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After obtaining a large number of Luo Rucai's trophies from the First Battle of Yanzhou, the Xingtian Army no longer relied on plundering along the way to get food, only stepped up the march along the way, and never attacked the county town forts along the way, unless they were intercepted by the local villagers, they started to defeat them, and brought some easy-to-deal Zhuangbao along the way or swept some heavy pole camps along the way, so as to obtain the grain and straw materials needed in the army, maintain the consumption of men and horses in the army, and basically ensure that there was no shortage of grain.

However, even so, during such a transfer to the war, the Xingtian army all had to suffer from the hardships of this long-distance march, especially when they often had to choose some secluded trails to march, which made the hardships of the march even heavier, and the Xingtian army was disciplined, and it was not allowed to loot ordinary people along the way, and some unfavorable emotions still arose among the soldiers and generals of the Xingtian army, and some people did not know where Xiao Tianjian was going to take them, and they began to be unable to bear the hardships of this long-distance march to fight everywhere, and the team was half a month after they left Longzhou, Scattered deserters began to appear.

For these deserters, all the generals hated them very much, and asked to hunt down these deserters, but they were dissuaded by Xiao Tianjian, and Xiao Tianjian did not embarrass these deserters too much, but just sent scouts to catch up with them, took back the armor, and let them go.

For this situation in the army, Xiao Tianjian also began to be vigilant, after thinking about it carefully, he still made up his mind, for this kind of people who do not have the perseverance to follow the Xingtian Army, Xiao Tianjian decided not to force them to stay, on the way while camping, he directly told the soldiers under his command, if they are not willing to follow the Xingtian Army to suffer such hardships or people who are unwilling to leave their homeland, give them a choice, as long as they leave the armor issued to them by the Xingtian Army, they can leave on their own, He will never leave it difficult for those who want to leave, initially in the first few days after announcing this matter, there are more than 200 people in the army who choose to leave, for these people who choose to leave, Xiao Tianjian also fulfilled his promise, did not leave them, and most of these people are recruits who followed the Xingtian Army after arriving in Longzhou, and the veterans before this rarely chose to leave.

But the vast majority of people have chosen to follow Xiao Tianjian firmly, after all, although it is very hard to sleep in the open on a long-distance march, but after all, they can still eat a full stomach with the Xingtianjun most of the time, which is already a precious thing in such a troubled world, so many people understand that with the Xingtianjun, they have the possibility of survival, as long as they leave this team, their chances of survival will be very low.

In the past two months of long-distance marching, the Xingtian army rarely stayed in one place for more than two days, and often chose a Zhuangzi and left with one blow, so although they also made a few votes along the way, they basically did not attract the attention of the government, even if they attracted the attention of the government, either when they sent troops to pursue and suppress the Xingtian Army, the Xingtian Army had already left the local area, or they simply did not dare to send troops to pursue the Xingtian Army, so that the official army did not seize the opportunity to encircle and suppress them. The small-scale battles along the way not only tempered the combat ability of the officers and men in the army, but also eliminated a group of people who were not strong-willed, making the Xingtian army more capable.

Of course, during their long-distance march, Xiao Tianjian did not neglect the training of the soldiers under his command, as long as there was no emergency every day, after getting up in the morning, they still had to train for one or two hours, and then they set off for dinner, so the morale of the soldiers of the Xingtian Army was not low.

For these people who joined the army, Xiao Tianjian still only accepts strong and honest people, and will never coerce a large number of displaced people to act with the army, so as not to attract the attention of the officials and soldiers, so as not to attract the attention of the officials and the army, so that in the past two months, in addition to the deserters, their number has risen instead of falling, and the number of recruits in the new barracks has reached about 1,000 people, plus 1,500 soldiers and hundreds of soldiers, craftsmen, female dependents, etc., The total number of the Xingtian Army still exceeded more than 3,000 people, approaching the scale of 4,000 people.

This is still the result of Xiao Tianjian's strict control, if he didn't always insist on it, just this trip down, the displaced people along the way were wrapped up in their army, he believed that the Xingtian Army could basically be similar to Li Zicheng and them, and they could easily collect more than 10,000 or even tens of thousands of displaced people.

And this armed march in Shaanxi has also strengthened Xiao Tianjian's original idea, after several years of famine and rebellion, Shaanxi has long been dilapidated, many places they pass through have simply become no man's land, along the way can be said to be starving on both sides of the road, many places have almost been completely stripped of the bark, eaten by hungry homeless, and wild vegetables don't have to think about it at all, even the grass roots in many places have been dug up by the hungry people, filling their stomachs, And some hungry people really can't find food, so they go to dig Guanyin soil to satisfy their hunger, but after a few days, they will have a bloated belly into the drum and die on the side of the road, such a situation can be said to abound, countless.

The common people who could not live began to form groups to rob and plunder everywhere, which made the place even more unquiet, so that the common people who could have farmed had to abandon their homes and avoid other places, and finally became one of the displaced people.

And Shaanxi sun, although it is not said that the red land is a hundred miles, but there are often out of one or twenty miles, even a person can not see the situation, many small villages through the way, have become ruins, in addition to the wild dogs in the ruins from time to time, almost no figure can be seen, sometimes in order to find a guide, have to let the scouts go far ahead, in order to find, so that the situation, if you want to gain a foothold in Shaanxi, it is really not a good choice.

And along the way, the soldiers of the Xingtian Army also saw the destruction of their homes, on the one hand, they were sad, but on the other hand, they were secretly glad that if they had not joined the Xingtian Army, then they were probably one of the bones that died on the side of the road, so the idea of following Xiao Tianjian was more firm.

Xiao Tianjian walked in the middle of the team, the cold wind continued to blow across his cheeks, like a knife cut his skin painfully, turned his head to look around, the soldiers and generals of the Xingtian Army were all weathered, and slowly marched through the mountain road with heavy legs.

Several horses raised a cloud of dust from the front of the team, rushed into the ranks of the Xingtian Army, and came to Xiao Tianjian's face, and immediately turned over and jumped off the war horse, and saluted Xiao Tianjian: "Subordinate Situ Liang see the general!" ”

After Situ Liang joined the Xingtian Army, he first stayed in the new barracks for more than half a month, after all, he was born in the He family, and his own military quality far exceeded that of ordinary peasants, plus Situ Liang was very attentive, and he quickly stood out in the new barracks, and soon Shi Ran took a fancy to him, transferred him out of the new barracks, and added him to the scout team.

And Situ Liang himself is very superb in riding, it is not a problem to be a scout at all, after the Xingtian Army broke away from Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng on the road, this way, repeatedly made military exploits, and in just one month, he was promoted to deputy general, and soon called the scout double tiger with Li Lingfeng, and became one of Xiao Tianjian's favorite generals.

"What's going on?" Xiao Tianjian waved his hand to excuse Situ Liang and asked him.

"General Qiyu, the front is the border of Hancheng County, we can go further on this trip, we can arrive at Shanyu Township, according to our nearest place is called Yao's house, there are hundreds of families, we have not found any signs of the official army, we can rest assured that we can camp in the area of Yao's house tonight!" It is said that there are not too many officers and soldiers in Hancheng County, only less than 500 officers and soldiers are stationed, so there is no threat to us! Situ Liang replied immediately.

Xiao Tianjian finally breathed a long sigh of relief, after such a long walk, they finally walked to the Yellow River, then he will lead his troops to leave Shaanxi and enter Shanxi, what will greet them in the future, Xiao Tianjian did not dare to assert lightly, but he still believed that his decision was not wrong.

Because during this period of time, he learned several very important things from the news collected from all sides, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, who besieged Longzhou City, finally failed to conquer Longzhou City and annihilate the officials and troops of He Renlong's department, but after besieging Longzhou for two months, Zuo Guangxian led an official army to the vicinity of Longzhou City, and after a fierce battle, Li Zicheng was defeated and fled, and Gao Yingxiang immediately withdrew from the siege and fled towards the eastern part of Shaanxi.

And Hong Chengchou finally solved the mutiny in Liangzhou Mansion, and began to turn his head and lead more than 20,000 officers and troops to march east from Liangzhou Mansion, pointing directly at the rebels who were rioting in various parts of Shaanxi, and his first target was said to be Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng.

After Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng withdrew the siege of Longzhou, they did not get too many benefits, but swept away the Zhuang Fort outside Longzhou City, almost making Longzhou outside the city of Chidi Baili, after being defeated by Zuo Guangxian, they continued to march westward, raided Pingliang Mansion Buke, turned around and went eastward, and converged with Lao Huihui, Eight Kings and other Lu Yi troops in the area of Fengxiang Mansion, and once again gained momentum, and turned south to approach Zhouzhi, Huxian and other places, and entered Xi'an Mansion, posing a threat to Xi'an Mansion.

After Xiao Tianjian listened to the news collected by these subordinates, he laughed, the more Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng made a lot of trouble, the safer they were for the Xingtian Army, compared to Gao Yingxiang and their righteous army, the more than 3,000 people in the Xingtian Army could not attract the attention of the officials and soldiers at all, so it would create better conditions for their next move.

And the current situation, the fact is true, all the officers and troops in Shaanxi have begun to converge towards the Guanzhong area, so if Xiao Tianjian remembers well, Gao Yingxiang's days of tossing in Shaanxi will not be too long, with his memory, at the end of this year, the rebels from all walks of life will return to Henan!

"Excellent! Brother Situ has worked hard! We're going to camp in Yao's house tonight! After listening to Situ Liang's reply, Xiao Tianjian met with his subordinate Fu Deming and others for a while, and decided where to camp that night.