In the past ten days, Xiao Tianjian has not been idle in addition to paying attention to the siege of the city, and the training of the recruit battalion in the Xingtian military camp is in full swing, because the recruits are all honest and honest farmers, and after the experience of training recruits several times before, the instructors of the recruit battalion have also accumulated rich training experience, so that these recruits can adapt very quickly, and the basic training of the queue will be completed in a short time.

For the siege of Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, Xiao Tianjian was not familiar with the history of the rebel army, so he didn't know whether Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng would be able to conquer Longzhou City in the future, but judging from the current situation, he was less and less optimistic about this attack on Longzhou City, so he constantly sent scouts to explore all kinds of news within a hundred miles of the surrounding area, and began to make other plans in his heart.

"General, the consumption of grain and grass in the army during this period is very strong, originally we brought the grain and straw from Tianlong Village, so far most of it has been consumed, and the rest is only enough to support us for another ten days, so if we continue to consume it here, I am afraid that in another ten days, we will have no grain and grass!" Why don't you reduce the rations here and there during this period of time, so that you can last a few more days! Jin Fuzi frowned and found Xiao Tianjian this day and said to Xiao Tianjian.

Xiao Tianjian is naturally clear about this matter, in the blink of an eye, they have come to Longzhou City for nearly a month, although his troops have not been consumed because of several battles, but the consumption of grain has to attract his attention, the most taboo thing in the march is the shortage of grain, how many famous generals in ancient and modern times, in the end, because of the lack of grain and grass in the army, they all fell into the sand, so every day he would ask about the reserves of grain, and naturally he knew the current situation.

"I see! You don't have to worry about it, I've got your own decision! Don't reduce the rations everywhere for the time being, the training intensity of the recruits is very high, and you can't deduct their rations! Didn't they choose to follow me just to have a good meal? If they can't even fill their stomachs, then aren't they with the wrong person? This matter is so decided, you go down and do things! Xiao Tianjian shook his head and instructed Master Jin.

Jin Fuzi shook his head and walked out of the tent, muttered with a wry smile: "If you don't belong home, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are!" But how can it be done by sitting on the mountain and eating empty like this! ”

"Old Man Jin! What are you muttering? It happened that Fu Deming walked to Xiao Tianjian's tent and heard Master Jin's muttering, so he asked him with a smile, for the old man Master Jin, the whole Xingtianjun knew that he was a good man and was quite kind to people, so the whole army also respected Master Jin a lot, and most people now no longer call him Master Jin with their mouths closed, but call him Old Man Jin, and Jin Tong is also happy to accept it.

"Oh! It turned out to be Mr. Fu! Hehe! It's nothing! I just came to the general to talk about the grain! I'm going back to work! Jin Fuzi was afraid that Fu Deming would think that he was talking ill of Xiao Tianjian behind his back, so he quickly explained, then arched his hand and trotted towards the back camp.

Fu Deming looked at the back of Master Jin who was far away, and shook his head slightly and smiled, during this period of time, Fu Deming can be said to have completely integrated into the Xingtian Army, and everyone in the army knows that he is Xiao Tianjian's think tank, so he has become very respectful of him, which makes Fu Deming feel quite good.

Fu Deming offered his advice to Xiao Tianjian twice, which made Xiao Tianjian achieve a great victory against the official army, so Fu Deming's status as a poor talent also rose, and he walked around the army a lot more casually, and the generals who didn't want to see him became a lot more cordial to him.

During this period of time, Fu Deming was also impressed by Xiao Tianjian's courage and tenacity, just for the bad woman, he admired it very much, last time Gao Yingxiang gave Xiao Tianjian a beauty, Xiao Tianjian happily accepted, originally Fu Deming was also worried that this woman would affect Xiao Tianjian, so that he would indulge in women, but now it seems that he is completely worried about this matter too much, Xiao Tianjian has not stayed in the women's camp in the back camp for one night since he came to Longzhou City, this kind of patience is exchanged for the vast majority of men, It's basically impossible to do.

Therefore, Fu Deming felt that Xiao Tianjian was a person who could do great things, so he devoted himself even more effort to plan for Xiao Tianjian.

From this period of time, after Gao Yingxiang led his troops to Longzhou City, Xiao Tianjian led his troops and Gao Yingxiang to leave immediately, always maintaining a certain distance, and trained recruits in the camp, so that the backbone strength of the Xingtian Army expanded a lot, and at the same time, he also saw the crisis, so after careful calculation, he came to Xiao Tianjian to discuss future actions.

As soon as he saw Fu Deming walking into the account, Xiao Tianjian immediately beckoned to Fu Deming and said, "You came just in time, I have something to ask Mr. to come over to discuss!" ”

After Fu Deming gave Xiao Tianjian a salute, he walked to Xiao Tianjian's side, looked at the map on the table, and asked Xiao Tianjian with a smile: "The general wants to discuss the matter of what to do!" ”

"Mr. Fu, who knows me, too! Not bad! It is for this purpose! Xiao Tianjian glanced at Fu Deming, with a look of admiration on his face.

"Yes! Since Fu followed the general, he naturally had to think about the general! If you can't guess what the general thinks, then your subordinates are derelict in their duties! Hehe! Could the general have lost confidence in King Gao Chuang's attack on Longzhou City? Fu Deming glanced at the map a few times and asked Xiao Tianjian.

"Not bad! At the moment, it seems that this time Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng led their troops to besiege Longzhou City, which is likely to be a miscalculation! I'm afraid Longzhou City won't be as easy to defeat as they thought! So if we continue to stay here now, just a matter of grain and straw will make our Xingtian Army unable to parry!

Recently, there has been a shortage of food in the camp of Gao Li and Li, they divided their troops to sweep the nearby villages on all sides, so as to get food, we now only have less than a few days of surplus food, Gao Yingxiang also sent someone to me yesterday, wanting me to take out a part of the food aid to them, I have refused, so if it goes on, I am afraid that we and Gao Yingxiang will be incompatible immediately, so I think, now should be the time for us to leave here! Xiao Tianjian said to Deming in the big tent with his hands behind his back.

Fu Deming nodded and said: "What the general said is extremely true, all the scouts have begun to pass on the surrounding situation at the moment, and it has now been found out that the official army is currently dividing troops in Hanzhong in the south to deal with Zhang Xianzhong and other troops, and there is still a road in the north where the official army is fighting fiercely with Luo Rucai, and the news received Hong Chengchou is now in Xining Wei to pacify the rebellion, and now only Zuo Guangxian is left with the official army, and the whereabouts are unknown, if the subordinates expect it to be good, with the importance of Longzhou, for Chen Qiyu or Hong Chengchou, Longzhou is the place they must save, so if the subordinate is Chen Qiyu, then he will definitely transfer Zuo Guangxian's department and come to relieve He Renlong!

In this way, Zuo Guangxian will definitely lead his troops to rush here in the near future, if Gao and Li don't want to fight to the death with the official army here, then they can only break the siege and go.

And Longzhou City is not in short supply at the moment, with the ability of He Renlong, there will be no problem in withstanding Gao Li's siege for at least a month, so since we have understood the subordinates of the official army, then there is no need to settle in this place anymore, and now it can be said that it is the time for us to leave this place! ”

Xiao Tianjian turned around and walked to the table with the map, and looked down, many places on it have been marked where a large number of officers and soldiers are located, compared to a month ago, when they just left Tianlong Village, they can now be said to be not as blind as before, through various channels, they basically grasp the basic movements of a large number of officers and troops in Shaanxi nowadays, except for the fact that they have not yet found out the troops and horses of Zuo Guangxian's department, the rest basically know what they are doing, so that This also laid a good foundation for Xiao Tianjian's next move, and he no longer had to worry about going on the road alone, encountering a large number of officers and soldiers, and being eaten by the officers and soldiers.

"What Mr. said is very true, there is Mr. Lao during this time! We followed Gao Li and the two to Longzhou this time, it seems that the cooperation is not as pleasant as we imagined, the day before yesterday, Gao Yingxiang's subordinates also came to our camp, asking us to give up this place and let them station, it is really infuriating!

Gao Yingxiang's patience is getting less and less, he is so squeezing me, in fact, he still wants to force our Xingtian Army to be included in his command, so it seems that if we don't leave, I'm afraid it will be difficult to go! Xiao Tianjian's face showed indignation as he spoke.

After Gao Yingxiang led his troops to Longzhou this time, he was very polite to Xiao Tianjian and Xingtianjun on the surface, but secretly he was restricting their activity space, they all belonged to the righteous army, and the big guys originally relied on attacking Zhuangbao around the area to get the food of the rich people, but Gao Yingxiang relied on his large number of troops, attacked everywhere, and almost swept the Zhuangbao within a radius of twenty miles, but on the side of the Xingtian Army, he refused to allocate the grain obtained, and the Xingtian Army went out to collect food, but he had to be restricted by him.

Two days ago, Gao Yingxiang sent someone to Xiao Tianjian and asked Xiao Tianjian to allocate another part of the grain to his generals, Xiao Tianjian categorically refused his request on the spot, so Gao Yingxiang changed his means, saying that there are too many troops under his command at the moment, and the camp that the Xingtian Army originally occupied has sufficient water, so he asked the Xingtian Army to vacate this camp and move it to a distant place to re-camp, so this means makes the Xingtian Army despised, and the relationship between the two sides has become increasingly tense these days.

And the mountain tiger who had a festival with Xiao Tianjian led a group of men and horses to camp directly near the camp of the Xingtian Army, and took a group of people to wander outside all day long, looking for provocation.

In order to take care of the overall situation, Xiao Tianjian had to restrain the subordinates of the Xingtian Army to temporarily forbear, and he was not allowed to leave the camp unless he had to do anything, and he did not want to have a head-on conflict with Gao Yingxiang's subordinates for the time being, but he also issued a strict order, if anyone dared to break into the camp without authorization, then he would take it down directly, and he would never give in in front of Gao Yingxiang.

Gao Yingxiang's move can be said to be very insidious, that is, to slowly exhaust the food of the Xingtian Army, so that the Xingtian Army had to finally give in to him because of the lack of food, and surrendered to him at his mercy.

Gao Yingxiang had just made this point, and Xiao Tianjian and Fu Deming saw through it, so these days, they have been secretly plotting to leave this place, and now, they have basically understood the general situation of the official army, if they stay here, then wait for Gao Yingxiang to put a rope around their necks, and slowly tighten it, until they have to finally soften.

"So has the general ever thought about where we are going to leave Longzhou City this time?" Fu Deming raised his eyebrows and asked Xiao Tianjian.

Xiao Tianjian with an angry face relaxed after listening to Fu Deming's question, and said to Fu Deming: "I have already thought about it, we must not be like Gao Li and others, after so many years of operation, only to be a rogue, if we want to be strong, we must have a base that belongs to us!" ”

"Base? Wonderful! This name is very good, there is a root to have a basis, but without a root, it can only be a piece of duckweed, and it can not grow into a big tree! Yes, the name of the base is wonderful! After hearing Xiao Tianjian mention that they wanted to find a place to be their base, Fu Deming tasted the meaning of the three words of the base, and immediately stroked his palms and praised the wonderful way.

After Xiao Tianjian heard Fu Deming's words, he was slightly stunned at first, but immediately realized that he had inadvertently proposed a new term, because the term base is a concept that was only proposed by later generations, and in the current era, no one has used this term, so after it came out of his mouth, Fu Deming was very surprised.