Let us go back in time to the second day of June in the 16th year of Chongzhen.
When the main force of the Qing army led by Huang Taiji returned to Jining and joined Duoduo's troops, they did not retreat immediately. Instead, they immediately launched a fierce attack on Xue Yongli's troops.
Huang Taiji's thinking is also very clear. He wants to take advantage of his current superior strength to defeat the annoying Ming army in front of him in one fell swoop. Even if he cannot defeat them, he must scare them so that Xue Yongli does not dare to follow. Otherwise
, when the Qing army marches north to the capital, with this tail behind them, many variables will arise out of thin air.
The fierce attack by the Qing army was also effective. Caught off guard, Xue Yongli's troops could only block the left and right. If the Runing army had not always defended the strong and attacked the weak, they might really have been defeated by the Qing army.
Defeated.
Later, when the Qing army saw that they could not take down the Ming army in a short period of time, they also stopped their offensive. After all, the Qing army's goal was the capital, not the Runing army in front of them, so when they saw this Ming army
Having suffered a lot, the Qing army took the initiative to break away from the battle and prepared to continue marching northward.
But in this case, Xue Yongli gave up. Seeing that the Qing army wanted to break away, he immediately gathered his troops and took the initiative to launch an attack, just to drag the Qing army in place.
The reason why Xue Yongli took the initiative to attack was based on the most basic military theorem: the goal of war is actually very simple. When the enemy wants to do something, you just need to prevent him from doing it. The Qing army does not want to fight, then
The Runing army will entangle him, and even if they sacrifice themselves, they will not let the Qing army achieve their goals.
As a result, Huang Taiji was in trouble. He never thought that this Ming army would be so difficult to deal with. You know, Huang Taiji's main force of the Qing army now exceeds 90,000, while the Runing army led by Xue Yongli only has
There were more than 35,000 people left, but even so, the Runing army still wanted to take the initiative to attack. What the Qing army encountered was simply a group of desperadoes!
But ignoring the Runing army was not an option. Huang Taiji could only cheer up and continue to command the Qing army, and fought successive battles with the Runing army.
After seven days of continuous fierce fighting, the Runing Army finally could no longer hold on. The casualties of Xue Yongli's troops had exceeded 10,000, and the troops had lost the ability to continue the attack, so the Runing Army could only retreat and temporarily withdraw from the battle.
However, facing the retreat of the Runing army, the Qing army did not dare to take it lightly. After all, they did not know what abnormal behavior the group of desperadoes on the opposite side would do. So the Qing army discovered it after two or three days of confrontation.
The Runing Army indeed lost its ability to attack, and then they left 10,000 cavalry behind. Huang Taiji himself led the main force to cross the Yellow River and continue his journey north.
Wu Shigong, who was going north, led 70,000 troops. He came to Fengyang on May 27th and wanted to mobilize 10,000 Fengyang garrison to accompany him to the north. Unexpectedly, Fengyang Governor Ma Shiying was very "enthusiastic". He only left 5,000 troops.
The soldiers stayed behind, but he personally led Fengyang's 20,000 troops to accompany Wu Shigong to the north for King Qin.
Ma Shiying's wishful thinking was quite wonderful. If King Qin succeeds, then he can be regarded as the first contributor. After all, the living are more important than the dead. If he can rescue Emperor Chongzhen, even if he loses Fengyang's mausoleum, he will still have merit.
There is no fault. The court will not blame him.
If the capital is really lost and Emperor Chongzhen dies, it will be time for a change of dynasty. As a force that can participate in the world war, the Runing Army is definitely worth betting on.
As long as the Runing army finally regained the capital, whether Wu Shigong established a new dynasty or used the emperor to command the princes, as one of the highest civil servants who stayed with Wu Shigong, Ma Shiying could take the initiative. Then his status in the new dynasty would also be
Definitely not low.
Besides, Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng are from the same faction, and their interests are tied together. Ruan Dacheng has already been labeled as the Runing Army. Therefore, if Ma Shiying bets on his family, he will not gain the trust of others, but will be
Everyone in the world is laughing at him. If that's the case, he might as well bet all his chips on Wu Shigong.
Even if Wu Shigong understood Ma Shiying's little plan, he would not let Ma Shiying feel cold. But Ma Shiying wanted to flatter him to the fullest, so he had to gather all the garrison troops that Fengyang Mansion could gather, and bring with him those who could
Wu Shigong had to wait in Fengyang for several days without bringing all the supplies he had brought with him.
So by the time the army set off again, the time had already entered June. Then, Wu Shigong led his army to Xuzhou, and gathered more than 32,000 troops from Shumo and other three towns, plus more than 3,000 civilians recruited from Xuzhou
, so the total number of the Runing Army has reached more than 125,000.
In mid-June, the Runing Army came to Heze and gathered more than 25,000 troops from the three towns of Xue Yongli. The total army increased to 150,000. Then, it went north to the Yellow River in Kaifeng City and began to cross the river in late June.
At this time, the pressure on Runing's army of food and grass began to become apparent, so Wu Shigong, while recruiting on the spot in Kaifeng Mansion, quickly ordered Runing to expedite transportation. When the food and grass were ready and the entire army crossed the Yellow River, time
It's already July.
Yu Zilian, who was in Henan Prefecture, had also been paying attention to the actions of the Runing Army. When he learned that the Runing Army had assembled a large army in Kaifeng and began to cross the river, Yu Zilian only left two thousand garrison troops in Luoyang, and he himself led
With more than 36,000 troops of the Heiyun Army, they also began to cross the river and move northward to maintain consistent actions with the Runing Army.
But when the two armies had just crossed the Yellow River, they immediately encountered the 230,000-strong Shun Army on the south route led by Tian Jianxiu. When Tian Jianxiu saw that the army was heading north in large numbers, he immediately deployed his troops to stop you.
Ning Army and Heiyun Army.
Among the generals of the Dashun Army, Tian Jianxiu's knowledge is not outstanding. But he has two very good advantages. One is that he is a kind man and cares about the soldiers. Therefore, the troops led by Tian Jianxiu are willing to serve him.
The other is that Tian Jianxiu obeyed Li Zicheng's orders. Therefore, Li Zicheng appointed Tian Jianxiu as the commander-in-chief of Dashun's southern army.
One of the main tasks of the Dashun Army on the South Road is to block the officers and soldiers crossing the river and heading north, so that they will not hinder the main force of the Dashun Army to attack Beijing. So when Tian Jianxiu saw the Runing Army and the Heiyun Army, he
He immediately took up a posture to fight the two armies to the death.
But in this way, the Qing army in the east was no longer blocked. They moved north quite smoothly, and would threaten the Dashun army that had just entered Beijing. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated.