More than 100,000 thieves in the siege of Fengyang were wiped out again, the news was transmitted back to the capital is naturally the city to celebrate, Chongzheng Dynasty since the rapid development of the Ming economy, the biggest benefit is the people of the capital, they naturally hope that the emperor will exterminate the thieves as soon as possible, Liaodong and the southeast coast including the south of the Yangtze River and even the southwest of the people also benefited a lot, they are also rejoicing, but the central and western regions of the Ming Dynasty are gloomy.

It's not that Zhu Cijiong didn't take into account the people in the central and western regions, he moved away all the people who could move away, and the rest were either civilians in the clan's territory or serfs controlled by the clan and local tyrants, these people were either the families of the rebels or the rebels, and now that the rebels were defeated, it was no wonder they could be happy.

Of course, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were in a worse mood than them, Gao Yingxiang's troops were completely annihilated, it can be attributed to bad luck, who told them to go to the Meridian Valley, that place was originally a valley, and there was no place to run at both ends, and this Luo Rucai was also completely annihilated, so it had nothing to do with luck, Luo Rucai didn't run to the narrow valley, and the imperial court must have means they couldn't think of, so that Luo Rucai had nowhere to escape!

Therefore, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were both terrified after receiving the news, and they coincidentally chose the first of the thirty-six plans, took the best plan, and fled to the place they thought was safe.

Li Zicheng thinks that the safest place is naturally the mountainous area at the junction of Henan and Shanxi, where they escaped the encirclement and suppression of King Lu Yan last time, and now there are still many cottages there, as long as the gold, silver, treasures and grain are pulled over, it can be said that it is convenient and fast to move in.

At this time, Li Zicheng was camping near Xingyang, preparing to recruit troops and horses, and after getting the news, he immediately set off and fled in the direction of Huaiqing Mansion.

However, before he arrived at Huaiqing Mansion, news came from the front that King Lu Yan led an army of 150,000 troops from the direction of Zezhou to Jiyuan, which happened to be blocked in front of him, and if he continued to advance, he would soon run into King Lu Yan.

If you want to say who the righteous army is most afraid of, it should be King Lu Yan, that thing is a butcher, killing people faster than killing pigs, directly into his arms, what are you kidding!

Li Zicheng was frightened and immediately changed direction and fled to Tongguan, he was going to flee back to Shaanxi, although there were Qin troops there, but people had been guarding Xi'an, as long as they didn't provoke them, they generally wouldn't take the initiative to run out and kill people.

Is Qin Jun really as 'gentle' as Li Zicheng thought? Of course not, if it weren't for Sun Chuanting's secret decree and being restrained, he would probably have led the army to Henan to suppress the thieves, but at this time, he received a new secret decree, asking him to guard the front line of Tongguan and prevent the thieves from escaping into Shaanxi. Therefore, before Li Zicheng arrived at Tongguan, there was news in front that the Qin army was guarding there!

"Hungry thief Nima, why are these melons running here!" Li Zicheng couldn't help but curse in dialect, and then turned around and ran. What are you kidding, the Qin army launched a frenzy that is more terrible than King Lu Yama, and it is better to hit them in their arms than to hit King Lu Yama's arms. Of course, Huaiqing didn't dare to go, as long as there was a choice, it would be better for King Lu Yan not to go, he ran directly to the south, ready to meet Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhang Xianzhong can run for his life better than Li Zicheng, he has long guessed that the officers and soldiers will block the passage to the mountainous area on the border of Henan and Shanxi, just kidding, people are not stupid, can you escape to the same place twice? Li Zicheng fled north, he fled south, he thought of crossing the Yangtze River first, plundering Huguang for a while, and then fleeing into Sichuan from the direction of Chongqing.

As a result, he ran to the edge of the Yangtze River to take a look, and directly gave up this idea, I don't know when countless Ming warships were stationed on the other side of the river, although most of them were small bluff boats, and there were not many Fu boat warships, but he didn't even have a small bluff boat, how to fight with others!

The Yangtze River can't be crossed, so he can only enter the Sichuan directly from Kuizhou Mansion, and as a result, he met a fierce man like Ma Xianglin again.

How fierce is Ma Xianglin? If it is purely compared to martial arts, Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming together may not be his opponents, that is to say, his skills even surpass Mang Gurtai, the first fierce general of Houjin! He fought more fiercely than Mang Gurtai, in history he had a bloody battle with the Houjin Iron Cavalry in the Hunhe River, the history books are recorded as follows: the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, the arrows in the eyes, the arrows are still pulling out the arrows to chase the thieves, and the soldiers are as before, and the soldiers are frightened. One eye was blinded, he could still bear the pain and pull out the stray arrow and continue to fight, killing dozens of Houjin cavalry, and finally frightened the Houjin army to retreat, fierce or not!

Zhang Xianzhong also fell into blood mold, when he met this evil star, this Qin Liangyu and Ma Xianglin's mother and son are simply his nemesis, in history, he ran away when he heard the name of this mother and son, and when they met for the first time at this time, he didn't know how powerful Ma Xianglin was, so he bumped into it, and naturally he was beaten by Ma Xianglin!

The Yangtze River in the south can't be crossed, there are evil stars in Kuizhou Mansion in the west, and there are 300,000 troops led by the little emperor in the east.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong fled south and north one by one, and finally 'joined the division' in Xiangyang, of course, this kind of meeting is not what they wanted, if they were not forced to have nowhere to escape, how could they gather in Xiangyang.

Zhang Xianzhong had long known the power of Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting, so he did not propose to continue to the north, or flee to Shaanxi, but Li Zicheng didn't know how powerful Ma Xianglin was, he heard that there were only more than 30,000 people on Ma Xianglin's side, and immediately encouraged Zhang Xianzhong to join forces to overthrow Ma Xianglin and flee to Sichuan.

Zhang Xianzhong shook his head like a rattle, what are you kidding, to provoke that evil star, what about 200,000 people, people are not necessarily afraid of you, besides, they still have a city, it is really not good to defend the city, and then 200,000 people will not be able to rush over, and when the little emperor arrives, he will directly attack the front and back, and he will die, it is better to stay in Xiangyang.

Xiangyang is an important town of the Ming Dynasty, the city is high and deep, 200,000 horses are guarded in it, even if it is 500,000 Ming troops, it may not be broken, plus they just robbed King Fu, King Xiang and King Chu, the food is very sufficient, even if it is no problem to defend it for two or three years, he doesn't believe that the little emperor can spend two or three years here, how much grain does the 500,000 army consume in a month, how much is the military salary, and where does the imperial court get so much money and grain.

He didn't know that Daming was rich now, his cognition of Daming was still a few years ago, according to the situation a few years ago, it was estimated that the little emperor should withdraw after a month or two at most, and then they could be free again.

Li Zicheng looked at the tall city wall of Xiangyang, and was finally persuaded by Zhang Xianzhong, 200,000 troops guarding such a majestic city, in this era, he really couldn't think of anyone who could break it.

So the two entered Xiangyang City together, while strengthening the city defense, while recruiting troops and horses, ready to welcome the arrival of the Ming army.