In March of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting volunteered to be the governor of Shaanxi! Since then, Sun Chuanting has completed a magnificent turn from a civilian to a military commander.
Although the position of Shaanxi governor is quite large, Sun Chuanting has neither soldiers nor salaries, because the court can't give it! Although the difficulty was great, it didn't scare Sun Chuanting off. In just a few months, Sun Chuanting built an iron army-Chi, and its fighting capacity ranked second in the late Ming Dynasty!
Qin Jun's characteristic is the Shaanxi characteristic army established by relatives, and most of the soldiers in the army are relatives, so that a person who dies in battle can arouse the fighting spirit of revenge of the whole army.
In July of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting defeated Gao Yingxiang with Qin Jun who had only trained for four months. Gao Yingxiang couldn't beat Sun Chuanting, so he wanted to enter Shaanxi from Meridian Valley and sneak attack on xi 'an. Sun Chuanting's battle plan for Gao Yingxiang is in full swing. He led a great army to ambush Heishui Valley, the exit of Meridian Valley. After 15 days, when the tired Gao Yingxiang army finally reached Heishuiyu, it was defeated by the Sun Chuanting army and Gao Yingxiang himself was captured. Later, he was taken to Beijing to be executed.
Chongzhen 1 1 year, Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou were in perfect harmony and ambushed in Tongguan. Li Zicheng fled with only 18 cavalry. Since then, the Chongzhen Uprising has been basically extinguished, and Daming has seen the dawn. In August of the same year, the Qing army invaded and the capital was on alert. Chongzhen transferred Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting back to Beijing to defend the capital.
Because of the main battle in Sun Chuanting, we offended Yang Sichang, the chief book and minister of the Ministry of War at that time, and the eunuch, so Yang Sichang suggested to Chongzhen that Qin Jun should stay in Hebei and Liaoning. Sun Chuanting strongly opposed, "Qin Jun can't stay. If you stay, the thief will gain the upper hand and will not help the border. It will also retreat on behalf of thieves. "
However, because Yang Sichang won the trust of Chongzhen, Chongzhen decided to follow Yang Sichang's advice and stay in Qin Jun. Sun Chuanting was furious and turned a deaf ear, so Sun Chuanting had to ask Chongzhen for sick leave. But Yang Sichang still didn't let Sun Chuanting go. He told Chongzhen that Sun Chuanting was dissatisfied with the emperor's decision to stay in the pool, so he resigned due to illness. The fatuous Chongzhen indiscriminately locked Sun Chuanting up for three years!
In these three years, Li Zicheng was as worried as Sun Chuanting, because the pool was transferred and Li Zicheng developed again. At this time, Yang Sichang is dead, and there are not many generals available in Chongzhen's hands. So in February of Chongzhen 15, Chongzhen released Sun Chuanting, pinning the hope of destroying the peasant army on Sun Chuanting.
But at this time, the peasant army is no longer under Wu, and their equipment and actual combat experience have been greatly improved over the past three years. And Sun Chuanting's situation is still the same as that of three years ago-no soldiers, no pay, and you have to rely on yourself for food and clothing. Despite all the difficulties, Sun Chuanting recruited an army like magic in just a few months.
During the Chongzhen period, Sun Chuanting was constantly advised to fight Li Zicheng. Sun Chuanting wrote that the soldiers were newly recruited and useless. I asked Chongzhen to give me some time to train, but the headstrong Chongzhen refused. Chongzhen 15 10 Under the pressure of Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting had to lead a group of recruits to a decisive battle with Li Zicheng.
The armies of Sun Chuanting's New Qin Jun and Li Zicheng met between Lushan and Jiaxian. Sun Chuanting decided to outsmart him. He set an ambush first, and then sent the company commanders as bait to attract Li Zicheng's troops into the ambush. Li Zicheng was ambushed. Sun Chuanting led the army to pursue the peasant army for more than 30 miles, and Li Zicheng suffered heavy losses. Unfortunately, the weather was bad and it began to rain cats and dogs for many days. Sun Chuanting, far away from home, can't supply food and grass, so the soldiers can only collect immature green persimmons to satisfy their hunger.
Cunning Li Zicheng ordered all the gold and silver treasures seized to be thrown on the ground. At that time, Sun Chuanting worried about the shortcomings of the recruits were exposed. In spite of military orders, they rushed to rob the jewels discarded by Li Zicheng's army. Li Zicheng saw that Sun Chuanting's formation was chaotic, so he fought back. Sun Chuanting won first and then lost, so he had to withdraw his general from Shaanxi.
After Sun Chuanting returned to Shaanxi after the defeat, he planned to defend Tongguan. After half a year, Sun Chuanting has recruited hundreds of new soldiers. He was keenly aware that Li Zicheng would attack Xi 'an, and Tongguan was the only way to win Xi 'an. As long as we hold Tongguan, Li Zicheng will be short of food and grass. When the officers and men attack again, there is a good chance of winning. But the fatuous Chongzhen didn't listen to Sun Chuanting's explanation and ordered Sun Chuanting to leave Tongguan to fight Li Zicheng. Chongzhen 65438+In August 2006, under the constant urging of Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting was forced to command 100,000 troops, cross Tongguan and go to Henan to fight Li Zicheng.
Li Zicheng also seized the most critical issue in this campaign-logistics supply. He decided to take the strategy of luring the enemy deeper and strategically give up some positions. Therefore, loyal ministers were on a roll, recovering Luoyang in August and conquering Ruzhou in September. Then Sun Chuanting moved to Jia County, fought fiercely with Li Zicheng, and almost took Li Zicheng alive.
The situation was good, and God helped Li Zicheng again. At this time, it rained heavily for seven days in a row, making the firearms of officers and men unusable and the offensive power greatly reduced. At the same time, Li Zicheng sent Liu Zongmin to cut off the route for providing foodstuff for officers and men.
The morale of the officers and men whose route for providing foodstuff was cut off was shaken. Sun Chuanting was forced to return to the army to open the route for providing foodstuff. He led his team to find Li, leaving his Henan soldiers behind. Henan soldiers were very dissatisfied after hearing the news. As a result, as soon as Qin Jun opened the road in Sun Chuanting, Yu Bing mutinied and ran away. So the tragedy happened, the planned retreat turned into a rout, Li Zicheng attacked and killed people, and this battle turned into a massacre in Li Zicheng. More than 40,000 officers and men were killed, and a large number of military materials were seized by Li Zicheng.
In this campaign, Qin Jun was completely annihilated, and Sun Chuanting retreated to Tongguan. At the beginning of October, Li Zicheng conquered Tongguan. Then Li Zicheng pursued Sun Chuanting with hundreds of troops, and Sun Chuanting looked at the peasant army coming out of the bee pupa, not afraid. He and the overseer's deputy fought in Gaoting, fired at the enemy, and eventually died in battle because they were outnumbered. Sun Chuanting kept his loyalty to Daming to the last moment of his life!
What is chilling is that after learning the news of Sun Chuanting's death, Chongzhen was prepared to give a pension at first. Unable to find Sun Chuanting's body, Chongzhen suspected that Sun Chuanting had suspended animation, so he cancelled Sun Chuanting's pension. Chongzhen's unkindness finally paid off, and no one really worked for him after that. In March of Chongzhen 17, Li Zicheng entered Beijing, and Chongzhen hanged himself in Jingshan Park.