Zhang Yi couldn't help but laugh in her heart. [No pop-ups. 】

Bai Qi saw Zhang Yi's weird smile, but he didn't see it, and began to tell Li Yan: "This time, send troops, attack the city first, and preserve the military strength first." Don't hurt too many soldiers in order to take the city. The strength of our Qin army at this time is not abundant. ”

Li Yan nodded: "Don't worry, General, Li Yan won't do it." ”

Everyone agreed, Bai Qi followed Li Yan to the barracks, carefully selected 30,000 Qin troops, and let Lu Xi be a partial general, and set out together, to put it bluntly, let Lu Xi protect Li Yan's safety. Not only must we protect Li Yan, but also protect the Red Lady and others, so as not to make mistakes.

Bai Qi knows very well that once the red lady dies, Li Yan is likely to be sad for the rest of his life and never get married, in that case, his daughter will have no hope.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, on July 22, Li Yan led the Red Lady and other three female generals, with Lu Xi as the vanguard, with a total of 30,000 people, including 10,000 cavalry, leaving Xi'an and heading for Tongguan.

Because it has been predetermined in advance, the first day of the eighth month is the day to enter the army, and it cannot be late.

On the day of coming to Tongguan, it happened to be July 29, Li Yan and the Red Lady tied the men and horses in the pass, and then went out of the city and came to Liu Zongmin's army.

Because Li Yan once wrote nursery rhymes to King Chuang, which played a huge role in the process of entering Henan later, he had a good impression of Li Yan among the Chuang army, just like his own brother. This time Li Yan came, the whole army lined up to welcome, Liu Zongmin and Li Guo, hugged Li Yan and laughed loudly, very affectionate.

After taking Li Yan into the big tent, Liu Zongmin set up a feast to entertain Li Yan and the red lady.

After some excitement, the two sides got to the point, preparing to march at the same time on the first day of the first month of August, cross the Yellow River, and enter Shanxi by two routes.

Two days passed in a blink of an eye, and on the first day of the eighth month, Li Yan also took the men and horses out of Tongguan, and the two sides joined forces to prepare to cross the river together, Li Yan had prepared enough boats, and it was estimated that the whole army of 130,000 men and horses could cross the river within four days.

But just when the two armies were meeting and marching towards the Yellow River, a group of cavalry, hundreds of horses, suddenly rushed from the east, and came to the front like a gust of wind.

Someone found out and immediately reported it to Li Guo, Li Guo hurried over, and Dingqing took a look, and the person who came was Zhang Nai, a young general under King Chuang.

Although Zhang Nai is young, only in his twenties, he is already a confidant of King Chuang, and like Li Guo, he is Li Zicheng's most intimate person, and he must have something important to send him here.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhang Nai saw Li Guo, he jumped off the horse and shouted, "Brother Li, don't go, take me to see Liu Ye quickly." The Liu Ye he was talking about was Liu Zongmin, and he was called so in the army.

Li Guo looked at Zhang Nai's anxious look, and knew that something big had happened, and there were many people around him at this time, so it was difficult to speak, so he took him to see Liu Zongmin.

Liu Zongmin was with Li Yan, immediately on a high slope, watching the military horses progress, but he didn't want to see Li Guo running uphill with Zhang Nai, he was stunned, and shouted: "Little Naizi, why are you here" Zhang Nai's horse urged the horse to come to him, looked at Li Yan, and gave a salute first, but did not speak.

Li Yan knew that people had a whisper to say that he was an outsider and it was inconvenient to listen, so he didn't wait for Liu Zongmin to speak, rode his horse downhill and went to find the red lady.

At this time, Zhang Naicai said to Liu Zongmin: "Master Liu, the king has an urgent order, let you return to the army immediately, and there will be no delay." ”

Liu Zongmin said: "Something is wrong?"

Zhang Nai's reason was revealed, Liu Zongmin frowned when he heard it, and Li Guo was even more shocked to break out in a cold sweat.

It turned out that under the city of Kaifeng, something happened.

Li Zicheng since the defeat of Sun Chuanting, the siege of Kaifeng, has not besieged the city, he knows that the city has a sufficient supply of soldiers, there is no shortage of grain and grass, more importantly, the city of Zhou King Zhu Gongfang is different from the Fu King, this person generously donated money, moved out of the family's money, put it in the city, and let out the words, kill a thief soldier, reward 50 silver, the city has been boiling, officials at all levels spontaneously went to the city, ready to fight with the peasant army.

In this case, Li Zicheng decided to besiege the city without attacking, but he still came to check outside the city from time to time to observe the defensive position of Kaifeng City.

On the fifth day after Liu Zongmin and Li Guo led the men and horses, Li Zicheng led hundreds of personal guards and a few generals to besiege the city and watch the city. At this time, Chen Yongfu, the Kaifeng guard, happened to be at the head of the city, and he saw that there was a team of elite horsemen not far below, walking around the city, one of them, wearing a cyan felt hat and a vermilion lacquer arrow bag hanging from his waist, according to others' description, it may be Li Ziyuan himself.

So Chen Yongfu took a hard bow, stood behind the two soldiers, hid his figure, and did not let the peasant army under the city notice, he pulled his bow and arrows, and shot at Li Zicheng through the cracks in the people.

The distance between the two sides was originally very far, and it stands to reason that this arrow is unlikely to hit, Li Zicheng and the others have been in battle for a long time, so they naturally know the range of ordinary bows and arrows, so when they go around the city, they are also outside an arrow. Unexpectedly, Chen Yongfu himself was extremely powerful, and he used a hard bow that was one in a hundred, and his archery skills were good, so this arrow was actually impartial, and it hit Li Zicheng's face.

Li Zicheng screamed and immediately fell off the horse.

The surrounding soldiers and generals were in a mess, and when they hurriedly helped him up to look, Li Zicheng was hit by an arrow under his left eye, blood burst out, and his injuries were very serious, so he hurriedly carried him back to the camp to find the best military doctor for treatment.

As a result, Li Zicheng's life was saved, but he was almost blind in his left eye, and a scar was left under his eye, which hit Li Zicheng hard.

Because at this time, Li Zicheng already had the ambition of overthrowing the Ming Dynasty and ascending the throne as the emperor, and the ancients admired the lord of all peoples very much, so the appearance is very important, Li Zicheng's appearance is not ugly, but leaving such a large and obvious scar on the face is very damaging to face.

Therefore, Li Zicheng was furious, and hated the officials and soldiers in Kaifeng, and he ignored the dissuasion of the military advisor Song Xiance, and urgently ordered the siege of the city.

As soon as the peasant army heard that King Chuang was seriously injured and his face was damaged, they were all furious, so the next day, they began to storm Kaifeng City, attacking day and night, without the slightest stop.

The officers and soldiers in the city have long been prepared, with cannons, bows and crossbows, 10,000 enemies and other things to shoot at the peasant army, dense like rain, the ladder of the peasant army can not get close to the city wall, so they build a soil mountain outside the city, set up an arrow tower on the soil mountain, and release arrows into the city, but the arrow tower has just been erected, it is collapsed by the cannon on the head of the city, and the archers on the arrow tower have been killed and wounded countless times.

The peasant army failed to make one move, and made another move, they filled the moat with stones, and then rushed to the city with shields, hoes, chisels and other objects, and carved the city wall, trying to dig the city wall, and then filled it with gunpowder, set it on fire, and blew the city wall away. However, the Kaifeng city wall is too thick, and the outer walls are all bluestone, and the peasant army spent a lot of effort and lost a large number of people, but still did not dig a few stones.

The peasant army attacked the city for four days in a row, without the slightest progress, at this time Li Zicheng got the news again, Sun Chuanting had a move, he urgently ordered Zuo Liangyu and other generals to lead the army to aid Kaifeng again, and he also took more than 20,000 people, came to the north bank of the Yellow River, waiting for the opportunity to move.

Li Zicheng was seriously injured, secondly, it was unfavorable to attack the city, and thirdly, there were strong enemies around, so for several days, the high fever did not go away, and he could not command the battle, and the army could only rely on the military advisers Song Xiance and Tian Jianxiu to preside, but Song Xiance had not been here for a long time, and he did not have much prestige in the army, and Tian Jianxiu was a good-tempered person, so the people's hearts in the army fluctuated for a while.

Tian Jianxiu also knew that he couldn't control the scene, and at this time, what he needed most was Liu Zongmin.

Liu Zongmin is a figure second only to Li Zicheng, and his prestige in the army is very high, and it can even be said that if anything happens to Li Zicheng, then this peasant army will be headed by Liu Zongmin. At this time, except for Liu Zongmin, no one could suppress the scene.

Tian Jianxiu knew best in his heart, so he immediately sent the young general Zhang Nai with more than a thousand horsemen and horses to chase Liu Zongmin from behind. Be sure to ask him to return to Kaifeng, as for the matter of Shanxi, and talk about it later.

Zhang Nai didn't know the importance of this matter, so he didn't stop all the way, and finally arrived before Liu Zongmin crossed the Yellow River.

After listening to Zhang Nai's account, Liu Zongmin immediately discussed with Li Guo that Shanxi could not go, and the top priority at this time was to return to Kaifeng and solve the crisis within the peasant army first. When Li Zicheng's injuries improved and he was able to command the whole army, he would attack Shanxi again.

Li Guo also agreed, he had the closest relationship with Li Zicheng, and when he heard that his uncle was injured, his heart had already flown back, and he didn't want to delay for a long time.

Liu Zongmin immediately ordered Li Guo to take the men and horses, turn around and go back to Kaifeng, go to Li Yan by himself, and tell him the truth.

The two acted separately, Li Guo took the whole army, changed direction, he led the cavalry in front, ordered Liu Tichun to lead the infantry behind, and the brigade drove eastward.

Liu Zongmin found Li Yan and told him about it, Li Yan was also taken aback, now that something like this has happened on the other side, naturally he can't be forced to stay, and he can't keep it, after all, it's not his own people. Therefore, Li Yan had no choice but to express his concern and asked Liu Zongmin to greet Wang Guiti on his behalf, and then Liu Zongmin hurriedly said goodbye to Li Yan and returned to Kaifeng with the people.

Li Yan only left a lone army, 30,000 people, with this point of men and horses to take the whole of Shanxi, naturally impossible, since the peasant army withdrew halfway, attack Shanxi, should be considered in the long run, so Li Yan ordered, the people and horses withdrew into Tongguan, by Shehuai in charge, he himself with the red lady and others, immediately returned to Xi'an, reported to the king of Qin.

After seeing the King of Qin, Li Yan told Li Zicheng about being injured and Liu Zongmin returning to Kaifeng, and the King of Qin listened to it and didn't say anything, just looked up to the sky and sighed: "It seems that the Qin army is going to miss this opportunity." ”

King Qin was a little sullen, since this year, although the Qin army has also occupied Hanzhong, recruited displaced people, and expanded its strength, there are always some mistakes and lost a great opportunity.

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