"Difficult, difficult!" Without waiting for Wang Qiaonian to speak, Sun Chuanting was talking to himself.

"What are you talking about?" Wang Qiaonian didn't know why, how to do well, so he suddenly changed his appearance.

Hearing this, Sun Chuanting said: "Before the governor was released from prison, he faced the saint on the platform, and the emperor asked me at that time, how many people are needed to wipe out the thieves. ”

Wang Qiaonian hurriedly asked, "What did you say?" ”

"I said 2,000 soldiers are enough." Sun Chuanting smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "At that time, I had just come out of prison, and I didn't know about the Central Plains for a few years, let alone that the thieves had developed to this point. ”

"Two thousand elite soldiers... Without 100,000 elite soldiers and millions of military salaries, it is a problem to defend Tongguan, how to talk about thieves! ”

It can be seen that Sun Chuanting also regretted his boasting of Haikou at that time, just like Yuan Chonghuan had just gained Chongzhen's trust, and he said "five years of peace in Liao" if he didn't understand the war in Liaodong.

When people are in power, they regret it, because this is completely to make the emperor happy in the short term, and in the long run, it is tantamount to digging one's own grave.

"Brother Suixing, I have been out of prison for more than half a month, if I stay in Tongguan for a long time, the emperor will definitely urge me to go out of the customs to fight the thief, what do you think should be done?" Sun Chuanting was worried.

Wang Qiaonian has been sitting in the seat of Shaanxi governor for several months, so he naturally has some understanding of the general situation of the border troops in various parts of Shaanxi.

"At this time, although there are many soldiers and horses in each town, the number is not much, there are only more than 2,000 people in the headquarters of Zheng Jiadong, the general soldier of Lintong Niu Chenghu is only 3,000, that is, the number of He Ying is only 18,000, and the remaining soldiers and horses in each town are less than 20,000."

"It's Brother Baigu, your Qin army, most of them are also newly recruited, there are very few old soldiers, with such soldiers and horses out of the customs, it is tantamount to asking for a dead end, in my opinion, it is better to ask the emperor for soldiers and salaries!"

"That's when it's time for the hard part."

Sun Chuanting looked up to the sky and sighed: "The difficulty of this governor is not to suppress the coward, but the emperor has boasted of Haikou, and the emperor also said that there are no soldiers and no salary. ”

Wang Qiaonian thought about it and also experienced this mood.

"It's really hard."

Before Sun Chuanting was released from prison, he said to Emperor Chongzhen that "2,000 elite soldiers are enough", because he didn't know that the rogues had developed into such a large scale in a few years, and he thought that they were tens of thousands of rabble before he was imprisoned.

When I took office, it wasn't like that at all.

After being imprisoned for a few years, the situation of the officials and the rogues seems to be completely reversed, and the officials and soldiers who originally had hundreds of thousands of people are now less than 20,000 left, but the rogues, who originally had only a few tens of thousands of them, are now everywhere, and there are hundreds of thousands at every turn.

Just like Li Zicheng's part of the soldiers and horses, when he first attacked Luoyang, he claimed to be 200,000, but after being defeated by Zhu Youhua, he died down, and there were more than 100,000 in a few months.

Where did these people come from, Wang Qiaonian couldn't figure it out, but Sun Chuanting had no teacher, and there were many rogues, which was nothing more than that the people couldn't survive anymore and were forced to rebel.

The has been blown out, and then the soldiers and salaries are sparse, Chongzhen, who has lived in the palace for a long time, will not be considerate of himself, it is very likely that the soldiers have no salary, and he will be scolded for being a bloody dog.

"Brother Baigu, let's go up, the emperor is always in the east and the troubles of the inside, the so-called outside must first be inside, the emperor will understand." Wang Qiaonian said suddenly.

In fact, he also comforted Sun Chuanting when he said this, the latter sighed for a long time, and said to himself: "Difficult, difficult......"

"If there are 100,000 elite soldiers and a full salary of one million, this governor will definitely sweep away the Central Plains, report to the emperor's grace, and go down to An Lishu!" Sun Chuanting said coldly to Wang Qiaonian.

"Hey, Brother Shiratani, I think of something."

Wang Qiaonian suddenly said: "Just now you said that you wanted to ask me about Zhu Youhua, the king of Nanyang, and then I remembered that Yuan Shizhong, who was in a joint venture with the thieves, went to Nanyang not long ago with Zhang Xianzhong. ”

"Don't you want to surrender?" Sun Chuanting sat up suddenly, his eyes were shining, and he said continuously: "How did Li Hongji deal with it, and didn't fight with Xiao Yuanying?" ”

"Not only no, it is said that Yuan Shizhong and Zhang Xianzhong were ordered to be escorted out by thieves." Wang Qiaonian was also amazed.

Sun Chuanting sneered when he heard the news, and immediately understood Li Zicheng's grunt, and said: "It seems that I have been in prison for many years, and this defeated general has learned a lot of truths!" ”

......

Sun Chuanting was discussing how to get Chongzhen to agree to his training in Tongguan, and Li Zicheng's side also had some strategic changes.

The original idea was to take Xi'an as quickly as possible after Yuan Shizhong and Zhang Xianzhong left, but who would have thought that the main coalition led by Yang Sichang would soon return to Jinzhou.

This is also different from history, at this time in history, Yang Sichang committed suicide because of the fear of falling in Luoyang, and now Luoyang has not been lost, and he is naturally alive and well.

Jinzhou is only three days away from Xi'an, that is to say, if Xi'an cannot be taken within three days, the camp will face the danger of being surrounded by Yang Sichang and Sun Chuanting.

In fact, Sun Chuanting's current soldiers and horses are not enough to protect themselves, and it is impossible to get out of the customs, and Li Zicheng's concern will not be a problem at all.

But after all, it is Sun Chuanting who is the military governor of the seven provinces, and his reputation is here, even if he is motionless, it can form a great deterrent.

Besides, the Liukou didn't know the reality of the officials and soldiers at all, but they heard that the suburbs of Tongguan were even full of officers and soldiers, and the drums and trumpets were thunderous at night.

Later, there was news that He Maniac, Meng Ruhu and others also went to Tongguan to meet Sun Chuanting, so naturally they did not dare to continue to fight Xi'an at the risk of being surrounded.

Early this morning, Li Zicheng decided to come to a conclusion, so he summoned all his leaders to discuss together.

After half a day of deliberation, there were only two suggestions that were concluded.

The first is to follow the example of Zhu Youhua, the king of Nanyang, to guard Luoyang and dig Weishui to irrigate Xi'an, but in doing so, it is easy to make Xi'an a ruined city, and it is difficult to resist the subsequent encirclement of Sun Chuanting and Yang Sichang.

Under the persuasion of Gao Yigong, Li Zicheng quickly rejected this suggestion.

The second suggestion was put forward by Niu Jinxing.

He is a talent who has tried and failed, and he is very addicted to officials, so he hopes that Li Zicheng will choose a place to establish a country and become king as soon as possible, and take the lead among many righteous armies.

Niu Jinxing originally chose Xi'an, but now he has taken a fancy to Nanyang, where Zhu Youhua is a vassal domain, and believes that Nanyang is the "emperor's hometown", with the spirit of a true dragon, and the terrain is also offensive and defensible.

Li Zicheng is still considering and weighing.

In the afternoon, the rogues were listless and did not know where to break through, but suddenly a news came that the army of Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, was defeated by Luo Rucai and the 5th battalion of Gezuo in Zhuxian Town.

Originally, in history, Li Zicheng defeated Yang Wenyue in Zhuxian Town, but now Li Zicheng was trapped in Shaanxi by mistake, but he made Luo Rucai.

It should also be that Yang Wenyue was unlucky, with Zuo Liangyu, who was such a sensible dog and horse, naturally met everyone who was sold.

Yang Wenyue's subordinates actually don't have much, and the reason why they are called 200,000 troops is because Zuo Liangyu's subordinates have 1890,000.

But in the first battle of Zhu Xianzhen, Zuo Liangyu once again exerted his true nature, and was beaten by Luo Rucai, He Yilong of the Fifth Battalion of Ge Zuo and others to lose his armor, and even Yang Wenyue didn't care, just fled back to Huguang with his tail between his legs.

Zuo Liangyu fled back to Huguang to lick his wounds, and even the soldiers and horses of several towns gathered by Yang Wenyue were annihilated, and Luo Rucai opened up the situation in the east.

At this time, the only person who can pose a threat to Luo Rucai, who joined forces with the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo, is Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong.

But Liu Zeqing is similar to Zuo Liangyu, he is a good guy who only takes benefits and doesn't do anything.

It is also funny to say, Liu Zeqing was originally stationed in Caozhou, idle and had nothing to do, after hearing the news that the official army Zhuxian Town was defeated and the governor of Baoding Yang Wenyue was killed, he was greatly shocked and went directly to Penglai Water City in Denglai Prefecture.

In order to prevent the imperial court from ordering him to come to his aid, Liu Zeqing also made a good advance and asked Emperor Chongzhen to talk to him, saying that he accidentally fell while riding a horse and couldn't move.

is such a thing, expecting him to send troops to balance Luo Rucai, that is really waiting.