It is said that since the defeat of The King Gao Yingxiang in the battle with Cao Wenzhao, he no longer had a hard encounter with the officers and soldiers, and gave full play to the advantages of sports combat, floating like a frightening wind and lightning, making the officers and soldiers unable to chase and tired of running for their lives.
On this day, he camped in a small town in the south of Gaoping, and the guards came in to report that there was a man and a woman, dressed in rags, and asked to see the king. Gao Yingxiang was confused and walked out of the camp.
The man and woman were indeed ragged and dusty. Yingxiang looked at the man's eyes, and carefully distinguished, it turned out to be Li Zicheng! But his beard grew more than three inches long.
King Chuang was overjoyed, took three steps and made two steps to go forward, and hugged Li Zicheng tightly, unable to be separated for a long time. King Chuang slapped himself the back and said, Good brother! You really didn't die, you want to die big brother me!"
Li Zicheng also burst into tears and said, "Big brother, I miss you too!"
King Chuang turned to the woman and said, "This is—" The look in his eyes was asking Li Zicheng.
Li Zicheng hurriedly said: "She is Gao Yigong's sister, and when I met in the chaotic army, we went east and west together, and finally found the eldest brother you here." You've always been uncertain, and you're so tired that we're going to chase you!"
King Gao Chuang laughed and said, "I should have run faster and the officers and troops could not catch up with me, but I didn't expect that you would be so tired that your brother also ran a lot of wrongdoing." I'll pick a few good horses for you myself, brother, and you'll run faster than I will in the future!"
After saying that, Yingxiang glanced at the woman, remembered something, and said, "Hey, patronage is happy." Your masses of brothers are in my camp, not a few!"
Li Zicheng said, "Are you saying that Li Guo, Gao Jie, Yi Gong, and Body Purity are all here?"
"Of course!"
"That's great, I didn't expect that!" Li Zicheng was overjoyed.
When the woman heard that Gao Yigong was in the camp, her eyes lit up. Originally, she thought that when she returned to the rebel camp, she would no longer be able to be with Li Zicheng all day, and Gao Yigong did not know where to go. How desolate it would be to be alone in the camp of the rebels! Now that I heard that a merit was in the camp, a stone in my heart fell to the ground, and I was very happy.
Gao Yingxiang ordered the soldiers who had passed the order to call the four generals, and while welcoming Zicheng and the other two into the tent, not long after, Li Guo and the other four came to the king's tent, and when they saw Zicheng, they were all overjoyed. Gao Yigong was overjoyed to see his sister return safely.
The generals asked about Li Zicheng's escape, and Li Zicheng said it slightly. Everyone listened to him talk about the battle with Cao's uncle and nephew, although Li Zicheng said it lightly, Gao Yingxiang and others had fought with Cao Wenzhao, and they were well aware of the strength of their uncles and nephews, and several of them imagined the tense and fierce situation at that time.
That night, king Chuang ordered a banquet to be held for Li Zicheng, and the generals knew that Li Zicheng, the right and left arm of king Chuang, had returned, and they were all happy for King Chuang and the rebel army. In particular, the brothers who originally belonged to Li Zicheng were even more elated.
During the banquet, the king was drunk and his ears were hot, thinking of Cao Wenzhao, he couldn't help but be angry, and he raised his wine and said to Li Zicheng: "Brother, Cao Wenzhao defeated you and me, that is not our brother's low skill, it is our rebel army that drags too much." One day, our brothers will join forces, and how can their uncles and nephews be our enemies?"
Li Zicheng said, "Let me Li Zicheng seize the opportunity and order Cao Wenzhao and his soldiers and horses to be destroyed." At present, our brothers are not as elite as the officers and soldiers, so we must select elite soldiers, teach them the formation methods and martial arts, let them not panic in the battle, advance and retreat in an orderly manner, and be able to fight and defend, so that they can compete with the officers and soldiers. ”
King Gao Chuang listened, and his own thoughts coincided, laughing, and said, "I said earlier that brother you are not idler, and now it seems that my vision is not good at all!"
The crowd rejoiced.
Li Zicheng was defeated by the king of Chuang, and his original pawns were few and his strength was weak, so he no longer divided the camp with the king of Chuang, and led his four generals to serve under Gao Yingxiang's account. King Chuang received the help of his own strength, and the momentum slowly recovered.
At the same time, Zijinliang and others were active in Zezhou, Lu'an, and the area around Wu'an and Huaiqing in Henan, disturbing the peace of the two provinces of Jinyu. Although Zuo Liangyu has also made many military achievements in northern Henan, he has no choice but to be small and difficult to achieve great achievements.
The imperial court saw that thieves in northern Henan and Shanxi were becoming increasingly rampant, and ordered the famous general Deng Xuan of the Sichuan army to lead two thousand Sichuan troops, and another two thousand soldiers of Sima Fengyi in Shizhu Tu, to join forces to help Zuo Liangyu. The Governor of Henan, Fan Shangyu, because he did not take the risk of too much action, caused the rogue thieves to break in, and was dismissed from his post by the imperial court and replaced by the former Yu Shi Xuanmo.
Deng Xuan was a famous general in Sichuan, and the Tianqi Dynasty was recruited to reinforce Liaodong, accumulating military merit and becoming a deputy commander-in-chief. He acted for people and marched to fight in a sinister and vicious manner, his colleagues and enemies were afraid of him, and his Sichuan soldiers were known for their good fighting, so Deng Xuan and his army had always been relied upon by the imperial court.
Chongzhen Dynasty, Deng Xuan is over 50 years old, and he is homesick for the elderly. The soldiers and generals under his command, who accompanied him on the expedition for more than ten years, also looked forward to returning to their homeland one day. In the fourth year of Chongzhen's rebellion against Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming in Dengzhou, Shandong, the news came and the Beijing division was shaken.
Shandong has been peaceful for a long time, the defenders are mediocre and incompetent, and the rebels have been suppressed for a long time. Deng Xuan volunteered to fight the rebels, hoping to take this opportunity to make a great achievement, and then return to his hometown. In August of the fifth year of Chongzhen, he attacked Laizhou, then besieged Dengzhou, and by February of the following year, he had retaken Dengzhou. Kong Youde and Geng Zhongminggong led the remnants of ma to flee to Liaodong and surrendered to Emperor Taiji.
Because of his merits in suppressing the rebellion, Deng Xuan entered the bureau and was known to the governor.
At this time, the Shanxi rebels were forced by Cao Wenzhao and other officials to invade northern Henan and southern Qi, and the provinces of Daming, Shunde, and Huaiqing were in a hurry. When the imperial court was employing people, Chongzhen shelved Deng Xuan's request to return to his hometown, personally encouraged him, and dispatched him to join Zuo Liangyu to suppress the thieves.
Deng Xuan's subordinates, seeing that there was no hope of returning to their hometown, could not help but complain, the military was scattered, and military discipline was abolished. Where this group of officers and soldiers passed, chickens flew and dogs jumped, and they wantonly plundered gold and silver women, and there were officers and soldiers like Zuo Liangyu and Deng Xuan in Gyeonggi Henan, but they were exempted from the rebels' food, but they ushered in the ravages of the officers and soldiers.
Since Deng Xuan and Ma Fengyi arrived in Henan, the momentum of the officers and troops was greatly enhanced, and Deng Xuan and Zuo Liangyu joined forces to attack, and the situation of the rebels was much more difficult than before.
The generals Cao Wenzhao, Li Bei, Ai Wannian, and Zhang Yingchang in Shanxi also stepped up their attacks, and Zijinliang, Lao Hui, Guo Tianxing, and Zhang Xianzhong were defeated in successive battles. The rebel army suffered from the enemy on its backs, and they were all strong troops of the officers and troops, so they had no choice but to retreat to the Taihang Mountains, and according to the dangerous terrain and abundant grain and grass, they were dead in the cottage, and although the officers and troops were brave, they were helpless.
Although the rebels were suppressed, they had no power to fight back, and the battalions added up to more than 100,000 men, occasionally attacking in partnership, and the action was like a storm, erratic, which caused headaches for the officers and soldiers.
Li Zicheng and king Chuang could not stand in Shanxi and led the rebel army into the Taihang Mountains. Unwilling to be lonely, he reached southern Qinan from the Yuetaihang Mountains in Liaozhou, only a hundred miles away from Shunde, and the Beijing Division shook.
Although he was a scholar, he was proficient in the use of soldiers and was superior in martial arts. He heard that the rogue thieves had invaded the territory and personally led the officers and troops to fight, and Li Zicheng fought a battle with him and returned with a big defeat.
He retreated along the Motianling Trail to Wu'an, breathless, Zuo Liangyu attacked, and Li Zicheng hurriedly led the rebels to retreat. In Xiangxian County, he was pursued by Zuo Liangyu, and the two armies fought a scuffle, and Li Zicheng was defeated again.
Just at this time, Zijin Liang, Guo Tianxing, and others were defeated by Cao Wenzhao in Shanxi, and re-crossed the Taihang Mountains and gathered in northern Henan. Zijin Liang heard that Li Zicheng was fighting Zuo Liangyu, but he poured all his men and horses together, and a total of 40,000 people from Tianxing and Lao Hui surrounded Zuo Liangyu on all sides.
At this time, Zuo Liangyu's men and horses were nearly 10,000 people, and the soldiers were strong and strong, and they could not be lived. Zuo Liangyu fought with the rebels many times, had a lot of experience, and knew that although the rebels were nominally commanded by Zijin Liang, in fact they were still basically fighting separately, as long as they chose the weakest battalion to defeat them, the rest retreated without fighting, so although they saw the rebels' momentum, they were not very afraid.
Who knew that he had made a mistake this time, and that he had responded to the old saying that the wise man would have a thousand worries and that he would make a mistake. With Zuo Liangyu's alertness and slippery head, he would not have made such a mistake, but he did it.
It turned out that since Zijin Liang fell out with the Chaotian King because of a small bitch, the leaders of various families had deviated from Germany, thinking that he was not enough to serve as the commander of the rebel army, and in his heart he looked down on him a lot.
The command and dispatch of Zijin liang, each battalion listened or did not listen, so that the prestige of Zijinliang was invisibly reduced a lot. Zi Jin Liang also knew the mystery of it, but there was nothing he could do. He was anxious to regain his authority among the rebels so that the rebel battalions would not fall apart.
This time Li Zicheng was defeated by Zuo Liangyu, which provided him with this opportunity, he first wanted to kill Zuo Liangyu's might, and second, he wanted to take the opportunity to win Li Zicheng, and this battle was something he was determined to win.
Among the rebel generals, Lao Hui was the most old and heavy-handed, and he had one of the greatest advantages, that is, he had the courage to sacrifice some of his own interests and take the overall situation into account, which won him the respect of many leaders. This time, Zijin Liang invited him to join forces with Zuo Liangyu, and he felt obliged to help the battle.
Among the three battalions, the Celestial Star was the weakest, with only six or seven thousand men and horses. He and Li Zicheng did not have much deep friendship, and could have taken the time to slip away. Who knew that Tianxing was a man who was very principled in doing things for people, and as long as he decided on things, he would do it with all his might, and no one would be able to persuade him. This time he was an enemy of Zuo Liangyu, and it was also a shame to retaliate against Zuo Jun's defeat of him several times, and he also fought hard to annihilate him.
The two armies fought fiercely, and both used their full body solutions. Zuo Liangyu's brave generals rushed left and right, causing great casualties to the rebels and heavy losses themselves. Zi Jin Liang rode on a maroon horse, wearing a hat on his head, and personally charged into battle. When the soldiers saw that the allies were like this, they all took one to ten, scrambled to the front, and bravely moved forward. This fierce battle was killed intermittently for three days.
Zuo Liangyu saw that nothing could be done, so he concentrated his forces, tore a hole from the position of the Heavenly Star, and fled. This battle was a fiasco that Zuo Liangyu had not suffered since he left the division, and nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses escaped less than 2,000, and the rest were all annihilated.
Since then, Zuo Liangyu, who is familiar with accidents, has become more alert, estimating that there is no cheap to occupy, so he leads the army to avoid, regardless of the dispatch of his superiors, to preserve strength first, and support the army to respect themselves.
In the last days of the Ming Dynasty, there were countless famous generals in the imperial court, but Zuo Liangyu was good at preserving himself, and his status became increasingly important. That experience is mainly gained from this battle.
Zi Jinliang and other generals almost completely annihilated Zuo Liangyubu in this battle, and they were all rejoicing, thinking that it was a great victory that the rebels had never won since the uprising. Li Zicheng came to see Zijin Liang, Lao Hui, and The Heavenly Star, grateful for the virtue of mutual salvation, and the three people were even more excited.