Li Zicheng squinted his single eye, looking at the other side of the canal, the muscles on his face were twitching, which made his face, as if there were a few insects entangled and crawling, looking hideous and terrifying. It took him a long time before he exhaled the breath that had accumulated in his chest, and the hideousness on his face turned into a smile.

"This is what Yu Guozhen asked you to bring me?"

Standing beside Li Zicheng was Li Yan, after the separation outside Shanhaiguan, Li Yan saw Li Zicheng for the first time, but he never thought that it would be this situation.

"Your Majesty......"

"Let's call me the king, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been able to enter the capital, and I wouldn't have been able to succeed by relying on Prime Minister Niu." Li Zicheng closed his eyes, and when he turned around again, his eyes softened slightly: "Brother Li Yan, come back and help me." ”

"King Chuang!"

Li Yan's mood was agitated, and he couldn't help it for a while, and he was almost about to agree.

Immediately, the words of the red lady appeared in his ears again, and he hesitated for a while: "King Chuang, I am now in Tianjin Wei, first, I can leave a chess piece for King Chuang in Beijing, and recapture the Beijing division if necessary, and second, with my central force, our relationship with Yu Guozhen can also be eased......"

"What's the use of reconciling, sooner or later he will have to fight a decisive battle with Yu Guozhen, Yu Guozhen only has Xinxiang and overseas lands, he can be defeated repeatedly, if he stabilizes Liangguang and Shandong'dong, how many manpower will he have, how many tiger guards can he train?" Li Zicheng said distressedly: "Brother Li Yan, you are a smart person, don't you want to think about it, why even the small court of Jinling begged me?" It's because everyone saw this scene and knew it. This is the last chance to contain Yu Guozhen. ”

Li Yan was silent.

"Brother Li Yan's ambition is not to assist the Lord and make an earth-shattering cause so that the people can enjoy peace. Brother Li Yan said that Yu Guozhen is the master, but what he did did was not in line with Brother Li Yan's wishes. Therefore come to me. Could it be that we really want to follow what Yu Guozhen said, let Ma go west and never come back? ”

Li Yan was still silent.

Yu Guozhen sent someone to send him a letter. entrusted him to transfer it to Li Zicheng, and the letter did not say anything about the situation he was facing now, but only said one sentence. If Li Zicheng let go of the horse to the west, crossed the hometown of Loulan, turned over the green ridge, entered the city of broken leaves, passed the hometown of Zhaowu Jiu, and arrived in Persia, then Yu Guozhen would not be guilty of the past and would no longer pursue the sins committed by Li Zicheng in the Central Plains.

The implication is to lead Li Chuang's disaster to the west - no, it is to drive west. Let Li Chuang and these rogues go to Persia to plague them. Li Zicheng was angry, and it was precisely because of this that Yu Guozhen was now in an embattled situation, and he even dared to speak outrageously!

And Li Yan actually came to deliver this message for Yu Guozhen!

Yu Guozhen was so bold, he said until before the battle of Talas. If I can recover all these places, the merits I have made will barely be able to withstand my sins in the Central Plains...... I see that he is ambitious, and I have come to these places, but I am afraid that I will also give them away. Li Zicheng said again: "Brother Li Yan." It's not that I can't listen to your kind words, but I can't retreat, I have a good country, a good head, I want to see if he Yu Guozhen has the ability to take it! ”

After finishing speaking, he turned around and left, ignoring Li Yan behind him.

Looking at his back, Li Yan finally let out a long sigh, and hesitated in his heart.

Of course, he would not go to Yu Guozhen, his self-esteem did not allow him to do so, but he was also unwilling to follow Li Chuang's order to attack Yangjiaogou and cut off Yu Guozhen's other sea retreat. Not only because he knew that it was not very likely to win by doing so, but also because it violated his bottom line as a human being.

There were hundreds of thousands of victims gathered there, all of whom were rescued by Yu Guozhen from the floods and plagues caused by Li Chuang. Even now, Li Yan is still not sure that he can let them continue to live after he passes.

After all, the food rations of these refugees are now mainly dependent on transportation from the sea!

Moreover, Li Yan was also worried about one thing, if these tens of millions of victims learned that Li Chuang was coming, they would not know what kind of power they would burst out, and all the anger of their expulsion from their homes would be poured out.

Li Yan had stayed in Xinxiang for a while, but knowing Xinxiang's incitement ability, if Yu Guozhen really made a ruthless effort to incite these millions of disaster victims and send them weapons again, it would be a terrible army of displaced people. Don't look at the thieves who started by relying on the homeless, but if they really let them face the homeless, they are also at a loss.

"Don't King Chuang know that if the Lord of the Ming Dynasty has appeared, he can't compete with him at all, even if he wins this battle by luck, can they really stop Yu Guozhen from withdrawing to Xinxiang? When Yu Guozhen integrates the manpower of the two Guangxi and makes a comeback again, then in the face of Yu Guozhen's revenge, who can stop it? Li Yan sighed in his heart: "Gao Jie, Zu Kuan and Liu Liangzuo are Li Lingzhi, and they are short-sighted, they only see Yu Guozhen in the east of the mountain, and they think that they can hit with one blow, but they never thought that the best result of their battle is only to delay Yu Guozhen's development speed." ”

As Yu Guozhen said, the best choice for King Chuang now is to learn from the bearded guest, but now that even overseas is occupied by Yu Guozhen, the scholar can only go west, dig through the peerless domain, and expand the territory, in this way, it is Yu Guozhen to wave the westward after the unification of the Central Plains, and he can also enjoy wealth and wealth because of the work of the king's precursor, and establish a foundation for thousands of years for his descendants...... But after King Chuang became emperor, his heart changed, and he was no longer willing to be subservient to others......"

Li Yan was unable to prevent Li Zicheng from joining this melee, all he could do was to restrain his subordinates from getting involved, and also send someone to explain to Yu Guozhen that his efforts to advise King Chuang had failed.

Li Chuang returned to Guanxian County, and Niu Jinxing greeted him nervously: "Your Majesty, what did Li Yan say?" ”

"You are right, Li Yan has now taken refuge in Yu Guozhen, and he actually persuaded me for Yu Guozhen to give up the current opportunity, give up the Central Plains, and wave his army west into the desert to look for opportunities." Li Zicheng sneered: "I look at the wrong person, Li Yan, Li Yan, I didn't expect him to be single-minded, so I only thought of Yu Guozhen!" ”

"What does Your Majesty mean?"

"Are we Lao Tzu a lackey who walks for others?" Li Zicheng said: "Yu Guozhen instructed Li Yan to persuade me, I think there is still a glimmer of hope for Li Yan, although the garrison on the east bank of the canal is strict, it may not be without gaps. And before Li Yan's news came back, Yu Guozhen's subordinates didn't know that we had made up our minds, so I ...... Spread my will, the three armies rest, launch tonight, and cross the canal on all fronts! ”

"What Your Majesty said is extremely, glory and wealth, encore people? Li Yan can demote Yu Guozhen, but after passing on the title, His Majesty has already been the emperor, how will Yu Guozhen be placed? In the past, Cao Cao wanted to hunt with Sun Quan, and all the ministers wanted to surrender to Cao, but only Lu Su could not surrender. Niu Jinxing was overjoyed in his heart, he paused and said: "Your Majesty's immediate strategy is really wonderful, Yu Guozhen will be defenseless, now his main force and Gao Jie will fight in Yanzhou, if we capture Dongchang Mansion, there are two choices, one is to go east and attack Ji 'Nanfu, and the other is to go south to meet Gao Jie......

"Nonsense." At the mention of Gao Jie, Li Zicheng's face twitched non-stop: "Let them lose both, and then our Lao Tzu will destroy both!" ”

Niu Jinxing was slightly stunned, and then suddenly remembered the rumors in the army, and suddenly knew that he was speechless. Li Zicheng and Yu Guozhen are certainly undying competitors, but they are also incompatible with Gao Jie, and the hatred of taking his wife is not good!

"Yes, what Your Majesty said is that these two thieves will be destroyed together."

Li Zicheng was silent for a while, and waved his hand: "Prime Minister Niu, you have to pay more attention to the matter of grain and grass." ”

"Your Majesty, just rest assured, this year we have driven more than one million people to Yu Guozhen's hands, and there is a surplus of grain and grass."

"Then Yu Guozhen doesn't know how to grow grain, overseas places, is it really so rich, we rushed to a million, and he also contained two million, which is the food of three million people......"

Li Zicheng's doubts are also Niu Jinxing's doubts, the food of three million people, the backer's own grain storage is obviously not enough, Yu Guozhen only has more grain from all over the country, even if Xinxiang has more grain, how can it be so easy to transfer?

They didn't know that in order to supply the food for these three million people, Zhang Chi, who was in charge of Yu Guozhen's logistics affairs, almost had his hair scratched. It's not that the grain stock is insufficient, Xinxiang's grain stock is enough, but the transportation capacity is indeed insufficient. There was really no choice but to transfer grain nearby, that is, to transfer grain from the Japanese country and North Korea. In particular, Yu Guozhen had long intended to turn it into a cheap grain producer and a producer of agricultural raw materials, so he popularized materials such as soil and chemical fertilizers and new crops in the Wa country, and the effect was quite good, and the grain output of the Japanese country almost doubled compared with before. But these grains were immediately exchanged by the princes of the Wa Kingdom for swords, armor, weapons, or various luxury goods.

That night, Li Zicheng's 100,000 troops divided into three routes, one to the north, crossing the canal from the intersection of the Maji River and the canal, and the other to the south, going around to the southwest of Liaocheng to cross the Lu Canal. He took the lead of his own way, and went east himself, preparing to cross the canal by the middle road when the other two roads came down the river.

When he arrived at Dingyuan Village, he got the news that Wang Haoran had ordered Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo to kill his subordinates, he was stunned at first, and then overjoyed: "This is Yu Guozhenqian's donkey skills are poor, he has to do this!" ”

"What Your Majesty said is, and this order, Gao Jie will definitely fight with it, Yu Guozhen has no time to look west, our trip will be smooth sailing!" Niu Venus praised again.

The Lu Canal was originally a branch of the Grand Canal, but since the Yellow River moved north, it was silted up, Yu Guozhen also took this as the boundary, accommodating refugees from Beijing and Henan, not far from the Lu Canal, it is the real Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Liaocheng is on its west bank. Li Zicheng formed a three-way army and surrounded Liaocheng in the north and southwest directions, but because of Dongchang Lake, for a while, he was just besieging the city.

"Send someone to persuade you to surrender!" Seeing that the sky was bright, Li Zicheng ordered.

But the persuaders had barely approached the walls when they heard a musket on the wall, and the persuaders fell down and their bodies plunged into the lake. (To be continued)