A total of 50,000 cavalry from the east of Bauhinia Pass, Baoma Pass and Tumen Pass, the three-way army was wiped out in the Wenyu River, and nearly 40,000 people surrendered from Gao Yigong.

If Li Zicheng saw this scene, it is estimated that his intestines would be remorseful.

Did I get kicked in the head by a donkey? What's the matter?

Is it not good to rely on the mountains and rivers in Shanxi and Tongguan to hold on?

It's just that Li Zicheng didn't know the news at this time.

Even Li Yan, who led the South Road Road, didn't know the news.

At this time, Li Yan had already led an army of 30,000 troops to the vicinity of Jining Prefecture.

On the road from Linqing to Jining, both sides of the canal could be said to be extremely prosperous, Li Yan had also been here several times before joining the army, the endless flow of boats in the river, the rows of shops on both sides of the river, and the bustling traders and pawns on the lock bridge and the streets at both ends of the river, all left a deep impression on the young Li Yan.

However, at this time, all you can see along the way is ruins.

The endless stream of boats has disappeared, and only the canal is still flowing.

Rows of shops have been reduced to rubble, and bustling towns and villages have been reduced to ruins.

The bustling peddlers and pawns have all disappeared, and the locks and bridges and the bullet stone streets have been covered with knee-deep artemisia grass, and the passing of people and horses can often startle pheasants or hares, a scene of the end of the world.

There's a weird iron road.

Li Yan couldn't help but feel a little sad, the prosperous Shandong had become like this?

This result is not what Li Yan wants, he just hopes to overthrow the tyrannical Ming and let the people live a good life, who would have thought that it would become like this in the end? What a pain!

At this moment, Li Yan's heart was really full of self-blame.

Li Nian looked at his brother with some concern.

Since passing through Linqingzhou, there is no longer a trace of a smile on my brother's face.

Li Nian knew that his brother must be blaming himself, blaming himself for not being able to save the world.

"Brother, I don't blame you for this." Li Nian persuaded, "The disaster in Shandong was not caused by our Dashun army, but by the Ming army and Jiannu repeatedly pulling in Henan. ”

"Does the withering of Shandong really have nothing to do with our Dashun Army?"

Li Yan shook his head and sighed: "I'm afraid that it may not be, the reason why the people of Shandong are suffering now is that our Dashun Army is also one of the culprits." ”

"But these are things that must be endured." Li Nian said, "If you don't break it, you can't stand it, if you want to overthrow the tyranny and recast a Langlang Qiankun, you have to pay a price, which is unavoidable." ”

"Overthrow the Tyrant?" Li Yan said quietly, "Is it really a tyranny?" ”

"Brother, what are you talking about?" Li Nian suddenly changed color and said, "Isn't it? ”

Li Yan didn't answer and asked: "Second brother, do you remember the two meetings with Chongzhen in Chahar and Tongzhou?" Do you think Chongzhen is a tyrant? ”

"Not really." Li Nian shook his head and said, "It doesn't look like a tyrant at all." ”

"Actually, it's not." Li Yandao, "Today's Nanming is thriving under the governance of Chongzhen, and the situation is much better than ours." ”

Li Nian was speechless for a moment.

Dashun and the Ming court were not separated.

Every year, many businessmen enter Nanming to do business.

So for what happened in Nanming, Li Nian and they have heard about it to some extent.

After a long while, Li Yan sighed lightly and said, "Maybe, we are really wrong." ”

Li Nian wanted to ask rhetorically, and then what? So are we going to switch to the Ming Court?

Just when Li Nian couldn't help but want to ask this sentence, Li Mu came back.

"Big brother, big brother, big brother!" Li Mu came to Li Yan with a shout and said loudly, "I found a Ming army in front, about 10,000 people!" ”

"Ming Army?" Li Yan's expression froze.

Today's Ming army is not the Ming army of the past, and it should not be underestimated.

"Pass me the order." Li Yan immediately shouted, "The whole army is lined up and accelerates forward." ”

After dozens of cavalry orders galloped away, Li Yan ordered Li Mu again: "Third brother, you lead the scout cavalry to increase the search area to ensure that there are no Ming army ambushes within twenty miles around." ”

Li Mu retorted: "Big brother, it's all uncovered flat land here. ”

"Idiot, have you forgotten how Jiannu was defeated in the battle of Guting Town?" Li Yan's face instantly darkened, "Look at the artemisia grass on both sides of the canal, the plains can also ambush soldiers!" ”

"Command." Li Mu shuddered, and hurriedly led the scout cavalry to scatter.

Li Nian rode his horse to follow Li Yan and asked, "Brother wants to eat this Ming army?" ”

"Eat them if you get the chance." Li Yan nodded and said, "It just so happens that we are in urgent need of grain and grass now, and this Ming army has tens of thousands of horses, so it should carry a lot of grain and grass." ”

……

However, this time Li Yan miscalculated.

This Ming army did not carry much grain and grass.

Because this Ming army is a student army led by Wang Jiayan and Jin Xuan.

Wang Jiayan and Jin Xuan didn't expect that they would be attacked by the puppet Shun army near Jining Prefecture, and they were cavalry.

By the time the scouts of the puppet Shun army were discovered, it was already too late, and it was too late to urgently retreat to Jining Prefecture to hold on, so Wang Jiayan sent a fast horse to Xuzhou for help, and on the other hand, he ordered to form a defensive formation with his back to the canal on the spot.

The only thing to be thankful for is that there are many retired soldiers in the North Prison, and there is also a 300-man guard, and the members of the guard are all veterans who have retired from the New Army, although they are physically disabled, but they do not prevent shooting.

"Queue, all queue!" The specific person in charge of the command is Kim Hyun, who is giving the students a whole team.

The students were obviously a little panicked, either out of formation or running to other classes.

It took a lot of effort for Kim Hyun to organize nearly 10,000 students with dozens of retired soldiers.

It's just that Jin Xuan didn't think that these students could withstand the impact of the puppet cavalry, even if it was the Shizi battalion, it was vulnerable at the beginning, and it didn't grow up until after the Battle of Xuzhou.

These student soldiers in front of them are even worse than the original soldier battalion.

To make matters worse, there are no fortifications to defend and that's the end of it.

Therefore, Kim Hyun doesn't know what this battle can end up in.

But even so, they had no choice but to fight to the death.

Kim Hyun put the 300 guards of the Northern Prison in front of the formation, and he and Wang Jiayan stood at the front of the queue, nothing else, they only hoped to inspire the courage of the students through their own example.

However, courage is not so easy to inspire.

Time passed little by little, and a faint thunder suddenly sounded in the sky.

Immediately, the ground beneath his feet began to tremble slightly, as if it was about to be earthquaked.

Everyone couldn't help but look to the north, only to see that a black line had appeared on the horizon, needless to say, it must be the cavalry of the pseudo-obedient.

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Wang Jiayan and Kim Hyun held up their binoculars at the same time.

After seeing the puppet cavalry formation clearly, the hearts of the two of them sank at the same time.

Looking at this formation, there are more than 20,000 puppet cavalry attacking!

……

Li Yan was still very cautious, there were still thousands of steps away from the Ming army's main array, so he let the cavalry under his command stop, even if he didn't see the Ming army carrying cannons, Li Yan didn't want to get too close.

The Ming army is cunning, what if the Hongyi cannon is hidden?

After drinking the army, Li Yan took out the monocular from the leather bag again.

Li Nian also took out the telescope from the leather bag and pointed it at the Ming military array.

For the generals of Dashun, the monoculars are still a luxury, and only high-ranking generals can equip them, but Li Nian's telescope was captured.

After observing for a moment, Li Nian suddenly sighed softly.

"Brother, this Ming army looks a little strange, wooden sticks as weapons?"

Li Yan had also seen that in addition to the generals and a few soldiers in front of the Ming army, who were holding short guns and bird guns, the tens of thousands of foot soldiers lined up behind them were holding wooden sticks in their hands.

There is still such a poor Ming army? Don't have a knife?

At this time, Li Nian suddenly sighed softly.

"No, brother, look, most of the Ming troops are wearing shirts!"

"Shirt?!" Li Yan's face froze, the shirt is not worn casually, you have to be famous! Could it be that the Ming army on the opposite side is actually a battalion of scholars?

But it's not right, the Shizi camp has already become a climate.

At the beginning, the more than 6,000 scholars who were ordered by Chongzhen's edict to King Qin either became generals or officials of the Internal Affairs Office, and now they have become the backbone of the Ming court, how can they be here?

Moreover, there are not as many as 10,000 soldiers in the Shizi camp.

Li Mu made a new discovery: "Brother, this Ming army didn't carry any baggage, not even a carriage, and it didn't seem to be a sack on its back, it looked like a bedding." ”

Li Yan's brows have been twisted into a pimple, this Ming army is strange.

Li Nian said: "Big brother, don't worry about so much for now, let's kill them." ”

It should be easy to destroy such a Ming army, which does not even have iron weapons.

"Thou shalt not act rashly." Li Yan stopped Li Nian and said, "Let's find out the details of this Ming army first, so as not to hurt innocent people." ”

"Innocent people?" Li Nian said, "All the enemies in Nanming are enemies, how can there be innocent people?" ”

"Nonsense!" Li Yan reprimanded sharply, "The enemy of our Dashun is only the Ming court, only Chongzhen, not the people of Nanming, let alone the scholars of Nanming." ”

Li Nianwei didn't dare to say more.

Li Yan immediately led the guards to fight and stepped forward.

When there were still 500 steps left from the Ming army, another cavalry was sent forward to deliver the message.

After a while, a Ming army general on the opposite side greeted him alone.

When he got closer, Li Yan found out that the generals of the Ming army who came were still acquaintances.

Jin Xuan, who had several connections in Chahar and Tongzhou, was the head of the military department at the time, but now he doesn't know what the envoy is, in short, it shouldn't be low.

"It turned out to be Lord Kim." Li Yan made a gesture on horseback.

"It turned out to be you." Kim Hyun also returned the salute and said, "This is really a place where you don't meet in life." ”

"Farewell to Tongzhou, I also miss Lord Jin very much." Li Yan smiled, then pointed to the phalanx of students in front of him who were forming a formation with their backs to the canal and asked, "What is the matter with these students, Lord Jin?" ”