In Luyi County, in the barracks, the soldiers of the logistics team were busy killing pigs and sheep, so that the soldiers could eat a good meal before they marched, and when they were marching and fighting, they could only eat some cakes and dry food.

Gao Yihuan and his subordinates were not wrong, and soon after receiving the information from Ma Yuanwai, Gao Yicheng also sent back some news from Shandong, and Gao Zurong also had news.

As soon as the second brother summarized the news, the current situation in the last three months of Chongzhen's fifteenth year had basically appeared clearly in his mind.

Sun Chuanting led Gao Jie, Niu Chenghu and other 100,000 troops to the east to go out of Tongguan, and at the same time transferred Zuo Liangyu's Chu troops to the north, and ordered Qin Yiming's Sichuan army and Chen Yongfu's Henan army to rush to support, to encircle Liukou and annihilate Li Zi in the area of Xiangcheng and Xuchang.

At this time, Li Zicheng was defeated by Sun Chuanting's design in Jiaxian, and retreated to Xiangcheng to gather troops to prepare for another battle.

In terms of the situation, if there was no Qing army to enter the country, the officers and troops on the Nanzhi side were outflanked from the southeast, and Liu Zeqing in Shandong looked for an opportunity to cross the Yellow Flood Area and attack from the east, plus Sun Chuanting in the west and Zuo Liangyu in the south, the officers and troops did not have a chance to defeat Li Zicheng.

It's just that the Qing soldiers crossed the bar, which destroyed the advantage of the official army and helped Li Zicheng drag most of the imperial court's troops.

At present, Li Zicheng only needs to face Sun Chuanting's Qin army, as well as Zuo Liangyu and other troops, and no longer cares about the troops of Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing and others.

This time, Gao Yihuan and his group followed Zhao Yingyuan, and the main thing they had to deal with was Zuo Liangyu's group of officers and soldiers who had retreated from Zhuxian Town a few months ago.

At this time, the whole world, Zhongzhou, Shandong, Beizhi, and Huguang were all fighting, which made the Ming court a mess, but these battlefields seem to be chaotic, but in fact, there is still a center, that is, Henan.

Although the Qing army crisscrossed the north and entered Shandong, making Beijing martial law, but without the support of the people in the Guan, even if the Qing army occupied more cities, they would not be able to gain a firm foothold, and finally had to retreat outside the Guan.

This was the sixth entrance battle of the Qing army, and the Ming Dynasty was almost accustomed to it, and the impact of the entire entrance battle was not as good as the decisive battle between the Henan official army and the breaking army.

If Sun Chuanting wins this time, the Ming Dynasty can still delay for a while, but if the official army is defeated, the erosive situation in the entire northern country will be irreparable, and it will only develop in a worse direction, and the world is afraid that it will have to change the dynasty.

At this time, there are so many battlefields, but the decisive battle in Zhongzhou is the key to determining the general trend of the world in the future, so countless people, especially the gentry in the north, are watching this big battle.

The world has been in turmoil for more than ten years, the people are selfish, and the gentry have given great hope to the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty has been in turmoil for so long, and it still can't level the internal and external troubles, and many gentry have reached the limit of patience.

If Sun Chuanting is defeated this time, then there should be a large-scale change in the attitude of the gentry, and there will be no more in the north.

On October 15, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Gao Yihuan wore armor, wore an iron helmet, rode a yellow horse, and led more than a dozen officers wearing armor and helmets, stationed outside the west gate of Luyi County.

At this time, snowflakes were drifting in the sky, and more than 2,000 soldiers wearing cotton armor and turbans lined up in four rows, waving flags and marching west along the official road.

Many people and their families on the city wall saw each other off, and they looked at the long procession, lined up in a neat formation, and drove out of Luyi County, and they were a little worried in their hearts.

At this time, the second brother Gao was riding on the yellow-haired horse, looking at the soldiers who were traveling far away, but his heart was very calm, and he was not afraid of the battle, because the enemy he was facing was not Sun Chuanting, but Zuo Liangyu, the scum.

If he went to fight Sun Chuanting, then the second brother would definitely feel weak in his heart and still have a sense of guilt, but to fight Zuo Liangyu, a scum, he would have no psychological pressure at all.

Looking at Zuo Liangyu's life, there were not enough successes, more than failures, and finally even buried the Southern Ming Dynasty with his own hands, which can be said to be a great crime.

The second brother Gao actually had a plan in his heart for what to do in the future, that is, to take Runan and Nanyang first, and then capture Xiangyang and Jingzhou, take the belly of the world, and then unite with the Southern Ming Dynasty to block Li Zicheng in Shaanxi, prevent him from running south, and force him to fight to the death with the Qing army, to see if he can avoid the Qing army from driving Li Zicheng into Huguang.

If Li Zicheng can hold Shaanxi, and he can hold Nanyang and Runan, then the Qing army can only go south to Jiangnan through Xuzhou, and the Ming army has Gao Jie and Huang Degong, who may be able to hold the Huai River line and avoid the Qing army from entering the south of the Yangtze River.

In this way, the situation in the world is a bit like the situation in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, when Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou, the strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is like Qiang Wei, Li Zicheng is Ma Chao and Han Sui, Zhang Xianzhong is like Liu Zhang, the second brother is like Liu Bei, and Nanming is like Eastern Wu.

According to the second brother's idea, in addition to the political position, in terms of the sphere of influence alone, it is really a bit similar, and if it can really be so, it may be able to keep Jiangnan from the Manchu slaughter, preserve the vitality of Jiangnan, and make the society complete the transformation.

However, there is a variable in this, that is, whether Zuo Liangyu, a scum, will be as clear as in history, which will make the people of the Southern Ming Dynasty unstable and let the Manchus pick up a big bargain.

At this time, there are no trustworthy and capable strategists around the second brother, this idea is all figured out by the second brother himself, and he doesn't know if it is feasible, but if he follows his idea, in addition to letting Li Zicheng lay a relatively solid foundation in Shaanxi, he also has to kill Zuo Liangyu.

This is not only because Zuo Liangyu is a variable, but also because the second brother Gao wants to seek Jingzhou, so he will inevitably have to fight with Zuo Liangyu.

Zhao Yingyuan ordered all the troops to meet in Chenzhou before October 20, and Gao Yihuan set off in advance with a little preparation, leading 2,000 men and horses to kill Chenzhou.

The location of Chenzhou is the land of Chen in the Spring and Autumn Period, which later became an important town of Chu. If this place is placed in Henan, it is just a small county on the edge, but if the north and the south contend, then the land of Chen Cai will become one of the focuses of the north and the south.

As early as the beginning of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng besieged Kaifeng at the beginning, and sent soldiers and horses to the south to collect grain, breaking Chenzhou, Shenqiu, Xiangcheng and other places, and the army also slaughtered Xiangcheng, but after the army beat the city, he robbed the money and grain and left, and did not send troops to defend it.

The erosive situation in Henan also made the imperial court almost no new officials in Henan, so these places can be said to be in a state of ownership, and there are no officials, troops and officials, all relying on the local power to maintain.

At this time, all the soldiers in front of him walked out of the city gate, and the logistics team had already gone out of the city gate with a mule cart, Jin Xiangang rode a mule, came to the second brother Gao, and reported with a fist: "Captain Qiyu, two thousand and twenty-four soldiers, have all left the city, please show the captain!"

Gao Yihuan rode on the yellow-haired horse, and suddenly waved his hand arrogantly, "Order, send the soldiers to Chenzhou~"