The sun was still hanging in the air, and the whole land was scorched by the scorching sun.

Jiading County, which belongs to Suzhou Prefecture, has changed from the prosperity and liveliness of the past, and the lively streets in the past are empty, except for the occasional group of thieves who rarely see pedestrians passing by.

"Hahaha...... Joyfully...... Pleasure ......"

"Let's go...... Brothers, let's find a place to drink. ”

"Good...... Walk ......"

With the commotion, seven or eight drunken drunks came out of an alley, and these drunkards walked up the street crookedly, talking happily and loudly as they went.

A man in his twenties with an angry face said loudly: "Brothers, did you have fun just now?" ”

"Of course it's cool." A young man next to him wearing an obviously ill-fitting silk robe laughed and said, "Didn't you see, I struggled so badly when I got to that girl just now, and Lao Tzu gave her two slaps on the spot and immediately became honest."

Or Wu Ye is right, women are a group of sluts who eat hard and don't eat soft, what chaste martyrs are just rich people who come out, and after being slapped by Lao Tzu, they are all as well-behaved as sheep, hahaha......"

Someone else laughed and said: "Lin Mazi, what are you bragging, you are still as well-behaved as a sheep, don't you know that the girl you played just now ended up jumping into the well?" ”

"Phew...... It's all that stinky who doesn't know how to lift. Lin Mazi snorted angrily and said: "For the sake of her freshness, Lao Tzu originally planned to let her go and let her serve Lao Tzu, but I never thought that this stinky girl actually didn't know how to lift up, and actually committed suicide, do you think she is stupid?" ”

"Hahaha......"

"yes, it's stupid."

Everyone laughed wildly, and for a while, they looked evil.

Suddenly, someone suggested: "I didn't have enough fun just now, why don't we look around and see if we can have another good time, what do you think?" ”

"Right...... Look for it again, maybe there are a lot of fish that have slipped through the net nearby. ”

"Let's ...... Walk"

The more they talked, the more energetic the group became, and immediately ran towards a side alley......

In the Yahoutang of Jiading County, Li Zicheng sat behind a bookcase, and in front of him was a rough map, on which several routes were drawn sporadically, and dozens of place names were written.

If such a simple map is placed in the future generations, I am afraid that even primary school students will despise it, but for people in this era, such maps are precious, and idlers are not allowed to look at it, Li Zicheng also found this map in the county government after taking Jiading County half a month ago.

After getting this map, Li Zicheng was like a treasure, and he would stare at the map and think about things when he was okay these days.

"Knock knock......" There was a knock at the door.

Li Zicheng said in a deep voice without raising his head: "Come in!" ”

The door was pushed open, and Liu Zongmin, who had a bearded face, strode in.

"King Chuang, our spies came to report, they found the shadow of Jiang Ningjun's night not collecting fifty miles outside the city, it seems that Jiang Ningjun has noticed here, how should we deal with it?"

Li Zicheng finally raised his head, when he saw Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin couldn't help but be startled, in the past, no matter what Li Zicheng, his face was always filled with a calm and stubborn look, but now his face has an indescribable ruthlessness and viciousness, coupled with his bloodshot eyes, it feels like a bloodthirsty hungry wolf.

"You said that our spies met Jiang Ningjun's night and didn't accept it?" Li Zicheng spoke, his voice remained unchanged, and his expression was normal, but he couldn't help but shudder in the eyes of Liu Zongmin, who had always been bold.

"Yes, King Chuang!" Liu Zongmin stubbornly continued: "The number of people in the Ming army who did not collect at night was not large, only seven or eight people, but they were well-equipped, and our outpost suffered a small loss after encountering them. ”

"Take a small loss." Li Zicheng sneered: "Not necessarily, right? Tell me honestly, how many brothers have we died? ”

"This ......" Liu Zongmin hesitated for a moment and said: "King Chuang, we have more than ten dead, but we haven't even figured out where the other party went." ”

"Rubbish!"

Li Zicheng stopped talking after scolding.

Looking at Li Zicheng, whose face was gloomy and uncertain, Rao was also very uncomfortable with Liu Zongmin's character of not being afraid of the ground.

Since the defeat of Hangzhou Mansion, he and Li Zicheng and others followed the rout all the way to the south and ran to the area of Suzhou Mansion, so that they had time to gather the rout army and reorganize the team.

When the statistics came out, Liu Zongmin almost cried.

Yuan Zongdi died in this battle, and there were only more than 2,000 of his 10,000 horses left, and Li Zicheng's more than 40,000 old battalions were less than 20,000 left, and the rest of Li Laiheng was better, but there were only about 5,000 people, and there were only more than 30,000 people left in the original 100,000 army.

It stands to reason that this is nothing, Li Zicheng belongs to the more frustrated and courageous character, in another time and space he was defeated by the Ming army many times, but every time he reappeared in the rivers and lakes, he was able to quickly pull up the team and fight with the imperial court, and finally buried the Ming Dynasty, and let Chongzhen hang himself under the crooked neck tree of the coal mountain.

But coincidentally, the outpost sent a message that their original military advisor Li Yan actually took refuge in the Jiangning Army and became a praise painting under Yang Feng. That's not all, his newly married daughter-in-law Xing Qiaoer hooked up with Gao Jie and took refuge in Yang Feng after taking away all the grain and grass materials in the baggage camp.

After hearing the news, Li Zicheng locked himself in the tent for two days and two nights, and on the third day, he walked out of the tent, and the first order he issued after he came out was to launch an attack on several county towns under Suzhou Prefecture.

Hearing this news, the morale of the thieves, who had become low because of the defeat in the battle, began to rise again, and the Jiangning army couldn't afford to provoke it, but those small county towns that had been peaceful for hundreds of years were just a kick in the bucket for me, believe it or not?

Stimulated by heavy rewards, the thieves desperately attacked the county towns in various places, and in less than half a month, Jiading County, Wujiang County and Kunshan fell one after another.

Li Zicheng also ripped off the hypocritical mask of the past, and pulled Zhuang Ding around, after they caught Qing Zhuang, they directly ordered all Qing Zhuang to be selected, and all their wives and children were sent to the starving camp, but if anyone dared to escape, their wives and children would be killed.

Under the kidnapping of his family, the captured young man could only helplessly work for Li Zicheng, and under Li Zicheng's crazy attack, in less than half a month, the first three cities of Jiading County, Wujiang County and Kunshan were taken in succession.

After Li Zicheng took these three cities, the first thing he did was to recruit troops, and he made up for the lost personnel, and in the process, slaughter ensued...... Mass slaughter!