The Xingyang Conference ended smoothly in a few joys and sorrows, and history did not change much, especially the eastward, northern, southward, and center-mounted rebel armies, which were basically exactly the same as the distribution in history, only the westward march became completely different.

It turns out that in history, only the Hengtian King and the mixed 100,000 were responsible for the westward advance, and later because the officers and soldiers of the West Road were too strong, they added the Shooting Heaven and the Reincarnation King, but this time the army of the westward expansion was very strong, and the Hengtian King and the mixed 100,000 still belonged to the Western Route Army, and there were also Baishui Zhuba, Yulin Xue Hongqi, and Bai Yuzhu, which were heavyweight rebels, and there were many relatively weak rebels, such as Cupola Zhu and others, and the Western Route Army actually became the most powerful force.

After the meeting, the rebels drawn in the same direction began to assemble in the four directions of Xingyang, and the leaders of the rebels first got together to get acquainted, greeted each other, said a few words such as "please take care of me", and then began to march in the direction assigned to them. More than 200,000 troops spread out in all directions like mercury spilling out, spreading to the whole world......

Zhu Yuanzhang led his troops out of Xingyang and stationed near Gongyi. Bai Yuzhu, Hengtian King, Mixed 100,000, Chongtian Zhu and other leaders of the rebel army hurriedly led their troops to meet him.

This is the advantage of being strong, wherever he goes, the other rebels have to follow him quickly. If his strength is not as good as others, then he has to be replaced by someone else walking around casually, and he follows behind.

Whoever is active and who is passive represents different identities and statuses!

Zhu Yuanzhang held a banquet in the Chinese army and invited several leaders of the rebel army to sit down. These rebels sat down and looked at it, and immediately became happy, what was in the plate on the table? Round and steaming?

Cupola Zhu was the most mouthful, and asked anxiously, "Eighth Brother Zhu." What is this? ”

"Soil taro!" Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "My soldiers planted themselves." ”

"Grow your own?" The leaders were secretly shocked: how can the rogues grow their own things? Could it be that the farmland can still flow with him?

Fortunately, no one stupidly asks him where he planted it, and this kind of question is also taboo among the rogues, just like you only need to know people's nicknames, and you can't ask people's real names.

The leaders took the potatoes and tasted them, and they all applauded them deliciously. Then he began to discuss serious matters, mixed 100,000 seems to be more brainy, he said seriously: "Since we have drawn the strip of westward expansion, we can only face Hong Chengchou, from here to enter Shaanxi, we need to enter Tongguan." Hong Chengchou is coming from Xining, and he should also take Tongguan...... In this way, we will inevitably meet Hong Chengchou's army near Tongguan, I don't know what your big brother has planned? ”

Cupola shouted, "What's the matter? Hit! There are more than 10,000 big brothers in Hengtian Wang, and there are more than 10,000 big brothers in mixed 100,000. Brother Bai Yuzhu has more than 3,000, I have 5,000, Brother Zhu has 10,000, Sister Xue Hongqi is 3,000, let's have a total of 40,000 people, are you afraid that Hong Chengchou will not succeed? ”

After he finished shouting, everyone glared at him together, although the number of people was forty thousand, but there were too many false heads. Hengtian King, Mixed 100,000, and Cupola Pillar are at most only thirty percent young. The others are all old and weak women, soldiers without combat power. Only the people brought by Zhu Yuanzhang, Xue Hongqi, and Bai Yuzhu did not have a false head, and they were all real soldiers.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Xue Hongqi left the old and weak women in the rear to plant potatoes, so they brought all the soldiers. As for the Baizhu Pillar, when he surrendered to the officers and soldiers. The soldiers' families were sent back to their hometowns by the government, and later he rebelled for the second time, and those families did not follow the army, but stayed in their hometowns. I don't know if I was persecuted by the government.

"Hong Chengchou's people are about 20,000!" Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "It's not so easy to deal with, Brother Cupola, don't worry, listen to everyone's opinions." ”

Mixed 100,000 hesitated, glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang's face, and then said cautiously: "Brother, I'll just say it directly, don't be angry, everyone, our current strength is not Hong Chengchou's opponent, or avoid its sharp edge is the best policy, let's not go to Tongguan, go south to Wuguan and enter Shaanxi, it should be safer." ”

King Hengtian nodded in agreement, but Cupola was full of displeasure.

Bai Shuzhu was still thinking about whether to join Zhu Yuanzhang's gang at this time, and his mind was full of the problem of correcting military discipline, so he didn't interject. However, Zhu Yuanzhang jumped out of the ground behind a masked man, it was the generalissimo Xu Renjie, and he laughed and said: "Brother 100,000, what you say is wrong." ”

Chao Shiwan was stunned: "Huh? You are ......"

"I'm a pawn under Brother Zhu's command, and the bandit name is not enough to worry about, so don't say it...... Everyone else calls me Generalissimo......" Xu Renjie talked nonsense, and didn't say any name, but in the end, he reported his name, and Xue Hongqi next to him almost laughed and hurt his stomach.

Xu Renjie said in a tone of voice: "If we enter Tongguan, it is almost inevitable to bump into Hong Chengchou, but if we change to Wuguan because we are afraid of him, we will also bump into Hong Chengchou." ”

"Huh? What does this mean? ”

Xu Renjie said with a smile: "We have a total of more than 40,000 people, among which there are many old and weak women, it is impossible to do a secret march, if we give up Tongguan and go to Wuguan instead, the government can easily detect our movements, Hong Chengchou is not stupid, he moved to Wuguan to wait to meet us and it doesn't take much effort." ”

When the mixed 100,000 and Hengtian King heard this, they suddenly felt reasonable, and sweat flowed down.

Xu Renjie said: "I have a way to solve this problem. ”

Mixed 100,000 and Hengtian Wang were overjoyed, and said together: "Please give me advice, brother generalissimo." ”

Xu Renjie said seriously: "Let's divide the army into two halves, the three of you will lead the troops to Wuguan with the three of you, Brother Zhu Ba, Sister Xue Hongqi, and Brother Bai Yuzhu will continue to go west to Tongguan. We deliberately go slower so that the officers and men have more time to prepare, so that the officers and soldiers will also be forced to divide their troops into two routes, one to guard Tongguan and the other to guard Wuguan. ”

As soon as Xu Renjie's plan was proposed, he would stop mixing 100,000, he frowned and said: "Brother Generalissimo, although you have divided us into two halves with similar numbers, it is obvious that the combat effectiveness of this half of our Wuguan is very far behind. ”

People are not stupid, they don't need to use their brains to know that the combination of Hengtian King plus mixed 100,000 plus Cupola Pillar is much worse than the combination of Zhu Bajiaxue Hongqi and White Jade Pillar, and it can be said that it is not in the Dao.

Xu Ren smiled: "Don't worry, big brother 100,000, I haven't finished talking yet!" We are elite on the way to Tongguan, and we can eat the Tongguan defenders as quickly as possible, and the righteous army that goes to Wuguan does not have to fight hard with the officers and soldiers, but only needs to attract their attention...... In this way, the brothers who go through Wuguan can also easily enter Shaanxi. ”

As soon as he came up with this plan, all the leaders couldn't help but look at him with admiration: "Good plan! ”

Hengtian Wang and mixed 100,000 are even more overjoyed, under such an arrangement, there is no need to fight at all on the way to Wuguan, and the hard battle has become Zhu Ba's fight, and the Southern Route Army only needs to fight a soy sauce to enter Shaanxi, and this plan is not promised in vain.

"Okay, then let's go to Wuguan!" Hengtian Wang and Chao Shiwan smiled and said: "You guys hit the side of Tongguan, but you must knock Tongguan down, don't fail to beat the level, and block us all out." ”

"Don't worry, I think Hong Chengchou's main force Ding Bing will definitely go to Wuguan and will not guard Tongguan." Xu Renjie said with a smile.

"Why?" The crowd was puzzled.

Xu Renjie said in a tone: "Tongguan is more dangerous than Wuguan, and the terrain is easier to defend and difficult to attack. Moreover, you are responsible for the half of the troops in Wuguan, there are more than 10,000 people in Hengtianwang, more than 10,000 in 100,000 brothers, more than 5,000 in Chaotianzhu, more than 30,000 in total, but we only have 10,000 people in Tongguan, 3,000 in Xue Hongqi, and 3,000 in Bai Yuzhu...... It is impossible for the scouts of officers and soldiers to detect which side is more elite, only which side has more people. If they allocate their forces according to the number of people, Hong Chengchou will definitely transfer the main force to Wuguan...... In this way, it is simply effortless to beat Tongguan. ”

As soon as he analyzed it like this, he had no objections to the Mixed 100,000 and Hengtian King, and the two hugged Xu Renjie together and said, "This brother is really a good brain, let's admire it." Brother Zhu has such talents under him, which really makes us envious. ”

Xu Renjie laughed proudly a few times, suddenly lowered his head, and asked Zhu Yuanzhang a little unconfidently: "Brother Zhu, is what I just said right?" ”

Everyone sweated profusely, you talked for a long time, it turned out that you were not sure, and after finishing speaking, you actually had to ask Zhu Bugs, so what did you pretend to be?

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and patted Xu Renjie on the shoulder: "Well said, there's nothing wrong with it, just do it this way." ”

At that moment, the coalition army began to divide its troops, and Hengtian Wang and mixed 100,000 hurriedly organized soldiers to march to the southwest and go to Wuguan. Zhu Yuanzhang took Xue Hongqi and Bai Yuzhu to Tongguan.

The army deliberately moved very slowly, so that the government had enough time to set up. At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang also sent someone to send a letter back to Yang Hong, who was stationed in Baishui, by water, telling him to prepare the 3,000 recruits left in Baishui and be ready to deal with the government's requisition at any time.

Because once they captured Tongguan, Li Qingshui would inevitably start to organize something like the Five Counties and Township Yong Alliance, and Yang Hong, who stayed in Baishui, had to deal with this situation quickly.

Bai Yuzhu has been a bit reticent recently, and seems to be hesitating to join Zhu Yuanzhang's team......

In the spring of the eighth year of Chongzhen, on the way to Tongguan, it came! (To be continued.) )