Chengtianfu, Jingshan County

The rolling hills are undulating, a river meanders through the hills, and on a flat land beside the river sits a small low town, which is the county seat of Jingshan.

Inside and outside the county, there are soldiers and people full of vegetables, carrying packages on their backs, with colorful silk wrapped around their waists, or pushing wheelbarrows and carts carrying altars and jars, and many people are still holding knives, guns and weapons in their hands, and carrying bows and arrows on their backs. Some of them wore military uniforms and hats, and many more were just ordinary people's clothes, just with a red scarf wrapped around their heads.

These people are all routs of the Shun army.

Fleeing south from Xi'an via Lantian Wuguan, Li Zicheng took more than 100,000 Shun troops to rest in the inner countryside for more than 20 days. Then it's time to discuss where to go next.

The 130,000 troops, plus the families of the accompanying troops, are not so easy to settle down, at least at the moment, the territory occupied by the Shun army cannot accommodate so many people.

The territory of Shanxi was lost, and now it is still in the hands of the Shun army that is the four prefectures of Jingxiang, but it is too difficult to feed the 200,000 Shun army with this territory alone, and there is not enough room for maneuver.

Whether to attack Hunan and Jiangxi in the south based on Jingxiang, or simply go down the river to attack the land of Nanjing Jiangdong, the decision-making level of the Dashun army had a dispute. In the inner countryside, it has been more than 20 days and has not yet been decided.

However, the Manchu Qing did not give the Shun army a chance to breathe, and after a short rest in Xi'an, the Manchu Ying prince Azig led the army to continue to pursue. Some time ago, when attacking the Shun army, he went to Ordos in Outer Mongolia to ask for a war horse, which delayed the time to attack Xi'an, which provoked the regent Dolgon to be furious and reprimanded him fiercely. This time, Azig held his breath and must completely wipe out the Shun army.

In Dengzhou, the Shun army was caught up by the Eight Banners of the Azig Division, and the right battalion of Liu Fangliang, who was left behind, was routed by the Qing army.

In Zhongxiang Mansion, the Shun army was once again caught up by the Qing army, and the army of Cihou Tian Jianxiu was scattered.

Tens of thousands of Shun troops fled south and fled into Jingshan County.

Jingshan County County Office, Hao Shaoqi walked around the lobby with an anxious face. He led his subordinates to be ordered from De'an Mansion to meet the retreating Shun army, and this was the scene he saw.

Seeing that De'an City was still in the hands of his own people, and there were still formed troops, the fleeing Shun army gradually settled down and stayed in Jingshan County to rest for a while.

"Big brother, there are as many as 20,000 or 30,000 brothers staying inside and outside the city, what should we do next?" His subordinate Lieutenant Lu Dayou asked worriedly.

"You ask me, I ask who is going?" Hao Shaoqi said unhappily, "King Chuang, he just asked us to meet the retreating Zehou Cihou, who knew that his mother only arrived in Jingshan, and the troops of Cihou and Zehou were defeated by the Mantars." ”

"We have to retreat quickly, the Mantars will catch up soon." Lu Dayou shouted.

"Withdraw, of course. But where to retreat, we have to think carefully. Hao Shaoqi frowned.

"King Chuang has already led his troops to Hanyang Mansion, of course we have to go to Hanyang too, what is there to think about!" Lu Da was puzzled.

"You know a fart, if we retreat to Hanyang, with the marching speed of this gang of routs, we will soon be caught up by the Manchu Tartar cavalry, not to mention these tens of thousands of routs, even our brothers will not escape the doom of destruction." Hao Shaoqi glared at Lu Dayou and said.

"Then, where do you go if you don't go to Hanyang?" Lu Dayou was a little dazed. Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, went to Hanyang with the main force, and of course he and the others had to follow. The eldest brother is saying this now, does he want to?

Lu Dayou didn't dare to think about it anymore.

"We can't go east to Hanyang, we have to go south to Chuyangzhou. Let's keep these brothers first. Hao Shaoqi said categorically.

"Okay." Lu Dayou agreed, turned around and went to convey the order.

In his heart, his eldest brother's actions were clearly using King Chuang as bait to protect himself. Between the 200,000 army of King Chuang Li Zicheng and these tens of thousands of defeated soldiers, the Mantars will definitely choose to chase after King Chuang.

Although he guessed the consequences of the incident, Lu Dayou felt faintly relaxed in his heart, between swearing to block the pursuers for the sake of King Chuang and saving his brother's life, Lu Dayou would of course choose the latter.

Following Hao Shaoqi's order, his 3,000 soldiers immediately set off and left the Beijing division to the south. Seeing Hao Shaoqi's army set off, the defeated soldiers naturally chose to follow, and tens of thousands of people left Jingshan and rolled south.

"Hao Shaoqi, why did you take everyone south?" Finally, someone felt that something was wrong, and ran to Hao Shaoqi and asked.

Hao Shaoqi squinted his eyes and looked at the person in front of him who called his name, Tang Ren, the general under General Liu Fangliang, and General Guoyi, who was on par with him in his position. However, this guy has the title of baron, and his position in the camp is above himself.

In the past, this fight was Liu Fangliang's confidant, how could he have put himself in his eyes, but now, you are a lost dog who has fled in the wilderness, what qualifications do you have to be arrogant in front of me?

"Where do you go if you don't go south?" Hao Shaoqi narrowed his eyes and asked lightly.

"Of course it's to the east, King Chuang and Zehou have gone east, let's chase them." Tang Ren said as a matter of course.

"Are you a pig's brain? Man Tartar is chasing after the buttocks, let's go after King Chuang now, isn't it the same as leading Man Tartar to King Chuang? Hao Shaoqi scolded.

"You, you dare to scold me!" Tang Ren is going crazy, this Hao Shaoqi is just a character who doesn't love his uncle and grandmother, and he didn't even get a title, so he dared to scold himself!

"You, you bastard!" Tang Ren pointed at Hao Shaoqi's nose with his finger, trembling angrily.

Looking at the finger pointed to his face, Hao Shaoqi's eyes narrowed, and he raised his big fan-like hand to grasp the finger and pouted it hard.

There was a "click", a crisp fracture sounded, and then Tang Ren screamed like a pig.

"You are a lost dog, and you dare to point your finger at Lao Tzu! If you don't want to follow Lao Tzu to the south, you will give Lao Tzu a long way away! ”

Leaving the words, Hao Shaoqi turned around and left. Several of Tang Ren's henchmen looked at Hao Shaoqi with a wince, but they didn't dare to stop him at all.

"Big brother, this is equivalent to tearing your face with Zehou, which is not good." Lu Dayou said softly.

"How can you swallow these routs without tearing your face!" Hao Shaoqi snorted coldly.

Now it is not as good as before, the Dashun army has been defeated in successive battles, and it has not even had a place to stay. At present, this kind of chaotic army is naturally the king of strength, as long as there are enough troops under his command, even if it is Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, he has to look down on himself. The Chuang Army was originally a union of more than a dozen rebel armies, and although everyone was the master of Li Zi, they still maintained a certain degree of independence in many cases.

In the face of chaos, Hao Shaoqi's ambition swelled.