Records in official history may not be accurate at certain times. After all, it is humans who write and revise history.
There are often discrepancies between several history books of the Ming Dynasty, recording different things. Later studies can only corroborate each other and find the most logical explanation. However, it is difficult to restore the full picture of some things.
However, there is no discrepancy in the record about Gao Jie's betrayal of Li Zicheng. There is a sentence in "History of the Ming Dynasty" that describes it very clearly.
"I became a wife of the Xing family, Wu Duozhi, who was in charge of the military resources and provided food and supplies every day."
"When Jie passes through the clan's camp, the divisions are in harmony with each other. The clan's greatness and appearance are connected with his."
"Afraid of becoming aware of himself, he planned to return and surrender. In August of the following year, he stole the Xing family and returned."
That is to say, Li Zicheng's wife, Mrs. Xing, was in charge of the army. When Gao Jie was in the camp for verification, Mrs. Xing began to have an affair because of her handsome appearance.
Later, Gao Jie was afraid that Li Zicheng would find out, so he planned to surrender, so in August of the eighth year, he and the Xing family surrendered together.
Later, Gao Jie was arranged by Hong Chengchou to work under He Renlong.
Chen Wang knew very well that Gao Jie should be very panicked now. I am afraid that Li Zicheng or others have discovered some clues.
In the original time and space, it was in August.
The Ming army suffered successive defeats and its military strength was already stretched thin.
The number of troops under Hong Chengchou's command, including the conscripted soldiers, was only about 12,000.
Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong gathered more than 250,000 people in the west of Xingping.
The rogue bandits in Pingliang Mansion were advancing vigorously and defeated the Ming army in a row.
Prime Ministers Li Zicheng and Hui Deng defeated the Ming army in Xiangle and Qiutou Town. All the way south, the Ming army abandoned their helmets and armor.
Three armies attacked from three directions, and almost all the prefectures and counties in the northwest of Xi'an Prefecture fell.
At that time in Shaanxi, Gao Yingxiang had the upper hand. The Ming army led by Hong Chengchou had to go on the defensive. No one knew whether they could hold Xi'an Mansion.
But even under those circumstances, when the Ming army suffered successive defeats, lost troops and generals, and was outnumbered, Gao Jie still chose to surrender.
The only reason was that Gao Jie was already in a state of extreme panic.
Most of the clues about the affair between Gao Jie and Xing have been discovered, and it can no longer be concealed.
And now it is August of the eighth year of Chongzhen, the time when Gao Jie defected.
In history, Gao Jie escaped from the military camp when he followed Li Zicheng and Prime Minister Hui Deng to the south.
Then he went all the way south and surrendered directly to the Ming army.
Now is the time when Gao Jie is most panicked. Chen Wang feels that even if he doesn't find a way to find Gao Jie, Gao Jie himself will deliver it to his bowl.
However, Chen Wang naturally did not place all his hopes on Gao Jie, because it was full of uncertainties.
It is not Chen Wang's character to resign oneself to fate. Yesterday, when the intruder army just arrived and started setting up camp, he sent out many troops that stayed overnight.
Let the hunters and herb gatherers in Chunhua County serve as guides, cross the mountains and ridges from the trails of the two mountains, and infiltrate to the rear of the rogue camp.
Although the invading army set up heavy defenses on the periphery, they were prepared for night attacks, and the old and weak people in the rear were bloated, so naturally it was impossible to cover everything.
After Li Zicheng broke the Three Waters, there were more new possessors and it was easier to penetrate.
Calculate the time and wait until dusk to receive the reward of not collecting anything at night.
Gao Jie should now be commanding the rear camp or the middle camp. The He Renlong incident made Li Zicheng a little worried about this fellow countryman who was once with him.
However, the friendship between fellow villagers still existed, and Gao Jie's prestige in the military was not low. Li Zicheng did not have sufficient evidence.
Li Zicheng just treated Gao Jie coldly and asked him to only look after the old and weak and guard the camp.
Gao Jie was nicknamed Fanshan Harrier. Although he was Li Zicheng's general, he also had his own banner.
In many subsequent battles, military reports showed that Gao Jie commanded the rear camp, led troops to protect the old and weak, and no longer went to the front line.
As for the accent issue, Chen Wang naturally took it into consideration. The Liao soldiers must be sent there, and if they don't speak, their true colors will be revealed.
The Liao soldiers were well-fed and mostly strong, so they were naturally distinct from the homeless people who were hungry and hungry.
However, among the eight rounds of soldiers brought by Tang Shiping, four were the remnants of Ai Wannian's original command.
Ai Wannian was originally a Shenmu general, and was later appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief of Gushan, guarding Pingliang. Most of his subordinates were from Shaanxi.
Arrears of pay have long been a common occurrence for Shaanxi soldiers. They cannot receive sufficient pay at all, and many of them do not have enough to eat.
After the defeat of Xiangle, food and salary were cut in half again.
Even the first-rate militiamen that Chen Wang recruited in Pizhou are now much stronger than the Shaanxi soldiers who originally belonged to Ai Wannian.
After all, Cao Wenzhao, as the main force in the suppression, would naturally not be short of food and salary, and this time there was also the captain of the transportation brigade, Zhizhou Pizhou, so he would naturally have good food and drink.
This time, the Ye Bushou sent by Chen Wang to infiltrate were all selected from these remnants of Shaanxi soldiers.
Twenty taels of silver per person, and as soon as the reward was issued, a group of Shaanxi soldiers were recruited.
For a total of two hundred taels of silver, Chen Wang bought the lives of ten people.
The ten people were originally sentry scouts in the army. They had done it before and had experience in penetrating enemy lines.
Almost everyone Chen Wang selected had a family, a wife and children, so that they would not deliberately join the thieves or have any scruples.
Ten Shaanxi soldiers received the resettlement money, changed their clothes, and quietly left Chunhua City following the guide in Chunhua City without looking back.
If useful information is found, an additional ten taels of silver will be added.
Find out the information about the camp clearly and add another ten taels. After returning to the camp, your rank will rise to one level.
Chen Wang did not tell them the specific content, nor did he say that he was looking for Gao Jie.
They just wanted to find out who the generals were who broke into the camp behind them.
For this purpose, several pictures of the flags of the invading generals were specially drawn, among which were mixed the flags of Gao Jie.
The purpose is to prevent these people from being exposed if they accidentally get captured.
On the first day of the attack, the invasion army did not invest too many elites. They only used hungry soldiers as a test of consumption. No one even climbed onto the city wall.
Chen Wang did not begrudge the gunpowder, and while the battle was still fierce, he sent Hu Zhili and Chen Gong to take turns leading the reorganized Liao cavalry to charge for a while, but the attack did not go too far. When they approached the enemy's rear, the firearms team formed Returned to the city before the shooting range.
The first day's siege battle came to an end with the roar of several cannons in the army's formation.
When it was getting dark, the intruders had already withdrawn their troops and returned to the camp, leaving behind devastation all over the ground, and most of the corpses were collected and returned.
However, there were still quite a lot of corpses under Chunhua City. The casualties of the intruders under the city exceeded a thousand people in one day. Many people fell at the foot of the city wall, and no one dared to collect their corpses.
When night slowly fell, completely covering the outskirts of Chunhua City.
The Rangers who were scattered around Chunhua did not notice a few black figures silently being picked up in Chunhua City in a hanging basket.
