On February 17, the 20th year of Chongzhen, in Jiaxian County, Henan, Sun Chuanting's 160,000 official troops and Li Zicheng's more than 300,000 troops fought together.
This time Sun Chuanting did not defend Shaanxi. If Li Zicheng's troops were allowed to invade Shaanxi, the farmers of Shaanxi, who were deeply oppressed by the gentry, would undoubtedly become thieves. By then, Shaanxi would be in chaos, and Sun Chuanting would be unable to deal with it.
Moreover, Henan itself has 100,000 frontier troops. Sun Chuanting can join up with these frontier troops when he invades Henan. These frontier troops cannot defeat Li Zicheng alone, but combined with Sun Chuanting's 60,000 Shaanxi troops, they can form an advantage over the Liuzhou thieves. The current situation can be
It was impossible to defend, so Sun Chuanting invaded Henan.
Li Zicheng did not face Sun Chuanting at Tongguan at the junction of Henan and Shaanxi. Li Zicheng believed that Henan had suffered from famine for several years and there was no food in the granaries everywhere. If the army of 160,000 soldiers invaded the hinterland of Henan, supply would be a big problem. So Li Zicheng sent troops
The horses were placed in Jiaxian County, which was far away from Tongguan, and small groups of soldiers and horses were sent to constantly harass the army's food roads.
If the supply lines for the army and the army are cut off, a major collapse will inevitably occur.
However, Sun Chuanting was quite methodical in his military deployment. He sent more than 20,000 people to protect the grain road and continuously transported grain from Shaanxi and Beizhili to the front line. Li Zicheng harassed the grain road for a month but never succeeded.
Sun Chuanting's troops then rushed to Jiaxian County and captured Li Zicheng's main force.
More than 400,000 people fought together, the battlefield stretched for dozens of miles, and the sound of killing was loud.
Li Zicheng's troops had the upper hand in terms of numbers. Although most of the invading troops were hungry soldiers, these hungry soldiers were selected to be strong and strong. In the months after Kaifeng was captured, the hungry soldiers often practiced training.
He has martial arts skills and quite some combat prowess. Although it is not as good as the combat prowess of the Shaanxi Army and the Border Army, the Chuang Army has a large number of people after all.
Judging from the scene, hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers were completely surrounded by the intruders.
Sun Chuanting frowned and looked at the battlefield, silent.
Suddenly, a Datong town official army of 2,000 men wavered when surrounded by bandits. This army was surrounded by bandits from three directions, lost the confidence to fight fiercely, and retreated from the front line with a loud noise.
The faces of the generals around Sun Chuanting turned pale, and they secretly thought that the soldiers and horses had fled just at the beginning. It seemed that this battle was going to be a disaster.
Sun Chuanting was furious and asked loudly: "Which army are these?"
The "Zan Hua" on the side, that is, the staff officer, said loudly: "Those are the soldiers and horses of the guerrilla general Guo Renjian of Datong Town."
Sun Chuanting shouted loudly: "Two thousand people fled without fighting, and their generals can be killed. Come, take down Guo Renjian, the owl's head!"
Hearing Sun Chuanting's words, the surrounding generals were stunned and secretly thought that Sun Chuanting was too bloody. The soldiers fled, so he was going to kill the general?
Guerrilla Guo Renjian from Datong Town was so frightened that he trembled all over. He fell to the ground and shouted: "Supervisor, spare your life! Supervisor, spare your life!"
Sun Chuanting shouted angrily: "Save your life. If our army is defeated, how many soldiers will die?"
The three guards walked up to Guo Renjian, pushed him to the ground, and raised their swords to chop off Guo Renjian's neck. They saw a flash of white light, and Sun Chuanting's guards raised their swords and dropped them.
Cut off Guo Renjian's head.
When the generals next to Sun Chuanting saw this scene, their faces turned pale.
Sun Chuanting is going to fight to the death with the generals.
In fact, most of the Chuang army were hungry soldiers, and their combat power was not as good as that of the official army. However, the 100,000 border troops had repeatedly fought with the Chuang army in Henan over the years, and they had formed a tacit understanding with the rebel soldiers. The official army did not force the Chuang army to death.
The Chuang army also attacked the official army without hesitation. Every month, the Chuang army sent some heads to the official army to report their merits, and the official army relied on the existence of the Chuang army to urge the court for food and pay.
If there was no Chuang Army, how could the 100,000 frontier troops get food and pay? In the past, the general soldiers could get half of the twenty taels a month. However, since the Chuang Army came into existence, the court has paid the full amount every month. After the food and salary came down, there were also rewards from time to time, and the generals of the army and the army made a lot of money.
Therefore, the 100,000 frontier troops retreated more and more in Henan, retreating all the way to the north of the Yellow River, without any decisive battle with the intruders. The so-called "nurturing the invaders to respect themselves" is nothing more than this.
Then the generals met Sun Chuanting, a fool.
Sun Chuanting was famous for his harshness in running the army and was extremely ruthless in killing people. Although the Shaanxi army under his rule had insufficient food and pay, the military discipline was extremely strict. Every time he fought with the traitors, he was risking his life. Therefore, although Shaanxi's situation has been equally bad in recent years, it has not A large number of thieves appeared.
Seeing Sun Chuanting kill Guo Renjian, all the generals knew that nothing could be done better today.
Sun Chuanting raised Guo Renjian's bloody head and shouted loudly: "Anyone who dares to retreat will be like Guo Renjian."
The officers and generals were frightened by Sun Chuanting's momentum.
Everyone immediately understood that fighting to the death was not possible today. With Sun Chuanting's character, even if the battle was defeated, the general who caused the defeat would be killed.
A group of generals, deputy generals, staff generals and guerrillas suddenly came out and rode towards the battle formation: "Supervisor, someone has gone to the battle to kill the enemy!"
"I'm going to kill the thief!"
The chief generals of the official army rushed into the war at the forefront, and the momentum of the official army suddenly lifted. Compared with the hungry soldiers of the army who had been training for several months, the frontier troops and Shaanxi army of the official army were all professional soldiers, and their martial arts skills were much stronger. At this time, the officers and soldiers started to think desperately, and the situation suddenly reversed, tilting more and more towards the direction of the officers and soldiers.
Wang Pu rode his horse and rushed into the queue of soldiers in Datong Town.
Datong Town has an army of six steps and four, and 60% of the 15,000 people are cavalry, which means there are 9,000 cavalry. Not only that, Wang Pu has been close to Li Zhi in recent years and bought a large number of cotton armor from Li Zhi And fish scale armor, the equipment is very sophisticated.
Over the years, Li Zhi defeated bandits and Tatars and captured countless armors. Li Zhi did not like these armors, but they were treasures in the eyes of ordinary Ming soldiers. Li Zhi sold more than 10,000 pieces to Wang Pu, who asked the blacksmith to After some minor repairs, the entire army was equipped, resulting in more than 10,000 soldiers in the Datong Zhenzheng Barracks wearing armor.
Originally, the more than 10,000 people had no fighting spirit and were fighting and retreating on the battlefield. But as soon as Wang Pu rushed into the formation to fight, the atmosphere was completely different. When the more than 10,000 people saw that the general was taking the lead, they knew that this battle could not be won. No, just move forward one by one.
In front of Wang Pu were more than 10,000 intruders and horsemen and 10,000 thieves and infantry.
Compared with the regular soldiers of Datong Town, the equipment and combat skills of these intruders were inferior. Wang Pu held a three-eyed gun in his hand, pointed it at the small camp of the intruders in front, and lit the fire door with a bang. Only three people were seen. Sparks flashed from the musket, and the young man wearing worn-out cotton armor fell into a pool of blood.
Wang Pu shot again, but the shot was empty.
Shoot again and kill a rogue infantryman.
After firing three shots, Wang Pu held the three-eyed blunderbuss in his hand and smashed it around like a meteor hammer. He led five hundred servants and sprinted towards the invading army's line, like a bolas. Like a sharp sword, it penetrated into the cavalry queue of the intruders, rushing deeper and deeper.
The officers and soldiers of Datong Town have not fought so hard for a long time. The last time they fought to the death was in the bloody battle against the Tatars in Jinzhou.
Finally, the invading cavalry and infantry were overwhelmed.
These traitor soldiers did not dare to fight with the well-equipped Datong regular soldiers and fled to the rear.
Wang Pu laughed loudly, and regardless of the defeated troops, he led his soldiers and horses around the back of the intruders, and went straight to the back of the middlemost soldiers and horses of the intruders.
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The officers and soldiers became more and more courageous as they fought. After fighting for only half an hour, the invading army was completely defeated.
Li Zicheng's Chuang-character banner fell down, and Li Zicheng fled to the southeast with Zhang Huang, the generals of the Chuang army.
Zan Hua, who was standing next to Sun Chuanting, was overjoyed and shouted loudly: "Master Governor, we have won!"
Sun Chuanting stroked his beard and looked at the bandits fleeing like ants, silently. chaptererror;
