12-8o Upheaval

After the banner of the prison country was erected in Xuzhou, loyal and patriotic people from all sides came to vote, north and south of the great river, inside and outside the Great Wall, there were still righteous scholars and scattered old departments of the Red Shirt Army who traveled thousands of miles to wade through mountains and rivers, and there were especially many scholars from the south of the Yangtze River, whether it was the Apocalypse or the Hongguang government, they were powerless to stop this trend.

Overseas reinforcements are also in a steady stream of 6, since Liu Ziguang has torn his face with the emperor, there is no need for Sun Qi in Shandong to continue to be a mole, the docks in Qingdao and Haizhou are open day and night, receiving the Red Shirts from the Goryeo and Wa Sea Shipping, in addition to the Red Shirts, there are tens of thousands of Goryeo Japanese Imperial Army, these auxiliary troops do not fight on the front line, just act as cheap people, plus the recruits recruited in Shandong and Henan, Liu Ziguang's army is growing in a snowball. The Liguo Iron Works worked overtime to produce weapons and armor, but it couldn't keep up, so it had to unite the surrounding small workshops to make a spear head, and the bamboo pole was a spear, so it could arm a person.

There are more soldiers, the problem comes, the military salary, grain and grass, the barracks, all money, but Liu Ziguang has nothing else now, that is, there is a lot of money, in addition to the hundreds of carts of treasures that the Xixia people helped him loot, there are also millions of taels of silver levied by the Goryeo Wa State, of course, the biggest head is the family foundation of the old father-in-law Hu Xueyan--- 100 million taels of silver, the military expenses are simply abundant, and I don't know how to spend the more.

In order to manage these personnel and money, Liu Ziguang had no choice but to establish six yamen in Xuzhou, and handed over the personnel to Shi Kefa to be responsible, so that he could be appointed as the secretary of the ministry, and Li Yan was asked to do the secretary of the military department, and the secretary of the Ministry of Industry was still Song Yingxing, and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites was temporarily useless, so he gave a false position to Qian Qianyi, who lived in seclusion in Jiangnan and did not ask about the world, so as to win over the people of Donglin, and the work of the criminal department was handed over to Zhong Shouyong to be responsible. As for the financial power, it is naturally in the hands of his old father-in-law, Hu Xueyan, who is in charge of the money, rest assured.

The general trend of the world has changed abruptly, originally thought that he could create a foundation of the stiff and jumped, now he and Liu Zongmin are grasshoppers on a rope, although the Hongguang regime occupies the capital, but the strength is the weakest, in addition to Liu Zongmin's more than 10,000 Western troops, there are only a few thousand unreliable Beijing camp troops, the two sides are often frictional, people have a headache, Liu Zongmin's troops are many years of horse thieves, combat effectiveness is good, temperament is also wild, after coming to the capital of the flower world, like a mouse into the rice tank, all day long know to drink and have fun, robbery and brawl, Liu Zongmin himself is also a guy who can't get on the stage, the situation is so tense that he doesn't know how to be afraid, he spends every day drinking, indulging in alcoholic beauty.

Liu Zongmin said, don't look at Anu is finished, her husband Galdan still has an army of 500,000 who hasn't moved at all, and now he has also arrived outside Tongguan, and it will be a matter of time before he enters the Central Plains, as long as the Xixia army comes in, the situation in the world will be different again, don't look at Liu Ziguang's happiness now, he will have to pull the list in two days. Besides, the husband lives a lifetime, isn't it just a pleasure, he Liu Zongmin has ridden a fierce horse, a beautiful woman in the sun, drank alcohol, been a king and a tyrant, and slept on the dragon bed, there are no regrets in this life, it's a big deal to go back and continue to be a horse thief, afraid of a bird.

Liu Zongmin is a single, naturally not afraid, but he is a scholar in the south of the Yangtze River, a scholarly family, and he is bent on thinking about the eternal life, he knows that history is written by the victors, such as today's chaos, whoever can win is a big hero, the process, there are literati to whitewash, he risked to be Cao Cao, to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, to achieve the foundation of eternity. Although Liu Zongmin is vulgar, he can still be of some use at the moment, so I will cooperate with him for the time being, and when there is a replacement in the future, I will kill him first!

Kill Liu Zongmin is a matter of the future, now he has to rely on his soldiers and horses to clear the anti-thieves near the capital, to say that the Hongguang regime is really pitiful, the government decree does not go out of Nanjing City, out of the city wall is the world of anti-thieves, these anti-thieves are mainly in the original Nanchang, Jinyiwei and Tiandihui and other non-governmental organizations, although the number is not much, but familiar with the terrain, the tactics are used properly, often can give the city's puppet army to great damage, Hongguang Army can not destroy them, they can not enter Nanjing City, so it is very uncomfortable to consume.

The Apocalypse regime in Shanghai is also very uninterested in this so-called rebel army, because they do not recognize the Shanghai regime, saying that the Emperor of the Apocalypse is coerced by Wei Zhongxian, a traitorous minister, and they only obey the orders of the Xuzhou Prison from afar, Zhu Youxiao is angry, and there is a big thunder in the palace in Shanghai, so that Wei Zhongxian sent the killers of Qin Misi to kill Sun Gang and Xu Sanpi, Wei Zhongxian can't say if he is bitter, how can there be any master in Qin Misi, now the tree is falling and scattered, and the father is dead and his mother is married, but everyone can see that Zhu Youxiao's big tree is unreliable, Xuzhou Jianguo is in full swing, and those who want to be promoted to official wealth are going there, who is still spending it here in Zhu Youxiao.

There are 50,000 troops in Shanghai, these troops were originally transferred from the capital, and loyalty can be guaranteed, but the local people in Shanghai are very enlightened due to their long-term business and contact with overseas barbarians, and the concept of loyalty to the monarch is very unacceptable.

Zhu Youxiao is not stupid, he knows that Shanghai cannot give up, and giving up Shanghai is equivalent to giving up Jiangnan, and the rice, grain, cloth and industrial products in Jiangnan account for more than eighty percent of the Ming Dynasty's income, especially the high-precision shipbuilding, machinery, and weapons industries, which occupy an absolutely dominant position, once the capital is moved to Beijing, the army will lose its logistical support and will have no way to fight, so he insists on not moving the capital, and Wei Zhongxian has no choice but to do it.

In the north, Yuan Chonghuan and his son are still under pressure from the Tangut people, and the powerful Galdan army is not only 500,000 people, but a staggering army of one million! It is true that there is water in this, but there is no water anywhere, the railway corps that was originally scattered in Shanxi and Gansu was originally adapted from the prisoners of the new annexed army of Western Xia, and now it is going back anyway, Galdan's strength has increased greatly, coupled with the countless firearms and cannons and ammunition offered by Liu Zongmin, it is even more like a tiger with wings, and the strong pressure makes Yuan Chonghuan and his son breathless.

If Yuan Chonghuan guarded Tongguan, Xingxu City would have been broken a long time ago, but with the command and coordination of Yuan Chengzhi, who was good at using soldiers, Tongguan was impregnable, and the young marshal used several airships to reconnoiter the enemy's position, calling for heavy artillery bombardment, repeatedly crushing the assault of the Western Xia army, and dug a trench in front of the position, laid barbed wire, making it difficult for the Xixia cavalry to move an inch, and was praised as a young hero by the generals of the Western Army. Because he knew that his tricks were all from a textbook on the war in the Western Regions that was picked up from the ruins of the Jingshi Lecture Martial Arts Hall, and the editor-in-chief was Liu Ziguang.

When Nanjing was besieged, Yuan's father and son also received a telegram from the capital asking for help, but Yuan Chengzhi did not dare to expose his private mobilization of the army, and felt that the high walls of Nanjing City were thick, and it was no problem to insist on it for half a year, so he transferred people from Beijing to the south, and did not go to Tianjin, the news of the fall of the capital came, and the Western Xia army intensified its efforts to storm Tongguan, not allowing them to free up their hands to go back and forth to aid the Beijing division, and it was delayed when they came and went, and then it was a telegraphic war, as loyal ministers and good generals, Yuan's father and son naturally stood firmly on the side of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Resolutely refuse to recognize the Nanjing puppet regime and the Xuzhou Jianguo regime.

On the land of the Ming Dynasty, Shanghai, Nanjing, Xuzhou and the Western Xia army are intertwined, except for Liu Ziguang, neither side has a good time, the Apocalypse Hongguang regime is not to say, the pressure of the Western Xia Galdan is not small, a million troops are quite bluffing to say it, but it is not a small amount of people to eat horses every day, his logistics routes are all in the vast desert Gobi, transportation is extremely difficult, the Weihe Plain itself is not big, self-sufficiency is also so-so, so many people poured in at once, food is not enough at all, If you can't enter the Central Plains as soon as possible, you will die first.

When he learned from a few Western Xia soldiers who had fled back that the surprise attack army had been wiped out, Galdan, who had always been as steady as Mount Tai, was furious and ordered to storm Tongguan at all costs, even if it was filled with human lives.

Tongguan City launched a bloody battle, the successive Western Xia army made the Yuan father and son secretly frightened, they can't afford to lose both, they still have to set aside troops to deal with the traitor Liu Ziguang, since Galdan is determined to win, then you might as well take a step back and open the sky, take the initiative to evacuate Tongguan, lead the Western Xia army into the Central Plains, and completely disrupt the situation.

When the world is in turmoil, having soldiers in hand is the king's way, leaving Qingshan in the green mountains without worrying about no firewood, besides, the outside must first be inside, Liu Ziguang, the traitor has not been eradicated, how can he settle down to fight against the captives, Yuan's father and son after some trade-offs, finally resolutely gave up the Tongguan risk, led the troops back to Hebei, and since then the Western Xia army officially entered the Central Plains.

After Tongguan is in Henan, the Xixia army has just entered, there have already been a horse to return to Xuzhou to supervise the country, Liu Ziguang's troops, seventy percent of the ten are spread in Henan, he and Yuan's father and son have different ideas, don't care whether it is Hongguang or the apocalypse, after all, they are all Han people, and the contradictions in their own families can be put first, and the Western Xia captives can not be sloppy, and they must be given priority.

The Red Shirt Army against the Western Xia Army was commanded by Li Yan, a native of Henan, who was fighting at home, and had the most advanced staff department and perfect logistics, reconnaissance, and communication systems in this era.

Just as he was about to set off, someone came to report: The clan is in trouble.