At the same time as Wang Feng was pardoned, the Central Plains was full of smoke, first Zhang Xianzhong conquered Xiangyang, and then Gao Yingxiang reoccupied Nanyang, Shaanxi was even more chaotic, and there were uprisings everywhere, so that Hong Chengchou was exhausted.

Breaking through Fengyang and occupying Nanyang made Gao Yingxiang's name thunderous, and dozens of rebel armies of all sizes around him came to vote. Gao Yingxiang's department has also expanded from tens of thousands of people to 300,000 horses, which is a tenfold increase.

Of course, Gao Yingxiang will not forget the merits of his nephew, and the current Li Zicheng is a well-known figure in the rebel army, and the army even claims that he is a general.

Since the expansion of the ranks, although the scale has reached 300,000, Li Zicheng's heart is still very clear: These 300,000 people, excluding the old, weak, sick and disabled, less than 100,000 women and children can really go to the battlefield, and the equipment is poor, and the combat effectiveness is low, and it is difficult to compete with the officers and soldiers. If the rebel army wants to gain a firm foothold, it must have a strong army, so as soon as he arrived in Nanyang, Li Zicheng finally selected 15,000 people to form the so-called old battalion.

"You have to remember that you are all the best people I have selected from thousands of people, and if you don't want to shed blood in wartime, then you will give me a good drill!" Li Zicheng stood on the high platform and let out a deafening shout.

"Handsome!" Li Zicheng, who was standing on the high platform, looked at Gao Yingxiang who was standing at the gate, and hurriedly ran off the high platform.

"Well! good! good!" Gao Yingxiang's face was full of satisfaction, Li Zicheng's formation of the old battalion was also like Gao Yingxiang's request, and Gao Yingxiang didn't take it too seriously, but when he looked at this old battalion today, sure enough, his combat effectiveness and mental outlook were very different from those of other troops!

"Hongji! It would be nice if our righteous army could have a few more troops like Lao Ying, what kind of officers and soldiers are we afraid of!" Every time he thought of the days when he was driven around by Hong Chengchou's officers and soldiers, Gao Yingxiang felt a pain.

"Marshal, although the combat effectiveness of the old battalion is a little stronger than that of other rebels, there is still a big gap between it and the official army!" Li Zicheng is very sober, he understands very well that the current official army and the righteous army are always incomparable.

"Ben Shuai understands!" Gao Yingxiang suddenly stopped, turned around and patted Li Zicheng on the shoulder, "Hongji, you said that we have occupied Nanyang again, what do you think we should do next?"

"Great commander!" Li Zicheng pondered slightly, "the last general thinks that the biggest problem of our rebel army now is that it is not united enough, fighting everywhere, and there is no strong and unified leader. The officers and troops were mobilized and attacked in a unified manner under the command of the imperial court. We are easily broken by each of them, but. Li Zicheng clenched the fist in his hand and said, "If we unite into one fist, then it will not be so easy for the official army to easily defeat us!"

"Okay! great, Brother Li is right!" Liu Zongmin next to him kept cheering. Although he didn't understand it very well, he felt that all the rebel armies were under the command of one person, and that feeling was similar to that of the emperor!

Of course, Gao Yingxiang was also attracted by Li Zicheng's alliance, and the thought of millions of rebels obeying his command at that time made people excited to think about it. "Ben Shuai thinks Hongji, your opinion is good, mainly because I am afraid that Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai will not agree!" Gao Yingxiang of course wants to be the leader of the alliance, and he also understands that these two will definitely not let themselves be easily put on the throne.

"Dashuai, leave this matter to the end of the future!" Li Zicheng wanted Gao Yingxiang's words, of course he understood what Gao Yingxiang was worried about, but he was confident that he would convince this Zhang Xianzhong.

Xiaogan, since the capture of Xiangyang and the killing of King Xiang, this Zhang Xianzhong has become the biggest enemy of the Ming Dynasty. Xiong Wencan, the governor of Liangguang, Zuo Liangyu, the general soldier of Huguang, and other officers and soldiers from all over the country strangled Zhang Xianzhong everywhere, and under the strangulation of officers and soldiers from all walks of life, Zhang Xianzhong took the initiative to withdraw from Xiangyang and fled to Xiaogan.

"Dingguo, tell me about our casualties now. As soon as he settled down in Xiaogan, Zhang Xianzhong anxiously counted the casualties of the troops, for him, this army was his capital to survive in troubled times.

"Father, according to the statistics of various departments, there are less than 50,000 people in our army! Even 、、、、、、," Li Dingguo began to spit as he spoke.

"Even what?" Zhang Xianzhong's heart rose to his throat.

"Even my mother and younger brother were arrested by the official army!" Li Dingguo replied in a low voice.

"What!" Zhang Xianzhong slumped on the chair all of a sudden, this wife was arrested because she was young, the key is her son, that is her own son-in-law!

"What are you waiting for, the brothers hurry up with me to copy the guy and get my mother and brother back. Sun Kewang next to him quickly stood up and picked up his weapon and was about to rush out, followed by the other righteous sons.

"Stop, stop for me!" Zhang Xianzhong suddenly roared, although his son and wife were trapped in the enemy camp made him very sad, but he was not carried away by this, of course he knew that the reason why this official army had not executed them and his mother was to lure himself into the bait, and going at this time was nothing more than giving his life in vain.

"Father-in-law, father-shuai, you just let us go!" Sun Kewang and the others almost knelt down in unison.

"Don't go, whoever goes, don't call me handsome!" Zhang Xianzhong decisively refused. He would never risk his own army.

"Report to the marshal, Gao Yingxiang sent someone to ask to see the marshal!" Just as everyone in the lobby was deadlocked, a small colonel entered the hall and announced.

"Gao Yingxiang, what are they doing here, don't see it, hurry up and blast it away!" Sun Kewang was impatient and wanted to order the bombardment.

"Slow! let him come in and listen to what he has to say!" Although he didn't like Gao Yingxiang very much, Zhang Xianzhong knew that it was better not to offend this person at this time.

After a while, the little colonel led Li Zicheng into the lobby slowly, "The last general Li Zicheng participates in Zhang Dashuai, and the handsome is healthy!" Li Zicheng made a big salute to Zhang Xianzhong who was in the right position. Li Zicheng's gift made Zhang Xianzhong puzzled. Every time Gao Yingxiang sent someone, which one of them was not arrogant, but this time he was so polite that he couldn't accept this Zhang Xianzhong.

"What are you doing here? Do you have anything you want you to tell me?" Zhang Xianzhong kept pressing his scalp.

"Back to the marshal, my marshal sent me here this time just for one thing. Li Zicheng didn't beat around the bush and said directly, "My family marshal hopes to form an alliance with Zhang Dashuai." ”