Liu Zongmin fled all the way back to the capital, and the angry Li Zicheng kicked him a few times.

Oxford Star persuaded him and said: "King, General Liu's defeat, the crime is not all on him, the lack of discipline in our army is the biggest factor, and now Chang'an can only rely on your nephew Li Yan, the general of the army, there is our base camp, there are many people left, plus General Li has a good way of governing the army, I think I can block the Ming army from the city." ”

Li Zicheng was indignant: "Come and pull Liu Zongmin down and beat him with thirty military sticks." "The death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped, otherwise who will sell his life in the future, don't you know that this blow left a disaster for him to be defeated by Wu Sangui in the future, Liu Zongmin is not a generous person, and now he is pulled out to take the blame, and he is also punished, so not only resentful Li Zicheng does not talk about brotherhood, but also hates Oxford Star.

After pulling Liu Zongmin down left and right, Li Zicheng said angrily: "Military Division, now that Huang Degong has captured Datong and Wanquan Dusi, and we are surrounded in Hebei and Beijing-Tianjin, what should we do?" Is it to leave the capital and return to Chang'an, regroup the troops and horses and come again. ”

Oxford Star was taken aback when he heard this: "King, don't do it, when you occupied the capital before, I advised you to appease the people and the Ming Dynasty's ministers and wealthy merchants, but in order to raise food and salary, you listened to Liu Zongmin's words, and offended those people, and the most important thing is that our guards everywhere are also doing the same, and now the people's foundation has been lost, if we return to Chang'an, our people and horses are afraid that they will be scattered on the road, and this plan is absolutely not feasible." ”

Li Zicheng frowned and said, "What should I do?" ”

"Our military discipline has always been sloppy, and we must have to deal with it with a heavy hand, and we also need to reassure the people, and we must not dare to hurt the people again, and once again shout out the slogan that we will not pay grain, pay taxes, and equalize the land."

"Good! Listen to the military advisors. ”

"In addition, we will send an envoy to see Zhang Xianzhong of Daxi and ask him to send troops to attack Huang Degong in Chang'an."

"Zhang Xianzhong's big old and coarse, small and deflated, I was angry when I said it, I used to be my horse boy, but now it's good, I let him attack south, he actually set himself up as the king in Shuchuan, not to mention, actually after the Ming Dynasty recognized his regime, he gave me a holy decree, this his grandmother can't tell the smell, after this crisis is resolved, I killed him."

"King, now is not the time to worry about this."

"Alas! Even if you send an envoy, he won't necessarily send troops, that big old and rough man, it's good if you don't stab us in the back now. ”

"We're going to fight for it anyway."

"Alright! All right! Listen to you, you can do it. Li Zicheng was very unhappy.

"Your Majesty, this requires your own letter."

"Do you want me to write to this ungrateful fellow myself?" Li Zicheng's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe it: "Then I'll call him a subordinate directly." ”

"The king doesn't have to mind, we don't need to admit it in the Ming Dynasty, you can be the emperor in the capital now, this is a trivial matter, we still focus on the overall situation."

Ascending the throne as an emperor is a trifle? I have to say that this is said to Li Zicheng's heart, Li Zicheng praised Oxford Star as a powerful person, since being the emperor is a trivial matter, then I will do it, so as not to see Zhang Xianzhong's deflated and thief eyesore.

With a plan in his heart, Li Zicheng slowed down his tone: "Military advisor, do you have to write a letter yourself?" ”

"That's how we can show our sincerity."

"Good! Since that's the case, I'll write. Seeing Li Zicheng's agreement, Oxford Xing breathed a big sigh of relief in his heart, to be honest, he also looked down on Zhang Xianzhong's big boss, but now the situation is stronger than others, so he has to bow his head.

Zhang Xianzhong, who was in Chengdu, received a handwritten letter from Li Zicheng, and was happy for a while, and kept showing off in front of the minister.

"Look, everyone, this is our pretentious king for help, come, you all pass it on, this is a rare wonder in the world." Zhang Xianzhong sat on a dragon chair that was wider than the largest bed, shaking Li Zicheng's letter, and asked the waiter on one side to take it down and display it to the ministers.

The ministers dressed in various clothes below are also giggling and laughing.

Zhang Xianzhong, the old man, is different from Li Zicheng, who usually reads some books and advocates governing the army according to law. Zhang Xianzhong is illiterate, never touches the book, the homonym of the book is losing, he thinks that a model book will be unlucky, the Ming Dynasty is a group of literati, not still driven by himself like a pig running all over the mountain.

Therefore, he governed the army simply and rudely, and the general accepted him as a godson, a reward for treasures and beautiful women, and paid money to his subordinates, and turned a blind eye to their behavior of enriching their own pockets.

However, there are also people with long-term vision.

"Your Majesty, smile and smile, the child thinks that we should send troops to rescue Chang'an, don't you hear the truth that your lips are dead and your teeth are cold." Zhang Xianzhong's general Li Dingguo Road.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong had four generals Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi, all of whom were Zhang Xianzhong's righteous sons.

Among the four, Sun Kewang is the oldest, and there are also great talents, but unfortunately the official history records that after Zhang Xianzhong's death, he surrendered to the Nanming, in order to obtain the king's lordship, he killed thirty Nanming scholars in one day, and later surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, leading the Qing army to capture Sichuan, Yungui, and the wild history records that it was finally assassinated by the Qing army, a sad horse.

Sun Kewang's talent is not as good as Li Dingguo, he always oppresses people as a brother, and he is at odds with the other three, and the other three are also in harmony, but this is what Zhang Xianzhong is most happy to see, and the talent to be the emperor can sit firmly, this is Zhang Xianzhong's idea.

Therefore, after Li Dingguo made a statement to Zhang Xianzhong, Sun Kewang immediately stood up and objected: "Father, the son does not agree with the second brother's opinion, now our subordinates are less than 300,000, far from the opponent of the Ming army, and it is a taboo to have a labor expedition, and it is really taboo to have a labor expedition, and at this time it is the season of green and yellow, and we don't have many cotton clothes to protect against the cold, so it is really not suitable to go to war with the Ming army without authorization." ”

Hearing Sun Kewang say this, Zhang Xianzhong was also hesitant, and then asked others, some said that they should go, and some said that they should not destroy the peace with the Ming Dynasty and start a war without authorization.

Zhang Xianzhong, who was vacillating, finally only ordered Li Dingguo to lead 30,000 horses to Hanzhong to prevent the Ming army from entering Shu from Hanzhong after conquering Chang'an.