Liu Renyu held several passes, and Li Zicheng also sent troops to attack several times quite cooperatively, and the men and horses of Li Zicheng's troops on the front line did not know the connection between Li Zicheng and Liu Renyu, and the attack was extremely fierce, but the Jingbian army was too strong, and it was difficult for the beggar army to shake the Jingbian army in the slightest.

Shaanxi was extremely stable for a while, Liu Renyu had no worries, and Li Zicheng's side finally collapsed the Kaifeng city wall a month later through continuous artillery bombardment, and Kaifeng fell.

Kaifeng fell, then the whole territory of Henan into the hands of the begging army, after Henan, is the south of Zhili, the begging army such as into no man's land, attacking the city and plundering the land, the progress is rapid, even the capital Fengyang was occupied by the begging army.

After the north of the Yangtze River fell into the begging army, Li Zicheng ordered his army to cross the river to the south, and when they arrived at this place, it was already the core nest of the Donglin Party, they had been operating for many years and owned a large area of land.

The beggar army wanted equal land rights, and of course these gentry and village officials regarded them as mortal enemies, and they did not need to be recruited by the local government, so they took the young and strong family and the loyal domestic slaves raised by the family to form an alliance and swore to resist the beggar army to the death.

The invincible beggar army north of the Yangtze River reached the south of the Yangtze River, but it was actually struggling and making slow progress.

For this, Liu Renyu doesn't think it's a big trouble, the wheel of history will eventually crush these gentry and township officials, and they can only be said to delay the process of their own demise.

The day of the Ming Dynasty is approaching, and it is time to destroy Jiannu.

In Xi'an, Liu Renyu's new command post and the generals of the Jingbian Army gathered for a meeting, and there were only two things to discuss: one was to send the students of the administrative school to quickly take over the political power in various places, to issue land deeds to the people who had already been allocated land from the begging army, and to reassure their hearts, and the second was naturally the most important thing in the crusade against Jiannu.

This battle was a war to destroy the country, and Liu Renyu planned to dispatch all the main forces of the Jingbian Army, a total of 100,000 troops, and another 50,000 troops remained.

On the Mongolian side of the province, a total of 100,000 cavalry can be dispatched, because this time it is to fight deep into the territory of Jiannu, so Liu Renyu decided to fight to support the war, and when he arrived in the territory of Jiannu, he grabbed the survival resources of Jiannu to support his own army, and the army of Mongolian Province also marched with cattle and sheep, and the logistics did not need to be considered too much.

Shaanxi is still He Ergou, he has been a left-behind guard for so many years, and he has long been familiar with it, and Liu Renyu trusts him very much.

He Ergou is in charge of military affairs, and government affairs are managed by Ma Tianjun.

After arranging the affairs of his family, Liu Renyu took the main force of the 100,000 Jingbian Army to the north, first went to the Hetao, met with the cavalry of Ordos Mansion and Tumut Prefecture, and Khalkha Prefecture, and then traveled all the way east, meeting with the cavalry of Chahar Mansion and Korqin Prefecture, and went straight to Liaodong to meet with Ma Wenshan.

The Guanning army in Liaodong Town was of course a little nervous about the visit of the 200,000 Jingbian troops, and Zu Dashou sent someone to ask Liu Renyu, why did he bring so many soldiers to Liaodong?

Liu Renyu only said that it is not difficult to destroy Jiannu and not to embarrass the Liaodong Army, but the Liaodong Army should not embarrass the Jingbian Army, otherwise it will be bad for everyone to tear their faces.

Where did Zu Dashou dare to provoke the Jingbian Army, which was at the height of the army, of course, he was full of promises.

The 200,000 troops, gathered in Jinzhou, the front line of the Daling River, will attack to the east in a few days, and go straight to Shengjing.

Houjin Sentinel hurriedly transmitted the news back to Shengjing.

Shengjing City, Chongzheng Palace, Huang Taiji sat on the throne, and the audience was full of Jurchen officials, as well as officials of the Han Army Banner, officials of the Mongolian Army Banner, Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan and other Han members, but they were not seen.

Huang Taiji held a large handful of documents sent from Da Ling River in his hand, frowned, looked at the ground obliquely, and couldn't speak for a long time, and his heart was full of waves.

Two years ago, in the grassland war, Liu Renyu's Jingbian army showed off the magic weapon rifle, the Houjin army was defeated, and returned to the Houjin mainland, Huang Taiji thought that Liu Renyu was about to destroy the country, so he gathered the strength of the whole Houjin, and planned to fight to the death with Liu Renyu.

Unexpectedly, Liu Renyu thought that the time was not yet ripe to eliminate Houjin, so he withdrew his troops back to Shaanxi, and the people of Houjin were relieved, but they were still worried that if Liu Renyu sent troops to attack again, how could they crack the magic weapon of the Jingbian Army's rifle.

This is a major matter related to the life and death of the Dajin Kingdom, how can Huang Taiji not care, he asked people to listen around, and finally found out from the Portuguese that this firearm is called a flintlock pistol, which is in Europe, and it is also a new thing.

Huang Taiji originally wanted to ask the Portuguese to purchase on his behalf, but the Portuguese could not take over the business, because the demand for Houjin was too great, and there was not enough cash in Europe. goods, and the situation in Houjin is now critical, who knows that the flintlock pistol will arrive in a few years, and the Houjin country will still be there?

Huang Taiji had no choice but to carry the Jurchens who had been raised for many years and had already developed feelings into the Han army flag, expanded the Wuzhen Chaoha, and ordered the forehead to be attached to the integrated belt of Tong cultivation, and the arquebus was used as equipment to establish a firecracker army to compete with Liu Renyu's rifle troops.

In addition, Huang Taiji also ordered each banner to go deep into the area of the Xing'an Mountains, capture the savage Jurchens of the same clan, and organize them into the Eight Banners to enrich their own strength.

These savage Jurchens, who drink blood, even use needles made of tiger teeth, and most of the clothes they wear are sewn from beast skins, they are simply primitive people.

The Eight Banners have always been regarded as barbarians by the Central Plains, and in the eyes of these Jianzhou and Haixi Jurchens, who are regarded as barbarians, the savage Jurchens are the real barbarians, and compared with the savage Jurchens, they are simply civilized people.

In this way, after two years of accumulation, the total strength of the Jurchen Eight Banners has actually risen to 130,000, plus the Han Army Banner and the Mongolian Army Banner, the total strength of the soldiers is as much as 220,000, and it already has the strength to fight with the Jingbian Army.

Today's gathering of ministers to discuss is to discuss how this battle should be fought.

After thinking about it in his heart, Huang Taiji raised his eyelids, looked at the ministers under the throne, and said: "Carefully report that Liu Renyu from Shaanxi has arrived at Daling River with an army of 200,000, and their intention is very clear, that is, they are here to invade my Dajin country. ”

How to fight!?

If it was in the past, do you still need to think about it, of course, it is to gather the soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners, go straight to the Daling River, fight in the field, and defeat the Jingbian Army, but now, even the simple-minded Mang Gurtai does not dare to say such things rashly, because the Jingbian Army is too powerful, far from being comparable to the ordinary Ming Army.

In the past, to deal with this kind of general, you can also use a counter-strategy, let the emperor of the Southern Dynasty as a helper, get rid of the common enemy of the Dajin Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty, but Liu Renyu and the Ming Dynasty reached a strange tacit understanding, the well water of the two sides does not violate the river water, Liu Renyu is bent on embarrassing the Dajin Kingdom, and the Ming court just sits idly by.

It is not possible to shrink on defense, because Liu Renyu has a red-clothed cannon in his hand, and there will not be much loss in attacking the city, so thinking about it, Dajin Country has already fallen into a desperate situation.

There is no way to imagine, the silence in the hall is terrible.

Such quietness made Huang Taiji quite unhappy.

"Daishan, you can say something."

Huang Taiji took the roll call, Dai Shan had to come out of the crowd, thought about it, and said: "Your Majesty the King of Khan, the field war is strong, our army has no chance of winning, and it is not realistic to defend the city and consume the Jingbian army, because they have red-clothed cannons, and they can collapse the city wall. ”

When Dai Shan said this, he paused, and Huang Taiji's face suddenly turned black like thick ink, but fortunately, Dai Shan still had a feeling.

"But it's not like we can't find help."

"What helper?"

"The Ming Dynasty."

The officials in the court looked at each other.

All the officials thought that Dai Shan was talking crazy, but only Huang Taiji's eyes lit up, showing a look of approval.

"Go on."

Huang Taiji wanted to hear Dai Shan's opinion, and everyone wanted to hear it too.

"Liu Renyu's military strength is strong, but it is not controlled by the Ming court, for the Ming court, my Dajin country is a threat, and he Liu Renyu is not a threat, if Liu Renyu defeats my Dajin country, the next unlucky person is naturally the Ming court.

Liu Renyu's appearance is already the mind of a reckless person, so the minister thinks that it is better to send an envoy to Daming to make peace with the imperial court, and my Dajin Kingdom and Daming will join forces to attack on both sides, not to mention that Liu Renyu can be defeated, at least we can buy more time, let's strengthen ourselves again, organize more firecracker soldiers, and let the Jurchens also fight with firearms, maybe we can fight with Liu Renyu. ”