhou, Luotian, Sandian, Yangluo first line, take the small road to Anqing.
After that, they broke through Susong, passed through Taihu Lake, Qianshan, and camped for hundreds of miles. The beacon fire reached Huaiyang and Yang, and Nanjing was shocked again. Since Anqing was tightly defended and its troops were relatively strong, it was unable to capture it, so the coalition forces chose not to fight and returned to the north.
Enter the Dabie Mountains and Huoshan District, and hold on to the danger. Prepare to select fighter planes to annihilate the Ming army's effective forces again.
At this time, Zhang and Luo's coalition forces had actually followed Liu Guoneng's footsteps and formed a situation that closely matched Liu Guoneng's ministry.
In order to deal with the peasant army, Zhang Guowei, the governor of Yingtian, went to great lengths to specially select the children of the talented and talented families to form an army and stationed it in Enjiadian. Zhang Xianzhong used a small force to prepare Shi Kefa to fight with the Anqing army in Qianshantian.
Ningsi was relieved due to the arrival of Zuo Liangyu's reinforcements, and the peasant army was stationed in Qianshan Tiantangzhai.
Zhang Xianzhong mobilized soldiers to cut bamboo and build ships here, pretending to march into Huguang. Taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the army, he took 3,000 people as the vanguard to go eastward along the river and arrived at Hujiadian in the southwest of Susong County. In addition, he sent troops to sniper
Reinforcements came from the direction of Anqing.
On April 27, Zhang Xianzhong arrived at Zhijiadian, Anqing, and was surrounded by the garrison. Shi Kefa and the commander-in-chief Xu Ziqiang, who were stationed in Anqing, immediately sent troops to rescue them. After detecting that the peasant army had strong morale and strong combat effectiveness, it was difficult to fight with them.
In a stalemate, they advocated retreating to the fortress to avoid the rebels' attack.
So Shi Kefa ordered deputy general Cheng Long to lead 3,000 Suzhou soldiers, guard Chen Yuwang, and general Pan Keda to lead 900 Anqing soldiers to form camps and garrison in the Yijiadian area to prepare for battle instead of rushing to fight. They were just fabricating the situation.
, fired cannons in support. The surrounded Cheng Long, Pan Keda and others saw that the food had been exhausted and the soldiers were unbearably hungry. They wanted to take the opportunity to break out. As soon as they made a move, they were hit hard by the peasant army and retreated.
At noon the next day, Zhang Xianzhong ordered his troops to launch an attack from all directions. The defenders, who tried their best to support the enemy, were quickly killed by the peasant army. In just one day, more than 6,000 officers and soldiers were wiped out. Deputy General Cheng
Seeing that the peasant army rushed into the official camp, Long saw that the entire army was defeated and that he would not have a good outcome, so he committed suicide and died. Guerrilla Chen Yuwang, his assistant generals Zhan Zhaopeng, Wang Xihan, Lu Wangyou, and Baihu Wang Hongyou,
More than 40 officers, including Qian Commander Wang Dingyuan and Zhou Jia, committed suicide one after another.
General Pan Keda, guard Zhou Guangguo and others were killed by the peasant army in the battle. Only guerrilla Jiang Ruolai hid in the horse pen, saved his life, and waited for an opportunity to escape. However, Yingtian Governor Zhang Guowei painstakingly managed this armed force composed of children from good families.
It ended with the destruction of the entire army. Faced with such a tragic situation, Zhang Guowei could only look up to the sky and cry, as if he were mourning his heir.
The Battle of Enjiadian was the most outstanding annihilation battle fought since Zhang Xianzhong's uprising. This battle lasted only one day, and all the defenders were wiped out. It not only boosted the morale of the peasant army and restored its military prestige, but also showed that the peasant army was able to attack the east and the west.
Successful use of tactics.
After Zhang Xianzhong won a major victory in the Enjiadian annihilation battle, he took advantage of the victory and continued to advance eastward. His leading troops reached the areas between Nanjing and Zhenjiang, Yizhen, and Yangzhou for emergency.
So Lu Jiude asked Huang Degong to temporarily entangle Liu Guoneng's department. He and the supervising eunuch Liu Yuanbin personally led ten thousand people from the Yongwei camp to come to the rescue. Another six thousand Ming army led by Liu Liangzuo also rushed to Zhang and Luo's joint forces.
, and Zhang Xianzhong's good "friend" Zuo Liangyu was of course hot on his heels. The attention of the Southern Zhili officers and soldiers suddenly focused on the Zhang and Luo coalition forces.
At this time, Wu Shigong, whose relationship with the imperial court was gradually getting warmer, was also busy communicating with all parties. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian.com to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support.
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