At the end of the severe winter, the Guanzhong Plain is already like an ice cellar, the cold wind mixed with the yellow dust in the sky is raging everywhere, and the whole sky has become extremely dark, as if the end has come.

Li Zicheng and his subordinate general Li Guo stood dozens of miles south of Lintong, somewhere on the edge of Lishan Mountain, silently watching the carriages coming and going in front, with a serious face and not saying a word.

Behind them are more than ten nights without collection, these are all brought out by him from his hometown, fellow villagers and even cronies of the same village, who have followed him to fight in the south and north for nearly ten years, and have never left him, and are his most trusted subordinates.

In front of them, the carriages were full of chests containing gold, silver and jewelry, most of which were scavenged from King Fu's mansion, and many of them were engraved with the word Fu, but these gold and silver treasures were now surnamed Li.

This time he did make a fortune, King Fu is really rich in the world, the hidden gold, silver and jewelry in King Fu's mansion is simply countless, just he searched out more than five million taels of silver, and the land deed is as much as tens of millions of acres, King Fu, with a rich country to describe, it is not an exaggeration.

Of course, the land title deed is useless to him, they are anti-thieves, even if they hold the land title deed, the court will not admit that those land properties are theirs, so he burned dozens of boxes of land title deeds in front of the people of Luoyang, leaving only these gold, silver and jewelry.

This time, he felt that he couldn't run away, at least most of his subordinates couldn't run away, and the reason why he tricked Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing to block Xiong Wencan and Lu Xiangsheng for him was to find an opportunity to escape, and at the same time to bury this batch of gold, silver and jewelry.

If he can run away this time, these gold, silver and jewelry will be the capital of his comeback; If he can't run away this time, then there is no need to say anything, and I don't know who will be cheaper in the end.

This is the famous Lishan Mausoleum, the burial place of Qin Shi Huang, I don't know how many tomb robbers have dug here for thousands of years, the mountains are full of caves that stretch for miles or even dozens of miles, it is easy to find a place to hide gold, silver and jewelry, but it is quite troublesome to keep the secret of this treasure location after hiding, so he brought his own nephew Li Guo and more than ten letters to come to "supervise" the night.

King Fu's treasure is really called a lot, and it took dozens of carriages to carry it for half a day before all the gold, silver and jewelry were transported from the camp more than ten miles away.

After a while, in the gloomy sky, a team of pipes came to Li Zicheng and arched his hand: "All the people in charge have been moved." ”

Li Zicheng nodded and asked lightly, "Is the entrance to the cave blocked?" ”

The team hurriedly arched his hand and said, "It's blocked." ”

"Hmm." , Li Zicheng showed a satisfied smile, then his eyes flashed, he pulled out a long knife, leaned forward and swept it forward like lightning, and a human head flew up, and the team didn't know what was going on, so they went to report to the Lord of Yama, of course, this Lord of Yama is not King Lu, but the real King of Yama!

The ordinary soldiers who carried the jewels were startled, wondering why the commander had suddenly killed their team.

Li Zicheng didn't talk to these people, after he put the knife back into the sheath, a word immediately popped out of his mouth coldly: "Kill!" ”

Li Guo did not hesitate to rush up with more than ten nights, chasing after those soldiers who carried the jewels is a slash, in less than a quarter of an hour, dozens of soldiers were all cut down by them to the ground, and the entire valley mouth was suddenly in a mess.

Li Zicheng then ordered: "Clean up this place, bury the corpses near the cave, remember the location, don't dig up the corpses yourself." ”

Li said goodbye, and then led the people to get busy.

Li Zicheng looked at their busy figures, and couldn't help but show a gloomy sneer on his face, if someone really came to dig, it would be good to dig well, and if it was not good, dig out a bunch of corpses, and if you don't be scared to death, you will be smoked to death!

At this time, in Yan'an Mansion, on the official road from Suide to Huanglong, tens of thousands of troops were marching forward against the cold wind, team after team, group after group, stretching for more than ten miles.

Although their pace is not very neat, and even the equipment is not very neat, but their clothing is basically uniform, because they are officers and soldiers, to be precise, most of them are Shanxi guards, although the imperial court has not paid them any food, but the uniforms of the Ming army have been accumulated by their ancestors for generations, and each person can still find one or two bodies, so this team still looks like that.

The temperature here is lower than that of Lintong, but Zuo Liangyu's heart is extremely hot, he finally mixed up, this time Yang Sichang, a scholar of the Cabinet of the Ministry of War, selected generals, he did not hesitate to come up, and showed his loyalty, and finally was taken by this cabinet lord, 70,000 troops, he has 70,000 troops in his hands!

This cabinet lord is really coaxing, he believes it when he shows his loyalty, can you believe this thing of loyalty? He himself doesn't believe it anyway!

He had already seen that the court was out of order.

When Gonggong Wei was in power, they worked desperately, fought fiercely with Jiannu, and won the great victory of Ningyuan and Ningjin, as a result, not to mention the reward, even the food and salary were owed, but the nephews and nephews of Gonggong Wei were awarded the title of Marquis one by one because of the military merits of Liaodong, and the rewards were scared to death.

At that time, he thought that the troubled times were coming, so as soon as the superintendent Yuan Chonghuan picked his son to resign and return to his hometown, he took the right car battalion and followed the brothers of the other twelve battalions to make a mutiny.

Unexpectedly, unfortunately, the old emperor hung up, the new emperor succeeded to the throne, and the father-in-law Wei was cleaned up, and Lord Yuan came back!

Fortunately, he shrank quickly, otherwise he would have been caught by Lord Yuan and clicked, it seems that rebellion is dangerous, and you need to be cautious.

Later, he has been looking for opportunities and backers, hoping to take advantage of the situation to master the military power, learn from the eighteen-way princes of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, play a group of heroes, and maybe his family can produce an emperor, even if he can't be Cao Wei, it's not bad to be a Sun Liu, at least he can live a few decades of addiction to being an emperor.

It's a pity that his luck has been bad, and he finally won the appreciation of the important minister Hou Sui of Donglin, people don't care about military power or anything at all, and it doesn't matter if he is promoted to a general, Wen Tiren, the remnants of the eunuch party, want to master the military power, but they want to let the cronies and civil officials master the military power, not the military generals, so he still has no chance at all.

Fortunately, as soon as Yang Gebu came to power, he found that this cabinet lord seemed to be a bit of a vegetarian, whether it was a military general or even a eunuch, as long as he was obedient, he wanted it!

He went up this time, and sure enough, he was soon promoted to the chief military officer of Shanxi, and the total number of border guards under his command was 70,000!

He is so proud in his heart, 70,000 people, there are several general soldiers in the Ming Dynasty who have so many men under him, and he is already counted as a number of "princes" in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, his position as a prince is not very stable, and then he must not only continue to show loyalty to the cabinet lord and keep the position of the chief soldier, but also focus on entrapping his generals and making them follow him with all their hearts.

Alas, there is still a long way to go!

Looking at the winding official road in front of him and his subordinates with no end in sight behind, he sighed with satisfaction and slowly moved forward.

At this time, Xiong Wencan had already led the army to Huanglong County, which was only more than ten miles away from Xi'an, and he knew that the thief Liu Guoneng was in Chengcheng County, which was less than 100 miles away, and the strength was only more than 30,000.

However, he did not attack, because he knew that behind this gang of thieves there was also an army of more than 100,000 troops of the thief Kou Li Zicheng, and it would not be safe if he only led 30,000 horses to rush up, and Zuo Liangyu, the general soldier of Shanxi, had already led an army of 70,000 to rush here, and when he came, he would have an army of 100,000 under his command, and he was not afraid of the three bandits in Shaanxi who rushed up.

More importantly, the Yang Pavilion Department has set a date, on the first day of December, it will be launched on time, Zheng Chongjian, the governor of Shaanxi, and Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Henan, are responsible for the siege, he is responsible for suppressing, and the three parties will work together to encircle these three bandits in the Guanzhong Plain and exterminate them in one fell swoop!

It's still early at this time, and he doesn't dare to start it in advance, ruining the cabinet lord's plan to suppress thieves.

Liu Guoneng naturally knew that the 30,000 officers and soldiers were in Huanglong County, which was less than 100 miles away, but he was not afraid, because Li Zicheng told him that if the officers and soldiers came to attack, he would lead the army to come to support, and the 30,000 people would be attacked by them inside and outside by nearly 200,000 people, even the officers and soldiers would have to lie down.

They are not farmers who have just debuted at this time, after nearly ten years of hard work, they have trained a group of elites who can confront officers and soldiers, not to mention too much, there are more than 10,000 such elites under him, and there are as many as 40,000 or 50,000, 30,000 officers and soldiers under King Chuang, which is not enough!

He is a little too naïve, Xiong Tingbi's 30,000 horses are the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan army, this gang is the elite of the Ming Dynasty, even in the face of the same number of Houjin Iron Cavalry, they will not necessarily lose, if they really fight hard, he and Li Zicheng's men are not anyone's opponents.

Besides, Li Zicheng is just using him as cannon fodder, and the possibility of saving him is very small, unless he can stalemate with the officers and soldiers for ten days and half a month, so that Li Zicheng can see the hope of victory, otherwise, it is a dream to let Li Zicheng send troops to save him!

At the end of November, Zuo Liangyu finally led 70,000 Shanxi soldiers to Huanglong, at this time, the entire Huanglong County was full of imperial army inside and outside the county, waving flags, strict orders, and the sound of daily drills could be transmitted more than ten miles away.

When Liu Guoneng received the news, he was almost frightened, and while the officers and soldiers had not yet launched an attack, he hurriedly sent a fast horse to contact Li Zicheng, who was more than 100 miles away, and asked Li Zicheng what to do next.

When Li Zicheng received the news, he was also plucked out of the cold, the target of the officers and soldiers was really him, even if he fled from Henan to Shaanxi, the officers and soldiers never let go, but pressed all the way over, this time, he was afraid that he really couldn't run away.

Of course, he would not tell Liu Guoneng this, but he told Liu Guoneng that he should not be afraid, those officers and soldiers are all newly assembled guards, and their combat strength is about the same, even if there are 100,000 horses, there is nothing to be afraid of, they add up to nearly 200,000 horses, and when the time comes, give the officers and soldiers an internal and external attack, and they will definitely be able to beat the officers and soldiers to the ground.

He wanted to deceive Liu Guoneng to consume the strength of the officers and soldiers as much as possible, and create opportunities for him, so that he could slip away when Liu Guoneng and the officers and soldiers were in the middle of a fierce battle.

Liu Guoneng was suspicious, but according to the person who summoned him, Li Zicheng had no intention of running away, and he was stationed there to practice, as if he was really preparing to fight with the officers and soldiers.

What else can he do, Li Zi is a powerful person, and he dares to be stationed in the wild, he doesn't dare, he finally won the city, or it is safer to stay in the city.

Therefore, he still believed in Li Zicheng's evil, and really stayed in Chengcheng, ready to cooperate with Li Zicheng inside and outside, and beat this group of officers and soldiers away!

Li Wanqing of Huayin faced the same predicament as him, because King Lu Yan led his army to Tongguan!

Forehead Karma God, seeing the banner of King Lu Yan, Li Wanqing's legs and stomach trembled a little, although according to the scout reported that King Lu Yan only brought 20,000 people, he was still afraid.

When he was in Huaiqing Mansion, King Lu Yan took 20,000 people directly with their army of more than 200,000 people, and as a result, King Lu Yan not only won, but also captured more than 100,000 people.

Li Wanqing also hurriedly sent a fast horse to contact Li Zicheng and ask him what to do.

Li Zicheng already knew that King Lu Yan had come up, what else could he do, continue to fool, Li Wanqing, you are a useless thing, there are only 20,000 people who scare you like this, you have nearly 30,000 people under your command, okay, if you can escape from the sky, you can still burn incense for you during the New Year's Festival!

Of course, he wouldn't say this to Li Wanqing, but instead told Li Wanqing, don't be afraid, King Lu Yan was able to beat them before because their subordinates didn't have much training, and they couldn't do the officers and soldiers, and now their subordinates have been fighting for so many years, especially those elites who have been carrying them, and their combat effectiveness is already about the same as that of officers and soldiers, and there are only 20,000 people under King Lu Yan, I'm afraid of a ball, you can resist it first, and when the time comes, you should cooperate with the outside and kill King Lu Yan!

Well, this seems to make some sense, Li Wanqing also feels that the elite of his subordinates are getting more and more powerful, perhaps, he can really do more than the officers and soldiers, besides, even if he can't do it, there are more than 100,000 troops under King Chuang, no matter how powerful King Lu Yan is, it is impossible to capture Huayin in an hour or two, when the time comes, King Chuang will lead the army to rush up, maybe he can really kill this King Lu Yan!

Like Liu Guoneng, he believed in Li Zicheng's evil in a daze, so he squatted in Huayin County and waited for Lu Xiangsheng to lead the army to attack.

Lu Xiangsheng actually didn't think about rushing up to attack Huayin, because the order he received was to defend and hold Tongguan, the choke point from Shaanxi to Henan, and Lantian, the only way from Guanzhong to Hanzhong.

He originally had 40,000 horses under his command, and the other 20,000 horses, he had already asked Qin Gongming to rush to Lantian from Wuguan Road, 40,000 people were a little tight to hold the two main roads, how could he run to attack Li Wanqing, he didn't bother to take care of this kind of small role, their target was Li Zicheng.

On the first day of December, everything was ready, the big net had been opened, just waiting for the net to catch fish, at about midnight, Xiong Tingbi led 30,000 Sichuan army white pole soldiers and 50,000 Shanxi soldiers to set off, the encirclement and suppression officially began, this time, Li Zicheng can escape?