Eight hundred and thirty-eighth chapter Qin army out of Shaanxi
Nowadays, the various forces in Liaodong, North China and Northwest China are intertwined, and a single move can affect the whole body.
First, let’s take a look at the situation in Liaodong:
The Manchus in Liaodong had 20,000 Qing troops led by Hauge, but they were unable to attack and could only ensure that their territory was not invaded.
At the forefront of the Ming army, there were nearly 40,000 Guanning cavalry from Wu Sangui in Ningyuan City, and more than 13,000 Runing troops from Zhenyuan City. The relationship between the two armies was extremely bad, and they were on guard against each other.
Next, not to mention taking advantage of the Qing Dynasty's lack of troops to attack in Liaodong, they were all preparing for the opponent to stab them in the back. Behind them, Shanhaiguan was garrisoned by more than 10,000 Ming troops led by Gao Di.
It can be regarded as supervising and controlling the Guan Ning Cavalry and Runing Army.
Among them, Wu Sangui's attitude was quite ambiguous. While he placed his family in the capital as hostages, he also exchanged letters with the captured Zu Dashou. It was a completely opportunistic attitude, and he only wanted to do it for his own Guan Ning.
The cavalry seeks maximum profit.
The main force of the Qing army has completely entered the Northern Zhili area. However, their scope of activities is only in the east and south of the capital, and they do not move to the west, so they happen to act separately from Li Zicheng's Shun army.
At this time, after hearing that the Qing army had entered the Pass, the Mongolian tribes on the grasslands also gathered herdsmen troops to follow them into the Pass, hoping to take advantage of this opportunity to gain more advantages. In addition, the Ming army troops who surrendered to the Qing army, Huang Taiji's
The number of troops has further increased to more than 135,000. The next goal of the Qing army is to capture Dezhou and enter Shandong from Dezhou.
The Ming Dynasty had nearly 200,000 troops near Beijing. However, the only ones with combat effectiveness were the 50,000 troops in Tongzhou and the 8,000 troops led by Miyun Commander Tang Tong. Other Ming troops were in nearby states and counties.
The city participates in defense.
However, there were only 20,000 Ming troops in the city of Beijing. But among them were only warriors. The Second Battalion of Wuwei, with a total of 8,000 men, had extremely strong combat effectiveness and was the real core of the Ming Dynasty's imperial army.
In addition, in the Fengtai camp outside the west of Beijing, there are 17,000 Chu troops brought back by Liu Yuanbin from Huguang, and 11,000 Ruzhou troops left by Yu Zilian. They are in danger in Beijing.
When you are here, you can enter the city at any time and join the defense of Beijing City.
It can be seen from this that the Ming army no longer has mobile troops near Beijing. They can only defend each city conservatively. They cannot even rescue each other, let alone mobilize their troops to fight the enemy in a decisive battle.
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Li Zicheng's Shunjun also had his own problems.
To the south of the Shun Army, there are the Runing Army and the Heiyun Army. Although so far, the Runing Army and the Heiyun Army have abided by the agreement and have not crossed the Yellow River to fight the Shun Army. But everyone is old Jianghu.
Knowing that the most unreliable thing is also the agreement, if Wu Shigong breaks the agreement and enters Shanxi to fight, Li Zicheng's army will still be in trouble. After all, the Yellow River is now frozen, and the obstacles on the road no longer exist.
To the east of the Shun Army, there were both the Qing Army and the Ming Army guarding the capital. The Shun Army would never step into this quagmire at this time.
To the west and southwest of the Shun Army, there was Sun Chuanting's Qin Army, and they were also eyeing the Shun Army.
Therefore, Li Zicheng's Shun army is now a little hesitant. They want to attack in one direction, and they are afraid that when they attack, they will be flanked by the other two groups of officers and soldiers from behind. So it will be difficult to make any choice. But right now
At this time, Sun Chuanting's Qin army took the initiative to attack, which solved this problem for the Shun army.
After Sun Chuanting's Qin army was defeated miserably in Henan, they immediately returned to Shaanxi to lick their wounds. Before that, in order to seize every available force, the imperial court successively added Sun Chuanting, Hou Xun and Yu Zilian as Minister of War.
The title was changed to Supervisor, and they were jointly responsible for the troops in Shaanxi, Henan, Sichuan, Shanxi, Huguang, Guizhou, Jiangnan, and Jiangbei. They were responsible for the unified command of suppressing the peasant army. Of course, with three Supervisors commanding, they could achieve unified command
Only the conductor will see ghosts!
Among them, Yu Zilian's Black Cloud Army had the smallest number of troops, and the court's attitude was better than nothing, and Yu Zilian did not obey the court's orders to the letter.
As for Hou Xun, he nominally commanded the largest number of troops, including Wu Shigong's Runing Army and Zuo Liangyu's Chu Army. The number of troops was almost 400,000. But in fact, he was completely unable to control these two troops.
Therefore, Hou Xun could not play any role at all.
So under such circumstances, the court's only hope was Sun Chuanting's Qin army.
After Sun Chuanting's defeat in Henan, he worked hard to expand his army and farmland as soon as he returned to Shaanxi. He not only recruited all the Ming troops near the northwest, but also issued amnesty orders and official titles to the landlords' armed forces who were both thieves and bandits, and incorporated them all into the
Among the officers and soldiers, in just three short months, the Qin army, thanks to Sun Chuanting's efforts, expanded to 100,000 men. Of course, there is no need to mention the combat effectiveness of this army.
Moreover, within three months, supplying food and wages through farming was definitely a daydream, so Sun Chuanting not only requisitioned it from the people, but also asked the officials and gentry to donate, causing the entire area near Xi'an to be filled with resentment.
However, at this time, Sun Chuanting also had a clear mind. He believed that if the Qin army could really win with a full force, it would be a blessing from heaven; however, everyone also knew that the hope of such a lucky victory was very slim.
But if the Qin army does not move in Shaanxi, the Shun army will have worries whether it wants to attack the capital or go south. If the Shun army plans to take Shaanxi first, Sun Chuanting can stick to Shaanxi without leaving his rear base. This is better than the lone army going deep into Shanxi.
It's much more beneficial.
But Sun Chuanting also found that he could not withstand the pressure.
On the one hand, because Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor, the court must punish this rebellious behavior, so it could not acquiesce in Li Zicheng becoming king and hegemon in Taiyuan; on the other hand, the local officials and gentry in Shaanxi could no longer tolerate such a heavy food and salary supply.
In order not to increase the burden on their own hometown and adopt a beggar-thy-neighbor mentality, they also unanimously asked Sun Chuanting to leave Shaanxi as soon as possible.
Therefore, envoys from the imperial court urging Sun Chuanting to leave Shaanxi came one after another. In the end, Sun Chuanting could only pause and sigh: "I know that the battle may not be successful, but I am lucky enough to succeed. How can a man be able to fight against the jailer!"
In this way, with slim hope, Sun Chuanting led his 100,000 troops and swore to go out on the eighth day of the first lunar month of the 16th year of Chongzhen. (To be continued...)