"Medium!" Liu Zongmin nodded, "A tiger looks a bit like a real man...... But he's in Huya Mountain now! ”

Tian Jianxiu and Gu Junen both breathed a sigh of relief. If Li Zicheng is only the king of Chuang, not the emperor of Dashun, then Liu Zongmin is indeed more qualified to be the successor than Li Guo.

But now that Li Zicheng has become the first emperor, of course, the matter of ascending the throne has to talk about blood, otherwise how to convince the public?

Now that Liu Zongmin is willing to take a step back, it seems that Emperor Li Xiandi's career is still expected to continue.

Emperor, you can look at it...... But you can't settle down just yet, because you'll have to pretend to be alive!

"So we can't make public the news of the emperor's death!" Gu Junen said, "Otherwise, the army's morale will be in chaos, and I won't be able to walk to Huya Mountain alive!" ”

"Yes, yes! You have to tell the first emperor to pretend to be alive! Liu Zongmin calculated, "We still have more than 200 miles to Huya Mountain...... We are sleepy now, but we can't go fast, at least three or four days! ”

He looked at Li Zicheng, who was lying there motionless, and wiped his tears: "Emperor Xian, you still have to work hard, and then pretend to live for a few more days...... Fortunately, few people knew that the emperor had changed the first emperor, and they all called Yufeng to control him. ”

Li Zicheng is really hard, he has to pretend to be alive when he dies......

"A few days is not enough!" Gu Junen shook his head, "At least you have to pretend to live until we take down Chongqing Mansion!" ”

"That's going to take a long time!" Liu Zongmin glanced at Li Zicheng again, "It's so hot now, it doesn't stink?" ”

You have to pretend if it stinks!

Or Gu Junen is knowledgeable, he thought about it, "In the past, the first emperor collapsed in the sand dunes, Zhao Gao, Li Si and others did not mourn, carried the coffin in the cool car, and covered the corpse with salted fish......"

"Got it!" Liu Zongmin said, "Let's just say that the first emperor, oh, it's the emperor who wants to eat salted fish and steamed buns, so he immediately called someone to grab salted fish!" ”

On the side, Tian Jianxiu sighed and said: "The Zhu thief also suffered a lot of losses in this battle, if he knew that the emperor was still there, he would not dare to chase and fight, and he would be able to leave calmly." As long as you arrive in Yidu County, you can use Huya Mountain as horns and block the road for the Zhu thief to go west. Then Bohou and Ruhou can take everyone into Sichuan to break out of a new world! ”

"Eh and Bo Hou?" Liu Zongmin looked at Tian Jianxiu, "Yufeng, aren't you with you?" ”

Tian Jianxiu shook his head: "Someone has to stay behind to guard Yidu and Huya Mountain...... The emperor wanted to hand over Jingzhou to the forehead before his death, and now he will take responsibility for it! ”

Gu Junen glanced at Tian Jianxiu, but secretly admired his choice in his heart, because it was not a small risk to hold Yidu, Huya Mountain, Yiling Prefecture, Guizhou, Changyang and Badong, which belong to Jingzhou Prefecture, in fact...... As long as Zhu Cihong can't spare the energy to enter Sichuan in a big way, there will be no problem.

On the contrary, it can avoid the disputes of the Dashun court, and it can also avoid fighting life and death with Zhang Xianzhong's department in Sichuan, and it can also dominate one side, and sit back and watch the gains and losses, which is a good choice!

Gu Junen nodded, and said: "It is true that there must be a general to guard the western part of Jingzhou Mansion, so that the Marquis of Bo and the Marquis of Ru can calmly enter Sichuan!"

In addition, the three mansions of Hanyang, De'an, and Chengtian can't be guarded! Most of Nanyang Mansion is also difficult to defend, and it seems that Xi'an and Fengxiang Mansion in Guanzhong are also going to give up. But you can't just abandon the land, you still have to keep what you should keep!

The western part of Jingzhou Prefecture, Xiangjing, Yunyang, Hanzhong...... These are must-hold places! ”

The western part of Jingzhou Mansion is the base area that enters Sichuan from the east, while Hanzhong is the base area that enters Sichuan from the north.

As for Xiangjing and Yunyang, they are the granges of a considerable number of old battalion soldiers, and they are also the large strongholds of the Dashun Army in the Central Plains after giving up the territory of Guanzhong.

As long as the banner of the word "Chuang" is still fluttering in the sky above Xiangjing City, the Dashun Dynasty is not a partial regime located in the southwest!

In addition, the territory of Xiangjing and Yunyang (the two prefectures are connected) can also be used to house a certain Dashun founder who posed a threat to Li Guo......

"Jiexuan," Tian Jianxiu thought carefully, of course he understood the words of Gu Junen's words, and he knew the embarrassing situation between himself and Liu Zongmin, he looked at Liu Zongmin and said, "Xiangjing and Yunyang are very important, and there must be a general to guard them...... Why don't you go to Xiangjing Mansion to guard it? In Huya Mountain, if you are in Xiangjing City, you will be able to be horns for each other! ”

"That's fine!" Liu Zongmin also thinks it's good, guarding one side, and not being angry with anyone. Moreover, Xiangjing is the first base area in Dashun, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is quite rich. As for Yunyang, although it is a mountainous area, it is a good place to divide and self-dominate.

As early as the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, there were two major uprisings of displaced people in the Yunyang Mountains...... That piece is a good place for the emperor to go far away from the sky!

......

On the second day of the fifth month of the third year of Dashun Yongchang, Yidu County.

This county town fell into the hands of Li Laiheng, the son of Li Guo, four days ago, that is, on the day Li Zicheng died.

Because the new army under Wu Guoyong's command, who had been preparing to attack Huya Mountain, hurriedly ran away, making Li Guo, who was huddled in Huya Mountain and Yiling Prefecture ready to defend to the death, tremble again. He sent his son Li Laiheng to lead 10,000 troops to cross the river and seize the county seat of Changyang and Yidu County, which were controlled by local forces in the Ming Dynasty (that is, local tyrants and inferior gentry), not only completely blocking the waterway from the Jingjiang River to the Sichuan River, but also blocking the Yishui leading to Shizhouwei.

At least from the map, the rule of the Dashun Dynasty in the western part of Jingzhou Prefecture became more consolidated by the capture of the two county towns of Yidu and Changyang.

However, consolidating the territory of the Great Shun Dynasty in the west of Jingzhou Prefecture was not the main purpose of Li Laiheng's troops, and the purpose of his troops in Yidu was actually to meet the army led by Li Zicheng from the direction of Songzi and Zhijiang.

As early as when Li Zicheng sent troops, he agreed with Li Guo that once the main force of the Ming army entrenched under Jiangling City was transferred, Li Guo would send troops south of the Yangtze River to Huya Mountain to receive Li Zicheng's return.

And that goal now seems to have been accomplished!

The Dashun army, which was close to 30,000 people (more than 10,000 people who broke through from Tangjiashan, 10,000 people led by Liu Zongmin, and thousands of people who were captured by Liu Zongmin), was marching into Yidu County at this time.

Li Laiheng, who had just won the battle, took his own soldiers and rode a horse with joy to the Shilipu where Li Zicheng's imperial camp was stationed.

There is an abandoned post station here in Shilipu, and now it is surrounded by the imperial camp pro-corps, and the guards are quite tight, and the imperial camp soldiers guarding the post station have gloomy faces, as if they have just failed a miserab.

Li Laiheng thought to himself: It must be that the emperor suffered a defeat in the public security and Shishou area......

Thinking in his heart, he turned over and dismounted, and walked quickly to the post station, and as soon as he entered the door, he smelled the smell of stinky salted fish. He frowned: "What does this smell like?" ”

"General, this is the taste of salted fish." It was Gu Junen who replied, he personally greeted Li Laiheng outside the post station just now, and his attitude was very respectful.

"Salted fish?"

"That's right, the emperor likes to eat salted fish buns recently, so he asked people to buy a lot of them and eat them on the road."

"That stinks, too...... Can't you buy something better? Li Laiheng shook his head, "It's all the emperor, you don't have to be so careful about your life, right?" ”

Gu Junen sighed, didn't say anything, and led Li Laiheng into a heavily guarded room, which was full of salted fish and stinking! In such a stinky room, there were still two marquis sitting dejectedly, and when they saw Li Laiheng walking in, they all got up and saluted.

"Liu Zongmin has seen the son!"

"Tian Jianxiu has seen Shizi!"

Li Laiheng is stupid now, what do you mean? Just a Hou Shizi, both of you are Hou! And among the nine marquis of Dashun, the two of you are ranked first and second, and Eda (Dad) is only fourth.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly wanted to bow to Liu Zongmin and Tian Jianxiu, but was stopped by Gu Junen, "From now on, the prince can no longer bow to his subordinates!" ”

Li Laiheng looked at Gu Junen, "What? What did you say? Who are your subordinates? ”

"The emperor has collapsed...... The will will not be mourned, and let the Marquis of Bo be the emperor! ”