Lin Yi wanted to train soldiers and horses, improve weapons, and increase combat power on a large scale. But the trees were quiet and the wind did not stop, and a few days later, two months after he fell out with Sun Chuanting, the imperial court suddenly came to a decree.

The herald is none other than Li Wenhai, who is still the head of the Ministry of War, and he is also an old acquaintance with Lin Yi. Lin Yi saw that Chongzhen and Sun Chuanting did not send troops to encircle and suppress him, and Lin Yi did not make a big move, and Kaicheng took the head of the military department into the city.

Li Wenhai was very polite, and greeted Lin Yi and the generals with warmth, as if they were old friends who had not seen each other for many years.

Of course Lin Yi knew about this kind of fickle face of officialdom, and he was still vigilant, and he wanted to know what Li Wenhai was doing now.

Arrange the incense case, kneel down to receive the decree, and Li Wenhai read out the holy decree......

Now the situation in Daming has changed again, and the situation is even more severe. The Liaodong battlefield outside the pass deteriorated further, and the Ming army, with more than a dozen total soldiers and more than 100,000 horses, could not withstand the attack of the Tartars.

Zu Dashou's Jinzhou City was trapped for many days, and Hong Chengchou's men and horses were trapped in Ningyuan. The two sides are unable to do so, which is equivalent to being divided by the Tartars.

Zu Dashou held on to Jinzhou for many days, there was no food and grass in the city, and finally there was a "cannibalism" phenomenon in the city, and Zu Dashou led the people to surrender.

Unlike the situation more than a year ago, this time he sincerely surrendered to Tartar, and he also wrote to his nephew Wu Sangui to persuade him to surrender too, and Wu Sangui of Shanhaiguan was noncommittal after receiving this letter.

After the Qing army occupied Jinzhou, more than 100,000 troops surrounded Ningyuan City. Hong Chengchou and Gao Qiqian were trapped, and Jiang Lang was exhausted.

Emperor Chongzhen was anxious and was dispatching troops to relieve the siege of Ningyuan. Yongping General Liu Zhaoji, Shaanxi General Li Guoqi, including Shandong General Liu Zeqing, Linhuai General Liu Liangzuo, and other tens of thousands of horses, all received the order of Emperor Chongzhen, and asked them to lead their troops to immediately go to Guanwai to cooperate with Wu Sangui to fight, rescue Ning Yuan, rescue the minister Hong Chengchou and the eunuch Gao Qiqian.

But the situation in the pass is not optimistic, first of all, Li Zicheng, since his Nanyang defeat, hid in the mountains and came back, first of all, the old Hui Hui Gezuo Fifth Battalion joined them, in fact, there are only three battalions left, don't look at these three battalions of peasant army, after joining Li Zicheng's team, it is equivalent to injecting fresh blood into Li Zicheng's horses, and he has more than 10,000 horses at once.

Li Zicheng came out of the mountains and forests, was invincible, quickly occupied all parts of Nanyang, and then took Luoyang, and captured the old Fu King Zhu Changxun. Li Zicheng took a fancy to his fat body, got a few deer, and feasted with the soldiers.

Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and Li Yan are awesome characters who come one after another. These are all think-tank figures of Li Zicheng's group, who have offered suggestions and put forward the slogan of free grain in Juntian. The common people live for grain and land all their lives.

Now Li Zicheng suddenly put forward the slogan of welcoming the king and not paying grain, and this policy has won the support of the people. A large number of hungry people came with hoes, and in just a few months, Li Zicheng's men and horses grew to more than 100,000.

Li Zicheng was overjoyed, after getting Nanyang and Luoyang, the soldiers pointed directly at Kaifeng, the officers and troops of the Ming Dynasty were vulnerable, and the officers and troops pointed by Li Zicheng could be described in four words, they fled to death, and many officials even surrendered without a fight, and sent the city with both hands.

Therefore, Li Zicheng's men and horses were like bamboos, and soon reached the vicinity of Kaifeng, and the guards of Kaifeng held the city on the one hand, and complained to the imperial court on the other.

Kaifeng is a provincial capital. Nanyang and Luoyang were lost, the blessed king Zhu Changxun was executed, the government and the opposition were shaken, if something happened in Kaifeng again, it would mean that the whole Henan would be over.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen immediately transferred Sun Chuanting back, asked him to hang the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and gave him a Shangfang sword, and asked him to rescue Kaifeng quickly.

Sun Chuanting hurriedly returned to Beijing from Yichang, thinking that the emperor would punish him, because Lin Yi and He Renlong all ran away, which was equivalent to not completing the secret task given to him by the emperor, doing things ineffectively, and losing so many soldiers, but Emperor Chongzhen did not mention this matter at all, but promoted it to the secretary of the military department, and asked him to lead the troops to Henan immediately to suppress the thieves, and no longer mentioned the matter of Lin Yi and He Renlong. had to hurry up and lead troops to aid Kaifeng......

Emperor Chongzhen has not breathed a sigh of relief, Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan is about to make trouble again, and Sichuan is his birthplace. As soon as he got there, he was like a fish in water, and the loyal Marquis Qin Liangyu was powerful, but he was already old and became an old lady who was close to old age. His son Ma Xianglin was killed in battle, and Kong Sizhen, the general soldier of Sichuan, lost the battle. Even the eunuch Lu Jiude of the governor's division was defeated, and Huang Degong was seriously injured by Li Dingguo, and the official army was defeated.

After Zhang Xianzhong's men gained a foothold in Sichuan, they quickly captured vast areas such as Dazhou and Nanchong. The urgent documents flew like snowflakes to Emperor Chongzhen's dragon boat, and Emperor Chongzhen had no soldiers to send, and he was anxious.

Suddenly I thought of He Renlong and Lin Yi, Emperor Chongzhen forgot all about the crimes of these two people, as long as he could make meritorious contributions to the imperial court, he immediately issued an order to pardon these two people for innocence, and let them lead the troops to continue to fight in Sichuan to deal with Zhang Xianzhong, which is the reason why Li Wenhai, the head of the military department, came.

In this will, Emperor Chongzhen pardoned Lin Yi and He Renlong for their innocence, and the officials were reinstated. Let them raise their troops at once.

After listening to this will, Lin Yi smiled secretly in his heart, this emperor Lao'er has become really fast enough, and when he uses us, he will be reinstated, and when he doesn't use us, he will eat people as soon as he changes his face. If we are guilty, we are guilty, and if we are meritorious, I, Lin Yi, have long seen through what he has changed, and I don't reason so much with him about people who want to die, since he can't help Adou, let him fend for himself.

I, Lin Yi, want to be myself, I can't let you lead me by the nose, through this period of suppression of thieves, the soldiers and horses have almost expanded, and the silver is almost enough in a short period of time, the next thing is to step up training, improve weapons, and increase combat power as soon as possible. In two years, the Chongzhen government will collapse, but the Ming Dynasty must not perish, and if the Tartars want to come here to run rampant, he has to ask me if Lin Yi agrees.

He Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong wanted to divide the package area and change the big landlord surnamed Zhu to the big landlord surnamed Li, but they couldn't do it.

Thinking of this, Lin Yi said to Liu Wenhai: "My lord Lin is resting the soldiers and horses, and after the soldiers and horses are resting, he will immediately start fighting the thieves, please tell the emperor."

Liu Wenhai came this time, although he came on behalf of the emperor, but he knew Lin Yi's temper better, and he didn't dare to put it on at all, and when he saw Lin Yi and He Renlong, he was half a cut shorter, because they knew that these two people were not afraid of heaven and earth, and the angel was a fart in front of Lin Yi, and he could slaughter him with a bare eye, and he had no place to cry out for injustice.

Therefore, he also saw that you accepted the order with a full mouth, and did not embarrass him at all, he didn't expect things to go so smoothly, so Li Wenhai was even happier, and said happily: "Lord Lin, it is natural to rest the soldiers and horses, and this chief will definitely say a lot of good words in front of the emperor after he goes back."

Lin Yi said: "Then there is Lord Lao Li, and there is another thing, presumably Lord Li also knows, Lin Mou does not say that he has merit in these battles, but he also has hard work, destroyed the sky, annihilated Luo Rucai's men and horses, and defeated Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong." Lin collected a lot of prisoners to supplement the casualties on the battlefield and ensure sufficient combat strength. But these soldiers and horses need food, and it is not a secret, the soldiers and horses under have exceeded 60,000, and I hope that the adults will go back, and quickly urge the court to allocate more money and grain, as long as the money and food arrive, Lin will immediately start the army. ”

When Li Wenhai heard this, the surname Lin still had to ask the court for money, how many battles had he won in the past two years? How much loot did he get? It is said that he took 1 million taels from King Fu at one time, and exchanged the prisoners with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong for silver, and exchanged hundreds of thousands of vehicles, plus the allocation of the imperial court, the silver in his hand is rich enough to rival the country, and the surname Lin is really insatiable.

But in any case, when the imperial court is employing people, Lin Yi and He Renlong can only be appeased, not provoked. After the thieves are finished and the Manchu Tartars are cleaned up, then the emperor will definitely clean up the surname Lin, let them do it first, now he just needs to agree to send troops.

Li Wenhai thought of this and said with a smile: "Haha, it turns out that this is the case, it should be." It's on the principal, and when I go back, I will go to the court and allocate more money and food. Say goodbye. ”

After Li Wenhai finished speaking, he took dozens of relatives and left, and Lin Yi, He Renlong and others sent him out of the camp gate, and watched Li Wenhai and his party leave.

"Your Excellency, are you really planning to send troops?" He Renlong Road.

Lin Yi smiled, "Huh, send troops? Let them wait and continue to train! Take a few firecrackers, and Lao Tzu will reprimand and reprimand well. ”

The subordinates agreed quickly, and the fire gun bird was three-eyed, and he hugged several shots. Looking at these antiques, Lin Yi opened his mind......