Although He Tengjiao had long expected that he would intervene in the Huguang war, and He Tengjiao's current direction of troops was Wuchang City rather than Jingzhou Mansion, the loyal battalion generals present were so frightened that they stood up: "How many soldiers and horses are here?" ”

"How many soldiers and horses do we have to deal with He Tengjiao's northward advance?"

"This damn He Tengjiao, it's just a matter of making trouble with our loyalty camp at ordinary times, but now he dares to jump out at this time, it's really shameless!"

If the generals like Gao Yigong and Li Guo from the Dashun Army on the West Road do not have an intuitive understanding of He Tengjiao's ability to succeed and defeat more than anything, then Tian Jianxiu, Liu Tichun and Empress Gao are very impressed by He Tengjiao, after all, the Dashun Army on the East Road reached a joint venture agreement with He Tengjiao last year.

But He Tengjiao never thought of using this battle-hardened Dashun army to deal with the Qing army to launch a counteroffensive, but put all his thoughts on how to make the Dashun army kill each other, and finally achieved nothing, not to mention that there was internal strife within the Dashun army, fortunately, Tian Jianxiu and Liu Tichun resolutely went north after hearing the news that Li Guo and Gao Yigong's troops had arrived in Jingzhou, and finally got rid of this sea of suffering.

And now He Tengjiao has stood up to make trouble again, which can be said to be a bad plan for the Chengtian Dynasty and the loyal battalion, and He Tengjiao chose the right time, where Yuan Zongdi has already told everyone that there are not many soldiers and horses available now: "Although we are ready to deal with the preparations for the siege of the three armies of Jianyu, He Tengjiao and Zhang Xianzhong at the same time, but the Daxi thieves attacked too quickly, and almost all of our soldiers and horses in the south were transferred to deal with Zhang Kewang." ”

As soon as I heard that Changsha and Wuchang were now without soldiers, the generals present felt that although He Tengjiao was a weak brigade, but now such a toss might defeat the great plan of the loyal battalion and the Chengtian Dynasty, only the usually cowardly Empress Fengtian performed very well at this time: "Inquire about it, which way of soldiers and horses are coming?" Is it Hao Shaoqi and Wang Jincai's soldiers? ”

Hao Shaoqi and Wang Jincai are both remnants of the Dashun Army, although they were originally just ordinary middle-level officers in the Dashun Dynasty, but under the situation that the Dashun Army was fighting in the north, Hao Shaoqi and Wang Jincai instead mastered a considerable army, but they were above Tian Jianxiu and Liu Tichun, the original marquis of the Dashun Dynasty.

Hao Shaoqi claimed to have 40,000 people, and Wang Jincai claimed to have 76,000 people, so after the East Road Dashun Army and He Tengjiao joined forces, He Tengjiao recruited Hao Shaoqi and Wang Jincai to deal with the old people of the Dashun Army including Tian Jianxiu, Liu Tichun, Yuan Zongdi, and Liu Fangliang, and finally Tian Jianxiu, Liu Tichun, and Yuan Zongdi led the army north to Jingzhou, while Hao Shaoqi and Wang Jincai stayed in Hunan and became the strongest soldiers and horses under He Tengjiao's command.

It's just that distance produces beauty, although the two sides were almost torn apart when they were in Hunan, but after the remnants of the Dashun army took root in Jingzhou Mansion and reorganized it into a loyalty camp, Hao Shaoqi and Wang Jincai often had correspondence with Empress Gao, especially after Empress Gao was added by the Chengtian Dynasty with the honorific title of "Empress Fengtian of the Ming Dynasty", Hao Shaoqi and Wang Jincai's envoys were almost resident in Jingzhou Mansion.

Therefore, Queen Gao first asked if it was Hao Shaoqi and Wang Jincai who went north this time, and Yuan Zongdi, who was in charge of exploring the intelligence of Hunan, replied as soon as possible: "Although He Tengjiao has been dispatching troops, Hao Shaoqi and Wang Jincai's department has not moved, obviously He Tengjiao still can't trust our old brothers!" ”

Empress Gao is most worried about He Tengjiao's mobilization of Hao Shaoqi and Wang Jincai's department, these two troops together are known as 116,000 people, there are at least 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers, and there are tens of thousands of elites in addition to the combined army, and they know the tactics of the Dashun army well, so they can be said to be the most difficult opponent to deal with in the loyal battalion.

Now that I heard that Hao Shaoqi and Wang Jincai did not move at all, Queen Gao can be said to be relieved: "As long as Hao Shaoqi and Wang Jincai do not move, then we should be able to cope with it, I don't know which of you had a particularly good relationship with Mrs. Xing at the beginning?" ”

The remnants of the Dashun Army in Nanchang hit the idea to Mrs. Xing, and in the end, Mrs. Xing personally led the Loyal Brigade, and Queen Gao had a similar idea, and now the biggest foreign aid in the Loyal Battalion is Mrs. Xing, who surrendered with Gao Jie this time.

Although Mrs. Xing has a bad reputation in the Dashun Army, and she has been separated from the Dashun Army for more than ten years, she has a lot of old people in the loyalty camp, and Tian Jianxiu even volunteered: "Let me run again, if it wasn't for my subordinates' mercy, Mrs. Xing probably wouldn't have been able to leave, she should remember this favor!" ”

Tian Jianxiu has been hiding this matter in his heart for more than ten years, and even his closest old friends don't know that Tian Jianxiu deliberately let Mrs. Xing go, and Queen Gao was immediately overjoyed: "Then trouble Hou Zehou to make a special trip and explain the situation clearly to Mrs. Xing!" ”

As long as Hao Shaoqi and Wang Jincai, the old troops of the Dashun Army do not move, and the Chengtian Dynasty launches with the strength of the whole country, He Tengjiao should be able to cope with it when he goes north this time, but when Empress Gao was about to explain a few more words to Tian Jianxiu, there was another sound of fast horses galloping, and then a sweaty scout rushed in: "The villain has seen the mother of the Queen of Fengtian, and Zhang Xianzhong's banner suddenly appeared in Yiling!" ”

Empress Gao didn't think this was a big problem: "Hasn't the big western thief in Yiling always been under the banner of Zhang Xianzhong?" ”

The scout immediately replied: "But this time it's Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Emperor Banner!" ”

Since Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Emperor Banner has arrived in Yiling, then Daxi Emperor Zhang Xianzhong should also arrive in Yiling, as soon as she thinks of the legendary Eight Kings, Empress Gao can't help but get nervous, she turned to Tian Jianxiu and said: "Hou Zehou, please hurry up!" Whether you can keep the Loyal Camp and Jingzhou Mansion depends on Houzehou! ”

And Tian Jianxiu said without hesitation: "Prepare the horse, hurry up and prepare the horse, I'll set off now!" ”

For the Great Western Army on the Yiling front, the arrival of Emperor Zhang Xianzhong of the Great West gave them a great morale boost, and Zhang Xianzhong also saw the extremely familiar terrain and also had a feeling of relaxation and joy: "It is still the water and soil of this lake, I don't know how many times stronger than Sichuan, this Eastern Crusade is indeed the right choice!" ”

In fact, when Zhang Xianzhong first entered Sichuan, his evaluation was that Sichuanzhong was far better than Huguang, which could be used as the foundation of the founding of the Great Western Kingdom, but two years have passed, and the situation has changed dramatically.

Although the Great Western Army is still the Great Western Army, even stronger than two years ago, the Great Western regime has never been able to complete the transformation from a thief to a feudal country, and Zhang Xianzhong does not know how to deal with it again and again, so that Zhang Xianzhong does not know how to deal with it, and can only use the means of dealing with the official army to "suppress the people", but then a larger-scale rebellion followed, which made Zhang Xianzhong feel frustrated countless times.

And Huguang seems to be the Huguang where the Great Western Army comes and goes, Zhang Xianzhong has countless good memories in this land, especially taking Wuchang before Li Zicheng is an important turning point in the history of the Great Western Army, so Zhang Xianzhong will have such a sigh.

And Prime Minister Wang Zhaoling was relieved to see that Zhang Xianzhong, who was about to kill at every turn, was in a good mood now: "Weichen has inquired clearly, Azig and Jianyu have given up Wuchang City, and now as long as Jingzhou Mansion is taken, the entire Huguang will be our territory!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help laughing: "That's good, that's good, hopefully, how many days will we be able to take Jingzhou?" ”

Zhang Xianzhong's Zhang Kewang's expression suddenly became nervous, and he also knew that as long as Jingzhou and the Loyal Battalion were taken, not to mention the entire Huguang, at least half of Hubei would be controlled by the Great Western Army, but the rest of the Great Shun Army in front of him could be said to have used all their strength to eat milk, and until now the Great Western Army still has not made particularly great progress.

And more importantly, Zhang Kewang didn't think that it made much sense for the Great Western Army to take Huguang, before the Great Western Army took the whole of Sichuan, but due to improper management, there were rebellions everywhere, and in the end the Great Western Army could only be forced to leave Sichuan to conquer Huguang, if Huguang was not managed well, I am afraid that it will be the second Sichuan.

But now Zhang Xianzhong is too fond of killing, and Zhang Kewang is just Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son after all, so Zhang Kewang didn't dare to confront Zhang Xianzhong head-on, but said more implicitly: "The loyalty camp has been unwilling to retreat because of the pseudo-Ming reward, but since the father has come, the loyalty camp and Jingzhou Mansion should be taken immediately!" ”

Hearing Zhang Kewang say this, Zhang Xianzhong naturally laughed: "Well said, I hope I am right, Empress Dowager Gao and Tian Jianxiu are confused, since they are the remnants of the Dashun Dynasty, why bother to work for the puppet Ming Kingdom, not to mention that I heard that the little sincere Bo chaotic palace has at least three queens, and the Empress Dowager Gao is just one of them, and she has changed from the queen mother to the queen of Fengtian, and she is still proud, why bother!" ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Xianzhong became more and more proud: "Besides, now only our Daxi Dynasty is the only one who plays the banner of Dashun, Tian Jianxiu, Li Guo, and Gao Yigong If these people want to beat the banner of Dashun, they should belong to our Daxi Dynasty!" ”

Although the generals of the Dashun Dynasty, including Li Guo, who had the most resolute attitude, had already realized that the banner of the Dashun Army and the Yongchang era could not be fought at all, Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army had been using the "Dashun" era name since it entered Sichuan.

The seventeenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the first year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, the first year of Yongchang of Dashun, and the first year of Dashun of the Western Dynasty, and the first year of Hongguang of the Ming Dynasty, the second year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, and the second year of Yongchang of Dashun are also the second year of Dashun of the Great Western Dynasty.

And now it is the first year of Chengtian in the Ming Dynasty, the third year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, and the third year of Dashun in the Great Western Dynasty, so Zhang Xianzhong feels that as long as he arrives in Yiling, the so-called loyal battalion in Jingzhou, that is, the remnants of the Dashun army, since they have given up the name of Yongchang for three years, they naturally have to use the name of "Dashun three years" to attach to themselves.