Sun Chuanting made it clear that there were no less than 20,000 Qin soldiers in Guanzhong, and there was Xi'an City to rely on, so it was really difficult to attack. It is impossible for his own 30,000 horses to annihilate him. [Full text reading. The top priority at the moment is to transfer troops and horses from Shanxi, Henan and other places to besiege with all their might.

At the same time, he wrote on the recital, asking the court to send another Gansu man to drag Bai Qi and prevent him from coming to Xi'an to relieve the siege, as long as he can cut off this foreign aid, he will be sure enough to trap the Qin army in Xi'an.

This letter was pasted with 600 miles of expedited chicken feathers and sent to Beijing.

After Chongzhen saw it, he immediately complied, and he ordered the military department to transfer troops to Xi'an City, and at the same time ordered Sun Chuanting to be the governor of these horses.

So the people of Shanxi, Henan, and Zhili began to march towards Guanzhong in batches.

In addition, Chongzhen also ordered Hong Chengchou to lead his headquarters to step up the encirclement and suppression of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in Henan, and must not let them enter Guanzhong and join forces with the Qin army.

For a time, on the northern land, between the official roads, countless official armies were marching, and their destinations were all in one place, Guanzhong, Xi'an.

The big war is imminent, and it is about to break out.

At this time, the peasant army was full of lamentation.

Gao Yingxiang's death was too great a blow to the peasant army. Over the past few years, Gao Yingxiang has been the backbone of the peasant army, not only because he has many people and a great reputation, but also because Gao Yingxiang's personality is also very convincing to everyone. He is not greedy for money, not lustful, has spoils, and does not rob other peasant armies, sometimes see other peasant armies poor, and often distribute some property to help them, therefore, Gao Yingxiang's prestige in the peasant army is unmatched.

In just half a month, Gao Yingxiang was defeated and died at the hands of Sun Chuanting.

This matter is not only unthinkable for the peasant army, but also for the court. In fact, there are only Sun Chuanting and Fan Ju in the world, Ziyi thought of this.

At this time, King Gao Chuang was gone, but the peasant army had to continue to survive.

Gao Yingxiang's subordinate Hao Shaoqi rushed out of the Meridian Valley with more than 2,000 men and entered the Qinling Mountains to fight guerrillas, and some others saw Gao Yingxiang captured, and then surrendered to Sun Chuanting.

Hao Shaoqi wandered around the Qinling Mountains for a few days, and saw that there were no officials and soldiers coming, and he was temporarily safe, so he sent someone to inquire about the situation of King Gao Chuang, not wanting to report back that Gao Yingxiang had been captured by Sun Chuanting and escorted to Beijing.

Hearing this news, Hao Shaoqi immediately straightened out his people and walked into the Meridian Valley again. This time he walked from the north to the south, the officers and troops had withdrawn, the valley was very calm, Hao Shaoqi walked to Heishuiyu, and found the old battlefield a few days ago, there were still mutilated corpses among the grass, and the rocks were full of broken flags and dead sabers and guns.

Hao Shaoqi didn't have the time to sigh at this, he went out of the Meridian Valley, wanting to intercept Gao Yingxiang.

But the Meridian Valley is really difficult, Hao Shaoqi walked for ten days before coming out of the valley, and then inquired, Gao Yingxiang has been sent to Beijing, Chongzhen ordered, Gao Yingxiang will be sentenced to death, at this time Gao Yingxiang has been heroic in Beijing's West City.

When Hao Shaoqi heard the news, he immediately screamed, vomited blood, and fainted to the ground.

The soldiers on both sides shouted and shouted, and woke him up, Hao Shaoqi cried loudly, and he, a fierce man, cried, it was really earth-shattering, and the ghosts and gods were shocked.

Thinking of the benefits of Gao Chuang Wang Pingsu, there is not a single one of the more than 2,000 people who does not cry.

Hao Shaoqi cried for a long time, suddenly wiped his tears, jumped up, and yelled: "Don't cry, pick up the knife and gun for Lao Tzu, let's find the officials and soldiers to go desperately." ”

So more than 2,000 people like 2,000 mad cows, a row to break through three county seats, Hao Shaoqi's men have always been not very good military discipline, so after breaking through the county seat, he began to slaughter the city, killing all the rich households in each county, all those who have been officials, all five horses and corpses.

Hao Shaoqi rushed like crazy, there was no discipline, so in the area of Dengzhou in Nanyang, surrounded by officials and troops, his 2,000 men and horses desperately broke through, and finally broke out, but suffered heavy losses, leaving less than 500 men and horses.

After breaking through, Hao Shaoqi finally heard that Li Zicheng was near Xuchang, so he led the remnants of the army and found Li Zicheng.

At this time, Li Zicheng had also received the news of Gao Yingxiang's death, he and Gao Yingxiang were relatives, and they were like-minded, so Gao Yingxiang's death made Li Zicheng the most sad. For several days, Li Zicheng cried bitterly every day, and there was also crying in the army.

Gao Yingxiang's defeat and death had a major impact on Li Zicheng's troops, and Gao Jie surrendered to Sun Chuanting, which was another blow to Li Zicheng. Gao Jie is a rare general, and if he surrendered to Sun Chuanting this time, he will definitely become a fierce enemy of the peasant army in the future.

Fortunately, at this time, Hao Shaoqi came to defect, which made Li Zicheng feel a little comforted.

Li Zicheng understood that at this time, the morale of the officers and troops was booming, and if he fought alone, he would definitely fall into an increasingly unfavorable situation. As a result, Li Zicheng began to consciously move closer to several other peasant armies.

Several other peasant armies, including Zhang Xianzhong and Chuang Qitian and others, were in the vicinity of Xingyang, Luo Rucai and Lao Huihui and several other units, operating in Shangqiu, so Li Zicheng sent a letter to several peasant armies, asking everyone to act together, it is best not to be too far away, so as not to be broken by the official army.

These peasant armies, in December of the seventh year of Chongzhen, gathered in the area of Xiangcheng, and the leaders held another meeting here.

This time, there were mainly nine peasant armies, except for Gao Yingxiang's troops, the strongest of the rest of the peasant armies were all here.

At the meeting, after some discussion, everyone finally decided that there was Hong Chengchou in Henan with Zuo Liangyu, Cao Bianjiao and others, which was really powerful, so it was better to leave Henan, turn westward, and enter Sichuan through Huguang, so that Hong Chengchou could be thrown away.

The reason why they wanted to enter Sichuan was also because the peasant army heard that Qin Liangyu, a female general in Sichuan at this time, had something to do and went to Yunnan and couldn't come back for a while. Taking advantage of this opportunity, it is a good idea to go to Sichuan.

So the Nine Peasant Army began to move, with Li Zi as the vanguard, Zhang Xianzhong in the middle, and Luo Ru as the leader, and the brigade began to march westward.

When Hong Chengchou got the news, he immediately pressed up with the whole army and chased after the peasant army, but Luo Rucai was scheming, and from time to time he set up suspicious formations, and there were many horses and horses, and the war was ghostly, so the officers and soldiers did not dare to get too close.

After more than ten days, the peasant army entered Sichuan, attacked the city and plundered the land in Sichuan, and lit fires everywhere, and for a time Sichuan was in chaos. The court urgently ordered Qin Liangyu to return to Sichuan quickly, and then urgently ordered Hong Chengchou to enter Sichuan to pursue.

However, Cao Bianjiao and others under Hong Chengchou were unwilling to obey. Because Sichuan is mostly mountainous, the Guanning Iron Cavalry can't run away at all, and these people are not willing to fight in the mountains, so they refuse to enter Sichuan.

Guanning Iron Cavalry is the most elite army of the Ming Dynasty, from the day Yuan Chonghuan formed it, from top to bottom, has always been to this force is holding, offering, coaxing, except for Yuan Chonghuan can let them go up the mountain and into the sea, no one can command. Even Cao Wenzhao, Zu Kuan and other generals sometimes have to listen to these soldiers. Therefore, Guan Ning Tie could not ride into Sichuan, and no one could force them to go.

The peasant army had no worries about the future, and it flourished in Sichuan, winning several battles in a row. For a while, all parts of Sichuan were in an emergency.

On the night of December 17, the cold wind howled in the city of Beijing, dripping water into ice. There was not a single pedestrian on the street, and a few dogs barked from time to time in the wind, which also seemed miserable and lonely.

Chongzhen was in the Qinzheng Hall at this time, squinting his eyes and napping, the chapters on the dragon book case in front of him had been piled up, all of them were handed over from all over the country, what floods in the south of the Yangtze River, the drought in the north, the Great Wall to be repaired, the Cao Yun was impassable, the people were eyeing each other, and the thieves were harassing everywhere.

But Chongzhen has been insisting, he is convinced that he is not the king of the dead country, and the Ming Dynasty has not yet overturned.

He was always looking for a capable minister, someone who could completely change the fortunes of the country.

The reason why he hadn't slept tonight was because he was waiting for someone, someone he thought was a capable minister.

This man's name is Yang Sichang.

Yang Sichang is the son of Yang He, the court officer who advocated the pacification of the peasant army. After Yang He's appeasement failed, he was imprisoned by Chongzhen, dismissed as a civilian, and returned to his hometown without being dismissed.

From this time on, Yang Sichang hated the peasant army to the core. He vowed to be ashamed of his father, just this year, Yang Sichang's father Yang He died of illness at home, and it stands to reason that Yang Sichang should be filial piety at home for three years before he can return to be an official. But Chongzhen couldn't wait, he issued an order to restore Yang Sichang's affection.

At this time, Yang Sichang had already arrived in Beijing and was rushing to meet the driver, so Chongzhen did not sleep and waited in the palace of diligence.

The giant candle on the side of the desk lightly burst a light spark, and with a snap, Chongzhen's expression was clear, he opened his eyes and saw that the hall was still empty, so he sighed, stood up, walked to the map hanging on the wall, and stared.

The map marked the garrison of the Ming army with a red pen, and marked the location of the peasant army with a black pen, Chongzhen looked, only to see that the whole Shaanxi is the most intricate, there have been seven or eight red corps to the Guanzhong area, and in the direction of Meixian, there are also two official armies in the march, ready to surround the people and horses of Baiqi.

And Xi'an City, like a huge nail, is fiercely stuck in the middle of the officials and soldiers.

Chongzhen looked down along the map, only to see that Sichuan was also in chaos, red and black, seven or eight peasant armies were not far apart, like a dense honeycomb, Chongzhen looked at the map here, as if he could hear the sound of shouting and killing from there. You can see the sky-high flames rising in the county.

Look to the north again, along the line of the Great Wall, countless black lines seem to be a surging black tide, that is the Houjin people, Huang Taiji has not stopped in the north, tens of thousands of Houjin Iron Riders do not know when, and they want to go south, break into the Daming Jiangshan, burn and loot.

Chongzhen looked at it and felt a wave of nausea in his heart, he hurriedly looked away, dragged his heavy steps, and returned to the side of the dragon book.

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