Daming: I help my wife be the empress

ten days ago.

Anle City (formerly Anlu) in De'an Prefecture, Huguang.

Liu Zongmin hurried into Li Zicheng's "Palace" and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, I will report to you. The city of Suizhou is empty, and the Qing captives have indeed retreated!"

Li Zicheng was staring at a marching map on the table to study, when he heard the words, he couldn't help asking: "Is Suizhou City a vacuum?"

"It's a vacuum!" Liu Zongmin gritted his fists and said with a smile, "Your Majesty, let's quickly send troops to take Suizhou?"

Li Zicheng looked at Song Xiance and asked, "What does the military adviser think about this?"

Song Xiance frowned tightly, "It's really strange that the Qing army retreated, but if it's a fraud, it wouldn't even give up Suizhou."

Niu Jinxing said from the side: "Everyone knows what you said, so it doesn't mean you are talking for nothing."

Li Zicheng was also a little impatient, and said: "The military adviser said, do you want to take it from Suizhou?"

Song Xian pondered for a while, and said: "Thousands of people can be sent to fetch it first, and at the same time, more scouts will be sent to find out the traces of the Qing captives.

If you can, it's best to grab a few more Qinglu tongues to figure out why they suddenly withdrew their troops. "

This idea was probably similar to what Li Zicheng had in mind, and he immediately began to dispatch troops according to this.

Since the Shun army fled into Huguang, it first wanted to cross the river to attack Wuchang, but was defeated by the Ming army.

After that, the Qing army who was chasing them was defeated one after another, losing the city and land.

After fighting so many defeats, even though the Shun army mainly fought in defeat most of the time and had rich experience in defeat and escape, it still lost a lot of troops.

Li Zicheng's generals, such as Zhaohou Zuoguangxian, Liu Shijun, Wang Youjin, etc., all died in battle.

There were also those who surrendered after being captured by the Qing army, such as Li You, Li Zicheng's third younger brother, Wuyang Bo, Wu Ruyi, Taiping Bo, General Ruo Yi, and Liu Guochang.

There are also those who fornicated the Qing army and turned against the water, such as the mighty general Wang Tizhong under Bai Wang's command.

This person was originally Ge Liyan He Yilong's subordinate, Li Zicheng annexed the [-]th Battalion of Ge Zuo, killed He Yilong who disobeyed him, Wang Tizhong was assigned to Bai Wang's command.

Because Wang Tizhong is brave and good at fighting, he is quite relied on by Bai Wang.

In fact, He Yilong saved Wang Tizhong's life, and Wang Tizhong has always held a grudge against Li Zicheng because of He Yilong's death.

Before this, Li Zicheng had become a big trend, so he could only hide his hatred in his heart.

But now Li Zicheng's power has been greatly reduced, and he is caught in an inch of Hubei by the Qing army and the Ming army. Seeing that his destruction is a foregone conclusion, he secretly contacted the Qing army, turned his back in a battle, and helped the Qing army wipe out Bai Wang has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command.

As for other collusion with the Qing army or the Ming army, there are also some, but their general positions are not as high as Wang Tizhong, and the impact and losses on the Shun army are not as great as Wang Tizhong.

However, speaking of it, this matter is also beneficial to Li Zicheng.

In April, Li Zicheng, who had lost Xiangyang, was defeated by the Qing army in Zhongxiang, and fled in embarrassment. Even the team was cut into east and west by the Qing army.

A small group of soldiers and horses were led by General Ren Guangrong, General Guo Yi, the leader of the party, and General Liu Tichun to retreat to Jingxi.

Most of the remaining soldiers and horses retreated to De'an Mansion with Li Zicheng, Tian Jianxiu, Liu Zongmin and others.

However, De'an Mansion was the old nest of Baiwang's Beijing camp for two or three years, and Baiwang was originally the commander of the Shun Army in Hubei, with a large number of soldiers and horses under his command, which made Li Zicheng feel threatened for a while.

Originally, Li Zicheng was still thinking about how to weaken Bai Wang's strength, which was very troublesome.

But after Wang Tizhong's rebellion happened, Li Zicheng's troubles disappeared.

Not to mention that Bai Wang lost tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the battle against the water in the king's body. Just because of this incident, Bai Wang's prestige was greatly reduced, and there was no possibility of threatening Li Zicheng's position...

Less than a day after Li Zicheng dispatched soldiers and horses to Suizhou, another messenger came to report that the Qing captives in Chengtian Mansion were also retreating, and even Jingshan County was thrown away.

Only then did Li Zicheng and others realize that the Qing prisoner was probably about to withdraw from Huguang.

After discussing with Tian Jianxiu, Song Xiance and others, he sent troops to collect Jingshan, Zhongxiang and other cities abandoned by the Qing army on the one hand, and sent more scouts to intensify the investigation on the other hand.

On the third day, I finally caught the tongues of a few Qing troops and learned a certain piece of news—the Qing troops were indeed ordered to withdraw from Huguang.

As for why, the identity of the tongue is too low, and I don't know.

For this matter, Li Zicheng once again held a meeting with important generals and counselors under his command to discuss it.

This time Song Xiance quickly gave his judgment.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid it has something to do with the Ming army at this time - we have all seen the combat effectiveness of the army under the command of Princess Jian Guo of the Ming Dynasty before, and it is very strong.

After the First World War in Wuchang, she went to Nanzhili, and probably fought against the Qing captives in the east.

In addition, his troops were still fighting the Qing army in Shaanxi.

Therefore, I suspect that most of the Ming army under the command of Princess Jianguo made the Qing captives feel the pressure, so they withdrew from Huguang so that they could deploy troops to support the war in the east or in Shaanxi. "

After listening, Li Zicheng frowned.

He is really not very good at judging the overall situation with the whole world as the chessboard, so he couldn't judge how correct what Song Xiance said, so he looked at Niu Jinxing and asked, "What does Prime Minister Niu think?"

Niu Jinxing's mind is actually a mess when facing the overall situation, but he has always been trusted by Li Zicheng and has his own skills.

He glanced at Song Xiance and said, "I think the situation is mostly as the military adviser said. After all, apart from us in this world, only the Ming army can make the Qing captives go to war."

"Then what should we do now?" Li Zicheng asked again.

Hearing this, Liu Zongmin said first: "Do you still need to think about it? Of course I took the opportunity to collect Xiangjing."

Xiangjing is Xiangyang City, which is one of the deputy capitals of Dashun established by Li Zicheng.

Tian Jianxiu also spoke at this time: "It was the Ming army who watched the soldiers fight the Qing captives before, but now the Qing captives have drawn their hands to beat them, it's time for the captives to take advantage.

To the north, we can collect Xiangyang, even enter Henan, and even Shaanxi.

Going south, if the Ming army in Hunan is transferred to other places and the number of troops decreases, we can also consider crossing the south of the Yangtze River again. "

Li Zicheng's one-eyed eyes lit up when he heard this, he patted the table and said: "What Zehou said is right, when the Qing army and the Ming army fight, it's our turn to take advantage of it!
Later, he ordered all the armies to attack and try to occupy all the territories abandoned by the Qing captives! "

Hearing this, most of the people participating in the meeting cheered up.

They had lost too many battles before, their military strength, money and food have been living on their laurels, and their morale has also fallen to the bottom. Now they finally have a chance to take advantage of it and make a fortune.

Just when all the generals were gearing up and preparing to do a big job, and even carried the "Shun" banner across the Yangtze River, Song Xiance said again: "Your Majesty, there is another situation we have to guard against."

"What's the situation?" Li Zicheng frowned, feeling that Song Xiance shouldn't stir things up at this moment.

It took a lot of effort to boost the morale of the big guys.