There are only less than 30,000 soldiers and horses left, and they are still remnants of the defeated army, and everyone has been running and fighting day and night, and the army is already disheartened at this moment, and there is no combat power at all.

Lu Xiangsheng looked up at the sky, and his stumble turned into a thousand years of hatred, thinking about the previous scenery and the current downfall, how different is the world.

"Governor, the soldiers have no food left, and after a day and a night of fighting, all of them are already at the end of their bows. They all need to stop and rest and fill their stomachs. A lieutenant galloped to Lu Xiangsheng's side and said loudly.

Lu Xiangsheng didn't dare to show any decadence in front of his subordinates, he quickly retracted his flying thoughts, was silent for a moment and said, "Immediately send out scouts to find nearby villages and grab food." ”

The deputy general was stunned on the spot, he really couldn't believe that such words actually came out of Lu Xiangsheng's mouth.

"Why don't you do it yet...... Lu Xiangsheng didn't see the deputy general respond for a long time, and immediately yelled again.

"Yes!" The lieutenant did not dare to delay for a moment, and then rode away.

Lu Xiangsheng ordered the guards around him: "Let everyone rest on the spot, weapons are not allowed to leave their hands, and the scouts are sent out to reconnoiter a mile away." ”

"Yes, Governor!" The two guards then went down to make arrangements.

At this moment, Lu Xiangsheng has reached a desperate situation, and any prestige or morality has been abandoned by him. At the moment, he only had one mind to bring these remaining people back to Shanxi safely, and for this, he could abandon anything, including his own old life.

A few miles away from Lu Xiangsheng's army, the 60,000 army led by Li Zicheng was still slowly advancing.

"King Chuang, it will be estimated that Lu Xiangsheng has arrived at the Kaifeng realm, where according to Mao Wenlong, a net has been laid and ready to give Lu Xiangsheng their final blow. There is no need for us to pursue any further, so why don't we leave now, lest Mao Wenlong trick us again. Liu Zongmin and Li Zicheng rode side by side.

"It's true that it's not interesting to fight like this again, but Mao Wenlong pit us twice, and I really can't swallow this bad breath." Li Zicheng frowned, and his face showed an unwilling look.

From the time of the sneak attack on Lu Xiangsheng's army camp, he had the idea of stealing some food. After all, half of the food he had grabbed with great difficulty had already been taken away by Mao Wenlong.

But when he rushed in with his troops, he found that Mao Wenlong had already occupied the grain that Lu Xiangsheng had robbed one step ahead of him. After being taken the lead several times, Li Zicheng became quite passive, and there was a feeling that he was always led by Mao Wenlong's nose, which lingered in his mind.

"King Chuang, why bother about these, after all, we have also got a lot of food now, and this time we have gained a lot of money to enter Henan. There is no benefit to be gained now, and there is really no need to take such risks. ”

Liu Zongmin's face was worried, and he kept persuading Li Zicheng to give up and chase down the imperial army. In addition to consuming military rations, continuing to pursue and kill now will only increase casualties and harm others and benefit oneself.

Li Zicheng's eyes suddenly lit up, he raised his hand to stop the army, and then said in a dark voice: "Zong Min, what do you think will happen if we take advantage of this time to sneak attack Shanxi again?" ”

Last time, he lost 50,000 soldiers and horses in Shanxi, although Li Zicheng didn't say anything on the surface, he actually kept thinking about it in his heart. At the moment, Lu Xiangsheng was trapped in Henan, and Mao Wenlong ambushed an army in Shanxi to prepare for a fight with Lu Xiangsheng.

In this way, both the imperial court and Mao Wenlong must have ignored him, that is, if he went to attack Shanxi at this time, there would definitely be a surprise effect.

There is no benefit to be made in Henan, but Shanxi is different, as long as you break one or two cities, you will definitely be able to harvest a lot.

Liu Zongmin was stunned for a moment, and after some subtle consideration, he also felt that there was a play, and when he replied: "This method is feasible, or we will bypass Kaifeng now, avoid Mao Wenlong and Lu Xiangsheng, and go to the Shanxi border to investigate and then make a decision?" ”

Li Zicheng felt that it made sense, and immediately ordered the whole army to change the route, avoid Kaifeng and detour to Zhengzhou, and go to Huaiqing Mansion in Shanxi to find out the truth.

Mao Wenlong really didn't notice the movements of Li Zicheng's army, and his mind was completely on Kaifeng's side at the moment. If it weren't for the fact that Runing Mansion still needed him to sit in charge, and he also needed to take into account the imperial army on Huguang's side, he might have gone to Kaifeng in person.

In the palace of Runing Mansion, Mao Wenlong had just received a secret report from Kaifeng, in which Zhuang Yexiang mentioned that Lu Xiangsheng suddenly stopped to rest, and also sent a small group of soldiers to the surrounding villages to grab food from the people's homes. She asked Mao Wenlong to let her lead her troops to battle and kill these officers and soldiers who robbed the people of food.

Mao Wenlong put down the letter and said with a smile: "It seems that Lu Xiangsheng has reached the end of his rope, and he didn't even care about his prestige, and sent his subordinates to rob the food of the people's homes. I wonder if if I spread the word about this, will the people despair of the court? ”

Hong Chengchou glanced at Mao Wenlong and said lightly: "In fact, this kind of thing has happened a lot before, and if it's just a matter of grabbing food, it's really not a big deal." The kind of killing of good people and wantonly slaughtering innocent people is already a common thing. ”

Mao Wenlong was stunned for a moment, and said helplessly: "The court is now a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, and the people have long been disappointed in it." ”

"Alas!"

Hong Chengchou suddenly sighed lightly and said: "What's more, do you know why Li Zicheng's thieves can't burn the wildfires and blow the spring breeze and grow again?" ”

Mao Wenlong shrugged his shoulders: "For the sake of natural disasters." ”

Hong Chengchou nodded and said: "This is just one-sided, since ancient times, the people's hearts have been very important to the emperor's family, but the system of the imperial court is actually more important." If there are no major problems with the imperial court's system, it will not be a problem at all to maintain the hearts and minds of the people. Today's imperial court has been completely rotten from top to bottom, to the point of no cure, and the collapse of the system is the root cause of the great chaos in the world. ”

After listening to Hong Chengchou's discussion, Mao Wenlong was slightly surprised, you must know that what he heard from Chongzhen's mouth before was not like this?

"You are suspicious of being biased in what you say. When I met with Cheng Zuo before, he kept saying that the root cause of the chaos in the world was the lack of food in the imperial court. He said that as long as there was enough food, the people could be appeased and not rebel, and the court could concentrate on dealing with the rear army and not get to the point where it is now. Mao Wenlong tilted his head and said with a smile.

Hong Chengchou laughed shamefully and said, "Faint monarch! ”

Mao Wenlong was stunned again, then pondered for a moment, nodded with a smile and said, "Maybe what you said is right." ”

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