In fact, the real reason for stopping the army is not only to digest the newly acquired land such as Tongguan and start to drive out those corrupt officials and cool officials to take over the city, but also because the east is a drag.

This is not someone else, it is the haunting king Gao Yingxiang and his nephew, Li Zicheng, who is known as the general.

In May of the fourth year of Chongzhen, under the joint gift of Lu Shi and Zhao Zi, Gao Yingxiang went to Shanxi. Followed by the real people who were driven out by the official army in real history, but 30,000 real warriors who survived a hundred battles, which is a truly trained warrior.

As soon as he entered Shanxi, he was like a fish in water, really a free and moisturized, and the pole Wang Jiayin and Wang Ziyong who originally entered Shanxi rendezvous, and they did it vigorously, and for a time the whole Shanxi was turned upside down by them, in the original history, they also had the Shanxi and Shaanxi joint armies to encircle and suppress, but now, the entire Shaanxi official army and Xiangyong were either annihilated by King Lu Shi, or restrained and unable to move for half a minute, which gave Gao Yingxiang an absolute opportunity, so that he could plunder Shanxi with peace of mind.

Shanxi is not as poor as Shaanxi, Shanxi, that is the Ming Dynasty in the north of the source of money and grain, fertile land, densely populated, although the same drought, but the situation is a hundred times stronger than Shaanxi, more Shanxi people, more willing to run the business that was regarded as a cheap industry at that time, but also rich households everywhere, sufficient materials, Gao Yingxiang and so on, is a call to respond, even if it should not, it has been coerced, for a time it is enough soldiers.

In June of the fourth year of Chongzhen, at that time, Li Zicheng and his nephew Li Guo, Zhang Xianzhong and other departments also crossed east to attend the meeting, which increased Gao Yingxiang's strength, in order to win over Li Zicheng, a man who has courage and dares to fight, Gao Yingxiang can be said to have paid all his efforts, in fact, Li Zicheng is also secretly happy, and he also tries his best to show his loyalty, so as to gain Gao Yingxiang's trust, and become the only leader above 10,000 people under one person in this army.

Wang Jiayin, the leader of the rebel army, was killed by Cao Wenzhao's subordinates, the general soldier of Nanshan (one said that he was killed by a traitor), and the rebel army of Shaanxi and Jin Dynasty formed 36 battalions.

After integrating the rebel armies from all walks of life, Gao Yingxiang even "recruited" troops everywhere, and in just a few months, the rebel army reached a terrifying 10,000. It really achieved a large number of soldiers, so the far-sighted Gao Yingxiang immediately divided the road and struck four blows, and successively conquered Ningxiang, Shilou, Jishan, Wenxi, and Hejian counties. The forces are unrivaled for a while.

And at this time, Gao Yingxiang, who was in Lu Shi's calculations, let the tiger into the mountain, and designed a barrier between the government and himself for himself, but he didn't have the meaning of appreciating it at all, but he hated Lu Shi more to the bone, and the reason why it was difficult to leave his homeland was that those old subordinates were more born in Shaanxi. Brocade clothes walk at night, and what is the most proud of life? Of course, they are returning to their hometowns, and now these guys who escaped from the famine earlier and didn't have anything to eat, at this time, all of them have a kind of nouveau riche meaning, the kind of brothers who are eager to show off in front of their old neighbors, and want to show off in front of their ancestral graves, they all want to stop and return to their hometowns with honor.

Gao Yingxiang came to cater to the homesickness of the brothers, and more importantly, he peeked into Lu Shi's foundation. And Li Zicheng is also in his heart, he really wants to compete with Lu Shi, they are all young people, and they all have a group of brothers who swear to accompany each other to the death, what is not as good as it?

However, if you are not convinced, the situation is stronger than people, Gao Yingxiang is in a good form, he has not yet fainted, he knows his strength, although he claims to be 200,000, but the real elite is only 70,000 or 80,000, to deal with the scattered guards, rotten Shanxi officials and troops, there is still the power of a battle, and to deal with Lu Shi on the other side of the Yellow River, it is definitely the relationship between eggs and stones, thinking of the battle with Lu Shi at that time, although I feel nestled, but I also have to admire, envy, and envy Lu Shi's strength.

My hometown is just a stone's throw away, looking at the rich people everywhere, but because of Lu Shi, I have become nowhere to go. How can this be reconciled, how can it not be frustrating?

However, everything took a turn for the worse when Lu Shi went south to Weinan.

On this day, the leaders of the thirty-six families were gathered by Gao Yingxiang to discuss the plan. There is no other reason for the folding ruler gathering, and that is the next step of the question of going and staying, that is, the question of the direction of development.

The originally rich Shanxi, after a lot of trouble for the heroes of the Heavenly Road, originally did not harvest the summer grain, and now even the autumn grain is hopeless, the rich households who should collect donations have also been recruited to become destitute, the righteous people who should be recruited have long been recruited, the county towns that should be beaten have been laid, and the ones that should be collected have been exhausted, although there are still many remaining Shanxi cities, but those cities are not able to fight by desperate people, that side, in the face of Shanxi, which has been eaten and drunk, there is no development potential, For the rest, we must give full play to the traditional advantages of the righteous army, and seek survival and development in the movement, which has been unanimously agreed upon by everyone.

Then there was the question of where to go, and at that time there were different opinions, and the leaders of the more than 30 families were divided into three distinct factions.

The first faction, represented by the more effective Li Zicheng, was to march to Henan with a large army.

There is no other reason, then Henan is not broken, and the days are okay, and if you develop there for a while, the strength will be stronger, and at that time, the heart of the Central Plains, let us gallop, can lay the foundation of the overlord.

The second faction was headed by Zhang Xianzhong and led by Luo Rucai, who was known as Cao Cao, and their suggestion was to enter Henan, then transfer to Hubei, insert directly into Sichuan, and lay a foundation to come out.

His reason is that since ancient times, Sichuan has been a country of abundance, extremely rich in natural resources, and there are dangers to defend on all sides, so that we can get rid of the endless encirclement and suppression of the official army and truly gain a firm foothold and establish a base area.

Of course, this proposal was immediately ridiculed by the other factions represented by the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left.

Stand firm, everyone thinks, that one wants to live this wandering life of running around and living without a fixed place? The sooner you settle down, the sooner you live, the sooner you live, the sooner you live.

To start, what are we? It's a pole that doesn't know big characters, we are a group of real rogues, look at these big and small leaders, and take out a high-ranking official who has been a righteous person, building a base area, do you understand?

I don't understand, so what do you rely on to raise soldiers? What to eat? Outside Sichuan, we can gallop freely, the world is very big, there is a lot of money and food, as long as we flow, then we will have endless food and drink soldiers' money and food.

Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng also agreed with this proposal, although Sichuan is good, but the materials are more and more limited, and hundreds of thousands of people and horses are overwhelmingly entering, not to mention too much, as long as it takes a year, they will be starved to death.

From a strategic point of view, he said: "Sichuan does have a precipitous perimeter that can be defended, so that the officers and troops cannot enter and suppress it, but in fact, it is not trapped itself?" Your Eight Kings (Zhang Xianzhong) is a literate and hyphenated, you haven't read history, you haven't read the Three Kingdoms? You haven't read the Three Kingdoms, and you haven't heard of the blind man telling a story? In history, the hero who claimed the king and hegemony was born in Sichuan? Isn't it self-defeating to be trapped to death? Didn't the dynastic dynasty that survived die in Sichuan in the end?

After some words, Zhang Xianzhong was speechless at that time.

And the fifth battalion of the third party is simply nonsense, their suggestion is simply to take the men and horses and kill Gyeonggi, saying that they can't take the emperor's throne, everyone is happy.

This suggestion, judging from the time at the time, was definitely disgusted that his vigorous career was too prosperous, so he looked for a dead type.

Although the Ming Dynasty is **, although the Ming Dynasty is suffering from internal and external troubles, the Ming Dynasty is a waste of armaments, but the combat effectiveness of the army at the gate is still there, at least it is more than enough to deal with these rabble composed of displaced people.

So, everyone gathered around the big tent and shouted endlessly discussing, arguing, arguing, insulting, and even going to use knives one by one.

However, this has been held for a few days of future meetings, everyone has pointed out the direction of the movement, but no one has proposed to go west, although the soldiers have a kind of urgent mood, want to go home, back to Shaanxi, but all the people deliberately, deliberately do not mention the direction of going home.

Even the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo, who was really born in the heart of Shaanxi and Gansu, had red eyes one by one, and they just didn't propose to go back to their hometown.

And at this time, when the old spy who was left in Shaanxi reported the action of Lu Shi pouring out of the nest and going south to Weinan in the starry night, the generals who were coaxing and talking nonsense in the big tent were first dead silent, and then cheered together, went home, and really had hope.

As a result, the leaders, who had originally had differences of opinion and could not be reconciled, this time, for the first time, surprisingly unified their opinions: "Taking advantage of the good opportunity for Lu Shimaotou to go south to Weinan, we will reorganize the army to kill the ferry, kill the Yellow River, and go back to our hometown." “

When this decision was made known to the whole army, the morale of the whole army was immediately high, and all the people were eager to try their hands, ready to follow the king back to their hometown.

When the news that Gao Yingxiang sent troops behind him at this critical time was reported by the Guangwu faction, the general garrison of the three northeastern counties, Lu Shi looked at the information in his hand, and was not as angry as other actions, and some just smiled helplessly.

It's the same root, why is it too anxious to fry each other? This analogy is actually not appropriate, but what Gao Yingxiang did at this time once again made Lu Shi feel the short-sightedness of the pole at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

It seems that no matter what, he must end the battle with the official army on the Wei River as soon as possible, and then free up his hands to deal with this big king - Gao Yingxiang, by the way, and the general, Li Zicheng.