Chongzhenguang noticed that Zhang Bin's report mentioned more than 6 million taels of silver, more than 1 million stone of grain, and exempted the five northwest provinces from Liao's salary, expropriation, and training, but he didn't care much about it.

This is the last question Zhang Bin asked, whether to continue to pursue the remnants of Zhang Xianzhong westward or turn north to clean up Li Zicheng.

There is no need to ask this, Zhang Xianzhong has been beaten by more than 10,000 people, and he has fled into the depths of Daba Mountain, and he will definitely not be able to exterminate it for a while, and Li Zicheng is wreaking havoc in Guanzhong at this time, so he must go to clean up Li Zicheng first.

In fact, this is a small trap set up by Zhang Bin for Chongzhen, or rather, he deliberately said this to block Chongzhen's mouth.

He knew that Zhang Xianzhong would definitely come back later, and it was very likely that he would wreak havoc in Bashu, if he let Zhang Xianzhong go so privately and went north to clean up Li Zicheng, when Zhang Xianzhong recovered, Chongzhen would definitely put the blame on him.

That's right, this is his responsibility, he just wants to raise his own respect, in fact, he can send 20,000 or 30,000 horses to cooperate with Qin Liangyu's 10,000 Sichuan Army white pole soldiers, in the Daba Mountain to chase and intercept, chasing Zhang Xianzhong crying dad and calling mother, surrounded by Zhang Xianzhong has nowhere to hide, but he doesn't, he has to ask Chongzhen, do you think it's better for me to continue to chase and suppress Zhang Xianzhong, or to clean up Li Zicheng.

How could Chongzhen have imagined that he could clean up Zhang Xianzhong by casually dividing some troops, at this time Li Zicheng was about to conquer the entire Guanzhong, Chongzhen naturally urged Zhang Bin in a hurry, and quickly led the army to Guanzhong to clean up Li Zicheng.

Okay, no problem, I'll go right away, this is what you said, when Zhang Xianzhong comes back, you can't say that I didn't exterminate people!

Zhang Bin received the order and immediately led his army north to Yunyang, preparing to advance to Guanzhong via the Kugu Road, and at the same time he ordered Qin Yiming, the general soldier of Huguang in Yunyang, to lead 20,000 Huguang soldiers to garrison the important town of Xiangyang in exchange for Li Dingguo.

Soon, 100,000 Fuguang soldiers gathered again, and Zhang Bin did not hesitate to lead the army into Kugu Road and go straight to Guanzhong.

At this time, what is the situation in Guanzhong?

The situation in Guanzhong can be summed up in one sentence, that is, Li Zicheng is only one step away from becoming king!

This step is to take Xi'an, the center of Guanzhong, at this time, except for a few cities in the border town of Yulin, almost the entire Guanzhong is occupied by Li Zicheng, as long as Xi'an is taken, he can be king.

At this time, the army under his command has reached a terrifying more than 400,000, that is to say, in addition to the 100,000 troops stationed in Tongguan, there are more than 300,000 troops he can use!

At this time, his self-confidence was extremely inflated, he believed that the time had come for him to become king, and he believed that more than 300,000 troops were enough to take the city of Xi'an, which was garrisoned by only 40,000 horses.

At this time, the line from Hanzhong to Yunyang and the line from Henan to Shanxi had all been blocked by officers and soldiers, and he didn't know that Zhang Bin had led a large army to break into Huguang, let alone that Zhang Xianzhong, who was sitting on the two heroic cities of Wuchang and Xiangyang, had been beaten by officers and soldiers.

At this time, the line from Tongguan to Yulin Town, and the line of Qinling have all been blocked by Li Zicheng, Guanzhong has become an island, and Xi'an has become an isolated city, Zhang Bin did not know that Li Zicheng had led a large army to besiege Xi'an, Zheng Chongjian and He Renlong did not know that the reinforcements were about to arrive, they could only defend the city and resist desperately, because they knew quite well that once Li Zicheng broke through Xi'an, they would die.

It was at this time that Zhang Bin led an army of 100,000 through the Kugu Road and came to the territory of Lantian County.

Li Zicheng never thought that the officers and soldiers would come so quickly, because Yang Sichang led the army to attack Tongguan as soon as he could, Zhang Xianzhong conquered Wuchang and killed the king of Chu, forcing Yang Sichang to wave his army south to Huguang to clean up Zhang Xianzhong.

As a result, the officers and soldiers died of illness before they began to attack Xiangyang, and more than 100,000 officers and soldiers hurriedly withdrew to Yunyang.

However, it didn't take long for the more than 100,000 officers and soldiers gathered in Yunyang to suddenly disperse, Liu Guoneng went to Hanzhong, Li Wanqing went to Changsha Mansion, and Zuo Liangyu led the army back to Shanxi, which was the last news he received.

Immediately afterwards, Guanzhong was completely blocked, and he didn't know what the situation was outside, but he knew that Zuo Liangyu's 60,000 Shanxi Army was still in Taiyuan Mansion, Qin Gongming's 30,000 Henan Army was also in Henan Mansion, and Qin Yiming's 30,000 Huguang Army and Liu Guoneng's more than 30,000 men were all staying on the line from Yunyang to Hanzhong and not moving.

In other words, the only ones who can move outside are the 30,000 horses under Li Wanqing, has he done Zhang Xianzhong, don't be kidding, Zhang Xianzhong killed him almost the same.

He believes that it is impossible for officers and soldiers to pass through the Qinling Mountains at all, because Zhang Xianzhong captured Xiangyang and killed the King of Xiang, and then captured Wuchang and killed the King of Chu, and this goods also dug up the ancestral grave of the old Zhu family.

Therefore, he only arranged some scouts at the exit of the six roads of the Qinling Mountains, and did not send a large army to garrison them at all.

However, he was a little worried about Shanxi, because it was next to Beizhili, and the imperial court slightly transferred some officers and soldiers from near the capital, plus the 60,000 army in Zuo Liangyu's hands, he could casually gather an army of 100,000, and he couldn't stand it when that guy pounced.

Therefore, he focused his main attention on the northeast of Xi'an, in Jingyang and Gaoling, he stationed 50,000 troops, these are to prevent Shanxi officers and soldiers to raid, if the officers and soldiers do not come, they can also rotate with other teams besieging Xi'an, anyway, these two places are less than 100 miles away from Xi'an, as for the south, he let his subordinate Zhang Shijie lead 10,000 horses to garrison in Lantian, and the other cities are only a few hundred old and weak soldiers.

Zhang Bin was cautious along the way, because Gao Yingxiang was defeated in the Meridian Valley, which was also the six roads of the Qinling Mountains, and he didn't want to follow in Gao Yingxiang's footsteps because of carelessness.

Although his soldiers are strong and well-equipped, far from being comparable to the elite of the peasant army under Gao Yingxiang, he still does not dare to be careless, and every time he arrives at a dangerous area, he will send the elite of the special operations battalion to climb the top of the mountain on both sides to carefully investigate and confirm that there is no problem, and then lead the army to pass.

It was precisely because he was so cautious that he walked for nearly ten days in a total of more than 600 miles of Kugu Road, fortunately, Li Zicheng was not Sun Chuanting, this guy never thought of sending someone to ambush him, until he left Kugu Dao, he had not encountered a thief.

There is no danger now, as long as he passes the most dangerous Qinling Mountains, it is almost impossible for Li Zicheng to overthrow the 100,000 Fuguang army under him, unless he can have a million peasant army, and he has to be the kind that is not afraid to kill no matter how he kills, and he dares to be hard with himself.

Historically, Li Zicheng did have a million army at his peak, but unfortunately, at this time, he had not yet reached his peak, and even if he had an army of one million, there were not so many people who were not afraid of death who dared to brave the rain of bullets to fight him.

Zhang Bin finally breathed a sigh of relief at this time, his soldiers marched on the mountain trail for more than ten days, he was already exhausted, he was worried for nearly ten days, and he was a little tired, after leaving the Kugu Road, he simply ordered the 100,000 troops to find a flat land by the mountains and rivers to set up a large camp, and repair it on the spot, at the same time, he also sent a large number of scouts to scatter in all directions, and began to explore the situation in the pass.

And at this time, Lantian's guard Zhang Shijie was already frightened, and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers suddenly came out of Kugu Road, don't you want his life, he has a total of 10,000 horses, and most of them are newly recruited foot soldiers, to put it bluntly, it is a peasant who has just put down his hoe, how can he withstand 100,000 officers and soldiers!

He hurriedly sent someone to hurry up and run to King Chuang for help, fortunately, Lantian was more than 100 miles away from Xi'an, and soon, he received a reply from King Chuang, telling him to resist no matter what, and the reinforcements would arrive in a day at most.

Zhang Bin led the army out of the Kugu Road when it was almost the afternoon Shen Shixu, and so on sent scouts, set up a large camp, the sky was already dark, he originally wanted to rest here for a day, and then go to Xi'an, but never thought that that night, the scouts came with the news, hundreds of thousands of thieves are besieging Xi'an!

, this is okay, he already knew that Lantian was occupied by thieves, because Lantian was less than thirty miles away from the exit of Kugu Road, and he had already sent someone to investigate before he left Kugu Road.

However, he didn't expect that the thieves would start to besiege Xi'an.

Hundreds of thousands of troops, Zheng Chongjian and He Renlong can bear it, he is not afraid that he will not be able to fight back after the thieves capture Xi'an, he is worried that the 10,000 Qin troops and 30,000 Shaanxi soldiers in the city, that is 40,000 horses, Li Zicheng will definitely not be able to spare them after conquering Xi'an!

He didn't dare to trim it anymore, and the next morning, he set out with his army and went straight to Lantian.

Zhang Shijie in Lantian City heard the news, and hurriedly led all his subordinates to climb the city wall, ready to defend it, because there was news from Xi'an that Tian Jianxiu, the general under King Chuang, had already led an army of 100,000 from Xi'an, and he had already felt that the Baqiao was only more than 80 miles away from Lantian last night, as long as he could hold on until the afternoon, the reinforcements would arrive.

He believes that it is not very difficult to hold on until the afternoon, because siege equipment is required to attack the city, and although the wall of Lantian is only one zhang high, it is not something that can be climbed with bare hands.

The six roads of Qinling are difficult to walk, even with some grain and grass are tired to death, it is absolutely impossible for officers and soldiers to bring siege equipment, they only have temporary construction, and the construction of siege equipment is fast and slow, but it is impossible to build it in one or two hours at the earliest, at least it will take half a day, I am afraid that they have just started to attack the city, and the reinforcements will arrive, how can he not be able to hold it?

It's a pity that he was wrong, and it was very wrong, because Zhang Bin scattered the scouts around when he was marching, so the scouts he sent to the exit of Kugu Road didn't dare to approach to investigate at all, but just looked at it from a distance for a while and ran back to report, they didn't notice the chariot of the Fuguang Army at all, let alone the Tiger Squat Artillery Cart of the Fuguang Army.

The Fuguang army did not need to manufacture siege equipment at all when attacking a small county like Lantian, because the needs of the siege were taken into account when the chariot was designed, and a flat roof was added to it, and the overall height was about eight feet.