Although the situation in Shaanxi is not very clear at present, the officers and men are too strong and are by no means what Mao Wenlong is happy to see. After all, Shaanxi was calmed down too quickly, and Yu Mao Wenlong did not have any benefit.

If the Dongjiang Army wants to develop quietly and not become a bird, it must let Shaanxi continue to be chaotic. Let Li Zicheng become the target of the imperial court, instead of letting the imperial court focus on the Dongjiang army.

After some deep thought, Mao Wenlong said to Chen Jisheng: "You immediately send troops to inform Xu Fuzhuo that you can't let the officers and soldiers recover Shaanxi too quickly, and if necessary, send troops to drag the officers and soldiers back." ”

Chen Jisheng was confused when he heard it, Xianyang City was very stable in front of him, and it was dark outside. Only Xianyang City seemed to have been forgotten, and even the officers and soldiers deliberately bypassed it and did not touch Xianyang City.

In this way, it is a good time for development, and wouldn't it be nice to hide behind and integrate the scattered rebel army as it is now?

Chen Jisheng hesitated and said: "Chief soldier, why do you want to help those rebels, it's not good to be like this." The officers and soldiers did not dare to attack Xianyang City, and those rebel troops did not dare to go and disturb them. ”

Mao Wenlong sneered: "You are stupid! Do you really think that the imperial court will not dare to move Xianyang City? Now they clearly want to deal with the most harmful rebels first. Once the imperial court relaxes its breath, it will definitely gather the whole army to attack Xianyang, and as soon as Xianyang is broken, the imperial army will drive into Henan and attack our Ye County. ”

At this time, Chen Jisheng suddenly came over: "What the chief soldier said is reasonable, and his subordinates immediately sent someone to inform Xu Fuzhuo." ”

Mao Wenlong waved his hand: "Go!" ”

This time, the imperial court drew troops from three places to attack Shaanxi, and the momentum was fierce, which shows that Emperor Chongzhen was also determined to completely quell the chaos in Shaanxi.

However, Mao Wenlong is not optimistic, and the court is simply putting the cart before the horse. The root cause of the chaos in Shaanxi was that the people had no food to eat, and the imperial court did not want to solve the problem of food and clothing for the people.

But with such a strong suppression, Mao Wenlong had already predicted that the day when the people of Shaanxi would rise up to resist was about to happen in the near future.

In fact, the current people are already struggling to resist, but the rebel army is too scattered to unite to resist the imperial army. But as those small groups of rebels were defeated by the imperial army, they defected to the larger groups of rebels.

After repeating this cycle, the rebel army in Shaanxi will gradually gather and become a force that can fight with the imperial army.

And this person will undoubtedly be Li Zicheng. Mao Wenlong knows that history has changed a lot now, and he does not have the advantage of being a prophet.

And then if he wants to survive in such a troubled world, he must lay a good foundation and subdue the famous generals he can subdue.

Mao Wenlong's most scruples in his heart from beginning to end were not the imperial court, but the Huang Taiji who were eyeing him outside the Saiwai.

At lunchtime, Mao Wenlong saw Hong Chengchou, who had dark circles under his eyes like him and was not in good spirits. The dining room where he arrived in the company of Hong Ziyan.

Mao Wenlong still didn't see Chen Lan, which made him a little disappointed. Thinking of the agreement with Lan'er's little girl in the morning, Mao Wenlong suddenly looked forward to it.

Hong Chengchou Shi Ran sat at the bottom of Mao Wenlong, raised his eyes to look at Mao Wenlong in a daze, and said in a deep voice: "What are you thinking? ”

Mao Wenlong suddenly came back to his senses, squeezed out a smile on his face and said: "There is something wrong with Shaanxi, the imperial army is like a bamboo, and the rebel army is defeated and retreated, I think this is inappropriate." ”

Hong Chengchou nodded in understanding, but did not express any opinion.

Mao Wenlong paused, then stopped talking, and then the three of them began to concentrate on eating.

After drinking and eating, Hong Chengchou and Mao Wenlong came to the living room in the front yard together.

Hong Chengchou took a sip of fragrant tea before he said, "What decision did you make?" ”

There were only two people in this living room, and Hong Chengchou didn't seem to want to talk about the war in front of his daughter just now.

Mao Wenlong obviously understood what he meant, so he didn't continue to talk at that time. When Hong Chengchou asked about this, he told the truth: "I asked Xianyang to wait for the opportunity to move, and help those rebels when necessary." Don't let the imperial court officers and soldiers calm down the war in Shaanxi too quickly. ”

Hong Chengchou's face changed slightly, as if he was about to be angry, but after a while, he calmed down, sighed lightly and said: "In this way, in order to achieve the goal, regardless of the life and death of the people, can you have a good conscience?" ”

Fighting means dying, and the longer you fight, the more people die. Hong Chengchou is obviously blaming Mao Wenlong for being ruthless.

Faced with Hong Chengchou's blame, Mao Wenlong didn't care, and said with a sneer: "Fifty steps and a hundred steps, why bother?" As far as I know, when General Hong was serving the imperial court in Hancheng, the strategy he implemented was 'kill first and then appease', right? ”

Hong Chengchou glanced at Mao Wenlong, a trace of unhappiness flashed on his face, but he quickly hid it, and he suddenly smiled: "I'm just asking you how you feel, so why bother going too far." ”

The two of them smiled heartily and stopped talking about the issue.

At this time, Chen Jisheng came, and he reported that the two thousand young men who had been escorted back from Xianyang City had already rested in the barracks, and asked Mao Wenlong if he wanted to go and have a look.

With nothing to do, Mao Wenlong happily went, and Hong Chengchou also went.

These capricious rebel armies, Hong Chengchou is very familiar, Mao Wenlong recruited these people to expand the army, in Hong Chengchou's opinion, it is useless.

At present, although the food in Ye County is not very tight, it is not the time when it can be wasted, and it will cost a lot of food to raise more soldiers.

The soldiers are expensive but not many, like those rebel armies in Shaanxi, which are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of troops. But the result is often always defeated by a group of thousands of elite soldiers in the imperial court, and there are many such examples.

Therefore, in Hong Chengchou's view, instead of spending so much effort to cultivate these incorporated rebel troops, it is better to appease some more officers and soldiers of the imperial court.

The three of them rode all the way forward, and after leaving the city, they headed for the back mountain, and the afternoon sun was very hot. The drought in Ye County is still ongoing, and it seems that there will never be a time to ease.

Wrapping his mouth and nose with a silk scarf, Mao Wenlong couldn't help but gallop up on his horse, although the wind and sand are charming, but this can be somewhat cooler.

The barracks were already in sight, less than three miles away, but they had already roasted everyone to the point of sweating.

Riding horses and rushing directly into the barracks, the guards at the gate did not dare to go up to stop Chen Jisheng and Mao Wenlong when they saw them, but stood aside with their fists and saluted to watch them enter the barracks.

As soon as they entered the barracks, Mao Wenlong and the three of them immediately abandoned their horses and switched to walking. Chen Jisheng led the way in front and went straight to the training ground.