The situation on the battlefield was as expected, and two days after Hao Shaoqi led his army back to Hanyang Port again, Liu Zongmin's reinforcements left the camp and headed westward to join Li Zicheng's main force.

Liu Zongmin hurriedly retreated, and Tian Jianxiu's heart in the city was also cold, how could he defend Hanyang City with less than 10,000 people?

Jing Jie took the opportunity to spread the news in the city, ordering the sergeants of the Chuang Army not to make any more senseless sacrifices, captured Tian Jianxiu and Tian Guang alive, and opened the door to surrender.

Tian Jianxiu and Tian Guang were shocked, knowing that if they didn't escape, their heads would be sent to the Xuanjia Army barracks by others to receive merit. After the two discussed, they fled overnight with only 3,000 personal soldiers, leaving behind 6,000 non-descendant soldiers, or forcibly recruited civilians to defend the city.

In the early morning of the next day, these sergeants saw the general Tian Jianxiu, and the general Tian Guang of Guoyi fled, and immediately opened the city gate and surrendered to Jingjie.

Because the sergeant of the Chuang Army completely annihilated Hao Shaoqi's personal soldiers, Jing Jie was worried that Hao Shaoqi would kill and retaliate on his own, so he ordered Hao Shaoqi to stay in Hanyang Port, and Zhang Fan entered the city to take over military and political affairs.

Jing Jie and Zhang Fan incorporated the surrendered sergeants of the Chuang Army, and eliminated the indiscriminate and unqualified sergeants, leaving only 3,000 sergeants. Because Fang Yuan's request was to let Hao Shaoqi be recruited, he incorporated these 3,000 sergeants into Hao Shaoqi's personal team.

Jing Jie left Zhang Fan in Hanyang City to settle the people, and then he returned to Wuchang Mansion to discuss the next countermeasures with Fang Yuan.

After Li Zicheng finished gathering his troops, he was going to attack Nanzhili on a large scale, and this decisive battle with the main force of the Chuang army was a complete battle, and he must not be taken lightly, so as not to repeat the mistake of almost being beheaded by Sun Chuanting.

Fang Yuan sent several outposts and summoned the commanders of all battalions of the Xuanjia Army to gather in Wuchang Mansion, including Zhao Quanzhong, the commander of the cavalry battalion stationed in Shandong, and also led 30,000 Xuanjia Iron Cavalry to the south to support, and jointly discussed the specific combat plan for the siege and annihilation of Li Zicheng.

A month later, Jing Jie, the commander of the Xuanjia Army, Zhao Quanzhong, the commander of the cavalry battalion, Zhang Ying, the commander of the infantry battalion, Shi Lang, the commander of the naval division, Li Zongze, the commander of the artillery battalion, Hou Chengzu, the commander of the logistics battalion, Su Hongyu, the commander of the drone team, Hao Shaoqi, the commander of the pro-military battalion, Gan Hui, the governor of Jiangxi, Li Yan, the governor of Huguang, Feng Ting, the general soldier of Fujian, Jin Shenghuan, the chief soldier of Jiangxi, and two relatively independent armies, Bai Guangen's train battalion, and Gao Yuanjue's Gao Jiajun, all gathered together.

The number of troops of the Xuanjia Army in the battlefields of Huguang and Henan has reached 180,000.

Fang originally announced that Li Zicheng had gathered troops and was preparing to use the method of Liukou warfare, no longer attacking cities and territories along the way, and following Zhang Xianzhong's route to attack Fengyang in that year.

Jing Jie had already gotten the information, and had discussed with Fang Yuan countless times, and had already reached a consensus, so he came out to play with Fang Yuan, "Congratulations to the regent, Li Zicheng is killing himself by doing this!" ”

Fang Yuan pretended to ask, "Jing Shuai, the Liukou has tossed the Ming Dynasty for twenty years, and not only has it not been annihilated, but it has also grown unprecedentedly, where did Li Zicheng come from to bring about his own destruction?!" ”

Jing Jie continued, "At this time and at that time, people are originally good, except for a few outlaws, if the people have a livelihood and can live and work in peace and contentment, who is willing to drag their families and follow Li Zicheng to run around?" The imperial court can't give the people a livelihood to live and work in peace and contentment, so the rogue will grow. Now that we are prosperous and rich in Jiangnan, the regent can come up with millions of taels of silver, and there is a large amount of ownerless land in Jiangxi and Henan, which is enough to settle the people. ”

Li Zicheng did not judge the situation and adopted the old method of ten years ago. I dare to assert that the sergeants will go less and less, until they finally dry up and the whole army is wiped out! ”

Fang Yuan and Jing Jie sang and harmonized, which set the tone for this military meeting, don't talk about how easy it is to annihilate the rogues, only talk about how to exterminate the rogues, and finish it in one battle.

Fang Yuan's gaze looked around and asked, "All the generals have come to discuss how to fight the battle to exterminate Li Zicheng?!" ”

In the battle of Shandong, Gan Hui, the governor of Jiangxi, was thrown into idleness and sent to Henan to defend the city, and he had already taken a sulk. But all the records contained in the history are invincible offensive commanders like Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, how have you ever heard that you can leave a name in history by defending the city?

At the moment, Gan Hui didn't want to lose this opportunity to make meritorious contributions, so he came out and said, "Before, the regent had found and hit the seven inches of the rogue, that is, the four-square, six-corner, ten-sided net, constantly compressing the flow space of the rogue, trapping it to death, and gathering and annihilating it in one fell swoop. ”

Fang Yuan thought of it with him, nodded and said, "Governor Gan, tell me what the four corners and six corners are." ”

Gan Hui brought a large map and drew circles on the map, "Sizheng is a large encirclement formed by Nanzhili, Henan, south of Huguang and Sichuan; Liuyu is the six armies that encircled and annihilated Li Zicheng. ”

"These six Zhizhi armies are clearly the 30,000 Nanzhi troops led by Jing Shuai, stationed in Hanyang Mansion; The 30,000 Fujian and Guangzhou troops led by General Feng were stationed in Huangzhou Mansion. These two armies cut off the way for the intruding army to march east to Nanzhili. ”

"Governor Li led 20,000 Huguang troops, and Jin led 30,000 Jiangxi troops, and first joined forces to garrison in public security. After Li Zicheng's troops left Jiangling, they crossed the river to occupy Jiangling and cut off the route for the intruding army to go south again. Then Governor Li led another 20,000 troops to the north to capture Xiangyang Mansion and cut off Li Zicheng's escape route to Yunyang Mansion in the northwest. ”

"I led 30,000 Jiangxi troops from Henan to Xinye, Nanyang Prefecture, and General Bai led 10,000 train battalions to be stationed in Xinyang, blocking the route for Li Zicheng's northern escape to Henan."

"There are also two mobile troops, that is, Admiral Shi's sailors, and the 20,000 sergeants under Gao Yuanjue's department converge to serve as mobile troops, cruising the Yangtze River, and responsible for the transportation of military rations on all lines."

He explained the state capitals where the Sixth Route Army was stationed one by one, and even sent two additional mobile troops, a total of Eighth Route Sergeants, and drew a large circle on the map, and said loudly, "In this way, Li Zicheng's army can only be confined to Chengtian and De'an. No matter which direction Li Zicheng wants to break through, the remaining three directions can continue to tighten the encirclement. Li Zicheng is like a caged beast, how many days can he struggle?! ”

Fang Yuan was overjoyed to see that he had planned so carefully, obviously he had already done his homework. But Gan Hui obviously missed the two strongest armies, one was Zhao Quanzhong's Xuanjia Iron Cavalry; One is a special operations army led by Zhang Ying.

These two were the most important armies for Fang Yuan, and Gan Hui couldn't overstep his command as a commander. In particular, it also involves the struggle of the veteran faction and the Fujian and Guangzhou factions, and he can neither stand on Zhang Ying's side and show fairness and strictness, nor can he dispatch Zhao Quanzhong of the veteran faction.

Fang Yuan said slowly, "What Governor Gan said is very true, so all the ministries will act according to Governor Gan's plan!" I officially appoint, the commander-in-chief of this encirclement and suppression is Jing Jie, and the deputy commander is Gan Hui! ”

"The generals should keep in mind that any military action must be based on the military orders of the two men, and they must not attack the army without authorization. If there is disobedience, no matter whether it is won or lost, not only will it not be counted as a war achievement, but it will also be punished by military law. ”

All the generals agreed to the promise and went to regroup their armies for battle.

Fang Yuan only left Zhao Quanzhong and Zhang Ying, who did not receive a military task, and their faces were full of stupidity.

Especially Zhao Quanzhong, this time he was robbed of the limelight by Gan Hui, and he was very unhappy.