Chapter 136 Battle of Pingxi 2

This is not the case. For Li Zicheng, the situation is not the worst but worse. With the beginning of winter, Li Zicheng can not only meet the food needs of the Dashun soldiers under his command, but also can't provide enough things to keep out the cold for the generals under his command. If the soldiers are not warm, he will rob the people's winter clothes, and the people are even the most The things that caught off the cold were also plundered, which aggravated the famine situation. Moreover, the military discipline of the Dashun Army has been extremely corrupted. In addition to robbing food and drinking, it also forcibly robbed the people's women for them to play with, which made the area of Xi'an Prefecture full of smoke and the people's lives. It can be said that the Dashun Army has completely lost the hearts of the people at this time.

However, on the other hand, on the side of the Dazhong Army, after obtaining Huguang, the hometown of fish and rice in China, as well as the rich places such as Nanzhili, Zhejiang and Jiangxi, although the Dazhong army is not rich, compared with Li Zicheng's Dashun regime, it is better than them, and now the Dazhong Dynasty is Before unifying the world, everything was still military as the priority, so with the strength of the whole country, the logistics department continuously transported all kinds of goods and resources into the front line and supplemented them to the large and medium-sized army. As soon as the generals entered the winter, they basically changed into warm cotton-padded clothes, which was not a great deal of frostbite to the soldiers! As for the supply of grain and bald, although the Dazhong Dynasty is still far from rich enough to let the soldiers have meat, the coarse tea and light rice can basically be full. In troubled times, this is already a very valuable thing. In addition, there are enough military accounts, which will not let the soldiers sleep in the wild, so the morale of the middle-sized army Always maintain a vigorous state.

Many Dashun soldiers saw that they couldn't do it. They secretly began to take the initiative to find the Dazhong army to surrender. Sometimes the people of the Dashun army did not need to attack. They just put a basket of big cakes in front of the battle, and the Dashun army, who lacked enough food and drink, would immediately collapse, and dropped their weapons and surrendered to the Dazhong army, only In order to fill his stomach with a big cake, at this time, Li Zicheng's Dashun army has no strength to resist the Dazhong army at all.

However, a large number of surrendered troops have also caused a lot of trouble for the Dazhong army. It is also quite a headache for the Dazhong Dynasty to support these surrendered troops.

Because as we all know, many peasant armies from all walks of life in history have been recruited by the Ming government, but after the Ming Dynasty recruited these peasant armies, they were unable to support them at all. As long as these insurgents did not have enough to eat, they would immediately rebel, making the Ming Dynasty always suppress these insurgents, which eventually led to The collapse of Daming.

The Dazhong Dynasty, which has now become the ruler, has also encountered the situation encountered in the Ming Dynasty. Although a large number of Dashun troops have surrendered, even Yan Chongxi, who is known as the ruthless, dares not kill these surrendered soldiers, so these surrendered soldiers and refugees must be raised.

For this reason, Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao are quite a headache. They can only ask the logistics department to constantly increase the delivery of materials to the front to ensure that these soldiers will not be starved to death.

Later, the logistics department came up with a way to use the additional military stations along the route of the Dazhong army to set up transit points, set up prisoner of war camps in Shangzhou, Tongzhou and Panzhou, and transport the captured Dashun army and the refugees to these three places for temporary centralized management after disarming.

At the same time, these prisoners are asked to exchange labor for food. Around these three places, they choose a large number of wasteland to reclaim. Although it is winter and it is impossible to sow seeds, so much labor can be used to sort out a large number of wasteland in this winter. After spring, horses You can farm and sow food crops, and by the latest next summer, it will solve the problem of many people's eating.

In addition, a large number of prisoners can also take advantage of the winter to build roads and bridges to restore the unsustainable roads in Shaanxi after the scourge of war, so as to prepare for the recovery of Shaanxi's economy in the future.

Although this does not reduce the consumption of grain at present, it lays a good foundation for the restoration of Shaanxi agriculture next year, and for the captives, even if it is benevolence and righteousness, it is impossible for the Greater China and North Korea to feed them up, two meals a day, one meal a thin meal, and the minimum calories needed to maintain their survival. , let him dig some wild vegetables and grass roots to supplement it, and he will starve to death. Therefore, Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao immediately accepted this opinion and began to send people to evacuate this large number of soldiers along the station along the way to the resettlement site. In this way, at least the consumption of food by the front-line soldiers and horses will also reduce the logistics transportation. The pressure.

With the resolution of the Dashun army outside Xi'an Prefecture, Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao joined forces in the north of Xi'an Prefecture. After a short rest, it was December. After December, there was a heavy snowfall in Shaanxi, and the road was quite deep, which made the Dazhong Army's original plan to attack Xi'an Prefecture. He was forced to give up and changed to a temporary confrontation with the Dashun army.

However, the stop of the attack of the Dazhong Army did not give them a chance to breathe because of Li Zicheng's Dashun army. For Li Zicheng, the remaining 100,000 Dashun army was unable to support it in December. They had been robbed in the past two months, and they also ate what they could eat. After entering December, the inside and outside of Xi'an City has almost become a Shura hell.

The gully was full of hungry people, so some generals of the Dashun Army began to eat people, and it was not difficult for them to eat people. During the late Ming Dynasty, it was very common for people to eat people everywhere. At the behest of some generals of the Dashun Army, the Dashun Army began to eat people in an organized way.

They first ate some old and weak people, imprisoned a large number of people who were about to starve to death, and then killed them in batches. After breaking them down, they put them into a big pot to cook. This situation can be said to be everywhere. It turned out that more than 200,000 people in Xi'an City fled to death in just three months. There are less than 50,000 people left in Xi'an.

At this time, Li Zicheng also knew that Xi'an Mansion could no longer defend it. Even if the Dazhong army did not attack Xi'an Mansion, as long as it lasted for another two months, his Dashun army would be completely finished. So after Li Zicheng arrived in December, he learned that the Dazhong Army was not ready to attack Xi'an Mansion for the time being, so he took advantage of this opportunity. At the meeting, he issued an order to abandon Xi'an Prefecture and retreat in the direction of Hanzhong. Although Hanzhong was attacked and plundered by Li Shuanzhu six months ago, after all, the foundation is still there, and it is easier to get food and easier to defend.

So Li Zicheng abandoned Xi'an Mansion with more than 100,000 Dashun troops, and fled to Hanzhong with the gold and silver he had snatched for so many years.

After Yan Chongxi learned about it, he immediately sent thousands of elite riders to Xi'an Prefecture. Along the way, he began to chase the Dashun army that withdrew from Xi'an Prefecture. He and Liu Bao led the main force and then entered Xi'an Prefecture and recovered Xi'an Prefecture.

But when Yan Chongxi arrived in Xi'an with his army, he shocked everyone when he saw the scene in his eyes. Speaking of what kind of tragic scene they had not seen for so many years, but when they came to Xi'an, they were still shocked by the scene here.

The huge Xi'an Mansion and the surrounding area with a radius of 100 miles, when the Dazhong army arrived, it was already a red land, and the villages and towns had become no man's land. It could almost be said that ten villages and nine empty. Originally, compared with the most prosperous Xi'an Prefecture, it almost turned into a barren land. In addition, when Li Zicheng led the army to withdraw Hou, deliberately set many buildings inside and outside Xi'an City to prevent it from being used by the large and medium-sized army, which made this area extremely desolate.

On both sides of the road and in the gully, there are bones everywhere, and you can even see that there are some white bones everywhere. Obviously, these white bones are human bones, which are used as food after being slaughtered by the Dashun Army. After watching such a scene, the Dazhong army was full of righteous indignation, and everyone couldn't help cursing. Get up.

When entering Xi'an City, the scene here made everyone's hearts tremble. Xi'an City, which originally had a population of nearly 300,000, when the Dazhong Army arrived, there were only less than 10,000 survivors left in the city, and these survivors were like withered wormwood, one by one like dead ashes, with a numb face, just like They are like dead bodies, wandering around the city aimlessly, looking for things that can be full of food to sustain their lives.

Even a tough man like Yan Chongxi couldn't help crying when he saw such a scene. After arriving in Xi'an Prefecture, he immediately ordered military food to relieve refugees, set up dozens of shelters outside Xi'an Prefecture, and sent a large number of scouts to carry dry food and search around Xi'an Prefecture. Once it was found lucky Those who survive will be rescued and guided to the shelter for temporary placement.

After looking at the brutality of Li Zicheng's Dashun army, the generals and soldiers of the West Road Army were all indignant about this. The generals in the army asked for war one after another and asked to send troops to Hanzhong to chase and kill Li Zicheng's Dashun Army.

Although this time is not a good time to start a war due to the weather and road, and it is close to the Spring Festival, after discussion between Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao, he still decided to take advantage of this opportunity available in the military heart to hunt down and kill Li Zicheng.

So just before the end of the year, Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao set out in Xi'an again, leading the army to step on the snow and once again rushed to the Hanzhong area.

Li Zicheng abandoned Xi'an and fled to Hanzhong. In fact, he was quite flustered. In addition, he was not prepared enough. More than 100,000 Dashun troops ran along the way to throw away their helmets and armor. Moreover, because of the low temperature of the harsh winter and the lack of supplies along the way, he could only rely on attacking and plundering local people along the way to obtain some supplies, so the Dashun army was withdrawing. In Xi'an, a large number of fugitive soldiers soon appeared.

Countless soldiers of the Dashun Army saw that Li Zicheng was out of control. Following Li Zicheng could only die. Therefore, after the evacuation of Xi'an Mansion, almost every night, a large number of soldiers quietly separated from the brigade, either drilling into the mountains and forests, or simply turning around to find Dazhong. The army surrendered.

In addition, Yan Chongxi sent thousands of elite cavalry led by Wang Chengping to constantly pursue behind the Dashun army. The Dashun army, which drove Li Zicheng, had to run all the way and did not get a chance to breathe at all. Although Li Zicheng kept sending troops to the palace, he tried to stop the pursuit of the cavalry of the Dazhong army led by Wang Chengping. However, in the face of the elite cavalry of the Dazhong Army, these Dashun troops behind the order often encounter the charge of the Dazhong army, and basically, without exception, will be killed by Wang Chengping's leading soldiers like rolling soup and splashing snow.

Although Li Zicheng left early, the reaction of the Dazhong army was not slow. Therefore, as soon as Li Zicheng led the army to withdraw from Xi'an, Wang Chengping caught up with the Dashun army with the cavalry in the wind and snow. On the way, the Dazhong army led by Wang Chengping was like a fierce dog, following the buttocks of the Dashun army, tearing and Bite, every time he took a bite, he bit a big piece of meat from the Dashun army, and the Dashun army wolf behind him ran and fled everywhere.

Wang Chengping's experience is very experienced. He knows that his thousands of cavalry alone are not enough to eat so many soldiers and horses of Li Zicheng. Moreover, after so many years of operation, Li Zicheng is not a vegetarian. Although the overall strength of the Dashun Army is not strong, Li Zicheng still has a dragon guard beside him, this dragon suit. Wei is all the old subordinates of Li Zicheng. They are all people who have been fighting in the bloody field for a long time. They are extremely loyal to Li Zicheng, and all of them are cavalry, and the number is about 5,000 people. It is the essence of the Dashun Army. The combat effectiveness is extremely strong. It can be regarded as the army of the Dashun Army. When fighting, everyone is not afraid of death. Generation, Li Zicheng attaches great importance to it. No matter at any time, the treatment given to them is far greater than that of other generals, and belongs to Li Zicheng's own troops.

In addition, Li Zicheng's generals also have their own elite family, and there are more than 20,000 people in total. Once these people are forced, it is not Wang Chengping who can eat these thousands of cavalry at the moment.

Therefore, Wang Chengping reviewed the situation and led the army behind Li Zicheng's army. Suddenly, he rushed up and bit the Dashun army fiercely. After a massacre, he immediately ran away before Li Zicheng sent troops to surround him. He made full use of the advantages of their cavalry. Li Zicheng was miserable.

Several times, Li Zicheng couldn't stand this kind of anger and wanted to stop and completely eat Wang Chengping's cavalry. However, Wang Chengping never gave him this opportunity. He only took guerrilla tactics and kept attacking Li Zicheng's army, which made Li Zicheng very angry, but he didn't do anything with them. Law.

From Xi'an Prefecture to Hanzhong, Wang Chengping actually led his troops to kill more than 40,000 horses of the Dashun army. When Li Zicheng went to Hanzhong, there were less than 70,000 horses left, and more than 300,000 Dashun troops. In just two or three months, more than half of them were eaten by the Dazhong Western Expeditionary Army.

After Li Zicheng fled to Hanzhong, he really wanted to cry without tears. It turned out that the main reason why he dared to challenge the Dazhong Army was that he thought that with his troops, although he could not defeat the Dazhong Army, he thought that if the Dazhong Army did not gather more than 100,000 troops, I'm afraid it would not be easy to accept it. Pick him up.

In his opinion before the war, even if his soldiers are not good, how can they be delayed for a year or two? This period of time can make him take a breath, and maybe there is still a chance to return.

But he still overestimated the strength of his soldiers and horses under his command, and Xiao Tianjian didn't pay much attention to him at all. He only called 50,000 Chinese troops in Shanxi, Henan and northern Shaanxi. Xiao Tianjian himself did not personally attack him, but handed over the matter of suppressing him to his general Yan Chongxi. , Liu Bao and Wang Chengping came to do it. It took less than three months for these big and medium-sized tough generals to force him out of Xi'an Mansion and let him Li Zicheng become a homeless dog again. In an instant, the 300,000 Shun army was like rolling soup and splashing snow. More than 200,000 soldiers and horses were destroyed under the front of these large and medium-sized army soldiers. This time Li Zicheng knew why Xiao Tianjian refused to agree to his request to rule.

If it were him, he would not have agreed to such a condition. Dazhong's military results were really great. After arriving at Hanzhong, Li Zicheng knew that it was actually a mistake for him to go to Hanzhong. Although Hanzhong was his so-called "longxing" place, it had been managed by him for three years, but he sent Gao Yigong in May. After attacking Yunyang and failing to rush into Huguang, Hanzhong, his so-called "Longxing" land, was completely destroyed by the Dazhong army stationed in Sichuan.

At the end of May, most of the grain and fodder he hoarded in Hanzhong was burned by Li Shuanzhu, a general of the Dazhong Dynasty, and even some workshops for building weapons were destroyed. Those craftsmen he finally searched were either killed or abduction by the Dazhong army, leaving Li Zicheng in the Hanzhong area. The foundation has been destroyed by the Dazhong army.

Although he has only 70,000 soldiers and horses left now, there are still too many soldiers and horses for Hanzhong. With the material resources of Hanzhong, he still can't support so many soldiers and horses.

After taking stock of the old capital, Li Zicheng was not only a little desperate, but he still refused to admit defeat. In his opinion, although the war is not optimistic now, his capital is still much better than when he rebelled. After all, he still has 70,000 soldiers and horses. As long as he takes a little breath, he will still recover. Possible.

So after discussing with the generals, he once again made a decision to march towards Sichuan and strive to capture Sichuan. In that case, relying on the advantages of Sichuan's mountains and roads, he still has the capital and the Great China and the DPRK to continue to be the enemy.

After discussion, Li Zicheng immediately sent Liu Zongmin. Among the 70,000 soldiers, he selected 10,000 elite soldiers and set out in the direction of Lizhou again, hoping that Liu Zongmin could open up Lizhou for him first, so that he could lead the troops into Sichuan before the Dazhong army chased, and then continue to compete with the Dazhong army.

So Liu Zongmin immediately took Liu Tichun with him and ordered 10,000 soldiers and horses. All of them were soldiers who lived in the mountains and were good at fighting in the mountains. They immediately killed Lizhou from Hanzhong.

(I will present a five-thousand-word chapter today! Ha ha! In addition, the gums are going to be removed today! This is uneasy in my heart! Up to now, the wound still hurts so much!)