Chapter 165 The Rebel Army Is Almost Completely Destroyed, Huang Taiji Enters the Pass

After a long silence, someone finally couldn't help but say again:

"Then join the Yarkand Khanate. Anyway, the Yarkand Khanate has no conflict with the Salvation Army.

With the attitude of the Central Plains Han people towards the surrounding countries, the worst that can happen is that they will pay tribute and become vassal states of the Salvation Army."

"This is indeed a way out.

However, I still want to send someone to contact the Salvation Army. If they can accept us, it would be the best."

"Hey, if they are willing to accept us, they won't keep driving us here."

"Alas~, I don't know what the Salvation Army means, and what is the purpose of doing so."

After he finished speaking, someone immediately said with a gloomy face and sneered:

"Hey, it's nothing more than forcing us to attack other forces under the pressure of survival, causing chaos to the Turpan Khanate and even the Yarkand Khanate

Even

Hehe"

At the end, he sneered again, his face was extremely ugly.

After seeing the fighting power of the Salvation Army and its powerful rifles, it is basically impossible for them to join the Turpan Khanate, which is hostile to the Salvation Army.

The biggest possibility is actually to join the Yarkand Khanate.

And if all of them join the Yarkand Khanate.

Then at that time, they will be the excuse for the Salvation Army to attack the Yarkand Khanate.

But now, they seem to have no other choice.

If the Salvation Army is unwilling to accept their surrender, they can only join the Yarkand Khanate.

As for expanding outward and occupying enough living space,

that is simply impossible.

They are now just some remnants of defeated soldiers, and even many people have lost their weapons.

What can they use to occupy enough living space?

Take their heads?

On the other hand, the dynasty at this time is constantly dispatching people to relocate people to the newly occupied areas.

If you want to completely occupy the large territory west of Qinghai, you naturally have to relocate enough people there.

Even on the grassland, the dynasty is ready to relocate some people to graze and raise horses.

As for the saying that it is hard to leave one's homeland.

These relocated people are basically disaster victims from eastern Shaanxi.

For them, as long as they can have a full meal, they don't care where to move to.

If they are going to die, what's the point of saying that it is hard to leave one's homeland?

While the dynasty was dispatching troops to conquer and relocate people to the border, scenes were happening in other places, which were similar to the original history, but different.

In July of the second year of Chongzhen, Chen Qiyu was promoted to the position of Shaanxi Provincial Surveillance Commissioner.

The uprisings in various parts of Shaanxi, after repeated suppression and resurgence, not only did not decrease, but became stronger.

Finally, in a bandit suppression, the Ming army was defeated by the coalition forces of Wang Jiayin and others.

After Chongzhen got the news, he was furious and immediately issued an order to reprimand Yang He, dismissed him from office and imprisoned him, and took him back to Shuntian Prefecture.

Then Hong Chengchou was promoted to the governor of the three borders of Shaanxi.

Well. At this time, most of Shanxi had been occupied by the dynasty, and he could no longer be called the governor of the three borders, but could only be called the governor of Shaanxi.

After being promoted to the governor of Shaanxi, Hong Chengchou immediately dispatched troops.

However, at the first time, Hong Chengchou did not encircle and suppress the peasant uprising army, but led the army to collect food and grass.

Well, he led the army to collect food and grass.

If you give it, everyone will be happy.

If you don't give it, you will be wiped out by the rebels, and then he led the army to take back the food and supplies.

Under Hong Chengchou's tough measures, enough food and supplies were quickly raised.

At this time, he once again launched an encirclement and suppression of the peasant uprising army in Shaanxi.

It was just an encirclement and suppression, but no appeasement.

Hong Chengchou did not approve of the policy of appeasement.

According to Hong Chengchou, as long as he killed enough people, killed all the rebels, and enough people died, the peasant uprising would naturally be suppressed.

If there is still a peasant uprising, it means that not enough people were killed.

Hong Chengchou's ability to command and lead troops was far superior to Yang He's, and he had famous generals like Cao Wenzhao under his command.

In addition, with sufficient food supplies and military pay, the morale of his soldiers was greatly boosted. Not to mention that everyone was willing to fight for their lives, but it was far more than the peasant uprising army.

For a while, Hong Chengchou killed many people in eastern Shaanxi and blood flowed like a river.

He extinguished the uprising army one after another.

The uprising, which was originally in a good situation, was completely defeated in a short period of time, and the occupied cities and territories were all broken by Hong Chengchou's army.

Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang and others hid from place to place under Hong Chengchou's encirclement.

How glorious and arrogant they were before, how embarrassed and depressed they were now.

However, everyone was not completely desperate.

After all, there was still a largest rebel force in the west.

Under such circumstances, Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang and others once again thought of the Salvation Army, the largest and first rebel force, and began to send people to contact Wang Chao.

After a period of hesitation, Wang Chao finally agreed to everyone's request for help.

With an order, countless members of the agricultural society, shadows, and intelligence personnel from the Military Intelligence Department began to follow the caravan into various parts of Shaanxi, lurking in secret to develop intelligence and agricultural society members.

At the same time, these people were constantly guiding the rebels and helping them avoid the encirclement and suppression of the government troops.

For a while, the encirclement and suppression of the Shanxi uprising army once again fell into a strange state of pursuit and stalemate.

However, overall, the uprising army was still at an absolute disadvantage, and Hong Chengchou continued to destroy its living forces.

Finally, many uprising leaders gathered together and decided that this was not a solution.

They would definitely not be able to defeat the officers and soldiers in a head-on battle.

Therefore, the most appropriate method they should adopt is mobile warfare.

Of course, their mobile warfare is actually to escape, constantly escape, avoid the pursuit of officers and soldiers, and not fight with them head-on.

In this process, they also have to constantly involve the people and continue to expand the team.

When the team becomes completely strong, the officers and soldiers will be destroyed in one fell swoop.

This is the truth, but it is not used.

At this time, the uprising army did not receive much support from the people.

Therefore, at the beginning, their method did work a little.

There was even a trend of growing again, but later, with the imperial court's encirclement and the people's lack of support, defeat was basically certain.

At this time, the rebel army had been roughly divided into three main teams, Wang Zuogui, Shen Yikui, and Wang Jiayin, and the strength was relatively concentrated.

At the beginning, with the secret help of the members of the agricultural society and the shadow personnel, they really stood firm.

However, Hong Chengchou was not a vegetarian.

Facing the rebel army with signs of resurgence, Hong Chengchou immediately adopted different strategies of differentiation and elimination according to the character of the rebel leader.

He first sent someone to contact Wang Zuogui and directly summoned Wang Zuogui to surrender with various generous treatments.

However, Wang Zuogui did not end up well after surrendering.

When Hong Chengchou invited Wang Zuogui to dinner, he took advantage of his unpreparedness and killed him on the spot, and directly became his feast.

The rebel army, which had lost its leader, was demoralized.

Hong Chengchou disarmed Wang Zuogui's army without a single drop of blood, and wiped out Wang Zuogui's rebel army.

After dealing with Wang Zuogui, Hong Chengchou directly dispatched heavy troops to encircle and suppress the rebel army led by Wang Jiayin.

The rebel army led by Wang Jiayin at this time were just ordinary people who had just been recruited and had not undergone any training.

It can be said that they were just a group of rabble, and they were no match for the regular army of the Ming Dynasty. They were beaten and fled in a panic, and were eventually surrounded.

Facing the encirclement of the imperial army, Wang Jiayin could only lead his army to break through.

At the critical moment when Wang Jiayin led his army to break through, Hong Chengchou even took the risk to go to the front line to command. With the help of the famous general Cao Wenzhao, after a series of fierce battles, the rebel army was defeated.

However, as the battle continued, the combat quality of Wang Jiayin and other rebels was also increasing at a visible speed, and occasionally even posed a threat to officers and soldiers.

At this critical moment, Zhang Liwei, a general under Cao Wenzhao, claimed that he was Wang Jiayin's brother-in-law and could pretend to surrender to Wang Jiayin.

After consideration, Cao Wenzhao agreed to his suggestion.

After joining Wang Jiayin's rebel army, Zhang Liwei was appointed as the commander in front of the tent by Wang Jiayin, which was considered to be trustworthy.

Unfortunately, Zhang Liwei was in Cao's camp but his heart was with Han.

He quickly bribed Wang Guozhong, a fellow villager who defected to Wang Jiayin. The two took advantage of Wang Jiayin's drunkenness to sneak into his military tent and assassinate him in the military tent.

After Wang Jiayin's death, the entire rebel army immediately fell apart and fled in all directions.

Afterwards, Chongzhen appointed Zhang Liwei as the deputy general of the Left Guard Association to show his merits.

So it makes sense that marching soldiers are not allowed to drink, because it really kills people.

After beheading Wang Jiayin and extinguishing Wang Jiayin's rebel army.

Hong Chengchou immediately turned his troops around again and tried his best to encircle and suppress Shen Yikui.

Facing the encirclement and suppression of the government troops, Shen Yikui was quickly defeated and immediately moved to the territory of the Salvation Army.

However, Hong Chengchou had long been prepared for this. The roads to the west from Qingyang Prefecture and other places were all blocked by the army.

Shen Yikui had no choice but to move north, hoping to cross Ningxia Guard and enter the territory of the Salvation Army.

Unfortunately, he did not succeed in the end and was surrounded and killed by Hong Chengchou's army in Ningxia.

So far, the peasant uprising in Shaanxi, except for the Salvation Army, has been basically extinguished.

After suppressing Shen Yikui, Hong Chengchou looked at the direction of Jinglu Guard and really wanted to take the opportunity to recapture Jinglu Guard.

But in the end, he still led his troops back.

"It's not the time, we need to train a strong army again."

Looking at the Jinglu Guard in the distance, Hong Chengchou's eyes were dim and he murmured in his heart.

Facing the Salvation Army, just like facing the Later Jin outside the Great Wall, we must not rush for success, but must trap them in a corner, train a strong army, and then we have the opportunity to wipe them out.

After withdrawing, Hong Chengchou began to lead his army to wipe out the remaining rebels.

Facing Hong Chengchou's encirclement and suppression, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, etc. were in a state of embarrassment and suffering.

In the end, they felt that if they continued to disperse and act on their own, they would be encircled and suppressed by officers and soldiers one by one like Zijinliang Wang Jiayin and others.

Finally, the 36th Battalion rebel army jointly nominated Wang Ziyi, a general under Wang Jiayin, as the second Zijinliang, to lead the various rebels and continue to struggle with officers and soldiers with the help of the members of the agricultural society and the shadows.

Although it was gradually declining, it finally managed to hold on.

However, things soon took a turn for the better.

On October 26, the second year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji brazenly crossed the border passes of Longjing Pass, Da'ankou, Xifengkou and other places in Jizhen, led his army into the pass, and approached Shuntian Prefecture.

Faced with this situation, Chongzhen immediately ordered all places to come to Beijing to defend the king.

After receiving the imperial edict, Hong Chengchou stood for a long time, and finally sighed.

Once he left, the rebels would surely rise again.

However, he had no other way.

Otherwise, once the capital was broken, he would completely wipe out the rebels in Shaanxi, so what would be the point?