Wu Shan was extremely annoyed after receiving Yuci's emergency letter, he thought that it was impossible for the Ming army to pose a threat to such an important town as Yuci, and the local defenders were desperate to ask for help, so he still decided to rest and recuperate according to the original plan before pursuing. But it was only two hours later, and Liu Guoneng urged him to immediately aid Yuci's order to be sent over.

This made Wu Shan very unhappy, Liu Guoneng this kind of thief originally only knew how to fight, along the way to grab money, food and women, nothing but destruction, it was he and Kong Youde who joined for the first time to put forward a program of action for this thief, that is, to occupy the shape of the place of Shanxi, stick to the danger of Taihang, relying on the Yellow River, go north can go straight to the Ming Jingshi, south can point to the Central Plains.

He also saw that the plague had hit the strength of the Shanxi Ming army, which persuaded Liu Guoneng to go north, which Cheng thought that the Shanxi Ming army had rotted to the bones and was vulnerable in front of thousands of thieves. Liu Guoneng only spent more than a month to absorb the victims of the snowball to more than 100,000 people, and almost swept the entire territory of Shanxi, if it were not for the unprecedented resistance in Daizhou, at this moment, I am afraid that it has been in addition to the Bauhinia Pass, to the Ming Jinggi.

It was Wu Shan who opened the window for Liu Guoneng to be the king and hegemon, and therefore he attached great importance to the gateway towns around Taiyuan, and ordered Liu Guoneng to set off immediately and go all out to rescue Yuci, Xinzhou has already made a mistake, but fortunately, there is no strong Ming army in the north. But Yuci is different, it is not only the only way to Taiyuan from Jingcheng, but also the only place to go to Taiyuan from Lu'an and Pingyang.

Although Yang Sichang was defeated and retreated to the mouth of the well, he kept waiting for an opportunity to move, which made Liu Guoneng always worried. Moreover, Lu'an Mansion in the south of Shanxi is still under the control of the Ming army, and it is said that King Shen of Pingfan Lu'an has gathered many defeated Ming troops around him, and he is preparing to counterattack Taiyuan. At this time, Yuci couldn't have the slightest problem, and it was reasonable for Liu Guoneng to nervously urge Wu Shan to leave quickly.

However, the actual situation is that Wushan started from Daizhou all the way to the south, and successively participated in the siege of Xinzhou and the Qingyuan field battle, and the army was exhausted. Liu Guoneng is not the only one, no matter what, he has to wait for him to recover. But the old coarse is the old coarse, and he didn't give him a chance to explain at all, and sent three waves of people in a row to urge him to rush to Yuci, so he had to reluctantly make it difficult and set off in advance.

But when the Wushan army arrived in Yuci, in addition to the mottled cannonball marks on the city wall, where was the shadow of half of the Ming army? The guard who guarded Yuci was Liu Guoneng and the nephews of the same village, and he could be regarded as a confidant and dignitary, but he was not polite to Wushan, and he didn't even open the city gate, but let people rush to the city to speak Chinese, and told him that the Ming army went straight to Shouyang to the east, and it was estimated that he was going to go out of Sun Mountain from Jingcheng to Baoding.

Wu Shan was very annoyed, and had been letting this Ming army lead the way, and now he wanted to escape from Shanxi, he would never sit idly by, and he would definitely annihilate these remnants of the defeated generals, so he ignored the slow treatment of the Yuci guards, and immediately took people to Shouyang again.

Li Xin pretended to put a burst of cannons in Yuci, which frightened the thieves and guards in the city to send messengers for help one after another, which was in his arms, he just wanted to lead the Shanxi thieves by the nose and let them run for their lives, first, they could wait for the opportunity to annihilate, and secondly, they bought time for the imperial court to transfer troops and send generals.

However, on the way to Shouyang, he encountered a Ming army rout, the other party was about a thousand people, and everyone was injured, and even the blood stains had not yet dried, obviously they had just experienced a bloody battle.

Under the inquiry, this Ming army turned out to be Shaanxi soldiers, and the person who led the troops was the Shaanxi deputy general surnamed Zhu Mingmei, and the single name was also born with a bitter haha, but he was born with a strong force, with torn strips of cloth wrapped around his arms, hanging on his shoulders, blood stains oozed out, and the injuries were not light.

Zhu Mei, the deputy general of Shaanxi, was very happy when he met Li Xin's Three Guards, but he didn't expect that there were still decent troops in Shanxi resisting, but he got the news that Shanxi had almost no soldiers to fight. The reason why he brought these 5,000 elite soldiers into Shanxi was to fight the thieves, and he also came to attack the enemy outside the country, and the thieves in the province would then flee to Shaanxi.

Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, and Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, were transferred to the north by the imperial court last winter to defend the Tartars, and by the way, they also brought the most elite troops in Shaanxi with them, so taking the initiative to attack is also the best defense.

Li Xin could roughly guess this person's thoughts, and couldn't help but sigh that this person was brave and strategic, knowing that he had come without hesitation when he sent troops to die for a lifetime, maybe they didn't expect the thieves to become powerful so quickly!

When they met in wartime, the commanders of the two armies did not lie to themselves, and Li Xin directly asked the deputy general Zhu Mei's plans.

"What are General Zhu's plans for the future? The thieves are so powerful that they cannot be completely defeated by a few thousand people. ”

Zhu Mei pondered for a long time, and finally made a decision.

"I am already a remnant of the defeated army, and I have no power to return to the sky, I plan to go out of the well to join the Yang Pavilion, and then return to Shanxi with the Cabinet Minister! But I don't know if General Li is willing to go with him? ”

Li Xin shook his head, "The brothers of the Three Guards are still holding on to Xinzhou City, and Li Xin can't abandon them......"

"Could it be that the general plans to turn back to Xinzhou?"

"The responsibility lies, I promised them that they will definitely go back, but I don't know when I can return to Shanxi when I go to Jingcheng, even if I return to Shanxi, will they still ......?"

Listening to Li Xin's meaning, it is obvious that he does not want him to go to Jingcheng, and he still wants to return to the hinterland of the thief army, I really don't know if he is fearless, or his head is feverish and confused, and he is in a hurry to send him to death, the main general surnamed Wu, a member of the thief soldiers, is very powerful, and his experienced Shaanxi soldiers are almost wiped out, and the Three Guards Army is just a newly formed guard army in Datong Mansion, and can he take advantage of it? God doesn't always favor the same person!

But the intersection is general, but Zhu Mei is inconvenient to say, since the goals are different, there is naturally no reason to continue on the same path, and she plans to part ways. Li Xin saw that they sent a lot of supplies, and Zhu Mei's Shaanxi soldiers lost all their military resources when they broke through, and the help extended by the Three Guards was tantamount to sending charcoal in the snow, although he was not a fellow traveler, but he received this feeling.

Shouyang City is not guarded by thieves, to be precise, in the battle of Yang Sichang's advance into Shanxi, this city has been completely destroyed in the war, Li Xin and others are everywhere in ruins, dead bodies are everywhere, they are not buried at all, the air is filled with a thick stench, a gust of wind blows, it makes this smell worse I don't know if it is ten times or a hundred times.

Li Xin and Zhu Mei looked at each other and were stunned, should they blame God or be a thief if Shanxi was destroyed like this? Maybe both! Where is the Ming court of the herdsmen at this moment?

The ministers and generals of the Manchu Dynasty, and a few people really want to repair the broken ship of the Ming Dynasty, so that it can last farther and longer. Li Xin only felt a tightness in his chest, as if something was blocking there.

The letters he sent out asking for help were like a stone sinking into the sea, he knew that Yang Sichang would not send troops, Zuo Liangyu would not send troops, even the brave and martial arts such as Zhu Mei were ready to go to Yang Sichang, and all he could rely on now was himself.

The two of them did not delay, and after simply handing over the supplies, the deputy general Zhu Mei went straight to Jingcheng along the official road. Li Xin plunged into the vast mountains with the three guards soldiers and auxiliaries, preparing to avoid the pursuit of the thieves.

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In the palace of the Jin King in Taiyuan City, Liu Guoneng was disturbed by the Ming army who went deep into his hinterland for a day, Wu Shan's combat effectiveness is undoubted, but this person is always more unruly than others, which is also the reason why he and Kong Youde took refuge at the same time, allowing Kong Youde to lead the army alone, but not letting him lead an army alone.

But all kinds of coincidences were superimposed, and this Wu Shan commanded more than 50,000 thieves, which also made Liu Guoneng quite jealous, so he didn't give him time to breathe, and forced him to pursue the Ming army non-stop. He always felt that this person had a backbone in the back of his head, and he had the ability but didn't dare to let go of it, which made him stay away from the hinterland of Taiyuan as soon as possible.

At the same time, he has issued a conscription order, all under his jurisdiction Ding Zhuang, over the age of sixteen, under the age of sixty must participate in the invasion of the army, this period of fierce battles, the loss of soldiers is strict, so he has to make up for this shortfall.

As for Wu Shan, he had already thought about it, and when he annihilated the attacking Ming army, he would let him defend Jingcheng and block Yang Sichang of the Ming Dynasty outside Taihang Mountain. However, Kong Youde made him very disappointed, with his absolute superiority in troops, he couldn't take Xinzhou City for several days, and it was time to urge him to end the siege of Xinzhou quickly.

This Ming army from Datong to the south is like a drop of cold water dripping into the boiling hot oil, although it has caused a lot of movement, but with the pursuit and killing of the two armies, it is no longer a threat to him. Once Kong Youde takes Xinzhou, he can be ordered to take his men and horses north to Daizhou, attack Bauhinia Pass, and directly attack the Ming Jingshi is still Liu Guoneng's ultimate goal.

Since listening to the words of Kong and Wu, he has a great sense of enlightenment, since he has embarked on the road of killing officials and rebelling, why not go thoroughly, the reader said, the prince will be Xiangning has a kind of, the world of chaos knows that he Liu Guoneng can not sit in the chair of Beijing? No, it's a dragon chair!

Kong Youde soon received Liu Guoneng's order to urge him to speed up the pace of siege, but the determination of Xinzhou City to resist was far stronger than he had imagined, and he had lost no less than 10,000 people under Xinzhou City. Before he had sent someone to transport the Hongyi cannon in Taiyuan City, just wait for the cannon to arrive, you can let go of your hands and feet to bomb wildly, after all, the Xinzhou city wall is a narrow wall made of rammed earth, where can it withstand this kind of bombardment.

He didn't know that Tian Fuzhen in the city had also reached the point of exhaustion, and the things that could be used to defend the city were collected indiscriminately, and even Chengzhou's houses had been demolished cleanly, and in a few days, I was afraid that even the food for the soldiers would not be able to be supplied, Master Guo said to himself in the south with a crying voice: "When will the chief soldier come back......