Lin Yi's men and horses had just moved to Lizhou in the north of Jin, and Zheng Chongjian's text arrived, saying that Tianxing, not muddy, lights not on, sweeping tigers, shooting the sky and other gangs of thieves entangled tens of thousands of horses, raided Zhou County, and threatened Xi'an Mansion, Shaanxi General Li Guoqi took care of one thing and the other, and the situation was already difficult to deal with, so Lin Yi immediately rushed to Xi'an to suppress the thieves, and cooperated with him to suppress the thieves, as well as Chai Shihua, the chief soldier of Gansu.

After the three general soldiers exterminated the thieves, they immediately moved south and rushed to Xing'an, that is, the Ankang area of Shaanxi Province in the later generations, to besiege the eight kings Zhang Xianzhong and Lao Hui Ma Shouying's men and horses, He Renlong and Zuo Liangyu, the two general military officers, had already led their troops to Xing'an.

As soon as Lin Yi saw that the task of suppressing bandits was really heavy enough, he immediately ordered the troops to speed up and send scouts to collect military information along the way.

Soon Lin Yi mastered the thieves in Shaanxi. Due to the fact that the men and horses of the three general soldiers of Guyuan, Lintao, and Ningxia in the Ganshan region, Zuo Guangxian, Mark, and Cao Bianjiao, were ordered by Hong Chengchou to move to Liaodong, and these bandits who were hiding in the mountains to play lurking were able to breathe and resurge.

Because Shaanxi is the hardest-hit area, is the birthplace of thieves in the late Ming Dynasty, of course, this is also the focus of the official army to suppress thieves, under the blow of Yang Sichang's four corners and six corners and ten sides of the net, the thieves here in addition to surrendering, fled to death, were beaten to pieces, and disappeared. Only a few remnants are left to hide in the deep mountains and old forests and hibernate up, passing through the stars, the lights are not lit, the mud is not sticky, sweeping the tiger, shooting the sky and so on are all well-known bandit leaders, they are from thousands of people and horses, some only have 1,800 people left, the least even only a few dozen people left.

During this period, the peasant armies everywhere fell into a low ebb, and these thieves were also discouraged and disappointed, and even the hearts of the scattered gangs at that time were born, and they came out to change their faces, peel off the skin of the thieves, and become a Ming Shunmin, and even jumped out of their minds with such thoughts.

But at this moment, Cao Bianjiao and other fierce men withdrew, these thieves were very well-informed, and felt that their spring was coming again, they drilled out and started activities, at the beginning it was robbery and killing, whether it was a good person or a bad person, an officer or an ordinary person, they ate it all, robbed both wealth and sex, and lived one day at a time, and did a sum of money.

Later, great news came to them, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng successively pulled the flag to rebel, Luo Rucai and Ma Huihui also followed the rebellion, and then the thieves felt that they could start to fight again.

With the last lesson, they knew that the government would soon come to encircle and suppress them, and in order to deal with the encirclement and suppression of the official army, these bandits joined forces, and their power became bigger and bigger, and they all pinned their heads to the waistband of their trousers to live, with wine to drink, meat to eat, and women to play. And they are sometimes very righteous, and they are happy to fight against violence, peace, and revenge, which is quite a bit of a reckless hero in Liangshan.

Some murderers and arsonists can't get along, and bandits and robbers are still very envious of their kind of life, as long as they can live, have food and clothing, so these lawbreakers came to join them, many ordinary people who couldn't live also joined them, and the Ming generals and officials who were caught by the thieves also joined them.

Therefore, although their ranks are not good or bad, there are everyone, they are purely a rabble, but they are developing very rapidly, and they are getting bigger and bigger like a snowball, and now they have a total of forty or fifty thousand people, and the momentum is huge. They killed people and robbed, attacked cities and seized land, and bloodied the yamen, and the spearhead was directly aimed at the Ming government and the local tyrants and inferior gentry.

After understanding this, Lin Yi had to teach these peasant troops a lesson.

For these peasant armies, or simply called the bandit armies, Lin Yi has long had a qualitative understanding, in the textbooks of later generations, they are called the peasant rebel army, whether the word "righteousness" is missing or not, before the crossing, Lin Yi used to be very sympathetic to them, because they are linked to the peasants and come from the poor people, which is determined by Lin Yi's class background.

He used to feel very cordial to Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong and some of their generals, and once regarded them as heroes to yearn for.

But now Lin Yi's sympathy is gone, because Lin Yi has been integrated into the parties, that is to say, he has changed from a bystander who watched history hundreds of years later, and now he has become one of the parties to this history, or a participant.

Lin Yi felt that these people did not deserve sympathy, due to the limitations of the class and the short-sightedness, they were difficult to achieve after all, and finally they were exterminated by the Ming army or the Manchu Qing Tartars, these efforts they made, to say that there is no positive and progressive significance is not in line with the facts, from the perspective of the Marxist concept of historical development and historical materialism, they have struck a blow to the reactionary rule of the Ming Dynasty, accelerated the demise of the decadent Ming Dynasty, and are of great significance for changing the dynasty, promoting national integration, and promoting the development of history. If you say so, those traitors and thieves such as Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui, Li Chengdong and others are also historical heroes.

Not to mention these, but now Lin Yi thinks that the significance of their progress has not had a negative impact, disrupting society and disregarding people's lives, even if Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who are talked about by some later generations, are only engaged in the behavior of landlord Li and landlord Zhang replacing landlord Zhu, the price is of course the lives of tens of millions of people, and Lin Yi has also become one of the victims.

Lin Yi thinks that these peasant armies are nothing more than the dregs under the rolling wheels of history, and if he sympathizes with them and is merciful to them, he is irresponsible to himself, and he is sorry for this crossing.

What's more, Lin Yi's identity is now a military general of the Ming Dynasty, and food, clothing, and housing are all the servants of the imperial court, and it is his duty to deal with Tartars and thieves.

Lin Yi knew this when the border soldiers entered the guard and attacked and killed the thieves in the sky.

Therefore, Lin Yi walked forward, while warning himself that in this troubled world, there must be no kindness of a woman, if you want to do a vigorous career, then you have to follow me and perish, or you will go with the flow and resign yourself to fate. Of course you can't do the latter, or you're tossing in vain these days? Damn dick up, these insignificant people, who die in anyone's hands, just like Lu Xun said, can only mourn their misfortune, angry with them, and would rather be a troubled hero, but also kill them personally!

However, Lin Yi also knows that these thieves must not be underestimated, it is true that they are a rabble, but how many famous ministers and generals of the Wenda princes are planted under these rabble, in terms of combat effectiveness, they may not be as good as the Manchu Tartars, but their means cannot be said to be too much, nor can they be said to be low, including Emperor Chongzhen, they forced themselves to hang themselves on the crooked neck tree of the coal mountain.

Passing through the stars, not sticking to the mud, the lights are not on, sweeping the tiger, shooting the sky, Lin Yi counted the leaders of these thieves in his heart, and when he heard their nicknames, he knew that they were all thorns that were not easy to mess with, although they did not have Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were famous, but the thieves who had not been exterminated by the imperial court for so long should definitely not be underestimated.

Therefore, as soon as he entered the territory of Shaanxi, Lin Yi adjusted the formation, and let the new official Wang Jianli (second only to the guerrilla commander) lead the new training camp to the front, the deputy general Zu Keyong walked behind with the standard battalion, and Lin Yi took the personal guards and heavy grain and grass as the Chinese army in the middle.

It should be said that the ears and eyes of these thieves are very well-informed, they have been dealing with the official army for a long time, and they often disguise themselves as ordinary people to inquire about the news of the officers and soldiers, and some ordinary people are willing to tell them directly, and some of them are some people who have surrendered in the official government, and they also tell them some news, and now they know everything about the affairs of the government and the opposition.

Now that Lu Xiangsheng is history, they don't have to worry about King Lu Yan anymore.

Sun Chuanting was hidden by Emperor Chongzhen, Xiong Wencan was also arrested and questioned, Hong Chengchou went to Liaodong, the Ming Dynasty they were most afraid of these people, and now the lovely Emperor Chongzhen has helped them get rid of them, and they are a little unscrupulous.

These thieves have taken Suide and Yichuan and other county seats, Shaanxi General Li Guoqi has lost two battles in a row, more than 20,000 people and horses are now only more than 16,000 people, neither dare to attack Suide, nor dare to enter Yichuan, now he can only divide his troops to guard Yan'an Mansion and Xi'an Mansion, afraid that these thieves will take advantage of the situation to take down his Yan'an Mansion and Xi'an Mansion, then he will only wait to lose his head, when the time comes, Emperor Chongzhen will not be able to cut off his head, Zheng Chongjian, Ding Qirui, Yang Sichang, how many heads does he have enough for these people to cut off?

Zheng Chongjian has already sent someone to tell him that Lin Yi, the general soldier of Miyun, and Chai Shihua, the general soldier of Gansu, will soon come to support, and then these two general soldiers will bring nearly 20,000 horses, and Li Guoqi's heart can be regarded as letting go.

On this day, Li Guoqi, the chief soldier, was in the military tent, and someone came to report, "My lord, the people of Lord Lin of the Miyun General Soldier have arrived in the Luliang area, with a total of about 7,000 people. In a few days, you will be able to meet with adults. ”

Although he thought that 7,000 people were a bit small, he finally came, and it was better than nothing, so Li Guoqi twisted his beard and nodded.

"Where are the men and horses of Lord Chai, the chief soldier of Gansu?"

"Answering people's words, there are no soldiers and horses from Gansu, and the governor Zheng Chongjian has already sent three documents in a row, but Lord Chai has not responded."

"What does the guy surnamed Chai want to do?" Li Guoqi stood up when he heard this, "He didn't listen to the words of Lord Zheng, the right attendant of the military department and the governor of the three sides, did he have to let Yang Ge Lao or the emperor invite him?" ”

After waiting for two more days, he still didn't see a single soldier sent from Gansu, but the news finally came from Gansu, and the chief military officer Chai Shihua said that he had received reliable news that a group of old soldiers would be killed back to Ningxia, and he had no soldiers to send, and he did not dare to leave Gansu.

"Damn, it's clear that I'm looking for an excuse not to come! Only 7,000 reinforcements came, how to fight this battle? Let Zheng Chongjian personally come here to supervise the teacher! Li Guoqi scolded and said angrily. Of course, he knew that the old Hui Ma Shouying's men and horses were now in Yunyang, Hubei, how could they run back to Ningxia?

"Your Excellency is angry." Li Longkai, a staff general next to him, said, "Although Lord Lin only has 7,000 men and horses, they heard that they are very capable of fighting, repeatedly defeated the Manchurian Tartars, and also attracted many Mongolian tribes. ”

"Hey, these thieves are different from the Tartars, they are scheming, unexpected, unexpected, and run away after the fight, these thieves are all hob meat, and they do not have several times the strength of the thieves, I am afraid it is not easy to suppress the thieves. King Lu Yan and Sun Wushu did not succeed in the end, Yang Ge Lao's four corners and six corners, and the ten-sided net did not destroy them, Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao and their uncles and nephews were so powerful, and they did not eradicate them, what is the use of Lord Lin with 7,000 soldiers? Now that the thieves are more than twice as strong as we are, can you maintain the status quo? Master Zheng also wants us to move south to Xing'an after killing the thieves. Li Guoqi sighed and shook his head.

"Then it's a little harder." The general just wanted to comfort his lord, and when he heard this, he also had a bitter look on his face, and he was speechless.

He knew that the worries of their chief soldier Li Guoqi were not unreasonable, these thieves were indeed difficult to deal with, if they could beat you, they would appear in the open, if they couldn't beat you, they would hide in the dark, that is, Lord Lin, they came, there were only more than 20,000 soldiers in total, how to deal with the forty or fifty thousand people of these bandits? These people are extremely fierce and kill people without blinking. This battle is really not easy to fight, if you don't get killed by thieves, you have to be slaughtered by Zheng Chongjian, Ding Qirui or Yang Sichang. Hey, this Gansu Chai general soldier is too hateful......

The general shook his head as he thought about it.

At this time, a military general entered Xi'an Mansion from Yan'an Mansion, and knelt down when he saw Li Guoqi: "My lord, according to reliable information, the sweeping tiger and the shooting heaven went to Luliang Mountain with tens of thousands of horses, which is likely to be unfavorable to Lord Lin and them." Please make a ruling, should we send troops to Luliang Mountain? ”

"No." Li Guoqi pondered, "These thieves are scheming, if it is their plan to lure the enemy into depth, and fall for them, the consequences will be unimaginable." Go back and tell Huang Ming to stick to the city, wait and see what happens, and don't go out of the city. ”

"No." The general agreed, left the General Soldier's Mansion, Pegasus went out of Xi'an, beat the horse like flying, went straight to Yan'an Mansion, and went back to give orders to Yan'an Guard General Huang Ming......

Huang Ming Li Guoqi's deputy general was ordered to guard Yan'an Mansion, and after receiving the order of the chief soldier Li Guoqi, he did not dare to go out of the city without authorization.

He knew that the worries of their general army were not unreasonable, what if they sent troops at this time and were taken advantage of to attack Yan'an Mansion or Xi'an Mansion?

But as far as he knew, it was very likely that the more than 10,000 thieves who were sweeping the floor and shooting the sky were going to ambush Lin Yi and them, and I hope Lord Lin could escape this catastrophe. There is no hope for the reinforcements in Gansu, and the reinforcements in Miyun have been ambushed again, and the future battles will be even more impossible. Is that all there is to it?

Deputy Chief Soldier Huang Ming was at a loss when he thought about this, and he wanted to send someone out to deliver a letter to Lin Yi and them, but he felt that it was too late.