During the banquet, the woman in red gasped, then poured a full cup, knelt in front of Huang Degong and said:

"Little girl Jinniang, give a handsome cup. This cup, I wish the handsome Hongfu Qitian, comparable to the sun and the moon. ”

Huang Degong was a little embarrassed, and after glancing at a few people in the inner room, Wang Zheng knew that he was intending to ask, so he raised his glass and smiled:

"Huang Shuai doesn't want to see outside, I swear today, you and I have become brothers, just have fun!"

Hearing Anton Hou's words, Huang Degong's personal soldiers behind him also laughed loudly and urged repeatedly.

"Okay, I'll drink, I'll drink!"

Haha laughed, Huang Degong took it immediately and drank it all.

The Jin Niang did not hesitate, poured the second cup, and said: "This cup, Jin Niang wishes the handsome and General Gao new brothers, and will always be married." ”

Huang Degong looked very happy, Dong Youyin took the wine glass and shouted at him:

"This cup is also drunk, drunk!"

Jin Niang smiled slightly, poured the third cup, looked around at the few people in the inner room, and said slowly:

"This cup, Jin Niang wants to pay tribute to Anton Hou, Huang Dashuai, Lord Lu, Lord Yuan, Yue Jian Jun, General Dong, and all the heroes. I hope that this trip will be successful and successful! ”

The soldiers of the various departments laughed heartily, and the generals even called Jin Niang knowledgeable, and raised their glasses, Wang Zheng glanced at Jin Niang sideways, and his heart was happy, he got up and looked around the hall, and said with full of energy:

"Come, this cup, I should do it first!"

Afterwards, Wang Zheng sent his own soldiers to the Yixianglou in Suizhou City to redeem the Jin Niang, who only sold her art and did not sell herself, and acted as a personal maid.

In June of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the Shandong army arrived outside Suizhou City, and joined forces with Fengyang General Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo, Lu Jiude, the commander of the Nandu Jingying, and Weng Zhiqi, the general of Zhoushan.

On the same day, Liu Liangzuo made a rebellion in Suizhou, and the Shandong army calmed down in an instant, killing thousands of rebellious soldiers, and taking the head of the city to set an example.

That night, Anton Hou held a banquet in Yuan Shangshu's mansion to wash away the dust for the generals and commanders.

The Beijing battalion in the southern capital accepted the reorganization of the Ming Wei Army, and more than 2,000 old and weak people were dismissed and repatriated to Nanjing first.

Everyone was headed by Anton Hou Wang Zheng, saying that there were thieves such as the fourth battalion of the Gezuo and the monkey in Chuzhou, threatening the safety of the southern capital.

On 21 June, the various units of the official army swore in Suizhou City and went straight to Chuzhou.

Shortly after Anton Houtong led the officers and troops of various departments to leave, Chen Yongfu, the chief soldier of Henan, Liu Guoneng, the deputy chief soldier, and the general of the Shandong army, Xing Yidao, and other units, respectively entered the areas of Nanyang, Guide, and Fengyang.

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Xiangyang has been a traffic fortress since ancient times, known as "the southern ship and the northern horse, the thoroughfare of seven provinces".

Since the Hongwu year, all dynasties have been the channel of trade and cultural exchanges between the north and the south, and it is a rare economic center in the Central Plains, with superior geography and convenient transportation.

Xiangyang is bordered by Sichuan and Shaanxi in the west, Jianghan in the east, Hunan and Guangdong in the south, and the Central Plains in the north.

Niu Jinxing, the division of the Xinshun army, had previously tried his best to persuade Li Zicheng to seize Xiangyang, and when Yang Sichang supervised the division, Xiangyang was almost the base camp of the entire Central Plains official army, and countless grains, grasses, ordnance, and armor and weapons were gathered here.

"In terms of the world, its emphasis is on Xiangyang, which is the waist and kidney of the world, and if it becomes a foundation, it must first take this place."

Li Zicheng was convinced of Niu Jinxing's words and Song Xiance's hexagrams, and took advantage of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty to compete for Songjin outside the pass, and the hinterland was empty, so he easily captured Xiangyang.

In the months that followed, Xinshun branches spread out, trapping Dangzhou, Yexian, Shucheng, Bozhou and other places, the government treasury was swept away, and the official army was plunged for thousands of miles.

As for killing people and slaughtering cities, burning down city walls, and other things, even some people who have formed villages to protect themselves are not immune to this disaster that swept half of the world.

In the first battle of Suizhou, the Shun general Li Guo lurked in the burial post for several days, and suddenly led the brigade of elite cavalry to run out, defeating the Shandong army stationed in Suizhou to garrison Chen Huang's department in one fell swoop, with the first 3,000 heads, and became famous all over the world in a battle.

Xinshun King Li Zicheng named Li Guo as the general of Quan, and he was tied with He Jin.

However, the good times did not last long, and the Shandong Mingwei army released cruel words in Xuzhou, wanting to recover Xiangyang within three days, and the Zuo Liangyu Department occupying Xi'an was also about to move.

The official army was menacing, and there was a great possibility of setting off the third encirclement and suppression, and the Shun army was panicked, and as a last resort, Li Zicheng, the king of Xinshun, held a meeting one after another to discuss how to resist the Shandong army.

For half a month, God knows whether Wang Zheng boasted about Haikou, or because of the Suizhou incident, he wanted to completely start a decisive battle with Li Zicheng.

The other side is not an ordinary officer and army, and at this time, somehow, there are a lot of rumors and rumors from the peasant army everywhere.

"If it weren't for Li Guo who provoked the tiger in Shandong, how could there be an encirclement and suppression of Xiangyang by the officials and troops in the world today?"

"Brother is right, according to me, it is completely Li Guo's vanity that is causing trouble, causing our Xinshun and Mingwei troops to die."

Due to the oppression caused by all aspects of Shandong, since Xiao Yuanying defected to Shandong, many peasant troops in the Shun army defected to the battle and went to Guide and Kaifeng to join the Shandong army.

This trend could not be stopped, and even once appeared, the remarks that not killing Li Guo was not enough to set people's hearts, of course, Li Zicheng directly beheaded the people who said these words.

At present, General He Jin led tens of thousands of troops to be stationed outside Xiangyang City, Li Guo led the old battalion to enjoy happiness in the city, and the rest of the tens of thousands were stationed in Zaoyang and Yicheng on the periphery.

Speaking of which, the strength of the Shun army in various parts of Xiangyang will have 200,000 troops, even if Wang Zheng gathers the imperial court officials and troops in the area of Fengyang Mansion in Nanzhili to encircle and suppress it, at most, even if there is a tie, what is there to be afraid of.

But the situation is different, Zuo Liangyu, who usually suffers from "fear of plums", this time it seems to have been beaten with chicken blood, and five days ago, spies came to report, saying that this guy had personally led 200,000 left troops from Xi'an.

I don't know if it's true or not, but as soon as the news came out, it already caused an uproar among the leaders of the peasant armies in Xiangyang.

Everyone followed you Li Zicheng to drink soup and eat meat, but not to be surrounded and suppressed by the imperial court and throw his life here.

At this time, in the palace hall in Xiangyang City, Li Zicheng, the king of Xinshun, discussed countermeasures with the leaders of the peasant armies from all walks of life and the generals of the Xinshun system.

Li Zicheng's face is not good, it can be said to be very ugly.

Not long ago, Chen Yongfu and Liu Guoneng of Henan led their troops to recover Ruzhou, and Li Zicheng had no choice but to send more than 80,000 people from Gao Yi to increase the defense of Nanyang.

Immediately after, Xing Yidao entered Guide to repair Suizhou, Kong Luan and Xing Yidao joined forces, and they were about to enter Huguang from De'an.

As a last resort, Li Zicheng sent Yuan Zongdi to lead more than 60,000 people to De'an Mansion to garrison.

This time it is even more incredible, Zuo Liangyu led more than 200,000 soldiers and horses from Xi'an to the north, this is more than 200,000, in the inertial thinking of these people, if the Shun army wants to resist, the number of people cannot be less than the other party.

But since he became king, Li Zicheng has been more and less involved with the leaders of the original rebel army, and he has only thought of them when he has an urgent matter this time, and I don't know what these people think in private.

It really has to reach the point of burning his eyebrows, otherwise Li Zicheng would not have held this kind of conference in the palace that the leaders of all departments of the army can attend.

The specifications of this conference of the Shun army are really very low, the leaders of all sizes and the generals of the Shun army gather together, at first glance it seems that there are many talents, but the inside is a plate of scattered sand, noisy, very chaotic.

These leaders of the rebel army, such as Yidougu and Zhentianwang, who are quite famous, have long been dissatisfied with Li Zicheng, but when they saw that the Shunjun descendants were powerful, they dared not speak out.

After Xiao Yuan's battalion returned to Shandong, he was reorganized into the foreign department, and I heard that Yuan Shizhong was mixed in the garrison and pulled up a group of more than 2,000 elite soldiers.

Today, whether to go or fight will be discussed when the time comes.