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But they won more with less, and the victory of the White Dragon Army in this battle was enough to make them feel glorious for everyone under the White Dragon Army.

Li Zixiao raised his hand to stop the laughter of the generals, and then said to them: "Don't be happy too early, although we defeated this road of officials and troops this time, we will definitely attract great attention from the imperial court in the future."

Fortunately, the main attention of the imperial court is now focused on the rebel armies in Shaanxi and Huguang, and it is impossible to send a large army to deal with us in a short period of time.

But we must not relax, as you have seen, this time the imperial court only sent 10,000 troops, and two-thirds of them were ragtag soldiers who could not afford to fight.

The only one who can really fight is the one named Xu Wei with less than 3,000 men, but even so, we won this battle quite hard, and even almost lost.

And our Yongcheng County is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and it won't be long before the imperial court recovers, and there will be more officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress us, 10,000, 50,000, or even more. ”

The generals were silent when they listened to Li Zixiao's heavy words, and they understood that what Li Zixiao said was the truth.

"I'm afraid of a bird, if the officers and soldiers come to encircle and suppress us again, it's a big deal that we will destroy him again, and we will kill as many as we come." Zhou Dazhu was the first to stand up and shout as always.

However, there are really not many generals who echo his words this time, because everyone knows that what Zhou Dazhu said will not work at all.

If they really have the strength to kill as many officers and soldiers as they come, will they still be cowering in a small Yongcheng county seat?

At this time, Li Zixiao saw that all the generals under him looked thoughtful, a smile appeared on his face, and he looked at Qian Guangyuan on the side, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

"I wonder what the big boss has planned?" Qi Wei stood up and asked at this time.

Hearing Qi Wei's inquiry, Li Zixiao did not answer, but Qian Guangyuan on the side stood up and said, "The big boss is also worried."

In the end, it was the old man who made a suggestion to the big boss, and at this time, for our White Dragon Army, the last choice was to accept the court's recruitment. ”

"What?"

Hearing Qian Guangyuan's words, Qi Wei and Luo Chao's pupils contracted, but they didn't show anything first, but Zhou Dazhu, who was the first to react.

Not only that, but the other White Dragon Army generals next to him also exchanged their heads and whispered about it.

These White Dragon generals are all grassroots officers, and most of them command dozens of people, similar to the chief flag officer in the official army.

"Military division, how can we surrender the officers and soldiers, we have won this battle, and how many of our brothers died in the hands of the officers and soldiers, now if we surrender to the officers and soldiers, we are worthy of the dead brothers!"

As soon as Zhou Dazhu's words were finished, he was immediately supported by many team generals, which was also what Qian Guangyuan was worried about.

This problem, in Qian Guangyuan's opinion, must be cautious, if it is not done well, it may split the White Dragon Army.

"Ahem, Captain Zhou, to correct it, it is to accept the invitation of the imperial court, not to surrender the officers and soldiers."

"It's not the same, it's all about putting on that official skin." Zhou Dazhu snorted coldly and said disapprerovingly.

"Hehe, the difference is big, surrender will be handled by others, and at this time, if we express our acceptance of the imperial court's recruitment, the initiative is in our hands."

"This is not just a suggestion I made to the big boss, the big boss is still thinking, don't you want to hear the opinion of the big guy, there are no outsiders here tonight, everyone can talk freely."

Qian Guangyuan said with a smile.

"No, I don't support it anyway." Zhou Dazhu was the first to stand up and ask, and his team will support a lot.

"I don't care, I follow the big boss, the big boss continues to work against the court, and I will continue to kill officers and soldiers.

If the big boss accepts the court's recruitment, I will follow to get an official and a half-job, anyway, I will do what the big boss does, this is my attitude. ”

Compared with Zhou Dazhu's resolute opposition, Wei Hong's attitude is very ambiguous, in his view, it doesn't matter if he is a bandit or a soldier, as long as he follows Li Zixiao.

Wei Hong's statement also said that a large number of team members supported him, and they all admired Li Zixiao incomparably.

And Luo Chao and Qi Wei glanced at each other, and even expressed their support for Wei Hong's statement.

But in fact, the two of them couldn't go home at this time, and even suffered a lot of grievances, but in their hearts, they still hoped that the White Dragon Army could become an official army.

After all, both of them are from military families, even if they are not loyal to the court at this time, they still don't want to have a situation where fathers, sons, and brothers kill each other on the battlefield.

But at this time, they can't stand up with great fanfare and say that they accept the imperial court's recruitment, which will deepen the estrangement between their generals, so Wei Hong's flattering statement is the most appropriate.

Moreover, after rational analysis in their hearts, they also agreed with Qian Guangyuan's statement, and at this time, their White Dragon Army looked infinitely beautiful.

But this kind of scenery is not just built on the sky pavilion, once the real imperial court frees up its energy, it will not be too difficult to exterminate them.

Unless, they also follow Li Zicheng's example, and lead people into the deep mountains and old forests in one breath, so that they can protect themselves.

Only Li Zixiao knew that in history, a bandit leader like Zhang Xianzhong, who was as famous as Li Zicheng, did not accept the court's recruitment, and then took the opportunity to let his subordinates recuperate.

After a few years of disrupted the situation, Zhang Xianzhong did not hesitate to re-pull out the banner of rebellion and rise again.

Li Zixiao's acceptance of the idea of being recruited by the imperial court was more or less because he remembered that Zhang Xianzhong had been recruited.

"Wei Hong, Luo Chao, Qi Wei, you are perfunctory, you are really irresponsible, hum!" Zhou Dazhu was very dissatisfied with the three of them's statement.

"Big boss, what do you think, give me a word! Zhou Dazhu asked anxiously.

At this time, Li Zixiao stood up from his seat, looked at his generals and said, "I thought about it and decided to adopt the opinions of the military advisor and find a suitable opportunity to accept the imperial court's recruitment."

If there are those brothers who are unwilling to continue to follow me Li, I will give him a large sum of silver and let him leave.

If you are willing to continue to follow me Li, just look at it, even if I Li puts on an official skin, I will not forget the original oath and will never embarrass the people. ”

As he spoke, Li Zixiao's eyes looked at Zhou Dazhu.

At this time, after hearing Li Zixiao's words, Zhou Dazhu was also stunned, this guy reacted quickly enough.

immediately smiled and said very scoundrelly: "Hehe, I didn't say anything before, I only recognize the big boss, and wherever the big boss goes, I will follow him." ”

After speaking, Zhou Dazhu immediately sat down and stopped talking, and looked like he should be.

Just like the words shouted against it just now, it was not what he said at all, which couldn't help but attract a burst of contempt from the generals.

"Willing to obey the orders of the big boss and follow the big boss."

At this time, Wei Hong took the initiative to kneel down on one knee, clasped his hands into fists, saluted, and shouted loudly.

"Willing to obey the orders of the big boss and follow the big boss." At this time, the others immediately knelt on one knee and shouted loudly.

After looking at the performance of all the generals of the White Dragon Army, Qian Guangyuan took a deep breath, he was worried that the White Dragon Army would be torn apart because of this, and finally it didn't happen.

It can be seen that the generals of the White Dragon Army are extremely loyal to Li Zixiao at this time.

And Li Zixiao actually expected this, he was still very confident in the loyalty of his generals to him.

At least, at this time, the White Dragon Army did not have many soldiers and horses, and there were not many generals, but they were united, and these few generals were extremely loyal to Li Zixiao.

Perhaps, in the future, the scale of the White Dragon Army will become larger, and more people will defect to the White Dragon Army, and perhaps there will be many speculators who will mix into the White Dragon Army at that time.

But at least, Li Zixiao knows that these old subordinates who started with him can definitely be trusted, and this is his family background for dominating the world in the future.

"Well, since everyone trusts me so much, then it's decided, but this news must not be leaked out a bit.

Even if we want to accept the court's recruitment, we must try to bargain with the court as much as possible, take the opportunity to get more benefits, and don't take advantage of it, that's a bastard. ”

"Hahaha."

After Li Zixiao's words were finished, it caused a burst of laughter among his generals.

"Big boss, we just rejected the surrender of the surnamed Wu, and even just defeated this army of 10,000 people, will the court still be willing to recruit us at this time?"

Wei Hong said a little worriedly.

"Haha, rest assured, at this time, there are internal and external troubles in the court, there are many bandits from all walks of life, they can't finish suppressing them, Emperor Chongzhen likes Daming too much to settle down.

At this time, above the Ming Dynasty, there was an atmosphere of recruiting peace among those officials and masters, if we expressed our willingness to accept Zhao'an, how could the court not accept it.

However, the only trouble is that we have to try our best to accept Zhao'an and strive for enough benefits for us, so we need to operate it well. ”

Li Zixiao looked confident, and said confidently, the reason why he is so sure is, of course, because he has the biggest golden finger of 'prophet'.

At this time, the imperial court did rise a trend of recruiting rebels from all walks of life, Xiong Wencan took office, and after being responsible for the imperial court to exterminate the rebels, he changed the encirclement and suppression to appeasement.

In addition, the effective encirclement and suppression of the imperial court before did put the rebels from all walks of life into an unprecedented difficult situation.

It won't be long before a large number of rebels such as Liu Guoneng, Zhang Tianlin, Zhang Xianzhong, and Luo Rucai will descend or settle down.

What many generals of the White Dragon Army don't know is that Li Zixiao already has this clear layout for the future development plan of the White Dragon Army in his heart.

Li Zixiao had already begun to prepare to accept the imperial court's recruitment a few months ago, even if he had just finished that tragic battle, he was fighting to accept Zhao'an.

It can be said that with the victory of this battle, everything is going according to Li Zixiao's plan, and Li Zixiao has unprecedented self-confidence at this time.

"However, next, we are going to put on a show for the surnamed Wu, and everyone will show their eyes at that time, as for whether you are playing red face and white face, all of them obey the military advisor.

We want the court to take the initiative to throw an olive branch to us, instead of us begging the court to accept our service.

The one surnamed Wu can be of great use to us, and we need him to build a bridge for us to negotiate with the imperial court.

This is the main reason why I ordered that this man be taken prisoner and not killed. ”

Li Zixiao's eyes were deep, and his face was full of confident smiles, and he couldn't help but infect the many White Dragon Army generals around him.

"It turns out that the big boss has already planned something, and his subordinates admire it." Luo Chao didn't forget to send his own sycophants.

"Okay, I won't mention this matter anymore, how do you dare to act next, just listen to the arrangement of the military advisor, take your time in this matter, don't be in a hurry.

But this is not to bring troops, we will put the horse in Nanshan during this time, and we will do nothing, on the contrary, we will make the momentum of our White Dragon Army bigger during this time.

During this time, we must lay a larger territory as soon as possible, and at the same time, we must also train a new batch of new soldiers to continue to attack the forts of those landlords and old wealth.

Today's battle is just the beginning for us, and then we will expand our occupation area to the north of Fengyang Mansion, sweep Xiayi County in the north, and approach Guide Mansion.

We have to take these places as soon as possible and expand our territory, and my goal is to occupy these places before the end of the summer harvest.

We need to get more resources to get rid of the old landlords in these places and free up the land they have occupied.

In this way, after we accept the court's recruitment, we can have enough land to cultivate, attract more displaced people, and feed our White Dragon Army.

Moreover, once we accept the court's recruitment, it is estimated that we will not have a chance to do this kind of business of robbing houses and houses again.

So this time, we are going to have a big purge and thoroughly sort out the old wealth of the landlords in these places.

During the operation, you don't need to force those strong forts, you just need to scare those landlords and old money away, so as to save time.

We don't want the gold and silver treasures of these guys, but we only need land, which is the foundation of our future foothold.

Ladies and gentlemen, your next task is very heavy, and there is still a long way to go, so don't get complacent and get carried away now! ”

When the generals heard this, they immediately got up and took the order.

These guys are not afraid of war now, but they are afraid of not fighting, don't look at some of them have not been in this business for a long time, but they have developed a belligerent habit with Li Zixiao.

"Big boss, the officers and troops on our side have been solved, what is the situation with Liu Chong in the north? Let's go north to support him. ”

At this time, Qi Wei said loudly.

"I have already received a message sent by Liu Chong before, and this guy assured me that Zhou Zhuang is solid, and the officials and soldiers have been beaten for half a month, even if they are given a year.

He even said that if the opportunity is right, he can even defeat this line of officers and soldiers, but this hope is not estimated to be large, after all, the imperial court is also 5,000 people. ”

Li Zixiao said with a smile.

"Haha, it seems that the one sent by the official army this time is estimated to be another straw bag general, otherwise Liu Chong, a cautious person, would not boast about Haikou so much.

But as long as Liu Chong dares to say this, he must be a little sure, it seems that Zhouzhuang is worry-free. Qi Wei said with a smile.

"Well, however, I still plan for you and Tianba to lead two hundred cavalry and three hundred infantry to the north to support Liu Chong and strive to defeat the officers and soldiers of this road as soon as possible.

Then, you and Liu Chong took advantage of the situation to attack Xiayi County in the north and approached Guide Mansion, and the operation in the north was handed over to you and Liu Chong. ”

In the end, Li Zixiao still gave Qi Wei the battle order to go north.

"Yes, the subordinates obey the orders and will live up to the expectations of the big boss, we will definitely go north to toss and toss."

Qi Wei said excitedly.

Through the merits of this battle, Qi Wei finally secured his position in the White Dragon Army, and even got Li Zixiao's attention.