Yang Qing received a reply in the afternoon......

"Or refuse?"

Yang Qing said with some astonishment.

Li Zicheng once again rejected his proposal for the battle of gentlemen, it is obvious that Lao Li, who has been in the first place, is not ready to be in his second place, and the lessons of the battle of Yangzhou are still fresh in my memory! Although it was because of Dolgon's backstabbing that time, if it wasn't for the gentleman's battle with Yang Qing in Yangzhou, the Shun army might have been able to enter Nanjing City if the Shun army attacked on all fronts, so even if Dolgon captured Beijing, it would be nothing.

Li Zicheng's army of 800,000 can quickly control Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and then rely on the financial advantage to fight back.

The battle of Yangzhou made him unable to advance or retreat.

So this time he wasn't going to listen to Yang Qing's nonsense!

A gentleman's battle?

Pretending to be forced comes at a price!

Li Zicheng is not unaware of the gap between the two armies, Yang Qing's elite is a full flintlock pistol, and the battle between the Gui army and the Ming army has long proved that even if they are well-trained, the infantry with arquebuses and spears cannot withstand the salvo of the flintlock line, and the firepower projection of the two sides at the same time is not at the same level.

Not to mention that the army has more artillery.

The brigade level has no chance of winning by single-handedly attacking him, since it is a result of defeat, then why should he be led by Yang Qing's nose?

Ma Bao said goodbye to Yang Qing with some embarrassment, he and several of his subordinates hurriedly returned to the tiger prison to prepare for the inevitable battle between the two sides, it could be seen that they were also disappointed, but as Li Zicheng's subordinates, they could only obey the wishes of the leader. And Yang Qing looked at the famous Guancheng in front of him a little speechlessly, he really couldn't figure out what Li Zicheng was thinking in his head, he was actually giving Li Zicheng a chance to resolve the relationship between the two sides peacefully.

lost, Li Zicheng entered the dynasty as a vassal king.

He won't live long again!

"Is there a map of Luoyang?"

Yang Qing asked the stationmaster of Zhengzhou Station of Jinyi Wei, who followed him.

"Yes!"

The latter said.

He then pulled out a map from a suitcase he had brought with him.

"This is drawn by Luoyang Station, the time on the map is no more than a year, the staff headquarters, Nanya, Zhengzhou Town Guard, and Zhengzhou Station each have a copy."

He said.

Yang Qing opened it and looked at it.

This map is very similar to the style of city maps drawn by Japanese spies in various places before the Anti-Japanese War, in fact, Jinyiwei has a special surveying and mapping school, and even has a lot of rudimentary instruments. Surveyors are also specially taught by those painters, equipped with special brushes and drawing instruments, and Jinyiwei is equipped with intelligence stations in key cities. Over the years, they have drawn a large number of maps of important cities, including the map of the city of Beijing, which is also available in the General Staff Headquarters, and they are all extremely detailed.

"Take your subordinates back to Chenzhou!"

Yang Qing picked up the map and said to Li Zhanchun.

"Lord Protector, do you want to?"

The stationmaster of Zhengzhou said cautiously.

"Li Zicheng doesn't want to see me, so I'll go see him!"

Yang Qing said.

After saying that, he got on his horse and then headed towards the water, leaving behind a group of stunned men.

Indeed, Li Zicheng doesn't want to see him, so it's good for him to go to see Li Zicheng, it's still a little troublesome for the protector to enter the Tiger Prison Pass openly, but it's easy to sneak in over the mountains and mountains. In fact, he had already seen Luoyang City the next morning, and he had changed into ordinary people's clothes, speaking the Luoyang dialect and walking into this ancient city in a grand manner. It is true that there are already large armies here, and there are soldiers everywhere wearing the gray military uniforms of the Shun Army or the Qin Domain, which are still made to order in some small garment factories in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but to Yang Qing's surprise, most of the soldiers he can see are commune soldiers.

The Communards were well distinguished from the standing army.

It depends on the physical condition.

Li Zicheng's standing army treatment was no worse than that of the Ming army's regular army, after all, his standing army was not large, at least not much compared to his current strength, and sufficient financial resources allowed him to be generous enough in the treatment of soldiers. Those commune soldiers were only able to eat enough, and even in some places they were not too full, they were ordinary commune members, or ordinary homesteaders, who only had regular military training, and were not soldiers in nature. However, the standing army often ate fish and meat, and Li Zicheng often bought canned fish when he bought grain from the south.

This stuff isn't expensive.

Because of the promotion of trawling, the coastal fishery is in surplus, and in the absence of refrigeration technology and modern transportation, the fresh fish caught along the coast cannot be sold far, and it cannot go out of the coast for 50 miles in summer. Even if it is sold, it is not worth much, pushing a cart of mackerel does not necessarily change a bag of grain, anyway, if you can't sell it on the same day, the result is to throw it away, on the contrary, drying salted fish or making canned fish can greatly increase your income. The latter does not need a tinplate can, even a clay pot can do, and heavy salt and spices are boiled at high temperature until they are rotten, and then sealed with yellow mud and other things.

It's nothing more than a shorter shelf life.

After all, this kind of sealing method is not at the same level as the military tinplate can, and it is no problem for the Ming army to eat canned whale meat for a few years or even decades.

Clay pots certainly don't.

But there is no pressure for more than half a year.

Li Zicheng's standing army is full of food, and fresh meat is not a rare thing, he has local grazing livestock, and now he is herding pigs in the mountains of the Qinling Mountains with Yang Qingxue, and canned fish and fruits are often eaten, and his nutritional level far exceeds that of the commune soldiers.

The physical condition of the two can be seen at a glance.

But Yang Qing rarely saw the standing army in Luoyang City, he didn't need to distinguish it, just refer to the standard of ordinary soldiers in the Ming army, the physical condition of the Ming army was similar to that of the Ming army, and the one who was much worse must be the commune army. Although there were more than 100,000 troops here, almost all of them were commune soldiers, and he did not see any important generals of the Shun army, but in several military camps, he saw the banners of the standing army, even the banner of Yuan Zongdi, who was already stationed here.

So......

Li Zicheng's elite is fake.

Yang Qing quickly understood why the Shun army never attacked, there were no elites like Li Zicheng here.

It was full of Communards.

Of course, Li Zicheng could not attack, even if his commune soldiers really had 150,000, the attack could only be sent to death, these were just the commune soldiers who trained the Spanish phalanx every year, how to fight against the well-equipped main force of the Ming army? He was playing the trick of the Ming Dynasty to repair the plank road and darken Chen Cang, exchanging the military uniforms and banners of the Standing Army and even some equipment with the Commune soldiers to attract the attention of the Ming army in Luoyang, but the real main force launched an attack in other directions.

It's just, where is his Chen Cang?

Wuguan?

Yunyang?

This problem can only be found by Li Zicheng!

Yang Qing stood in the room on the second floor of the inn, opened the map and looked at the markers on it, and then found the target from the city in front of him. Li Zicheng lived in the original Fuwang Mansion, which was also the former Yuan Zongdi's General Wei Mansion, and even the specific location of his residence, Jinyi Wei had already found out.

After all, King Fu's Mansion is very large.

The city is a paradise for Jinyiwei.

It was the equivalent of Li Zicheng's free port, the only place where merchants from the imperial court-controlled area were allowed to live and trade, and of course a favorite place for spies.

Yang Qing, who put away the map, then began to make various preparations, and soon night fell, he quickly changed into a Shunjun military uniform and left the inn, determined the location of the sneak outside, and waited until the curfew. Originally, there was no curfew here, but at this time, the situation was special, and a curfew was still implemented, but it was also more convenient for Yang Qing, who put on a black cloak and quietly climbed over the high wall of the original Fuwang Mansion, relying on his hearing beyond ordinary people to avoid all the patrols and keep approaching the destination. After arriving at Li Zicheng's residence found out by Jinyiwei, he immediately went up to the roof, and with the help of the cover of cloudy darkness, he observed around on the roof......

Of course, it was impossible for him to know which room Li Zicheng was staying in.

It's not that hard to solve, though.

Where there are guards on guard, it is.

Soon he identified the target, then quickly slipped off the roof, silently through the rockery pond and marsh in the darkness to get closer to the target, and then he took off his black robe, revealing the military uniform inside, and walked to the guards in a grand manner.

A total of four guards.

This is Li Zicheng's own territory, even the commune soldiers outside are hundreds of thousands of troops, protected by two city walls, and the guards are just symbolic, seeing Yang Qing's appearance, they didn't show too much vigilance. This palace is also a military camp, more than 100,000 troops poured into Luoyang, beyond the city's capacity, and the Fuwang Mansion occupies a large area, in fact, at least 30,000 Shun troops are stationed in this mansion. There is a soldier from Guanzhong who is not familiar with the situation at night, and it is possible to enter here by mistake, those commune soldiers entered the big city for the first time, and they originally liked to wander around when they entered such a mansion, but as Yang Qing approached, they still drew their knives and made a threat.

"A few big brothers!"

Yang Qing said with a smile in Guanzhong dialect.

"Get out!"

One of the guards whispered unceremoniously.

"To be hungry is to ask for directions, and if you are hungry, you won't know the way!"

Yang Qing said with an aggrieved face.

He was very close by this time, and at the moment when he said this, he sprang out like lightning, and at once reached the guard, who before he could react, his palm was slashed at the back of his head. As a divine doctor, he was extremely familiar with the structure of the human body, and as his palm fell, the guard immediately fell, and Yang Qing turned around and slashed the back of the second guard's head with his palm. The other two guards finally reacted, and one of them subconsciously pulled out a short gun, but Yang Qing punched him in the middle of the chest, and the cardiac arrest caused him to immediately fall in pain. As soon as the fourth guard opened his mouth, before he could shout, Yang Qing pushed his chin back, and then he was also knocked unconscious by a blow.

"Don't disturb the marshal's rest!"

A maid poked her head out and shouted.

But the next moment, Yang Qing covered her mouth, she looked at him with wide eyes and horror, and was dragged into the door by Yang Qing, and then Yang Qing closed the door and dragged her to a large bed in front, and a man was lying on his side inside the half-open bed curtain.

Yang Qing walked straight to the bed.

The latter suddenly rolled over and opened his eyes......

"Uh, am I going to the wrong door, or are your uncles and nephews fooling me?"

Yang Qing said in amazement.

The person on the bed is Li Guo......