Longzhou, Fengxiang, Shaanxi.

The former army commander Bai Wenxuan failed to attack Longzhou, not only did he lose thousands of soldiers, but he was also seriously injured. After Zhang Xianzhong was furious, he ignored the dissuasion of the left and right prime ministers, and personally led the main force of the imperial camp and pacified the southern general Liu Wenxiu, the central army commander Wang Shangli, the rear army commander Wang Ziqi, the left army commander Ma Yuanli, and the right army commander Zhang Hualong and others, a total of more than 180,000 troops of 56 battalions, personally attacked Longzhou.

He also ordered the "East Palace" to attack General Sun Kewang's troops quickly break through Yan'an and head south to attack Xi'an.

The general of the Longzhou garrison of the Shun Army, Bai Minghe, general of Fengxiang, heard that Zhang Xianzhong personally led a large army to attack, and knew that he was completely defeated by his two or three thousand men, so he gave up Longzhou to retreat to Fengxiang.

General Liu Wenxiu, the southern general of the Western Funan, led his troops to Longzhou. When he heard that the Longzhou defenders abandoned the city and fled, Zhang Xianzhong was overjoyed. He was in charge of the Central Army's Governor Wang Shangli, and Zhang Hualong, the Right Army Governor, quickly led the Imperial Camp cavalry to Longzhou and personally directed the attack on Fengxiang.

Bai Minghe retreated to Fengxiang and walked a strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields. He burned all the villages and villages nearly a hundred miles away from the palace city, and moved residents into the city to defend them.

Although this strategy prevented the Western Army from providing food and supplies during its journey eastward and increased its march difficulties, it made all counties under Fengxiang easily occupied by the Western Army.

While the governor of Shaanxi Meng Qiaofang was in a hurry to the camp, he sent an order to dispatch 5,000 troops from the General of Gongchang, Niu Wancai's troops, 4,000 troops from the General of Xi'an, and 7,000 troops from the General of Hanzhong, Guo Dengxian, three groups rushed to help Fengxiang.

He also ordered Li Laiheng, Tian Hu and Helan to quickly lead 5,000 Xi'an troops to help Yan'an, and dispatched 6,000 troops from the General Hu Shoulong's troops to return to defend Xi'an.

In view of Zhang Xianzhong's rapid offensive and numerous soldiers, Duke Xingguo Li Guo decided to personally lead his troops to Fengxiang to resist Zhang Xianzhong.

Meng Qiaofang was worried that Li Guo would be wrong, so she shook the morale of Yuan Shun's soldiers, so she dissuaded them.

"Meng Gong didn't know that although Bai Minghe, Niu Wancai, Dang Meng'an and others were all my generals, these people were not tenacious. If our army had the upper hand and was at a disadvantage now, if reinforcements were not arrived for a long time, they might find a way to protect themselves."

Li Jiao said that the reason why Niu Wancai, Dang Meng'an and others were able to follow him from the northwest to Sichuan was because he and Gao Yigong, Liu Tichun and others were in charge of the Western Army. But now Gao Yigong, Liu Tichun and others followed the Jianguo to the east, and Li Guo was in Xi'an again. Niu Wancai, Dang Meng'an and others were trapped by the Western Army in Fengxiang, and the main force of Dashun was far away in Beijing, and I don't know when to arrive in Xi'an. Fengxiang has not seen reinforcements arrive for a long time, it will definitely be shaken. Therefore, he must go to Fengxiang in person to take charge. Niu, Dang, Bai, and Guo can only obey the orders.

"I have decided on this matter, and Duke Meng doesn't have to persuade him anymore. Dashun can have all depend on the governor today. I have not made any contributions since I stayed in Xi'an, but I have been the Duke Xingguo. I am already uneasy. The situation is dangerous now. If I don't contribute to Dashun, how can I see the governor in the future?"

Li Guo made up his mind to guard Fengxiang in person. Meng Qiaofang planned to make the Supervisor's emergency dispatch of troops to return to the rescue, which would take as soon as one month. Now that the Western Army has captured Longzhou, it is approaching Fengxiang. If Fengxiang's generals cannot unite against the enemy and think about protecting the city and surrendering to the west, Xi'an may not be able to wait for the main force of the Supervisor's return to the rescue. After thinking about it, he could only agree to Li Guo's trip to Fengxiang.

After Li Guo went to Fengxiang, Meng Qiaofang tried every means to piece together the troops and raise food and grass to deal with the biggest crisis since Xi'an's liberation. However, although there were more than 70,000 left-behind troops in Shaanxi, they were scattered everywhere. More than 10,000 troops from Yan'an General Li Yuanyin went east to Shanxi, and it was impossible to return to help from Shanxi for a while.

Wang Yongqiang, deputy general of Shenmu, was defeated by Li Dingguo of the Western Army. The remaining troops and horses were both high and low in combat power, and the armored rate was not high. The three reinforcements transferred to Fengxiang were already the only combat troops of the Shaanxi Shun Army. The Western Army came in full force and asked him to dispatch troops and generals wherever Meng Qiaofang was dispatched. At the moment, he had to be prepared to persevere and wait for the main force of the Eastern Expedition to return.

After Zhang Xianzhong arrived in Longzhou, he issued an edict to Xiaoshun Army, "After knowing the time of heaven, he led the people to come back, and he should make the remarks more and more. The descendants of the descendants will always enjoy wealth and honor. The generals and soldiers of his subordinates will be promoted and rewarded in succession. If they delay watching and do not accept the surrender early, the army will arrive, and they will regret it."

Most of the officials in the counties in Fengxiang Prefecture were surrendered to Qing officials. Now, seeing that the Western Army is in great power, the Shun Army retreats to Fengxiang. Because they are worried that the Western Army will break through the city and kill, most of the counties will open the city to welcome the Western Army. There are also Bai Tianjue, Ma De, Sun Shouquan, who have participated in the Hanzhong Conference, and other rebel generals who were appointed as officials in the Shun Army led their troops to surrender, which made Zhang Xianzhong more happy. He said to the two "Tianxue National Teachers" Li Liesi, who are from the West: "Two are disciples of God, and tell me whether I can be the emperor of China?"

Italians, Liliosi, actually did not understand the current situation in China, but saw that all Chinese soldiers and civilians in the places they passed by worshipped at the feet of the Emperor Daxi, so they admired: "The soldiers of the Great Western Region are strong, and the emperor will soon become the lord of China!"

The Portuguese An Wensi also agreed and took the opportunity to ask the Chinese emperor to give the Jesus missionary convenience in China.

Zhang Xianzhong laughed, but did not give a positive answer, but only asked Li Lisi. An Wensi quickly asked the church to collect more astronomy and science methods to come to China, and ordered the eunuch to give a hundred pieces of money to reward the Western King to give two national teachers of the Heavenly Studies.

Soon after, the front reported that Wang Ziqi, the governor of the rear army, and Ma Yuanli, the governor of the left army, had led his troops to Fengxiang City. The Shun army in the city stayed behind closed doors and was obviously afraid of war and fear of war.

"Tell me what I said to Fengxiang City and explain it to them. Now that our Daxi Army is in full swing, there are no one who can stop it. Don't think about staying in the city to defend, or surrender quickly. As long as you surrender, all civil and military officials, soldiers and civilians, whether they were originally from the former Ming Manchu or forced to surrender for the Shun Army, can be hired as the Daxi Office. But if you don't listen to your knowledge and don't know how to be treacherous, then don't blame me for getting angry. If you break the city and chop your head, you won't count, and your wife and children will be slaves!"

The success of the Eastern Expedition made Zhang Xianzhong full of energy, and he said to his side with emotion: "Tell you the truth, I took you to occupy Sichuan for two years, but the Sichuan people refused to really support me. They were not afraid of threatening them. I comforted them again and again, but they betrayed me again and again, which really made me very angry. So I didn't want to stay in Sichuan and wanted to fight back to Shaanxi."

After hearing Lao Wansui's words, the ministers on both sides felt that it was right and wrong, but no one dared to interrupt Lao Wansui's words at this time.

Zhang Xianzhong knocked his cigarette pipe again and said, "Chang'an is a good place. If you have Chang'an, the leader of the Central Plains will take charge of himself. Moreover, Guanzhong is my hometown, and most of my soldiers and soldiers are from Shaanxi. They are born in Qin, so if you want to do something big, you still have to do it! I can call him a yellow-haired boy to occupy such a good place! No!

So don’t say that I have no faith, I just accept a ruthless argument. If you have strong troops and strong territories, you will be like God. Whatever you say is! On the contrary, it is just a donkey egg, you will be like nothing you say!"
Chapter completed!