"Xiong Shangshu, touch Li Tianyang, the order of the governor of Fujian, come to suppress the riots!"

After landing at Hongze Lake, Li Tianyang and his team spent more than half a month waiting for them to march westward from Suqian County, Anhui Province, and traveled long distances along the official road to Luoyang, Henan, where they met with Shangshu Xiong Wencan, who was sitting in Luoyang.

Xiong Wencan, the secretary of the military department, who sat at the top, had a long and thick goat's beard on his chin, and his body was thin but there was no lack of prestige such as being in the top position for a long time, and the light in the slightly narrow phoenix eyes was faint, and he had his own spirit.

If there is no Li Tianyang, the existence of a butterfly that has crossed over, Xiong Wencan, the secretary of the military department, the prime minister of Anhui and Henan, and other important ministers of the DPRK, the greatest merit is afraid that he will be the edict of Zheng Zhilong, the overlord of the Ming Dynasty in the original history.

But it is precisely because of Li Tianyang's existence that Zheng Zhilong, the last maritime giant of the late Ming Dynasty, who was famous in history, now does not know where people are.

Of course, these proto-historical periods; , not only Xiong Wencan, who is the person concerned, does not know, but even Li Tianyang, the traverser who disturbed the entire historical trend of Le, is afraid that he is also confused.

"General, please get up, I have heard the name of General Li, the admiral of the Fujian Navy Division, for a long time, and said that you have a good way of leading the troops, and now you are really worthy of your reputation when you see it!"

Although Li Tianyang and other soldiers and horses could not enter Luoyang City, they could only be stationed outside Luoyang City, but now that a support army finally appeared, Xiong Wencan, as the principal, naturally attached great importance to it, and personally ran onto the wall of Luoyang City to check the military etiquette of the Hongtang army.

"Today, with the protection of General Li and the more than 10,000 dragon spirits and fierce warriors under the command of the general, presumably this Li Zicheng is a traitor, and he will no longer dare to covet Luoyang."

"To serve the country, it is incumbent on the last general!"

Li Tianyang bowed his head and chest, looking like a loyal minister.

"The general and the others are tired of traveling and driving, and they must be tired, so this official will not delay everyone's repair at night, and let the general go back to rectify one or two, and how about coming back to discuss matters in three days?"

Xiong Wencan himself is not a reckless person in charge, from his last year Zhao'an Zhang Xianzhong and other leaders of the peasant army, it can be seen that his policy towards the peasant army is more inclined to appease one, so now that Li Zicheng's movements are unknown, he is naturally happy to temporarily stand still, waiting for the support of the Ming Dynasty's troops and horses.

I also complained that Xiong Wencan was more inclined to stick to it at this time, Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng had been strangling the peasant army and other superintendents and their soldiers in Anhui, Shaanxi and other places before, and with the sudden entry of the Jurchens at this age, the emperor Chongzhen had to summon these two important ministers into Liaodong and stick to the border defense of Liaodong.

With Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng going north together, it was naturally indispensable for elite generals such as Cao Bianjiao, as well as the main force of their hands to suppress the peasant rebels.

What was left to Tang and Tang was Xiong Wencan, who was the secretary of the military department and the prime minister of several provinces, was just a huge mess, full of peasant army rebellions one after another, and a group of old, weak, sick, disabled, and weak garrisons.

"The last general commands!"

Li Tianyang naturally wanted to take a rest, and the muskets, artillery and other heavy firepower weapons carried by more than 10,000 soldiers in Hongtang all the way west on this trip were all consigned by the soldiers, and everyone's physical strength was greatly consumed.

Moreover, Li Tianyang also needed to understand the layout of the surrounding peasant armies at this time, as well as their military movements.

Li Zicheng's idea of planning to attack Luoyang is not only the information that Xiong Wencan, who has a spy agency like Jinyiwei, knows it, but for Li Tianyang of Hongmen, I am afraid that the information he knows is more detailed than Xiong Wencan's.

Who let Li Zicheng now have members of the Hongmen spy war arrangement among the several henchmen generals under his command, and even in the military plan conceived by Li Zicheng, there are also ideas contributed by the members of the spy war station.

However, after all, the delay on the road has been a little longer, and under the limitations of this era, it is not easy to transmit long-distance intelligence, especially Hongmen Li Tianyang and they are in the process of large-scale marching, flying pigeons and other limitations, so that in the more than half a month and other marching time, the movements of Li Zicheng and others are not very clear, so Li Tianyang and they need some time to reorganize the current military trends in all aspects.

"Send someone to contact the 'Nail Rat' to get Li Zicheng's latest military movements!"

Returning to the location of his temporary military camp, Li Tianyang quietly called Gong Yuanmao, the person in charge of the spy warfare station, and asked him to contact the members of the enemy army.

The members of the spy war station, as the existence of extremely high secrecy regulations in the Hongmen system, few people in the entire Hongmen system know their existence at night, even if they are just an ordinary member of the spy war station now, the spy war station strictly implements two-line contact, many soldiers in the Hongmen know that the Hongmen are well-informed, but they don't know where the Hongmen got these information.

"By the way, by the way, let me inquire about the progress of those farmers around, how many percent of our people occupy among them?"

"Yes!"

Gong Yuanmao took the order and left quietly, and then Li Tianyang recruited Wu Chao, Niu Qiangwei and other generals, as well as members of the Aircraft Department, and began to discuss the next action.

"Let the soldiers rest for two days, Wu Chao, you send out the scout fight, find out the traces of the surrounding enemies, and inquire if there are any craftsmen and craftsmen around who are worthy of our attention!"

Even with the more excellent intelligence system of the spy war station and the outer guard, Li Tianyang still will not give up any opportunity to train his soldiers.

Along the way, the quality of Hongtang's army was good, but it still exposed a lot of their problems, such as the scattered army queues brought by long-distance marches, and the overwhelmed use of heavy vehicles carrying muskets and artillery, etc., which brought a lot of trouble to Hongtang's army.

The Hongtang army had a lot of experience in fighting at sea, but it had very little experience in marching on land, let alone marching on a large scale of 15,000 men like it is now, which was not only a test for the soldiers, but also a test for Li Tianyang and other commanding officials.

In Li Tianyang's character, he may dare to speculate and give it a go at critical times, but in general, he has always acted steadily, like the current action of coming from afar to clear and suppress the peasant army, he did not think of going to find the most difficult bone to fight as soon as he came up, but was ready to find some weak peasant troops first, so that his Hongtang army could gradually adapt to land warfare, and also learn and digest the key points of land warfare for himself and other command officials.

Therefore, while they were resting and waiting for these two days, Li Tianyang and the others needed to find a suitable target for attack, and then ask for orders to go into battle to accumulate combat experience.

(End of chapter)