Entering Kuizhou, the march began to become difficult, and the continuous mountains made it impossible for the speed of the march to be fast, and the gradually cold climate also made the sergeants suffer more.

The intensive training has shown its effect at this time, the so-called devil training of the Zheng Jiajun has never stopped, and the forced march is the focus of training on weekdays, and the soldiers have long adapted to the rhythm of the rapid march, whether it is a high mountain in front of them, or a flat river, whether it is a beautiful wind and sun, or a combination of wind and snow, the speed of the march will not be reduced.

Zheng Xunrui, who followed the march of the army, also gritted his teeth and insisted, but fortunately, the sweaty BMW he was riding was extremely fast, allowing him to keep up with the speed of the march.

Entering Kuizhou again, a familiar feeling came to my heart.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Zheng Xunrui once led the soldiers of the Zheng family army into Kuizhou, and trapped Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng and other rogues in Kuizhou and Banzhou, and when they were about to completely exterminate the Liukou, the Houjin Tartars entered the customs and plundered, and the Zheng family army was forced to rush to Beizhili to resist the Houjin Tartars, and Lu Xiangsheng, who took over as the governor of the five provinces, did not continue to exterminate the Liukou, but did not steady, so happy, and rashly attacked, causing Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong and others to flee, remember Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong who fled at that time, There are less than 1,000 men under his command.

Six years have passed, everything is human and wrong, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting and other commanders who exterminated the Liukou, sacrificed their lives on the battlefield, the power of the Liukou is getting bigger and bigger, Li Zicheng after occupying the city of Kaifeng, got a large number of supplies, the strength has grown sharply, the total strength has exceeded 300,000 people, Zhang Xianzhong after the transfer to Henan and Huguang and other places, the total strength under his command is close to 200,000 people, no matter what the combat effectiveness of the Liukou is, just from the strength of the army, the court has been powerless. I can't exterminate the rogue.

Zheng Xunrui was also worried, the Zheng family army he led to the expedition was only 40,000 soldiers, but he had to deal with Zhang Xianzhong's nearly 200,000 rogues, if it were not for the sharp firearms, which were enough to change the course of the war, Zheng Xunrui would never be so arrogant. However, Zheng Xunrui's decision. It also confused many people, including Fang Kongzhi, after all, the Zheng family army did not send many troops, and they thought that Zheng Xunrui's purpose was not to completely exterminate the Liukou, but to make a show for the emperor and the court.

You must know that Zheng Xunrui, who has the world in mind, has long exposed his ambitions, and he will not look at the official titles of the King of Xiang, the Crown Prince and the Scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion University at all.

It's a pity that everyone's judgment was completely wrong, and Zheng Xunrui went out this time. It must be to completely exterminate Zhang Xianzhong and his subordinates.

This time, Zheng Xunrui will not fall short, although it is said that the Eight Banners Army led by Abatai is wreaking havoc in Beizhili and other places, but it has nothing to do with him and Zheng Jiajun, what he needs to do is to stabilize the situation in Huguang and Sichuan and other places, that is, to stabilize the situation in the south and expand his sphere of influence. Once the rogues under Zhang Xianzhong's command were completely eliminated, the situation in the south was completely consolidated. The next step was the First Army of Nanzhili and the Second Army of Shaanxi, which entered Henan and Shanxi to meet and completely annihilate Li Zicheng, who had the greatest strength.

Zheng Xunrui's plan after exterminating the rogue, Zheng Xunrui knows it in his heart.

The official road is difficult, Liu Ze, who commanded the army, gave the order to forcibly march early in the morning, and the officers and soldiers of the Zheng family army who had not fought for a long time. The morale is high, and he can't wait to arrive at the capital city of Kuizhou immediately and start slaughtering the rogues.

After all, there are only 10,000 soldiers, Liu Zeqing is still a little worried, he is not afraid that he will not be able to besiege the rogue. is worried about Zheng Xunrui's safety, if Zheng Xunrui makes any mistakes, he can't bear the consequences, so in the process of marching, Zheng Xunrui not only has a thousand soldiers from the pro-military camp by his side, but also some of Liu Zeqing's pro-soldiers.

Entering Kuizhou, the army traced the river upstream, and when it arrived at Wushan, Zheng Xunrui suddenly issued an order to ask the army to rest for a day, on the grounds that he was waiting for the 20,000 Chinese troops led by Zheng Jinhong.

After receiving the order, Liu Zeqing was very anxious, the news that 10,000 troops had entered Kuizhou would definitely spread out, if Zhang Xianzhong, who was stationed in Kuizhou, learned of the arrangement and deployment of the Zheng family's army, he would definitely make all the preparations, at least people knew that he would lead the army to flee and go towards Shunqing Mansion, Tongchuan Mansion and even Chengdu Mansion, Zhang Xianzhong's original purpose was to attack and occupy Chengdu Mansion, so the pursuit process would be difficult.

In the military tent, Liu Zeqing looked helpless, Zheng Xunrui's expression was also very serious, and Li Yan was looking at the map on the side.

Liu Zeqing has already stated the reason why the army cannot rest in Wushan, mainly because he is afraid that the news will leak out, if Zhang Xianzhong abandons the city of Kuizhou and withdraws in the direction of Shunqing Mansion, it will be very difficult for the Zheng family army to pursue.

After Liu Zeqing finished speaking, Zheng Xunrui was silent for a long time before speaking.

"Mr. Liu, the reason you said is valid, and I have taken this into account, but after entering Kuizhou, I realized a major mistake in arrangement, if we can't make up for this mistake, our battle this time will also become a pursuit battle, and the difficulties we will face will be even greater."

Liu Zeqing's face was shocked, he looked at Zheng Xunrui, thinking that he had heard it wrong, when did Zheng Xunrui's arrangement and deployment make a mistake, every time the battle was arranged, the opponent did not have the strength to fight back, and calculated the opponent's every move.

Zheng Xunrui did neglect one thing, that is, the topography of Kuizhou Mansion.

The topography of Kuizhou Fucheng is very special, east of Wushan, south of Jianshi, west of Yunyang, north of Wuxi, its topography is backed by the mountain, the front is the Yangtze River, the official road branch is on the left and right sides of the city, it can be said that it is backed by mountains on three sides, one side is surrounded by water, such a terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, more importantly, the people who are besieged in the city can escape by boat after being unable to resist.

Zheng Jiajun 10,000 soldiers, mainly carrying Mauser guns, can deal with the rogues, but can not deal with the boat, in case Zhang Xianzhong chooses to flee by boat, Zheng Jiajun can only look at the river and sigh.

If you want to block Zhang Xianzhong from escaping by boat, the only way is artillery.

Although the news of Zheng's army's entry into Kuizhou was likely to leak out, Zheng Xunrui still ordered the army to stop marching at Wushan, and he was worried that after Zheng's army arrived at the capital of Kuizhou, not only would it not be able to contain Zhang Xianzhong, but it would alarm Zhang Xianzhong and make him more determined to flee by boat.

Zhang Xianzhong had been in Xiangyang Mansion for a long time, and the Liukou under his command had a special sailor, and it was not much of a problem to escape from Kuizhou Mansion by boat, on the other hand, Zheng Jiajun, the sailor division was mainly concentrated in Penglai, and this time he did not participate in the battle at all.

Of course, fighting on the Yangtze River, there is no need for Zheng Jiajun to dispatch a naval division, the Yangtze River is different from the sea, and the construction of its warships is also completely different, and artillery can completely block and sink ships on the Yangtze River.

Facing the unfolded map, Zheng Xunrui spoke with a solemn expression.

"Now I can only gamble, bet that Zhang Xianzhong doesn't know that Zheng Jiajun has entered Kuizhou Mansion, the news we released before, Zheng Jiajun is going to enter Huguang and Henan, not to mention Sichuan, even General Qin Liangyu, the general of Sichuan, does not know, once our former army arrives in Kuizhou Mansion, the news will be completely exposed, if Zhang Xianzhong escapes by boat, we are helpless."

"Liu Zeqing, sent scouts, informed Zheng Jinhong, and asked the Chinese army led by him to do everything possible to meet with the former army within two days, and the former army and the Chinese army can unite to truly encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong in Kuizhou's capital city."

Liu Zeqing immediately ordered the scouts to set off and go to inform Zheng Jinhong.

Zhang Xianzhong did not plan to stay in Kuizhou Mansion for a long time, his goal was Chengdu Mansion, Kuizhou Mansion City is in the mountains, the terrain of this generation Zhang Xianzhong is also familiar, this is a typical mountain sparse place, very poor, his 150,000 army, can not survive in Kuizhou Mansion, and Chengdu is different, the land of fish and rice, once the army captures Chengdu, there is a foothold, as for the white pole soldiers and Qin Liangyu, Ma Xianglin and others, he has not seen it in his eyes, after all, the white pole soldiers have suffered a crushing defeat, Almost all the army was wiped out, and the combat effectiveness of the newly formed white pole soldiers could not be compared with the previous ones.

The information of Kuizhou Mansion is very closed, until Zheng Jiajun left Wuchang Mansion, Zhang Xianzhong learned that Zheng Jiajun participated in the battle, this news made his heart tremble, Zheng Jiajun's courage He knew very well that although there were nearly 200,000 troops under his command, it was by no means Zheng Jiajun's opponent.

Zhang Xianzhong quickly sent an order to Ai Nengqi in Yunyang, asking Ai Nengqi to pay attention to the situation in the area of Xiangyang Mansion at any time, and if he found that Zheng Jiajun had arrived in Xiangyang Mansion, he would immediately lead the army to evacuate and enter Kuizhou.

From the intelligence obtained from all sides, as well as Zhang Xianzhong's own analysis, he believed that Zheng Jiajun would not enter Sichuan, and it was very likely that he would fight in Huguang and Henan, especially in Henan, where Li Zicheng occupied the city of Kaifeng, which made the Ming court unbearable.

Zhang Xianzhong, who was about to leave Kuizhou Mansion and move towards Shunqing Mansion, temporarily stopped his actions, he knew very well that if he attacked Chengdu Mansion at this time, it would definitely attract the attention of the imperial court, and arouse the attention of the imperial court, that is, the attention of Zheng Jiajun, and when Zheng Jiajun entered Sichuan, then he Zhang Xianzhong would encounter huge trouble.

Let Zheng Jiajun deal with Li Zicheng, once Zheng Jiajun and Li Zicheng fight each other, then his opportunity to Zhang Xianzhong will come, he can take the opportunity to attack Chengdu Mansion, as long as he takes Chengdu Mansion City, with the help of its special terrain, he can deal with Zheng Jiajun.

In Zhang Xianzhong's view, the Central Plains is special, if he has been stranded in Henan and Huguang and other places, it is difficult to fight a bloody way, and Li Zicheng's strength is getting stronger and stronger, it is no longer something he can compare, one mountain does not allow two tigers, in this case, choosing to enter Sichuan, which has special terrain, and dividing it in Chengdu is the best way.

As for how to deal with Zheng Jiajun, Zhang Xianzhong hasn't thought about it so much. (To be continued.) )