Wang Zhaolin's plan was to quickly seize Xi'an with the main force, because it was found that although the Shun Army left behind Xi'an and its surrounding areas had more than 60,000 soldiers, and more than 7,000 horses, the armored rate was not high, and the maximum number of people who could fight was only 20,000.

Therefore, as long as the elite main force in Daxi is concentrated to attack Xi'an, Li Guo, who stayed in Xi'an, and Meng Qiaofang, the governor of Shaanxi, will definitely be unable to stop it. The main force of the Shun Army who was in the Eastern Expedition will be hurriedly called back after receiving police news in Shaanxi, which will take more than a month at the earliest.

Time is over and on the side of Daxi.

It seemed like the Shun Army defeated the Qing Dynasty in the east, Xi'an was the Beijing of the Qing Dynasty, and the main force of the Shun Army was the main force of the Qing army who went south to Jingxiang.

Zhang Xianzhong thought more, or the Eight Kings either did not do it, and if they wanted to do it, they would come to the second-largest. He wanted to divide his troops into three groups, the first group was commander Kewang, and went south from Yan'an to attack Xi'an; the second group was commander Li Dingguo, and he protected himself. Yulin broke into Shanxi and restrained the main force of the Shun Army's eastward expedition. The third group was based on Bai Wenxuan, Liu Wenxiu and others from Guyuan to Fengxiang from Pingliang area to capture Fengxiang, and then led their troops to Hanzhong, cutting off the Shun Army Wang Jincai, Guo Dengxian and others stationed in Hanzhong, making Xi'an an isolated city.

Among the three troops, Sun Kewang's troops were in charge of the 19th battalion and the newly formed 10th battalion, with a total of 29th battalions of soldiers of 70,000.

Li Dingguo's Ministry was in charge of the 16th Battalion of its headquarters, Gao Xun, Kang Zhenbang and other surrendered generals, with a total of 50,000 soldiers from the 24th Battalion.

In addition to the 15th Battalion of the Imperial Camp, Liu Wenxiu and Bai Wenxuan also had a newly-organized and surrendered 13th Battalion, with a total of more than 60,000 soldiers from the 28th Battalion.

In addition to the main force of Li Dingguo's troops crossing the river into Shanxi to restrain the Shun Army in Beijing, Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu had more than 130,000 troops. It should be a piece of cake to deal with Li Guo and Meng Qiaofang, who had only 20,000 soldiers at most, and Xi'an should be at hand.

Zhang Xianzhong even specifically instructed his adopted sons not to kill Li Guo if they conquer Xi'an. If Li's blind wife Gao Guiying is also in Xi'an, she should respect the etiquette of the queen mother and must not be lazy.

Regarding Mishun, there must be different voices within the Western Army.

The left prime minister Wang Zhaoling, the Minister of Personnel Hu Mo and others firmly supported Lao Wansui Mishun, and even began to prepare for the matter of establishing the capital of Xi'an.

Right Prime Minister Yan Xi ordered, but Minister Gong Wanjing and others opposed this act of treason.

Yan Xi ordered that even though Manchuria, a common enemy, had been eliminated, there was another common enemy in both Dashun and Daxi, that is, the Hongguang regime established by Yu Nandu.

Therefore, the most urgent task is to continue cooperation in the west, follow Huaiyang to march into Jiangnan, and Shaanxi will enter Sichuan again to capture Yunnan and Guizhou and other places. After the remnants of the Ming Dynasty are eliminated, we will fight with the Shun army to fight against each other.

Gong Wanjing, the Minister of War, was a Jinshi during the Chongzhen period and was a former prosecutor of Lin'an Prefecture, Yunnan, in the Ming Dynasty. He even directly told the truth that the meat was rotten in the pot.

That is, the one who is currently attacking each other is Zhu Ming, the so-called relatives are hurt and enemies are quick. But if the two families continue to work together to eliminate the Ming Dynasty, then in the future, no matter which family fails, it will be considered as a rotten meat in the pot.

After all, Dashun and Daxi have the same roots and origins.

The Minister of Revenue Wang Guoning also advised the emperor from financial aspects not to attack Dashun, but to mobilize troops to re-enter Sichuan and control the land of Sichuan's Tianfu to Dashun.

"For months, we used troops to fight against the rebels, and we paid the money for the money. The money was about 300,000 taels of silver, and about 300,000 stones of grain. The five governments, six ministries, various departments, and government expenses in the court, cost another 600,000 taels of silver in the past six months. The current inventory is only tens of thousands of taels of silver, 100,000 stones of grain and several cotton cloth."

As the financial steward of the Daxi Dynasty, Wang Guoning knew his family well. He said that since the army left Sichuan, the local officials appointed by Daxi were almost slaughtered by the Ming army, and Chengdu was also taken away by the Ming army. All the money, grain and taxes in Daxi were obtained from Sichuan. Although they now occupy the northwest, the taxes are far from Sichuan. If they now lead the army to the Tongshun Army as an enemy, the Ministry of Revenue will be unable to maintain the regular support and will not be able to deal with it.

Zhang Xianzhong didn't like to listen to Wang Guoning's settlement, so he cursed directly: "Don't mom, even if my soldiers don't pay the salary, they just told them to follow the rules of the army, get the food and clothing everywhere, and can maintain it. At most, give some rewards during the war. How much money can this cost? What do you, the Minister of Revenue, do? Not only do you manage the money for me, Lao Zhang, but you also have to get the money. If you don't have money, you can find a way!"

The angry Zhang Xianzhong directly asked the left prime minister Wang Zhaolin not to get many officials in the future. The surrendered officials should use less, and the savings would be spent on these people who had eaten their meals.

"You can tell the truth clearly. If you don't hit him, Lu Huangmao, I will come to cut off my head in the future!"

Zhang Xianzhong felt a little calm. When he remembered something, he hurriedly told Wang Guoning: "You can make money, but don't put your ideas on the farmers in the northwest. I, Lao Zhang, is also from the northwest. You can't ask the people in the northwest to poke my Lao Zhang's backbone!"

Wang Guoning was in a dilemma and was not allowed to impose taxes on the people. How could he maintain the expenses of the more than 300,000 troops in Daxi and the east expedition to destroy the people?

Yan Ximing saw that the emperor had made up his mind to fight in the east, and knew that Long Live's nature would not listen to the advice, he said, "Your Majesty is sympathetic to the people, which is a grand plan for the founding of the country. However, the army should still be strictly restricted and cannot disturb the people. The food and salary must be allocated monthly, and there will be no shortage of losses. If there is a shortage, I think it can be borrowed temporarily from local large households."

The so-called "temporary borrowing" probably means robbing.

Zhang Xianzhong slapped his head and said, "Hehe": "Old Yan's words are reasonable. I would rather call rich people to become paupers than let paupers starve to death!"

Then he walked to the middle of the ministers with a big puff, and said while smoking, "That's it. In addition, he called Kewangkai East Prefecture, and asked Dingguo to Kaixi Prefecture. The East Prefecture led the army to take Xi'an for us, and the West Prefecture crossed the Yellow River to take Shanxi for us."

After saying that, he looked at Gong Wanjing, the Minister of War, who looked worried, and wanted to curse a few words, but the words turned into reasoning when they were on their lips.

"Don't show off this face. I understand what you said, but you must know that although I have a lot of soldiers in the West, my food and salary are insufficient. I can't take Shaanxi and Shanxi to revitalize the place. I will definitely be so exhausted that the little yellow hair that has not grown all over will be exhausted."

Gong Wanjing sighed helplessly and hurriedly said that the Ministry of War fully supports the Eastern Expedition.

Zhang Xianzhong was very satisfied. Three young generals in the hall went out to ask for the Eastern Expedition, namely General Zhang Neng, General Zhang Hualong and Zhang Guangcai. These three were adopted sons by Xianzhong in recent years. They were called the third little princes in the army. They were all young and energetic and full of energy. Seeing their elder brother Sun Kewang opening the East Mansion and their second brother Li Dingguo opening the West Mansion, they were all very enthusiastic. They thought that they could get some credit for destroying Shun from this Eastern Expedition, and they would be as majestic as their elder brother, second brother and others in the future.

"Everything goes, everyone is not small anymore. It's time to go and make a breakthrough."

Zhang Xianzhong naturally agreed. The Imperial Camp military order was issued soon. Sun Kewang, who was commanding the third rank of Di in Yan'an, was immediately summoning the generals to discuss the capture of Xi'an military opportunity. After the meeting, he ordered someone to bring his own letter to Li Dingguo, a brother who was in Baode in the east.

The letter said that the Shun Army had not yet established a stable foothold in Shanxi, and that Jiang Xiang was a fence-bearing man. As long as the Dingguo drove Tang Tong, Gao Xun and his surrendered generals quickly took Taiyuan. Jiang Xiang, the fence-bearing man, would definitely surrender to the West.

He also reminded Li Dingguo to be both powerful and pacified after entering Shanxi. He should properly resettle the surrendered officials of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty and even the Shun Army, and strictly enforce the military discipline without any violations. If necessary, he could supervise the surrendered troops to farm in fertile areas of Shanxi to solve the shortage of food and grass. In addition, if Jiang Xiang was willing to surrender with Datong, he could also trade from Datong and Outer Mongolia in exchange for the Mongols' cattle and horses to strengthen the Western Army.

He also wrote the route of Li Zicheng entering Shanxi and the arrangement along the way as a specific manuscript and handed over to his second brother Dingguo, and at the same time allocated a large amount of gunpowder for Dingguo to use.

The reason was that when the Western Army was in central Sichuan, they mastered the method of using coffin gunpowder to break the strong city. If Taiyuan is firm, Dingguo can continue to use this method to break the important city.

Bai Wenxuan, who was stationed in Pingliang, led his troops to the Funan General Liu Wenxiu, on the day after the order for the Emperor Daxi to expedition to the East, ordered 6,000 elite troops to attack Longzhou in Fengxiang Prefecture.

The Shun Army in Longzhou was monitoring the movements of the Western Army. After discovering that the Western Army wanted to invade Longzhou, it immediately sent an emergency document to Fengxiang and Xi'an.

Bai Minghe, general of the Dashun Fengxiang, personally led 3,000 troops to Longzhou, and together with more than 2,000 defenders in the city, strengthened the city defense of Longzhou.

Bai Wenxuan led the army first and then, first with more than a thousand cavalry, he divided the connection between Longzhou and Fengxiang, and then personally supervised the troops to attack the city. He ordered the soldiers to set up a high-rise ladder, awarded huge rewards, and were determined to attack the city.

Bai Minghe's army had less than 30% of armor, and he could not fight head-on with thousands of elite Western troops under Bai Wenxuan's command. He could only rely on the city wall to defend himself. However, in less than an hour of the battle, the south city began to be in a hurry.

Bai Wenxuan saw that there were signs of breaking the city in the south. He was excited and ordered people to shoot arrows into the city to persuade them to surrender, and came to Nancheng to supervise the battle. He also ordered his personal soldiers to participate in the climbing of the city with death-death soldiers wearing double armor.

In the afternoon, dozens of warriors of the Western Army climbed to the southern city. Seeing that the city was about to break through, Bai Wenxuan was happy and rode directly outside the south gate to less than inside or outside. As a result, a sudden shot was fired from the city. The gunner aimed very accurately and smashed Bai Wenxuan into the place where he was.

Bai Wenxuan was also agile. When the shells fell from his mount, he turned over and vaulted the horse. The mount died tragically on the spot. Bai's left arm was also broken due to excessive strength when it landed on the ground. Bai Wenxuan screamed in pain.

Seeing this, the personal soldiers on the left and right thought that the former army was seriously injured, so they rushed to the general Bai Wenxuan and grabbed the rear. Bai's general flag was moved afterwards. As a result, the Western Army, who was sieging the city, was at a loss and was driven down by the Shangshun Army.

Although Bai Wenxuan was in pain, his consciousness was clear. Seeing that he could not break the city today, he quickly ordered his troops to retreat. Bai Minghe of Shun Army was also bold. When the Western Army retreated, he brought hundreds of cavalry to chase him. As a result, the Western Army was in panic and killed thousands of people. Bai Wenxuan fled to Anrong Pass in the west under the escort of his subordinates. If it weren't for Liu Wenxiu's commander-in-chief Wang Shangli, the former commander-in-chief of the Great Western Army would have died before he could succeed.

The failure to attack Longzhou made Liu Wenxiu's Western Army immediately fall into a passive position, because to defeat Fengxiang, he must first capture Longzhou. Bai Wenxuan's defeat not only caused the morale of the Western Army, but also gave the Shun Army plenty of time to strengthen the defensive power of Longzhou and Fengxiang.

The news soon reached Guyuan where the imperial camp was located. When Zhang Xianzhong heard that Bai Wenxuan was defeated, he was furious. He ignored the dissuasion of the left and right prime ministers and insisted on leading the imperial camp eastward.

Beijing, Shaanxi's urgent documents flew into the Forbidden City like snowflakes.

"Leave the family affairs to you, and I will do the outside affairs. If you don't press Zhang Xianzhong's head, the eight kings will become more and more crazy."

In front of the Ganqing Palace, Lu Si said this to his newly arrived wife Li Cuiwei, that tomorrow he would lead his army back to Shaanxi to compete with the Eight Kings.

Li Cuiwei shook her head: "If I had known this, I would not have come to Beijing."

"Why?"

Lu Siwei was stunned.

"Because I am a female general, I can also lead troops."
Chapter completed!