Just as Zhu Cihong arranged everything and was ready to leave for Fengyang, a fierce man suddenly sent a post.

This fierce man is called Cao Bianjiao, he is the nephew of Cao Wenzhao, the first fierce general of the Ming Dynasty, and he is the fierce man who led thousands of iron horsemen to chase and kill hundreds of thousands of rogues.

Cao Bianjiao followed Cao Wenzhao to serve in the army when he was a teenager, and in several fierce battles, Cao Bianjiao was the vanguard of the army, known as General Cao.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, after the death of Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao has been listening to the tune under Hong Chengchou's account, he recruited back the lost cavalry, and formed an army, pacified the rogues in various places many times, bravely crowned the three armies, and was successively appointed as a general, deputy commander-in-chief, and commander-in-chief.

Historically, Cao Bianjiao commanded the troops in a good way, dared to fight and dared, made great contributions to resisting the foreign rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and died heroically in the Songjin War in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen.

What impressed Zhu Cihong the most about Cao Bianjiao was that in the Battle of Songjin, which decided the fortunes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, Cao Bianjiao led thousands of cavalry to break into the Zhenghuangqi camp heavily defended by the Qing army.

It's a pity that not long after, a large number of Qing troops gathered in the imperial camp from all directions, Cao Bianjiao almost fainted because of excessive blood loss due to injury, he saw that there was no hope of killing Huang Taiji, so he had to lead the army back to Songshan.

Zhu Cihong felt that the three thousand iron cavalry under Cao Bianjiao were many times stronger than Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry, these are the cavalry that grew up after years of bloody battles, in the battle of Songjin, Wu Sangui, Bai Guangen, Tang Tong, these general soldiers saw that the Qing army was large, and all ran away with their own men and horses, only Cao Bianjiao's men and horses were martyred, they could not only fight, but also have a righteous spirit!

What is the use of Wu Sangui although he is strong and strong, he has a soft bone, and he will only be a nest of bears, and he will help the Tartars to shake their majesty when they go south.

Cao Bianjiao is less than thirty years old this year, he is seven feet tall, mighty and extraordinary, and when Zhu Cihong saw him for the first time, he felt an invisible sharp aura in him.

After talking with Cao Bianjiao, Zhu Cihong bluntly said that he would keep him by his side.

Cao Bianjiao was speechless, he came to Huguang this time to pursue the rebels just passing by, why was he left here!

A few months ago, Xu Zhong, a subordinate of Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, rebelled, colluded with the thieves to mix 100,000 horses into the middle of the army to prepare to invade Xi'an, Cao Bianjiao was pursuing the thief leader Li Zicheng and Guo Tianxing in Gansu, heard that there was a rebellion in Xi'an, and hurriedly led the army to return, and the rebels fled when they heard the news.

Since the fall of Jiezhou, all the generals in Shaanxi were condemned by the imperial court, and they were lowered by three ranks, and Cao Bianjiao was also demoted from the general army to the general, so he pursued and killed the rebels extremely hard, wanting to atone for his crimes.

Cao Bianjiao led 3,000 cavalry, pursued for thousands of miles, did not unload his armor for more than 20 days, chased all the way from Shaanxi to Suizhou in Huguang, and finally killed the rebels.

Suizhou is only three hundred miles away from Wuchang, Cao Bianjiao knew that the crown prince was in Wuchang Mansion, and if he didn't go to see him so close, he would lose the courtesy, so he handed over a post, and by the way, he took a look at the prodigy prince who was in the limelight recently, and saw whether people's rumors were true or false.

didn't admit it, people saw it, but they couldn't go back, and they were forcibly left behind by the crown prince, which made Cao Bianjiao very surprised.

Cao Bianjiao hesitated: "Your Highness, the task of the last general has not been handed over yet, and Governor Hong is on his side, I'm afraid it will be difficult to explain......"

"It's okay, this palace will repair a copy of the book for Hong Chengchou now!"

Zhu Cihong smiled, and repaired a copy of the book on the spot to inform the governor of the three sides, Hong Chengchou, that Cao Bianjiao, a tiger general, wanted it.

Zhu Cihong could fully imagine what Hong Chengchou's expression would be when he received the letter a few days later.

Zhu Cihong ignored Cao Bianjiao's stunned expression and asked, "General Cao, how is the battle situation in Shaanxi?" ”

Cao Bianjiao said abruptly: "Back to Your Highness, the situation in Shaanxi is not very good. ”

Zhu Cihong was a little surprised, and said, "Hasn't Li Zicheng already been driven to Sichuan?" Why is it not good? ”

Cao Bianjiao hesitated: "This ...... I beg your pardon for not being able to say it. ”

Zhu Cihong smiled and said: "Now that you are under the hands of this palace, you have nothing to do with Hong Chengchou, just say anything." ”

Cao Bianjiao was silent, and after a while, he was disappointed: "Shaanxi Governor Sun Chuanting drove the thieves to Sichuan, and Governor Hong sat in Sichuan, and drove the thieves back to Shaanxi, and the two of them passed the buck to each other and refused to fight, so that the Li thieves could not be completely eliminated......."

A few months ago, Li Zicheng was chased around by Sun Chuanting in Shaanxi and ran to Sichuan.

But Hong Chengchou, who is sitting in Sichuan, doesn't think so, Sichuan is a place under the jurisdiction of Lao Tzu, what do you mean by driving Li Thief to me? Hong Chengchou directly mobilized heavy troops to begin to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng was also anxious and began to run into the mountains, and ran back to his hometown in Shaanxi after seeing the emptiness.

After Hong Chengchou sent Li Zichengli out of the country, he was very satisfied, and he didn't send much, and directly led the troops back.

Sun Chuanting saw that Li Zicheng ran back again, so he naturally quit, thinking that Hong Chengchou wanted to take the blame, so he was so angry that he complained directly to the court.

Chongzhen was very angry when he found out, and Li Zicheng and other thieves defeated Jiezhou, Chongzhen directly demoted all the generals on the three sides of Shaanxi by three levels, and told Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, if you two want to do it, you can do it well, if you don't want to do it, I will do you!

After the two received the holy decree, they couldn't even sleep well, Hong Chengchou found Sun Chuanting and invited him to drink a few glasses of wine, saying that we can't play like this, and we should work together to completely solve Li Zicheng.

Sun Chuanting didn't dare to hold it up, after all, he was the governor, one level higher than himself, since the leaders had put down their heads and said this, then what else was there to say, the two hit it off and started working.

These two ruthless people began to cooperate seriously, Li Zicheng was miserable, the officers and soldiers suddenly chased and beat fiercely, making Li Zicheng look confused, and there were people blocking him everywhere, especially Cao Bianjiao, who chased the hardest in the back, wasn't he just killed an uncle by the righteous army, as for being so deadly?

Li Zicheng could only run all the way to the desolate northwest, ran for a few days and nights, and when he arrived in Gansu, he found that there was finally no one behind him.

Cao Bianjiao, who was the hardest chasing, received the military information of Xi'an, which Sun Chuanting's subordinates were going to attack, and could only return to Xi'an to quell the rebellion with hatred.

Hearing Cao Bianjiao say this, Zhu Cihong can understand that the old battalion of thieves can really run, and there are not many cavalry of officers and soldiers, and there is too much food and grass to supply, and if there are fewer people chasing them, they are killed by the thieves and kill them with a horse pistol, so that no one wants to chase them.

Cao Bianjiao said again: "But rest assured, Your Highness, the place where the Li thief got into has no one and no food, and has fallen into a desperate situation, the last general estimates that the Li thief is desperate now, as long as Governor Hong and Governor Sun work together to continue the encirclement and suppression, it won't be long before the Li thief will starve to death half of the people and horses, and he can only come out and surrender obediently." ”

Zhu Cihong shook his head and said: "Li Zicheng will not surrender, this person is not simple, you can't underestimate him." ”

Cao Bianjiao just nodded and didn't speak, at least in his current opinion, Li Zicheng would only run.

Zhu Cihong knew that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, many thieves and leaders were beaten by officers and soldiers to surrender, even Zhang Xianzhong surrendered, only Li Zicheng was like Xiaoqiang who couldn't be killed, even if tens of thousands of old battalion elites around him were lost, and only seventeen people were left, he still picked up the kitchen knife and continued to fight.

Li Zicheng's perseverance is far beyond the reach of others.