Zuo Shouquan's main task in coming to the hinterland of the Central Plains again was to do everything possible to transfer the Han people to the coast and along the river.

Even if most of them are reluctant to cross the sea to the south, it is necessary for more people to escape the fate of becoming cannon fodder and survive.

Zuo Shouquan successfully persuaded Li Zhongzheng to abandon Kaifeng and go south to Nanyang Mansion, and the ruthless Nanyang prefect returned to his hometown Ding Wei, and now he is in charge of Tongzhi Gao Zhiyong.

The Gao family knew that the disasters in Henan had been going on for many years, and they were worried about the safety of the second son, so they sent all the henchmen of the family to protect Gao Zhiyong.

Gaodi's family members are well equipped, and the force value is not low, the relationship between the Gao family and the Huang family is too good, and more than 300 family members are carefully selected and trained by the "God of War" instructor.

Of course, the Gao family's participation in shipping and maritime trade over the years is not bad for money, and they have given enough money and food to complete the equipment produced by "Nanming", so the quality of these more than 300 people is no less than that of the "God of War" cavalry.

Gao Zhiyong has been conscientious and conscientious in the past ten years, he hates Jiannu and hates the Liukou, and has competed with the Liukou in Henan many times.

He saw with his own eyes the slaughter of more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians after Juehua Island was breached by Jiannu, and since then he has secretly resolved that he will never lay down his arms and let the enemy slaughter them.

With Gao Zhiyong's quality and family background, it is even more impossible to surrender to the thieves, and he is bound to fight them to the end.

The chief military officer stationed in Nanyang is not greedy for life and afraid of death, and he is supported by the money and food of the acting prefect Gao Zhiyong and Tang King Zhu Yuyun to lead his subordinates to stick to the city, Nanyang is also the fief of the king of the Ming Dynasty, and it is the residence of the Tang king, and the city is not small and very solid.

Li Duyan, who was deflated in Kaifeng, wanted to find a place in Nanyang City, but it was a pity that the civil and military generals and officials at all levels who held Nanyang City worked together to defend the city, and the thieves had no chance to succeed.

Li Duyan immediately decided to bypass the city and plunder, and sure enough, he lost the mulberry yu in the eastern corner, and even went to Neixiang, Zhenping, Xinye, Miyang, Yuzhou and other prefectures and counties, and the team more than doubled.

Gao Zhiyong got a report from the family team, knowing that the thieves were fighting more and more, and the number of people and horses reached a terrifying three and a half million, which was really not a good feeling.

However, the imperial court reinforcements have not arrived for a long time, and they have the responsibility to defend the land, and when the thieves and soldiers come back, Nanyang City may no longer be able to protect it.

At this moment, his old friend Zuo Shouquan came, and he persuaded Gao Zhiyong, Fierce as a Tiger, and Tang Wang to abandon Nanyang City and lead the army and the people and Li Zhongzheng to join together to defend Hankou.

Of course, their performance to the imperial court was also to be stationed in Gwangju. The Gao family is the "God of War" and is a hardcore person, Gao Zhiyong has long been yearning for the "Southern Ming", leading the army and the people to retreat to Hankou, and he can get the protection of the "God of War", so he immediately readily agreed.

Gao Zhiyong's recital was written in a high-sounding manner, packaging their abandonment of the city and fleeing as going to Gwangju to form a fist with the main force, so as not to scatter the defense and be broken by the thieves one by one.

The king of Henan was the first to bear the brunt of the city's ruin, and nine times out of ten he died, and the current Tang king saw that the soldiers and civilians of Nanyang had withdrawn where they dared to stay here, so he quickly packed up his belongings and ran away.

The court of Chongzhen's fifteen years has long lost its majesty, and most of the local warlords have disobeyed the yang and the yin, and there has been a strange phenomenon, the court rewards are no longer measured according to military merits and achievements.

Among the generals from all walks of life, as long as there are many people under their command, even if they do not contribute to the court at all, every reward is very generous.

If any general leads his men and horses to fight a bloody battle and loses his troops, there are few people under his command, and there is a chance that this general will be held accountable by the court or even beheaded.

The salaries of the officers and men under the command of the fierce tiger, Hu Dawei, Chen Yongfu, and other commanders basically had to figure out their own methods, and the military department wanted to transfer men and horses to fight all the way, and did not send people to send enough money to impress them, and these generals, who had tended to become warlords, simply ignored them.

Is it because these generals are too bad? This requires a split view.

The court is ungrateful and doesn't care about the life or death of the soldiers, the generals who support the army and respect themselves live a nourishing life, and the stupid hat that serves the country is difficult to continue and will be in a different place, no one is a fool, and the good people are slowly learning badly.

Fortunately, the thief general Zuo Liangyu in history was calculated by Huang Sheng, if there is this scourge, he will take hundreds of thousands of officials and soldiers who are worse than the thieves to eat the court, eat the rogues, eat the common people, and eat the big households, I don't know how many Han people will die in vain.

Several commanders-in-chief and civilian commanders unanimously wrote a letter demanding the centralized use of troops, but where did the military department have any reason for refusing?

In fact, the officers of the military department also knew that they did not agree, and the martial artists below did not listen to the dispatch at all, and a report to the military department was considered to be enough for the court to save face, and the court could not give face to shame, so they simply pushed the boat down the river.

Most of the soldiers and civilians in Nanyang know that the thieves are strong, and the Nanyang Dynasty is not safe, they don't want to escape, but they really don't know where to flee to be safe.

Now that I have a clear destination, I have heard the "God of War" propaganda team advertise widely, and I know that the new city of Hankou that is about to retreat is a tunliang city built by the king of Nan, which is as solid as the city wall of the Beijing Division, with plenty of grain and grass in it, and it can be fledged at any time with the back of the river.

The surviving people in Nanyang Mansion and the surrounding areas immediately took action, and the fierce as a tiger, Gao Zhiyong's family team and Zhang Xiushen's cavalry, who rushed to help, did not escort the people south, but took the initiative to attack the thieves.

There are great difficulties, Li one-eyed's hundreds of thousands of thieves and soldiers and homeless people have been encamped for more than ten miles, people shouting horses and children crying, and the chaos is not good.

was suddenly attacked by thousands of cavalry, and immediately turned into a pot of porridge, and hundreds of thousands of people fought with amazing momentum, and it was also terrifying to flee in defeat.

The thieves and the wandering wolves ran for a few days, and Li Duyan used the old battalion horse team to curb the rout, and when he came back to his senses and rearranged to prepare to encircle and annihilate the brave Ming army on this road, he found that the enemy had already run away.

From being attacked by the Ming army and rushing for dozens of miles in a hurry, to regathering the men and horses and arranging the troops to choose favorable terrain to prepare for a counterattack, more than half a month has passed, the thieves have been reported, and the soldiers and civilians of Nanyang Mansion have fled.

Li Zicheng, who was accustomed to fighting, understood the intentions of the Ming army and knew that the opponent was attacking instead of defending to cover the retreat of the army and civilians with a false shot.

It is not surprising that the thousands of cavalry who followed were commonplace Ming cavalry, but the cavalry that had become Li's one-eyed nightmare took the lead, although they did not hold high the banner of "God of War", but they also knew Li Zicheng when they turned into ashes.

Dusty memories surged in his heart, although those majestic knights seemed to be no more than a few hundred people, but the cold armor, Li Zicheng still remembers it vividly, and the vicious battles in the Meridian Valley often made Li Zicheng wake up from a nightmare and break out in a cold sweat.

It was that kind of cavalry that defeated him and King Gao Chuang's team, and King Gao Chuang's bad luck was intercepted, and he was lucky enough to run out in a daze in the chaos, and only eighteen horsemen were left by his side.