Just when the Royal Guards won a great victory in Korea, the situation in the Ming Dynasty began to deteriorate.

In order to quell Li Zicheng's rebellion, Emperor Chongzhen asked Zhang Pu to go to Shaanxi with money and grain to support in June of the 16th year. However, fate did not favor Zhang Pu.

When Zhang Pu arrived in Kaifeng with a large amount of money, Huang Shu, who had been promoted to the post of political envoy of Henan, suggested that Zhang Pu postpone his march. At this moment, Luoyang has been recaptured by Li Zicheng, and the water surface of the Yellow River is no longer safe. Huang Shu wrote to Nanjing, and was escorted by reinforcements.

It's just that in Zhang Pu's opinion, if you don't go to Luoyang to find Sun Chuanting at this moment, when will it be necessary to reverse the situation? So Zhang Pu insisted on entering Shaanxi, but unfortunately, Huang Shu's prediction was unfortunately true.

Zhang Pu rushed in and was captured by Li Yan's organization. At this time, Zhang Pu found that at this moment, not only Luoyang was occupied by Li Zicheng, but even the entire Guanzhong was also in danger.

In June of the sixteenth year, after Zhu Cihong crossed the sea to attack and handed over this stall to Emperor Chongzhen, Li Zicheng, who saw that the last shackles were gone, began to act quickly. He himself, together with Liu Zongmin and others, led the main force of the peasant army, attacked Tongguan from Luoyang to the west, and marched to Xi'an; At the same time, Pai, Bai Minghe, Liu Tichun, and Lan Yingcheng led 100,000 soldiers and horses of the right battalion as a partial division, starting from the Dengxian area of Henan Province, marching from Shangluo, Shaanxi Province to join Li Zicheng's division in Xi'an.

In early June, Li Zicheng's army approached Tongguan. The general soldier Bai Guangen was camped in Tongluochuan outside the city, the general soldier Gao Jie was camped on the west hill outside the south gate, and Sun Chuanting himself organized the people in the city to defend the city. On the 6th day of the first month of June, the peasant army marched from Taojiazhuang to Guanpo and began to charge. Under the First World War, Gao Jie's troops fled westward without even resisting. Bai Guangen's department failed after a little resistance, and he couldn't withstand it. It didn't take long for the wind to collapse. At this time, the families of the officers, soldiers, and soldiers were all in the city. The soldiers scrambled to flee into the fortress to protect their families and get out. The ministries panicked, and there was nowhere to sustain resistance. As a result, Tongguan was broken.

The only luck was that in the panic, Sun Chuanting and Qiao Yuanzhu, the deputy envoy of the supervising army, were able to flee west with the help of more than 100 Jinyi guards led by Wei Yunshan.

As soon as Tongguan was broken, the gateway to Xi'an was opened. Li Zicheng left Ma Shiyao to guard Tongguan, and the troops continued to advance. When the peasant army arrived in Weinan, the children of Yang Xuan, the magistrate of the Ming Dynasty, took the city to defend it, but the county raised the king's order to open the door to welcome the peasant army into the city. On the 10th day of the seventh month. Li Guo's forward attack on Lintong County. The next day, we arrived at the city of Xi'an.

At this moment, although Sun Chuanting was in Xi'an, he was suffering from the loss of all the soldiers and horses in Shaanxi, and the people in the city were panicked.

Wei Yunshan, who rushed to Xi'an, suggested that Sun Chuanting leave the five thousand Sichuan soldiers in the city to go west. Although Sun Chuanting agreed to consider it, he still wanted to defend it, so he borrowed money from Zhu Cunshu, the king of Qin, to raise military salaries for the official army. Relying on the vassal king's urine, Zhu Cunshu of course refused without any suspense. Sun Chuanting left disappointed. When Wang Genzi, the deputy general defending the city, heard this, he immediately decided to surrender to Li Zicheng, and asked Li Zicheng to attack the city.

Fortunately, Wei Yunshan's news is smooth. After reporting this news to Sun Chuanting, Wang Genzi was killed. At this time, Wei Yunshan broke another bombshell news, announcing the order left by Zhu Cihong.

Originally. Zhu Cihong had hidden worries early on that his unlucky father would not be able to support the situation in Shaanxi at all, and he would pit the last marshal of the Ming Dynasty to death, so he asked Wei Yunshan, a thousand households in Jinyi, to personally rescue Sun Chuanting.

Of course. Rescuing Sun Chuanting can't be a random rescue, headless, brainless and undisciplined. Pull people out and you're done.

As the crown prince, he was the superintendent of Nanjing. Zhu Cihong's style of wanting to rescue is much higher. A piece of paper was hidden in Wei Yunshan's arms, and he only took it out when Sun Chuanting couldn't hold Xi'an, and gave Sun Chuanting the authority to evacuate Xi'an.

Moreover, this seemingly ordinary order has become an important material repeatedly studied by later Ming historians, and they all say that this military order shows Zhu Cihong's extremely high military quality and strategic vision.

The crown prince's order said: "The strength of the official army and the thief army has actually been reversed, and Shaanxi and even the entire northwest are fighting under such a strategic situation, and they can no longer continue to gain momentum in one city and one place." It is necessary to begin to reflect on the political corruption and organizational weakness of the imperial court, and transfer the elites of the Ming Dynasty to leave and save themselves. At the same time, your next battle will focus on destroying Li Zicheng's living forces. If people lose land, people and land will survive; If the land is lost, the people and the land are lost. Leave Xi'an, abandon the big city, and preserve the lean power, this is the power I give you! ”

After Sun Chuanting received the order, he burst into tears and was speechless for a long time.

An hour later, Sun Chuanting seemed to be a different person, exuding vigor and vigor, and the whole person seemed to be a new life, and an infinite force erupted and began to mobilize the generals and scholars up and down Xi'an, and even the scholars in the academy were organized to mobilize this big transfer.

They began to transfer all the scholars in the city, especially those young and vigorous young scholars, books, official documents, account books, grain and rice, and a small amount of gold and silver to Qin Feng, Longxi and other places.

A big move has begun.

On 21 July, Li Zicheng led the peasant army to occupy Xi'an. Zhu Cunshu, the king of Qin, who was unwilling to leave with Sun Chuanting, was captured alive, and Feng Shikong, the governor of Shaanxi, and Huang Jiong, who cooperated with Sun Chuanting to organize the gentry of Shaanxi to leave Xi'an, were able to retreat and did not die in the broken city. The political envoy Lu Zhiqi and others chose to surrender to Li Zicheng.

Although Li Zicheng only got Xi'an, which had a large population decline and was almost an empty city, he was also elated, and immediately set about reassuring the people, ordering that no one should be killed in vain, and those who made mistakes would pay for their lives. Under these measures, Li Zicheng quickly stabilized the situation in Xi'an.

At the same time, the right battalion of the peasant army under the command of others, after setting out from the Nanyang area of Henan, entered Shangzhou, Shaanxi Province on June 12, conquered the city on the 15th, and executed Huang Shiqing, a Ming Dynasty merchant who drove the people to resist. On the 17th, Luonan County was occupied. Together with Li Zicheng, the main force will be in Xi'an.

At this point, Li Zicheng led the rear battalion and the left battalion of Liu Fangliang's army to the north to pursue the Ming general Gao Jie's official army and seize northern Shaanxi; Tian Jianxiu led his troops south to Hanzhong, pursued the general army Gao Ruli's department, and opened up the hole road to Sichuan in the south; Liu Zongmin and others pursued Bai Guangen's officers and troops westward, captured Ningxia, Gansu, Xining and other places, and chased and killed Sun Chuanting who fled all the way. East. Li Guo was stationed in Luoyang against Chen Yongfu's troops of the Royal Guards Legion.

Of course, Chen Yongfu did not know that he would be transferred to Gyeonggi at that time. Becomes a pawn in the confrontation between Zaisuke and the Frontier Shomon.

Not long after, Li Zicheng led Liu Fangliang's army to Yan'an in August. Gao Jie ran all the way. finally ran away to Jiangbei, and not many of his subordinates escaped. Soon, Li Zicheng changed Yan'an to Tianbao Mansion, Mizhi to Tianbao County, and Qingjian to Tianbo Mansion.

Only the Yulin defenders in northern Shaanxi were still loyal and brave, and continued to resist. Yulin was one of the important towns in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and most of the residents were affiliated with the military and took serving as a soldier as a profession; There are also a lot of children who were born in generals. Li Zicheng sent the debater Shu Junrui to bring 50,000 taels of silver to the generals of Yulin, and at the same time ordered Liu Fangliang to lead an army of 70,000 and then march. In order to persuade the surrender to fail, it will be attacked by force.

Yulin General Soldier Wang Dingyan discussed, and decided to resist and defend the city with Ren He, the general soldier Wang Shiqin, Hou Shilu, Hou Gongji, and You Shiwei. According to the original history, the surrender of a town in Yulin, the death of the battle, and the escape of the escape, the ending was tragic. But in this time and space, Sun Chuanting received an order from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Prison State, based on "If people are lost, people and land will survive; Lost land. Naturally, he didn't want these fairly disciplined generals to be lost here, so he issued an order and allowed them to retreat westward.

So far. Yan'an was occupied by Li Zicheng, and the northeastern part of Shaanxi was slightly calmer.

Tian Jianxiu's southward journey to Hanzhong was relatively smooth, and the prefectures and counties along the way were attached to the wind. On July 12, he arrived in Chenggu County. The siege lasted four days, and the city of Keqi. Gao Ruli, the general of the Ming Dynasty, attempted to flee to Sichuan. On the way, he was chased by the peasant army and forced to surrender. After the Hanzhong region was pacified, Tian Jianxiu left the troops to guard He Zhen and Han Wen. Return to Xi'an on your own.

At this time, except for Liu Zongmin, who was still fighting with Sun Chuanting's troops in the west, the entire Guanzhong, western Henan, and northern Huguang were all owned by Li Zicheng.

Not long after, even Bai Guangen surrendered to Li Zicheng.

On September 1 of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng announced the founding of the country and changed the Yuan to Yongchang. changed Xi'an to Chang'an, called Xijing; Take the Ming and Qin palaces as palaces. Posthumously honored his great-grandfather as the emperor, his mother Lu as the queen mother, canonized Gao as the queen, and Chen as the concubine. Meritorious heroes are knighted with the fifth class. General Quan, General of the system, marquis; General Guo Yi, mighty general Feng Bo, son, male. Feng Ruhou Liu Zongmin, Zehou Tian Jianxiu, Qi Hou Gu Ying, Bo Hou Li Guo, Cihou Liu Fangliang, Yihou Li Shuangxi, and posthumously sealed Yuan Zongdi, who died in battle, as Mianhou.

Subsequently, the official system was changed, the cabinet was changed to the Tianyou Palace, and the Ming Niu Venus was the military and state affairs of the university scholar Pingzhang. Song Xiance was a military advisor. The central administrative organs are six governments, and Shangshu and Shilang are added, and Langzhong is changed to Zhonglang, and the principal is engaged in business. Hanlin Temple is the Hongwen Museum, the six departments are the counselors, the imperial history is the direct commander, the Shangbao Temple is the Shangqi Division, the Taifu Temple is the Horse Inspection Temple, and the General Administration Department is the political envoy.

The provinces also sent additional patrols to direct the commanders, with Liu Da of Linfen County of Ming Linfen as the direct commander of Shaanxi, and Li Ruoxing of Jiexiu Zhi County as the governor of Shanxi Province as the direct commander of other officials such as defense envoys, government Yin, state pastors, and county commanders.

The five battalions are designated as Zhongji, left spoke (auxiliary), right wing, forward, and stamina; The front camp is black, the rear camp is yellow, the left camp is white, the right camp is red, and the middle camp is blue. There are generals with power, generals, generals, generals, generals, generals, commanders, commanders, generals, and other officers.

Subsequently, Li Zicheng inspected the army's drill soldiers and horses, and reorganized the army for battle. It's like a new atmosphere in a country. It seems that without Zhu Cihong's suppression in the country, Li Zicheng seems to have regained the atmosphere of the Lord of Destiny, just as the defeat of the First World War in Kaifeng never existed.

Seeing this, many gentry seem to have decided that the number of great Ming Qi at this moment has been exhausted, and they can really get a dragon merit with Li Zicheng.

At this time, a complete accident disrupted all of Zhu Cihong's layouts.

On September 17 of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty was still scorching hot, especially on the official road outside the Yongpyeong Mansion in the east of Gyeonggi.

The Tang Tong Department that came from Jizhen had just left Yongping Mansion. There is no love of the people like the Royal Guards Legion, and some are just the coffin face of the dead father and mother of the Yongping Prefect, and half of the three or five sentences can not escape is to smell when Tang Tong will leave.

If it weren't for Tang Tong getting Zhu Youzhen's rare and generous reward of 100,000 taels of silver, Tang Tong would have run back to his own station in a bad mood.

Although Tang Tong has never done this kind of thing in this time and space, Tang Tong has done it in the original history. At that time, Chongzhen was particularly generous to Tang Tong and personally gave him a python robe and jade. But the surface is good-looking, and after a good color, I searched all over the house, and only 10,000 taels of silver were allocated as a reward for military salaries. No matter how good the face work is, as soon as he heard that it was such a little silver, Tang Tong was both disappointed and angry and left the defense of the Jingshi alone.

In this time and space, leave out the Chen Yongfu Department of the Royal Guards Corps, who has just left Texas and has not yet entered Beijing. Tang Tong's department can be said to be the only remaining soldier in the border army of the Beijing Division, and Tang Tong, who was once the general army of Xuanhua, is now the general soldier of Miyun, responsible for the defense of Jiannu in the north from Gyeonggi.

Of course, if you are responsible, you have to rely on your fists to speak. Tang Tong's fists are not hard, and he can only defend the city against Jiannu. But if you want to go to Shanhaiguan Party B according to the order of the imperial court, then there is naturally no shortage of ability and courage.

In this way, when the time came to September 19 of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the Tang Tong Department, which had walked out of Yongping Mansion City and headed towards the east, was already approaching Shanhaiguan.

On this day, the sun set in the West Mountain, and the dusk rose, Tang Tong stood on his horse, waiting for the scout to explore the road ahead. Calculating the distance, it is time for them to go to the Funing Acropolis. It was a declining guard house located in the north of Funing County. The officers and soldiers were not liked by the official uniforms, so they had to go to the guard post and station, where there were dilapidated houses, which were better than the wilderness.

"Special mother, this group of poor scholars, as soon as they hear the official army, they can't wait to write the word disgust on their faces, and when they meet thieves, they can afford to think of us. If you want to go into the city to rest or buy some military funds, you have to give real materials to silver! Tang Tong complained, and suddenly glanced at the sky, at this moment the dusk was already deep, and the fire clouds were burning in the sky like a raging fire.

But......

"Why haven't you returned to camp yet? Pan Wuzhi, you take someone over to see what the situation is! Tang Tong didn't get angry, he felt a hint of something wrong.

Pan Wuzhi was his personal soldier, and he was also a skilled archer and horse at night.

A quarter of an hour later, the Guards City in front of me was almost visible, and the sunset was almost coming to an end.

Not only did the scout team not return, but Pan Wuzhi did not come back either.

"Order the whole army, purge and prepare for war!" Tang Tong looked nervous.

……

"But...... It's late! The money rat tail, the majestic Qing State Wuying County King Azige looked at the 10,000 warriors behind him, cracked a big mouth full of yellow teeth, and said: "The whole army charges, defeat the Tang Tong Division!" (To be continued.) )