Although Huang Shu was eager to make meritorious contributions and tried his best to fool the generals of the Left Army into sending troops to fight against the thieves, the people of the Left Army were not enthusiastic.

Ningnan Marquis Zuo Liangyu is already dying, full of ideas to preserve strength, and with his troops, he has taken the imperial court hostage, where is he willing to fight hard with the thieves. Besides, his official title has reached the peak of military ministers, what is the use of making meritorious contributions, can he still be crowned king? You must know that there is no precedent for a king with a different surname in Daming, and as for what to dominate the world with soldiers, Zuo Liangyu has never had this idea.

Zuo Liangyu is like this, and his subordinate generals also have roughly the same idea. There were more than 200,000 left troops, most of whom were gathered and routed, and there were also surrendered troops from the exile army, which were divided into ten battalions and commanded by ten general soldiers. However, these ten general soldiers also maintain a certain degree of independence, which means that the left army is not a very tight army, but similar to an alliance, and Zuo Liangyu is the leader of the alliance.

According to the military system at the end of the Ming Dynasty, soldiers are generals, and hundreds of thousands of troops in Wuchang are owned by Zuo Liangyu, and the subordinates of each general soldier are naturally owned by each general soldier. And except for Li Guoying and Xu Yong, most of these general soldiers are mediocre people, and they are all very good at the remnants of the people on weekdays, but they are all very bearish in terms of the ability to fight.

So most people don't agree with Huang Shu's idea.

If it weren't for the fear of the court's accountability, Zuo Liangyu wouldn't want to fight with the Shun army at all, and would have wanted to withdraw Li Guoying's troops from Hanyang a long time ago. Of course, the reason why he didn't retreat was that he didn't know where to go, and now Wuchang was his lair, where could he go if he lost it?

In another time and space, Zuo Liangyu chose to go down the river to the side of the Qing monarch, and now Chongzhen is in power, and Shi Kefa and Qian Qianyi, who are in power in the court, are all Donglin Party with a good relationship with Zuo Liangyu, and the reason for the Qing monarch side does not exist at all. So he could only stay in Wuchang temporarily.

Just when Zuo Liangyu and a group of generals were hesitant about whether to resist the Shun army, in Chuyang Prefecture, which is more than 200 miles away from Wuchang, the flag on the north bank of the Yangtze River was unfurled, and tens of thousands of Shun soldiers lined up on the riverbank, preparing to cross the Yangtze River.

After cleaning up the general Guo Yi under Liu Fangliang, no one in the defeated soldiers dared to blow up the stab. And for these soldiers, their sense of belonging is not very strong, and there is no reason to follow Liu Fangliang.

The time for the Shun army to rise was too short, from Li Zicheng entered Henan to now it was only two or three years, and in such a short period of time, it had grown from more than 1,000 people to hundreds of thousands of troops, and the generals had no time to establish absolute prestige in their subordinates.

Hao Shaoqi took them in and annihilated the Manchu cavalry that was chasing, which made these defeated soldiers grateful to Dade and had no resistance to being assigned to Hao Shaoqi.

In a short period of time, Hao Shaoqi's subordinates expanded from three or four thousand to more than 30,000 people, and their strength expanded by seven or eight times. Hao Shaoqi took his subordinate soldiers as the backbone, and at the same time appointed the officers in the rout to assist, and quickly organized the army. Then a large number of flags were made and distributed, and each outpost, each department, and each brigade was distinguished by a different flag.

Most of the rout soldiers were not fully armoured, and many of their weapons were discarded on the way to escape. Hao Shaoqi ordered the bamboo forests along the river to be cut down to make bamboo spears as weapons, and tore them into strips of cloth from the red cloth and satin they had snatched in Jingshan County and Chuyang Prefecture, and ordered each soldier to tie them to his head.

Such a large army is really much more organized, and it is no longer the original appearance of a deserter.

The pursuing Mantar cavalry was annihilated, and Azig was busy leading the army to chase after most of Li Zicheng, who had fled to Hanyang, and could no longer pay attention to this inescapable rout.

Hao Shaoqi saw that there was no Manchu Tartar soldiers chasing after him, so he ordered to rest and recuperate in Chuyang Prefecture, first, to train the army, knead these tens of thousands of people together, and then to think about what to do next.

At this moment, Gu Junen came to Weiyang Prefecture on the order of Li Zicheng, and met Hao Shaoqi to convey Li Zicheng's order.

Let yourself lead troops across the river to attack Wuchang? Hao Shaoqi frowned when he heard this.

"Gu Shilang, you also know that my army is all routed, with incomplete weapons and no food and salaries, and you asked me to cross the river to attack Zuo Liangyu's hundreds of thousands of troops, isn't it embarrassing?" Hao shook his head and said.

"It's not me who asked you to attack Zuo Liangyu, it's Your Majesty's order, what? Are you going to disobey the Holy Decree? Gu Junen asked lightly. Although Gu Junen offered Li Zicheng a plan, let Hao Shaoqi lead the army to attack Wuchang. However, for a general like Hao Shaoqi who annexed friendly forces without authorization, Gu Junen was very disgusted. Coupled with the resistance to Li Zicheng's own arrival, he didn't have much of a good face for Hao Shaoqi.

"Don't dare!" Hao Shaoqi hurriedly said that although he had done the thing of annexing Liu Fangliang's army, he did not dare to show any disobedience to Li Zicheng on the surface. After all, in the entire Dashun military system, Li Zicheng's prestige is very high. And Hao Shaoqi is just doing something to expand the strength of his subordinates, and has no intention of breaking away from the Dashun army system.

"However, the Yangtze River is vast and wide, and it is not so easy to cross the river, which takes time." Hao Shaoqi said again.

Seeing that Hao Shaoqi was still obedient, Gu Junen's face softened a lot, and he didn't want to delay things because of his likes and dislikes, worried that Hao Shaoqi would not be able to work, so he patiently persuaded him.

"At present, my Dashun army has reached the key to life and death, with Zuo Liangyu's hundreds of thousands of troops blocking it in front, and Hanyang Wuchang Yangtze River natural danger, and then the Manchu army chasing after it, and tens of thousands of troops are blocked in the narrow land of Hanyang Mansion. If you can't quickly break through the Yangtze River and reach the south of the Yangtze River, once you let the Mantars catch up, the consequences are really unpredictable.

And whether you can defeat Zuo Liangyu's army and break through Wuchang, the key lies in you, General Hao. As long as you can quickly break through the Yangtze River and form an attack on Wuchang, coupled with the fact that His Majesty leads the army to attack from the north of the river to the south of the Yangtze River, Zuo Liangyu will definitely panic when he is attacked from both sides, and he will definitely flee without a fight. In this way, General Hao, you are the hero of my Dashun. At that time, don't talk about the trivial matter of annexing friendly forces, King Chuang will definitely reward you with a big reward, and it will be no problem to pay homage to the marquis! ”

Gu Junen analyzed the situation faced by the Shun army and the importance of Hao Shaoqi's army to Hao Shaoqi one by one, Hao Shaoqi listened to it with ups and downs, and then realized that he was so important, important enough to be able to decide the life and death of the Great Shun army.

"Gu Shilang, rest assured, I will obey His Majesty's will, so I will send someone to collect boats, and I will definitely cross the Yangtze River within three days, and fight a bloody road for my Dashun!"

Hao Shaoqi patted his chest and assured that he could show his value and no longer be an unknown general, this is Hao Shaoqi's expectation. Since His Majesty trusts him, he must not let him down!