Almost at the same time, Fan Ju of Shandong also got the news of the flooding of Kaifeng, and he immediately called his subordinates to discuss. 【Fengyun Reading Network. Please search for the product #Book Network to see the most complete update and the fastest

The leaders of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution first expressed their excitement, and Lao Huihui and others agreed that Li Zicheng flooded Kaifeng, and Henan would be invincible, and after occupying Henan, Li Zicheng would inevitably come to unite them and attack the capital together.

Fan Ju sneered when he heard this: "Do you think Li Zicheng will come to unite with us, you know, he has hundreds of thousands of horses, and he is sure that he will go north to take the capital, such a good thing, he will never let us get a piece of the pie." ”

Ge Li said: "Mr. really thinks so, Li Zicheng is not the kind of person who eats alone." ”

Fan Ju said: "If it was before, maybe it was really like what you said, but now, Li Zicheng already has the ambition to replace the Ming Dynasty as the emperor, everyone will enter the capital together, and you don't belong to his subordinates, how to reward him when the time comes, so he will never unite us." ”

Lao Hui replied: "Sir may not know Li Zicheng, he is well-known for his benevolence and righteousness in our righteous army, and he has united us many times before to attack the city and break the ground together. ”

Fan Ju sneered: "Since you believe him like this, let's stay in Shandong first, stabilize our territory, let's watch, if Li Zicheng really comes to unite, we will go north with him." If we don't come, we will take Shandong first, establish ourselves as kings, and not suffer losses. ”

When everyone heard this, they all applauded.

Li Zicheng raised troops in Luoyang for half a month, and his men and horses grew to 500,000 people, but he did not enter Hebei, but recruited talents in Henan and trained soldiers and grain.

Song Xiance introduced a strategist to Li Zicheng, this person's surname is Niu Jinxing, he is a fallen brother Xiucai, but he is very strategic, Song Xiance and he are old acquaintances, very good, so after the initial decision in Henan, he strongly recommended it to Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng sent someone with the handwritten letter of the military advisor to invite Niu Jinxing, Niu Jinxing saw the letter of his old friend Song Xiance, and immediately floated over, and sat down with Li Zicheng all night, saying that Li Zicheng was very happy, and praised: "You and Song Junshi are really my right-hand man." He immediately appointed Niu Jinxing as his deputy military division.

Niu Jinxing offered Li Zicheng a strategy, asking him to call himself the generalissimo in Luoyang, and give him a title, called the generalissimo of Fengtian and the righteousness of civil and military, and Luo Rucai was called the general of the people on behalf of the heavens. to win the hearts of the people.

Then in Luoyang, the military system was reformed, and the originally loose battalion-based troops were unified and reorganized, and their subordinates were designated as generals, which were divided into titles such as General Quan, General System, General Guoyi, Mighty General, and Guerrilla General.

Although this matter is not big, it is very important, marking that Li Zicheng's men and horses have changed from the original thieves and rabbles to a regular army with a strict hierarchy and a relationship between superiors and subordinates.

From then on, the peasant army began to have firearms battalions, superintendent battalions, and so on, just like the official army.

Li Zicheng is very happy, he now has Song Xiance, Niu Jinxing, unique vision, excellent strategy, martial arts Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu, Li Guo, Hao Shaoqi, Gao Yigong, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Fangliang, etc., brave and fierce. The men and horses are also getting stronger and stronger, so the prestige of the king is like the sky.

But in doing so, it caused the displeasure of another person. This person is Luo Rucai.

Since he led his men and horses to join forces with Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai also knew that his strength was not as good as Li Zicheng, so he had no intention of fighting for the boss of the coalition army, but in his mind, the two sides were still coalition forces, joining forces against the official army, and there was no relationship between superiors and subordinates. No matter how strong you Li Zicheng is, I will be on an equal footing with you.

Every time the city is beaten, the two sides set, the gold and silver treasures, cloth and grain and other materials in the city, Li Zicheng takes sixty percent, and Luo Ru only takes forty percent, because Li Zicheng has many people and horses, but there is no dispute, especially Li Zicheng is not greedy and lustful, so every time he plays a place, the beauties in the city generally belong to Luo Rucai. This made Luo Rucai feel very satisfied. Therefore, the cooperation between the two sides is quite close.

Take the defeat of Sun Chuanting last time, if it weren't for Luo Rucai's hard work, if he had always been greedy for money, he would have also thrown away all the property in the army, the outcome of the battle would probably be different.

But Li Zicheng's reform of the military system in Luoyang made him dissatisfied. Because one of the two is a generalissimo and the other is a general, they obviously have a relationship between the upper and lower levels, although Li Zicheng restructured in his own battalion and did not touch Luo Rucai, he was not happy.

Once when the two were drinking, Li Zicheng pretended to be drunk and smiled at him: "Cao Cao, we have so many men and horses, and it will not be long before we can completely occupy Henan and divide the land as the king, wouldn't it be a happy thing?"

Luo Rucai shook his head: "I'm waiting for me to be stubborn, lead the army of tigers and wolves, and run rampant all over the world, this is a very happy thing, stay in one place and be crowned king, what's so happy"

Li Zicheng didn't change on the surface, but he was already very unhappy in his heart. He sensed that the intentions of the two sides had diverged essentially.

It's just that for now, we can't part ways.

However, it was said that Sun Chuanting's side, since the excavation of the Yellow River, Kaifeng was submerged, Li Zicheng led his men and horses to leave Kaifeng, and when he arrived in Luoyang, the threat of Hebei was temporarily gone, but Sun Chuanting was not careless, and still trained wholeheartedly, preparing for another decisive battle with the peasant army.

In fact, Sun Chuanting also has a detailed work in the peasant army, and has been secretly passing on the news. The subtle changes between Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai have already been felt by Sun Chuanting.

His heart was moved, and he immediately found that strategist Gu Tong.

This person used to say that he would fall into the sky, he was very eloquent, he was a man of tongue, and Sun Chuanting also valued him very much, and he always took him with him.

Gu Tong saw Sun Chuanting, and after giving the salute, Sun Chuanting said: "Does Mr. know what I have to entrust him" Gu Tong smiled slightly: "It must be for the thief, recently I heard that the superintendent has been secretly sending people to inquire about the news of Luoyang, and at this time, call me here, don't you want to make a fuss between Li Luo and the two?"

Sun Chuanting laughed: "Sure enough, it's a unique vision." Mr. guessed right, since Li Zicheng called himself a generalissimo in Luoyang, there was a secret report that Luo Rucai was already dissatisfied, this is a great opportunity, because Li Zicheng is broad-minded and can tolerate people, once he feels this and appeases Luo Rucai, then there is no possibility of separation. Therefore, it is necessary for the gentleman to go and add a fire to them. ”

Gu Tong said: "This plan is good, but there is one point, the last time Wansheng said that the sky was falling, and he had already shown his face among the thieves, and he entered the thief camp again, once he knew me, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai would definitely be on guard." The big thing doesn't happen. ”

Sun Chuanting smiled: "This, I have already thought about it for Mr. Last time in the camp that shot the sky, Mr. saw very few people, and it is estimated that no one in Li Zicheng's camp will know you. As for the name identity?"

He picked up a piece of paper from the table and handed it over: "This is the new name and new identity of the gentleman, believe this, no one recognizes it." ”

Gu Tong looked at it and nodded: "The superintendent is really thoughtful. In that case, you can try it later. ”

Sun Chuanting said: "Okay, I have found a strange person for Mr. Jianghu, who can change your appearance slightly, and it is even more foolproof." ”

Gu Tong was overjoyed when he heard this, and Sun Chuanting prepared coils and horses for him, and sent someone to send him across the Yellow River and into Henan.

However, it is said that the Qin army in Guanzhong, in the past month, has been consolidating the defense of the territory, and each occupied county town has repaired the city wall and trained the people's army. The weapons were also basically complete, and each county town was defended by at least a thousand soldiers, so both Guanzhong and Hanzhong were stabilized.

When the king of Qin was rejoicing, he suddenly sent Wang Qian's letter from Jingbian, and the king of Qin heard that it was sent by Wang Qian, and he was secretly surprised, he was afraid that the Qing army in Liaodong would hit Jingbian again, although Wang Jian was able to withstand it, after all, Guanzhong had just stabilized at this time, and he did not want to start another war.

He opened the piece and looked at it, frowning slightly, but breathing a sigh of relief.

It turned out that in addition to Wang Qian's recital, there was also a letter of intent to unite, which was actually sent by the Manchu Emperor Huang Taiji.

The gist of the letter is to say that at this time, Huang Taiji is sending Dolgon as the commander to attack Jinzhou, and the Ming court sent Hong Chengchou to meet the battle, and the two sides fought for the first time, regardless of victory or defeat, because Wu Sangui and Cao Bianjiao, Zu Kuan and others' Guanning iron cavalry was very powerful, and Hong Chengchou's Tianxiong army was not weak, so the two sides began to stalemate.

At this time, Huang Taiji hoped to join forces with the Qin army, let the Qin army advance eastward, attack Shanxi, threaten the capital, and force Chongzhen to transfer back some troops from Liaodong to protect Beijing, so as to reduce the number of Liaodong official troops.

Huang Taiji wrote in the letter that as long as the Qin army agreed to join forces, enter Shanxi, put on a posture of taking Beijing directly, and forced Hong Chengchou to transfer troops to rescue him, the Qing army would send 30,000 war horses, 10,000 hard bows, and 100,000 taels of gold as a thank you gift.

In order to make the Qin army suspicious, he first sent envoys to send a thousand war horses, a thousand hard bows, and five thousand taels of gold.

This price is not low, especially the Qin army needs the most at the moment is war horses and gold silk, Wang Jian received the messenger's letter, naturally did not dare to call the shots, so he immediately quickly whipped the horse, sent to Xi'an, presented to the King of Qin, at the same time he attached a note, explaining some of the situation in Liaodong, and suggested that the King of Qin could secretly agree to this condition.

Regarding the matter of uniting the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the King of Qin had already stated that the Qin army wanted to seize the world, and it must not join forces with the barbarians, which would cause disgust and discourage the Han people in the Central Plains.

However, Wang Jian believes that at present, the Qin army will always attack Shanxi, and as for the war horse gold sent by the Qing State, it will not be collected in vain. Because even if you shouldn't, attacking Shanxi and coercing the capital is in a certain sense a coalition with the Qing army.

Wang Qian's words and the letters sent by the Qing people made King Qin fall into contemplation for a while.

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