"Your Excellency the Doge." When he was summoned to meet the new governor of the trilateral today, He Renlong still tried to persuade Sun Chuanting to retract his order: "The officers and soldiers have been newly defeated, and Li Zicheng is definitely not a homeless person who was unclothed and mixed with women and children a few years ago, the five battalions led by Li Thief have been established for more than a year, and we must not rush to send troops." ”

He Renlong has always regretted that Wang Qiaonian and Fu Zonglong were dismissed and dismissed by the imperial court, after all, these two people have some understanding of the current situation, but every time Chongzhen Tianzi encounters failure, he will change to a person who can talk, and the new official will take office with three fires, so it is the whole brigade to the east, and then there is a new failure. Tens of thousands of Qin army brothers used their blood to give the first prison army and civil ministers in exchange for this little experience, which will soon become meaningless, because the more talkative person was favored by Chongzhen Tianzi and was sent to supervise the army, so the blood of the previous brothers was shed in vain, and fresher blood will continue to be spilled by these civil officials.

"He Shuai." Sun Chuanting smiled and greeted He Renlong affectionately and sat down.

Seeing this, He Renlong was overjoyed in his heart, and felt that things had taken a turn for the better, before he and the trilateral governor always talked without speculation for more than half a sentence, and He Renlong, who was the main guard, would quarrel with Sun Chuanting every time he couldn't say three sentences.

"He Shuai, please take a look." Sun Chuanting took out a piece of the recital that had been written and sent to the Beijing Division, which praised He Renlong's martial arts strategy, Sun Chuanting patted his chest when He Renlong watched the recital and said: "Brother, I have already promoted He Shuai to supervise the military affairs of Ganshan, and when the thieves are leveled in one fell swoop, and Kaifeng is relieved, that is the title of knight is also ......."

"Flatten the fart in one fell swoop!" Without waiting for Sun Chuanting to finish speaking, He Renlong jumped up, crumpled the letter in his hand, and shouted angrily: "If we are not swept away by the thieves in one fell swoop, Lao Tzu will follow your scholar's surname!" In the recital, Sun Chuanting stated that He Renlong was also a strong advocate of sending troops and would lead 100,000 Qin troops for him. Although the Qin army is also large and small, and there are many mountains, He Renlong asked himself that he would never be able to exchange the lives of tens of thousands of Qin army brothers for his future, and He Renlong also felt that he had an elite army under him, and it was the last reliance of the imperial court to resist the invasion of the army outside Tongguan. ”

Sun Chuanting changed color and said angrily: "The saint clearly ordered the official to go out of the customs to fight the thief within three months, and to relieve the siege for the king of Kaifeng Zhou. ”

"Whoever you love, Lord Governor, you shouldn't have boasted in front of the Son of Heaven," He Renlong's anger calmed down for a while, and he thought that his military salary still depended on this person's kind words, and his tone slowed down a little: "If he is blamed by the emperor in the future, he will definitely fight on the basis of reason to ensure that the governor is fine." ”

"Someone!" Sun Chuanting suddenly broke off, and a group of standard camp guards poured in outside the tent, and with a wave of Sun Chuanting's hand, He Renlong couldn't help but take it down: "This official is ordered by the Son of Heaven, you don't want to serve the country, but are greedy for life and afraid of death, how can this official honor you." ”

When he drank the order and dragged He Renlong out to kill his head, it was Sun Chuanting's two staff members who persuaded him: "Before the soldiers and horses move, kill the general first, and the adults think twice." ”

"If the butcher Zhang dies, do you have to eat the hairy pig?" Thinking of the anger he had suffered here in He Renlong these days, Sun Chuanting still hated it.

Outside the tent, He Renlong, who was dragged to kill his head, shouted to himself: "Sun thief, the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers of my Qin army, and the five thousand miles of splendid rivers and mountains in the three provinces are about to be buried in your hands......

Sun Chuanting killed He Renlong, the general of the Qin army who was resolutely defending the army, to show the whole army that he had the ambition to advance without retreating, and launched a third wave in the Qin army, and pieced together an army of 100,000 to attack the army again. Now, Li Zicheng is waiting in Luoyang to meet the Qin army from Tongguan, after hearing that He Renlong died, Li Zicheng said to the people around him: "He Maniac (He Renlong's nickname in the camp) has been fighting with us for many years, although there are small defeats, he is still the pillar of the Qin army, and he is the only general at the moment." Sun Chuanting wanted to fight with us, but when he first arrived, he was not busy making friends with the army, but he first killed the backbone of the Qin army. ”

"Sun Chuanting not only killed He Renlong, but because he was worried that He would rebel, Sun Chuanting also disbanded He's old department, and it is said that thousands of relatives were killed together......" One general added.

"It's hard to say how many people died, but the panic of the Qin soldiers can be seen," Li Zicheng said with a smile: "Since the madman He is dead, then taking the pass is like picking up mustard." ”

……

When the news reached Jingshi, Zhendong Hou sighed, Sun Chuanting's military capital was that he had led the border army to slaughter tens of thousands of hungry people before, but before Li Zicheng went out to Luoshan, would someone lead the border army to do this? History is getting closer and closer to the old road known to the Hou of Zhendong: Sun Chuanting will be defeated, defeated, and defeated three times, losing all the allied forces of the seven provinces of the Ming court, and even west of Tongguan.

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Sun Chuanting once promised Chongzhen three months to exterminate the invading army, and Sun Kewang gave him the nickname of "March Thief". More than half of the essence of the Qin army had been lost with the two defeats of Fu Zonglong and Wang Qiaonian, and the new governor of the trilateral army, Sun Chuanting, in order to cobble together his troops, imitated Hong Chengchou's old trick, recruited a large number of hungry people from Ganxi and Shaanxi to arm them, and then urged them to attack the invasion army.

"March Ping thief Sun Chuanting, this time he is obviously here to die." Sun Kewang was not at all worried about the attack of the Qin army.

"Maybe the fight has already been fought at the king's place, and the messengers who reported the victory are on the way." Xu Ping also did not feel the slightest nervousness about the war on the Western Front: "After Sun Chuanting's defeat, it is estimated that the emperor will have to change someone who dares to speak big and knows nothing about the war to command the Qin army, and then launch another attack." ”

"Not necessarily," Sun Kewang said with a sneer on his face: "Today's Son of Heaven is a rare sage and wise monarch in three thousand years, every time he encounters a courtier who makes a bold statement to him, he runs up and shakes their hands, shouts 'Divine Doctor', and then gives him everything in his hands, supporting him without complaint or regret, until things become a complete mess." When he meets another courtier who dares to make a grand wish, the saint will do it all over again, and he will not repent until his ancestor's family business is completely ruined. I believe that with the ability of the March Ping thief to brag, the Holy Lord will definitely be reluctant to remove him, and will only let him continue to do nonsense. ”

"Have you forgotten Yuan Chonghuan?"

"That's when Ping Liaoping went to Jingshi, and the faint king can't keep him. Look at Yang Sichang's wild words, as long as we don't go to Jingshi for a day, the saint will not withdraw him. Sun Kewang laughed and said: "General, let's make a bet, as long as the thief doesn't bring us to the capital for a day, the saint will not remove him from his post for a day." ”

"I don't make this bet with you, my gambling luck has always been bad." Xu Ping laughed.

The situation in Henan was very good, and the area under the control of the Chuang army was becoming more and more consolidated, and under Sun Kewang's effective governance, a large number of materials and soldiers were provided for the Chuang army. This year's precipitation has increased significantly, new farming tools and sweet potatoes and potatoes have been promoted, and there is no doubt that the warehouses will become more full after the autumn harvest.

The fly in the ointment was the war in Sichuan.

"Chengdu is a chicken rib, and so is Chongqing." Sun Kewang's dissatisfaction with the situation in Sichuan was growing day by day.

At the beginning, as the people of various prefectures and counties in Sichuan competed to support the Chuang army, the resistance of the Ming army in Sichuan was continuously broken by the Chuang army. The combined forces of the Sichuan general Qin Liangyu and Cao Ying were first defeated by the Chuang army, which broke through Chongqing and killed King Rui. Then, the Sichuan army gathered in Chengdu, known as 200,000 troops, after being attacked by the invasion army, Chengdu was broken in three days, the Sichuan army was annihilated, Qin Liangyu went to the west of Sichuan, Cao Ying, Yang Zhan ran to the south of Sichuan, the Ming court's clan Chengdu King, Taiping King, Sichuan Governor Long Wenguang, and the patrol were all killed.

In order to prevent the expansion of the territory of the invading army, the Sichuan army immediately adopted the method of large-scale massacre of civilians to preemptively destroy those areas that might be occupied by the invading army. After the massacre of the Sichuan army, social production in Sichuan came to a complete standstill, and the Great Famine was inevitable.

Gao Yigong, the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan-breaking army, asked the king to help Sichuan with a large amount of grain, and Li Zicheng also agreed to Gao Yigong's request, and tens of thousands of troops had to enter Huguang again to fight in order to open up the communication line from the grain-producing area to Sichuan, and strive to maintain the smooth flow of this lifeline.

"The only one who did not massacre the people was Yang Zhan, and now only Yang Zhan in southern Sichuan still has food and settled people under his rule, but General Gao is unable to attack southern Sichuan." Sun Kewang believed that it was unlikely that the Chengdu army would invade southern Sichuan in the short term, and the main reason was the serious shortage of military rations. Gao Yigong did his best to maintain the communication line from Henan to Sichuan, but this was only to keep the Sichuan Chuang army and the people under the rule of the Chuang army from starving to death immediately: "Western Sichuan and central Sichuan are now in ruins, and it will take at least a year to resume production." During this period, the food of the army and the people had to be transported from Henan, and the military food was distributed to the people to eat. ”

"King Chuang is determined to defend the land, and he can't watch the people starve to death." Xu Ping was also dissatisfied with the situation in Sichuan. In order to provide food to Gao Yigong, Li Zicheng had already ordered the collection of military rations from Xu Ping's army. Xu Ping couldn't think of a solution: "Is there any good way for Brother Sun?" ”

"If it were me, I would abandon Sichuan, bypass southern Sichuan, and enter Yunnan via western Sichuan. After seeing what the Sichuan army had done, the people of Yunnan would no longer be willing to assist the officers and soldiers in resisting our army, so that our army could easily seize the whole province of Yunnan. After the harvest next year, it will be easy for us to counterattack Sichuan from Yunnan. ”

"Then there will be a great famine in Sichuan this year."

"It was originally a sin done by the Sichuan army, why did you want us to carry this burden on our backs?" Sun Kewang said disappreciatively: "Didn't Yang Zhan in southern Sichuan not engage in massacres? Just let the hungry people go to him for the winter, and by the way, consume his military rations. ”

Xu Ping sighed and didn't say anything more, Sun Kewang glanced at him, and said: "King Chuang is too soft-hearted, I have no objection to helping the hungry, otherwise I wouldn't build any children's camp, but everything has to be done according to my ability." ”

"As long as the grain can be transported from Henan to Sichuan......

Sun Kewang laughed and interrupted Xu Ping's words: "I really hope that Zuo Liangyu will be powerful once and cut off the connection between Henan and Sichuan, so that General Gao will have to consider returning to Henan, or simply going south to Yunnan." ”

At the end of March, the war report on the Western Front came, the Qin army unexpectedly suffered a third crushing defeat at the hands of the Chuang army, Sun Chuanting fled back to Tongguan and wrote to Chongzhen Tianzi, admitting that the current situation of the Chuang army had deviated from his expectations, so it would take a year to train the troops, and then he could complete his great cause of "pacifying the thieves in March". Chongzhen encouraged this and asked the household department to try to squeeze out money and grain to supply Shaanxi, and at the same time to impose additional taxes on the people who were still under the rule of the Ming court to meet the increasing expenses.

"In the past year, the Qin army has suffered three heavy defeats at the hands of our army, and this time the losses are particularly heavy, and the old general's strong troops have been thrown away." Xu Ping has a good report on his own invasion of the army, and the numbers of captured and captured on it are extremely amazing, even if the Qin army has never had the first two major defeats, it will not be able to survive such losses: "If Governor Sun does not have a cornucopia that can conjure up soldiers and horses, I think it will be impossible for the Qin army to recover within ten years." ”

"The hereditary generals of the Qin army no longer exist, Sun Chuanting has used Bai Guangen and others as the generals of the Qin army, and directly promoted Bai Guangen to the chief soldier, and even asked the Son of Heaven for the sword of Shang Fang for him." What Zhou Dongtian held in his hand was the Shaanxi Tang Newspaper of the Ming Court. Sun Chuanting is using a large number of rebel generals like Bai Guangen, which is enough to show that the Qin army has no one to use: "God, use them as generals of the Qin army, can you still count on the morale of the Qin army?" Do they still have the courage to fight our army? ”

"After this battle, the Qin army's thousands of generals and generals have been lost, which is more terrible than the death of a few general soldiers." Yu Shenhe had lost interest in continuing to discuss the Qin army, and was too lazy to read other relevant reports: "Unless the Qin army is rebuilt according to the new army model, as the adults said, it will take ten years for the new generation of generals to grow up, and it will be difficult for them to recover." ”

"But this is impossible, it is impossible for the imperial court to let the new army infiltrate the Qin army, if the Northwest Army is also replaced with officers and soldiers trained by the teaching team, it will be far more terrible for the imperial court than our army." Xu Ping put these military information aside and talked about the topic he was most concerned about: "What happened to the new army?" ”

"The Marquis of Zhendong has always asked for the expansion of the new army, and after the news of the third fiasco of the Qin army reached the Beijing division, the Son of Heaven and the cabinet finally could not hold on, and they had agreed to expand the new army into fifteen battalions, each with four thousand men. Not counting the Shanlan battalion in Kaifeng, there are now about 35,000 people in the Beijing division and the new army in Shandong, which has recovered a lot of vitality, and it is estimated that they will soon try again to relieve Kaifeng. ”

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"It's a big mistake to unblock Kaifeng!"

Jingshi, in the staff headquarters of the new army, Jin Qiude let out a loud roar. He clapped the case and shouted: "Kaifeng is like Jinzhou, every time we finally accumulate a little strength, we have to throw it into this bottomless pit." We can no longer lift the siege of Kaifeng, at least we must not consider this issue until we completely solve the Shandong problem. ”

"But this is a strict order from the imperial court, and the imperial court intends to let Yang Wenyue's Zhili army fight side by side with us and go to Kaifeng to fight Xu Ping together. Kaifeng is the barrier of Jingshi and the barrier of Shandong. ”

"I'd rather not want Yang Wenyue to go, even if the army can take Kaifeng, what can I do? If they cross the river and attack Zhili, then we will meet head-on; If they go south to Huguang, we will only have to face a part of the invading army when we go to recover Kaifeng; The only thing to worry about is that the army will move east into Shandong and cut off the canal. But first, we still have sea freight; Second, cutting off the Cao Yun did not cause any damage militarily, but only harmed the filial piety of the elders of the cabinet of the DPRK and the Central Committee; Thirdly, it is precisely because of this that we have to pack up the retreat as soon as possible and release the four battalions that stayed on the canal. ”

After Jin Qiude roared, he turned his head to look at Huangshi, who was speechless: "My lord, Xu Ping has been in business there in Kaifeng for more than a year, the fortress is dense, and the defense is impregnable, unless we have an absolute advantage, it is best not to fight him near Kaifeng." ”

"Kaifeng is the largest and most prosperous city in the Central Plains, except for Beijing and Nanjing, there are few cities that can compare with it, and half of the official eunuchs in the Central Plains have now fled to Kaifeng, with all their savings. If the Chuang army gets Kaifeng, then they will be able to get millions of taels of silver from Kaifeng, and the Chuang army will grow a lot. The person who spoke was Yang Zhiyuan, who also came to attend the military meeting of the New Army today despite his illness.

"So what? It's just a one-time money. ”

"The annual tax revenue of the imperial court is 20 million taels, but it is used to support the Qin army, the Chu army, the Jiangbei army, and the Lu army, and our new army can only get a million taels a year; And if the intrusive army gets such a large sum of money, they will not drift, and they will not deduct military salaries. We must try to fight a decisive battle with Xu Ping, while our new army is still much stronger than him. Yang Zhiyuan said to Huang Shi: "My lord, I am more and more worried that the new army will be suppressed by the intrusive army one day. ”

"But immediately attack Kaifeng, our military strength will not be superior."

"I agree to hit Shandong first, but I'm against delaying it too long." Yang Zhiyuan groaned and said, "It's best not to delay until July." Although Xu Ping's inexplicable supply of Kaifeng grain prevented Kaifeng from falling immediately, I doubt that Kaifeng could hold out until July. If the Chuang army gets the wealth of Kaifeng and the grain harvested in Henan this year, it may not be something that the 40,000 or 50,000 new troops can deal with. ”

There was a long silence within the staff of the Forces nouvelles.

Jin Qiude said to Huang Shi again: "My lord, let's make another effort, find a way to get the imperial court to agree to let you lead the troops, and then immediately send troops to Shandong, and strive for the results of Ji Huisi in May, and move to Henan in June to fight a decisive battle with Xu Ping." ”

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