In Jiayu County, Zhang Xianzhong has been paying attention to the situation in Wuchang, waiting for Gao Huan to attack Wuchang, and waiting for the Liang army to suffer heavy losses in the siege.

However, judging from the news from Wuchang, Gao Huan was not in a hurry to attack, but only bombarded Wuchang City with cannons every day, as if he wanted to collapse the Wuchang city walls before launching an attack.

This made Zhang Xianzhong feel a little uneasy and felt that Gao Huan must have had some plans.

In the Western Army's tent, Zhang Xianzhong paced back and forth. He suddenly stopped and turned the railway with some excitement: "It's been half a month, and Gao Huan has not yet attacked the city. There must be some conspiracy."

Liu Wenxiu said: "Gao Huan's soldiers in Shandong and Hebei are almost destroyed, so he cannot be in a hurry. Now that he is not attacking Wuchang, he can only say that he has other plans. Could it be that he is hesitant and wants to withdraw his troops?"

Zhang Xianzhong glanced at everyone and asked, "What are your plans for Gao Huan?"

At this time, his face was a little pale, and Li Dingguodao sitting beside him: "Father! My son thinks there are only two possibilities. One is what Wen Xiu said. Gao Huan knew it was difficult to defeat his father, so hesitated and wanted to retreat! The second is that Gao Huan waited for Li Zicheng to send troops. Don't forget that Gao Huan and Li Zicheng are in the alliance of Lianheng."

When Zhang Xianzhong heard the words, his eyebrows raised and his face immediately looked ugly. "Gao Huan rushed towards Wuchang. It was impossible for him to retreat. It was probably because he invited the Shun Army! If Huang Lai'er sent troops to attack, the situation would be unfavorable to me."

Zhang Xianzhong naturally knew that Gao Huan and Li Zicheng were in alliance.

In fact, even if the two have no alliance, Zhang Xianzhong will be on guard against Li Zicheng.

Although Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng were both leaders of the civilian army and had fought side by side, both of them were domineering in character and did not obey each other, so they had already turned against each other.

After Zhang Xianzhong occupied Sichuan, he immediately sent troops north to fight against Li Zicheng's general He Zhen in Hanzhong. Last year, he even went out of Sichuan to attack Li Zicheng and seized Jingzhou from the Shun Army.

Even without Gao Huan, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng were in the same power.

This time Zhang Xianzhong and Gao Huan fought, so he was naturally wary of Li Zicheng, but this kind of warning was only to guard against the Shun Army in Xiangyang.

If Li Zicheng came to invade in a large scale, the situation would be bad.

Li Dingguo's words made Zhang Xianzhong uneasy, but there was nothing he could do.

Gao Huan's troops were approaching Wuchang, and Zhang Xianzhong could not get away at all. He could only order Ainengqi from Shu to strengthen his defense, while ordering Li Dingguo to go to Jingzhou and ordered the troops stationed in Jingmen to monitor Xiangyang, while he continued to stay in Jiayu to observe the situation of the war.

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It was June, and the weather in Huguang was hot, and the official roads were all white by the sun.

Because the weather was too hot, the soldiers of the Western Army did not practice, and many soldiers hid in the shade and escaped the summer heat with their bare hands.

At this time, the Western Army soldiers gathered together and the topics that could be discussed were apart from women, and there were some strange wars at present.

It has been a month since the Liang army arrived at the city of Wuchang, but there has been no attack. It has been bombardment all day long. I don’t know where the Liang army came from so much gunpowder.

The Western Army was stationed in Jiayu County, and they trained and strengthened the city defense all day, without any new moves.

There were obviously a large army gathering and the two armies were fighting, but time passed day by day, neither side launched an attack.

The soldiers of the Western Army were talking nonsense, saying that if they didn't fight again, they should harvest rice and bet on when the Liang army would attack Wuchang.

At this time, a Western Army school suddenly jumped up. Seeing this, many Western Army soldiers at the camp gate also stood up with their weapons and hurriedly followed the school to the camp gate.

On the road outside the camp, several cavalrymen galloped over. At first, everyone thought it was Liang's cavalry, but after a closer look, they found that it was their own people.

The cavalry galloped over, with horse hooves lit up, raised the dust, came to the camp gate and suddenly pinned the reins of the horse, shouting anxiously, "Going south by the army, the military situation is urgent!"

When the officer heard the words, he quickly opened the camp gate, and the cavalry flew off the horse and hurried to the imperial tent.

In the big tent, Zhang Xianzhong stood in front of the map, with his hands behind his back, "Have Gao Huan attacked the city yet?"

Liu Wenxiu shook her head, "It hasn't been attacked yet, and it still has a daily shelling, just like gunpowder is worthless!"

Zhang Xianzhong exclaimed his cheek, "Is there any news about Zheng Zhilong and the north side?"

Wang Zhaolin replied: "Report to Your Majesty, there is no news from the north. I don't know what to do. As for Zheng Zhilong, he is still the same, and only sent a few thousand troops to move in southern Jiangxi."

Zhang Xianzhong frowned, "What about Guanzhong? Is there any movement in Huang Lai'er?"

Wang Zhaolin said: "Scouts investigated and Shun Army was frequently mobilized, and I'm afraid they will go south in the near future!"

Zhang Xianzhong said annoyedly when he heard the words: "This Zheng Zhilong is short-sighted. If he dares to attack Gao Huan in a big way, I don't have to worry about Huang Lai'er at all!"

As he was talking, the curtain was lifted up, and a soldier rushed into the tent, knelt on one knee, and reported urgently, "Report to Your Majesty, Shun Army has gone south!"

When Zhang Xianzhong heard the words, he suddenly turned black.

He was waiting for Gao Huan to change behind him, but he didn't expect that the gentleman had changed behind him.

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Since last year, after the Liang army annexed Jiangxi, the Shun Army's attitude towards the increasingly powerful Liang army gradually changed, and it was in a trend of betraying the alliance and turning to the Northern Ming Dynasty.

Gao Huan took great pains to maintain the Liang Shun alliance and allow Li Zicheng to gain benefits.

The Liang State not only sold Li Zicheng a lot of cloth, porcelain, tea and fine iron at a lower price, so he asked Li Zicheng to be a second-hand dealer and sold it to the Mongolians, Tibetans, and Yarkands in the Western Regions at a lower price. He also humiliatedly agreed to the engagement of Li Zicheng's son and Gao Huan's daughter in the next few years, and the two families married.

Gao Huan invested money to maintain the Liangshun alliance, but Li Zicheng was still not very satisfied.

For Li Zicheng, he wanted more, wanted the world and the country's strength to grow, not just a little money.

Therefore, although Gao Huan tried his best to maintain it and gave Li Zicheng many benefits, Li Zicheng still did not help Gao Huan to restrain the Qing army this time.

The previous battles in Hedong made Li Zicheng know that he could not retake Hedong, and the soldiers of the Shun Army no longer wanted to go to Hedong to fight the Qing army.

Gao Huan obtained Huguang when he fought in the west, but Shunjun got nothing in Hedong.

Li Zicheng will not do such a thing anymore.

However, Li Zicheng happily accepted Gao Huan's suggestion that he would hunt Wuchang and divide Huguang this time.

Last year, after Li Zicheng fell in Hedong, he saw Gao Huan severely hit Zuo Zhen and Zuo Liangyu died of illness. He felt that there was an opportunity, so he ordered Li Guo to seize Wuchang and annex Huguang.

Originally, the Shun Army was progressing smoothly, and Zuo Menggeng was defeated, but who would have thought that the Western Army suddenly went out of Sichuan to attack Jingzhou, causing the Shun Army to be defeated in Huguang.

Now Gao Huan marched into Huguang to fight Zhang Xianzhong, and the rear of the Western Army was empty, so Li Ziben deliberately attacked behind the scenes. After receiving Gao Huan's letter, he naturally agreed immediately.

In order to avenge the revenge of Jingzhou, Li Zicheng planned to go to the expedition himself, but after the last attack, Li Zicheng's health was not good and it was difficult for him to lead the expedition in person.

At this time, Li Guo wanted to avenge the robbery of Jingzhou, so he volunteered. Li Zicheng thought for a long time, but finally agreed to let Li Guo take him to the war.

South of Xiangyang City, Yicheng County.

On the official road, the soldiers of the Shun army marched south in a mighty manner.

At this time, Li Guo was on the war horse, and Liu Zongmin was following him with a big sword, with flags like clouds and spears like forests behind him.

Li Guo slowly attacked the horse and said gritting his teeth: "Last year, the Western Army attacked the enemy, which led to the defeat of the Gu Wang. This time, the Gu Wang must have regained Jingzhou and avenged a revenge!"

Liu Zongmin rode a horse and laughed: "Don't worry, with me, Old Liu, I, will definitely defeat Zhang Xianzhong this time!"

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