The situation has inadvertently undergone earth-shaking changes, everything is developing step by step as Cao Bianjiao expected, in the face of the situation of the erosive Central Plains, Cao Bianjiao chose to retreat in order to report the foundation of Fengyang, but not everyone is like him, such as Sun Chuanting is the most conspicuous figure among them.

After Sun Chuanting killed the human dragon, he shook the three sides, and since then he has been rectifying the army every day to make plans to level the thieves, but at this time the thieves besieged Kaifeng, and the imperial court ordered Yushi Sujing to come over to supervise the troops of Yan'an, Ningxia, Gansu and Guyuan, urging Sun Chuanting to go out of the customs. Sun Chuanting wrote: "The troops have just been recruited, and they can't be used yet. The emperor did not listen, and strictly ordered Sun Chuanting to send troops to fight, and Sun Chuanting had no choice but to send troops and arrived in Tongguan in September.

Sun Chuanting after a few days of rest in Tongguan, Emperor Chongzhen is still constantly urging Sun Chuanting to march, Sun Chuanting in October with the newly recruited soldiers on the expedition, the official army along the way to the flag, sneaking in the mountains, secretly approaching the people's army, intending to come by surprise, attack it unprepared. In Jiaxian County, Henan, the official army sneaked near the people's army, Sun Chuanting ordered the general Zuo Xun to lead the left army, Zheng Jiadong to lead the right army, Gao Jie led the Chinese army to set up an ambush, Niu Chenghu led the front army to challenge the people's army, luring the enemy deep. Soon after the two sides engaged, Niu Chenghu feigned defeat, introduced the people's army into the encirclement, ambushed troops on all sides, the people's army was caught off guard, fled to the east, the official army pursued and killed for thirty miles, Sun Chuanting was inferior to others, won by outwitting, and the officers and troops achieved a long-lost victory, but due to the heavy rain at this time, the officers and troops were hungry and cold, and failed to continue to expand the results.

Although the peasant army lost the first battle, but after all, there are many people, when the official army cleaned up the spoils, the main force of the people's army killed a horse gun, the official army could not resist, the defeat was like a mountain, Sun Chuanting led the remnants of the defeated army to rush back to Shaanxi. The official army was originally a long-distance attack, trying to feed the war with war, the supply of grain and grass could not be supplied, and the soldiers had to collect unripe green persimmons to satisfy their hunger, so the people of Henan called this battle the battle of persimmon garden. Thousands of officers and soldiers died in this battle, 78 people were sacrificed by the junior generals, and the peasant army got a lot of horses they had lost.

On December 4, Li Zicheng captured and occupied Xiangyang, and Zuo Liangyu fled to Chengtian and soon arrived in Wuchang. Li Zi marched forward with his troops, captured De'an and Yiling, and successively conquered Jingmen and Jingzhou, and on the 28th, burned the tomb. On the second day of the first month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng captured Chengtian, the governor of the imperial history Song Yihe, and Shen Shouchong died, and on the 25th, Zhang Xianzhong, who had disappeared for a long time, went out of the mountains and forests to capture Qizhou. In March, Li Zicheng killed Luo Rucai and merged his subordinates, and the imperial court ordered the scholar Wu Fu to lead his army to conquer Li Zicheng.

On the occasion of Li Zicheng's occupation of Huguang and Henan in full swing, the Qing general Abatai led the army to crusade against the Ming Dynasty, and the Minister of the Interior Turge was the deputy general, and the Qing army entered the border of the Ming Dynasty from the mouth of the Yellow Cliff, defeated the Ming general Bai Tengjiao and others in Jizhou, and successively broke through Hejian and Jingzhou, approached Yanzhou, Shandong, captured and beheaded Zhu Yipai, the king of Ming and Lu, and divided his troops to Laizhou, Dengzhou, Qingzhou, Juzhou, Yizhou and other places in Shandong, and attacked Cangzhou, Tianjin, Sanhe, and Miyun in Hebei when he returned to the army.

In the Qianqing Palace, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen leaned on the dragon couch with a dejected face, coughing violently in his mouth, the cough seemed to remind him that the Ming Dynasty has reached the level of his body at the moment, more than ten years of hard work, has dragged down his body, and also dragged down the last trace of vitality of the Ming Dynasty.

Sun Chuanting was defeated, defeated and lost, Shaanxi soldiers since ancient times is the place where the Ming Dynasty produced elite soldiers, Sun Chuanting is also a rare handsome talent, but still failed to defeat Li Zicheng, and most of the soldiers and horses were lost, and now the whole territory of Henan fell into the hands of Li Zicheng, which is equivalent to the heart of the Ming Dynasty was dug out, the north and south Cao Yun was blocked, Beijing has just been besieged by the Qing army, nearly three months of strict garrison, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, can only watch the other party tens of thousands of people in the city is showing off their might, but there is nothing they can do, now it's okay, Even the tombs of the ancestors were burned, for Zhu Youzhen, this is compared with the shame of Fengyang being destroyed at the beginning, that is a higher level, which dynasty's imperial tombs were repeatedly excavated and destroyed by the rebels, he doesn't know where he will go to see the ancestors under Jiuquan in the future.

"Is Cao Bianjiao still standing still in Fengyang?" Zhu Youzhen looked at the music in his hand half-lying and half-leaning, and asked Wang Chengen, the eunuch of Bingbi, beside him, very casually.

Wang Chengen looked embarrassed, hesitated, and said: "Your Majesty, you are not feeling well, let's rest first!" ”

"I'm asking you!" Zhu Youzhen immediately reprimanded.

Wang Chengen had no choice but to reply: "Cao Bianjiao is still in Fengyang, the imperial court once ordered him to cooperate with Sun Chuanting to exterminate Li Zicheng, after a battle in Runing, Cao Bianjiao played a song saying that the soldiers and horses suffered heavy losses, the lack of food and salary, and he was unable to fight again, so he returned to Fengyang, and then the military department also made two decrees to supervise, but Cao Bianjiao said every time that there was no food, and the soldiers and horses did not listen to the dispatch, if the court could allocate him 100,000 taels of military salary, he could transfer troops to go, if he was forced to send troops, I was afraid that his soldiers would change, Attached to Li Zicheng. ”

"Hey...... The world is like this, and people's hearts are not ancient! I originally thought that he Cao Bianjiao was a loyal minister, but I didn't expect that he also learned Zuo Liangyu, Zuo Liangyu abandoned Xiangyang, went to Wuchang, and plundered, I was also powerless, they asked for silver, where did I have silver for them, the household is now empty, not to mention 100,000 taels, it is 10,000 taels, I am also powerless! ”

Hearing that the emperor actually said such a thing, Wang Chengen was also sad, a dignified emperor of the Ming Dynasty, now said such heavy words, which also made his body as a slave sour.

"Your Majesty, the prison army Jin Sheng also made an excerpt, and played in the excerpt, saying that he had talked to Cao Bianjiao, and Cao Bianjiao's plan was not for the sake of supporting the army and self-respect, but his own strength was not good, and he could not fight with Li Zicheng, if the emperor could allow him to recruit soldiers and horses, and at the same time promise to use greater power to impress Cao Bianjiao with sincerity, he would not resist the decree and disobey it, the slave felt that since Li Zicheng could not be exterminated for a while, but Zhang Xianzhong might as well give it a try, Zhang Xianzhong was defeated by Cao Bianjiao before, To exterminate Zhang Xianzhong, Cao Bianjiao will not refuse. ”

"Bastard! Do you want to let me be a great tomorrow and beg him for a courtier, it is really hateful! Zhu Youzhen was also angry at the moment, feeling angry at what Wang Chengen said, if he really did that, would he still have half the majesty of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

"The slave lost his words, and the emperor forgives his sins!" At that moment, Wang Chengen hurriedly fell to the ground and pleaded guilty, he still had something to say, but seeing the emperor's angry appearance, he also swallowed it back helplessly.

"Passed the decree, Cao Bianjiao suppressed the thief, deprived him of his title, and demoted him to the chief soldier of Yuezhou! Yang Wenyue, the former governor of Baoding, was defeated and transferred to serve as the chief soldier of Jiujiang! Zhu Youzhen also made a decision immediately, since they don't send troops, then put them on the front line, they can't sit and wait for death!

He is really helpless, he needs money to raise troops, the current treasury is really empty, there is no money to reward the three armies, those generals, one by one are perfunctory to him, a Sun Chuanting was defeated and shrunk into the pass, he has repeatedly warned him to send troops as soon as possible, he just doesn't listen now, Zuo Liangyu is now almost Yang Fengyin disobeyed the military order of the imperial court, and finally killed a Cao Bianjiao from Liaodong, I thought it was brave and loyal, but I didn't expect it to be like this now, which made him also have a headache, It can only be dealt with by means that are not the way out.