On the fifth day of the third month of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng, who retreated to Henan, was officially recruited by Hong Chengchou, and was worshiped as the registered general soldier of Henan, and divided the Lingbao, Luoning, and Lu's garrisons that directly faced Tongguan to raise troops, and then directly invaded Luanchuan and became the king of the four counties.

At this time, Li Zicheng originally gathered in Shanxi Gao Yingxiang and the remnants of each other pole reached 100,000, but in the battle with Lu Shi in the Sleepy Dragon Valley, the losses were extremely heavy, but the shrimp soldiers were gone, but there were crab generals left, and the generals who started with him were preserved, but these thousands of men and horses became his core foundation, in the land of the four counties, Li Zicheng became full of ambition again, hoping to make a comeback, so he set up the old camp in the Lu family, with these thousands of soldiers and horses, with the strong support of Zhang Yuan, Began to recruit troops in the four counties to expand their strength.

Li Zicheng's recruitment of troops and horses is different from Lu Shi, he stipulates that anyone who is over 15 years old and under 50 years old is the target of recruitment, and if he does not comply, he will slaughter all the people, and some landless people want to enter the camp to eat hungry food to join, although some of them do not follow, but look at the surrounding villages and towns Smoke and fireworks, for the sake of their families, they dare not disobey, so the whole team swelled up like a blow, and it took less than a month to become an army of 100,000 again, known as 200,000 to the outside world, and did not hesitate to use severe punishment and harsh laws to step up training and rectification. Every day, sticks and leather whips flew in the barracks, and more than a dozen or dozens of corpses would be hung every day to deter, and in a short period of time, his pole had combat effectiveness again.

On the side of Lu Shi, because he wanted to digest the interior of Shaanxi, the general policy was not to use troops externally, but to hold Tongguan, the gateway to Shaanxi, so he did not deal a blow to Li Zicheng's development, which gave him a rare opportunity to rest and recuperate.

Although Zhao Xing's supervisor also wanted to infiltrate Li Zicheng's interior and monitor his actions at any time, Li Zicheng also knew Lu Shi's methods, so when he was coerced into the army this time, he implemented the method of sitting in the barracks, taking the village as the team, the li as the team, the town as the camp, and so on.

Chen Che was stationed in Tongguan with heavy troops, just practicing day and night, but without Lu Shi's military order, Li Zicheng outside the pass was helpless.

But Li Zicheng's life is actually not easy. Although the drought in Henan is smaller than that of Shaanxi, it is still a barren land, especially Li Zicheng has recovered his strength and then made such a big battle, so when the spring is opened, the people who cultivate the land can only be women, children and the elderly, Li Zicheng saw that this is not to say that the output and supply of 100,000 out of production army, that is, those women and children can not afford to feed, and the imperial court actually does not give much money and food, and it is not enough for the army to chew for a long time, and also wants to implement the military tun, but there are worries that the combat strength will be reduced, affecting their rapid development, in this case, After getting an edict from Hong Chengchou, on April 11, Li Zicheng suddenly led more than 30,000 elite people, with Liu Zongmin, the chief outpost, as the lead, starting from Lu's family, sneaking across the Qinling Mountains, and entering Shangnan, Shaanxi, and then the soldiers divided into two routes, all the way led by Li Guo, who was known for his calmness, and Hao Shaoqi, who was brave and good at fighting, as his vice, and went straight to Danfeng, Shaanxi.

Li Zicheng stipulated that he was only responsible for looting materials, iron, gold and silver along the way, and did not do anything else.

The other route was personally commanded by himself, with Liu Zongmin as his lieutenant general, to sweep Shangnan, with the purpose of capturing the population back to his lair and using it as slave farming land.

This time, Li Zicheng was obedient, but he was also frightened by Lu Shi's army, with the mentality of grabbing a handful and leaving, facing the castle fortress and avoiding it, the target was directly aimed at the countryside, the purpose was to slaughter women and children, rob young and strong men, burn windmills and farm tools, loot grain and ironware, and completely destroy the production foundation of Shangnan and Danfeng.

The militias of the villages also put up desperate resistance, and the garrisons in various places also continued to attack and rescue, but the militia was scattered and could not gather, and the garrisons did not dare to attack with all their strength for fear of losing the walled city they were stationed in, so they took advantage of Li Zicheng's best mobility.

Li Zicheng was not greedy this time, plundered for three days, and estimated that when Chen Che had already received the news and set out on the expedition, he returned to Henan with the captured people and materials, and used Li Guo's desperate defense of the Qinling Pass at the junction of Henan, so that Chen Che, who was urgently attacking, would rush to the time five days later, and several attacks were fruitless, so he could only watch Li Zicheng go away.

"How big is the loss this time?" After listening to the messenger's report, Lu Shi looked at the map expressionlessly, sketched on the map with his hand according to the messenger's instructions, and then asked.

"The specific numbers will be listed in detail in General Chen's official document tomorrow, but General Chen also hastily read them to me."

"Say." Wu Tao frowned and glanced at him.

The messenger said bitterly: "In Shangnan County, 100 villages were destroyed, more than 20,000 innocent corpses were collected, nearly 1,000 militiamen were killed in battle, no less than 20,000 Ding Zhuang were missing, no less than 500 craftsmen were missing, and the loss of iron and farm tools was incalculable. ”

"How much did Chen Che get? How many people were taken back? Wu Tao asked in a deep voice.

"When General Chen arrived, the rogues had already withdrawn, and they had not captured or recaptured the people." The Courier bowed his head and whispered a report.

"Bastard." Wu Tao, who was calm and calm, suddenly slammed his fist on the table, and the loud sound of the collision even heard San Lang and Wang Jian in the courtyard clearly.

"This is a shame, Chen Che deserves to die, Chen Che deserves to die." Wu Tao roared angrily.

This can't help but be angry, Chen Chezuo has 20,000 male soldiers, and the old foundation is the old eighth team from Huluyu, which has experienced a hundred battles, that is, Wu Tao's old brother, he actually watched Li Zicheng's gang loot in Shangnan Danfeng for three days, and then walked away, this is definitely a shame that the Shaanxi army does not have, saying that it is too much to kill Chen Che, but it is absolutely impossible to remove him.

Lu Shi ignored Wu Tao's anger, but continued to bury his head on the map, carefully calculated, and only after a while did he raise his head and smile at the ashamed Wu Tao: "Chen Che has had, but he has not died, Li Zicheng is a hero, and there are dozens of brave generals under him, how can Chen Che brothers fight alone?" This is the reason why I don't want him to send troops easily, especially when I listen to the situation introduced by Brother He, Li Zicheng, who is good at mobility, has done his homework this time, and he really caught us off guard, Tongguan and Shangnan are not less than three hundred miles apart, even if they get the battle report for the first time, it will take four days to rush to attack, even so, it will be the old soldiers of the division, so that we will lose more, so on the side, I think the handling of Brother Chen Che is still safe. ”

This is not that Lu Shi excused Chen Che, it was his later psychology that was at fault.

What kind of hero Li Zicheng is, he knows better than anyone else, and Chen Che will not have this character in the later generations, if Liao Hua is allowed to deal with Cao Cao, then he can only be killed forever by the kind of asymmetry, so in his heart, he still fairly evaluates the level of Chen Che and Li Zicheng.

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