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Chapter 569 Counter-insurgency

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    When Gao Peng led the army to attack the Tartars and was waiting for the troops dispatched by Chongzhen to take over the handover, Prince Shaobao Zuo Liangyu led an army of 200,000 to defeat Zhang Xianzhong and regained Wuchang and Hanyang.

    Zhang Xianzhong moved to Yuezhou, Changsha, Baoqing, Yongzhou and other places, winning successive battles, while Zuo Liangyu supported his troops with self-respect, and had no loyalty to serve the country. He guarded the three acres of Wuchang and Hanyang as his local emperor.  Hunan was ravaged by Zhang Xianzhong.

    At this moment, the anti-insurgency army in the capital was finally ready, and Chongzhen couldn't wait to send Gao Peng to lead the army.

    This time Gao Peng led an army of 300,000 troops out of the capital, and his deputy was still Shi Kefa, but Sun Chuanting and Zhang Fengxiang did not follow them this time.

    Previously, because there were no generals in the court, the two of them, the Minister of War and the Minister of War, had to go into battle by themselves, but now that there are Wu Sangui Shang Kexi and others, naturally there is no need for them to go out again.

    It's just that although there are 300,000 troops, Gao Peng dares to let go to fight alone, and only Wu Sangui's 80,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry.

    Therefore, this time Gao Peng ordered Wu Sangui to lead 80,000 Guanning iron cavalry and 100,000 forbidden troops to attack his old enemy Li Zicheng in Henan. He himself led another 120,000 troops to attack Zhang Xianzhong in Hunan.

    This guy is not only self-respecting, but also ambitious. What Gao Peng can't tolerate the most is that he supports the Donglin Party. Most of the remaining master disciples raised by the Donglin Party members are under Zuo Liangyu's instructions.

    In the original history, when the Ming Dynasty perished, Zuo Liangyu had 800,000 soldiers. Not only did he not protect the Nanming, but he even prevented his generals from voting for the Nanming. Whoever went to kill whoever died, his son led an army of 800,000 to surrender to the Manchu Qing.  If the whole family is immortal, Gao Peng will not be able to understand his thoughts

    The imperial court's counter-offensive was in full swing. It was more than 2,300 miles from the capital to Hanyang. When the army entered Wuhan, it was already October. Li Zicheng had already begun to attack Tongguan. Fortunately, Wu Sangui arrived in time to turn the tide when Tongguan was about to fall.

    ? Li Zicheng's rebel army had just broken through the closed gate and entered Tongguan. Before gaining a firm foothold, they collided with the Guanning iron cavalry and the forbidden army who had just arrived.

    Facing the Tartar imperial army, they lack confidence, but facing these peasant troops who don't even have armor, they are ruthless one by one, hacking and killing one by one. The peasant army under Li Zicheng's command who scattered into the pass city suffered heavy casualties and was almost wiped out.

    Only a small part of them hid in the homes of the people in the Guancheng and escaped disaster. These peasant soldiers were rebels when they picked up their weapons, and they were ordinary people when they put down their weapons. It is not easy to distinguish.

    Moreover, at that time, the common people were all brainwashed by the nursery rhyme of "killing cattle and sheep, preparing wine, opening the city gate to welcome Chuang Wang, and not paying food when Chuang Wang comes", and they were willing to take the risk of beheading to help the rebel army.

    The Peasant Army suffered heavy casualties, and Li Zicheng's Dashun Army was also defeated by the impact of Guanning cavalry, and Li Zicheng's army was forced out of the pass.

    Wu Sangui left 30,000 forbidden troops to guard the pass, and led an army of 150,000 to chase after him all the way, chasing Huashan all the way, before turning back.

    ? Li Zicheng retreated to Weinan, losing more than half of the 600,000 army, 40% of the 200,000 Dashun army, and 60% of the peasant army trapped by them.

    In the final analysis, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are rogues in nature, there is no formal and perfect command system at all, the internal organizational structure is loose, and each department acts on its own for the purpose of robbery.

    The biggest problem is that in order to win the hearts and minds of the people, the army is expanded without taxation or food, and there is no perfect logistics department and measures. Therefore, when the number of troops grows rapidly, the supply of these troops becomes a big problem.

    So they can only rob, rob rich households, rob landlords and old wealth, rob big merchants, rob and eat all the way, and rob after eating up, can such an army be called an army?

    Once encountering a large group of regular imperial troops, there is no other way but to be defeated. In the original history, it was precisely because of their characteristic of robbing and eating all the way that they marched very fast, because if they were not fast, they would have nothing to eat.

    They even came to the point where many troops outside the Ming Dynasty broke through the capital before they could react. Of course, the most important thing was that there were Manchu Manchus with ulterior motives helping to beat the side drums.

    Not only did it contain a large number of Ming troops, but it also cleared almost all the barriers around the capital. At that time, there were as many as one million troops.

    Today, their life is not so easy. Without the constraints of the Tartars and the Donglin Party, Chongzhen has freed up his hands, and the army that can really fight starts to attack them. Naturally, they can only retreat steadily.

    ?The so-called military speed is precious, Wu Sangui only rested in Tongguan for a day, and then continued to attack Weinan. Seeing the opportunity, the Chang'an Ming Army alsoSend troops to attack Li Zicheng.

    Li Zicheng was hunted down like a bereaved dog. He was chased all the way from Weinan, Shangluo, and Shiyan back to Xiangyang, which is the so-called capital he changed himself to Xiangjing, and he managed to hold his feet.

    After all, Xiangyang is a great city through the ages, easy to defend and difficult to attack. At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, Xiangyang blocked Mongolia for 13 years. The remaining 80,000 Dashun troops and more than 100,000 peasant troops defended the city. Wu Sangui couldn't attack even in his eagerness  .

    So he adopted the method of the Mongols back then, and captured Fancheng, Danyang, Huanglong and other surrounding areas of Xiangyang, making Xiangyang an isolated city, and then besieged without attacking.

    They can get a steady stream of logistical supplies, but the more than 200,000 rebels in Xiangyang City have no supplies at all, and can only sit and eat. Li Zicheng is at the end of the road, and his defeat is only a matter of time

    When Wu Sangui and Li Zi made a deal, the army led by Gao Peng also entered Wuhan and arrived in Hanyang. The army camped ten miles outside the city. Gao Peng only took Wang Jinbao and led a team of guards to Hanyang City.

    However, the gates of Hanyang City were closed tightly, let alone welcome the army into the city, Zuo Liangyu didn't even have the intention of coming to see Gao Peng, the grand master of the Ming Dynasty, the supervisor of the army.

    Arriving within a stone's throw from Hanyang City, Wang Jinbao yelled at the city: "Grand Master of the Ming Dynasty, the governor of the world, Gao Dushi, is here, why don't you open the city gate to welcome him? Zuo Liangyu wants to rebel?"

    There was a moment of silence on the city wall, and a voice came, "I can't confirm whether the person who came is the grand master of the Ming Dynasty. Wait a moment, and I will report to General Zuo immediately."

    There was a sneer on Gao Peng's face, but he didn't attack immediately. It happened that he didn't kill Zuo Liangyu for no reason. Since the other party wanted to hand him the knife, why not wait a while?

    ?In the city, the banquet was in full swing at Zuo Liangyu's mansion, the residence of General Ping Zei and Prince Shaobao. This guy could be described as extravagant and licentious, and he came for everything, just like a local emperor.

    After hearing the report from his subordinates, the grand master who was rumored to have pacified the Manchu Tartars and sent them back to the bitter cold in the Northeast arrived.  The grand master of Zizhi has come, and he probably wants me to join him in attacking Zhang Xianzhong in Hunan, what do you think I should do?" (Remember this website: www.hlnovel.com
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