On October 23, in Shaanxi Province, Cheng announced the new Shun King in the Xijing City: Li Zicheng, after rectifying the soldiers and horses in the city, he began to swear to send troops to attack in three ways, by the Shun army governor: Li Guo, attack Hanzhong Mansion, Shun Army Xijing Wei Right Mighty General: Feng Xiong, attack Qingyang Mansion, Shun Army Zuo Guoyi General: Gu Kecheng, attack Fengxiang Mansion.

After the decree was issued, the three Shun troops set off at the same time, because the defense of the Ming army in these three places was weak, after a round of siege by the Shun army, they surrendered and returned, among which the Ming Fengxiang prefect surrendered to the Shun army, his wife and daughter were occupied by the soldiers of the Shun army, and the family property was used as military salary, and even he himself was included in the marching slaves by the general Zuo Guoyi of the Shun army, and also sent troops to Gongchang Mansion to kill.

At this moment, Wu Junzhen had already crossed Baishidu and arrived at the territory of Pingliang Mansion, and a cold wind was blowing on the desolate land, Liu Ruilin looked at the village in front of him and said, "Look at the people over there, we can go and beg for food." After saying that, the three of them quickly rode over to the village, but as soon as they came to the village, they found that there seemed to be no one living here, and many houses were open but there was no one in sight. But there was a place in the house where I heard a dog barking? Wu Junzhen's ears moved far away to determine the direction of the sound, and led Ma Wei and Liu Ruilin to this home.

After entering the door, they heard the sound of (Wangwang) coming from the backyard, and the three of them hurriedly ran to the backyard to check the situation, only to see an old man who looked about 50 years old lying on the ground, his body kept crawling forward with his left hand and holding a half-eaten sweet potato, and his right hand was holding a stick to drive away the dog next to him.

Seeing this scene, Liu Ruilin quickly ran over and pulled out his sword to stab the barking dog to death, while Ma Wei stepped forward to help the old man and asked if there was anything wrong? And Wu Junzhen asked, "Why did you kill that dog?" I saw Liu Ruilin slowly analyze, "This village is deserted, only the old man I see now, and it is impossible for him to raise a dog with a sweet potato in his hand, and the dog generally does not bark at the owner, it is obvious that this is a stray dog." ”

After listening to the analysis, Wu Junzhen was ashamed, he sighed that he was born in a family of eunuchs, so he didn't know much about these things, and at this time, the old man who was helped up devoured a few mouthfuls of sweet potatoes before he said, "Thank you to the three righteous men for rescue!" This dog is indeed not old. ”

Then Wu Junzhen asked, "Old Bo, why is this big village uninhabited?" And why are you alone? I saw the old man shake his head and replied, "Hey! The year before last, when the imperial court was taxed, the people could only open up the wasteland and try to make up for it with grain, but who would have expected that within half a year of opening up the barren mountains, many villagers were infected with the epidemic in order not to affect everyone! Some people fled to seek medical advice, and some villagers saw the rebellion of the Shun army, and gradually I was the only one left in the village. ”

After listening to the old man's story, Wu Junzhen felt that he was quite pitiful, so he said, "Uncle, you may have eaten the anti-epidemic magnolia?" By the way, have you ever wanted to go to a nearby village? The old man nodded, but he held his foot and said that he couldn't walk? Maybe it's because of old age and frailty!

Liu Ruilin looked at him and asked, "Uncle, do you know where the nearest area is nearby?" After eating sweet potatoes, the old man pointed to the path next to the entrance of the village and said, "Follow this road all the way to the west, and in less than two hours you will reach the capital of Pingliang Prefecture, Andong Zhong, and my distant nephew is a soldier in the city!" ”

After getting this information, Wu Junzhen decided to take the old man with him, anyway, it was also a way, the three of them summed it up, and finally Wu Junzhen rode a horse to carry the old man on the road, and along the way, in order to satisfy his hunger, he also dug up more than a dozen sweet potatoes to make dry food and eat ...... according to the instructions of the old man.

Two hours later, they really came to the official road of Andongzhong's guard, and at this moment, the Ming soldiers patrolling the city walked over majestically, and one of the soldiers patted the shoulder of the other soldier and said, "Hey! Look at how the old man outside the city looks a bit like your distant relative? The soldier who was patted on the shoulder glanced at the city and found that it was his cousin who came, and he immediately ran over to Ming Andongzhong to protect the town: Peng Siping, and begged, "I beg Lord Zhenfu to allow the little one to go out of the city." Ming Andongzhong, who was sitting on the city tower to inspect the military situation, nodded and agreed.

Then the soldier happily ran to the city gate, and the people who crowded over began to wave their hands and shout, "Hey, Uncle Cousin, I'm here!" When the old man on horseback saw the soldier in cloth armor waving to him, he asked Wu Junzhen to stop the horse, and the two hugged each other and talked about family life.

Wu Junzhen and the others on the side stood awkwardly, and the soldier who came back to his senses asked, "Uncle Cousin, who are the three of them?" Wu Junzhen hurriedly explained, "Oh, we are the military household of Tongguanwei, and we are going to Guyuanwei to find the commander of the Shaanxi capital, so that the adults have important matters to discuss." "Knowing that he came to find the commander of the capital, the soldiers thought about taking them to meet the Ming Pingliang prefect first: Du Anqiu, when he came to the palace yamen, because of the soldier's low status, he could only send it here, and after saying goodbye, Wu Junzhen asked to meet the Ming Pingliang prefect as the general manager of Tongguan Weiqian.

The guards had no choice but to go in and report, "Lord Qiqi, someone outside the door claims to be Mr. Tongguan Weiqian, and asks to see you, Lord Prefect, look ~." "This makes the prefect of Mingping Liang feel a little strange? He thought to himself; Tongguan Wei Qian? Isn't that supposed to be in Xi'an? How did you get to the boundary of this prefecture? Could it be that the rogue is chasing and killing?

After thinking about it again and again, the Ming Pingliang prefect planned to meet them, so the guards summoned them to come up to the guest hall, only to see that the Ming Pingliang prefect respectfully asked his subordinates to make tea for the three of them, and Wu Junzhen took the lead in saluting before sitting down and said, "Lord Prefect, the last general came this time to meet the commander of the envoy, and now the Liukou has fallen Xi'an Mansion and sent troops to attack Fengxiang Mansion and Qingyang Mansion and other places!" Pingliang Mansion is in danger! The last general implored the prefect to report to the commander as soon as possible, so that the commander asked him to dispatch the Guyuan guards and horses to resist the Liukou and avenge the grandson of Inspector Sun! ”

As soon as the prefect of Ming Pingliang, who was drinking tea, heard that the situation was urgent, he was so frightened that he smashed the teacup with a trembling hand, and Ma Wei persuaded him, "At present, we have to do a good job of defending the military of Antonzhong, otherwise the rogues may be killed at any time." ”

At this time, the prefect of Ming Pingliang, who was relieved, hurriedly ordered his subordinates to send a letter to contact the commander of the Ming and Shaanxi capitals, and on the other hand, he handed over the important task of defending the capital to the commander of the Ming Andong guard: Liao Jialiu, and also ordered the soldiers of the nearby Qianhu and Baihu to gather together to form a joint force, Wu Junzhen was not idle, he went down to the barracks to count the firearms with the generals and prepare for the battle at any time, Ma Wei was responsible for counting the food with the soldiers to see if it was enough, only Liu Ruilin sat alone in the barracks and watched the soldiers train.

It seemed that he had great doubts about the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, and looked at them with sarcastic eyes from time to time, which soon aroused the general guard flag of Ming Andong Middle School on the school field: Chen Dexiang, he stepped forward and asked, "Hey, hey, are you looking for fault?" Or do you look down on the general? ”

Liu Ruilin, who was questioned, immediately retorted: "Although I am a person who practices martial arts, I also know that the foundation of military training is nothing more than to let soldiers improve their combat ability and defense, and your training is undoubtedly like hitting a stone with an egg in my opinion!" ”

At this time, Ming Andong was so angry that the general guard of Andong Zhong said angrily: "Okay, you come, I want to see what you are capable of, and speak wildly here?" The surrounding soldiers also laughed at Liu Ruilin, thinking that a swordsman was just bragging and talking big?

But Liu Ruilin didn't care at all, and still said seriously, "Okay, then now you listen to my order to practice, the infantry is divided into four categories: knife, spear, shield, and hammer, responsible for training with various weapons, cavalry is unified into four categories: spear cavalry, infantry cavalry, gun cavalry, and archery cavalry, mainly responsible for long-range shooting training, the artillery team is unified into multi-barreled firearms and single-barreled firearms rapid reloading training, and the artillery battalion is unified into heavy artillery and light artillery range accuracy training. ”

After hearing these orders from him, the soldiers on the school field praised one after another: "I can't imagine that this Jianghu swordsman still knows a lot!" It's really impressive! Even the general guard of Ming Andong on the side praised: "Oops! The young man is really powerful, please accept the general's worship. ”

At this moment, the Russian Cossack soldiers on the other side came to the Amur River region by boat to break the ice, and the Tsarist Yakutsk overseers standing on the boat were about to get off the ship when they happened to see the Manchu blue flag planted on the top of the mountain fluttering in the wind.

So the Yakutsk overseer of Tsarist Russia asked the soldiers to take out the map to check, only to realize that the front was originally the area of the Dog Department, but what the Rakshasa people didn't understand was why the blue flag of the Qing court was planted? Shouldn't there be a Flying Fish flag? At this time, the chief of the Jurchen tribe in Beishan, who was escorted, said: "Jurchen language: This originally belonged to the area of the envoy dog, but because we surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the envoy dog tribe was divided into the team of the blue flag Niulu by the imperial court, and this area officially belonged to the territory of the Qing Dynasty. ”

As soon as they heard that it was the vassal territory of the Qing court, the Rakshasas around them suddenly became enthusiastic, and they asked for war: "Rakshasa language: Respected overseer commander, we have long heard that the Qing court is arrogant and domineering, taking advantage of the internal and external troubles of the Ming Empire to rise in the northeast, they are busy fighting with the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that there is no time to manage the northeast, we might as well send troops to take down the envoy dog department and let them be assigned to His Majesty the Tsar, what do you think?" ”

The Yakutsk overseers of Tsarist Russia were very happy when they heard this, and hurriedly waved their hands to let the soldiers get off the boat and land, and pushed the mortars to a high place to stand by at any time, and the Rakshasas went ashore and lurked near the river bank and quietly groped around, and came to the camp where the canine department was stationed with a blue flag, and looked at the garrison in the entire barracks from the cliff side, including the cavalry archers.