As Shen Shuren continued to ask, the military situation that the two talked about became closer and closer to the present.

Fang Yizhi did not continue to choose the way of glittering the statement, but threw out a few court newspapers and other official documents to prove the details.

"King Fu and King Lu did escape from Wei Hui temporarily, but they couldn't be regarded as completely out of danger. And His Majesty was about the fifteenth of July, and when he learned that the army crossed the Yellow River to the north and broke through the two mansions and killed several kings in a row, he became more and more furious, and issued a new edict to expedite the urging of Yang Ge Lao to fight.

Moreover, His Majesty urged not only Yang Ge Lao this time, but also Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, to let Sun Chuanting go out of Tongguan and attack eastward, and at the same time let Yang Ge Lao advance from Nanyang to the north and order the two roads to attack together.

You should remember that Sun Chuanting only took office at the end of March, and by mid-July, he had been in office for more than three months, barely controlling the situation in Shaanxi and Gansu. Inspector Sun was released from prison by His Majesty and reactivated, so naturally he didn't dare to delay it than Yang Ge.

Therefore, in late July, the vanguard troops of Inspector Sun's division had already left Tongguan and arrived in Luoyang. Yang Ge Lao heard that Sun Chuanting had ventured, and he was in a dilemma for a while, and he didn't dare to avoid the battle alone.

Zuo Liangyu has always been serious, no matter how Yang Ge urges, he has no excuse for not being prepared. But at this time, there was an accident within the thieves - Li Zicheng had previously asked Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying to be responsible for filling in the lives of the old department, and attacked Kaifeng with all their might, and for four months now, the worst casualties were Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying's original soldiers.

This time, Liu Zongmin and Li used to plunder Huaiqing, Wei Hui and other places, kill the officials of the vassal king, loot the wealth, pick up soft persimmons, and pinch them, but they let their descendants take advantage. As a result, some of Luo Rucai's old subordinates became more and more resentful.

In addition, Brother Shen's "The Continuation of the Thief", didn't you also compile some paragraphs, satirizing Li Zicheng just relying on the heavenly eunuchs to gather all the generals, but in fact, he is incompetent, and he will inevitably not be able to break the seal, and will only take the opportunity to punish dissidents, and finally his prestige will plummet.

Now that these prophecies have gradually come true, Li Zicheng is also becoming more and more weak-hearted, and he is more and more suspicious of the inside, and several old generals of Luo Rucai were killed by him under the pretext of marching because they did not need to die in battle, and their subordinates were given to Li Zicheng's subordinate generals.

Finally, on the day of July 26, a major change suddenly occurred within the army, the two generals who originally belonged to Luo Rucai, the bandit name 'Xishan Tiger' and 'Breaking the Sky',

Because the trilogy was used by Li Zicheng to storm Kaifeng, they were worried that Li Zicheng would liquidate them and refuse to use their lives, so they finally contacted Zuo Liangyu and led the army to suddenly go south, to Yexian and Yuncheng to surrender to the imperial court.

Zuo Liangyu originally wanted to preserve his strength, but after getting the 'Xishan Tiger' and 'Breaking the Sky' to lead 20,000 or 30,000 thieves to surrender, and learned that 'Li Zicheng's elite tens of thousands, Wei Hui and Daimyo, who are north of the Yellow River, are in a hurry to return within five or six days, and the army that stayed under Kaifeng City, Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying have a lot of old troops, because Li Zicheng does not treat people as people, and there are many complaints, if the official army attacks, he will be willing to respond internally'.

Zuo Liangyu was overjoyed at this time, and changed his previous delay, but was willing to instigate Yang Ge Lao to send troops immediately and join forces with Sun Chuanting to attack Kaifeng! ”

Shen Shuren frowned when he heard this, and his instinctive first reaction was that he couldn't hear that there was anything wrong with this situation.

But since it is now the cause of the reversal, and he already knew in advance that the ending would be Yang Sichang's defeat, Shen Shuren reversed Shuoyuan and asked tentatively:

"In this way, the surrender of this 'Xishan Tiger and Breaking the Sky' is actually Li Zicheng's plan to lure the enemy? He actually had the courage to give up twenty or thirty thousand thieves to deceive the imperial court to lure Yang Ge Lao and Zuo Liangyu away from Ye County and Fangcheng? Out of Tongbai Mountain, into the Kaifeng Plain decisive battle? ”

When Fang Yizhi heard this, there was a rare look of smugness in his eyes, and he said proudly: "It's rare, it's rare, there is still a military battle situation in the world that you have deduced wrong, Brother Shen Nian-this time you guessed wrong, the Xishan Tiger and the Thunder Sky are not fraudulent surrenders, but real descendings."

Since Yang Ge Lao dared to make a decisive attack because of this, he and Zuo Liangyu worked together to attack, and he was originally sure that he would be able to defeat in this situation-but, in other aspects, there was another major accident, and in the end, Yang Ge Lao and Zuo Liangyu fell short. ”

Shen Shuren's expression turned back to solemnity: "It's not Zuo Liangyu's fault?" I really didn't expect that, I always thought that the imperial court let all parties work together, but in the end it was defeated and lost, and it must be Zuo Liangyu, the most unreliable link, who fell off the chain. ”

Fang Yizhi also shook his head and sighed, quite emotionally with the meaning of the Mandate of Heaven: "If you don't talk about making people by creation, if you want me to say, if Yang Gelao, Zuo Liangyu, and Sun Chuanting can cooperate sincerely, really work together to kill Kaifeng City, and defeat Li Zicheng's main force, it is also very possible."

However, after Sun Chuanting's department arrived in Luoyang, he wanted to go out of Bishui Pass to the west, but he encountered obstacles, and Sun Chuanting's main general, He Renlong, tried to delay and avoid the war again, wanting to preserve his strength - this, Brother Shen wouldn't be surprised, right?

He Renlong did this, in fact, there is a tradition, last year Fu Zonglong, Wang Qiaonian, the two governors of Shaanxi Trilateral, risked and died, and in the end, didn't He Renlong see death and refused to fight.

Who knows, this time when Governor Sun took office, he actually got a secret decree from His Majesty, saying that He Ren's dragon tail was too big to fall, and he was trapped by the second governor in a row, and he was guilty of disobedience and rebellion, so Sun Chuanting waited for the opportunity to punish him.

In the first three months after taking office, Sun Chuanting had not been released from prison for a long time, and before he had mastered the place and military horses, he hid this holy decree and did not kill He Renlong immediately.

This time, He Renlong was on the verge of disobedience again, and he made Sun Chuanting make up his mind at this juncture. On the 28th day of July, he set up a banquet in Bishui and pretended to discuss the matter, invited He Renlong to go, and then suddenly attacked, captured He Renlong with his own soldiers, showed the holy decree, and beheaded him.

After killing He Renlong, Sun Chuanting immediately tried to let his pro-army take over He Renlong's department, but he didn't expect to make some trouble slightly, although most of He Renlong's soldiers and horses obeyed Sun Chuanting's command, but there were four generals Zhou Guoqing, Wei Daheng, He Guoxian, and Gao Jinku led the troops to flee, and surrendered Li Zicheng out of Bishui Pass in the east.

Sun Chuanting was afraid of damaging his morale, so he did not inform Yang Ge Lao and Zuo Liangyu of He Renlong's death as soon as possible, and he continued to march into the army.

It wasn't until the second day of the first month of August, when the three armies met in the area of Zhuxian Town, Yuncheng, and there were only two days left from Kaifeng, and they were about to prepare to launch a general attack on the Chuang army, that Yang Ge Lao knew the news, and he hurriedly blocked the next blockade to avoid the morale of the people before the war.

But the three armies were also in danger because of this, and it was too late to return to the division. In addition, Zuo Liangyu heard about the cause of He Renlong's death, probably worried that if he retreated at this time, he would also be dealt with by Yang Ge Lao and Sun Chuanting's military law, so he could only fight hard.

On the other hand, I didn't expect He Renlong's death to greatly boost the morale of the intruding army. After Zhou Guoqing, Wei Daheng, He Guoxian, and Gao Jinku surrendered, they heard that Li Zicheng was overjoyed, and the whole army shouted in unison, 'He is a madman dead, and taking the pass is like picking up mustard!' ’

Subsequently, Li Zicheng took the initiative to go south with the besieging troops around Kaifeng, and went to Zhuxian Town to fight a decisive battle with Yang Gelao, Zuo Liangyu, and Sun Chuanting. The officers and soldiers were afraid that after the partial division he sent Wei Hui and the daimyo returned, the combined forces would be more powerful, so they had to take the initiative to meet them.

On the fourth day of the eighth month, Yang Gelao and Zuo Liangyu fought against Li Zicheng's main force of 260,000 with 130,000 troops from Huguang and 40,000 soldiers from Shaanxi with Sun Chuanting. Originally, with the conditions of more sophisticated official and military armor, with the ratio of two to three, it was not completely out of chance.

The morale rise and fall brought about by the death of the congratulatory dragon was too serious, Sun Chuanting's troops had no fighting spirit, but everyone fought bravely in the army, and regarded the officers and soldiers as nothing. In the end, the 170,000 army of the imperial court completely collapsed in Zhuxian Town.

Sun Chuanting led the remnants of the army back to Luoyang, and returned to Tongguan on the ninth day of August, and the Shaanxi soldiers he brought out were less than 20,000. He Renlong's old department even took advantage of the chaos to surrender to Li Zicheng, helping Li Zicheng to counterattack Sun Chuanting, and playing the banner of avenging He Renlong, finding the court and settling accounts with the traitorous ministers.

Yang Ge Laohe and Zuo Liangyu were defeated and returned to Nanyang, and the troops were also lost by nearly half, and the total strength should be only 70,000 or 80,000, and the remaining troops of Zuo Liangyu should be less than 60,000, and the rest were the soldiers of Yang Ge's old lineage.

Nanyang Mansion from the east of Nanyang County, can not be defended, Ye County, Wuyang and other Tongbai Mountain dangers, are captured by the army, Hubei and Henan mountains and rivers are dangerous to win, now are in the hands of the army, the official army wants to attack Henan again, I am afraid that I have to break through the Tongbai Mountain danger first, or I can only change the road.

Li Zicheng broke the official army, but the strength of the army was almost not reduced, he had 260,000 horses, and it is estimated that tens of thousands of people were killed in battle, but there were also many prisoners of the officers and soldiers who were encircled and annihilated and captured, and the surrender of the old department of He Renlong was enough to supplement his troop losses. ”

Fang Yizhi made it clear in one go that Sun Chuanting, Yang Sichang, Zuo Liangyu and Li Zicheng's Yuncheng Zhuxian Town.

When the Shen Shuren heard this, he was also completely stunned.

All this is obviously different from the history he originally knew, but in many places it is plausible. It has to be said that the inertia of history still exists.

Sun Chuanting would kill He Renlong, which is not surprising, but he didn't expect that He Renlong's death was synthesized by chance to become the key to motivating the army to fight chicken blood and morale in a decisive battle against the killing of the official army.

In history, He Renlong was lured by Sun Chuanting on the first day of the fifth month of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, and now he died three months late because of the butterfly effect, but the bad impact of his death is more serious than the same period in history.

According to the law of the imperial court, the death of He Renlong can be regarded as a punishment, especially for a stern emperor like Chongzhen, who does not rub sand in his eyes, which is not surprising.

He Renlong did not save himself when he saw death, avoided the war to preserve his strength, and indirectly killed the first two governors of Shaanxi and Gansu, which is not washed.

But Sun Chuanting is so loyal and stupid to Chongzhen's chaotic life, what Chongzhen asked him to do, whether he can do it or not, whether he has a chance of winning or not, he will resolutely carry it out without reservation, and even kill He Renlong at this juncture, it is still debatable.

Of course, saying a thousand things and ten thousand, Sun Chuanting's loyalty to the Ming Dynasty is absolutely nothing to say, and it can be learned every day.

It is not an exaggeration to take Yue Fei's "every day is Zhaozhao, every day is Zhaozhao" to describe Sun Chuanting's loyalty. Shen Shuren touched his conscience and said that his own loyalty to Daming, if compared with Sun Chuanting, he would definitely be ashamed of himself.

It's a pity that Sun Chuanting's complete loyalty and inflexibility have also caused the same serious consequences as Yue Fei's "loyalty and no questioning when he sees the twelve gold medals".

Their own troops, as well as a considerable number of friendly troops, were given directly for nothing because of this unreserved and inflexible.

And Yang Sichang, who has lived for a year and a half longer than the same period in history, will definitely not survive if he suffers this defeat again.

After thoroughly sorting out the truth, Shen Shuren couldn't help but sigh: "Alas, if you want to save the Ming Dynasty, you have to 'win the one who can and the king can't', Your Majesty is far away in the capital, what does he know about the fighters on the front line?"

His Majesty asked Sun Chuanting to attack, and he attacked without reservation, even if he killed He Renlong in battle, he would continue to attack, so he didn't know how to be flexible, but he was just foolish and loyal......

That's it, Sun Chuanting's loyalty is impeccable, let's not talk about the word 'misguided country', what qualifications do I have to say about him as a person who is flexible and implements loyalty. ”

Fang Yizhi also thought so, and obviously his thoughts had loosened, and he didn't see Shen Shuren drinking tea without seeing him sigh:

"It doesn't have to be like this, you are so realistic and loyal to the imperial court is the only way to save the country and the people in such troubled times. The rubber pillar is drumming, foolish and inflexible, how to redeem the tilt of the sky. ”