Ten days after Haoge's army withdrew from Xi'an and went north, Meng Qiaofang, the governor of Shaanxi, received an urgent report from General Chen Cang, and a letter from the soldiers who had escaped from Hanzhong was that Daniel Zhang, the general soldier guarding Hanzhong, was arrested by his mutinous Hui subordinates while he was drunk, and his head was cut off in front of the people of Hanzhong at the city gate.

The rebellious returning soldiers erected the Ming banner, opened the city gates, disarmed all the more than 2,000 Xi'an officers and soldiers who followed Daniel Zhang to Hanzhong, cut off the rat tail braids on the back of their heads, and recruited some of the strong ones, and the rest were all dispersed in all directions, and then beat gongs and drums to welcome a group of Ming troops coming down from Qinling to enter the city.

Hearing the news, Meng Qiaofang's hair exploded, and she reached out and threw the blue and white teacup on the table to the ground, and the porcelain tea spilled on the ground.

On the contrary, does this still take the Qing Dynasty in your eyes? Zhang Wenheng, the governor of Gansu, is incompetent, what kind of people are he raising, I thought it would be useful, but I didn't expect to vote for the Ming Dynasty instead, this Zhang Wenheng must be dismissed from office and arrested and imprisoned.

smashed it in the study, Meng Qiaofang came back to his senses a little, it is useless to say anything now, it is the right thing to recover Hanzhong quickly, Zhang Wenheng has to put it aside for the time being, keep him, and transfer troops from Gansu to attack himself from both sides, which is the best policy.

So Meng Qiaofang successively dispatched the general soldier Ma Ning, the deputy general Zhao Guangrui and others to lead the Guanzhong army Ma Xingye to Chencang, intending to borrow the road from Chencang to save Hanzhong, and at the same time, sent people to make a detour from Guning and rushed to Gansu to contact Zhang Wenheng.

Unexpectedly, Ma Ning and others just stepped into the territory of Fengxian County from Chencang Road, and they met the Han Hui coalition army that was waiting for the battle, and the army of nearly 20,000 people blocked the exit of Chencang Road tightly.

After a battle, Ma Ning was killed, Zhao Guangrui fled, 10,000 Qing troops in Guanzhong suffered countless casualties, and only less than 3,000 people fled back to Xi'an with Zhao Guangrui.

However, in this battle, the prestige of the Kuizhou army made good use of firearms to completely fight out, and the fleeing Qing soldiers went back to report that the Ming army had a new type of firearms, which looked like ordinary bamboo tubes, the length was no more than a foot, and the thickness was no more than an arm.

At this time, the people who detoured from Guyuan also came back, and they also fled back, they did not go to Ganzhou at all, and listened to the people who escaped there on the halfway road, Zhang Wenheng, the governor of Gansu, rebelled in Hanzhong, and was beheaded by Ding Guodong, Ding Guodong, according to Ganzhou, and regained his sight, and returned to the whole province to make a rebellion, which spread to all prefectures and counties almost overnight, and now in Gansu, there is no Qing Dynasty soldier, and there are Ming banners everywhere, and anyone with rat tail pigtails will be forcibly cut off their braids, and those who do not obey will be killed.

Two thunderbolts on a sunny day in a row shocked Meng Qiaofang suddenly fell on the Taishi chair, his whole body was paralyzed, he couldn't stand up, he fainted, and the people on the left and right hurriedly pinched and shouted Langzhong, and they were busy to save him.

The first thing Meng Qiaofang did when he woke up was to exhaust the soldiers in Guanzhong and defend the passes of the Qinling Mountains, he figured out that the rebellion in Gansu and the loss of Hanzhong were not isolated and accidental coincidences, and Zhang Wenheng's death was not a conspiracy, it was the impetus of a certain force.

He was lying on the sickbed, forcefully handling the military affairs of all parties, the Qing army also had careful work, and the Kuizhou army was so radiant, it was easy to get something if he wanted to know something, and soon, Meng Qiaofang learned that the person who planned all this was a general soldier of the Ming Dynasty named Wang Huan.

As early as when Haoge was still in Guangyuan, this person guarded the Sword Pavilion, walked alone in Yinping, killed Li Guohan, and then broke the Hanzhong and cut Tuge, and did not stop after succeeding, sneaked into the Qinling Mountains, stirred up the grain road in Guanzhong, and was haunted like a ghost, forcing Haoge to withdraw his army, and almost single-handedly resisted the westward advance of the Qing Dynasty.

Meng Qiaofang used his trembling hands to write down the information he got one by one on the paper, and then looked at it carefully, thinking carefully, and felt even more shocked, this Wang Huan, who turned out to be just a famous last-class figure in Sichuan, actually took advantage of the Qing Dynasty's conquest of Zhang Xianzhong, and said nothing, it seemed that it was not very effortless to pocket the entire Sichuan and Longxi.

With the lonely shadow of the lamp, Meng Qiaofang worked hard overnight to write an emergency letter to the Qing court in the far north, explaining the current situation in the entire northwest and the countermeasures he could take, hoping that the imperial court could send elite troops to reinforce Yunyun as soon as possible.

In this twist, the word Wang Huan appeared for the first time, and since then, this name that makes it difficult for the Qing court to sleep and eat will appear frequently in various official documents of the Qing army many times, and has become the norm.

However, what made Meng Qiaofang feel a little relieved was that after the Ming army occupied Hanzhong in Gansu, it seemed to be satisfied, and there was no intention of aggressively attacking Guanzhong.

The two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties, separated by the Qinling Mountains, were delicately peaceful, eyeing each other, vigilantly maintaining a balance.

Guanzhong is peaceful, but Ankang is in chaos.

He Zhen was originally extremely happy, although the fierce battle with Tan Bai, although it was supported, it was like a person drinking water, cold and warm self-knowledge, and the suffering, He Zhen knew that he was almost wiped out of the whole army, if the Qing army surrounded him for another ten days and half a month, it would definitely be He Zhen who lost.

So as soon as Tan Bai left, He Zhen rewarded his subordinates for three days in a row, and suddenly relaxed from the extremely tense edge of life and death, everyone was in a state of madness, and they were indulging in carnival for three consecutive days, no one was on the board, even He Zhen himself was also **** drunk, singing every night.

Three days later, it dragged on for a few days to sober up, and it wasn't until half a month later that He Zhen pulled the team and set off from Ankang with red eyes, wanting to try his luck in Hanzhong, but before he had gone far, he received an urgent report from the spies.

There is no need to go to Hanzhong, there has already been a change of people.

Wang Huan, the general soldier of Kuizhou in the Ming Dynasty, subdued the Qing general Mi Layin, together with tens of thousands of soldiers, has erected the banner of the Ming Dynasty in Hanzhong, and the entire Hanzhong Plain is full of states and counties, anyway, the squires and righteous teachers can be seen everywhere, and they have killed the Qing officials and set up the Ming banner, and attached to Wang Huan, and now Hanzhong, has long been surnamed Wang.

Only then did He Zhen remember that when he sent Li to Huguang, he did see Wang Huan when he passed through Kuizhou, and he was very impressed at that time, but wasn't Wang Huan in Kuizhou, when did he come to Guanzhong?

In this way, the situation has changed, He Zhen raised up, he is playing the banner of the Dashun Dynasty, not the guise of the Ming Dynasty, Dashun and the Ming Court, but life and death are not mutually exclusive, and if he goes to Hanzhong, he will inevitably have a vicious battle with Wang Huan.

Before He Zhen could figure out what to do next and whose territory to fight, someone came to the door.

A team of nearly 20,000 people poured out from the direction of Boryeong Mansion, although the armor was tattered but violent, and the big flag in front of the head was embroidered with the word "Li" in red bucket.