Huang Degong heard Shen Shuren remind him to be careful when chasing Li Zicheng. He was a little puzzled for a moment and felt that Shen Futai was too cautious.
In his opinion, Li Zicheng has been defeated like this. How dare he jump over the wall and fight back?
However, considering Shen Futai's always far-sightedness, whether he understood it or not, Huang Degong still agreed verbally for the time being, saying that he would be careful.
Chen Shuren also turned to Zhang Mingzhen and gave instructions: "For the subsequent trip to Kaifeng, the waterway is well developed. It is also necessary for Mr. Zhang to cooperate with General Huang to proceed by both land and water, which is the safest way.
Our army has the advantage of the navy, and the Yingchuan River is wide and easy to navigate. In the past two days, after we have cleared all the hidden reefs and hidden piles left by the intruders in the river, and then advanced along the river, we can ensure an invincible position. "
Zhang Mingzhen is not as bold and fierce as Huang Degong. He was not even a senior general, so he followed the Shen family. He was singled out by Shen Shuren and took him with him to participate in some battles. Later, he was promoted to senior general, deputy general, etc. General soldier.
Therefore, his level of gratitude and absolute obedience to the Shen family was even higher than that of Huang Degong. Regardless of whether he understood Shen Shuren's words or not, he would strictly implement them, even if it seemed to delay the war opportunity, it didn't matter.
Huang Degong curled his lips next to him. It was not that he was dissatisfied, but he just felt that he would miss some opportunities to chase down the enemy and expand the results.
If you want to destroy the reef fortifications left by Li Zicheng and open up the water channel before leaving, it will be delayed for two more days! It would be so exciting to chase the enemy with your tail in your mouth all the time!
Only Shen Shuren himself knows what he is worried about - historically, during Li Zicheng's three attacks on Kaifeng, the Yellow River burst its banks and flooded. Although the situation has changed so much now, who knows it will happen again. Is there no chance that the dike will burst again by chance?
As long as he knew that Li Zicheng's human standard was to dare to dig the Yellow River when necessary, that was enough. He couldn't gamble on the rest.
Because even if Li Zicheng no longer urgently needs to dig the Yellow River to flood the city, he can still rely on digging the Yellow River to block the enemy's pursuit - this kind of use of the Yellow River was also done by people in later generations. Li Zicheng gave it up. It's nothing more than a slight modification of Chang Kaishen's deeds.
Let Huang Degong always follow the warship and advance together, so as to avoid being drowned by the pursuing troops to the greatest extent.
As for the pursuit being delayed because of this, Shen Shuren was not too worried.
Because Chen Shuren's primary purpose in beating Li Zicheng was to ensure that Li Zicheng was beaten painfully and frightened, and to dig out the seed in his heart that "Southerners are not good at fighting, and they are rich, so they are worth killing and robbing", forcing Li Zicheng to just Dare to develop to the north.
Secondly, it was to give Chongzhen an explanation.
Therefore, as long as Li Zicheng is beaten away, Shen Shuren will not mind killing less people. Anyway, this is something that Chongzhen and Sun Chuanting should worry about. From now on, until Chongzhen's death, Li Zicheng will no longer be Shen Shu Human trouble.
Moreover, what Shen Shuren hopes for most is obviously that Li Zicheng, Sun Chuanting, and Chongzhen can quickly determine the winner, and the matter can be settled with as few dead people as possible. Then it is best for him to resist for a while longer than the same period in history.
No matter how many people die in the civil war between the Han people, it is meaningless. The purpose of hurting the opponent in the civil war is just to stop the war. The most perfect situation is of course to let the northern Han people who originally need to die in the battle die as much as possible in the war with the Tatars. middle.
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So on this point, Shen Shuren's position is actually slightly different from that of Huang Degong and Zhang Mingzhen. There is no need for him to explain. He just needs to use the excuse of "safety and caution first" to prevaricate it first, so that they can ensure implementation even if they don't understand. That’s it.
When the dust finally settles, they will thank themselves.
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The night after the battle, everyone was tired and did not discuss any more military plans.
Chen Shuren drank a few bowls of strong wine with Huang Degong in a dignified manner, and then each group arranged their own rest. As for the rewards after the victory, and the celebratory medals, of course they would not give them away, but they were not in a hurry.
Early the next morning, the officers and soldiers organized manpower to begin demolishing various obstacles built by the intruders on the Yingchuan River section south of Chen County. Shen Shuren repeatedly warned that the waterway must be smooth before entering Kaifeng. They must not advance rashly.
Moreover, while the troops were actually carrying out water conservancy renovations, Shen Shuren pretended to be a "spur of the moment" when inspecting his subordinates to dismantle the Chuangjun cofferdam. He had just thought of a possibility, so he casually reminded him in kind:
"From what the Chuang army did on both sides of the Yingchuan River, it is not difficult to see that Li Zicheng did not hesitate to block the river and build weirs in order to win the battle, and even obstructed and forced the river to change its course to achieve his military goals.
Let's go to Kaifeng. Kaifeng City is not far from the Yellow River. The Yellow River is in disrepair and the embankments often need to be reinforced. If Li Zicheng wants to stop the enemy and prevent our pursuit, it is entirely possible that the embankments will burst and harm our army. Therefore, it is even more important to advance by land and water. Be careful and there must be no disconnect between the two armies."
After Huang Degong and Zhang Mingzhen heard this, they were quite surprised and said in unison: "Li Zicheng isn't so heartbroken and crazy, is he?"
Chen Shuren spread his hands helplessly: "I hope it won't happen. Just be careful and you won't make a big mistake."
Zhang Mingzhen couldn't bear it, and discussed in a probing tone: "Is it possible to march quickly to prevent him from doing this? If we delay here for an extra day or two, wouldn't it give Li Zicheng more opportunities to take action?"
Chen Shuren shook his head: "How much time will it take to dig out the Yellow River embankment? No matter how fast or slow we go, as long as Li Zicheng makes this determination, there is no way he can stop it in time.
Rather than being in a hurry, it is better to be fully prepared and make a decision before taking action. For example, before going, prepare more boats, so that even if the Yellow River floods, more boats can rescue more people."
Zhang Mingzhen was silent for a long time and sighed: "That's the only way it can be. It's best if Li Zicheng doesn't become so crazy."
Chen Shuren: "Then you should prepare well here. I am leaving today. I will first take some guards and soldiers back to Xinyang to meet with King Lu and King Fu, and then we will make long-term plans. You should be able to handle the war here."
Huang Degong and Zhang Mingzhen both bowed and bowed. When the time came, Zhang Mingzhen suddenly remembered a military situation that he had forgotten to report last night, and added to Shen Shuren:
"Shen Futai, I will remember a piece of news I received a few days ago. It was obtained by your cousin Zhang Huangyan, the prefect of Jingzhou, and was conveyed through General Liu Guoneng.
In fact, the news was sent to Xinyang and other places four days ago, and I asked the general to convey it to you. But because Chen County was besieged, water and food routes were cut off, and internal and external news was blocked, I kept forgetting to tell you."
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During the decisive battle yesterday, Shen Shuren was able to make an appointment with Zhang Mingzhen and Huang Degong to arrive at the battlefield within an hour or two. That was because the last time Shen practiced, Li Yu and others arrived in advance before sending food to the city. The date has been reserved.
After Shen Lian entered the city for the last time, there was indeed five or six days of "offline time" before yesterday's decisive battle. Therefore, it is not surprising that Zhang Mingzhen said that Shen Shuren did not know the latest information sent to Xinyang Mansion four days ago. .
Shen Shuren didn't take it seriously. Since the other party didn't say it last night, it must not be very important news. He just asked Zhang Mingzhen to speak slowly and kindly.
Zhang Mingzhen handed over his hand and reported in detail: "Zhifu Zhang reported four days ago that the scouts he sent out seven or eight days ago observed Zhang Xianzhong's last remaining defenders in Zigui and Wu counties. Something unusual happened.
It turned out that Sun Kewang had already withdrawn from Zigui in August, and most of Zhang Xianzhong's troops in Wu County went south to join forces with Zhang Xianzhong in western Hunan. The number of rebel troops in these two counties was greatly reduced. From the initial number of more than 30,000, Gradually it was reduced to only a few thousand.
But the last few thousand people lingered on leaving, as if they felt that the food, supplies, and mountain produce in Zigui, Wu County, and other places could still feed a few thousand soldiers.
So a captain under Sun Kewang came up with the idea of establishing his own mountain. He was originally ordered by Sun Kewang to stop the retreat and wait for the friendly troops to withdraw before following him, but in the end he delayed in withdrawing.
However, this situation only lasted for about a month and a half. A dozen days ago, Zhang Zhifu's scouts discovered that the Zigui rebel army had made another move and withdrew more than half of it. The situation was chaotic.
Magistrate Zhang suspected that Zhang Xianzhong's army must have made a breakthrough in another direction and obtained a more fertile base, so he made up his mind to move the entire army. Magistrate Zhang was very courageous and personally led the Yiling soldiers left behind by the former governor Fang. They went upstream and made a surprise attack in an attempt to regain Wu County and returned to Zigui.
In the end, he actually succeeded in a sneak attack. Nine days ago, he annihilated the slowest rear troops of Zhang Xianzhong's troops, captured one or two thousand people, and liberated these two counties. It must have been the fifth day of November.
After regaining the second county, Magistrate Zhang also opened up a waterway to connect with central Sichuan through the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, so he immediately sent dozens of light sentinel boats to personally lead the team and explore the route lightly upstream. After two days of sailing, in On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, we approached Baidi City in Fengjie where the Sichuan Army was stationed.
The Sichuan Army stationed at Fengjie was composed of 20,000 white-armed troops under the command of Qin Liangyu, the commander-in-chief of Shizhu arranged by Governor Shao Jiechun and Mrs. Qin. When Magistrate Zhang’s sentinel fleet arrived at Qutang Gorge, Commander-in-Chief Qin also sent people to investigate and confirmed that it was After finding friendly troops, he was allowed into the city for a meeting.
As a result, after Magistrate Zhang met with General Qin, he found out why Zhang Xianzhong was staying in Wu County and why Zigui's remnants were eager to take a detour south and go elsewhere - Zhang Xianzhong had been dormant and infiltrated in western Hunan and central Guizhou for more than two months. ,
Finally, on October 26th, they entered Bozhou (Zunyi) in southern Sichuan from Tongren Prefecture in central Guizhou, then followed the Chishui River from Bozhou down the Yangtze River, arrived in the hinterland of southern Sichuan, and went down the river to besiege Chongqing!
It only took Zhang Xianzhong five days to get from Bozhou to Chongqing. The siege started on the second day of November. Chongqing was empty. The defenders were caught off guard and had no fighting spirit. Zhang Xianzhong defeated it in a few days. The Qin general in Fengjie got the news and knew When something happened in the hinterland, Chongqing had already been destroyed.
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When Magistrate Zhang arrived, General Qin was planning to reorganize his troops and go upstream along the Yangtze River to fight against Zhang Xianzhong. However, after Magistrate Zhang learned of the situation, he persuaded her not to act rashly for the time being.
Anyway, Chongqing has been lost, and Qin's general army only has 20,000 white-armed troops, many of which are newly recruited and not elite members of the direct lineage who have fought for many years. With this alone, Zhang Xianzhong may not be able to defeat him.
Magistrate Zhang then took matters into his own hands and said that he would report to you immediately, saying that you were eager for public justice, jealous of evil, and hated Zhang Xianzhong's dog and thief to the bone, so maybe you would be willing to provide reinforcements to General Qin's army.
Magistrate Zhang also explained to General Qin that he had long heard that General Qin had urged Governor Shao several times to divide his troops and strictly guard the dangerous mountainous areas in Sichuan, and not just defend the Qutang Gorge in Baidi City. Governor Shao did not listen and felt that
Insufficient troops could only focus on defense, which led to today's disaster. Let Qin's general soldiers not worry about being punished by the court, and never advance recklessly out of fear of crime.
After listening to Magistrate Zhang’s repeated urging, General Qin calmed down and wrote a letter asking Magistrate Zhang to send it to Mr. Futai to ask for help on behalf of the officers and people of Central Sichuan.”
Zhang Mingzhen said, and asked someone to get the letter asking for help sent by Qin Liangyu through Zhang Huangyan. This letter could not have been delivered faster. It was taken out last night and taken out this morning. There was no difference in the time difference. Anyway, Shen Shuren did not
Maybe I spent the whole night dealing with this matter last night.
After Chen Shuren heard this, he was really surprised for a while, then carefully read Qin Liangyu's letter asking for help, and said after careful consideration:
"The failure to eliminate Zhang Xianzhong's evil duties was due to my initial attack being too slow, and I can be considered responsible to a certain extent. But now that the emperor's order is on my side, I cannot personally dispatch troops and generals to immediately reinforce Qin's generals.
What's more, the battle against Li Zicheng here still needs the last five or six days to wrap up and recapture the surrounding areas of Kaifeng. The only way is to prepare first and transfer the troops on the second line who have been free to rest back to Jingzhou, Yilingfu, or to the front.
Arrive at Zigui, Wu County, and prepare to enter Sichuan.
The final order still has to wait for the court's decree. We can't use the court's soldiers and horses to do whatever we want. But I will reply to General Qin first to reassure General Qin. When she wrote to me asking for help, she should have sent someone at the same time.
Have you gone to the capital to report an urgent request? Once my troops are mobilized, the order should be issued.
I will prepare another letter here and send it to the capital as soon as possible to Fang Kongzheng, Fang Shishu, who is still in the capital to help inquire about the operation. Let him also ask someone to urge him from the side, and persuade the ministers around your majesty to deploy troops and rescue them as soon as possible.
Sichuan. Commander-in-Chief Qin lacks connections in the capital, so her request for help went through the normal military department process, so I'm afraid it won't be approved so quickly. Let's help push it through so that things don't go wrong."
Zhang Mingzhen and others saw that Mr. Futai handled the matter properly, so they did not say anything more and went about fulfilling their duties.
Chen Shuren didn't think too much. After thinking about it for a while, he wrote a secret letter to Fang Kongzhen in one go. He explained everything that needed to be explained. Then he found a close subordinate, led a group of cavalry guards, and immediately rode out.
Expedited detour to Beijing.
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PS: Regarding yesterday’s content, let me briefly explain and analyze a few words. Some people feel sorry for Li Guo’s death because Li Guo fought against the Qing Dynasty in history. But what I want to say is that Li Zicheng’s subordinates later fought against the Qing Dynasty in history.
There is more than one general. If you want to be convinced and change your ways in the future, you can completely rely on others.
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Historically, an important factor in Li Guo's ability to surrender was that Li Zicheng died at the hands of local warriors without knowing it, and not at the hands of the official officers and soldiers of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Therefore, both sides found a way to resolve the issue. Down the stairs of hatred.
But in my book, it is definitely impossible for Li Zicheng to die at the hands of such a Xiaoxiao. Historically, Li Zicheng went south to fight Zuo Liangyu. Zuo Liangyu ran away, and he died at the hands of Xiaoxiao. But in this time and space, could Shen Shuren be as cowardly as Zuo Liangyu and run away?
I don’t want to spoil the story, so I’m just going to talk about the character and stance here. I won’t say much else. I’m just going to say that the protagonist is determined not to run away.
In addition, many people have always been excused for Li Zicheng's traitorous nature. In order to attract fans and make money, he whitewashed his reputation. My grades were poor anyway, so it would be impossible for me to lie for money.
Therefore, it is impossible for me to let any blood relatives of Li Zicheng lead the remnants of the Breaking Army in the future. The relationship between Li Guo and Li Zicheng is different from the relationship between Li Dingguo and Zhang Xianzhong. Li Dingguo has made much greater contributions in history than Li Guo. Moreover, Li Dingguo and Zhang Xianzhong are not related by blood.
Let me tell you something - under what circumstances did Li Zicheng go south in the first year of Hongguang? It was after he couldn't defeat the Qing army again and again, so he wanted to attack Nanming and Zuo Liangyu to seize territory, seize money and food, and seize the population to restore blood. This is typical "We could not win the foreign war and took the initiative to provoke a larger-scale national civil war." In contrast, at that time, although the Southern Ming Dynasty had the slogan of uniting the invaders and quelling the invaders, they actually had no ability to make the Northern Expedition and only defended their own territory.
Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to say that Li Zicheng had the historical sin of "further provoking and expanding the civil war among the Han people when the Tatars had already entered the customs." Before Chongzhen died, he attacked the Ming Dynasty. This is no problem. This is Peasants' War, but Chongzhen is dead and the Tatars have been fighting him for so long. He doesn't want to push back against the Tatars but wants to go south to burn, kill and loot. Isn't this a traitor? What is this?
Some people may say, "What's wrong with him running away if he can't fight? He just happened to be in the north, why should he be the one to carry the Tatars?" Then I have to say: before Chongzhen's death, it was Chongzhen who was carrying the attack from both sides. The damage, if Chongzhen didn't bear the damage from two sides, he might not even be able to die.
Since he wants to rob Beijing and kill Chongzhen, he should be responsible if he gets to that position. If he doesn't resist the Qing Dynasty but continues to expand the civil war after getting to that position, he is a traitor.
What's more, his situation is much better than that of Chongzhen. Chongzhen was really attacked from two sides, while Nanming, who was south of Li Zicheng, could only sit on the mountain and watch the fight between tigers and had no strength to attack him.
On the issue of national integrity, Chongzhen was at least a hundred times stronger than Li Zicheng. Chongzhen was a garbage person who was self-willed, wanted face, and killed ministers indiscriminately to shirk responsibility, but Chongzhen's national integrity was absolutely no problem. Chongzhen would rather die than surrender in his life. There is nothing wrong with this. If you die, you will die for your country, which is very difficult.
Many people, for the sake of political correctness and attracting fans of the peasant army, will beautify as long as it is a peasant army.
I can only say that Li Zicheng has no problem in terms of class resistance, but there is a problem in terms of national justice. Nationality and class are two issues. Whether class justice or not has nothing to do with national justice. Related.
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This is a complicated world. Why must it be said that "good people are completely good people, and bad people are completely bad people"? People are bad people in terms of nationality, and they are good people in terms of class. Isn't it okay that the two dimensions of investigation are different?