As for Hong Chengchou, although he is also powerful, Hong Bing is not as elite as the Tianxiong Army, Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Luo join forces, there are more people than Hong Chengchou, and they should be able to stop it. 【Fengyun Reading Network. 】

Gao Yingxiang finished arranging, looked at everyone, there was no objection, and said to King Qin: "I waited for the distance, since the carriage gorge escaped, the baggage was discarded, and all supplies can only rely on Xi'an City and the Qin army." I also hope that King Qin will help. ”

King Qin nodded: "The Qin army and you and other righteous troops are in one place, it is a family, the money and food are heavy, the Qin army should be supplied, and King Gao Chuang does not have to worry." ”

Li Zicheng took his men and horses to join the Qin army, while Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Luo led the troops to the north and set up a large camp in Lintong, and the Qin army set up a position in the west of Lantian.

After setting up the camp, the peasant army began to dig a ditch, spread deer firewood, and prepare more bows and arrows, because there were many cavalry in the official army, so it was not suitable to go out to the field battle.

At the same time, the King of Qin secretly asked Wang Jian to send someone to inform Bai Qi, so that he could see the opportunity to attack from behind after the official army lost its sharpness, in order to annihilate Lu Xiangsheng's men and horses in one fell swoop.

As long as Lu Xiangsheng is defeated, Hong Chengchou over there is difficult to sing, and he is bound to retreat, and when the time comes, he will take advantage of the victory to pursue, and Guanzhong will be the world of the Qin army and the peasant army.

For a while, the scout messengers galloped one after another, and the entire hinterland of Guanzhong was murderous, and the atmosphere was very tense, and there was a tendency to break out.

This news had already been reported to Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng, and the two did not dare to slack off, and immediately submitted their own plans to the emperor.

Chongzhen received two seals in a row, both of which were the same content, and Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng's plans were similar, both of them were to gather and annihilate the thieves under the city of Xi'an. In addition, Hong Chengchou asked the military department to transfer people from Gansu to help, and asked them to attack Meixian from the west, where there was a thief Bai Qi, in order to prevent Bai Qi from sneaking up behind, someone must contain him. Lu Xiangsheng invited people from Henan and Shanxi to enter Guanzhong to participate in the meeting.

After reading these two seals, Chongzhen discussed with Zhang Fengyi and others, and decided to adopt the opinions of the two people at the same time, on the one hand, he transferred Sun Xianzu, the chief soldier of Gansu, to lead his troops to attack Meixian in the starry night, and on the other hand, he mobilized several Ming troops in Henan and Shanxi, all of which marched to Xi'an.

At present, the most powerful and capable peasant army is all in Xi'an, as long as it can be annihilated, the world will be peaceful. As for the other revolutionary left battalions, they broke through the sky and crossed the stars, they were just second-rate characters, as long as they killed Gao Li and Zhang Luo, they would surrender without a fight.

However, when the holy decree had not yet been issued, the governors of Henan, Shanxi, and Shandong provinces had urgent documents of 600 li to report, saying that they were the camps of Gezuo, and that they had attacked the prefectures and counties in these provinces, burned, killed and looted, and the troops were approaching Luoyang, Taiyuan and other cities.

Chongzhen immediately understood that this was a joint operation between the peasant armies, Gao Li and others were in Guanzhong, attracting the main force of the Ming army to assemble, while the other peasant armies took the opportunity to develop their forces.

At this moment, the Ming court fell into a dilemma, if the elite troops from the provinces were transferred into the customs, then the Central Plains would inevitably be empty, and what was even worse was that as soon as the Central Plains was lost, the communication between the court and the southern provinces would be cut off, and the consequences would be unimaginable. Therefore, Chongzhen had to grit his teeth, withdraw his sincerity, and order the garrisons of these provinces and regions to try their best to suppress the peasant army.

Then Chongzhen passed on the decree, ordering Lu Hong and the two to attack together in the north and south, and seek more gains.

The tone of this will was slightly relaxed, not asking them to annihilate the peasant army, but the more annihilated the better, Chongzhen also understood that the current peasant army in Xi'an has seventy or eighty thousand, plus the Qin army, there will be no less than 100,000 horses, Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou combined, only sixty or seventy thousand people, the strength is at a disadvantage, as long as they are not defeated, they can drag the peasant army, and prevent them from running around, it is a victory. As soon as the situation in the provinces eases, troops will be immediately transferred to the customs and the joint efforts will be suppressed.

Before the decree reached Lu Hong, they had already received border reports from the provinces, and they both knew that it was impossible for a large number of reinforcements to arrive in a short period of time, and that the only way to annihilate the peasant army was to rely on the existing men.

At present, Hong Chengchou is in the north, Lu Xiangsheng is in the south, the momentum of the flanking attack has been completed, coupled with the people and horses of Gansu, forming a three-sided encirclement, if the peasant army and the Qin army want to break through, they can only go east, and the east is Tongguan, which has strengthened the guard, and it is not easy for the peasant army to break through Tongguan, so it is still very possible to gather and annihilate the peasant army in the Guanzhong area.

Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng exchanged news, the division of labor between the two was clear, and there was no struggle for merit and power, so the official army was also fierce and prepared for a decisive battle.

The Guanzhong area was full of rumors for a while, and the situation became tense.

But said that Li Zicheng, he took his own men and horses, and the Qin army will be one, in the west of Lantian, fifty miles away from Xi'an, set up a large camp, Li Zicheng is loyal, broad-minded, able to tolerate people, this time with the Qin army, but also behaved very generous.

The Qin army was led by Wang Jian and Li Yan, with 8,000 people, including 3,000 cavalry, the camps of both sides were separated, one left and one right, showing the trend of horns, blocking the main road to Xi'an, and after their respective camps were set up, Li Zicheng invited Wang Jian and Li Yan to come to his camp to drink and feast, and discuss the military situation by the way.

Since meeting Li Yan, Li Zicheng has always been very respectful to this son, he feels that this young man has a lot of extraordinary, young age, far-reaching, very sensitive to the people's feelings, and knowledge, which is unique in the peasant army, so he is extremely accepting of Li Yan, and his words are very polite.

Li Yan also felt that Li Zicheng was not an ordinary person, this person was different from ordinary grass thieves, his men and horses were extremely disciplined, and there was no one who harassed the people, and no soldier dared to rape women and rob the people's property.

Wang Jian and Li Yan came to Li Zicheng's camp, and Li Zicheng invited Liu Zongmin, Li Guo and several other important generals to accompany them, and everyone discussed while eating and drinking.

At this time, the investigation report has probed the situation of the official army, Lu Xiangsheng has tens of thousands of horses, and has set up camp twenty miles away from here, and there are 3,000 Guanning iron cavalry led by Zu Kuan in the army, which is the most important assault force. In addition, there are Sun Chuanting, Zuo Guangxian and other fierce generals, whose strength should not be underestimated.

The commanders of both sides are keenly aware that this battle will determine the pattern of Guanzhong.

Liu Zongmin is a rough man, his speech is very straightforward, he looked at Wang Jian and Li Yan is also very pleasing to the eye, and soon regarded them as brothers, so he spoke politely, and went straight to the point: "General Wang, Li Gongzi, our old eighth team has fought with the official army for several years, and there are no less than hundreds of big and small battles, and I have never been afraid of others, but this King Lu Yan is ruthless and tricky, it is a difficult bone to gnaw, and now it is a defensive war, what our righteous army likes to fight the most is defensive warfare, I know that such a battle, both of them have commanded, Therefore, please tell me, how can we win this battle? ”

Li Yan smiled: "General Li Chuang's old eighth team has a good reputation, and everyone in the team is good at fighting, do you still need me, a descendant?" Brother Liu, you are ugly as a brother, right? ”

Liu Zongmin shook his hand again and again: "I don't mean that, if you want to talk about fighting, our old eight team is not ambiguous, but you can fight back and forth, brave and brave, but you haven't had the upper hand, today in front of Brother Li, I also said so, we have fought a lot of tough battles, but we have never won a big victory, Brother Li said, this is the reason for the lack of Zhuge Liang in the team." Without advice, even if the old eighth team is full of Zhang Fei, what's the use? ”

Li Zicheng nodded: "This matter has always been in my heart, but in this world, Zhuge Liang is not easy to find." I think Li Gongzi has a little bit of this meaning, now that we are stirring spoons in a pot, please tell us bluntly. ”

Li Yan looked at Wang Qian, Wang Jian nodded lightly, meaning just say.

Li Yan then cleared his throat: "Regarding the matter of meeting the enemy, I have discussed with General Wang and worked out a plan, and I invite several leaders to come together and refer to it in detail." ”

He paused and said: "The current situation is that Lu Xiangsheng has forty or fifty thousand horses, including Guan Ning Tiecai, which can be described as strong and menacing, and wants to fight quickly. ”

When several generals under Li Zicheng heard this, they all nodded again and again, and Liu Zongmin laughed: "Li Gongzi is really knowledgeable, but he knows the other side, Brother Li, let's follow Li Gongzi's idea, what do you think?" ”

Li Zicheng shook his head lightly: "Li Gongzi, your idea sounds like there is no flaw at first glance, but you have to understand such a situation." Can we afford it, or can the officers and soldiers afford it? ”

Li Yan said: "We have our back to Xi'an City, and there is abundant grain and grass in the city, why can't we afford it?" ”

Li Zicheng said: "Our 100,000 horses are all supplied by Xi'an City, and the supply of officials and soldiers is much larger. They can collect grain in any area of Guanzhong except Xi'an, so I think that the official army can afford it than us, not to mention, at present, the collapse of the sky and the camp of the left of the revolution, in the Central Plains area is very fierce, I heard that the court has issued a strict order, to the Central Plains region of the people and horses desperately exterminated, if we spend a long time here, once the Central Plains region is calm, the official army will immediately mobilize a large army into Guanzhong, then we will fall into the encirclement. Also, even if the court doesn't transfer the Central Plains people, won't it transfer the Sichuan army or the Gansu people? So I think it's better to be quick. With lightning speed, defeat Lu Xiangsheng first. In this way, the officials and soldiers will be discouraged, and there is much to be done in Guanzhong. ”

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