After repeated defeats in the battle between the Shun army and the Qing army, Li Zicheng no longer had the confidence to defeat the Qing army, and he fought against the Qing army only to maintain his own foundation, and was not mixed with any national feelings, nor did he fight for righteousness.

Since it is not for the sake of righteousness, and it is already difficult for Guanzhong to hold on, leaving Guanzhong is the best choice for Li Zicheng.

For him, giving up Guanzhong is just a pity, but it is not a psychological burden.

Li Zicheng wanted to go to the south to reopen the foundation, but the morale of the soldiers of the Shun army just mentioned disappeared immediately.

For the soldiers of the Shun army who have entered Beijing and already have a family business in Guanzhong, they are no longer barefoot mud legs, but new nobles with families and businesses.

After the establishment of the Great Shun Dynasty, the family business saved by each Shun army general was enough for them to live a rich life, and there were not many people who were willing to start again for Li Zicheng's personal ambitions.

Li Zicheng didn't care about this, all he thought about now was, "Although I can't defeat the Qing army, I have no problem beating the old Zhu family." ”

Li Zicheng has this self-confidence, after all, Beijing's Lao Tzu Chongzhen was forced to hang himself, how could Nanjing's kid Zhu Cihong be his opponent? We, Lao Li, have bullied the old Zhu family in this life.

There is also this Gao Yihuan, who actually betrayed me, and when I was killed out of Guanzhong, he entered Huguang, got rid of the attack of the Qing army, and threw all the Qing troops to him to deal with. At that time, look at this traitor, don't you still kneel down and beg me!

Li Zicheng has made up his mind, and the next thing to consider is how to achieve a strategic retreat and turn south.

There are two main roads in Henan, one is to take Tongguan, and the other is Shangnan Road.

Now there are many Qing troops outside Tongguan, and the road is not passable, and the only way out of the pass is Hanzhong and Shangnan Road.

The terrain in Hanzhong is closed, and it will give the outside world time to react, as soon as he retreats into Hanzhong, Gao Yihuan will be prepared, so Li Zicheng can only go to Shangnan.

This is also the channel for him to contact Gao Yihuan now, and the materials in Gao Yihuan's hands are from Nanyang, or to Wuguan, Shangnan, Danfeng, Shangzhou, to Chang'an, or to Danshui to Danfeng, and then to Chang'an through Shangzhou.

Li Zicheng decided to go out of Shangzhou, but Gao Yihuan was not good at stubble, and if he blocked it, the Shun army, which had been defeated repeatedly, might not be able to break through his block, so he had to lure Gao Yihuan away.

Although the morale of the soldiers of the Shun army was not high because Li Zicheng was going to evacuate Guanzhong, and they also felt that Li Zicheng was not authentic, Li Zicheng was full of confidence in his plan, and ordered Niu Jinxing to do it immediately, leading Gao Yihuan to northern Henan, so that he could enter Chu through southern Henan.

In the Chang'an Prime Minister's Mansion, Niu Jinxing walked in from outside the mansion with a frosty face.

"Father! How's the battle going ahead? Niu Quan, who came to greet him, asked anxiously.

Niu Jinxing glared at him, waved his sleeves, and shouted angrily: "Get out of the way!" ”

Niu Quan didn't understand why Niu Jinxing was angry, he was so frightened that he stood in the courtyard, watching Niu Jinxing burrow into the study, and directly slammed the door, without coming back to his senses for a while.

He stood in the courtyard for a moment, estimating that the situation was not optimistic, his face was uncertain, and he suddenly waved his hand to call a confidant, "You go and call some people, and quietly send the silver in the mansion to the manor in Lantian, to be more hidden." ”

After the order, Niu Yan returned to his room full of worry, but after a while, someone came over and said that Niu Jinxing called him.

Niu Yan hurriedly came to the outside of the study, pushed open the door, and saw Niu Jinxing sitting in front of the bookcase with a dejected expression.

"Father, what is this?" Niu Quan couldn't help asking.

Niu Jinxing didn't talk nonsense, he sighed before he could speak, "Alas! I'm afraid the Great Shun Dynasty is coming to an end. You and I, father and son, can't stay on this broken ship, we must find another way out, or we will die. ”

"Father, is it really unbearable ahead?" Niu Quan's face was full of shock, and then he panicked, "But where do we have a way out now?" Could it be like Gao Yihuan? ”

"Gao Yihuan is smart, he didn't participate in the Eastern Crusade, and he has a large army in his hands, he can cast Ming, but we can't. was confused for a while, and first proposed that Li Zicheng go on a crusade to the east, how could the Ming Dynasty let our father and son go? Niu Jinxing was silent for a while, then raised his head, saw that Niu Quan's face was pale, and suddenly comforted in a deep voice: "Don't think so much now, and don't worry about this, my father has already thought of a way out." Now there are two things for you to do! ”

"What's the two?" Niu Quan asked absentmindedly.

Niu Jinxing took a letter from the table and handed it to Niu Quan, "First thing, you find a reliable person to send this letter to Wu Sangui or Azig." The second thing, you personally escorted 2.5 million taels of silver to Nanyang and handed it over to Gao Yihuan, and asked him to send troops to Luoyang! ”

Niu Quan's face was full of shock, his mind was indeed a mess, and he didn't quite understand Niu Jinxing's intentions.

When Gao Yihuan came back from outside the city, Li Yan, Lu Yifang, Wang Shicong and others were already sitting in the hall, drinking tea and talking, waiting for Gao Yihuan to come back.

At this time, several people were talking about Guanzhong, and there was a sound of footsteps outside the hall, Li Yan stood up and said to a few people: "Dashuai is back." ”

At that moment, everyone hurriedly put down the teacup in their hands and stood up, and saw Gao Yihuan walking in the wind, and walked in with a smile in his eyes, "Hahaha~ Ben Shuai heard that Li Zicheng sent us silver?" ”

Everyone bowed down and saluted first, "See the big handsome." ”

Lu Yifang immediately said: "Back to the marshal, Guanzhong sent silver, a total of 2.5 million taels, which has been transported to Xixia County through Shangzhou. ”

"Two hundred and five?" Gao Yihuan couldn't help frowning, Li Zicheng scolded Lao Tzu? It seems that he was reluctant to give!

Gao Yihuan walked to the main seat and waved everyone to sit down, looking very good.

Two hundred and five is two hundred and five, as long as you get the silver in your hand, you can scold as much as you want, anyway, there are a lot of pieces of meat.

Gao Yihuan had no face and no skin, and finally couldn't hide the joy in his heart, and smiled again on his face, "Has Hu Cao sent someone to check it, is there such a number?" ”

"Dashuai, it is indeed two million and a half million taels, all of which are fifty taels of silver from the treasury." Lu Yifang was also smiling, with this amount of silver, the silver in the treasury would reach more than four million, and he could easily do it for a long time.

Gao Yihuan was very happy when he heard that it was really 2.5 million, but he was also a little puzzled, Li Zicheng, the master of Li peeling and plucking the feathers, actually gave an extra 500,000 taels, which is really strange.

"What about the people in Guanzhong?" Gao Yihuan was happy for a while, and remembered that he was down to business, "Did you say that Li Zicheng had any requirements?" ”

Li Zicheng gave 500,000 more, and he gave it all at once, so he definitely couldn't hold it.

Li Yan said: "The people are still at the mouth of the West Gorge, and it is Niu Yan, the son of Niu Venus, who came, and the request is naturally to hope that we will go north with all our strength, attack Luoyang, and force the Duoduo army to return to help." ”

Gao Yihuan's brows furrowed again, he was just a little strange, but now he couldn't help but sit up straight, and said with a straight face: "Isn't Zhou Ronghua coming?" ”

"No, General Zhou didn't come this time!" Li Yan replied.

Gao Yihuan touched his beard with his hand, and felt that something was wrong, Li Zicheng, the turtle grandson, didn't he have a bad idea!

Previously, Li Zicheng knew that Zhou Ronghua had a relationship with Lao Tzu, so he sent Zhou Ronghua over to buy supplies from Lao Tzu.

Now that sending troops is such a big thing, it is more urgent than buying supplies, why not let Zhou Ronghua come over, after all, Lao Tzu has always been a place to communicate with him.

Gao Yihuan's eyes narrowed, and he suddenly said, "Mr. Li, you send someone to urge Niu Quan to come to Fucheng immediately." ”

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