"No, let's raise the army of the country to go north, and we didn't even see Li Xingzhi's general flag, so we withdrew to Xuzhou, so who in the world would be optimistic about our Dashun? Now the water level in Daying is only a few feet deep, Henan has been dry for a long time, and in a few days, this water will be sucked dry by the soil, and then we will naturally be able to hit the back of the green dragon again. ”

Since the Shandong army chose to dig the embankment and release the water, then Li Zhong will definitely not come back, although the two countries will fight and not kill the envoys, but Niu Jinxing does not think that Li Xingzhi, who compares himself to the orthodoxy of the imperial court, will regard the Dashun regime as an equal existence, and besides, because this is only a foot of deep water, choose to withdraw the army, can the Shun army still face the Shandong army in the future?

"Alas...... Then move the camp first, wait for the water level to go down, and then try to forge ahead. ”

Li Zicheng frowned slightly, although Wang Zhong's flooding plan did not cause any casualties to the Shun army, but he couldn't help but feel a sense of powerlessness in his heart, this feeling was like when he was surrounded and intercepted by the officials and troops in the Carriage Gorge.

The army moved to camp, and the war in Zhuxian Town subsided for a while, but the small Yuan camp in Puyang City was tense, looking like a great enemy.

After Li Xingzhi received the news of Li Zicheng's large-scale northward advance in Laizhou, he immediately led the Manchurian, Meng, Han and green banners to go out, ordered the sixth town and the new sixth town left in Jinan to recruit and transfer the people to drive directly to Dezhou, and ordered the starry night where Chen Liu, the new five towns, was stationed to march to Heluo, and at the same time, Yang Biao, the governor of Huaiyang, who had been transferred to Luzhou, led the army of his headquarters to kill Xinyang along the Huai River, intending to cut off the way for the army to retreat south.

As for Zhang Shaoqian, who has been asking for war and going on the expedition, Li Xingzhi did not call it, but ordered him to continue to rectify the military horses in various towns in Beijing, after all, this time to attack Li Zicheng, Li Xingzhi does not know how much time it will take, and he left Beijing without a confidant in charge, who knows what those fucked civilian clique will think.

In order to appease Zhang Shaoqian's heart, Li Xingzhi also assured him that he would take him as the vanguard when he sent troops to Liaodong in the future.

After all the arrangements were made, Li Xingzhi, in the name of the imperial court, conferred the title of Ma Shouying, the leader of the peasant army who had retreated into Nanyang, as the governor of Huguang and the Duke of Pingguo, and led his headquarters to enter Xiangyang, Jingzhou and other places.

Tempting him to take advantage, Ma Shouying has already turned his face with Li Zicheng in Xinyang, Li Xingzhi does not believe that Ma Huihui can withstand the huge temptation and return to Henan.

At the same time as the troops and horses were mobilized in various places, Li Xing's troops came to Puyang City in order to completely uproot the small Yuan camp that vacillated between the Shun army and the imperial court.

"Tell your leader that if he returns with the whole army, the prime minister will definitely protect the imperial court, pardon him for gathering a crowd to rebel, and allow him to be a town of soldiers, of course, your little Yuan camp will definitely accept the reorganization of the official army, and those old, weak, sick and disabled will definitely be sent to Gyeonggi or Shandong for resettlement."

Liu Yuqi was the central abdomen of Yuan Shi, and he was also one of the first leaders to rise up with Yuan Shizhong.

In the official army camp in the east city of Puyang City, Li Xing said his bottom line word by word in front of Liu Yuqi, the envoy of the small Yuan camp.

"Liu heard that the prime minister's soldiers in a town are only 5,000, and my small Yuan battalion has tens of thousands of troops, and now Li Zicheng's army of hundreds of thousands has entered Zhuxian Town, and it is not yet known who will kill the deer? The prime minister allowed our army a town, it is too little, my small Yuan battalion is guarding Kaicheng, if the prime minister has been fighting for a long time, what should I do with Kaifeng and Luoyang? If Heluo is lost and the world is shaken, the prime minister should know the stakes. ”

Liu Yuqi is Yuan Shizhong's central abdomen, and he is also one of the first leaders to rise up with Yuan Shizhong, as a dignified anti-thief leader, Liu Yuqi is not afraid of Li Xingzhi, and this time he also personally asked Yuan Shizhong to come to the official army camp.

"I heard that Li Zicheng has become a thief who unites where to lead, and he does not hesitate to trap Luo Rucai, He Yilong and other thief leaders, your department is swaying between this minister and Li Zicheng, if Li Zicheng succeeds in the future, can he tolerate you and Yuan Leader? I also hope that Leader Liu will think about it carefully, and then say that Li Zicheng is not a soldier who gathers ants, although there are millions of people, they are only regarded as grass mustard ears, although Kaecheng is strong, how is it compared to Shanhaiguan? Wu Sangui didn't hold on to the second half of the prime minister's troops, and if you resisted stubbornly, there would be no Manchurians to do Olympic aid! ”

In Li Xingzhi's view, Liu Yuqi mentioned Li Zicheng's enterprising Heluo, just to fight for more interests for Xiao Yuan Ying, Yuan Shizhong in history was vacillating between the official army and the peasant army, and later Li Zicheng attacked and killed Luo Rucai, which led to Yuan Shizhong's betrayal of Li Zicheng, so Li Xingzhi had great confidence in recruiting Xiao Yuan Ying.

Gu: "Prime Minister's conditions, Liu wants to go back and negotiate with Leader Yuan." ”

Liu Yuqi hesitated for a long time, to be honest, he was still satisfied with this surrender condition, Xiao Yuanying is known as 30,000 troops, but the real young and strong are only four or five thousand people, since the surrender of the official army, the rest of the family is categorically unable to follow the army, and what Li Xingzhi said is not bad, Wu Sangui has tens of thousands of Guanning elites in his hands, and Shanhaiguan Xiongcheng is not collapsed in front of the imperial army.

"Okay, the prime minister will give Leader Yuan a day to think about it, if the time is missed, the prime minister will wave the army to attack the city."

Kaecheng is a county seat, the wall is only more than two zhang, the width is not more than zhangxu, Li Xingzhi entered Heluo this time, and the Hongyi cannon alone brought more than 100 doors, if you want to take the city, it is not easy.

"In this way, Liu will go back to the city first, and please forgive the prime minister."

Since Li Xing gave an ultimatum, Liu Yuqi naturally did not dare to delay, and immediately saluted the civil and military forces of the Jingbei Army in the big tent, and was about to return to Kaecheng.

"What did Li Xingzhi say?"

As Li Xingzhi expected, as soon as Liu Yuqifu returned to the city, Yuan Shizhong, Zhu Chengju and other leaders of the small Yuan camp impatiently asked Liu Yuqi for the conditions for surrender.

In fact, Yuan Shizhong still wanted to take refuge in Li Zicheng from the bottom of his heart, after all, everyone was a rebel army, and they were all forced to rebel by the imperial court, but after the news that Li Zicheng attacked and killed Luo Rucai and He Yilong in Xinyang reached Kaecheng, it made him hesitate to join the Dashun army.

"Brother Yuan, Brother Zhu, Li Xingzhi wants us to reorganize the army and horses, saying that we will only give our small Yuan camp the establishment of a town, and the rest of the old and weak with the army will be sent to Shandong or Gyeonggi for resettlement, and he also said that we will only be given one day to think about it, if the time is missed, he will attack the city, and at that time, the jade will be burned."

"What? He wants to take our family as a hostage, I can't accept this condition, he wants to attack the city, let him come, I want to see if Kaifeng is important or Puyang is important? ”

Zhu Chengju has a violent personality, and after hearing the news of Liu Yuqi, he was like thunder, pointing to the banner of Li Xingzhi under the city and scolding.

Liu Yuchi replied: "Brother Zhu, don't be impatient, Brother Shicai found that there are hundreds of Hongyi cannons in the official army camp, this kind of firepower is not something we can resist, let's wait for Brother Yuan to decide." ”

"Let me think, let me think again."

Yuan Shizhong waved his hand, and sat on the main seat of the Kaicheng County Ya with a gloomy face, he knew that surrendering the official army under such conditions would definitely lose the dominance of the small Yuan battalion, and what could be retained was probably only the right to command, and no one dared to guarantee that the soldiers would die for themselves after losing their homes.