And just when Cao Bianjiao led the army to break through Shengjing, Niu Jinxing, who was ordered to send an envoy to Sichuan, finally said that Zhang Xianzhong was moved through his three-inch tongue, and agreed to unite with Li Zicheng to resist the Ming official army.

But just when Zhang Xianzhong agreed to unite with Li Zicheng to fight against the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Guards led by the Red Lady broke through the dangerous Tongguan Pass like a bamboo, and the soldiers pointed directly at Xi'an, the "national capital" of "Dashun".

Tongguan is the gateway of Xi'an, there is a husband when the pass, ten thousand people do not open the beautiful metaphor, but that is the legend of the past.

The Red Lady fully comprehended Cao Yue's strategic thinking, and when attacking the city, she concentrated a large number of artillery.

In the thick black smoke and the sound of explosions one after another, the only thing they could do was to flee in all directions, find a place to hide, and avoid being killed by the artillery of the Ming army.

Some of the guards of Tongguan were also bought by the Ming army, and when the Ming army began to attack the city, they immediately gave up resistance and prepared to surrender.

Under heavy artillery bombardment, the north gate of Tongguan was opened, and the Ming army soon captured the north gate of Tongguan.

When the news of the loss of the north gate came, the rogue who had become a frightened bird was suddenly in chaos, and the south gate of Tongguan was also opened in a chaos, and more soldiers of the Ming Guards rushed into the city of Tongguan.

As a result, this fortified city, known as the natural danger, the gateway to the thousand-year-old city of Xi'an, was occupied by the Ming occupation.

From the beginning of the Ming army to the siege of the city, it took less than a day to fully occupy Tongguan City.

After occupying Tongguan City, the Red Lady did not delay, and ordered 5,000 men and horses to guard the outside of Tongguan City, and she personally led the army to attack Xi'an.

Li Zicheng, who was still waiting for news, heard the news of the fall of Tongguan, and his soul was immediately scattered. Li Zicheng is the same as Li Longji of Tang Xuanzong back then. Instead of arming to resist, he chose to flee. It's just that the escape routes are not similar, Li Longji chose to flee in the direction of Sichuan, but fled in the direction of Yan'anfu. Today's Sichuan is not the rear of the Liukou led by Li Zicheng, but belongs to Zhang Xianzhong's territory. Although Niu Jinxing proposed to unite with Zhang Xianzhong to fight against the Ming Dynasty. But Li Zicheng didn't know if Zhang Xianzhong would agree, of course he didn't dare to run in the direction of Sichuan, but fled for his life in the direction of Yan'an in the northwest.

As soon as Li Zicheng fled, Xi'an became an undefended city just like Li Longji's time, and the Ming Guards led by the Red Lady captured Xi'an with almost no effort.

When the Red Lady occupied Xi'an, the entire city of Xi'an had a population of less than 100,000 and less than 200,000. Among them, about 40,000 rogue troops were captured, and about 100,000 civilians were captured. The people and horses taken away by Song Xiance and other rogue backbones who fled with Li Zicheng were only 30,000 or 40,000 people.

In other words, with the addition of the army of Liukou, the population of the entire Xi'an is only more than 200,000. When Li Zicheng led his army to capture Beijing, there were nearly one million troops under his command. In less than a year, the rogue has decayed into this, which is something that the red lady never dreamed of.

The red lady doesn't have the same mind as Cao Yue. There is no Cao Yue's far-sighted vision and strategy. If Cao Yue saw all this, he would not be surprised. This past year. There were at least nearly a million people who fled from Shaanxi, and there were at least more than 200,000 rogue soldiers and horses who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty through various means, and many were annihilated. With such a crazy loss of population, Li Zicheng's "Dashun", even without the attack of the Ming Guards, could not last long. will be defeated.

Today's Guanzhong is extremely barren. The environment deteriorated, the people fled, and the original land of abundance became a large area of barrenness. If the emperors of the Han and Tang dynasties, who ruled the world according to Guanzhong, saw the desolation of Guanzhong today, I really don't know how emotional they would be.

At the same time as the red lady reported the battle report and the situation in Guanzhong to Cao Yue according to the truth. Drink the generals under his command, each lead the elite soldiers and horses, pursue the fleeing Jiannu, and must hunt down or capture Li Zicheng and the backbone figures under his command.

After receiving the news that the Red Lady led the army to capture Tongguan and take Xi'an lightly, Cao Yueting was surprised and very excited. He couldn't have imagined that Li Zicheng's "Dashun" was weakened to such a point, and the army led by the Red Lady captured the land of Guanzhong like a broken bamboo and recovered Xi'an. Xi'an was recovered, Li Zicheng fled, and most of his army surrendered, and Cao Yue believed that Li Zicheng's rogue forces would soon be eliminated. He originally thought that Li Zicheng, who was about to come to a catastrophe, would unite with Zhang Xianzhong to fight against the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't see this situation.

However, he will not let go of Zhang Xianzhong, as long as Zhang Xianzhong dares to continue to fight against the Ming court, it will be a matter of time before he marches into Sichuan. It's just that Cao Yue will no longer let the Red Lady lead the army to attack Sichuan, he will send other generals.

Shu Road is difficult, it is difficult to go to the blue sky, and the difficulty of using troops in Sichuan will be much greater than that of Guanzhong in Pingchuan, and the degree of difficulty is even greater. Cao Yue didn't want his woman to go through such an ordeal again, and the red lady could let her rest after making such a feat.

Soon, the Ming court issued an edict, changed Xi'an to the old name Chang'an, and became the Xijing of the Ming Dynasty, temporarily with the Red Lady as the governor of Chang'an, the main town of Shaanxi military affairs, exterminate Li Zicheng's remnants of the rogues, appease the people, and resume production.

At the same time, the Cao Yue faction had been trained by him, and Huang Degong, who had become loyal and courageous, led nearly 200,000 horses from three guards and nine guard divisions to prepare to attack Sichuan.

Cao Yue still believed that Zhang Xianzhong would unite with the remnants of Li Zicheng to fight against the Ming Dynasty, unless Zhang Xianzhong realized that the general trend had gone, gave up the struggle with the imperial court, and voluntarily surrendered. Since this is the case, let's strike while the iron is hot and eliminate all the two rogue forces in one fell swoop.

Cao Yue's idea was not bad, but Li Zicheng's movements were a beat slower, the offensive of the Ming Guards was too fierce, and the two major rogue forces did not have time to unite, and Xi'an, where Li Zicheng was based, was captured by the Ming army led by the Red Lady. After hearing that Xi'an was breached, Li Zicheng led the remnants to flee in embarrassment, he had promised Niu Jinxing to raise troops to help Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong, who resisted the official army, immediately stopped advancing, and after strict defense, led the army back to Chengdu, and did not dare to take the initiative to fight in Sichuan again.

Niu Jinxing, who knew that the general trend was gone, knew that he had no choice, and after disengaging from Zhang Xianzhong's department, he led those cronies who followed him into Sichuan to return to Xi'an, which had been renamed Chang'an, and prepared to surrender to the Red Lady.

Niu Jinxing knew that he had lost the qualification to bargain with the Ming court, but Li Zicheng's power had not been completely wiped out, and he, the person who was the prime minister of Dashun, was still qualified to ask Cao Yue for some conditions. He hoped that before he arrived in Chang'an, Li Zicheng's power had not been completely wiped out. If Li Zicheng's rout was wiped out before he arrived in Chang'an, then he would no longer be able to make conditions to the Ming court. (To be continued.) )