Li Zicheng was sitting in the yamen of the marshal's palace drinking with the invited generals and officials to celebrate the hard-won victory.

Li Shuangxi listened to the report of his subordinates at the door and came to Li Zicheng.

He said, "King Chuang, according to reliable information, Sun Chuanting is in Tongguan and has not returned to Shaanxi!"

Hearing Sun Chuanting's name, the generals of the Chuang Army gritted their teeth one by one.

Gu Junen said disdainfully: "This person really has the ability, if he returns to Tongguan, there is only one way to die if he loses the natural danger."

Liu Zongmin was a little angry and shouted, "We must not let this old boy live in peace, we will wave our army into Tongguan to kill him!"

Quite a few agreed.

Niu Jinxing said, "What is a Sun Chuanting, what you want is the world. Now that the Ming army in the Central Plains has been swept away, it is time to move north and conquer the Beijing Division."

"No." Yang Yongyu proposed, "The Jingshi relies on Caoyun, and we should wave our army to the east to seize Jiangnan, accumulate grain, and the Ming court can easily take it."

Some of us agree with Niu Jinxing, and some agree with Yang Yongyu.

Li Zicheng unexpectedly found that Gu Junen was silent, and asked curiously, "Mr. Gu, what do you think?"

Everyone looked at Gu Junen.

Gu Junen said: "You can't go east, you should enter Shaanxi to eliminate Sun Chuanting and seize the three sides of Shaanxi, the best source of troops. Then he waved his army north, seized Shanxi, and eliminated the Ming court."

Before Li Zicheng could speak, Hao Shaoqi said: "There is Yang Chengying outside the gate, and this person has hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command, which should not be underestimated."

"Is General Hao afraid?" Gu Junen asked rhetorically.

"Afraid? I'm not afraid!" Hao Shaoqi was a little weak-hearted, "I just feel that I can't beat it, I have been in prison for a while in the camp."

"Since you're not afraid, there's nothing to say." Gu Junen said, "Sun Chuanting can't give him a moment of respite, the Ming Court must be eliminated, and the enemy outside the gate will be faced sooner or later, these are the next things that must be done."

Some people think it makes sense.

Yang Yongyu disagreed: "We went south to take Jingzhou, occupied Jiangnan, and then recuperated for a period of time, and then set up a northern expedition to imitate the story of Ming Taizu, why not?"

After hearing this, Li Zicheng turned his head to look at Gu Junen to see what he said.

"Because Wuchang has Zhang Xianzhong, and Jiujiang has You Shilu. We lack water divisions, if not to take them down in a short time. Sun Chuanting is back, and we will suffer from the enemy."

Gu Junen calmly analyzed: "In addition, there are many wealthy clans in Jiangnan, if we carry out the 'torture salary', we will not get their support, and we may fall into a stalemate."

That's a big problem.

Zhang Xianzhong is passing through Hunan, and You Shilu is attacking Wuchang.

If you fight with them, there is no winner or loser, and Sun Chuanting makes a comeback, the consequences are unimaginable.

Thinking about it this way, many people support Gu Junen.

"In addition, in case Yang Chengying, who is outside the customs of Sun Chuanting, manages the northwest with the support of Gao Jie and others, and divides one side."

Gu Junen said, "Then the king's ambition to dominate the world will go the opposite way. We only have a corner of Henan and Xiangyang, which have been destroyed, and the army will collapse in an instant."

This sentence can be regarded as speaking to Li Zicheng's heart.

After all these years, I have not had time to recuperate. But if you recuperate, you will face the situation of being attacked on your back.

The only solution is to fight!

Fight until the fall of the Ming court.

Li Zicheng waved his hand at them and said, "Mr. Gu's suggestion is pertinent, we drank this bowl of celebration wine, and then we reorganized our soldiers and horses, waved our troops into Tongguan, and fought back to our hometown!"

"Go back to your hometown!"

Who doesn't want to return home!

Everyone laughed.

On the first day of April, Li Zicheng ordered his troops to divide into two routes and take Shaanxi directly.

The northern route was led by Li Zicheng and the generals Tian Jianxiu and Liu Zongmin, with Li Guo as the vanguard, and went straight to Tongguan from Ruzhou.

The south road was led by Yuan Zongdi, the general of the left Guoyi, the white Jiuhe, the general of the right Guoyi, the general Liu Tichun, and the right mighty general Lin Yangyang, and sent out from Dengzhou

Lowe.

The marches along the way were very smooth, because the general soldiers of the four towns, who were supposed to be reinforcements, Qin Yiming and the others slipped away.

Sun Chuanting gathered the remnants of the army in Tongguan and won 40,000 people.

Reorganize them and hand them over to Zheng Jiadong and Gao Jie respectively.

Zheng Jiadong camped in Luochuan outside Tongguan, and Gao Jie camped in Xishantou outside Tongguan.

What about Sun Chuanting himself?

He, a supervisor from a civilian background, actually took the standard camp and held a blade to coerce the people around Tongguan to help build the city defense.

What's more, in order to prevent Zheng Jiadong and Gao Jie's soldiers from mutiny, Sun Chuanting detained their families in Tongguan.

I have to say that Sun Chuanting really fought for the Ming Dynasty.

He did what he should have done and what he shouldn't have done. Even at the cost of leaving a stench for 10,000 years, it is necessary to preserve the Ming Dynasty.

However, all this is doomed to be in vain.

There is one person who has seen through all this, and he is waiting for the best time.

On the seventh day of the first month of April, Li Zicheng's main force approached Tongguan and immediately began to prepare for the attack.

The unexpected happened.

Gao Jie directly abandoned the camp and fled, and then led the army to Tongguan to recapture his family.

Sun Chuanting really didn't expect Gao Jie to do this, he brandished his blade and shouted: "Those who dare to run away will be killed!"

rushed all the way to Gao Jie.

"Gao Jie! How dare you turn your back on the court!" Sun Chuanting was furious.

Gao Jie was very calm: "Inspector Sun, I, Gao Jie, have been with you these days, and I can be regarded as loyal and conscientious, how can I say that I have betrayed the court."

"Then you come with me to Tongguan to defend it."

"I'm sorry, my brothers just want to take their families back to their hometown."

"No, come back with me."

"That's sorry."

As soon as Gao Jie's words fell, Sun Chuanting felt a pain in his back.

Someone stabbed him in the back.

The person holding the knife turned vigorously and then pulled out the bloody knife.

Sun Chuanting fell to the ground with an incredulous expression.

"Take away his official robes, as well as seals and ribbons, so that no one notices him."

Gao Jie looked cold, and turned to leave after speaking.

The soldiers stripped Sun Chuanting's clothes and took away the letter and other items.

Because the fleeing soldiers did not know Sun Chuanting, during the escape, one person stepped on Sun Chuanting's corpse.

Soon, there was no more human appearance.

With Sun Chuanting's death, it also indicates that the demise of the Ming court is just around the corner.

Because the last field forces of the Ming Dynasty were wiped out.

Oh, in fact, there is another one, that is, the soldiers and horses under the command of Hong Chengchou named "Guanning Army".

But Chongzhen couldn't command him anymore.

Zheng Jiadong didn't know that Sun Chuanting had died, so he resisted for a while and suffered heavy losses. Forced to flee to Tongguan with the rout, and then fled to Shaanxi.

Chen Yongfu led the army to carry the Governor Daxu captured from Sun Zhengzhi, and under the pretext that he was a Henan rout, he easily climbed the city pass.

Then he raised the banner of the army at the head of the city.

After more than ten years of hard work, Li Zicheng finally returned to Shaanxi and will establish a new regime here.

At the same time, Li Zicheng also has a dream of "Tang Dynasty" in his heart.

He is eager to realize this dream, seize Shaanxi, and return to Chang'an, which is undoubtedly one step closer to his dream.

It's just that the reality is cruel, and there is an old enemy he is destined to face outside the gate.