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Chapter 40 Section 3 Zhang Xianzhong Model

Zhang Xianzhong legally stationed his troops in Gucheng. Gucheng became his independent kingdom. In name, he is a surrender, and the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty can no longer go to encircle and suppress.In fact, he is still the supreme commander of the 100,000 horses.Hundreds of thousands of horses are united like one person, a person who seems to be doing nothing and doing nothing on the surface. He is waiting. Wait quietly. What is waiting for, no one knows. Only Zhang Xianzhong knew. But Zhang Xianzhong didn't say anything.He didn't say anything even if he was killed.

Peaches and plums, the next from Seikei. Zhang Xianzhong's model was adopted by Luo Rucai. Luo Rucai was the leader of another peasant army.After being appeased, he led his troops to station in Fangshan and Zhuxi, echoing Zhang Xianzhong's Gucheng troops. Xiong Wencan was scared.He felt that his grandmother had become a victim of the court. Originally, he agreed that these peasant armies would be caressed conditionally.That is, the imperial court pays for their dismissal and resettlement.But the imperial court played a rogue, only agreed to be caressed, and did not agree to give money.In this way, the appeasement becomes the nominal appeasement.The peasant army began to occupy the city as the king, euphemistically called "self-reliance, sufficient food and clothing".

Xiong Wencan is no fool, of course he saw what Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were thinking. It's hard to tell people's thoughts. This is no appeasement, this is to form a strategic encirclement for him! They must be dismissed!must! With the living facts in front of him, Xiong Wencan quickly agreed with Yang Sichang's view of "disbandment".But at this moment, Yang Sichang was intoxicated by Chongzhen's righteousness, and he no longer mentioned the word "dismissal". Xiong Wencan can only clean up the mess by himself. Many times in life, you have to clean up the mess yourself.This is a compulsory course in a person's life.Where there is a beginning, there is an endgame, but the endgame is more difficult to deal with than the beginning.

Because there are not many opportunities left, everything is in a countdown state. The rest belongs to you, whether it is hope or despair, whether it is chicken ribs or chicken legs. The rest is yours, all yours, and you can do whatever you like.Crying and laughing are all up to you, the only one is that you have to bear everything. Everything that the endgame brings. Xiong Wencan began to peel off carefully.He wants to separate Zhang Xianzhong from Luo Rucai, separate the strong from the weak.Xiong Wencan acquiesced to the fact that Zhang Xianzhong supported the self-respect of the soldiers and did not move him, but opposed Luo Rucai's support for the self-respect of the soldiers.He asked Luo Rucai to disband the troops, otherwise he would bear the consequences.

Luo Rucai ignored him.Luo Rucai expected that Xiong Wencan would not dare to use troops, so he ignored him.Luo Rucai guessed that the reason why Xiong Wencan did not dare to mobilize troops was because Zhang Xianzhong was there, and Zhang Xianzhong would not sit idly by once mobilizing troops, so Luo Rucai was confident. Luo Rucai's conjecture was not wrong.Sure enough, Zhang Xianzhong gave Xiong Wencan a clear signal: to move Luo is to move Zhang, and there must be action. Zhang Xianzhong, this is a blatant threat.Inadvertently, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai forcibly occupied the Gucheng, Fangshan, and Zhuxi areas on the grounds of seeking comfort, and completed the strategic encirclement of Xiong Wencan.The offensive and defensive situation has changed, so Zhang Xianzhong dared to issue a naked threat.

Xiong Wencan suddenly understood his situation.The current state can be called a stalemate at best. If everyone does not fight each other, then nothing will happen. The emperor also thinks that the world is peaceful, hello, hello, hello, everyone; once there is a fight, Huguang will fall, the emperor He will definitely be held accountable for all his faults in the failure of the bureau, after all, he is Xiong Wencan, not Yang Sichang, who is in charge. Until then, life will not be wonderful. He does not want a wonderful life.He wants a wonderful life.He wants to stop still. He could only stop still, because he couldn't move at all.

The situation in Shaanxi is much better.Because of Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting.They are at the head of the word suppression, and their moves are designed to put Li Zicheng and other peasant troops to death. In fact, under this coercive policy, the peasant army was almost wiped out.After all, it is a national army with excellent weapons.After all, they were well-trained and professional soldiers, and they were the wily and calculating Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting. The final outcome was a complete victory: the hundreds of thousands of peasant troops were almost wiped out, leaving only 18 people, including Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin, fleeing.

What kind of climate can eighteen people become?Eighteen people are completely negligible.Shaanxi is still the Shaanxi of Ming Dynasty. Chongzhen was ecstatic.Shaanxi is the victory of the suppression bureau, and Huguang is the victory of Fuju.Whether it is the victory of suppressing the bureau or the victory of Fuju, it is my victory for Ming Dynasty. In the final analysis, it is the victory of my Chongzhen personal wisdom.That's right, today's victory was largely due to Yang Sichang's ten-sided net plan, but who gave Yang Sichang the stage to display it?And who discovered Yang Sichang?

It's me, it's me, it's me——Chongzhen! Chongzhen really admired himself. Throughout the ages, how many emperors can turn the tide?There are only a handful of them!The situation of the country is so precarious, and the imperial court is so corrupt, it is not easy to achieve such achievements, it is really not easy... Chongzhen was almost moved by himself, he suddenly felt that being an emperor is actually quite sad, no one will reward him, even if he has made extraordinary achievements.The emperor can only reward others. One of the most important tasks in a lifetime is to put one crown after another on heads of different sizes.This time, he was going to wear a bigger laurel crown for Yang Sichang, after all, Yang Sichang still deserved the credit.

However, Yang Sichang seemed a little apprehensive about Chongzhen's commendation: Your Majesty, my ministers dare not accept it. Why? Chongzhen felt strange.This is not Yang Sichang's style. Liaodong, Liaodong is still full of worries. The world of Ming Dynasty is not peaceful, so the ministers really dare not accept it. Chongzhen's heart suddenly turned cold.That's right, the world of Ming Dynasty was not peaceful. Ten nets could deal with the "rogue bandits", but they couldn't deal with the Manchurian iron cavalry. Iron cavalry is not a fish, it can break through any net.What's more, the net woven by Yang Sichang is not a net of heaven and earth.

Daming is still in dire straits, and Chongzhen is far from turning the tide.Such a discovery suddenly made Chongzhen feel disappointed. Things in the world are often unsatisfactory.But the biggest unsatisfactory thing in life is the helplessness of these eight or nine unsatisfactory things. You can never change this embarrassing situation.cannot.Chongzhen recalled the past ten years since he ascended the throne, and felt that there was never a time when the Manchurian cavalry was defeated, but he retreated inexplicably.This is a very scary thing, because there is an inexplicable retreat and an inexplicable attack.Chongzhen didn't know when Huang Taiji's next attack would be, maybe tomorrow, maybe next year, but definitely not ten years later. Because Huang Taiji couldn't wait ten years, and Chongzhen couldn't wait ten years either.In an age of power imbalances, they will soon see each other. soon.
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