There are people in the Qin army who want to harm the King of Qin, and this person must be among several important people, Fan Ju, Ziyi, Wang Jian are all possible, in Li Yan's heart, the most likely, is still Bai Qi, although he fled, but no one can be sure that there is no eyeliner in the army, and the action of shooting Sun Mengdie, as long as he Li Yan hesitates slightly, he and King Qin are very likely to die in the hands of Sun Chuanting.

He and King Qin died, and what could replace him was Bai Qi, and now Bai Qi is recruiting troops in Meixian County, and it is likely that he is going to fight against the Qin army, from this point of view, it may also be done by Bai Qi.

Li Yan told King Qin what he thought, King Qin still shook his head, he really didn't believe that Bai Qi would do such a thing, and the two knew that it was useless to guess, so they ended the topic.

They were more concerned about the development of the Qin army.

Last time, Li Yan proposed to abandon Huayin, mainly because Huayin City was too small and not easy to defend, and there were many officials and troops in Shaanxi, so he came up with a mobile method of warfare. This time is different.

At present, there are not many main forces of the official army in Shaanxi, and since the fight with the Zhang Luo coalition army, it has also consumed a lot, plus the high walls of Xi'an City are thick, the food is sufficient, and the weapons are enough to equip tens of thousands of horses, this is a big base, and it must not be abandoned. Therefore, Li Yan proposed to base himself in Xi'an, first capture several surrounding counties, and expand his power little by little.

King Qin took his advice. It turned out that there were a total of about 5,000 soldiers and horses in the Qin army, and in the past few days, they have recruited displaced people from outside the city, expanded by more than 1,000 people, and organized these more than 1,000 people into an army, known as the Xiao Qin battalion, which is led by a lieutenant under Ziyi, who is responsible for training.

Li Yan proposed to the king of Qin to take out the grain in the city, set up a porridge shed in the urn city, and recruit hungry people, so as to expand his influence and spread the good reputation of the Qin army.

The King of Qin agreed.

The two talked about dawn, and then the king of Qin invited all the important ministers to come and meet.

King Qin was busy all night, and he was a little sleepy at this time, so he went to rest, and he instructed Li Dang to take care of Sun Mengdie, and to send a few careful maids to serve her, so as not to let her be wronged. Li Dare understood, and asked Sun Mengdie to go to the back hall of the mansion to rest. Sun Mengdie knew that this was the territory of the Qin army, and he could only listen to others, but fortunately, King Qin was not Ziyi, and with King Qin here, he would not suffer hardship, so he followed Li Dang.

After placing Sun Mengdie, Li Dang hugged Li Yan, never let go of his hand, and dragged him back to his residence, put down the wine and food, and celebrated his brother's rebirth as a human being.

The two of them parted from death once, and they were very emotional, so they got drunk and didn't go to bed, but fell asleep on the table.

At this time, Ziyi and Fan Ju had different thoughts.

The two of them closed the door at Fan Ju's residence, and both frowned.

In their opinion, the safe return of King Qin and Wang Jian and the establishment of another door in vain are all a major blow to themselves.

Ziyi said: "Fan Xiang, as soon as King Qin came, he saved Li Yan again, and now the whole army will look at him as a god, what should we do?" ”

Fan Ju paced around the room, thoughtfully, and said slowly: "This matter needs to be considered in the long run. If there is any action, King Qin will definitely find out, so we must borrow someone else's sword. ”

Ziyi said: "It's easy to say, but it's too difficult to do." In the past, we secretly communicated with the official army, and it can be said that in order to survive and seize Xi'an, even if the King of Qin knew about it, he would not pursue it, but now if he wants to do it again, the King of Qin will definitely not agree. ”

Fan Ju nodded: "You're right. So we can't go to the official army. ”

He smiled back: "What you said reminded me that we can make up our minds with those thieves. And the joint anti-thief, King Qin will not care. Moreover, at this time, we can only avoid fighting alone by uniting against thieves. ”

Ziyi frowned: "But Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai have been scattered, and I don't know where to flee, and it may not be easy to contact again." Fan Ju smiled: "It's useless to contact them, at least in the short term, they can't recover, we have to unite the strongest anti-thieves." Ziyi's eyes lit up: "You mean, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng in the Central Plains ......"

Fan Ju nodded: "Tomorrow I will play the King of Qin, and then you will have to help me and talk about the King of Qin." ”

Ziyi stood up and arched his hand: "It's all up to Fan Xiang's orders." ”

Fan Ju said: "This matter is one of them, and there is another one, which is even more important. Ziyi was stunned: "What did Fan Xiang say?" Fan Ju said: "Wang Jian is no longer in the city, I sent someone to keep an eye on him, and reported that Wang Jian took a few people to ride out of the West Gate, and brought a lot of dry food, as if he was going to go far away." ”

Ziyi was taken aback: "Out of the West Gate?" Over there...... But the direction where Bai Qi is. ”

Fan Ju nodded: "It is very likely that Wang Jian was ordered by the King of Qin to contact Bai Qi, once Bai Qi comes back, he has men and horses in his hands, and the threat to us will be too great." Ziyi said: "Then what should I do?" How about intercepting Wang Jian halfway and killing him? Fan Ju shook his head: "In this way, it is equivalent to not recruiting yourself." Preferably ......"

His eyes lit up: "It's best that they die at the hands of the officials and soldiers, then we won't be suspicious." ”

Ziyi nodded: "This method is good, I will send a fast horse out of the city, and I must rush ahead of Wang Jian and them, notify the officials and soldiers to intercept and kill Wang Qian." Fan Ju said: "Your cronies are all Qin Army, don't send them, or I will send the people recruited in Huashan." Among those people are my cronies. Absolutely loyal to me. ”

So Fan Ju sent people overnight and rode out of Xicheng on a fast horse to contact the officers and soldiers.

The next day, the king of Qin convened a military meeting, at which Fan Ju put forward a proposal that had been thought of for a long time to persuade Gao Yingxiang to enter Shaanxi, and Ziyi strongly agreed on the side.

King Qin looked at Li Yan: "What do you say?" ”

Li Yan said: "Fan Xiang's idea is very right, if Zhang Xianzhong is not invited to enter Shaanxi a few days ago, we will not be able to take Xi'an, now Zhang Luo's coalition army is defeated, we have no helper, and the lone army is very passive to the enemy, if we can promote Gao and Li to enter Shaanxi, it can be described as a strong reinforcement." ”

Li Dang shook his head lightly: "We don't have anyone here who is familiar with Gao Li, what should we do if we go recklessly, and people don't believe it?" In case he thinks that this is a trap of the official army, he will refuse to enter Shaanxi. ”

Fan Ju already had an idea: "Don't worry about this, we can find someone who is familiar with Gao Li in the city." One of these two people is an Ansai person, and the other is a Mizhi person, and now that there are so many people fleeing from the famine, I believe that it is not too difficult to find their hometown. ”

King Qin thought for a moment and made a decision: "This is very good. Start preparing immediately, and when you find someone, send our people to follow, and be careful. ”

Fan Ju received the order and immediately searched among the hungry people, and really found a few people who knew Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng. One of them was also a neighbor with Gao Yingxiang. Fan Ju rewarded them with money, let them eat and drink enough, and then sent five Qin army escorts to secretly sneak into Henan to find Gao Yingxiang.

After sending these people away, Qin Jun has only one thing to care about at the moment, which is to expand his strength.

Since Wang Jian left, the commander of the Qin army was Ziyi, but the king of Qin was a little alienated from Ziyi, and only sent him to defend the city, and transferred Li Dang to his side as the captain of the guard. Don't look at the captain of the guard, the official position is not high, but only cronies can take on it. Ziyi looked at it in his eyes, a little depressed, but he couldn't help it.

At this time, the spies of the Qin army came to report, saying that Hong Chengchou had received the holy decree to recapture Xi'an within a month. Since the defeat in Xi'an, Hong Chengchou has lost a lot of people, and when Sun Chuanting left, he took away more than 2,000 Yulin soldiers, at this time his soldiers, only more than 3,000 people from Zuo Liangyu, more than 500 people with Shi Kefa, more than 1,000 Hong soldiers under Hong Chengchou, plus in one place, it is not enough for 6,000, this point of people, if you want to recapture Xi'an, it is far from enough, and at this time Hong Chengchou lost the post of governor of the trilateral, and has no right to transfer troops from other provinces, the only way is to recruit troops by himself.

After Huayin was sacked by the soldiers, the strong men were either killed or fled, so it was not easy to recruit troops, but Hong Chengchou had a way, he sent a few officials to the surrounding counties, and asked the county commanders there to help recruit troops, and within two days, four or five thousand people were recruited.