Li Mi had Wang Bodang to vote, which was really like a tiger with wings.

Next, the pair of masters and apprentices led their troops to sweep through the counties, as if they were in a no-man's land, attacking the city and breaking the county one after another, and the anti-army forces increased greatly.

Wherever the soldiers and horses went, all kinds of thieves and bandits from all walks of life came to vote, and Meng Rang was even more bold and did not refuse, and all of them were knighted, at this point, he fully accepted Li Mi's suggestion, as bold as Yang Xuangan.

In a short period of time, Meng Rang's Qi army has rolled to 100,000 people, although it is rabble, it is indeed overwhelming.

Li Mi became the great Sima of the Qi army, leading the troops and horses to attack, and Li Mi took Wang Bodang as the hussar general.

"King Qi, I secretly think that although our army is numerous, there is still not much food and grass, especially in the land of Huaiyang, where there is no danger to defend, and it is not a base."

Meng Rang held a wine glass in his hand, and a beautiful woman in his arms, wearing a dragon robe, with some wine and said, "Da Sima is reasonable, I am also about to discuss this matter with you, and now our army has 100,000 people, and the name is in the Central Plains." However, Huaiyang is not in danger, so I plan to lead my troops south to Huaixi. ”

Huaixi, is the west of Huainan Road, probably on the east and west sides of Dabie Mountain, Yong'an, Qichun, Tong'an, Yiyang, Lujiang, Huainan counties, this area because of Dabie Mountain, Tongbai Mountain, etc., the south is near the Han River, the Yangtze River, can be the back of the mountain river, is a dangerous place.

Especially in this era, there are still many barbarians in these mountains such as Dabie Mountain and Tongbai Mountain.

These barbarians, in fact, are the ancestors of the Tujia family in later generations, but they are indeed not civilized enough, and the rule of the imperial court in these mountainous areas is not strict enough.

Advance can be attacked, retreat can be defended.

In case the situation is not right, you can not only shrink into the mountain, but also run, whether it is to run to the south of the mountain in the west, or to the south of the Yangtze River, or to Huainan, you can run it.

To put it bluntly, in fact, although Meng Rang is called the king of Qi, he doesn't have much self-confidence.

However, this route is not what Li Mi wants.

He is bent on revenge, and he wants to overthrow the Yang family, how can he want to hide in the mountains and wilderness for the rest of his life and be a mountain king.

"King, now that Yang Guang is still surrounded by Yanmen, all the soldiers from all over the world are rushing to King Qinwang in Hedong, this is a great opportunity for my generation. At this time, there are many people in our generation, and the morale of the army is extremely high, so I just took this opportunity to wave my army to the north. ”

Li Mi believes that he should still take the opportunity to fight Luoyang.

However, Luoyang City is strong, so the righteous army can attack Xingyang first and capture Luocang.

"The king, Xingluo warehouse, there are 3,000 warehouses, 8,000 stones per storage grain, this is the largest storage granary in Luoyang and the whole world, if our army takes the opportunity to seize this warehouse, you can summon the heroes of the world to use grain in the warehouse, gather in Luoyang, and besiege the eastern capital together. At that time, the heroes of the world will obey the king's orders, and at that time, the army will capture Luoyang, and the king can enter the throne and become the emperor, and then take advantage of the situation to pacify the Central Plains and establish a new dynasty. ”

But Meng Rang still hesitated.

Although the soldiers and horses are expanding rapidly now, after all, Meng Rang is also the person who has been the chief bookkeeper of Qi County, not the kind of ignorant recklessness, as a former person in the system, he is very clear about the strength of the imperial court.

At present, Zhang Xutuo led the soldiers of Henan Prefecture to Yanmen Qinwang, but he will definitely come back. In particular, he judged that although the emperor was caught off guard by Shi Bi, he should be fine.

It won't be long before the emperor will go south, and the killing god Zhang Xutuo will also go south.

What then?

Yang Xuangan didn't think he could do what he didn't do back then.

So Meng Rang was reluctant to go to Luoyang.

"Duke Wei, although my generation is not as good as those who are thieves and steal life in the grass day and night, it is not much better, although we now claim to have 100,000 people, but the first is less than 3,000, and we can't ride a thousand, how to fight the eastern capital Luoyang? Even if it is Xingluo Cangcheng, it is quite strong, I have been to Xingluocang City, where the defense is very tight, and there may not be a chance. ”

These words made Li Mi very angry, and felt that Meng Rang was really not a person who had achieved great things, and he had just achieved some victories, and the result was that he was a little rich.

"King, what we are doing now is a rebellion that has lost our heads, which is like sailing against the current, and if we don't advance, we will retreat. We don't take the opportunity to seize Luocang, break Luoyang, call on the world's heroes, but think about retreating to Huaixi and drilling into the mountains, how can this be a success? If we wait for the soldiers to return to Henan, no matter how much we hide in the mountains and forests, it will be useless. ”

But no matter how Li Mi persuaded him, Meng Rang still decided to go to Huaixi.

Li Mi, who was so angry, trembled all over, and wanted to scold Meng Rang.

Fortunately, in the end, Meng Rang was not excessive, after all, today's success is also thanks to Li Mi. So in the end, he came up with a two-pronged strategy, dividing the troops.

He proposed that he personally lead a march to the south and attack Huaixi, which he thought was the base of the land.

As for Li Mi, he led his troops north to fight Xingyang and capture Luocang.

"If Duke Wei can take Xingluocang, then I will wave my troops north to join the division and fight Luoyang together."

The matter has come to this point, and Li Mi is helpless.

So it was agreed at the moment that Meng Rang led the main force south to Huaixi, and Li Mi led his troops north to Xingyang.

Li Mi was assigned 10,000 horses, and they were basically all bandits from all walks of life who had just come to vote for these geniuses, including the student Wang Bodang's team.

Gritting his teeth, Li Mi took the more than 10,000 rabble to the north.

He traveled north along Cai Shui.

At this time, in the land of Henan, many elite government soldiers were lost in the Eastern Expedition, and at the beginning of the year, the road was set up, and many government soldiers were transferred from the Central Plains to the border pass five knots and eight capital governors, which made the government soldiers sharply reduced. And the emperor Yanmen was besieged, summoning the world's soldiers and horses to Qin Wang.

Henan's pacification made Zhang Xutuo and the eastern capital Shoufan Zigai lead their troops north, and Henan became even more empty.

Li Mi and Wang Bodang combined, although the leader was a rabble, but the morale was high, and there was no one to stop them all the way north.

They attacked several cities one after another, and each time they broke a city, they took all the money, food, and equipment, and even recruited the soldiers and villagers in the city to accompany them, so their strength continued to skyrocket.

At the beginning of September, Li Mi attacked the canal city of Chenliu.

Then he waved his army into Xingyang County, and at this time, Li Mi's number of men and horses had skyrocketed to 80,000.

After entering Xingyang, Li Mi sent Wang Bodang to attack Jindi Pass.

Jindi Pass is on the east bank of the canal, not far from Tiger Prison Pass.

The guards of Jindi Pass faced the 30,000 horse invasions led by Wang Bodang and went out of the city to meet the battle, but they were defeated by Wang Bodang, and Jindi Pass was subsequently lost.

When Li Mi arrived, he took Jindi Pass as his base camp and divided his troops to capture Xingyang counties.

The Wei army broke through Zhucheng in succession, and finally besieged Xingyang City by the Suoshui River in the east of Tiger Prison Pass.

Xingyang Taishou was concurrently served by Zhang Xutuo, who was pacified by Henan, but at this time Zhang Xutuo led the elite of Henan far away in Hedong, fortunately, Xingyang City was the foundation of the Zheng family, and the Zheng family was of course unwilling to let the rebels break through, so they took out a lot of money, recruited warriors, and sent a slave to help defend it, and finally repelled the first siege of the Wei army.

"Quick, hurry up and report to Zhang An, let him quickly lead the troops back to the rescue!" Zheng's mansion, an old man of the Zheng family in Xingyang said urgently.