The charcoal fire of the brazier was very strong, and the dark red charcoal volatilized the greatest heat, which made Li Zicheng, who was sitting nearby, a little hot, and his heart became more and more bored, and he moved his body out slightly, but it did not change the feeling of being hot and boring.

"Jiexi, let's talk about the army." Retracting his hot hand, Li Zicheng said to Liu Zhongmin without raising his head.

As soon as Liu Zhongmin, the general sentinel, saw Li Zicheng asking, his originally sunny expression couldn't help but dim, and before he could speak, he made a hi first. Everyone knew that what Liu Zhongmin brought to everyone was definitely not good news, so they didn't speak, waiting for him to speak.

"Just now, another group of more than 100 people fled into the mountains to work as poles." Liu Zhongmin reported in a low voice.

"Didn't you send someone to chase after you?" Li Guo stretched out his head and asked.

Liu Zhongmin glanced at Li Guo and said with a wry smile: "Send someone to chase?" I can't say that even the pursuers will flee with them. ”

"Whose subordinates?" Li Zicheng frowned and asked.

"It's the people of the original Fifth Battalion of the Left Battalion." Liu Zhongmin replied truthfully.

When Li Zicheng heard this, he couldn't help but secretly sigh: "As long as it's not our old foundation." The old foundation he is talking about now already includes the original Gao Yingxiang's part.

Tian Jianxiu interjected: "This is not a way, we must find a place for the troops to live, and then buy enough food to stabilize the morale of the army, otherwise, if we go on like this, the army will collapse." ”

No one objected to Tian Jianxiu's opinion, but no one agreed to it either. Everyone knows this truth, but the key is food, a place where there is food, but now looking at the past, where is there such a place? Therefore, Tian Jianxiu's suggestion is equivalent to not saying.

"In my opinion, in order to stabilize the morale of the army and break into the king, it is better to allow each branch to raise their own food." Gao Yigong held his iron whip and whispered this suggestion. Yes, the pole is to plunder, and if you don't want them to plunder and be happy, then who else will follow you desperately?

Li Zicheng looked up at the roof, the muscles on his cheeks continued to twist, and finally shook his head slightly, vetoing Gao Yigong's suggestion.

"I have carefully studied the reasons for the success of Lu Shi's thief, but I have come to a reason."

As soon as he mentioned Lu Shi, who was envious and jealous of himself, everyone's spirits came up again, and even Tian Jianxiu, who was far away from the brazier, moved the bench under his butt a little forward, wanting to hear what Li Zicheng thought about Lu Shi.

"Actually, Lu Shi can get to where he is today, his good luck is one thing, and the reason that really brought him to where he is today is that he has people under him."

This is not unusual, and it makes everyone feel disappointed.

"In the eyes of those of us, the people are nothing more than soldiers, lowly beasts who take what they want." Of course, this proposal was agreed by everyone, and it was like this, everyone rose up with the original intention of asking for the people's lives, but as they walked, they slowly changed, and now, not to mention those other poles, they are now themselves, isn't it the same? Lack of materials, lack of soldiers in the hands of the people, of course, or to recruit the people, in fact, it is a conscription, everyone just knows it, coercion, this is what everyone is doing, and will do it in the future, if you don't do it, then the consequence is the dilemma you are encountering now, the original follow yourself, will be separated, and no one will follow you in the future.

"But, look at Lu Shi." Li Zicheng threw the fire chopsticks in the brazier, and the crisp sound made the dull people not be surprised.

Li Zicheng didn't look at them, but raised his voice and said: "But when Lu Shi turned to Weinan, he didn't leave the original people as we imagined, nor did he leave their people behind when he broke through the siege of Yanchuan as we imagined, what was the result?" Looking at everyone's expressions, Li Zicheng said to himself: "That is, he has won the hearts of the people, and the so-called people's hearts are stamina and endless gains." ”

"Yes, that's what King Dachuang said." As a non-first-class talent, Tian Jianxiu's insight is still better than others. "Only with the people, can there be people to farm and provide food for the army of the Lu Shi thieves, only with the people, can people make longbows and other ordnance for the Lu Shi thieves, and only with the people can there be people who continue to provide taxes for the Lu Shi thieves." Tian Jianxiu counted them one by one.

"And in this way, Lu Shi will not be like us, we can only rely on plundering, and we will go down after plundering one place, and there is no place to stand at all, so there is no foundation for stamina." Li Zicheng concluded affirmatively.

"Therefore, we want to achieve great things, Lu Shi is a lesson from the past, we must learn the methods of Lu Shi thieves, find a place to settle, comfort a group of people who are used by us, and build a strong army that obeys our orders, so that we can have another chance to fight with Lu Shi thieves." Li Zicheng said firmly.

Listening to these words, I couldn't help but feel excited in everyone's ears, but in the ears of Mrs. Gao, I couldn't help but cry and laugh.

When did the rebel army, dominated by Gao Yingxiang, no longer take the official army as the primary target, but turned into Lu Shi as the direction of attack? Is this getting farther and farther away from the goal?

However, when I think about it, I am also relieved, the place ruled by the government has long been looted and almost no grass grows, but Lu Shi's governance is extremely rich, and the so-called guilt is this truth, who made Lu Shi so capable? In order to survive, as long as there is a rich land, it is hope and the target of plunder.

"Therefore, although it is difficult for us, if we want to achieve a performance like Lu Shi, we must first learn from Lu Shi's thief, and the first step is to gather the hearts of the people and let the people be used by us, so that we can gain a firm foothold." Li Zicheng waved his hand, and he did have a bit of momentum.

"However, what we urgently need most at the moment is food, without food, our team will be scattered, and it will be useless to say anything at that time." Liu Zhongmin poured cold water on Li Zicheng at this time.

Liu Zhongmin is in Li Zicheng's team, which can be regarded as a transcendent position, Li Zicheng is also quite generous to Liu Zhongmin, such direct confrontation has not happened rarely, and as long as Liu Zhongmin dares to do this when Li Zicheng is most angry, even Mrs. Gao, who has lost Gao Yingxiang as a backer, can't.

Li Zicheng didn't get angry, nodded to Liu Zhongmin and said: "What Jie Xuan said is that grain, this is the first place, but there are many ways to obtain food, but from now on, among these many kinds, there is no such thing as robbing the people." Then, he took a deep look at Liu Zhongmin, and then looked at the generals in the room, "This is the only way for us to survive." ”

"It's an easy way to build a fort." Tian Jianxiu once again put forward his own views.

"Yes, now we are not like the beginning, we are now an army of 100,000, and it should not be a problem to lay down a small village." Liu Zhongmin said.

"Yes, if we build a fortress, we can announce to the outside world that we will continue to eliminate harm for the people in exchange for the people's hearts, second, we can also obtain food, gold and silver, and third, we can count the men and women in the fortress as proud and close, so that we can use it to comfort our brothers, why don't we do this much-winning thing?" Li Zicheng said proudly.

"Yes, yes, that's exactly what it is." Gao Yigong slapped his thigh and agreed loudly. "If the pole doesn't let him rob, it will be a scattered gang, but since we can't rob the people, we will rob the gentry and powerful landlords, and then, let everyone feel the benefits of looting again, and they can also get vent spiritually, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?"

"Build a fortress and get the money and food we need, then in the next step, we must use this money and food to find a place to train with peace of mind." Li Zicheng thought of the upcoming scene, and couldn't help but fight excitedly, pacing back and forth in the middle of the room.

"Yes, we will take advantage of this rare opportunity of no war in this winter, use the money and food we get to train our troops, and train a spearman like a thief in the Lu world."

"And the longbow." Liu Fangliang was also excited about the future at this time, the power of Lu Shi's longbow, everyone has experienced it many times, and every time it will leave an unforgettable memory for themselves and others, having such a longbow army has become an ambition for Li Zicheng's army now.

"Especially the longbow is not difficult to make, but the cost of building arrows is too high, but, don't worry, now we have a lot of silver in our hands, as long as we spend blood, we will definitely be able to buy a large amount of iron, as long as we have 10,000 longbowmen." Thinking that this was indeed an extravagant hope, he changed his words and lowered his requirements and said: "As long as we have five thousand longbowmen, then we will no longer be afraid of anyone." ”

"Yes." Liu Zhongmin laughed and said: "As long as we train a spear team according to Lu Shi's method of military training, and then use the existing money in our hands to equip a longbow team, it will not be long before we will fight back to Shaanxi again, and at that time, the whole Shaanxi will be our world." ”

Li Zicheng's current army, from top to bottom, all with the ultimate goal of being able to fight back to Shaanxi, although there is the attraction of rich Shaanxi, but in fact, in the subconscious, there is more difficult to leave the homeland, and the idea of returning to the hometown in the bones of thousands of years exists.

The battle with Lu Shi, and the long and short time with Lu Shi, have been deeply ingrained in Li Zicheng's subconscious meaning, especially, he has taken advantage of Lu Shi's danger several times to do the next thing that fell into the well, thinking that even if Lu Shi is in harmony and is not enterprising, even if he is a clay man, he will be stimulated by his own actions.

It was inevitable that he would fight with Lu Shi, and he had already felt it when he was looking at Lu Shi in Ji County. Since this is the case, then you must prepare early, and the more you are prepared, the better your chances of winning. defeated Lu Shi and took his basis, then, who else in the world can stop him?

Thinking of this, Li Zicheng waved his hand in the air fiercely. "Training troops, building a longbow firearms battalion, and fighting a decisive battle with Lu Shi in the future will start today."

This decision made the generals in the room excited, and one by one their eyes were red, and they shouted in a low voice with Li Zicheng: "Train the troops, and fight a decisive battle with Lu Shi." ”