Li Zicheng originally relied on the secret agreement he had signed with Hong Chengchou to maintain peace for a period of time, but now, this peace, I'm afraid that he and Hong Chengchou can't even talk about it!

In addition to developing the military, he has been spending a lot of energy on the economy and food, but the expansion of the army has not made much progress.

If you become a rogue, you may not be able to seize the world, but in the Xining region and Gansu Province, the people have already solved the problem of food and clothing, have just stabilized, and are developing in the direction designed by Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng remembered Mao Taizu in later generations, "strategically" retreated from Yan'an, and then recaptured it at the right time.

Do you want to continue studying Mao Taizu?

In military affairs, Mao Taizu has always been his mentor, but this time, Li Zicheng hesitated.

History has changed, and no one can predict the future!

Li Zicheng was stunned alone in the barracks, and even He Xiaomi was driven out.

For the Mandate of Heaven Army, it has now reached a crossroads, and if there is a small mistake, it may fall into the abyss, but if it survives, the Mandate Army may usher in the dawn of victory.

Although the Ming Dynasty is already full of holes, but after all, the number of gas is not exhausted, good generals, strong soldiers are still there, thieves can only create chaos for the court, but they can not carry the banner against the court, even the Jurchen Tartars outside the customs are also blocked outside the Shanhaiguan, no, in addition to the Shanhaiguan and the side wall, there should be a lot of land belonging to the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor Taiji can not break through the Shanhaiguan, so he will be diverted to Datong.

The road to Shanhaiguan was not opened, and even if he entered the Jingshi, he could only loot people and property, and eventually retreated outside the pass.

Li Zicheng suddenly thought that the population of the Jurchens was not enough for hundreds of thousands, which was less than the population of Gansu Province, why could Huang Taiji take the initiative outside the pass, fight if he wanted, and run away if he didn't want to, but the Ming army had no choice but to retreat in the city and defend passively!

If Huang Taiji can do it, why can't the Heavenly Mandate Army do it?

In terms of the combat ability of the army, the Mandate of Heaven Army, which is equipped with rifles, does not know how many streets the Ming Army has left!

Under the solid pass city, Cao Wenzhao and Hong Chengchou were all defeated, but they were just ...... There is a reason why he was not killed by the Heavenly Mandate Army, Cao Wenzhao relied on more than 1,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry to barely escape from the lair, and Hong Chengchou was deliberately let go by the Heavenly Mandate Army.

Li Zicheng pondered for a moment and decided to learn Huang Taiji this time, in addition to the gunners, he also had three thousand cavalry in his hands.

The decision was made, Li Zicheng immediately took action, he first sent a message to Guguan Feige, ordering Ma Youshui and Liu Yunshui to expand the range of activities of the rangers and closely monitor the movements of the Ming army.

Later, he sent a letter to Wang Anping, in addition to paying attention to the movements of the Ming army, he also had to get Chen Qiyu and Hong Chengchou's battle plans at all costs, especially the attitude towards the Heavenly Mandate Army.

After resting for a while, Li Zicheng sent a message to Qin Danian on the march, ordering him to rush to Lanzhou as soon as possible.

In addition, he sent a message to Li Guo and Lin Dan Khan, asking them to end the battle as soon as possible, as long as the Mongol tribes took the initiative to surrender, and not to kill innocents indiscriminately, so as to prevent provoking the Mongols to resist desperately.

Li Zicheng stopped his brush, thought for a while, and was still a little uneasy about Jing Yuwei, and then sent some more people to Jing Yuwei to continue to investigate the movements of the Ming army.

On April 21, the first batch of 8,000 displaced people from Guguan finally arrived in Lanzhou under the guidance of the auxiliary troops of the Heavenly Mandate Army.

Li Zicheng was not as happy as he imagined, but he still accepted them and placed them in the north of Lanzhou Mansion, at the northern foot of Gaolan Mountain, which was 90 miles away from Lanzhou Mansion.

This is the ideal place to build a castle.

This area was originally surrounded by mountains, and the terrain was all beams, valleys and hills, which were extremely uneven, and the peaks were mostly north-south, so it was extremely inconvenient to communicate with Lanzhou Prefecture in the south.

However, the area where Li Zicheng resettled the displaced people is a rare occurrence of a large piece of relatively flat land, such as Fengshan Mountain in the southwest and Shikong Mountain in the southeast, are not typical north-south directions, but inclined to the east and west, just giving way to a valley, and the north-south passage is relatively convenient.

The distance from Lanzhou is ninety miles, which is also moderate, and in the future, between the two, another small town will be set up, and the two will be connected by a good cut, and it will be a distance of one or two days on foot.

Li Zicheng plans to establish a county here in the future, just around the city of Lanzhou, most of these peaks are the remnants of the Gaolan Mountains, so this place is called Gaolan County.

Of the 8,000 people resettled in Gaolan County, nearly half of them were strong, and Li Zicheng first asked them to build simple thatched huts to settle down, and then reclaimed the land.

No one has ever tried whether wheat can be grown here, and this season, only sweet potatoes and corn can be grown.

The people did not have extra food, in fact, after entering Guguan, most of them were out of cooking, and the Heavenly Mandate Army was helping them along the way.

After arriving at the foothills of Gaolan Mountain, the Mandate of Heaven Army still provided them with food, but the ration supply was very small, and most of them were "three farmers in the Americas", as long as they starved to death.

Five days later, the second group of 6,000 displaced people arrived in Lanzhou, and Li Zicheng asked the soldiers of Qin Danian's army, who had already arrived in Lanzhou, to escort them further north.

However, this group of displaced people did not go to the north of Lanzhou Prefecture, and after crossing Gaolan County, they moved slightly to the east, and they were still ninety miles away from Gaolan County.

According to the marks on the marching map, in the early Ming Dynasty, this was Huizhou, but after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it was basically lost to the nomadic tribes, and the houses in the city have long ceased to exist, leaving only a little mottled city wall.

At least it's better than Gaolan County having nothing, and this is an ancient city, when he chose it, he must have considered the topography and water source, so Li Zicheng didn't have to worry about it.

At the beginning of May, Li Guo sent back a message that Lin Dan Khan had finally taken Songshan Fort, and all the tribes such as Truth and Huoluochi had returned to obedience.

To Li Zicheng's surprise, the Songshan Fort set up by the Ming Dynasty between the big and small pine mountains was not lost for a long time, and the entire Songshan Fort was almost all intact.

Li Zicheng immediately sent a message to Lin Dan Khan and Li Guo on the front line: Li Guo's troops stayed in Songshan Fort, controlled all the strong prisoners of war and cattle, and sent people to check the damage to the outer wall to see if it could be repaired in a short time.

Lin Dan Khan returned to Lanzhou with all the loot and stood by.

Li Zicheng particularly emphasized that according to the original agreement, except for a small amount of food for prisoners of war, the rest of the women, children, and property seized this time will all belong to the Chahar Ministry, and the Heavenly Mandate Army will no longer take a profit.

Lin Dan Khan's conquest of the area between the inner and outer walls made Li Zicheng initially relieved himself of the north, and he focused his main efforts on Jingyuwei in the northeast of Lanzhou.

And the manpower previously sent to Jingyuwei has sent back a message: In the past half a month, the manpower of all the forts and cities of Jingyuwei has been increasing, especially the Pingtan Fort in the west near Lanzhou Mansion, and the number of soldiers has doubled.

However, they were not specialized rangers, and the time they had been in Jingyuwei for a short time was not clear, and they did not know the battle plan of the Ming army.

Does this need to be asked? The Ming army was obviously going to deal with the Mandate of Heaven army.

It's just that I don't know if it's Chen Qiyu or Hong Chengchou who came this time.

Now that the battle in the north has ended, Li Zicheng just has his hands free, even if the Ming army does not attack, he will fight over, and completely cut off the hand that the Ming army stretched out to Longshan.

The good situation that I have accumulated with great difficulty must not be ruined like this!

Li Zicheng immediately sent an order for Qin Danian's troops stationed in Lanzhou City to start moving slowly eastward along the Yellow River, while continuing to send rangers to investigate the movements of the Ming army.

On the 8th, Qin Danian summoned back to Lanzhou, and had arrived at Shuichuankou, close to the territory of Jingyuwei, only twenty miles away from Pingtan Fort.

In order not to startle the snakes, the soldiers were already lurking in the canyon, and only sent rangers to the east to investigate the movements of the Ming army.

Qin Danian said that it was summer at this time, and the weeds and thorns in the valley were luxuriant, which happened to be similar to the color of the camouflage uniforms on the soldiers, which was very suitable for lurking, but he also asked Li Zicheng euphemistically if he wanted to take Pingtan Fort first.

Naturally, Pingtan Fort must be taken, otherwise what is the point of the army going east? The question is how to take it.

Li Zicheng spread out the marching map and carefully checked it, there were many guards to which Jingyuwei belonged, there were five of thousands of households alone, and dozens of hundreds of households, but unfortunately, most of these military forts were north of the Yellow River, and they had long been lost to nomadic tribes, and now they have basically become the resettlement points for the Heavenly Mandate Army to take in the displaced people in Shaanxi.

To the west of Jingyuwei, in the direction of Lanzhou Mansion, there is only one Pingtan Fort.

When the Ming court set up Jingyuwei, it was mainly to deal with the nomadic tribes in the north, right?

A large number of military forts out of the north of the Yellow River, is equivalent to a sharp knife on the nomadic land in the north, can monitor the activities of the nomadic cavalry on weekdays, during the war, although the soldiers in each military fort can not take the initiative to fight the nomadic cavalry, but they can take advantage of the terrain to block the nomadic cavalry, spy on the position of the nomadic cavalry, and even eliminate their small group of cavalry.

It's a pity that the military fort north of the Yellow River no longer exists, and the current opponent of the Ming court is not the nomadic cavalry here.

Li Zicheng authorized Qin Danian in front of him to act cheaply, and if he could, take Pingtan Fort first, after all, it was a strategic point.

In addition, he also summoned Li Ji of Liangzhou and asked him to take the soldiers south and rush to Lanzhou as soon as possible.

The battle with the imperial court was about to break out, but Li Zicheng didn't know how big the scale of the battle was, and it would be best if Qin Danian's troops could defeat the Ming army, in case the Ming army increased its troops...... He couldn't afford to leave behind.

Whether it is Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, or Chen Qiyu, the overseer of the five provinces, none of them is a fuel-efficient lamp, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, they were all first-class famous generals.

In front of these famous generals, the only advantage of the Heavenly Mandate Army is Li Zicheng's later insights.

However, with these insights, he has already created a lot of sharp weapons for the Mandate of Heaven Army, and history has changed, but he doesn't know which direction to go.