Hearing Li Guo's words, the generals in the hall looked at each other. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Sixteen years before Chongzhen, the rebel army was indeed a mobile battle. At that time, whether it was Zhang Xianzhong or Li Zicheng, as soon as they saw the official army coming, they ran away, and attacked the county seat to grab grain and grass while running. Although Li Zicheng is known as the king of Chuang, he does not have a piece of his own territory, and he is fleeing in all directions all day long.

However, since Chongzhen put forward the policy of "exempting all fields from taxation" in the sixteenth year, and the people flocked to him, Li Zicheng got rid of the dilemma of fleeing in all directions. In Henan and Shaanxi, Li Zicheng used the territory he had laid down as a base to operate. Not only did he treat the peasants who responded to him, but he also gave them land and exempted them from taxes.

However, under the edge of the Tiger Ben Army and the New Army, these base areas came and went quickly, and in a blink of an eye, only Xi'an was left.

Shaanxi is Li Zicheng's last territory, and if Li Zicheng gives up this territory, he will return to his status as a rogue six years ago.

The generals ate and drank spicy food in Shaanxi, and have been rulers for a few years, where are they willing to give up this territory and then be the rogue like a lost dog?

When the generals heard Li Guo's words, they looked at each other one by one, and they were all very reluctant.

Gao Yigong shouted again: "The eighth king of thieves, this new army of the Son of Heaven is invincible?" It's better to fight him again. If you lose, it's never too late to escape. ”

Everyone listened to Gao Yigong's words and looked at Li Zicheng in unison.

Li Zicheng took a breath, a little undecided.

Li Guo arched his hand and said, "No! We've fought the Forces nouvelles three times, and two of them were defeats. Every time he was defeated, countless soldiers were discouraged and scattered, no longer following King Chuang, and fled elsewhere. We still have 150,000 men, but if we lose again, I am afraid that there will be less than 100,000. ”

"We are now sending 150,000 troops to the south, which is still stronger than Li Dingguo's soldiers and horses, and we can be the master when we reach Huguang. If he loses another game and only takes tens of thousands of people south, I am afraid that King Chuang will have to listen to Li Dingguo. ”

Hearing Li Guo's analysis, Li Zicheng frowned.

Li Zicheng has been the king for more than ten years and has always been the leader of the rebel army. In recent years, it has swept Henan and Shaanxi, and it has played the style of breaking the king, attracting heroes from all over the world to take refuge, and they have treated themselves with princely etiquette everywhere.

Li Dingguo is the remnant of Zhang Xianzhong's forces, and Li Zicheng has not taken it into account before. With Li Zicheng's character, if he is allowed to live under Li Dingguo, there will really be a problem.

Gao Yigong heard Li Guo's words, and shouted in a rough voice: "Flee without a fight, is Huguang a good place?" Flee Huguang today, where will you flee tomorrow? ”

Li Guo arched his hand and said: "If the new army pursues Huguang, we will have to go west into Sichuan." In short, now they can't defeat the official army, so they can only escape. Grab while escaping, grab wherever you go, and do our old job. ”

"The new army of the imperial court is only 50,000 people, it is impossible to surround us, as long as we flee all the way, there will be life. When the gentry continue to oppress the poor and crush the poor to the point where there is no way out, we will kill them again. When the time comes, we will bring a million people and crush the 50,000 people of the new army to death. ”

After listening to Li Guo's words, everyone felt that there was some truth. Wandering and robbery is an old business for the army, and it is not difficult to return to the old business.

Even Gao Yigong was silent and no longer argued.

Li Zicheng touched the bronze coiled dragon pillar next to the throne and sighed.

"That's it, let's take all our food and silver south to Huguang to avoid the edge of the new army for the time being."

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On October 21, Cao Bianjiao led his guards into Xi'an, looked at the messy situation in the city, and shook his head.

Xi'an was captured, and the entire territory of Shaanxi was recovered. But Li Zicheng left a mess for Cao Bianjiao.

As in other Shaanxi cities, all the gentry and officials in Xi'an were killed by Li Zicheng, and all their wealth and food were looted and transported to Huguang by the invading army. The grain store and rice store were all broken, and of course all the stored grain had been taken away by the intruding army.

The entire city of Xi'an withered, and only citizens who had no food to eat were seen begging on both sides of the road.

Conquering the city of Xi'an, not only could not provide supplies to the 50,000 new troops, but I am afraid that Cao Bianjiao would have to transport grain to Xi'an from other places to avoid large-scale starvation.

What is even more terrible is not the lack of food, but the loss of people's hearts.

When the thieves were in the city, they gave food and rice to the poor people in the city every day. The food of the invading army was looted anyway, and giving rice to the poor was conducive to accumulating people's hearts and making it easier the next time they attacked the city.

And now that the army has been driven away by Cao Bianjiao, no one has given food to these poor people who have lost their livelihoods, and these poor people have hated the officials and soldiers.

The picture of the pot pulp welcoming the king did not appear. Cao Bianjiao walked all the way through the streets of Xi'an, and no one welcomed the new army. The guys in the shop, the beggars and the poor people on both sides of the road only looked at Cao Bianjiao coldly. Some people stretched out their empty rice bowls towards Cao Bianjiao, as if to ask Cao Bianjiao to take charge of their food.

Walking and walking, the guards around Cao Bianjiao couldn't stand it anymore. He shouted loudly at the small citizens on the ground: "You people in the market, Master Wang drove away the thieves for you, why don't you know how to be grateful to Dade, at least bring some wine to welcome Master Wang?" ”

Hearing the words of this guard, the hungry people and beggars on the ground looked at each other one by one.

A gray-haired old man knelt on the ground and said, "General, we are all small people in the market, and we used to rely on doing things for the gentry to get a bite to eat. Later, when the army came, we killed all the gentry, and we lived on the handouts of the army. Now that the general has driven the intruding army away, we have no food and clothing, where is there any extra wine to welcome Wang Shi? ”

The soldiers around Cao Bianjiao were so angry that their faces were flushed, and they shouted loudly: "Our new army fought bloodily to save you from the thieves!" Now you miss the thief? Do you know what a ruler is and what a thief is? ”

However, the words of this pro-soldier failed to educate the people on the ground, but scared a four-year-old girl into tears.

The little girl in the tattered clothes burst into tears. She grabbed her mother's arm and shouted, "Mother! I'm hungry, I'm hungry! Mother, give me something to eat! ”

Her mother knelt on the ground, silent, and did not look at her daughter.

Cao Bianjiao couldn't help but sigh when he saw this scene.

"Pass the order, distribute the military food in the city of Xi'an, don't let the people starve."

Yang Guozhu groaned and said: "Taifu, all the grain in Shaanxi has been transported to Huguang by the thieves, if we rely on the grain we transported from Shanxi to help the people, I am afraid that the silver in the Tai Warehouse and the Inner Treasury of the Son of Heaven will be used up." ”

"I'm afraid I run out of money, and I may not be able to."

Cao Bianjiao sighed: "The suffering of the people in the troubled times is beyond measure. We can save as much as we can. If we show the situation in Shaanxi to the Son of Heaven, I am afraid that the Son of Heaven will not let the people in the cities of Shaanxi starve to death. ”