Two days ago, the military rations had run out, and Bai Wang's envoys came one after another, but Li Guo was still unmoved.

A few days ago, when the news of Li Zicheng's killing in Wufeng Mountain came, Li Guo already knew that the Dashun Dynasty was over. The remaining subordinates are in flux, the generals have their own plans, and many of them are already beginning to prepare their own way back. Xiangyang has completely become an isolated city.

However, everyone can descend, but he Li Guo can't. Since childhood, he has followed Li Zicheng to raise troops, and even in the most difficult times, he never gave up lightly. What's more, he is still Li Zicheng's righteous son, and now, Zhang Nai's whereabouts are unknown, and he is not known about life and death, he is a thorn in the eye of the two great enemies of the Ming army and the Qing army, and he is a strange commodity to live in.

The world is so big, there is nowhere to live, he Li Guo doesn't want to die, but now he has to die.

The joint camp of the Zheng family's army outside the city stretched for dozens of miles, and there was no end in sight, and the siege of the city for days had already made Xiangyang City full of holes and crumbling. Li Guo didn't know how long he could hold on, but he knew that the final time would be getting closer and closer.

The families of his subordinates have begun to move to Bai Wang's department in Shanmiao Town, but none of the remaining more than 10,000 soldiers in the city, including the wounded soldiers, are willing to leave Xiangyang. At this time, the only regret and guilt left in Li Guo's heart was for them.

Li Guo let out a long sigh, silently pressed the handle of the saber with his hand, and his eyes fell on the mount covered in smoke and dust under the city walls, but it was screaming. The city was without food for two days, and now there is only slaughtering war horses to satisfy hunger, but at this time, Li Guo is difficult to harden his heart.

"General!" A pro-soldier ran up to the city panting, but behind him were a few woodcutters and men dressed as hunters.

"Yang Flip!" Through the faint moonlight and the fire under the city, Li Guo recognized the man at the head at a glance.

Yang Flip was dressed in a short Orion dress, and he was also wearing a beast skin with an unclear coat on his shoulders. His face was covered with plaster, and although he was tired, he finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Li Guo standing in front of him alive and without any major problems.

Seeing the old man again made Li Guo surprised and delighted, but then thought of something. "Brother Lin Quan asked you to come?"

Yang turned a salute to Li Guo, took the sea bowl handed over by Li Guo's own soldiers, and drank a bowl of water from the cow, then gasped and said: "The commander received the news that the Tartar army was about to go south in a blink of an eye, so he ordered me to travel under the stars and send a letter to the general and General Bai, please move closer to the north immediately, and we will send troops along the way to respond." ”

"Commander?" Li Guo was stunned.

Yang Chuan smiled. "The general doesn't know that the commander is the general of the family system, and now he has defected to the Shandong army. The general was appointed as the commander of the loyal battalion under the command of Lord Yang, the governor of Henan of the Shandong Army, and the commander-in-chief of the army, all of whom were brothers of our rear battalion. ”

Hearing that Li Yan defected to Zhu Ping'an, Li Guo's heart couldn't help but feel a little bitter. is obviously the leading civil and military general of the Dashun Dynasty. But he was forced to have no way out, until he defected to his opponent. This cannot but be said to be the failure of his father-in-law Li Zicheng.

But Li Yan can be like this, can he let go? After all, Zhu Ping'an is the prince of Daming, but Dashun is the culprit who pushed Daming into the abyss with his own hands, and even himself, the blood of the Daming clan on his hands is already countless. Can Zhu Ping'an truly accept himself as the generals and soldiers of the Shun army?

Seeing Li Guo's hesitation, Yang Fu hurriedly said: "The commander is clear about the general's current exit. I would like to explain that the general should not have too many concerns. King Rui said first, 'Survive the calamity and wave with the same root, meet with a smile and enmity'. Regardless of Mingshun, it is the same vein of Yanhuang Huaxia. Our Han people have suffered a great change that has not been seen in a hundred years, and we must work together to resist the Tartars. ”

Li Guo's body trembled, "...... Zhu, King Rui, did he really say that?" ”

Yang nodded heavily.

"After all the catastrophes, the waves are rooted in the same place, and we meet with a smile and a grudge!" Li Guo muttered these two sentences, and his eyes couldn't help but moisten a little.

"Pass me the order! The armies of Xiangyang, together with the generals, all followed the arrangement of General Yang Turn, and withdrew to the front line of Shanmiao Town in the starry night, and made peace with General Bai Wang's troops! ”

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In the early morning of the next day, when the Zheng army was able to launch the final onslaught with all their might, a large number of soldiers easily climbed to the head of Xiangyang City, only to find that the huge Xiangyang City had already been empty. Under the cover of night, more than 10,000 remnants of Li Guo's soldiers had already secretly escaped from the city through the water gate in the north of Xiangyang City, and they should have retreated towards Shanmiao Town.

This made Zheng Zhilong very disappointed. Xiangyang is the center of Huguang, the world's Xiongcheng, since the fifteenth year of Chongzhen Bai Wang's Eastern Expedition fell into the Dashun army on duty, the significance of conquering Xiangyang is extraordinary for the newly established Longwu Imperial Court, but also the best time for the Zheng family to become famous in the world.

Now, it is easy to enter Xiangyang City, and the so-called victorious words prepared in advance, such as the lives of all the troops, bloody battles, and the battle of the enemy chieftains, are useless. What's more, there is also Li Zicheng's righteous son Li Guo also escaped, he is the only remaining heavy general in the Shun army, his head is worth a thousand gold, and it is the most worthy trophy to show off. However, what is now in Zheng Zhilong's hands is an empty city.

But it is also helpless, Li Guo once released bold words that he wanted to live and die with Xiangyang, Zheng Zhilong also mistakenly thought that he would stick to death, but he didn't expect that this guy was also an insincere character, and he left the important town of Xiangyang and fled north.

Zheng Zhilong led his troops into Xiangyang and occupied the palace of King Xiang, where Li Guo had lived before, and the palace was in a depression, but the original pavilions and pavilions became the garrisons of Li Guo's personal soldiers, which were clearly military tents, so that Zheng Zhilong secretly scolded the generals of the Dashun army for being a bunch of clay legs who were violent creatures.

As soon as the generals of the Zheng army entered the city, they invariably set their eyes on the treasurers of the yamen in the city, such as the political envoy department, the inspection envoy department, the soldiers and horses left behind in the department, and the general military office. The so-called "Huguang is ripe, the world is full" is not a vernacular said out of thin air, this Xiangyang is also the seat of Huguang and the vassal land of King Xiang, and it is naturally even richer. Although Zhang Xianzhong's sack was in the early years, the Great Western Army came and went in a hurry, and it would never turn Xiangyang upside down. Moreover, the Zheng family's army gathered in Xiangyang. Seeing that the entire Huguang is about to be pacified, don't get some private goods to fill your pockets at this time, which is not in line with the tradition of the Zheng family's soldiers and horses!

As a result, the pirate-born generals of the Zheng family's army were like beasts that smelled fishy, and began to search for them as soon as they entered Xiangyang.

Zheng Hongkui was a little worried, so he hurriedly asked to see Zheng Zhilong. Ask Zheng Zhilong to order the restraint of all departments and rectify military discipline, after all, the war is not over yet, Li Guo and Bai Wang are retreating to the last stronghold, at this time it is time to finish their work in one battle, not to give the Shun army a chance to breathe, and make every effort to sweep away the remnants of the Shun army.

But Zheng Zhilong didn't think so, and changed into a regular home clothes, and the boring life in the army for many days also made him feel a little tired.

"Don't worry about it. Li Guo and Bai Wang joined forces. It has become a turtle in an urn in Huguang. Henan's thieves Liu Rukui and Liu Hong fought to the death and did not surrender, and Zhu Ping'an's generals Gao Jie and Guo Congkuan fought happily, where did they have the spare strength to rescue him. Now it has reached the stage of sweeping up the tail and cleaning up, Li Zicheng lost his life in Wufeng Mountain, and the generals under his command were scattered, such as Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Fangliang and others wanted to protect our subordinates, and they had already sent someone to hand over a letter asking for surrender. I'm also thinking about what's going to happen next. So he handed it over to them to fight, and it was better to vote for it. Whether it's a seniority, a thief can be used to suppress a thief, and you don't have to spend a single soldier, so why not? ”

"What about the Eastern Army over there in Xiangshui?" Zheng Hongkui still couldn't help but remind Zheng Zhilong that if he is not of my race, his heart must be different, and he must be extra vigilant against the Manchu Dynasty.

Zheng Zhilong sneered. "It's just 60,000 soldiers and horses, what kind of chaos can be set off in Huguang. He Tengjiao incorporated Shunjun Wang Jincai, Ma Jinzhong, Zhang Xianbi, Huang Chaoxuan, Liu Chengyin, Cao Zhijian, Wang Yuncheng, Lu Ding and other departments in Chenzhou and Changzhou, and expanded the number of soldiers and horses by tens of thousands. Yuan Jixian's Jiangxi soldiers and horses have also arrived in the Anhua area, as well as the men and horses of the governor of southern Gan, 10,000 yuan, adding up to 300,000 people. The Eastern Army also has to take into account the threats from Shandong and Henan, how can it be countered? ”

Zheng Hongkui was speechless, and could only advise Zheng Zhilong to "be proud of the army and be defeated" and other such advice, but Zheng Zhilong did not take it to heart at all.

As he spoke, Yang Shicong, the envoy of the Qing army, visited again. Listening to the pro-soldiers in the report, Yang Shicong's visit this time was huge, and there were hundreds of ox carts and carriages full of reward military funds alone.

When Yang Shicong saw Zheng Zhilong, he also looked beaming, and as soon as he met, he congratulated Zheng Zhilong on his immortal achievements in leveling the thief, which was enough to become a famous minister of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty.

Without waiting for Zheng Zhilong to ask, Yang Shicong sent Duoduo's congratulations, and directly explained that the battle of Huguang was about to end, and it was only a matter of time before the remnants of the Shun army were exterminated, and the Qing army would return to Shaanxi in accordance with the previous agreement with the Zheng family.

Yang Sicong said solemnly: "However, I also ask the Hou Ye to abide by the previous promise, and my two families will take Huguang as the dividing line and guard the border." From now on, our Eight Banners will launch a full-scale attack on Shandong and Henan, to clear Zhu Ping'an, a major confidant, for Hou Ye, and at the same time, to clear a major enemy for me. ”

Zheng Zhilong nodded noncommittally and did not express his position.

Yang Shicong didn't ask, but directly ordered someone to bring up a few women in strange costumes. "Lord Hou has every opportunity to work hard for state affairs, and the prince of my family specially ordered the officials to present these Mongolian beauties to serve in the military tent. The appearance is naturally not as good as that of the Jiangnan people, but it has a unique exotic flavor, and please smile at it! ”

Zheng Zhilong smiled, "Please also tell King Yu that his heart is ashamed!" ”

After Yang Shicong and several Mongolian beauties retired, Zheng Hongkui on the side hurriedly stepped forward and wanted to advise again.

But Zheng Zhilong's eyes suddenly flashed a cold light, and with a wave of his hand, he stopped Zheng Hongkui.

"Don't worry, I'm not a who lusts for beauty. From tomorrow, all the troops will be ordered to return to the barracks and be ready for battle! After the Eastern Army and Shandong were launched, when they were in full swing, our Zheng family's army was going north along the river, attacking Liu Rukui and Liu Hongqi in Henan in the name of suppressing thieves! He Tengjiao and Yuan Jixian and other troops launched a fierce attack on Shaanxi! (To be continued......)