Mao Wenlong didn't feel sleepy at all, so he had no choice but to get up and went straight to the outside of the courtyard. The fastest update and the vast and intimate moved the chair for him, and Mao Wenlong lay on his back on the chair, looking at the moon in a daze.

Zhuang Yexiang of Kaifeng has sent a message, saying that the imperial army has been assembled, and it is possible to cross the Yellow River at any time to attack and open the blockade. She asked Mao Wenlong to send troops to support.

But where is Mao Wenlong's troops to be sent now, and he reluctantly replied to inform Zhuang Yexiang that he should not close the city and not go to confront the imperial army. Everything is focused on the safety of Kaifeng City, and the rest can be left alone.

Now that the autumn harvest has begun in various places, the fact is as Hong Chengchou expected, there are indeed many wealthy households who disdain Mao Wenlong's order to advance the autumn harvest. And the hateful thing is that most of these people are really rich.

Those who were inferior followed Mao Wenlong's orders and began to loot grain, and then dragged it to the city to hoard it.

It is a pity that although there are many of these people, due to financial problems, their arable land is completely incomparable with that of a small number of really rich households.

Therefore, more than half of the grain in the cities has not yet been harvested.

Mao Wenlong felt that it was a pity, but at present, he had no time to be distracted from this, so he could only watch that once the war was over, the grain that was still left in the field would inevitably be looted.

Although Mao Wenlong only accounted for 30% of these grains, they were a large number, and together they were a lot of wealth. Just watching it being ruined and robbed by the enemy, it is naturally not happy.

stayed in the courtyard until dawn, Mao Wenlong still did not have any sleepiness, and at this time, news came from Kaifeng City, and the imperial army finally began to cross the river. Later, it was reported from Shaanxi that Li Zicheng led an army of 150,000 to take the lead in attacking Xianyang City.

Mao Wenlong drank a bowl of porridge casually, and then asked Haoda to go and call Hong Chengchou over. The war has begun, and he must keep an eye on it.

Zhuang Yexiang of Kaifeng City knew that he was invincible to the imperial army, and followed Mao Wenlong's order to close the city and not come out. Let the imperial army cross the river smoothly, and then watch the imperial army begin to loot the grain that has not been harvested.

At this point, those rich people who did not obey Mao Wenlong's orders suddenly became anxious. These things are their lifeblood, and many people see that they are profitable, so they put their wealth on it.

However, at this moment, they could only be on the city wall, watching the army of the imperial court loot the grain that should have belonged to them.

"City Lord, you must send troops to battle to protect our grain from looting." More than ten wealthy families in Kaifeng City united to find Zhuang Yexiang.

"Joke, the chief soldier has told you more than once before that when the war comes, you should rush to harvest food as soon as possible to avoid losses. It is you yourselves who do not listen to the advice, and now you still have the face to ask us to fight. Zhuang Yexiang unceremoniously uncovered the scars of these people.

The Qing family was originally the largest household in Kaifeng City, and this time cultivated land to grow grain, Zhuang Yexiang also got nearly 1,000 acres of land. And after she got Mao Wenlong's order, she was the first to take the lead in ordering the grain to be harvested.

She still remembered that it was these people who were laughing at her, laughing at her for starting the harvest at this time, and it was a complete waste.

The patriarchs of several big families, after listening to Zhuang Yexiang's rebuttal, didn't know what to do. Indeed, this time I can't blame others, but I can only blame them for being too greedy.

Several patriarchs were obviously unwilling to let their net worth be robbed like this, and after discussing together, the head of the Li family of the second family asked Zhuang Yexiang as the representative: "City Lord Zhuang, this time it is indeed our fault. We should not disobey the orders of the commander-in-chief, but in any case, I ask you to send troops into battle. ”

"Humph......"

Zhuang Yexiang immediately snorted coldly and said, "Send troops to fight, don't you see now that a large number of imperial army troops are gathering outside the city." Do you think we want to fight each other just because of our current 30,000 garrisons in the city? ”

Patriarch Li was choked by Zhuang Yexiang again and had nothing to say, the current situation was already very clear, and the imperial army was outside. When you raise your eyes, you can see that their posture may attack Kaifeng City at any time.

Now don't say that you will send troops to fight, but if you wait for the people to start attacking the city, I don't know if you can still hold it.

Xianyang City in Shaanxi, this will also be similar to Kaifeng City. The rebel army led by Li Zicheng was obviously more ferocious than the imperial army.

Li Zicheng personally led 50,000 soldiers and horses to directly surround Xianyang City, and then asked his generals to begin to take the rest of the soldiers and horses. Scattered around Xianyang City, looting all the food they saw.

After Mao Wenlong got the report in the study, he frowned, judging from the reports that have been counted so far. The actual losses were much higher than he had previously estimated.

"Damn, these greedy and underserved guys. If I knew this would happen, I might as well have cut off their heads in the first place. Mao Wenlong was so angry that he slapped the table.

Hong Chengchou was calm, he opened his mouth and persuaded: "Okay, don't be angry, now is not the time to settle accounts with these people." ”

Mao Wenlong vented for a while, and after slowly calming down, he nodded and said: "Now that Kaifeng and Xianyang have begun, our plan should also be implemented." Otherwise, if it's too late, I'm afraid that other places will also be affected. ”

Hong Chengchou nodded and said, "It's really better to be sooner rather than later." ”

"Huge!" Mao Wenlong immediately shouted.

Hearing this, Hao Da strode into the study: "The subordinates are here." ”

Mao Wenlong said in a deep voice: "Immediately send someone to Chen Jisheng to give an order and start acting according to the plan." ”

Hao Da clenched his fists and said yes, and then walked away quickly.

Soon after, a fast horse set off from Maofu and galloped to Xuzhou.

Chen Jisheng, who was stationed in Xuzhou with an army of 50,000, received an order on the same day, and he left only 20,000 troops to stay in Xuzhou. The remaining 30,000 soldiers and horses immediately marched to Nanyang Mansion with him.

And Chen Qiyu, who was stationed in Guide Mansion, also received an order from Mao Wenlong on the same day, and he also led 30,000 soldiers and horses to Kaifeng.

After Lu Xiangsheng learned that the Dongjiang Army had sent troops to come, he did not dare to be careless and immediately set up camp on the spot. Then he set up a position and prepared for a hard battle with the Dongjiang army.

Shaanxi's Li Zicheng was also ready to face the Dongjiang Army. Both forces are ready for war, and at the same time they are still grabbing food.

Chen Qiyu of Guide Mansion took the lead in confronting the imperial army, and as soon as the two armies met, there was no superfluous nonsense, and they started fighting directly.

Lu Xiangsheng fought with Chen Qiyu on the same day, and the two armies fought a diplomatic battle in Kaifeng City.

However, as soon as the two armies came into contact, Chen Qiyu immediately pretended to be defeated and retreated. Lu Xiangsheng didn't think much about it for a while, and immediately took advantage of the victory to pursue.

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