Chapter 719: The Storm Changes

Li Zicheng is not having a good time here. The mistake of Gao Yigong, who stayed behind, made Li Zicheng's retreat become a lot hasty. Huang Desheng led his troops south and pursued Li Zicheng relentlessly.

But at this time, it is useless to complain and blame, not to mention that it is the fault of his brother-in-law, who can only speed up the southward movement of the troops. At the same time, it is also necessary to take some contingency measures to avoid too much damage to the troops of their descendants and to save some vitality for future development.

So Li Zicheng immediately asked Fang Guoan to stay and break off, anyway, these Ming Dynasty generals couldn't let him rest assured, and they just played a little role at this time. And Gu Junen is very opposed to this measure, feeling that these people are unreliable, and such an important task cannot be done by these people at both ends of the first rat. In case they surrendered to Li Yan, Li Yan's troops would chase faster.

Of course, Li Zicheng knew this truth, but he would not be of any better use to keep these generals. Moreover, Gao Yigong sent people every day to urge, asking for another unit to be sent to serve as the rearguard. It's not that Gao Yigong is cowardly, but the casualties are too great, as long as they are caught up by Li Yan's people, which time is it not a loss of hundreds or thousands of people? These are the backbone of their Dashun, and if they continue to lose like this, even if Dashun can escape Li Yan's pursuit, it will be difficult for him to recover again.

Fang Guoan had already seen the general trend clearly, but the Chinese army that followed Li Zicheng did not dare to make a move. This time, let him go to the rear, just in time to surrender to Li Yan. Although he surrendered Dashun first, and then surrendered Daliang, with the 6,000 troops in his hands, plus some strength in the future battle against Li Zicheng, their Fang family's glory and wealth should still be no problem.

In fact, the worst is still Zhu Changzhu, the Ming Prison State. Before, Li Zicheng's troops were grinding foreign workers, and they could still settle down in Funing, but when Li Zicheng's main force came to attack, they thought that the defense line was still strong, and they were instantly beaten with holes.

Ma Shiying and the others had no choice, so they hurriedly escorted Zhu Changzhu to flee south. However, Zheng Zhilong's troops blocked the way, and they didn't take Zhu Changzhu, the prison country, in their eyes at all, just one sentence: Without the permission of Lord Zheng, even the king of heaven and Laozi can't pass!

These generals were all born as pirates, and they had killed countless people on the sea before, and once they stared at them and became angry, the bloody qi of their bodies came out from the inside out. This alone frightened the servant Shan's subordinates, and they didn't dare to attack.

However, there is no endless road, Zheng Zhilong will not let it go here, but Zuo Mengeng has good news there. Zhu Changzhu's private contact was echoed, and Zuo Mengeng decided to change his past wrongs, regain his allegiance to the Ming Dynasty, and be loyal to His Royal Highness the prison country.

At this time, those Qingliu people couldn't care about the previous opposition, so they hurriedly followed the prison country to take refuge with Zuo Mengeng first. Although Zuo Mengeng is like a rebellion, after all, he is not like Li Zicheng who openly raises the anti-flag, and there is also a banner on the side of the Qing monarch. Now that people have changed their ways, they naturally don't have to hold on to their mistakes. As for Li Zicheng, no one wants to take refuge anymore. Although they give people a pedantic feeling, they can see the general trend of the world clearly, Li Zicheng is no longer possible to sit in the Dragon Court, of course, there is no need to go to a doomed loser again.

Zuo Mengeng sent thousands of people out of the east, and after picking up Zhu Changzhu's monarchs, he retreated back to the mountains. As for the servant who has been meritorious all the way, he was left on the periphery to be armed. Although the servant was made a marquis by Zhu Changzhu, in the face of Zuo Mengeng, who had an army of 60,000, he could only swallow his anger.

The ministers who were just remnant were relieved, feeling that they finally didn't have to worry about being chased and killed by Li Zicheng for the time being, but as soon as they arrived at Zuo Mengeng's base, they were put under house arrest and collectively lost their freedom. Now that they are in the mouth of a tiger, it is too late to regret it.

The ministers were quite calm, and the generals were not worried, but Zhu Changzhu, the superintendent, was in a hurry and couldn't sleep. Because he didn't know, did Zuo Mengeng want to hand him over to Li Yan, or to teach Li Zicheng, or Zhang Xianzhong? He is now very closed to the news of the prison country, and even Zhang Xianzhong does not know that he was attacked by Li Yan, and his civil ministers and generals are attacking and colluding with each other, even if it is a wandering person, he must divide his faction and fight for power.

Zuo Mengeng was not confused, although he didn't know that Zhang Xianzhong had been killed, but he knew that Zhang Xianzhong had been defeated, and Huguang basically couldn't save it. In addition, Li Zicheng was also chased all the way, and the current situation is understandable to everyone, and the world is already Li Yan's.

Although he was dissatisfied with Li Yan's co-optation policy and refused to allow Li Yan to surrender to Li Yan, but now that he has a Ming Dynasty prison as a vote, he should be treated better. Taking a step back, now that the situation is obvious, even Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have been defeated by Li Yan, what kind of storm can he set off with these 50,000 or 60,000 horses? This time, even if Li Yan still wants to reorganize his troops, he will admit it, and he can be mixed with an official and a half-job. It's better than being defeated by Li Yan in the future and having a different head.

Li Zicheng couldn't care about eliminating Zhu Ming's prison now, and seeing that Zhu Ming's defense line collapsed, he immediately led his troops to continue south. He already knew that Zhang Xianzhong was also attacking in Huguang, so there was no way to unite with Zhang Xianzhong for the time being, and he could only continue to advance south.

They continued to move south, and then they went to war with Zheng Zhilong's troops. At this time, they were trying to flee south to avoid a decisive battle with Li Yan's troops, so they didn't care who was in front of them, and they would kill them.

Don't look at the fierceness of Zheng Zhilong's subordinates, which frightened Zhu Changzhu's soldiers, but after all, they are a force composed of pirates and mountain bandits, at most, they are just a bandit, and there is not enough opponent to exercise. When Li Zicheng's department, which had been fighting in the north and south for many years, it was naturally revealed in its original form and was quickly defeated.

By the time Zheng Zhilong in Quanzhou got the news, Li Zicheng's forward troops had already reached Fuzhou. He had several ideas before, some cooperating with Daliang, some cooperating with Daxi, and some cooperating with Li Zicheng, but he didn't expect that half of Fujian would be occupied. He originally thought that with his prestige, none of his 100,000 sailors and soldiers would rush to war with him. But Li Zicheng's offensive came so violently that he was a little caught off guard.

Zheng Zhilong made a quick decision and immediately ordered to transfer all the troops who confronted Zuo Mengeng back to defend Fuzhou with all his might. He also gave orders to his sailors to immediately send a fleet into the Min River and make every effort to prevent Li Zicheng's troops from crossing the river. At the same time, sea ships were sent to transport troops to land in Ningde and harass Li Zicheng's rear team.

Fujian is his fundamental place, especially Quanzhou, and it cannot be lost. Since Li Zicheng has already broken in, he has to use all his strength to drive Li Zicheng, a hungry wolf, out. At the same time, he also showed Li Yan his strength, and then when he talked about the conditions for returning to obedience, he would be able to take the lead.