Whether it was Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu or Ai Nengqi, they were all shocked when they heard the news.

Although there were thousands of people in the Great Western Army who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty in front of the battle, only a small half of those who surrendered voluntarily were at most, and most of them were forced to surrender under the condition of being surrounded on all sides.

Bai Wenxuan's situation is completely different, although he is nominally Sun Kewang's subordinate, but his position in the Great Western Army is actually second only to the four generals, and although he and Sun Kewang have a subordinate relationship, but in fact they are self-contained, and when they go out of Sichuan, they are even more in command of tens of thousands of horses, even if they have suffered large losses in previous battles, they still command nearly 10,000 horses.

If Bai Wenxuan is co-opted by the loyal battalion, the situation will inevitably be unimaginable, and the soldiers and horses who joined the loyal battalion and the Vietnamese Ming army are not only nearly 10,000 men and horses of Bai Wenxuan's department, but with Bai Wenxuan's influence, there must be thousands of Daxi troops who have been co-opted by the loyal battalion.

Bai Wenxuan has been Sun Kewang's most trusted subordinate for a long time, so it was Sun Kewang who was hit the most, and he immediately asked, "Impossible, right?" Bai Wenxuan I think I can trust it, others can sell my Sun Kewang, why didn't he Bai Wenxuan say a word and was co-opted by the loyalty camp! ”

Liu Wenxiu said bitterly: "Now the situation is different, we must have a plan for the worst, in case Bai Wenxuan is really co-opted by Jingzhou thieves, our banner of the Great Western Army will not be able to fight at all!" ”

He still has more subtexts that he can't say, no matter what happened in the past, the Great Western Army had to negotiate with the Loyal Battalion and the Yue Ming Dynasty, and the representatives who came forward to negotiate were all their four generals, at most one Prime Minister Wang Zhaoling, and even the Empress Dowager Chen was just a bargaining chip on the negotiating table.

However, if Bai Wenxuan made such a fuss, Liu Yongxi and the loyal battalion could completely bypass their four generals and negotiate directly with the generals below, and the status of their four generals in the Great Western Army would be devastated, and the four generals could only master a few thousand soldiers and horses in the end.

When Sun Kewang heard Liu Wenxiu say this, he immediately made up his mind: "I'll go and have a good talk with Bai Wenxuan, he and I are brothers in trouble, so we must get together and disperse!" ”

It's just that Sun Kewang still has illusions in his heart, thinking that Bai Wenxuan was co-opted by the loyalty camp in the past is just a rumor, and Bai Wenxuan, as the most trusted general under his command, will definitely not betray him.

But Sun Kewang has not yet left the camp, Bai Wenxuan has already sent a young general to come over to apologize to Sun Kewang and the four generals: "General Pingdong, and all the generals, my general has decided to cooperate with the loyal battalion first, this matter was not notified to General Pingdong and the generals in advance, my general sent me to admit my mistake to everyone, please everyone must understand his difficulties!" ”

Sun Kewang's heart was half cold, he didn't expect Bai Wenxuan to really be co-opted by the loyalty camp, so he could only roar angrily: "Huo Qiu, what does Bai Wenxuan mean by this?" Bai Wenxuan and my grandson Kewang are friends of life and death, with my grandson Kewang eating a mouthful of food, Bai Wenxuan will never be hungry, why does Bai Wenxuan abandon me now! ”

Bai Wenxuan was co-opted by the loyalty battalion in the past, and the blow to the Great Western Army and Sun Kewang was not inferior to the death of Zhang Xianzhong, after all, Bai Wenxuan was already the core figure of the Great Western Army, and his influence on joining the Yue Ming Army was too great.

It's just that Bai Wenxuan also has a large set of reasons for throwing himself into the loyal battalion: "General Pingdong, isn't it enough for us people in northern Shaanxi to kill each other all these years?" Long live what heroes have died in cannibalism, what good ending can there be if cannibalism continues, our general is only cooperating with the loyal battalion now, and is not ready to throw himself into the Ming Kingdom and the Chengtian Dynasty, let alone poison General Pingdong and his former siblings! He's still that good man! ”

Bai Wenxuan can be said to have saved enough affection for himself, he told the four generals that he was only cooperating with the remnants of the loyal battalion of the Dashun Army, which was also from northern Shaanxi, and did not throw himself into the Chengtian Dynasty and the Yue Ming army, and he was only withdrawing from the battlefield now, and was not ready to act as an accomplice of the Yue Ming army to attack his former comrades.

But whether it is Sun Kewang or Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi, they all know that Bai Wenxuan is pure and beautiful, as the so-called can't help it, since Bai Wenxuan has fallen into the water and cooperated with the loyal battalion, sooner or later he will become a member of the Yue Ming army, and sooner or later he will bow to Emperor Chengtian.

And the most important thing is not that Bai Wenxuan took away nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, but that he, as the mainstay of the Great Western Army second only to the four generals, was co-opted by the loyal battalion, what do the generals below who command hundreds or thousands of people think?

After all, the opposite side is neither Zuo Liangyubu, who has a deep blood feud with the Great Western Army, nor the Qing soldiers who are hated by the Great Western Army, but the Loyal Battalion, Loyal Town and Loyal Brigade from northern Shaanxi, these are all old friends!

Therefore, Sun Kewang was obviously very disappointed in Bai Wenxuan, but in front of Huo Qiu, he still gave Bai Wenxuan enough face: "I know that Bai Wenxuan is a good man, since I am a friend of life and death, there will definitely be a beginning and an end, you go back and let Bai Wenxuan put a hundred hearts, and my Sun Kewang guarantees that he will not lose anything!" ”

But Sun Kewang is actually slapping a swollen face and becoming fat, Bai Wenxuan is now uncertain as soon as the entire Great Western Army leaves, not to mention rising stars like Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, even if Zhang Xianzhong is resurrected, he can't control the scene, there are people everywhere who are inquiring about the news or sending people to the loyalty camp to discuss the conditions, and there are not a few people who directly drag the team over or announce the cooperation of the loyalty camp.

Now Sun Kewang can only pin all his hopes on Wang Zhaoling: "Since Wang Zhaoling is ready to take the Holy Decree of the Queen Mother to clean up the traitors, now is the time for him to do it, why does he suddenly stand still?" ”

When it comes to marching and fighting, Wang Zhaoling hasn't even learned one percent of the skills of their four generals, but when it comes to killing and purging, the sum of their four generals is not as good as Wang Zhaoling's one percent, but although Wang Zhaoling shouted cruel words, he is now frightened and doesn't dare to kill at all.

In this situation, the four generals all felt that the offensive of the Vietnamese Ming army was becoming more and more fierce, although the loyal battalion and the Vietnamese Ming army did not launch a large-scale offensive, and the total casualties of the two sides in the past few days did not exceed 500, but the four generals had never been so desperate.

Even in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong and the Great Western Army suffered a devastating blow from Zuo Liangyu in Agate Mountain, and the soldiers suffered countless losses, and Zhang Xianzhong's nine wives and concubines were captured by Zuo Liangyu in one go, but the situation was not as bad as today.

After the Battle of Onyx Mountain, the soldiers of the Xiying were still united to break out of the encirclement and quickly recovered, but now the Xiying is already disheartened and disheartened, and everyone feels that cooperating with the loyal battalion is the best way out.

Of course, "cooperating with the loyal battalion" is just a cover for surrendering before the battle, and now Sun Kewang finds that the situation has reached the point of being almost cornered, and he can only pin all his hopes on the Qing army in the north: "Everyone hold on for a few more days, I estimate that the British prince of the Qing country, Azig, will definitely send troops to the south after hearing the news that we are trapped in Yiling, as long as the Qing soldiers go south, we will have a way to live!" ”

In the past, Sun Kewang could still hold the idea of fighting to the death with the Ming army, but now that the Great Western Army had reached the embarrassing situation of being unable to move and cut off supplies, he felt that the only hope was for Azig to march south.

It's just that Liu Wenxiu said bluntly: "We are now in a desperate situation, can the Qing soldiers take the fire for us and march south?" I guess they must have run first! ”

And Li Dingguo's speech can be called a majestic mountain: "If our Xiying has to rely on the Qing soldiers to go south to get out of trouble, then our Xiying might as well surrender to Emperor Chengtian and the Loyal Battalion, after all, our Xiying are all Han Chinese, and our brothers would rather die in the wilderness than serve Jianyu, let alone cooperate with the old friends of the Loyal Battalion." ”

Sun Kewang was unwilling to surrender to the Chengtian Dynasty or cooperate with the loyal battalion, after all, after Zhang Xianzhong's death, he ranked first among the four generals, although his status was temporarily below Wang Zhaoling, but he was indeed the number one person in the Great Western Dynasty, and had the opportunity to take over Zhang Xianzhong's imperial throne.

Since there is such a God-given opportunity, Sun Kewang is naturally unwilling to surrender on his knees: "Let's wait and see, I think Azig will definitely lead his troops south!" As long as the Qing army goes south, we will have a chance! ”

Azig and the Qing soldiers went south, which had become a lifeline for Sun Kewang.

And Azig and the Qing army, Beile and Beizi, didn't expect Zhang Xianzhong to die at the hands of an unknown soldier without suspense: "How is this possible?" Impossible, Zhang Xianzhong is a top thief who is famous all over the world, I don't know how many winds and rains have been through, how could he die in the hands of an unknown spearman? And he died at the hands of this little soldier named Xu Zhen in just half a day! ”

Although Azig didn't believe the news from the south at all, the scout who reported the news reported that it was a true news: "Prince Ying, the news from the south says so, now the 200,000 Great Western Army has been trapped in the deep mountains between Huguang and Sichuan, and Wanzhou behind them has also been recovered by the Ming Army, and now the Great Western Army is in a desperate situation, surrenderers are coming and going, and it is said that Zhang Xianzhong's four righteous sons can't hold on!" ”

Seeing that Azig was a little unconvinced, Wu Sangui, who had more or less dealt with the Great Western Army, hurriedly added: "If Zhang Xianzhong, a thief, dies, the Xiying will indeed fall apart, after all, as long as Zhang Xianzhong is still alive, even if there are only dozens of outlaws around him, Xiying is still fighting and will recover soon, but if Zhang Xianzhong is gone, ......"

Wu Sangui thought about it and immediately added a good example: "The death of the thief Li Zicheng last year is a good example!" ”