Zuo Mengeng still thought about it, holding the Daming Prison with his left hand, and then grabbing the Dashun Emperor with his right hand, and when he arrived in front of Li Yan, he spoke hard. Not to mention anything else, it is necessary to have a national duke, if Li Yan is happier, maybe he can get a king with a different surname. But only two days later, his subordinates came to report that Li Zicheng was crazy, and the pass was really unbearable.

Li Zicheng didn't give it for nothing, now there is the Minjiang River in the south blocking it, and there are more than 10,000 cavalry of Li Yan staring at it, and they don't dare to move. If he wants to escape from danger, the only way is to defeat Zuo Mengeng. Otherwise, in a few days, Li Yan's follow-up infantry and artillery will follow, and there will be no chance.

And Liu Zongmin and the others and their subordinates did not have much fear of Zuo Mengeng's troops. Unlike the Liang troops against Li Yan, the soldiers were always trembling and unwilling to rush to kill. Against the Zuojia army, even if they knew that there were Zuo Mengeng's troops on both sides of the valley, they would definitely rush up with shouts when they attacked.

The soldiers of Dashun braved the rain of arrows, rushed to the enemy formation at the pass again and again, and finally overturned the enemy's rejection horses, pulled down the simple wall, and rushed into the enemy's army. Their follow-up troops also immediately followed, and as the number of people continued to increase, Zuo Menggeng's troops finally couldn't support it and dispersed.

At this time, Zuo Mengeng finally remembered, sent someone to contact Huang Desheng, and asked Huang Desheng to attack immediately, drag Li Zicheng, and not let Li Zicheng enter the mountains. However, the interception troops he arranged in front could not stop Li Zicheng's attack at all, and they were still in the process of retreating.

And Huang Desheng was carrying cavalry, the nearest fast force, also fifty miles away, and the infantry had just arrived in the Ningde area. Moreover, their rockets have all run out, and there are only a dozen or so tiger squatting guns, and if they take the initiative to attack, the casualties will definitely not be light. What made them even more uneasy was that they felt that Zuo Mengeng was not completely reliable, and they were afraid that this was a trap made for them by the two gangs of thieves. Therefore, Huang Desheng just perfunctory past, and at the same time sent a letter to Kaifeng, asking for additional troops to enter Fujian.

The original plan was to conquer Zhejiang and drive Li Zicheng to Fujian to plague Zheng Zhilong. However, Zheng Zhilong reacted quickly and blocked the Minjiang River, and Li Zicheng couldn't continue to go south, so it was better to solve Li Zicheng first. Otherwise, Li Zicheng wandered in the mountains of Fujian for a period of time, and found the feeling of being a wanderer, and at that time, it would take more time and troops to completely exterminate Li Zicheng.

Of course, he couldn't watch Li Zicheng's troops enter the mountains, and he still had to make an appropriate feint. As a result, at the time of the attack, an unexpected situation occurred. After being left behind, Zhou Fengwu and Ma Shitai, after seeing their team, did not fire cannons, but sent people over to express their request to Huang Desheng to surrender.

These troops were all people who stayed in Huguang at the beginning. Their families are all in Shaanxi, so even if they surrender, there will be no shackles. And they really don't want to go on such a hopeless run anymore. At the beginning, they rebelled just to be able to eat enough. Now that their hometown is settled, and there is no risk of famine, they have no reason to continue killing.

Of course, not everyone is so pure, those who still have the idea of earning glory and wealth were all arrested by them after Li Zicheng led the army to leave. If there is a fierce resistance, he will be cut down immediately, although he can't bear it in his heart, but there is no other way. We can't let so many brothers, for the sake of a few people's dreams, lose the opportunity to live a stable life.

There were not many soldiers who surrendered, but they were not small, there were more than 4,000 people, more than a dozen cannons of up and down three inches, and more than 10 tiger squat cannons. The cannons were all heavy bronze cannons, each of which was more than a thousand pounds. Li Zicheng knew that he was going to enter the mountain, and these cannons were difficult to move, so they were all left to these guards. Of course, the order given to the rearguard troops was also to stick to it as much as possible and delay as much time as possible. No wonder these soldiers are about to surrender.

Huang Desheng accepted the surrender of this team, and at the same time sent 1,000 cavalry to follow into the mountains to spy on Li Zicheng's whereabouts and provide intelligence support for the follow-up troops. At the same time, he also sent a letter to Zuo Mengeng, asking him to entangle Li Zicheng as much as possible, and promised that when he was rewarded for his meritorious deeds in the future, he would truthfully report his merits, so that Zuo Mengeng could get the merits he deserved. At this time, he also has dates and no dates, if Zuo Mengeng is sincere, it will naturally have an effect. Even if there is no result, nothing is lost.

But what he didn't know was that Guo Chengdong, who led the follow-up infantry, was in trouble.

Zheng Zhilong let his fleet transport troops to the north to land, and attacked Li Zicheng's back route. But Li Zicheng ran fast, and they stumbled, but they happened to run into the infantry led by Guo Chengdong. Originally, the harassment of these bandits would not be much of a threat to Guo Chengdong, but with these soldiers coming ashore, the officials and merchants who had planned to surrender to Daliang all watched again.

These people swayed, but they made Guo Chengdong's troops have trouble buying grain and grass. Although these merchants also recognized Daliang's silver yuan, they were afraid of Zheng Zhilong's strength at sea, so they did not dare to sell it to Guo Chengdong even if they had grain in their hands. So Guo Chengdong had to stop going south and began to prepare for the siege. and sent cavalry to search the location of Zheng Zhilong's subordinates and plan an annihilation operation.

However, he also knew that this was also an expedient measure, and the key was to increase the number of troops and effectively control Zhejiang and northern Fujian. And then the key is Zheng Zhilong from Quanzhou. As long as Zheng Zhilong does not return to obedience, the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang, and even the entire coastal areas of the north and south, may be attacked. So he made a timely and concise report to Kaifeng on all these situations, so that the imperial court could prepare early.

After Li Zhong in Kaifeng received the news, he forwarded the news to Li Yan, who had already gone to Shaanxi, and on the other hand, he transferred cavalry and infantry from Kaifeng and Shandong to the south. At the same time, let Huguang speed up the compilation of the fish scale book and the armor protection book, stabilize the localities as soon as possible, and start the work of recruiting and training new soldiers.

After that, he felt that he had done something less, and the next day, he remembered that he gave an order to the sailor who was still resting in Dongting Lake, so that the sailor fleet would return immediately. Originally, he wanted the fleet to dock directly in Songjiang, so that it would be convenient to take action in the future, but considering that the scale of his own sailors was too small compared to Zheng Zhilong, he only let Zhang Han lead the fleet back. At the same time, let Zhang Han come to Kaifeng to discuss how to deal with Zheng Zhilong, the king of the sea.

After all, this is a war at sea, which is completely different from land. Their infantry and cavalry can rely on firearms and military formations to win more with less, but he has no say at sea, and he still has to listen to the opinions of the generals of the naval division.