The main force of the Jingbei Army arrived at Zhuxian Town, although the Jingbei Army cut off the Luyang Pass, and the rear road of the Shun Army was cut off, but the supply of the Shun Army mainly relied on looting, there were many villages and towns near Zhuxian Town, in a short period of time, the Shun Army was not afraid of food and grass, and Li Zicheng, who had no way back, decided to fight against the water, and now the only thing he had to do was to wait, wait for the open space in front of the Qinglong to dry completely, and then take Zhuxian Town with an absolute superiority of troops, and seize control of North China in one fell swoop.

Li Xingzhi also thought that this was a good time to defeat the Shun army, but because of the Shun army's habit of wandering, Li Xingzhi also knew that it was unrealistic to annihilate the main force of the Shun army in this battle.

To defeat the main force of the Shun army, it is necessary to force the main force of the thieves to Shaanxi, so that Li Zicheng and Sun Chuanting will die and knock to the death, this is the tone that Li Xingzhi set for the decisive battle of Zhuxian Town.

Although the number of the Shun army was eight to ten times that of the Jingbei army, and the number of artillery pieces reached a terrifying 4,000, Li Xingzhi still believed that the officers and troops would win this battle, because the combat effectiveness of the Liukou was not strong.

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting relied on the newly formed Qin army to break Li Zicheng's main force in Jiaxian, if it wasn't for the rain for several days, which gave Li Zicheng a chance to breathe, otherwise the Ming army might not lose in the later battle of Ruzhou.

"Ben Xiang intends to fight with Li Zicheng in Zhuxian Town, and the generals are willing to advance and retreat with Ben Xiang and burn out the thief atmosphere in Henan."

Qinglong's back official army camp, Li Xingzhi, who sat on the main seat, looked around at the town generals gathered on Qinglong's back with a straight face.

Hearing that Li Xingzhi intended to go out of the defense line and confront the Shun army, which had hundreds of thousands of troops, Liu Guoneng, the general of the new second town, Shang Kexi, the general of the sixth town, Geng Zhongming, the general of the new sixth town, Jiang Xiang, the general of the new eighth town, and Gao Jie, the general of the ninth town, all raised their eyes to look at Wang Zhong, the general of the second town and the governor of the Central Plains.

Although the combat strength of the Shun army is not strong, but in the end it is claimed to be hundreds of thousands, and if it is really a decisive battle, no one dares to say that it can win the battle, but they are taken by Li Xingzhi's military order, and they dare not object, so they have to count on Wang Zhong, the No. 3 person in the Jingbei military system, to come out and advise Li Xingzhi.

"Prime Minister, the thieves are powerful, our army is only 50,000 people, and the new nine towns have just been recruited, are we thinking about it in the long run, the last general thinks that we can rely on the Qinglong back defense line, first delay the thieves and the soldiers, and then retreat to Kaifeng, with the strong city to defend, the back road of the thieves is cut off, and we will definitely not be able to hold on to our army for a long time."

Wang Zhong had no choice but to stand up, he did not oppose the decisive battle, but hoped to rely on the favorable terrain to fortify layer by layer, and drag the Shun army cut off by the official army in the back road to death.

"What Brother Wang said makes sense, but this decisive battle with the Shun army, we have mobilized more than 60,000 soldiers and horses, and counting the people, so many military horses and horses eat horses, our supply pressure is really unbearable, and the original phase is thinking of completely defeating Li Zicheng before the thief's medicine is dried, otherwise the thief will fire ten thousand cannons, and the back of the green dragon will not be able to hold it."

There is also a certain reason why Li Xingzhi wants to fight a decisive battle, the Jingbei army is not a rogue, and he can get money and food by looting one or two cities casually.

Although the officers and troops confiscated a large amount of grain in Gyeonggi at the beginning of the year, it also cost a lot of money and grain to resettle the officers and soldiers with small families and to collect the displaced people.

Moreover, the reason why Li Xingzhi dared to fight with the Shun army was that it was inconvenient to announce it to the public, that is, Li Xingzhi had buried a nail in Li Zicheng's rebel army as early as the eleventh year of Chongzhen, and now it was time for this nail to exert its energy.

"The court has no money?"

Shi Xu Yixian, the head of the Prime Minister's Mansion, looked at Li Xingzhi with some disbelief, it was difficult for the Jingbei Army to enter Beijing last year, but 20 million taels of silver were dug up in Beijing, plus the family property of more than 100 convicts confiscated at the end of the year, the silver in the hands of the Prime Minister's Mansion was probably close to 30 million taels, how could it be consumed in such a short period of time.

"There is no shortage of silver for the time being, what is lacking is food, although the former Song Guangkun raised a total of nearly 300,000 stone of grain in Gyeonggi, but the resettlement of the Guanning military family and the local people cost more than 200,000 stones, Xu Yunjue and Liu Kongzhao in Jiangnan secretly sold some of the grain to us, but then the Huaiyang Army called, Mr. Xu, the so-called Cao grain is broken, the Beijing division will be chaotic, Donglin is stuck with our lifeblood with grain."

"Prime Minister, there is no food in Beijing, but there is food in Shanxi."

Jiang Xiang, the former general of Datong and the current commander of the ninth town of the Jingbei Army, suddenly spoke, although the combat effectiveness of the Shun army is not strong, but there are hundreds of thousands of horses and horses gathered in Zhuxian Town, and he does not agree with the hard fight with Li Zicheng now.

"You mean the eight Jin merchants?"

Li Xingzhi also reacted, the Jin merchant group in Shanxi traded with Dongyu, and the money and grain in their hands did not know how much, and it was not an exaggeration to compare it with a rich and rival country, but because they had been in Zhangjiakou, the Jingbei Army was also a whip commander for them, and now Jiang Xiang surrendered to Cheng, Xu Dingguo also served the orders of the imperial court on the surface, and now the imperial court can indeed free up its hands to liquidate this group of traitors who see profit and righteousness.

"What the prime minister said is that Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Guest, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, Huang Yunfa and other eight families, through trade with the Mongols and Dongyu, the money and grain at home are piled up, and the last general has also taken a lot of their silver, and even the horse team of the last general is also trained with their silver."

"This matter will be written later by the Jinyi Wei command Ma Sande, let the Jinyi Wei go to Zhangjiakou to arrest Fan Yongdou and others into Beijing, but far from the water can not solve the near fire, we still have to defeat Li Zicheng in Zhuxian Town first, and the money and grain confiscated from Shanxi can also be used as our military expenses to pursue and suppress the Liukou and go down to the south of the Yangtze River."

With Zhao Ergou breaking into the camp, Li Xingzhi was full of confidence in defeating the Shun army, which had no artillery to help for the time being.

"Since the prime minister has already made a plan, the general will naturally follow it."

Li Xingzhi insisted on fighting, but Wang Zhong and the others naturally did not dare to interfere too much, so they had to get up and bow down to Li Xingzhi.

"The soldiers are forced to fat the water and Chen, and the Jin soldiers are not allowed to cross.... At the beginning, there were few Qin soldiers, and the general Zhu Xu shouted behind the battle: "The Qin soldiers are defeated!" The crowd rushed. Xu Yin and Zhang Tianxi, Xu Yuanxi and others all came to ...... Obtained the mica car that Qin Wangjian car. Regain Shouyang, and hold its Huainan Taishou Guo Bao. ”

In the camp of the Shunjun army in Zhuxian Town, in the big tent of Zhao Ergou, the head of the thief stepping on the ground, Chen Wen, the military advisor of the army, slowly read the historical records in his hand, and looked at Zhao Ergou with an ugly face with a smile.

"Chen Tou, don't fucking make sour words, you just say what should we do?"

Chen Wen is Chen Wu's younger brother, after the Jingbei Army was transferred to Leiden, Chen Wen was appointed as the deputy envoy of the Military Intelligence Department, after Li Zicheng came out of the mountain, the rebel army grew like a snowball, Chen Wen in order to prevent Zhao Ergou's rough embryo from exposing his identity in the peasant army, so he personally went to Henan, and is now acting as a secretary in Zhao Ergou's camp.

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