When Li Xiao was appeasing the Empress Dowager of the Ming Dynasty, who had given birth to a child on Changxing Island, the Ming Nanjing Forbidden Army was marching from Henan to Shanxi. In fact, Li Xiao has always wanted to occupy Shanxi first, but unfortunately the existing troops are really insufficient. Several times he broke the forces in his hands and crumpled them, but finally had to give up.

The Jiangnan court did not have this problem, and after the supply of firearms from the Portuguese, the Nanjing Forbidden Army had been expanded to ten divisions. Although the firearms of the Portuguese were not as powerful as those of the Liao army, they were not inferior to the Houjin Eight Banners after being modified with the help of Yu Yi.

In September, Henan, which had been ravaged by the plague for a year, finally settled down. There's no serum or anything like that these days, but I don't know what's wrong, the power of the plague seems to be getting weaker and weaker. By October, there was almost no news of anyone dying from the plague.

Zhou Yanru decided that the opportunity to attack had come!

In fact, there are bigger voices in the Jinling Imperial Court that want to go north first, and then attack the northwest after killing Li Xiao. However, Zhou Yanru believed that the Longwu court belonged to the internal contradiction of the people. As long as the cage policy is carried out and the economic blockade of Shandong and Hebei continues to be tightened, the Longwu court will sooner or later succumb.

It's different for the Jurchens who occupy Guanzhong, this is a complete foreign invading force. The Jinling court recognized itself as the orthodoxy of China, and in expelling foreign invading forces, it naturally had to look up to the Duke of Qi Huan of the Jiuhe princes.

On the fifth day of October, Shi Kefa came to Niangzi Pass with five divisions and Zhang Xianzhong's miscellaneous cards.

The Eight Banners of the Han Army in the city have long been bought by the Xiaolingwei spies who infiltrated it. As soon as the guard Belezir Harang gave the order to open fire, he was tied up by the mutinous Han army flag. The door was wide open, and Shi Kefa quickly entered Shanxi!

When the news reached Xi'an, Huang Taiji was so angry that his head smoked, but there was nothing he could do. The families of those Han military banners are still in Liaodong. Huang Taiji lacks the slightest way to restrain them!

"Great Khan! The Han people repeatedly, so we simply collected all the firearms of the Han military flag. If they don't obey, they will be slaughtered. ”

Huang Taiji glanced at Bi Long angrily, thinking that he was really blind. Seal him as a banner to be the unification!

"Yes! Kill all the Han army flags, so how many soldiers do we have left? With these soldiers, can we beat the Han Chinese? How are your flag soldiers training in firearms? Can you master those muskets and cannons? Dolgon's rhetorical question made Curb Bilong stop moving.

Duoduo and Azig looked at Curb Pillon as if they were looking at a poop.

Fan Wencheng hung his head and didn't say a word. Things are like this today, and he is the most helpless person. At the beginning, I saw that Jin Bing was strong and strong, but I didn't expect that it would become the current virtue in just a few years. Not only has Liaodong's hometown been lost, but now even Guanzhong is untenable. What's next? Gansu? What if Gansu can't stay either? Western regions?

The shrewd Fan Wencheng knew that even if he was willing to go. Few of the Eight Banners of the Han Army under him were willing to run with him to the dark!

When I joined the Han Army Banner, it was because there were benefits to joining the Han Army Banner. Now the Eight Banners are guarding against the Han Army Banner like a thief, and the two armies already have national contradictions, which is even more damn irreconcilable. In this case, the matter of the lady will continue to appear. It is simply impossible to rely solely on strict punishment and strict laws to stop the tide of mutiny in the Han military banner.

After losing the constraints of his family, how to control the Han Army Banner, he Fan Wencheng did not have any way.

But the more you are afraid, the more you come.

"Fan Wencheng, you are the commander of the Han Army, what do you say." It's not that you can hide without speaking, Huang Taiji saw Fan Wencheng who lowered his head and didn't speak, and he was angry in his heart. The Han Army Banner is controlled by him. Pretending to be dumb now, what the hell are you doing?

"Great Khan! The minister is guilty! Fan Wencheng didn't say a word, and knelt on the ground and confessed.

"Now it's not about your sin, it's about what you're going to do?" Huang Taiji roared angrily.

"Your ......! The minister is incompetent, and now you Baylor does not trust the Han military banner. And because the Han army banner was captured by Li Xiao in Liaodong, the army became increasingly unstable. In addition, we are located in Guanzhong, and the living habits of the local people are very different from those of the Han people living in Liaodong.

Han Junqi is now thinking about returning to his homeland in Liaodong. Presumably, the soldiers of the Eight Banners also thought so, and the minister thought that it would be better for us to make a detour to Mongolia and go back to Liaodong. Maybe......! Maybe......! Fan Wencheng raised his head and saw Huang Taiji with a bad face, and hurriedly lowered his head again.

Huang Taiji was so angry that he fainted and returned to Liaodong. His mother's Liaodong can stay, Lao Tzu is crazy to come to Guanzhong? Besides, Liaodong said that if you can go back, you can go back, even if you can kill Geritu's beggar Yan to block it. But Liaodong is now in the hands of Li Xiao, whether it is the Eight Banners or the Han Army Banner, the Houjin Army has never won a battle in the hands of Li Xiao.

Just now, his mother settled down in Guanzhong and survived the plague, and now when he goes back to his hometown in Liaodong, his mother's brain was kicked by a donkey.

Seeing that Huang Taiji was about to go crazy, Dorgon hurriedly stood up. Dolgon is interesting enough, Fan Wencheng has followed him before and after the horse over the years, and he still has to protect this horse boy at the critical moment.

"Great Khan! It's no wonder that Fan Wencheng is doing things now, let's come all the way to Guanzhong. Catching up with such a big plague, it would be good for Fan Wencheng to bring the soldiers to this level. If you change a person, you can't suppress the current Han army flag at all. How important the Han military flag is today, you must know better than the minions. Although the morale of the army is unstable, we still have to use it.

Otherwise, relying solely on the Eight Banners to face the battle is all firearms. Moreover, the Nanjing Forbidden Army, which fought fiercely, was afraid that it would suffer a great loss. The slave thought that it was better to give the Han army flag a land in Guanzhong. If they have land, they will be safe. If they go to war, they will also defend their land. In this way, the morale of the military will be improved. ”

"Hmm!" Huang Taiji let out a "hmm" in his nasal cavity, and finally someone could say something meaningful.

Come to think of it, Dolgon's proposal is not bad. The land was allocated to the Han Army Banner, and he still had to pay his own rent when the time came. It's nothing if Shanxi loses it, at least Tongguan is still in his hands. As long as you make sure that Guanzhong, you have hope of turning the tables.

The Yongli court in the south of the Yangtze River and the Longwu court in the capital are not convinced by each other, as long as they drag it here, there may be some kind of changes in the situation. Waiting for change is the only way out for Houjin, and it is also the only opportunity.

"Father Khan! Give those Han people land, and we Jurchens can also divide land. Otherwise, the master is not as good as the slave, what is this to say. Hearing Dorgon's words, Haug immediately became anxious. He had long positioned himself as the future Great Khan, and it was his natural mission to protect the interests of the Jurchens.

As for Dorgon's little uncle, he is just an impure eagle that has been sinicized by the Han Chinese.

"Points! Divide them all! Our Jurchens share some good land, and the Han people share some poor. Anyway, this plague, the Han people died a lot. There is a lot of unowned land! Huang Taiji said that this matter was finalized.

"Huh!" The nobles of the Eight Banners applauded one after another.

Fan Wencheng closed his eyes in pain, he knew what this order meant. The nobles of the Eight Banners will follow this order and stake their land in Guanzhong. Large swaths of land fell under the names of the Jurchens and the Han military banners.

So what about the Guanzhong people in these lands? Robbing their land is even robbing them of their chance to survive. You can't live anymore, and you expect them not to fight with you? It's easy to get through the plague, and this time it's going to be a big upheaval.

The key is that this is still when the Southern Ming Dynasty marched into the army on a large scale, and doing so was basically to stabilize the front and chaos the rear. When there were frequent riots in Guanzhong, did you send your troops out to fight the Nanjing Forbidden Army, or were you transferred back to suppress the peasant uprising in Guanzhong?

In the final analysis, the history of the Jurchens is still short. They can't learn enough from history! If Huang Taiji knew Tang Taizong's sentence: Water can carry a boat and also capsize a boat. Perhaps, there would not be today's decree.

Someone should stand up and admonish, but who would dare to admonish? Anyway, I don't dare! I was criticized by Huang Taiji just now, and now it has come out again. That's definitely boring and crooked!

Fan Wencheng had no doubt that Huang Taiji would kill him. In the eyes of the Jurchens, whether it is the Han people or the Han military banner, their lives are not much stronger than the lives of dogs.

Lost and dejected, he walked out of the main hall, and saw Dolgon, who wanted to express his worries several times. But I couldn't help it!

This suggestion was made by Dorgon, and now let him oppose it. Isn't that shooting yourself in the foot? After thanking Dolgon, Fan Wencheng rode to his mansion.

"Lord Fan! Fan-sama! Someone called him behind him, and when he looked back, he saw that it was Hong Chengchou.

"Lord Hong!" Fan Wencheng arched his hand, which is the etiquette between the Han people. If he encounters Baylor, he will have to dismount and get down on one knee.

"Lord Fan is in a bad mood?" Hong Chengchou also rode a horse and rode with Fan Wencheng.

"Lord Hong is also present for today's incident, do you think this official's mood can be good?" Fan Wencheng glanced at it and made sure that Hong Chengchou was not provoking him, so he could be regarded as suppressing his anger.

"The situation is the way it is today, and it's normal for you to be upset. Today, I got two bottles of good wine in front of me, how about our brothers conspire to get drunk? Hong Chengchou naughtily squeezed his eyes at Fan Wencheng.

Fan Wencheng is extremely smart, of course he knows that Hong Chengchou is not seducing him.

They are also Han rebels, and they all have a sense of sympathy for each other. If one day the Jin is defeated, perhaps for some purpose, the Han people will let go of Huang Taiji, these Eight Banner Nobles. But as rebels, absolutely no one will let them go. It's thankful that you don't get dismantled or engage in some executional art like Ling Chi.

Sympathy for the same disease, natural sympathy. Seeing Hong Chengchou's appearance, Fan Wencheng only groaned a little and agreed.

Because the garrison is in Tongguan, Hong Chengchou is in the military camp outside the city. In other words, his place is considered absolutely safe.

The herald galloped first, and when Fan Wencheng Hong Chengchou arrived at the barracks, the dishes had already been placed on the table.

Two bottles of wine in glass bottles were placed on the table, and when he saw the three words Wuliangye on it, Fan Wencheng was a little surprised.

The two armies confronted each other, and the trade routes were almost cut off. It's not easy to have this thing now. "Let Lord Hong break the bill today!" In a bad mood, Fan Wencheng also wanted to get drunk. Although he was still unsure why Hong Chengchou invited him, he still sat down.

"Lord Fan, we are all traitors. Not trusted by the Great Khan, this is also something that cannot be helped. When it comes to circumstances, you are better off than Hong. At least you have fourteen bailes as a backer, if it is my subordinates who mutiny today. I'm afraid that my Lao Hong will be pushed out and cut down in the main hall, and now his head is hanging on the flagpole waiting to dry. Hong Chengchou said as he poured Fan Wencheng a glass of wine.

"Lord Hong laughed, the Great Khan still trusts Lord Hong." Fan Wencheng laughed as he spoke, and he himself thought that what he said was very fake.

"Don't say much, our brother drank this glass of wine first." Hong Chengchou smiled and toasted.

"!"

The two of them touched their glasses and drank them all!

After drinking two glasses of wine, the two of them talked more.

"Seriously, what do you think of the current situation, Lord Fan?"

"The future is uncertain, I can't see it clearly." Fan Wencheng shook his head.

"No, it won't! Master Fan is extremely smart, and if he can't see clearly, he won't say the word uncertain future. Don't believe me, Lao Hong? Then I'll tell the truth, how about you nod if you think it's right? ”

Fan Wencheng was silent!

"Danger is like an egg!" Hong Chengchou didn't make a long speech, but just said four words.

Fan Wencheng's eyes narrowed! took a closer look at Hong Chengchou. It is absolutely taboo to say this now. If Huang Taiji knows, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Although Fan Wencheng still didn't speak, his expression definitely couldn't hide an old man like Hong Chengchou.

"Master Fan knows better than me that once we people are caught. It is also common to raid homes and exterminate clans! Lord Fan didn't think about his retreat? ”

"The way out that Lord Hong said is ......!" Fan Wencheng felt his eyelids jump a little.

"We are Hanchen, and there is no way to vote for Tartar. Our ancestors have spirits in heaven, and they will also be ashamed of our descendants. But fortunately, the sky has eyes, and the imperial court has given us a chance to make meritorious contributions, I don't know what Lord Fan means......! ”

Fan Wencheng peeked outside the house, where a figure blocked the sunlight from the window. Presumably, at this time, the outside of this room was already densely populated. As long as you dare to say half a word, you will never be able to leave this room again in this life.

"The Imperial Court? Which court? Fan Wencheng asked rhetorically, he needed the slightest time. At this critical moment, he wants to maximize his interests in the shortest possible time.

"Long live Nanjing! Don't hide it from Lord Fan, Hong has already obtained the promise of Shoufu Zhou Gelao. As long as Master Fan follows Hong, we will be regarded as the heroes who drove out the Tartars. What you do on the Tartars' side can also be written off.

It is also expected to return to the Ming Dynasty to worship the Emperor Guangzong and Yaozu. Hong Chengchou blinked his eyes and looked at Fan Wencheng with a smile.