Without the people, there would be no guides, no eyes and ears, so the peasant army encountered more and more encirclement and suppression by the officials and troops, and almost everywhere ran into a wall. [Full text reading. 】

On this day, several palms got together to discuss and decided to leave Sichuan and return to Henan.

At present, the leaders of the peasant army are all here, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Liu Guoneng, Lao Huihui, there are nearly 200,000 men and horses under his command, and it is difficult to hide the eyes of the officials and soldiers from such a large army. So the people began to divide their forces again.

Li Zicheng is in his own team, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai are in the first team, Liu Guoneng and Lao Huihui are together, and the three groups of people are separated, preparing to return to Henan again and open up the situation. After all, they have been in Henan for a few years and are very familiar with it.

The three teams of men and horses split their ways, the destination was Henan, and soon Xiong Wencan got the report, after he listened, he smiled coldly, and ordered the people and horses of Sichuan to pursue in the rear, not to intercept head-on.

Xiong Wencan knew very well that the peasant army would not stay in Sichuan for a long time, and would definitely return to Henan, and at this time, Hong Chengchou was waiting there, Zuo Liangyu, Cao Bianjiao and other fierce generals had already sharpened their knives and waited for the heads of the people who were in charge of the plate, so he could let the peasant army go back to Henan.

Along the way, the peasant army only pursued, but was not intercepted, so the march was very fast, and on the seventh day, Li Zicheng and others entered Henan.

As soon as they entered Henan, the Sichuan army behind them no longer came to chase after them, and they collected their troops and went home with peace of mind.

Li Zicheng and the others breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the land of Henan, and the dark clouds in their hearts finally dissipated.

But they were greeted by a storm that followed.

The first unlucky one was Zhang Xianzhong.

On this day, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai came to a town, called Wu Huiji, the people here did not expect the peasant army to come suddenly, and when they found out, it was too late, the set was surrounded, the people could not escape, after the peasant army came in, in order to vent their grievances for many days, they were extremely ruthless and slaughtered the entire town.

In the midst of blood and fire, killing and screams, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai rode into the house of a wealthy man who was already in a different place, and no one in the family was spared.

The two sat in the living room, greeted several of their generals, and their own soldiers brought wine and food, and pushed the cup to change it.

As he was drinking, he suddenly heard a dull thunder in the distance.

Strange thing, just entered February, how could there be thunder?

Everyone put down their wine glasses, stood up and listened, the thunder became louder and closer, and after a while, they saw that the table trembled slightly, and the wine glasses on it also trembled violently.

Zhang Xianzhong was the first to react, and he shouted: "There are officers and soldiers ......"

Everyone flew on their horses and ran out of the town to take a look, not far away, there were thousands of cavalry, their helmets reflected black light, and their sabers burst out with cold light, and they had already begun to rush and kill.

At this time, the peasant army was still robbing houses and houses, collecting money, and they were not in formation at all, so Zhang Xianzhong hurriedly ordered to blow the horn and ring the gong to prepare for war.

But it was too late, and the officers and soldiers had already rushed to the outside of the town, facing a large flag, fluttering in the wind, with a big "left" character on it.

It's Zuo Liangyu!

Zhang Xianzhong shouted, returned to the horse and left.

Trumpets and gongs sounded among the peasant army, and everyone looked at each other in astonishment, but they were not stunned for long before they saw countless officers and cavalry, already rushing into the town.

Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai led the assembled men and horses to resist desperately.

However, these horses were caught off guard and had not yet formed a battle formation, so they were led by Zuo Liangyu with cavalry and dispersed in a rush.

Zhang Xianzhong has always been afraid of Zuo Liangyu, but when he saw his banner at this time, he was so frightened that he didn't care about greeting the people scattered in the town, and only fled with dozens of pro-army generals. His adopted son Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang protected him and blocked the officers and soldiers chasing behind.

Tens of thousands of peasant troops were slaughtered and scattered.

Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai fled separately, and finally escaped with their lives, and gathered people again, but just gathered more than 20,000 people, Zuo Liangyu chased after them again. Zhang Xianzhong suffered another big defeat, three defeats in a row, and only a few thousand people remained, and fled into the mountains near Nanyang.

Immediately afterwards, several other peasant armies were also defeated by the local official army, Liu Guoneng and Lao Huihui were also scattered, and Liu Guoneng led more than 2,000 people to flee back to Huguang and burrow into the ravine. The old Hui tribe also suffered heavy losses and fled east into Anhui.

can still fight against the official army, only Li Zicheng's army remains.

Since entering Henan, Li Zicheng immediately united several small peasant armies that had been in Henan, where there were people such as Chaotian, Guotianxing, Mantianxing, Zhongdouxing, etc., forming an army of about 100,000 people.

Li Zicheng's mind saved himself and his people.

Among this coalition army, led by Li Zicheng, this is the first time Li Zicheng has led such a large army, and he knows very well that Hong Chengchou, who has been focusing on guarding against him in Henan, is his biggest enemy, so he ordered all his subordinates not to disperse, and several coalition forces have always gathered within a radius of fifty miles, echoing back and forth, never leaving alone, and not giving the officers and troops a chance to break through.

In this way, Hong Chengchou, who was following behind, frowned, gritted his teeth with hatred, but he never found a chance, he had less than 20,000 men under him, Zuo Liangyu, Cao Bianjiao and other fierce generals had been sent out, chasing Zhang Xianzhong and others separately, and they couldn't get it back for a while, and even if they were taken back, the whole army would only have more than 30,000 people together, and there would be insufficient troops to deal with Li Zicheng's 100,000 army.

So Hong Chengchou had to follow from afar, fighting a small battle from time to time, and then killing zero and cutting off the tail, giving an explanation to the court.

He fought more than a dozen battles in a row, all of which were like this, and every time the Tang newspaper came up, it was a small success, but no great success, which made the officials of the DPRK and China make fun of him one after another, and gave him a nickname, called "going back and forth to Hongzhitai".

For such ridicule and sarcasm, Hong Chengchou didn't take it to heart at all, he was just patiently waiting for the opportunity to come.

In a blink of an eye, it came to the end of February of the eighth year of Chongzhen, the weather has begun to warm, spring has arrived, the land of the Central Plains has shown a little vitality, the trees in the wild have pulled out young leaves, the grass is also covered with green buds, the river ice has been dissolved, and everything has recovered.

But the people are still living in dire straits.

Chongzhen's salary made the people of the Central Plains miserable. In addition to the increase in salaries, the officers and soldiers also went around arresting Ding, and many strong laborers were taken away as soldiers, and as a result, the land that was not cultivated by anyone was even more barren.

Many places have become white bones in the wilderness, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles.

However, such a situation was also very difficult for the peasant army, because it was not easy to collect food, and the other had no guide and did not know the surrounding situation, so it was very inconvenient to march and camp.

Li Zicheng was very distressed.

On this day, the brigade came to Xiangcheng, and after camping, Li Zicheng instructed to find the palms of several battalions, and everyone discussed where to go next.

After a while, everyone arrived, including several generals under Li Zicheng.

Hao Shaoqi was the first to come, he had just arrived in the army, so he did not want to be regarded as a defeated general who came to defect in a corner, and every time he fought, he would inevitably strive to be the first.

Li Zicheng's old camp was camped by a river, and Li Zicheng was washing his feet in the river at this time, with more than a dozen chairs and bamboo benches around him.

Hao Shaoqi saw Li Zicheng and shouted, "Brother Li, is the water cold?" ”

When he was in Gao Yingxiang's army before, he called Li Zi to become Brother Li, and he didn't change his words at this time.

Li Zicheng saw that it was him, and smiled: "When I first entered the water, I had a little ice feet, just wash it once." ”

Hao Shaoqi came to the river, next to Li Zicheng, sat on a stone by the river, and also took off his boots and socks and said: "I also came to wash, these days in addition to the march, that is, the march, the feet have long been stinky for ten miles, and if you don't wash, you will not be able to sit around for a while." ”

The two laughed a few times, and Li Zicheng asked with concern: "Wave the flag, it's been a little bitter in recent days, and there is some resentment in the team." ”

Hao Shaoqi's men and horses were brought by him from Gao Yingxiang, and they have been in his own soldiers, and the military discipline of these soldiers is not very good in peacetime, and some people burn and loot from time to time. Li Zicheng has always turned a blind eye to them because they are Gao Yingxiang's old department, and they still take good care of them, so these people are very convinced by Li Zicheng.

And Li Zicheng was also afraid that these people would bring his people badly, so he privately ordered several generals not to let their subordinates get too close to them, and strictly restrain their subordinates not to quarrel with them. Therefore, Hao Shaoqi and these people are doing well in Li Zicheng's team.

Hearing Li Zicheng's question, Hao Shaoqi sighed: "Don't hide it from you, Brother Li, in the past month, we haven't fought any big battles just by walking and walking, these boys are a little unbearable, if I hadn't pressed it, someone would have already gone to fight the people's idea." Your brother Li has strict military discipline and does not disturb the people, I admire this brother very much, you are even stricter than King Gao Chuang. Brother Li, don't worry, those boys are pressed by me, even if they are angry, they can only be stuffed in their stomachs and turned into. Can't fly into the sky. ”

Li Zicheng patted him on the shoulder: "That's right." If we want to fight the country and win the world, we have to rely on the people, and if we want to offend the people, we will help the officials and soldiers, so we don't want our lives! ”

For a long time, Li Zicheng had never said anything about fighting the country and conquering the world, and together with Gao Yingxiang, almost all the peasant armies did not have this ideal.

Their slogan is to live, to live happily, to have wine, meat, women, white flowers and silver every day, and to kill people everywhere and set fires, lawlessness. This was the ideal of the peasant army, so most of them worshipped the heroes of Liangshan.

The representative figure in this is Luo Rucai, who once said in public: We are happy to dominate the world, why do we specialize in the land? It means that we are living to have a good time, what do we want to do in the territory and the world!

And today, Li Zicheng said to Hao Shaoqi, but he said that he wanted to fight the country and win the world, so Hao Shaoqi couldn't help but be surprised.

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