Chongzhen had just left Kuizhou on his front foot.

The main force of the Dashun army, led by Li Guo and Tian Jianxiu, fought out of Jiugong Mountain and attacked Yuezhou City first.

Although Li Zicheng is dead, they still have Li Zijing, who is also the second emperor of the Dashun Army, and there are more than 30,000 horses.

Hiding in the mountains and forests all day long, they were not reconciled, they could not be the government-in-exile, they had to capture the city, and the first city he wanted to attack was Yuezhou, which was later known as Yueyang City, Hunan Province.

This Shun army recovered its combat strength after resting, and Li Zicheng's death allowed them to turn their grief into strength, and the combat effectiveness of the Dashun army became strong again.

Li Guo and Tian Jianxiu, Liu Fangliang strategized, took Yuezhou in the first battle, drove away the Ming army defending the city, and killed Zhang Li Lianghan, the prefect of Yuezhou. Then welcome Li Zijing into the city, take Yuezhou as the temporary capital, take the Empress Dowager Gao Guiying into Yuezhou, after the Dashun army was supplied, leave 20,000 horses to guard Yuezhou, Tian Jianxiu and Yuan Zong and other accompaniment to the king.

Li Guo took Liu Fangliang and Li Laiheng with more than 10,000 horses, known as 30,000 to the outside world, and rushed out of Yuezhou to Jingzhou City, their goal was very clear, to cut off the return of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, the Ming general guarding Jingzhou was Lu Ding.

This was originally a general under Zuo Liangyu, he was originally a Ming general, but he was ruled by a warlord, after the defeat of Zuo Liangyu's father and son, he surrendered to Chongzhen again, and was loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

In the Battle of Jiujiang and the Battle of Wuchang initiated by Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Lu Ding made many military exploits and was promoted to the chief military officer, this time with 6,000 soldiers and horses under his command to guard Jingzhou.

Seeing that the thieves dared to attack Jingzhou, Lu Ding was furious and led his soldiers out of the city.

After more than 20 rounds, Lu Ding could not resist Liu Fangliang and left, and was defeated by the Dashun army, and retreated to the city to wait for help.

Li Guo ordered Liu Fangliang and Li Laiheng to each lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to launch a fierce attack on Jingzhou City from the two directions of Nancheng and Dongcheng.

The battle was extremely fierce.

Lu Ding personally went to the city to kill the enemy and repelled 5 attacks by the Dashun army, but after all, he was outnumbered and was attacked into the city by the Dashun army, and the two sides launched a fierce street battle.

Lu Ding, who was hit by two arrows and three swords, was blood-stained in his robe, and this time he was determined to be loyal to the emperor, and led his men to fight to the death with two thousand men.

It was at this time that the Dashun army suddenly retreated.

Liu Zhaoji took 50,000 reinforcements to copy Li Guo's back road, this Dashun army was attacked by the enemy, and Li Guo had to order Liu Fangliang and Li Laiheng to retreat.

Lu Ding ignored his injuries and led more than 1,000 soldiers and horses to chase and kill the Dashun army. The Ming army turned defeat into victory, Li Guo and Liu Fangliang were killed everywhere, and wolves rushed to the ground.

When Liu Zhaoji brought a large number of Ming troops such as Tang Wancai and Li Qiniang into Jingzhou City, Lu Ding was already unconscious, and two days later, Lu Ding thanked Liu Zhaoji and others and was deeply surprised by their sudden arrival.

Liu Zhaoji laughed, "Your Majesty, although you are far away in Sichuan, you can have insight into the world's major events, and you know that the generals and soldiers are not the opponents of the thieves, so they sent me to help, fortunately they came in time, otherwise the generals and Jingzhou would be in danger."

"Your Majesty, I am grateful." Lu Ding and the generals bowed to the direction of Chongzhen's conquest and were grateful.

"The general will take good care of his wounds, and leave the matter of driving away thieves and thieves to us." Jin Yiwei's close-fitting is for the master Tang Wancaidao.

"Then there will be Lord Lao Tang and General Liu." Lu Ding went down to recuperate after giving gifts.

Liu Zhaoji fought Li Guo outside the city of Jingzhou.

In the next few battles, the Dashun army suffered defeats in a row, the wounded soldiers lost the generals, Li Guo saw that the Ming army could not win, and Li Guo finally retreated to Hunan with only a few thousand remnants of the defeated generals......

At this time, the Ming army in the Wuchang area received Chongzhen's order, and all retreated into the city, as long as the Dashun army did not come to attack the city, they did not go out of the city to suppress the thieves.

There are many generals and magistrates who do not know the mystery, they have already found out that Li Zicheng is dead, and some of the remnants of his army are still alive, and they are planning to encircle and suppress meritorious service, and they feel a little unbelievable when they receive such an order.

Isn't this tantamount to letting the thieves flee to the north of the river? But he didn't dare to resist the decree.

Chongzhen's will was to let the thieves flee to the north of the river, which was equivalent to providing convenience for Liu Zongmin to cross the river. In this environment, Liu Zongmin and Song Xiance led more than 10,000 Dashun troops and easily crossed the Yangtze River.

Since the Ming army in this area did not go out of the city to suppress the thieves, this group of thieves did not attack the Ming army defending the city, they took the country road, around the area between Xiangyang and Nanyang.

But when they arrived in Shaanxi, Liu Zongmin's men began to attack the city and occupy an area, such as Lianke Shenyang and Shangzhou. Moreover, it was a battle to conquer, and Wu Sangui's men and horses were defeated in a row, which was completely reversed from the situation when they chased and killed the Dashun army a few months ago.

Even Liu Zongmin, Hao Yaoqi and others felt strange that Shenyang and Shangzhou were both fortified cities, which were jointly defended by Wu Sangui's Guanning army and the heavy forces of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the siege of the Dashun army was particularly smooth.

After the battle began, either the enemy generals in the city were killed, or there was a mutiny among the enemy troops, and the city gate was opened to welcome them into the city, but after taking the city, it is not known whose credit it was.

Liu Zongmin and Hao Shaoqi looked at each other, and they always felt like divine help in the dark.

Liu Zongmin, Hao Shaoqi and Dang Shousu all asked Song Xiance, because this is the military advisor of the Dashun Army, who knows astronomy and geography, and can pinch and calculate.

However, at this time, Song Xiance was also a little confused, this battle was surprisingly smooth, and after pretending to make some calculations, he told Liu Zongmin these people, saying that God bless Dashun, just like the Ming Dynasty, the Dashun army will also come back to life and sweep the world.

Liu Zongmin and these people were convinced that from then on, this Dashun army was mighty and powerful.

For a time, there was an endless stream of people who joined the Dashun army, plus the prisoners they captured, and after reorganization, the combat attrition was supplemented, and as a result, the Dashun army was like a snowball during this period of time, with more than 10,000 people and horses growing to more than 30,000 at once.

At this time, in a forest outside Shangzhou City, several martial arts masters were gathering here, led by a child, it was Bai Yizi, the leader of the White Lotus Sect, and Gai Jiuxiao, the leader of the Heaven and Earth Sect, the leader of the Beggar Gang Ye Wuguang, and the head of the Wuyue Sword Sect, etc.

When they heard that Liu Zongmin and others had won the battle and didn't know how to win, they were all dizzy, feeling that the victory was too smooth. Song Xiance actually said that God bless Dashun, these martial arts masters all laughed, and some of them burst into tears.

"Song Shorty can really fool people, we have become immortals, it's so funny."

"These thieves probably never dreamed that this is all the clever strategy of His Majesty Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty, and His Majesty wants to treat them as fools to deal with the female thief Wu Sangui."

"Hahaha, this battle is so interesting......

These martial arts masters couldn't stop laughing.

Liu Zongmin's battles have been so smooth these times, of course, it is the credit of these people. They were ordered to secretly help Liu Zongmin, no wonder Wu Sangui and the mixed men of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had to suffer.

Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty Chongzhen