Xiangyang, the new Shun king Li Zicheng who has just come out of the pot is like a spring breeze at this moment, Li Zicheng is wearing a felt hat and light cyan clothes, although he does not wear python clothes to admire Jin Yu, but he is still not angry and arrogant, this is the momentum forged by more than ten years of battlefield career, the leaders of the thirteen families and seventy-two battalions that started the year, basically died without surrendering, and now only Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are left, Zhang Xianzhong is only a hundred thousand horses, and he Li Zicheng has millions of soldiers, and he is a well-deserved new Shun king.

"I just got the news, Zhang Xianzhong abandoned Wuchang, and is now being chased by the official army, I wrote to him a while ago, asking him to come and belong to me, he actually refused, okay, we don't need to do it, the officers and soldiers have already helped us go up to clean him up, let them fight, it's best to lose both, and then we can clean them up with our hands."

The people who attended the discussion were the highest civil and military under Li Zicheng's account, and today Li Zicheng convened them to discuss the next countermeasures, these days, Li Zicheng is also constantly considering, what to do next, now they are strong and strong, for the future, Li Zicheng is also more confident, he is no longer a thief who was chased by the official army and fled everywhere.

"These days, there are many people who have made suggestions to me, wanting to take advantage of the victory to attack and seize the world, there are great differences of opinion, but in general there are two kinds, one is to persuade me to go down the river to take Nanjing, follow the example of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, based on Jiangsu and Zhejiang, take the world in the north, and the other is to persuade me to go north to attack the capital directly, as long as the capital is taken, the world can be passed on to the decided, today everyone will talk about it, how to go next, to determine."

"Jiangnan is rich, so naturally I went to Jiangnan!" Liu Zongmin stood up first and shouted.

As soon as Liu Zongmin opened his mouth, many generals echoed him, but when Li Zicheng heard this, he was really worried, what they valued was not the foundation, but the wealth of Jiangnan, it was a honeypot, and a man who beat him with iron may not be able to bear it, Li Zicheng originally wanted to take Jiangnan, but when he saw that everyone was full of expectations, he immediately vetoed this decision in his heart.

"I think you can directly capture Beijing, now Henan is in the hands of our army, you can pass through Henan through Hebei, go directly to the capital, those soldiers and horses of the Ming court have long been vulnerable, you can see from the battle of Zhuxian Town."

"No! If the time comes, the troops under the city, and the Ming army and the army of the king of Qin are gathered around, wouldn't it be a dilemma? Gu Junen stood up and retorted, his thoughts were very cautious, it was not the first time that Beijing City had been surrounded, it was not that it had not been breached, and there was also a Sun Chuanting by their side, that was a figure who had left countless wounds to the Dashun army, if they didn't solve him Sun Chuanting, when Sun Chuanting attacked behind his back, what should they do?

"Jinling is located downstream, and although it can be successful, it is too slow. Go straight to Jingshi, if you don't win, where will you retreat? This is a mishap. Guanzhong is where your hometown is located, one hundred and two mountains and rivers, accounting for two-thirds of the world, you should seize it first and establish a foundation. Then take three sides, use these forces to capture Shanxi, and then point to the Beijing division. In this way, the advance can be fought and the retreat can be defended, and nothing will go wrong. Gu Junen said very eagerly, he knew that his status was not as good as these people, but he couldn't help but say that this was a key decision related to the fate of the Dashun Army.

"Sun Chuanting returned to Shaanxi after the defeat in Persimmon Garden, vigorously governed the army, made 20,000 trains, and recruited strong men, which is indeed our biggest threat, Sun Chuanting and us are the end of the death, we must exterminate Sun Chuanting, what Gu Junen said is good, I also feel that we should take Guanzhong first, and then take the capital through Shanxi in the west." Li Zicheng's most trusted strategist, Li Yan, also agreed with Gu Junen's suggestion at the moment.

Li Zicheng lowered his head, he was thinking about it, saying that some people were looking at him and waiting for Li Zicheng's decision.

After a while, Li Zicheng raised his head in the eager waiting of everyone and said: "Just do it, first take Guanzhong as the foundation, and then try the world!" ”

"Yes!" Since Li Zicheng killed Luo Rucai, Yuan Shizhong and others, Li Zicheng has established supreme prestige in everyone's hearts, and no one dares to oppose it.

"Pass the order, all armies are ready to assemble, except for the soldiers and horses left behind, the whole army will attack and capture Guanzhong!" Li Zicheng also said in high spirits.

After Sun Chuanting returned to Shaanxi after the defeat, he planned to defend Tongguan and strangle the upper reaches of the Beijing Division, and the official army had just been assembled, which was not conducive to a quick battle, so he recruited more warriors, reclaimed the tuntian, built equipment, saved military rations, let every three families produce a strong man, and built 30,000 chariots carrying artillery, and pushed it to resist the enemy's war horses during the battle, and surrounded the garrison for self-defense when resting. The construction project was rushed very quickly, day and night, the people of Shaanxi could not bear it, and there was a famine in Guanzhong for many years, and a large number of troops stationed there were lack of food and salary, so the sergeant doctor Guan was disgusted with the project run by Sun Chuanting, and because he was too strict in enforcing the law, the scholar doctor coaxed the court together: The governor of Shaanxi is not so enthusiastic about quelling thieves. They also threatened him with frightening words: If the governor of Shaanxi does not come out of the customs, the people who have come to arrest you will arrive.

In May, the imperial court ordered Sun Chuanting to supervise the military affairs of Henan and Sichuan, and soon promoted him to the secretary of the military department, and added the military affairs of Shanxi, Huguang, Guizhou, Jiangnan and Jiangbei, Emperor Chongzhen gave him the sword of Shang Fang, and urged him to go to war more urgently, Sun Chuanting stomped his feet and sighed helplessly: What is this for! Of course, I knew that I would not be able to come back this time, but how could my husband fall into the hands of the prison guards again! Soon after, he was forced to decide to send troops again.

After Sun Chuanting came out of the customs, he let the general soldier Niu Chenghu lead the forward, Gao Jie led the Chinese army, Wang Ding and Guan Fumin led the troops of Yan'an and Ningxia as backups, Bai Guangen led the chariot battalion, and ordered Zuo Liangyu to drive to Runing, and attacked on both sides. At this time, Li Zicheng had already planned to pass through Neixiang and Xichuan to peep into Shangzhou and Luonan, and mobilized all the troops of Jingzhou and Xiangyang to meet in Bishui and Xingze, cut down bamboo to build rafts, and planned to cross the Yellow River.

The Central Plains War was about to break out, and Cao Bianjiao also followed Zhang Xianzhong to Yuezhou, the two sides exchanged hostages in the public security, Cao Bianjiao led the army back to Yuezhou, and Zhang Xianzhong was also along the Jiangxi side, when passing through Jingzhou, and Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses fought a small battle, Zhang Xianzhong did not love war, all the way west, Lin Chengcheng saw Zhang Xianzhong coming, and did not start a war with him, but let him go, Zhang Xianzhong was able to leave the Huguang boundary, into the Wuxia of Kuizhou, Sichuan.

Cao Bianjiao entered Yuezhou, divided his troops to occupy key places such as Jiayu, Chenglingji, Shishoushan, and Lizhou, trained sailors in Dongting Lake, and settled the accompanying people in Tuntian in the area of the Miluo River, which was considered to be a preliminary stabilization. After Zuo Liangyu got Cao Bianjiao's letter, he also led his troops to Wuchang and ordered Fang Guoan to garrison Honghu to respond to Cao Bianjiao's department.