Gao Huan got the money and immediately led a large army to return north along the canal.

At this time, it was already June. Li Zicheng was shocked when he learned that Gao Huan had sent troops to Lianghuai to recruit Xiao Yuanying and Zuo Ge Army.

Now the north is a two heroes competing for hegemony. Li Zicheng has regarded Gao Huan as a thorn in his eyes, and the two sides have been competing with each other.

For Li Zicheng, Gao Huan was already difficult to deal with, and now he has merged more than 100,000 rebels. His strength has increased and decreased, which makes Li Zicheng feel anxious.

Seeing that Gao Huan's strength was growing rapidly, Li Zicheng couldn't sit still in Guanzhong and wanted to expand his territory and strengthen his strength to suppress Gao Huan.

Now the demise of the Ming Dynasty is right in front of us, but the gentry and people in the north want to surrender to, officials and gentry from all over the country are still watching, Li Zicheng and Gao Huan's battle between the dragon and the tiger.

Li Zifeng was born into a thief and was not favored by the gentry. If there was no choice, the officials and gentry in the north could only surrender to Dashun. But now there is a Gao Huan, it is hard to say.

Although Gao Huan was once a thief, he was a descendant of a famous family and was once a member of the official, gentry and landlords.

Therefore, within the Dashun Group, Niu Jinxing, Gu Junen and others knew very well that in order to win the surrender of northern gentry, the Shun Army must suppress Gao Huan in terms of momentum in order to gain more support.

After the news of Gao Huan's expedition to Lianghuai reached Guanzhong, Dashun's civil servant began to instigate Li Zicheng to continue to expand in an attempt to suppress Gao Huan.

In May, the Dashun Army and the Daxi Army fought a battle in the Hanzhong territory.

Although the Shun Army repelled the attacks of Zhang Xianzhong's descendants, they suffered considerable losses.

This made Li Zicheng realize that Zhang Xianzhong was not easy to bully, so he dispelled the intention of going south to Sichuan and seized the granary of Bashu. He turned his target to Hedong.

The land of Shanxi is like Guanzhong, surrounded by mountains and rivers? The terrain is relatively closed? It is a country that uses its strengths.

There are many people who have established a hegemony in history using Jinyang as the place where dragons flourished.

At this time, compared to the destruction of Guanzhong, Shanxi was less affected by the war? The Taiyuan Basin was very rich.

If it can occupy the land in Shanxi, Dashun will not only obtain a tax-intensive land, but will also strategically surround Gao Huan on three sides and open up the road to Beijing.

Therefore, after Li Zicheng fought with Zhang Xianzhong in early May, he sent an order to Tian Jianxiu, who were active in Weihui, Huaiqing, Zhangde, and Su, the party leader. He sent a partial army to attack Zezhou and Luzhou in southeastern Shanxi to attract the attention of the Ming army in Shanxi, while he led his troops to attack Puzhou Prefecture.

Puzhou contacted the passage between Guanzhong and Shanxi. If Li Zicheng conquered Shanxi, Luoyang would be surrounded by the Shun Army on three sides.

In addition, Gao Huan was very worried. After Li Zicheng captured Shanxi, he became hot and took Beijing in one breath.

If so? The Qing army would definitely take the opportunity to enter the pass, and would use the banner of avenging Chongzhen? Help the Ming Dynasty to eliminate bandits? Confusing many gentry and people in the pass, thereby reducing resistance after entering the pass.

After receiving the news from Luoyang, Gao Huan knew that he had to return to the Central Plains and restrain Li Zicheng, intending to continue to delay Chongzhen's demise and buy him one to two years to strengthen his strength.

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Outside Fengyang Prefecture.

The brigade rushed to Zhongwu's army with a silver cart along the Woshui River, and Ma Shiying, Huang Degong and others saw Gao Huan off.

At this time, Ma Shiying picked up a bowl of wine, "The Marquis returns to the Central Plains, I don't know when I will see you again. Come and drink this bowl full of it. I will help the Marquis to succeed."

Gao Huan took the wine bowl, drank it all, and then said in a deep voice: "Governor Ma, Brother Hushan. Now there are internal and external troubles, which is really a matter of trouble. I expect that within a year, the world will change a lot. I also ask two of you to prepare for the battle and join me in the power of the king's lantern!"

This time Huang Degong raised an army to support the king, and the army fought against the Qing army, but he was so depressed that he dared to be so depressed.

More than 100,000 troops from the south were fighting for the royal army, but they had no choice but to take 20,000 troops from the Qing army, and they had to worry about the attack of the Qing army. In the end, they could only follow the Qing army far away and watch the Qing army capture a large number of people leaving the country.

This made Huang Degong feel ashamed. He clasped his fists and said, "With 500,000 taels of military expenses, I will definitely train the soldiers well and work with Chaoyang to support the country in the future."

Gao Huan looked at Ma Shiying again, "Governor Ma, the water camp in Sizhou, I hope to take care of it more!"

Gao Huan formed a battalion of naval troops in Huai'an and stayed in Hongze Lake for training, which made Ma Shiying feel uncomfortable.

In his territory, everyone was arranged to have other people's army, and everyone would be as if they were stuck in their throats. Fortunately, Gao Huan's money was given in place, Ma Shiying said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, Marquis! This supervisor will take care of the soldiers of the Zhongwu Army's Water Camp."

When Gao Huan heard the words, he immediately clasped his fists and said, "Report carefully, the army broke into Hedong. If Hedong is lost, the capital will open, and the Ming Dynasty will be in danger! I am eager to return to the army to serve the king, so I will say goodbye!"

After speaking, Gao Huan turned over to the horse, Ma Shiying, Huang Degong immediately clasped his fists and watched Gao Huan ride away.

At this time, Huang Degong looked at Gao Huan's back and walked away, and couldn't help but sigh: "Gao Chaoyang is the pillar of the country and the stone pillar of the sky!"

Ma Shiying shook his head slightly, "It seems that he is a traitor in troubled times!"

Huang Degong couldn't help frowning, "Chaoyang ruled Jiannu outside and swept the bandits inside, why did the governor say this?"

Before, Huang Degong was in Runing, so he received the support of Gao Huan. Now he has distributed another 500,000 taels. He also cut off the chicken head with Gao Huan and burned yellow paper. He is a brother and has a very good relationship. He has no doubts about Gao Huan.

Ma Shiying just smiled, but did not explain, but pulled back to the reins, "Go back to the city!"

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Gao Huan's main force withdrew from Huaibei and returned to the Central Plains, which made Ma Shiying breathe a sigh of relief.

He was very worried that Gao Huan would stay in the Huai River and refused to leave. Now that Gao Huan is evacuating, he said that the Huaibei area is what he said again.

At this time, Ma Shiying returned to the mansion and came to the backyard. He heard from the servant that the lady was not eating yet.

After all, it was his own daughter, and Ma Shiying still felt very distressed. When he saw Gao Huan leave, he felt that he could end his daughter's confinement order.

At this time, Ma Shiying came to Miss Ma's room and saw her daughter sitting by the attic window, looking outside dementally, like a sculpture.

Seeing this, Ma Shiying felt a little pity and walked over and stood behind her and said, "Qiongqiong, I'm keeping you for your own good these days. From today on, you can go out and buy whatever you want for you."

Ma Shiying has been an official all year round and rarely spends time with her family, especially her daughter, who rarely cares about her. She only buys her to show her love.

Miss Ma turned her head, but smiled slightly, "Father, my daughter doesn't want to go out, and she doesn't want anything. She wants to get married."

"What!" Ma Shiying was shocked. Although his family came from Guizhou, where the Han and the Yi people lived together, and the social atmosphere was relatively open, it still shocked Lao Ma.

But then I thought about it and my daughter was already eighteen and became a big girl.

This daughter is unruly and willful and looks down on the princess of the aristocratic family in Lianghuai. Ma Shiying wants to marry her daughter to the children of the Southeast so that he can integrate into the Southeast officialdom, but those Southeast families do not look down on him, Ma Shiying.

Ma Shiying also wanted her to stay by her side and stay with him for a while, so she kept allowing her to not tell her about her.

Now that her daughter has figured it out, it is also good to let her get married sooner and restrain her temperament.

Women, in the end, they all have to take care of their husbands and children!

Thinking of this, Ma Shiying narrowed her eyes and said, "Okay! Let's make arrangements for you for your father!"

Miss Ma took out a booklet, opened the closed page, and revealed a half-body portrait, "Father, my daughter wants to marry her, Gao Huan, Marquis of Jianwu!"

A thunder exploded in Ma Shiying's mind, making Ma Shiying dizzy and suddenly said angrily: "No! Absolutely not!"

Miss Ma said: "Marquis Jianwu is a hero who is a great hero who kills thieves for the country. Why not?"

Ma Shiying was very upset, "Gao Huan has a problem with his character, he~he~ In short, you believe that being a father will not harm you!"

After saying that, Ma Shiying went out angrily, leaving the Ma family's lady behind and cried at her desk.

At this time, Gao Huan led the army and headed northward, preparing to resolve Li Zicheng's eastern expedition.

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