When he came to the warm pavilion and saw the emperor who was already sitting in the first place, Chen Xinjia immediately bowed his hand and waited quietly for the following.

In fact, when he learned that Emperor Chongzhen let him discuss confidential matters alone in the warm pavilion, Chen Xinjia was secretly happy, and the old eunuch of Wang Chengen really didn't look away.

The king's continuous exploits, coupled with the care of the celebrant supervisor, have risen all the way, and this time he strongly recommended him to be the uncle, but it is really flattering on both sides.

Not to mention saving a lot of holy expenses for the imperial court, if he behaves properly in front of Emperor Chongzhen next, it will not be far away to replace Yang Sichang's position in Emperor Chongzhen's heart.

Although the situation in Songjin improved, Emperor Chongzhen still had a worried face, and asked without raising his head:

"What is the situation in the five provinces?"

Since entering the cabinet, Chen Xinjia has felt more and more that the phrase "accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger" is really true, and he is unpredictable, Emperor Chongzhen's mind is often unpredictable, to be honest, he is not as good as Yang Sichang.

Chen Xinjia replied respectfully:

"Back to the emperor, the current situation in the five provinces is not too clear......

In mid-July, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Luo Rucai finally broke through the blockade of the official army and joined forces, and all of a sudden they became a big boost, claiming to be 500,000, and they attacked cities and conquered cities in Henan, Huguang and other places, and the officers and troops all fled in despair.

On the other hand, the official army is not optimistic.

Fu Zonglong and Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, saw that they could not intercept it, and they also joined forces, claiming to be 200,000 to the outside world, and sent generals to garrison the cities, spread out nets, and prepared for a decisive battle with the combined forces of Li, Zhang and Luo.

said that it was 200,000, but in fact, there were only 40,000 or 50,000 officers and soldiers left who could really go into battle, and most of them were tired divisions that had been defeated by the invading army.

Even if the two governors, Fu Zonglong and Yang Wenyue, intended to suppress the thieves, the generals below did not listen, and they were very afraid of Li Zicheng's name as the king, and they were ready to abandon the city and flee at any time.

Speaking of which, Li Zicheng lacks a horse team, and it just so happens that Zhang Xianzhong's elite horse team is known as coming and going like the wind, and most of the troops are homeless people, with great momentum but insufficient combat power, although the number of Luo Rucai's troops is small, but they are all excellent old battalions.

As soon as the three of them joined forces, they were no longer a rabble running around, and in terms of numbers and horse and foot combat power, they had far surpassed the officers and armies of Henan and Huguang.

In modern terms, the peasant army has undergone a qualitative change from the inside out, from a strategic guerrilla attack to a state of all-out counteroffensive.

Having said that, it also makes people a little embarrassed and emotional, thinking that when the Shandong army was in Henan, the peasant army was defeated by it, and the invincible king Li Zicheng almost died outside Kaifeng City.

However, Wang Zheng's ability to fight well was suspected by the emperor, not only even issued a holy decree to reprimand, but also let his soldiers withdraw from Henan, and now he is taking the main force to fight the fire in Liaodong.

In Henan, there are only Li Guoneng and Chen Yongfu who are foreign generals of the Shandong Army stationed near Kaifeng City, but Li Zicheng seems to be a little afraid, saying that he will not touch Kaifeng and Guide Mansion.

It's nothing, anyway, the place is very big, and it can develop when you go to other places, and the persimmons still have to pick up the soft pinch, and the most difficult ones to gnaw are left for the end.

In late July, Fu Zonglong and Yang Wenyue, two governors, gathered heavy troops to fight a decisive battle with the combined forces of Li, Zhang, and Luo, and fought fiercely at Mengjiazhuang in Runing Prefecture.

He Renlong was afraid that he would lose too much and be annexed by Zuo Liangyu, so he became Wang Pu and led his troops to flee first, and the other two commanders, Hu Dawei and Li Guoqi, resisted a little symbolically, which was regarded as giving Fu Zonglong and Yang Wenyue, the two governors, a face, and followed in the footsteps of He Renlong not long after.

The various departments of the official army became thieves in the early years of Chongzhen, scrambling to flee, no matter the soldiers and generals, they were unwilling to be left behind, as if it was the officers and soldiers who were chasing behind.

If you calculate carefully, the combined army of Fu Zonglong and Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, did not even last for seven days, Fu Zonglong was unlucky, he was caught by Li Guo in the chaos, and finally beheaded in front of the battle, and Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, fled to Kaifeng under the desperate protection of the general Wu Weizhong and his family.

It's a bit interesting to say, as soon as the army saw Kaifeng in front, they immediately turned the horse's head and stopped chasing, which really made people think about it.

Just in time for the foreign general of the Shandong Army, Chen Yongfu, the deputy general of the Kaifeng City Guard, inspected, and saw that it was Wang Dashuai's old Shangguan who had been in Denglai who had been defeated and returned, and he did not dare to slack off, and immediately took someone to take care of the good students in the city.

That night, Chen Yongfu, Liu Guoneng and others had been discussing, and finally decided to send the news back to Licheng and ask the Military Council Division how to settle it in the future.

Fu Zonglong is the governor of the Eight Classics, although high-ranking officials of this level have also died in the chaos in the past, but there is no way to verify, and they can't find it, and it is the first time that they have been caught by the peasant army and beheaded in front of the battle.

Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Luo Rucai's allied army morale was greatly boosted, and they immediately discussed whether to take advantage of the situation to fight Kaifeng again, if Kaifeng was defeated, Henan would be stable, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai felt that they could fight, but Li Zicheng said no.

There are so many soft persimmons outside that I don't pinch them, I have to pick up the hard bones, and he also says that he is the king of Chuang, and he has his own plan, and he will not fight and mess up with the king.

As he spoke, the taste changed, Li Zicheng went to recruit Zhang Xianzhong with the prestige of King Chuang, it was with a top-down mentality, but what kind of character Zhang Xianzhong was, he naturally didn't want to be subservient.

Although he didn't say anything at the moment, even if he only had one horse team, he was still thinking about leaving the Chuang Army and returning to Huguang to develop alone, the official army was so weak, it was not okay to miss the opportunity.

Luo Rucai is cunning and cunning, and he has been smiling as a peacemaker, but he has been avoiding Li Zicheng's questioning, and he has not mentioned the matter of returning to the Shun Chuang army at all.

The peasant army's meeting was quite harmonious on the surface, but the private committee had fallen apart, and the Eight Kings and Cao Cao saw that the official army was so weak, in fact, they were no longer willing to stay by Li Zicheng's side, and had already found an opportunity to leave Li Zicheng to find a way out.

After a while, the news of the Shandong army's "Songjin victory" had not yet arrived, but the news of Hong Chengchou's defeat in Songshan came first.

It is rumored that after learning the news, Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, "increased the amount with his hands, and was very excited", and Song Xiance even made a few hexagrams, saying that it was the will of heaven to break through and replace it with violence.

In retrospect, at the beginning of this year, Li Zicheng besieged Kaifeng several times with Yu Wei, who had been invincible in various places before, but this time he hit a nail.

The first siege was blocked by Liu Guoneng and Chen Yongfu, the generals of the Shandong Army, and although they made sufficient preparations for the next two times, they encountered Wang Zhengqin leading the 12th battalion of the Shandong Army to reinforce them.

Therefore, after the failure of the third siege of Kaifeng, Li Zicheng seemed to have been deliberately avoiding some state capitals, and later the court officials who were interested learned that they had nothing to do to distribute them in detail, which made them break out in a cold sweat.

What the Chuang Army and the peasant armies of various departments are avoiding are actually some areas that are relatively close to Shandong, and to put it bluntly, Kaifeng, Guide and other places that have been controlled by the generals of the foreign departments of the Shandong Army.

Further, wherever there is a Shandong army stationed, no peasant army from either the descendant or the foreign line will move.

In fact, after the battle of Mengjiazhuang, the peasant army was greatly prestigious, coupled with Hong Chengchou's defeat in Songshan, Li Zicheng was finally a little eager to try, but after several internal discussions, for some reason, he still did not enter the territory of Kaifeng.

Over time, some local micro-words appeared.

It is said that the Shandong Army secretly reached a deal with these rogues of the Chuang Army, so the rogues will bypass these areas.