Jin Tianer looked at Chongzhen Junchen in a daze, a group of people ate and drank in the valley, and there were more than a thousand stones of grain and grass in the valley, enough for these people to eat for several years.

Since he saw that Chongzhen and the others were still alive, Jin Tianji came back immediately, just out of the valley.

Passing by a path, suddenly a dark figure emerged from the woods and held a spear to his waist.

Kaneda was so frightened that he didn't move, and at this moment, two more people came out of the woods on the other side.

The first person said coldly: "Who is it?" ”

Jin Tianji didn't dare to report his home, he only said that he was cutting wood and passing by here, the man came to him, looked at it for a while, and said affirmatively: "Jin Tianji? ”

Seeing that his identity was exposed, Kaneda had murderous intentions, and he could put a spear against the person on his waist and suddenly withdrew the spear.

Only then did Jin Tianji see that the person who was holding him with a spear turned out to be a colleague of the Special Bureau, and the person who talked to him was Ximen Zhu.

He put down his murderous intent and said to Ximen Zhu: "Ximen officials are small and have no eyes. ”

Ximen Zhu asked him how he came here, but Jin Tianer was not ambiguous and told Ximen Zhu that he was ordered to sneak back to Shanxi and find out the whereabouts of Chongzhen's court.

Everyone knew that the Chongzhen court was defeated by the Qing army and lost all the troops and territory, if it wasn't for the fact that Emperor Chongzhen was not captured, the Qing army could almost declare the Ming Dynasty doomed.

Ximen Zhu asked him to go back and told the governor of Lingdu that the Chongzhen court was still there, and as long as the governor of Lingdu came back, Chongzhen could support His Majesty to restore the throne and restore the Ming Dynasty.

Jin Tianji ostensibly promised Ximen Zhu, and immediately left the valley, and when he walked outside the mountain, he turned around and spat on it.

Phew, it's still a big country, what can such a person do?

He hurried back to Huguang all the way, and was received by the soldiers of the Special Bureau in Huguang and returned to Wuchang Mansion.

It happened that Fang Xiaoyan was angrily beating the Fusang soldiers, Jin Tianer returned to the mansion of the Wuchang Mansion Special Bureau, and immediately replied to Fang Xiaoyan, and suddenly saw a group of Fusang soldiers being hung in the air.

He stepped forward lightly and said to Fang Xiaoyan: "Adult, the villain completes the task and comes back to his life." ”

Fang Xiaoyan was angry when he saw him, but he couldn't show it, so he squeezed out a smile and praised Jin Tianer, and Jin Tianer saw him Chongzhen

The news that the imperial court still exists, and Fang Xiaoyan reported it.

Emperor Chongzhen is still alive?

After Fang Xiaoyan learned about it, he asked Jin Tianer to torture these Fusang soldiers, and immediately reported to Ling Jingyang.

When Ling Jingyang got this information, he was also surprised, the Qing army swept Henan and Shanxi, and it was really not easy for Zhu Youzhen to survive.

However, he no longer cares about Zhu Youzhen's life and death, there is King Ji in Huguang, and there is a banner.

He focused on the war in Xiangyang Mansion, and these days he was in Wuchang Mansion to complete the reorganization of the army.

Because there are a large number of rogues in the army, many of them are old, young, sick and disabled, and are not suitable for being soldiers, all of them retired from the army to the locality, or Tuntian, or became a garrison force, after the elite soldiers, Ling Jingyang had more than 30,000 soldiers and horses in Wuchang Mansion.

He used these 30,000 soldiers and horses to complete the preparations for the battle, waiting for the other Ming armies to attack.

At the beginning of July, the Great Western Army and the Great Shun Army blocked the Qing Army in Xiangyang Mansion for more than a month, and the Qing Army defeated the Great Shun Army and the Great Western Army several times, but it was never able to achieve a complete victory.

The Qing army was unfavorable in Xiangyang Mansion, and the three major Ming army forces of Hongguang Court, King Lu, and Longwu Court finally sent troops to reinforce.

Then he sent troops to seize the territory, King Lu sent 60,000 troops to attack Shandong, and the Longwu court sent 70,000 troops to attack Henan.

The Hongguang Imperial Court took 40,000 soldiers and horses of Jin Sheng as the vanguard to reinforce Xiangyang Mansion, and mobilized 20,000 soldiers and horses of Huang Degong's department, 25,000 soldiers and horses of Lingjingyang Department as the left and right wing troops, and 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Yin Xi Department as the backing of Jin Sheng.

In order to defeat the Qing army in one fell swoop, the Hongguang court also deliberately appointed Ying Xiong, the king of Sichuan to resist the Qing Dynasty, as the Bashu Jingstrateg, encouraged him to continue to resist the Qing Dynasty, and ordered the Ming army in Guangdong and Guangxi to rush to the aid of Xiangyang Mansion.

These two Ming armies are far away, and Ling Jingyang thinks that the reinforcement of Xiangyang Mansion by the Ming army in these two places is fake, and it is true to snatch the fruits of victory.

Regardless of the Ming army in various places, at least in Ling Jingyang's view, the situation of resisting the Qing Dynasty is very good, and the Southern Ming court is united, as if seeing the dawn of victory, but just before King Lu sent troops, suddenly a group of soldiers and horses rebelled and attacked King Lu's base camp in eastern Zhejiang.

King Lu's Northern Expeditionary Army was forced to withdraw and suppress the rebellion, but the rebels seemed to be very strong in combat, and they defeated King Lu's Northern Expeditionary Army several times, and King Lu was forced to withdraw to the Zhoushan Islands, relying on the islands to survive

Gasp.

The scale of the rebels is getting bigger and bigger, burning and killing all over Nanzhili, and the other way is the soldiers and horses of the Longwu court, with the Zheng family army as the main force, divided into two divisions of soldiers and horses by sea and land to attack the Qing army.

The land route went through Jiangxi, all the way forward, and the sea and land advanced along the coastline to the north of the river, and the advance was only 500 nautical miles, when it was suddenly attacked by a large number of Fuso fleets.

Zheng's navy was not weak, but this time it was defeated by the Fusang fleet, three of the main battleships were sunk, and nine of the other warships were not left, and the Northern Expeditionary Army on the sea route was almost completely annihilated.

The Zheng family, which had been hit hard, was forced to transfer back the army that had attacked Henan to prevent it from being eaten by other forces.

Before the war started, the Ming army's three-way army folded two roads, Emperor Hongguang was dumbfounded, his soldiers and horses were closest to Xiangyang Mansion, and the Jin Sheng forward troops had arrived at the boundary of Xiangyang Mansion.

Emperor Hongguang could only reinforce Xiangyang Mansion, the Ming army continued to advance towards Xiangyang Mansion, and the Qing army did not stand still, Azig ordered Boluo to lead 70,000 soldiers and horses for the East Route Army to resist the reinforcements of the Ming army.

Bolo did not disappoint him, and in Zaoyang, on the border between Xiangyang Province and De'an Province, a conflict broke out with the Jinsheng vanguard army Jiang Tianyi, Jiangtian's first Ming army was mostly recruits, and after several battles, the combat effectiveness was multiplied.

But compared with the Qing army, it was still not an opponent, and after a confrontation, Jiang Tian's 5,000 soldiers and horses were wiped out, leaving only Jiang Tian and dozens of others to withdraw.

Jin Sheng did not dare to fight hard with the Qing army, so he led the army to camp on the border line, and when the elite troops of Ling Jingyang and Huang Degong arrived on the battlefield, they could continue to fight with the Qing army.

Ling Jingyang set off from Wuchang Mansion, two days faster than Huang Degong's troops, this time he did his best, with his direct troops, the Iron Fist Army, Zhang Shun's Department, Gao Ding's Department, and the Artillery Battalion, leaving only two thousand garrisons such as Wangbao in Wuchang City.

In order to show his determination to resist the Qing Dynasty, Ling Jingyang brought the two ladies with him, and before leaving, he deliberately asked Wang Mu to stay behind, so that he could focus on casting cannons and making guns, even if he smashed 300,000 silver, he also asked Lu Mingdi and other officials to cast 100 cannons and piles of cannonballs within half a year.

Onigiri reads a book

Wang Mu didn't understand why he was so obsessed with cannons, but Ling Jingyang's secret order was unquestionable, Wang Mu said that he would do his best, he and Ling Jingyang talked about blocking Yinxi, whether to have more troops left behind in Wuchang Mansion, after all, there are other forces in Huguang.