The civil and military officials present had thought about Tian Jianxiu's problem, but everyone came to the unanimous conclusion that Zhang Xianzhong was most likely to return to his hometown in Shaanxi instead of grabbing the territory of Jingzhou Mansion with the remnants of the Dashun army, although He Zhen was stationed in Han, but as long as Zhang Xianzhong was willing to attack Shaanxi at all costs, He Zhen was by no means Zhang Xianzhong's opponent.

But the previous informant and Yang Zhan's report show that Zhang Xianzhong has decided to go east at all costs, but this is what everyone can't understand, Li Guo directly expressed his opinion: "Zhang Xianzhong should go back to his hometown in Shaanxi even if he is ready to give up a country of abundance like Sichuan, why should he join us?" Although we are under the banner of Daming, we have never offended him! ”

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are both from Shaanxi, and these generals and backbones under their subordinates are also from Shaanxi, unless they have to think about returning to their hometowns with their clothes, but now Zhang Xianzhong is ready to give up the strategy of Shaanxi and lead the troops to re-enter Huguang, which makes people feel that there is a big mystery in this but they don't know what's going on.

However, Empress Gao knew the general answer, and she told these civil and military officials under her command: "Your Majesty specially wrote a letter to me, saying that she was going to personally lead his troops west to conquer Huguang after the year, and I heard that the spies in Wuchang said that Azig now has plans to retreat north, maybe this is the reason why the big western thief insists on going west!" ”

Everyone immediately understood what was going on, although Shaanxi was the hometown of Zhang Xianzhong and the generals of the Great West, it was impossible for the Qing Dynasty to give up Shaanxi, and now Zhang Xianzhong was ready to pick peaches.

Originally, Empress Gao was not going to divulge the secret of Liu Yongxi's personal expedition to Huguang, but as a killer weapon at a critical moment, but when she heard that Zhang Xianzhong was going to kill her, she changed her mind, and the civil officials were relieved when they heard that Emperor Chengtian was going to drive the western expedition: "Your Majesty is wise!" ”

"Your Majesty has been driving the expedition in person, and the cause of Zhongxing will definitely succeed!"

"When the time comes, Your Majesty and Niangniang will join each other, and the cause of Zhongxing will naturally be completed!"

"Yes, the situation of Your Majesty's personal conquest is different!"

Although there are many gentlemen and heroes to vote, there are no figures at the level of Lu Zhenfei and Zhu Dadian, and these civil officials who come to join are relatively limited.

Now the problem they are most worried about is that although the "Yipin Zhenyi Lady Yue Princess Agency" has been officially recognized by the imperial court, and their appointments as governors, political envoys, envoys, and Taoist platforms have also been reported to the imperial court, they are not descendants of Emperor Chengtian and Empress Zhang after all, and the rest of the Dashun army now only occupies one Jingzhou Mansion, and when Zhongxing's career is successful in the future, the future of these people may not be as prosperous as Zhu Dadian and Lu Zhenfei.

But after Liu Yongxi personally conquered Huguang and met with Empress Gao, the situation was different, as long as Emperor Chengtian was served well, they would be the protégés of the Son of Heaven of the Chengtian Dynasty at that time, so now they are all happy to go to heaven.

It's just that although Queen Gao is cowardly, she has a good vision after all, although these civil officials who have joined her praise are overwhelming, but she still sees the real key to the problem: "Zhang Xianzhong is going to call, can our Jingzhou Mansion cope with it?" After all, we only have one Jingzhou Mansion, but Zhang Xianzhong occupies the whole province of Sichuan. ”

This issue is both sensitive and critical, and although everyone already knows it, they still turn their attention to Gao Yigong.

After all, Gao Yigong is Queen Gao's younger brother, even if he says the wrong thing on this kind of issue, he will not be hated by Queen Gao for a lifetime, and Gao Yigong also knows that he must stand up and speak: "If the big western thief goes out of Sichuan in a big way, the key lies in the movements of He Tengjiao and Azig!" ”

Everyone is very satisfied with Gao Yigong's answer, after all, Gao Yigong did not directly say that he was defeated in the battle with the Great Western Army, but only said that He Tengjiao and Azig were the key to victory or defeat.

But this is indeed the case, although the Jingzhou Mansion nominally placed 300,000 remnants of the Dashun army, but everyone knows very well that this includes a large number of family members and the old, weak, sick and disabled, and there are only 70,000 loyal battalions that can really go into battle, but among the 70,000 people, the most that can really be called soldiers is only 20,000 or 30,000 people, and the elite is only 10,000 people at most.

After all, over the past year or so, the Dashun Army has experienced countless defeats and vicious battles, and it is already a very lucky thing to save 10,000 elites, but the Daxi Army is completely different.

Although the Great Western Army encountered a series of defeats and setbacks after occupying Sichuan, from occupying the whole Sichuan to now only controlling most of Sichuan, the main force of the Great Western Army did not suffer much military losses, and Zhang Xianzhong's four adopted sons Zhang Kewang, Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Wenxiu, and Zhang Nengqi had at least 100,000 elites in their hands, and there was not much chance of winning if they really wanted to start a decisive battle with the Great Western Army on the Jingzhou side.

But the more important issue is that both Azig and He Tengjiao regard the remnants of the Dashun army in Jingzhou Mansion as mortal enemies.

These two routes, which should have been in flames, have now joined forces to try to kill Jingzhou and eliminate the only force of the Chengtian Dynasty in Huguang.

Their joint slaughter has already caused countless big troubles to Jingzhou, and if Zhang Xianzhong kills out of Sichuan again, everyone feels that Jingzhou Mansion will not be able to gain a foothold.

If it was the era of Li Zicheng's Quartet mobile warfare, everyone thought that the territory of Jingzhou Mansion would be lost, and it would not be a big deal, but now that the "Governor's Empress Dowager of Military Affairs of the Five Provinces and the Lady of Yipin Zhenyi Yue Princess Agency" has been played, and he has to be knighted, everyone feels that the territory of Jingzhou Mansion must not be lost.

In particular, these generals of the Dashun Army felt that the Jingzhou government could not lose this territory, and the reason why they returned from Beijing to Shanxi, and from Shanxi to Shaanxi, and then wandered around in Shaanxi for more than half a year, was that they did not have a stable base area.

Now the situation in the world has completely changed, it is no longer an era when Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong can crisscross several provinces with a few hundred horses, and there is no stable base area, even if they have the ability to reach the sky, they can only hate for life, so as soon as Gao Yigong finished speaking, Tian Jianxiu immediately added: "But no matter what He Tengjiao and Azig do, we will hold the territory of Jingzhou, otherwise there is no way to explain to Your Majesty!" ”

Empress Gao felt that what Tian Jianxiu said was very reasonable, and if she really wanted to lose Jingzhou Mansion, her dream of being the queen had become a dream, so she immediately asked: "Hou Zehou, what do you think we should do?" ”

Tian Jianxiu was the Marquis of Ze in the Dashun Dynasty, and this time the Chengtian Dynasty changed the title for unknown reasons, Liu Yongxi personally set the title of "Hou Zehou" for Tian Jianxiu, which was said by the eunuch Shi Chaoli who came to announce the edict.

And Tian Jianxiu also felt that the imperial court was endeavouring: "Niangniang, whether it is Zhang Xianzhong or He Tengjiao or Azige, or they attack Jingzhou in three ways, we will fight until the last moment, but please Niangniang please ask Your Majesty to personally conquer as soon as possible, and you can also ask Eunuch Shi to bring back to Beijing with the transcript of the report to Empress Fengtian of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Gao Yigong, Li Guo, Liu Tichun and others also felt that Tian Jianxiu's suggestion was feasible, and Empress Gao finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Then invite Eunuch Shi over, explain things clearly to him and ask him to say a few more good words for our Jingzhou!" ”

It's just that Tian Jianxiu added a suggestion: "In fact, there is a way to save the crisis, I'm afraid that Xingguo Hou and Yunyang Bo will not accept it!" ”

Li Guo was the first to stand up and say: "As long as Jingzhou is preserved, I can accept the biggest grievances." ”

Gao Yigong also said without hesitation: "Yes, as long as my sister becomes the Emperor of Fengtian of the Ming Dynasty and keeps Jingzhou foolproof, no matter what, I can accept anything!" ”

And Tian Jianxiu immediately said the plan in his heart: "Can the Marquis of Xingguo and Xunyang Bo accept the imperial court to contact He Zhen?" ”

When it came to He Zhen, Li Guo and Gao Yigong's faces changed, they originally prepared to march into Sichuan from the southwest of Shaanxi, but as a result, the Dashun army He Zhen who was guarding Hanzhong had not only surrendered, but even suddenly attacked their troops and forced them to divert to Huguang, but in the end, Gao Yigong still gritted his teeth and said: "He Zhen and I have old grudges, but for the sake of the court and my sister, I can accept it!" ”

Li Guo has the same opinion: "Hou Zehou has such a proposal, has he been in contact with Hanzhong?" Rest assured, I'm in favor of this matter! ”

And Zhang Xianzhong at this moment is also concerned about this matter, but he looks at the problem from a completely different angle: "I have entered Sichuan so many times and really haven't found that there are some people in Sichuan, and I must kill their prestige!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong has been proud of the spring breeze when he has entered Sichuan many times before, but before Zhang Xianzhong was a standard rogue, at most, he stayed in Sichuan for half a year and then withdrew, and it was all a guerrilla warfare, and now almost the entire Sichuan and Shu are already the territory of the Great Western Army.

But the Great Western Army used to fight the world immediately, although it was ready to transform after occupying Chengdu, but in fact it was a set of ideas to rule the world immediately, and the result was setbacks everywhere, Zhang Xianzhong has always heard countless bad news in the past few months, even if he killed many people, he could not solve the problem, but made the problem a mess, and now Zhang Xianzhong has started to kill again.

But Zhang Xianzhong's prime minister Wang Zhaoling disagreed with Zhang Xianzhong's point of view: "It is true that we want to kill the prestige of these Diao people, but the key is to take down Huguang, as long as Huguang is taken down, all of them will live, and now the Qing army is preparing to retreat north, it is a godsend!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong has his own opinion: "Although this is indeed an opportunity, I think going back to Shaanxi is the right way. ”

Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and his generals are all from Shaanxi, and now they want to go back to their hometown in Shaanxi when they encounter problems that cannot be solved in Sichuan, but Wang Zhaoling said very clearly: "Your Majesty, returning to Shaanxi is naturally a clear road, but this road is not easy to walk, and it is not easy to walk in Hanzhong He Zhen, not to mention that the Great Qing Kingdom has deployed heavy troops in Shaanxi, it is more appropriate to go out of Sichuan by the same way!" ”