Tongguan, more than 100,000 troops stationed on the city, between the mountains and fields, guarding the throat road leading to Guanzhong in Henan. In particular, the line on the south bank of the Yellow River was guarded by heavy troops by the Shun army.

The Tongguan guard general was naturally the general of Da Shunquan, Bohou Li Guo, who led Li Laiheng, He Zhen, Dang Shousu and other generals to return to Tongguan from Henan Mansion.

More than a year ago, Shunxi merged and flowed out of Sichuan, breaking He Tengjiao's 200,000 Huguang army, and the remnants of the Shun army, which was already at the end of its rope, gained life. Tens of thousands of remnants of the Shun army marched north from Jingzhou, passed through Xiangyang Nanyang, which was abandoned by the Ming army, and entered Wuguan into Shaanxi. It took nearly a year to capture the entire territory of Shaanxi.

In the following period, the Shun army expanded rapidly, and the number of troops expanded to more than 200,000. However, Shaanxi has long been in tatters after war, and Shaanxi Province alone is simply unable to support such a large number of troops. If the Shun army wants to continue to develop, it can only go out of the customs to attack Henan, or cross the river to attack Shanxi.

At that time, Henan was the territory of the Ming army, and Zheng Sen and Hao Shaoqi were guarding Xiangyang and Xuchang respectively. And Chen Yue, the king of Qi in the Ming Dynasty, was on a northern expedition with an army of 100,000 at that time, and had already captured the entire territory of Shandong. In Shanxi, the rebel army rose frequently, Jiang Hao led the troops to capture Taiyuan anyway, and Li Jiantai and other squires also gathered to revolt and recovered various prefectures and counties in Shanxi.

The two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties are facing each other in Linqing, and no matter who wins, they will inevitably not let go of the Shaanxi Shun army. Therefore, Li Guo immediately decided to take advantage of the great opportunity of the confrontation between the Ming army and sent troops to forcibly occupy the territory. Launched a two-way attack on Shanxi, Henan.

The Shun army successfully captured Luoyang, Henan Province, and Pingyang Province, Shanxi Province, but it stopped there.

In the direction of Henan, Hao Shaoqi, Chen Bing, Xuchang, and Henan Governor Yue Qijie led troops to defend the front line of Xingyang Zheng County. Li Guo sent troops to attack the east several times, but was unable to break through the Xingyang City defended by Yue Qijie, while Hao Shaoqi led his troops from Xuchang to the north, threatening the rear of the Shun army, and Li Guo was unable to defeat the Ming army in Henan at all.

The direction of Shanxi is also not smooth, after Yuan Zongdi occupied Pingyang Mansion, but was blocked by Jiang Huang in the south of Taiyuan, and the army led by the squires of Shanxi was disturbed from time to time, Shanxi was mountainous and mountainous, and the progress of the Shun army was very unfavorable.

After several months of fruitless attack, the news came that Chen Yue had defeated the Qing army in Linqing and driven the Manchus to Guanwai. After the news came, the morale of the generals of the Shun army was extremely low. Now even the local troops of the Ming army cannot be defeated, once Chen Yue leads the elite division that defeated the Manchu Qing to attack, how can the Shun army resist?

And the fact is also the same, when Li Yi was ordered to lead the Northern Expeditionary Army to attack, Li Guo commanded an army twice as large as the enemy to meet the attack, but he was hit by the dense bullet rain of the Ming army. And when it was really hand-to-hand combat, the Shun army could not break through the spear phalanx of the Ming army. So he could only withdraw from Luoyang and retreat all the way to Tongguan.

The news of Yuan Zongdi's defeat had also reached Tongguan, and the Ming army was aggressive and attacked in two directions, and the Shun army was defeated one after another, which made Li Guo feel extremely heavy.

At this moment, the Ming army sent people to bring the news that Chen Yue wanted to negotiate, which made Li Guo and the generals of the Shun army suspicious.

"Father, this must be a conspiracy of the Ming army, we must not be fooled!" Guo Yi's general Li Guoyi's son Li Laiheng shouted.

"Yes, General Quan, the king of the Ming army must have bad intentions, it is clearly a trap." The general party guards the Su Tao.

After Li Guo thought about it carefully, he shook his head: "The Ming army now has an absolute advantage, there is no need to use this method. Since he wants to talk, let's talk to him, I want to see what Chen Yue is going to do? ”

Li Laiheng said: "What else can I do?" It must be to persuade us to surrender. ”

Dang Shousu also said: "Then Chen Yue should be persuaded to surrender, so as to weaken our spirit." ”

Li said: "If you want Lao Tzu to surrender, they are dreaming!" However, Chen Yue can defeat Manchu and can be regarded as a hero, and Lao Tzu admires him. ”

Seeing that Li Guo was very resolute, Li Laiheng and the others could only agree.

"Father, even if we want to meet, we have to decide where and when we meet!"

Li Guo nodded: "That's nature." ”

The news soon came back, the commander of the Shun army, Li Guo, agreed to meet, but did not agree to come to the Ming army camp to negotiate, but set the place of negotiation on the top of a hill in the east of Tongguan, this hill is several zhang above the ground, the top of the hill is dozens of zhang in circumference, standing on the top of the hill and looking at the surrounding miles are unobstructed.

Li Guo asked people to reply, and they met at the top of the hill three days later, and each side brought ten followers.

At this time, Chen Yue had already led people across the Yellow River and came to Li Yi's army.

Hearing the news brought back by the envoy, Li Yi immediately persuaded: "Lord Wang, let the last general go on your behalf, you don't have to take too much risk." ”

Leading more than ten people to negotiate with the other party in person, this kind of thing is too dangerous in Li Yi's opinion, and it is impossible to regret it if you are not careful.

Chen Yue said with a smile: "Where can this kind of thing be replaced." As long as you prepare in advance, there is no danger. ”

Seeing Chen Yue's firm attitude, Li Yi could only sigh and obey.

In the next two days, Li Yi sent people to repeatedly explore the situation in the ten miles around the plateau, every jungle and every ravine, and did not let go of any place where there might be an ambush. Of course, the Shun army also sent people to do the same thing, and even if the soldiers on both sides encountered each other, they were safe and did not attack each other.

On the third day, Li Yi personally led an army of 5,000 and escorted Chen Yue to a place three miles away from the top of the hill, and first sent people to check on the top of the hill, and learned that the Shun army also had more than 5,000 people to the west of the top of the hill.

For the sake of safety, Chen Yue wore a layer of silk clothes, a layer of chain soft armor on the silk clothes, a layer of iron armor on the outside of the soft armor, and two layers of armor inside and outside, which were thick enough to be impenetrable within twenty steps.

Chen Mo and Zhang Huangyan followed, with eight other warriors who were also heavily armed and powerful.

Eleven men rode Liaodong war horses captured from the Manchus and galloped towards the top of the hill. On the other side, Li Guo also took his son Li Laiheng and ten other guards to gallop up on horseback. The two sides got on the top of the hill and coincidentally stopped their horses and looked at each other.

At this time, the two sides were about 20 zhang apart, and after a moment of silence, Chen Yue and Li Guo came out at the same time and walked slowly towards the middle of the hill.

Looking at the middle-aged general in his forties who was riding on a horse opposite, Chen Yue nodded slightly, looking the same as others described, it should be Li Guo himself. Although Li Guo is Li Zicheng's nephew, he is about the same age as Li Zicheng, and he is in his forties at this time.

And Li Guo, who was on the other side, was shocked by Chen Yue's young heroism.

Over the years, Chen Yue's achievements have spread all over the country, and his reputation has been heard all over the world, and Li Guo naturally knows it. Although he knew that Chen Yue was in his twenties and not a few years older than his righteous son Li Laiheng, he couldn't help but be shocked when he really saw it today.