Of course, Lin Yi can't pacify the thief for the sake of the thief, he has to find a way to seize the time to strengthen himself now.

This battle won more than 1,000 rogue soldiers, the harvest is not small, of course, the price paid is not big, more than 8,000 elite divisions, only two or three hundred casualties, this credit will be reported in the future, and it will be rewarded by Emperor Chongzhen. If the court is unwilling to co-opt the thieves privately, Lin Yi would rather support them with his own personal silver, of course he knows that in this troubled world, there are soldiers and horses, and he has the right to speak.

What's more, in the current situation, Lin Yi knew that the imperial court would not care about these trivial matters at all, as long as he could guard the border for the imperial court and suppress the thieves, he would be a hero, and not only would it not be at fault to recruit the thieves, but perhaps there would be merit, unless the powerful ministers framed it.

As a person who has crossed over, Lin Yi knows more about this Chongzhen Emperor, although Emperor Chongzhen is suspicious and stubborn, but in times of crisis, he is still very sympathetic to his courtiers. In order to rely on Wu Sangui, let him guard the Jingshi, and also crowned him as an earl, completely ignoring the fact that his own uncle Zu Dashou had surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and seduced him many times to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

If according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, these two people must be guilty of capital crimes, but Emperor Chongzhen not only did not punish their crimes, but instead made them officials, not to say how holy and benevolent Emperor Chongzhen was, but because the two of them were heavily armed, and they were the support of the imperial court in the case of internal and external troubles.

This shows that Emperor Chongzhen is still very tolerant sometimes, as long as he can eliminate thieves, expand soldiers and horses, and increase some strength, it is not a matter at all.

Now the imperial court is only busy with external and internal affairs, so when Lin Yi does this, he is not worried that Emperor Chongzhen will be unhappy at all.

As for these thieves who are easy to turn back, Lin Yi will not be worried.

Because Lin Yi knew that most of these thieves were hungry people, desperate and forced by life, he tucked his head on the belt of his trousers and walked such a road. Now catch them and don't kill them, but give them favors, let them wear military uniforms, have food and drink, and have money to take, and merit to stand, so that they will not rebel against them.

Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng, Ma Huihui, Luo Rucai, the reason why these people repeatedly rebelled was because Emperor Chongzhen couldn't control them.

In addition, not all thieves are repeated, Liu Guoneng is also a bandit who gives the government a headache, and he once struck with Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng as brothers, and his reputation is second only to Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng, and Luo Rucai. But after this person surrendered to the imperial court, the thief was very hard, according to historical records, he repeatedly made military exploits, and finally fell into the hands of Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng persuaded him to follow him again, Liu Guoneng categorically refused, generously surrendered, and became a great hero of the imperial court.

This shows that these people can be controlled, and if they can be controlled, they can be completely used by me.

Now the reason why Lin Yi has adopted them is to control them and achieve the purpose of being used by me.

Facts have proved that Lin Yi is completely right, his trick is very clever and effective. More than 1,000 thieves have followed him with all their hearts since then.

Soon, Lin Yi figured out the ins and outs of the thieves in this area from the mouths of these generals, and after analyzing and sorting out, he summed up the two most useful information.

First, the main force of the thieves, mainly gathered in Suide and Yichuan at this time, and there were thirty or forty thousand people, and their main target this time was Yan'an.

The second is the Shooting Collapse and Sweeping Tiger that Lin Yi and they have eliminated, they took these more than 10,000 people, mainly to feint Xi'an Mansion, in order to contain the soldiers and horses of Xi'an Mansion, and cooperate with Tianxing to seize Yan'an Mansion. When these thieves heard that Miyun only came with 7,000 reinforcements, they disdained it and devoured Lin Yi with contempt, and as a result, there was the battle of Longmen Mountain.

Lin Yi was very happy to learn about this, because these hostile situations were so valuable that it could be said that they were hard to buy.

Lin Yi immediately had a strategy to break the enemy, and immediately wrote a letter to Li Guoqi, the general soldier of Shaanxi, telling him about the thief he had obtained and the situation of the Longmen Mountain catastrophe, and telling him his next plan to break the enemy. Lin Yi moved north to attack Suide, let Li Guoqi's troops go out of Xi'an, attack Yichuan, and be able to take these two places, which is equivalent to cutting off the back road of the thieves, so that the soldiers of Yan'an can hold the city first, and then kill them from the city after the success of these two groups.

After the letter was written, he reviewed it in detail, and when he saw that there were no mistakes, he signed it autographically, and stamped it with his own general military seal, and Xiaoying and Zhezhe helped him dry the ink and seal it with fire tin.

Then Lin Yi called Zhang Hua in, asked him to ride a fast horse to Xi'an Mansion to deliver the letter, and told him that the matter was very important, and he must hand it over to Li Guoqi, the general soldier of Shaanxi.

Although Zhang Huaqi has a lustful problem, but he can still use talents, this person is experienced, good skills, and clever and thoughtful, he is a wise and brave person, in this era of war and chaos, such a task has to be sent to complete it.

After Zhang Hua received the order, he hid the letter on his body, and then picked a few good followers, and a few people beat their horses like flying, and left Lin Yi's camp overnight.

Lin Yi did not delay, the military situation is changing rapidly, and the opportunity cannot be lost. In addition, I learned from the mouth of the general that there were more than 10,000 people in total who shot the sky, and the battle of Longmen Mountain only annihilated the two thieves and their main force, and there must be fish that slipped through the net. After going back, after they got the news, if they adjusted their strategic deployment, then Lin Yi's battle would be in vain, which would be equivalent to losing the fighter.

The soldiers were very fast, and Lin Yi set up camp on the night of the day when Zhang Hua went to Xi'an Mansion to deliver the letter, and the direction was of course Suide County in the northwest direction. Lin Yi and the others went to Luliang from Shanxi to Xi'an Mansion, but now they can only turn to the northwest, and Xi'an Mansion is already fine.

Lin Yi ordered to speed up the march, and the distance of more than five hundred miles, according to his plan, must be arrived within two days.

Don't worry about taking the wrong path if you are not familiar with the geography of this area, Lin Yi has recruited more than 1,000 rogue soldiers, not only increasing the strength of more than 1,000 people, providing reliable military information, and being a guide, which is of great use.

Thieves haunt the mountains and wilderness, escape the mountains and forests, the thieves in this area are familiar, they know the road with their eyes closed, and they also avoid detours, which is a shortcut, whether the road is good or not, whether they can pass the car, they all know it well, and save a lot of mahjong for Lin Yi, and there is no need to send someone to inquire about it, and get twice the result with half the effort.

Two days later, Lin Yi's more than 8,000 horses appeared in the mountains and forests dozens of miles southeast of Suide......

Zhang Hua took Lin Yi's letter, and arrived outside Xi'an Mansion more than two hours later, just after the fourth watch. Zhang Hua and the others slept in the woods beside the road for a while, and when the city opened at dawn, they flew into Xi'an Mansion in Damaru.

In the past two days, Li Guoqi, the general soldier of Shaanxi, is on fire for reinforcements, tens of thousands of thieves are eyeing Xi'an Mansion and Yan'an Mansion, and they only have a total of 16,000 officers and soldiers who can fight, but the disparity is huge, and they have suffered several defeats, and their morale is low, how dare they come out to fight against the thieves?

Lost a few county seats, thieves killed officials and seized the government, and killed so many officials and yamen people, can the court spare him? I am afraid that Ding Qirui, the governor of Shaanxi, and Zheng Chongjian, the governor of the three sides, will not be able to pass this pass, and he urgently needs to win a few battles, behead or capture some thieves alive or drive them away, and he can also make up for his mistakes and reduce his crimes, otherwise he will wait to be impeached and put in prison to lose his head.

However, his troops are seriously insufficient, saying that two total soldiers of nearly 20,000 horses came to support him, and as a result, a total of 7,000 Miyun soldiers came, and the thieves shot the sky and pulled the people to Luliang, which must be the reinforcements to block Miyunlai, they were afraid of the thieves' tricks to lure the enemy, and they did not dare to go out of the city easily. In this way, Miyun's reinforcements are estimated to have little hope. What can I do? If the thieves attack on a large scale, Yan'an Mansion or Xi'an Mansion, how many days can they support such a small number of people? If something goes wrong in Xi'an Mansion or Yan'an Mansion again, I don't know how many heads he needs to grow to get up to the peak.

In the past two days, he has sent two groups of people to Governor Zheng to urge reinforcements, and there is no news from Lord Zheng's side, but he has received a report that the main forces of Zhang Xianzhong, Lao Huihui and others have left Yunyang and Junzhou, and there are signs of coming to Xing'an. They plan to surround these bandits in Xing'an, He Renlong and Zuo Liangyu's men and horses have already arrived near Xing'an, how can there be extra reinforcements sent to them?

Li Guoqi, the chief military officer, was so anxious that he turned around, flipped the table for a while, scolded his mother for a while, and served his subordinates and soldiers, so frightened that he didn't dare to come out.

The guerrilla attacks of the adjutant generals and generals were also at a loss except for quietly sending people to keep an eye on the battle situation in the Luliang area.

They are all very discouraged, there is no hope for the battle of Lu Liang, how can Lin Yi's 7,000 men and horses deal with more than 10,000 thieves who can shoot the sky and the sweeping tiger, shoot the sky, the sweeping tiger is a famous bandit, extremely difficult to deal with, the imperial court sent heavy troops to suppress it for several years, and the elite soldiers of several provinces surrounded it, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting's great ability, He Renlong, Zuo Liangyu, and the big and small Cao Da commanders, one is more fierce than the other, but they have not eliminated them.

Lin Yi only had 7,000 people, and if he encountered them, he would definitely be more than lucky, and he didn't need to send someone to investigate, and he got a break that would definitely be Lin Yi's defeat.

If reinforcements don't come all the way, the thieves will be even more rampant, and Governor Zheng and Ding Futai may be able to intercept Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Lao Huihui and other thieves in the Kangnan area, but Xi'an Mansion and Yan'an Mansion will be in danger......

At this time, a soldier who reported the incident ran in.

"Report to the general army, good news, Miyun general army Longmen Mountain catastrophe, the court bandits shot the sky and the sweeping tiger were wiped out in one fell swoop......"