Like Zhang Xianzhong, Cao Cao, Luo Rucai, who was appeased by the imperial court in Henan, and Ma Huihui, Ma Jinzhong, who was defeated and surrendered, also conspired in Yunyang, Henan.

We usually think that the leaders of the peasant army in the late Ming Dynasty were Wang Ziyong, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, but in fact the mastermind of the rebel army was Luo Rucai, who was known as Cao Cao.

Luo Rucai's personality is treacherous, and he is quite moral, and at the Xingyang Conference, the leaders of the thirteen peasant armies jointly elected Gao Yingxiang as the king, which was Luo Rucai's idea.

Moreover, Luo Bu's military discipline is very strict, and he cooperates with it. After the city was conquered, the children of corrupt officials and their property were divided equally, and they did not touch the honest and honest officials.

Luobu's strict military discipline made some enlightened gentry and low-level scholars take refuge one after another.

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, under the strong pressure of the official army, Luo Rucai had to be appeased by the imperial court and awarded the title of deputy general of Nanyang Town.

Luo Rucai has a strong appeal, during his time guarding Yunyang, the leaders of the rebel army, He Yilong, Bang Tian, Ma Jinbao and others came to vote one after another, and as soon as there were many people, they faced the dilemma of having no food.

In the line of the deputy general of Yunyang Chengguan Town, Luo Rucai looked at the letter sent by Gu Cheng playfully.

He Yilong and the others all looked at Luo Rucai, who was smiling and not smiling.

"Leader Luo, the Eight Kings have sent a letter, but are you ready to start an incident?"

Ma Jinzhong was born in Shaanxi Huimin, and he was more anxious, he really couldn't stand Luo Rucai's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping.

"Hehe, Zhang Xianzhong's abacus is really fucking fine! He asked Lao Tzu to do it first, saying that Zuo Liangyu's main force was hoarding Xiangyang, let Lao Tzu take the lead and attract the officials and troops to Shiyan, he was afraid of Zuo Liangyu, did we beat Zuo Liangyu? This is obviously using Lao Tzu as a gunman! ”

Ma Jinzhong didn't dare to ask, Zuo Liangyu's guy was really fierce, just this year alone, Zuo Liangyu rode out in all directions, Xuzhou's shooting Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing in the inner countryside were under Zuo Liangyu's powerful offensive, and the corpses didn't know where they were, if they hadn't run fast, I am afraid they would have died in Zhenpingguan.

To be honest, until now, Ma Jinzhong was a little uncomfortable when he heard Zuo Liangyu's name.

"Leader Luo, Zuo Liangyu can fight again, his subordinates are only more than 20,000 people, if the Eight Kings and us start an incident at the same time, the officials and soldiers will take care of one or the other, how can they help our brothers?"

He Yilong, as the leader of the rebel army of the same era as Wang Ziyong, although he was repeatedly defeated by Zuo Liangyu, there was no loss of the main force.

On the side, Zuo Jin Wang He Jin, Liu Xiyao, the king of the world, and Wang Yicheng of the troubled times echoed one after another.

Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were appeased by the imperial court, their own strength was relatively weak, and they fought on their own, so they really couldn't cope with the strong offensive of the official army.

Luo Rucai raised his eyes and looked at He Yilong, He Jin and others, and said with a smile: "Zuo Liangyu has only 20,000 soldiers, and your leaders can attack Zhushan, Fangxian and Yunxi and other county seats. ”

"Are you saying that if we rely on Shimen Mountain and attack from all sides, if the officials and troops want to attack, the officers and troops on the other side of Gucheng will definitely be attracted over, and Zhang Xianzhong's cowardice will definitely not help but not move?"

It has been seven or eight years since He Yilong started the incident, everyone is a peasant army, and Zhang Xianzhong's foundation he also knows that since Gao Yingxiang died, Zhang Xianzhong has been accumulating strength and deliberately wants to take over Gao Yingxiang's position.

"What are we going to eat when we go into the mountains?"

Ma Jinzhong threw out one of the most important questions.

Luo Rucai smiled and said: "Yunxi, Fangxian, and Zhushan don't have enough money and food for you to eat?" As long as you don't blindly expand your army, you can survive even if you stay in Shimen Mountain for two years. ”

"Well, we have had enough of the anger of the officials and troops in the past two years, your Cao Cao's proposal will definitely not be wrong, Lao Tzu will attack these counties, and then go to Shimen Mountain, but we are not subordinate to each other, this is easy to be broken by the officials and troops, in my opinion, we might as well set up a battalion head, unified command, unified action, and rely on each other, so with Zuo Liangyu's 20,000 people, don't want to surround us at all."

Ma Jinzhong also agreed with Luo Rucai's suggestion very much, but he thought that he and He Yilong and others should act together, people's hearts are separated, if they are pitted, it is not worth being someone else's cannon fodder.

"Ma Huihui is right, together is two benefits, let's set up a battalion head, let's call it the five battalions of Gezuo, that is, I, Ma Huihui, He Jin, Liu Xiyao and Yi Yangyang five families, combined into a camp head, if someone betrays his brother, no wonder Lao Tzu's knife does not recognize people."

Among the leaders present, except for Luo Rucai, He Yilong's strength is the strongest, and now He Zhen and Ma Huihui have agreed to unify the command, so it is naturally a matter of course to set up a battalion.

Of course, these leaders of the rebel army are not stupid, and while reorganizing the army, they also flew to Zhang Xianzhong in the valley city and asked him to start an incident together.

However, at the same time as Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and the rebels of the Fifth Left Battalion of Ge Wuzuo were preparing for battle, Dongshan Hu, a fierce general under Luo Rucai, brought a piece of news that shocked them.

The villages and towns of Zhouzuo in Fangshan County were looted by a thief called the Heavenly Dragon, which not only ransacked Fangshan, but also coerced thousands of Fangshan people into Shimen Mountain, openly raising a counter-flag.

"Who is the Sky Turning Dragon?"

Luo Rucai and He Yilong were stunned, they had been in the Yunyang realm for so long, and the bandits and bandits here should not come to worship the mountain, but they really hadn't heard of a good man who turned the sky upside down.

The Tiantian Dragon is Tao Wu, and according to the original plan, he brought a soldier into Henan, and then moved closer to Yunyang.

Considering that there were many officials and soldiers in Henan and the remaining thieves of the rogues, Li Xingzhi took out a hundred mandarin duck soldiers from the second town and went straight to Xinyang on the official road.

Relying on the official document of Shandong Town, Tao entered the territory of Huguang in the middle of May Fourth.

With the name of the official army, Tao Wu successively attacked Hongshan and Laohugang, two hundred households of the Ming army, captured Zhangjiaji in Fangshan, and robbed 8,000 taels of silver, 600 stones of grain and grass, and 60 carts.

Tao Wu also used the method of the uprising in Leijiabao to force the surrendered officers and soldiers to kill their own commanders, and then invaded the territory of Guanghua, in just seven days, Tao Wu's team broke through more than 20 villages and towns except Guanghua County, and coerced more than 1,000 people.

Of course, breaking through dozens of villages, did not make Tao Wu satisfied, according to the meaning of the handsome, the momentum should be as big as possible, so Tao Wu entered Fang County, in the same way, attacked 17 large and small villages and towns, a total of nearly 3,000 stone of food, 30,000 taels of silver, and collected nearly 2,000 people.

With the experience of starting an incident in Gaoyang, Tao Wu did not dare to be greedy anymore, but led the army to Shimen Mountain, because Shimen Mountain stretched for nearly 100 miles, if you go over the mountain, you can turn into Nanyang, which is really the best place to fight guerrilla warfare.