In November of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, when the Han army and Zuo Liangyu were in the midst of a fierce battle in the Kuizhou area, the hateful Manchu Tartars once again entered the pass and plundered, attacked by Jizhou, broke Jinan, and plundered Shandong, and the Jinan massacre concocted by this group of robbers three years ago, this group of robbers attacked dozens of cities in a row, plundered the population, gold and silver, livestock and poultry innumerable, and the governors, governors, and general soldiers stationed in this area were afraid of war because of their different powers, and they could only pretend to be grandsons behind this group of robbers, and sometimes they followed as a robber, Like these Manchu Tartars, they gnawed away at the root of the Ming Dynasty.

The mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings, first Li Zicheng broke through Kaifeng and marched into Shanxi, and now Jianyu has plundered the Central Plains and swept Gyeonggi, all of which tell us that the Ming Dynasty, which is famous for its fierceness in history, is about to run out of oil.

Perhaps, this empire will be the same as when she was born, not only because of the restoration of China and fame abroad, but also because of the Son of Heaven guarding the country and the death of the monarch, but no Chinese son or daughter does not want the future and destiny of the entire nation to be buried with him, but this empire in its twilight years is so closely connected with the entire Chinese nation, sometimes it is impossible for you to completely dissociate the relationship between the two, and therefore, Yang Ming took the initiative to accept the appeasement when he defeated the first encirclement and suppression of the official army.

Although, there is a reason why he can't completely confront the huge empire, but more because he doesn't want to accelerate the demise of the Ming Dynasty because of his appearance, and from a certain point of view, he will become an accomplice of the Manchu Tartars. But since Ding Qirui was dismissed because he was defeated by Li Zicheng, Yang Ming took the initiative to accept the request for appeasement, and soon, Chen Yan, a bachelor who completely disregarded the interests of the imperial court, became the first overseer to lead the army to encircle and suppress himself, so he actually faced the same enemy with the Manchu Tartars during this time period, which was simply a great irony for Yang Ming.

The reality is always so absurd, but he can't give up the struggle because of his absurdity, although he sympathizes with this empire that once led the children of China to glory, but he doesn't want to be a fish on his board, so he chose to fight back. However, in the eyes of Chongzhen, the ruler of the empire, Yang Ming is not an elbow problem, and recently, Zuo Liangyu has broken Fengjie, Wushan, Liangshan, Xinning and other counties and caused the Han army to retreat in the land of the two counties, he is very satisfied, in his opinion, in less than a month, this small group of thieves will be wiped out, and he has instructed the supervisor Chen Yan that after catching Yang Ming, he must escort him to Jingshi, and he will be sentenced to death in front of Yang Ming in front of the whole world to make an example.

Zuo Liangyu's recovery of several counties in Kuizhou made Emperor Chongzhen forget his poor performance against Li Zicheng in July and September this year, and Emperor Chongzhen even had the idea of letting Zuo Liangyu transfer troops to Shandong to fight a decisive battle with the Manchu Tartars, but he knew that Zuo Liangyu was now a local warlord who could not be defeated, and he could not fully mobilize him, so he did not put this idea into practice.

Zuo Liangyu's performance in Kuizhou really excited the Ming rulers who were in desperate need of victory, and even the supervisor Chen Yan also accelerated the march, and arrived in Jingmen County within a month with Chen Hongfan, Fang Guoan and other officials. Chen Yan was very unhappy when he thought that his supervisor was far away in Jingzhou, and the battlefield ahead was completely dominated by Zuo Liangyu, so that he, the commander of the supervisor, almost became a subordinate official in charge of the assistant grain and grass. If it weren't for the coming of the autumn flood, Chen Yan would have been eager to fly to Kuizhou immediately and participate in the war against thieves.

Chen Yan was awarded the title of prince and junior prince because of the merits of Shandong Ping, and he was the second rank of the official position, and he also entered the cabinet as a second assistant and was in charge of the household department, these chips were enough for him to look down on countless high-ranking officials and eunuchs in the bureaucracy of the empire. But obviously, he is not satisfied with this, he is still wearing a red robe and jade belt, but he has not been given a python robe by the emperor like the first assistant Zhou Yanru.

However, just when Chen Yan eagerly took off his red robe to change the python robe to the thief who borrowed this time, an army of more than 10,000 Han soldiers had quietly approached his army.

The Han army that was approaching his army was the second and seventh battalions that had been moving in the four prefectures of Jingxiang.

The 2nd and 7th Battalions are now under the direct command of Du Xiaoyuan. As early as when he learned that the official army of the imperial court would encircle and suppress the Han army again, Yang Ming had the intention of sending a strange army deep into Huguang, and let this strange army disrupt the deployment of the official army when most of the official army entered Kuizhou and Huguang was empty. And let Plug Xiaoyuan act as the direct commander of this strange army, because Plug Xiaoyuan is the daughter of Plug Yinxi, the prefect of Changsha, who has lived in Huguang for many years and is more familiar with the situation in Huguang, and Plug Xiaoyuan has shown extraordinary wisdom in the Han army, Yang Ming has no reason not to let such a military genius who loves him and is brilliant insert into the military system of the Han army.

Moreover, the fighter that captured Zuo Mengeng and made Zuo Liangyu's lone army rush forward was created by Block Xiaoyuan, and the first formal proposal of the two-front battle plan at the church meeting was also proposed by Block Xiaoyuan, so Yang Ming had no reason not to let Block Xiaoyuan personally implement part of this plan. However, although Yang Ming was very confident about Gu Xiaoyuan's ability, the middle and high-level generals of the second and seventh battalions didn't understand it very well, and they didn't understand why their son wanted to let a weak woman like Gu Xiaoyuan command him.

Moreover, before blocking Xiaoyuan, the second and seventh battalions occupied almost the entire territory of Xunyang Mansion, and even the governor of Xunyang was scared away by them, even if Zuo Liangyu sent a partial division Li Guoying's troops to attack Xunyang Mansion, the second and seventh battalions were completely sure to repel Li Guoying's troops. However, as soon as Gu Xiaoyuan came, he seized the command of the second and seventh battalions, and decisively ordered the second and seventh battalions to evacuate Xunyang Mansion, causing Xunyang Mansion to be defeated, and Li Guoying's troops successfully entered Xunyang Mansion.

But what Xiao Yuan brought was Yang Ming's handwritten warrant, and Bai Qian, the chief secretary of the Jinyi Messenger, had also testified that Xiao Yuan was already a member of the temporary top trio, and in the current situation, he was the number two person in the Han Army in addition to Yang Ming, so the generals of the second and seventh battalions had to obey the order, not to mention, Liu Hei, the general and secretary of the second battalion, did not show dissatisfaction with blocking Xiaoyuan's command of the two battalions, and the other generals had to obey.

However, what the officers and soldiers of the two battalions did not understand was that this Miss Blocking asked them to retreat, but not to let them withdraw to Kuizhou, but to let them march into Jingzhou Mansion first, and then detour into Xiangyang Mansion, and later directly to De'an Mansion, and on this way, Block Xiaoyuan did not let them occupy a city to replenish supplies, and even encountered officers and soldiers who could avoid it, and if they couldn't avoid it, they would retreat first and then detour around the trail, so that Undoubtedly, the situation of the soldiers of the two battalions, who already lacked a mass base because they were fighting on the outside line, became even more difficult, and some soldiers who had surrendered to the official army could not hold on even more, and had the intention of becoming deserters or rebelling again.

Since Du Xiaoyuan wanted to take them around, the soldiers of the two battalions had no choice but to follow this young lady Jiao everywhere, anyway, if she was a little tired, there would be no danger to her life. But as soon as they entered De'an Mansion, before they had time to pretend to be thieves and fight local tyrants and inferior gentry to supplement supplies and rest, they were asked to choose a way to return to Jingzhou Mansion, and they rushed back to Jingzhou Mansion in a hurry. As a result, the complaints of the soldiers of the two battalions became even greater, and Tan Wen, the general of the seventh battalion, couldn't help but say angrily: "What is Miss Du, what are you going to do, let us go to Jingzhou for a while, and let us go to Xiangyang for a while, and now that we have just arrived in De'an, you want us to rush back to Jingzhou, isn't this playing tricks on us?" ”

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