Under the city of Tongguan, the tranquility was finally restored, and the towering city of Guancheng blocked most of the sun, half of the sunset and half of the cloud.

The soldiers of the Mandate of Heaven just disarmed the Ming army, and then escorted them to the side to guard, and did not tie them up, when cleaning the battlefield, the armor, weapons, etc., were naturally all put away, but the wounded soldiers on the battlefield, the Mandate of Heaven Army did not make up the knife for the first time.

The wounded soldiers were carried to tents, where they were cleaned by the army doctors, disinfected, and bandaged, but there were many seriously wounded, and it was up to God to decide how many of them survived.

Li Zicheng returned to the big tent, and his own soldiers brought Sun Chuanting over, knowing that Sun Chuanting couldn't turn a corner for a while, Li Zicheng did not loosen Sun Chuanting's ties, but said lightly: "Lord Sun, don't worry, within three days, when the governor breaks through the Tong Pass, the soldiers will be released." ”

Sun Chuanting snorted coldly, "I hope you keep your word!" ”

"The Governor of Pontus will definitely be true to his word," Li Zicheng chuckled, "Does Lord Sun have to be martyred for the imperial court?" Stay and take a look, you won't regret it, Tongguan can't stop the Mandate of Heaven Army, and the Jingshi can't stop the Mandate of Heaven Army either! ”

Sun Chuanting looked at Li Zicheng again, and said for a long time: "This governor has made up his mind!" ”

Li Zicheng sighed and said: "You can't control the Tartars outside the gate, and you can't level the beacon fires everywhere inside, Daming, it's time for the dynasty to change, Lord Sun should understand in his heart, but he just doesn't want to accept it!" ”

"This governor is deeply favored by the imperial court, and he will not serve the Heavenly Mandate Army, let alone betray the imperial court!" Sun Chuanting wanted to give up his hand, but his body twisted, and then he was captured, and his face was sneering.

Li Zicheng's heart moved, and he arched his hand to Sun Chuanting, and said, "Lord Sun is loyal to the imperial court, but ...... Just like this time, the decisive battle of Tongguan, although it was to the death, the loyalty and martyrdom were commendable, but it was actually an evasion, evading the responsibility of defeat. ”

Sun Chuanting rolled his eyes and said angrily: "If the governor does not go out of Tongguan, the victory or defeat will not be decided!" ”

"Lord Sun is deceiving himself again," Li Zicheng's face was not without ridicule, "Lord Sun should already know that the army of the Mandate of Heaven has entered Shaanxi, and even if Lord Sun guards Tongguan, he can't keep the whole of Shaanxi." ”

"The Mandate of Heaven Army came out of Longshan from Guguandong, if the Governor had known earlier, he could have divided his troops to defend Longzhou," Sun Chuanting said: "It is the soldiers of the Mandate of Heaven Army who smuggled into Pujindu, and they can be intercepted and killed by the garrison of Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi!" ”

"Don't Lord Sun know that the elite of the 20,000 Heavenly Mandate Army has gone out of Longshan from Jingyuan County and Xi'an to the east, pointing directly to Pingliang Mansion, and even the Guyuan Military Town has been killed," Li Zicheng's expression was calm, and he didn't have the intention of laughing at this time, but he was just narrating a well-known thing, "In addition, thousands of Mongolian cavalry of the Tiger Cavalry have gone south from Wolf Mountain and rushed straight to Ningxia Military Town!" ”

"Mongol cavalry? Wolf Mountain? Sun Chuanting was suddenly furious and wanted to point his finger at Li Zicheng's nose, but his body was captured, so he had to twist violently and scolded: "Li Zicheng, if you want to win the world, forget it, maybe the number of Daming Qi is exhausted...... But you colluded with the Waiyi Mongols and slaughtered the Han brothers...... You, you will be the sinner of history......"

"Lord Sun, don't be impatient!" Li Zicheng smiled lightly: "First, most of the people in Ningxia Town are not Han people, but Hui people; Second, there is no Waiyi, these Mongol cavalry, although they have the blood of the Mongols in their veins, they have been naturalized as Han Chinese, that is, they are not Waiyi, but real Han Chinese, just because they are thirsty for killing, and the Pontus has always left them outside the pass to deal with the nomadic cavalry. ”

"...... you" Sun Chuanting felt that his brain was not good, and he didn't understand what Li Zicheng meant, "What are you talking about?" Is it an argument for the dirty things you have done? ”

"Lord Sun has always regarded the Heavenly Mandate Army as an opponent, but unfortunately he doesn't know much about the Heavenly Mandate Army," Li Zicheng shook his head with a wry smile, and said: "Lord Sun knows that the Mongols who invaded Han for five or six hundred years, as well as the Yuan Dynasty they established, have been completely destroyed. ”

"Wasn't the Northern Yuan destroyed a long time ago?" Sun Chuanting said angrily: "In the first battle of the fishing sea, General Lan Yu ......"

Li Zicheng waved his hand and said: "It is true that General Lan Yu wiped out the Northern Yuan in the Fishing Sea back then, but the roots of the Northern Yuan are still there, and in the battle of Tumubao, the Warat people, who were part of the Mongols, did not fight to the Beijing Division?" In the hundreds of years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, how could it have solved the border troubles of the Mongols in the north? ”

“……”

"The Mongols have been endangering the Han land, in the final analysis, because their Great Khan is still alive, and the tribes gather around the Great Khan of the Golden Family, a descendant of Genghis Khan," Li Zicheng said loudly: "Now the last Great Khan of the Golden Family, Lin Dan Khan, has died near Xining, and the people to whom Lin Dan Khan belongs, in accordance with their will, are all naturalized as Han Chinese, and the Governor of Pontus has formed the Tiger Cavalry and the Wolf Cavalry with these Mongols as his team...... In other words, the Mongols have officially been destroyed, and the tiger cavalry and the wolf cavalry are the cavalry of the Han Chinese! ”

Sun Chuanting thought for a while, and then muttered: "Now use the tiger cavalry to deal with the Hui people in Ningxia......"

"The Hui people are not Han people," Li Zicheng said: "If the Hui people can be naturalized as Han people and converted to Catholicism, the Pontus Governor will withdraw the Tiger Cavalry to the Guanwai and will not let them wreak havoc in the Han land, otherwise, the Tiger Cavalry will kill in Ningxia, and the Pondu Governor will turn a blind eye, anyway, it is not a Han people, and it will be difficult to return to the banner of China!" ”

Sun Chuanting looked at Li Zicheng, and after a long time, he seemed to have straightened out the relationship between all levels in his mind, and said: "It turns out that the Metropolitan Governor has been planning outside the border for a long time...... Maybe the Metropolitan Governor can win the world, or maybe the Metropolitan Governor can win the world, which is the luck of China, but this Governor ...... Ben Governor still can't serve the Mandate of Heaven! ”

"In fact, the Mandate of Heaven Army has developed to this day, and it already has Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Henan, Huguang and several provinces, plus there is also a Hexi Governor's Mansion outside the Guan, and I don't care if Lord Sun serves the Mandate of Heaven Army," Li Zicheng said with a smile: "The Governor of Pontus asked Lord Sun to recruit soldiers, but he couldn't bear to see the Han people killing each other, a completely meaningless cannibalism!" ”

Sun Chuanting lowered his head and pondered, Li Zicheng's words were too informative, he had to ponder carefully, over the years, the imperial court really didn't know much about the Heavenly Mandate Army, especially what the Heavenly Mandate Army did on the border.

If what Li Zicheng said is the truth, maybe the Mandate of Heaven Army can really overthrow the imperial court, and the Mandate of Heaven Army is not like a rogue, but more like a regime that separates one side!

He sighed lightly and said, "What is the matter with the Hexi Governor's Mansion that the Metropolitan Governor said?" ”

"The Hexi Governor's Mansion is west of the Yellow River, north of the Hexi Corridor," Li Zicheng said: "Maybe Lord Sun has heard of the Heishui River in the Han Dynasty!" ”

Sun Chuanting said curiously: "The Hexi Governor's Mansion is near the Heishui River? ”

"It's indeed near the Heishui River, but it's much broader than the Heishui River Basin," Li Zicheng asked He Xiaomi to loosen Sun Chuanting's tie, and said: "West to the west of Jiayuguan, north to the Gobi Desert, south to the Hexi Corridor, Longyou in Gansu Province, east to Helan Mountain as the boundary, across Helan Mountain, is the Ningxia military town in Shaanxi!" ”

Sun Chuanting did not refuse to loosen the tie, and sat down opposite Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng's words, so that his just frozen blood, secretly boiled, he once patrolled Shaanxi, the territory around Shaanxi, naturally familiar with the chest, even if there is no marching map, he can also know the approximate location of the Hexi Governor's Mansion, in addition to the Han Dynasty, even if it is as powerful as the Tang Dynasty, it has not been able to include this area into the territory of the Central Plains, and Li Zicheng closely relies on a corner of the land, in the case of manpower and financial resources are far from enough, but can control this land of nomads......

Let's hope it's all true!

Sun Chuanting did not understand the strategic significance of this area, but Li Zicheng's ability to expand into the nomadic land showed that he was not a rogue.

He touched the tea offered by He Xiaomi, but he didn't pick it up, a trace of embarrassment appeared on his face, and he hurriedly said: "This Hexi Governor's Mansion ......"

"On the land of the Hexi Governor's Palace, there were originally no Han people—even if there were Han people, they had already become nomadic," Li Zicheng said: "But the people of the Hexi Governor's Palace, no matter what they were, have now been naturalized as Han people, and the Governor of Hexi has transferred officials from the Han land to help the local people learn to farm, and change their nomadism into a way of life of farming and animal husbandry," sighed lightly, and said: "It's a pity that the time is too short, if the Governor of Hexi has the time and financial resources to remove some of the Han people, it will definitely get twice the result with half the effort, and when the time comes, this place will become a real Han land, In the north of Gansu, there will be no more nomadic rebellion! ”

Sun Chuanting's eyes were already flashing, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Li Zicheng pretended not to see it, and said with a faint smile: "Master Sun's people who read should be familiar with classics and history books, and the governor of Bendu took the liberty to ask, who is the biggest enemy of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"Enemies of the Ming Dynasty?" Sun Chuanting said in his heart, the biggest enemy of the Ming Dynasty is you rogues, who have hollowed out the northern provinces little by little, and the imperial court not only has no taxes, but also spends money to recruit a large number of soldiers! Seeing Li Zicheng's faint smile, his heart moved, and he hurriedly said, "Could it be a Mongolian?" ”

"Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongols have always been the border trouble in the north of the Ming Dynasty, even if there is a border wall of thousands of miles, the people in the north have not suffered less from the invasion of the Mongols, but," Li Zicheng pondered for a moment, and said: "With the decline of the Mongols, the national disaster of the Ming Dynasty is no longer the Mongols, but the Tartars outside the Liaodong Pass!" ”

"Tartar?"

"Yes, Tartar!" Li Zicheng said categorically: "If the imperial court defeats the Mandate of Heaven army, the governor of Pontus may be killed and destroyed, and the Ming Dynasty can be continued; Or maybe the governor of Pontus overthrew the Ming Dynasty by luck and established a new dynasty, this is all our own business, it is nothing more than whether the dynasty is replaced, but the Tartars of Liaodong are eyeing our Han land, are they not our biggest enemies? ”

"Isn't the Tartar outside the gate? There are Shanhaiguan natural insurance ......"

"There is no pass in the world that cannot be broken," Li Zicheng shook his head and said: "The Tartars have broken the pass five times and ravaged the Beijing Division. If the Tartars had the wisdom of the Han Chinese, they would attack Shanhaiguan from south to north......"

"Attack Shanhaiguan from the south?" Sun Chuanting was also taken aback, yes, the Tartars have entered the city wall of the Beijing Division, it is entirely possible to attack Shanhaiguan from the south, the establishment of Shanhaiguan City is mainly to deal with the enemy in the north, so the terrain in the north is very different, and the south is a passage for Shanhaiguan to provide soldiers and grain and grass supplies, the difference between the wall and the terrain outside is very small, if the Tartars attack Shanhaiguan from the south, the consequences are unimaginable!

"Fortunately, every time the Tartars break through, it's just to plunder," Li Zicheng's face was very solemn, and he said: "So far, there is only one Ningyuan lonely city left outside the pass, and the Tartars have almost invaded the entire Liaodong, and the land of the Liaodong Dusi, millions of Han people, hundreds of millions of acres of fertile land, are all used by the Tartars. ”