It is very difficult for Niu Jinxing to cure Tian Jianxiu's crime, because in fact, Tian Jianxiu is the third person in Li Zicheng's army, second only to Liu Zongmin. He was also named the general of general power, and he was among the princes of the ranks.

But Niu Jinxing will not let go of Tian Jianxiu, he is a scholar and has a lot of schemes. So Niu Jinxing looked at Tian Jianxiu's back. Just when Tian Jianxiu and Niu Jinxing had an unpleasant affair, Gao Guiying was also very unhappy, and she was speechless when asked by a person.

There is a story about Empress Gao Guiying. Gao Guiying, a native of Lushan, Xihu, Mizhi City, the sister of Gao Ligong, the wife of Li Zicheng, and her uncle was Gao Yingxiang, the leader of the famous rebel army in the late Ming Dynasty. In the first year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng was quick and good at walking, Kong Wu was powerful, and Yinchuan Post was recruited as a post soldier, and he went back and forth to Yulin, Mizhi, and Yan'an to deliver official documents. Li Zicheng worked very hard to deliver the official documents, but he didn't expect to die or lose them one after another, which caused the dissatisfaction of the magistrate, and that year it was just in time for the court to order layoffs, and he was first laid off.

Then Li Zicheng went to Yan'an to learn art. During this period, because of the injustice, suppressing the strong and helping the weak, jealousy and hatred, he killed Shi Youren, a ruffian in Yan'an, and ran back to Mizhi, and was soon captured by the officers and soldiers, and was beaten by the magistrate Yanzibin and sent to prison. At that time, Gao Ligong, the jailer in the prison, was friends with Li Zicheng in the past, and he was very attentive when he brought him tea and food.

One morning, Gao Ligong got some wine and food to relieve Li Zicheng's boredom. As soon as he entered the prison cell, he suddenly saw a thick and strong python coiled on Li Zicheng's body, with distinct scales and armor, and a new head and horns. Gao Ligong was so shocked that he broke the cup and plate as soon as he missed, and ran away. Li Zicheng woke up from his dream, turned over and saw the cups and plates all over the ground and Gao Ligong who had just run out, so he hurriedly called him, Gao Ligong turned back, but he didn't see the python, he was not surprised, and he thought that Li Zicheng was not an idle person.

So taking advantage of the night, Li Zicheng's iron shackles were opened, and the two escaped from prison together to Hululu Mountain, which was more than 60 miles away from the county seat, which was relatively remote, and Gao Ligong's family lived here. The three Gao Guiying sisters are all martial arts people and are extremely righteous. The younger brother Gao Yigong and the widowed sister Gao Guiying were excited to see Li Zi's incomparable admiration and excellent martial arts.

Gao Guiying was even more busy cooking on the fire, carefully burying Li Zicheng's diet and daily life, and silently praying in her heart for Li Zicheng's injured body to recover as soon as possible. Li Zicheng's caring and considerate care of Gao Guiying was remembered in his heart, and he was even more moved by her talent and appearance, and the heroic man who was never moved by wealth could not help but have a love for Gao Guiying. All this was seen by Gao Ligong, and he also felt that the two of them were talented men and women, so Li Zicheng and Gao Guiying got married in a pot of Lushan Xiangfu.

After Li Zicheng and Gao Guiying got married, they gathered a group of rural brothers in Gao Guiying's house to practice martial arts in the courtyard every day. Gao Guiying, under the guidance of Li Zicheng, has made great progress in martial arts. Sometimes in martial arts competitions, it is difficult for Li Zicheng to beat her, and Li Zicheng can't help but praise Gao Guiying as a heroine among women. In this way, the news of Hulushan beauties matching heroes quickly spread, and the government also chased after them.

Li Zicheng packed up his luggage with Gao Guiying, Gao Ligong, and Gao Yigong and left overnight. Later, after several rounds, he defected to the team of Yan'an's uncle Gao Yingxiang. Since then, Gao Guiying and Li Zicheng's husband have sung with their wives, loving each other, working together, sharing weal and woe, and personally led a group of female generals with Aunt Mizhi as the backbone to form a women's army, following the king Li Zicheng to gallop across the field, fighting for decades, so Gao Guiying, the queen, in Li Zicheng's mind, or in the Dashun Dynasty, is not just the status of a queen, at this time she was forced to be speechless by Li Yan's wife.

"Queen Mother, do you believe Li Yan's sixteen major crimes?" asked the red lady.

Gao Guiying said: "I am a woman, what do I believe or don't believe?"

The red lady sneered: "On the day when Dashun will perish in the future, can you still be so calm?"

But Gao Guiying endured it, she didn't speak, because she knew what it was like for a woman to die and a man died.

The red lady said again: "Madam, Queen Mother, Niu Venus is the biggest scourge of Dashun, this person is afraid that he has already defected to the enemy, you can watch it." ”

Of course Gao Guiying didn't believe this, she knew that this was just a slanderous word from a woman's family to avenge her husband. But the killing problem in Shaanxi that the red lady said, she had to ask about it. Of course, a woman, can the current Emperor Dashun still listen to women's opinions?

The harem does not interfere in politics, and this is how Niu Jinxing replied to Li Zicheng. The red lady suddenly disappeared after seeing Gao Guiying.

In Beijing, Li Laiheng and Lao Jiu sat opposite each other, and they were silent for a long time. Zhao Bing, who hurried back, stood behind him, waiting for Li Laiheng's instructions.

Zhao Bing got the news that Li Yan was killed near Zhengzhou, although the news was very conclusive, and he couldn't save Li Yan by going to Funiu Mountain again, but he still sneaked into Funiu Mountain, at this time Ma Shiyao had left, and General Liu Fangliang was gathering his army and preparing to go south.

Ma Shiyao and Liu Fangliang cooperated quite closely, Ma Shiyao arrived at Funiu Mountain, and Liu Fangliang led the troops, which can only show that Li Zicheng's deployment was not temporarily arranged, and they were very well prepared to kill Li Yan.

"Lao Jiu, it seems that our trick of trapping Beijing is already redundant. I'm worried that Chang'an will collapse soon, what are we going to do next?"

After Li Laiheng listened to Zhao Bing's report, he didn't say anything about Li Zicheng's killing of Li Yan, it seemed that in his thinking, Li Yan's death was inevitable and destined by God. After a while, he asked Lao Jiu such a question.

"Strategy is not my forte, listen to the general. Lao Jiu said.

"What other information does Chang'an have?"

Of course, Li Laiheng was worried about Shaanxi's military affairs, but he was even more worried about Shaanxi's politics. In recent months, Niu Jinxing's governance of Shaanxi can be said to be a mess, not only did he not make the people have good expectations for the future, but made the people disgusted.

Lao Jiu told Li Laiheng about the situation in Shaanxi and reported the situation in Chang'an to Li Laiheng in detail, including the private lives of several major officials.

After listening, Li Laiheng said: "Don't bother me these days, I have to think about it." ”

Lee Rae-hyung would only say this when it was very difficult to make a decision, and he would spend a few days thinking about the problem without being disturbed, which showed that he had to make a huge decision.

Li Laiheng doesn't have too many people to discuss big things now, he has to make his own decisions. Hao Shaoqi, Gu Ying, and Gu Kecheng are all good generals and have a certain strategic vision, but Li Laiheng is not making ordinary strategic decisions, he is making a major decision to change. So he had to get rid of all distractions and think about a problem with all his heart and body.

In Chang'an, in the palace, Li Zichengcai and Mizhi's concubine kept warm for a while, and they were disturbed by the voice of a eunuch.

"Your Majesty, urgent military report!"

Li Zicheng hadn't heard this kind of urgent report for a long time, and knew that something big must have happened, so he hurriedly got up and read the military report on the bed.

"Damn! Ma Shiyao actually defected to the enemy?"

He slammed the fold on the quilt, and accidentally fell on the concubine's snow-white jade peak, causing this beautiful lady to snort in pain.

"What about Ma Shiyao's betrayal?"

Not bad. Li Zicheng left 10,000 soldiers and horses for Ma Shiyao to pass Tongguan, and the other 20,000 troops were transferred to the Shangzhou area to be defended. Tongguan suddenly fell into anxiety, the defense of Tongguan was already very tight, and now at the critical moment, 20,000 horses were suddenly transferred, which made the defenders feel disappointed. The next day, Ma Shiyao, under the coercion of his subordinates, surrendered to Duoduo.

Why did Li Zicheng make such a dizzy move to transfer the troops? In fact, this mistake happened to be caused by Li Zicheng himself. He moved Li Yan's troops from Henan to Hubei, and the empty Henan was immediately filled by Dolgon's troops, and at this time the defense line in Shaanxi suddenly expanded, and he had to draw troops from Tongguan.

Drawing troops from Tongguan, Li Zicheng knew that Tongguan was dangerous, but he definitely didn't expect Ma Shiyao to surrender, 10,000 elite soldiers, if they were stationed in Tongguan and resisted stubbornly, it would be no big problem for half a month to a month. He was originally going to draw more troops from other places to fill the shortcomings of Tongguan, but before he could make arrangements, Tongguan was lost.

The loss of Tongguan is equal to the loss of Shaanxi, the gate of Xi'an is open, and now there are only two options in front of you, one is to recapture Tongguan, and the other is to evacuate Shaanxi. There is little hope of retaking Tongguan.

There are two roads, one is Sichuan, but there is Zhang Xianzhong there, and the other is Huguang, and Liu Fangliang's brigade is in Xiangyang, and this is the only direction he can choose to retreat. Therefore, Li Zicheng's next step must be Xiangyang.

The court was in a hurry, they only had about ten days to prepare, and after ten days, Duoduo would attack Shaanxi in a big way, and Azig would probably break through Li Guo's defense line and attack Dashun's troops on all fronts. Li Zicheng prepared to go south to Xiangyang and divide a region south of the Han River.

Of course, Li Zicheng believed that Zuo Liangyu would cooperate with him, he had 100,000 elite soldiers, and it was feasible to establish a country in the land of Jingchu in the future. On the third day, two things made Li Zicheng hesitate again.

First, a secret letter came to Tongguan, and Ma Shiyao wrote a letter saying that he was willing to respond internally and asked the emperor to send someone to attack Tongguan. Ma Shiyao originally had no idea of betraying Li Zicheng, but he had to consider betraying Li Zicheng because of Li Yan's affairs, he was very entangled, and he knew that Li Zicheng would settle accounts with him sooner or later.

Secondly, Ma Shiyao also noticed that since Li Zicheng became the emperor of Xi'an, his past style has changed, especially the continuous decision-making mistakes that make people see no hope, so when his subordinates coerced him into rebellion, he did not strongly resist. But once it became a fact, although Duoduo was kind to him, his heart was deeply shocked, he followed Li Zicheng for more than ten years, how could he defect to the enemy when Li Zicheng needed someone to explain the most? Many of his subordinates also had this idea, and they were ready to cooperate with Li Zicheng to recapture Tongguan in the pass. Even if Li Zicheng punished them for their sins, they would be willing. Li Zicheng had the idea of recapturing Tongguan.

The second thing was that Tian Jianxiu disobeyed again, which made Li Zicheng feel very uncomfortable. A few days ago, it was decided to retreat for a big time, Tian Jianxiu was arranged to be cut off, and finally left Chang'an, when he left Chang'an, Li Zicheng asked him to do an important thing, that is, to burn all the grain in the grain depot, and not let the grain be cleared to get one. However, Tian Jianxiu asked several times to distribute the grain in Chang'an City to the citizens, and Li Zicheng was very unhappy.

Li Zicheng said: "No matter where the grain is, it will be looted by the Qing soldiers, and they will not be able to get it only if there is one less fire." Will the people of Chang'an hate me Li Zicheng?"

Just when Li Zicheng was hesitating, a news suddenly came, and he was stunned. There is news from Tongguan that Ma Shiyao and other 10,000 soldiers were all slaughtered by the Qing soldiers, and Ma Shiyao himself was skinned to death by the Qing soldiers. There was no longer any hesitation to leave Chang'an, and all the main forces of Dashun withdrew south.

Li Zicheng never thought that he would kill one Li Yan and lose one Xi'an. In fact, how did he know that he lost far more than one Xi'an.