On November 21, the hungry people in Pucheng City rioted, and it became a prairie fire in an instant, and it was difficult to suppress it, and the intrusive army blew up a section of the city wall, and Pucheng fell.

Zhang Shoubei, Zhang Cunmeng and others protected the county officials, and at the first time of the hunger riots, Kaicheng broke through, 6,000 men and horses, only more than 1,000 remnants survived, and they were subordinated to He Renlong's subordinates.

On November 13, the two governors of Yan'an and Yansui cooperated sincerely, and transferred all the remaining officers and troops in Shaanxi, Xiang Yong, and the pole horse bandits who tried their best to win over Zhao'an, integrated the army of 70,000, known as 500,000, and joined the new army of He Renlong under the city of Xi'an.

When the army broke through Pucheng, when they learned that the whole of Shaanxi had integrated 70,000 rabble to fight a decisive battle with themselves, the generals of the army who had gathered in the gorgeous county hall of Pucheng did not panic, did not hesitate to be nervous, and were hungry and just eager to try and boundless to fight.

"Okay, great." Guo Tianxing waved his two golden arms excitedly, and the beard on his face stood up, "It should have been like this a long time ago, fight early and finish things early, and then everyone will live their own lives." ”

"Yes, it's fifteen miles, and there are only eleven days left before my family gets married, and it's easy to get down to business after the fight." The third uncle can't forget Lu Shi's marriage, and he is really anxious.

In fact, Lu Shi was also anxious, when he first went to war, he just wanted to push it down, but he didn't expect Zhang Cunmeng's change, so he decided to implement the method of besieging the city to help, but this almost delayed his life's event again, if this time it was delayed, then wait until next time, I don't know when I have to wait, cross over, everyone hugs left and right, and I get the favor of a Chunlan, but the result is still delayed again and again, is it that I have become the first person to cross the public?

Now it's okay, Li Yingqi Hong Chengchou has helped him a lot, after this battle, the fastest is one day or two, and the rest is the time to clean up the mess, at that time, he can get married in his busy schedule and really have a home in Daming.

"500,000." Mr. Zixiu couldn't get the strong man prisoners and never collected the troops, so he followed Lu Shi and the others to spend it, this time when he heard that there were 500,000, his eyes were full of blood red, and he regretted: "It would be nice if there were really 500,000, but it's a pity, it's a pity, it's just a claim." ”

"You are content, it is already extremely difficult for his two old guys to raise 100,000 yuan, and now, they can still be under the jurisdiction of the government, how many people can there be in the whole Shaanxi? It is estimated that the population of our seven counties is not much. Zhao Xing whispered to interrupt Zixiu's wishful thinking.

Mr. Zixiu immediately shut up, he could slap the table and roar on the bench with Lu Shi, but as soon as he saw Zhao Xing, who had been hiding behind Lu Shi all day, he immediately felt cold air from his back to his front like a mouse seeing a cat.

Chen Ce said with excitement on his face: "That is, now, our original seven counties, plus the people of the Weinan Plain who have been integrated in the past two months, have reached two million, and those places that are still under the control of the government have almost died and fled There are few left, and it is a bit too much to describe it as uninhabited for thousands of miles, but it is very appropriate to use the words of no rooster crow for a hundred miles." ”

Lu Shi smiled and nodded, his heart full of a sense of accomplishment.

Yes, it is a sense of achievement, I remember the original history, after seventeen or eighteen years of natural disasters, and then in Li Zicheng and other large and small poles countless times coercion, when Li Zicheng was chased by the Qing army to leave Shaanxi, when peace was restored, the Qing court carried out a careful census, and the result was that there were only less than 50,000 people left in Shaanxi, so what about now? Now in their own hands, there are already two million stable production, for the Han nation to preserve the vitality in this place, but also for the upcoming war with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, gathered strength, this time the Shaanxi World War ended, Shaanxi, without suspense of the whole fell into their own hands.

After this decisive battle, in the Manchu Qing Dynasty Tatars into Kou Jinggi, Qin Wang's army was greatly injured, and Li Zicheng, Gao Yingxiang, Wang Jiayin, Zhang Xianzhong, Lao Huihui, Ge Zuo Fifth Battalion and other peasant armies in Shanxi, Henan, Zhili and other places roared back and forth, completely involved the military strength of the Ming Dynasty, let themselves hide in the rear of the real front, in this way, you can let yourself operate a stable business, not more, according to the current speed of development, as long as three years, then, their own Shaanxi, It will become the largest province in the comprehensive strength of the Ming Dynasty, at that time, in the face of the exhausted parties of the fight, as long as they lightly step down, it will be a dusty ending, that is, in Chongzhen six years, to seven years, they will completely end this ** regime, which is ten years ahead of history, reduce ten years of bloodshed, ten years in advance of peace, will bring great opportunities for this suffering Han nation?

At that time, the Manchu Qing had not really become strong, and their ambitions had not really expanded, so it would be very easy to exterminate them by themselves, or submit them.

The country is unified, and then work hard, and after ten or twenty years of recuperation-

"King Chuang." Wu Tao stepped forward with a heavy face and saluted, and pulled out Lu Shi, who was already full of saliva, in infinite crookedness.

"Hehe, what's the matter?" Lu Shi embarrassedly pulled back his habitual thinking off topic.

Wu Tao asked cautiously. "In this decisive battle, the officials and troops are gathered, then the whole Shaanxi will become our world, and we have to ask the king of Chuang, how to treat Xi'an City? What should the prince in Xi'an City do? Do we still want to occupy only the countryside and not the towns, as we did before? ”

As soon as Wu Tao's question came out, the originally lively lobby was suddenly heard, and everyone's eyes looked at their King Chuang.

This is a big question, a critical one.

Yes, the war has already entered this stage, and the method of building base areas as it did at the beginning is objectively no longer feasible; first of all, one of the problems facing the military regime that cannot be bypassed is the problem of dealing with the prince surnamed Zhu.

At present, in Shaanxi alone, there are nine princes of all sizes, headed by the King of Qin, who have plundered 80 percent of Shaanxi's land under their own names, knocking out the bones and marrow of the people, and making the people of Shaanxi live in dire straits; if the policy of encircling the cities with the countryside is still implemented, then the biggest enemy in the eyes of the people of Shaanxi will sit high in peace, and this will be an absolute harm to the morale of the people.

At the same time, the invasion army has occupied the whole of Shaanxi, but it is no longer realistic to leave the city in the hands of the imperial court, which is not only difficult to manage, but also the biggest obstacle to economic development, and at the same time, it is also the biggest security risk.

Now, he has torn his face with Daming, and there is no need to pretend to engage in any face-saving projects, after the decisive battle, taking advantage of the great loss of the strength of the officers and troops defending the city, it is already a matter of course to take each one.

"Kill them." A vice-captain suddenly stood up, and shouted at King Chuang with blood-red eyes.

"Yes, kill them." More than a dozen generals stood up one after another, waving their fists and shouting hoarsely. For a time, the whole lobby was excited, shouting constantly.

These are the brothers whose families were ruined by those princes and those lackeys under the princes, revenge, this is an oath engraved in their hearts.

Chen Ce frowned, glanced at the excited brothers, stood up and shouted loudly: "Brothers, be quiet, don't be excited, we still wait for King Chuang to make a decision." ”

Chen Ce's prestige was still there, and in his shouting, the red-eyed brothers slowly calmed down, but their chests continued to rise and fall, indicating that their anger was still there.

Lu Shi thought for a moment, then stood up, paced to the middle of the ground, and smiled at the indignant brothers: "Everyone has a blood feud with those princes and county kings, I know this. ”

A brother with red eyes and trembling lips was about to speak, Lu Shi smiled and patted him lightly on the shoulder: "I understand, but, please listen to me." ”

The brother nodded trustingly and waited for Lu Shi's explanation.

"We're about to occupy all of Shaanxi, it's a sure thing, and I firmly believe that." Lu Shi said firmly to all the brothers loudly.

All the brothers will puff up their chests, they have this kind of confidence, officers and soldiers, 50,000, 150,000, 500,000? We will fight him with these literal forty thousand brothers, and we will surely win.

"Take the whole of Shaanxi, our situation will be like this." Lu Shi came to the screen behind the county throne in the lobby, where a huge sketch map of the whole of Shaanxi had already been hung, and this map was also connected with other provinces around it. This is inseparable from the efforts of Zhao Xing and businessmen who are well-versed in all directions.

"Now, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, who rushed there later, and other poles, in Shanxi, Henan, Huguang and other places, have made Daming tired of coping with the anxiety."

Everyone knows this fact.

"In this way, they will draw a separation belt between us and Daming and Shaanxi, which makes the imperial court want to attack us again, then he must destroy those poles."

"King Chuang is right." Wu Tao nodded and said, "After the upcoming decisive battle, the power of the imperial court will completely withdraw from Shaanxi, Shaanxi has truly become our world, if the imperial court wants to fight with us again, it will not be able to organize forces in Shaanxi at all, then it can only transfer troops in other provinces, not to mention whether they still have this strength, it is an unrealistic thing to pass through the war areas of Shanxi, Henan and Hubei." ”

Chen Ce also said: "In this way, we can get a few years of precious time to recuperate without the disruption of war, as long as a few years, under the leadership of our King Chuang, we will really organize a powerful army, a powerful army that looks down on the world." Chen Ce's face was already flushed with excitement when he said this, and this bright prospect also made those brothers enthusiastic.

Lu Shi smiled and walked to the middle of the hall again, and said to the full cousins: "And what will be the result if we kill those princes of the Zhu family?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing how to answer.

"Everyone knows that our little emperor doll is the most face-saving, and if we really kill his family relatives, it is equivalent to slapping him in the face of the whole country."

When the brothers heard this, they burst into laughter, and their original anger subsided a lot.

"At that time, the little emperor will dispatch troops half a month ago, and he must fight with us endlessly." Wu Tao said: "Everyone must know that in Daming, there are still a few strong armies that dare to fight and can be occupied, if they are really taken out and fight with us, we will no longer be as easy as dealing with these Shaanxi rabble, that is, the war is prolonged, and I don't know when it will end." ”

When the brothers heard this, they fell silent together, yes, the army of the Ming Dynasty is not really completely rotten, there are still several powerful armies, and there are countless hot-blooded soldiers, they really want to fight against them, under the leadership of King Chuang, victory is certain, but if you want to develop and build, then don't think about it.

"So, I decide—" Lu Shi waved his hand and decided loudly, "Send those royal gifts out of the country." ”