As mentioned earlier, some of them were reorganized on the spot, leaving them to stay in the army to guard the soldiers and horses, responsible for protecting the safety of the canal line, protecting the safety of a large number of northbound fleets, as they marched more and more northward, their supply lines became longer and longer, and when he arrived in Tianjin Weiwai in mid-May, the entire supply line of the Grand Canal had stretched for thousands of miles. In addition to the dry road in Henan, most of them have to be transported north by waterway, and there are almost hundreds of boats sent out from Yangzhou every day, so as to ensure that the army in front of them has no worries about food and clothing.

Such a large-scale transportation of supplies, even if people in later generations think about it, they will feel a little big, not to mention in this era when transportation is basically by walking, communication is basically by roaring, and public security is basically based on dogs? So although Xiao Tianjian has accumulated some private money over the years, he can't stand such a toss.

Xiao Tianjian also underestimated the difficulty of maintaining the canal at the beginning, so he was a little unprepared in the early stage, so that in April, the boats on the canal were often routed or looted by a large number of bandits, in addition to the loss of a lot of materials, it also affected some boat people, so that many boat people did not dare to sail north to transport supplies for the Dazhong army.

Later, Xiao Tianjian had to delay some time on the road, and transferred a group of soldiers and horses from all over the country to strengthen the defense on both sides of the canal along the way. In addition, one or two warships loaded with many light artillery guns were arranged in each fleet to escort the fleet, which stopped some lake bandits and water bandits from plundering the material fleet of the Great Chinese Army.

But in exchange for a drastic increase in transportation costs, these reorganized troops will undoubtedly consume a lot of food, since they have become a member of the Great Chinese Army, Xiao Tianjian naturally will not let them solve the problem of eating by themselves, so a large part of the food and materials transported from the south, a large part of them have been consumed by these newly formed soldiers and horses.

Therefore, for Xiao Tianjian's Dazhong Dynasty, just after the establishment of the country, he immediately launched such a large-scale war, for their monarchs and ministers, the pressure was undoubtedly obvious.

In addition, Xiao Tianjian gathered troops to the north, undoubtedly also caused the emptiness of the rear, some local officials and generals of the Ming Dynasty, also after Xiao Tianjian waved his army to the north, began to move in the south, trying to take advantage of this God-given opportunity to recapture some territory, in mid-April, Xiao Tianjian got a report from Shi Ran, who stayed in Nanjing, saying that Fang Guoan, who fled to Ganzhou, gathered nearly 40,000 Ming troops in Ganzhou, known as 100,000 troops, and began to go north again, trying to recover the lost territory in Jiangxi, and the front pointed to Nanchang Mansion, which has been controlled by the Great Middle Korea, Shi Ran has already mobilized the troops left behind in the south and went south to the area of Fuzhou Mansion to deal with Fang Guoan's people.

After Xiao Tianjian learned about it, he ordered the military department to issue an order, and ordered Luo Rucai, who stayed in Huguang, to also mobilize the remaining soldiers in the third town in Huguang to attack Ji'an Mansion in Jiangxi, and contain Fang Guo'an from the side, so as to share the pressure of Fang Guo'an's department going north this time for Shi Ran.

This is also the main reason why Xiao Tianjian was not able to quickly enter Shanhaiguan during this time, too many things involved to distract Xiao Tianjian, so that he had to lead the troops to fight, but also to pay attention to the major events in the rear.

In addition to Fang Guoan leading troops north to try to restore the territory of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng's side did not stop, Xiao Tianjian dealt with Li Zicheng's claim to be the emperor, which was not very wise, which led to Li Zicheng completely turning against their Dazhong Dynasty, first trying to attack Henan, but was defeated by Fan Sheng in Tongguan and suffered a big loss, and then Gao Jie surrendered to Dazhong and North Korea, which made Li Zicheng angry.

Although Li Zicheng lost his mind, he was finally persuaded by his subordinates, considering that his strength is too far from Xiao Tianjian's strength, and the Dazhong Army is too fierce, with his strength, he really completely tears his face with the Dazhong Army, don't look at the main force of the Dazhong Army now, but the soldiers and generals who stayed behind are not vegetarians, just the thousands of Dazhong soldiers and horses led by Fan Sheng in Tongguan are enough for him to drink a pot.

Therefore, after Li Zicheng's defeat in Tongguan, he temporarily retracted to Xi'an, turned around and began to move westward, and led his generals to follow Xiao Tianjian's example to come to a so-called royal expedition, after April, taking advantage of the opportunity of the collapse of the main force of the Shaanxi group of dragons and the main force of the official army, he successfully captured Pingliang Mansion, Gongchang Mansion and other places along the way, and controlled a large area in western Shaanxi into his hands, so Li Zicheng was a little fluttering again.

After May, he remembered Xiao Tianjian's insult to him, and actually sent his subordinate Gao Yigong, the general who stayed in Hanzhong, to take advantage of the opportunity that the Dazhong Army had gone north, or to get a handful from the Dazhong Army, this time he did not dare to choose Tongguan to attack the territory of the Dazhong Dynasty, but set his sights on the direction of Yunyang, and sent someone to hear that the Dazhong Army did not have many troops in the Yunyang area, so he wanted to make Gao Yi's power troops raid Yunyang, enter Huguang from Yunyang, and open up the channel, so that he could wave his army into Huguang, Occupy this land of fish and rice in China.

Gao Yigong was ordered to lead 20,000 or 30,000 Dashun troops to set off, and he rushed to Yunyang Mansion with great momentum, intending to break Yunyang Mansion with one drum, so he waved his army to Xiangyang City.

It's a pity that he Li Zicheng thought of it, and the people on the side of the Dazhong Army also thought of it, not to mention that Yunyang, as the throat of Huguang, Sichuan, and Shaanxi, how could he not pay attention to it? So don't look at Yunyang because of the small population, the large Chinese army that stayed in the town is not much, and during this time, it is still gradually filling in the area of Yunyang Mansion, but as an important strategic place, of course, no unknown people will be in charge of guarding the town.

The person in charge of guarding Xiangyang Mansion and Yunyang Mansion is not someone else, it is Zhao Weihua, the general under Xiao Tianjian, who is the previous Zhao Erdonkey.

Zhao Erdonkey because of the gap with Li Xuanzhu, after Xiao Tianjian took Huguang, he gradually transferred Zhao Erdonkey and Li Xuanzhu, although Zhao Erdonkey is still Li Xuanzhu's deputy, but he doesn't do much under Li Xuanzhu anymore, but is entrusted by Xiao Tianjian, as the deputy general manager of the third town, stationed in Xiangyang, responsible for guarding Xiangyang, Yunyang and other places, Xiao Tianjian gave Zhao Erdonkey an important task, is to keep an eye on Li Zicheng who was released by him in Shaanxi here, to prevent Li Zicheng from turning against them one day. From Yunyang into the lake.

Therefore, at a very early stage, Xiao Tianjian had already stuck Tongguan and Yunyang, two important passes connected to Shaanxi, as early as Shaanzhou in the north and Yunyang in the south, all of them had a considerable number of troops left, and they were always on guard against Li Zicheng, the evil wolf.

Now that Li Zicheng has finally turned against Xiao Tianjian and become an inseparable opponent, how can Xiao Tianjian go north, how can he not arrange to deal with this hungry wolf first?

So Gao Yigong was very unlucky, and when he led the troops to Yunyang, Zhao Erdonkey had already learned the news, and transferred the soldiers and horses of Xiangyang and Chengtianfu, including more than 10,000 soldiers and generals, including the local reserve battalion, and when Gao Yigong arrived at the city of Yunyang Mansion, Zhao Erdon's soldiers and horses had also arrived at Wudang Mountain to ambush.

Although Zhao Erdon only has four battalions of troops in his hands, he controls six reserve battalions, and half a heavy artillery battalion (two companies of troops), according to Zhao Erdon's deployment, Yunyang Mansion City left a battalion of two reserve battalions of troops, defending Yunyang Mansion City, first attracted Gao Yigong to attack Yunyang Mansion City with heavy troops, and he led the main force, stationed in the Wudang Mountain area, and watched from a distance as Gao Yi's power department attacked Yunyang Mansion City.

Gao Yigong led the troops to storm Yunyang City for three days, and the morale naturally declined, Zhao Erdonkey took advantage of this time, only to suddenly lead the main force out of Wudang Mountain, straight to the back of Gao Yigong's department, Gao Yigong only then knew that he was fooled, and was broken by Zhao Erdonkey's troops, and Gao Yigong fled in the desert, and the remnants of the army fled back to Hanzhong.

But when Gao Yigong fled back to Hanzhong, he found that their nest in Hanzhong was also copied by the people of the Dazhong Army all the way, it turned out that after entering Sichuan, Li Xuanzhu first took Chongqing Mansion and Chengdu Mansion, and gradually swept away Baoning Mansion in northern Sichuan during this time, and now Li Zicheng and their Dazhong Dynasty turned against each other, how could Li Xuanzhu still be polite to him, as soon as the Gao Yi power soldiers came out of Hanzhong Mansion, he got the news, sent 3,000 elite men and horses, and traveled out of Baoning Mansion day and night to take advantage of the emptiness of the Dashun army in Hanzhong, Entered the territory of Hanzhong Mansion and wreaked havoc in Hanzhong Mansion, destroying Li Zicheng's two granaries in Hanzhong, and also setting fire to many of Li Zicheng's logistics materials, almost copying the old books that Li Zicheng had operated in Hanzhong in the past two years.

By the time Gao Yigong fled back to Hanzhong Mansion with the remnants of the defeated army, the generals of the 3,000 Great Chinese Army had already done enough damage, wrapped up a large amount of materials, and withdrew to Baoning Mansion.

Gao Yigong was angry after hearing this, and led the remnants of the defeated army to chase into Baoning Mansion, but in the territory of Baoning Mansion, the Dazhong Army pursued by him took advantage of the terrain and gave a hard blow, and used the buried mines to blow up a lot of Dashun generals, and even an important general under Gao Yigong was killed on the spot, Gao Yigong hurriedly retreated, and was chased and killed by the Dazhong Army with his buttocks, and when Gao Yigong ran back to Hanzhong, he almost became the commander of the light pole.

Gao Yigong saw that the situation was not good, and felt that Hanzhong might not be able to hold it, so he was planning to pack up his belongings and run towards Xi'an Mansion, but at this time, the Dazhong Army took the initiative to retreat, shrank its troops, and did not take advantage of the situation to capture Hanzhong Mansion.

In fact, at this time, Xiao Tianjian had realized that he had mishandled Li Zicheng's affairs, and now that the matter of Jiannu in the north had not been resolved, he arrogantly went to anger Li Zicheng, although he was confident to clean up Li Zicheng, but he had to fight with the Ming Dynasty, Jiannu, and Li Zicheng at the same time, and he was obviously a little powerless, so on the way to the north, he began to review his mistakes in his decision during this time, and decided not to fight with Li Zicheng for the time being.

So he ordered the military department to issue an order, for the time being, the guards around the country will take a defensive position against Li Zicheng, and do not take the initiative to compete with Li Zicheng for territory, if Li Zicheng's people take the initiative to provoke, they will be beaten back, but for the time being, it is limited to repelling them, and the generals are not allowed to take the initiative to grab Li Zicheng's territory, so as not to force Li Zicheng to jump off the wall in a hurry, at this time to concentrate all the Dashun army, and the decisive battle of the Dazhong army, after all, Li Zicheng's subordinates also have more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, although these 100,000 horses are mostly rabble in the eyes of the Dazhong army, But if Li Zicheng goes out to fight for his life now, cleaning him up will still involve a lot of troops and energy of the Great and Middle Koreas, and Xiao Tianjian does not want such a situation to occur at the moment.

So this is the reason why Li Xuanzhu and Zhao Erdonkey defeated Gao Yigong, but they did not take the opportunity to capture Hanzhong, so that Gao Yigong watched in the area of Hanzhong Mansion for a few days with fear, and learned the news that the Dazhong Army had retreated, which dispelled Gao Yigong's idea of fleeing to Xi'an.

Gao Yigong was defeated, so that Li Zicheng could see clearly that he was not Xiao Tianjian's opponent at all, although Xiao Tianjian was now busy overthrowing the Ming Dynasty in the north, and resisting Jiannu's entry into the customs, but the strength left behind was not something that he Li Zicheng could shake, not only that, these left-behind Dazhong troops even had the ability to copy his lair, so after Li Zicheng learned the news of Gao Yigong's defeat, he also calmed down, and after discussing with Song Xiance and other advisers, Song Xiance and others also thought, At present, the most important thing for them is to expand their territory, not to compete with the big Chinese army, in their opinion, China is very big, although the big Chinese army occupies Henan, Shanxi, Sichuan, Huguang and other places, but the west is still very vast, they don't have to fight with the big Chinese army, first hurry west to grab the territory, in the future, once the big Chinese army wants to settle the general account with them, the area around Xi'an will definitely not be able to keep, so they want to occupy more west territory in advance, it really can't work, just run farther!

So after Li Zicheng was defeated in Yunyang, he temporarily completely dispelled the idea of continuing to take advantage of the big Chinese army to go north to take advantage of Xiao Tianjian.

(I'm dizzy!) In the past two days, it has been changed to a watch, and Lord Hu Lulu actually rewarded eighty-eight yuan and eight cents, which really makes me ashamed! In addition, I would like to thank the two brothers, Xinli and Wangzw, your support makes me ashamed! I have to have a 4,000-word chapter today! I can't repay you for a little gratitude, and write a better book in the next book to repay the love of the brothers! ）