In February of the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634 AD), the tiger and leopard army of Gao Yigong and the Red Army returned to Pingliang, and the tiger and leopard army came with Li Zicheng's general Li Guo, and Ma Jinzhong also led 10,000 horses to return to Pingliang. They originally came to relieve the siege of Pingliang, but they didn't expect Hong Chengchou to run away by himself.

With the return of Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong's troops to the southern part of Shaanxi, the situation in Shaanxi is very good, and the total number of volunteers from all walks of life has reached 1780,000, of which the number of Gao Junshan is more.

Originally, there were 50,000 horses in Gaojun Mountain, 10,000 horses from Ma Jinzhong, and more than 20,000 reinforcements from Li Guo, and for a time, nearly 90,000 troops were gathered in Pingliang, accounting for more than half of the number of righteous troops.

On this day, Gao Junshan sat on the Taishi chair in the council hall, and on either side of him sat seventeen civil and military generals.

They are:

Bai Lisha, Sun Huayuan, Tian Wenju, Liu Hongru, Zhao Shichun, Cai Zhishan, Liu Fangliang, Gao Yigong, Hongjunyou, Li Busi, Ma Zhian, Ma Jinzhong;

Huang Xu, the head (dean) of Chongwen Academy, and Liu Lishun, the oldest among the students, were also present;

The generals Sun Kewang and Feng Shuangli, who were engaged in intelligence, also returned to Pingliang to attend the meeting;

Li Guo sat by Gao Junshan's side as Gao Junshan's brother.

Gao Junshan looked around at the seventeen civil and military members under him, the satisfaction in his heart was infinitely bursting, and the desire for power was unconsciously improving, and he felt like a fairy when sitting on the Taishi chair. His subordinates controlled half of the rebel army, and he was immersed in the illusion that the rebels in the world were in favor of him.

The eyes of all the generals were focused on Gao Junshan, and Gao Junshan realized that he should say a few words. He cleared his throat, and a loud voice resounded throughout the chamber: "The situation is gratifying! Through our bloody war of resistance, Pingliang was preserved. Now the armies from all walks of life are gathered in southern Shaanxi, the momentum is huge, and the peak of the army is directed at Xi'an. As long as we take Xi'an, the whole of Shaanxi will be in our hands. In time, we will attack the provinces of Shanxi and Sichuan, and we will be able to fight against the imperial court. At that time, all of you here will be indispensable to the reward of the marquis. You can speak freely about the current situation, and it would be great if you could help me plan a course of action. ”

When Gao Junshan said this, the scene became noisy, and everyone talked about it. Gao Junshan looked at his watch, waited patiently for ten minutes, and then said in an encouraging tone: "I know that you are as excited as I am, so please say out loud what you think." ”

Gao Yigong was the first to speak: "I am Gao Yigong at the dispatch of King Qin, King Qin wants me to go east, and I will never take half a step to the west." ”

Gao Junshan approvingly: "It is necessary to be in unison, we must unify the military regulations, and promulgate them so that the whole army can implement them." ”

Liu Fangliang followed closely and said: "King Qin, take advantage of the strength of the army now, directly pull the team to the city of Xi'an, kill his mother's Xi'an, and slaughter the bullshit King Qin of Xi'an, only you are worthy of being the king of Qin in the world." ”

"That's it, that's it." The generals chimed in.

Cai Zhishan raised a very serious question: "According to the Tanmalai newspaper, in May last year, the Dengzhou rebel Kong Youde was chased by the official army and fled to Lushun, and the general soldier Huang Long set up an ambush on the island to defeat Kong Youde's army, beheaded Yingyuan, and captured Mao Chenglu, Chen Guangfu, Su Yougong, etc., Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming escaped and surrendered to the east. The former Dengzhou firearms, cannons, and those who are skilled in their skills are all returned to Huang Taiji. ”

Gao Junshan said angrily: "This national scum, if it falls into our hands in the future, it will be executed by Ling Chi!" ”

Sun Huayuan sighed, feeling very sorry for the gunsmiths in Dengzhou, after all, he had worked with them for many years.

Cai Zhishan continued: "After that, Shang Kexi, the deputy general of Hirokashima, surrendered to the east. What's even more odious is that after these traitors surrendered to the Eastern Captivity, they acted as their pawns. The drama is reliable news, and they were ready to move a few years ago, waiting for an opportunity to invade the Xuanfu. ”

Gao Junshan asked with concern: "Does Ming Ting know this news?" ”

Cai Zhishan replied: "I heard all this news from the border soldiers. ”

Gao Junshan breathed a sigh of relief: "The eastern captivity invaded, burning, killing, plundering, looting, and looting, all kinds of evil, and the victims were all our people." As long as the Ming court was prepared, the losses of the people would be much smaller. ”

At this time, Zhang Cong walked into the council hall and reported to Gao Junshan that several Persian warriors had come from outside the city, saying that they had come to find Princess Suena. Gao Junshan announced that the meeting was over for the time being, and took Bai Wenxuan and Zhang Cong to see what was going on.

Gao Junshan saw a tall man who looked like a typical Persian soldier, wearing a twelve-pointed hat of Chizlbash, with large, slightly rounded eyes, deep inwards, very double eyelids, long curved eyelashes, a beard on his face, and a yellow battle robe, and behind him there were five soldiers dressed like him, and an interpreter beside him.

The tall man, Shayer, introduced himself as an officer of the royal guard from Persia, sent by the king to find the missing princess Suena in the Ming Dynasty. After many inquiries, he knew that the princess was currently in Pingliang, so he came to pick up the princess and return to Persia.

Of course, all of this was learned through a translator.

Gao Junshan told Shair that he did have a person named Suyena here, and it was difficult to say whether Shail was looking for someone or not. Shair said that he had a token of the king to prove his identity, and that Princess Suena would definitely come out with him if she saw the token.

Shair gave a sapphire ring to Gao Junshan and asked Gao Junshan to show it to Suena for identification, and Gao Junshan took the sapphire ring, told someone to receive the Persian guests, and went back to Suena.

Su Yena was very excited when she saw the sapphire ring in Gao Junshan's hand, she took the ring from Gao Junshan's hand and said in stiff Chinese: "This is my father's ring, and seeing the ring is like seeing my father." ”

Su Yena's tears kept flowing, and she couldn't help but cry like a child in Gao Junshan's arms, making Gao Junshan not know what to do.

Han Yuyan and Ji Ya heard Su Yena's cry, they all ran over, and when they saw the scene in front of them, they thought that Gao Junshan was bullying Su Yena, Han Yuyan stepped forward to pull Su Ye Na away, and Ji Ya also used her body to block between Gao Jun Shan and Su Ye Na.

Han Yuyan said angrily: "Brother Jun, why did you make Su Yena cry?" ”

Gao Junshan said innocently: "It's really none of my business!" ”

Ji Ya faced Gao Junshan, she punched Gao Junshan in the chest, of course, it was just a soft punch, and then reproached: "It's none of your business, you see Su Yena is crying into tears, if it weren't for you, would she cry like this?" ”

Gao Junshan was hard to argue, but fortunately, at this time, Su Yena turned from crying to laughing. Han Yuyan was inexplicable and asked Su Yena: "Sister, why are you like a child, you were still crying just now, why did you laugh after a while?" ”

Suena did smile, and smiled brightly: "I'm not a lost child anymore, I've found a home!" My father has sent for me! ”

"Really?" Han Yuyan didn't believe it, she first asked Su Yena, and then turned to ask Gao Junshan, "Really?" ”

Gao Junshan pretended to be aggrieved and said, "Really." ”

Han Yuyan and Ji Ya respectively took Su Yena's hand and cheered and congratulated her.

In such a cheerful scene, Ji Ya suddenly cried, she was happy for Su Yena, and at the same time thought of her parents, so her tears couldn't help but flow, making everyone want to comfort Ji Ya again.

Gao Junshan couldn't see the women like this, and he reminded: "Don't cry and laugh here, go and meet the guests!" ”

They were only happy, and after Gao Junshan reminded them, they remembered to go to see the guests.

Suena cried bitterly when she saw Shayer, and then she heard the two babbling and didn't know what to say, judging from their expressions, Shayl was persuading Suena to go back, and Suyena was trying her best to persuade Shayir.

The argument between the two lasted for half an hour, and in the end, as if no one seemed to convince anyone, Suena turned away from Shair.

In order to alleviate this embarrassing scene, Gao Junshan first arranged for seven guests to stay first, and discussed something slowly, and Shail was very grateful for Gao Junshan's hospitality.

Just when Gao Junshan was planning the next course of action, he received an order from Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang stationed in Chengcheng, to immediately lead his troops to Qingyang, entangle Hong Chengchou, and disrupt the strategic deployment of the Ming court.

Gao Junshan didn't want to leave Pingliang in his heart, he had his own little abacus, he wanted to use Pingliang as a base to expand his power. But he couldn't disobey Gao Yingxiang's order, because he was still under the banner of "Chuang", and most of the generals under him were Gao Yingxiang's old generals.

Gao Junshan left his descendants to guard Pingliang, and Ma Jinzhong, who had recently returned to the team, also left in Pingliang.

On the 10th day of the first month of March, Gao Junshan took Tian Wenju as the main army division, Liu Hongru as the deputy military division, Gao Yigong as the vanguard of the front, Liu Fangliang, Red Army Friends, Li Busi, Ma Zhi'an, and Li Guo's 20,000 reinforcements, a total of 60,000 horses, crossed the Jing River and pointed at Ningzhou.

Ningzhou is located in the east of Pingliang and the south of Qingyang. At this time, the guards of Ningzhou were Cao Wenzhao and He Renlong. Cao Wenzhao was stationed in Ningzhou ten days ago, and was transferred from Datong by Chen Qiyu, the governor of the five provinces, and was again subordinate to Hong Chengchou; He Renlong was ordered by Hong Chengchou to be stationed in Ningzhou before Cao Wenzhao.

When he heard that Gao Junshan's army was heading towards Ningzhou, Cao Wenzhao was secretly happy in his heart, he thought that since Gao Junshan could not be eliminated in Pingliang, now that he took the initiative to come out, this was the best time to eliminate him in the field.

Cao Wenzhao was full of ambition, and the three thousand iron horsemen under his command were already waiting for him, and it was only a matter of time before he eliminated Gao Junshan. Since the start of the war with the thieves, Cao Wenzhao has always fought more with less, and it is common for thousands of people to chase tens of thousands of people. So he thinks that this time, he doesn't need more people to destroy Gao Junshan.

Since Cao Wenzhao knew that Hong Chengchou was stumbling on the road to his promotion, he was dissatisfied with Hong Chengchou. This time, he was dispatched by Chen Qiyu, the governor of the five provinces, to garrison Ningzhou, but he did not expect to be included in Hong Chengchou's war zone.

In short, he made up his mind that he would never cooperate with Hong Chengchou, and he wanted to create a miracle on the battlefield of encircling and suppressing thieves, he was sure that with Chen Qiyu there, Hong Chengchou did not dare to suppress his exploits again and not report it.