Li Jiantai, escorted by him, came to Chengdu to meet Zhang Xianzhong.

After Zhang Xianzhong entered the customs of the Qing army, his mentality changed a lot, and he still had a trace of belief in his heart, thinking that the Ming Dynasty had not perished for hundreds of years, maybe this was the will of heaven.

He wanted to give up and continue to fight with the Ming army, and more than once expressed the idea of going out of Sichuan to resist the Qing Dynasty with his subordinates, and his subordinates respected him very much, and no one objected to him going out of Sichuan to resist the Qing.

Li Dingguo brought Li Jiantai here, Zhang Xianzhong looked at this high-ranking official of the Chongzhen court, and asked disdainfully: "You are the courtier of Emperor Chongzhen?" ”

Li Jiantai saw Zhang Xianzhong's appearance, and felt a little scared, Zhang Xianzhong was also a Ming army before, and then he rose up, dominated the world for many years, and also broke through Fengyang Mansion, and the Zhu dynasty is a life and death enemy.

But in the face of the Qing army's entry into the customs, whether it was the Zhu family or Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army, they had to unite, and Li Jiantai conveyed Emperor Chongzhen's intention to Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhang Xianzhong just had no reason to go out of Sichuan to resist the Qing army, and with the name of Emperor Chongzhen, couldn't he lead his troops out of Sichuan?

He and Li Jiantai said: "I want our Great Western Army to go out of Sichuan to fight Jiannu, grain, grass, and silver, and then let Wang Yingxiong not get in the way." ”

Li Jiantai thought that Zhang Xianzhong would ignore him, but when he said this, Zhang Xianzhong seemed to want to try his hand at the Qing army.

Silver, grain and grass Li Jiantai is not in a hurry, the grain sown in the spring will be harvested soon, this year's harvest in Shanxi is very good, as long as the Dashun army and the Qing army are prevented from robbing grain, the harvested grain can supply the Great Western Army for more than half a year.

He swore to Zhang Xianzhong that there was no problem with this, Zhang Xianzhong and his subordinates nodded, and a middle-aged general understood, stood up from among the generals, and said to Li Jiantai: "Li Gong, please come with me." ”

The middle-aged general is Zhang Xianzhong's righteous grandson Kewang, and he is also the eldest of Zhang Xianzhong's four righteous sons, he took Li Jiantai and a group of soldiers to a pond, Li Jiantai looked at the pond and didn't know what Sun Kewang meant?

Sun Kewang looked at him indifferently and said, "Kneel"

This is the rhythm of cutting off the head, Li Jiantai trembled with fright, pointed at Sun Kewang and scolded: "The thief is shameless,"

Two soldiers of the Great Western Army stepped forward and pressed Li Jiantai to the ground, one of them fierce

The executioner strode forward with a ghost-headed knife in his hand and slashed down with a knife.

Li Jiantai thought that he was dead, but the big knife only cut off Li Jiantai's hat, and Sun Kewang said to him: "Li Gong, this knife is a knife given to you by Your Majesty to your Zhu family. ”

Li Jiantai picked up the hat, Sun Kewang asked someone to send her back, Li Jiantai thought that he could have a meal here in the Great Western Army and go back, Sun Kewang and the soldiers of the Great Western Army looked at each other angrily, and he was so frightened that he returned to the Ming Army with Zhang Xianzhong's words.

Ming general Yang Zhan saw him come back and took him back to Wang Yingxiong's mansion, Wang Yingxiong also thought that Li Jiantai went to Zhang Xianzhong, and he must have died for a lifetime, but he didn't expect Li Jiantai to come back alive and bring him the news that the Great Western Army went out of Sichuan to resist the Qing Dynasty.

Li Jiantai begged him not to snipe the Great Western Army out of Sichuan, and let the Great Western Army enter the Huguang area to compete with the Qing Army, Wang Yingxiong was still hostile to the Great Western Army from the heart, after all, he had been fighting with the Great Western Army for many years, how could he let go of his hatred overnight.

After Emperor Chongzhen was reinstated, he had nothing to do with him, he was appointed by Emperor Hongguang and would hardly obey Emperor Chongzhen's command.

Li Jiantai saw that he didn't say anything, so he took a step back. "Wang Dudu, Jiannu is powerful, even if we play flowers here, don't win the world with Jiannu, it's better to let the Great Western Army and Jiannu touch, the two are bleeding like a river, I Ming Ming went down the mountain to pick peaches, isn't the world decided?"

Wang Yingxiong thought about it, so he asked people to escort Li Jiantai back, because the Qing army captured Henan, and Li Jiantai had only one way to go back to Shanxi, that is, to go back from Shaanxi.

Li Jiantai was escorted by the Ming army to Hanzhong Mansion in Shaanxi, because after the capital was breached, he had surrendered to the Dashun army, and the generals of the Dashun army were no strangers to him.

Here he visited Li Zicheng again, Li Zicheng was under the pressure of the Qing army at this time, completely gave up attacking the Ming army, and pinched his nose to admit that the Ming continued to exist.

In Xi'an City, Li Zicheng met Li Jiantai, and Li Jiantai saw Li Zicheng again, and he also sighed with emotion to make people and made people with Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng didn't care about this, what he cared about was that the Dashun army was defeated by the Qing army in Huguang and lost a large number of elite troops and military important places, Yuan Zongdi's department, Li Guo's department, and Liu Zongming's department were struggling to support in Yunyang Mansion, and a few days ago he ordered Tian Jianxiu to lead the new

The former battalion formed to support Yunyang Province.

Gu Kecheng, a former battalion general, was killed in battle with the Qing army last year, and Li Zicheng promoted Tian Hu, the general of the former battalion's right Guoyi, to the former battalion's trust general.

Tian Hu became the leader of the front battalion, actively organized soldiers and horses, restored the front battalion structure in a short period of time, and the number of troops was more than before, because a large number of experienced veterans died in battle, and there were less than 1,000 veterans in the front battalion army.

Tian Jianxiu led this new army to Yunyang Mansion, and Li Zicheng defended Yunyang Mansion, and asked the Chongzhen Imperial Court to also send troops to support Huguang, so that Li Jiantai could bring the word to Emperor Chongzhen.

Li Jiantai spent the night in Xi'an City, and the next morning, he was sent out of the country by the Dashun military salute, and he returned to Yicheng without waiting for him to meet Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen ordered to summon him, and after seeing Zhu Youzhen, he told Zhu Youzhen what Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng meant, and after Zhu Youzhen listened, he said to Li Jiantai: "Aiqing has a great merit, and the reward is 1,000 taels of silver." ”

Zhu Youzhen was so generous because he was supported by more and more forces, and many landlords were squeezed by the Qing army and the Dashun army, and they returned to the Ming Dynasty one after another, and they brought population and silver to Zhu Youzhen and the Chongzhen court.

The Chongzhen court also began to collect taxes in the jurisdiction, and the entire southeastern part of Shanxi was the power of the Chongzhen court, the territory was not large, but it was enough for the Chongzhen court to use, and Zhu Youzhen finally realized the freedom of military pay and grain and grass.

He generously asked Li Jiantai to reply to Zhang Xianzhong, and the Ming Dynasty could give the Great Western Army 20,000 stone grain and grass, and issued a holy decree requiring Wang Yingxiong and other Ming troops in Bashu, Guizhou and other places not to prevent the Great Western Army from going out of Sichuan to resist the Qing Dynasty.

Li Zicheng strongly asked him to support the Huguang battlefield, and Zhu Youzhen also had a killer move, that is, he ordered the Ming army to attack Datong in Taiyuan Prefecture, Qinzhou, Qinzhou and other places, forcing the Qing army's troops in Jiangnan to withdraw.

Li Jiantai thought that Wang Yingxiong might listen to the tune and not listen to the announcement, Zhu Youzhen snorted coldly, the Hongguang court was destroyed by the Qing army a month ago, and there were tens of thousands of defeated soldiers left to stand in Congshan Pass and wait for reinforcements.

Wang Yingxiong is the governor appointed by the Hongguang court, and he is a local feudal official, but at this time, he also has to find an emperor to be loyal, Hongguang Emperor was besieged by the Qing army Congshan Pass, with Wang Yingxiong's character, he will not elect a new emperor, and the Ming Emperor will not leave Zhu Youzhen?