Chapter 135 The Battle of Pingxi

Although Li Zicheng knew that his Dashun army was not the opponent of the Dazhong army, he still insisted on being a battle of trapped beasts. He gathered 300,000 Dashun troops under his command to the area around Xi'an Prefecture. With his generals under his command, Hao Yaoqi, Li Guo, Li Shuangxi, Liu Fangliang, Zhang Ding and others led the army Chen Bing in Shangluo, Yaoxian and Hua. In the state, Weinan and other places, they guarded Xi'an Mansion. At the same time, Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin personally led 100,000 soldiers and horses to station outside Xi'an Prefecture. As a backup, they pulled out a posture of fighting to the death with the Dazhong army.

In the name of the general of the Great Western Expedition of the Dazhong Dynasty in early October, Yan Chongxi surrendered the Dashun army in the area of Lingyao County for the last time in Pozhou. However, after being rejected by Hao Yaoqi, the general under the command of Li Zicheng, he ordered the army to rise up on the tenth day of October and began the battle against Li Zicheng.

Yan Chongxi personally led 20,000 elite soldiers, waved out of Pozhou, easily conquered Huangling and other counties along the way, and rushed straight to Yao County, the gateway in the north of Xi'an Prefecture. On October 18, Hao Yao, the generals of the Dashun Army, led 20,000 troops respectively, a total of more than 40,000 people, and also wrapped nearly 30,000 people, known as 100,000 troops, in Yao County. After the encounter between the area and Yan Chongxi's troops, the two sides then launched a big war in the area of Yao County.

Yan Chongxi didn't care about the other party at all. He just stared at the area of Yaowang Mountain, where the Chinese army of Hao Yaoqi was located, and the governor launched a fierce attack on Hao Yaoqi.

More than 20,000 Shun troops under Hao Yaoqi's command are basically a rabble. In fact, there are only about 3,000 soldiers. In the face of the fierce attack of the Dazhong army, they were defeated by Yan Chongxi in Yaowang Mountain for only one day. Although Hao Yaoqi led his troops to resist desperately, the two armies were not at the same level at all. The army, facing the powerful firepower of the Dazhong army, Hao Yao's flag was defeated. One of the left legs of the cannon was blown off on the spot. Although he was saved by his own soldiers after being injured, the whole army collapsed, and Hao Yao's flag was captured on the spot by the Dazhong army, and then he was ordered to be executed by Yan Chongxi.

When Hao waved the flag and was defeated, Li Shuangxi couldn't stand alone. First, the 30,000 people who helped the war learned the news of the attack of the Dazhong army without eating or drinking, so they mutiny on the spot and fled all over the wild. Li Shuangxi ordered to chase and kill the escaped people. Within a day, nearly 10,000 people were slaughtered.

Yan Chongxi looked at the opportunity for Li Shuangxi to divide his troops to chase and kill the people. He sent a cavalry to raid Li Shuangxi's subordinates. Li Shuangxi's headquarters suddenly collapsed and was chased dozens of miles away by two large and medium-sized cavalry battalions. In the end, he fled back to Xi'an with less than a thousand soldiers. The rest of the Hao waved the flag and the Dashun under the command of Li Shuangxi. The soldiers surrendered on the spot, and nearly 20,000 horses were captured by the Dazhong army. At the same time, they collected more than 10,000 people who fled and won the victory of Yao County.

Yan Chong was happy and angry that the people were slaughtered by the Dashun army. Although the culprit Li Shuangxi fled, he caught hundreds of generals of Li Shuangxi who massacred the people among the prisoners and beheaded them all outside Yao County. What killed was the people's heads rolling, which scared the soldiers to break their heart. At the same time, it also made people's hearts, making those The people who were surrounded by the Dashun army all clapped their hands and cheered, and the people's hearts fell to the middle army in an instant.

At the same time, Liu Bao, who was a Chen soldier in Tongguan, led his troops and launched an offensive against Luonan County. Liu Fangliang, a general under Li Zicheng, who guarded Luonan County, but Liu Fangliang's troops were only more than 4,000, and he could not resist the fierce Liu Bao's troops at all.

Liu Fangliang only led his troops to resist for one day in Luonan County. Rebels appeared under his command and opened the North Gate of Luonan County. The Dazhong Army immediately invaded Luonan County. Liu Fangliang saw that he was defeated, and then abandoned the city from the South Gate and fled. Luonan County was broken on October 13.

After Liu Bao captured Luonan, he immediately began to attack Shangzhou. The general of Shangzhou was Gao Yigong. Gao Yigong gathered 40,000 Shun troops in the area of Shangzhou, trying to defend Shangzhou and blocked Liu Bao's troops in the area of Shangzhou. After Liu Bao led his troops to attack Shangzhou, Liu Fangliang fled back to Shangzhou and led the army in the northern part of Shangzhou. Huangshaling, Dangshan and other strata were forged, and the two armies then launched a war in the area of Huangshaling.

This battle lasted for four days. Under the supervision of Gao Yigong, the Dashun Army took advantage of the terrain and resisted very fiercely this time. It was not until the fourth day that Liu Fangliang was shot dead by a master shooter of the Dazhong Army that Huang Shaling announced that it was broken, and then Liu Bao led the army to attack Dangshan with a bulge. The enemy had to abandon Dangshan and hurriedly fled back to the city of Shangzhou to garrison.

Liu Bao attacked the city of Shangzhou on October 20 and launched a fierce attack on Shangzhou City. Gao Yigong defended Shangzhou while asking for help from Li Guo, who was guarding Weinan. After hearing the news, Li Guo led his troops to rush to Shangzhou. However, at this time, the every move of the Dashun army had already been under the supervision of the scouts of the Dazhong army, and Li Guo's troops in Weinan. As soon as he moved, he was immediately learned by Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao. Liu Bao immediately sent his general Fan Sheng to lead four barracks to the bank of the Danjiang River, blocking Li Guo's way to Shangzhou.

After Yan Chongxi swept the area of Yao County, he did not directly march on Xi'an Prefecture, but divided his troops in Fuping, Baishui, Chunhua and other counties in Yao County. At this time, Li Zicheng had already lost his heart in Shaanxi. When he learned that the Dazhong Army was coming, people from all over the country responded one after another and began to cooperate with the Dazhong Army and the Dashun Army as enemies. As a result, the Dashun army in these places was quickly defeated and fled to Xi'an one after another.

Knowing that Li Guo's headquarters guarding Weinan County wanted to go to Shangzhou to rescue Gao Yigong, Yan Chongxi immediately sent Gao Jie to lead the troops straight to Weinan County.

Not long after Li Guo left, he learned that Gao Jie led his army to raid Weinan County, so Li Guo had to divide his troops back to help Weinan County. As a result, his troops were scattered. When he arrived in Danjiang, he was intercepted by Fan Sheng. Although Li Guo was strong, where was the strength of the Dashun army? Fan Sheng was not one. He is a general with too strong ability, but he is very calm. He led his troops to fight steadily with Li Guo in the area of Danjiang. Relying on the equipment advantages of the Dazhong Army that far exceeded the Dashun Army and the quality advantages of soldiers, after the fight, Li Guo was unable to fight. At this time, Li Guo learned that Weinan County had been conquered by Gao Jie, and the foundation of the rear had been lost. Moreover, the middle army on the opposite side was fierce, so they had no choice but to give up rescuing Shangzhou and fled back to Xi'an.

Gao Yigong couldn't wait for Li to pass, and he didn't wait for Li to pass, so he had to send someone to rush to Xi'an Mansion and ask Li Zicheng to send troops to help. However, Li Zicheng was also anxious in Xi'an Mansion at this time. He did not send troops to rescue Gao Yigong at all. In isolation and helplessness, he only persisted for less than seven days in Shangzhou, and Gao Yigong knew Dashun. It was over, so he ordered to give up resistance to Kaesong and surrender to Liu Bao. By the beginning of November, in just one month, the peripheral defense line painstakingly operated by Li Zicheng disintegrated under the joint attack of Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao.

In the past month, Li Zicheng's Dashun army suffered heavy losses. His generals Hao Yaoqi and Liu Fangliang were defeated and died. The high-power troops surrendered. Li Guo and Li Shuangxi fled back to Xi'an. Zhang Ding disappeared in the chaotic army, and he did not know whether he died in the chaotic army. He was still caught by the Dazhong army or fled into the mountain alone.

In a word, in a month, Li Zicheng, who claimed to be more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, was beaten by the Dazhong army. In addition to more than 20,000 people who were killed and fled back to Xi'an, the rest basically either surrendered to the Dazhong army or were captured by the Dazhong army.

As Li Zicheng's strength was weakened in a month, Li Zicheng was scared and didn't know what to do for a while.

So Li Zicheng once again wanted to ask Song Xianze, but when he looked for Song Xiance, he learned that Song Xiance did not know when he had escaped from Xi'an Mansion. He didn't know where to go. Li Zicheng was so angry that he ordered to hunt down Song Xianze and wanted to see people and die, but at this time, where did he find Song? Give me a advice!

Song Xiance has long seen that Li Zicheng is not enough to achieve great things. Since the Dazhong army has solved the problems in the north, it will not leave any face for Li Zicheng at all. With the strength of the Dazhong army, Li Zicheng will compete with it. Although Li Zicheng's Dashun army seems to be a lot, Song Xiance is until What are these Dashun soldiers? Li Zicheng's defeat is only a matter of time. The reason why he followed Li Zicheng was to seek glory and wealth, not to be buried with Li Zicheng. Therefore, after learning that the war was not good, Song Xianze immediately abandoned the official and secretly slipped out of Xi'an. Since then, he disappeared from people's eyes. In the wild.

Song Xiance's escape was undoubtedly a major blow to Li Zicheng's psychology, which made Li Zicheng more suspicious and irritable. As long as there was a slight failure, he would often kill people to vent his anger. It didn't take long for him to kill thousands of people in Xi'an's mansion, and even several of his new concubines, because For a small matter, he ordered him to kill him. The most miserable concubine was just because when she accidentally served tea for Li Zicheng, she sprinkled tea on Li Zicheng's dragon robe, and was ordered by Li Zicheng to chop off her hands, and then put it outside and burned to death with fire. People who approached Li Zicheng for a while can be said to be Everyone is in danger, which makes Li Zicheng's men start to think about it.

This is not the worst thing. Li Zi became the attack against the Dazhong army and summoned hundreds of thousands of horses, but he was unable to support so many soldiers and horses at all, and even the most basic military food could not meet their needs. Therefore, many Dashun troops could only attack the surrounding people in order to solve the problem of food, but The people around Xi'an Mansion suffered another catastrophe after almost not having a good day of life. It can be said that everything they can be eaten have been robbed by the Dashun Army. A large number of people can only eat tree bark and grass roots, and even eat Guanyin soil. After entering November, the temperature in Shaanxi suddenly dropped, and even the grass roots finally looked for No, so a large number of people were starved to death. Every day in Xi'an, a large number of hungry people were pulled out of the city and abandoned into the ravines. The situation was unbearable.