Zhang Xianzhong's camp.

"Oh no, King, General Liu's army has been defeated, and Zuo Menggeng's army is coming!" A herald knelt on the ground to give a report.

"What? How can it be justified that 20,000 men were defeated in half a day? Zhang Xianzhong couldn't believe it.

Pan Duao's face was even more ugly, this Liu Wenxiu he knew, he fought calmly and properly, and he never ventured easily, if he was defeated, he could only be defeated in the open, but it was only half a day, when did Zuo Liangyu's army become so strong?

"King, if this General Liu is defeated, this outer defense will be broken, and seeing that this Qichun City is about to be broken, will we fall short? King, hurry up and give the order, increase the attack, we must take this city before Zuo Liangyu's army arrives, and capture the king of Jing in the city alive. ”

Zhang Xianzhong nodded, of course he knew how powerful it was, last time in Nanyang Mansion, because his granary was burned by officers and soldiers, so he broke the troops into zero, and secretly came to the Huangzhou Mansion in Huguang, one was to grab some food, and the other was that he listened to Li Dingguo's opinion, attacked Qichun City, captured King Jing alive, and used King Jing's head to eliminate the people he could hate to wake up in his dreams, Qin Yiming, the general soldier of Huguang, he touched his chest, as long as he thought of Qin Yiming, the old wound would be a faint pain, he was ruthless, and ordered: " Come on, give General Sun another 10,000 people, and ask him to quickly take Qichun City for me and capture King Jing alive! ”

"Yes, King!"

There was another person in the big tent, he didn't seem to hear Zhang Xianzhong's order, and one person was looking at the map and pondering, thinking about something.

"Ning'er, what are you looking for?" Zhang Xianzhong found that Li Dingguo was speechless, and asked.

Li Dingguo came back to his senses and said, "King, if we can't win this battle, we should think of a way out, otherwise we will probably be wiped out here." ”

"General Li is worried, behind us are the vast Dabie Mountain and many other mountain ranges, as long as we flee to the mountains, what can those officers and soldiers do? They can't bear this bitterness! King, if you can capture King Jing alive this time and stew this Ming vassal king, not only can the king's prestige in the righteous army be greatly improved, but Chongzhen will definitely not spare Qin Yiming, the general soldier of Huguang, we will kill two birds with one stone, and this battle must be won! Pan Duao felt that Li Dingguo's words were too serious, and now although there are reinforcements, their men still have a great advantage.

"As long as Qin Yiming, the evil star who kills the sky, doesn't come, our old Zhang is not afraid, he Zuo Liangyu is a bird, we are not afraid of him!" Zhang Xianzhong said confidently, he didn't want to give up such a good opportunity, it might be difficult to kill Qin Yiming openly, but he could borrow a knife to kill people, and use Chongzhen's to kill people he couldn't handle!

"If we drag on any longer, the form will be very unfavorable to us, we have many soldiers who have frozen to death, and the troops are not enough, and if we continue to consume like this, we will be defeated without officers and soldiers fighting!" Li Dingguo was very worried that Liu Wenxiu had been defeated, although he didn't know why, but if it went on like this, Zuo Liangyu's army would soon appear in their rear, and he didn't know how many more troops there were in the imperial court.

"What are we going to do?" Of course, Zhang Xianzhong knew these problems that Li Dingguo said, and now although the problem of grain and grass has been temporarily solved, Huguang is still Huguang, there is more grain, and there are many women, after Zhang Xianzhong's army came to Huangzhou Mansion, the problem of grain and grass was quickly solved. But I don't know why, as soon as he started to attack Qi Chun, Zuo Liangyu appeared, and his combat effectiveness seemed to have been greatly improved, and he didn't understand why!

"Damn, it's all this damn Qin Yiming, if it weren't for him, Zuo Liangyu would have died under my knife in Tang County!" Zhang Xianzhong scolded.

Li Dingguo looked at the map and secretly calculated the winning strategy. Said.

"King, I have a plan or a try, I will deceive the gate of Huangzhou Mansion first, and the king will lead two thousand light horsemen to arrive, and the big thing can be done!" Li Dingguo is very convinced, if he is taken by surprise now and attacks Huangzhou City for a long time, he will definitely be able to be caught off guard.

But there is no prince in Huangzhou City, and the most he can do to take Huangzhou City is to collect more silver, money and grain, Zhang Xianzhong doesn't know what Li Dingguo means by suddenly changing his mind to attack Huangzhou City?

"Why did you suddenly attack Huangzhou City?" Pan Duao suddenly asked.

"King, please see, this Huangzhou is the most important river crossing wharf on the Yangtze River, if we take Huangzhou City, it will not be easy for Qin Yiming to come over, go around the north of the river to come to Huangzhou, Qin Yiming will spend at least a month more, which will win a lot of time for our army." Li Dingguo explained.

Zhang Xianzhong and Pan Duao both felt very reasonable, they were actually not afraid of Zuo Liangyu, they were afraid of Qin Yiming of De'an Mansion.

"Let General Liu retreat to the area of Pinghu Pass, refuse to defend according to the river, and curb Zuo Liangyu from going south!" Li Dingguo continued.

Zhang Xianzhong looked at Pan Duao, Pan Duao felt very reasonable, nodded and signaled, Zhang Xianzhong said: "Ning'er, according to your meaning!" ”

Just when the imperial court was arguing about Qin Yiming's plan to expand the guard, and when Chongzhen listened to the words of the most respected imperial sister-in-law in his life, and was about to reject Qin Yiming's performance, Huangzhou Mansion was sent to Beijing in an expedited manner for 800 miles, Zhang Xianzhong made a big fuss in Huangzhou Mansion, robbed the people's property, killed officials, and broke the city, Huangzhou Mansion had no troops to defend, but fortunately, King Jing had thousands of guards, desperately defending Qichun City, and the situation was in danger.

To say that Chongzhen followed the so-called King Jing, the blood relationship has been very long, and there is no emotion, but the problem is that this King Jing is still a vassal king, representing the face of the royal family, if King Jing is killed, then Chongzhen's face will be lost.

This incident also made Chongzhen realize Yang Sichang's foresight, Qin Yi clearly can't leave Huguang, the granary of the world, if there is no one to guard it, it will be a great danger.

Although there are still many ministers' opposition, Chongzhen realized that Qin Yiming only had an army of 10,000 or 20,000 when he built a new guard, but Zhang Thief was hundreds of thousands of people at every turn, and the more laymen knew that this battle was not easy to fight, because laymen compared the two armies, and the first thing they looked at was the number of these two teams.

Therefore, Chongzhen also called his henchmen to the platform to convey his will alone.

"Liu Aiqing, Yang Aiqing, I summoned you here today to tell you my decision, it is impossible to expand the vast area of the lake or build a guard, but the barren land like Zhuxi County and Daye County should have little impact on the grain harvest in Huguang if it is allocated to Qin Aiqing, so I have decided that in such a mountainous area, he Qin Yiming will give as much as he wants, as long as he does not encroach on those good fertile fields!" Chongzhen said to the two henchmen.

"Emperor Shengming, now the treasury is empty, but the court wants silver everywhere, in fact, Lord Qin wants to expand the guard, and he is also bent on serving the emperor and suppressing bandits for the court, Lord Qin is really well-intentioned!" Liu Yuliang said bitterly.

"Your Majesty, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, no matter how powerful the general is, if there are no soldiers in his hands, it is useless, Lord Qin has the support of the emperor, it must not take time, the vast affairs of the lake can be determined, and the imperial court to exterminate the thief is just around the corner." Yang Sichang echoed, in fact, he had already put forward the strategy of opening the net on all sides, one of which was to train troops in local events, but it was not true for a while, because the imperial court was too tight, but strong soldiers and thieves were weak, which has always been his leading idea, so Qin Yiming advocated strengthening the army in Huguang, and Yang Sichang, as the secretary of the military department, was naturally very supportive.

It's just that what he doesn't understand very much is that the site of Qin Yiming's expansion of the guard station is almost all mountainous areas, such as the ghost place in Zhuxi, which is originally deserted, if the army opens up the wasteland and starts again, I am afraid that it will not be able to become a scale every three or five years, and I am afraid it will cost a lot of money! Perhaps Qin Yiming knew that his plan must have great resistance in the imperial court, so he chose these remote barren places.

Qin Yiming was leisurely in De'an Mansion all day long, although it was bloody outside, and the entire Ming Dynasty was jumping because of him, but this did not affect him at home, on a snowy and moonlit night, drunk and lying on the knees of beautiful women.

Qin Yiming was lying on Xu Zhen'er's lap at this time, drinking fine wine, listening to Chen Yuanyuan play those world famous songs that he "invented".

"Xianggong, when will this court's reply be able to say, it's been more than a month, I recently heard that Zhang Xianzhong was making trouble in Huangzhou Mansion, when will you send troops?"

Chen Yuanyuan never cared about these things in the court, or she didn't care about things outside this mansion at all, she always looked like she was indisputable when and where, and the only thing she was concerned about was when Qin Yiming would be able to hum another famous song.

"I'm done playing, Xianggong, can I have Yaxing today, hum another song?" Chen Yuanyuan said expectantly.

Qin Yiming was teasing Xu Zhen'er at this time, and reached out and hooked Xu Zhen'er's chin dishonestly. This action is actually very frivolous and even frivolous, but with his handsome and invincible face, there is a kind of masculine charm that makes people's hearts flutter.

"Hehe, what's the hurry, I don't remember what big moves Zhang Thief made in Huangzhou, let him make trouble for a while, pigs, fatten and then slaughter!"

Xu Zhen'er froze for a while, pig? The big demon king Zhang Xianzhong is a pig? Or fattening pigs to the slaughter?

After being stunned for a moment, Xu Zhen'er finally couldn't help laughing.

"If the imperial court approves my excerpt, I will be ready to emigrate on a large scale and open mines on a large scale! You won't have to worry about the pig iron, coal, etc. needed by the guard, but as the saying goes, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads, and first repair all the roads to De'an......" Qin Yiming said to himself, making Xu Zhen'er confused.

"Xianggong, in broad daylight, where is there a mine!"

Qin Yiming laughed out loud and said, "My good Zhen'er, do you think that the barren land I want is really useless, Xianggong told you a secret today, those places are not only pig iron, coal, but also silver mountains!" ”