(Thanks to the treacherous sacrifice of Palotine and the reward of mourning Wu Huaxia book friends)——

The first news was that Jiannu took advantage of the fact that a large number of Liaodong troops were transferred into the pass, and then raised troops to threaten Songshan and Jinzhou.

After Emperor Chongzhen heard the news, he immediately ordered that Cao Bianjiao, who belonged to Sun Chuanting, set off from Shaanxi and returned to Liaodong to help Hong Chengchou defend Songshan and Jinzhou, so as not to lose Liaodong.

The second news was Sun Chuanting's, and what made Cao Yue completely unbelievable was that Sun Chuanting had suffered a fiasco.

The specific situation is like this, because Kaifeng is in danger, and the anxious Emperor Chongzhen forced Sun Chuanting to rescue Kaifeng as soon as possible. Sun Chuanting did not dare to disobey, so he had to raise troops and rush to help, and arrived at Tongguan at the end of September.

During this time, the sky was not beautiful, heavy rain fell for dozens of days, the river rose suddenly, Li Zicheng decided the Majiakou section of the Yellow River, and the water irrigated Kaifeng. After the Yellow River was dug up, Kaifeng became Zeguo. Just when Sun Chuanting's reinforcements just came out of Tongguan, Li Zicheng had already waved his army south and evacuated Kaifeng, which had become a water town, so Sun Chuanting changed his advanced direction and waved his army straight to Nanyang.

Sun Chuanting was actually a very qualified commander, and he ordered the officers and soldiers to stop along the way, sneak through the mountains, and secretly approach the peasant army, intending to surprise and attack them.

In Jiaxian, Henan, the Ming official army commanded by Sun Chuanting sneaked to the vicinity of the peasant army led by Li Zicheng, Sun Chuanting ordered the general Zuo Xun to lead the left army, Zheng Jiadong to lead the right army, he and Gao Jie led the Chinese army to set up an ambush, and another general, Niu Chenghu, led the front army to challenge the people's army and lure the enemy deep.

At this time, after receiving a new order from the imperial court, Cao Bianjiao's department had already returned to Liaodong.

Soon after the two sides engaged, Niu Chenghu feigned defeat and introduced the rogue into the encirclement. After the rogue entered the ambush circle, the ambush soldiers on all sides protruded, and the rogue was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses. The Liukou who suffered a heavy blow had to flee to the east, and the overjoyed Sun Chuanting personally led the army to chase and kill for thirty miles, and Li Zicheng, who was directly beaten, was embarrassed. Keep running wild. However, due to the heavy rain falling again, when there was no way to continue the pursuit, Sun Chuanting had to order the hungry and cold officers and soldiers to stop the pursuit and rest on the spot.

Just when Sun Chuanting's troops stopped pursuing, temporarily rested, cleaned up the battlefield, and collected the spoils, Li Zicheng personally led the main force to kill a horse gun, and the hungry and cold officers and troops finally couldn't resist it, and the army was defeated. Sun Chuanting led the remnants of the defeated army to rush back to Shaanxi.

It was the nearly 30,000 Datong troops handed over to him by Cao Yue who protected Sun Chuanting's defeat and escape to Shaanxi, and without these 30,000 Datong troops, Sun Chuanting might have died in the chaos.

Hearing the news, Cao Yue was dumbfounded.

He knew that in the original history, Sun Chuanting had the defeat of Qiyuan, which was also an important turning point in the situation in the world, but he didn't expect that under the premise of many historical changes, Sun Chuanting still suffered a fiasco again. And it's pretty much the same as the original history.

One of the important factors in this is the weather, heavy rain, the use of muskets and other firearms has been greatly affected, and the combat effectiveness has been reduced; There is also Cao Bianjiao's ministry temporarily taken away by the imperial court. and Liu Zeqing, Kong Zhenhui, Zuo Liangyu and other departments stayed and did not cooperate with Sun Chuanting's attack. Without any of these factors, this fiasco would not have happened.

"Is the will of heaven really inviolable?" Cao Yue was a little frustrated. But he still hopes that Sun Chuanting can survive this catastrophe, and he is ready to personally lead a group of people. Rushed to the aid of Shaanxi and rescued Sun Chuanting.

At the same time as these two depressing news, there was another news that Cao Yue didn't know whether it was good or bad - Li Yan was killed.

Li Yan was falsely accused because of Liu Zongmin. It is said that he colluded with the official army and was ready to lead the army to surrender, and finally the suspicious Li Zicheng ordered Li Yan to be relieved of military power, arrested and killed.

This news also shocked Cao Yue, he knew that in history, Li Yan was killed shortly after Li Zicheng's troops captured Beijing and failed to fight with Jiannu in a stone battle. He didn't expect that his appearance and his contact with Li Yan led to the early killing of this outstanding peasant army general. This made Cao Yue sigh and sigh, he didn't expect that things would turn out like this.

From this incident, he can also see the struggle for power and profit within the rogues and the disunity of each other. Li Yan is an excellent general, at least Cao Yue thinks so. His unit was strictly disciplined, and Cao Yue knew from the report of the special guard battalion that Li Yan's unit was better than Liu Zongmin's men in terms of discipline and combat effectiveness. This is the strength he wants to fight for, and he is very concerned about who will lead this group of people after Li Yan's death.

He also thought of the Red Lady, although this woman was divorced by Li Yan, but Cao Yue knew that the Red Lady still cared about Li Yan very much, and he could imagine how sad and angry the Red Lady would be after knowing that Li Yan was killed. In a flash of inspiration, he immediately thought of a possibility.

The Red Lady was originally the leader of the Righteous Army, and her prestige in the army was not lower than that of Li Yan. If the red lady wants to avenge the murder of her husband, then she will definitely break with Li Zicheng, originally after this woman listened to his bewitchment, her original mind has changed, if she takes the opportunity to drum up again, it should have an effect.

It's a pity that now Cao Yue doesn't know where the red lady is, let alone how to contact her, such a great opportunity to win over Li Yan's old department but can't do anything, Cao Yue feels it's a pity.

But now, Cao Yue is most concerned about Sun Chuanting's safety, he doesn't want this historical minister to go to trouble as before, he hopes that Old Man Sun can still use his shoulders to support half of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Cao Yue was ready to immediately report to the imperial court and request to lead an army to reinforce Shaanxi.

But just when he was preparing urgently, he received a secret report from Sun Chuanting.

In the old department of Cao Yue's Datong army, there are still Cao Yue's cronies, who brought carrier pigeons from Datong, and Sun Chuanting passed the secret letter to Datong through these people, and the left-behind personnel in Datong received the news through carrier pigeons to Nanjing.

When he received Sun Chuanting's secret letter, Cao Yue was mobilizing his soldiers to prepare for the expedition, and his request to the imperial court had just been sent.

Sun Chuanting asked Cao Yue not to lead the army to ask for help in the letter, although he was defeated, he still had tens of thousands of horses under his command, and he could still resist by defending Tongguan. He asked Cao Yue to pay close attention to the training of the army, and not to let the new army that had not yet been trained to make fearless sacrifices. After he retreated to Shaanxi, he could continue to recruit troops, develop production, purchase weapons, and restore strength. "Sharpening knives is not wrong for woodcutters," this is Sun Chuanting's words to persuade Cao Yue.

After receiving Sun Chuanting's secret letter, Cao Yue decisively decided to recover the report submitted to the imperial court, stop the military operation to rescue Shaanxi, and continue the training of the new army in Nanjing.

Just two days after Cao Yue received Sun Chuanting's secret letter, a special person from the Yanziji camp asked to see Cao Yue! (To be continued.) )