If defeated, he will be in a dilemma, and the turtle will retreat back to the hinterland of Taiyuan, and wait for the arrival of imperial reinforcements from all over the country to fight the trapped beasts, and finally it will inevitably end up with Li Zhang's disciples in the eleventh year of Chongzhen. In the mouth of these wine bags and rice bags, Li Xin was not without gains, he learned a fundamental reason why Taiyuan City could fall in a short period of time, that is, the hinterland of Shanxi, especially the area of Taiyuan Prefecture, where the plague was rampant.

It is said that when the thieves crossed the river, the scale was only a few thousand, and it could swell to 500,000 in a short period of time, because of the large number of fleeing victims, the thieves gathered more and more like a snowball, and by the time the city of Taiyuan was down, it was already claimed to be 500,000 people, and Taiyuan City has almost become an empty city due to the ravages of the plague. The thieves took Taiyuan City easily with little effort.

It was not so much that the thieves captured Taiyuan, but that it was the plague that captured Taiyuan for the thieves. Immediately the thieves played the banner of the king, and attacked the city everywhere, because there was a plague sweep in advance, most of the cities were almost empty, and the army was naturally captured.

This news surprised Li Xin, the news of King Chuang in Taiyuan obviously does not match the history that Li Xin is familiar with, according to the records, this thief should still hide in Shangluo Mountain and hold his wife to work hard to prepare to give birth to a son, how can he come to Taiyuan?

But the wheel of history has moved to this day, and Sun Chengzong not only did not die for the country, but also returned to the court to occupy an important position. Although Lu Xiangsheng collapsed, he was also saved from the embarrassing situation of dying and being wronged after all. Then, it may not be surprising that Li Zicheng is in Taiyuan.

There is also a possibility that someone has fraudulently used the name of King Chuang. This King Chuang was originally Gao Yingxiang's name, but since he was captured and killed, he was naturally a capable person, and Li Zicheng was promoted from a general to a king. In this way, it is only natural that someone will use it fraudulently.

Li Xin thought about it, these two situations have great possibilities, simply stop thinking, although the thieves are powerful, but the imperial court is the overall advantage after all, now there are three guards in the north to personally lead the troops to the south, and there are cabinet scholars, Governor Baoding, Shanxi, Henan Yang Sichang in the middle of the road, it is said that the south road to lead the troops to the north is Zuo Liangyu, the three-sided encirclement is gradually formed, no matter who the king is, presumably can not jump for a few days.

Almost everyone was optimistic, even Li Xin, who believed that victory in this war was a matter of time, the difference was how to win, when to win, and who would win the crucial battle.

Li Xin didn't expect it to be such a situation, judging from this, the only place where he could be useful was probably the siege of Jiedaizhou. Although the thieves claim to be 500,000, they are a rabble made up of some disaster victims, and the battle-hardened Ming army under Zuo Liangyu is too much worse than the main force of the Beijing camp led by Yang Sichang, and I am afraid that it will not be long before good news comes. Li Xin, who had this kind of thought, put all his thoughts on Daizhou City, and as for the affairs in the south, let them fight, and they couldn't grab it if they wanted to.

The Three Guards immediately went straight to Daizhou City out of Beiloukou, and at the same time, Li Xin returned the command of Beiloukou Fort to the general of Beiloulu. The general was grateful for this, and repeatedly stated that Li Xin would repay him sooner or later. Li Xin did not take this oath seriously at all, but only made a request to the general, sending him a few soldiers who were familiar with the local geography as guides. The general naturally agreed, and sent Li Xin out of Beiloukou with a thousand thanks.

The Three Guards, from the battalion officers to the ordinary soldiers, were full of optimism about the prospects of the war, especially the fact that they took Beiloukou without a single soldier in one bombardment, which strengthened this sentiment. But at this moment, Li Xinxin is not easy at all, after all, Daizhou has also been ravaged by the plague, and it is not a big city like Taiyuan, he doesn't know what makes this small city stand still, but he understands that after a while, Daizhou will have a little more possibility of falling.

Judging from the current speculative strategic development trend, whether Daizhou falls or not does not affect the overall situation, but it directly affects Li Xin, and Huang Yu is in the city nine times out of ten......

The three guards kept going along the inner side of the side wall to the southwest and rushed to Daizhou, there was no trace of people along the way, and only the ruins and broken walls were left when they passed through the bustling standoff, Li Xinzhen really looked cold, most of the thieves were originally the people of Shanxi, but once they were destructive, they were no different from the beasts, where were the Ming people. After the toss of this battle, even if the Ming Dynasty won the final victory and wiped out all the thieves in Shanxi, I am afraid that the final winner will not be the Ming Dynasty.

After Fanzhi, you can follow a big river from northeast to southwest, and dozens of miles away is Daizhou. Under the guidance of the guide, the Three Guards marched smoothly and quickly along the way. This was a pain in the back of the cart to drive the horses of the auxiliaries, hurrying slowly and still unable to keep up.

Suddenly, there was a ** voice behind him, "General Li walks slowly, wait for our house!" ”

Listening to Gao Shiming's voice, isn't this thing as cowardly as a mouse, how did he chase it here?

The person who came was really high, and in a moment he flew away.

"General Li, come back to Sanwei with me, it's a big deal!"

Li Xin was shocked, could it be that there was a situation at home? But then Gao Shiming's words shocked him even more.

"Just received an urgent report, Yang Xiang was ambushed by thieves when he got out of the well, suffered heavy losses, and returned defeated! Now it's only our family to send troops, General Li must not be confused, go back with our family......"

Gao Shiming looked like he was on fire, and he stepped forward to pull Li Xin's reins and was about to leave, while Li Xin fixed the horse.

"Gao Gong is slow, could it be that the men and horses of the Zuo General Army have also been defeated?"

Gao Shiming saw that Li Xin didn't want to leave yet, so he said angrily: "Defeat a fart, this guy has been watching from Jiyuan County, and now that Yang Xiang is defeated, he will not send troops." ”

Li Xin suddenly thought of a key point.

"When was Yang Xiang's defeat?"

"According to what the person who sent the letter, it is probably three days after General Wang returned to Datong."

Suddenly, Li Xin's heart sank suddenly, so to speak, Yu Jingcheng's army that defeated Yang Sichang was either going south or north at this time. If you go north, I'm afraid you can reach Daizhou now.

Just last night, Emperor Chongzhen's will arrived at Dasanwei, and Gao Shiming did not have to return to Beijing to assist Li Xin in fighting the thieves! Then the military report of Yang Sichang's defeat arrived, he was frightened inexplicably, once Li Xin's army was defeated, he had no more chips in his hands, wouldn't he have to explain it in Datong Mansion? That's why he risked his life lightly, and prepared to chase Li Xin back to Sanwei to preserve his strength.

Gao Shiming knew that among the three guards, who could convince Li Xin besides himself! But what he didn't know was that not only did he think highly of himself, but he also never saw Li Xin's heart clearly.

……

Hundreds of miles away from the Ming Jingshi, the great tomorrow Zhu Youzhen once again had a deep sense of powerlessness, the books on the imperial case were pushed all over the ground by his anger, Wang Chengen knelt at his feet, silently picked up one by one, and re-classified the stacks neatly.

"You say, are the ministers fooling me?"

Zhu Youzhen suddenly held the case in his hand, and his body trembled. Where did Wang Chengen dare to answer, he could only say that he didn't know. There were only a few candlesticks lit in front of the imperial case in the hall of Nuoda, and he had the illusion that the emperor's body seemed to be crumbling in the darkness.

"Don't you dare to say it, I say! Yang Sichang was defeated in one battle, what did he say before, what are the four corners and six corners, and the nets are spread on all sides, they are all bullshit? And that Xiong Wencan, appease, appease, how will it end up? Drink poison to quench thirst! ”

Zhu Youzhen raised his hand and slapped it heavily on the piece that Wang Chengen had just stacked.

Seeing some of the emperors who were out of control, Wang Chengen didn't know how to persuade him, he had just been hit by the Manchu Tatars in the past year, and now it has only been three months, and the fire of thieves that has been extinguished has been rekindled. Just received another military report, Zhang Xianzhong rebelled in Gucheng, and several other thieves also have a tendency to resurge. He didn't understand, it was obviously a good situation, how did he get to where he is today?

Just now, Zhu Youzhen drove away all the ministers, he was completely disappointed in the ministers, Yang Sichang was the most important minister he valued and relied on the most, what was the result? Defeat in the first battle, is it possible that all the previous things are not for fame and reputation?

The ministers did not agree with him to transfer Sun Chengzong to the south, and in Zhu Youzhen's consciousness, he couldn't imagine who else had the ability to turn the tide besides this person?

Zhu Youzhen stabilized his feelings, and wanted to continue to review the recital, but he suddenly became excited, and threw a recital to the ground, "Look, look, this is Li Xianfeng's impeachment of Zuo Liangyu's recital, supporting the army and respecting himself, waiting and seeing, Yang Sichang was defeated." Tell me, who else doesn't fool me? ”

The emperor has never been so out of shape, and he has never told anyone about his psychological activities, looking at the painful Zhu Youzhen, Wang Chengen suddenly remembered a person, who should be able to comfort the emperor's wounded heart, so he said: "Go back to Long live, the slave knows that there is a person, when, when he is loyal to Long Live ......"

"Who?"

"Long live how to forget, long live the three guards of the imperial pen Qinfeng Li Xin, Gao Gonggong sent a letter, this person heard that Taiyuan fell, the first one led 2000 tiger athletes to the south, and now I am afraid that he has already dealt with the thieves."

Only then did Zhu Youzhen remember that Gao Shiming beside him was still by Li Xin's side, and seemed to sigh with some comfort.

"Write it down, but whenever there is a report from General Li, you must tell me and listen to it as soon as possible!"

Then he seemed to say to himself: "Yang Qing has worked hard after all, should I give him another chance?" ”

Suddenly, his voice suddenly became higher, "Proposed to promote the general soldier of the three guards, Li Xin, the general soldier of Shanxi Town, and the soldiers and horses of Shanxi should be specially promoted, and the ...... Controlled by the governors of Baoding, Shanxi, and Henan Yang Sichang! ”