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It is said that Tian Jianxiu spent a lot of effort, and after returning to Shangluo Mountain, he found Li Zicheng who was hiding in the mountain, and told Li Zicheng about his visit to Luoyang to see Xiao Tianjian this time.

After Li Zicheng heard this, he drew a knife on the spot and split a broken table in front of him into pieces, and the angry Li Zicheng was like thunder, scolding Xiao Tianjian for being too arrogant, and actually wanted to swallow him up, and wanted him to serve under Xiao Tianjian, this matter was not negotiable at all, and he would never agree.

And after listening to it, the generals under him had different thoughts, some people and Li Zicheng had the same idea, thinking that Xiao Tianjian was too arrogant, and he simply didn't take them seriously, but there were also some people secretly pondering, this is not necessarily an unacceptable thing, after all, even Luo Rucai has served Xiao Tianjian, and Luo Rucai's reputation among the rebels is not necessarily better than their Li Chuangwang.

I think that Luo Rucai started the incident much earlier than Li Zicheng, and he is on an equal footing with Gao Yingxiang, he can serve Xiao Tianjian, why can't Li Zicheng serve Xiao Tianjian?

And everyone is also looking at it with long eyes, although the Xingtian Army started late, but the people have been mixed over the years, first occupied a piece of territory in Yangcheng, and then gradually encroached on the entire Jinnan area, and then Xiao Tianjian led his troops into Henan, while the righteous army was beaten by the government, they were advancing in Henan, and the official army was defeated, less than two years, the Xingtian Army almost controlled most of Henan, with tens of thousands of male soldiers, so that the surrounding officials and soldiers did not dare to find trouble with the Xingtian Army, I can only hold my breath and chase them everywhere.

Look at their Li Chuang Wang in the past two years, even the fifth battalion of the left is not as good, every time he pulls up a large number of people, it didn't take long for the official army to be beaten into a mess, although there are times when the battle is won, but after all, there are more defeats and fewer victories, and the days are getting worse and worse, they went to Sichuan, and they were beaten out, and they returned to Shaanxi as a result, and they were beaten back to Sichuan, back and forth in the past two years between Sichuan and Shaanxi, but they couldn't occupy a piece of territory.

The soldiers of the Xingtian Army, there is food and drink, there is money to take, there are bounties for war exploits and bounties, although there are many rules, strict military discipline, but there is a rush, look at them again, now they are drilled in the deep ravine, they are afraid all day long, they dare not go out of the mountain, and naturally they have no food to eat, they can only eat grass and eat bark every day like rabbits, and there is no military tent, so they can only build a shack, and they have to run at two ends for three days to avoid the official army searching the mountain.

Now Xiao Dashuai is willing to accept them, but why don't you go? So at this point, some people under Li Zicheng's command began to waver, and the morale of the army naturally couldn't be discussed.

After Li Zicheng scolded, he vented his anger, but if he thinks about it carefully, he is indeed a little worse than Xiao Tianjian, this Xiao Tianjian is arrogant because he does have the capital to be arrogant, he wants to be arrogant but he doesn't have the ability to look around, the surroundings can be said to be in danger, now Xiao Tianjian gave him a choice, if he doesn't take refuge in Xiao Tianjian, he can only accept his other way out, that is, according to what he said, continue to play hide and seek with the government in Shangluo Mountain, Waiting to accept the support provided to him by Xiao Tianjian, the matter has come to this, Xiao Tianjian can help like this, in fact, he should also snicker, although Li Zicheng has no gratitude to Xiao Tianjian, but he can only agree to this condition.

So Tian Jianxiu once again disguised himself as a refugee and went out of the mountain, hiding and hiding along the way to avoid the officers and soldiers who searched for them along the way, sneaked back to Shaanzhou, met Liu Bao who was sitting in Shaanzhou, and replied Li Zicheng's idea to Liu Bao.

Xiao Tianjian quickly got the news, sneered and said to Niu Jinxing and Li Jinde: "I have long expected that Li Zicheng will not come to serve me!" Sure enough, he would rather hide in Shangluo Mountain and drink the northwest wind than send someone under the fence! Good! Just do what I say! Inform Liu Bao and discuss with Tian Jianxiu how to provide support to them! Prepare a batch of food weapons and find a way to send them to Li Zicheng to help him tide over this difficult time! ”

Niu Jinxing frowned and said, "Dashuai is really benevolent!" Since Li Zicheng didn't want to serve the marshal, the marshal still helped him like this! ”

Xiao Tianjian sighed and said: "This is also forced by the situation, after all, Li Zicheng's banner is a signboard among the rebels from all walks of life, and like us, it will also make the government and the court uncomfortable, if he falls, then Hong Chengchou will be free to deal with us!" Also for some rebels, it will make many people lose hope! So it's better for Li Zicheng to be alive than if he was exterminated by the official army!

Although we are not afraid that Hong Chengchou will lead the Shaanxi army to attack, and we also have the ability to block them in Tongguan, but after all, the Shaanxi army under Hong Chengchou is already one of the few available soldiers in the Ming Dynasty. Let's leave a little vitality for Daming for the time being! ”

Li Jinde nodded and said: "The marshal often mentions Jiannu, does the marshal really think that Jiannu will go south to sweep the hinterland of the Central Plains?" They only have a few hundred thousand people, can they really destroy our China? ”

Xiao Tianjian smiled bitterly and shook his head and said: "Yes, I do believe that Jiannu is indeed capable of doing this, your thoughts can be said to represent the thoughts of many Han people at the moment, and they look down on them in their hearts, but you don't know the ferocity of Jiannu and their forbearance and cunning!" This is the biggest concern of our Han people! Believe me, I can't be wrong! I can guarantee this with my head!

So now there is not much time left for us, we must become stronger as soon as possible, and sooner or later, we will block these ferocious beasts for our nation! As long as I, Xiao Tianjian, don't die, then I won't let Jiannu's iron hooves step into the Central Plains!

Far from it! Let's not talk about this for the time being, Xiuye, you inform Feng Weihan and let him keep an eye on the situation in the north in the near future, if it is not as I expected, Jiannu should enter the customs again! I can make a bet to you, this time Jiannu is afraid that it will be much more ferocious than any previous invasion! ”

Li Jinde immediately bowed down to the order, but he was a little skeptical about Xiao Tianjian's judgment, he didn't know how Xiao Tianjian could attach so much importance to those Tartars outside the Guan, and he didn't find out how Xiao Tianjian had paid attention to the situation in the north recently, how could he expect that the Tartars would enter the prison again? And so firmly said that this time the slave will be very fierce? Could it be that this master of theirs really has extraordinary abilities? Can he see into the future? And Niu Jinxing looked at him for a while, and there was a look of doubt in his eyes, but neither of them said anything more, and they always felt that this master made them sometimes a little incomprehensible, but made them always have a sense of awe.

Although Tongguan between Henan and Shaanxi is an important passage, but it does not mean that it lies in the mountains between the two provinces, there is really no road that can pass through the two provinces, in the mountains in the west of Lushi County, in fact, there are still many roads that can lead to the Shangluo area in eastern Shaanxi, but these roads are usually few people know, and can not pass through the cart, can only be used for people and mules and horses to pass.

After the Xingtian Army occupied Lushi County, the hunters in the surrounding mountains also supported the Xingtian Army, so under their leadership, the Xingtian Army quickly found two paths to Shangluo Mountain, and under Xiao Tianjian's personal nod, they organized a mule and horse team of two or three hundred people, and transported a batch of grain and armor to the mountains around Shangluo through these two paths and handed it over to Li Zicheng.

However, the method of providing assistance to Li Zicheng by water was because the official army strengthened the guard along the Yellow River in order to prevent Li Zicheng from leading his troops eastward, so that the plan to transport supplies to Li Zicheng by water did not succeed.

However, although he failed to provide material help to Li Zicheng in large quantities, only relying on the materials transported on the mountain road, it still made Li Zicheng's life much better, Li Zicheng had this batch of food and weapons, the situation immediately improved considerably, at least let his subordinates eat some food that looks like people eat a day, so that Li Zicheng's pressure was reduced a lot, and he did not enter Henan as promised, to see Xiao Tianjian's face to live, but led his remnants to stay in the mountains around Shangluo, and began to talk to Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting caught up in the hide, and from time to time Li Zicheng would go out and show his face when he saw an opportunity, causing the officials and soldiers to search for them everywhere, but he couldn't catch Li Zicheng's tail.

This made Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting very depressed, originally both of them had expected that after Li Zicheng reached this point, he would definitely rush east to Henan to join the Xingtian thief, and they stationed a large army in the Tongguan area for this reason, on the one hand, to prevent the Xingtian Army from attacking Tongguan to meet Li Zicheng, on the other hand, they planned to be here, block Li Zicheng, and strangle him in the west of Tongguan in one fell swoop, but Li Zicheng did not come to the left, and Li Zicheng still did not come, which made Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting very puzzled, Moreover, the Xingtian Army in Shaanzhou did not make any changes, and had no intention of sending troops to attack Tongguan, which made Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting feel full of strength and threw a punch, but the result was empty, which made them uncomfortable.

But Xiao Tianjian's days are still not idle, because he suspended the southward attack, so that the officers and troops in the Huguang area have a chance to breathe, and he led the main force to retreat, which also made the troops in the Nanyang area that had just been captured a little empty, Zuo Liangyu saw this opportunity, suddenly gathered a group of soldiers and horses, launched a counterattack on Nanyang, and captured the Neixiang County just controlled by the Xingtian Army, and began to threaten Nanyang, forcing Xiao Tianjian to immediately retreat to Liu Yao's headquarters in the Nanzhao area, He was sent to Nanyang Mansion again to strengthen the defense there, and he also said goodbye to his wife again, handed over the matter at hand, and hurriedly returned to Nanyang Mansion again.

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