"General, forgive me!"

The soldiers were so frightened that they quickly helped Liu Rukui up and knelt on one knee to apologize.

"What's the point? It's just a somersault. If your child didn't have this ability, he wouldn't have chosen you as his servant. However, if he hadn't been distracted for a moment, your child wouldn't have had a chance."

Liu Rukui smiled and talked for a while, then patted the dust on his armor and asked the team member who reported the news: "Are the people here really Commander Li and the Red Lady?"

The team leader was also an old soldier. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "I don't know you. It's a group of cavalry. The leader is indeed a very capable woman and a good-looking scholar."

"Then it's 80% that it's Commander Li and Lady Hong." Liu Rukui also smiled, and then he couldn't help but said to himself: "But why did they lead their troops to cross Tongguan?"

The guard thought they were asking him, but Li Yan happened to tell him about it, so he said, "I said that I was following the order of King Chuang to attack Sichuan."

Liu Rukui glared at the guard, raised his beard and said: "How many times have I told you that we have become kings and now that we have become emperors and sit on the throne of the capital, we have to change our name to Your Majesty.

Otherwise, if you are caught later and charged with disrespect, you will not be protected."

The team leader scratched his head and said, "Well, isn't this just smooth talk for a moment?"

After giving the guard a few words of instruction, Liu Rukui led a group of servants to the top of Tongguan City and looked at the cavalry group outside the gate.

Liu Rukui was nicknamed Zaoying not only because of his black appearance, but also because he was a frontier soldier of the Ming Dynasty.

Being able to do this job, he not only has no night blindness, but also has excellent eyesight.

The cavalry team was not far from the city gate. He took one look at it and started laughing, shouting: "Commander Li, Madam Red, why did you come to Tongguan?"

As an old man in the camp, Liu Rukui was one of the few who had a good relationship with Li Yan, and he was quite happy to see Li Yan.

But as far as he knew, King Chuang had sent Ma Ke to lead ten thousand troops to attack Sichuan, so he was a little confused about the arrival of the Red Lady's tribe.

Li Yan raised his voice and said: "The eight kings have entered Sichuan. Your Majesty is worried that Marco's surrender will not be able to defeat the eight kings, so he will let the eight kings occupy the whole Sichuan. In the future, Dashun will be in trouble if we take over Sichuan.

Moreover, His Majesty was a little worried about Ma Ke after all, so he asked Lady Hong and I to lead troops into Sichuan first, so that at least the eight kings would not take over Sichuan."

"So that's it, why did His Majesty send you to Sichuan again?" Liu Rukui waved his hand as he spoke, "Open the city gate, pick up Military Advisor Li, and the red lady enters the city!"

Outside Tongguan.

Li Yan and the red lady looked at each other and smiled.

Immediately, the Red Lady sent someone to summon the army to cross Tongguan.

Then the two of them led the cavalry behind them to the gate. When they saw Liu Rukui approaching, Li Yan took the initiative to take out the imperial edict.

"This is your Majesty's imperial edict to send us to Sichuan. General Liu, please take a look."

As he spoke, he handed over the forged imperial edict and paid attention to Liu Rukui's expression - this was to see whether Liu Rukui knew that he and the Red Lady had separated from the invading army, pretending to welcome her, but actually setting up an ambush in Guancheng.

Liu Rukui knew some words, so he opened the imperial edict and read it.

He also had two copies of this imperial edict. One was when Li Zicheng first made him a mighty general in Xi'an, and the other was when Li Zicheng defeated the capital and appointed him as the guard general of Tongguan.

I saw that this imperial edict was even the same as his second one. It had the seal of Emperor Dashun on it and the handwriting was written by Li Zicheng himself.

The content is indeed as Li Yan said, sending the Red Lady Division to Sichuan to support the Ma Ke Division to prevent Zhang Xianzhong from taking over all Sichuan before the Dashun Army entered Sichuan.

Liu Rukui had no doubts about Li Yan and the Red Lady. At this time, he hurriedly read the imperial edict and returned it to Li Yan. He laughed and said: "It will take some time for the army to cross the border, right? Let's go and have a hot meal there first. Um.

The chef I found makes delicious noodles."

Li Yan saw that Liu Rukui's expression didn't seem to be different, so he felt relieved and said with a smile: "Okay."

The red lady said: "My husband will go first, I still wait for the team to pass."

Liu Rukui said: "The red lady will be here soon, and my aunt will also be able to talk to you."

The red lady nodded, "Yes."

In fact, Lady Hong did this just as a precaution - although she didn't think Liu Rukui would set up an ambush in the city, it was always right to be cautious.

If she and Li Yan were captured by Liu Rukui, it would be very difficult for Zhu Yuluo alone to lead a team to break through Tongguan and rescue them.

Facts have proved that whether it was Zhu Yuluo, Li Yan, or the Red Lady, their judgments were correct. Liu Rukui did not know that the Red Lady's tribe had left the camp.

An hour later, the Red Lady Division successfully passed through Tongguan and entered Shaanxi.

Li Yan, the red lady, had dinner, said goodbye to Liu Rukui, and then rode up to catch up with the team that had passed the border not long ago.

The red lady continued to lead the cavalry to clear the way in front, while Li Yan returned to the central army.

When he saw Zhu Ailao, Li Yan first saluted and greeted her.

Then he said: "I found out the news when Liu Rukui and I were having dinner. The Horse Department passed through Xi'an Prefecture half a month ago. I am afraid that they have already invaded Baoning Prefecture for a few days."

Since he knew from Li Yan that Li Zicheng sent Ma Ke to attack Sichuan, Hao Guangming naturally checked Ma Ke's information in advance and told Zhu Aao.

In the early years of Chongzhen, Ma Ke followed Li Bei to defeat the bandits, and won many battles. He beheaded more than 600 people and killed the leader of the bandits, Hun Tianhou, and was promoted to General for his merits.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen's reign, Li Bei died of illness and took office, and Ma Ke followed Hong Chengchou to continue fighting against the bandits.

In the tenth year of Chongzhen's reign, Ma Ke, Cao Bianjiao and others participated in the famous Battle of Tongguan Nanyuan.

That was the battle where Sun Chuanting defeated Li Zicheng and only the Eighteen Cavalry fled into Shangluo Mountain.

In this battle, Ma Ke was promoted to Shanhaiguan Commander-in-Chief for his merit, and later participated in the Songjin Battle with Hong Chengchou.

In the Battle of Songjin in the 13th year of Chongzhen, he, Wu Sangui, Bai Guangen, Tang Tong, Wang Pu and others broke the siege and fled.

Wang Pu, who was the first to escape, was beheaded for his crime, while Ma Ke and others were asked to issue a military order. If they behaved like this again, they would be beheaded immediately.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen's reign, the Qing army invaded again, and Ma Ke's army failed to capture the enemy.

At this time, the situation in the Ming Dynasty had changed drastically. Not only was the defeated Ma Ke not punished, but in the 16th year of Chongzhen's reign, he led troops to defend the capital and became one of the generals who were given a banquet by Chongzhen in the Wuying Palace.

Later, Chongzhen ordered Ma Ke to follow the great scholar Wu Zongnan to conquer the bandits, but due to various reasons he was unable to make the trip.

In the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, he followed Li Jiantai in his western expedition against Li Zicheng.

This battle is a joke, and Li Jiantai is the funny person.

In this ridiculous battle, Li Jiantai was defeated and captured and surrendered to Li Zicheng. Although Ma Ke did not surrender, he could only lead the remaining soldiers to stay away from the front of the invaders.

When the rebel army captured the capital in March, Marco surrendered.

In this time and space, Zhu Yuluo, who had an unexpected encounter, was unable to prevent the Chuang army from breaking through the capital, and naturally it did not change Ma Ke's surrender to Li Chuang.

After Ma Ke surrendered, he was named Huaiyuan Bo by Li Zicheng and ordered Li Yutian, the former governor of Liaodong, to lead 10,000 troops to conquer Sichuan.

The Equestrian Department took the route in early April, and it took a route that went straight through Shanxi.

Even so, it took Ma Ke more than a month to get to Xi'an.

The Red Lady's tribe was delayed by more than half a month, taking the longer route to Henan, but it only took them a month and a few days to cross Tongguan and enter Xi'an Prefecture.

It can be seen that the method used by Hao Guangming and Zhu Aolao to encourage the soldiers to hurry up with both material and spiritual rewards was quite effective.

Zhu Aelao frowned slightly after hearing Li Yan's words.

Based on the information provided by Hao Guangming, she said: "Ma Keben was a veteran who grew up among the ordinary bandits. Although he was not good at fighting the Qing army, he had won many battles against the bandits fifteen years before Chongzhen.

Sichuan has not experienced war for a long time, and its military equipment must have been depleted. With Ma Ke's ability, I am afraid that Baoning Prefecture has been captured by now."

Li Yan heard this and asked: "Didn't future generations record Ma Ke's attack on Sichuan?"

Zhu Yucao said: "There is certainly a record, but it only says that he entered Sichuan from Hanzhong and captured Baoning in May. The record is very vague.

What's more, I've said before that one thing in this world can affect the whole body, so you can't believe all the people and things here.

Besides, the historical materials over there are all written by people, and they may not all be consistent with the facts."

Li Yan nodded slightly after hearing this, "His Highness's words certainly make sense, but the events of future generations are also worthy of reference.

If it was already the end of May, Boryeongfu might really have been captured by Mark.
Chapter completed!