Less than half an hour after Yu Qingyao returned to Chaiguan, Li Guo sent someone to pass the message, expressing his willingness to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

At the same time, Li Guo also expressed his hope to buy a batch of armor, weapons and food from the Ming Dynasty at Chaiguan.

Li Guo and others retreated from Yulin and Yan'an all the way, but there was not much food and grass left, but there was still some gold, silver and other wealth.

After the exchange between the two sides, although Li Guo, Gao Yigong and others felt that the price of Lu Daqi was too high, they still gritted their teeth and purchased thousands of stones of grain and armor of tens of thousands of people, and used weapons for emergency response.

They had already understood a truth when they came to this point in the chaotic times of the late Ming Dynasty - they could rob them if they were gone, but if the team lacked food and grass, they would be deadly.

And if your life is gone, nothing will be gone.

The next day, the transaction was completed, Li Guo and Gao Yigong led their troops to withdraw from Hanzhong Prefecture and went from Fengxiang to Pingliang and Ningxia areas.

Chaiguan.

Seeing Shunjun leaving, Yu Qingyao couldn't help but ask: "Supervisor, since Shunjun has agreed to cooperate, why do we have to offer food and grass, soldiers and armor so high that the transaction volume is so small?"

According to the information sent by the military probe of the Beizhen Fushi, Li Guo and Gao Yigong's troops had 50,000 or 60,000 troops, and the one who arrived in Hanzhong was only the front army.

Compared to so many people, thousands of stones of food and grass will be consumed in no time.

As for the weapons and armor, the equipment that was traded out was eliminated by the new army after the Chengdu reorganization. Most of them were restored at the beginning, but the inventory of intact and old armor and tens of thousands of sets of weapons were sold.

Therefore, the thousands of stones of food and grass traded by Lu Daqi and the soldiers of ten thousand people were nothing.

Lu Daqi also looked at the direction of the retreat of the Shun army and said, "It is necessary to be aware of others - although Li Chuang was chased by the Qing army from Shanhaiguan to Shaanxi, he has even lost Shaanxi now.

But Li Guo, Gao Yigong, was not Li Chuang himself after all, so how could they know that they would not turn back and surrender to the Qing army?

Therefore, we must wait until they gain a foothold in Pingliang and Ningxia and have a fight or two with the Qing army before we can continue the transaction."

Yu Qingyao nodded suddenly when he heard this, and then couldn't help asking: "Since Shun Army is going to retreat to Pingliang and Ningxia, then do we want to follow up and recover Fengxiang Mansion?"

Lu Daqi said: "Of course, this is a real achievement of regaining lost land.

In addition, Fengxiang Mansion also has many passes, which are easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Only when we regain Fengxiang and defend it can we connect with Pingliang and protect western Shaanxi.

Only by taking this as the foundation can we further plan to recover the entire Shaanxi and even Shanxi."

Yu Qingyao showed a worried look when he heard this, and said, "At present, we only have five towns in Hanzhong, and among them, there are still new surrendered soldiers such as He Zhen from three towns. The training is less than a month, which is very useful.

These troops still feel insufficient to defend Hanzhong. If they divide their troops to defend Fengxiang, will they lose sight of one thing?"

If Gao Yigong is here, he will definitely question Yu Qingyao: Don’t you say there is a 100,000 army behind Chaiguan? How can a civil servant who is quite good-looking lie?

Lu Daqi nodded and said, "What you are thinking makes sense, so our supervisor has ordered another army from Baoning Mansion to transfer.

In addition, Gongchang, Lintao Prefectures, Minzhou and Taozhou Guards should still have some of our Ming official troops or Shun Army.

If these people are summoned, two or three troops in the town should be able to be reorganized. In this way, the troops needed for Fengxiang to defend Hanzhong are definitely enough.

When Li Dingguo leaves Xing'an Prefecture from Kuizhou north, we will drive the Qing army out of Shaanxi."

As soon as Lu Daqi finished speaking, a thousand general in his commander came up and said, "Report to the commander, Bai Guangen, the sham of Taoyuan, was in Jiezhou, and sent a message to him that he had five thousand soldiers and horses, and he could be heard at any time.

Supervisor to dispatch.”

Jiezhou is in Gongchang Prefecture.

Lu Daqi didn't expect that he had just mentioned collecting troops from the two palaces and guards in the west of Shaanxi. Someone came back to the point of being clear and couldn't help laughing, "Look, this supervisor is right, as long as we can be in Hanzhong,

Feng Xiang blocked the Qing army, and there would be troops from all over the place to attack!"

Yu Qingyao was also very happy and praised: "The supervisor is like a god."

Lu Daqi waved his hand with a smile, but frowned again, "Bai Guangen... Do you understand this person?"

Yu Qingyao said: "This person is also from Hanzhong. He has some understanding of his subordinates.

In the early years of Chongzhen, he became a bandit after being defeated by Hong Chengchou and surrendered, and became the Dusi under Cao Wenzhao's tent.

Later, he followed Cao Wenzhao to suppress the bandits and made many military achievements. After the Battle of Nanyuan, Tongguan in the tenth year of Chongzhen, he was promoted to the General of Jizhou.

Later, he was defeated and demoted on the crime of Songjin with Hong Chengchou.

By the way, it was also during this battle that his son was also captured by the Qing army. It is said that the Qing army had written letters to surrender him, but he did not respond.

In the 16th year of Chongzhen, he first participated in the Battle of Luoshan and was defeated.

After the Qing army withdrew from the pass, he was dispatched to Wu Sheng to suppress the bandits.

At that time, the bandits such as Li and Zhang were already in a difficult situation. The official army defeated them and won fewer victory in battles, and the official army of each unit had the most respect for the army.

Bai Guangen was also arrogant and hard to use at that time. On the grounds that the court had not paid a salary for a long time, he returned to Shaanxi after a big plunder in Hebei and Henan and surrendered to Li Zicheng."

After hearing this, Lu Daqi smiled and said, "You seem to be too discerning about the crimes that Bai Guangen committed."

After hearing this, Yu Qingyao hurriedly apologized and said, "The officials dare not. It's just that the current situation is difficult. There are many generals who surrendered to the false Shun in the past few years. It is rare for those who are as capable as Bai Guangen and surrendered late."

Lu Daqi did not continue to talk about Bai Guangen's previous sins.

As Yu Qingyao said, there are many old generals in the army now. If he wants to hold him accountable, many people will be anxious and even rebel again.

If these people rebel, they will not surrender, but will not surrender.

but···

"The main enemy behind us is the Qing army. Since Bai Guangen's son is in the hands of the Qing army, it is hard to feel at ease when used.

In this way, I will later transfer him to the front of the army and reorganize his troops to see how he reacts."

After hearing what Lu Daqi said, Yu Qingyao could only let Bai Guangen, a fellow villager, ask for more blessings.

···

On the second day of the second month, the dragon raised its head.

The army led by Zhu Mai has passed Chongqing and entered Kuizhou.

Seeing that he was about to enter Huguang in a few days, Zhu Mai sent Zeng Ying, Hong Niangzi, and Liu Wenxiu to the imperial ship to discuss military affairs.

Of course, Hao Guangming also participated in the conference through mobile videos.

At the beginning of the meeting, Zhu Ma said, "When we go out of Kuizhou along the Yangtze River, we will enter Jingzhou in Huguang. According to the information obtained by our palace, Jingzhou is currently occupied by the Shun Army.

The pseudo-shun used the Jiedushi as the military commander in an area, and the defense commander was the military commander in an office.

The land of Jingxiang was under the jurisdiction of the fake Shun'anle Jiedushi, and the Jiedushi was Baiwang, and as for the Jingzhou Defense Envoy, Ren Guangrong.
Chapter completed!