"Putting ......"

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Outside the city of Zhengzhou, fifty cannons have been aimed at the head of Zhengzhou City, with one cannon after another rang out, the cannons shot into the city, only to hear the continuous explosion sound came back, smoke and dust, the sound of screams endlessly

"Haha...... Blow up these turtle sons, don't you want to hide in the city and not come out, then let them all blow up there, and then reload me, and continue to blow up ......" Zheng Hongkui constantly commanded his artillerymen to load and shell, very happy, addicted, no one thought that there was not even a single artillery gun in Zhengzhou City, just those few bird guns, even the side wanted to touch them.

"The general has an order...... Suspend shelling and await military orders...... The general has an order...... Stop shelling......" A group of cavalry roared over, shouting the military order that Cao Bianjiao had just given.

"Stop the shelling, damn it, it's cheaper for this group of turtle grandchildren, I'm going to keep an eye on it, I'm going to ask what's going on?" Zheng Hongkui was puzzled in his heart, he was about to explode a gap, at this time Cao Bianjiao came to ask them to stop, he didn't understand, but he didn't dare to disobey the order.

In the handsome tent, Cao Bianjiao personally poured a glass of water and put it on top of the case, behind the case, there was a man and a woman, the man was in his forties, with a white face and a short beard, very handsome, and the woman was in her thirties, heroic and cool, and her momentum was not inferior to that of men.

"I have long heard of Mr.'s name, Li Zicheng can get half of the world, Mr. can be said to be a great contribution, as far as I know, before meeting Mr., Li Zicheng is a veritable rogue, where to grab where, but after meeting Mr., Mr. persuaded him to collect the hearts of the people for his own use, and also put forward the slogan of 'welcoming the king, not paying food', so that Li Zicheng, who walked out of the Shangluo mountains and forests, but a team of several hundred people, in just one year, gathered hundreds of thousands, occupied Henan, Hubei, Dingguanzhong, and played a triumphant song all the way to the west, Comparable to Zhang Liang of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ji of this dynasty, and the reputation of his wife, I have also heard a little, and women are not allowed to shave their eyebrows! ”

"The general has won the award, and Iwamoto is just a useless scholar, how dare he be praised by the general so absurdly!"

The person who came was none other than Li Yan and the Red Lady who came out of Li Zicheng's army, after the two left Li Zicheng, they went all the way south, and had been living in the area of the Daimyo Mansion, and later heard that Cao Bianjiao had a northern expedition and regained lost territory in Henan, so he took the initiative to come to serve, and they had only two options, either surrender to the Manchu Qing Dynasty or surrender to the Southern Ming Dynasty, but the loyalty of the scholar made him unwilling to follow the Waiyi, so after thinking twice, he decided to follow Cao Bianjiao, because Cao Bianjiao has a reputation for employing people in an eclectic manner. They've heard about it, too.

"The land of the Central Plains is the heart of my China, and we can not want it for the time being in the Northeast, but south of the Great Wall, it has been my Chinese land since ancient times, and we naturally can't sit idly by and watch it fall +, so I led the army to the north and regain the lost territory, which is also thanks to the generosity of King Li Chuang, knowing that I Cao is coming, I am embarrassed to let me go back empty-handed, and most of the soldiers and horses in Henan have been transferred, and Henan can be recovered in the near future." Cao Bianjiao also made a joke, this way down, he really didn't encounter any resistance, even Jin Shenghuan's southward journey was also smooth, from Xuzhou to Yuncheng, it was easy to win.

When Li Yan heard this, he also sighed, and said at the moment: "Li Zicheng has lost his strength after several defeats, I am afraid that he is only thinking about being his king of the northwest now, pointing to the land of Shanxi and Shaanxi, and he has almost given up elsewhere." General, there is a sentence that I don't know when to say or not. ”

"I welcome Mr. to come, regard Mr. as a wise man, but if Mr. has suggestions, you might as well say it bluntly, I will definitely listen!"

"Don't dare! Thank you for the trust of the general, I think that at the moment, whether it is Li Zicheng or the Nanjing court, in fact, each other's biggest enemy is the Manchu Qing, I don't say that I think the Manchu Qing is Rong Di so I look down on them, on the contrary, because they are deep in the border area, the people are fierce, the combat effectiveness is already strong, and now they occupy the land of Hebei, and the original Ming Dynasty has surrendered more than 300,000 soldiers, and the strength of the army is not comparable to before, and these soldiers and horses are all soldiers of the nine sides, and the combat power is strong%......"

"Mr. is talking about 300,000, isn't it only Wu Sangui's tens of thousands of horses, why are there so many?" Cao Bianjiao was also shocked, 300,000, this is not a small number, there were 200,000 strong troops in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the combat power was strong, if there were 300,000 more, it would not be easy to deal with.

"It was Li Zicheng who gave up, these were all surrendered when he hit Shanxi, and some of them were Datong and Xuanfu people, and the other was the people of Beijing, when Li Zicheng evacuated Beijing City, he was worried that these people would rebel, so he gave them all up, and only took the original Dashun headquarters to evacuate, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, all these soldiers and horses were absorbed, even if the old and weak were cut, it would not be less than 200,000, plus the Manchu Qing Dynasty already had 200,000 eight banners, that is, four or five hundred thousand strong troops, don't be careless! Compared with the Manchu Dynasty, Li Zicheng's threat to the Ming Dynasty is no longer worrying, he is no longer the king of Li Chuang, who was repeatedly defeated and fought in the Central Plains, but an emperor who has softened in the wine pond and meat forest, as long as the Manchu Qing is driven out of the customs and then comes back to deal with Li Zicheng, there is at least a seventy percent chance of winning. ”

"That being said, but Li Zicheng forced my first emperor Chongzhen Emperor to die, and I just got the news that the first emperor prince has also been killed by Li Zicheng and died in the chaos, Dolgon entered the pass under the banner of revenge for my Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng lost his mind, and actually killed the prince, let me form an alliance with him, I am afraid that the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty will not approve, and the emperor will not approve, this matter is not easy to do!"

Cao Bianjiao knows very well that above the court, it is not easy for this resolution to be passed, and the emperor will not be accepted, whose father was forced to death, and shook hands with him, Zhu Cijiong is still a child, and he does not have such a mature mind to consider the pros and cons behind this, Cao Bianjiao can take sole power in some national policies, that is because he has a group of people who support him and cheer for him, but this decision, I am afraid that those people around him will not follow.

"Then cut first and then play, the general is in charge of the military alone, and the border defense and military are all in charge of the general, so go to the alliance in the name of the general, without going through the imperial court, the alliance between the two sides is nothing more than mutual non-aggression and joint efforts to deal with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it will not affect the operation of the imperial court and national affairs." Li Yan also made this very risky suggestion to Cao Bianjiao, if this matter spreads, then in the end, Cao Bianjiao will most likely be unable to eat and walk around.

"Let me think about it!"

"Alright! General, then he entered the city first, the city guard Guo Dengxian, this person was originally a general banner of the Henan Weisuo Army, because of the heavy arrears of the imperial service, there was no way to survive, so he surrendered Li Zicheng, and I have an old relationship, I can persuade him to surrender. ”

"Be careful!" The red lady knew that Li Yan was accepting the name and had to do it, so she also reminded her at the moment.

"Don't worry, I'll go back when I go!" Li Yan smiled and looked very calm.

"There's Mr. Law!" Cao Bianjiao also thanked him, and personally sent Li Yan to the front of the battle, waiting for the results.