This is not counted, the situation for Li Zicheng, there is no worst only worse, with the winter, Li Zicheng in addition to not being able to meet the food needs of the generals of the Dashun army, but also unable to provide enough cold things for the generals under his command, when the soldiers are not warm, they go to rob the people's winter clothes, the people even the last cold things, also plundered, but also aggravated the famine, and the military discipline of the Dashun army has been extremely corrupt, in addition to robbing food and drink, but also robbing the people's women for them to play with, The area around Xi'an Mansion is full of smoke and miasma, and the people are not happy, and it can be said that the Dashun Army has completely lost the support of the people by this time.

But on the other hand, on the side of the Dazhong Army, after obtaining Huguang, the land of fish and rice in China nowadays, as well as Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, although the finances of Dazhong and North Korea are not rich, compared to Li Zicheng's Dashun regime, it is stronger than them to the sky, and now before the Dazhong Dynasty has not unified the world, everything is still military-oriented, so with the strength of the whole country, the logistics department will continue to transport all kinds of material resources into the front line, supplemented to the Dazhong Army, and the Dazhong Army generals have just entered the winter. Basically, they all changed into warm cotton clothes, so as not to worry that the soldiers would have a large number of frostbite! As for the supply of grain and straw, although the Dazhong Dynasty is far from being rich enough to let the soldiers have meat, but the coarse tea and light rice can basically be managed, which is already a very valuable thing in the troubled times, plus the military tent is sufficient, and the soldiers will not be allowed to sleep in the field and be frozen, so the morale of the Dazhong Army has always maintained a strong state.

Many Dashun troops saw that they couldn't do it, and secretly began to take the initiative to find the Dazhong army to surrender in groups, sometimes the men and horses of the Dazhong army did not need to attack, just put out a basket of cakes in front of the formation, and the Dashun army, which lacked food and drink, would immediately collapse, and they threw down their weapons and surrendered to the Dazhong army, just to be able to change a big pie to fill their stomachs, so by this time, Li Zicheng's Dashun army had no strength to fight against the Dazhong army.

However, the large number of surrendered troops has also created a lot of trouble for the Dazhong Army, and feeding these surrendered troops is also a rather headache for the Dazhong and North Koreas.

Because as we all know, many peasant armies from all walks of life in history have been recruited by the Ming government, but after the Ming Dynasty recruited these peasant armies, they were unable to feed them at all, as long as these rebels could not eat enough, they would immediately rebel, so that the Ming Dynasty was always invincible to these rebels, which eventually led to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.

Although a large number of Dashun troops surrendered, even Yan Chongxi, who was known as ruthless, did not dare to kill these surrendered soldiers, so these surrendered soldiers and refugees must be fed.

For this reason, Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao were quite troubled, so they could only ask the logistics department to continue to increase the delivery of materials to the front to ensure that these soldiers would not starve to death.

Later, the logistics department came up with a way to use the additional military stations along the route of the Dazhong Army to set up transit points, set up prisoner of war camps in Shangzhou, Tongzhou, and Juzhou, and transport all the captured Dashun troops and refugees to these three places for temporary centralized management after they were disarmed.

At the same time, these prisoners were ordered to exchange their labor for food, and select a large amount of wasteland around these three places to be reclaimed, although it was winter at this time, and it was impossible to sow seeds, but so much labor was used, but in this winter, a large amount of barren land could be sorted out, and after the beginning of spring, they could immediately cultivate and sow grain crops, and by next summer at the latest, they could solve the problem of feeding many people.

In addition, a large number of prisoners can also take advantage of the winter to build roads and bridges, restore the roads that cannot be maintained after Shaanxi's long-term war, and prepare for the recovery of Shaanxi's economy in the future.

Although this does not reduce the current consumption of food, but it lays a good foundation for the resumption of Shaanxi agriculture next year, and for the captives, even if the Great Middle and Korean Dynasty is benevolent and righteous, it is impossible to take care of them at once, two meals a day, a thin meal and a dry meal, to maintain the minimum calories required for their survival, and then let them dig up some wild vegetables and grass roots to replenish it, and starve to death, so Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao immediately accepted this opinion and began to send people to evacuate this large number of troops along the military stations along the way towards the resettlement place, In this way, at least the amount of food consumed by the front-line soldiers and horses is reduced, and the pressure on logistics and transportation is also reduced.

With the solution of the periphery of Xi'an after the Dashun army, Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao in the north of Xi'an Fu joined forces, after a short rest, it was December, after December, a heavy snow actually fell in Shaanxi, the road snow was quite deep, so that the original plan of the Dazhong Army to attack Xi'an was forced to abandon, changed to a temporary confrontation with the Dashun army.

But the stop of the offensive of the Dazhong Army, for Li Zicheng's Dashun Army, did not let them get a respite, the remaining hundreds of thousands of Dashun Army, for Li Zicheng, in December, is even more powerless to support, they can rob them in the past two months, they have also eaten up, after entering December, Xi'an Mansion inside and outside the city has become almost into Shura hell.

The ravines are full of hunger that no one buries, so some generals of the Dashun army began to eat people, and cannibalism is not a difficult thing for them, during the late Ming Dynasty, people everywhere cannibalism is very common, under the instruction of some generals of the Dashun army, the Dashun army began to eat people in an organized manner.

They first ate some old and weak people, and a large number of people who were about to starve to death were imprisoned, and then killed in batches, decomposed, and put into the cauldron to cook, such a situation can be said to abound, the original Xi'an Mansion City of more than 200,000 people, in just three months, died and fled, the entire Xi'an Mansion only left less than 50,000 people.

Li Zicheng arrived at this time, and also knew that Xi'an Mansion could not be defended, even if the Dazhong Army did not attack Xi'an, as long as it dragged on for another two months, his Dashun Army was completely finished, so Li Zicheng arrived in December, and learned that the Dazhong Army was not ready to attack Xi'an Mansion for the time being, so he took this opportunity to abandon Xi'an Mansion and retreat in the direction of Hanzhong.

So Li Zicheng abandoned Xi'an Mansion with more than 100,000 Dashun troops, and fled to Hanzhong with the gold and silver he had robbed for so many years in recent years.

After Yan Chongxi learned about it, he immediately sent thousands of elite cavalry to Xi'an Mansion, and began to pursue the Dashun army that had evacuated Xi'an Mansion along the way, while he and Liu Bao led the main force, and then entered the city of Xi'an Mansion and recovered Xi'an Mansion.

But when Yan Chongxi led the army to Xi'an, everyone was shocked to see the scene in his eyes, speaking of them, the soldiers, they had not seen any kind of tragic scene for so many years, but when they came to Xi'an, they were still shocked by the scene here.

The huge Xi'an Mansion and the surrounding area within a radius of 100 miles, when the Dazhong Army arrived, it was already a red land, and the villages and towns had become no man's land, which could almost be said to be ten villages and nine emptiness, and the original area of Xi'an Mansion was almost barren compared to the most prosperous Xi'an Prefecture, and when Li Zicheng led the army to evacuate, he deliberately burned many buildings inside and outside Xi'an Mansion to prevent them from being used by the Dazhong Army, which made this area extremely desolate.

On both sides of the road and in the ravines, there are corpses and bones everywhere, and you can even see that there are some white bones everywhere, it is obvious that these white bones are human bones, which were used as food after being slaughtered by the Dashun army.

After entering the city of Xi'an, the scene here made everyone tremble, Xi'an City, which originally had a population of nearly 300,000, when the Great Chinese Army arrived, there were only less than 10,000 survivors left in the city, and these survivors were all shaped like artemisia, one by one, their faces were like dead ashes, and their faces were numb, just like walking corpses, wandering aimlessly in the city, looking for something to satisfy their stomachs, to maintain their lives.

Even a tough guy like Yan Chongxi, seeing such a scene, couldn't help but cry, after arriving in Xi'an, he immediately ordered the relief of refugees with military rations, set up dozens of shelters outside Xi'an, and sent a large number of scouts to carry dry food, search around Xi'an, once the survivors were found, they would give assistance, and guide them to the shelter for temporary resettlement.

After seeing the brutality of Li Zicheng's Dashun army, the officers and men of the Western Route Army were all indignant about this, and the officers and men in the army asked for war one after another, asking to send troops to Hanzhong to pursue and kill Li Zicheng's Dashun army.

Although it was not a good time to start the war at this time due to the weather and roads, and it was close to the Spring Festival, after Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao discussed, they still decided to take advantage of the opportunity available to the military heart to wave their troops in Hanzhong and hunt down Li Zicheng's troops.

So just before the New Year, Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao set off in Xi'an Mansion again, led the army to step on the snow, and once again pounced on the Hanzhong area.

Li Zicheng abandoned Xi'an Mansion and fled south to Hanzhong, in fact, he was quite panicked, coupled with insufficient preparation, hundreds of thousands of Dashun troops along the way ran to lose their armor, and because of the low temperature of the harsh winter, and there was no supply at all along the way, they could only rely on raiding and plundering local people along the way to obtain some supplies, so when the Dashun army evacuated Xi'an, a large number of deserters soon appeared.

Countless soldiers of the Dashun Army saw that Li Zicheng was no longer in a climate, and he could only die with Li Zicheng, so after the evacuation of Xi'an Mansion, almost every night, a large number of soldiers quietly broke away from the brigade, either burrowing into the mountains and forests, or simply turning around and looking for the Dazhong Army to surrender.

In addition, Yan Chongxi sent thousands of elite cavalry led by Wang Chengping, constantly pursuing behind the Dashun army, and the Dashun army that drove Li Zicheng had to run all the way without a chance to breathe, although Li Zicheng continued to send troops to the rear of the palace, trying to stop the pursuit of the cavalry of the Dazhong Army led by Wang Chengping, but in the face of the elite cavalry of the Dazhong Army, these Dashun troops who were ordered to the rear of the palace often only encountered the charge of the cavalry of the Dazhong Army, Basically, without exception, they will be killed by Wang Chengping's troops like rolling soup and pouring snow.

Don't look at Li Zicheng left early, but the reaction of the Dazhong Army is not slow, so Li Zicheng led the army to just withdraw from Xi'an, Wang Chengping braved the wind and snow with the cavalry to catch up with the Dashun Army, along the way Wang Chengping led the Dazhong Army like a fierce dog, following the butt of the Dashun Army, tearing and biting, every bite down, biting a large piece of meat from the Dashun Army, killing the back of the Dashun Army wolf rush, running in all directions.

Wang Chengping is very experienced, he knows that only a few thousand cavalry with him is not enough to eat Li Zicheng so many soldiers and horses at once, and Li Zicheng after so many years of operation, after all, he is not a vegetarian, although the overall strength of the Dashun army is not strong, but Li Zicheng has a dragon guard by his side, this dragon guard is Li Zicheng's old subordinates, all of them are people who have been fighting in a pool of blood on the battlefield for a long time, and they are extremely loyal to Li Zicheng, and all of them are cavalry, and the number is about 5,000 people, which is the essence of the Dashun army. The combat effectiveness is extremely strong, it is considered to be the army of the Dashun army, when it comes to fighting, each is not afraid of death, Li Zicheng attaches great importance to it, no matter at any time, the treatment given to them is far more than that of other generals, and it belongs to Li Zicheng's personal army.

In addition, Li Zicheng's generals each have their own elite families, and the number of them together is more than 20,000 people, once these people are forced to be urgent, it is not something that Wang Chengping can eat these thousands of cavalry at the moment.

Therefore, Wang Chengping judged the situation and led the army behind Li Zicheng's army, and when he saw the opportunity, he pounced on the Dashun army and bit it hard, and after a massacre, he immediately fled before Li Zicheng sent troops to surround him, making full use of the advantages of their cavalry, and Li Zicheng was miserable.

Several times Li Zicheng couldn't stand this kind of anger and wanted to stop and eat Wang Chengping's cavalry completely, but Wang Chengping never gave him this opportunity, and only adopted guerrilla tactics at the touch of a button, constantly attacking Li Zicheng's army, which made Li Zicheng angry, but he had no way to deal with them.

From Xi'an to Hanzhong more than 400 miles away, Wang Chengping actually led his troops to kill more than 40,000 horses of the Dashun army, and when Li Zicheng ran to Hanzhong, there were less than 70,000 horses left, more than 300,000 Dashun troops, in just two or three months, they were eaten by the Dazhong expedition to the west army to eat more than half.

After Li Zicheng fled to Hanzhong, he really wanted to cry without tears, it turned out that the reason why he dared to argue with the Dazhong Army was mainly because he mistakenly thought that with his troops, although he might not be able to defeat the Dazhong Army, but he thought that if the Dazhong Army did not gather an army of more than 100,000 people, I am afraid it would not be easy to clean him up.

According to his opinion before the war, even if the generals under his command are not good, how can they drag on for a year or two, and this time can allow him to take a breath, and if he has a chance to return to heaven.

But he still overestimated the strength of the soldiers and horses under his command, and Xiao Tianjian didn't pay much attention to him at all, just called the 50,000 large Chinese troops in Shanxi, Henan and northern Shaanxi, Xiao Tianjian himself did not drive the expedition in person, but handed over the matter of his Dashun attack to the generals under his command Yan Chongxi, Liu Bao, and Wang Chengping to do it, these big generals, it took less than three months to force him out of Xi'an Mansion, so that Li Zicheng once again became a lost dog, 300,000 Dashun troops in an instant, Like rolling soup and pouring snow, more than 200,000 soldiers and horses were destroyed under these large and medium-sized soldiers, and now he Li Zicheng knew why Xiao Tianjian refused to agree to his request to divide the land and rule.

If it were him, he would not agree to such conditions, the Dazhong army is really too powerful, and after arriving in Hanzhong, Li Zicheng knew that he ran to Hanzhong, in fact, it was also a mistake, although Hanzhong is his so-called "Longxing" place, which he has been operating for three years, but with the failure of sending Gao Yigong to attack Yunyang in May, and trying to rush into Huguang, his so-called "Longxing" place Hanzhong was completely destroyed by the Dazhong Army stationed in Sichuan.

Originally, most of the grain and grass he had hoarded in Hanzhong was burned down by Li Xuanzhu, the general of the Dazhong Dynasty, and even some workshops for making weapons were destroyed, and the craftsmen he had finally collected were either killed or taken captive by the Dazhong army, leaving Li Zicheng's foundation in the Hanzhong area, which had been completely destroyed by the Dazhong army.

Although he only has 70,000 soldiers and horses left, it is still too much for Hanzhong, and with the material resources of Hanzhong, he still can't feed so many soldiers and horses.

In his opinion, although the war is not optimistic, but compared to when he rebelled, his capital is still a lot, after all, he still has 70,000 soldiers and horses, as long as he takes a breather, he still has the possibility of recovery.

So after consulting with the generals, he once again made a decision to march towards Sichuan and strive to seize Sichuan.

After discussion, Li Zicheng immediately sent Liu Zongmin, among the 70,000 soldiers and horses, selected 10,000 elite soldiers, and set off in the direction of Lizhou again, hoping that Liu Zongmin could open up Lizhou for him first, so that he could lead his troops to attack Sichuan before the Dazhong army chased him, and then continue to fight with the Dazhong army in Sichuan.

So Liu Zongmin immediately took Liu Tichun and ordered 10,000 soldiers and horses, all of whom were soldiers who lived in the mountains and were good at fighting in the mountains, and immediately killed from Hanzhong to Lizhou.

(Today I present a 5,000-word chapter!) Hehe! In addition, the gums are going to be removed today! This anxiety in my heart! The wound still hurts to death! ）