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Shuanghe Town, less than 100 miles to the south is Jingmen, and to the east and south is Chengtianfu (Zhongxiang).

When night fell, the 60,000 Dashun army had already set up camp, and after Li Guo personally arranged the police post, he hurriedly walked to the camp of the Chinese army, and he was not yet thirty years old, and he already gave people a sense of vicissitudes.

On the way, from time to time, I heard soldiers whispering under the tent, and from these discussions, we could feel a pessimistic mood spreading among the army.

Li Guo listened, and couldn't help but sigh secretly, Dashun Chaoxing was also vigorous, and defeat was also sudden, the comparison before and after made people feel emotional.

In the first month of last year, when discussing the Eastern Expedition to Yanyun, Li Guo was against it.

He advocated that after seizing Shanxi, he would stop for the time being, first manage Henan, Shaanxi, Shandong, and Shanxi, and then capture Yanjing after a year or two.

But Li Zicheng and Song Xiance, Liu Zongmin, Liu Fangliang and a large number of people insisted on attacking Yanjing, and he didn't say much, and now the situation has taken a sharp turn, and even Guanzhong can't hold it, and it has returned to the state of wandering around, not to mention that ordinary soldiers are pessimistic and demoralized, even the generals in the army are also disheartened, and I heard that those civilian officials have almost escaped.

Walking to the door of the Chinese army's big tent, he saw Gao Yigong rushing over, with an anxious look on his face, Li Guo hurriedly asked: "Yigong, what happened?" ”

"Let's talk about it after entering the account." Gao Yigong hurriedly responded, and was about to be reported, when a woman's voice came from the tent: "Is it a gong and a supplement?" Come on in. ”

The two of them entered the tent when they heard the voice, and inside the tent was a woman about thirty years old, dressed in military uniform, with a good appearance and a heroic spirit. Li Guo and Gao Yigong bowed: "Meet the queen." ”

This woman is Li Zicheng's queen Gao Guiying, and she is also Gao Yigong's sister.

When Li Zicheng retreated from Xi'an, he took the route of Shangluo and Dengzhou, and Gao Yinggui, as Li Zicheng's queen, did not go with Li Zicheng, but took a small group of elite people and horses, and quietly walked Tianshui and entered Hanzhong. Then he hid in Hanzhong, waiting for Li Guo and Gao Yigong to withdraw from Yulin in northern Shaanxi, and then tried to take a remote route, bypassing Yunyang and Baokang, passing Taiping from eastern Sichuan, and preparing to go to Xiangyang and join Li Zicheng again.

Outsiders don't know that Gao Guiying is in Li Guo and Gao Yigong's army. On the surface, it seems that Li Zicheng couldn't wait for Li Guo and Gao Yigong to retreat south, so he forced himself to retreat to Xiangyang first under the pressure of the Qing army, and Li Guo and the two had to make a detour to chase after them.

But things are not so simple, just Gao Guiying did not go with Li Zicheng. When you think about it, it's weird.

"One merit, make up for it quickly, but what happened?" Gao Guiying asked urgently.

"Back to the queen's mother, I just received the news that the Wang Guangen brothers in Yunyang have surrendered to the Tartars, and they are chasing with Shang Kexi, with more than 40,000 men and horses, and when the sentry comes back, the enemy's army has already passed Yicheng, and now it is only a hundred miles away from us."

Wang Guangen turned out to be a general of the rebel army. Nicknamed the King of Xiao Qin, he later surrendered to the Ming court with his younger brother Wang Guangtai, helping Gao Doushu to defend Yunyang, and Li Zicheng had attacked Yunyang twice but could not go down.

Wang Guangen's brothers are cleared. For Gao Yinggui's team, it is tantamount to adding insult to injury.

Gao Guiying asked with a solemn face, "Is there any news from the emperor's side?" ”

"Hui Niangniang, it is very difficult to contact the emperor now, and Zuihou received the news that the emperor is fighting with the Qing army in Yuanshui, north of Suizhou. The losses were quite heavy, and the army had moved to Suizhou and Anlu directions, and now the specific situation is unknown. ”

Gao Guiying's brows furrowed even tighter. Originally, they were going to come to Xiangyang to join Li Zicheng, but before they arrived in Xiangyang, Li Zicheng was forced to abandon the city and retreat to Suizhou, so they had to take Jingmen from Taiping.

The problem is that now Jingmen and Chengtianfu are heavily guarded by the imperial court, the front is in Jiancheng, and there are chasing soldiers in the back, and the morale is low, and it is necessary to keep the secret entrusted by Li Zicheng

"One merit, make up for it, what do you say next?"

Li Guo said: "Jingmen and Zhongxiang each have 10,000 Ming troops to defend, according to intelligence, these Ming troops belong to the Department of Qin Musuo, the governor of Huguang, and they are well-trained, and they defeated Liu Tichun in Jingmen last year, and our morale is low, and it is impossible to quickly break through Jingmen or Chengtian." From here to the east, crossing the Han River can enter the Dahong Mountain, and to the west, you can enter the Jing Mountain. It's just that our army is short of food and grass, and once we escape into the mountains, it will be difficult to get supplies, and I'm afraid that the 60,000 army will be afraid."

Gao Yigong said: "The only way to do this is to ask the queen mother and the complement to retreat into Jingshan with 10,000 horses, and I will lead the remaining 50,000 troops to fight to the death with Shang Kexi and Wang Guangen, if you can defeat the enemy, the dilemma can be solved, if you are not defeated, the queen mother can hide in the eastern Sichuan area with the complement first, and then go to join the emperor after the emperor captures Huguang." ”

Gao Yigong is going to survive with a broken tail, but it is not the body that escapes after the broken tail, but the tail.

With their current situation, there is no other way, if all the people retreat into the reckless mountains and forests of Jingshan Mountain, it is estimated that most of them will starve to death;

Give the little grain and grass to Gao Guiying and Li Guo. He led an army of 50,000 to break the cauldron and fight against the water, if he could win, it would be the best, even if he couldn't win, at least he could let Gao Guiying and them win a chance to survive.

"Yigong, you protect the queen and enter the mountain with baggage, this is the hope of my Dashun revival, and there is no room for failure. I led a large army to stay behind to stop the enemy. Li Guo is Li Chengzi's own nephew, because Li Zicheng has no son, he accepted Li Guo as his son.

If the Dashun Dynasty can continue, Li Guo will be the most likely person to inherit the throne, based on this, Gao Guiying immediately rejected Li Guo's proposal to stay behind to block the enemy.

It's just that Gao Yigong is her own brother, and now the morale in the army is low, and if the troops are divided, there is no morale at all, and staying in this case is nine deaths, Gao Guiying stepped forward and grabbed her brother's hand, this heroine who killed decisively on the battlefield was choked up.

Who would have thought that the Dashun Army, which had swept the world, would fall into such a bleak state? Even the dignified queen had to face the choice of life and death.

"Report, General Li, the police post has caught a few people, they say that they are sent by Qin Mu, the governor of Huguang, to meet General Li and General Gao to discuss."

Outside the tent, there was a sudden report from the soldiers, Gao Guiying and the three of them couldn't help but be stunned, and a question arose in their hearts at the same time: What did Qin Mu send people to do?

In fact, when Qin Mu attacked Tongguan by the Qing army, he sent people to contact Li Zicheng, hoping to go north to unite with the Dashun army to attack the Qing army, but Li Zicheng was worried that Qin Mu wanted to take the opportunity to annex Xiangyang, so he refused.

Li Guo and Gao Yigong were defending the Qing army on the North Road in northern Shaanxi at that time, and they didn't know about it, even Gao Guiying, who stayed in Xi'an, didn't know.

"Anyway, you might as well see it first." Gao Yigong said first.

"Okay, this palace will avoid it first, and you will first explore each other's intentions." After Gao Guiying finished speaking, he immediately hid into the account and left.

The man was soon brought in, a man of about forty, medium stature, wearing a Confucian shirt, with a sword, and a resolute face, and the guards asked him to unload the sword, and the man glanced at the soldiers, not angry but mighty.

Gao Yigong and Li Guo are both strong in martial arts and battle-hardened people, and they don't mind whether the other party can unload their swords or not, so they signaled to the pro-soldiers, and the pro-soldiers hurriedly put the comers into the tent.

"In the far reaches of Xiawu, he was appointed as the commander of the Jingmen garrison and met with General Li and General Gao. Wu Mouyin came at night because he didn't want his whereabouts to be revealed, so he hoped that the two generals would explain it first, so that the sergeants and soldiers would keep their mouths shut and not discuss the matter. ”

Wu Zhiyuan was long, neither humble nor arrogant. Li Guo, who was sitting on the main seat, bowed his head and replied: "Wu Yan doesn't need to be polite, he will order to go down and let the soldiers keep it secret." Why did Wu Yan come, you might as well say it bluntly. ”

Wu Zhiyuan said unhurriedly: "The so-called brothers are on the wall, and they are insulted outside." Now Dongyi drinks the Yellow River and ravages our Han people, and the world is about to fall. I, the Governor of Qin, and all of you share the same ancestry, at this time, I am willing to put aside the grudges of the past and join hands to resist foreign insults. ”

Li Guo said quietly: "How to join forces? ”

"This first depends on whether General Li and General Gao are willing to join forces with our army, if they are willing, it is not too late to say Jihua in the future, if they are unwilling, it is useless to say more."

Li Guo and Gao Yigong were secretly embarrassed, the two of them knew very well that if they could really join forces with Qin Mu, it would naturally be a good thing, the problem was that they had an ulterior mission and must ensure that nothing went wrong;

Once they agreed to join forces with Qin Mu, but after that, there was a repetition, and they lost time to rearrange.

Li Guo and Gao Yigong exchanged a look, and Li Guo said: "Brothers are on the wall, and they are insulted outside." That's right, we agreed to join forces with your army, but Wu Yanshi should make Jihua clear first. ”.

(To be continued......)