Li Guo came to Zhongyang secretly, and Zhang Chu heard that he was coming, and quickly arranged a time to meet Li Guo. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Congratulations to the handsome, congratulations on the wedding of the handsome." Li Guo had already heard the news of Zhang Chu's marriage, and was busy congratulating him as soon as they met.

"Thank you, you and your uncle have always been good." Zhang Chu is still very concerned about the situation of this great hero in history.

"My uncle and I are very good, thank you for your concern." Li Guo said politely.

"Are you still satisfied with the weapons purchased this time?" Zhang Chu knew that Li Guo must have come to find him something.

"There is no problem with the quality of the weapons, everyone knows the things of the security forces, and the quality is consistently good. Only this time my uncle told me to ask if the marshal could sell some muskets and artillery. After Li Guo finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Chu with expectant eyes, everyone knows the achievements of the security army and the official army, and recently heard that Zhang Chu defeated the Houjin people in Liaodong, and everyone now admits that the security army is a rare strong army. They concluded that the reason why the security forces are strong is because of the advanced firearms of the security forces.

"I can sell you some artillery, but I can't give you some muskets. After the Chinese New Year, I will have a big war with Houjin, and now I urgently need to expand the army, and there is no rich equipment to sell to you. In addition, the army must have strict discipline in the use of muskets in combat, which requires a long period of training and the recognition of the troops by the soldiers. Now your team is large in size, but it is very loosely organized. Even with a musket, it will not be effective. If it weren't for your uncle's ambitions, I could have sent someone to help you put your team in order, but your uncle wouldn't have agreed. Zhang Chu still felt a little regretful that Li Zicheng refused to be subservient.

"Then we will have a chance to work together again in the future." Li Guo didn't say anything more. He felt that he had understood what Zhang Chu meant, Li Zicheng and Zhang Chu were both ambitious people, and this great ambition was to overthrow the Zhu Ming Dynasty and replace it, and there could only be one emperor in the future, and one day the two would have to fight for the world, and Zhang Chu would not be able to set up an excessively strong enemy for himself.

Li Guo returned to Li Zicheng's army with a weapon and reported to Li Zicheng about seeing Zhang Chu this time.

Li Zicheng was not surprised at all that he could not buy a musket, he thought that he could see through Zhang Chu's mind, Zhang Chu could not really surrender to the imperial court, and if he had the opportunity, he would definitely fight for the world.

The only thing that Li Zicheng couldn't understand was where Zhang Chu and Houjin had such a big feud, and repeatedly looked for opportunities to fight Houjin. Now he has brought the main forces to Liaodong to fight against the Houjin people, which in Li Zicheng's opinion should not be of any benefit to the development of the security army.

Zhang Chu can't count on it, so he can only rely on himself. At present, the combat effectiveness of the officers and troops transferred from outside the border is not at all the same as that of the rebels, and the rebels have fought many defeats in front of the officers and troops.

Throughout the winter of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the rebel armies everywhere spent time in running around to avoid the pursuit of the official army. A large number of rebels were wiped out, and many more were forced to join the revolt because of their lives. Throughout Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Henan and other places, the rebels are fleeing in all directions, and the officials and troops are chasing and suppressing them everywhere.

Emperor Chongzhen's good news in front of him was frequent, and every day he reported a great victory and eliminated many thieves, but soon there was news that a large number of thieves had been found. The generals of the rebel army also became more and more slippery in the war, trying to keep the backbone of their own team, not fighting hard with the officers and soldiers, and did not hesitate to abandon the exiles in order to get out. This gave the officers and troops a headache, and they did win a lot of battles, and they did not deceive the emperor, but the flames of the uprising could not be extinguished.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was also ruthless, and appointed Chen Qiyu as the governor of the five provinces for the first time. There have been many governors appointed before, but never before had a single governor have five provinces.

The authority given by the emperor to Chen Qiyu was to be the governor of the military affairs of the five provinces of Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang and Sichuan.

Emperor Chongzhen was forced out by the righteous army in this way, and the righteous army has always adopted the method of mobile warfare to swim within the provinces, and the generals of various places only want to expel the righteous army from their own jurisdiction, and it is difficult to carry out unified action, so there is an urgent need for a person who coordinates the overall situation. Hong Chengchou was originally the right candidate, but he was already the governor of the three sides, so this position fell to Chen Qiyu. However, this Chen Qiyu, who was temporarily brought in, is indeed a capable person, and Emperor Chongzhen finally used the right person once.

Chen Qiyu, like Hong Chengchou, is also a literati. He used a combination of appeasement and extermination in his area to extinguish a number of peasant uprisings, and his military talent gradually revealed, and finally ascended to the position of governor of the five provinces.

Team Qiyu's governor of the five provinces did a very good job. He knows what he should do, and he keeps doing it, without impatience or wavering.

Chen Qiyu ordered the armies of the five provinces to encircle and suppress the rebel army from the periphery, not seeking much success, capturing one place and consolidating another, and strictly guarding each place to prevent the rebel army from jumping out of the encirclement. On this encirclement and suppression work, Chen Qiyu did it for half a year, and in April of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Chen Qiyu finally came to reap the fruits of victory.

Chen Qiyu's tactics were very successful, controlling the range of activities of the rebel army to a very small range, and finally encircling most of the rebel army in the Shaanxi Carriage Gorge.

Chen Qiyu was indeed surrounded by most of the men and horses of the rebel army, because Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng, these famous figures in history, together with their own headquarters, together with more than 100,000 people, were trapped in this carriage gorge.

The carriage gorge is about 40 miles long, and it is no more than a foot wide. There were cliffs on both sides, and the officers and troops occupied the peaks on both sides, constantly throwing stones and arrows, and setting fire to the mountains and forests, and the rebels could not advance or retreat. At this time, it suddenly rained heavily, and the rebels had nowhere to hide in the icy rain, and the men became more and more sick, and the horses had no food and grass, and even their bows and arrows were wet and could not be used.

After a few days like this, I still can't get out of trouble, not to mention the attack of the official army, even if I surround it like this, I can trap the righteous army here.

The situation was critical, and the leaders of the rebel army, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others, had to get together to discuss countermeasures.

"The situation is very dangerous now, and if we don't find a way out of the predicament, we really have to explain here this time." Gao Yingxiang was the first to speak. Gao Yingxiang was the oldest among these rebel leaders and had the longest time to raise the banner of rebellion, so he was very respected by everyone.

"We are also dizzy, how did we come to this desperate situation." Li Zicheng was very annoyed, and it can be said that he made a very low-level mistake by bringing the team to the carriage gorge, and it was a mistake made by everyone together.

"Now is not the time to regret it, we need to find a way to get out quickly." Gao Yingxiang is actually very impatient, but he can't show it.

"This is easy to do, if you can't escape, you will surrender." Zhang Xianzhong's words shocked everyone present. (To be continued.) )