Zhang Xianzhong led the army out of the mountains, and captured two small county towns in one breath, and the entire Zhang family army finally survived the long winter, one by one, like hungry wolves, seeing that the prey was not dying, they rushed up frantically, and their combat effectiveness increased more than ten times. On the contrary, there is no garrison in the small county town, and it usually relies on dozens of arrests and quick servants to maintain order, plus there is no defense, so it is strange if it does not fall.

Zhang's military discipline has always been corrupt, just look at what they did after entering Sichuan in history, you can know that the two small county towns that fell were ravaged by the wolf-like Zhang Jiajun for five days and three nights before it stopped, and there was nothing to rob without stopping, and there was nothing to rob without stopping, all of them were robbed, and the whole city was Shura Hell, and some of the leaders of the rebel army who had a little insight didn't dare to stop it, and the consequences of forcibly stopping it would only lead to mutiny, so they could only wait for their subordinates to vent their beastly nature, not to mention that the big boss Zhang Xianzhong didn't speak, and took the lead in robbing the big households.

Of course, Zhang Xianzhong not only robbed money, food, weapons, and women, but also robbed beautiful men, his taste is so heavy, and under his influence, many leaders and leaders of Zhang's army were also contaminated with this evil people, making the city full of chrysanthemums and wounds.

A few leaders who have read a little bit of books and have a little foresight can only sigh and shake their heads, their expressions look painful and desperate, they are all from poor families, but they said that they were good, and the purpose of raising troops was obviously to let the people live a good life, but now what they are doing is to kill the people like robbers, no, they are a hundred times more murderous than robbers, what is the righteousness?

After Zhang Jiajun's crazy looting, it is a rest, which can be regarded as indulging in pleasure, all the young women in the city, a little bit of grace have all been scourged, the chaste or jumped into the well, or hanged the Ming Festival, some were tragically killed by the scourge, Zhang Demon's name did not go away, Zhang Xianzhong didn't care about this, just a headache where to hit next?

According to the news found by the scouts, in the direction of the Beijing Division, the rebel general Gao Jie led a battalion of new troops is coming quickly, and Sun Chengzong, the governor of Xi'an Prefecture in Shaanxi, has led the main force of the Xi'an Prefecture Army to the Yellow River to garrison, which can be regarded as taking over Sun Chuanting's defense line, Sun Chuanting's department, Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army, Cao Wenzhao's Guangping Army, and Qin Liangyu's Baipole Army are advancing from four directions, making it clear that they want to make dumplings.

"Ge Laozi, I really look up to my old Zhang."

Zhang Xianzhong scolded while lying on the edge of the desk and looking at the map, the imperial court dispatched so many elite armies at once, this was a special care for him, and it suddenly made him feel a lot of pressure.

Although Qin Liangyu's white pole army is the farthest away, it is a nightmare that can not be erased in Zhang Xianzhong's heart, and he is not willing to meet and chat with Qin Liangyu if he wants to cross the Yellow River into Shaanxi, he must first defeat Sun Chuanting's main force, and then force the Yellow River to fight with Sun Chengzong's Xi'an Mansion soldiers, aside from the dangers of the Yellow River, the name of the eldest grandson and the younger grandson can scare people away.

Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army and Cao Wenzhao's Guangping Army are even more difficult to provoke, the former is a Confucian general, but the war is very powerful, one is a rare fierce general in the Ming Dynasty, and he also beat the 36th battalion of the civilian army to the ground.

Then, the only soft persimmon is Gao Jie's new army, not long after the Royal Guards Independent Battalion was formed, and it is full of recruits who have never been on the battlefield.

"Someone!" After Zhang Xianzhong chose the direction of escape, he slapped the desk and shouted loudly.

"What do you command?" The guards who were waiting outside came in.

"You go and tell Li Lu that Gao Jie is here." Zhang Xianzhong instructed, don't look at him as big and three thick, but it doesn't mean that he has a low IQ, he can pull up such a large team, and he has repeatedly escaped under the siege and interception of officials and soldiers from all walks of life.

Li Lu is Li Zicheng, he gave people a nickname in private, his relationship with Li Zicheng is very bad, he just tore his face and opened his gun, now, his strength is unprecedentedly strong, and Li Zicheng's people are pitiful, he didn't pay attention to it, but it is quite comfortable to take advantage of it, and it is quite comfortable to take revenge on him, Gao Jie is Li Zicheng's Achilles heel.

He knows Li Zicheng's character too well, he definitely can't swallow this evil breath, he must be desperate to catch Gao Jie, just use him as cannon fodder, reduce his pressure, and wait for them to lose both sides and then pick up the cheap, originally an iron buddy, who let you offend Lao Tzu, who will not pit you?

To be honest, he still admires Gao Jie, even his sister-in-law dares to soak, dyes the hat of the leading brother in green, and the cow pen is not good, he even plans to do it, if he captures Gao Jie, not only will he not kill him, but on the contrary, he will use him, and use him to disgust Li Zicheng, hehe.

"How many soldiers have we recruited now?"

Zhang Xianzhong did not forget the most important event when he got carried away, the people are the most powerful supporters of the people's army, every time he beats a county seat, every time he passes through a village and a market town, a large number of people come to follow, like a snowball rolling bigger and bigger, although the combat power is not very good, but it can't stand the number of people, and the momentum is terrifying.

"Back to the big boss...... Recruited...... Six or seven ......" a henchman leader slurped, and his expression looked extremely unnatural.

"Big brother, I only recruited more than 8,000 people...... "A more active-minded leader cut into the queue and said, his eyes slipped around the faces of the leader-level iron buddies, and if he didn't want to provoke the big boss, he would listen to me, otherwise everyone would not be able to eat and walk around.

"So little?"

Zhang Xianzhong screamed, I heard it right, there are only more than 8,000 people? What do you eat? In his expectation, there are not more than 100,000 or 20,000 people, but at least 50,000 or 60,000 people, what's the situation?

More than a dozen big leaders all bowed their heads, boss, are you too little? Do you know that this number is still a false report of 5,000, to be honest, they are also quite puzzled, the people used to respond to all calls, and now they are in the evil or what, they are not willing to go with them if they have food and money?

"The big boss, when the city was broken, most of the people fled out of the city......"

"Well, we've been killing too hard these days......"

More than a dozen big leaders are afraid of taking the lead in the big brother's hair, and they tacitly find all kinds of justifiable reasons to prevaricate, of course, what they said is indeed true, but there are not many people who have escaped from the city, but they just can't understand the essence of the matter.

In order to solve the major problems of the people's livelihood, Zhu Jianke racked his brains, spent his money on his life, properly resettled the displaced people, used work for relief, built water conservancy, roads, bridges, and other facilities for the benefit of the people, vigorously promoted crops suitable for planting in various localities, encouraged the reclamation of wasteland, sent seeds free of charge, provided agricultural tools, reduced or exempted taxes, especially the large planting of potatoes, and in addition to God's eyes, it rained in some places with serious drought, which temporarily suspended the serious pressure of grain shortage.

The life of the common people is still very hard, but at least it is much better than before, it is not so miserable that it is miserable to sell children and daughters and sell fields, eat tree bark and eat Guanyin soil, according to the current situation, as long as you grit your teeth and hold on for another year, life will be better, the people are simple and simple, and there is hope in their hearts, who wants to do those things that lose their heads?

Moreover, Zhang Jiajun frantically burned and looted, a hundred times more ferocious than robbers, the big households robbed and killed, even the poor people did not let go, and they could not guarantee that the little food they had to make a living was robbed, the daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law were ruined, and tragic things happened to every household, who didn't hate Zhang Jiajun to the bone? Do you want them to follow and kill the officers and soldiers? If possible, they all want to run out to report to the officers and soldiers and lead the way to beat Zhang Jiajun.

As for those who voluntarily joined Zhang Jiajun, they are all ordinary thugs who bully their neighbors, eat soft and fear hard, and have the idea of having food to eat, money to take, and can mix and mix, and run away if they can't mix, and a very small number of people have various purposes, as for what the purpose, it is impossible to say clearly.

"Lao Tzu doesn't care, no matter what method you use, you will expand the army and expand the army for Lao Tzu, and only say important words three times!" Zhang Xianzhong patted the desk and made a fuss, Lao Tzu doesn't care what method you use, whether it's tempting or coercion, Lao Tzu only needs the result, when the army sets off tomorrow, Lao Tzu will see 100,000 troops!

That night, the entire county town turned into a hell of Shura on earth again, with flames soaring to the sky, and desperate cries continued.

Early the next morning, Zhang Tianwang led an army of 100,000 to march in the direction of the Beijing Division, leaving behind a small ruined county town with no remaining households waiting for the chasing officers and soldiers to clean up the mess.