After Lu Xiangsheng led his troops north to Datong, Li Zicheng succeeded Gao Yingxiang as the new king, and with the assistance of Song Xiance and Gu Junen and others, Zhan Xun soon occupied most of Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan, and had the potential to spark the prairie fire. [ Eight (a Chinese < ?).

And Hong Chengchou is far from being as good as in history, because of the lack of friendly assistance, Hong Chengchou's actions to exterminate the peasant army failed again and again, and finally had to be led by the peasant army, and fought with the peasant army several times, all of which were defeated.

The dejected Hong Chengchou had no choice but to retreat in Xi'an City, and he didn't even dare to send troops to suppress the bandits easily. Because now the peasant army is getting stronger and stronger, and tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people are moving, Hong Chengchou's little strength is simply not enough.

Hong Chengchou did not dare to ask the court for help. Because it was he who swore that he would be able to completely wipe out the peasant army, Chongzhen removed Yang He's shoes and replaced him with the governor of the three sides.

And now, in addition to the prestige at the beginning, almost a year has passed, and instead of being completely wiped out, the peasant army rebellions in various places dare to ask the imperial court to send troops to support? Yi Chongzhen's temper must have no good fruit to eat.

After Ma Shouying learned that Li Zicheng was active in the mountains and Shaanxi and had great momentum, he also decided to lead his troops from Shizhou Wei to the north to join Li Zicheng. Ma Shouying was forced to chase and suppress Shizhouwei by Zhang Yu and others of the Mojia Army, and there was nowhere to show at all, so going north to find Li Zicheng became his best choice.

Ma Shouying went north from Shizhou Wei, occupied most of the prefectures and counties in Kuizhou, Baoning, and Hanzhong, and together with Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, forced Hong Chengchou to shrink in Xi'an City and did not dare to move.

In order to solve the crisis, Hong Chengchou sent people to ask the general army of Chengdu, Sichuan Province to send troops north to exterminate the peasant army.

Wang Hong, the commander-in-chief of Chengdu, also knew that Ma Shouying should be active in Kuizhou, Baoning and other places, and if he was not exterminated as soon as possible, he was afraid that Chengdu would be endangered sooner or later.

However, Sichuan has been peaceful for a long time, most of the Sichuan army has not been trained to fight for a long time, and many people have not been on the battlefield.

Wang Hong's troops encountered Ma Shouying's rebels in Baoning, and the two sides fought fiercely for two days, and finally Wang Hong's troops were defeated and fled, leaving only more than 3,000 remnants and retreating to Shunqing. At the same time, he asked for help from Deng Yu, the general soldier of Chongqing.

Like Wang Hongbu, the thousands of Sichuan soldiers under Deng Yu were not in battle and were embarrassed.

The 7,000 soldiers and horses led by Chen Long, the deputy chief soldier of Hanzhong under Hong Chengchou, played a game of hide and seek in the mountains at the junction of Hanzhong and Xi'an and Nanyang with Yuan Zongdi's headquarters under Li Zicheng.

Hong Chengchou knew very well that it was impossible to reverse the situation and exterminate the peasant army with his own strength and the unused young master soldiers of the two general soldiers of Chengdu and Chongqing, Sichuan.

It is rumored that it only took two or three months for Moli to quell the rebellion of Wang Ziyong, Ma Shouying, and Zhang Xianzhong, which were raging in Huguang. Although these rebel giants are currently on the move, at least the entire territory of Huguang is basically free of rebels.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou decided to revise a letter and asked Moli to send troops to assist in the fight against thieves in Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places.

When Hong Chengchou was writing the letter asking for help, Moli was inspecting the newly formed sailor training in Yuezhou.

There was a naval division under the rule of the former governor of Huguang, but due to the lack of training, and the fact that Zhang Zhonghe, the former governor of Huguang, did not attach importance to the naval division, the investment of funds and energy was insufficient, the lack of ships, and the equipment was not complete, so when the rebels besieged Wuchang City, they basically did not have the advantage of wielding the water division to block the rebels.

After the fall of Wuchang, the Wuchang Navy Division was also forced to surrender to the rebels, and the Navy Supervisor Xu Jianhua was unwilling to surrender to the thieves, so he committed suicide in anger, but was rescued by his subordinates, and then he was disheartened and refused to serve as the rebels' Navy Supervisor and returned to his hometown Jingzhou.

However, the surrendered Wuchang sailors were also not valued by Wang Ziyong, and almost became a superfluous ornament, and no one paid attention to them.

After Cao Bianjiao recovered Wuchang, the sailors also returned to the Ming Dynasty. Under Mo Li's personal instructions, Cao Bianjiao did not dare to slack off, and soon re-recruited sailors and artillery, purchased and built new ships, and reorganized the sailors.

After Moli learned that Xu Jianhua had returned to Jingzhou, he personally went to invite Xu Jianhua to re-serve as the supervisor of the water division and train the water master.

Mo Li attached so much importance to the sailor, and personally deigned to visit and invited himself to go out of the mountain, which deeply touched Xu Jianhua and made him grateful.

In addition to the more than 1,600 sailors, Moli recruited more than 2,000 men who knew how to operate water and boats, and purchased 20 eagle boats and sand boats from Jiangnan.

At the same time, Moli recruited a large number of shipbuilders from the society, merged several small shipbuilding workshops, established an official shipyard, and built large warships by himself.

On the vast Dongting Lake, dozens of large and small warships are conducting regular exercises, and although the scale of the sailors is not large now, everything is moving towards a good side.

Mo Li received an official letter from Hong Chengchou asking for help when he was about to return to Changsha.

Returning to the temporary yamen of the governor of Huguang, Moli immediately convened a meeting of the staff to discuss how to ask for help from Hong Chengchou.

Dongfang Jin touched the long beard on his chin, and said first: "My lord, now that Huguang has recovered the whole territory, the rebels have either been exterminated or fled elsewhere, the merits of our new Liao army are obvious to all, but after these months of hard fighting, the mental and physical wear and tear of the soldiers is also very huge, since entering Huguang to fight, the army has hardly rested for a moment, and the soldiers are exhausted.

Shaanxi and Shanxi are the trilateral governors Hong Chengchou is responsible for suppressing bandits, Changsha is a long way to go, and it is very inconvenient to raise and transfer grain and grass materials in all aspects, and this time he has also helped Jiangxi and Anhui to carry out the anti-bandit operations, and the strength of our new Liao army is already very scattered, and it is difficult to raise a large army to go to Shaanxi in a hurry.

Therefore, his subordinates believed that the continuation of the battle should be postponed and the soldiers should be allowed to recuperate and retrain for a period of time before sending out troops. ”

Dongfang Jin's meaning is obvious, Mo Li is the governor of Huguang, now the situation in Huguang is preliminary, and the rebels are extinct, this is a great achievement, it is Chongzhen, I am afraid that I can't say anything wrong, as long as the adults manage the situation in Huguang well and consolidate their own power, as for the chaos in Shaanxi, it is his Hong Chengchou's business.

These Moli also thought that Huguang is now won, but after all, it is not long after all, and unstable factors in all aspects still exist, and the current task is to stabilize the situation in Huguang, vigorously develop production, show strength, and accumulate people's hearts in order to plan for the future.

Therefore, after listening to Dongfang Jin's words, Mo Li was noncommittal, and he also had to listen to other people's opinions.

Li Xin thought for a moment and said, "My lord, my subordinates dare to think that Mr. Dongfang's move is really inappropriate!" ”