Fengxiang Mansion, Shuiluo City.

September 20th.

Shuiluocheng is located at the junction of Pingliang and Gongchang, standing between Guanshan and Chuandao.

There is the Shuiluo River outside, which flows around the city, connects the two prefectures, and is the key place for the Song army to resist the pass of Western Xia in the Song Dynasty.

But since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army has continued to expand its sphere of influence and recapture the old land.

This once important border city has now lost its original role and has become an ordinary city in the interior.

Only the scars on the walls of the city can recall how many storms this city has experienced.

At this time, the gates of Shuiluo City were closed, and the walls were full of strong men with weapons in their hands.

The eyes of the soldiers and civilians defending the city were all on the official road not far away.

Just outside the city, a disjointed army was slowly advancing southwest along the broken official road.

There were more than 10,000 people outside the city, and although it seemed that they had lost the battle, the garrison of Shuiluo City did not dare to leave the city at all.

The number of 1,000 soldiers in the entire Shuiluo City is actually only more than 300 people, and the ordnance is insufficient, so what to fight? He only hoped that this group of plague gods would leave the realm of Shuiluo City as soon as possible, and not come to attack Shuiluo City with a hot brain.

What the Shuiluo City garrison was thinking about, Li Guo didn't know.

But even if it is clear, it is of no use to Li Guo.

Not to mention 300 people, even 30 people, he will not go to the city.

Because less than twenty miles behind him, a Ming army hung behind him like maggots on tarsal bones.

At this time, Li Guo was already embarrassed, and the brocade robe on his body had long since lost it.

The high helmet on his head has been replaced by a hat, and the original high helmet has been left behind in the battle array.

A body of fish scales and bright armor is already covered with wind and dust, and it is in a state of imperfect care.

Li Guo now thinks about what happened a few days ago, and he can't help but feel cold all over his body.

He originally wanted to lead the army to Fengxiang Mansion, but on the way to the army, he was ambushed by the Ming army in Luomen.

The Ming army that ambushed them had only more than 800 horsemen in total, and the front army suffered a big loss when they were caught off guard.

The horses were scattered, and the starving army was also crushed.

He gritted his teeth and wanted to rush into a wave with his elite horse, but he fell directly into the disadvantage with just a face, and even he himself almost died in the battle.

Looking back now, Li Guo is a little uncontrollable.

Li Guo saw with his own eyes that the general of the officer and soldier killed two people in a row just in one hand, and broke through for a while.

At that time, the first person Li Guo remembered was Cao Bianjiao.

However, Cao Bianjiao generally wears brocade robes and red armor, which can be described as unique in the entire Ming army and is very easy to identify.

If it weren't for the fact that the general who led the troops was not wearing red armor, Li Guo would have thought that this person was Cao Bianjiao.

The officers and soldiers under the command of the colonel were all dressed and armored, all of which were finely armored and sharp, and they knew at a glance that they were the elite of a hundred battles.

The elite horsemen from the border army under his command were slaughtered like local chickens and dogs.

It's just that I don't know why, those officers and soldiers and cavalry didn't take advantage of the victory to pursue too far in the end, allowing him to escape from his life.

Li Guo didn't think much about it at that time, he was just glad that he had successfully escaped with his life, and led his troops to flee in the direction of Gongchang Mansion.

What really made Li Guo realize the strangeness was what happened afterward.

He was going to pass through Zhangjiachuan in Gongchang Mansion and then go to Fengxiang Mansion from Zhangjiachuan.

Take the road that Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong have walked before.

But this time, the cavalry of the officers and soldiers was like ghosts in the way they had to go, and this time there were even more than 2,000 foot soldiers.

After a tentative onslaught, Li Guo straightforwardly led the troops and withdrew directly.

Then Li Guo recalled everything that had happened before, and the officers and soldiers behaved extremely strangely at that time when he was in Luomen, as if they had deliberately let him go.

It was the same in Zhangjiachuan, where the officers and men only pursued for a few miles and then stopped the pursuit.

Now the officers and soldiers who were pursuing him were hanging behind him for about twenty miles, not far or close, and they had always maintained this distance.

Li Guo now felt that his head was no longer enough, and he couldn't understand what the officers and soldiers hanging behind him were thinking.

Obviously, he could be easily exterminated, but that officer and soldier were hanging far behind, and they didn't seem to have the idea of killing him at all.

The two interceptions seemed to be that they didn't want him to go to Fengxiang Mansion, and wanted him to go in the direction of Qin An in Gongchang Mansion.

The scouts sent out finally heard the news the day before yesterday.

The officers and men's horse scouts retreated on their own and directly gave them the position of observation.

The news that the detectives heard was also the news that the officers and soldiers had given them.

The number of officers and men pursuing them was nearly 5,000, with complete armor and banners, and the queue was extremely neat.

The officers and men were divided into two roads at the fork in the road, and continued to pursue them in the rear all the way, and there were about 1,600 people along the way.

The other way was to march directly south and march in the direction of Zhangjiachuan, all of them were foot soldiers, about 3,000 of them, all of them were infantry.

Li Guo had a map of Gongchang Mansion, and he knew very well what this army was doing in the direction of Zhangjiachuan.

All the way south to Zhangjiachuan is Qingshui, and from Qingshui to the south, it is the east of Qin'an.

Combined with the previous two officers and soldiers to intercept his behavior of leading troops to Fengxiang Mansion, the purpose of this officer and soldier infantry team is obvious, that is, to prepare to intercept the official road east of Qin'an to prevent him from fleeing in the direction of Fengxiang Mansion.

Li Guo's face was embarrassed and flushed, he now felt like a mouse being played by a cat.

It doesn't feel good to have all your life in the hands of others.

The news reported by Tanma was clearly that the generals and colonels of the officers and soldiers were telling him not to think about going to Fengxiang Mansion anymore, and to honestly look at Qin'an and Qinzhou.

Li Guo is now completely gone, and he has no idea of continuing to go to Fengxiang Mansion.

It's September 20 now, and Guanzhong is afraid that it has become a hot porridge.

The battles that should be fought and the battles that should not be fought have been fought, and now most of them have reached the end of the war, and it is completely too late for him to rush over now.

Fengxiang Mansion can't go, Guanzhong can't go, he has to find another way out now.

Looking at the map of Gongchang Mansion in front of him, which had begun to turn yellow, Li Guo only felt a splitting headache.

There is only one road in front of him, that is, after passing through Shuiluo City, he will go all the way to the south, to Qin'an and Qinzhou.

Then continue to go deep into the hinterland of Gongchang Mansion and go south.

"Do you really want to go to Sichuan?"

Li Guo looked at the place bordering Gongchang Mansion on the map, and felt a big head again.

To the west of Gongchang Mansion is Lintao Mansion and Minzhou Guard, there is a military town in Lintao Mansion, and there are also battalion soldiers stationed in Minzhou Guard, and there are a lot of Qiang soldiers.

To the west, it is the king of Hades who grabs the fruit on the table - looking for death.

Naturally, there is no need to think about the north, the north of Gongchang Mansion is Jingyuwei and Pingliang Mansion, he came from the north, and if he fled north, it would be really a problem with his brain.

In the east of Fengxiang Mansion, the officers and soldiers have already set up defenses, and it is difficult to fly with wings.

Now the only option is to go south, and the south of Gongchang Mansion is connected to Sichuan Province and Hanzhong Mansion.

"Can't go to Sichuan......"

Li Guo's face stiffened slightly, and he categorically rejected the idea in his mind.

You can't go anywhere to Sichuan.

Those Sichuan soldiers were all crazy, and they fought more ruthlessly than the border armies of the towns.

Especially those toast soldiers with white-pole spears are even more terrifying.

In the sixth year of Chongzhen, they combined tens of thousands of troops to besiege and kill Sima Fengyi, the Sichuan Shiqi Tu, and the elite of the generals were exhausted, most of the dead and wounded, and finally killed him.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to capture Kuizhou, an important town in eastern Sichuan, and gathered more than 50,000 troops.

As a result, he was caught up by Qin Liangyu, and he lost his armor and abandoned his armor, and only a thousand horses remained.

Then when I heard that the Sichuan soldiers arrived, there were no people in the 36th battalion who were not afraid.

Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, came out of the army around him, and he was originally a battalion soldier in Yansui Town, so he gathered a lot of deserters and dead soldiers, and his combat power was second only to Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, among the departments.

Li Guo knows his ability very well, and there is a reason why no one in Sichuan has dared to invade for so many years.

First, because of the topography, the road to Shu is often a one-man pass.

The second is because the Sichuan soldiers are brave and dare to fight, and their combat power is amazing.

Third, the Sichuan soldiers are different from those officers and men who have been recruited from various places to carry out the campaign in Shaanxi and Henan, and they have a negative attitude toward the attack.

The Sichuan soldiers are all natives, and because they defend their homeland, they have a high fighting spirit and are tenacious and unrelenting.

Zhang Xianzhong didn't believe in this evil, and then he was beaten and threw away his armor.

Li Guo's eyes wandered away to the southeast, and Sichuan Province would never be able to go.

Then the only way in front of him now is to go to Hanzhong Mansion.

Li Guo's expression was gloomy, his eyes flashed, and he didn't know who was chasing him behind him.

But it seems that the generals of the officers and soldiers just wanted him to go in the direction of Hanzhong Mansion.

But why is that?

Why didn't the generals of this officer and soldier directly kill him, but instead carried him in the direction of Hanzhong Mansion.

What is his purpose, and what is his benefit?

Li Guo pressed his temples and slowly raised his head.

The sun shone on him so hard that he felt groggy and dizzy, and he almost didn't stand still.

He couldn't figure it out, and he didn't have any clue how to think about it.

But he didn't have any choice, he had to go down this path.

Because only if we go on like this, will there be a glimmer of life, and all the other roads have been blocked.

……

Li Guo naturally couldn't think of Chen Wang's thoughts.

Because now except for Chen Wang, no one knows what will happen in the future.

Now tell others that Chongzhen has only been seventeen years in total.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng would occupy the northwest, establish Dashun, and lead hundreds of thousands of troops to capture the city of Beijing.

Then Li Zicheng was defeated by the Qing army, and the army was defeated, and he directly abandoned the city of Beijing and fled all the way, losing a large area of land in a few months.

In the end, it occupied the Central Plains and unified the world as the Qing court in the north.

This is the original history, but now that it is said, no one will believe it.

Even the most visionary would laugh out loud and not believe it.

Houjin in the Northland has indeed grown into a big problem.

But the Great Wall defense line is still there, and the nine sides are still able to support it.

The entire Houjin people are only one million, and the soldiers have just reached 100,000.

The Ming Dynasty has two capitals and thirteen provinces, hundreds of millions of people, and millions of soldiers.

How strong was the former Warat, and once the army was under the city of Beijing, but what now?

In the past, Altan Khan was powerful in the north and south of the desert, and all the Mongolian tribes were controlled by him and once had the upper hand, but what about now?

Although the Later Jin had now defeated the Mongols and incorporated many of the Mongol tribes, they were at best a new Altan Khan.

Although it seems to be huge, when the recruits enter Henan, they can completely lock them up in Henan and Shaanxi.

The rogues are unbearable, but they are difficult to exterminate because they are running around, and it is impossible for them to prosper.

These ideas are the mainstream ideas of most of the civil and military generals in the Ming Court today.

It's perfectly normal for them to think like this.

It's just that no one knows that the building of Daming is not only full of holes on the outside, but also more serious, in fact, his foundation.

In the invisible place underground, the foundation of the Ming Empire has long been gnawed and dilapidated by countless moths.

The afterglow of the Wanli years is fading.

No one realizes that the rogue is not a military problem, but a political and livelihood problem.

continued to increase the distribution and ask for wages, and even Yu Yin ate grain.

In areas that have suffered a lot of damage, it is not true that there is no relief, and after reporting and verifying, the imperial court will more or less send ministers to provide relief or exempt certain taxes.

However, after the state and county officials received tax exemptions or relief, they still held the people accountable and continued to demand that they pay taxes.

Many places suffered from military famines, and crops were out of time, but local officials still ordered the people to pay taxes and grain as usual for the sake of political performance.

People fled, land was wasted, and local officials were not only unrepentant, but intensified.

They put a backlog of taxes on the rest of the people who had not yet fled, and called it "deina".

The persecution of the officials was so urgent that many people simply abandoned their ripe fields and did not cultivate them, so it became common for them to flee.

How can wildfires be extinguished, and how can they be extinguished?

Chen Wang led the war horse and slowly moved forward along the official road.

The two interception battles were fought extremely beautifully, and he also relied on martial arts and tactics to win the hearts of the army.

The current rogues are following the path he has drawn all the way south.

Chen Wang held the horsewhip in his hand and looked dark.

For the way of the general, the heart should be cured first.

Mount Tai collapsed in front and the color remained unchanged, and the elk was on the left and the eyes were not instantaneous.

Chen Wang has learned to hide his emotions and hide his thoughts.

Panicking will only make the three armies panic.

With confidence, it can calm the morale of the army and stabilize morale.

The plan was not all smooth sailing, but Chen Wang did not reveal it.

For there are many things that only need to be known to the Lord alone.

Gongchang Mansion sent a military newspaper.

Gongchang Fuzhong is not as said before, there are no rogues.

In the current Gongchang Mansion, there are still rogue bandits, all of whom came from Fengxiang Mansion at the beginning of September.

Among them, there are two bandits with the largest number of thieves.

One is in the southeast of Qinzhou, located in the north of Lingzun Mountain, and its leader is Li Yangchun, the Four Heavenly Kings, with about 15,000 people.

The other is near Gaoqiao in the south of Qinzhou, located in the south of Lingzuka Mountain, and its leader is the King of Climbers, with about 8,000 troops.

The two departments stood on the ridge mound mountain as a stronghold and plundered the surrounding states and counties.

If Li Guo and the two of them merge, things will become extremely tricky......