Wu Sangui was very excited by the emperor's order to lead troops to quell the rebellion. Although he had been in Liaodong for many days, it was also a great honor to be able to receive the emperor's personal appointment. So after receiving the order, he immediately selected the most capable and capable of fighting from the 100,000 elite soldiers in Liaodong, and then set off to Gansu to quell the rebellion.

Before he left, his father Wu Xiang reminded him earnestly: "The way to use military force is not just a word of courage. Although the enemies we face cannot be compared with the fierce Jiannu, you cannot take it lightly."

In front of his father, Wu Sangui naturally did not dare to be arrogant and quickly agreed, but in his heart, he disagreed with this. He had fought with the Jin people, and followed Tang Feng repeatedly easily killed the anti-army army that had far surpassed his side and was defeated or surrendered. Therefore, in his young mind, he believed that these rebellious and rebellious people were vulnerable, and as long as he arrived in Gansu, he could calm the chaos as quickly as possible.

His thoughts quickly spread to the hearts of every soldier. After a long period of undefeated results, the entire army was filled with a sense of arrogance from top to bottom. However, because Wu Sangui, who was ordered by the emperor himself, did not have a steady general to accompany him to quell the rebellion, so no one was there to persuade him.

After half a month of trekking, 30,000 troops finally entered the territory of Gansu. Although he looked down on the enemy, his long-term combat habits still made Wu Sangui mess up immediately. After arriving at the local area, he sent a large number of scouts to investigate. At the same time, he also sent thousands of pioneers to try to give them a warning before the anti-army discovers something.

Obviously, the anti-army was not prepared for the arrival of the Liaodong Army, and it was not until someone met the vanguard team that they realized. With a small difference in force, the combat power of this vanguard Liaodong Army was indeed not something that ordinary anti-army could resist. After the war, it annihilated about 2,000 enemies, and its own casualties were almost zero.

After knowing such brilliant results, Wu Sangui was very happy. He no longer marched carefully, but instead rushed forward with great strides. He wanted to find the main force of the anti-army and fight with it, so that the newly-emerge chaos would be settled in one battle.

However, as the army accelerated its pace of progress, the problem gradually emerged. In addition to some enemies who could not dodge, the anti-soldiers who had already discovered suddenly disappeared, and the army was in vain every attack, which made the entire army have strange thoughts, either feeling disappointed or underestimated the enemy, thinking that these anti-soldiers were not afraid at all. At this time, Wu Sangui suddenly realized that he was a little too hasty.

The current situation is that they have penetrated into the central part of Gansu, but they don’t see many cities, so they naturally cannot obtain food and grass on the spot, let alone find the enemy to fight. Gansu is already vast and sparsely populated, and now it has caused many people to rebel, which makes the place even more desolate. When they learned that the amount of food available in the army was less than three days, Wu Sangui hurriedly ordered people to turn back and urge grain, and he vaguely felt that he had made a big mistake.

Just when the Liaodong Army was in a dilemma, their enemies were already planning a counterattack against them. The leader of this anti-army was not someone else, but an old acquaintance of Wu Sangui. Li Zicheng and Li Yan, who had been defeated by him many times in Shaanxi, Henan and other places.

After failing and being forced to surrender three years ago, Li Zicheng and the others were dispersed again and filled into the border army. Although they were not convinced, after completely losing command of the personnel, they could no longer have any major storms. In desperation, Li Zicheng had to temporarily restrain his rebelliousness, but he did not remain silent, but became more hidden.

This year, Li Zicheng was finally appreciated by his superiors by his superiors and was promoted. He was sent to a garrison in Gansu as a chief officer. Here, he met his old partner Li Yan. Li Yan had been sent here long ago. Although he had martial arts skills, he already knew that his personal martial arts could not play a big role. Only by uniting more people can he deal with the government. So in the past two years, he actually endured it and used the White Lotus Sect's methods to form many brothers here.

Li Zicheng's arrival greatly increased Li Yan's confidence. After the two joined forces, they soon had a large number of their own confidants. They deserved the opportunity to rebel. Because of the financial difficulties of the court, the people here in Gansu owed military salaries for several months this year. In addition, the land in the army in their hometown was occupied by some powerful people, which made the soldiers complain. Some even secretly escaped, and the local military officers in Gansu did not take this seriously. In their opinion, fewer soldiers were short of them, and they could eat more empty salaries, which was a good thing.

As a result, these superiors became even more harsh on ordinary soldiers. The conflict between the two sides was seen by Li Zicheng and others, so they naturally would not let go. When they gathered with their subordinates in Mid-Autumn Festival in August, the two began to instigate each other, and they mentioned Shangguan's greed several times intentionally or unintentionally and the difficulties of the soldiers' situation.

The ordinary soldiers empathized with this. Driven by the drunkenness, they also cursed the officials as they were all cursing. But they didn't know that Shangguan from the local garrison was invited by Li Zicheng to attend the meeting. When they heard everyone's insults at him, Shangguan naturally could not bear it, and immediately someone was punished by the people.

These soldiers had resentment towards their superiors, but now they were beaten by them and resisted under the influence of alcohol. Shangguan had only a hundred trusts, but there were hundreds of strong men here. Once the two sides started to fight, they would naturally be able to distinguish their victory or defeat. Taking advantage of the chaos between the two sides and the situation was chaotic, Li Zicheng secretly approached Shangguan and killed him with one knife.

When everyone suddenly discovered that Shangguan was killed, most of them were awakened, but the facts could not be changed. Li Zicheng immediately provoked: "If we kill our superiors, the court will not spare us easily. I am afraid that we will die of humiliation and disaster to our family."

Everyone didn't know who was the one who killed Shangguan in the chaos. Seeing that Li Zicheng was right, they all felt like they were losing their parents. Finally, someone asked, "What should we do?"

"Then there is only one way, rebel! Anyway, it's all death. Why don't we fight for our future? Perhaps we can create a new dynasty. At that time, not only will we not die, but we can also shine our ancestors. We will no longer be pickled by those dog officials in the future!" Li Yan came out at the right time and added fire to the dry firewood.

At this point, either rebel or die, the soldiers immediately made a decision. In order to show their determination, they killed the personal soldiers brought by Shangguan, and completely cut off their way out. Then the hundreds of them began a vigorous rebellion.

The treatment of the local government troops in Gansu is not only as good as that of important cities such as Liaodong, but also in Shaanxi and other places. The government troops here are full of anger and have nowhere to vent. So after Li Zicheng and his friends took the banner of rebelling, thousands of people followed him in just a day. At this time, Li Yan even used his inspiring means and put forward the slogan of equalizing the fields and exempting grain taxes. He said that as long as he surrendered to Li Zicheng, he could not only get the fertile land seized by the rich, but also no taxes would be charged. As soon as this slogan was released, the people also enthusiastically supported them. The number of Li Zicheng's anti-army army also increased sharply, from a few thousand to nearly 50,000, and most of them were the original official troops, which was even stronger than Gao Yingxiang's back then.

Seeing that he had enough people in his hands, Li Zicheng once again took the banner of King Chuang. This time, he naturally became King Chuang for granted. In this way, after September, many more people came from Gao Yingxiang's old subordinates, which allowed Li Zicheng's power to expand again.

The Gansu government sent troops several times, but they were defeated by them. In the end, they had to use 600 miles to seek help from the court. This matter was soon known to Li Zicheng, so Li Yan set up a way to deal with it. He knew very well that once the court sent troops, it was mostly the Liaodong army, which was not something he could handle. Only by sending surprise troops could he be sure to win. Therefore, his strategy was to bring in the official army and lengthen their logistics supply line, so as to cut off their supplies by taking advantage of the convenience that the local people in Gansu had already bought for themselves, so as to win without a fight.

This strategy was very successful. Wu Sangui completely ignored the supply issue because of his contempt for the anti-army. By the time he realized it, everything was too late. The food available in the army was less than three days, which made him very worried. He quickly called his generals and asked them to send people to the back to urge grain. It was necessary for someone to send the food within three days, while he himself brought his men to continue looking for enemies around him. But all this had been notified by the local people through various means to Li Zicheng and others who were avoiding the edge of the official army.

Two days later, on the Yalong River, which was seventy miles away from the official army camp, the imperial government army escorted hundreds of trucks of grain, was attacked by the anti-army at night. The team of more than 2,000 people made dumplings by more than 5,000 people, and only dozens of people escaped. The hundreds of trucks of grain were taken away by the anti-army.

When the escaped soldiers told Wu Sangui the bad news, he could not believe his ears. At the same time, he felt shocked and angry again. Now his 30,000 people had no food available. He quickly gathered the generals and sought opinions from them. At this time, he no longer had the confidence and enthusiasm he had before.

Finally, everyone came to a conclusion that it would be very difficult to retreat in this situation, because the remaining food in the army is only one or two days, but it takes as little as five days to retreat to a place with supplies. The only way is to find the anti-army and take the food and grass in their hands, so that the army can ensure the needs of the army.

In desperation, the official army had to send cavalry everywhere and scouts to find the position of the anti-army. But these days the anti-army have been hiding from the other side, so how could they easily find it? Gansu is large and has few people, which is more conducive to their hiding. After a day, those sent out have nothing to find.

After knowing that he could not find the enemy in a short period of time, Wu Sangui had to make a decision that shamed him - retreat. He knew that he had fallen into the enemy's trap. Once the army was out of food and the army's morale was shaken, the enemy would come, and then it would be really out of control.

The army then set off to return east, but Wu Sangui still had a mind and ambushed five thousand elite soldiers on the road before retreating. Once the anti-army took advantage of this opportunity to attack, only these five thousand troops would be enough for them to lose their means.

But unfortunately, the army walked east for a day and never saw a trace of an anti-army. This rebellion was a very failed. Only a few small troops were killed, but a team of escorts lost hundreds of vehicles of food. How could Wu Sangui bear this breath? He looked back at the flying dust behind him and said angrily: "When I prepare enough food and grass, I will definitely annihilate you all next time!"

When Wu Sangui turned around and said these harsh words, he never expected that the anti-army would set up an ambush in front of them. When the army was tired and hungry and set up a camp to rest, the seventy or eighty thousand anti-army army killed from three sides at the same time. It was the end of September and there was no moon in the sky.

It is true that the Liaodong Army is an elite, but after rushing for a day, the Liaodong Army, who only had only half a bowl of porridge, could not compare with the enemy who had been waiting there early and had a lot of food. When the anti-armor suddenly arrived, fired everywhere and rushed into the official camp, the Liaodong Army, who had been through the battle for a long time, were also panicked. At most, less than 30% of their ability was left. In this case, the Liaodong Army, which was not as good as the Liaodong Army, immediately fell into a passive position.

That night, the Liaodong Army suffered a great loss, with more than 10,000 casualties. Wu Sangui escaped from the siege with only more than 2,000 people. Since the establishment of Sun Chengzong, the Liaodong Army has never suffered a defeat today. What's more serious is that the anti-army not only gained great confidence from this battle, but also obtained the equipment of the most elite army of the Ming Dynasty. Whether it was good steel swords, guns, armor, muskets, bows and crossbows, the anti-army's combat power increased by more than one level.

Ten days later, Tang Feng, who had been staying at home, learned about the great defeat in Gansu one step earlier than Chongzhen. The news was naturally brought by Bai Liangfeng who came in at night. He felt very helpless. He was just trying to help Wu Sangui quell the rebellion and establish the reputation of the Jinyiwei, but the Liaodong Army was defeated so easily by the anti-army army. It’s a pity that his efforts were made, so many capable people among the Jinyiwei had just improved, but they had no place to use their skills.

Tang Feng was also stunned when he learned the news. He knew that he had neglected and forgot that Wu Sangui is just a young man, and he is not yet as scheming as a scheming person. Even if he has the most elite Liaodong Army in his hands, he will still be defeated if he has any negligence.

Seeing that Tang Feng didn't speak for a long time, Bai Liangfeng could no longer help: "Duke, what should we do next? This time, the matter must be hidden from the East Factory. Their power is getting bigger and bigger, and we must make a difference."

Tang Feng sighed, "God will do anything to others. It seems that (after this war, the power of these anti-army forces will become extremely large, and it will be even more difficult to curb them." After saying this, he reacted and rushed to Bai Liangfeng and said, "It is not the time to be discouraged. Although Wu Sangui is defeated, as long as he removes the remnants of the army and his old subordinates, he can still fight against the enemy. Then perhaps the role of the Jinyiwei will be more obvious."

Bai Liangfeng didn't believe such comfort words, but he could also hear that this was what Tang Feng said when he had no choice but to nod and then leave in depression.

After walking out of the study, Tang Feng felt even more heavy. Will this failure make the ending of the Ming Dynasty repeat in history? The anti-army increased its strength until it finally attacked Beijing City. If this is the case, what can he do?

Unfortunately, Tang Feng could no longer gain the trust of the emperor and lead his troops to the battle, otherwise he could recommend himself to ask the emperor for his order. Once the Jin people learned about Gansu, would they be at peace in the Northeast? The troops in Liaodong could no longer move, and the combat effectiveness of the people in other places was much lower. How should we quell the rebellion? Tang Feng suddenly felt that the various adverse consequences caused by this great defeat were so serious.

He couldn't sleep all night, but when Tang Feng came out of the bedroom, he saw that the puzzled was waiting for him outside. He asked strangely: "Solve the puzzled, weren't you watching the emperor in the palace last night? Why didn't you go to have a rest?"

He answered the question and said, "Young Master, I was waiting for you specifically. I saw something in the palace yesterday. I don't know if it's what you want to see."

"Oh, but what? Let me listen." Tang Feng became interested immediately and asked hurriedly. He had already thought of killing Chongzhen, so he would not miss any chance.

"At the third update yesterday, someone suddenly sent a war report outside the palace. The emperor was in a bad mood after reading it, and at this time, a eunuch accidentally knocked over a light in front of the emperor. The emperor was furious and punished several eunuchs around him. The one who knocked over the lamp was even killed.

"Before I left, I heard some eunuchs secretly saying that they miss the Tianqi Dynasty very much. Now they are not humans..." I explained the matter as soon as possible.

After listening to it, Tang Feng's eyes flashed. He felt that it seemed like an opportunity had come. This might be a moment to change his destiny, but it was also extremely risky, making it difficult for him to make a decision...
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