Xianning County, Wuchang Prefecture, is only a few dozen miles away from the Jiugong Mountains where Li Zicheng was killed.

At the beginning, after Liu Neng killed Li Zicheng, he launched the peasant Cheng Jiu to lead the army, and he went to Wuchang to persuade Hao Shaoqi to pass through Xianning County.

After being persuaded by Liu Neng to take the opportunity to absorb the Shun army, expand his strength, and wait for the opportunity to rescue Wuhu, Hao Shaoqi immediately left Wuchang with the army and went to Jiujiang.

The reason why he made a detour to Jiujiang was because all the ships in Wuchang were taken away by Li Zicheng during his expedition to the east, and there were no sailors under Hao Shaoqi, and the banks of the Yangtze River were rugged and mostly hilly, lakes and rivers, so it was difficult to travel without boats.

And from Wuchang to Xianning there is an official road to connect, the road is flat and easy to walk, after arriving in Xianning, you can go straight to the Yangtze River along the Fushui River to the east, and the distance from Jiujiang is also seventy or eighty miles.

Moreover, after nearly 200,000 Shun troops were defeated by the Qing army in Jiujiang, the routed army would definitely not choose to flee on the rugged and difficult riverbank, not to mention that the road was not easy to walk, and they would face the pursuit and killing of the Qing army. It will not enter Jiangxi to the south, because there are mountains such as Taiping Mountain, Mufu Mountain, and Jiugong Mountain to the south. The best option is to go southwest into the Xianning and Tongshan areas of Wuchang Prefecture, and then flee to Changsha Prefecture, Yuezhou, so as to escape from the pursuit of the Qing army.

When Liu Neng told Hao Shaoqi about this, Hao Shaoqi immediately decided to march the whole army from Wuchang to Xianning.

In the face of the overwhelming tens of thousands of Shun troops, the Xianning County Commander of the Ming Dynasty did not know the situation, and did not dare to resist, so he abandoned the city and fled.

After occupying Xianning County, Hao Shaoqi was pleasantly surprised to find that there were indeed many routs pouring into Xianning, and many people were wandering in the countryside. So Hao Shaoqi sent his henchmen Lu Dayou, Wang Jincai, Niu Wancai, etc., each to lead an army to collect the rout, and every time a certain number of people were gathered, they were sent to Xianning County for reorganization.

As a result, the outside of Xianning City became a huge barracks, the trees outside the city were cut down, the barracks were woven with branches, and the barracks were built with branches and trunks, and from time to time a group of routed soldiers were sent over to form a group in the camp.

Although he was worried about the situation in Wuhu, Liu Neng also knew that the hasty army would only lose, so he patiently assisted Hao Shaoqi to organize the army.

The establishment of Hao Shaoqi's army draws on the characteristics of the Xishan Army when it was established and combined with the characteristics of the Shun Army, every 5,000 people are organized into a battalion, the battalion officers are the captains, and five departments are set up under the battalion, each of which is led by the president of the ministry, and there are two sentry posts under the ministry, each post is 500 people, and there are 100 general flags and other officers under the sentry.

Hao Shaoqi entrusted his henchmen to important posts in the Commander's Department, and firmly controlled the army. At the same time, troops were sent to Puxi, Jiayu, Chongyang and other counties to collect grain, and the grain pair went as far as the Yuezhou Mansion. As soon as the summer grain was harvested, it was the time when the people were most rich in grain throughout the year, and before the government could send people to collect taxes and grain, the army of Shun army poured in and took away all the grain. In the face of a large number of Shun troops, the county officials did not dare to resist at all, and closed the city gates one by one, allowing the Shun army to abuse them in the countryside.

Huguang is one of the most granary in the world, and it is a bumper harvest of summer grain, and Hao Shaoqi easily got a large amount of grain.

With food, the defeated soldiers also settled down, and as long as there was food, they didn't mind whose banner they belonged to.

After staying in Xianning for ten days, he gathered more than 50,000 defeated soldiers, and the army under Hao Shaoqi reached as many as 80,000. Most of these routs were subordinates of the generals of the Shun army whose structure had been disrupted, and they were easily brought in.

There are also small-scale formed armies of hundreds or thousands of people, and these people originally had commanders, who belonged to Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun and other generals of the Shun army, so they naturally did not want to follow Hao Shaoqi. After all, his status in the Shun army, whether in terms of official position or title, Hao Shaoqi is too far behind Tian Jianxiu and others.

Faced with this situation, Lu Dayou, Wang Jincai, and other generals who had already received Hao Shaoqi's orders couldn't help but attack, beheaded the generals, and forcibly incorporated the army.

And just a few days ago, Da Shunze Hou Tian Jianxiu led his troops to retreat into Tongshan County, and some of his subordinate soldiers who escaped cried about being attacked by Hao Shaoqi. Tian Jianxiu was furious, and personally led his troops to Xianning County to ask Hao Shaoqi for his guilt. However, the army that awaited him was indeed waiting for him.

"Hao Shaoqi, do you want to betray Dashun and rebel?" Tian Jianxiu had a cold face, and wanted to meet Hao Shaoqi in front of the two armies.

"Where did Zehou say, the flag is the general of the Dashun army, I heard that His Majesty was defeated in Jiujiang, and the special army came to respond, how can the word rebellion be involved? By the way, dare to ask Zehou, where is Your Majesty now? Hao Shaoqi asked in surprise.

"Your Majesty," asked by Hao Shaoqi, Tian Jianxiu was discouraged, he finally escaped from the chaotic army and brought out so many troops, but he didn't dare to save the old battalion that was attacked first, where did he know where Li Zicheng was.

"Ben Hou and His Majesty were separated in the chaos, and I don't know where Your Majesty is." Tian Jianxiu shook his head and said, "Hao Shaoqi, don't change the topic, let me ask you, since you are here to receive the army, why did you kill my subordinate generals and annex my army?" ”

Even his own person who was far away in Wuchang knew about Li Zicheng's death, this Tian Jianxiu was so ignorant that Hao Shaoqi couldn't help but shake his head secretly.

"I am the envoy of the Wuchang Festival personally appointed by His Majesty, and all the troops in Wuchang have the right to be controlled, and the defeated troops enter my territory, what's wrong with me collecting them?" Hao Shaoqi asked with a cold face.

"Fart, you're just a little festival envoy, you don't even have a title, you are presumptuous in front of the marquis!" Seeing Hao Shaoqi's face, Tian Jianxiu was simply mad, he was a dignified Zehou official and a general who worshiped Quan, and he was so contempted!

Hao Shaoqi sneered a few times and walked away.

Looking at Hao Shaoqi's back, Tian Jianxiu clenched the handle of the knife, and wanted to order Hao Shaoqi to be killed several times, but looking at the army waiting on the opposite side, and then looking at the thousands of remnants around him, he could only endure this breath.

Tian Jianxiu left with someone in a gloomy manner, Hao Shaoqi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, if it was not necessary, he was not willing to turn his face with these original Shunjun generals.

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Tian Jianxiu led the remnants straight south, crossed the Makufu Mountains and entered Pingjiang County, the capital of Yuezhou, where he joined the generals of the Shun army who had arrived here earlier.

Jiujiang City west of the city by the Manchu cavalry raid led to the defeat of the army, under the Manchu and green battalion soldiers of the land and water fierce attack, the Shun army battalions could not hold at all, can only go ashore to break and flee, this escape is a complete failure, can no longer stand. As a result, the system was completely disrupted, and countless Shun troops fled the Yangtze River and fled south to avoid the Qing army.

Fortunately, the Qing army did not chase for too long before moving to Wuhu, which also made most of the Shun army rout escape the pursuit of the Qing army.

To the north is the Yangtze River, to the southeast is the mountains separated by Jiangxi Province, to the west is the Wuchang Mansion that has been plundered, after losing the naval army, it is impossible to return to Wuchang, and the Jiujiang army is defeated, and Wuchang, which is frequently close to the Yangtze River, can not survive for a long time, and the generals of the Shun army have made the same choice, leading the rout army to the southwest into the territory of Yuezhou Mansion.

Mianhou Yuan Zongdi, Cihou Liu Fangliang, Guangshan Bo Liu Tichun, Taiping Bo Wu Ruyi and other important generals of the Shun army successively led troops over the mountains into Pingjiang County. Yihou Zhang Nai also supported Empress Gao to come to Pingjiang.

When Tian Jianxiu led the troops to join everyone and talked about Hao Shaoqi's dominance, all the generals were dejected, and no one agreed.

"What's wrong?" Tian Jianxiu asked in surprise, could it be that a Hao Shaoqi scared you into this appearance.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, he died!" Yihou Zhang Nai let out a "wow" and cried loudly. Empress Gao also hid her face and shed tears on the side.

Your Majesty is dead! Tamixiu staggered back and sat on the ground.

Seeing Tian Jianxiu's ugliness, no one in the generals laughed at them as before, because they were as depressed and as ownerless as Tian Jianxiu.

Everyone present is one of the eighteen horsemen who accompanied Li Zicheng out of the mountain, and they are all Li Zicheng's most trusted and trusted people, in their hearts, Li Zicheng is the sky, and everything they have is given by Li Zicheng, and now that Li Zicheng is dead, where should they go?

Yihou Zhang Nai was Li Zicheng's personal general, so he told Tian Jianxiu about Li Zicheng's death.

"It should be the Minzhuang regiment training in Tongshan County that killed Your Majesty, not the Qing army. I have washed Jiugong Mountain with the generals, but I have not found His Majesty's head. Zhang Nai said ashamedly.

Li Zicheng, the emperor of Dashun who dominated the world, actually died at the hands of a group of peasants, which made Tian Jianxiu and others feel a sense of absurdity.

"Guys, what should we do next?" Mianhou Yuan Zongdi asked.

What to do? What else can I do? What else can be done! Everyone present was silent.

Li Zicheng died, Liu Zongmin, who was above the generals, was also killed, Prime Minister Niu Jinxing secretly fled the army and surrendered to Mantar as early as Wuchang, and the military advisor Song Xiance was also trapped in the battle and did not know what to do. The rest of the generals are not under their own command, and the current Shun army has lost its leader and has become a mess, and everyone has lost hope for the future.

"In any case, we have to slaughter Hao Shaoqi's bastard first!" Tian Jianxiu gritted his teeth and said, he really couldn't bear the humiliation that Hao Shaoqi gave him.

However, no one in the audience responded to him.

Kill Hao Shaoqi, how to kill? Hao Shaoqi now has as many as 70,000 or 80,000 troops, and the combined troops of the generals who fled to Pingjiang are not as large as him. And Hao Shaoqi is still under the banner of the Shun army, is it not possible to have another fire within the Shun army?

"Otherwise, in the name of the queen, we will order Hao Shaoqi to come to meet him, and then take the opportunity to kill him!" Cihou Liu Fangliang, who had also suffered Hao Shaoqi's loss, proposed, which made Tian Jianxiu's eyes cold.

"You can't take Hao Shaoqi as a fool? How would he leave the army and come here. Mianhou Yuan Zong's first sentence dispelled the illusions of the two.

Empress Gao listened quietly to everyone's words, she was Gao Yingxiang's daughter, and Li Zi married her when she became the army that recovered Gao Yingxiang's subordinates. But she is just an ordinary village girl, and she doesn't have any outstanding knowledge. Everyone enshrined her on the top just because she was the queen, and she consciously used it as an ornament when she knew that she didn't know anything.

And now, hearing Liu Fangliang mention herself, Queen Gao couldn't help but speak.

"Why don't you listen to Mr. Gu's words?" Empress Gao said timidly.

The generals fell silent all of a sudden, and looked at Gu Junen, who was isolated and had no sense of existence.

Gu Junen, a native of Zhongxiang, Hubei, showed his talent and fame, joined the Shun army when Li Zicheng attacked Jingxiang, and offered Li Zicheng the strategy of first taking Shaanxi as a base, and then slightly determining the three sides, and attacking Beijing through Shanxi. Under his planning, the Shun army defeated Beijing, and the border armies of northern Shaanxi, Taiyuan, Datong, and Xuanfu surrendered one after another.

Because of his merits, he was named a government servant by Li Zicheng and the president of the Wenyu Academy.

However, Gu Junen's personality is too upright, not good at flattery, and is not liked within the Shun army. His intelligence and strategy are far above Niu Venus, but Niu Venus is high in the position of prime minister and controls the Dashun court. Gu Junen's status in the Shun army was even under Song Xiance, who relied on proverbs to flatter and laugh at Li Zicheng.

Seeing the defeat of the Shun army, Prime Minister Niu Jinxing quietly left the army and surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Song Xiance was captured by the Qing army to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and returned to his old business to please the Manchurian nobles with divination.

And only Gu Junen chose to advance and retreat with Dashun, and fled to Pingjiang with the generals.

Although his status is not as good as Niu Song, Gu Junen's strategy is admired by everyone. Although Queen Gao is a woman, she also knows that she should ask someone who understands at this time.

"Gu Shilang, why don't you tell me what we should do next?" Yuan Zongdi said to Gu Junen.

Gu Junen nodded, bowed to Queen Gao, and walked in front of everyone.

"Generals, from the point of view, our Shun army has now reached a life-and-death juncture. At present, the Qing army is eager to attack the Ming Dynasty, so they let us go, but whether it is Qingsheng or Mingsheng, they will not let us go in the next step.

Your Majesty has died, the foundation has been lost, and we are now only left with these tens of thousands of remnants, sandwiched in Pingjiang County, and to the west and south are Yuezhou and Changsha, which are heavily guarded by the Ming army, and we can't defeat them at all with our current strength. The barrier between the mountains to the east and Jiangxi cannot be overcome, and the current situation has reached a life-and-death juncture. ”

A few sentences made it clear the desperate situation that the Shun army is facing now, which made all the generals depressed.

"Gu Shilang, you just say what to do now, right?" Seeing the depressed appearance of the crowd, Yuan Zongdi said anxiously.

"In the current situation, it is impossible for our Shunjun to retain their independence, and we must choose between the Ming and Qing dynasties." Gu Junen's words made the crowd angry.

"Nonsense! How could our Shun army surrender! Liu Tichun scolded.

"Scholars are not good things, seeing the defeat of the Shun army, they gave birth to the heart of surrender, surnamed Gu, I think you are the same as Niu Venus and dog thieves, no, it is even more hateful than Niu Venus, and you obviously want to exchange our people for glory and wealth!"

Tian Jianxiu pointed at Gu Junen's nose and scolded.

Gu Junen stood quietly, letting the saliva of the generals splash on his face, and he was already extremely desperate in his heart at this moment. From the king to the king, Li Zicheng to these generals, they are all a group of ignorant farmers, and they are not enough to scheming!

ps: Recently, I've been thinking about the next plot direction, whether it is like many readers proposing a rebellion, or how, you have to think clearly. So the progress and pace are a little slow, please forgive me, the subscription should be rewarded, don't stop!