Henan, the Shun army's counterattack started well, killing the governor of Henan, Jin Yuhe, occupying the city of Zhangde Mansion, and then chasing Zu Kefa to Shunde Mansion, but the situation suddenly changed, the Azig army suddenly killed, the forward is still the Shun army is most afraid of Wu Sangui, the various departments are terrified, scrambling to turn around and flee, Shandong Yuyuan Army simply scattered and went home. The Shun army retreated to Zhangde in one breath before stopping, Li Zicheng persuaded his subordinates to rely on the city for a decisive battle, Duoduo suddenly appeared again, the Shun army was defeated by the enemy on both sides, fortunately the Guoyi general Ma Shiyao stationed in Zhangde took the risk to attack, attracting the attention of the Qing army, and the remnants of the army escaped to the Yellow River to cross the river by stepping on the ice.

The battle was easily won, killing and capturing tens of thousands of Shun troops, capturing countless ordnance and baggage, and the city of Zhangde Mansion was also heavily surrounded, and the artillery of the Wuzhen Chao Ha army was sure to destroy the city as soon as it arrived - the Qing army was proud, and pounced on the south bank of the Yellow River while it was hot.

"Look at the heavens, what is that? It seems that the three-color black eagle flag of Datong is still hanging. ”

"It must be an artifact of Datong, the old man in the family has long said that Prince Jin is a god, and only he has great powers."

The Qing army was walking on the ice of the Yellow River in a hurry, and suddenly found two large round balls floating from the west, stopped and began to talk about it. The artifact soon reached the top of his head, throwing down two black things, and the Qing soldiers were so frightened that they raised their legs and ran, and after two loud bangs, two large holes appeared in the ice, and an unlucky horse unfortunately fell into the water.

"Run, Prince Jin has an artifact." The head of the Qing soldiers did not look back and fled in embarrassment, joking, the prince of Jin had such an artifact, and he was annoyed that there was no good fruit to eat.

"Erlu actually sent people to the sky, where did you learn this witchcraft?" Azig immediately stood on the north bank of the Yellow River and stared at the monster in the sky in amazement.

"It may be a hot air balloon, it is said that it was passed by Taixi," Duoduo often deals with Datong merchants, and his knowledge is different, but he only brought more than 10,000 people into Henan, and he didn't dare to cross the river rashly, shaking his head and saying, "Datong soldiers also appeared in the direction of Weihui, beware of being bitten, forget it, don't go to the river for the time being." ”

Azig was also at a loss in his heart, nodded and replied, "Well, for the sake of relatives, let Elu go first and let Luo Xiujin talk to them." ”

"Brother Twelve, you are staring at Wei Hui's Datong army, Lao Tong's Wuzhen Chaoha army is almost here, I will take Zhangde Mansion City first."

The two brothers chatted while walking, and unconsciously arrived at the Guanning Army camp, Wu Sangui was whipping a strong man like crazy, and there was a scholar-like person kneeling on the ground begging for mercy.

"Eight kings, ten kings, the big thief Liu Zongmin was captured alive by Xiao Wang, and this thing - Song Xiance, the thief's military advisor." Wu Sangui saw Azig and Duoduo coming, kicked over the scholar, and said with a salute.

"Dog Tartar, Liu Ye is not afraid of death, it is up to you to kill or chop, Hugh wants to make the third surnamed domestic slave Wu thief humiliate grandpa," Liu Zongmin was beaten to the point that his skin was opened, and he tried to open his eyes and scolded angrily, and then spat at Song Xiance again, "Something that is worthless, stand up!" ”

"Liu Zongmin, you are still hard-mouthed when you are dying, come on, cut off these two thieves who committed chaos." Wu Sangui was scolded, and ordered angrily.

Liu Zongmin was dragged out by the five flowers, and Song Xiance was paralyzed in fright, crying and begging loudly: "The prince spares his life, the grass people are willing to serve the Qing Dynasty......"

"King Pingxi, the thieves and others are committing rebellion against the Ming Kingdom, but to me the Qing Dynasty is just an ordinary grass coward, according to my Qing Dynasty law, the thieves should be the head of the public show, what is your intention to abuse the torture of the Ming Kingdom?" Tulai behind Duoduo suddenly spoke, and the surrounding soldiers of the Eight Banners immediately looked at Wu Sangui angrily - when the Ming and Qing dynasties were at loggerheads, the Manchu leaders fell into the hands of the Ming army and were usually executed for the crime of treason.

Azig glanced at Turai very disapprerovingly, the Qing soldiers avenged Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, what is it to cut off a few thieves, but Duoduo sneered at Wu Sangui: "King Pingxi, you have to understand which family's food is eating now, you can't play the Ming Kingdom in my Qing army!" ”

"Xiao Wang knows that he is wrong!" Wu Sangui trembled in fright, turned around and yelled at his family: "Behead the anti-thieves Liu Zongmin and Song Xiance on the spot, and show the public in front of the camp with their heads." ”

"That's right." Duoduo smiled and pulled Azig away.

The news of Liu Zongmin's death soon spread to the south bank of the Yellow River, Li Zicheng covered his head and sighed, this battle was lost too badly, the old brother left, and the last bit of blood was almost lost.

When Li Zicheng felt desperate, Huaiqing sent a letter - Yun Rong denounced Li Zicheng in the letter for having more than enough trouble in the world, and incompetence in governing the army and the people, so that the situation in Henan was critical.

Some time ago, he kept saying to help me defend Henan, and as soon as the wind direction changed, it fell immediately, what do you think of me-Li Zicheng was angry, and tore the letter to the ground and trampled it under his feet.

"King Shun, we don't care what happens to you and Commander Yun, but our Datong merchants' accounts have to be settled, and we can't owe a penny of silver." The messenger was a Shanxi salt merchant who said coldly.

Li Zicheng didn't say a word and pulled his sword out of the sheath, the Wenchen around him was shocked, and rushed to dissuade him, Li Zicheng was so angry that his hands and feet danced wildly, and shouted to the soldiers outside the tent: "Beat this profiteer out of the camp." ”

The salt merchant hugged his head and ran away, and his mouth was still very hard: "Li Zicheng, you dare to hit the citizens of Datong, wait and see, there is your good-looking." ”

That night, Li Zicheng ordered to abandon the Yellow River and retreat to the south, and before leaving, he did not forget to loot his property and coerce the young and strong, and Kaifeng Mansion was even more dilapidated and desolate after this catastrophe.

Yun Rong was furious when he heard the news, and ordered Ma Jinzhong's Buba Town, Chen Yongfu's Huaiqing Mansion militia to cross the river, the Shun army south of the Yellow River had no intention of resisting, Li Jiyu's department first anyway, and the other departments followed suit, the Datong army entered Luoyang smoothly, and marched east to Xingyang to set up a defensive line - Yun Rong only had Zhang Ding's cavalry three towns, Qin Hu's Buqi Town, and Ma Jinzhong's Buba Town, three dissatisfied towns, with a strength of only more than 20,000 people, and Buqi Town also had to garrison Hui to guard against the Qing army, which was the limit of sending troops, but the Chamber of Commerce was not satisfied, and he recruited another 2,000 people to fight" The banner of the Datong Chamber of Commerce to fight against the thief army continued to rush to Ruzhou and Nanyang, and Li Zicheng did not repay his debts, so he had to use the land to pay off his debts.

The south bank of the Yellow River was empty, but the Qing army resisted the temptation and did not cross the river, but continued to show favor to the Datong army, on the first day of the first month, fireworks were set off on the city of Weihui, and the Manchurian soldiers also ran to the party, and the officers and men of the two armies smoked and drank together, sang and danced, and celebrated the Datong change to the Yuan Republic. Wu Sangui was embarrassed to suggest a sneak attack, but was scolded by Azig - Azig is not stupid, Datong Tiger Standing on Taihang Mountain is like a knife on the waist of the Qing army, he dares to act rashly, Dolgon definitely has no good life. Duoduo was not idle, Tong Yangjia's Wuzhen Chao Harbin army just arrived, and was ordered to set up Hongyi cannons to bombard the city of Zhangdefu, Ma Shiyao fought alone for a few days and finally despaired, led 7,000 Shun troops to surrender the city, Duoduo's hands were black enough, and soon Ma Shiyao and his subordinates were killed under the pretext of rebellion.

Li Zicheng was also unlucky, he originally planned to withdraw to Nanyang Laowo to avoid the limelight, but he was blocked when he walked to Yuncheng, and the people who stood in the way were his rivals Wang Guangen and Luo Dayong - one of these two people was recruited by the imperial court to fight with Li Zicheng for many years, and the other wanted to avenge the old lord Luo Rucai. As soon as the two sides began to fight, Li Zicheng got bad news again, Liu Hongqi and other bandits in Ruzhou and Nanyang suddenly fell to Datong and took advantage of the situation to enter and capture Xiangcheng, and the cavalry of the Datong army also appeared near Linying. Only then did they get out of the wolf's den and enter the tiger's den, the Shun army was frightened and did not dare to fight again, retreated thirty miles and camped, and the whole army was in despair, waiting for doom to come.

Li Zicheng fled, the Datong army was unable to expand eastward, and the Qing army did not dare to cross the river easily, Kaifeng Mansion became an undefended area without soldiers, and a Ming army took advantage of the weakness, but soon realized that this cheap could not be touched, and even Kaifeng City did not enter and quietly slipped to Guide Mansion, the Ming army felt really good, and someone was indeed calculating them.

Xingyang, the Henan commander of the Datong Federation is meeting cordially with the governor of Henan of the Qing Empire - Yunrong's ancestral hometown is Kaiyuan, his grandfather fled to Chahar to his generation has been Mongolianized, Luo Xiujin is originally from Liaoyang, and is a Han army with the old qualification of the blue flag to return to the Han people, the two are both Liaodong people, both have the infamy of forgetting their ancestors, and they both hate the Ming Kingdom, and they smell like each other when they meet for the first time, this is the second time they meet.

"Brother Yun, it's not strange that you said it, Prince Ying sent me to Huaiqing for the first time, and I was worried that you would detain me, but now I don't see me for a few days, I want to panic, I guess our brothers must have had fate in their previous lives" Luo Xiujin made love when he saw Yun Rong.

"But no, I also feel comfortable when I see you Brother Luo," Yun Rong took Luo Xiujin's hand and shouted, "Hold a jar of old wine from Xinghua Village, and prepare a few good dishes, I want to accompany my brother to have a few drinks." ”

Liaodong people see that the wine is not dying, the two of them push the cup and change the cup and drink red faces, and the mouth is also talking nonsense, Yun Rong praised the Qing Dynasty in Zhili, Shandong to depose the "three salaries", punish corrupt officials, save the people from fire and water, Brother Luo has learned people, and will definitely make great achievements in the future, Luo Xiujin also praised the Datong New Deal is a feat of thousands of years, if time will be strong and the people will be rich, Brother Yun is shrewd and capable, and the future is bright.

After patting each other's ass, and the wine was almost drunk, Yun Rong began to change the topic: "Brother Luo, I have something to ask, I heard that Gao Jie, the chief soldier of the Ming Kingdom who led the troops into Henan this time, sent you a letter to make an appointment to join forces to suppress the thieves, you can make it clear, does the Qing Dynasty want to wear a pair of pants with the Ming Kingdom?" ”

"How do you know?" Luo Xiujin was startled, but quickly figured it out, Datong has a deep penetration into the Qing Dynasty, and someone must have reported such a major matter, forget it, tell the truth, and replied fiercely, "I, what Ming Kingdom, the puppet dynasty is only, my Daqing Dynasty is the orthodoxy of the world, how can I join forces with them, Prince Yu replied to Gao Jie, it is okay to surrender, it is not their turn to suppress the thieves, I came to talk to you about this matter this time, we are a family, suppress the thieves, suppress the puppet dynasty together." ”

"I guess that's the case, but it's not your turn to suppress thieves, I'm the orthodox one in the world, and you can help with the puppet dynasty." Yun Rong made a small calculation, You Renjun led the Shaanxi militia to Nanyang, Sun Shoufa has also led his troops into Huguang, Li Zicheng is just a dying man naturally can't let the Qing army interfere, but Gao Jie is not easy to fight, this guy is said to have 400,000 people, it is best to let the Qing army and the Ming army fight to the death first, and then clean up one by one when the reinforcements arrive.

"What are you orthodox? Do you think I don't know that Gao Jie is so powerful that Datong wants to take advantage of us. Luo Xiujin stood up excitedly and shouted.

"Who took advantage, Li Zicheng still has more than 200,000 horses, do you think it's easy to fight?" Yun Rong also stood up, saw Luo Xiujin looking ignorant, gritted his teeth and said, "That's it, if you can't withstand the Ming army, I promise to send reinforcements." ”

"My Qing soldiers will not be able to withstand the Ming army, joke, you can not send troops, a fixed price, 100,000 stone grain, 1 million taels of silver, whoever lays the territory will belong to whom." Luo Xiujin waved his hand and said, the Qing soldiers saw that the Ming army had no reason not to fight, and Azig and Duoduo originally sent him to extort bamboo and bargains.

"How can this be reasonable, you grab the land but ask us to pay for the grain, or for the sake of the family, I will give 10,000 stone grain, and the matter of the land will be discussed later."

"50,000 stone grain, 500,000 taels of silver, it's up to you whether you do it or not."

"I don't have much money and food, I will give 20,000 stone grain first, then add 100,000 taels of silver bills, and make up the rest later," Yun Rong stomped his feet vigorously, and said without smiling, "Brother Luo, I have something to tell you, Yue Qijie, the governor of Henan in the Ming Kingdom, also sent me a letter, asking me to join forces to pacify Henan, but I ignored him, let's solve the matter of Henan, which round got the puppet dynasty to join in the fun, right?" ”

Yun Rong and Luo Xiu Jinxiu looked at each other for a while, and at the same time raised their wine glasses: "Drink!" ”

Luo Xiujin was full of wine and food, got up happily to say goodbye, walked to the door and asked quietly: "Brother, what's the matter with your hot air balloon?" ”

"Brother, I won't be in Henan for long, I'll know when you take over as the commander of Henan." Yun Rong smiled mysteriously, this really can't be said, the two hot air balloons disappeared on the way back, and the cavalry searched for two days to find the balloons and the six pilots who were frozen to death.

Sending Luo Xiujin away, Yun Rong found Tian Jianxiu and Wu Ruyi, who were in charge of the military affairs, to give a few words, and then ordered Zheng Daqian, the official of the army, to mention Tang: "You send someone to Suizhou to deliver a letter and tell Xu Dingguo to go quickly, otherwise you can make a living." "——Xu Dingguo, the general soldier of Henan, played under the banner of the Nanjing Imperial Court, but he did an errand to protect the trade routes for Datong.

It's a pity that Xu Dingguo can't run away, this is not to blame him, the Nanjing Imperial Court has been shouting that it has sent troops to suppress thieves for more than half a year, and it has never been thunder or rain, the ghost knows what's going on, this time he really sent troops, and the one who led the troops was Gao Jie, who had killed dozens of people in his old Xu family. Xu Dingguo only has more than 30,000 people, and he has no strength to carry it with Gao Jie, so it is good to be able to dodge, but Gao Jie only came up in Kaifeng for a while, and then took Henan Governor Yue Qijie, Inspector Chen Qianfu, and Yuan Shu, who participated in politics, to Suizhou City. Xu Dingguo knew that Gao Jie had bad intentions here, but he had to go out of the city to greet him, but he was not a bad breed, and he still had the means to be deceitful.

In fact, Gao Ming's soldiers in Henan were also forced to do so, this guy was bold, set up an ambush in Gaoyou to intercept and kill Huang Degong, and at the same time sent troops to attack the Yizhen camp, Huang Degong escaped by luck, and more than 300 people were killed in the entourage, and the officers and soldiers of the Huang Department were excited to raise troops to attack Gao Jie. His subordinates were in internal strife, and Shi Kefa, the governor of Jiangbei, had to come forward to persuade him, and in the end, Gao Jie lost 300 inferior horses, and Shi Kefa took another 3,000 taels of silver to temporarily take credit for Pinghuang. It is common for the Ming army to fire each other, but it is taboo to assassinate the main general, Gao Jie's unruly behavior naturally caused the public anger of other military leaders, he did not dare to continue to lie in Yangzhou, and led his troops to Xuzhou to garrison.

Xuzhou is close to the Yellow River, if the Qing army goes south, it will definitely be the first to be beaten, Gao Jie is afraid again, and has the intention to find another piece of territory, so he responded to the call of the imperial court to "join the captives and suppress the Kou", and took the initiative to ask Ying to send troops to Henan.

Gao Jie entered Henan with 20,000 forwards, and asked the Qing army to join forces to suppress the thieves, and Duoduo replied - the only way out for the Nanjing puppet dynasty was to return to the Qing Dynasty, and if they did not come to their senses, they would be wiped out. Gao Jie was frightened and hurriedly slipped out of Kaifeng Mansion, but fortunately he ran fast, and more than 10,000 Qing troops then crossed the Yellow River.

Gao Jie has been a thief, and he pays attention to thieves who do not go empty, and he went straight to Suizhou when he left Kaifeng Mansion. There are soldiers and territory there, if you grab it, it won't be in vain, as for the fact that he killed Xu Ding's country, he doesn't remember at all, he has killed too many people in his life.

Gao Jie and Xu Dingguo are secretly pregnant with ghosts, naturally they have to pretend to be a good person, and they are very affectionate when they meet outside Suizhou City, the two of them praise each other more and more speculatively, and meet to kill thieves to win military merits, and then Gao Jie ordered Li Benshen and Gao Jinku to lead the army to camp outside the city, and enter the city to go to the banquet by themselves, Yue Qijie and Chen Qianfu reminded that there might be fraud, Gao Jie waved away without care.

The banquet was placed in the mansion of the late Emperor Yuan Keli of the Apocalypse Dynasty - Yuan Shu is the son of Yuan Keli, Xu Dingguo is the favorite general promoted by Yuan Keli, and inviting Gao Jie into Yuan's mansion is to give face, Gao Jie got carried away, drunk and took two prostitutes to stay in the mansion overnight. Xu Dingguo would not let go of the enemy, and sent troops to surround Yuan's mansion in the middle of the night, beheaded Gao Jie and hundreds of his own soldiers, and then led the army out of the city to join the Qing army.

After dawn, Li Benshen and Gao Jinku outside the city got the news, and the officers and soldiers of the high department were furious, rushed into the city to wantonly kill and rob the people, and also set fire to Yuan's mansion, until the Qing army approached and fled to Xuzhou.

Gao Jie, who has done a lot of evil, was awarded the head in Suizhou, and the people of Henan have been repeatedly victimized, and they all applauded, and the people of Yangzhou also beat gongs and drums to celebrate when they heard the good news; Shi Kefa was very sad, this obedient lackey of the court was gone, and the "joint capture and suppression" became a laughing stock since then; Yun Rong was also very sad, Gao Jie, the bastard, died, but the Ming and Qing armies had not yet fought, and the 20,000 stone grain and 100,000 taels of silver were all lost; Azig and Duoduole went crazy, and they didn't waste their efforts to get 30,000 troops and a large area south of the Yellow River, which was like pie in the sky and smashed on their heads.