It's just that before the party, Gao Jie had only heard of Liu Yongxi's name, and the reason why he had a party with Liu Yongxi was mostly because he coveted Li Xiangjun's body, but after the party, he was full of praise for Liu Yongxi, the sincere prince, and felt that Liu Yongxi, the sincere prince, was righteous and thin, and he would definitely not suffer a loss if he followed.

This is all the credit of Li Xiangjun, although Liu Yongxi staked the fate of Linhuai Town on Gao Jie's Northern Expedition very much, but she still tried her best to help Liu Yongxi advocate, and even made up a big drama of "Our Lady Crossing to the South", praising Empress Yi'an on the surface, but in essence, she was praising Liu Yongxi.

Gao Jie is also very curious about Liu Yongxi's encounter, after all, the rise of Linhuai Town is too incredible, Liu Yongxi escorted Empress Zhang out of Beijing when there were only one hundred and eighty people around him, but in the past few months, Linhuai Town has nearly 10,000 horses, although it is far less than Xingping Bo Gao Jie's soldiers and horses, but it is already qualified to be compared with Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing, and some people even call Liu Yongxi "the fifth town in Jiangbei".

And now after such a party, the soldiers of Gao Jie's department not only regarded Linhuai Town of Liu Yongxi's department as their own, but even actively approached Liu Yongxi because of the small favors given by Liu Yongxi.

This made Mrs. Xing have to be vigilant.

Although Liu Yongxi only gave a small favor to win over, and did not give much specific promise, Mrs. Xing always felt that Liu Yongxi's plan was far away, although she didn't understand why Liu Yongxi bothered so much about these trivial matters.

The cold wind is cold, the food and salary provided by the imperial court can only be called a drop in the bucket, and now even the opening fee for the Northern Expedition has not been settled, and Mrs. Xing has to find a way to raise it herself, in this situation, Liu Yongxi's small favor has achieved a hundredfold or even a thousand-fold effect, Mrs. Xing can only look at the clouds in the north and say: "Husband, recently, Xiao Chengyi Bo has done everything possible to win people's hearts, what do you think about this matter?" ”

Although he just said "what do you think", it is actually a reminder that Gao Jie may be hiding something behind this matter, and Gao Jie became elated because of the full support of Yue Qijie, the governor of Henan: "What can you think? Xiao Chengyi just wants to have a place, don't think about anything, with me Gao Jie in our team, no one should have extra thoughts!"

Speaking of this, Gao Jie couldn't help laughing, compared with the rabble of Liu Yongxi's subordinates who had been in the army for a few months, his Gao family army was created by him and Mrs. Xing himself, in the eighth year of Chongzhen, when he and Mrs. Xing broke away from Li Zicheng and surrendered to the official army, there were only fifty families around him, and today's Gao family army has 40,000 people and 9,000 horses.

As long as he Gao Jie is still alive, these 40,000 or 50,000 horses are destined to belong to him alone, as long as he is there, let alone a Liu Yongxi, even a hundred and a thousand Liu Yongxi will not be able to make any waves.

He told Mrs. Xing that there was no need to worry about such a trivial matter: "Governor Yue has assured me that he will find a way on Ma Xiangguo's side, he is Ma Xiangguo's brother-in-law, and it will be easy to handle things with him!"

The governor of Yue in his mouth is Yue Qijie, who has dealt with Liu Yongxi many times, Ma Shiying's political group is a typical regional in-law group, almost all of which are composed of the Guizhou Township Party, and Yue Qijie, as Ma Shiying's brother-in-law, was promoted to the key position of governor of Henan for the first time.

It's just that although Yue Qijie became the governor of Henan, but until now, he, the governor of Henan, only has a name but can't control half an inch of land in Henan, and Gao Jie's Northern Expedition to the Central Plains is naturally unprecedented good news for Yue Qijie.

No matter what the final result of the Northern Expedition is, how many prefectures and counties can be won, Yue Qijie, the governor of Henan, finally has the opportunity to set foot on the land of Henan and be a real governor of Henan.

Therefore, Yue Qijie fully agreed with Gao Jie's Northern Expedition, and even said that Ma Shiying's problem would be solved by Gao Jie: "In the past, only Shi Xiangguo supported our Northern Expedition, but now that the governor of Yue has come forward to persuade Ma Xiangguo, the situation is completely different!"

This good news dispelled Mrs. Xing's worries about Liu Yongxi's popularity everywhere, and she was now only concerned about Gao Jie's safety: "With the support of Governor Yue and Ma Xiangguo, the situation is naturally different, but this time we may have to meet Jiannu Zhentar, please be careful!"

Gao Jie felt that this was not a big problem, although the cold wind in the north was cold and cloudy, but Gao Jie had confidence in himself: "Madame, rest assured, as long as Jianyu and Liukou do not fight, I will never send troops!"

He felt that he had chosen the best fighter for this Northern Expedition.

More than ten days later.

The ancient battlefield of Tongguan finally fell silent, and he couldn't hear the sound of guns, battles, and horses' hooves that he should usually have, but Li Zicheng had never been so lost as he was today.

On the ancient battlefield, only the faint cries of the wounded soldiers could be heard, but perhaps because the injuries were too serious, now the wounded soldiers could not even utter faint cries of pain, which seemed to foreshadow the fate of Li Zicheng's army.

This New Year is simply an unforgettable torture for Li Zicheng.

It is now the second year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the second year of Hongguang in the Ming Dynasty, and the second year of Yongchang in Dashun, but everyone feels that the banner of Emperor Yongchang of Dashun will not last long, and even Li Zicheng himself feels that he can't hold on.

Even the fiasco in the Battle of Shanhaiguan did not deal such a serious blow to the morale of Li Zicheng's army, but now Li Zicheng's army really feels that he can't hold on.

The Battle of Tongguan began on December 22, when the main army under the command of Li Zicheng was preparing to rush to the aid of Gao Yigong and Li Guo in northern Shaanxi, preparing for a final decisive battle with the Qing army near Yan'an.

However, the victory in the Battle of Huaiqing brought an unexpected disaster, the Qing army simultaneously mobilized two of the strongest field groups to attack Li Zicheng, Azig in the north attacked northern Shaanxi with 80,000 troops, and Duoduo in the east also attacked Tongguan with 670,000 troops, and conquered Shaanzhou on December 15, arriving at Tongguan on December 22.

Tongguan must not be lost, so Li Zicheng had to give up the plan to rush to the aid of northern Shaanxi and rushed to Tongguan with tens of thousands of elites on the 29th of the lunar month, and the two sides launched a strategic decisive battle in the real sense of Tongguan.

It's just that although Li Zicheng concentrated his best troops on the Tongguan battlefield, the Battle of Tongguan went from one defeat to another.

In the past few days, the Dashun army has never won any meaningful victory, whether it is a field battle, a cavalry confrontation, a night attack, a plagiarism, whether it is a head-on confrontation or a sneak attack, it is from defeat to another defeat, and finally can only turn to fire defense, and now the reason why the battlefield is quiet is only that dozens of red-coated cannons of the Qing army have arrived on the battlefield.

The reason why Duoduo did not launch a strong attack on Tongguan Tianwei was to wait for the arrival of the Wuzhen Chaoha artillery battalion.