For several days, the heavy rain did not stop, and the confrontation between the Qin soldiers and the camp continued. Zhu Youzhen and the soldiers have been extremely miserable these days, eating raw horse meat, drinking dirty rainwater, and braving the wind and rain for most of the day. I was so tired that I couldn't hold on, and I had to be in the same cave with the war horse, and I couldn't bear the smell of horse feces and urine to sleep.

If you change to other officers and soldiers, and suffer such a big crime, you will either mutiny or disperse in a hurry. However, the soldiers of the Qin soldiers were naturally greatly encouraged when they saw that Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qin, insisted on leading by example and sharing weal and woe with ordinary soldiers. Moreover, under the command of Zhu Youzhen, none of the Qin soldiers were killed, so the morale was even higher.

In fact, Zhu Youzhen is also holding on to his back molars, he knows that now is the most critical moment, and the two armies are facing the same difficulties. Whoever has a little more willpower will be able to persevere to the end. At this time, if you slacken, it will be wasted.

He had a hard time, but Li Zicheng's camp was even more tormented. Because even in the cold and rainy night, the harassment of the Qin soldiers never stopped. Even if they couldn't dispatch war horses, the Qin soldiers had to touch the vicinity of the camp on foot, more or less causing some trouble.

At best, there was some movement, and the soldiers who broke into the camp had to brave the rain to get out of the tent and guard the camp. Sometimes only two or three people come to harass them, but there are hundreds of thieves who are tormented by them. Later, some people were tormented to a nervous breakdown and developed auditory hallucinations.

During this period, generals such as Hao Shaoqi and Yuan Zongdi, who had a violent personality, also ignored Li Zicheng's ban and led hundreds of cavalry out of the camp many times, hoping to have a fierce battle with these annoying officers and soldiers. But how could Zhu Youzhen fight hard with them, as long as he saw the thieves dispatching, he would immediately disappear without a trace.

Hao Shaoqi and others had the heart to catch up, but it was extremely difficult to march in the heavy rain, and the speed of the horses was not much faster than that of people on foot. There were also many war horses that were exposed to the rain and had symptoms of diarrhea. After a few days, not only did not touch a single enemy, but dozens of horses died of illness. After Li Zicheng learned of this situation, he strictly forbade anyone to go out of the camp to look for the enemy.

On this day, the rain finally stopped, but there were already many complaints in the camp, from the general to the pawn, and no one wanted to stay here any longer. Li Zicheng hurriedly convened a meeting to discuss the next march route. But the opinions of the generals still could not be unified, and no one could convince the other party, which upset Li Zicheng.

In the end, he still felt that he should go to meet Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang. Because Gao Yingxiang is not an outsider, but his father-in-law. Li Zicheng has a wife and a concubine, and the concubine is Xing, who had an affair with Gao Jie; And the main wife is Gao Yingxiang's daughter Gao Guiying. Gao Guiying is mediocre in appearance, but she also knows some martial arts, and she has a lot of prestige in Gao Yingxiang's army, and Gao Yigong, the chief general of the Chinese army, is also her younger brother.

Li Zicheng has the ambition to seize the world, and Gao Yingxiang has tens of thousands of elite soldiers, especially a strong iron cavalry army, Li Zicheng has long been thinking about it. He thought that the rebellion was a business by pinning his head to the waistband of his trousers, no matter how big the leader was, don't look at the fun today, maybe he would die in two days.

If Gao Yingxiang has three longs and two shorts, Li Zicheng will never allow his team to be merged by other leaders, but must be included in his own account, and even the name of "King Chuang" must be inherited. In this way, there is the capital to compete for the world.

And now that Gao Jie has defected, if Li Zicheng's camp breaks into the camp and others cut off their own arms, their strength will be greatly damaged. There have been many incidents of mutual fire among the thieves, and Li Zicheng was really afraid that Luo Ru nearby would learn the news, and he had the idea of eating black and black. With Luo Rucai's cunning and cunning, it is absolutely possible for him to do this kind of thing.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Li Zicheng finally overrode public opinion and decided to march west as originally planned, rushing to the vicinity of Guyuan to meet Gao Yingxiang. This route just crosses Jingyang, and according to the style of the thief, it is natural to take all the way and grab the road. In the eyes of the generals who broke into the camp, Jingyang County was already in their pockets.

Moreover, Li Zicheng also heard that the Qin Palace's Mansion was in Jingyang, and thought that if he could rob this prince, then there would be no gold and silver in the palace, and his losses in the past few days would be fully compensated. When the time comes, while slashing the prince, while playing with his woman, how majestic and happy it is! In this way, he will also be able to make a big splash among the thieves and completely cover Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong and others.

Of course, even if the route of the march was set, the number of men, women, and children in the camp totaled more than 20,000, and it would not be easy to mobilize. In the end, the thieves got rid of the peasants, and the habits of small farmers were also very heavy, and they were reluctant to throw away any of the pots and pans they had snatched along the way, and it took most of the day to pack up.

A few days later, Li Zicheng was delayed for most of the day, and his intestines were all repentant. At this time, how did he know that because of more than half a day's grinding, the battle situation had undergone unexpected changes!

This change is: the reinforcements of the official army have finally arrived!

It turned out that although Yang He, the governor of the three sides, had the illusion of appeasing the thieves and refused to transfer troops to pursue and suppress Li Zicheng, the military and political officials in Shaanxi were not all fools like him.

In particular, Zhu Youzhen also wrote two emergency documents in his own handwriting, one to the Tongguan garrison He Renlong, and the other to the governor of Yansui, Hong Chengchou. He asked Lin Youkun's King of Qin to deliver a letter at night, so the two quickly got the news.

Hong Chengchou and He Renlong were shocked when they read the letter. Thinking that the loss of the feudal town is a capital crime, especially the Qin King Zhu Youzhen, who is the emperor's younger brother and is extremely favored. Yang He couldn't figure out the situation, they didn't want to accompany this bad old man to the execution ground.

Therefore, after receiving the report, the two didn't care about asking Yang He, and they immediately prepared people. In fact, He Renlong is in Tongguan, and the straight-line distance from Jingyang County is only more than 200 miles, and it is said that he will be able to arrive soon. But he was loose and loose in governing the army on weekdays, and he was not clean, and the court delayed military salaries, so when the soldiers were about to go to war, they took the opportunity to talk about the conditions, and refused to go to war if they did not agree to the conditions.

He Renlong is also helpless against this gang of ruffians, because most of these people are fellow villagers with him, and they are more or less related to him. The reason why he was able to sit on this garrison was thanks to these people, so he turned a blind eye to them on weekdays, as long as he didn't pull the flag and rebelled, he basically let it go.

But this time is different, He Renlong's own head is almost unable to be saved, how can he still be polite to his subordinates. Under his coaxing and deception, Wei Bili lured him, he finally reluctantly organized 1,500 horse foot soldiers to march out of the Guanxi. He Renlong wanted to march to Jingyang County in a hurry, but it happened to be raining heavily and he was delayed for a few days on the road, so he only arrived in Fuping County now.

In stark contrast to him, it was Zuo Guangxian, a general in Yan'an. Originally, because King Gao Yingxiang attacked Guyuan, Zuo Guangxian had just rushed to Guyuan from Yan'an. Now that Hong Chengchou gave an order, Zuo Guangxian led a thousand cavalry to King Qinwang in Jingyang under the starry night. Guyuan is more than 600 miles away from Jingyang, but it only took him four days and four nights to arrive, and now he has made contact with Qin Bing.

Zhu Youzhen was already suffering from a severe cold at this time, but when he heard the news, he was so beautiful that the snot bubbles came out, and he shouted excitedly: "Uncle, you can suffocate everyone these days!" With the help of these two teams, we can finally get real to the thieves! ”