594 Battle of Zhu Xianzhen (1)

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Time flies, nearly a month has passed, and it has been fifteen years since Chongzhen.

During this time, Li Zicheng's army was slow to launch an attack on the Ming army in Zhuxian Town.

On the contrary, the Ming generals kept trying to send troops back to Kaifeng, but they were constantly intercepted by Song Xiance's troops, and the two sides launched several fierce battles in the area of Xincheng.

Ding Qirui did this, in fact, he didn't really want to retreat to Kaifeng, but just to confuse the army.

Time, January 23, 15th year of Chongzhen, Xincheng battlefield.

It was a wilderness, flat and hilly on both sides, but it was already covered with corpses.

There are those of the Ming army, and there are those who break into the army.

Tens of thousands of horses on both sides had just fought a tragic battle here, and in the end they did not distinguish the winner or loser, and no one got any benefits, so they retreated to the camp.

At this time, the situation in the entire Henan battlefield was like this.

Chen Yongfu led nearly 20,000 Ming army defenders and refused to defend Kaifeng, he didn't dare to come out unless he was completely sure.

The nearly 200,000 Ming army led by Ding Qirui gathered in Zhuxian Town, and Li Zicheng, who was separated by a sand river in the southwest, looked at each other from afar.

Originally, the more than 80,000 troops led by Song Xiance had been besieged in Kaifeng City.

But since a month ago, they had moved to Xincheng to stop the Ming army in Zhuxian Town, trying to get any supplies from Kaifeng.

At this time, the situation in Kaifeng faintly had the meaning of Li Zicheng's invasion of the army and the siege of the Ming army in Zhuxian Town.

Song Xiance not only blocked the way of the Ming army to Kaifeng, but even Li Zicheng's main force directly blocked the Ming army's southward and returned to Xiangyang.

It can be seen that this time Li Zicheng is very ambitious, and he tried to eat Ding Qirui's nearly 200,000 Ming troops in one bite, once and for all.

And Li Zixiao's 30,000 horses have been stationed in Chenliu and have not attacked at will.

So until now, Li Zicheng didn't know that there was still Li Zixiao's elite hidden next to him.

In the past month, Ding Qirui has successively sent several men and horses in the direction of Xincheng, but they have never broken through Song Xiance's defense line.

At this time, on the battlefield of Xincheng, there were hundreds of soldiers from both sides, cleaning up the battlefield and cleaning up the corpses of their own fallen soldiers.

This is a soldier sent by both sides to clean up the battlefield, and the two sides are hostile to each other, but they do not fight.

Whether it is the Ming army or the Chuang army, they all tacitly abide by this rule, and if the battle is tied, they will each send a small number of men and horses to clean up the corpses on the battlefield.

The generals on both sides understood that although it was the middle of winter, they could not sit idly by and let these corpses sit there.

Not to mention, these people are their comrades-in-arms, and if they are left there and do not come out, it will chill the hearts of their soldiers.

But more importantly, they all understand that if these corpses are left unchecked, there is a high probability of an epidemic, and an army like them, which is prone to hundreds of thousands of horses, is most afraid of the plague.

Once the plague breaks out, don't look at Li Zicheng's four or five hundred thousand troops, or the nearly 200,000 horses on the Ming army's side, it only takes a short time to let them die cleanly.

"Damn, these thieves are really hard to deal with, and I don't know what kind of ecstasy Li Zicheng poured into them, and they went to the battlefield one by one, as if they had taken medicine, and they were not afraid of death."

Hu Dawei was covered in iron armor, stained with blood, and he was the one who led his troops to fight before, and said with a cold face at this time.

"Yes, these thieves are definitely not their elite men, you see that they don't even have the most basic armor.

At most, each of the thieves wore a tattered cotton jacket, and some even did not have a cotton jacket, nor did they have weapons, and many of them carried sharpened wooden spears.

And looking at their appearance, they haven't gone through much battle formation training at all, and they rely on a kind of courage to die.

But I have to say that now relying on the desperate fighting style of these rabble, it has created a lot of trouble for us.

In today's battle, our side lost nearly 4,000 men and horses, and more than 8,000 of the thieves died.

You can see that in the end, the Song thieves are still sending troops to the battlefield, there are too many cannon fodder soldiers like them under them. ”

After Fang Guoan on the side heard Hu Dawei's words, he shook his head with a wry smile helplessly and said.

What Fang Guoan didn't know was that the reason why there were so many soldiers who didn't even have padded jackets among these thieves was that they didn't have padded jackets.

Instead, before going to war, these soldiers all took off their padded jackets and left them for their relatives.

They knew that this battle would be more than auspicious, and they left the most precious cotton clothes for their relatives.

Because of this, many of the soldiers went to the battlefield, all of them fighting with the heart of death.

When there are many such soldiers who fight with a mortal heart, to a certain extent, it is enough for them to make up for the lack of equipment and training.

After all, the situation on the side of the Ming army is really not much better, and their weapons and armor are only much better than those of the cannon fodder soldiers of the breaking army.

If they are compared with the elite men and horses who broke into the army at this time, the weapons and armor of these Ming troops are not as good as the elite of Li Zicheng's subordinates.

This is like comparing bad, picking up a tall man among the short, in fact, the Ming army is also very bad.

Today, Hu Dawei and Fang Guoan, each led 5,000 men and horses to fight, and fought with the 30,000 troops sent by Song Xiance.

The battle lasted from morning to early afternoon, when both sides withdrew their troops.

Hu Dawei and Fang Guoan can still play a one-to-two record when the ratio of enemy and enemy soldiers reaches three to one, which shows that the Ming soldiers under them are already very strong.

The most unbearable thing is that three days ago, Zuo Liangyu led 10,000 soldiers and Song Xiance sent 20,000 troops to fight, and in the end, it turned out to be Zuo Liangyu's soldiers, who couldn't hold it first.

If Ding Qirui hadn't sent Yang Dezheng to rescue Zuo Liangyu in time, Zuo Liangyu's 10,000 horses would probably have been defeated by the breaking army.

In the end, Zuo Liangyu's losses in that battle were similar to the casualties of the intruding army.

At this time, there were nearly 200,000 Ming troops in Zhuxian Town, and among the troops they claimed to be '500,000', Hu Dawei's soldiers and horses were the most powerful, but unfortunately the number was only a little over 20,000.

And the men and horses led by Zuo Liangyu are the largest, as many as nearly 60,000 people, but their combat power level is really poor.

Even the 10,000 most elite henchmen under Zuo Liangyu may still have some combat power, but Zuo Liangyu will never send them to the battlefield easily.

In addition, there are 20,000 horses led by Yang Wenyue, more than 10,000 horses commanded by Ding Qirui himself, and the rest of Fang Guoan, Yang Dezheng and other Ming military horses, adding up to more than 60,000 horses.

That is to say, in fact, the calculation is more accurate, at this time, the Ming army commanded by Ding Qirui in Zhuxian Town, which is known as the '500,000 army', is actually only more than 170,000 horses.

Of course, Ding Qirui's side did not let Hu Dawei and Fang Guoan send their elites to fight, after all, Ding Qirui was also calculating Li Zicheng at this time.

Ding Qirui didn't even plan to let Hu Dawei and them really break through Song Xiance's defense, and all the people they sent were the worst.

They need to leave the real elite behind, and then deal with Li Zicheng, who is in the trap.

I have to mention here that half a month ago, Qi Wei led the 3,500 cavalry of the 'Feiyu Battalion' to Zhuxian Town from Luoyang.

After all, Chongzhen also ordered Qi Wei to lead the army to aid Kaifeng, but Qi Wei didn't dare to make his own decisions and sent someone to ask Li Zixiao.

Later, Li Zixiao also gave Qi Wei an order, so that he could lead the 'Flying Feather Battalion' to go, but not to bring infantry.

And told Qi Wei that after arriving in Zhuxian Town, don't be strong, and don't be used as a gunman, focus on preserving strength, and wait for the opportunity to join him.

After Qi Wei led the Flying Feather Battalion to Zhuxian Town, the elite of the Flying Feather Battalion was valued by Ding Qirui at a glance and directly assigned it to his command.

"Brother Panshi (Fang Guoan's name), I'm not optimistic about this battle!" Hu Dawei turned his head and said to Fang Guoan.

"Hmm."

Fang Guoan nodded, his expression condensed, and said in a deep voice: "Until now, we haven't seen the thieves send elite people to the scene.

However, judging from the information we received in Xuzhou and other places before, Li Zicheng's men did have a strong elite force.

Some time ago, General Wu Weiqing of Yanling, a friend of mine, led 8,000 men and horses to rescue Xuzhou, but was intercepted by 5,000 thieves on the way.

After the first battle, my fellow was defeated, and it was a fiasco, and he was killed all the way back to Yanling.

Fortunately, after Li Zicheng conquered Xuzhou, he did not march towards Yanling for the time being, otherwise Yanling would not have been able to hold it.

It's not good, now Inspector Ding's plan seems to have really worked.

During this period of time, we used Li Zicheng's confusing tactics to make him really believe that we had run out of food at this time.

I guess Li Zicheng should be about to do it.

If Li Zicheng can really jump into our trap, the sacrifice we have made in this month will also be worth it. ”

"I hope so, we can't lose this battle, otherwise Kaifeng will not be guaranteed, and the Central Plains will be over." Hu Dawei sighed and said.

"Not really."

Fang Guoan took off his helmet, wiped off the blood stains on it, and continued: "Even if we are defeated, Li Zicheng's thief army may not be able to defeat Kaifeng.

You know, Kaifeng City is not easy to fight, even if I give me 200,000 horses now, I don't dare to say that I can take Kaifeng City.

Moreover, there is enough food in Kaifeng City and there is a water source, so he is not afraid of Li Zicheng's siege at all.

In addition, the Kaifeng guard at this time is the chief soldier Chen Yongfu, this person is a person who knows how to make good use of soldiers, as long as he does not make big mistakes, he is still very sure to hold Kaifeng. ”

"Yes."

After listening to Fang Guoan's words, Hu Dawei also nodded and admitted that Kaifeng City was indeed difficult to overcome.

At this time, it was basically out of the era of cold weapons, and it was too difficult and difficult to take a strong city like Kaifeng.

The city wall of Kaifeng is so strong that the artillery can't open it, and even a large amount of explosives buried in the ground can't be blown up.

The number of people in front of such a turtle shell should also appear very weak.

Otherwise, Li Zicheng would not have opened the seal three times in history, and finally flooded Kaifeng in anger to destroy this thousand-year-old city.

Of course, some people in later generations also said that it was the Ming army that dug up the Yellow River and diverted water to flood Kaifeng, and there was also a reason, that is, they didn't want Kaifeng to fall into the hands of Li Zicheng, and they would rather destroy it.

Both theories are supported, but the truth about who dug the Yellow River is hidden in history, and no one can understand it.

You must know that when Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng for the third time in history, his strength was already very strong, but he still couldn't defeat it.

This shows that if you want to have a chance of storming Kaifeng, it is very small, and you can only find another way.

Back then, Li Zicheng was able to easily capture the capital, and it was entirely due to the credit of the party that led the way, otherwise he would not be able to defeat Kaifeng, and if Chongzhen defended the capital, it would be even more difficult for Li Zicheng to fight down.

Therefore, the strongest fortress can only be conquered from the inside, you have to be tough and tough, there are only two results, either you are disabled, or both sides are disabled.

Otherwise, Li Zixiao has been thinking about opening the seal, and has always wanted to settle in Kaifeng in a bright and bright way.

Otherwise, if Li Zixiao was really allowed to lead the White Dragon Army to attack Kaifeng, Li Zixiao would not be very sure.

Even if Li Zixiao really captures Kaifeng in the end, the White Dragon Army will definitely suffer heavy casualties, and what will he do to fight with Tartar and Li Zicheng at that time!

This is also one of the reasons why Li Zixiao still refuses to show his antipathy.

At least, at this time, Li Zixiao's official skin still has a lot of significance.

Even if the Ming Dynasty fell, he would be qualified to receive part of the inheritance left by the Ming Dynasty with the title of General Zhenguo on his head.

Rebellion is also about means and tactics, not just blindly killing and killing.

Even if the whole world is killed by you, what does it mean for you to be that emperor, after all, this is a rebellion at home, not a war abroad.

In later generations, many people on the Internet shouted to kill, and if they didn't kill, they were, most of them were elementary school students, and their consideration of the problem was too one-sided.

If Li Zixiao wants to be the emperor, he would rather be like the 'yellow robe' of Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, rather than learn the 'Huangchao Uprising'

At this time, if you can retain a point of Huaxia's vitality, you should try to keep a point, so that you can recover quickly after the war, otherwise what will Li Zixiao do to expand the territory of Huaxia at that time!

Much nonsense, time turns back to the battlefield.

After both sides cleaned up all the corpses on the battlefield, they withdrew their troops and did not continue fighting.

In the next few days, Ding Qirui secretly sent a lot of soldiers to let them 'escape' from Zhuxian Town, but in fact, he deliberately arranged it.

These Ming soldiers who 'escaped' would soon be captured by Li Zicheng's scouts.

Then, Li Zicheng got important information from the mouths of these fleeing Ming soldiers, and the Ming army in Zhuxian Town had completely eaten up the food.

Moreover, in Zhuxian Town last night, Ding Qirui ordered to eat all the last meal.

After Li Zicheng got the news, he was first ecstatic, and then shocked, and said: "It's not good, Ding Qirui's old thief is going to fight hard, and Song Xiance is in danger."

Hurry up and give an order, let Liu Zongmin lead 5,000 elite soldiers, plus 50,000 horses, and gallop to Song Xiance overnight, there must be no mistake.

Ordered the whole army to immediately march and send troops to Zhuxian Town. ”

Li Zicheng's face was full of redness, and he felt that he had won nine out of ten in this battle.

Only Niu Jinxing in the back frowned, he always felt that something was wrong, but he didn't catch it for a while.

(End of chapter)