In a hurry, he flew to the capital like snowflakes.

The Spring Festival of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen is coming, it is said that it should be a comfortable time for the Spring Festival, even the officials at all levels in the capital have spring vacation, but Sun Chuanting, the governor of the five provinces, Wu Fu, the governor of Henan, and Fang Kongzhi, the governor of Huguang, do not have the slightest feeling of comfort, they only have anxiety and panic in their hearts, and the Liukou led by Zhang Xianzhong suddenly launched an attack on Xiangyang Fucheng, and the Liukou led by Li Zicheng launched an attack on Nanyang Fucheng in Henan again.

Liukou made trouble during the Spring Festival, which was really unexpected by Sun Chuanting and others.

In fact, there is an omen in this, all because the emperor and the cabinet put their minds on Nanzhili, ignoring the rogues who have been ravaging Huguang and Sichuan and other places, and after Sun Chuanting became the governor of the five provinces, he did his best to constantly exterminate the rogues, and the emperor and the court did not pay too much attention, but the power of the rogues has always been growing.

Sun Chuanting formed an army, the number has reached 40,000, respectively from Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang and Sichuan and other places, at the same time Sun Chuanting also took the initiative to recruit a part of the sergeants, 40,000 troops need a lot of expenses, the court can not give so much silver, so Sun Chuanting after asking the emperor for consent, began to raise his own food.

Henan is the hardest hit area by the rogue robbers, a large amount of land is barren, a lot of scholars and businessmen, were killed by the rogues, Sun Chuanting relied on the local government, the cultivated land was cleaned up, and at the same time organized the people to cultivate the land, and part of the cultivated land was redistributed, and Sun Chuanting's key management place, that is, Nanyang Mansion and Runing Mansion, after a period of governance, Nanyang and Runing and other places slowly calmed down, and the main force of the Liukou moved to Huguang and Sichuan and other places.

Sun Chuanting was self-aware, and he knew that the army under his command had not been expanded. It is rumored that the number of rogues under Li Zicheng's command has reached 150,000, and that the number of rogues under Zhang Xianzhong's command has reached more than 100,000, although these figures may be exaggerated, but with the 40,000 troops under his command, it is absolutely impossible to exterminate more than 200,000 rogues. Forcibly attacking Huguang and Sichuan and other places is tantamount to looking for death.

Sun Chuanting's only hope is that Liukou can make small fights in Huguang and Sichuan, and not make big troubles, which gives him plenty of time to expand the team.

During this period, Sun Chuanting wrote a letter to Qin Liangyu, the general soldier of Sichuan, hoping to get the help of the white pole soldiers and jointly attack Zhang Xianzhong, a rogue who entered Sichuan, and Qin Liangyu also replied, saying that the white pole soldiers were in the process of training. Once the combat effectiveness is formed, the rogue who has entered Sichuan will definitely be exterminated.

After receiving Qin Liangyu's reply, Sun Chuanting could only sigh, he knew that the newly formed white pole soldiers, if they wanted to form combat effectiveness, it was not a matter of a while, and the elite of the white pole soldiers were all in the aid of Beizhili, and they encountered the Houjin Tartar ambush. Almost all the army was wiped out, and it was necessary to regain its combat effectiveness. It's not a matter of a moment.

In other words, in a short period of time, the task of exterminating the Liukou can only be undertaken by Sun Chuanting himself.

The armies of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang and Sichuan could not be relied on, and it was good that these scattered garrisons in various places could defend the main cities. To say that the combat effectiveness of the Shaanxi Guards army is stronger, but Sun Chuanting has already transferred 10,000 soldiers from Shaanxi, so he doesn't want to continue to transfer.

A year has passed, and in places such as Nanyang Mansion and Runing Mansion governed by Sun Chuanting, the common people are stable. Moreover, Sun Chuanting also collected about 100,000 taels of taxes and more than 10,000 stones of grain, which was enough to maintain the army under his command for a period of time.

Sun Chuanting is grateful to Zheng Xunrui and Zheng Jiajun in his heart, he has fully felt that the stability of Shaanxi is very important for the fight against and extermination of the Liukou, Shaanxi is the nest of the Liukou, but after so many years, the Liukou dare not enter Shaanxi, they are afraid of the Zheng Jiajun, which makes it difficult for the Liukou to find a real sense of belonging, and Shaanxi is stable, the north is basically stable, and the places where the Liukou are wanton can only be limited to Shanxi, Henan, Huguang and Sichuan.

Nanzhili is garrisoned by the Zheng family's army, and Shandong is also garrisoned by the Zheng family's army, and the Liukou knows these situations, and they also dare not cross the Lei Chi by half a step, so the location of the Liukou's wanton raids and activities is completely restricted, Sun Chuanting dare not imagine that if there is no Zheng Jiajun's persistence, the Liukou does not know how much damage it will cause to the imperial court.

Zhang Xianzhong, who entered Sichuan, suddenly left Sichuan and led a large army to kill Huguang, and Li Zicheng, who was in Huguang, suddenly led the army to Henan.

The Rogues did not attack the cities for the time being, but they marched quickly.

This made Sun Chuanting even more worried, he didn't know what the purpose of the Liukou was, and the Nanyang Mansion and Runing Mansion he governed would obviously suffer a major impact.

The development of events is indeed going in the worst direction.

The Liukou led by Zhang Xianzhong suddenly surrounded the Xiangyang Mansion City in Huguang, while the Liukou led by Li Zicheng surrounded the Nanyang Mansion City, and the Henan Governor Wu Fu and the Huguang Governor Fang Kongzhi ordered the Weisuo army to resist desperately, and at the same time continued to write memoranda and documents to the imperial court and Sun Chuanting, explaining the severity of the situation.

The army led by Sun Chuanting was stationed in Runing Fucheng.

He only has 40,000 troops under his command, it is impossible for the soldiers to attack in two ways, it is impossible to stand still, since the Liukou launched a large-scale attack, he will respond to the battle, after careful consideration, Sun Chuanting wrote documents to Wu Fu and Fang Kongzhi respectively, the army under his command will hit Li Zicheng who besieged Nanyang Fucheng, Huguang's Xiangyang Fucheng, can only let the Huguang Weisu army desperately guard, once Sun Chuanting repels Li Zicheng, will rush to Xiangyang reinforcements.

Sun Chuanting also has selfish intentions, Nanyang Mansion and Runing Mansion, which he has worked hard to manage for a year, must not be destroyed by the rogues, so the food and salary of the 40,000 army under his command will be unsustainable, and there will be no food and grass to fight and fight.

Sun Chuanting reported to the imperial court for two reasons, one is that the army is stationed in Runing Mansion, from the geographical point of view, first to strike at the Liukou under Li Zicheng, which is convenient for action and combat, and the other is that compared with the Nanyang Mansion City and Xiangyang Mansion City, the Xiangyang Mansion City is strong and easy to defend, and the Nanyang Mansion City has been plundered by the Liukou many times, and the defense ability is limited, so he must first rush to the aid of Nanyang Mansion City.

Sun Chuanting's reason can only be said to be reluctantly established, Xiangyang Mansion City is more important than Nanyang Mansion City, both in terms of geographical location and strategic position of the city.

However, it is impossible for the emperor and the cabinet to ask Sun Chuanting to rush to the aid of Xiangyang Mansion first, after all, Sun Chuanting is the governor of the five provinces, representing the imperial court to exterminate the Liukou, and his combat deployment must be respected.

On the second day of the first month of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting led an army of 40,000 troops, left Runing Mansion City, and went in the direction of Nanyang Mansion City.

Sun Chuanting's worst analysis is that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong fought together, from the geographical point of view, Nanyang Mansion, Runing Mansion and Xiangyang Mansion are a triangle, and the regions of the three parties are only connected, if Zhang Xianzhong, who attacked Xiangyang Mansion City, took advantage of the gap between him leading the army to leave Runing Mansion City, and attacked Runing Mansion City, then Sun Chuanting was in great danger, he will face Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's front and back attacks, not to mention to attack Li Zicheng, it would be good to be able to lead 40,000 troops to flee quickly.

Therefore, when setting out from Runing Fucheng, Sun Chuanting strictly ordered the scouts to closely investigate the situation of the rogues under Zhang Xianzhong in Xiangyang, and if Zhang Xianzhong had any changes, he must report it.

With a nervous mood, Sun Chuanting led the army all the way in the direction of Nanyang Mansion City.

It is the time of the Spring Festival, the time is too special, the sergeants under the command of Sun Chuanting, the combat effectiveness cannot be high, and they are at an obvious disadvantage in terms of troops, and the victory or defeat of this battle is unpredictable.

The composition of the 40,000 troops under Sun Chuanting is also quite complicated, among which 10,000 Shaanxi guards are the strongest in combat effectiveness and the most obedient to command, and the 5,000 Henan guards are second, probably after many battles and battles, and have become accustomed to everything, 3,000 Shanxi guards army, some of them come from Datong, and the combat effectiveness is also said in the past, the 3,000 Huguang and 3,000 Sichuan guards are not flattering in terms of combat effectiveness, and the discipline is also a little loose.

The 16,000 sergeants recruited by Sun Chuanting are still good to say, most of these are young people from villages and towns, recruited from Shanxi and Henan, as long as they have food to eat and can get a meager military salary, these people are willing to work hard, speaking of which, most of these people are homeless, and they are desperate.

In a year's time, Sun Chuanting still did a lot of things, while raising grain and grass for the army, he did not relax the training of sergeants, he found that the sergeants of the Shaanxi Guard Station were well-trained and had good habits, so among the 10,000 sergeants, many officers were promoted, and these officers in Shaanxi trained the entire 40,000 army.

With the supply of food and grass and intensive training, nearly a year has passed, and the army under Sun Chuanting's command seems to have good combat effectiveness, during which they also conducted several small-scale battles and defeated the small stream of rogue soldiers who came from Huguangliu, which boosted the self-confidence of the sergeants.

But in any case, there are at least more than 100,000 rogues under Li Zicheng's command, and with 40,000 against more than 100,000 rogues, this battle is not easy to fight, and he has to worry about the union of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, Sun Chuanting can be said to have taken great pains.

Fortunately, according to the information detected by the Liukou, Zhang Xianzhong, who gathered in Xiangyang Mansion in Huguang, showed no signs of leading the army into Henan, and Fang Kongzhi, the governor of Huguang, was also in a hurry and sensed the danger facing Xiangyang Mansion. (To be continued......)