Compared with Li Zicheng's Dashun Army, Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Army was defeated faster.
After the Daxi Army had just occupied most of Sichuan Province, Zhang Xianzhong was not inactive. In the autumn and winter of the 16th year of Chongzhen, he took advantage of the main force of Li Zicheng's Da Shun Army to attack Beijing, while the Da Shun Army in Shaanxi and Hanzhong areas was empty of troops.
, ordered Sun Kewang to go to Hanzhong, hoping to pull out the tiger's teeth.
However, the Dashun Army also attached great importance to Hanzhong, an important military location in the northwest region. In addition, the strength of the Dashun Army was really inferior to that of the Dashun Army. Therefore, Sun Kewang's troops were defeated by Li Zicheng's general He Zhen in Hanzhong. After that, Zhang Xianzhong's relatives
He led a large army to the rescue, and ordered his general Liu Jinzhong to enter Baoning Prefecture, and his general Ma Yuanli to attack Shunqing to guard it. Fearing the front of Dashun's army, the two armies confronted each other and temporarily fell into a stalemate.
Then, in order to ensure the safety of Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong sent two generals, Pingdong and Huwei, to the north to pacify the Hannan area. He also ordered the commander Zhang Guangcai to kill Zeng Ying early in order to open the way to the east. In the winter of this year, the Great Western Army named Zhang Guangcai
The two armies attacked together, but they didn't know that Li Zicheng had already replaced Ma Xu with He Zhen as commander. As a result, the Great Western Army's 30,000 troops were defeated by He Zhen's troops.
After repeated disastrous defeats, Zhang Xianzhong lost his ambition to conquer the world. Coupled with his frequent intermittent mental illness, he single-handedly orchestrated the brutal massacres in the areas under his control.
Due to their irreconcilable stance against the peasant army and Zhang Xianzhong's massacre, Ming generals Zeng Ying, Li Zhanchun, Yu Dahai, Wang Xiang, Yang Zhan, Cao Xun, etc. from all over Sichuan gathered their troops one after another to attack the peasant army in Daxi.
The massacre of local officials of the Daxi regime posed a great threat to the Daxi regime. Zhang Xianzhong carried out severe suppression, but he was also exhausted in this kind of counter-rebellion.
Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army, in addition to confronting the remnants of the Ming Dynasty's army in Sichuan, also had to fight against the armed landlords in Sichuan. Fan Yiheng, the former governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, still held his original post. The Hongguang court of the Southern Ming Dynasty appointed Wang Yingxiong, a former scholar of the Ming Dynasty, as the Minister of the Ministry of War, and the governor of Sichuan.
Hu Yungui military affairs, and gave Shang Fang a sword to facilitate his affairs. He was stationed in Zunyi and presided over the battle against Zhang Xianzhong.
In November of the 16th year of Chongzhen, the governor of Sichuan in the Southern Ming Dynasty, Ma Gan, sent his deputy general Zeng Ying to lead troops to capture Chongqing. Then, King Yingxiong of the Cabinet Department gathered troops in Zunyi, and deputy generals Yang Zhan, Tu Long, Mo Zongwen, Jia Denglian and others asked to return to southern Sichuan.
He appointed Gan Liangchen as president, and his deputy Hou Tianxi, Tu Long, and general Yang Zhan. The guerrilla horses took the test, and Yu Chaozong led the troops. They defeated 30,000 people. Then they captured Xuzhou in March, and the Daxi Army lost more than 1,000 people.
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At the same time, deputy general Cao Ying, political advisor Liu Lin, and generals Dahai, Li Zhanchun, and Zhang Tianxian were all controlled by Fan Yiheng and had more than 100,000 troops. They continuously launched attacks on the Daxi Army and wanted to regain lost ground. Therefore, in southern and central Sichuan,
A criss-crossing front was formed, and the Nanming Army and the Daxi Army launched a life-and-death battle.
In the first month of the first year of Qiongyuan, Quan Dashan led 90,000 troops and sent troops to Sichuan. Once they entered Sichuan, Li Yutian, the former Dashun military envoy to Sichuan (originally the governor of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty), and General Ma Ke (who surrendered to Dashun and were named
Huai Renbo), deputy commander-in-chief Ma De, Gao Ruli, Shi Guoxi and other officers and generals led more than 10,000 soldiers to submit to the Daping Dynasty. Then, more than 10,000 soldiers of Hannan Deputy General Hu Xianghua also submitted to the Daping Dynasty. Without firing a single bullet or arrow,
The entire Dashan Division got off to a good start.
Then, He Zhen, who lost two main troops one after another, felt that the situation was over, and led the remaining Dashun Army into Sichuan. The main force of more than 20,000 troops surrendered to the Daping Army. In this way, the legacy of the Dashun Army in Sichuan was fully accepted by the entire Dashan Department.
Moreover, these 40,000 soldiers were all veterans who were good at fighting. In addition, the officials and generals were familiar with Sichuan's humanities and landforms, which made the entire Sichuan campaign in the mountainous region go more smoothly.
At this time, Zhang Xianzhong was leading the main force of the Great Western Army in a fierce battle with the Nanming army in the southern and central Sichuan areas. Nanming General Yang Zhan led his troops to recapture Nanzhou County in Sichuan, led his division to the north, and fought fiercely with the main force of Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army in Sichuan.
At the mouth of the river in Pengshan, Zhang Xianzhong was defeated and retreated to Chengdu.
So Yang Zhan pushed towards Chengdu from the south. Wang Yingxiong sent Zeng Ying as the commander-in-chief and Wang Xiang as the staff general to jointly attack and block the Daxi Army from moving eastward. Due to Zhang Xianzhong's massacre, the Nanming Army, dominated by the Sichuan Army, went crazy.
In retaliation, they also launched a massacre against the "rebellious" people along the way, and the people of Sichuan suffered another misfortune. The people in central Sichuan suffered so much!
However, due to the increasing threat from the Daping Army moving south, in March, in order to move north to resist the Daping Army moving south, Zhang Xianzhong decided to abandon Chengdu. He also killed all his wives, concubines, and children, including one young son, who was also culled.
Moreover, Zhang Xianzhong also said to Sun Kewang: "I am also a hero. I cannot leave my young son to be captured by others. You will eventually become the heir apparent. The orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty for three hundred years may not be extinguished suddenly, but it is also God's will. If I die, you will return to the Ming Dynasty urgently.
For injustice."
Zhang Xianzhong's crazy move may be to appease the hearts of Sun Kewang and his adopted sons. He wants to prove to Sun Kewang and others that the legacy of the Great Western Army will not be passed on to his sons, but will be inherited by Sun Kewang and others. In this way,
In exchange for the loyalty of Sun Kewang and others. However, tiger poison does not eat its seeds. Will Zhang Xianzhong's behavior be useful? It is unknown. But it can definitely be proved that at this time, Zhang Xianzhong's sulcus circuit is already different from ordinary people.
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Then, Zhang Xianzhong divided his troops into four groups and ordered four generals, each leading more than 100,000 troops to march north. In March, Zhang Xianzhong led the main force of the Western Army, 100,000, to leave Chengdu and go north to meet the Daping Army. In May, Zhang Xianzhong's army camped in the west
Fill Phoenix Mountain.
Of course, at this time, the total strength of the Great Western Army was only over 100,000, and the numbers of those armies were just claims.
When Zhang Xianzhong led his troops northward and passed by Jinshanpu, he went berserk again and killed the people at will, including his own troops, in order to purge those who were not strong in the new attachment. When the Daping Army was pressing down on the border, some Daxi Army generals
He couldn't stand such crazy behavior. So Liu Jinzhong admonished: "You can't kill living beings rashly."
Of course, Zhang Xianzhong did not accept such advice. Instead, he wanted to mobilize Liu Jinzhong's troops to return to Jinshanpu to rendezvous. Liu Jinzhong was suspicious, and then without hesitation led his 20,000 troops to the north, and the entire army surrendered to the Sichuan Army in Dashan.
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Good guy! It seems that Quan Dashan entered Sichuan not to fight, but rather as an armed parade to receive and reorganize the surrendered troops.
The Sichuan Army of Quan Dashan led the Sichuan Army into northern Sichuan with Liu Jinzhong as the guide. On May 26, the first year of Qiongyuan, Quan Dashan sent generals such as He Zhen and Ma Ke to lead the Sichuan Army's cavalry troops in three groups.
Unexpectedly, he launched a sudden attack on the Daxi Army and defeated the main force of the Daxi Army.
On the morning of the 27th, the Sichuan Army met Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Army across Taiyang River. Faced with this unexpected attack, Zhang Xianzhong responded to the emergency and commanded the Daxi Army, horse and infantry to fight against the Sichuan Army on two sides.
At this time, Quan Dashan arrived with the main force of the Sichuan Army and sent General Gao Ruli and others to attack the right wing of the Daxi Army, while General Shi Guoxi and others attacked the left wing of the Daxi Army. At the beginning of the battle, the fighting was very fierce. Gao Ruli and others were killed in the battle, and the Daxi Army also suffered heavy losses.
of losses.
However, when the battle flags of the former Runing Army were slowly unfurled at the Central Military Department of Quan Dashan, the officers and soldiers of the Daxi Army discovered their former comrade--Liu Jinzhong led his troops to charge. The officers and soldiers of the Daxi Army, who had been filled with suspicion and indiscriminate killing by Zhang Xianzhong, suddenly collapsed, and the entire army collapsed.
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Zhang Xianzhong was caught off guard at all. He did not expect that the defeat would be so fast. In a moment of hesitation, Zhang Xianzhong, who was still where he was, appeared naked in front of the formation with more than two dozen of his personal guards.
Because Zhang Xianzhong was wearing a python robe and Liu Jinzhong identified him, such an obvious target immediately attracted a volley of thousands of guns and arrows from the Sichuan Army. Zhang Xianzhong immediately fell to his death at the age of forty.
After Zhang Xianzhong's death, some loyal Daxi Army soldiers snatched the body back from the formation, wrapped it in a brocade mattress, buried it in a remote place, and then fled far away. The Sichuan Army learned the whereabouts of Zhang Xianzhong's body from the prisoners.
His head was presented to the capital.
After this battle, the remaining 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Daxi Army were killed and captured by the Sichuan Army, and more than 50,000 surrendered. In addition to some of the civilians who were defeated, Zhang Xianzhong's generals Sun Kewang, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi, Feng Shuangli, etc. led the Daxi Army.
The remnants of the army, more than 20,000 men, headed south and were blocked by the Ming army Zeng Ying's troops in Chongqing.
At this time, the Great Western Army showed its ferocity. After a fierce battle, it defeated the Nanming Army and killed the guard Zeng Ying. After that, the remnants of the Great Western Army continued to move towards Guizhou. Later, they joined forces with the Nanming Army in
The southwest region jointly fought against the Daping Army.
Taking advantage of the decisive battle between the Daxi Army and the Sichuan Army across Dashan, the Nanming Army took advantage of the opportunity to enter the Chengdu Plain and occupied Chengdu. After that, the battle in Sichuan evolved into a battle between the Sichuan Army and the Nanming Army.
However, this confrontation did not last long. A few months later, Nanming also collapsed. This caused most of the Nanming army in Sichuan to surrender to the Daping Dynasty. Only a small number of troops continued southward to Guizhou, Yunnan and other southwest
provinces as a last resort.
As for the Daping Army led by Jiang Cheng, Zhao Degong and Jiang Quan, they have been chasing Gao Yigong and Li Guo's tribe. In a short period of time, they also pacified Gansu and other northwest border areas. Since there were also a large number of Dashun troops
The army surrendered, and the total number of their troops quickly swelled to nearly 70,000.
In just ten months, the Daping Army, with the original Runing Army as its core of more than 25,000 people, swept across the entire northwest and Sichuan Province. The final strength expanded to 560,000. Although these troops
It is divided into three groups and operates independently, and their combat effectiveness is also uneven, but in terms of numbers, this is already the largest force in the Daping Dynasty.
Li Zicheng's Dashun Army and Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Army, when they faced the attack of the Daping Army, they fell to the ground like two weak giants. The Daping Army also destroyed these two major forces one after another like a torrent.
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When such results were presented to Wu Shigong and the Daping court, Daping monarchs and ministers were astonished. And a small group of people in the court who suspected that the Daping Dynasty would not last long were all wiped away.
However, in the first month of the first year of Qiongyuan of the Great Ping Dynasty, the troops sent out were not only the Western Army, but also the battle around Shanhaiguan and the Manchu Qing Dynasty. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated. quick!
