The fall of Qixian County caused the peasant army to be completely passive. At this time, Yang Rusong and the Shumo Department could go north to join the Black Cloud Army that was besieged in Yangqi Town, or they could directly break the siege of Kaifeng City in the northwest direction. It will take only three or four days at most.

However, the strength of the peasant army in this place was concentrated and scattered, and it could not stop this Runing army at all. In addition, there is no way to know which direction the Runing Army will choose, so it has evolved into a situation of being passively beaten.

And the Li and Luo coalition forces were also in chaos. The battle has been until now, and it is Li Zicheng's camp that is fighting. But Luo Rucai is not very interested in this kind of battle, he still thinks: Don't fight hard with the officials and soldiers, you should flee earlier, the world is so big, why can't you go away?

And Luo Rucai's thinking also affected some of the soldiers who broke into the camp, and they also felt that Li Zicheng had some magic obstacles, so why hang himself on the tree in Kaifeng City? Now that the official army is here, you can still hide!

This means that the speed at which the peasant armies such as the camp broke out was too fast, so many people still cannot accept the idea of establishing a regular political power and establishing base areas. The mentality of the peasant army is still very serious.

However, the actions of the Runing Army left the Li and Luo coalition forces with no choice. When they learned that the three-way army of the Runing Army exceeded 100,000 horses and horses, and completely controlled the central Henan region in a short period of time, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were forced to go to Liangshan.

Because of this momentum, no matter how you look at it, it looks like forcing the Li and Luo coalition forces to jump off the Yellow River. Coupled with the fact that Sun Chuanting's Qin army was about to move in the west, the Li and Luo coalition forces suddenly found themselves in a Jedi, and if they didn't fight hard, they would really be wiped out.

But this is really a bit wronged by the Ru Ning Army! In order to let the Li and Luo combined forces discover the weak points, the left army of the Runing army did not even occupy Ruzhou, just to let the Li and Luo combined forces discover the passage of Nanyang into Huguang. But now Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai have become frightened birds. On the contrary, they thought that this was a flaw deliberately exposed by the Runing Army, and wanted to let the Li and Luo coalition troops embark on this road of being "ambushed" by the official army.

So, poor information will always lead to many misunderstandings. At this time, Wu Shigong may be eager to send a ** to Li Zicheng and confess his "pure heart" to him!

As soon as they felt the danger, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai immediately put aside the contradiction and worked together. They immediately gradually withdrew their troops from the encirclement around Kaifeng City and concentrated near Zhuxian Town, preparing to send reinforcements to another successful encirclement.

At this time, the Runing army also seemed to have a cerebral convulsion, and they also slowed down the pace of the attack, especially Yang Rusong and Shumo in Qixian County. They even stood still, as if they were waiting for the deployment of the Li and Luo coalition forces to take place.

In fact, this performance of the Runing Army is also understandable. Because they don't care about the life or death of Kaifeng City and the Black Cloud Army, as long as these two places are not lost and can contain the Li and Luo coalition forces, the Runing Army still wants the Li and Luo coalition forces and the officers and troops in these two places to fight to the death.

Before that, of course. The Runing Army also had to pass on the news of its arrival to these two places, which was also to give the soldiers and civilians in these two places the confidence to persevere.

Relatively. The news there in Yangqi Town is easy to transmit. After resting for a few days, Yang Rusong and the Shumo Department went north to the bank of the Huiji River and fired a cannonball at the opposite bank. Regardless of the outcome of the battle, at least the sound of this cannon can be transmitted to Yangqi Town.

When the Black Cloud Army in Yangqi Town heard of the arrival of reinforcements, they immediately worshiped Yu Zilian and threw themselves on the ground. Then Lord Yu not only fights, but also has friends all over the world. Follow him, that's certainly right.

But then the soldiers of the Black Cloud Army are looking forward to the stars and the moon. But no matter how much they looked forward to it, they didn't expect the arrival of reinforcements, so they could only listen to the sound of artillery in the distance. I fantasize about escaping one day!

At that time, several of Chen De's personal soldiers who fled to Runing, they made a detour again and boarded a boat on the Yellow River, and then swam into Kaifeng City at night, and transmitted the news of Runing's army back to the city.

Therefore, the soldiers and civilians in Kaifeng City were greatly excited, and in order to hold on and celebrate, they held a grand "celebration" in the city.

By this time, there was not much food left in the city, and ordinary residents were starving to death in large numbers. The price of grain in the city gradually rose to 80 taels per stone, and even money could not buy it.

After some deliberation and compromise among the officials, the government in Kaifeng City finally issued a strange policy: the Ming Dynasty government, as the embodiment of justice, of course, could not go to the people to grab grain, so they decided to buy food from the people to support the arrival of the Runing army. Of course, now there is almost no grain in the homes of ordinary people in Kaifeng City, and the grain is concentrated in the homes of those officials and gentry, so the act of grabbing grain may not be enforced.

Of course, this purchase of grain and silver is forcibly apportioned to the households. If there is grain, you can pay for grain, and if you don't have grain, you can also pay for silver. As soon as this policy was introduced, the price of grain in the city immediately soared to 130 taels per stone.

As for those who could not hand over the food and money, they "first caught young men and women, and pricked them in the skin with hundreds of large needles, crying out that they were wronged." "Even some rich families paid tens of thousands of taels of silver, but they were still not exempt from torture and died. The officers and soldiers defending the city broke into the people's homes with the governor's arrows to search for food, except for the mansions of the county king and above.

Then the price of grain on the market soared even more, with a bucket of rice and millet and a pound of green vegetables. Then the market was completely closed, and there was no money to buy food. After the food in the city was exhausted, the residents ate cowhides, leather jackets, medicinal herbs, aquatic plants, vassoon, horse manure, and cement in order to prolong their lives.

And no one in the city knew what to do, and those few soldiers who came back from the summons also brought a message of Wu Shigong to Chen Yongfu, the general soldier of Henan......

The Huiji River in the northwest of Qixian County has turned into a stream due to years of drought. And because of the water drawn by the army and the passage of a large number of people and horses upstream, the river water also changed from clear to turbid.

Yang Rusong and the Shumo Department came to the south bank of the Huiji River two days earlier than the peasant army. However, they did not take the opportunity to cross the river, and by the time He Shaoqi led more than 10,000 peasant troops drawn from Yangqi Town to the north bank, the fortifications of the Runing army on the south bank had been completely arranged.

Along the riverbank, the Runing army erected three or four rows of wooden fences more than one person high, and the gaps in those wooden fences could be easily set up to shoot with firearms, and it was also easy to stretch out spears to assassinate. And at the joints of the wooden fence and the wooden fence, artillery was also placed, forming a complete network of fire. Moreover, the situation behind the high slope of the river bank cannot be observed, so He Shaoqi cannot figure out how many Runing troops are behind the slope.

Although the runoff of the Huiji River is already quite small, some rocks at the bottom of the river have been exposed, so that people and horses can wade across the river. But he did not dare to attack. Because the terrain occupied by the Runing army was too favorable, if the peasant army wanted to attack, the troops would not be able to deploy at all, and they would face the Runing army's leisurely work and head-on attack.

Seeing that the Runing army on the other side of the river was putting on a defensive posture, He Shaoqi also confronted each other along the river. However, he also stepped up to repay Li Zicheng and asked him to send additional reinforcements to deal with this Runing army.

Two days later, more than 30,000 peasant troops led by Tian Jianxiu arrived. As soon as the two armies converged, Tian Jianxiu was anxious to observe the fortifications of the Runing army and prepare to attack the opposite bank.

Although the current Li and Luo coalition forces surround the Heiyun Army in Kaifeng City and Yangqi Town, these two official armies are also the "time bombs" in the stomach of the peasant army, and once these two official armies and the external reinforcements are successfully combined, the Li and Luo coalition forces will not only not be able to surround the point to send reinforcements, but will immediately fall into the dilemma of multi-faceted warfare, and the great victory will also become a big defeat.

However, for the Black Cloud Army in Kaifeng City and Yangqi Town, the combined forces of Li and Luo could not attack it, and they were not sure that they could conquer it in a short time, and they could not bear such large casualties. Facing the approaching Runing army in the middle and on the left, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai decided to first defeat the Runing army on the right in order to occupy a favorable decisive position.

But when Tian Jianxiu informed He Shaoqi of Li Zicheng's decision, he was immediately opposed by He Shaoqi. He Shaoqi had fought against the Runing Army, and he had some understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Runing Army. He felt that if the confrontation between the two armies could be guaranteed at the Huiji River, it would be satisfied, and the peasant army would never have the strength to capture the Runing army that was stubbornly defending, not to mention that it was not known how many Runing troops there were on the south bank of the Huiji River.

But Tian Jianxiu still had to carry out Li Zicheng's orders. In the camp, because the system is not complete, although He Shaoqi's status is slightly higher than that of Tian Jianxiu, the two of them have no subordinate relationship. Therefore, in the peasant army on the north bank of the Huiji River, the final decision was still to be discussed by these two generals.

And when Tian Jianxiu saw the Runing military fortifications on the south bank, he felt that he had some opportunities. Although Tian Jianxiu could imagine that the peasant army would be shot with gunfire, bows and arrows, and spears as they waded across the river and climbed and overturned wooden fences, these responses were traceable.

And in general battles, not afraid of the enemy to defend. I'm afraid of the enemy's attack. Because there are various means of attack, they must be seen and dismantled, which is a great test of the commander's command skills and the fighting qualities of the soldiers. And if you attack by yourself and defend by the enemy, you can play a lot of tricks, and you are not afraid of the enemy's counterattack, anyway, the enemy can only be beaten passively.

Therefore, in the same situation, in the eyes of people with different mentalities, different judgments will be drawn. Therefore, Tian Jianxiu decided to cross the Huiji River and defeat the Runing army on the opposite bank first. (To be continued......)