Compared with the first batch of personnel, the second and third batches of personnel gave Li Zicheng a bit of a headache, and among the second batch of personnel, the strong men were relatively neat, and there were even many family members, but among these family members, there were few mothers-in-law.

The third group of personnel is basically old and young, although there are many women of childbearing age, but there is a general lack of strong men, even if they rush to Huizhou, it is difficult for them to support themselves.

The second group of people is better, although there is a lack of mothers-in-law and aunts, they cannot reproduce the population, but as long as they have land, they can still survive on their own, but the third group of people ......

Li Zicheng unconsciously scolded Qin Danian in his heart, this fool...... If the master stationed in Xi'an is Wang Junzhuo, there will definitely not be so much trouble, the Mongolian temperament, has always left only strong men, strong girls and children, as for the old, weak, sick and disabled, directly turned into pasture fertilizer......

People have arrived in Lanzhou, they trust the Mandate of Heaven Army, Li Zicheng naturally can't clean up the old, weak, sick and disabled again, this is not only too cruel, but also seems to be against the peace of heaven, after all, they are all Han!

However, Li Zicheng still came up with a way to temporarily marry the young widow and the young lady to be married to a strong man without an aunt in accordance with the principle of voluntariness.

They were fleeing, they didn't have to take too much etiquette into account, and they held a group wedding outside Lanzhou City that night, and they hurried into the cave room.

These families, both male and female, were also settled in the Huizhou Prefecture, but they did not live around the prefecture, but along the transportation arteries from the Huizhou Prefecture to Luyang County, looking for suitable settlements along the way, and temporarily settled in the form of villages.

But there are few monks and more porridge, and there are still not enough strong men, and there are hundreds of young women.

Li Zicheng thought about it, and finally let these women take their families and go to the Huizhou Mansion together, the last time they settled the displaced people in Huizhou, many strong men were single, if they wanted, they could marry their mother-in-law for free, but they must also accept the family members of the mother-in-law, and send them to the end of their old age.

Such a thing can only be handed over to Dai Junen, the prefect of Huizhou, the capital of Huizhou has increased the population by more than 10,000 people at one time, he is afraid that he is smiling crookedly at the moment, only by increasing the population can the Huizhou capital gradually prosper.

It was already mid-June when all these people were sent to the Huizhou capital, and at this time, the seventh battalion of the Song Wen Department, five thousand households, were all promoted to soldiers, equipped with rifles, forty mountain guns, and a large number of gunpowder bags.

The three thousand households of the second battalion Li Guobu are also all soldiers, and all the soldiers have war horses.

This is Li Zicheng's army preparing for the southern expedition to Bashu, and all kinds of equipment are preferred.

From Longyou to Bashu, there are many roads, that is, Mu Qingshan and Jin Yixin go south, and they also take different roads.

Li Zicheng carefully considered and decided to avoid Hanzhong Mansion and take the Baishui River (Bailongjiang) on the western route.

Longnan Mansion is in the upper reaches of the Baishui River, and from here to the south, all the people who go south are the territories of the Heavenly Mandate Army, which is not only safe, but also fully supplied.

If you take the eastern front, the long supply line will be under the threat of Hanzhong Mansion at any time, and the current Hanzhong Mansion is still under the control of the Ming army.

Hanzhong Mansion is sandwiched between the Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountain, and its own size is not large, so it is impossible for the imperial court to station heavy troops here, and it is not difficult to take it.

However, Hanzhong Mansion is separated from the valley road in the Qinling Mountains, and it is already very close to Fengxiang Mansion and Xi'an Mansion, if the Heavenly Mandate Army takes Hanzhong, which is like chicken ribs, it will inevitably seriously threaten the safety of Xi'an, and Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, will definitely not sit idly by.

Now that the Mandate of Heaven is confronting the Ming army at Guguan and Xi'an in the north and south of Longshan, and the upcoming southern expedition to Bashu, there is a possibility that there will be troops in at least three directions.

If Hanzhong becomes a battlefield for both sides again, for the Mandate of Heaven Army, which is seriously understaffed in the number of soldiers, the weakness will be infinitely magnified, and the situation will be extremely unfavorable to the Mandate of Heaven Army.

Before taking Bashu, the Mandate of Heaven Army was no longer able to expand its army on a large scale......

Abandoning Hanzhong, there are also disadvantages, in case the Ming army goes out of Hanzhong, it is entirely possible to cut off the Shu Road, so that Longyou and Bashu are completely separated.

Li Zicheng doesn't have to worry, Longyou can feed the seven battalions of the Heavenly Mandate Army, how can the more prosperous Bashu not be able to support the two battalions of soldiers of the Heavenly Mandate Army? As long as you gain a firm foothold in Bashu, the Shu Road will be reopened sooner or later, and if there are enough soldiers, even Hanzhong, who guards the Shu Road, will be in your hands in the future.

When the military meeting was held, everyone was hesitant about Hanzhong, but Li Zicheng was confident, Wu Ermao got pig iron from Chengdu that day, and he personally led the troops to respond, and walked the road of the Baishui River.

However, Lanzhou is more than 1,000 miles away from Bashu, and in order to avoid the fatigue of the sergeants' continuous march, Li Zicheng prepared to let the Song Wenbu take all the soldiers and immediately go to Longnan Mansion, choose a place to set up camp, and explore the nearby terrain.

From Lanzhou through Taozhou Mansion, and then to Longnan Mansion further south, all the way are cement avenues, in order to avoid the mountains, the road has twists and turns, and even some sections of the road can not be developed, the width is not more than two zhang, but in general, the road is flat, not affected by the rainy season.

After Longnan Mansion, there is no cement avenue, now the road is built, or the city is the mainstay, the county seat is just passing by, and then to extend forward, it is too late, Song Wen can only take a simple marching map, step by step to grope forward.

However, the grain harvested in Taozhou Mansion and Longnan Mansion has not yet been transported to Lanzhou Prefecture, so it is used as military food for the Song Ministry of Culture, and they do not need to transport grain and grass, so it should not be too difficult to march.

Li Guo's second battalion was all cavalry, and the marching speed was fast, so there was no need to set off for the time being.

At this time, it was the turn of summer and autumn, the weather was particularly hot, the army was running for a long time, and the sergeants would be very hard, Li Zicheng sympathized with the soldiers, so he postponed the time to go south for more than half a month, and until the middle of July, the Song Wenbu left Lanzhou and went all the way south.

In late July, Song Wen sent a message to Li Zicheng that the 7th Battalion had arrived in Longnan Mansion and set up camp there.

Li Zicheng summoned Liang Wencheng and Shen Dao again, and handed over the Mandate of Heaven to them, Liang Wencheng concurrently served as the gold and silver envoy, and he was ready to take Guo Shijun to conquer in person, once Sichuan was taken, Guo Shijun would be the governor of Sichuan.

Back home, Li Zicheng was about to say goodbye to Gao Guiying, and a personal soldier hurriedly came, "Governor Dadu, urgent news from the Han Qing Bureau!" ”

What can the Han Qing Bureau do? Li Zicheng said in his heart, the army is about to go out, don't delay because of anything.

He opened the message and was taken aback, in order to speed up, Wang Anping used a flying pigeon to pass the book:

On July 20, Gao Yingxiang was captured by Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, in Heishuiyu, and was captured with him, along with his henchmen Liu Zhe and Huang Long, and the remnants were temporarily taken over by "Cao Cao" Luo Rucai.

The content of this message was too brief, and it was difficult for Li Zicheng to speculate that before he was captured, he didn't know what kind of struggle Gao Yingxiang had undergone, and even where Heishuiyu was.

Li Zicheng didn't care about dinner, turned back to the study, opened the marching map, and found the eye-catching "Heishuiyu", which turned out to be the exit of Hanzhong to Xi'an through the Meridian Valley!

He must have wanted to attack Xi'an, but Sun Chuanting calculated the path and deployed heavy troops at Heishuiyu at the mouth of the Meridian Valley......

Gao Yingxiang is the head of the thieves of the "Thirteen Families and Seventy-two Battalions", and together with Zhang Xianzhong, he burned the ancestral tomb of the Zhu family in Fengyang, and at this time it fell into the hands of Sun Chuanting, and it was inevitable that he would die, but he didn't know how to die!

The thieves fought against the imperial court, who won and who lost, originally had nothing to do with the Heavenly Mandate Army, and Hui Dengxiang was captured by Zuo Guangxian under the nose of the Heavenly Mandate Army.

Gao Yingxiang has a very high prestige among the thieves, and after the defeat and capture, the strength of the thieves is a serious weakening, but as long as the hungry people are still alive and a Gao Yingxiang dies, there will be Ma Yingxiang and Liu Yingxiang......

The war between the court and the thieves cannot be cut off!

Li Zicheng has been thinking about what impact the defeat of Gao Yingxiang will have on the Heavenly Mandate Army and his southern movement to Bashu, and he has been thinking for a long time, and the worst possibility is that Sun Chuanting will free up his hands and attack the Heavenly Mandate Army in Longyou.

However, if Gao Yingxiang is captured, will the thieves be extinct?

Even if Sun Chuanting goes west out of Longshan, can he break through Guguan and Xi'an? Hong Chengchou didn't dare to do it, can Sun Chuanting complete the task?

Gao Yingxiang is Gao Guiying's maternal uncle, and he is still his relative, he has an accident, and he can't help but tell Gao Guiying.

Li Zicheng returned home, it was late at this time, and Gao Guiying was serving the meal with a smile, "Why did Zicheng come back so early today?" Do you want to go on a campaign again? ”

Come back now, is it early? Li Zicheng only remembered that he had already come back, because of the sudden incident of Gao Yingxiang, he returned to the study to check the march map, he had the heart to tell Gao Yingxiang's matter, and he was afraid of ruining Gao Guiying's mood, so he said lazily: "Guiying, I am indeed going to go on the expedition tomorrow." ”

"Ah......" Gao Guiying was suddenly stunned, and even forgot to put down the dishes in her hand, and after a long time, she said hatefully: "It's all my ...... for this mouth."

"Gui Ying, how can I blame you?" Li Zicheng said with a smile: "The expedition is something that has been prepared for a long time, I came back early today, and I am ready to tell you, who knows......"

"What's the matter, Zicheng, is something happening, I won't go on the expedition tomorrow......"

Li Zicheng thought about it, or tell her now, at least he can comfort and comfort her tonight, if he goes south to Shu, he doesn't know when he will come back, so he whispered: "There is a large-scale fierce battle between the court and the homeless, Gao ...... Uncle was unfortunately captured......"

"Ah......" The vegetable bowl in Gao Guiying's hand suddenly fell to the ground and shattered, she muttered: "It's not true, Zicheng, you're joking, aren't you?" Don't scare me......"

Her parents have long since died, and only her uncle is left as the eldest relative......

When she arrived at her uncle's barracks, although she was the leader, every time she encountered a battle, her uncle asked her to protect her family and go first, just because she was afraid that he would fight fiercely with the officers and soldiers......

The scenes of the past, one scene after another appeared in her mind, Gao Guiying had already decided that her uncle was captured this time, and she must be more than lucky, even Li Zicheng stroked her shoulders, and she didn't feel it......