The work of sweeping the tail was handed over to Xiong Wencan, the Shangshu who was in charge of Henan's military and political power, and Li Tianyang and them were much more idle next.

Most of the materials, money, and population seized by the army of Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, were privately embezzled by Li Tianyang, and with the help of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce and Qixintang, they were unknowingly transported out of Henan and sent directly south to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places.

Even more than half of the soldiers of the Hongtang army itself were reported to Xiong Wencan by Li Tianyang in the name of battle damage, in order to prove his previous suggestion that the army suffered heavy losses, but in fact, it was with the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce and Qixintang's transport team that went south, as a wing protection team to escort this huge batch of materials.

Anyway, after defeating more than 100,000 soldiers such as Li Zicheng's hard work, Li Tianyang's biggest goal of going north this time can be regarded as having been achieved, because of the vague memory of history, Li Tianyang does not know when Li Zicheng will attack the Beijing Division, but at least for now, Li Zicheng will not have the strength and opportunity to force the Beijing Division for a long time in the future.

Even so, the materials, grain and grass handed over to Xiong Wencan were still a surprise for Lord Xiong Wencan, who had no money and no food in his hands.

With the filling of these materials, Xiong Wencan also has some capital

And the exploits left to Lord Xiong Wencan, as well as the generals and soldiers under his command, were enough to dispel their jealousy and hostility towards Li Tianyang.

Taking advantage of the situation, Li Tianyang can also use the heavy losses of the elite army in his headquarters as an excuse to ask Xiong Wencan to return to his hometown, for the sake of Li Tianyang's gift of such a big credit, presumably Xiong Wencan should agree to Li Tianyang's resignation!

However, it is not ruled out that Xiong Wencan values Li Tianyang's command ability and wants to take Li Tianyang with him as a powerful chess piece in his hand, but in the face of Li Tianyang's just completed his exploits against Li Zicheng, Xiong Wencan will veto Li Tianyang's resignation, which is very small.

After all, Li Tianyang is not as good as other generals and generals, he is a veritable powerful general, especially when he fully demonstrated the strength of their Hongtang army and other forces, and defeated Li Zicheng, who regarded Xiong Wencan as a big trouble in his heart, which made Xiong Wencan have to look at Li Tianyang, a powerful general, and he must also pay attention to the other party's opinions and feelings.

"Why is General Li in such a hurry, this official has only reported the merits of you and me to the imperial court, and now that this thief Li Wei has not been eliminated, it is precisely when you need the assistance of a pillar like the general, but General Li can't abandon this official like this!"

"If there is any negligence below, or if any general in the army is unfavorable to you, you can tell this officer, and this official will uphold justice for you, the general!"

Li Tianyang's department went back to his home, and in addition to the countless materials and prisoners he brought back, his headquarters coaxed her to not have enough troops, and the number of troops temporarily incorporated in the past few months was less than 5,000.

Originally, he wanted to celebrate Li Tianyang's achievements and replenish his troops, but he didn't expect that Li Tianyang suddenly proposed his resignation and led the army back to Fujian, which made Xiong Wencan very surprised and shocked, and kept him again and again.

The strength of Hongtang's army, in the successive victories in the past few months, has been proved by actual combat, and no one dares to question their strength.

Compared with the Henan garrison, which only ate food and money, but never showed its military exploits, Hongtang, a reinforcement army with 10,000 hoes from afar, was stunned to defeat their biggest enemy for the Henan garrison and eliminate a major war involving hundreds of people.

"My lord, no one is rude to the end of the gorge, and there are no generals who are unfavorable to the end generals, but it is true that the officers and soldiers of our army are all natives of Fujian, and now it has been more than half a year to support the adults, and the soldiers have begun to feel homesick; And now our Penghu army has suffered heavy losses, and together with the army that has been finally absorbed, it is already less than 5,000 people, even if we stay in Henan, it will not be of much use. ”

"Now that the thieves are newly defeated, this time they will inevitably go south, and from the point of view of the last general, Deng Xi's general soldiers are strong and strong, and they are fully capable of chasing and killing the thieves and cleaning up the battlefield."

"Please also ask your lord to be gracious, let the last general calm the hearts of the army, and return to his hometown with the living soldiers and the bones of the fallen soldiers, and reunite with his relatives!"

Once the success is achieved, Li Tianyang's victory was filled with the bones of countless soldiers on both sides of the enemy.

In this battle, although Peng Zhihai and others rebelled, which reduced a lot of trouble for the Hongtang soldiers and also brought a great blow to Li Zicheng's army, but the Hongtang army, which was the main force in the front, still lost more than 3,000 people, plus the losses in the previous city defense battle and some previous battles, the 15,000 soldiers who came to Hongtang can now return alive, but less than 6,000.

This is still because there are more than 2,000 artillery and other relations, so you don't have to go to the battlefield in person, otherwise the losses will be even more!

This is also the largest loss of Hongtang's army so far, far greater than at any other time, but for today's Hongmen, Li Tianyang didn't even blink his eyes, nor did he feel much pain, but it was completely different from when his family had a small business.

However, compared with the purpose of Henan, Li Tianyang is naturally more concerned about the situation in his base camp for most of the past six months, which is also the longest time since Li Tianyang went to Beijing more than ten years ago to open up the context and take the indigenous patriarchs to broaden their horizons.

Therefore, if Li Tianyang doesn't care about the changes in Dayuan Island at all, it is false, and he wants to take the team home now, but he also has this concern.

However, in the end, Li Tianyang still failed to completely refuse Xiong Wencan's intention to keep Shangshu, and then stayed in Luoyang to press for Xiong Wencan's tail sweeping work.

However, Li Tianyang's department no longer had to send troops to suppress the peasant army, but stationed around Luoyang, slowly collecting the displaced people and prisoners, while preparing for the upcoming return journey.

As Li Tianyang expected, Deng Xi and other Ming Dynasty troops gained a lot in the pursuit of Li Zicheng's first operation, but after Li Tianyang gave Li Zicheng's department a chance to breathe, Li Zicheng's department immediately decided to go south to Xiangyang and go to Tongzhou, so that Deng Xi and other Ming troops were in vain.

(End of chapter)