Chapter 835: Brother Xiao Qiang and Qing Guo Entry
"You blind man! You beast who harmed your brothers! Do you have the fate to sit on the dragon's throne? You can live in your dreams even if your mother-in-law and aunt are abducted by wild men!... I will go underground and watch what you do.
Go to hell!..."
Luo Rucai dragged his injured leg and fled to the middle of Li Zicheng's tent. Seeing that he was surrounded by swords and guns, Luo Rucai leaned on the ground with his knife, pointed at Li Zicheng and yelled curses.
Li Zicheng looked at Luo Rucai calmly and said: "Brother Luo! Have a good trip!" Then he turned around and walked out of the tent.
Luo Rucai looked around in despair, and saw a few people coming forward with knives first. What chilled Luo Rucai was that these people were his own eunuchs, and they wanted to use their heads as certificates of surrender to Li Zicheng.
Before he died, Luo Rucai wanted to know: Why did they betray him? So he asked: "Why?"
"Godfather! Prince Chuang is going to rule the world, and we can all become officials. We don't want to be bandits with you anymore." The relatively honest Bataibao answered Luo Rucai's question.
Upon hearing this, Luo Rucai seemed to have had all his strength drained from his body, and he no longer even had the intention to raise a knife to resist.
"What nonsense! Kill him." Li Shuangxi, who was supervising the battle from behind, shouted.
Those eunuchs immediately stabbed him with their knives...
After Li and Luo's coalition forces crossed the Yellow River in Shaanzhou, they launched a new round of offensive frenzy in Shanxi. In just half a month, nearly ten troops including Lianke Yuncheng, Wenxi, Jiangxian, Quwo and Hongdong were attacked.
County, and finally formed a vast base area with Linfen as the center.
In this round of attack, the coalition forces of Li and Luo basically did not encounter any resistance. All the states and counties either fled or surrendered. The strength of the coalition forces of Li and Luo has also been further strengthened.
But just as the peasant armies of each battalion were celebrating their victory, on the first day of the 11th month of the leap month, Li Zicheng invited Luo Rucai to the old camp in Linfen for a banquet. Because both Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's troops were stationed in Linfen City.
Outside the city, the strength of the two armies was about the same. In the city, the two armies were jointly controlled, so Luo Rucai ignored the advice of his military advisor Xuan Gui and went to the banquet happily. However, during the banquet, Luo Rucai was ambushed by Li Zicheng's soldiers outside the tent and himself.
The eunuchs who had actually taken refuge with Li Zicheng were executed together.
Then, Li Zicheng immediately sent troops to surround the leaderless Cao Ying. He also announced to the soldiers of Cao Ying that Luo Rucai was guilty of "collaborating with the enemy", indicating that the execution was a last resort. During this period, Li Zicheng not only killed Cao Rucai, who had been advising Luo Rucai to be wary of Li Zicheng's invasion.
Except for Xuan Gui, the military advisor of the camp, he tried his best to appease the other officers and soldiers in Cao's camp, and even adopted Luo Rucai's son as his adopted son. This showed that the war was only targeting Luo Rucai and Xuan Gui.
Therefore, except for Luo Rucai's top generals Yang Chengzu and Wang Long, who openly broke with Li Zicheng with more than 10,000 of their own men, most of the other 50,000 soldiers and horses in Cao camp defected to Chuang camp. And Li Zicheng
He was also busy calming down the chaos in Cao's camp and did not pursue Yang Chengzu and others for the time being.
However, after more than ten days of reorganization, the independence of each battalion in Chuangying was greatly weakened. Coupled with the addition of nearly 30,000 trilateral veterans in Cao's camp, Chuangying's strength has taken a leap. Therefore, not only has Chuangying not yet
Affected by the fire merger, it truly formed a unified organization.
The murder of Luo Rucai was only due to his different ideas of rebellion from Li Zicheng, not any fault of his own. Moreover, Luo Rucai himself was very ethical. When Zhang Xianzhong wanted to kill Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai begged to let him go. Later, Li Zicheng wanted to kill Zhang Xianzhong.
, it was Luo Rucai who sent 500 horses to let Zhang Xianzhong go. And no matter who he joined forces with, Luo Rucai always ranked second to others and had no big ambitions. He was content to become his deputy to assist Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong, so from a logical point of view, Li Zicheng could indeed do it
Got a dark mind.
However, the situation of the peasant army has developed to the point where it needs to be unified, and the superiors and subordinates of the camp also have their own interests. Therefore, Luo Rucai had to become a victim, a stepping stone, and achieved Li Zicheng's unique position in the peasant army.
As a heroic figure, Luo Rucai did show amazing military genius, and he did die tragically. But he was a man with no ambitions and did not follow the trend of development. In the final analysis, he was killed by his own vision.
of.
After integrating the soldiers and horses of each battalion, the camp rushed to encircle and suppress the fleeing Yang Chengzu tribe on the one hand, and on the other hand moved to Taiyuan, hoping to conquer the entire territory of Shanxi first.
Seeing that the soldiers and horses that broke into the camp were moving farther and farther, the Runing army left a town of Yang Rusong at the junction of Kaifeng Prefecture and Henan Prefecture, and a town of Liang Hui and Chen Yongfu in the Dabie Mountains. The rest of the army moved towards them.
South, and engaged in the battle to encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army.
At the same time, in mid-leap November, the Runing Army was patrolling. Zhang Biao sent out two partial divisions and occupied the entire territory of Ruzhou and Nanyang Prefecture respectively. The original revolutionaries led the Runing Army into Nanyang Prefecture.
He Jin, from the fifth battalion on the left, entered Nanyang Fucheng with the title of associate commander and general. Seeing the cheering people of Nanyang, He Jin couldn't help but secretly wiped away his tears, feeling very excited. This man has lived his whole life.
Just for this!
After hearing about the internal conflict between the Li and Luo coalition forces, Emperor Chongzhen was also very excited. Under Emperor Chongzhen's strict orders, the court also showed rare high efficiency. In addition to ordering the three-sided governor Sun Chuanting and the Shanxi Jin army to
In addition to the north-south pincer attack on the camp, Yu Zilian's Heiyun Army and Wu Shigong's Runing Army were also required to cross the Yellow River to participate in the encirclement and suppression. The imperial court even paid "big money" and transferred 30,000 troops from the capital's camp to immediately go west to participate in the encirclement and suppression.
It was obvious how wishful thinking the decision-making of Emperor Chongzhen and the imperial court was. The commanders and commanders from all walks of life also frowned, thinking of excuses to shirk such an unrealistic order. However, these commanders-in-chief had not yet come up with an excuse.
For reasons, another major event that shocked the world happened.
In the 11th month of the 15th year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji went on a personal expedition and led more than 116,000 Qing troops. They divided their left and right wings into the Great Wall from Jielingkou north of Funing and Huangyakou north of Jizhou, and then easily
The ground captured Qian'an, Sanhe, Jizhou and other important towns.
The number of Qing troops left in Shengjing was less than 20,000. This was the fifth time the Qing troops entered the Pass and the fourth time they attacked near Beijing. Faced with the rise of the Runing Army, Huang Taiji used all the strength of the country.