In the west of Tongguan City, large armies gathered; The murderous spirit is so fierce that the birds dare not fall.

The banner of Wushan Boma Shiyao, the general of Tongguan guards, was fluttering majestically on the city. However, on the streets of the city, Ma Shiyao's handsome banner was squeezed into an inconspicuous corner.

Any banner here is more majestic and louder than him!

"Raise the battalion commandery, Ruhou, General Liu!" This is the banner known as the general whistle Liu Ye and Liu Zongmin.

"General of the left battalion, Cihou Liu!" This is the banner of Cihou Liu Fangliang.

"General Quan, Zehou Tian!" Although Tian Jianxiu was in Huguang at this time to manage the affairs of civil affairs and was not in Shaanxi, his banner was still set up on the right side of Liu Zongmin's banner.

As for the banners of Gao Yigong, Yuan Zongdi, Hao Shaoqi, Liu Tichun, Li Qiang, Li You, Bai Wang, Bai Minghe, Li Shuangxi, Zhang Nai, and other generals of the Shun army, the wings of the geese were lined up in front of the Tongguan General Military Office in the city. Under their banners, their own personal guards were all elite soldiers, sophisticated armor and equipment, and on the arrow path in the distance, the fat, strong, hairy and shiny war horses that were fed neighed from time to time.

Although there were many people, no one dared to make a noise. Because, just in front of the General Military Office, the imperial soldiers of Emperor Dashun set up a queue in front of the palace from the gate to the Shuaitang. The majesty and solemnity filled the Shuaifu.

Outside Tongguan City, to Xi'an, oh, no, it is on both sides of the official road of Chang'an, the capital of Dashun, and it is a large army. The flags are like the sea, the swords, guns and cannons are like forests, and the soldiers and horses are like clouds.

The main elite of the Shun army in Shaanxi is all here.

The marshal's mansion of the Tongguan General Army became Li Zicheng's temporary headquarters at this time, or the palace.

And in the lobby of the Shuaifu, at this time, it has become the meeting place of the Dashun court.

Like an old farmer in northern Shaanxi, Li Zi squatted on the ground, holding a huge old bowl in his hand, a plate of garlic juice, a plate of scrambled eggs, a plate of cold shredded radish in front of him, two steamed buns between his fingers, and swallowed the wide noodles in the bowl with a snoring in his mouth, chewing a few mouthfuls of steamed buns from time to time.

"It's still delicious wheat in our guanzhong!" He put down the big bowl and sighed at the ministers of civil and military affairs in front of him.

"This is the Son of Heaven Hongfu, Sun Chuanting's old man is in Guanzhong to carry out a new policy, repair water conservancy, originally planned to use the fertile land in this Guanzhong to do the mantis arm as a car, but unexpectedly in vain, for the Holy Son of Heaven to clear the road!" Li Yan expressed his opinion very appropriately. not only affirmed the merits of Sun Chuanting, the former superintendent, but also carried Li Zicheng with him.

"If you want to talk about Sun Lao'er, it is indeed capable and backbone! It's a pity that he followed the wrong person. If he is willing to follow the emperor to fight the world, I am afraid that the world will already be peaceful at this time! Liu Zongmin put down the well-eaten bowl in his hand, burped with satisfaction, and responded to Li Yan's remarks from another angle.

The current Guanzhong Plain, eight hundred miles of Qinchuan, for the Dashun army, is no less significant than conquering Luoyang, Kaifeng, and defeating Zuo Liangyu's hundreds of thousands of troops in Henan. The grain and cotton produced on this land are all strategic materials. When he first saw the account books of grain taxes collected in various places, Li Zicheng said to Li Yan with great emotion: "I only know today how Qin Shihuang, Han Gaozu, and Tang Gao's grandfather and son determined the world!" "These people are relying on the 800-mile Qinchuan River, relying on the good water conservancy facilities and irrigation system here, and the grain produced here is developing eastward.

In addition to Shaanxi's implementation of the new policy and military training, Sun Chuanting's biggest administrative task was to implement the cash-for-work system, which gathered the disaster victims and hungry people in various places, distributed rations, and asked them to dredge the ditches that had been silted up and abandoned for many years, so as to facilitate irrigation. You must know that one of the important reasons why the Guanzhong area was called the land of abundance in the Qin and Han dynasties is that it has a mature and perfect water conservancy irrigation system for agricultural production. Over the years, the original river-like diversion canals and irrigation canals have basically been silted up to the point where they can be driven and walked. As a result, Sun Chuanting organized manpower to re-dredge and excavate these blocked channels. It's a pity that it fell short.

However, what is surprising is that Sun Chuanting's behavior and measures of being attacked and abused by the officials and nobles were resolutely and thoroughly implemented when Li Zicheng led the Dashun army into Guanzhong. Not only carried through, but also went further on his path.

Li Yan played Li Zicheng and confiscated all the lands that were originally in the names of the princes, nobles, gentry and eunuchs of various provinces as official land. In this way, the problem that originally plagued Sun Chuanting: how to pass the canal through the fields of these wealthy families will not be a problem. Soon, a water conservancy network crisscrossing the Guanzhong Plain reappeared. As a result, the year when the Dashun army occupied Guanzhong was a bumper harvest year. This autumn was the second year of a bumper harvest. In the eyes of many old people of the Shun army, it is clear that this year's situation is more like a disaster year than any other year, there is almost no rain in the spring, and there is almost another locust plague, but the wheat and cotton on the Guanzhong Plain have been harvested. And that's not even counting the sorghum that people are rushing to plant, and the sweet potatoes and potatoes that are grown on the sandy land of the hillsides. The current Shunjun is responding to that sentence, there is food at home, and there is no panic in his heart.

After saying a few words, everyone put down their dishes and chopsticks one after another and began to discuss the military situation ahead. According to Li Zicheng's idea, the Shun army was ready to take advantage of the geographical advantages of Tongguan to resist and defend layer by layer, and a large number of casualties consumed the Qing army's strength, so that the Qing army fell into a state of exhaustion and combat. When the physical strength, strength, and morale of the Qing army were almost consumed, they suddenly fought with the main force of the Shun army and fought a beautiful defensive counterattack.

This is why the Shun army is gathered here.

"Jiexuan, how is the battle ahead?"

"Your Majesty! Ma Shiyao played well. It's kind of impressive.! As of this morning, more than 10,000 pigtailed soldiers have been killed, two of the Qing army's general soldiers have been beheaded, and dozens of officers and generals below the general army level and above the garrison level have been beheaded. More than 100 flags of various colors were seized! ”

As a matter of fact, with Li Zicheng's rich experience, he does not even need to listen to the reports on the progress of these front-line battles, but only needs to listen to the faint shouts of killing and the sound of guns and artillery coming from the front line, and he can know seven or eight percent.

He nodded with satisfaction, "Spread my will, Wushan Boma Shiyao's department fought bravely to kill the enemy, and the soldiers were rewarded with ten silver dollars each, a pound of meat, and a bottle of wine." Officials at all levels are rewarded! ”

"Yes! Minister's Order! ”

"Lin Quan, what's the situation up north?"

"Your Majesty, Empress Gao sent someone to send the latest military information quickly, General Luo Hu has led his troops to the north, arrived at the predetermined location of Fuping, Sanyuan and other places, rested the army and horses to wait for work, in order to completely annihilate the Tartar soldiers and horses coming from the North Road!"

Li Zicheng went on an expedition, and his queen Gao Guiying left the fundamental place for him in Chang'an City. And Luo Hu, the commander of the Zhenshan battalion, and tens of thousands of horses of the Zhenshan battalion, the most elite in the Dashun army, stayed in Chang'an as the force guarding Chang'an City. Of course, this is an ostensible statement to the outside world, in order to confuse and deter the gentry in the city, and prevent them from changing their hearts when they see the absence of the army.

At this time, under the command of Empress Gao, Luo Hu left 10,000 horses to his adoptive mother, Empress Gao, and personally led the remaining soldiers and horses of his subordinates to quietly go north.

After Jiang Pai and others led their troops to turn northern Shaanxi into a scorched earth, they looked at the scene full of devastation, depression in the four fields, and ten rooms and nine emptiness, and then they went south with satisfaction.

As soon as the advance of the army came out of Tongchuan, these people couldn't help but shine in front of them.

If you make a comparison between northern Shaanxi and Guanzhong, and let Jiang Zhu and these people practice all kinds of words, they are afraid that they will not be able to say anything, and they can only say: "Northern Shaanxi is a nest of thieves, with many good houses and gold and silver!" And this is in the middle of the level! Hey! ”

After Li Zicheng led his Dashun army to capture Shaanxi, his old subordinates responded to the old saying that "wealth and nobility do not return to their hometowns, such as clothes and brocade at night", and they asked for leave to return to their hometowns in northern Shaanxi. Worship ancestors, visit relatives, treat guests, build a house! All behaviors that can glorify the ancestors must be repeated. As a result, on the ground in northern Shaanxi, mansions have risen one after another, and these generals and officers of the Shun army are not short of money in their pockets, as long as they build their houses well and quickly, they will naturally spend a lot of money, and the wages of the masons and carpenters will rise in price.

However, this level is different from that of northern Shaanxi. Even though it was winter, you could still see shallow water flowing under the ice in the ditch, and the winter wheat seedlings were showing a lovely green color under the residual snow. Someone dug up the frozen soil with a knife and asked the handsome ginger to watch, and the fertile soil revealed the fragrance of the earth.

"It's a good place!" Jiang Jian couldn't help but admire. He secretly made up his mind, according to the reward issued by Prince Yu, which one is first in Guanzhong, which one can stake the land first, no matter what, he must also circle a few pieces of land that belong to him on the ground in Guanzhong!

However, these commanders of the Northern Route Army, as well as several Mongolian princes, all had this idea. As a result, a friendly competition of mobility ability was carried out cordially, friendly and enthusiastically in the North Route Army of the Qing Army!

No one is a fool, since the north mountain into the eight hundred miles of Qinchuan land, everyone can see that nine out of nine are wilderness and flat rivers, between the four fields can be seen everywhere tender green winter wheat, outside the village everywhere can be seen high wheat straw stacks, sorghum stacks, used as firewood for winter. Outside the village, the canals run around the village, and if it weren't for these canals, I am afraid that the Mongol princes would have ordered them to rush into the village and plunder. Most of the houses in the village were not like the ones they had seen along the way, with thatched adobe houses leaking on all sides, crooked, and some mud fence walls were also full of holes.

"The first to enter the customs is king! rushed to the city of Xi'an, what are these villages and town stores! ”

In a strange scream, Jiang Jian pulled out the long sword at his waist and roared: "Sons, if you are not afraid of fat meat or silver dollars, follow our Lao Tzu and go to Chang'an City!" Let's go! ”

"Let's go!"

The generals and soldiers under his command were red with the stimulation of the silver and grain fields, and they all waved their weapons and shouted. The spears and blades in their hands were pointing forward. The rolling cavalry only rushed forward, and the sun shone brightly, reflecting the bronze ornaments on the bridles of each man and horse, like a forest of various weapons, shining with a dazzling metallic light in the sun.

However, it's not just Jiang Jian's family who has such thoughts.

"Handsome! The soldiers and horses of the prince of the middle banner of Tumut rushed up from the left flank of our army, rushed to the front of our army, seized the road of our army, not to mention, and even disrupted the marching ranks of our army! ”

"Handsome! Several princes of the Forty-Nine Banners of Horqin led the men and horses of the headquarters to rush up from behind us, let us get out of the way, they have to go first! ”

Damn! Isn't this a clear display to snatch meat from our pots to eat, and to take out silver from our pockets?! It was better than any mobilization order, and without waiting for Jiang to give the order, his subordinate officers and soldiers shouted together, and they swept like a dark cloud, and swooped down to the south along the official road and wheat fields. The cavalry outnumbered the infantry, just add a whip to the horse's buttocks, and in any case, get ahead of the Mongol Tartars! This group of sassy people, when they were fighting, they all hid behind one by one, and saw that they were going to grab money, food, and girls, and fields, so they relied on their women to bully our fathers by the relationship between the emperor and the regent who slept with a little crotch? Don't even think about it!

However, no matter how Jiang Jian ordered his subordinates to speed up their pace and not let those Mongolian Tatars run in front of him, his subordinates were indeed red-eyed, and they were eager to turn two legs into four legs and run forward! There's no way, if it's late, the silver and grain will become these sassers! Even women can only drink their brush pot water! How did he and several other commanders-in-chief's troops, most of which were infantry, fight against the troops of the Mongol princes, who were almost all cavalry?

Gradually, the Mongol soldiers were like turbid waves, diverging out of the Qing army's marching brigade and rushing straight to the large and small villages in the direction of the march. Soon, pillars of smoke and fire rose on the Guanzhong Plain, and the cries, shouts, wails, screams, and the smug laughter of the Mongolian soldiers were intertwined.

Looking at the village houses that were destroyed into ruins one by one next to his marching army, and looking at the Mongolian Luo circle-legged soldiers who were proudly carrying large bags and small wraps, carrying cages and iron pots, and holding women with big grins from among the ruins, Jiang Ping, his colleagues, and subordinates were about to burst out of their eyes!

"Quick! Quicken! Dog's forehead, give us two legs faster! If we don't catch up, we won't even be able to grab the fucking shit hot! We all have to eat what these Tartars have left! "Although they were all ministers in front of Emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty and accepted the command of the regent Dorgon, Jiang Jian and others still habitually called those Mongolian princes Tartars, and they would pop up inadvertently.

As if they had refueled the car, the marching speed of the Han army suddenly increased upwards by another piece.

"Handsome! Handsome! That's not good! From the rear of the marching brigade, a horse rushed up panting, rushed to the vicinity of Jiang Pin's main formation, and shouted.

"Who speaks?!"

"Marshal, mark Daniel Zhang!"

Daniel Zhang, a local tycoon who was attached to Jiang Zhi after entering northern Shaanxi, led nearly a thousand men and horses to Jiang Jian's command. Right now, it's a battalion officer with the rank of garrison officer. That's right, it was the brother of Lord Wei, who later marched in a palanquin because of a leg injury and poor walking, and was called the Four Generals of Hexi in Qing history, and was named the Daniel Zhang of Jingxian General and Jingjun Marquis!

"What's the matter?!" was urging his subordinates to speed up the march, and suddenly a miscellaneous general jumped out to stop it, which undoubtedly greatly swept Jiang Ping's excitement and challenged his authority.

"Handsome! Our army has many infantry and few horse teams, so we can't compete with the Mongol soldiers! If you blindly bury your head in the road, the physical wear and tear of the soldiers will be too great, and when it comes to attacking the city and breaking the enemy, the physical strength of the soldiers will inevitably be exhausted. At that time, Dashuai will be passive! Daniel Zhang's words were very subtle, but the warning meaning was very strong: You are now desperately urging the soldiers to run forward, and those four-legged Mongol soldiers are robbing these small money scattered in the villages and market towns scattered on the Guanzhong Plain, and when you reach the city of Dazhou City, your soldiers' physical strength cannot keep up, and you can only look at the large number of wealthy children in the city wall and sigh at the wall. Perhaps, when the time comes, it will take a long time to break the city, and you will have to share it with those Mongolian princes who are watching the battle, is this transaction a loss?!

Jiang Zhuang, who was able to be the chief soldier in Datong Town, and went back and forth between the Ming and Qing dynasties, is naturally a very good character, and the so-called person who knows the times is Junjie, and he is Junjie. Listening to Daniel Zhang's words, Jiang Ji strangled the horse's head, "General Zhang, then, what do you mean?" ”

"Handsome! Everyone knows that small chaos lives in the city, and big chaos lives in the countryside! However, Li Chuang has been entrenched in Guanzhong for several years, and the countryside has already been cleaned by him. Except for some food and clothes, there are no good things in the countryside! That is, those Mongolian soldiers who have never seen anything good are too shallow! will regard the clothes and grain iron pots of rural farmers as good things! Daniel Zhang pouted, expressing great contempt for the non-picky and plundering behavior of his friendly troops. (I'll go to you uncle of Jing Rebellion!) You don't have a backache when you stand and talk! You don't know what price an iron pot was sold to by you Shanxi merchants on the grassland?! ）

"The Mongol soldiers are not good at attacking cities, so we might as well gather our troops and let the soldiers slowly move forward. They like to rush ahead, so let them go and loot those little villages! Our target is the big and small towns on the Guanzhong Plain! Let them go to us as scouts who don't want to pay us! ”

Jiang Ji turned Daniel Zhang's suggestion into his own decision, and talked to several fellow soldiers, and everyone nodded yes. They gathered their troops and horses, sorted out their teams, and slowly pressed up along the main road.

After walking for a few miles, he saw several soldiers and horses of the Mongolian princes rushing past from the side of his team with a high-spirited whip like a girl from a good family who had met a pervert, screaming and turning around and returning. They were running faster than they were racing at the Naadam convention.

"What's the matter?!" Jiang ordered someone to go up and stop the head of a Mongolian prince's horse, and the prince didn't care to speak, but panted and pointed behind him with a horsewhip inlaid with jade.

On the horizon, a standard-bearer stood on horseback, and the large flag in his hand was rustled by the cold wind blowing from the north. On the flag, a big Luo character pierced Jiang Zhu's eyes.