Luyang Pass was broken by Ma Huihui, and Lushan was controlled by the Jingbei Army, and the 30,000 army in Tian Jianxiu's hands suddenly became a lone army, and it was a lone army in a desperate situation.

"Leader Tian, Ma Huihui has turned his back on King Chuang, we can't advance or retreat now, how is this good?"

Pingdingshan, the camp of the Shun army.

Tian Jianxiu's generals, Luo Dawei, Guan Meng and others, all looked at Tian Jianxiu, who was miserable on the main seat.

Tian Jianxiu really hated, he hated why he wanted to give up Luyang Guan Tianwei and bring the main force to kill Lushan, and he hated Ma Hui even more for his treachery and surrender to the Shandong army, so that he and his subordinates fell into such a Jedi.

The current situation is clearly in front of him, the officers and soldiers are condescending, holding their own passage to the north, and the rear horses are back to watch, I am afraid that this will be pondering to show Li Xingzhi his head to show merit.

"Alas...... For today's plan, only to retreat to Lushan to defend the city, we fought on the official road for seven or eight days, I think I must have received the news from King Shun's side, maybe, now we have transferred troops and reinforcements, what we have to do now is to hold on until King Shun's army arrives. ”

Tian Jianxiu, who was losing ground in advance and retreat, finally chose to withdraw from Lushan and wait for reinforcements, at this time he could only pray that Li Zicheng's reinforcements could open up the official road as soon as possible, because he didn't have much grain and grass in his hands.

Lushan County was originally a small county town in the mountain nest, and there were only 20,000 or 30,000 residents in the city, after Li Zicheng occupied Lushan, most of the people here were coerced into the army by the Shun army, and only a few thousand old, weak, sick and disabled people remained in the city.

A few days ago, the Jingbei army arrived, Lushan County was broken by the official army, although Wang Deren did not embarrass the people of the city, but the continuous military disasters still made the remnants of the people in the city afraid, after the official army withdrew from the county seat, the people left behind in the city ran away for most of them.

After Tian Jianxiu led the army back to Lushan, the people in the city were less than 1,000 people, and all of them ran out, so the Shun army naturally couldn't raise much food in the city.

The Shun army scraped the ground, and only turned out more than 200 stone of grain in Lushan, plus the rations of the accompanying army were more than 600 stone.

In other words, Tian Jianxiu only had 60,000 catties of grain left in his hands, which could last for two or three months for hundreds or more than a thousand people, but for the Dashun army with tens of thousands of troops, it was only enough for them to eat for two or three days.

"There are only more than 5,000 elite people in our department, and the rest are coerced cannon fodder troops, or the soldiers of the 5th Battalion of the Original Revolution and Luo Rucai, the last general thinks that keeping them in the army is nothing more than a waste of food, if the official army besieges the city, we have to worry about them repeatedly, according to the last general's opinion, it is better to ...... all these people."

Luo Dawei, the leader of the Shun army, who came back after counting the grain, made a slashing action with a fierce look in front of Tian Jianxiu.

“…… You mean kill them all? Are you crazy? Do you want us to die fast enough? ”

Tian Jianxiu was furious, and Luo Dawei thought of it, if he really cleaned up in the city, the army's heart would be dispersed immediately, and there would be no need for the officers and soldiers to fight at that time, and the counterattack of the cannon fodder army would allow him to drink a pot.

"But what you said is also reasonable, so many soldiers and horses are in Lushan, it is nothing more than a waste of our army's food, so let's do it, you let them camp outside the city, there is no food to eat, they will naturally leave here."

The cannon fodder army chose to join the rebels because they had nothing to eat, and now that the rebels can't supply them with food, it is only natural for them to leave.

Tian Jianxiu's decision-making made the Shun army's originally stretched food much more abundant, more than 5,000 soldiers and horses, 600 stone of grain, save a little, support for a month or two, it should not be a problem, for such a long time, as long as he holds Lushan, he will definitely be able to wait for Li Zicheng's reinforcements.

However, as time passed, Lushan's Shun army did not see any trace of reinforcements coming.

Li Zicheng of Zhuxian Town didn't seem to know that the back road had been cut off by the official army, and he couldn't hear any cannon sound in the north, seeing that the military rations were running out day by day, Tian Jianxiu panicked, his subordinates also panicked, and the soldiers began to panic.

They didn't understand why Li Zicheng didn't send reinforcements, let alone what happened to Zhu Xianzhen?

In fact, Li Zicheng did not want to open up the official road, but did not want to divide the troops to open up the official road, after Yang Biao led the army into Yuncheng, Li Zicheng found that his main force fell into the pincer offensive of the official army, but at that time he did not take this matter to heart, although the pincer offensive is powerful, but Zhu Xianzhen has hundreds of thousands of troops on his side, even if the official army occupies the advantage of geographical advantage, but in the face of absolute strength, how much effect can the advantage brought by the geographical advantage play?

In Li Zicheng's view, there are tens of thousands of troops in Luyang Pass, and the officers and troops in Yuncheng are actually in the middle of their own attacks.

So, Li Zicheng still made a wrong judgment, he chose to believe that Tian Jianxiu would be able to stabilize his rear, and he was still holding on to the official army in Zhuxian Town, he was waiting, waiting for the medicine and artillery in the army to be dried by the sun, and then with an absolute superiority of troops, he broke through the defense line of Zhuxian Town in one fell swoop, and the troops were in Kaifeng, making the pincer offensive of the official army a joke.

However, he did not wait for the muddy ground under the back of Qinglong to be completely dried by the Jialu River, and did not wait for the soaked medicine to be dried by the sun, but waited for the banner of Li Xingzhi, the commander of the Shandong Army, and the 15,000 troops brought by Li Xingzhi from Shandong, as well as the army of Xiao Yuanying, which had just been incorporated into the official army sequence.

Li Xingzhi's big sword in Zhuxian Town at the moment of the tree, Li Zicheng was excited, originally he was planning to capture Heluo, according to the Central Plains Tiger View Beijing Division, now he is chasing the Central Plains' biggest opponent Li Xingzhi has arrived in front of him, judging from the camp set up by the Shandong army on the back of Qinglong, their military horses are almost 50,000 in total.

This kind of strength is only one-tenth of the hundreds of thousands of military horses in his hands, although there are a large number of cannon fodder troops in the Shun army, but there are more than 4,000 artillery pieces in his hands, and the main force of the five battalions of soldiers carefully trained by himself is also on the front line of Zhuxian Town.

400,000 to 50,000, 8 to 1 force ratio, Li Zicheng decided to give it a go, and if he wins, he will be able to unify the Central Plains and become the new co-owner of the world.

"Wait for Gu to defeat Li Xingzhi, Lushan crisis will be solved, and now Li Xingzhi is on the back of the green dragon, I hope you will work with Gu with one heart and one mind, break this fang, and fight a battle."

In the main tent of the Shunjun camp in Zhuxian Town, Li Zicheng was sitting precariously, his face was not angry and arrogant, but he still couldn't hide the joy in his heart between his eyebrows.

After Wang Zhong's plan to flood and delay his time to enter the army, Li Zicheng has been thinking about whether to follow Song Xiance's advice to go south to Huguang, because he is afraid, afraid that the main force of the official army will retreat to Kaifeng, and then rely on Kaifeng's nearly four-zhang high city wall to fight to the death.