Unloading the royal wine and meat, Lin Yi ordered the three armies to be rewarded and congratulated. And tell the gang that no matter whether it is an officer or a soldier, no matter how high or low the position, everyone has a share, and everyone is equal.

The soldiers are all elated, you must know that to have wine and meat to eat and drink, for the late Ming Dynasty generals are very luxurious and rare things, especially on the journey of aid, to be able to eat and drink the wine and meat sent by the imperial court, not only rare, this glory is still an undesirable thing, and some are difficult to encounter once in a lifetime.

Therefore, more than 20,000 soldiers will make fists and give orders, which is very lively, like a festival. When they were eating and drinking, they all thanked the emperor for his kindness, of course, they were more grateful for the kindness of Lord Lin, especially the prisoners who were adapted from the thieves, and they were glad that they chose the right way and followed the right person, otherwise, not to mention eating and drinking here in infinite scenery, their heads would have moved long ago, and even the ancestral graves had been dug up.

The reason why they are where they are today is, of course, given by Lord Bailin, and in the future, they will definitely have to be the head of Lord Weilin. In their hearts, they even regarded Lin Yi as a reborn parent and a reborn father.

Lin Yi opened the flying fish suit, Xiaoying and Zhezhe helped him put it on and clean it up, and then saw that Lin Yiyanran became a second-class member of the court, compared with the general of the fresh-clothed angry horse, he completely changed his style, the person is the clothes and the horse is the saddle, this dress is red and purple, and it seems to be the groom's official, Xiaoying and Zhezhe are a little dazed, this beautiful son with brocade clothes and jade face, and a graceful and suave man, is it that he gets along with Brother Lin day and night? They were almost unrecognizable.

A few days later, the military order arrived, and Li Wenhai, the head of the military department, brought Yang Sichang's military order with a few personal entourage, ordering Lin Yi to immediately move to Nanyang and encircle and suppress the bandit Li Zicheng with the Nanjing soldiers and the Baoding soldiers.

Lin Yi knew that the strongest opponent was finally here!

If the history of the end of the year is a martial arts drama, then Li Zicheng is undoubtedly one of the seeded players who are most likely to win the position of the leader of the alliance. And now he has completed a new round of retreat and has returned to the rivers and lakes. Lin Yi is going to play against such an opponent, so he has to be cautious.

After Lin Yi received the order, he let Li Wenhai into the camp, first tea and then wine, and the two talked for a while, from the head of the military department, Li Wenhai, Lin Yi got a lot of recent news about the legendary leader of the peasant army, which is roughly consistent with the historical record.

A year ago, Li Zicheng fell for the treacherous tricks of the trilateral governor Hong Chengchou, and the battle of Tongguan Nanyuan was ambushed by Cao Bianjiao, one of the most capable commanders of the Ming Dynasty, and almost all the troops were wiped out.

At that time, including Hong Chengchou, it was believed that Li Zicheng's army had been wiped out, but his soldiers searched for the bones in the mountains and fields, identified and checked, and never found Li Zicheng's body. Hong Chengchou felt that this big fish might have slipped through the net, but in the compromises of the imperial court, they still played up their exploits in exterminating Li Zicheng, in their opinion, Li Zicheng was either dead or disabled, and it was impossible to resurrect if he wanted to score twice.

But wolves go all over the world to eat meat, and dogs have to eat after all.

Li Zicheng and the other eighteen cavalry quickly found some of the soldiers of the old battalion, and Li Zicheng's old battalion was equivalent to Lin Yi's standard battalion, which was the strongest combat effectiveness in his team, led by Hao Shaoqi. This is a famous general under Li Zicheng, this person was originally Gao Yingxiang's subordinate, he was originally a standard-bearer in the army, and he didn't know what his name was, only that his nickname was Hao Shaoqi. Why did he get such a nickname, it is because he is too brave, every time he fights with the official army, he takes the lead in the charge, waving the flag and shouting to kill the enemy, and then he wins the battle, because everyone gave him a good name, called Hao Shaoqi, and his real name has been forgotten for a long time. After the death of King Gao Chuang (Gao Yingxiang), Li Zicheng took over the banner and called King Li Chuang, and after Hao Shaoqi threw himself under Li Zicheng's command, he didn't know what his real name was, only called him Hao Shaoqi.

This time, Hao Shaoqi also broke out with hundreds of men and horses, joined forces with Li Zicheng in Shangluo Mountain, temporarily secluded in the mountains, and later contacted the women's battalion, and the female battalion commander was Gao Guiying.

This woman is not simple. If there is an unknown woman behind every successful man, Gao Guiying is undoubtedly such a woman behind Li Zicheng.

Speaking of which, I have to talk about Li Zicheng's woman. To talk about Li Zicheng's women, all of them are legendary, and there are only three who can really be called his wife, and the other dewy couples and confidants are innumerable.

Li Zicheng's first woman was Han Jin'er, but Han Jin'er's first man was not Li Zicheng. Han Jin'er is a famous beauty, who became famous and extremely romantic at the age of fourteen. Li Zicheng married her when he was in his hometown, but he couldn't drive this woman, and when Li Zicheng was not at home, Han Jin'er wore the first green hat for Li Zicheng, and he wore it well, and Li Zicheng killed her in a rage.

After rebelling and becoming a thief, Li Zicheng met a second woman, that is, Xing's, Xing's is not a weak woman, not only beautiful, but also has a good martial arts. After marrying Li Zicheng, Xing is a good financial manager, in the military management of logistics, but met the tall and handsome Gao Jie, who was later one of the four towns of the Nanming River and North Xingpingbo, this was Li Zicheng's iron brother, and also his pioneer officer, one of his confidants, the two fell in love at first sight, first fornicated and then eloped, and then surrendered to the government. Now Gao Jie and Xing are in He Renlong's team, the two of them know Li Zicheng too well, and they have made a lot of military exploits for the imperial court, so Xing put on a second green hat for Li Zicheng, which is more real than the first one, and he can't get rid of it.

In the battle with the official army, Li Zicheng was injured and arrested and imprisoned, and befriended a noble man, this person is called Gao Ligong. After Li Zicheng escaped, he lived in Gao Ligong's house to recuperate from his injuries because of Gao Ligong's kindness. Gao Ligong's younger sister is Gao Guiying, who is responsible for taking care of Li Zicheng. Gao Guiying also has a younger brother Gao Yigong, the Gao family is a martial arts family, the three of them are all strong in martial arts, and their uncle is the famous peasant army leader Gao Yingxiang. Gao Guiying is knowledgeable and knowledgeable, familiar with military books and war strategies, not only is she beautiful, but what is more rare is that she has a good martial arts, especially her swordsmanship, Li Zicheng's swordsmanship occupies a must, the two of them are learning martial arts together, Gao's sword is against the king sword, and the sword is invincible in the world, so the two people have been in love for a long time, and Li Zicheng married Gao Guiying, who is an all-round talent in civil and military affairs.

Since then, Gao Guiying has become Li Zicheng's virtuous helper, and when she mastered the logistics for her, she also set up a women's battalion and trained a special team for Li Zicheng. The representatives of the women's battalion are Huiying and Huimei, and the representatives of the children's soldiers are Shuangxi and Zhang Nai, the youngest of them is less than ten years old, and the older is fifteen or sixteen years old, but don't look at it as women and children.

In Shangluo Mountain, Li Zicheng and Gao Guiying reunited, and later some famous generals like Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi joined in with the remnants, they recruited troops and horses, trained the team, and had four or five thousand men and horses under their command in just over a year.

When Zhang Xianzhong rebelled in Gucheng, Li Zicheng's generals included Liu Zongmin, Hao Shaoqi, Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Liu Fangliang, Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Zongdi, all of whom can be called ten thousand enemies, in addition to Li Laiheng, Liu Tichun, Bai Minghe, Lan Yingcheng, etc., are also very brave. If you count Li Zicheng's women's battalion and children's soldiers, although Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses are not many now, they are all elites who can fight habitually.

In addition, the situation at that time was very favorable to Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong rebelled in Gucheng, Luo Rucai rebelled in Yunzhou, and Ma Huihui also responded in the Huguang area, so Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai secretly met, and lost no time in raising the banner of rebellion, and the peasant army showed a spark in the prairie again.

Although the officers and troops were defeated and retreated, Cao Bianjiao, Zuo Guangxian, and Ma Ke, the elite of the Ming Dynasty or the nemesis of the peasant army, were all taken by Hong Chengchou to Liaodong to deal with Huang Taiji, He Renlong and Zuo Liangyu went to deal with Zhang Xianzhong, and the rest of the officers and soldiers were all busy, who could deal with Li Zicheng?

In desperation, Yang Sichang personally supervised the division, and entered Henan with Zhu Dadian's Nanjing soldiers and Hu David's Baoding soldiers, and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers surrounded and suppressed, but despite this, it was difficult to recover the defeat, and Yang Sichang had to transfer Lin Yi, the trump card division.

After Lin Yi learned about these details, his heart was the same as that of Spiegel, not so much to let himself encircle and suppress Li Zicheng, but to let himself and Li Zicheng go head-to-head, how could Yang Sichang have elite soldiers and strong generals? One Liu Zeqing returned to Shandong, Zhu Dadian and Hu David are incompetent, and the other general soldiers, town generals and guerrillas are not worth mentioning, in this case, it is strange that the official army does not defeat the battle!

But no matter what, he has to know this Li Zicheng, don't look at him now only a few thousand people, but there are too many famous generals under his command, and as soon as he arrives in Henan, he is like a fish in water, and he doesn't have to worry about having no army. Henan has been a province with a large population since ancient times, and the hungry people are everywhere, Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, and Gongzi Li Yan fooled him again, and as soon as he shouted the slogan of free grain in Juntian, his men and horses will increase geometrically like molecular fission, and then it will not be a few thousand, but tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of troops.

Therefore, Lin Yi knew that this was a terrible opponent and a severe test for him.

But he must not be like Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong, save his strength and stand still. It's not for Yang Sichang and Emperor Chongzhen, who will be given a chicken feather as an arrow, but as a general of the Ming Dynasty, he will take the Ming Dynasty's Yulu, so he has to serve the country loyally, destroy the thieves, and serve the Ming Dynasty and the hundreds of millions of living beings in the world.

What's more, Lin Yi knew that Li Zicheng would not be able to become a big weapon after all, no matter how strong he was, he was destined to fail the hurdle of entering Beijing to take the exam. Eating them and strengthening yourself is the law of survival in troubled times.

Therefore, after Lin Yi received Yang Sichang's order, he immediately took action, and he had been fighting for a few months, and he was already a strong soldier, with more than 20,000 horses and horses taking Jiang Xingyuan's fourth battalion as the vanguard, the reason why these 3,000 people were the vanguard was because they had infantry and horse teams, opened roads in the mountains, stacked bridges in the water, and could still fight when encountering a small group of enemies, as for the first and second battalions for the firearms battalion and the third battalion, that is, the standard battalion, which were used to fight tough battles, let Wang Jian lead the six battalions to be responsible for the food, grass and supplies of the whole army, and Lin Yi and Zu Keyong led the Chinese army, The people of the Eighth Battalion left the Baishui River and went east into Henan to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng......