In mid-October of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Huang Sheng received a letter from Princess Ma Xiangling from Shizhu in Sichuan.

In the letter, Ma Xiangling did not reveal a trace of dissatisfaction with the behavior of the prince and the beautiful lady, and also brought a lot of local specialties such as Shu brocade, Shu paper, and Shu embroidery to Kunxing.

The marriage between "Nanming" and Daming has long been spread all over Bashu, Ma Xiangling not only does not have a trace of mustard, but on the contrary, she is also honored, because she married Nanwang is a side concubine, and Princess Daming is about to become one of the side concubines.

Qin Liangyu is more scrupulous to abide by the etiquette of the monarch and the ministers, even if the emperor marries the princess even if he marries her son-in-law, Qin Liangyu will treat each other with courtesy, and the congratulatory gifts from the stone pillar are all Zhang Luo by herself, not limited by the thieves and soldiers in Shanxi, Qin Liangyu has the idea of coming to "New Hangzhou" to watch the ceremony.

Ma Xiangling's letter will of course reveal infinite lovesickness, she told her husband that because her mother knew that the "Nanming" army was fighting in Liaodong to build slaves, and the stone pillar soldiers were currently strengthening training, her mother was worried that Jiannu would be difficult to fight, so she launched 3,000 soldiers down the river to Liaodong to become supplementary soldiers.

After long-term observation, her mother found that the combat effectiveness of the all-firearms women's barracks should not be underestimated, and even asked her to take the women's barracks to Liaodong to participate in the war.

Another main purpose of Ma Xiangling's letter is to ask how the war situation in Liaodong is? I wonder if there is a possibility for the women's barracks to go to Liaodong to participate in the war.

Huang Sheng smiled dumbly when he saw this, Ma Xiangling saw that Liaodong was fighting lively, and wanted to personally take the women's barracks to fight for military exploits, and use his mother's proposal to test his attitude.

Sichuan can't be plagued by the rogue is one of the bottom lines, so Huang Shengzhen tried his best to lay out in advance, and spared no effort to support the development of the white pole soldiers, worried that Qin Liangyu would lead the troops out of Sichuan to suppress the Kou and carry out the bottom of the kettle.

Seeing that the arrangement has shown results, Li Duyan will soon send troops to capture the Beijing Division, and there must be no accident at this critical moment, if Qin Liangyu suddenly enters Hanzhong at this time, whether he wants to or not, the thieves will have to turn back and fight with the white pole soldiers.

The pseudo-"Dashun" country is in Xi'an, Shaanxi, and if the thieves in Hanzhong are lost, they will not expose their eyes to the white-pole soldiers.

Huang Sheng wrote a long letter to Ma Xiangling to explain the stakes, asking her to take the safety of her mother, the Qin family, and the Ma family as her top priority, and to take on the heavy responsibility of resisting the entry of the rogues and protecting the lives and property of tens of millions of people in Shu, and not to be capricious.

Ma Xiangling was very obedient, and immediately put down the idea of leading troops to Liaodong after receiving a letter from her husband, and used her mind to figure out how to stick to Bashu, of course, pestering her mother, and never leaving her Ma Xiangling did better.

Since most of the white pole soldiers in Shuzhong went to Liaodong to fight, they could only take a defensive position for a short time, and there was no large-scale conflict with the thieves. Qin Liangyu gritted her teeth and was hibernating, she was eagerly looking forward to her son and son-in-law returning to the division to clean up the liukou after destroying Jiannu.

In the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the thieves who seemed to have no worries marched eastward, attacking the city all the way, and countless Ming officials and generals raised their hands to surrender.

On February 7, the fortified city of Taiyuan fell, and Cai Maode, the governor of Shanxi, saw the thieves all over the mountains, knowing that he could not fight his way out of the siege, he chose to kill his wife and committed suicide.

Li Duyan received a lot of supplies in Taiyuan, and he ordered the whole army to rest for eight days, during which he coerced a large number of Shanxi people, and then captured Xinzhou in a battle, and then rushed to attack Daizhou, where Zhou Yuji's chief military officer was stationed.

Zhou Yuji held on in Daizhou, and was helpless in the face of tens of thousands of Shanxi people who were forced to attack the city with sticks and hoes, and the city was also full of people who fled into the city for refuge.

Zhou Yuji could only lead the army to break through and retreat to Baoning Wuguan, and the thieves successfully took Daizhou City, Li Duyan was high-spirited and refused to give the Ming army a chance to breathe, and immediately sent troops to pursue the victory.

Ningwuguan is located in the middle of Shanxi, and the legend is changed by the phoenix, so it is called "Phoenix City".

Ningwu is the traffic artery from Taiyuan to Datong in the north, the Ming Dynasty Jingtai built the Guancheng, and the partial pass, Yanmen Pass together become one of the three passes in Shanxi to defend against the attack of the Tartar cavalry, the strategic position is extremely important.

The end of the hero, even if Zhou Yuji is brave, what can he do? No matter how he prepared for the war, the lone brigade in Shanxi would not be able to compete with the hundreds of thousands of thieves, and it was only a matter of time before he suffered defeat.

The terrain of Ningwuguan is dangerous, and the thieves are determined to win, and the battle is quite tragic.

The thieves coerced the common people to storm the city day and night, and suffered heavy casualties under the fierce bombardment of the artillery of the Ming army guarding the pass.

Niu Jinxing offered a plan, and people wrote a large number of leaflets to shoot into the city, threatening the soldiers and civilians stationed in Ningwu Pass, "those who do not surrender for five days will slaughter their cities".

The thieves wanted to force Zhou Yuji to surrender, and when the Ming army's gunpowder was about to run out, some generals also persuaded Zhou Yuji to change his strategy and not blindly fight hard, but Zhou Yuji, who was "loyal to all armies", categorically refused.

Zhou Yuji not only did not surrender but also actively organized a defensive counterattack, he asked his subordinates to open the city gate to tempt thousands of thieves to break into the urn city, and then quickly dropped the jack gate to gather and annihilate, and won a small victory.

Due to Zhou Yuji's stubborn resistance, the thieves saw that the casualties were too large and wavered in their determination, and they were ready to give up on capturing Ningwu Pass, but Song Xiance, Niu Jinxing, Liu Zongmin and other generals unanimously demanded to insist.

The thieves launched another onslaught on Ningwu Pass, and soon they found that the defenders' artillery was getting weaker and weaker, and the siege artillery would never be returned again, and it became a one-sided artillery attack.

Liu Zongmin judged that the Ming army should have run out of gunpowder, and he loudly ordered the minions to inform them of this situation, and the thieves were greatly boosted after hearing this, and one by one they rushed forward as if they had taken stimulants.

Liu Zongmin personally pressed the formation, the front team of the thief charge was killed, and the rear team immediately followed up to replace him, and the soldiers and civilians who dared to take a step back were killed, and Ning Wuguan finally failed to resist this wave of strong attacks.

The thieves who shouted and scolded broke into the city, and the soldiers and civilians defending the city fell in a pool of blood, knowing that Zhou Yuji, who had the intention to kill the thief and had no power to return to the sky, did not give up, he continued to command the army and the people to fight in the streets, at this time all the Ming troops knew that they had reached the last moment of loyalty to the country.

Zhou Yuji's war horse was killed, he abandoned his horse and still fought on foot, covered in blood, and still scolded and refused to give in after being captured by thieves with several arrows in his body.

Liu Zongmin hung Zhou Yuji on a high pole and shot him to death, and then split his body with a random blade. Zhou Yuji's wife, Liu, has always been brave and strong, leading dozens of women to refuse to defend the public house, climbing the roof to shoot arrows at the thieves, and finally igniting a raging fire in the sea of fire.

"Die before you get out of the school, and win two lines of heroic tears." Zhou Yuji is respectable and lamentable.

The sixteenth year of Chongzhen should be the year of Li Zicheng's good fortune, this thief is simply invincible, and the good luck has continued until the beginning of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

It's a pity that this thief can't make a big deal, and then it will fall apart.

The sixteenth year of Chongzhen was also very important for Huang Sheng, and he was able to concentrate on dealing with the thieves after recovering Liaodong and then the Korean Peninsula.