The sky was just bright, Li Zicheng turned over and got up, he asked He Xiaomi to prepare, find a suitable place to breathe fresh air, if you can run, it would be the best.

Liu Yunshui and Li Guo had already come to Li Zicheng's big tent, and they both bowed their hands, "The Metropolitan Governor!" ”

"Huh? What are you doing here so early? Li Zicheng pondered for a while, and he already understood their intentions, "Are you ready to set off and rush to Lanzhou City earlier?" ”

Liu Yunshui smiled and said, "Metropolitan Governor, everything should be done sooner rather than later, arrive in Lanzhou a moment earlier, and let the brothers rest for a while!" ”

Li Guo also followed the help, "Governor, our soldiers have been resting for more than ten hours, and they are already impatient, and their morale can only be boosted but not discharged......"

Li Zicheng looked up at the sky, the sun was still in sight, and there was only a faint glow in the east, so he pointed at the heads of the two with his hand, and said: "Originally, it was only a hundred miles away, so there was no need to rush so much, the battle was carried out at night, and we had enough time, but now it is summer, take advantage of the early cool to hurry, and the people and horses will be more comfortable, Yunshui is right, everything is sooner rather than later, you should prepare first, and you will have breakfast in a while." ”

"Yes, Grand Duke!" The two bowed to Li Zicheng again, then turned back, and Liu Yunshui whispered: "I'll just say, the Metropolitan Governor will definitely agree to hurry early!" ”

Li Guo covered his lips with his hand and said softly, "If you don't have my help to speak......

"What are you talking about?" Li Zicheng immediately flew over the two swords, "Say that you are fat, you will gasp, you dare to join forces to calculate the ...... of the capital governor"

"No, no, how dare we calculate the Grand Governor?" Liu Yunshui didn't look back, he just ran away, "I'll go and ask the brothers to prepare, and the meal will be opened soon......"

Li Guo glanced back and saw that Li Zicheng didn't look really angry, so he turned around and ran away.

Li Zicheng shook his head and smiled, "It's really a pair of living treasures, these two cavalry thousand-household officials, it's really a ...... in a hundred miles."

After breakfast, Li Zicheng left Liu Yunshui's auxiliary troops and waited near Qingshitan to meet Zhou Bin's troops to cross the river, and he took the cavalry of Li Guobu and Liu Yunshui's troops to march to Lanzhou City in the southeast.

The sun has already shown a trace of face, but the heat energy is offset by the river wind, riding on horseback, it does not feel too hot, Li Zicheng wants to rush to cool down early, so that the soldiers can rest for a while at noon, so he whipped the yellow-maned horse's buttocks, the yellow-maned horse was in pain, and immediately galloped.

He Xiaomi and other pro-soldiers, how dare they hesitate, they all hurried to whip up, following Li Zicheng's side, Liu Yunshui and Li Guo were not to be outdone, they were all beating horses like flying, and on the loess on the south bank of the Yellow River, sand was suddenly raised several people high......

Li Zicheng ran for thirty or forty miles in one breath before slowing down his horse's speed, and when he looked back, the soldiers were all Mingguang armor, and if the Kyushu flag was replaced by the dragon flag of the daimyo, it would be completely a cavalry of the Ming army.

He was stunned for a moment, and suddenly had an idea.

At noon, when resting in the forests of Dawan Mountain, Li Zicheng gathered Liu Yunshui and Li Guo together, "Yunshui, Shuangxi, when you go east from Lanzhou in the future, you still have to change the banner of the imperial court." ”

"The Metropolitan Governor is saying, let's pretend to be the Ming army?" Liu Yunshui immediately understood.

Li Guo also said: "My subordinates understand, if our Mingguang armor is matched with the banner of the Ming army...... No one knows that we are the Mandate of Heaven! ”

Li Zicheng laughed and said, "If you bring King Su or Lanzhou's seal letter again......

"Seal? Once Lanzhou is taken, Yinxin will not want as much as he wants......"

"No wonder the Metropolitan Governor asked us to march east after taking Lanzhou, it turned out that the Metropolitan Governor had already designed it, and we were waiting for the guards along the way to be fooled, and the Metropolitan Governor ......"

The three of them laughed at each other, and Li Zicheng's heart was also relaxed, as long as the cavalry of Liu Yunshui and Li Guo could reach the Longshan Pass in time, the possibility of concentrating on Longyou had increased again.

If you can quickly pacify Longyou, just like Liu Yunshui said, if the troops are properly handled, they will soon become the force of the Heavenly Mandate Army, is this how Mao Taizu's army gradually became stronger? It seems that Mao Taizu's army has a political commissar in charge of ideological work, as well as a women's cultural # troupe that boosts morale from time to time......

Mao Taizu's ability cannot be learned vividly, in this era, if you want to form female soldiers, it is simply unrealistic, not to mention that Cheng Zhu Thought has long brainwashed women, even their little feet, how can they adapt to the speed of the battlefield? You can't let people run on the battlefield on their backs, right?

Li Zicheng leaned on the trunk of a moment beside the road, silently thinking about his thoughts, Liu Yunshui and Li Guo couldn't sleep, the two simply got up and moved a little away from Li Zicheng, each chewing a piece of grass in their mouths, and talking in a low voice.

It was not until the sun was already in the west that Li Zicheng left the valley and continued to march towards Lanzhou, but the army did not catch up with the infantry of the Ma Youshui Department until the middle of the unitary hour, and it was only ten miles away from Lanzhou City at this time, and the soldiers of the Ma Youshui Department had been resting in the valley for half an hour.

Li Zicheng looked at the sky, it was still early, so he crouched down in the recess of the hill, "There is water, how about it, is there any news in Lanzhou City?" ”

"Governor, not yet!" Ma Youshui also leaned to the side, just pillowing his head on a big rock, although it was still hot, but the big stone was hidden in the shade of the tree, but it was not hot.

"Governor Dadu, I know that Lanzhou will be the first battle of our eastern expedition to Longyou, so my subordinates have left more than ten brothers in the city," Wang Anping said: "Otherwise, I will go to the city in person, and now I rush over, I should still be able to enter the city!" ”

"No need, now that it's over, rushing into the city in a hurry will easily arouse the vigilance of the soldiers defending the city." Li Zicheng said in his heart, since there are more than ten ranger knights left in the city, even if they attack strongly, they can also take the city gate, although there is Su Wangfu in Lanzhou City, but this is not wartime, the defenders at the city gate are definitely no more than three or five people, and there is no need for Wang Anping to take the risk himself.

It's really not good, and there's still a way to attack.

Several cavalrymen faded their bright light armor, pretending to be the appearance of the people, guarding the periphery, if they met pedestrians and merchants, they had to persuade them to change their routes, in case they did not listen to the persuasion, they could only be blamed for not having long eyes, the kind of temperament and killing created on the battlefield on the soldiers' bodies were absolutely different from the people who had been farming, and if they did not have eyesight, they could only complain that God had not yet shone on the right land of Longdao for the time being.

The soldiers sat or walked, all looking for a place of shade, after a day's journey, they were a little tired, just to rest, more than a thousand war horses divided into several batches, all unbridled, free to gnaw grass in the valley, as long as there is food, they will not carry their masters behind their backs to the outside world to warn.

The sun gradually sank in the west, but there was no wind in the recess, and it was still very hot, and it was finally dusk, and there was no trace of pedestrians outside the mountain.

Li Zicheng asked the soldiers to get up for dinner, and in the afterglow of the sunset, they could also get some mountain spring water to quench their thirst.

After dinner, the soldiers did not go to the forest to wander, but were asked to sleep on the spot, "can eat, drink, sleep", is the sign of good physical fitness of the soldiers, battlefield strategy, that is the business of the officers, the soldiers only need to obey.

To a certain extent, the less thoughts a soldier has in his head, the better, not only to nourish his mind, but also to improve his combat effectiveness, "the ignorant are fearless", the more "intelligent" the soldier is, the more ideas he will have, and there may be fear on the battlefield.

Of course, this requires the officers to be decisive, and they can often win battles and constantly comfort the soldiers with victories, so that they will trust their superiors and rush forward under the command of the officers when they go to the battlefield.

Besides, there is a battle tonight, and the soldiers can only rest for the first half of the night, and from the second half of the night until dawn, I am afraid that there will be no time to rest.

Li Zicheng left a small number of soldiers on duty, and he himself leaned on the slope to take a nap.

It's just that his brain really can't be quiet, it stands to reason that the battle of Lanzhou is the first battle of the Heavenly Mandate Army's eastward expedition to Longyou, and it is also the first battle after the formation of the Heavenly Mandate Army.

But there is a king of Su in Lanzhou City, so out of thin air added a Ganzhou right guard, the existence of this guard, will increase many variables, and, according to Wang Anping's ranger information, Ganzhou right guard is not with Lanzhou Wei, living in the barracks, but guarding the palace, the soldiers are divided into two places, which brings difficulty to the encirclement.

Li Zicheng was not worried about the problem of victory, but was worried that there would be soldiers who had slipped through the net and spread the news of the Heavenly Mandate Army's crusade to the east, which would make it more difficult to attack the guards in the future.

However, Li Zicheng thought about it instead, since the target of Ganzhou's right guard was the palace, if he created some chaos in the city, would Ganzhou's right guard dare to leave the palace?

Thinking like this, Li Zicheng fell asleep unconsciously.

I don't know how long it took, Li Zicheng was awakened by He Xiaomi, "the ...... of the Metropolitan Governor"

"Xiaomi, what time is it now?" Li Zicheng rubbed his eyes and looked up, only a small piece of the quasi-full moon was missing, which was already hanging in the middle of the sky, it should be midnight, right?

"Dadu Governor, it's almost time," He Mi said softly: "A few thousand households have asked for instructions, when can they enter the army?" ”

Li Zicheng stood up, through the sparse moonlight, he had seen the shadows in the forest, the soldiers were obviously impatient, he calculated, from here to Lanzhou City, there are still ten miles, out of the forest, it is Langyue, the soldiers can not swagger to the city, the cat waist or crawling forward, and it will delay a lot of time, so he said: "Let a few officials of thousands of households come to see me." ”

"Yes, Grand Duke!" He Mi turned around and quickly disappeared into the moon shadow.

"The Grand Duke!" After a while, Liu Yunshui, Li Guo, and Ma Youshui appeared in front of Li Zicheng, and most of the moonlight was removed by the branches and leaves, and they couldn't see their faces clearly, but they could judge from their panting snorts that they had been waiting for such a moment for a long time.

"Youshui immediately set off, out of the forest, you must be cautious, two miles away from the east city gate, you have to crawl forward, must not alarm the defenders of the city, stop at a distance of one mile from the city gate, wait for the order of the city, Yunshui Department out of the north city gate, cut off the route of the palace out of the city, wait for the brothers in the city to respond, before entering the city, double happiness department, with the water department, the cavalry movement is large, do not approach the city gate."

"Yes, Grand Duke!" The three of them received the order and went out of the forest with joy.