The crown prince and the prince are the prince's teacher, Lin Yi can't put down his soldiers and horses to go to Beijing, be a teacher for Emperor Chongzhen's son, teach him to practice literature and martial arts, teach him how to behave and do things, and teach him how to be a prince, obviously this is a false title.

Because it is very clear in the holy decree that although Lin Yi was crowned as the crown prince and the prince, he is still the chief soldier, and the general soldier is to lead the troops to fight, this is his own job, not to go to Beijing to hand over the prince, even if Emperor Chongzhen asked him to go, he is not willing to do such work, so this is at most a false name.

The reason why Emperor Chongzhen made this will was obviously to elevate Lin Yi and prove that the emperor's grace was immense.

Although it is a false title, but to be able to be a teacher for the emperor's son, although it is nominal, it is also a supreme honor, the prince and the prince are among the three princes (three orphans), and they are extremely popular ministers, needless to say, their dignity is needless to say.

Therefore, Lin Yi was very happy, and after receiving the order, Wang Chengen, the master of ceremonies, and Yang Sichang, the cabinet lord, immediately congratulated Lin Yi and called him the master.

After the decree was delivered, Wang Chengen left.

After cleaning up Li Zicheng, of course, Zhang Xianzhong should be cleaned up next, and Yang Sichang wanted Lin Yi to fight in Sichuan.

Lin Yi proposed to rest his troops and horses on the spot, and now it is winter, Zhang Xianzhong of Sichuan has suffered defeat, and the officers and troops led by Zheng Chongjian and Ding Qirui have also gained the upper hand. The Son of Heaven Long Yan was very pleased with him, so this Yang Pavilion was not in a hurry, and allowed Lin Yi to rest his troops and horses on the spot.

From this day on, Li Zicheng's men and horses lived outside Nanyang City, began to rectify and train the troops, and incorporated several hundred of Li Zicheng's men and horses. Lin Yi practiced his broadsword, and each battalion carried out large-scale training.

This is not Lin Yi's first time training, and his generals are familiar with the road, and according to Lin Yi's training routine, they are in full swing.

This practice lasted for three months, that is, the entire winter of 1640, and by the beginning of the spring of 1641, the situation in the Ming Dynasty had undergone major changes, or worsening.

First of all, Zhang Xianzhong began to reverse. The reason why Zheng Chongjian and Ding Qirui were able to win the battle mainly relied on two people, namely Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong. But the character of these two people is really not very good, they are both people who are hungry for profit and can't afford to be early.

is also a hero of the bandits, they saw Lin Yi promoted all the way to get rich, and they only got a verbal reward promise from Chongzhen, and the title of the great commander of the thieves that Yang Sichang and Zheng Chongjian promised them before also failed.

Therefore, these two people were disgruntled and began to do not do well. Zuo Liangyu was sleek, He Renlong was arrogant, and their dissatisfaction was discovered by Zhang Xianzhong's spies and told Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhang Xianzhong is very good at using soldiers, and immediately felt that the spring that belonged to him was coming.

He and Li Zicheng are worthy of being the same famous heroes, not only the same age, but also fellow villagers, and their combat experience is roughly the same, and now even the methods of using troops are basically the same.

Li Zicheng can think of a trick, Zhang Xianzhong can naturally think of it, he immediately used Li Zicheng used this trick to deal with Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong, that is, to use gold and silver bribes to use counter-tricks, this trick was outside Nanyang City, Li Zicheng used it against Lin Yi.

But Li Zicheng failed, but Zhang Xianzhong won, because Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong were not Lin Yi after all.

As a result, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong began to disobey Zheng Chongjian and Yang, and Yang Sichang's orders were even more disobedient, which was equivalent to confronting the imperial court. But they are not confrontations with great fanfare, that is, rebellion, but they do not move, wait and see, and find all kinds of reasons to prevaricate.

This time Zhang Xianzhong turned his back, first of all, the Sichuan governor Shao Jiechun was defeated, and Qin Liangyu, the loyal marquis, also suffered a defeat, and the crossbow general Zhang Ling was killed, and the official army was defeated, and Zhang Xianzhong was led by the nose to run in the mountains.

At this time, Zheng Chongjian was also a little careless, thinking that it was a matter of time for Zhang Xianzhong to fall, but he didn't expect him to rise again, and when he saw it, he quickly mobilized troops to surround and intercept him, but Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong didn't give him any effort.

Therefore, the officers and troops suffered defeats in succession, and Zhang Xianzhong won victories one after another. Suddenly broke the blockade of the official army, to the first month of 1641, the eight kings killed out of Sichuan, ran to Hubei toss, and got the support of the old Hui Hui Revolution left five battalions tossed in Huguang, and then Ma Shouying and others simply surrendered Zhang Xianzhong, several large bandits together together, the momentum is huge, the momentum is like a bamboo, the front of the army is directed at central Hubei, Lianke Dangyang, Xiangyang, Fancheng, Yunyang and other important towns in Hubei, threatening Suizhou.

The Ming Dynasty and the opposition shook again, and the urgent documents of the magistrates in Sichuan and Hubei flew to Beijing like snowflakes.

At this time, the news of defeat also came from the Liaodong battlefield outside the official, and the Qing army's two-way army stormed Jinzhou, and Songshan, Tashan and Xingshan, outside Jinzhou City, fell one after another. Then Ningyuan City also received an attack, Jinzhou was trapped, and Ningyuan was in a hurry.

Then the officials and imperial historians in the court began to impeach each other, mainly the Donglin Party, and the eunuchs were not willing to be lonely, headed by Cao Huachun, the great eunuch of the Admiral Dongchang, and the Donglin Party, vertical and horizontal, noisy and noisy, but they did not do anything practical.

Emperor Chongzhen was so angry that he slapped the Longshu case loudly, and was strictly responsible for Gao Qiqian and Hong Chengchou, and the two of them were also afraid, and gathered the general army of the eight towns, and a total of 130,000 troops drove to the Ningjin area, and fought to the death with Huang Taiji to solve the danger of Jinzhou and Ningyuan.

Then Emperor Chongzhen gave Yang Sichang, Zheng Chongjian, and Fu Zonglong a death order, you three governors, with the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of War, holding my Shangfang sword, what are you doing all day long? Go all out to suppress the thieves, and be sure to wipe them all. If there is another mistake, come and see you!

The three governors were all scared, and the most stressed was Yang Sichang, because the strategy of suppressing thieves was set by him, Li Zicheng was just held down here, and Zhang Xianzhong got up again over there, this cabinet lord who was over 50 years old, under the double blow of saddle horse fatigue and psychological pressure, he had contracted tuberculosis, and sometimes he vomited blood when he coughed.

But there is no way, he has to go to work sick, at this time he has to ask for leave to go home to recuperate, and Emperor Chongzhen will definitely not grant him leave.

Therefore, he complained that Zheng Chongjian withdrew his troops too early. Zheng Chong also defended himself, saying that Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong did not listen to the greetings. Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong also shouted wronged.

Emperor Chongzhen's mutual prevarication of these old fritters in officialdom has long been numb. If you don't listen to anyone's words, you will depend on your political achievements, and whoever is the most effective in suppressing thieves will be able to clean up whom.

So, Lin Yi soon received a military order from Yang Sichang, asking him to immediately move to Suizhou to block Zhang Xianzhong's men.

After this winter's recuperation, Lin Yi's men and horses are strong, and now his total strength has reached 30,000. Unlike other teams, not only did his army not have a single deserter, but there was an increase, mainly during this period of training, and he also expanded his recruitment.

There was an endless stream of applicants in Nanyang, and Lin Yi selected 4,000 people, including 200 female soldiers, and expanded them into the women's battalion, and the women's battalion was also handed over to Xiaoying and Zhezhe for training.

Now Lin Yi's women's battalion has reached 300 people, in addition to the original more than 30 Mongolian girls, some are prisoners of Li Zicheng's women's battalion, and then there are 200 female soldiers recruited this time.

Then Lin Yi expanded his soldiers and horses from the original eight battalions to ten battalions.

After this winter, Hao Shaoqi and Zu Keyong have all recovered from their injuries.

After receiving Yang Sichang's order, Lin Yi felt that another strong opponent was coming, but it was not bad, first with Li Zicheng, and then with Zhang Xianzhong. Anyway, it's a matter of time, and they're destined to be their own opponents.

Therefore, Lin Yi gathered soldiers and horses to set up camp in March 1641, set off from Nanyang, and went south to Suizhou.

This time, the forward force is no longer Zu Keyong, but the general Hao Shaoqi.

The guy he was able to do was still a large flagpole with a large flag embroidered on it. However, it is no longer Li Zicheng's banner, but the banner of the Ming army, with 3,000 people as the vanguard, in the front, opening roads in the mountains and building bridges in the water.

Wang Jian's sixth battalion was still responsible for the grain and grass and the logistics of the whole army.

Zu Keyong accompanied the Chinese army as Lin Yi's lieutenant general.

In Changgang Town, west of Suizhou City, Hao Shaoqi's men and horses first encountered Zhang Xianzhong's vanguard, that is, the men and horses of the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo.

Zhang Xianzhong's power is now very large, in just a few months, his subordinates have broken through 150,000 soldiers and horses, if you add the five battalions of Gezuo that Ma Huihui, there are more than 200,000 men and horses.

An important reason why Zhang Xianzhong's power has grown so quickly is that he is good at recognizing his godson, it is said that Zhang Xianzhong's godsons are in groups, and Zhang Xianzhong himself can't remember how many people call him godfather.

Among these godsons, there are only four of the most famous, that is, the eldest Sun Kewang, the second Li Dingguo, the third Liu Wenxiu, and the fourth Ai Nengqi. These four people are all equipped with unique skills and are brave, and any of them can take charge of Zhang Xianzhong alone. After the establishment of Zhang Xianzhong's Onishi regime, these four people were all crowned kings.

Now these four are showing their abilities and doing their best to help his godfather fight the country. Now tens of thousands of horses from Lao Hui have also come to defect, so Zhang Xianzhong has a huge momentum and has won battles.

Of course, Zhang Xianzhong is not stupid, and he is also divided into descendant troops and non-descendant troops. The non-descendant troops, of course, are the fifth battalion of the left brother headed by Lao Hui.

Knowing that the official army was not easy to deal with, Zhang Xianzhong put the fifth battalion of Gezuo at the forefront and went to Suizhou to kill, they planned to toss in the south of the Yangtze River, and encountered Lin Yi's forward Hao Shaoqi's army in Changgang Town.

Hao Shaoqi really lived up to his reputation, and he did not have the hope of Lin Yi to escape several times, and fought in Changgang, winning more with less, and killing Geli Yanhe Yilong and Lin Cheng, the king of troubled times. At this station, the five battalions of men and horses broke two battalions, and the horses returned to these three battalions and the men and horses were also scattered.

Hao Shaoqi pursued his troops, and after dozens of miles, a white-robed young general named Zhang Yuer stopped him with an army......