"What if Xu Shirou still refuses to send troops?" Cao Yingqiu was very worried. Although he didn't know much about Xu Shirou, he knew the nature of civil servants in the Ming Dynasty. With these small profits, he probably wouldn't impress these civil servants who were greedy for life and fear of death.

"I can't persuade him to send troops." Deng Yan's voice revealed fatigue, "Then you don't have to worry about it, you can go back to Sichuan by yourself. I will take you out of Sichuan, but I have no ability to bring you all back safely,

I am incompetent. You can go back by yourself, and you can count on each one if you can go back."

"Sir." Cao Yingqiu never expected that the answer he got was like this. He felt sad for a moment. He thought about the time when he and Yang Yuchun followed him to fight all the way south and north, fighting She'an, fighting the Tartars, and piercing the holes with virtue.

, Adults have always been confident and full of vigor. Have you ever been so powerless? Until I met the Pei family army in this small mountain, the situation was lost.

"Okay, stop talking, you go down the mountain now."

"Sir, I will definitely come back." Cao Yingqiu wiped his wet eyes dry and said firmly, then turned around and hid into the night.

Deng Yan looked at Cao Yingqiu's leaving figure and watched for a long time, like a statue.

The next day, Pei Xiaoer did not attack rashly like Wang Daozhi, but instead ordered the army to repair it at the foot of the mountain. At the same time, he specially sent people to transfer all the food and supplies in Nanzhao City, which had been captured, to look like he was preparing to fight a protracted war.

At the same time, the Central Plains once again surging.

Li Zicheng's long attack on Kaifeng was not over, and the army suffered heavy losses, so he had the idea of ​​diverting it. So he formally ordered his departure from Kaifeng on May 14th, 193 days ago, on May 14th, the sixth year of Chongzhen.

Most of the army under Li Zicheng was surrounded by young and strong men, and the bandits who defected to him from all over the country. The loyalty and military qualities of these people can be imagined. As soon as Li Zicheng's order to retreat, almost everyone fled, all over the mountains and fields.

It was Li Zicheng's retreating soldier.

Li Zicheng felt that the situation was not good, but he was powerless to do anything about it. All he could control now was the 18,000 veterans who had been taking it out of Shaanxi, passing through Shanxi, Northern Zhili, and finally came to Henan. As for the rest

It was only nominally affiliated with him. In fact, if it weren't for the banner of undertaking him, the group of people would have run away long ago.

Li Zicheng's intuition was very accurate. When the camp broke into chaos, Lu Xiangsheng, Cao Wenzhao, Zuo Liangyu, and Wang Pu, the general of the Beijing camp who had been wandering outside Kaifeng, quickly became this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

They were already eager to try, and then they gave orders and rushed straight towards the camp from the west, north and east directions.

The soldiers who broke into the camp will have no fighting spirit and no ambition to die, and will be easily attacked by the officers and soldiers. The officers and soldiers are like tigers entering a flock of sheep, with almost no one in the front. Wherever the army passes, the soldiers who broke into the camp will be among the soldiers.

The only remaining people who dared to fight to the death were all killed in battle, and the rest were mostly surrendered except for the lucky escape.

The incest-profile attacker Li Zicheng was beaten back to his original form in just two days. If Li Zicheng had not seen the situation was not good and had slipped away from his feet, he might have become a prisoner for officers and soldiers at this time.

After escaping, Li Zicheng had no way to go and discussed with his generals such as Liu Minzong for a long time. The situation in the world is that the officials and soldiers of the court are strong, and they beat the rebels to cry and cry for their parents. The rebels could not stay in the north and went south to seek a way out.

He broke into Li Zicheng, now he could not survive in the north, and could only join the army south and shine in the south of the Ming Dynasty.

May 21.

At the gate of Nanyang Prefecture's yamen, a strong man kneeled weakly at the yamen. His lips had already turned white and cracked due to lack of water. His strong body could not hold on and shake, and he remained motionless for a long time.

, and his body was sore and numb, his consciousness began to blur, and the images in his eyes began to appear.

It was Cao Yingqiu, who had been kneeling at the Nanyang Prefecture Office for three days and three nights. However, even so, he had not even seen the prefect Xu Shirou, let alone tell him what he wanted and the meager conditions he could put forward.

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The yamen runners on duty at the yamen turned a deaf ear to all this, as if they could not see such a person at all. On the street, pedestrians passed by the yamen from time to time, and they all looked at Cao Yingqiu in surprise. The news of Deng Qi's army's defeat had already spread throughout Nanyang Prefecture.

, At this sensitive time, no one dared to say a word and left in a hurry.

In the back house of the yamen, Xu Shirou, the governor of Nanyang, sat in a side hall, handling the documents, and called various yamen runners from time to time. The officials came to ask. After a while, maybe he was tired, Xu Shirou put down the official documents in her hand and rubbed her eyes.

, sighed:

"After all, I'm still old. I remember that I could handle official documents, even if I didn't sleep for three days and three nights. It's only been so long now that I've got a sore back and a split headache. It's really useless."

As he said that, Xu Shirou picked up the tea on the side with just the right temperature, gently swept off the foam on the tea with the lid, then blew it back to her mouth, took a sip, and then put it down, "It's a bit thick,

But it is also great to use for refreshing your mind." He looked at the old servant standing beside him and asked, "Why, that man is still kneeling at the door?"

"Go back to Master, that's right. Cao Yingqiu is still kneeling at the yamen. Calculate the time. It's been three days and three nights now." The old servant bowed and replied.

Xu Shirou sighed, "I didn't expect that this thief with Pei was so powerful. The Sichuan Army has been fighting a lot of wars over the years, and its ability is not weak. I didn't expect that more than 20,000 troops were beaten by Pei Ni in one round.

Even Deng Yan is in danger of losing his virility and being captured, it is really..."

Speaking of this, Xu Shirou didn't say anything more, but instead she sighed. Then she thought of Cao Yingqiu, who had been kneeling at the yamen for a long time, and said a little annoyed: "I don't know what Deng Yan thinks, he has been defeated and surrounded.

, he actually wanted me, Nanyang people to rescue him. He didn't think about what if my Nanyang troops left the city and were taken by thieves, attacking Nanyang?"

The old servant dared not speak, and his bowed waist bent even lower.

"I, Xu Shirou, have been highly favored by the court. Xu, as the prefect of Nanyang, wanted me to guard the countryside, instead of letting me rashly leave the palace and attack various places like a martial artist. Wouldn't that let the court down? So this soldier is so invincible?

I must never leave." Xu Shirou said to herself, as if she wanted to convince herself and give her conscience a temporary peace.

Speaking of this, I thought of Cao Yingqiu, who was kneeling at the yamen, and became more and more annoyed. I had no idea of ​​correcting official documents. I stood up and walked in the room, and cursed from time to time: "This Cao Yingqiu is really ignorant, I just think about it."

Their Sichuan Army was not considered by Nanyang Prefecture, and they knelt at the yamen to whom were they going to show me? Where should I place all officials in Nanyang? I think this person who calls himself Cao Yingqiu must be Pei Ni faked it, just to deceive me

Send troops so that they can take advantage of it.”

The more Xu Shirou thought about it, the more likely it was, he immediately ordered the old servant beside him: "Go and inform the third yamen runners to take me the thief who claimed to be Cao Yingqiu, and torture him strictly, and ask who he sent him.

, be sure to ask the person behind him."

"Yes." The old servant knew that his master was angry and did not dare to neglect it. He hurriedly left to look for the yamen runners.

But Cao Yingqiu is a tiger general after all, and there are a few weak yamen runners who can control it? After a while, the old servant walked back quickly and said to Xu Shiju: "Master, the thief resisted arrest and injured three people.

The yamen run fled on his own."

"I just said, this person was indeed sent by a thief, otherwise why would he resist arrest?" Unexpectedly, Xu Shirou was not only not angry, but instead slapped the table and said happily.

Cao Yingqiu's escape was equivalent to directly making it true that he was not sent by Deng Qi, but a thief who was treacherously stole the city. In this way, Nanyang Prefecture naturally did not need to send troops. Not only did he not need to go out of the city, but he identified the thief's "treacherously stunt". How could he do it?

A small achievement.

From beginning to end, no other officials of Nanyang Prefecture asked about Cao Yingqiu.

Deng Qi led the remaining people to persevere in Shaoqiuling. The food they had already eaten up from the mountain village, so they dug grass roots and bark to fill their stomachs. When they were thirsty, they drank mountain spring water. During this period, the Pei family army persuaded the surrender to surrender and walked halfway up the mountain on time every night.

The mountain called out and persuaded the surrender, and pulled out the captured Sichuan army, asking them to show up and tell the Sichuan army on the mountain that the Pei family army had never abused the prisoners, and that as long as they went down the mountain, there would be food for food.

Finally, after ten days of persistence, the entire Sichuan army's morale completely collapsed. On the second day of June, there was an internal strife between the Sichuan army on the top of the mountain. Deng Qi committed suicide and all the remaining Sichuan army surrendered. This army that had been active for more than ten years dissipated into the wheel of history.
Chapter completed!