Li Tianyang expected Xiong Wencan to attach importance to himself and others, but he was not without surprise.

"Lord Xie cares, his subordinates are waiting for the rest and recuperation, and they don't need it for the time being, and they can serve the country at any time!"

"This is the thief army intelligence collected by Jinyiwei, the general will take a look first, and then the official is going to take action against several of the leaders of the thief army, and he needs the full support of the generals and others!"

Xiong Wencan's friendly attitude revealed his intention to woo Li Tianyang and others.

"His subordinates will die and be loyal to the country!"

"Faithful!!"

Li Tianyang's attitude made Xiong Wencan very useful, and Xiong Wencan was also not idle in the two days when the Hongtang army was resting, and he sent people to observe and understand the strength of his team around the Hongtang army.

The reason why Li Tianyang was able to receive such courtesy from Xiong Wencan was also due to the well-trained quality of the Hongtang army and the strong military discipline of walking like the wind and sitting like a bell, all of which showed their differences.

Those who only need to quietly observe and play for a period of time, and who know a little bit of battle array knowledge, I am afraid that they can feel the powerful strength of the Hongtang army from the inside out, which naturally makes Li Tianyang gain Xiong Wencan's attention.

"However, this official intends to take action against the thieves' subordinates Tian Jianxiu, Liu Zongmin and other minions, will General Li have the confidence to inflict heavy losses on him at that time?"

Li Tianyang pretended to examine the information collected by the Jinyi Guard in his hand, after all, it was the state apparatus of the Ming Dynasty, and a lot of the information was information that Li Tianyang and his foreign guards and spies in the spy warfare station had not collected, which was enough for Li Tianyang to better understand the movements of the enemy army.

"Whatever the adults and soldiers point to, the last general will take the lead!"

Li Tianyang's performance was extremely humble, and he didn't seem to be worried that Xiong Wencan would treat him as a bait or a victim.

"Very good, then there will be General Lao next!"

The more informed Li Tianyang is, the more Xiong Wencan values his talent, and while Xiao Yifu sent the official document to his hand, he also secretly repaired a book, informing himself that Li Tianyang's strength is strong, hoping that Xiong Wencan can secretly move some hands and feet, so that his troops can be damaged more.

Originally, this was Xiao Yifu's strategy out of helplessness and for the sake of the interests of the dynasty, but it fell into the hands of Xiong Wencan, which made him look down on Xiao Yifu a little, and even sneered at this advice.

In Xiong Wencan's view, only the incompetent commander who can't control his subordinates, but there has never been a subordinate who can't be controlled, with Xiong Wencan's confidence in his own ability, he is not worried about the strength of his subordinates at all, he is confident that he can control any unruly general.

Even at this time, because of his self-confidence, he fell into an extremely passive situation, after Zhao'an Zhang Xianzhong, he did not divide and break up Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates, so that his team still maintained a complete system, and finally suddenly rebelled, giving a heavy blow to the Ming Dynasty army, and making himself the basis for Yang Sichang's attack.

"This is the last general's job, but the last general is worried that our army only has more than 10,000 soldiers, and in the face of the enemy's tens of thousands of troops, I am afraid that we will not be able to do it!"

"This general can rest assured, I sent the deputy commander-in-chief, General Deng Xi, to lead my Henan garrison of 30,000 troops, and strangled these Li thief minions with the general, and the capital officer of the grain and grass army is ready for the night!"

In order to get himself out of the predicament, Xiong Wencan also made a lot of determination this time, don't look at himself as he only sent 30,000 soldiers, but these soldiers are not the old, weak, sick and disabled of the general guard, but Xiong Wencan's hands can be called elite soldiers, and the general soldier Deng Xi who commands this army is a long-term battlefield general, even if there is no Li Tianyang, Xiong Wencan also believes that Deng Xi's department can achieve a big victory.

"The last general obeys!"

Hearing this, Li Tianyang hesitated and gave a categorical answer.

Xiong Wencan's and other goals are not the same as Li Tianyang's goals, but the final result is that Li Tianyang's desire is different, and the process is not much different from Li Tianyang's ideas, Xiong Wencan wants to use Hongmen to work for him, and Li Tianyang He Zeng didn't want to use Xiong Wencan's power to give Li Zicheng's army a heavy blow.

"That's good, Li Tianyang listens to the order!"

"The last general!"

"As the vanguard of the headquarters, your army will go to Yongning tomorrow to suppress Tian Jianxiu!"

"The last general obeys!"

"Deng Xi listens to the order!"

"The last general!"

"I will give you an army of 30,000 cavalry, press up with General Li's subordinates, and attack Liu Zongmin, Gao Yigong and other thief chiefs near Yiyang and Yongning!"

"The last general obeys!"

Li Tianyang didn't care that he was entrusted with the post of vanguard army by Xiong Wencan, compared with himself, the loss of Deng Xi and 30,000 soldiers in Henan was more important to Xiong Wencan, and Li Tianyang, a foreign general and his soldiers, was entrusted with the most dangerous tasks and other tasks as it should be.

Back in their own camp, Wu Chao and other soldiers also reached a consensus, and the attack target given was also consistent with the order obtained by Li Tianyang, which also saved everyone's worries.

Li Tianyang naturally wanted to leave Luoyang early, and he always felt awkward by having a governor directly under the central government on his head, which may have something to do with the fact that he had long been accustomed to doing his own thing in Fujian and making a decision.

Therefore, this time, Xiong Wencan asked him to attack first as the vanguard army, but it was also in his hands, and he ordered the whole army to salute and prepare to set off that night.

The arrival of Hongmen reinforcements is not a secret to Li Zicheng's rebel army, which has a deep foundation and many eyes and ears among the people at the bottom.

However, even the officials of the Ming Dynasty, such as colleagues, knew very little about this Penghu sailor, who was located on an isolated island in the South China Sea and had always had few outstanding mountain dews, although they had a strong mass base, but the Li Zicheng rebel army, which had mixed and extensive information, did not pay enough attention to this Ming reinforcement army with a scale of tens of thousands, and regarded them as the general army of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, when Hongtang's army approached within a range of less than a few tens of miles in Yongning County, Tian Jianxiu, whose territory had infiltrated Yongning, was not ready for battle.

And when the Hongtang army, supported by detailed intelligence, was only dozens of miles away from Tian Jianxiu's main force, it suddenly reversed the previous slow marching speed, leaving thousands of men to continue to move forward slowly, while the rest of the soldiers were fully armed and quickly killed, so that Tian Jianxiu, who was quite contemptuous of the Hongtang army, did not have time to guard at all.

The peasant rebel army on the outer defensive front, in the face of the strong strength of the Hongtang army, was swept away, and it failed to bring much trouble to Li Tianyang and them, and did not even achieve the purpose of delaying the Hongtang army's actions in the slightest.

The soldiers who came back from the collapse of the rebel army on the front foot had just climbed into the main tent camp of Tian Jianxiu, and more than 3,000 people in the vanguard of the Hongtang army on the back foot had already killed Tian Jianxiu's department.

(End of chapter)