Li Zicheng and others were observing the situation while telling the general trend of the world on the calf village, but they saw that a team in the east of the foot of Taihang Mountain suddenly became noisy, and it seemed that there were two battalions of men and horses fighting.

Later, someone came to report: "Your Majesty, General Li Yan led the army to attack the soldiers and horses under the command of the Marquis of Bo. ”

"What? He turned against the sky, and dared to beat his own people! ”

Li Zicheng was furious, pulled out his waist knife and slashed at the big stone in front of him, splashing sparks.

"Go quickly, send someone to Lao Tzu to arrest Li Yan back!"

Huo Zhaowei hurriedly answered on the side: "Your Majesty, General Li is not a reckless person, maybe there is something inside, it is better to invite the Marquis to ask." ”

Li Zicheng saw Huo Zhaowei come forward to speak, so he nodded and reluctantly agreed.

Haohou is Li Guo, Li Zicheng's nephew, of course he has to protect a little.

After a while, Li Zicheng's personal guards took Li Yan and Li Guo up the mountain.

Li Guo looked indifferent, and Li Yan did look angry.

As soon as they met, Li Zicheng scolded Li Yan with a slashing face:

"At such a critical moment, why do you want to mess with each other, if you can't give a reason today, I won't spare you!"

Li Yan angrily clenched his fists and half-knelt down and said: "The minister covered the retreat of the army in Luquan, and I heard that the Marquis of Hao was looting people's property everywhere, because he couldn't stop it, so he waved his army forward, not to make trouble." ”

When Li Zicheng heard this, he looked up at Li Guo, who was hanging his son.

This Li Guo was also a bachelor, and nodded directly: "That's true, yes, but we all have to retreat from Hebei, and no matter what the mud legs are doing here, the brothers will rob it, but this Li Yan wants to wave the army to attack, which is really a bit excessive." ”

"No matter how you retreat, it is still a living person, the people of Hebei are already poor, and now I have to loot when I cross the border, is that still a human thing?" , Li Yan was furious when he heard this.

Seeing Li Yan roaring at Li Guo regardless of his might, the anger on Li Zicheng's face flashed.

"Bastard, no matter what happened to Li Guo, it was also the general of our army, you came to beat your own people for a bunch of mud legs, what kind of intention is this?"

Niu Jinxing had long seen that the personable Li Yan was not pleasing to the eye, and immediately sowed discord and said: "Your Majesty, Li Yan has ill intentions, please punish Your Majesty severely!" ”

"Cut off some of his men and horses, and continue to use them."

Li Zicheng was about to vent his emotions, but Li Yan directly hit the muzzle of the gun, and immediately he directly announced the punishment and ordered someone to take the two down.

But before the two men could turn around, they heard a voice coming from the mountainside.

"Your Majesty, woe has happened."

"Zehou Tian saw that the Xiu Qianfeng had just arrived in Taiyuan, so he sent someone to report that he had found the Ming army near Pingyang!"

"What?"

On the calf village, Li Zicheng and other Dashun monarchs and ministers were stunned.

"Didn't I leave some soldiers and horses in Shanxi to guard, how could there be a movement of the Ming army, and also, which part of the Ming army is this?"

The herald who came to report the news clenched his fists with a bitter face and said: "It is said that the Ming army came from Shaanxi. ”

"Bang dang", the waist knife in Li Zicheng's hand instantly slipped to the ground.

Li Guo, Li Yan and others, who had not yet left, stood directly on the spot.

The Ming army from Shaanxi, Xi'an and other places originally had the Dashun army left behind, how could there be a Ming army coming.

Unless......

A thought flashed through the minds of everyone present, unless Shaanxi had been lost.

"It must be the Fengxiang defenders!"

Li Guo shouted loudly in pain: "I just said, we must beat Fengxiang and Hanzhong down, now it's okay, we are going to be served in a pot." ”

Song Xiance ignored Li Guo's wailing, and immediately said eagerly: "Your Majesty, please send a fast horse to investigate, and you must find out the trends in Shaanxi and Shanxi, this is a matter of our livelihood!" ”

Li Zicheng naturally knew that this was a critical moment, and in the Dashun army that was passing through the Jingcheng Pass, he quickly galloped out a few fast horses and went straight to Taiyuan.

As for the Dashun soldiers and horses in the mountain pass, the speed of travel has also increased steeply by a few points.

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Shanxi Pingyang Prefecture Jiezhou.

At this time, several camps had been densely established under the city of Jiezhou, stretching for several miles, and the camps were all surrounded by barbed wire, which was completely different from the current army.

This army of soldiers and horses is the Shaanxi soldiers and horses in the mouths of Li Zicheng and others.

In the camp under the city, Li Jingsi was wearing a bright light armor and a phoenix-winged helmet sitting in the main tent, and dozens of generals of the Liu family army were sitting around him.

"Brother Jing Si, congratulations, I heard that the second brother has expressed to the emperor that you are the chief soldier of Shaanxi, the former military governor of the right capital, you have suddenly changed from a white body to an important minister of the court."

At the lower left hand of the main account, Li Jinghong smiled and smiled at Li Jingsi, here are all the Liu family's own people, and everyone has no scruples when they speak.

Li Jingsi directly laughed and scolded when he heard this: "Ge Laozi, you are congratulating yourself, who doesn't know, your kid is also the chief military officer and deputy governor." ”

Everyone in the tent laughed when they heard this.

I can't help but be happy with these Liu family disciples, and among the people present, the oldest is only twenty-seven or eighteen years old, but judging from the news from Wuchang, Liu Ximing has given them all Ming military posts.

Which one of these is pulled out does not have a third- or fourth-grade official title, how can a group of young people not be embarrassed.

Li Jinghong smiled and stood up proudly, "Let's start troops in April, even break Xi'an, Yan'an and other prefectures and counties, and in May, we will join forces with Brother Jingnan's troops to capture Luoyang, such a great achievement is not a big deal." ”

The Lord sat down, and Li Jingsi was also a little arrogant when he heard this.

The Liu family has been operating in Shaanxi for nearly ten years, especially after Xu Wei and Xie Wenle took office, and the two places have developed rapidly.

When Li Zicheng broke through Xi'an in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen and wanted to further occupy Shaanxi, he found that there were already two more forces with more than 100,000 troops in Fengxiang and Hanzhong.

With muskets and artillery, Xu Wei and Xie Wenle commanded Li Jingsi and Li Jinghong and others to fight several fierce battles with the army under Li Zicheng, and the result was naturally a great victory for the Liu family.

However, after the victory of the Liu family's army, they did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but only silently guarded their own villages, and even the results of the battle were not reported by the imperial court.

After going back and forth, Li Zicheng, who was beaten and had no temper, had to give up his plan to fight and attack other places.

It's just that not long after Li Zicheng raised troops from Xi'an to attack the Beijing division in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Xu Wei and others received Liu Xi's order to recover Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and other places as appropriate.

Xie Wenle immediately ordered Li Jinghong to lead the soldiers and horses of Hanzhong to clear out the Wu Ruyi troops entrenched in Hanzhong, and the soldiers and horses of Dashun, who had occupied the city of Hanzhong for more than a year, were destroyed in an instant, which directly shocked the jaws of the fathers and elders in Hanzhong.

Later, Xu Wei and Xie Wenle jointly sent Li Jingsi to lead an army of 100,000 to attack on two sides, and successfully captured Xi'an and Yan'an.

Liu Ximing also deployed Mu Jingnan's troops in Nanyang as early as possible, and when Li Zicheng led his troops to attack the stall of the Beijing Division, Mu Jingnan waved 50,000 grams to recover Luoyang.

Since then, Shaanxi and Henan, west of Kaifeng Prefecture, have all been under Liu Ximing's control.

After collecting these local military and political affairs, Li Jingsi and Li Jinghong led an army of 70,000 to cross the Yellow River east and attack Pingyang, Shanxi.

Within a few months, it is no wonder that Li Jinghong and others have a good face.

However, after a triumphant pass, Li Jingsi still stared at everyone with a straight face:

"Don't be careless, Li Zicheng led his troops to retreat from Beijing, and now Shaanxi and Henan are occupied by us again, if the Dashun army can't hold Shanxi, then they will only have a dead end, so this battle will definitely be very difficult."

"But everyone has made it clear to Lao Tzu, the second brother's order is to hold Shanxi no matter what, and never let Jianyu enter a step, if Li Zicheng doesn't want to go to Hebei, then don't go, understand?"

"Understood!"

In the main tent, dozens of generals of the Liu family army stood up and shouted in unison.

The military heart is available, and Li Jingsi's face is slightly softened.

"You don't have to be nervous, you have to think about it, Li Zicheng brought back 70 million taels of silver from the Jingshi, so much money is definitely a big help for the second brother, as long as this matter is done well, the credit will be invaluable to everyone."

Speaking of this money, Li Jinghong couldn't help but smack his lips and said: "Damn, it's really the gentry who is rich, why does the second brother have to keep Shanxi?" With our firepower, it is not difficult to attack Hebei directly, right? ”

"That's right, I'll ask for a prisoner!"

"What kind of good man is a Han man, if you want to kill, kill the Tartar!"

Inside the big tent, a group of young officers suddenly became excited again.

The Liu family has taken history lessons for so many years, and the idea of patriotism has run through the whole army, and now that the Tartar is in front of everyone, how can everyone not be excited.