At least 10,000 cavalry!

Liao Dongzhi judged from the raging and fast-moving smoke and dust that the number of this chasing army would not be less than 10,000.

"Wang Long, you really have a big face, and you can make the camp pay so much attention to you!" In order to adjust the somewhat tense atmosphere, Li Huayu deliberately joked with Wang Lung.

"However, this is already the boundary of my Shandong territory, and it is the Heavenly King Lao Tzu who sent black and white impermanence to get you, and I also want to ask our brothers if they agree to the guns, knives and guns!" Li Huayu sneered, in this plain and wilderness, although it is suitable for cavalry combat, but his troops arrived half a day in advance, and they have already built trench fortifications and field artillery positions, and he is confident that these 10,000 cavalry will stay in this border area between Yulu and Shandong.

"The young marshal, I also came to be an acquaintance!" Liao Dongzhi hurriedly heard the military intelligence report from the ranger on the side, and hurriedly stepped forward.

"Who's coming?"

"I'm not afraid of jokes. The one who chased me for thousands of miles was the little tiger! Wang Lung smiled bitterly on the side and revealed the mystery for Li Huayu.

"If it weren't for Xiaohuzi's friendship, he didn't want to get too much blood on his hands and brothers, and the pursuit was not so urgent, and my thousands of men and horses were afraid that they would be swallowed by the camp before they left Yudong."

"The young marshal, it's not just Luo Hu who came, but also Liu Fangliang, a famous general in the camp!"

Among the 10,000 cavalry, less than 4,000 were the cavalry of the Zhenshan Battalion subordinate to Luo Hu, and the remaining 6,000 people were elite cavalry led by Liu Fangliang himself, in order to wipe out Wang Long's troops in one go!

"Since you've come to my Shandong, how can you leave if you don't have a good treat. Liao Dong Solstice! The frost on Li Huayu's face condensed, "Pass the order, prepare to fight!" ”

With Liao Dongzhi going to the front to arrange the command, Li Huayu could naturally make time to talk to Wang Long. It's also good to find out what earth-shattering things happened in the rebel army. Although Wang Lung also said that there was a big change when he sent a messenger to ask for help, please ask the eldest prince to come to the rescue for the sake of friendship in the Dragon and Tiger Camp that day. But after all, the identity of the person who came was low, and many situations were not clear. The key to this is the holiday, and Li Huayu can only ask Wang Long.

"Li Zicheng has a black hand! Kill my uncle and Geriyanheshuai! ”

At this time, Wang Lung was like a child who had finally returned to his hometown to see his relatives after many hardships and dangers, and he cried profusely. Tell Li Huayu about the earth-shattering changes one by one.

"When Sun Deaf was eliminated, my brothers and I were in the south, because we had just defeated Zuo Liangyu's rabbit master, and the team slowly moved from the Yangtze River to Xiangyang Mansion. I was going to go to Luoyang through Xiangyang and Nanyang, join my uncle, and then fight Tongguan and go back to Shaanxi with the camp. ”

However, at this time, Li Zicheng convened his subordinates Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Liu Zongmin, Gao Yigong and others to discuss matters. It was decided to deal with the 5th Battalion of the Hui Revolution and Luo Rucai's Cao Battalion before attacking Tongguan. "Only set for one. is set to be under the command of King Chuang, in order to justifiably crusade against the thieves and relieve the people of the upside down! Otherwise, if you enter Xi'an Mansion, will the generalissimo ascend the throne and become the emperor, or will the marshals of each battalion take turns to sit in the village? Therefore, according to the mountain people, it is at this time. It is most suitable to solve the Geli eye and Cao Cao and other departments! "Song Xiance, a fortune teller with a short stature and an ape-like appearance. A pair of eyes flickered like ghostly fire.

After eliminating more than 100,000 Ming troops under Sun Chuanting, looking north of the Yangtze River, there was no Ming army that was taken into account by the generals of the righteous army. The hundreds of large and small artillery pieces that were captured made Zhang Nai shout loudly at the celebration banquet, "Xi'an, Beijing." Hundreds of cannons are all it takes! There is no city that cannot be opened, and there is no team that cannot be defeated! ”

The contradictions that had accumulated over a long period of time within the peasant army suddenly became tense and acute because of the sudden improvement in the external environment. Since the joint operation, the soldiers of the two Chuang Cao families, who have been cooperating tacitly, began to fight for the captured horses, weapons, and captured Ming soldiers. Artillery, food, baggage, armor, flags and other things on the long battlefield constantly accused and insulted each other, and even fought fiercely, several more important places, and even both sides used knives and guns, each with casualties. If it weren't for the generals in their respective battalions rushing to suppress the bullets and stopping the soldiers' actions for the sake of face, I was afraid that the battle between the two families over the spoils of war would have intensified.

After the war, although Li Zicheng allocated 2,000 war horses, 10,000 sets of armor, knives and guns, 3,000 guns, and 20,000 captured Ming soldiers and 20 artillery pieces of more than eight pounds to Luo Rucai's Cao Ying, the Cao Ying was full of resentment about the ugly appearance of breaking into the camp.

In the south of De'an, Chengtian, Jingzhou and other places, fools know that it is the land of fish and rice, and the so-called lake is wide and ripe all over the world. With such a piece of feng shui treasure in his hand, whether it is used to fight for the world, or to be self-reliant, it is based on an invincible position! However, Li Zicheng was unceremoniously and quietly handed over all the four De'an mansions to the administrative officials of the camp system, but Cao Ying's system was not half of it!

How can this make Cao Cao, who has always been very shrewd, swallow this evil breath?

"Handsome! Now it is south to Lizhou and Changde, east to Macheng and Gwangju, west to Gwanghua and Junzhou, and north to Tongguan, all of which are under the guns of our righteous army! It's only a matter of time before this battle for the world happens, but how many of these state capitals do we have in Cao Ying? ”

In Luo Rucai's general's mansion, his close generals Yang Shenzu, Yang Shan of the Chinese army, Zhu Yangmin, several generals Wang Kehuai, Hao Youfa, and Luo Rucai's own uncle Luo Dain and others expressed their grievances.

In fact, these people can't be blamed for having emotions. It was when the grand strategy of luring the enemy to the north to annihilate the enemy was decided that Hao Shaoqi, a subordinate of Li Zicheng, openly snatched the good horses of Wang Long's subordinates. Wang Lung is also recognized as a person who can fight and fight in the two camps of Cao Cao, and he is also Luo Rucai's nephew, his status is naturally not comparable to ordinary people, but Hao Shaoqi, a miscellaneous general in the camp, also dares to go to Wang Long's camp to openly grab horses, if there is no one behind him to support him openly and secretly, they will not believe it if they kill these people under Luo Rucai!

This situation, after defeating Sun Chuanting and driving away Zuo Liangyu, became more and more obvious. From Li Zicheng to Liu Zongmin, Gao Yigong, Hao Shaoqi, Liu Fangliang and other senior generals, and even the small soldiers of each battalion, they all have a high-spirited and commanding momentum for Cao Ying.

In the eyes of everyone who broke into the camp. Cao Ying was attached to them, and although Luo Rucai was nominally Li Zicheng's deputy and the so-called general of Weide on behalf of the heavens, he was also Li Zicheng's subordinate. Since even Luo Rucai is Li Zicheng's subordinate, then the entire Cao Ying is also a subordinate of the camp, that is, their subordinates!

Thereupon. All kinds of things that robbed and bullied Cao Ying, snatched booty and captured prisoners, were not stopped and punished by Li Zicheng, which greatly stimulated Luo Rucai, who had always respected Li Zicheng since the two armies in Dengzhou fought together!

In particular, when He Yilong brought troops from Huangzhou, Hubei Province to Nanyang and Luoyang, he came to visit Luo Rucai's military camp on the way, and the two old friends talked happily together, but when the news spread, Li Zicheng's generalissimo office sent people to inquire and urge He Yilong to arrive at the designated place as soon as possible and set up camp.

After this incident. Regarding He Yilong's request to lead troops out of Lizhou, Changde and Zhang Xianzhong to echo the battle, Li Zicheng also took care of him.

Not only did He Yilong not be allowed to fight in one direction independently, but Niu Jinxing and others even promulgated a set of cumbersome system and etiquette in the camp. The system stipulates that anyone who sees Li Zicheng must bow down to "determine respect and humility, and divide up and down", and when talking to Li Zicheng, the officers and men of each battalion must call themselves "subordinate, subordinate" and other words, and must not be "commensurate with me" with Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang!

This set of systems is clearly tailor-made for Luo Rucai!

Among the thirteen battalions of the so-called People's Army. Luo Rucai is an old qualification for an incident at the same time as the former king Gao Yingxiang, and reported Cao Cao. It is the only remaining leader of the older generation. At that stage when Gao Yingxiang was the leader of the alliance. Li Zicheng is only the eighth team in the camp.

Therefore, Luo Rucai is not only older than Li Zicheng, older than Li Zicheng, but also no worse than Li Zicheng in terms of strength! Because of this, Luo Rucai has become accustomed to calling each other with Li Zimature and informal. "I often call myself Cao Cao; Call yourself into the old Qi, Er Ruzhi. ”

At this time, you jump out and promulgate a system of etiquette. Luo Rucai, the commander of the Cao battalion, who demanded that there be five outposts for the elite cavalry alone, "three thousand per sentry, three or four infantry, and no less than four or five hundred thousand", kneeled and saluted Li Zicheng like Liu Zongmin and others, which could not be done no matter what!

There is little difference in military power. In terms of their respective fighting styles, Luo Rucai and Li Zicheng are also good at winning. Historical records record: "Self-formed soldiers are good at attacking, and your talented soldiers are stronger than fighting, and the two must be like left and right hands." More than 50 cities in Henan have been trapped, and they have become six out of ten and four out of ten. In other words, in the eyes of military experts and commentators at the time, Li Zicheng's camp was good at attacking cities and stronger than attacking fortified cities. Luo Rucai's Cao Ying is good at field warfare and is good at destroying the enemy in the field. This is related to Luo Rucai's own military experience, and he has fought jointly with Fang Junjiu's Ninth Battalion and Zhang Xianzhong's Xiying many times, which has tempered Cao Ying's field combat ability, and has also been fully reflected in the previous battles after partnering with the Chuang Battalion.

Since the partnership, Luo Rucai has also paid attention to collecting guns and cannons to strengthen the advantage of firearms in his battalion. Especially after Wang Long's trip to Shandong returned, Luo Rucai also focused on building an elite new army. Therefore, once the two families break up, Luo Rucai is really not afraid of anything!

"That's it! Brotherly partnership, originally a union will come and go. Now the road between us and Lao Li's family is about to come to an end. They want to enter Tongguan and return to Shaanxi, and we will definitely not stop them. However, if our Cao Ying pulls out the camp and goes east and partners with the Eight Kings and Lao Huihui, he Li Zicheng will not be able to control our Lao Cao's feet! ”

In the tent, Luo Rucai planned to be like when the previous cooperation with Zhang Xianzhong came to an end, so as to close and disperse, leaving a trace of room to meet in the future.

"When you go back, you each have a number in your heart, but on the surface, you still have to stay the same as the people who broke into the camp!" Luo Rucai instructed his cronies and generals to look at the several state capitals in the east on the map, which are currently under the jurisdiction of the administrator of the Cao Ying system, and not far from the vicinity is the old nest Yingshan and Huoshan areas of the fifth camp of the Huige, as long as you get there, and then take down a few cities next to it, at least a situation of secession!

"Echoing with Li Huayu in the east and Zhang Xianzhong in the south, who can help me?!"

However, Luo Rucai never expected that he had made thousands of calculations, but he missed a person.

This person is Song Xiance, the military advisor in Li Zicheng's army!

Although this person is nominally a military advisor, he has no achievements in the camp. He, like Lu's Juren Niu Jinxing, is a person who came to vote after Li Zicheng entered Henan. The role of the two is different. Niu Jinxing is famous for his achievements in the Ming Dynasty. It can be used as a pair of horse bones to attract scholars from all over the world to join, and with the successive victories of the peasant army, there are also many people who join the rebel army with the intention of climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix. However, many people are also a child's and talent's fame, and when it comes to level, it can only be hehe. Because the Qin Law School opened by Wu Xing has trained many administrative and civil officials. These poor people who were originally poor and dreamed of ascending to Tianzi Hall at the end of the day for Tian Shelang were even more helpless. Where do you know what taxes are, what money and food are, how to build water conservancy, and how to gather displaced people? In this way, it becomes more and more that people like Niu Jinxing are actually useless except for a little so-called prestige. The so-called prestige is only gained by monopolizing cultural and educational power. (Speaking of which, there have been so-called masters recently clamoring for the cancellation of the high school entrance examination.) Advocate quality education. The high school entrance examination was canceled, followed by the college entrance examination. So, what resources do those children of ordinary families use to fight with the children of the so-called elite class? How to change your fate? In fact, whether these masters or experts, they don't have to bother to come up with any plans, and they directly say that they want to restore the essence of traditional Chinese culture, the nine-product Zhongzheng system and the gate valve system. Isn't it better?! ）

And Song Xiance is the opposite of Niu Jinxing. This is a long-term walk in the rivers and lakes after the wind and rain has seen the wind and waves qualified, God stick. This cripple who is less than three feet tall. He is proficient in the six non-Qimen escape methods, as well as the mathematical abilities of diagrams, especially in feudal superstition. When he first arrived in Li Zicheng's army, he presented the pictures of "Li Jizhu in Kyushu Rebellion" and "Eighteen Children's Main Artifact", which helped Li Zicheng make great contributions to the deification of his image.

Li Zicheng was overjoyed at that time, which meant that the Li family was prosperous and had attained the mandate of heaven. He has the appearance of an emperor.

It seems that for thousands of years in China, when a generation of male masters was born, there would always be some auspicious proverbs, bonfires, foxes, fish belly silk books and other means and programs emerged in an endless stream, which were all precursors of hegemony. -- Except for Ming Taizu, who firmly believed that he was born as a beggar, the rest of the people were convinced, and Li Zicheng was of course so.

After the proverb came out, Li Zicheng even believed that he was favored by God and given by God, and he would be invincible in the future. Facts have also proved to be so, every time Song Xiance divined and predicted the victory or defeat, his army always attacked the city and was invincible. Of course, the opening time does not count.

It is also because of the successive victories in Henan, the rapid progress of various affairs, not to mention that the generalissimo is the one who responds to the mandate of heaven, and Li Zicheng gradually believes that he has this emperor's destiny!

This Song dwarf who set up a stall on the street of Daxiangguo Temple in Kaifeng Mansion to tell fortunes, you expect him to command the battle, and he can come up with any tricks similar to Zhuge Liang. However, this person's rich experience in walking the rivers and lakes has given him a keen and almost perverted ability in observing words and emotions and reading people's hearts!

"King Chuang, if you want to take it, you must first take it." Sitting on the four-wheeled car, Song Xiance, who had learned enough from Zhuge Kongming, seemed to close his eyes, and tried to maintain the posture of a fairy wind bone.

"How do I get there first?" Li Zicheng is also playing dumb riddles with Song Xiance.

"King Chuang, since the opening of the Qin Law School, officials from all over the state and county have come out of this. According to the agreement between the two companies at the time of the partnership on that day, the local officials who were released should also be distributed according to the ratio of 60 percent of our camp and 40 percent of the Cao camp. Song Xiance's eyes flashed, "But when General Yuan Zongdi captured the four mansions of De'an, he appointed all the officials of the four mansions in one go. This made Cao Ying quite dissatisfied, although Cao Cao himself did not say anything, but from the perspective of the mountain people, he was afraid that he was also very resentful in his heart. ”

"Sir, you are right! In the past few days, the spies in charge of Liu Tichun have also sent people to send secret music, indicating that the court is constantly planning to send people to Cao's camp, intending to recruit him or set aside a piece of land for him, so that he can establish himself as the king! Li Zicheng's Chinese army commander Gao Yigong also frowned, once Cao Cao surrendered to the Ming army and pulled away these hundreds of thousands of people, the days of breaking into the camp would be better!

"Mr. Song, you go on."

"King Chuang, please take a look." Song Xiance took the fire chopsticks used to add charcoal on the brazier on the side, and sketched them on the brick floor.

In the blink of an eye, a rough map of Henan appeared in front of everyone.

"Henan Mansion, Nanyang Mansion and other places have all fallen into the hands of our righteous army. Prefectures and counties also began to set up officials to manage the people and collect money and grain. But it's also a mixture of them. In the east of Kaifeng Mansion and Guide Mansion, many prefectures and counties were adjacent to Shandong and other places, and the generalissimo did not send troops to take them that day. These places are also quite rich now, and as far as the mountain people know, Cao Cao coveted this place. ”

Song Xiance put down the fire chopsticks. clasped his fists on the four-wheeled cart and saluted: "If the generalissimo intends to establish a great cause, then Luo Rucai must be removed." However, although this person has a large number of soldiers and horses, the generalissimo can order more people to carry wealth and silk to buy them first. Afterwards, it was pressed by large soldiers and allowed to take official positions, and it was not difficult for the generals of Cao Ying's various departments to clean up. However, only Wang Long's department, the elite soldiers and horses are no less than the Zhenshan camp, and this person has a nephew and uncle relationship with Luo Ru. Therefore, it is not allowed to make Wang Long's headquarters in western Henan! It is better to discuss the military situation with Luo Rucai tomorrow, and order Wang Long's troops to go to Guide Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion and other places to capture the above-mentioned prefectures and counties. All the cities belong to Cao Ying. It can be regarded as our breaking into the camp to make up for the loss of Cao Ying's share that he did not get in the four mansions of De'an. ”

"In order to make this play more realistic, 1,500 or 600 officials can be drawn from the Qin Law School and ordered to follow Wang Lung to receive the city. As long as Wang Lung goes to eastern Henan, whether it is Ge Liyan or Luo Rucai, their soldiers and horses will all be in the hands of the generalissimo! ”

"Then, with what Mr. sees, how can Wang Lung be willing, or even happy, to go east?"

"It's so simple! The temptation is to lure! Song Xiance blinked, "Has the generalissimo forgotten Li Jiyu, Liu Hongqi, Shen Wandeng and others?" ”

Li Jiyu was originally a farmer in Mogou Village, Dengfeng County, "to be held for lack of grain, the stone lion in front of the Yaqian of Dengfeng County, to break the lion's foot with a stone and escape, according to the Songding North Toad Mountain for chaos," after occupying the Songshan Imperial Village, the momentum is even more rampant. Liu Hongqi, who was more powerful, was born as a smuggler of salt in Xiping. Others, such as Shen Wandeng, Sheng Zhiyou, Huang Laoshan, Zhang Changshan, and others, were all regarded as "local bandits" and belonged to the category of rural rebels.

Bandits like this are everywhere in Henan. "The bandits are as big as hedgehog hair. On the south bank of the Yellow River, up and down thousands of miles, there are no less than 100 camps. They rise up and perish, or they are captured and beheaded, or they are annexed by their disciples. Such as Shangqiu Huanglao Mountain, Xuzhou Landa, Lan Er, Shangshui Nezha, Erzi Wang, etc., are not there. And the one that is particularly large and long-lasting, there are Li Jiyu, Shen Jingbang, Ren Chen, Zhang Ding in the west, Liu Hongqi, Zhou Jiali, Li Hao, Zhang Yang in the south, Guo Huangmian, Zhang Changjiao, Wang Yanbin, Ning Zhen, Wang Wenhuan in the Liang and Song Dynasty, and Li Zhenhai, Fang Wenyu, Xu Xianhuan, Cheng Xiaoyu, Qi Nianwu and so on in the east. They all support the people, rely on the fence to form a village, and attack and kill each other. The county engagement rate is its eyes and ears, and some divisions dare not pass and criticize. Or the anti-send room, support the heart, rely on the fox and the mouse, and listen to its nose, and the person who survives is everywhere. ”

"As long as the generalissimo explains to Luo Rucai and others, the extermination of the bandits to the east is to settle the place. The soldiers, horses, money, food, children, and jade silk land obtained were all owned by Cao Ying and the Fourth Battalion of Gezuo. From the mountain's point of view, I'm afraid that they will send all the elites there! Song Xiance twisted a few of his mouse whiskers, quite complacent.

This method of diverting the tiger from the mountain can be said to be the key point, strangling the lives of Luo Rucai, Ge Liyan and others. It was immediately unanimously approved by Li Zicheng and other leaders of the camp.

In their opinion, Luo Rucai, Ge Liyan Zuo Jinyu and others are all people who are greedy for money, good wine and sex, how can they let go of such an opportunity to make a fortune?

"You Cai, so let's say so. With Wang Long's department as the vanguard, the elite soldiers and horses of the fourth battalion of the left side of the revolution followed, and went to kill Li Jiyu and other bandits in Dengfeng. Clean up our home. Li Zicheng's face was full of sincerity in the conference hall.

"General, you have to tell General Wang Long well, be sure to promote the new policy in these areas." Niu Venus is also earnest, with the demeanor of an elder. (To be continued.) )

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