.There is only one solution to military rations, that is, go out to grab them. This is the characteristic of the peasant army. If it were to be held in one place, the Dashun army would have starved to death or been suppressed by the official army. However, where to grab them is a problem. Shanxi and Huguang can be included in the target. If Zhang Xianzhong had not sent troops to rob Hanzhong, Li Zicheng had already made a decision and would have chosen Huguang as the target.

For Li Zicheng, the alliance formed by tens of thousands of stones of military ration sold to him by the imperial court every month was too fragile and could be torn apart at any time. However, when he came back from Hanzhong, the Tartars, who fought the Dashun Army and ran away in a hurry, suffered huge losses in Huai'an. This made Li Zicheng and a group of civil and military officials hesitate again, and couldn't help but recall the days when they were driven away by officers and soldiers.

On this day, Li Zicheng was discussing affairs with the ministers in the palace transformed from the Qin Palace. A sound of horse hooves came. Two small school-like people rode fast horses and rushed straight out of the palace gate. Several guards on duty were shocked and shouted: "Who? Stop."

The two of them turned over and dismounted, and rushed up the steps: "The front-line emergency military information will be reported to the emperor immediately."

At this time, the guards on duty saw the two small schools behind which were representing military information. However, perhaps they were running too hurriedly, and the small flag had already been tilted to one side. The guards on duty did not dare to neglect them. They took the letters conveying military information from the school and hurriedly delivered them to the guard commander Li Wa.

Li Wa glanced at the mark on the letter and her face changed. This mark was used only when the Dashun Army conveyed the most urgent military information. He did not dare to demolish it privately, so he hurriedly walked towards the main hall where Li Zicheng was discussing affairs.

In the hall, the civil and military officials of the Dashun Army were divided into two factions, and were enthusiastically discussing the next direction of the Dashun Army. If nothing unexpected happens, today's discussion will eventually end with no conclusion.

"Report, the emperor. Emergency military information." Li Wadi came in to interrupt the quarrel, and all his eyes turned to Li Wa for a moment.

Li Zicheng was excited: "What military situation is coming up quickly."

The kid quickly delivered the letter to Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng tore the letter apart in a few seconds and read it quickly. Anger rose on his face and he slapped heavily on the table next to him: "It's outrageous, Wu Sangui and Jiang Xiang are too bullying!"

Li Zicheng took it for granted that he was resentful to Wu Sangui. However, in Li Zicheng's heart, he naturally hated him to the core.

Jiang Xiang turned out to be the general of Datong, Daming. Last year, before Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he swept across Shanxi. At that time, Jiang Xiang threw the city into the Dashun army. Li Zicheng still arranged for Jiang Xiang to guard Datong and sent a side general Zhang Tianlin as Jiang Xiang's deputy. After the Dashun army retreated from Beijing, he threw away his armor and abandoned his armor all the way. Jiang Xiang did not hesitate and immediately killed Zhang Tianlin and surrendered to the Manchus.

In fact, it is no wonder that Jiang Xiang wanted to surrender at that time. After the Dashun Army withdrew from Shanxi, Datong became an isolated island. If he did not surrender, he would have to wait for death. What's more, Jiang Xiang came from a family of officials. His father once became the Minister of Revenue of the Ming Dynasty. He looked down on the bandits. He had only surrendered to Li Zicheng because of the situation. Seeing that Li Zicheng was beaten like a dog of a broken family by the people. Jiang Xiang naturally would not be loyal to Li Zicheng.

When Jiang Xiang surrendered, Li Zicheng treated him quite politely. He only betrayed him in less than a few months. He also killed Zhang Tianlin, a general of the Dashun Army who was monitoring him. Li Zicheng naturally hated him extremely.

"Emperor, what happened?" Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and others rushed to ask.

"You see." Li Zicheng left the letter. Niu Jinxing took it first. The letter was sent by Li Guo. Li Zicheng had no son. Li Guo was Li Zicheng's only nephew. He naturally became the prince of Dashun. Niu Jinxing quickly browsed the letter and handed it to Song Xiance.

Since the Qing Dynasty sent Fan Wencheng as an envoy last year to jointly attack the Ming Dynasty with the Dashun Army, although Li Zicheng detained Fan Wencheng and later gave it to the Nanming as a gift. However, whether there was any response or not, the Qing Dynasty really abides by the original agreement. Although Henan said that it was the Dashun Army who sent troops to recover the land, the Qing army did not resist much at all. Moreover, when Li Zicheng transferred the army to compete with Zhang Xianzhong for Hanzhong, the Qing army also defended the territory of Shanxi without moving.

However, this calm was broken more than ten days ago. A Qing army openly crossed the Yellow River and attacked the Dashun army near Luoyang. They killed hundreds of Dashun army and snatched more than a dozen villages away. Li Guo was naturally not the one who suffered a loss. He immediately sent troops to fight back, but he had already fallen into the trap after the Qing army's plan. The troops sent out fell into the trap. Thousands of people came back only dozens of people.

What made Li Guo even more angry was that the Qing army accused the Dashun army of destroying the agreement. Wu Sangui and Jiang Xiang sent troops to cross the river in large numbers, and the target was aimed directly at Luoyang. No matter how you look at it, the Qing army seemed to be ready.

There was an unresolved grudge between Dashun and the Qing Dynasty, and he was even more deeply frustrated with Wu Sangui. However, Wu Sangui beat him back, which made Li Guo furious. While sending troops to reinforce Luoyang, he sent messengers to report to Xi'an.

With the strength of the Dashun Army in Henan, it was impossible for them to block Wu Sangui's attack. After reading the letter from Li Guodi, generals such as Gu Kecheng, Ma Weixing, Liu Xiyuan and others asked Li Zicheng for battle, while Liu Zongmin, Ma Jiguang and other generals who had just proposed to go south to Huguang were silent. Many generals of the Dashun Army were still afraid of the Qing army, but they did not have this concern when attacking the Ming army.

"The generals obey the order: All the troops are ready to set off immediately. I will personally conquer Henan in three days. If anyone delays the time, don't blame me for not giving face." Li Zicheng said coldly.

"I obey the order." Everyone's answers were uneven. Li Zicheng glared at everyone with dissatisfaction, but he was helpless. The Dashun Dynasty was originally established in a hasty manner, and it was defeated all the way. If it weren't for the unexpected support of the Ming Dynasty, it might not be able to hold on now, so naturally there would be no need to have too many requirements in the etiquette discussion.

Taiyuan, Ajige learned that Wu Sangui and others crossed the Yellow River to fight the Dashun army, and was furious: "Rebellion, backward, what is Wu Sangui going to do? Can he rebel?" No wonder Ajige was so angry. Since Dorgon decided to join forces with Li Zicheng to attack the Southern Ming Dynasty last year, although he had not received a response from Li Zicheng, and Fan Wencheng, as an envoy, fell into the hands of Nanming for no reason. Ajige was still warned by Dorgon that he could just defend Shanxi tightly. If the bandits provoked, they could fight back resolutely, but they would never provoke a war. Wu Sangui's actions of leading the army across the Yellow River obviously violated Dorgon's orders.

"Prince, Wu Sangui may not want to rebel, he wants to protect himself." said Wu Weihua, the Hou Gongshun.

Although Wu Weihua is a Chinese name, he is actually a Mongol. He originally surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and became a border general of the Ming Dynasty. However, he later surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with his brother. As a Mongol, he was familiar with the military intelligence of the Ming Dynasty, so he was very trusted by Ajige.

"Protect yourself? Have I treated him badly? Let him have the troops in his headquarters and be appointed as the King of Western power. Did the Ming Dynasty treat him like this? Wu Sangui would not want to surrender to the pseudo-Ming in the south?" Ajige couldn't help but doubt it.

There were only a few thousand Manchus around Ajige, and even if there were only more than 20,000 Han people surrendered, Wu Sangui's Guanning Army had more than 50,000 people. After joining Jiang Xiang, it expanded to more than 60,000 people, which was obviously top-heavy. However, this configuration was as stable as Mount Tai before Duoduo's failure to go south. Wu Sangui has always been well-behaved and obedient, and did not even refuse to demolish 10,000 people to Duoduo's tent.

However, when news of the destruction of tens of thousands of Manchuria and Mongolian coalition forces came, Wu Sangui's attitude towards Ajige suddenly became subtle. Although he respected him on the surface, Ajige always felt that Wu Sangui's thoughts suddenly became unbearable. This time, Wu Sangui's unauthorized actions made Ajige feel that he understood Wu Sangui's wolf ambitions.

"Prince, Wu Sangui will never surrender to Nanming. Let alone Wu Sangui's own family is in the capital. Can he give up? Even if he is willing to give up, the foundation of Guanning Army is in Liaodong. As long as he surrenders to Nanming, the army will soon be in chaos. I see, Wu Sangui heard that the court was going to idle him, so he deliberately provoked trouble." Wu Weihua said

Some time ago, there were indeed many Manchu honors in the court who were worried that Wu Sangui was too strong and wanted to keep Wu Sangui idle. Even Ajige held this idea. The Guanning Army hugged her tightly into a group. Compared with other surrendered Han troops, it was too powerful, just like a vicious wolf. If the owner could not suppress it, it would be backfired.

Azig nodded as he heard this and asked with a headache: "If so, how should I deal with it?"

"The prince might as well order Wu Sangui to stop the military operations to Henan immediately and go to Taiyuan in person to explain why he attacked Henan this time." Wu Weihua suggested.

"Wu Sangui has already explained that a bandit entered his jurisdiction first, and he forced him to lead his troops to pursue him."

"Don't worry, you have the right to join the front line troops on the Regent's Day. If Wu Sangui doesn't come, unless he really dares to rebel."

"Okay, I will give an order immediately. Let's see if he, Wu Sangui, really dares not obey the order?"

Outside Luoyang, dust was rolling, and a large army was coming towards Luoyang. The Dashun Army on the top of the city was watching nervously. Although Luoyang was a strong city, due to the previous attack of the Dashun Army, many places in the city walls were already broken, and with only 5,000 troops, it was really unsure whether they could defend them.

Just as the general of the Dashun Army guarding the city was praying that reinforcements would come soon, the smoke and dust in front suddenly seemed to turn around and get farther and farther away from the city. The general wiped his eyes, wondering if he had read it wrong.

"Sir, look, the enemy seems to have left." The personal soldiers beside him also started to shout, and then the other soldiers on the city wall also discovered that although for some reason the enemy left before they reached the city, it did not prevent them from celebrating happily.

"Prince, Luoyang is empty, why don't you capture Luoyang and leave?" A general asked Wu Sangui in confusion.

Wu Sangui smiled without saying a word, and Fang Xianting next to him laughed: "General Xia, the prince is not going to fight the bandits, but he just wants Dorgon to understand that the prince cannot leave the Guanning Army."

"So that's it." General Xia nodded, but there was a thought in his mind. The prince didn't want to fight. Could it be that the bandits would not be able to fight? Will this march cause a big trouble?
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