Chapter 56 3.run away privately

After the Dingzhou War, the defeat of the Dashun Army became more obvious. On the way to retreat to Shanxi, more and more people fell behind day by day. The generals also showed fear, thinking that the Manchurian braided soldiers were invincible. Li Yan was injured by the arrow, but it wasn't serious, because he was wearing a soft waistcoat, and the arrow hit his arm. Although the arrow penetrated through the soft armor, it didn't go deep into the flesh. , After bandaging, except for slight pain, there is no major obstruction, but the pain in my heart is worse than the pain in my body.

Song Xiance originally followed the imperial camp ahead, but when he heard that Li Yan was injured, he stayed by the roadside to wait for him. The red lady was worried about her husband who was moaning all day long, and she was very happy to see Song Xiance.Since the defeat at Shanhaiguan, everyone in the Dashun army has been downcast, only this dwarf has not changed his original intention, and is still smiling all day long.Therefore, when the red lady saw Song Xiance, she was very happy, and thought that the short man was a good antidote, and her husband might feel more relaxed when he was with him.So, the three of them walked side by side, and the red lady started first, talking about the current battle:

"Military commander, for some reason, the current battle is becoming more and more useless. More than 50,000 people are being chased by more than 30,000 people like ducks. This has never happened before. If it weren't for your words Wake them up, and the ending will be even worse." Facing women, the cynical Song Xiance could only be serious, shook his head and said, "It's not what it used to be. At that time, I was a soldier with no worries, but now it's different. Who doesn't have yellow and white things? Some People still have a lot of money, so they give up their lives rather than their money."

The red lady said: "These people, why can't they figure it out, they value money so much, and they take ten thousand steps back and say that if they really conquered the world, aren't these things all yours? Why are you fighting for this moment?" Song Xiance smiled, and suddenly said: "Shuai Hong is a person who has seen a lot of things in the world. Tell me, who in the world is most likely to die from swelling?" It's been a long time since Hong Niangzi saw the military advisor. Facing the situation where the Dashun army was defeated like a mountain, she was anxious and wanted to have a serious chat with him. She didn't want the short man to talk about him. I had no choice but to look back at my husband with a smile and say:

"The military division is no longer serious." But Song Xiance said solemnly: "How does Commander Hong know that Shanren's words are not serious? Let me tell you, the person who is most likely to suffocate to death is the person who has been hungry the longest. Poor and hungry? The poet Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty was like this. He floated to Leiyang in a small boat and ran out of food. Lao Du, who was dizzy, ate a full meal, and as a result, a generation of poets swelled to death on the boat. Alas, this kind of person has been hungry all his life, and in the end he has become a stuffed ghost, and it’s worth it.”

The red lady couldn't help but glared at him and said, "Old Song, you are so mean, you should starve to death." Li Yanyu said mockingly: "This kind of person can't starve to death." The red lady asked puzzledly, "Why don't you starve to death?" Li Yan said: "In these years, he wandered around the rivers and lakes. He had no tiles to cover his body, no place to stand on the ground, a gourd hanging from his waist, and he talked about Yin and Yang. With just one mouth, he can support one person. As long as he is full, the whole family You can’t even starve to death. Tell me, with this mouth, where can he not be full?”

The red lady forced a smile when she heard what her husband said, but said: "He is really like that, but what about everyone?" As soon as everyone was mentioned, Li Yan couldn't help but sighed heavily.Song Xiance heard Li Yan sigh, but turned to him and said, "Ren Zhi, why are you sighing?" Li Yan shook his head and said with a wry smile: "It's nothing, it's nothing, I'm hurt..." Song Xiance lit up a pair of cunning little eyes, and said with a smile, "It's not a pain, it's a heartache." Li Yan said: "You are not the roundworm in my stomach, how do you know what is in my heart?"

Song Xiance said: "Not only do I know your heartache, but I also know that you have other plans." Li Yan couldn't help but glanced at him, neither saying yes nor no.Song Xiance finally became serious, and he said: "Didn't Shanren tell you before that things in the world are changing all the time, and others can't force it. If you sigh for him and feel sad for him, he may not I will seriously reflect on it, or what Emperor Wu of Liang said is good, if you gain it, you lose it, so why hate it.” Li Yan said: "If at the beginning of the year he could accept your suggestion and mine, if in Juyongguan..."

Before finishing speaking, Song Xiance interrupted impatiently, saying: "Facts have no assumptions, good fortune cannot be reversed; why experience is valuable is because once experience is obtained, opportunities are often gone. If things in the world follow your assumptions Go on, is it over yet?" Li Yan was robbed by him, and his heart was completely disheartened. He sat on the horse, lazily, and let out long sighs. Song Xiance saw it in his eyes and said, "Ren Zhi, forget it, why don't you talk about your albeit?" Li Yan said inexplicably: "What do I have but?"

Song Xiance lit up his cunning little eyes again, looked at Li Yan and said: "With your ambitions and talents, you should have your own ideas. The so-called mountains and rivers have no way out, and there is another village where the willows are dark and the flowers are bright." Li Yan's heart moved, but he didn't make a sound.Song Xiance said leisurely again: "Yesterday, it was reported that Shi Kefa, Minister of the Ministry of War of the Southern Ming Dynasty, sent people to recruit people to surrender. Dong Xueli, the third-rank general Dong Xueli, who was dispatched by the Dashun Army to Shandong, had already been recruited by Nanming. Take the opportunity to raise troops to fight against the Dashun army, they killed the officials we sent there, and declared their allegiance to Nanming, Henan is your hometown."

Li Yan didn't respond, but his eyes were bleak—whether he had no ideas, why didn't he miss his homeland, and was still in Beijing. When Li Zicheng asked him the time at the end, he thought of Henan, which was a strategic place. Back then, Dashun The army was embarrassed everywhere in Shaanxi, and it was only after entering Henan that it flourished.Right now Li Zicheng wants to manage Guanzhong, use it as a base, and seek a comeback. Then, if he wants to defend Shaanxi, he must first defend Henan. Based on his familiarity with the situation there, if he returns to Henan, he will really enter the sea.But he didn't say it at that time, because he knew that Li Zicheng had already had a prejudice against him, and the generals of the Dashun Army were wary of each other, so he had to be cautious. Song Xiance also said: "Henan and Shaanxi are adjacent. Henan is not guaranteed, and Tongguan is in danger. How can you talk about running Guanzhong? This is a dignified reason to get out." Li Yan saw that the guards on the left and right were far away from them, and there was only a red lady beside him, so he said, "Since you have seen it, why don't you give me a hand?" Song Xiance thought for a while, and said: "You, what you should guard against, you don't. I reminded you many times before that it is better for you to speak less, but you always ignore it. Now people are too concerned about you, so you can't No matter how obsessed you are, fortunately you are injured now, so you might as well take this opportunity to ask for leave these days, and wait for a while before talking.” Li Yan then nodded repeatedly. It was not until entering Shanxi that Li Zicheng breathed a sigh of relief.I didn't want to settle down for a few days, and there were endless reports of bad news from the police. First, Jiang Yu, who was guarding Datong, rebelled, and killed Han Wenquan, the Jiedu envoy of the Dashun Army in Datong, and surrendered Dorgon; Then, it turned against Daizhou again.These two places were not guarded, and the gates in the north of Shanxi were opened. At this time, the old Ming officials from the prefectures and counties near Taiyuan: Yuci, Taigu, Dingxiang and other places took the opportunity to raise troops, responded to Jiang Guan, killed the local officials of the Dashun Army, and some fled. The local tyrants and gentry who went to the deep mountains also organized regiments to fight against the Dashun army. Li Zicheng and all the civil and military soldiers in Taiyuan had not yet had a good rest, and the alarm was frequent, and they were in a hurry. Liu Zongmin's injuries gradually recovered, and he led troops to attack the rebellion around Taiyuan. Li Zicheng just took a breath, but received a secret report from Tian Jianxiu, a general who stayed in Chang'an, saying that after Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan, he sent troops north to attack Hanzhong, and the Qing Dynasty The soldiers gathered in the north again, and it was possible to attack northern Shaanxi from Ordos, Inner Mongolia. Li Zicheng looked at these warnings, afraid that his hometown would be lost, so he left Chen Yongfu, a former Ming general, to guard Taiyuan, and stationed himself in Hancheng, Shaanxi, preparing to withdraw the main force to Shaanxi as well. On this day, he received two more secret reports. One said that after Emperor Chongzhen's cousin Fu Wang was killed in Luoyang, his son and second generation Fu Wang Zhu Yousong had fled south to Nanjing, where he was killed by an old Ming official. He was established as the emperor, and the next year was changed to the first year of Hongguang. Shi Kefa, Minister of the Ministry of War of the Hongguang Dynasty, wanted to restore the old Chengtian and Xiangyang prefectures of the Ming Dynasty, but Zuo Liangyu, who supervised Wuchang, urged him to move closer to these two places, showing signs of attacking; Fen is still talking about Henan's affairs—since Chen Qianfu and Liu Hong raised their troops, the remnants of power in Henan Province have revived, just like the anti-Ming Dynasty at the beginning, and now they are rebelling against Dashun one after another. One, if no reinforcements are sent, the Central Plains may not be owned by Dashun. Li Zicheng felt depressed when he saw these two secret performances. At this time, Song Xiance was beside him. Seeing the cold face of the emperor, Song Xiance asked why, and Li Zicheng held the secret in his hand. Zou put it in Song Xiance's arms and murmured: "Henan, Henan can't be lost." Song Xiance finished reading the secret memorial in a hurry, and said: "The emperor is very worried. The Central Plains is located in the center and extends in all directions. Anyone who wants to fight for the world must first control the Central Plains; and the three prefectures of Zhangde, Weihui, and Huaiqing in northern Henan are not only It is even more important to guard the south of Shanxi, and Luoyang and Tongguan in the south, if Henan is not protected, not only Shanxi will be more dangerous, but Guanzhong will also be difficult to defend." Li Zicheng sighed and said: "In both Shandong and Henan, I have sent officials to guard them. I didn't expect that after they went, not only failed to appease the people, recruited exiles, and served the court, but they couldn't even defend the homeland. In just one month, the situation has turned around." Song Xiance said: "The officials sent to these two places before are just a group of demoted officials and generals. Some of them are similar to Jiang Guan, greedy for wealth and honor, and ignorant of righteousness; Your Majesty entrusts you with earnest entrustment." Li Zicheng sighed and said: "Jiang Yu's rebellion, Li Renzhi has already reminded him that he is unreliable, but unfortunately I didn't accept it, just say this Henan, I saw him hesitant to speak that time, it's only my fault that I didn't follow up to ask go down." Song Xiance took the opportunity to say: "Li Renzhi is currently recovering from his injuries in Pingyang, why don't the emperor summon Ren Zhi and listen to his opinion." Li Zicheng said: "I also miss him very much. It's just that before this, he made several suggestions, but I didn't accept them. Maybe I felt resentful. I don't know if I'm willing to come this time? I have to go and persuade him, the military commander." Song Xiance said: "Ren Zhi has always been loyal to the emperor, how could he care about such a small matter, I will go to pass on the emperor's order and summon him." Li Zicheng nodded again and again, so Song Xiance went to Pingyang excitedly. After Li Yan retreated to Shanxi from Zhending, he was ordered to lead his troops to temporarily station in Pingyang. Dashun's army was defeated one after another.Before this, if Shanxi, Henan and other places could be protected, Guanzhong was the backing, and they could still deal with the Qing soldiers. There are castles in the air, and after thinking about it, Li Yan really lives like a year in Pingyang. At this moment, his friend Song Xiance came. "Ren Zhi, look, Shanren has brought you good news." Song Xiance first congratulated him when they met. What Li Yan wanted to see at this time was Song Xiance.In the past few days, he has secretly made up his mind and discussed it with Hong Niangzi. Even if the emperor refuses to agree, he is going to lead his troops back to Henan privately.But this idea is a bit risky. First, if you leave, others will regard it as an unjust act to run away from the master; Soldiers, there are only three to five thousand troops, going to Henan, they are weak; third, if the news leaks, the emperor sends people to chase or intercept him, he will not be able to deal with it, he will not be able to fight, and he will not be able to escape.With these three points, Hong Niangzi persuaded him to listen to Song Xiance's idea. Unfortunately, at this moment, Song Xiance came in person.Seeing that Li Yan was still in a daze, Song Xiance said, "Don't you plan to go back to your hometown? Right now, it's up to you." Hearing this, Li Yan couldn't help bowing deeply to Song Xiance, and said: "Thank God, the emperor finally agreed to let me go back to Henan. Without my brother's help, I wouldn't be here today. I really should thank you very much." Song Xiance said: "How can Shanren have such a big face? It's because of Chen Qianfu and Liu Hongqi." Li Yan hurriedly asked why, and Song Xiance told him the details, saying: "If Chen Qianfu and Liu Hongqi hadn't made such a fuss, how could that person think of you? Now he told me himself that he really wants to see you, And it revealed the intention of asking you to go to Henan to clean up the mess. The so-called good general who thinks about the country's chaos, you go to see him this time, as long as you fulfill the purpose, you will definitely get your wish." The red lady was also very happy at the side, she said: "No matter what, I still want to help the military adviser. I really don't know how to thank you." Song Xiance said with a smile: "Really, you Red Commander wants to thank Shanren, and Shanren really wants it, it depends on whether you agree or not?" The red lady looked at her husband and smiled and said, "Look at him, he really hits his face with his nose straight. Well, tell me, what kind of gift do you want?" Song Xiance looked at Li Yan's feet and said: "The mountain man has been wandering all his life, and he has never talked about his daughter-in-law. The makeup man's shoes will never be worn in this life. The boots issued by the army are hard and stupid. The mountain man wears them. After the boots, the feet became more and more uncontrollable, so the other Shanren didn't want to, but just wanted Hongshuai to make a pair of cloth shoes for the Shanren himself, just like the ones Ren Zhiyan is wearing now. But don’t be too particular.” The red lady couldn't help but grinned, and said, "Just for this, I thought you wanted the horn on the head of the rhinoceros, the teeth in the mouth of the elephant, and a pair of shoes would be a piece of cake." After saying that, Song Xiance asked Song Xiance to take off his shoes, measure the size, and said: "I'm idle for the past few days, and within three days, I will ask the military commander to have new shoes to wear." After talking about one side and then the other, Song Xiance suddenly stopped his smile and said, "However, Renzhi, don't be too happy too soon. The Shanren have just said that this is the 'Zou Symmetry Purpose'. You know, that He is a double material Cao Cao, he was very suspicious at first, and things are not going his way recently, and his temper is even worse, you have to pay attention when playing the right words, and only pick what he likes to hear, don't be like usual, let me stand by for you Be wary." Hearing what Song Xiance said, the red lady couldn't help feeling more concerned, and said: "Yes, Renzhi, you have already offended the emperor, otherwise he would not let you sit on the bench, this time you have to believe Military division, don't be ignorant, otherwise, you don't want to go." Li Yansheng was afraid that his wife would stop him, so he hurriedly said: "If the emperor asks, I will just give my opinion on the current situation; if I don't ask, I won't tell, how can I be ignorant?" The red lady is in a dilemma at this time. She is afraid that her husband will have an accident because she loves her husband so much, and she doesn't want him to give up this opportunity. She also sees that Li Yan's temper will offend others sooner or later. Staying here will only lead to death, so I turned around and said to Song Xiance: "Military division, I have entrusted this person to you. You must ensure that he goes and comes back whole." Song Xiance said: "Of course, if there is an accident with Ren Zhi, what face does Shan Ren have to say goodbye to handsome Hong?"