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Chapter 165 The Rebel Army is Nearly Annihilated, Huang Taiji Enters the Pass
After a long silence, someone finally couldn't help but speak up again:
"Then join the Yarkand Khanate. Anyway, the Yarkand Khanate has no conflict with the People's Salvation Army."

Given the attitude of the Han Chinese in the Central Plains towards the surrounding countries, the worst they could do was submit to them, pay tribute, and become vassal states of the People's Salvation Army.

"This is indeed a way out."
However, I still prefer to send someone to contact the militia; if they can accept us, that would be ideal.”

"Hey, if they were willing to take us in, they wouldn't keep sending us here."

"Sigh, I wonder what the militia is up to, and what their purpose is in doing this."

Immediately after he finished speaking, someone with a gloomy expression sneered and said:

"Hey, all they want is to force us to attack other forces under the pressure of survival, creating chaos in the Turpan Khanate and even the Yarkand Khanate."
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hey-hey"

As he finished speaking, he chuckled coldly again, his face turning extremely ugly.

Having witnessed the fighting prowess of the Salvation Army and its powerful rifles, they were unlikely to join the Turpan Khanate, which was hostile to the Salvation Army.

The most likely scenario is that they will join the Yarkand Khanate.

If all of them joined the Yarkand Khanate...

Then, these people will become the pretext for the militia to attack the Yarkand Khanate.

But for now, they seem to have no other choice.

If the militia is unwilling to accept their surrender, they will have no choice but to join the Yarkand Khanate.

As for expanding outwards and occupying enough living space
That is simply impossible.

They are now just a bunch of defeated soldiers, and many of them have even lost all their weapons.

What will they use to occupy enough living space?
Take the lead?
Meanwhile, the dynasty was constantly dispatching manpower to relocate people to the newly conquered territories.

To completely occupy the vast territory west of Qinghai, it was natural to relocate enough people there.

Even on the grasslands, the dynasty planned to relocate some of its people to graze livestock and raise horses.

As for the difficulty of leaving one's homeland...
These relocated people were basically disaster victims who came from eastern Shaanxi.

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

When you're about to lose your life, what's with all this talk about being reluctant to leave your homeland?
While the dynasty was deploying troops to conquer other regions and relocating people to populate the border areas, other places were also experiencing events that seemed similar to the original history, yet were also different.

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

Despite repeated suppression and resurgence, the uprisings in various parts of Shaanxi not only did not decrease but actually grew stronger.

Finally, during a bandit suppression operation, the Ming army was defeated by the combined forces of Wang Jiayin and others.

Upon receiving the news, Emperor Chongzhen was furious and immediately issued an edict reprimanding Yang He, dismissing him from office, imprisoning him, and sending him back to Shuntian Prefecture.

He then promoted Hong Chengchou to Governor-General of the Three Border Regions of Shaanxi.

Well, by this time, most of Shanxi had been occupied by the dynasty, so he could no longer be called the Governor-General of the Three Borders, but only the Governor-General of Shaanxi.

After being promoted to Governor-General of Shaanxi, Hong Chengchou immediately mobilized troops.

However, Hong Chengchou did not immediately launch a campaign to suppress the peasant uprising army, but instead led his troops to collect grain and fodder.

Yes, it means leading the army to collect provisions.

If you give it, then everyone will be happy.

If you don't give it, your whole family will be wiped out by the rebels, and then he leads a large army to reclaim the food and supplies.

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

Only then did he launch another campaign to suppress the peasant uprising in Shaanxi.

They only engaged in encirclement and suppression, without offering any terms of pacification or appeasement.

Hong Chengchou did not approve of the policy of appeasement.

According to Hong Chengchou, as long as he kills enough people and slaughters all the rebels, the peasant uprising will naturally be suppressed.

If there are still peasant uprisings, it means that not enough people have been killed.

Hong Chengchou's ability to manage and lead troops far surpasses that of Yang He, and he also has renowned generals like Cao Wenzhao under his command.

With sufficient food, supplies, and military pay, the morale of his soldiers soared. While not everyone fought with their lives on the line, their morale far surpassed that of the peasant uprising army.

In a short time, Hong Chengchou was killing people in eastern Shaanxi, with heads rolling and blood flowing like rivers.

One after another, the rebel forces were suppressed.

The uprising, which was initially in a very favorable position, was completely crushed in a short period of time, and all the cities and territories it had occupied were captured by Hong Chengchou's army.

Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang, and others went into hiding under Hong Chengchou's siege.

They were as glorious and arrogant as they were before, and now they are just as disheveled and frustrated.

However, the crowd did not completely despair.

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

Under these circumstances, Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang, and others once again thought of the People's Salvation Army, the largest and number one rebel force, and began to send people to contact the dynasty.

After some hesitation, Wang Chao finally agreed to help the crowd.

With a single order, countless members of agricultural societies, shadow agents, and intelligence personnel from the Military Intelligence Bureau began to enter various parts of Shaanxi with the caravans, secretly infiltrating and developing intelligence and agricultural society members.

At the same time, these people were also constantly guiding the rebel army and helping them evade the government troops' encirclement and suppression.

For a time, the encirclement and suppression of the Shanxi uprising army was once again caught in a strange state of chase and stalemate.

However, overall, the rebel army was still at a significant disadvantage, with Hong Chengchou continuously wiping out their forces.

Finally, the leaders of the many rebel armies gathered together and discussed the matter, concluding that things couldn't continue like this.

They absolutely cannot defeat the government troops in a direct confrontation. Therefore, the best approach they should take is mobile warfare.

Of course, their mobile warfare was actually about fleeing, constantly fleeing, evading the pursuit of government troops, and avoiding direct combat with them.

In this process, they also need to constantly coerce the people and continuously expand their ranks.

Once the force is fully strengthened, it will wipe out the government troops in one fell swoop.

The principle is sound, but putting it into practice...
At this time, the rebel army did not receive much support from the people.

So, in the beginning, their method did work to some extent.

It even showed signs of growing stronger again, but with the imperial court's encirclement and suppression and the people's lack of support, its defeat and demise were basically certain.

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

In the beginning, with the secret help of the members of the agricultural cooperative and the shadowy figures, they managed to gain a foothold.

However, Hong Chengchou was no pushover either.

Faced with the rebel army showing signs of resurgence, Hong Chengchou immediately adopted different strategies of dividing and suppressing them based on the personalities of the rebel leaders.

He first sent someone to contact Wang Zuogui, and with various generous offers, he directly persuaded Wang Zuogui to surrender.

However, Wang Zuogui did not have a good ending after surrendering.

When Hong Chengchou was hosting a banquet for Wang Zuogui, he took advantage of Wang's unpreparedness and killed him on the spot, thus turning the banquet into a feast for him.

Without their leader, the rebel army was demoralized.

Hong Chengchou disarmed Wang Zuogui's troops almost without shedding a drop of blood, thus annihilating Wang Zuogui's rebel army.

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

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

They were nothing more than a rabble, no match for the regular army of the Ming Dynasty. They were routed and forced to flee in disarray, and were eventually surrounded.

Faced with the encirclement and suppression by the imperial army, Wang Jiayin had no choice but to lead his troops to break through the siege.

At the critical moment when Wang Jiayin led his army to break through the siege, Hong Chengchou even risked his life 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 skills of Wang Jiayin and other rebels were increasing at a visible rate, and they could even occasionally pose a threat to government troops.

At this critical moment, Zhang Liwei, an officer under Cao Wenzhao, claimed to be Wang Jiayin's brother-in-law and said he could trick Wang Jiayin into surrendering.

After careful consideration, Cao Wenzhao agreed to his suggestion.

After joining Wang Jiayin's rebel army, Zhang Liwei was appointed as a commander in Wang Jiayin's camp, which shows that Wang Jiayin trusted him greatly.

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

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

After Wang Jiayin's death, the entire rebel army immediately disintegrated and scattered in all directions.

Afterwards, to recognize Zhang Liwei's merit, Emperor Chongzhen appointed him as the Left Guard Assistant General.

Therefore, it is very reasonable for soldiers to be forbidden from drinking alcohol on the march, because it really can kill people.

After killing Wang Jiayin and suppressing his rebel army.

Hong Chengchou immediately redeployed his troops to launch a full-scale attack on Shen Yikui.

Faced with the government troops' encirclement and suppression, Shen Yikui was quickly defeated and immediately moved towards the territory of the People's Salvation Army.

However, Hong Chengchou had already anticipated this, and large armies had blocked all the roads leading west from Qingyang Prefecture and other places.

Helpless, Shen Yikui could only move north, hoping to cross Ningxiawei and enter the territory of the Salvation Army.

Unfortunately, he ultimately failed and was surrounded and killed by Hong Chengchou's army in Ningxia.

By this point, the peasant uprisings in Shaanxi, except for the People's Salvation Army, had been basically suppressed.

After annihilating Shen Yikui, Hong Chengchou stared in the direction of Jingluwei, really wanting to take the opportunity to recapture Jingluwei.

However, in the end, he led his troops back.

"It's not the right time; we need to further strengthen our military."

Looking at the Jinglu Guard in the distance, Hong Chengchou's eyes were deep and he murmured to himself.

Facing the People's Salvation Army is like facing the Later Jin outside the Great Wall. We must not be impatient for quick results, but rather trap them in one corner, train a strong army, and then seize the opportunity to wipe them out.

After withdrawing, Hong Chengchou began to lead his troops to annihilate the remaining rebel forces.

Faced with Hong Chengchou's encirclement and suppression, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, and others were in a sorry state and suffered greatly.

Ultimately, they realized that if they continued to be scattered and act independently, they would inevitably end up like Wang Jiayin of Zijinliang, who was besieged and wiped out one by one by government troops.

Finally, the 36th Battalion of rebels jointly elected Wang Ziyong, a general under Wang Jiayin, as the second Zijinliang to lead the various rebel forces and continue to entangle and struggle with the government troops with the covert help of the peasant community members and the shadows.

Although it has gradually declined, it has managed to hold on for a while.

However, things soon took a turn for the better.

On the 26th day of the tenth month of the second year of Chongzhen's reign, Huang Taiji brazenly crossed the border passes of Jizhen, Longjing Pass, Da'an Pass, Xifeng Pass and other places, and led a large army into the pass, advancing towards Shuntian Prefecture.

Faced with this situation, Emperor Chongzhen immediately issued an edict ordering people from all over the country to come to the capital to defend the emperor.

After receiving the imperial edict, Hong Chengchou stood for a long time, and finally couldn't help but sigh.

If this happens, the rebels will surely rise again.

However, he had no other choice.

Otherwise, once the capital falls, even if he has completely wiped out the rebels in Shaanxi, what would be the point?
(End of this chapter)