Soon after Li Yan returned to Fucheng, news of Li Zicheng's presence in southern Henan kept coming. The combined forces of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai attacked the city and plundered the land all the way, and the local bandits and homeless people also responded one after another, so the results were huge.

But this is all his sentry report, and there is no return from Tian Yong. So I don't know the specific situation of Li Zicheng's coalition army, but the strength must have increased a lot.

Liu Guoneng of Ye County was also killed, and the remnants of Liu Guoneng naturally returned to the ranks of the rebel army. And in Nanyang, Meng Ruhu and Liu Guangzuo were also killed, and I think they also incorporated a lot of officers and soldiers. These are all armies with good combat effectiveness, and there are even more small teams like Tian Yong who go to take refuge.

Nanyang, Tang Palace, the main hall.

"Cao Cao," Li Zi sat on the dragon chair in the palace and said, "Now that the children have gone out to attack the other cities, let's discuss what to do next." ”

At this time, Luo Rucai was also sitting on a dragon chair, but he was moved from the side hall, so naturally he was not as grand and heavy as the dragon chair that Zhang Xianzhong was sitting on. However, there is also an advantage, that is, it is lightweight and can be carried anywhere.

At this time, the current Tang King Zhu Yuzhen had already been killed. And the former Tang King Zhu Yujian was also imprisoned in the palace of Fèngyang. Because he led troops to relieve the siege of Beijing in the ninth year of Chongzhen, he was seized by Chongzhen and detained. Therefore, the other princes and princes have no intention of serving the court, and when the thieves come, they will guard the palace if they can, and they will die if they can't. A vassal king like King Zhou who is willing to take out money and grain to envelop the army is really fèng.

"Just turn around in Henan," Luo Rucai said casually: "There are still so many states and counties that have not been defeated." ”

Huguang still has heavy troops gathered, of course he will not go. And the boundary of Nanzhili, Zhang Xianzhong is there, and he doesn't want to go. Shaanxi has no food and cannot go. What's more, he caught a lot of beautiful little ladies in the Tang Palace, and now is the time for freshness, and he doesn't want to waste time with Zhang Xianzhong here.

"Shall we go open the seal?" Li Zicheng didn't seem to notice Luo Rucai's perfunctory, and still asked.

Luo Rucai finally became a little cautious this time, and said, "Kaifeng? It's a big city, can you beat it? Don't forget your eyes. ”

"How do you know if you don't try." The corners of Li Zicheng's mouth twitched and touched the blindfold on his left eye, and said: "Last time the troops were not enough, this time let's go again and surround Kaifeng, I don't believe that we can't beat it."

Cao Cao frowned and said, "Have you thought about the reinforcements of the official army?" Kaifeng alone is nothing, but the imperial court will definitely send reinforcements. We see that there are many people, 200,000, 300,000, there are many people who eat, but there are few who can fight. ”

"How many more reinforcements do they have?" Li Zicheng sneered: "Fu Zonglong is dead, He Renlong and they have run away, Zuo Liangyu has been avoiding us, and Ding Qirui still doesn't know where he is." Also, you have also read their mansion report, they were defeated in Liaodong, how many soldiers can be sent over? ”

Luo Rucai still frowned and thought, and did not respond to Li Zicheng's words.

Li Zicheng continued: "Even if we can't capture Kaifeng City, we can continue to go around in circles with the officials and soldiers." Slowly consumed, I want to see how many officers and soldiers Chongzhen Xiaoer can raise."

"Okay." Luo Rucai finally nodded and said, "Then listen to you and go north to open the seal." It's still the old rule, you take the lead in the siege, and I am in the field battle. ”

Li Zicheng nodded and said, "Okay, then it's decided." When the children come back from the surrounding counties, we will go north. ”

"Nothing else, right?" Luo Rucai stood up and said, "Then I'll go back first." ”

Li Zicheng smiled and said, "It's okay." Take heed that one day you die in the belly of a woman. ”

"Our old Luo is an iron body hahaha" Luo Rucai replied with a laugh, and then left the hall quickly.

After that, a few of Luo Rucai's personal soldiers came in and carried away the gold-inlaid dragon chair that Luo Rucai was sitting on just now.

At this time, Tian Yong was following Yuan Zongdi to attack Zhenping County.

He has been taking refuge in Li Zicheng for more than a month, and when he came, he brought a thousand people, and it happened to be Li Zicheng's people who received him, even if he was Li Zicheng's subordinate. If he had met Luo Rucai's people at the beginning, then he would have been Luo Rucai's subordinate.

But he regrets it a little now, if it was under Luo Rucai's command, it should be better. He was under Li Zicheng's command for more than a month, and he also fought several battles and lost some soldiers. But up to now, there are only 1,500 soldiers under his command, and the speed of expanding the army is not as fast as going out on his own.

Because Li Zicheng gathered all the displaced people who came to take refuge together, he had to train for a month first, and then assign them to the heads of each battalion. The number of people to be distributed is based on the size of each battalion, which seems to be relatively fair. But in this way, the big head will always be occupied by Li Zicheng's descendants, and the other camp leaders can only be used as supporting roles.

However, these assigned young men are indeed more reliable, and the overall combat effectiveness of the team has also improved a lot, so the other leaders who came to vote did not leave.

I heard that this method was given by a leader named Shi Jincai, who is now President Qian, serving under Li Guo. I heard that this Shi Jincai was a rebel before, and then he was demoted to the official army, and later he was thrown from the official army, and his experience is very rich. And the ability is not small, in three or four months, the training of his subordinates will be reborn. In blocking Yang Wenyue's breakthrough, more than 100 people were able to resist the attack of more than 1,000 officers and soldiers. If it weren't for the unfavorable cooperation of the friendly forces at that time, Yang Wenyue would have been surrounded.

However, Tian Yong has not seen this Shi Jincai. But he felt that Li Zicheng's method seemed to be similar to Li Yan's measures. It's just that Li Yan is training for three months, while Li Zicheng is only training for one month.

Li Guo's unit where he belonged had 10,000 people, of which sixty percent were Li Zicheng's descendants, and the others were bandits and thieves who, like him, brought the team over. Along the way, there were a lot of homeless people and bandits, but they were basically used as a baggage team in the back. Because they carried a lot of artillery, although it was not as large as the artillery of Li Yan's troops, but the number was definitely quite a lot, and it was still useful to deal with those officers and soldiers who were cowering in the city. The sound of "booming" artillery can make the officers and soldiers dare not move.

As for sending news to Li Yan's sentinels, he doesn't have this idea yet. One was that he hadn't figured out the details of the place yet, and the other was that he didn't want to take that much risk to deliver the letter just yet. It's still far from Guide Mansion, and he's just a small boss who just arrived, and his freedom isn't that great.

As long as Li Zicheng and the others don't go to the vicinity of Guide Mansion, he will not only take the risk of sending a letter to Li Yan. After all, they are just a cooperative relationship, and he is not Li Yan's meticulous work.

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