"That's what he said, guys."

Yang Qing said.

In front of him, including Shi Kefa, all the ministers looked at each other, and their eyes were obviously solemn.

By this time, the war in Jiangbei had been reversed.

Huang Fei was just deliberately showing weakness to create a tense atmosphere according to Yang Qing's requirements, Bai Yongfu's 30,000 rabble is a fart, if it is really fought, these people will not even be able to reach Gaoyou, but after Yang Qing's play is finished, there is no need for him to continue to pretend, Yangzhou army went out of the city to fight Bai Yongfu in a decisive battle, and those elites who followed Yang Qing to raid Liaodong broke Bai Yongfu with a surprise attack, and at this time he was already chasing the rout to Huai'an.

The Beijing battalion also defeated Er Li in the field battle outside the Great Wall of Heaven, and Li Chengdong was killed by carrying a gun, and it is said that he was hit by dozens of bullets.

Li Benshen fled back to Xuyi.

It is estimated that he also wants to be the next Jin Shenghuan.

But he had no hope, the Beijing battalions of the two armies had begun to pursue Xuyi, and after watching the whole battle, Ma Shiying's Fengyang army had also gone out of Linhuai Pass to join the attack on Xuyi, and Yang Qing had already sent Gao Jie, who was originally in Nanjing, to Xuyi to surrender.

Lao Gao was not involved in this rebellion.

He is actually under house arrest in Nanjing, and there is no such condition for him to participate, it is estimated that after he comes forward, even if Li Benshen still wants to resist stubbornly, the generals and soldiers under him will not do it, in short, the two rebels in Jiangbei have all been destroyed and crippled, and the rest is only the final finish. But I didn't expect that this dark cloud had just dispersed, and the dark clouds behind it were already pressing over with lightning like Mount Tai......

"These traitors!"

Zhang Guowei said sadly.

"What's the use of saying this, in the end, it's still self-inflicted!"

Yang Qing said pointedly.

"Aren't they still fighting with Zhang Xianzhong at Jianmen Pass? Where did they get an army of 500,000? ”

Gu Xichou said.

Li Zicheng has indeed not entered Sichuan, Ma Gan and Yang Zhan in southern Sichuan are not fools, if Zhang Xianzhong is a wolf, then Li Zicheng is a tiger, there is Zhang Xianzhong in the north, at least they don't have to face Li Zicheng, so without the will of the imperial court, they all stopped moving forward and maintained a de facto truce with Zhang Xianzhong. The latter relied on Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu, who were considered famous generals, and fought with Li Zicheng repeatedly in northern Sichuan with Jianmen Pass as the core, and the gentry in Chengdu and other places also changed their resistance to him, but supported him in the rear......

After all, Zhang Xianzhong is not so cruel.

Zhang Xianzhong actually operated in Sichuan sincerely, and the resistance of these gentry to him was only limited, and he did not fight local tyrants almost institutionally like Li Zicheng.

In the final analysis, everyone is afraid of Li Zicheng.

Whether Zhang Xianzhong, the Ming army, or the Sichuan gentry are consistent on this point.

Eventually, the war in northern Sichuan continues to the present.

Relying on the advantages of the terrain, Zhang Xianzhong's department has always blocked the Shun army commanded by Li Guo, Liu Fangliang and others, in fact, the latter not only did not take much advantage, but suffered a certain loss, after all, in Sichuan, as long as they work together to really fight, in the case of the difference in strength is not very large, there is almost nothing that cannot be defended, and just a sword gate pass can make the frontal attackers desperate.

What's more, Li Zicheng's attack on Sichuan was nothing more than a partial division.

After Li Zicheng reorganized the army, the total strength was finally maintained at 600,000, originally he deployed 200,000 along the Huai line, 200,000 in Beizhili at any time to the south to reinforce, 100,000 in Xuanda and Ningyuan Shanhaiguan, 100,000 in Guanzhong and Hanzhong, and later transferred 50,000 reinforcements from Beizhili to Hanzhong, together with a total of 150,000 people in Guanzhong southward for the attack on Sichuan from Hanzhong and Longnan. In this way, they can be used to go south is 350,000, but don't forget, as long as he stops the attack on Sichuan, he can at least half of the Sichuan attack army out of the Han River at any time, and Jin Shenghuan has nearly 100,000 people from there to join them, and 500,000 enemy troops will definitely have it.

So how many troops do we have?

The upper armies will definitely not be able to reinforce, in fact, if Tian Jianxiu goes south, and the Hanzhong Shun army goes east and goes south along the Han River with Jin Shenghuan, the only thing Huang Degong can do is to retreat to Wuchang.

And how many more people do we have along the Huai line?

There are 40,000 troops in the Beijing camp, 40,000 in the Huang Fei department, and Cao Youyi's department actually deducts those who followed Zhang Mingzhen to attack Changsha, as well as those stationed in the passes of Dabie Mountain, only 20,000 can be used to defend Huai, and then there are 80,000 in Fengyang, but it is really difficult to say how many available soldiers are among the 80,000 rabble. Even if we add them, we only have less than 200,000, in fact, the combat effectiveness can be guaranteed to be the same level as the Shun army, which is only 100,000, Li Zicheng only needs 300,000 troops to attack the Huai line, then it will definitely not be able to hold, although our army has made great progress in this year, but don't forget that Li Zicheng is not idle.

According to Jinyiwei's intelligence, he now has at least 60,000 cavalry, let me ask you, who can block the assault of 60,000 cavalry in our imperial court? ”

Yang Qing said.

In fact, Li Zicheng's progress is not limited to these.

In order to win him into the arms of Yawei, John Tang even began to teach the Shun army to train the Spanish phalanx, after all, it is impossible for him to be fooled by Lao Li without taking out some dry goods, this tactic has been used in Europe for more than a century, although John Tang is not a soldier, but he still has some understanding of this, and it is even possible that the Jesuits will send a few real soldiers for him as instructors.

Of course, the civil servants don't understand this.

For Yang Qing, he really wanted to see what the result of the Qi family military vehicle battalion, which represented the most advanced tactics in the Eastern arquebus era, against the Spanish phalanx that was the mainstream of the European arquebus era, but for the Ming Dynasty, this was definitely not good news, because except for the imperial camp, it was impossible for other armies to withstand this, not to mention that Li Zicheng also had an overwhelming advantage in cavalry. The only consolation is that Li Zicheng has only just begun to train the Spanish phalanx, which is a little worse than his imperial camp in this regard, and it has to be said that because of the confrontation between the north and the south, the military competition between the two sides is making the technical content of the eastern battlefield increase sharply, but this also means that the war situation is completely out of control.

Even he didn't know where it was going.

Dolgon, including in the north, was also rapidly completing the integration of the Korean occupation areas, strengthening alliances with the Mongol tribes, and even beginning to contact the northwestern tribes, preparing to form a grand alliance headed by him, including all foreign races, to jointly encroach on the Ming Dynasty.

The situation can be described as chaotic.

Yang Qingzheng said that a brocade guard hurriedly walked in.

"Master Hou, General Huang reported urgently, the Shun army Niu Wancai raided and occupied Huai'an, and the remnants of Bai Yongfu fled north into Huai'an."

He said.

All the officials subconsciously stood up.

"I'm in trouble!"

Only Yang Qing sat there and said with a wry smile.

"Order Huang Fei to retreat to Yangzhou, order Ma Shiying to withdraw the armies attacking Xuyi, order Cao Youyi to return to Xinyang at full speed immediately, order Fang Anguo and Liu Zhaoji to attack with all their might to recapture Xuyi within two days, order Wang Zhiren's troops to withdraw to Nanjing immediately, leave Zhang Mingzhen to suspend the attack on Changsha, and order Huang Binqing's troops to reinforce Yangzhou."

He went on to say.

At this time, no one cared about any command with him, and all the civilian officials acquiesced in his direct command of the armies.

"Give the order to Huang Degong again,"

Yang Qing hesitated.

"The whole army retreated to defend Wuchang!"

He finally said with determination.

"The news of the thief army was sent to Beijing, and Chuang Rebellion made up his mind to issue another order to the front line, which will take ten days, and Huang Jingnan may be able to recapture Xiangyang."

Zhang Guowei reminded him.

"It's too late, Tian Jianxiu won't wait for Li Zicheng's order, as long as they know that Emperor Yan Jia of Daxing will understand what will happen, they originally had all the armies on the front line like a festival envoy, why do they need to wait for Li Zicheng's order, not to mention that as long as they are not stupid, they will understand how Li Zicheng will choose, if Tian Jianxiu and Jin Shenghuan join forces, Huang Jingnan will be dangerous, and once something happens to him, the entire upstream will be over!"

Yang Qing said.

In fact, at this time, Huang Degong had already been defeated.

Wuchang.

"What's wrong?"

On the chaotic dock, Gu Yanwu reached out and grabbed an official he knew and said.

"Brother Gu, why are you dressed like this?"

The man looked at him in astonishment, dressed as a vendor, and at the same time at the young man beside him, who did not speak, but looked with interest at the mighty and invincible generals who were pushing towards the city.

"I went to Sichuan, what happened?"

Gu Yanwu looked at the sailor warships that were approaching the dock, and a large number of fleeing officials and routs in Jiangbei were crowding on the north shore wharf, waiting for these warships to come over to pick them up, and a group of soldiers in the distance was rushing to Hanyang to prepare for the deployment, which was completely a posture of a large army pressing the border, and the last time he passed by, it was still under the control of Zuo Liangyu, but he knew the news of Zuo Liangyu's defeat and death on the way back, and it is said that the war in Huguang should be near the end even if it is not over.

"Huang Jingnan's Jin Shenghuan attacked Xiangyang, and was defeated by Tian Jianxiu's sneak attack in Nanyang, and Tian Jin's two troops combined with 200,000 troops went south, and Huang Jingnan has abandoned Chengtian."

The official said.

"Isn't Li Zicheng a truce?"

Gu Yanwu gasped and said.

"Emperor Yan of Daxing!"

The official whispered.

"Emperor Daxing?!"

Gu Yanwu was stupid all of a sudden, he was on Chongzhen's orders to be a secret envoy, but now he has only been out for a few months, and then he comes back, Chongzhen is actually dead?

"Who will succeed to the throne?"

He suddenly came to his senses and asked hurriedly.

"The crown prince succeeded to the throne, and Princess Kunxing supervised Nanjing."

The official said with a wry smile.

"There's room for relaxation!"

Gu Yanwu let out a sigh and said.

"Brother Gu, Si Chen!"

The official said.

"If you don't have Ji Si Chen, it will be Li Zicheng who has been ordered to rebel against the army to go south, and there is at least some talk about the succession of the princess and the crown prince, Li Zicheng may go back after knocking on a stroke, but there is no need to talk about changing someone else's succession, they are all the children of the emperor of Daxing, and the princess is not a princess ascending the throne!"

Gu Yanwu said.

Then he turned his head.

"General Zhang, are you still willing to go to Nanjing?"

He asked.

The latter nodded indifferently.