Hu Guozhu said: "But you can't keep spending like this, right?" ”

Jin Xuan also said: "Yes, it is only three or four hundred miles from here to Tongguan at most, and Duoduo will not be able to wait for the Eight Banners Han Army, and he will definitely send cavalry back to respond, and it will be troublesome at that time." ”

Chongzhen pondered for a moment and said, "It seems that there is no other way but to ask for help." ”

"Huh? Help? Hu Guozhu was stunned and said with a blank face, "Are there our reinforcements around here?" ”

When Jin Xuan heard this, he reacted immediately, and asked in astonishment, "Did the saint say that he asked for help from the thieves?" ”

"Yes, ask the thieves for help." Chongzhen said, "Originally, I wanted to rely on our own strength to bite and eat the more than 10,000 Eight Banners Han Army one by one, but Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, the two traitors, were too cautious and didn't give us a chance, so we could only give this piece of fat to Li Zicheng to gnaw." ”

Hu Guozhu was a little unwilling: "Li Zicheng may not be willing to send troops, right?" ”

"No, he'll send troops." Chongzhen smiled, "And I dare to assert that he will personally lead the troops here." ”

"Huh? Will Li Zicheng personally lead the army here? Jin Hyun thought for a moment, and then reacted, "What does the Holy Lord mean to tell the news that you are here to the thieves?" ”

"Yes, I think I'll meet him." Chongzhen said with a smile.

"Holy not!" Kim Hyun changed his face and said, "It's too risky." ”

"The heart is sinister, of course I won't really give him this chance." Chongzhen smiled and said, "Jin Qing, don't worry, I won't show up when the time comes, so you will say a few words to him on my behalf." ”

"It doesn't hurt." Kim Hyun breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

Chongzhen turned his gaze to Hu Guozhu again: "Hu Qing, why don't you go to Tongguan?" If you change someone else, I really don't feel at ease, after all, the Duoduo army is outside Tongguan City at the moment. ”

"Yes." Hu Guozhu readily agreed.

……

Three days later, Li Zicheng's army reached Huayin County.

At this moment, the Ming envoy Zuo Maodi caught up with Li Zicheng's army.

"Mr. Rose?" Li Zicheng said, "Why did you come to Huayin County?" ”

After speaking, Li Zicheng glared at Li Shuangxi who came over with some displeasure, and said in his heart, Didn't I tell you that Zuo Maodi is a talented person, so you must watch him?

Li Shuangxi smiled wryly, you really can't blame me.

"Your Majesty, don't be surprised, you have to come here, and it has nothing to do with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Zuo Maodi said a good word for Li Shuangxi, and said: "I heard that the brothers and friends are being attacked by the north and south of Jiannu, and I am willing to give advice in front of His Majesty's tent and do some modest efforts." ”

Well, Zuo Maodi was actually afraid that the Dashun army would lose the battle.

The truth of the cold lips and teeth, Zuo Maodi still knows.

This point is much stronger than that of the Gonggong Zhugong in Nanjing.

"Okay, then Mr. Grievance should join the army once." Li Zicheng was overjoyed.

Before, he was enveloped in every possible way, but Zuo Maodi was unmoved, but he didn't expect that now Jiannu just hit the door, but Zuo Maodi came uninvited, isn't this a good sign? It seems that this trip to Tongguan will win!

At that moment, Li Zicheng took Zuo Maolang and rushed to Tongguan.

Then after walking a short distance, he met Liu Fangliang's messenger again.

After reading Liu Fangliang's letter, Li Zicheng was stunned on the spot.

"Holy?" Niu Jinxing also had Song Xiance's eyes for consultation.

Li Zicheng casually handed the letter to Song Xiance, and Niu Jinxing also hurried over to read the letter together.

"What?" Song Xiance couldn't help but shout, "Chongzhen actually led three thousand horses to Xin'an County?" ”

Niu Jinxing is eyes are rolling, Chongzhen is actually in person? This is a great opportunity! Capture him as a hostage!

At this time, Zuo Maodi asked excitedly: "Shengshang, just now Zuo Junshi said that my Majesty the Ming Emperor arrived in Xin'an County?" ”

"Yes." Li Zicheng nodded and said, "Chongzhen personally led 3,000 elite horses to Xin'an County, and also trapped more than 10,000 Eight Banners Han Army led by Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming along with 180 Hongyi cannons in Xin'an County, and asked me to quickly send an army to return to Xin'an County from Jinnan to destroy the Eight Banners Han Army first!" ”

"Holy Lord, this matter is not trivial!" Zuo Maodi urgent.

"Jiannu must not be allowed to transport the Hongyi cannon to Tongguan, otherwise Tongguan will be in danger."

Song Xiance also nodded and said: "Holy Lord, the huge power of the Hongyi cannon, we have learned it in Shanhaiguan, although the Guancheng of Tongguan is strong enough, I am afraid it will not be able to withstand the bombardment of the Hongyi cannon." ”

"I know that, too." Li Zicheng paced back and forth for a few steps, and said to Liu Zongmin, "Marquis Ru, the army will be handed over to you, after you lead the army to Tongguan, you only need to hold the city, don't go out lightly." ”

Liu Zongmin hurriedly said when he heard this: "What about you, the saint?" You want to personally lead the troops to Xin'an County? ”

"Yes, the opportunity is rare, I will meet Chongzhen." Li Zicheng narrowed his eyes and said, "I missed it when I was in Beijing in March, but I can't miss it again this time." ”

Niu Jinxing took the opportunity to say: "Holy Lord, the minister will also go with you." ”

"Holy Lord, the minister also wants to go together." Song Xiance said urgently.

"The saints are willing to go with them." Zuo Maodi also took the initiative to ask.

Seeing that the three think tanks took the initiative to ask for help at the same time, Li Zicheng was very happy and immediately agreed one by one.

Immediately, Li Zicheng ordered another 30,000 horse infantry troops, including 5,000 cavalry, turned around and went straight to Chaoyi, intending to cross the Yellow River from Chaoyi Ferry, and then enter the mountainous area of Jinnan through Puzhou.

Jinnan was still in the hands of the Dashun army at this time.

……

In the blink of an eye, another five days passed.

On this day Dodor was drinking in the Great Tent.

Entering the second half of November, the weather is cold day by day.

It's a cloudy day again, and after noon, the wind blows.

"What the hell is the weather." Duoduo raised the sheepskin bag and poured a sip of soju, and said with a scolding, "It looks like it's going to snow, but if it really snows, Tongguan Road will be even more difficult to walk." ”

Thinking of this, Duoduo was inexplicably a little irritable.

Because I don't know when the Eight Banners Han Army will arrive.

At a glance, he caught a glimpse of Fan Chengmo sitting in the corner of the big tent in a daze, so he immediately scolded: "The dog slave is lazy again, why don't you hurry up and add some charcoal to the stove?" Do you want to freeze this king to death? ”

"Huh?" Fan Chengmo glanced at the stove and was a little confused.

The charcoal fire in the stove is obviously very strong, and there is no need to add charcoal at all.

Dodor became even more angry, and was about to teach the dog a lesson with his whip, when the curtain was suddenly pushed open, and a figure came in with a cold wind.

"Who?" Dodor was furious.

turned his head and saw that it was He Luohui, but he stubbornly held back his anger.

"Lord Wang." He Luohui hit a thousand, and roared with a black face, "Something happened!" ”

Duoduo was stunned when he heard this, frowned and asked, "What's wrong?" Good end-of-the-road. ”

He Luohui didn't say much, just turned around and waved his hand outside the tent, when even two Jiannu vests carried a bloodied figure into his big tent.

Duoduo looked at it and froze.

Who is this man? How can you be so embarrassed?

The blood stains on the cotton armor have not dried, and it seems that he has a broken arm?

"Lord Wang, Lord Yu!" When the man saw Dord, he wailed aloud.

Because his teeth also fell out, his speech leaked, and he shouted several times before he could hear clearly, and he lost his voice: "Geng Jimao?!" ”

"Lord Wang, it's a minion!" Geng Jimao cried out loud, and said while crying, "Lord Wang, the Eight Banners Han Army is trapped in Xin'an County by the Ming army, hurry up and send cavalry to the rescue." ”

"What?" Dordor suspected that something was wrong with his ears.

"Ming Army? You said that the army arrived in Henan and trapped the Han army of the Eight Banners? ”

"Yes." Geng Jimao nodded again and again and said, "Chongzhen, the dog emperor, personally took thousands of iron horsemen and suddenly appeared in the territory of Henan Mansion, and the Eight Banners Han Army was very inconvenient to move because it carried a large number of baggage and red-clothed cannons, so it was trapped in a canyon in Xin'an County by the Ming cavalry. ”

[Note: Geng Jimao didn't know that Chongzhen was in person, so he guessed blindly]

"What? Chongzhen is also here?! When Duoduo heard this, his face changed slightly.

He Luohui said in a deep voice: "Lord Wang, the Eight Banners Han Army has more than 100 red-clothed cannons, as well as thousands of musketeers, and three or five thousand Ming cavalry will trap them at most, but if the Ming army passes this news to Pseudo Shun, and then Pseudo Shun sends a large army from Jinnan or Luonan to detour past, it will be a big trouble." ”

"Bad things!" Duoduo reacted instantly.

Then he said: "Quick, you immediately lead the white flag to return first!" ”

"Huh!" He Luohui hit a thousand, turned around and walked away.

……

However, it was too late for Dordor to get the news.

Because just when He Luohui returned with more than 10,000 white flags and eight banners Manchuria to help, Li Zicheng had already rushed to Xin'an County with an army of 30,000 horse steps.

Li Zicheng took a short break and launched an attack on the Eight Banners Han Army.

In this not steep valley terrain, the Eight Banners Han Army did not build too many fortifications on the mountain beams on both sides, so it only took more than two hours for the Dashun Army to successfully seize the commanding heights on both sides of the valley at the cost of more than 3,000 casualties, and then condescendingly launched a dive towards the Eight Banners Han Army cowering in the canyon.

Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming's Eight Banners Han Army bullied the Ming Army, and when they encountered Li Zicheng's old camp of the Dashun Army, they were only left to be beaten, and after resisting for half an hour, the Eight Banners Han Army was defeated.

Kong Youde and Geng Zhongshi didn't care about the grain and grass and the red-clothed cannon at this time, so they took off the mountain armor on their bodies, and then put on the broken cotton armor and blended into the ordinary soldiers of the Eight Banners Han Army, trying to take advantage of the chaos to escape.

Unfortunately, however, the terrain they chose for themselves was a victim of them.

Because both ends of the valley are open land, the Dashun army also came with cavalry this time.

Therefore, together with Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, the seven or eight thousand Eight Banners Han troops who escaped from both ends of the valley were all captured alive by the Dashun army, and none of them escaped.

At this time, Jiannu suffered a big loss.

Not only did the Eight Banners Han Army lose four banners at once, but the hundreds of thousands of stone grains, more than 1,000 carts, more than 2,000 side vans, and weapons and armor were all lost, and the most troublesome thing was that Duoduo's red-coated cannons along the way were also lost.

[Note: Some readers say that the author drags the plot, let me explain here, the main plot of this book is the war, but the war in which the Ming army does not participate will be brushed aside as much as possible]