Liu Yongxi said very directly: "It is said that the city gate is opened to welcome the king, and the king will not pay for food when he comes, but if he really wants to pay for food, what do these millions of thieves eat and drink?" Did Li Zicheng conjure up? It doesn't even take three or five months, a month or two to know the success or failure of Li Zicheng, the rise and fall! ”

Wu Ke suddenly felt that Liu Yongxi was very reasonable, after all, this was also a question that he couldn't understand for a long time: "The little uncle said very much, I heard that the thieves have always used the method of looting to raise military supplies, but what should I do when I enter the capital?" Do you continue to hijack in all directions? ”

Liu Yongxi replied: "That's the problem, you can fight the world immediately, but you can't rule the world immediately, for Li Zicheng and the thieves, the real challenge is not how to enter the capital, but after entering the capital!" The thieves who have broken through the capital since ancient times, but how much is it really done? ”

Whether it is Wu Ke or these riders around him, they all feel that Liu Yongxi is reasonable, and Wu Ke can't help but be ruthless: "In this case, for these villages that are ready to be thieves, should we pretend to be thieves and give them a good time first, and save time to really become an accomplice of the thieves!" ”

Liu Yongxi shook his head and said, "It's not a lot of things, our top priority this time is to go south as soon as possible!" What's more, people are very good to us, and we have to repay the favor, maybe there will be good people with good rewards! ”

Wu Ke felt that Liu Yongxi was a little soft-hearted in this matter, and there was some distance from Empress Zhang's expectations for Xiao Chengyibo, but that night he finally understood what it was like for Liu Yongxi's good people to have good rewards: "What? Behind us are a detachment of thieves? ”

Li Huaiqing, who came to report, was Wu Ke's old acquaintance and a well-known outlaw in Beijing, and he said excitedly: "I made it clear to these Diao people, no matter whether King Chuang comes to pay for food or not, the rules of our horse team are fair trading, and you will take the silver as it is, but they are actually afraid that we will suffer, so they said that there is still a horse team in the north, claiming that the rest of Li Qingshan of Liangshan is here to seek revenge!" ”

Before going south, Taikang Hou Zhang Guoji took out 10,000 taels of silver and handed it to Liu Yongxi, so Liu Yongxi did not lack silver in his hands, and now the discipline of this twenty-horse horse team is better than that of Li Zicheng's elite horse team.

It is the first time that the villages along the road have seen this situation, after all, "thieves are like combs, soldiers are like grates" is not a lie, and after the soldiers, there is no loss in the village but there is still a gain, it seems that only the legend of the "open the city gate to meet the king, the king comes and does not pay for food" The righteous teacher, so Wu Ke's little brother Li Huaiqing can get such precious information from the village.

Although this horse team in the north claims to be the rest of Li Qingshan's department in Liangshan, after all, Li Qingshan's scope of activity in his heyday was only limited to Lunan, and it is impossible to send the horse team to Beizhili, not to mention that the court in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen has exterminated Li Qingshan's department in the name of Zhao'an, and the rest is completely unsuccessful, so Liu Yongxi and Wu Ke both feel that this thief horse team can only belong to Li Zicheng's department.

Liu Yongxi immediately made a decision: "Give you fifty taels of silver, and no matter what, you must dig out the bottom of this thief horse team!" This matter must be carefully and carefully, if we don't kill this rogue horse team that is trailing behind, I'm afraid we will all end up dead!"

In the past few days, Liu Yongxi has been feeling tired, not only does he have to master the horse team of Chengyi Bofu, but he also has to visit Empress Zhang every day or two and deal with some things that happened in the fleet, fortunately, Empress Zhang gave him full support, and now that he heard that Li Zicheng's horse team has caught up, he is looking forward to the next big battle.

In a few days, Liu Yongxi's relationship with this horse team has become harmonious, and this is also a high-intensity marching training for the horse team, although there is no real sense of receiving the enemy, but the drill between people and people and horses has reached a level, and even practiced several riding charges, and the combat effectiveness can be said to have improved a realm.

Of course, how strong is the real combat effectiveness of this horse team, Liu Yongxi doesn't count at all, after all, even if the thief Li Zicheng's horse team is not the elite of a hundred battles, but it is also a carefully selected outlaw among the thieves, the official army has suffered a series of devastating defeats since the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the key is that the cavalry under the command of the thief is getting stronger and stronger, and often gives the official army a fatal blow at critical moments.

And more importantly, his horse team only has a total of twenty horses, and although the thief's light horse does not know how many rides, Liu Yongxi feels that he will definitely have dozens more horses than himself, and in this case, he must not easily fight.

Wu Ke immediately replied: "Lao Li and I will go and ask the goal of the thief's horse team. ”

He and his old friend Li Huaiqing quickly asked for further information with silver: "This troop of thieves and cavalry is looking for some big ship along the canal, but it has not been successful in the past two days!"

Li Huaiqing has already figured out this question: "They should be looking for our fleet of sincerity Bofu along the canal, but fortunately, the boats on the canal are all under the banner of our sincerity Bofu!"

When the fleet went south from Tongzhou, Liu Yongxi released dozens of merchant ships and cao ships that were sealed in Zhangjiawan in the name of sincerity Bofu, and the only requirement was that they must play the banner of Chengyi Bofu, resulting in the entire canal now being ships under the banner of Chengyi Bofu.

Moreover, in the past two days, as long as Liu Yongxi encounters these merchant ships and cao ships that are heading south at the same time, he will definitely check whether they have played the banner of sincerity.

If there are merchant ships and cao ships that do not show the banner of sincerity Bofu, Liu Yongxi will definitely deal with it severely, even to the extent that whenever they encounter ships, they are required to play the flag of sincerity Bofu.

Wu Ke and Li Huaiqing used to think that Liu Yongxi was too face-saving and making a fuss, but now they feel that Liu Yongxi's decision is too wise, and the merchant ships and boats in the entire canal are under the banner of sincerity Bofu, and this horse team under the banner of Liangshan Li Qingshan's remnants is naturally difficult to find the fleet of true sincerity Bofu.

Wu Ke also figured out another question: "They should be the horse team sent by the thief Li Zicheng, Li Qingshan started an incident in Liangshan, what are you doing in Beizhi!" Fortunately, these thieves thought that this was Gyeonggi and didn't play the banner of King Li Zicheng, otherwise we would be in big trouble! ”

Li Huaiqing also has a deep understanding of this: "It seems that the leader of the horse team of the thieves is not clever enough, if he plays the banner of Li Zicheng, I am afraid that he will be able to catch up as soon as possible, and we will not even have time to react!"

In the case of the complete severance of Caoyun, Liu Yongxi's fleet is still too conspicuous, if this horse team plays the banner of Li Zicheng, it will definitely get the full support of the people of Shengdou and the local heroes, and find this horse team of Chengyi Bofu as soon as possible.

However, since he only dared to play the banner of the rest of Li Qingshan, the villages along the road and the powerful gentry maintained a neutral or even relatively hostile attitude, which made the actions of this rogue horse team difficult.

Liu Yongxi has already stood up: "Everyone is ready to fight with the thief horse team, I will report to the queen!" ”