As soon as Song Xiance's words came out, Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin and others were all excited.

Even an illiterate person like Liu Zongmin can hear that Song Xiance's scheming is even higher.

He didn't care about taking care of Niu Jinxing's face, so he hugged his fists at Li Zicheng and said: "King Chuang, I think what Mr. Song said is reasonable, this Huguang is really a good place." ”

Li Zicheng pondered, but Niu Jinxing was a little unhappy, didn't he steal the limelight.

He has always been small-minded, and immediately retorted: "Huguang is not the same as Henan, it is a place of four wars, and Yang Sichang's station is located in Xiangyang, how can it be so easy to fight." ”

Seeing that he annoyed Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance immediately laughed and did not argue with him.

Li Zicheng is a little big-headed, this is sad when there is no strategist, and he is sad after having a strategist, it's really fucking unlucky.

But before he could figure out how to calm the argument of his advisers, a shout came from outside the tent.

"Report, news from Henan."

As soon as he rode a fast horse along the path in the ravine, he galloped into the mountain, and when he reached the vicinity of Li Zicheng's camp, he immediately shouted loudly.

As if he had found relief, Li Zicheng immediately waved his hand and shouted, "Bring it in." ”

The knight in charge of the herald quickly ran into the tent, got down on one knee and presented the thing in his hand:

"Report to the king, news came from Henan that the Central Plains Governor Yamen had prepared anti-plague medicine, and at the same time hoarded a large amount of grain, grass and medicine in Dengzhou, and was preparing to relieve the six northern provinces."

Niu Jinxing's heart moved and snatched the Central Plains newspaper in the knight's hand, and he didn't notice Li Zicheng's slightly dissatisfied eyes.

After a cursory glance at the content of the Central Plains News, Niu Jinxing turned to look at Li Zicheng with a happy face.

"King Chuang, great joy."

"Oh? Where does the joy come from? Li Zicheng asked while taking the newspaper handed over by Niu Jinxing, and pressed the dissatisfaction in his eyes.

Niu Jinxing laughed unconsciously: "This Central Plains Governor Yamen stationed all the supplies in Dengzhou, and then distributed them to the six provinces from here. Dengzhou is only a few hundred miles away from us, and it can be reached in the morning and night, and if we can seize all these materials, then our army will have to help even more. ”

This voice made Li Zicheng and the others more excited than discussing where to use as a base, and Liu Zongmin, who was full of beards, and Yuan Zongdi, who was burly, all stood up with a happy face.

"King Chuang, this is really a great joy, and please ask King Chuang to order, we will kill in Dengzhou now."

"That's right, take down Dengzhou!"

Before Li Zicheng could speak, a leisurely voice came from inside the tent.

"Have you forgotten whose territory is Dengzhou, but does anyone still remember the defeat in Dengzhou years ago?"

Liu Zongmin looked over angrily, and found that the person who spoke was Li Yan, who had a delicate face, and suddenly lost his temper.

Li Yan is not only a person, but also able to write and martial arts, his father was also the governor of Shandong, such a figure joined Li Zicheng's army, and naturally suppressed Liu Zongmin and others.

In addition, Li Yanben is also quite talented, and Liu Zongmin can only hide when he sees him after being reprimanded by Li Zicheng a few times.

Li Yan's words suddenly reminded everyone in the tent of one thing, in October last year, Li Zicheng's troops, who had just started the army again, heard that Dengzhou was rich, so he personally raised a large army to plunder.

Who knows, not long after the Liukou army entered Dengzhou, it was ambushed by the militia group in Dengzhou, and Li Zicheng's troops fled back after heavy losses.

It was precisely because of this loss that Li Zicheng and others began to seriously consider the conditions they had agreed to when they traded with the Liu family, and tried to avoid Dengzhou and other places, and instead besieged Kaifeng.

"King Chuang, this time and that time", seeing that Li Zicheng was a little hesitant, Song Xiance hurriedly came out to cheer up.

"Last year, our army was weak, and we underestimated the opponent, so we lost before the battle, and now our army is strong and strong, even Yang Sichang does not dare to face the edge, why not be afraid of a Dengzhou."

"I have long heard that Dengzhou is rich, and this is an important place leading to Huguang, if our army does not take it, it will be easy to suffer from the enemy in the future, it is better to take advantage of the fact that the official army is still in Shaanxi, and annihilate it in one fell swoop, and it can also be used as the first step to capture Huguang."

Niu Jinxing didn't expect that this matter could be pulled to Huguang by Song Xiance, and his face suddenly became a little ugly.

"Hmm", Li Zicheng pondered for a few minutes, looked at Niu Jinxing's face with a dark smile before saying: "The people of Dengzhou are rich and wealthy, if our army does not take it, I am afraid that it will make the official army stronger, then it is decided, the generals will immediately return to the camp to prepare to pull, and the army will drive directly to Dengzhou." ”

"Obey!"

With Li Zicheng's order, the army of King Chuang, which was still stationed in Shanyang County, immediately began to move, and nearly 100,000 troops marched along the winding mountain road in the direction of Dengzhou.

However, what no one knew was that on the top of the mountain five miles away from Li Zicheng's army, Ma Jiesheng, the head of the Liu Family Military Bureau, who was in charge of keeping an eye on the movements of Li Zicheng's army, put down the binoculars in his hand.

"Hurry up and report to the inner countryside, the army of thieves has begun to move southeast, the whereabouts are unknown, and it is suspected that they are going to the inner countryside."

"Whoa"

Not far from the edge of Ma Jiesheng, there was a promise from a bush-like clump of plants, and then the shrub actually moved, and ran down the hillside.

Although the Datong Society already actually controlled Dengzhou, Neixiang and other places, and reached a preliminary agreement with Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other rogues in the process of private transactions.

On the one hand, Liu Ximing ordered Dengzhou and other places to set up militia groups, promote joint defense and linkage, and set up sentinel detectives to conduct vigilance, and on the other hand, he ordered the military bureau to send special spies to keep track of the movements of Li Zicheng and others' troops.

With its sophisticated equipment and scattered contact points, the military bureau has done a good job of monitoring the movements of the rogues.

It only took two days of hard work for a series of news about Li Zicheng's army to continue to reach the city of Dengzhouzhou.

Originally, Liu Ximing, Dou Yuquan and others were not sure of Li Zicheng's purpose, but with a series of follow-up reports, the motives of the rogue have been revealed.

In the city of Dengzhou, at this time, the war clouds were already thick, and the streets were full of people in the militia groups wearing blue-black power suits, carrying shotguns or swords, and the atmosphere was solemn.

In Liu Ximing's station, Mu Jingnan, Wei Jingguo and other generals all gathered together and quietly waited for Liu Ximing's arrangement.

"How's the enemy report?" , Liu Xi ordered to sit on the main seat in the hall from the second-grade red official uniform, and asked without expression.

He Tianlei of the Military Bureau had already moved his headquarters to Dengzhou with him, and when he saw Liu Ximing asking a question, he immediately came out and hugged his fist:

"It has been proved that there are about 110,000 thieves in the army, divided into seven battalions, Li Zicheng led the three battalions of the Chinese army with 30,000 people, and Yuan Zongdi, Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu, Li Laiheng and others each led a battalion of about 10,000 people."

"Because of the recruitment of many defeated officers and soldiers, the army of thieves already has the appearance of some officers and soldiers, the battle formation is quite neat, and the ordnance is quite complete."

Mu Jingnan and the others stood solemnly, they all watched the growth of the rogues day by day, and they were no strangers to the changes in the rogue team.

It's just that when they thought that an army of hundreds of thousands was about to invade Dengzhou, even if they had been in battle for a long time, several people still felt a little slumped in their hearts.

On the main throne, Liu Ximing saw the worry in the eyes of Mu Jingnan, Wei Jingguo and others.

Contrary to Mu Jingnan and others, Liu Ximing felt quite relieved by their horror.

The so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is a hundred battles.

It is not terrible that the enemy is strong, but what is terrible is that he does not fully understand the enemy army, so that he makes a mistake to underestimate the enemy.

"What, scared?"

In order to boost morale, Liu Ximing deliberately raised the corners of his mouth slightly and ridiculed Mu Jingnan and others.

"It's just death, our army has been training for several years, for this time!" , Mu Jingnan raised his head and replied loudly.

Liu Ximing laughed, "That's right, no matter how strong the rogue is, it is also rootless, how is the state of our army's preparation?" ”

Dou Yuquan said in a deep voice: "There are 50,000 militia groups in Dengzhou, and 30,000 people have been gathered at the moment, and they can set off at any time, in addition, the inner township should be able to gather 20,000 militia groups, Lei Youze has sent a letter to inform that everything is ready." ”

Liu Ximing nodded and looked at Mu Jingnan.

"The 10,000 horses of the five battalions of the 105th Division have been transferred to the inner countryside in advance."

"Okay", Liu Ximing rose suddenly, his face was full of joy, "The rogue is strong, and our army is not weak, adding up to our total of 10,000 regular troops and 50,000 militia groups, it is more than wrong to beat him as a thief." ”

"Pass my order, the whole army is ready, and this afternoon we will set up camp and go to the inner countryside to prepare for war."

"Whoa"

In the main hall, Mu Jingnan and the others roared one after another, and a strong battle intent gushed out.

Although Chen Zilong, Gu Yanwu and others joined the Datong Society, they had already been sent to various places by Liu Ximing to supervise the epidemic prevention work at this moment, and Dengzhou at this time was not a big problem in terms of secrecy.