Of course, Gao Yingxiang knew that the bows and arrows of Cao Ying's subordinates were not aimed at Li Guo's war horse, it must have been Li Guo's quick reaction and the first to pounce, and the arrow hit the war horse. If Li Guo's reaction was a little slower, his life would be over. In the rebel army, everyone knows that Li Guo is Li Zicheng's nephew. Shooting Li Guo is tantamount to directly provoking Li Zicheng. No wonder Gao Guiying wants to go to Cao Ying. She is more protective than Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng is sensible, he can swallow his anger and take care of the overall situation, but Gao Guiying can't bear this breath.

"Alright! I know about this matter, and I have a chance, I told Cao Ying that he has some subordinates, but they are really unorthodox. Gao Yingxiang frowned, wanting to say something, but in the end he only said a word about the scene, and then sighed helplessly. These things are too complicated, and he has no better way to deal with them.

"Cao Ying accepted a lot of officers and soldiers in Longmen Pass and Dagu Pass, and it was those officers and soldiers who did it. It was also those officers and soldiers who robbed us of Susui Town. I don't think Cao Ying is in the same group as us at all, he is in the same group as the official army! Liu Zongmin said angrily.

"Forget it, Kuroko, don't talk about it, it's useless. It's not good for people to hear. If you really feel depressed, look for an opportunity to kill a few of them. Killing a few of them is more useful than you saying 10,000 words. Li Zicheng shook his head and said coldly.

"Then it's decided, I'll find a chance to do it, Brother Chuang Wang and Brother Hong pretend not to know. They dare to attack Brother Li Guo directly, and I will also find someone who has weight in their team! Don't think that our Chuang Wang's family is easy to bully! In addition to grinding his mouth, he also knows how to fart! Liu Zongmin gritted his teeth and said with a gloomy face.

Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng pretended not to hear.

The three people present knew very well that King Chuang's family and Cao Ying's family had always been not on the right path. In fact, the three most powerful rebel forces, King Chuang, Cao Ying, and Zhang Xianzhong, are not quite right with each other. The so-called one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, let alone three tigers. In June, when everyone was besieged in Chezhou Gorge, Cao Ying was besieged by various families and almost killed him. Because everyone suspected that the officers and soldiers were attracted by Cao Ying.

This time, Cao Ying posted a heroic post and invited everyone to Henan, King Chuang and Zhang Xianzhong were all suspicious. They were all worried about whether Cao Ying would lay some traps here again. Therefore, Gao Yingxiang sent the most trustworthy Li Zicheng to arrive first, and no abnormality was found, so Gao Yingxiang finally arrived with a large army. As for Zhang Xianzhong, he could have come to Xingyang a long time ago, but he didn't worry about Cao Ying, so he had been grinding around Ruzhou.

"When is the meeting time proposed by Cao Ying?" Gao Yingxiang asked.

"The eighth day of the first month of next year." Li Zicheng replied.

Gao Yingxiang carefully estimated and asked slowly: "Are there any movements among the surrounding officers and soldiers?" Zhu Dadian in Shandong, how many soldiers and horses will be dispatched? ”

Li Zicheng said cautiously: "According to the news of the spies, Zhu Dadian has concentrated his troops in Yanzhou Mansion, and there are about fifty or sixty thousand. In Fengyang Mansion in Nanzhili, there are also officers and soldiers gathered, about twenty or thirty thousand. However, their task should be to protect Monk Zhu's Huangjue Temple, and they will not take the initiative to come to Henan to fight with us. ”

Gao Yingxiang nodded, and said slowly: "Your analysis is reasonable, the soldiers and horses of Nanzhili should not go north." However, the tens of thousands of military horses brought by Hong Laojiu are already unbearable. There are also Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng, we can't underestimate them. I suffered Sun Chuanting's loss, and Zhang Mazi seems to have suffered Lu Xiangsheng's loss. It seems that neither of these two will be easy to deal with. ”

Li Zicheng groaned and said: "I have some immature ideas, and I will put them forward at the conference when the time comes, if everyone thinks it is okay, then we will implement it according to the plan." If they don't think so, then we'll go it alone. ”

"Everyone is tired, let's go back and rest!" Gao Yingxiang said suddenly.

"Brother Chuangwang also rests early, let's leave first." Knowing that King Chuang wanted to talk to Li Zicheng alone, Liu Zongmin and others all said goodbye.

In the tent, only Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng were left.

Gao Yingxiang stretched his waist hard, and then smiled slightly bitterly. Due to the long-term north-south campaign, he was displaced, his body was not very good, and when he was in the Carriage Gorge, he was smashed to his waist by the stones that rolled down from above. Fortunately, the stone is only the size of a fist, otherwise, he, the king of Chuang, would have been reimbursed in the Carriage Gorge. Afterwards, Gao Yingxiang's waist always hurt badly.

Li Zicheng said with concern: "Uncle, you didn't find Lang Zhong all the way?" ”

Gao Yingxiang shook his head and said helplessly: "This horse riding is upside down, even a miracle doctor can't cure it." ”

Li Zicheng wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

Gao Yingxiang said casually: "Let's have a destiny, it's not good!" Anyway, after I die, you will take the team with you, and I have nothing to worry about. ”

Li Zicheng said slowly: "I'm afraid that Cao Ying and Zhang Xianzhong are unwilling." ”

Gao Yingxiang said disapprenously: "I don't have a son, you are half my son-in-law, if I don't hand over the team to you, to whom?" In the matter of our Wang family, it is not their turn to chew their tongues. It's a big deal, we won't be involved in their affairs in the future. We do it all on our own. The earth is so big, is there any place we can't go? As long as there are poor people, we can pull the team up! ”

"Forget it, don't fix these boring things. Third, what do you think about the current situation? Chen Qiyu is dead, we are relieved, that old boy's four-square, six-corner, ten-sided net strategy, really made us suffer a lot of losses. Fortunately, Chongzhen arrested him himself, which saved us a lot of trouble. ”

Li Zicheng sighed and said: "I'm afraid that Hong Laojiu will continue to implement Chen Qiyu's strategy, Hong Laojiu is very vicious, he knows that Chen Qiyu's method is right, but he was dumped by us in the Trunk Gorge." If the car box gorge had been replaced by Hong Laojiu, we would not be here. ”

Thinking of the danger in the Carriage Gorge, Gao Yingxiang also had palpitations, and said obscurely: "Yes! This Hong Laojiu is not easy to deal with! After he came to Shanxi, we couldn't stand in Shaanxi. Now, he has come to Henan again, but I am afraid that the prospect is not very optimistic! ”

Li Zicheng also said with emotion: "Yes! It's not been an easy year! When I was in the Carriage Gorge, I really didn't think I would survive it! Gu Junen's ghost idea is still quite useful! ”

Gao Yingxiang nodded approvingly.

In the past year, the development of the rebel army has not been smooth.

In the winter of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the peasant army broke through the encirclement of the official army and entered Henan. After the capture of Nanyang, the rebel army was divided, Lao Huihui and other five battalions entered Huguang, Li Zicheng and others entered Hanzhong, and Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to Xinyang. In the first month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong was confident that Yangxi went to Shang and Luo. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong joined forces to capture Chengcheng and approached Pingliang and other prefectures and counties. On 28 February, Zhang Xianzhong and other 13 battalions of rebels entered Hannan from Henan Shang and Luoxi out of Tongguan. In March, the Lao Hui and other troops also returned to Shaanxi from Sichuan, and the peasant rebel army united again to become a powerful force.

On the fifth day of the second month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the peasant army captured Xingshan and killed Liu Dingguo of Zhixian County. On the fifteenth, go down to Qutang. On February 21, he captured Kuizhou Prefecture (now Wanyuan, Xuanhan, Daxian, Liangping and Jianshi County, Hubei) and Daning, and besieged Taiping. Because Tusi Qin Liangyu led the army to block the path of the peasant army's advance, in March of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the old Hui Hui and other battalions of volunteers entered Qinzhou from Yangpingguan (now northwest of Ningqiang County, Shaanxi Province) and returned to Shaanxi.

However, joy begets sorrow.

When the rebel army was triumphant, Chen Qiyu's big net had quietly fallen.

In June of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the governor Chen Qiyu and Yunyang Fuzhi Lu Xiangsheng joined forces in Shangjin. At that time, most of the peasant army units entered Hannan, and Chen Qiyu led the army westward and appointed the four governors of Shaanxi, Yunyang, Huguang, and Henan to encircle and suppress the Hannan peasant army. Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Li Zicheng and other troops of the peasant army saw the four sets of the Ming army and mistakenly took the carriage gorge of Xing'an (now the Hanjiang River valley east of Shiquan in Shaanxi Province). In the canyon is an ancient plank road, and the mountains on all sides are steep, easy to enter and difficult to exit. When it rained for twenty years, the trapped peasant army and horses were exhausted, and Li Zicheng used Gu Junen to deceive and surrender, luring Qiyu and the generals with heavy treasures. Qi Yu Xu. In July, more than 36,000 rebels broke out of Chezhou Gorge.

After Li Zicheng used a plan to get out of the carriage compartment gorge, he killed the pacification officer, marched westward, broke through Longzhou, and entered the areas of Fengxiang, Baoji, Jingyang, and Liquan, where tens of thousands of Luoyang peasant troops came to the meeting, and Guanzhong was shaken. Qi Yu sent He Renlong to attack him. On the 19th day of the eighth month of the leap month, it became an anti-encirclement of He Renlong in Longzhou (now Longxian County, Shaanxi). He Renlong, a native of Mizhi, Shaanxi, was first subordinate to Hong Chengchou, and then followed Qiyu. Since he became a fellow villager with Renlong, he sent Gao Jie's suicide note to ask Renlong to surrender, but Renlong refused to stick to Longzhou for two months. Governor Hong Chengchou sent Zuo Guang to the aid of Longzhou. Li Zichengcai led the army to break the siege.

Subsequently, Emperor Chongzhen gathered in Shaanxi with a peasant army, and ordered Henan soldiers to enter Tong and Hua, Sichuan soldiers to Xing and Han, Shanxi troops to go out of Puzhou and Hancheng, and Huguang soldiers to enter Shang and Luo, and jointly suppress the peasant army. On October 27 of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Huguang troops came to Hanzhong's aid and were defeated by the peasant army, and the deputy commander-in-chief Yang Zhengfang and his general Zhang Shida were killed.

After Chen Qiyu was arrested, Hong Chengchou was ordered to take charge of the military affairs of Shaanxi, Jin, Chu, Henan, and Sichuan provinces with the secretary of the military department, and prepared to encircle and suppress the peasant army on a larger scale. For Hong Laojiu, all the rebel generals were a little jealous. Cao Ying convened all the leaders of the rebel army this time and gathered in Xingyang, Henan Province, to discuss how to deal with Hong Chengchou.

Among the generals of the rebel army, the most cunning person is Cao Ying. He is also the most strategic. To say that there is no major conflict of interest, the leaders of the various rebel armies are willing to listen to Cao Ying's advice. However, Cao Ying's advantages and disadvantages are also obvious. Although he has vision, he does not know how to govern the army. The combat effectiveness of the troops under his command is always inferior to King Chuang and Zhang Xianzhong. If you want to talk about buying and buying, King Chuang and Zhang Xianzhong are not as good as Cao Ying. However, if it comes to a real war, Cao Ying was completely defeated.

Gao Yingxiang was silent for a moment, and suddenly said: "By the way, third brother, have you heard that Nanjing City was bombarded." ”

Li Zicheng was slightly startled, and asked in a lost voice: "Nanjing City was bombarded?" Who did this to you? ”

Gao Yingxiang said: "It seems to be a family in Shandong, called Zhang Zhun's. ”

Li Zicheng's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said excitedly: "There is also chaos in Shandong?" Good! Good! Good! ”

He stood up and said awe-inspiringly: "If Shandong is in chaos, Zhu Dadian will definitely not be able to attack with all his strength, and we will have a chance." ”

Gao Yingxiang said: "I also heard it, and I don't know what the details are. This Zhang Zhun had never heard of his name before, as if he had popped up all of a sudden. On the ground in Shandong, isn't Wang Yilun and Xu Qingluan of the Wenxiang Sect fighting me and I fighting you? When will there be another Zhang Zhun? ”

Li Zicheng said disdainfully: "Wang Yilun and Xu Qingluan are pinching you to the death, smelling incense can't make a big deal!" It's this Zhang Zhun ...... Dare to bombard Nanjing City, it really has a leopard guts! I said, uncle, are we a little behind? Are we going to make a big move too? ”

Gao Yingxiang said: "What's the matter? Are we going to bombard Yanjing City? ”

Li Zicheng said coldly: "If there is a chance, we can go to Fengyang Mansion to make trouble!" Didn't Monk Zhu make his fortune there? Let's burn down Huangjue Temple! Destroy all the dragon veins of his Zhu family! ”

Gao Yingxiang thought about it and said, "I'm afraid it's not easy to straighten." ”

Li Zicheng pondered for a moment, and said with a glittering gaze: "Uncle, I want to send someone to contact this Zhang Zhun and touch his details, what do you think?" ”

Gao Yingxiang nodded and said, "It's okay, let's see if he is in the same group as us." ”

Li Zicheng nodded, staggered the topic and said, "Uncle, you are also tired, I arranged a place for you to stay." When passing through Gong County, we caught the two ladies and girls of the county order, the old and the young, both tender and obedient. The girl was just fifteen years old and was still a girl. Gui Ying has already been checked, and her body is clean. The two ladies are also in their twenties and can still have babies. It was going to be used for me, but I said to keep it for my uncle, and it was in the tent next to it. ”

Gao Yingxiang shook his head and said, "Third child, you do this all day long, and you have no interest." ”

Li Zicheng said disappreciatively: "Uncle, our aunt died early, you are always alone, you don't even have a warm quilt at night, when you have that, you can't rely on your hands!" Uncle, you saved their three mothers and daughters. If you don't want it, you'll spoil the sunspot's slut. With his posture, he had to kill the little girl on the spot. The sunspot thing is longer than a dog's, just like a hammer, and it is thrown in one by one, which yellow flower girl can withstand it? You are coming to Henan for the first time, and I wish us a good omen next year. ”

Gao Yingxiang shook his head, didn't say anything, and went on his own.

Li Zicheng is a prepared woman, of course he is relieved, rather than leaving Liu Zongmin's black goods, it is really better to cheapen himself. Coming from Shaanxi along the way, he hasn't been close to a woman for a long time. It's still this son-in-law who is caring, knowing that he has low back pain, so he left three for himself. When the little girl is budding, there are still people who can push it in, and you don't have to work hard yourself. In case he has three long and two short, the team is handed over to him, rest assured. Speaking of which, I haven't budded those eunuch ladies for a long time, so I want to enjoy it tonight.

Sure enough, not long after Gao Yingxiang entered the tent next to him, Li Zicheng heard the little girl's painful moan, and it seemed that the uncle had already fallen red. Originally, the little girl was supposed to be used by herself, but now that she was broken by her uncle, Li Zicheng couldn't help but feel a little regretful. It seems that in the future, we will have to go it alone and strive to catch more prey.

Li Zicheng immediately shouted: "Gu Junen! ”

General Gu Junen hurriedly came in.

Li Zicheng instructed Gu Junen, and Gu Junen turned around.

(To be continued)