Song Xiance also knew that he should not be disturbed at this time, but as a military advisor, he had to say something, otherwise it would be his responsibility if something happened.

"Your Majesty, what if the Ming army in Hunan was not drawn, but instead took the opportunity to seize the city abandoned by the Qing emperors?

Therefore, I think it would be better for us to keep some of the troops and horses to guard against the Ming army, so as not to be caught off guard."

After hearing this, Li Zicheng hesitated.

Liu Zongmin shouted: "There are only 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and 10,000 elite soldiers. If you still have to be wary of the Ming army, how many soldiers can be scored?

We must fight out as soon as possible before the Ming army can react and sweep across the country again to strengthen the troops and relieve the troubles of our um!”

Liu Zongmin's words made most of the generals present nodded in agreement.

Because this is the usual practice of the Shun Army when it was a bandit.

After being defeated by the government army, he went into the mountains and shrank. When the government army withdrew for various reasons, he immediately came out to collect grain, took refuge in refugees, recruited troops, and quickly swept across the country and grew stronger.

The most classic one was when Li Zicheng went out of Shangluo Mountain in the 12th year of Chongzhen, sweeping Henan.

That one fell swoop, Dashun's foundation was laid.

Although the situation today is a little different from that of the past, it may not be able to replicate the success of that year.

However, Liu Zongmin's words also made the few "civil officials" present frown.

Now that Li Zicheng has become an emperor in an organization, how can he still do such bandits? If he really does that, he may even lose a little of the hearts of the people at the bottom.

At that time, Dashun had no hope.

But this is not easy to say. After all, Dashun started out as a bandit, and it only took about a year to convert it into the "Dashun official army". The vast majority still like the bandits' practices.

Anyone who raises an objection to this matter is undoubtedly against most of the Shun Army generals.

Just as Song Xiance and other "civil officials" were hesitating, Li Zicheng had a cold light flashed across his one eye, and pounded the table and said, "Ruhou is right. Uh, you must take the opportunity to fight out to quickly recover your strength.

If you are careful and miss the opportunity, you will be locked up by the Qing army and the Ming army will continue to be between the two prefectures in Hubei. When they make a little free, they will be left with only one dead end."

After saying that, Li Zicheng no longer solicited other opinions, and immediately discussed the specific matters of military dispatch with the generals on this strategy.

After all, the Shun Army now has only 50,000 or 60,000, so it must be more careful in order to occupy more territory and absorb more troops as soon as possible...

In the next few days, the Shun army, which was originally trapped in the eastern part of De'an Prefecture, almost all of them were dispatched, mainly divided into three directions: north, northwest and west.

This time, Shunjun was not polite to the gentry and landlords he encountered, and all the houses were beheaded and searched.

Who made the Qing army come? Almost none of these gentry and landlords stand on Dashun's side and all surrender to the Qing Dynasty?

Therefore, the reason for attacking the gentry and landlord is ready-made and there is no need to find it.

What's more, after a previous war in Hubei, the common people either died or became refugees, and only the gentry and landlords who occupied the villages and forts, and the prominent families of the big families still had some money and food.

In this case, the Shun Army could only barely guarantee logistics if it robbed their money and food.

However, after really sending troops, some situations also unexpected to the senior management of Dashun.

The Ming army in Hunan actually went on as well.

The Western Lu Shun Army, separated from De'an Prefecture, fought several battles with the Ming army in Hunan in Chengtian Prefecture, but was defeated but not defeated. Even important cities like Zhongxiang and Jingmen were seized by the Ming army.

In contrast, the Northern Army left the Three Passes of Yiyang (these Three Passes were originally occupied by the Shun Army and were not taken down by the Qing army) and after entering Henan, they found that the Qing army in Xinyang Prefecture, Guangshan and other places were also

All withdrawn!

Li Zicheng originally wanted to get back to Xiangyang by himself among the troops in the northwest.

But after learning the latest news from the two troops in the west and north, he immediately realized that the Ming army was indeed fighting for Hubei as Song Xiance said.

The Qing army's withdrawal range was even larger than he expected, and it was likely that all the territory south of the Yellow River would be abandoned!

Considering that the Hunan Ming Army was quite strong, his current troops could not defeat him at all, Li Zicheng decisively changed his strategy and decided to use Henan as the main territory to restore his strength.

In the 12th year of Chongzhen and the 13th year, he was the foundation of Dashun in Henan, and he believed that this time he could do it.

So, Li Zicheng personally led more than a thousand elite troops of the old camp to the northern army led by Liu Zongmin.

Unexpectedly, after Li Zicheng joined the main force of the Northern Route Army and marched from Xinyang Prefecture to Luoshan County, he was ambushed by the Qing army near Zhongshanpu!

It turned out that some Qing army was plundering southeastern Henan at this time. Since Qingting decided to give up the territory south of the Yellow River, it would naturally plunder money, grain and population as before when retreating.

In the past few years, most places in Henan have been destroyed in the natural disasters and wars, and the situation in southeastern Henan is better.

Therefore, while the Qingting ordered Ajige to lead the main force back to the capital, he ordered Shuncheng County Prince Luke Dehun to lead thousands of Eight Banners soldiers and tens of thousands of Green Camps to plunder southeast of Henan.

It takes time to loot money and grain, and the population (usually young and strong) to transport away the robbery proceeds.

Therefore, although the Qing army decided to give up Henan, Luke Dehun, the Qing army, actually needed to linger in southeast Henan for a while.

Through the scout, Luke Dehun learned that a large number of Shun Army had entered Xinyang Prefecture, and was worried that the Shun Army would disturb the looting, and even dragged it to southeastern Henan, so he decided to fight an ambush battle to eliminate the Shun Army.

So the Battle of Zhongshanpu was launched.

In this battle, Luke Dehun transferred more than 2,000 Eight Banners Army, mainly Manchu and Han, and more than 8,000 Green Camp soldiers.

The Shun Army led by Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin had nearly 20,000 people, of which more than 2,000 elite troops, more than 10,000 soldiers who dared to fight, and six or seven thousand soldiers who acted as civilians.

Perhaps because the Qing army gave up even the prefectures in Xinyang Prefecture, from Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, to the horses in charge of exploring the way, they did not expect to be ambushed by the Qing army and were caught off guard.

In this battle, Shunjun was beaten miserably.

Liu Zongmin was seriously injured on the spot and was captured after falling into a coma.

The other Shun Army were either killed on the spot by the Qing army, or defeated and fled in scattered areas.

Normally, through an ambush, the generals were afraid to fight and did not dare to come to southeastern Henan again. Luke Dehun's goal was achieved and he should stop the troops as soon as possible.

But he didn't expect to see Li Zicheng's "breaking". "Li" had two big banners, and his command was Bayala Zhang Jing Aobai even recognized Li Zicheng.

"Li Zicheng! The one-eyed one is Li Zicheng!" Oboi pointed at the Shunjun who had escaped from the battlefield and shouted excitedly.

Lukedehun looked at him and saw the middle-aged man riding a red horse in front of him, with one-eyed, long bearded and felt hat. It was Li Zicheng who he had seen several times on the battlefield!

"Prince! If Li Zicheng can be captured, it will definitely be a great achievement! You can't let him run away!" Obai yelled excitedly, wanting to chase him directly.

However, the Eight Banners Army had strict disciplines and did not have Luke Dehun's orders, so he was not easy to mess around.

Lukedehun also wanted this credit and said excitedly: "You really can't let him run away. You can take someone to chase him, and you will be able to capture him alive!"

"Yeah!"

Oboi left.

Time was tight, and he knew that he ordered a ox to pick up the soldiers, but most of them were vest soldiers, and there were dozens of red-armored soldiers, and even seven or eight Bayala (white armor) soldiers were.

They were both horses alone, because most of them wore double armor, which was three-layer armor, so they didn't run fast.

But Li Zicheng escaped unhappyly.

Due to the defeat and fleeing, he had only dozens of horses around him, and few remaining hundreds of soldiers from the camp had caught horses, and they all took a walk.

If he had only escaped with dozens of cavalry, he would definitely be able to escape, but Li Zicheng was reluctant to leave these hundreds of powerful soldiers.

Because now, there are no more than 3,000 soldiers in the Dashun army like this, and there are only more than 1,000 soldiers who are brought into the Northern Army by his side.

After being ambushed by the Qing army, more than half of the more than a thousand powerful soldiers were already damaged. If these hundreds were gone, his direct power in the army would be weakened by half.

So Li Zicheng led the defeated troops to retreat and fight.

However, their defeated soldiers were not the elite opponents of the Eight Banners led by Oboi? The two sides fought several times, and the soldiers of the Shun army were constantly deprived of their troops, while the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners were only a handful of casualties.

In this way, when Li Zicheng retreated to the foot of Zhenlei Mountain, there were only a dozen followers left by his side, and only more than two hundred soldiers in the old camp were left, almost everyone was injured.

What's worse is that even Li Zicheng was shot and injured his right shoulder. Although the injury was not very serious, it was not light anymore. It was difficult for him to even hold a knife and grab the reins with his right hand.

Seeing that the Qing army was about to surround him again, the guard Hu Er advised: "Your Majesty, now you can have a glimmer of life only if you enter the mountains!"

Without hesitation, Li Zicheng immediately ordered the horse to abandon his horse and entered the mountain, and asked some old camp soldiers to chase the Qing army that was sluggishly based on the terrain at the foot of the mountain.

After more than ten years of military career, Li Zi escaped many times, many of which were survived by escaping into the mountains.
Chapter completed!