Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

The distance from Baoding Prefecture to Xincheng County is exactly 150 miles, and the distance from Liu Fangliang's camp is only 120 miles. A rapid march can be reached in a day or night.

Along the official road, there are three rivers, Xu River, Bao River and Baigou River, which originate from the Taihang Mountains and cross the official road.

Niu Chenghu is also a veteran general.

Even when Li Zicheng was still in the eighth team, Niu Chenghu was a general.

Although the enemy's situation has become clear, and the spies once again confirmed that the Ming army occupying the new city does not exceed a hundred people, Niu Chenghu is very cautious.

He has never had any outstanding achievements.

Because he is cautious enough and never fights an uncertain battle.

This is why he is still alive and kicking.

In the late Ming Dynasty, more than [-]% of the hundreds of rebel armies were killed, but Niu Chenghu's tribe has always remained standing, which is enough to prove his ability.

It is in line with the saying: Those who are good at fighting have no miraculous achievements.

This is also what the ancients said about good generals - those who are good at fighting have no great achievements.

How many battles have taken place throughout the ages?

I'm afraid I can't even count them.

Which one of the stories that can be familiar to people is not one that is surrounded by dangers and crises but defeats the opponent!

In the long history, those who have left their reputation are all famous generals who defeated the strong with the weak and the good with the strange.

As for those generals who have never succeeded in classic battles, but have completed their missions, no one knows...

This is the difference between a good general and a famous general.

After all, there are too few famous generals like Huo Qubing in this world...

Most of the people who built up a dynasty were good generals like this.

After all, as long as you are undefeated, it is a victory to a certain extent.

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Niu Chenghu carefully crossed the three rivers, but never saw the Ming army attacking halfway across the river. His tense heart was relieved.

"Chen Laoer, you can relax your dick. The Ming army has no ambush."

Niu Chenghu, who had unknowingly wet his clothes, breathed a long sigh of relief and started to joke with his lieutenant.

"Master, you are still too careful. According to me, the cavalry should go first and the infantry behind, so as to catch them off guard!"

The deputy general pouted.

Chen Laoer's name is Chen Erniu. There are no deeds about this person in history. The only thing that has been recorded in the history books is that when the situation in Nanming was dangerous, this guy tied up Niu Chenghu with a knife and forced Niu Chenghu to surrender to the puppet Qing Dynasty.

From then on, Niu Chenghu was like Xu Shu who entered Cao Ying and did not do anything for the Qing court throughout his life.

Like Niu Wancai, another general of the Ma Ying garrison in the fifth camp of Ge Zuo, he was both captured by his subordinates and forced to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

In fact, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were countless people who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty through this kind of drama, either forced or staged.

And these two people are the only two people who never contribute to the Qing court!

Niu Chenghu and Chen Erniu are from the same hometown. Due to this relationship, there is no obvious superior-subordinate gap between the two. On the contrary, they can talk about everything.

The Gezuo Fifth Battalion is a peasant army active in the border area of ​​Henan, Hubei, and Anhui provinces. Their backbone is miners selected from the mountainous areas in western and southwestern Henan.

Anyone familiar with geography knows that this area is the intersection of Qinling Mountains, Daba Mountain and Tongbai Mountain.

What happens in the mountains?

Elite soldiers!

To put it nicely, it is said that it is not easy for the people in the mountainous areas to survive. Their hard life has developed a fierce atmosphere of fighting against the sky and people, and they are the source of high-quality soldiers.

To put it mildly, it’s called poor mountains and harsh waters bringing out unruly people.

The soldiers in these places are really tough.

The elite combat effectiveness of the fifth battalion of Ge Zuo was top-notch in this era, even higher than that of Li Zicheng's elite old battalion.

At the end of 1642, the Manchus outside the Pass once again entered the Pass to plunder.

The rising star of the peasant army at that time was Yuan Shizhong, who had only started his army for two years.

Yuan Shizhong followed the stories of his predecessors in the Gezuo Fifth Camp and established the Little Yuan Camp with the miners in western Henan as the backbone.

At this time, Li Zicheng led the army to storm Kaifeng City. The Ming army was all concentrated in Henan, and the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty lost its protection.

The Qing army, like a no-man's land, looted all the way to Haizhou (Lianyungang City).

I happened to meet Yuan Shizhong.

This was the first contest between the peasant army and the Qing army.

The soldiers of Xiaoyuan Camp, who came from the mountains in western Henan, first used artillery to clear the way, then followed up with bows and arrows and muskets, and then used spears and swords to clear the way...

A set of combined punches caused the Qing army to close their camp and defend themselves, and they only dared to bombard them with artillery.

At night, Xiao Yuanying attacked the Qing army camp at night, burned the Qing army stables, drove fire horses to disrupt the Qing army, broke into the Qing army artillery position, ignited gunpowder, and blew up the Qing army's artillery.

Having lost their support, the Qing army had no choice but to retreat into Haizhou City and did not dare to fight again.

Then, fifty Tatars were sent to Xiaoyuan Camp with gold, silver and jewelry to find Yuan Shizhong to negotiate an alliance.

In Henan, the people have always been tough-minded. Among the younger generations, there were some who refused to kneel to the Korean female boss. In the end, the factory jointly banned the place (a small note at the door said: Our factory does not own Henan...)...

Yuan Shizhong also showed the tough style that an ancestor should have.

This man was not a poor and aloof person like a rotten Confucian, who clung to the so-called "chastity" and "qi" style. He directly accepted the money, and then ordered people to push fifty Tatars out of the camp and hack them to death...

Sugar-coated cannon?

Okay, I ate the candy.

I won’t return the cannonball to you, I’ll blow it up for you!

Yuan Shizhong's operations are some of the most outrageous.

However, the Qing troops in the city did not dare to leave the city to retaliate. They watched Yuan Shizhong show off his power and turned around to leave.

The combat effectiveness of Yuan Shizhong and Xiao Yuanying is evident.

Unfortunately, Yuan Shizhong did not cooperate with Li Zicheng in attacking Kaifeng and preparing to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, which led to his death.

Soon after Yuan Shizhong returned to Henan, Li Zicheng attacked Xiaoyuan Camp at night and killed Yuan Shizhong...

Later, the soldiers of Xiaoyuan Camp were divided into two groups, one part was taken over by Li Guo, and together with the Boy's Army, became the later Zhongzhen Camp.

Part of it was annexed by Baijiuhe's Youying, and later became part of the "Thirteen Families of Kuidong".

No matter which part it is, in the end, it shows the style that a Han person should have!

My knees can't bend!

In later generations, in the west of Dengzhou, Nanyang, there were villages such as Yuanying, Yuanying and Yuandian, which were the places where Yuanying was stationed.

Dengxi belongs to the edge of the Qinling Mountains. It is full of ripple-like hills and has always been favored by the army.

Surrounding this place are villages such as the Big and Small Zhou Camps, the Big and Small Kong Camps, the Big and Small Laoying Camps, the Big and Small Jiang Camps, and the Zhangying Camps of the Front and rear Army. They are all villages developed by the old and weak sergeants who were stationed in or survived the Fifth Battalion of Ge Zuo.

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Niu Chenghu raised his foot and gave Chen Erniu a false kick, and cursed angrily: "Bie Sun, you are so careless all the time. Sooner or later, someone will cut off your food!"

Chen Erniu laughed and did not argue.

The actions of the two men caused laughter among the soldiers around them.

Someone yelled: "It doesn't matter if the guy who eats for the first boss or the second boss is gone, the most important thing is that the little guy below can't be gone."

"Isn't that right? If the second boss of the second boss is gone, then the little Cuihua of Cuiyun House will have to be replaced!"