Li Mu was not idle, he sent someone to report to Li Yan, and then set off with the troops.

He advanced with his troops to a stop two miles from the enemy's main camp. But before he could get the soldiers to line up in formation, Tian Jianxiu retreated with his troops. And the retreat was very fast, the camp tent was gone, and the hula cheering team withdrew. And once you retreat, it will be more than three miles away, and three or four miles back will be the base camp of the thieves.

Li Mu was also helpless, he only had 6,000 people, and Li Yan's follow-up troops had not yet followed, so he didn't dare to chase anymore. So I had to bring back the useful things left by the thieves and burn the rest of the fire.

As soon as he returned to the camp with his troops, Li Yan also came over with his troops.

"Coming back so soon?" Li Yan asked puzzled.

Li Mu sighed and said: "They have learned to be obedient, as soon as I took the troops over, they retreated." Not far behind them was their base camp, so I didn't chase after them. ”

Li Yan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "This is too slippery." ”

"Why don't we bring someone over and fight a dozen?" Li Mu asked.

"Forget it," Li Yan looked at the sky, the sun was already setting in the west, and said, "Let the troops rest today, and talk about it tomorrow." ”

Li Mu nodded and said, "It's okay." Kaifeng City is very strong, I guess it can be held for a while, and we don't have to worry. ”

"You have to take precautions to prevent thieves from attacking at night." Li Yan reminded.

Li Mu said with a smile: "I'm afraid that he won't come, just come to clean them up" and then complained: "Li Zicheng and they are too unrighteous, I put the corpses out for them, and I didn't send someone to collect them, it's really getting more and more unkind."

"You can go and inform them." Li Yan said with a smile.

After that, Li Yan returned to the county seat with his troops, and Li Mu left the cavalry temporarily to block him, so that he could make some traps on the periphery of the camp. Luo Rucai already knew that he was crawling towards the camp, so it was better to be on guard.

When he had set up the trap, he got the news that the thieves had returned to their original place and set up camp. So he wrote a note and asked his soldiers to shoot the thieves in and ask them to collect the body.

After waiting for two quarters of an hour, Tian Jianxiu came over with five thousand people. At this point, the two sides finally knew who their opponents were.

"Li Mu" Tian Jianxiu pointed at Li Mu and asked loudly: "You actually helped the officials and soldiers who took refuge in the abuse and didn't even let go of Zhang Nai, do you still have a little brotherhood?" ”

Li Mu said lightly: "I'm sorry about Zhang Nai's matter. Dying on the battlefield can be regarded as a good destination for a general. ”

"Shameless" Tian Jianxiu roared: "You are willing to be an eagle dog of the imperial court, then wait to die, Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing are your ends, Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing are both generals, what is your title?" 100 total? Put the total? Or is it a thousand total? Even if you die, I'm afraid you are not qualified to be posthumously awarded by the emperor and the national history museum, hahaha"

Li Mu calmly listened to Tian Jianxiu's words, and then said with a smile: "Yufeng, what are you doing when you talk about these useless things." You better take Zhang Nai's corpses back first, and see where they are buried. ”

Tian Jianxiu saw that Li Mu didn't look angry at all, so he softened his tone and said, "Li Mu, if you come back now, I will give you a guarantee." You have such an elite army, I believe that they will accept you again. ”

"Hahaha." Li Mu laughed out loud and said, "Yufeng is still so enthusiastic." Forget it, it's because you didn't do well that our brothers came out to do things. ”

Tian Jianxiu frowned and said, "What do you mean by this?" Look at it now, we're about to open the seal. We're 500,000 now, think, 500,000. After that, we swept Henan, and then went directly north, and captured Chongzhen Xiao'er, and the Ming Dynasty died."

Li Mu shook his head and said, "There are only 500,000 people in Henan? You have 500,000, but the people are less than millions. ”

"This is a natural disaster** If we hadn't opened a warehouse to release grain, there would have been more deaths" Tian Jianxiu was dissatisfied, and reprimanded angrily: "Before we came, weren't we also full of homeless people? It's not like people starving to death everywhere? ”

Li Mu waved his hand and said, "Forget it, don't talk about this, what we want is different." You get the body back. Go back and talk to Zicheng and Zong Min, hurry up and leave Kaifeng, Zuo Liangyu has arrived in Xuzhou, and Yang Wenyue in Hebei is also preparing to cross the river, if you don't leave, you won't have a chance. ”

"Joke" Tian Jianxiu said disdainfully: "Zuo Liangyu has already come if he dares to come, why wait until this time?" Yang Wenyue is even more of a joke, if he dares to cross the river, he will be the next Fu Zonglong. ”

Li Mu said casually: "You believe it or not, I have done my duty." ”

"Why are you making enemies of us? We didn't provoke you," Tian Jianxiu asked again.

Li Mu sneered: "Luo Rucai has brought people to our Qi County." Hurry out or we're going to fight you." The sword has no eyes on the battlefield, and anything can happen. ”

Tian Jianxiu snorted and said, "Let your people not open fire, and I'll send someone over to collect the body." ”

"As long as you don't mess around, I won't do it here." Li Mu nodded and said.

After that, Li Mu returned to the barracks and took away the body by the people who were watching Tian Jianxiu.

Tian Jianxiu is also very cautious, strictly restraining his soldiers, just honestly take away the corpses, and don't do anything superfluous.

It took half an hour for the body to be cleaned up. Tian Jianxiu took the corpses of the fallen soldiers on the car and slowly returned to the camp. After that, he sent people to escort Zhang Nai's body back to the base camp, and at the same time, he also sent his own soldiers to inform Li Zicheng, who was still besieging the city, of the news of Zuo Liangyu and Yang Wenyue. As for the bodies of the others, identify them, write down their names, dig a big pit on the spot and bury them.

Li Zicheng received the news from Tian Jianxiu, but he was not panicked at all, and he didn't even make any arrangements. Tomorrow, he will take Kaifeng City, at that time, it is not a question whether to stay and fight with Zuo Liangyu or continue to wander. Because Kaifeng had enough food, cloth, gold and silver, armor, and a strong city, he had a chance of winning no matter what he chose.

He looked at Zhang Nai's corpse and said in a low voice: "You wait, when Kaifeng City is conquered tomorrow, I will find you a good place, and let those princes and princes in the city kowtow to you and see you off." As for Li Yan and Li Mou, it won't be long before I put their heads in front of your grave to put you at ease. ”

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