The land of Qin and Jin in Layue can freeze people's ears. Jinshui is completely frozen up, and you can run horses. This accelerated the speed of the East Palace's crossing of the river, but also created convenient conditions for the pursuers behind. Fortunately, after Li Zicheng entered Xi'an, he rectified politics and prepared to open the country and become emperor, sent state and county officials from all sides, and asked Tian Jianxiu to lead his troops south to Hanzhong to open up the hole road to the south into Sichuan. Judging from his intention to hope that the imperial court would grant him the governors of the four provinces, this time he must have completely absorbed the four northern provinces.

After Tian Jianxiu led his troops south, he broke into the camp and divided 20,000 horses, and the two generals Yuan Zongdi and He Jin pursued Bai Guangen's troops westward. Bai Guangen fled too quickly in Tongguan that day, not only did his family run out, but the loss of his family was not great, and he was afraid of being intercepted by Xi'an officials, so he went around the city directly and fled straight to Ganzhou, where the Shaanxi Xingdu Division was located. The imperial court can only acquiesce in this kind of thing, otherwise where else can it be transferred?

Li Zicheng took his son Li Shuangxi, his nephew Li Guo and Liu Fangliang's Zuoying army to northern Shaanxi. Mizhi in northern Shaanxi is Li Zicheng's hometown, and the ancestral grave is there, but it was dug up by Sun Chuanting, and the ashes of rotten bones have become fertilizer in the farmland. Li Zicheng personally went to northern Shaanxi, and naturally had the need to return to his hometown and reorganize his ancestral graves.

On the other hand, after Gao Jie's defeat and escape from Tongguan, he also bypassed Xi'an and fled straight to Yan'an, northern Shaanxi. However, with the defeat of his remnants, he naturally had no way to resist Li Zicheng's tens of thousands of horses, and it was estimated that he could only take advantage of the freezing of the Yellow River to flee to Shanxi.

"If Li Zicheng's army marches eastward, Zuihou will still have to fall in Hejin." Zhu Cihong pointed to the map on the bookcase and analyzed the movement of Li Zicheng's army. Because it involves the geography of Shanxi, the governor Cai Maode was invited to sit next to him, and if there is a problem, it can be corrected on the spot.

Zhu Cihong did not know where Li Zicheng crossed the river from the east to Shanxi in history, but from the analysis of the current actual situation, only Hejin was suitable for a large army to cross the river.

Hejin was named after the Northern Song Dynasty. In ancient times, it was called Jiangzhou, Longmen, and it is said that it is the place where Yu controls the water, so it is also called Yumen. This place is located at the mouth of the river, and the Yellow River is at the bottom of the river. As the second largest tributary of the Yellow River, Fenshui is injected into the main trunk of the Yellow River here. It is across the river from Hancheng in Shaanxi. It forms the throat of the Yellow River, and the narrowest part of the river is only ten zhang wide. Considering the need for grain and grass transportation for the eastward march of the army, as well as the safety and efficiency of crossing the river, crossing the river from Hanseong-Hajin line is the best choice.

Because Shanxi's defense to the west depends entirely on the Yellow River moat, and the Yellow River freezes between the wax and the first month, men and horses can cross the river anywhere. In order to strengthen the defense of the Yellow River and prevent the thieves from crossing the river and advancing eastward, Shanxi led 2,000 troops led by Xiong Tong, a deputy general, to the river. At the same time, Governor Cai Maode was in charge of the defense of the lower section of the Yellow River. Cai Maode led 3,000 people to Pingyang Mansion to garrison, and divided troops into Fenzhou. Hold the Yellow River Dragon Gate.

Cai Maode looked at the high-spirited East Palace officers under his seat, and he didn't want to listen to the crown prince talk about the geography of Shanxi, but he was surprised that there were so many generals in the world who were not angry and arrogant. He walked all the way from entering the camp, only to see the military appearance and order, two soldiers and soldiers in a row, three in a column, everything was in order. He originally thought that this army was led by a certain general in Qindi, and the prince was just a signboard in charge of it. Who knew that when observing the military discussion, it was determined that this strong army was indeed trained by the crown prince, and the crown prince was the only leader in the whole army.

Even the battalion generals did not like to call the court rank. And Le is self-conscious with the rank of East Palace, just like a private soldier!

This is fortunately in the hands of the crown prince, if any townsman dares to come like this, it is definitely a private official title, and it should be a rebellion.

Cai Maode turned his head to the crown prince sitting on the upper seat, and couldn't help admiring His Royal Highness's young and promising. It is really the expectation of Daming Zhongxing. However, he also remembered that today's saints are also known for their wisdom and diligence, but the state is still declining day by day. This is the destiny of heaven to die in the Ming Dynasty, how can the crown prince be able to reverse it? As soon as he thought of this, Cai Maode couldn't help but feel gloomy.

“…… So. Li Zicheng will definitely lead his army south after solving Yulinwei. Zhu Cihong silently calculated the distance in his heart: "Even if Yulin Wei looks at the wind and falls, Li Thief will not be able to go south to Hancheng until next spring." If he had thawed the Yellow River for ten days and a half at night, Shanxi might be able to hold it for another year. ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Cihong rubbed his hands, and a bright color flashed in his heart.

In the original historical script, Li Zicheng marched out of the east in February of the year of Jiashen, and completely captured the city of Beijing on March 19. Judging from the time, when he crossed the river, the Yellow River had not yet thawed, and the Shanxi garrison could not effectively resist it. If Li Zicheng can be blocked in the west of Shanjin Province until the Yellow River thaws, and the Yellow River can be used to defend the palace, he may really be able to survive this year.

Zhu Cihong had just raised his hopes for "one year's time", and turned his head to think of a news he had recently gotten. It was reliable news from the Mongolian side that the slave chieftain Huang Taiji died suddenly in Shengjing on the ninth day of August this year.

At first glance, it seems like good news.

Because Huang Taiji was really an even more terrible enemy than Nurhachi, he really brought the Jurchen tribe in the state of tribal alliance to the "national" stage, dividing the power of the Eight Banners and strengthening the central imperial power. If the Jurchens in Nurhachi's time were still Tungusic wild species, in the Huangtaiji era, a new nation of "Manchuria" had been born and a real state was established.

Militarily, Huang Taiji's shadow on Daming is too great, and there is even a legend that he "has never been defeated". Such a character who can bring a heroic aura to his side as long as he appears, of course, is best dead.

However, if you think about it carefully, there must have been a power struggle within the Qing State after Huang Taiji's death. According to the historical script known to Zhu Cihong, the winner of Zuihou was Huang Taiji's son Fulin, who would later become Emperor Shunzhi. At the same time, Dolgon, known as the "wise king", would become the regent of his uncle, and he would take charge of the Qing kingdom before the blessing of his own government.

In order to further unify the various ministries of the Eight Banners, balance the strength of the internal banner masters, and buy and contain their Mongol allies, they also need to gain more population and wealth out of practical considerations, and enhance their prestige...... Dolgon was bound to plunder the Ming Dynasty after the beginning of spring.

The so-called - "grab the west"!

What should I do if I don't have anything to eat?

Grab the West!

What should I do if I don't have clothes to wear?

Grab the West!

What if there is no one to work and farm?

Grab the West!

What to do if Mongolia is insatiable?

Grab the West!

What should I do if the flag owner is disobedient?

Grab the West!

Grab the West!

Grab the West!

Whenever the order to go out was transmitted to the various villages, whether it was the real Manchuria or the Baoyi Aha, they would excitedly shout "grab the west" and roar out. This has become a carnival of the Manchurians, the foundation of the Qing state. If someone crosses over to Manchuria and becomes a chieftain, it will definitely be tens of thousands of times easier than Zhu Cihong, and no matter what the problem is, it can be solved by "grabbing the west".

They can't beat the Shanhaiguan, and the traditional route to grab the west is to go west from the Shanhaiguan Pass, looking for weak links on the Great Wall to attack it. The Xuanfu and Datong lines are already full of holes for these bandits, and the entrance is too easy to find.

From this point of view, if Li Zicheng was really successfully dragged west of the Yellow River, the Donggong guard battalion still did not have time to develop and grow: it was impossible to watch the Manchurian captives go over and loot Hebei, Jinan, and even Shandong from under their noses.

The Donggong guard battalion still has an advantage against the infantry, but if it is against the Manchurian cavalry, which comes and goes like the wind, it is weak. According to Zhu Cihong's understanding, an army would rather be wiped out than survive in the early stage, and if the roots are not right, it will never become a pillar of talent. Then the fact in front of us is likely to be that the East Palace guard battalion is under the ugly iron cavalry, and the whole army is broken, not a tile.

Without the Liliang of the East Palace Guard Battalion, Zhu Cihong could only become a puppet who was dragged back and forth by the warlords, and finally fell into the hands of the Manchurian savages, and was convicted of "impersonating the prince" and beheading the city with an inexplicable name......

Zhu Cihong shook his head inadvertently, throwing this terrible, impulsive, and unwise thought to the back of his mind.

"The Jin soldiers still have to boldly cross the river, harass the thieves with a small force, and find out the strength of the thieves' army." Zhu Cihong's words changed and pointed to Cai Maode, the governor of Shanxi.

Cai Maode didn't expect to come to the audit, but he ended up with such a thing. He nodded subconsciously, and immediately realized that this was not the time to nod!

"Your Highness, there are really no usable soldiers in Weichen's hands." Although Cai Maode is not inferior to Feng Shikong in terms of broadness, his attitude towards the crown prince is completely different. This sentence came from the bottom of my heart, and I was so anxious that tears were about to fall. (To be continued......)

PS: Sorry, the second one is more likely to be delayed~~