First of all, Li dared to enter Sichuan, and he also sent Li Yan to go with him, but the sudden rebellion in Hanzhong made Li Yan have to return to the army. 【Latest chapter reading. If the Qin army was also in Sichuan at that time, there would be no problem with an increase of 120,000 men. Alone let Zhang Xianzhong reap the benefits.

Then this time, Shanxi was empty, and he immediately sent Zhang Yi to unite with Li Zicheng and march together, Zhang Yi lived up to his expectations and successfully brought 100,000 troops from the peasant army, but Li Zicheng was wounded by an arrow again, so that Liu Zongmin had to return to the army, and the attack on Shanxi came to naught.

Li Yan saw it, so he comforted: "The king doesn't have to worry, if there is chaos above us today, heroes are everywhere, and opportunities will appear, let's take advantage of this stable period in front of us to consolidate the defense of Guanzhong and Hanzhong, so that we can be prepared, and when we march in the future, we don't need to worry about the rear." ”

King Qin nodded: "This can only be the case now, you and Bai Qi will take charge of this matter." ”

The Qin army withdrew 30,000 horses to Guanzhong, and Wang Qiaonian of Shanxi was relieved when he got the news, and he immediately went to the court, saying that the thieves had retreated, and Shanxi had turned the crisis into safety.

Chongzhen was also a little relieved when he received the seal, he was also afraid that the Qin army would join forces with Li Zicheng and occupy Shanxi, in that case, he could directly threaten the capital.

At present, Li Zicheng is fighting hard in Kaifeng, losing troops and losing generals, this is exactly what the court wants to see, Chongzhen has already planned, if he can use a Kaifeng city to drag Li Zicheng's 500,000 army, it is also a good thing. Taking this opportunity, the court can take care of Liaodong.

Because the Manchu army had already left Shenyang and killed Jinzhou.

At this time, only Hong Chengchou can turn the tide.

Before Hong Chengchou went to Liaodong, Chongzhen personally summoned him and rewarded him with a handwritten letter, which read: The wind knows the strength of the grass, and the country is difficult to show loyalty.

Hong Chengchou was grateful, made an oath to death, and then Chongzhen crowned him the governor of Jiliao, in charge of all military affairs in Liaodong. Hong Chengchou stayed in the capital for only one day, and then set off for Liaodong.

More than 10,000 people under his command, plus Zu Kuan's 3,000 Guanning iron cavalry, came to Shanhaiguan, and Wu Sangui came out to greet him. Hong Chengchou also knows this young general and thinks that it is a material that can be made, so he values it very much and takes it with him. In addition, Hong Chengchou knew that to fight with the Manchurians, he had to rely on the Guanning Iron Cavalry, so he submitted a table to Chongzhen and asked Cao Bianjiao to come.

Chongzhen naturally complied with it, and immediately issued an order to Cao Bianjiao and asked him to lead his troops to Shanhaiguan.

Ten days after the ceastic in Shanhaiguan, Hong Chengchou waited for Cao Bianjiao, and then immediately led the army to Jinzhou. Prepare for a decisive battle with the Manchus.

This time, the Ming army gathered eight troops, a total of 130,000 people, among which Wu Sangui, Zu Kuan, and Cao Bianjiao were the most fierce.

Huang Taiji heard that the army was led by Hong Chengchou as the main commander, and led more than 100,000 people under his command to come out of the customs to reinforce Jinzhou, and did not dare to slack off, gathered 50,000 elite men and horses, and personally went out to fight, with Dolgon as the front, and killed Jinzhou.

This is an existential decisive battle between the two sides outside the border, and the bosses on both sides know that the consequences of this battle are too great.

Hong Chengchou believed that if the Qing army was defeated on the Jinzhou front, not only would Jinzhou be preserved and Ningyuan would be no longer in danger, but also the Ningjin defense line could be strengthened, and the Qing army would not be able to pose a threat to it within a few years.

Huang Taiji felt that if he could defeat the Ming army, then Jinzhou would be in the bag, and once Jinzhou was lost, Ningyuan would become a lonely city, which was at his fingertips. Then the Qing army will have complete control of the land outside the pass, and the troops will approach the Shanhaiguan.

Therefore, both sides felt that this battle could not be lost.

As a result, a life-and-death battle related to Liaodong slowly kicked off.

Speaking of the Qin army's side, Li Yan received the will of the King of Qin, and together with Bai Qi, he inspected many counties in Guanzhong, especially some important places, strengthened the city defense, and trained people.

It didn't take long for the entire Guanzhong to be peaceful and orderly, and Li Yan went to Hanzhong again, and together with Li Kang, he also consolidated the defense of Hanzhong.

During this period, the Qin army also continued to receive news from all over the country, first of all, Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan, according to the Malay report, Zhang Xianzhong has gathered 300,000 troops, is killing and going to Chongqing, along the way like a bamboo, Sichuan governor Chen Shiqi panicked, mobilized all the available people in the territory, galloped to help Chongqing, and at the same time he appointed Qin Liangyu again as the commander-in-chief, to fight to the death with Zhang Xianzhong.

The other is the news of Li Zicheng's place, since Li Zicheng was shot and wounded, he urgently ordered Liu Zongmin to return to the army, and when Liu Zongmin returned to Kaifeng City, the peasant army has been attacking the city for more than ten days, these days the two sides are fighting fiercely, the peasant army has tried all kinds of equipment and means to attack the city, and they have been repulsed, with nearly 5,000 dead and wounded, and the loss is not small.

Li Zicheng was seriously injured and couldn't get up, and the whole army was anxious for Liu Zongmin to come back, and when he finally arrived, he was relieved, and Liu Zongmin immediately ordered to stop the siege.

In fact, the siege of the city is also a last resort, Li Zicheng was seriously injured, if he did not attack the enemy, the morale would be greatly lost, if the official army took the opportunity to sneak attack, it might cause a rout, so Song Xiance ordered the siege of the city.

This is called offense and defense.

At this time, Liu Zongmin returned to the army, and the army was stable, so there was no need to attack the city again, so the peasant army began to rest. Liu Zongmin ordered all battalions to be ready for a sneak attack by the enemy.

At this time, it is necessary to focus on the siege, wait for the arrow wound of King Chuang to heal, and then reason.

And Zuo Liangyu and other generals also made a comeback at this time, although they were not too close, but they were already within three hundred miles around, and they must not be careless.

So Kaifeng settled down a little.

And what really gave the court a headache, in addition to Liaodong, there was also Shandong.

Since Fan Ju sent away the 5th Battalion of Gezuo, he took Ziyi and 100,000 horses to win one after another, attacking cities and breaking counties, and almost never encountered any decent resistance.

At this time, there are not many people and horses in the counties of Shandong, and there are only two or three thousand defenders at most, how can they block his 100,000 army, so every time they arrive at a city, they can be captured in two days at most.

Fan Ju was born in the Qin army, and he was still very concerned about military discipline, and after his men entered Shandong, he issued an order that innocent people should never be killed indiscriminately. Especially the common people, whoever kills one person, the whole team is beheaded. Therefore, after his men captured the county seat, except for the officials and squires and bullies in the city, no people were harassed, and there were even fewer killings.

As a result, Fan Ju gradually gained fame in Shandong. But he knew that there was still a bloody battle to completely occupy Shandong. If he did not defeat the main force of the official army in Shandong, Shandong would not belong to him.

And the commander of the Shandong official army is the discerning Hou Sui.

This governor also took it seriously, just watched Fan Ju make a fuss in Shandong, and actually did not lead the main force to fight with him, Fan Ju occupied many prefectures and counties in Shandong, and Hou Sui didn't pay attention to it, just vigorously transferred troops and gathered people.

It turned out that Hou Sui was just waiting for Fan Ju's men and horses to disperse before attacking.

He saw that every time Fan Ju occupied a city, he had to send troops to guard it and become his own territory, so that the more the city was occupied, the more scattered the people and horses became, and Fan Ju would not give up easily if he took so many places. He wanted to use the prefectures and counties of Shandong to drag Fan Ju to death and drag him to death. Don't let him flow.

For this point, Hou Sui knew very well that once the 100,000 army was scattered in the mountains, how large the scope would be, and how difficult it would be to exterminate it. Therefore, it is better to fight a field war than to fight a siege war.

Therefore, while gathering people and horses, Hou Sui observed Fan Ju with cold eyes, and let him toss on the ground in Shandong, just not to move his heavy fists.

By the time the 5th Battalion of Gezuo returned, Fan Ju had already occupied a large area in the south of Shandong, and his troops were directed at Jinan.

The clouds of the great war have been densely spread in Shandong, just waiting for a lightning bolt to draw a bloody prologue.

At this time, the world is full of smoke. Liaodong has the Qing army to suppress the border, Shandong has Fan Ju to cause chaos, Guanzhong has the rise of the Qin army, Henan has Li Zicheng ambitious, and Sichuan has Zhang Xianzhong to look at the delay. These aspects are all major troubles for the court.

Every time Chongzhen stands in front of the national map, he will always be gloomy. Since the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, it has been 2670 years, the country has always been peaceful, only a few civil strife, but also most of the vassal kings died, unexpectedly after their accession to the throne, the world will be thieves swarming, disaster to the country and the people, there have been several times, can be these thieves to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, but never succeeded, finally get to today, these giants have hundreds of thousands of horses, has been able to compete with the official army, and even has the momentum to seize the great tomorrow.

As a descendant of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, he still has unyielding blood flowing in his veins, but at this time, it is not enough to rely on Mingjun alone, he also needs many loyal ministers and famous generals.

If Lu Xiangsheng is still alive, if Cao Wenzhao is still alive, if Yang Sichang is still alive, if Yuan Chonghuan has no intention of rebelling

It's not that he doesn't have no capable ministers, it's not that he doesn't have famous generals, but these people are no longer there, and now he can only rely on Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting to turn the tide. But there were so many places where the fire started that it was difficult for the two of them to take care of it.

Chongzhen suddenly pulled out his sword, and the sword light was like water, flowing under the lamp, reflecting his pale face.

A month later, it was September.

This year's Guanzhong is a bit unusual, in previous years it was always dry, but this year it was rainy. For a few days, the lewd rain was raining, adding a chill. I heard that the same is true in the Central Plains.

On this day, the king of Qin summoned Bai Qi and Li Yan to listen to the defense situation of Guanzhong and Hanzhong.

Bai Qi told him how he and Li Yan had deployed and inspected for more than a month, and King Qin was very satisfied, and asked: "Does the general think that at this time, he can go east out of Tongguan and attack Shanxi?"

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