The boss is angry, and the consequences are serious.

Li Zicheng's angry voice echoed in the woods, and dozens of generals all stood silently, even Liu Zongmin, who was the most arrogant in Pingyue, did not dare to touch his moldy head at this time.

The only person who dared to dissuade Li Zicheng was only one person, but fortunately, that person was also here at this time.

A pair of calloused but unusually warm hands gently held Li Zicheng's big hand, and Gao Guiying's voice sounded in Li Zicheng's ears: "King Chuang, first dissipate your anger, first listen to what Luo Ye and Sun Ye say, if they don't do it right, it's not too late for you to get angry!" ”

"That's right, King Chuang, don't be angry first, let's listen to what Lao Luo and Lao Sun have to say, it's not too late for you to send them both out!"

Everyone saw Mrs. Gao come out to intercede, so they followed Gao Guiying to beat the side drum to intercede, and Li Zicheng's anger at this time also dropped slightly, he took a deep breath and tried to calm down before staring at Sun Kewang and the two said coldly: "Okay, you say, what is going on, why is the 20,000 army gone in two days, if you can't say that you are ugly, don't blame me for punishing you according to military regulations!" ”

Don't look at Sun Kewang who looks heroic, but he is really afraid of Li Zicheng, and now he has suffered a defeat, let alone a defeat. Kneeling on the ground, he choked up and recounted the results of today's battle one by one, and as he narrated, the faces of Li Zicheng and the generals became more and more ugly.

After Sun Kewang finished speaking, Li Zicheng turned his head to stare at Luo Rucai and said, "Old Luo, what about you?" What's the matter with you? ”

Luo Rucai smiled bitterly and said: "I am similar to Lao Sun, I originally wanted to sneak attack, but I didn't think about it but was discovered by the Ming army's night not collected, and then they first sent cavalry to drag us down, we fought hard with them for two hours, and then their brigade arrived, and I made dumplings.

After I was defeated, I went to find Lao Sun, who also set up an ambush circle in order to avenge me, trying to annihilate their cavalry, but I didn't think about letting that cavalry run away, and then their vanguard arrived and defeated Lao Sun. Here I would like to make a special point that the Ming army was different from the Ming army we had seen in peacetime, they were well-equipped and their morale was high, and Lao Sun's seven or eight thousand men surrounded them on the hillside with 3,000 foot soldiers, originally intending to exhaust their muskets and then fight them hand-to-hand, but the result was much beyond our expectations, and our tens of thousands of brothers were defeated by them. ”

Speaking of this, Luo Rucai seemed to resound the scene he saw during the day, a group of Ming soldiers in a neat formation stabbed the spikes in their hands into the chest of a volunteer soldier with an expressionless face and pinned them to the ground, while the rebels could only be sent to death in vain.

"Hiss......"

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but gasp, and they looked at each other one by one. Shicai Sun Kewang explained that the sharp weapons can injure the enemy at a distance of 300 steps, which is already an exaggeration for everyone, and they have never heard of a firearm that can injure the enemy at 300 steps, not to mention that they have never heard of it. Now listening to Luo Rucai praising the hand-to-hand combat ability of the Ming army, how do they sound like they are describing the heavenly soldiers and generals.

Li Zicheng stared at Luo Rucai for a while, and then nodded: "I believe you, at least you Cao Ying (Luo Rucai's nickname) has never lied in front of me, but if I find out that you two are deceiving everyone, hum ......"

Li Zicheng snorted twice with his nostrils, revealing the meaning he wanted to express next.

At this time, Sun Kewang, who was still kneeling on the ground, saw that all the generals were looking at him and Luo Rucai with suspicious eyes, and he couldn't help but say loudly in anger: "King Chuang, brothers, if you suspect that I and Lao Luo are lying and want to verify it, this is also very simple, I estimate that those Ming troops will rush here, and if any of you don't believe it, just try it." ”

Li Zicheng said coldly: "Hmph...... When this Ming army comes, I will naturally go to meet them, now you go down to rest first, and talk about what you have to say. ”

After speaking, Li Zicheng waved his hand and asked people to take Sun Luo and the others down.

After Sun Luo and the others went down, Li Zicheng said to everyone with a calm face: "You have all seen what happened just now, do you think what they said is true?" ”

Everyone glanced at each other, Hao Shaoqi hesitated for a moment and said hesitantly: "King Chuang...... In my humble opinion, Lao Sun's surname is relatively straightforward, and he shouldn't be able to make up a story to coax us, and although Lao Luo is more tactful, he shouldn't have the courage to make up such an absurd story, and it is estimated that what they said is all true. ”

"Hmm!" Li Zicheng was noncommittal, and moved his gaze to Liu Zongmin, who was in a hurry, and Liu Zongmin, who was in a hurry, shouted: "King Chuang, my opinion is the same as Lao Hao, I'm afraid that this Shandong army of soldiers and horses is really not good." The old Gao and Li Guo had been to Qingzhou before, and after they came back, they also told us about Shandong, but no one believed it at that time, and now it seems that this matter should be true. ”

Everyone's eyes shot to Li Guo and Gao Yigong on the side, the two looked at each other and laughed bitterly, Gao Yigong, who was originally sitting on a wooden stake, stood up, moved his body, and then sighed: "I didn't expect this Pang Gang's power to develop so fast, Liu Zongshao said well, I and Bu Zhi went to Qingzhou on the order of King Chuang, but it was messed up by a thousand households named Pang Gang, I remember telling the big guy, but I didn't expect that less than two years later, this Pang Gang has developed to such a point, If my estimation is correct, Lao Sun and Lao Luo must have encountered Pang Gang's men and horses, and only his people have such terrifying hand-to-hand combat ability. ”

Speaking of this, Gao Yigong narrowed his eyes, and he couldn't help but hear in his mind the situation of those who stood in a row with spears and fought with hundreds of brothers in his old battalion, that simple and ruthless move, and the desperate effort of exchanging life for life still often woke him up from his sleep until now.

Li Zicheng and the generals were silent, they were all silently analyzing the consequences of this powerful Ming army after coming to Luoyang.

"King Chuang, if our army is exhausted, intercept the Ming army in the middle of the road, and annihilate them in one fell swoop, these people will only be ten thousand people to death, can't we win a dozen of them if we beat one of them?"

The person who said this must be a proponent of the madman's crowd tactics, comparing the numbers of the two sides at every turn, but this idiotic-sounding proposal was supported by many generals.

"That's it, let's spend it with them, our hundreds of thousands of troops will press it together, they are a mountain, we have to flatten him!"

At first, Li Zicheng was also quite moved when he heard this, but he thought about it carefully and rejected the proposal, he sighed and said: "If I say that I will definitely send a large army to fight those Shandong soldiers and horses to the death, but now it is not possible." ”

Our more than 100,000 horses seem to be overwhelming, but in fact, the old and weak account for half of them, plus we have to send people to surround Luoyang to prevent those dog officials from escaping, and there are even fewer people who can be sent, so this method will not work, and it will be too late in time.

Li Zicheng immediately said in a cruel voice: "But this doesn't mean that we have to swallow this breath in vain, Jiexuan, you send someone to seal the east gate of Luoyang tonight, since they have given them a chance, don't blame us if they don't cherish it, we have to let Pang Gang see, our righteous army is not a soft persimmon that he can pinch if he wants!" ”

"Yes!"

Liu Zongmin was overjoyed when he heard this, although King Chuang said this, they will not be able to attack the city tomorrow for the time being, but to be able to fight with the soldiers and horses from Shandong is also what he is looking forward to, especially after this Shandong army defeated Sun Kewang and Luo Rucai one after another, if he can defeat this Shandong army of soldiers and horses, then his reputation in the righteous army will definitely increase a lot, which is very beneficial to improving his reputation in the whole army...... Not to mention that Liu Zongmin, who was full of self-confidence, was ready to compete with the Shandong army, but at this time, Luoyang City was in chaos.

In the governor's palace in Luoyang City, the new governor Liu Yuliang was pacing anxiously in the signing room, and there were several officials sitting around him, who were Wang Chadao, the political envoy of Henan, Liu Cunyi, the envoy of the procuratorial department, Wang Yinchang, the garrison of soldiers and horses, and Kang Mengshui, the prefect of Henan Prefecture.

After walking around the open space a few times, Liu Yuliang finally couldn't help but roar in a low voice: "What the hell is going on, why won't Li Xianfeng and Jie Rugong come, and the reinforcements they promised to bring are still missing after almost a month?" Could it be that they ......"

Liu Yuliang didn't say the rest of the words, but everyone understood that Liu Yuliang's meaning was to say whether Li Xianfeng took the opportunity to escape.

Although he didn't think much of Liu Yuliang's words in his heart, everyone didn't show it, and sighed secretly in his heart, this Wenyuan Pavilion scholar was born as Governor Liu, and it was no problem for him to recite poems at all, but if he was allowed to really do something, he would be dumbfounded, such a ridiculous idea was up to him, it seemed that he was really in a hurry.

Yes, Liu Yuliang at this moment is indeed in a hurry, Emperor Chongzhen ordered him to come to Henan to exterminate the Liukou, not only did he not exterminate the Liukou, but let the Liukou occupy half of Henan, if Luoyang is really lost this time, even if he can escape back to the capital by luck, Chongzhen will definitely cut off his head.

Liu Yuliang, who was so anxious that his forehead was sweating, said to Wang Yinchang, the soldier and horse garrison beside him: "Wang Garrison, if the thieves come to attack, how long can you resist?" ”

Wang Yinchang smiled bitterly: "The lowly position does not dare to hide it, at this moment, the lowly position only has 6,000 soldiers in his hands, if the thief really comes to attack, the lowly position is estimated to be able to resist for three days." ”

"What? Three days! ”

Liu Yuliang retreated to his chair and sat down, and shouted: "Doesn't that mean that we will all be finished in three days?" ”

Wang Yinchang smiled bitterly and was silent to show his acquiescence......

(To be continued)