Henan, Yiyang.

Li Zicheng shook his somewhat sleepy head and entered the meeting hall. "I don't know what important military information is, so eager to wake me up." He didn't go to bed until almost dawn last night studying the battle plan, and he felt like he had just fallen asleep, only to be woken up.

Judging from the sky, it should not be noon yet.

It has been half a year since the Chuang army came to Yiyang, and after half a year of operation, Yiyang has become the base camp of the Chuang army. Yiyang is close to the Luoshui River and is very close to Luoyang City.

In front of the conference hall, a five-zhang high flagpole was erected, and a large flag fluttered on it. In the vicinity of Yiyang, there are teams of intruders everywhere, some of them arrived here half a year ago, and there are also many new teams that are constantly coming. All kinds of flags, all kinds of people.

Within ten miles of Yiyang alone, there were no less than 50,000 troops. Not to mention, there are still many teams stationed in other surrounding counties on the periphery of Luoyang.

Even in Yiyang City, which is guarded by the war camp, across the Yiyang city wall, you can hear the sound of people and horses training outside.

The city is also full of people and horses, and here are the old camps of the various teams, that is, their families, and many children running and playing in the streets of the city, which is very lively.

Liu Zongmin paced in the meeting hall, wearing a bright light armor, a red cloak on his shoulders, and a long knife at his waist.

"General Quan." Li Zicheng greeted him, "What's the important thing?" ”

"Our careful investigation heard an important news, there is infighting between the officials and the army, Zhang Laohu and Zuo Madman are fighting in Yuncheng, and even Cai Lao Cannon from Denglai is here." Liu Zongmin took out a letter and said excitedly.

"The officers and soldiers fought on their own?" When Li Zicheng heard the news, his sleepiness was swept away. "Is the information reliable?"

"As you can see, not only do you report this news in detail, but we have already received five pieces of news about the internal strife between the officials and the army in Yancheng, and we should be reliable."

"Great."

In the past six months, Li Zicheng has entered Henan. The power is changing and growing with each passing day. Last month, Li Zicheng listened to the advice of Li Yan, Niu Jinxing, and Song Xiance.

The banner of the Fengtian Advocate Battalion was officially played, and the original names of the battalions of the Chuang Army were changed, and the Chuang Army was uniformly called the Fengtian Advocate Battalion, and Li Zicheng was called the general of the Fengtian Advocate Battalion.

The establishment of the Great General's Mansion, the General of the Great General, the General of the Vice-Quan, the General of the System, the General Guo Yi, the Mighty General, the Captain, the Brigade Commander, the General of the Ministry, the General of the Sentinel and other military generals of one to nine grades.

The Chuang army was reorganized into five battalions, one general and one lieutenant, five battalions for the president, and then one general for each of the five battalions. Divide the battalions. Li Zicheng is a general, and Liu Zongmin is a general.

Li Yan is the deputy general of the middle battalion, because the middle battalion is the largest, also known as the standard battalion, so the chief general of the middle battalion is one level higher than the normal general, and he is the deputy general. Zhang Ding is the commander of the standard and the mighty general, Dang Shousu is the deputy commander of the command, Xin Sizhong is the commander of the left mighty general, Gu Ke is the commander of the left mighty general, and Li You is the right mighty general. Ren Jirong is the general of Guoyi before the standard, and Wu Ruyi is the general of Guoyi before the standard.

The left battalion has Liu Fangliang as the general, Ma Shiyao as the general Zuo Guoyi, and Liu Rukui as the right mighty general.

The right battalion is based on Tian Jianxiu as the general. The white dove crane is the general of Zuo Guoyi, and Liu Tichun is the general of the right Guoyi.

The front battalion was composed of Yuan Zongdi as the general, Xie Junyou as the general of Zuo Guoyi, and Tian Hu as the general of Zuo Guoyi.

The rear battalion was made of Li Guo as the general. Zhang Neng is General Zuo Guoyi, and Ma Chongxu is General Right Guoyi.

Among them, there are 100 pacesetters in the middle battalion, and there are 130 teams in the four battalions on the left and right. The five battalions together consisted of two hundred and thirty troops, each with fifty cavalrymen, thirty or forty boys, and one hundred to one hundred and fifty infantry troops.

The five battalions had a total of 60,000 horses and 20,000 horses and mules.

They basically controlled Henan Province and Ruzhou. Officials at all levels, including prefects, prefectures, and counties, were appointed in each prefecture to maintain order and establish rule.

This does not count the small groups of people who have not been incorporated into the intruding army, and there are still many troops around Luoyang.

Li Zicheng listened to the advice of Li Yan and others, established the Great General's Mansion, and after sending officials to various prefectures and counties, he was not in a hurry to fight Luoyang. After the defeat of the siege of Luoyang half a year earlier, Li Zicheng retreated to Yiyang, and then continued to send troops to surround Luoyang, while beginning to strengthen his rule over the controlled areas.

Collect grain and grass, build equipment, and even began to send people to Tuntian, with the intention of besieging Luoyang for a long time and even establishing a long-term regime.

For most of the past six months, Li Zicheng has been worried that the Chu army in Hubei will come to Luoyang. Last year, Li Zicheng went out of Shaanxi to attack Yunyang, thinking that the Yunyang defenders were just a township soldier under the banner of regimental training, but under the first battle, they were beaten and lost thousands of soldiers.

The losses were quite heavy, which made Li Zicheng feel very distressed. Fortunately, after they retreated into Henan, Zhang Shan did not lead his troops to pursue into Henan.

"What's the details, does anyone know?" Li Zicheng asked.

"I heard that one of Zuo Liangyu's subordinates invaded the territory of Huangzhou Mansion in Hubei Province some time ago and ransacked a small town, which made Zhang Shan angry. Recently, Zuo Liangyu was stationed in Yuncheng, and Zhang Shan led his troops to suddenly block Zuo Liangyu, and then asked Zuo Liangyu in the name of Henan Zong, asked Shang Fang to take out the sword, and killed Zuo Liangyu on the spot. ”

"Zuo Liangyu was killed?" Li Zicheng was surprised. Zuo Liangyu is an old opponent of the army, and he once chased the righteous army to kill. It was only in the second half of last year that the army changed its posture of being beaten all the time, and finally defeated Zuo Liangyu several times, thanks to the addition of Li Yan and other strategists and many military attachés of the former imperial court guard.

But Zuo Liangyu's strength has always been preserved, he has at least 80,000 or 90,000 horses in his hands, known as 200,000 officers and soldiers, and has always been a big mountain above the head of the breaking army.

Unexpectedly, Zuo Liangyu, who was once called Grandpa Zuo by the rebels, actually died like this.

"What about Zuo Liangyu's troops?" Li Zicheng was suddenly very worried, compared to Zuo Liangyu, he was more afraid of the Chu army, afraid of Zhang Shan, the general army of Huguang, the defeat of Yunyang last time, he still remembers the strength of the Chu army vividly. As soon as Zuo Liangyu dies, if the Chu army annexes Zuo Liangyu's troops, the Chu army has no worries and goes north with all its might, then they will be in trouble.

"Big brother, don't worry, that tiger killed Zuo Liangyu and wanted to annex the Henan soldiers, but Zuo Liangyu's prestige in the hearts of the Henan soldiers was quite high. As a result, the Henan soldiers mutinied, and the two sides exchanged hands. Zhang Laohu couldn't control it, so he had to hurriedly summon Cai Laopao, the general soldier of Denglai, to deal with the Henan soldiers together, and now the two sides are fighting in the Yingshui area. ”

Li Zicheng breathed a sigh of relief, "Dog eats dog, a mouthful of hair, that's fine, let them bite each other." ”

sat down and thought for a while, "But we also have to step up our actions, I estimate that the Henan soldiers are all based on the courage of the moment, and they will not be the opponents of the Chu army after all." We can't sit back and wait for the Chu army to kill the Henan soldiers. Our preparations are almost done, and now the periphery of Luoyang has been cleared, and the siege equipment has been built. After more than half a year of siege, the defenders in Luoyang City were also close to collapse and lacked food. In my opinion, it is time to launch the final blow and take Luoyang in one fell swoop. ”

"Take Luoyang, with this strong city, we don't have to be so afraid of the Chu army."

Henan, Yuncheng.

Zuo Liangyu's 80,000-strong army has been disbanded, and Zuo Liangyu has already moved north with the order to promote the commander of the Guanwai Military Region and the chief military officer of Ningyuan, with 10,000 selected subordinates.

The remaining 70,000 horses and 20,000 horses were selected and retained, and the 10,000 people transferred by the Chu army were reorganized into a new Kaifeng Town, which was subordinate to the Central Plains Military Region and belonged to Cai Yuan, the commander of the Central Plains Military Region, and at the same time under the command of Zhang Shan, the commander-in-chief of the Central Plains Bandits.

The remaining 50,000 people, after receiving severance pay, most of them were recruited by businesses.

In the lively Yuncheng, there are tens of thousands of horses missing, but there are still many soldiers and horses stationed.

Huguang Town, Denglai Town, Kaifeng Town, the three towns still gathered tens of thousands of horses here at this time.

"Transfer Kaifeng Town to Kaifeng for training, they won't be needed in this battle." Zhang Shan said to Cai Yuan.

"Yes, listen to you. Bringing them with you is also just a drag on logistics. In less than half a year, it will be difficult for them to form much combat effectiveness. Let them withdraw from Kaifeng and train well. Cai Yuan didn't want to bring this newly reorganized Kaifeng Town.

The Chu army has never fought by quantity.

Moreover, even if Kaifeng Town is not included, the Chu army in Yuncheng still has the size of two divisions, which together is a consolidated town of 6 associations and 30,000 troops.

With so many soldiers and horses, it is enough to deal with Li Zicheng.

The two towns each left two associations of soldiers and horses in their own towns, because each of them transferred a joint of soldiers and horses to reorganize and establish a new Kaifeng Town, so the next two towns also had to recruit another association of 5,000 people.

"The thief probably thinks we are working with Zuo Liangyu now, and he is probably happy in his heart." Cai Yuan said with a smile. Cai Yuan and Zhang Shan both had an alliance with Liu Jun, and now Cai Yuan is the commander of the Central Plains Military Region and the chief military officer of Denglai, while Zhang Shan is the commander of the Chuanhu Military Region and the chief military officer of Huguang. Both have the same official ranks, and both have the rank of former general.

However, Zhang Shan also hung a commander-in-chief of the Central Plains bandits, responsible for the bandit suppression operations in Sichuanhu and the Central Plains. Therefore, although Cai Yuan was a landlord in this anti-bandit operation, he still had to obey Zhang Shan's command arrangement.

"Soldiers are not tired of cheating, not to mention that our brothers in the intelligence system are indeed very powerful."

"I think the most powerful thing is the good planning of the county king, one million silver dollars plus a post of governor outside the customs, so that Zuo Liangyu's 80,000 soldiers and horses will be dispersed overnight, who has this ability, who thinks of it? The thieves definitely didn't expect it, so the brothers in the intelligence system spread a rumor that we had a fight with Zuo Liangyu, and the thieves all believed it. ”

"Hahaha." Both brothers laughed.

"Let the brothers have a good night's rest, tomorrow the fourth watch will make food, and the fifth watch will set off, we will give the thief a big surprise!" Zhang Shan looked in the direction of Luoyang and said with a smile. (To be continued.) )

PS: It's so cold, it's cold, it's cold!