How did Liu Ximing plan, few of the civil and military forces of the Liu family could keep up with his thinking.

But now, judging from the general trend of the world, everyone has to admire, and sure enough, the second brother is still far-sighted.

Now that the Liu family has expanded more and more, Liu Ximing's group of civil and military officers have more or less figured out some things.

Hearing Li Jinghong's question, Li Jingsi immediately smiled and said:

"Don't you understand, the second brother wants the enemy to help us clear the house before moving in."

"Huh? What does that mean? The generals couldn't help but pick their heads in doubt.

"You, you, this fucking political sensitivity is too low", Li Jingsi couldn't help but laugh and scolded.

Who knew that Li Jinghong stiffened his neck and tilted his head, "The second brother has said, the military is to be pure, we just need to fight, and the military cannot be involved in political affairs." ”

Li Jingsi pointed at Li Jinghong with a little crying and laughing.

"You skin monkey, you also know to use the words of the second brother to block me, the second brother is right, the military should not think about politics, but with us in a high position, this political thing still needs to be learned."

Li Jingsi drew a circle on the large map behind him, directly framing Shaanxi, Henan, Huguang, Sichuan and other places.

"These places are the territory that our army now controls, have you found it, what characteristics do they have in common?"

Li Jinghong and other generals pondered for a moment, and some people's eyes lit up and said:

"I see, these places are all the places where rogue activity is most rampant."

"That's right!"

Li Jingsi handed over an appreciative look.

"The territory we occupy has been plagued back and forth by the rogues many times, although the rogues are tyrannical, but they have also dealt a huge blow to the gentry class in these places."

"With the follow-up actions of our army, these places have actually completed the anti-feudal and anti-bureaucratic actions mentioned by the second brother."

As soon as Liu Jiajun's follow-up actions were mentioned, everyone present laughed.

After so many years, there are a few people in the Liu family army who have not participated in Liu Ximing's code name weeding operation, anyway, there are rogues who take the blame, and the Liu family is not a little ambiguous when they move.

Judging from each action alone, the results are a little more tragic.

But correspondingly, the living standards of the people under the control of the Liu family have been greatly improved.

The soldiers of the Liu family are not blind, and in the face of Liu Xi's obvious motive for the welfare of the people of the world, many doubts that originally arose in the process of action were also swept away.

Seeing that everyone understood what they meant, Li Jingsi pointed to eastern China and said:

"But this is not the case in these places, our army's sphere of influence cannot be reached, and the gentry in these places are still very strong, at this time, our best way is to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight."

"Now you understand what the second brother means, holding Shanxi is equivalent to guarding the territory we now control, and driving Li Zicheng to Ningxia and Gansu as much as possible, that is, I hope they can fight to the death with the Mongols, and at the worst they can also scourge the officials and gentry in these places in Ningxia and Gansu."

Li Jinghong and the others kept nodding their heads when they heard this, and their faces were all expressions of sudden realization.

"However, we only have 70,000 horses now, and if we want to control such a large territory in Shanxi, we have to block all the main roads, and I am afraid that some of them will not be able to catch it."

"You don't have to worry about this, did you forget the conscription at the end of last year, according to Xu Taishou, the second brother has the intention to expand the army to 600,000 people, and there should be support soon after."

"Wow"

Li Jinghong and the others were immediately excited, 600,000 people, this number is like a spell for everyone who has accompanied the Liu family step by step.

When did we become so strong?

Li Jingsi smiled slightly when he saw this, as the main general of the Liu family, he still knew the development of the Liu family.

"Three years ago, with the addition of militia groups from all over the country, our family already had an army of 400,000, which was expanded to 500,000 in the 14th year of Chongzhen, and then expanded to 550,000 in 15 years, and this year because the war is approaching to 600,000, is it very unusual?"

"It's not unusual, it's not unusual", Li Jinghong and the others grinned and waved their hands wildly.

For the officers, of course, the more soldiers, the better.

"Okay, don't talk nonsense, let's go down and prepare the team, and immediately attack Li Zicheng tomorrow."

"Whoa"

The Liu family's army under the city of Jiezhou swallowed thousands of miles like a tiger, and Mu Jingna, who came to help, did not give in.

He led the troops from Luoyang and led an army of 50,000 all the way, which was supposed to take ten days, but it took only eight days to complete.

On the ninth day of the seventh month, while Li Jingsi camped north, Mu Jingnan also led 30,000 soldiers and horses to cross Wangwu Mountain and enter Lu'an Mansion.

On 17 July, the army under the command of Li Jingsi officially met Li Zicheng's troops near Taiyuan.

In Taiyuan, Li Zicheng took a group of civil and military officers to the city.

Looking at the Ming army camp in the south of the city, Li Zicheng's face had turned pale.

After so many days, the news that should be inquired about has been inquired clearly.

Knowing that the Ming army had just left on the front foot of the Dashun army, the back foot sent soldiers and horses from Hanzhong and Fengxiang to recover Shaanxi and Luoyang, and Li Zicheng's silver teeth were about to be crushed.

"Liu Ximing, you bastard, you can't be my nemesis!"

These Ming troops all used the same firearms as the officers and soldiers in Henan, and they were all loyal to the Wuchang court, how could Li Zicheng not know that these were Liu Ximing's hands and feet.

It's just a pity that anger alone won't help.

Li Zicheng vented all the way, looking at the Ming army camp outside the city, and a feeling of powerlessness finally rose in his heart.

"Ladies and gentlemen, how to fight this battle, how to fight, do you have rules?"

There was silence on the wall, and even Liu Zongmin, who had always been known for his bravery, had nothing to say.

"Your Majesty, if it is an ordinary Ming army, we still have a chance to win, after all, our army has 200,000 people, and the enemy army is only tens of thousands, but the soldiers and horses under the command of Liu Cannon are really difficult to fight."

Tian Jianxiu, who is in charge of playing forwards, has played a few games with the scout team under Li Jingsi, but almost none of them have won.

Every time they encountered the Ming scouts of the squad, the gang would shoot back from a distance with muskets.

But if you encounter a large group of scouts, these people still dare to charge forward, often a volley of muskets to catch you off guard, and when you get closer, it is a bomb, who can withstand this.

Li Zicheng roared angrily, "What can I do if it's hard to fight, don't you fight, I heard that another Ming army has captured Lu'an Mansion, we can't do it, if we don't fight, we have to die here." ”

"Why don't we go back and fight Jianyu?"

Li Laiheng, a general under Li Guo's command, weakly suggested.

"Hey"

There was another sigh at the head of the city.

What the hell, why is there only an opponent like Jianyu left now, which is considered weak, what kind of world is this.

In the end, the wavering Li Zicheng's army could only fight against Li Jingsi's army.

It's not that the generals of the Dashun Army have plucked up their courage, but because Li Jingsi thought that it had dragged on for too long and took the lead in launching an attack.

The artillery lined up in front of the Ming army directly splashed the stone chips at the head of Taiyuan City, seeing that it was not possible to defend the city, the Dashun army only scored three ways and launched an attack on the Ming army at the same time.

Under the city of Taiyuan, the crisp sound of "bang" and "bang" sounded again.

Under the condition that the logistics line was guaranteed, Li Jingsi's troops received a steady stream of supplies from Shaanxi, and now tens of thousands of troops no longer left their hands and fired at all their power.

It only took three days of effort, and the 200,000 troops of the Dashun Army were directly reduced to 140,000, and Li Zicheng couldn't sit still.

"Break through and continue to walk out of Hebei through the well."

In the middle of the Chinese army, looking at the Ming army that was swarming to surround his army in reverse, Li Zicheng gritted his teeth and made this decision.

"Your Majesty, but what about our gold and silver treasures in Taiyuan?"

Niu Jinxing looked distressed.

Pointing to the Ming army all over the mountains, Li Zicheng turned around and left with a pale face.

Otherwise, he might have blood in his heart.

It's all the money that the soldiers tortured with a stick and a stick, and it hurts to think about it.

With the retreat of Li Zicheng's troops, the situation on the Taiyuan battlefield became clear in an instant.

However, at this time, Li Jingsi directly ordered that the army should not continue to pursue, and only forced Li Zicheng's army to retreat.

Although a group of grassroots officers and soldiers could not understand it, when the army entered Taiyuan City and took over the more than 60 million taels of gold and silver treasures that Li Zicheng could not take away because of his hasty retreat, the whole army was boiling again, and Li Zicheng was also left behind by everyone.

However, when Li Zicheng and others retreated to the east, they found that Mu Jingnan, who had finished sweeping the Lu'an Basin, had already led a large army to guard the passes in the east.

The Dashun army had no choice but to flee north, detour to Datong, and then turn west into northern Shaanxi and Ningxia.

The so-called Dashun Dynasty instantly became a grass platform team of local chickens and dogs.

By mid-August, the whole of Shanxi had fallen under Liu Ximing's control.

Jiang Liang, the general soldier of Datong, had surrendered to Li Zicheng before, and now seeing Li Jingsi leading the army to attack, he remembered his status as a minister and wanted to surrender again.

Who knew that Li Jingsi was not at ease at all, and directly caught Datong is a fierce attack, and beheaded Jiang Hao in Datong City.

Other forces of the old Ming army throughout Shanxi were also purged.

In Zhangjiakou City, Shanxi merchant Fan Yongdou trembled and looked at the Ming soldiers who attacked the city and went straight to Fan's house.

"My Fan family has been loyal and good for generations, and I have always been the last to become a Ming person, you can't do so much about me."

Li Jinghong, who was in charge of leading the troops to clear Shanxi, walked in with a sly smile on his face, and spit on his face with a mouthful of thick phlegm when he heard the words.

"Old dog, as a Han Chinese, you colluded with the Manchu Tatars and have been smuggling goods for them for many years, what kind of face do you have to claim to be loyal?"

"The prime minister of my family said that Shanxi Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Guest, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, and Huang Yunfa are the most heinous crimes, and they ordered their men to be killed, and the women were put into the teaching workshop as prostitutes."

Without waiting for Fan Yongdou to explain, Li Jinghong kicked him to the ground and shouted: "Come on, kill Lao Tzu!" ”

"Ah" screams sounded, and the Fan family in Zhangjiakou was removed.

As for the rest of the merchants who were canonized as the Eight Great Emperors by the Tatar Qing Dynasty, they also ended up in the same way and disappeared directly from the land of Shanxi.