Li Zicheng, Gao Yingxiang's nephew, a teenager who likes guns, horses, and sticks. After his father's death, he went to the post station in the Ming Dynasty to deliver official documents of the imperial court as a post officer. The post station system in the last years of the Ming Dynasty had many drawbacks, and Ming Sizong abolished the post station in the first year of Chongzhen. Li Zicheng was dismissed for losing official documents, returned home unemployed, and owed debts.

In the winter of the same year, Li Zicheng was sued by Ai Juren to the Mizhi County Ya because he couldn't pay the debts of Ai Zhao. After being rescued by relatives and friends, at the end of the year, he killed the creditor Ai Zhao, and then, because of the adultery between his wife Han Jin'er and the village named Gaihu, Li Zicheng killed his wife again. Two lives are in the body, the government can't help but ask, and the lawsuit can't be lost, so he and his nephew Li Taichongzhen went to Ganzhou, Gansu (now Ganzhou District, Zhangye City) to join the army in February of the second year (16 years). At that time, Yang Zhaoji served as the general soldier of Ganzhou, and Wang Guo served as a general. Li Zicheng was soon promoted to the rank of general in the army by the kingdom. In the same year, in Yuzhong (now Yuzhong County, Lanzhou, Gansu), due to the problem of unpaid wages, General En took revenge and killed the general kingdom and the local county commander, and launched a mutiny.

This will be near Lanzhou, and the border army fierce battle, but met a little-known small Shaanxi political Hong Chengchou, under his men suffered a big loss, the team was almost scattered, fortunately, Li Zicheng has a group of capable generals, in the defeat of the army to persuade him to rise again, so Li Zicheng with 5,500 remnants want to go east to seek refuge with his uncle Gao Yingxiang.

In fact, for Hong Chengchou, Gao Yingxiang wronged Li Zicheng's combat power and wisdom, because this Hong Chengchou is indeed a great character, not to mention his future affairs, but at this time, Hong Chengchou has made a big show.

In the second year of Chongzhen (16), the peasant army Wang Zuogui and Miao Mei led troops to attack Hancheng. Yang He, the governor of Shaanxi, had no generals in his hands, and in a hurry, he ordered Hong Chengchou, who was still participating in politics at that time, to lead his troops to battle. At that time, Hong Chengchou led 500 miscellaneous cards composed of Jiading Guardian and Xiangyong to attack in the starry night, killing 300 enemy soldiers, relieving the siege of Hancheng, and suddenly became famous. Therefore, Li Zicheng is not unjustly lost.

At that time, when he came to the east, there were also many obstacles, but fortunately, his 20,000 troops were defeated, and the dead and wounded fled were all old and weak and did not want to rebel, and the rest were all strong, and now they became a capable iron army, and Li Zicheng was also resourceful, and there was a strategist like Tian Jianxiu, who flowed back and forth, saw the soft to eat, and the hard to hide, but there was no loss, and Kankan was close to the left.

When Gao Yingxiang got the news of Li Zicheng, he had already sent people and horses to look for contact everywhere, hoping to bring in his nephews, who were better than outsiders, especially those who had 5,000 really strong troops.

As long as Li Zicheng comes, it will be equal to 50,000, no, 100,000 troops, and the most important thing is that it will become his real confidant, and he will be able to dominate and achieve decisive overwhelming strength, and it will no longer be like now, where there are many factions.

I was anxious, but I couldn't talk about it outside, so I still had to solve the problem first.

Bombing and suppressing all the people under him, Gao Yingxiang said: "Brothers, everyone is a hero on the road, all gathered together for the sake of righteousness, and they all came together for the achievement of a great cause in this troubled world, everyone should be open-minded, and the past grievances and grievances should not be mentioned again, but open their horizons, unite as one, and fight with the officials and soldiers in a group, the officers and soldiers are our mortal enemies. ”

The non-sticky mud who had not spoken suddenly said at this time: "King Da Chuang said it thoroughly, our current enemy is the official army, if we really fight in our nest, it can only make the official army gain advantage in vain, where is our way to live?" ”

As soon as the words of the non-sticky mud fell, I don't know who sneered at the bottom, and this sarcastic sneer made the old face of the non-sticky mud red.

Don't stick to the mud to say this, but I have a deep understanding, I wonder if I didn't commit this fool in the first place? If it weren't for the slippery head Lu Shi who came out at a critical time, he wouldn't have died in Mizhi a long time ago.

When I thought of Lu Shi, not only was I not grateful in my heart, but my heart was full of resentment, if it weren't for Lu Shi's original alliance alliance and attack Mizhi, (in fact, he took the opportunity to participate, and he was complacent about being the leader of the alliance) He couldn't fall into this fate now, he was originally a hao in northern Shaanxi, but he was called by this little horse thief Gao Yingxiang, which made people laugh for no reason.

Gao Yingxiang said, "It's still the old hero's foresight, this is the golden and jade words, everyone should ask the old hero for advice and learning." ”

The people below gave up their hands one after another, giggling and saying that it was exact, but there was disdain on their expressions.

Not sticky mud couldn't help but writhe his lower butt awkwardly in the chair, hehehe, smiled, and stopped talking.

Gao Yingxiang hurriedly diverted the conversation and said: "Now, let's get down to business, let's talk about the current situation." ”

Only then did everyone get serious, waiting for the next step of King Da Chuang.

"The current situation of our army is that after the first battle of Yizhangyuan, we have suffered heavy casualties, but after the continuous collection of recruitment in the past few months, our army has recovered some vitality, and the total number of brothers is about 70,000."

Saying this number, everyone couldn't help but straighten up again, and their faces were excited.

"However, the army is pulled up again, but then the problem of food has become a big problem, now has just experienced the beginning of the spring of green and yellow, although it is now summer, it is the spring wheat harvest season, but, the land of northern Shaanxi, the war again and again, has gone to the house empty, most of the fields have been barren, and it is difficult to get grain.

The landlords have grain in their hands, but after several wars, the small landlords have been wiped out, and the big landlords have high and deep trenches, and they can't take it in a hurry, so we must find a place to eat, one is to get food supplies, and the other is to recruit a group of men and horses to strengthen their strength, so as to prepare for the future invasion of the official army. ”

Gao Yingxiang's army is a stream of rogues, and there is no base at all, and the so-called place to eat is just to find a place that has not been plundered and plunder again. As for the conscription, it is even more nonsense, but when he arrived in that place, he plundered the few belongings of the people, and then coerced those who had nothing to join the gang.

When everyone heard this, they all shook their heads and sighed sadly, and everyone knew the current situation.

Now, it is not possible to go west, the west is the place where I came, where the fireworks have long been cut off, everything that should be robbed has been robbed, everything that should be burned has been burned, everything that should be coerced has been coerced, and there is nothing to use at all.

To the north, that is where the border army is located, the last battle, everyone is considered to have thoroughly understood the combat power of the border army, now think about it and blow up the scalp, hiding from him is too late, where is there still half the courage to come up?

To the east, now in summer, when the Yellow River is abundant, it is a trench that can never be passed, coupled with the relatively light drought in Shanxi, the border army of the guard, and the Xiangyong are quite complete, and Shanxi has regarded Shaanxi as a flood beast, and a large army has been arranged on the side of the Yellow River, and the thieves in Shaanxi are strictly guarded against the thieves, so as not to make the flow of Shanxi erosive the whole province, not to mention how many ships are needed for these nearly 100,000 men and horses of these troops, even if there are boats, how long will it take to pass? Once people come to attack half-crossing, then they can only wait for another fiasco, and at that time, Shanxi can't go, Shaanxi can't come back, everyone can only wait for death.

To the south, it is not easy to do, in this rice fat and other places are still the Loess Plateau, there is no big pass danger, once from here to the south, then step by step high mountains and rivers, everywhere are passes, as long as there are thousands of townships bravely defend according to the danger, just rely on their own people, it is simply a dead end, now think about it, they are really desperate.

Looking at the cold scene in the big tent, Gao Yingxiang couldn't help frowning, these pickled things, usually fighting for fame and fortune, each bravely fighting for the first, this is really a critical time, but one by one they have no idea and have become a gourd without a mouth.

I wondered how people could rush to Weinan with a small Woniu Mountain pole, the old and the weak together, how could they rush to Weinan, lay a huge foundation, and do a good job and prosper. Why don't you have such a good life? This is really more popular than people.

When I thought of Lu Shi and Weinan, my heart suddenly moved.

Raise his eyes to see the non-sticky mud, but look at the non-sticky mud just bowed his head and pondered, he didn't want to speak at all, besides, if he said anything now, it was estimated that he could only be ridiculed again, and the meeting that had just become serious would be ruined.

So, his eyes fell on the face of the collapsed sky who was still puffing up, and said with a smile: "Brother Breaking the sky, how do you think we should act next?" ”

Saying this, in fact, I also know that this stunned young man has any plans and calculations? Asking him is just a kind of bribery, letting Chuang Tiantian know that he is the first to ask him, how much he values him, and hopes that through this, the miasma in his heart will be eliminated.

After seeing the king of the great storm naming himself, he looked left and right, but he didn't stand up, and whispered: "Are you still planning a way out, is there a way out?" ”

When he said this, it seemed to be speaking to everyone's hearts, so the originally serious and quiet tent sounded a buzzing sound, and they began to whisper to each other, and the voices began to change from small to loud, and finally quarreled together.

Seeing this, Gao Yingxiang couldn't help frowning, blocked his fist at his mouth, and coughed fiercely again, and then everyone suppressed their voices and looked at what King Da Chuang was going to say.

"That's according to the brother's opinion. What should we do? Gao Yingxiang smiled slightly, stared at the collapse of the sky and asked, but there was no smile in his eyes, as cold as a knife.

"What else?" At this time, he also let go out, stood up with a sigh, blushed and said loudly: "Break up, go back to your own house to find your mother, and go home happily." ”

As soon as these words came out, the audience suddenly became silent, and everyone looked at Gao Yingxiang and Chuang Tian.

"You, are you telling the truth?" Gao Yingxiang asked slowly.

"Yes, so what? If you are here again, sooner or later you will die, it is better to break up, everyone will return to the way it was before, the world will be in chaos, do my. ”