The 10,000 former troops were all wiped out, and there were very few sergeants who fled back, which made Liu Zongmin frightened, he felt the sharp fangs of the Zheng family's army, 10,000 people is not a small number, and the former army commander Niu Wancai was also killed.

Ruicheng is only eighty miles away from Tongguan, and if the Zheng family army pursues the victory, it is already unknown whether he will be able to lead the righteous army stationed in Ruicheng to evacuate safely.

The rebel army in Ruicheng has long been prepared, originally planned to rush to the aid of Tongguan, Liu Zongmin made a decisive decision, all the troops evacuated from Ruicheng, and rushed to Shaanzhou in the starry night to meet with the army stationed in Shaanzhou, as for what to do next, it is still unclear now, it is unlikely to attack Shaanxi, and it is very good to be able to lead the army to evacuate safely.

Liu Zongmin thought of Gu Junen's entrustment, and at this moment felt that Gu Junen's consideration was completely correct.

After all, Gu Junen had a face-to-face confrontation with Zheng Jiajun, and knew Zheng Jiajun's bravery, so he strongly disapproved of the righteous army's attack on Shaanxi, and when the battle really unfolded, Liu Zongmin also had illusions, hoping to make a breakthrough in the battle of Tongguan.

The idea is too naïve and smacks of self-destruction.

After evacuating to Shaanzhou in one go, Liu Zongmin was slightly relieved, and he immediately wrote letters to Li Zicheng, Gu Junen, and others, reporting the situation of the battle of Tongguan and imploring the cancellation of the combat deployment for attacking Shaanxi.

Next, Liu Zongmin will never attack Tongguan, in the process of waiting for the order of King Chuang, he learned from the pain, and aimed the spearhead at the imperial army, the emperor and the imperial court are thinking about the righteous army and the Zheng family army to catch and kill, so that the righteous army is greatly injured, so that the imperial court does not need to spend much effort, can completely exterminate the righteous army.

As for the promise to canonize King Li Zi to become the king of Dashun, that is a joke. Once the rebel army is disabled and has no strength, the emperor and the court will stick out with a knife, where will they give you a holy decree.

Liu Zongmin believed that the main opponent of the righteous army was the imperial army, once it defeated the imperial army led by Yang Sichang. The rebel army can stride forward in the direction of Beizhili, and the front of the army will be directed towards the capital.

Only by occupying the capital can the righteous army have the capital to really compete with the Zheng family's army.

The rebel army fought against the imperial army, and had a great chance of winning, and after the battle of Songshan, the imperial army, there was basically no morale.

Liu Zongmin expressed these views and understandings unreservedly in his letters.

Zheng Jiajun did not take advantage of the victory to pursue.

In fact, Zheng Jinhong was thinking about pursuing, but at this time, Zheng Xunrui's letter arrived. The letter made a clear request that regardless of the outcome of the Battle of Tongguan, the Zheng Jiajun would not be allowed to pursue the Liukou.

The battle of Tongguan had just ended, and it was impossible for Zheng Xunrui to know the outcome of the battle, but the tone of the letter was so affirmative, indicating that he had made up his mind, which made Zheng Jinhong difficult to understand, but Zheng Xunrui's order must be carried out.

Grasp the overall picture above. Zheng Jinhong admires Zheng Xunrui, and every judgment about the overall situation made by his young master. They are all so accurate, almost exactly the same, and with the gradual expansion of the foundation, the young master has a judgment on the current situation that ordinary people can't make, although many people in Nanjing think that Zheng Jiajun can sweep the big tomorrow, even before this battle. Someone suggested that the Zheng family army take the opportunity to march north and exterminate it together with the Liukou and the Houjin Tartars, but the young master would never agree.

After reading the letter, Zheng Jinhong immediately made corresponding deployment adjustments, and Tongguan stayed behind with 5,000 Zheng family army soldiers. The officers and soldiers of the Zheng family army stationed in Wubao Town were withdrawn to Yan'an Mansion, and Yan'an Mansion also left 5,000 Zheng family army soldiers behind, and the rest of the soldiers returned to Xi'an and other places and were stationed according to the original deployment.

Zheng Jinhong himself quickly returned to Xi'an, and after handing over to Wen Kun and Hong Xintao and others, he led nearly 2,000 Zheng soldiers and soldiers back to Nanjing.

Nanjing Military Department.

Many people don't particularly understand Zheng Xunrui's arrangement, although Zheng Jiajun doesn't have to fight to the death with the rogue, but under the premise of dominance, it is also a very good choice to kill and injure the rogue, after all, the rogues are also the target that Zheng Jiajun needs to exterminate, not to mention that Li Zicheng's strength is already extraordinary.

However, Zheng Xunrui's order was that Zheng Jiajun should not leave Shaanxi, and it was enough to repel the attack of the Liukou.

Zheng Xunrui is not easy to explain the reason, now that it is the end of July, he is waiting for one thing, a thing that has had a significant impact in history, that is, whether the emperor Taiji of Houjin died suddenly in August.

This matter has an extraordinary impact on Zheng Jiajun, after the sudden death of Huang Taiji, because the heir has not been determined, the competition for the throne of the Qing Dynasty has produced a lot of shocks, Hauge and Dolgon are eyeing each other, and finally the young Fulin was pushed to the throne, and Prince Rui Dolgon became the most powerful person in the Qing Dynasty, and the white flag in the eight banners also became one of the three flags because of Dolgon, and the original blue flag was demoted to the lower five flags.

There is still a certain gap between Dolgon's ability and Huang Taiji's, at least in terms of the overall view, but after Dolgon took control of power, after years of tempering, he has indeed become a hero of this era.

Zheng Xunrui will not give Dolgon any chance to perform.

I don't know why, Zheng Xunrui has a faint melancholy in his heart, he doesn't want Huang Taiji to die suddenly, looking at the whole world, he can become his opponent, that is, Huang Taiji, if he can't really fight with this opponent, it is a pity, just like the top master in martial arts novels, there are not many, but the only opponent suddenly disappeared, and the remaining one has to experience the taste of being cold in a high place.

Of course, Zheng Xunrui did not allow Zheng Jiajun to take the initiative to attack, and the focus was still on taking into account the conspiracy of the imperial court.

There is no need for the Ming court to exist, and Zhu Youzhen should also withdraw from the stage of history, and then under the condition that the Zheng family army does not intervene, the imperial court army will be vulnerable and will be defeated by Li Zicheng, and when Li Zicheng enters the capital, it is when the Ming court collapses.

The Ming court will really fall this time, the so-called Southern Ming no longer exists, Zheng Xunrui and Zheng Jiajun control the entire south, and the Ming court has no influence here.

To put it bluntly and selfishly, Zheng Xunrui hopes that Chongzhen's seventeen-year history will repeat itself, in that case, he will be able to establish a new dynasty logically, and the next task of this dynasty is to truly unify the great future, so that the Han nation will begin to burst out with dazzling brilliance, and let the unbearable history after hundreds of years completely disappear.

Zheng Xunrui has the ability to do all this, he not only wants to build a new dynasty on the basis of the great tomorrow, he also wants to lead this dynasty to develop towards a higher goal, his vision will never be limited to the Central Plains and the south, nor will it be limited to the grassland, he will look farther away, this place will radiate across the sea to the world.

Zheng Xunrui can control all the situation in front of him, but there is one thing he can't control, that is, how long his life expectancy, although he is not yet thirty years old, but there are too many things to do, and every step of development needs to be careful.

From this point of view, Zheng Xunrui needed to make all the preparations for the expedition before April of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

"Zheng Jinhong is about to return to Nanjing, you have also seen the battle report of the Battle of Tongguan, maybe you are very strange, Zheng Jiajun occupies such an advantage, why did I order to stop the attack, did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, the reason for this, I don't want to explain too much, it doesn't take a long time, you can understand the truth."

"From now on, the Zheng family army began to be fully integrated, the total strength of the Zheng army has reached 200,000 people, the second army of 50,000 people stationed in Shandong, the water division of 10,000 people stationed in Shandong and Fujian, Zheng Zhilong The integration of the water division has not been completely completed, according to Xu Wanghua and Zheng Kaihua's predictions, after the integration, there will be 24,000 people into the water division of the Zheng family army, 50,000 people of the third army are stationed in Shaanxi, 100,000 people of the first army are stationed in various parts of the south, 45,000 people in Nanjing, 10,000 people in Huaibei, 5,000 people in Sichuan, 10,000 people in Huguang, 10,000 people in Jiangxi, 15,000 in Fujian, 5,000 in Yunnan, and 100,000 people in the First Army undertook the heavy task of stabilizing the entire south. ”

"This way of stationing troops, in fact, is not good, not to mention the dispersion of troops, it will also directly affect the conquest of the Zheng army, you all know that the situation in the north is unstable, once the main force of the attack is aimed at the imperial army, the chaos will come soon, at that time, the Zheng army must ensure that more than 100,000 troops go out."

"So we need to integrate the Zheng family army and adjust the deployment of troops."

"In my opinion, the Second Army in Shandong and the Third Army in Shaanxi will not be integrated for the time being, and the focus will be on integrating the First Army in the south, Sichuan, Huguang and Guangxi will be combined into one and 10,000 officers and soldiers of General Zheng will be stationed, Jiangxi and Yunnan will be combined into one piece, and 10,000 officers and men of the Zheng Army will be stationed, and Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places will be one piece, and 10,000 officers and men of the Zheng Army will be stationed, and all the remaining officers and men will be withdrawn to Nanjing, and the officers and men of the Zheng Army stationed in Huaibei will not be adjusted for the time being, and will be abolished after the situation in Henan is stabilized."

"Once the situation of chaos in the north appears, the Second Army and the Third Army will each transfer 40,000 people, and Nanjing will transfer 50,000 people, a total of 130,000 people to participate in the expedition."

"The situation in Beizhili and Shanxi, Henan and other places will definitely have major turmoil, I have written to Wen Kun, the governor of Shaanxi, asking him to write a document directly to Li Zicheng, telling Li Zicheng not to think about Shaanxi, the well water between Zheng Jiajun and him Li Zicheng does not interfere with river water, if Li Zicheng insists on being an enemy of Zheng Jiajun, then Zheng Jiajun will go out to completely exterminate him."

"I believe that at this time, Li Zicheng should have received Wen Kun's letter, and then the imperial court should deal with the huge Li Zicheng, our eyes are temporarily focused on the south, and within half a year, we will completely integrate the Zheng family army and completely stabilize the situation in the south." (To be continued.) )