The words are divided into two ends,

While Yuan Zongdi was crippled by Huang Degong alone, and also found an excuse to collect the remnants of the army, and acted slowly, his last bit of loyalty to Li Zicheng was not yet in the lake.

The failure to personally lead the troops back to the main battlefield in Chen County as soon as possible did not prevent Yuan Zongdi from sending fast horses to act as messengers to warn Li Zicheng and explain his predicament.

Yuan Zongdi's frustrated location was only near Zhecheng County, and there were still one hundred and thirty or forty miles left to Chen County, of course, it was only delivered in the middle of the night after this day. Early the next morning, Li Zicheng personally saw Yuan Zongdi's urgent letter.

"What? Are King Lu and King Fu really in Shangqiu City? Yuan Zongdi was originally preparing to storm Shangqiu and raise grain to transport to the front line of Yuncheng and Chenxian?

It's a pity that Liang Yizhang, the prefect of Shangqiu, refused to surrender, and was attacked by Huang Degong with tens of thousands of cavalry, broke the encirclement, and rescued King Lu and King Fu? ! ”

After confirming these news, Li Zicheng was directly shocked and speechless for a long time.

He was furious and wanted to find all the strategists he could find, reprimand, vent, and ask for countermeasures. Song Xiance was naturally the first to be found, and some other more miscellaneous strategists were also summoned one after another.

However, when Song Xiance arrived in front of him, Li Zicheng just wanted to open his mouth to scold a few words, but suddenly found that he had no position to scold at all-

Song Xiance offered him a plan at the beginning, he could "pretend that the army had a unique source of intelligence, announced that King Fu of Lu was in Shangqiu, and used the trapping of the domain as an appearance to trick the main force of the Ming army into coming out for field annihilation."

Although this strategy was very bad in the end, there was no need to deceive at all, Shen Shuren came out, and even took the time difference in advance and won Chen County. As a result, Li Zicheng only moved from one siege battlefield to another siege battlefield after spending half a day.

But looking at it now, Song Xiance's bad idea at the beginning was at least crooked and the prophecy was correct: King Fu of King Lu is really in Shangqiu City! If it had been a desperate gamble, maybe it would have been done!

Could it be that this Song Xiance really knows the destiny of heaven and is a god operator?

Thinking of this, Li Zicheng, an uneducated Cao Mang, and as soon as the awe of mysticism came up, he didn't dare to say anything serious.

"Now Huang Degong has broken Yuan Zongdi in a roundabout way, and also rescued King Lu and others, and destroyed the people and horses of our army to go to Guide Mansion to raise food, what can I do? Will the gentleman teach me? ”

In the end, Li Zicheng regained his politeness and asked for advice in a very restrained tone.

After Song Xiance roughly understood the situation, he also had a bitter face and was at a loss.

This situation is already quite unfavorable to the breaking army.

Song Xiance pondered and said: "Although it has been weakened by the official army several times, the remaining combat power of our army should still be above the Shen Shuren. If there is a decisive battle, you only need to worry about whether the morale can be maintained, and whether the Sinking Tree will fight.

These two points can be solved, and the king still has a great chance of winning. But the difficulty is that these points are difficult to guarantee.

Shangcai, Chenxian, Shangqiu, several consecutive defeats, the remaining 200,000 main forces of our army have been demoralized, at most Liu Zongmin left under the city of Kaifeng, morale is not bad, recently they have also been around Kaifeng without fighting, there are no casualties and setbacks.

As for the fighters, we are now good at fighting quickly, but the Shenshu people will never fight with us quickly. The men and horses who returned to the country for food were damaged, and the grain and grass looted were not enough to sustain the army for a long time, and they could not even survive this winter. The Shenshu people will definitely be consumed with our army.

For the sake of the present...... The students persuaded the king to prepare early, or give up competing with Shen Shuren in Henan. ”

When Li Zicheng heard this, he directly stood up from his chair and paced back and forth angrily: "If we take a step back, will those Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying's old department still be convinced by us?"

At the beginning, it was to break Luoyang and kill the power of King Fu, and took the opportunity to kill Luo and Ma to merge their subordinates. After the merger, is it not as good as before? If you can't even take an important town as a provincial hub, how can you stand your way? ”

Song Xiance was also very difficult to do, so he could only swallow his dry throat and said euphemistically: "After all, the king has broken the alliance of Yang Sichang and Sun Chuanting Zuo Liangyu three months ago, have you forgotten?" It is barely enough to have this kind of feat, even if you can't capture Kaifeng Jiancheng, you can explain it.

At the beginning, it was because of the winning streak that we had boosted our morale, so we felt that we could continue to expand the results, so we kicked the iron plate of Shen Shuren. Now it's just a disadvantage, and there is no big defeat, as long as it is well promoted, it is definitely possible to get out of the whole body. ”

Li Zicheng closed his eyes painfully for a while and sighed.

If he had known that this was the case now, he would have left two months ago. If you go at that time, it is simply a rapid retreat, and you will be safe at the top position.

Now the situation has dropped a lot, and if you go again, it will be like the future generations of shareholders cutting their positions and cutting meat, which is very unwilling.

He thought quietly for a long time alone, considered it all, and finally put forward two worries: "Don't talk about this matter to the outside world first, so as not to shake the morale of the army." It's not impossible for us to consider splitting up with Shen Shuren, but I'm afraid that he also thinks that we are weak and can be bullied, so we have to fight to the death.

Moreover, even if you don't open the seal and don't go to Shangqiu, this winter's food still has to be solved. Once we retreat, we must find a new target for Liwei, stabilize people's hearts, and grab a wave of relief by the way. ”

Song Xiance saw that Li Zicheng's attitude was loose, and knew that there was an opportunity to persuade, so he hurriedly used all his talents to help explain and analyze:

"Don't worry! If our army withdraws, there will definitely be an excuse to regain face. It's better for the king to go back to Luoyang, rectify it a little, and then approach Tongguan to the west, let's continue to find trouble with Sun Chuanting!

I heard that Sun Chuanting used the land of Shaanxi to raise some grain and grass, at least enough for his troops to survive the winter. In addition, Sun Chuanting was defeated more than two months ago, and his troops were lost, and he heard that he played Chongzhen again and transported grain from Sichuan to Hanzhong to Guanzhong. Even those Sichuan soldiers who were responsible for protecting food were intercepted by Yang Sichang.

As long as the king breaks Sun Chuanting, he can definitely survive the lack of food in winter and spring famine, and he can also use this to stabilize the hearts of the people in all departments after retiring from the army.

As for Shen Shuren, the student has calmed down and thought about it repeatedly, he is definitely not a good man and a woman, and he is definitely not a loyal minister and righteous man who is willing to die for Chongzhen! He and Sun Chuanting are definitely two types of people!

This kind of person, we were too eager and aggressive at the beginning, and we felt that we deserved more, so we provoked him. Otherwise, he is afraid that he has already chased and killed Zhang Xianzhong now, and he has been chasing and killing all the way to Guizhou, and maybe he will get Zhang Xianzhong's head.

Therefore, as long as we just rightly express that there is no hostility towards him, everyone pulls away, and it is clear that we will focus on dealing with Sun Chuanting, and Shen Shuren will also accept it when he sees it - as long as Shen Shuren is given a step down, so that Chongzhen can't blame him, he will definitely not contribute more to Chongzhen!

When the time comes, we and Shen Shuren will return to their roots, and then each go west, we will return to Guanzhong from Henan to deal with Sun Chuanting, and Shen Shuren will also be able to re-free up their hands from Huguang to Guichuan, and first deal with Zhang Xianzhong thoroughly, and should be able to temporarily live together for at least a year and a half.

And if we continue to hold on to Shen Shuren and have to see a winner, even if there is no danger at the moment, we can hold on until the end of winter and the road improves, Sun Chuanting will definitely come to fight with us again! ”

Song Xiance said conclusively, focused on analysis, and sorted out at least one core point for Li Zicheng to understand: no matter what the strength of Shen Shuren and Sun Chuanting is, at least Sun Chuanting's character is more loyal and reliable than Shen Shuren, which has nothing to wash.

Therefore, Li Zicheng made a desperate bet to defeat Shen Shuren, once the stalemate lasted, let Sun Chuanting see that "if I join, it is possible to make the imperial court a great success", then Sun Chuanting will definitely go all out to help Shen Shuren at the expense of personal gains and losses.

But on the other hand, if Li Zicheng was desperate to beat Sun Chuanting, would Shen Shuren go out of his way to save ...... Then hehe, Song Xiance expressed doubts about Shen Shuren's character.

And even if you want to save it, geographical factors also determine that if you want to save Guanzhong, Shen Shuren can't reach it.

What Mr. said does have some truth, but this breath is not so easy to swallow. At present, we need an opportunity, and we can't just go away without a fight. After Li Zicheng weighed it repeatedly, he already had some ideas in his heart.

Song Xiance cautiously induced: "What does the king mean ......"

Li Zicheng waved his hand: "You also said that it can't last now, the main reason is the lack of food, and the food soldiers and horses have been hit again." But in fact, our army still has the only way to solve the problem of military food, and we have not tried it so far - if there is no food, we can let the people of Shenshu transport it to us!

From Shou County to Chen County, hundreds of miles on the Yingchuan River, there is a grain fleet every few days to go back and forth, docking at the Yingchuan Water Village outside the south gate of Chen County, Shen Shuren holds on to us, and his grain is maintained by this!

Previously, because our army lacked a naval army, and the Yingchuan River was wide, we had never tried to force a field battle to run out of food. Now it's better to fight, just under the pretext that Huang Degong saved King Lu, let's divide our troops to bypass Chen County, and chase Huang Degong to chase and kill King Lu, and strive to lure Shen Shuren to save Huang Degong and fight with him.

If the Shenshu people can't retreat, we can also try to build a weir in Yingchuan under the pretext of pursuing Huang Degong, or intercept the fleet with firearms and crossbows on the shore, or go downstream to harvest timber and collect civilian boats after bypassing Chen County, or temporarily intercept them.

If the Shen family's naval army is really invincible, we can be regarded as having a step down - it's not that the Shen family's army can't be defeated in the field, but the Shen Shuren are as timid as a mouse, and they can't shrink out, either fighting a water war or defending the city, we are losing the water war, and it will not affect the majesty of my northwest boys, go back and focus on dealing with Sun Chuanting, so as to have a face and stabilize the morale of the army.

In addition, if our army really has to withdraw from the siege, this Kaifeng City can't make it better, anyway, when the time comes, it won't be able to stop the people of Shenshu from transporting grain to Kaifeng City and rescuing Chen Yongfu, let's order Liu Zongmin, make some preparations first, and destroy a little Yellow River embankment in advance,

When it was really time to withdraw the troops, let the broken troops completely flood Kaifeng when the Shen family army advanced to the vicinity of Kaifeng! If I can't get it, don't even think about saving it intact! ”