The adjutant was busy doing things, Liu Zeqing stood on the city wall and watched everything, his eyes gradually became sharp, because he found that the figure of Liukou appeared on the battlefield again, but this time their target was not Luoyang City, but the strategic materials left on the battlefield, and the arrow was lost.

The rogues are not as rich as the officials and soldiers, and they can still wait for the imperial court to allocate funds and materials, and the materials of the rogues all have to be robbed by themselves little by little, if they don't rob, there will be no materials for them to use, and the reality is so cruel.

Therefore, after a big battle, the rogues will have a special team to do one thing, this thing is to clean up the battlefield, the battlefield is the only place for them to quickly replenish the source of strategic materials, except here, they have no way to quickly replenish the war materials such as arrows and swords.

Therefore, even though it is dangerous to clean up the battlefield, the rogues still insist on cleaning the battlefield.

And the rogues cleaned up the battlefield very cruelly, where is the cruelty? They cleaned the battlefield with all the old and weak women and children, and the real rogue thieves did not do the work of cleaning the battlefield, and the group of forty or fifty-year-old women who cleaned the battlefield the most.

These old ladies are physically good, and most importantly, they are the most expendable in the camp of the rogues, in which there are very few young women, and their job is generally to cook for the soldiers, look better, and serve the officials, or nurse a child at home.

As for the children, they are the hope of the ranks, and they are generally well protected from doing too dangerous work, and as for the men, they are all soldiers, down to thirteen or fourteen, up to fifty or sixty, and all those who can be soldiers are death squads.

The rest is this group of useless old ladies, and this group of old ladies has suddenly become a burden in the rogue team, but waste can still be used, let alone people?

So this group of old women was also arranged by Li Zicheng, that is, to clean up the battlefield, not in vain, there are also strict reward and punishment measures, such as Li Zicheng's regulations, on the battlefield, recover five complete arrows, or twenty arrows, reward one pound of corn, recycle five swords can also get a pound of corn, if you can bring back a complete pair of armor, it is awesome, and you will be directly rewarded with ten pounds of rice.

Because of these rewards, it is finally time for this group of old women who are regarded as a burden to show their abilities, and they can finally contribute to their families, so every time the war ends, this group of old women will rush to the battlefield and start cleaning the battlefield.

Liu Zeqing looked at the group of old women below cleaning up on the battlefield happily at this time, and there were talking and laughing, the angry Liu Zeqing clenched his silver teeth, and a captain on the side waved his hand when he saw this, ready to let his subordinates teach this group of old women who were talking and laughing some lessons.

"Archer prepare!"

The captain waved his hand and prepared to let the archers shoot to kill this group of old women who dared to enter the battlefield to clean up the battlefield, but they were stopped by Liu Zeqing.

"Forget it, let them go."

The school captain looked at Liu Zeqing puzzled, when did his own adults become so kind.

Liu Zeqing said with a dark face: "Li Zicheng sent them to death, for the rogue, these old women are a burden, not to mention the food in the army, they can't fight, so they arranged such a job of cleaning up the battlefield, if we attack them in a fit of anger, then we will be able to get into the thief's mind." ”

First, killing the old woman is equivalent to eliminating the big food eaters in the rogue camp, how much military ration can be saved for Li Zicheng at this time, and how much pressure Li Zicheng can be relieved, if he really does this, Li Zicheng can award himself a pennant, a good brother for a lifetime.

Second, these old women are harmful garbage to Li Zicheng, and if you want to kill them, you need to lose them with arrows, and the arrows in your army are already expensive, and you use them here again, aren't you asking for hardship, Li Zicheng uses the burden in exchange for your most precious arrow loss, and he earns it anyway.

Third, these people are useless women and children on the battlefield, but these people are the mothers and wives of the thieves in the Liukou camp, and they are all suddenly attacked here.

Therefore, Li Zicheng's move can be regarded as a naked conspiracy, if you don't care about them, they will recover the arrows, swords, and armor on the battlefield, and strengthen the rogue.

If you take care of it, the first is to waste strategic materials and miss the arrow, the second is to help the Liukou eliminate the big food eaters, reduce the logistical burden of the Liukou, and finally help the Liukou to improve their morale by the way.

Liu Zeqing gritted his teeth and looked at these old women talking and laughing, talking about going back to eat corn today, but he couldn't do anything about it, he could only watch and hold his breath.

This is the toad lying on the surface of his feet, not biting, he responds to people.

Liu Zeqing said with a dark face: "The whole army is resting on the spot, the sentry is arranged, and the food will be delivered in a while, and the soldiers will eat on the city wall to prevent the thieves from attacking the city." ”

"Yes."

The generals spoke, and some of them carried down the dead bodies and buried them, while the rest took their weapons and rested on the wall, and soon many of the soldiers fell asleep because of the day's toil.

The defenders of Luoyang City have rested, and Li Zicheng's entire army has returned to the camp tent, at this time the meals in the room have been prepared, and the soldiers have returned to the camp to bandage their wounds, and the meals are not mentioned for the time being, at this time Li Zicheng's main camp is in the camp.

Li Zicheng sat on the main seat, and below him were the seats of his generals, and what was on their table was not ordinary food, but large pieces of pork, roast chicken and white flour buns, but there was no alcohol, and the king strictly ordered that no alcohol should be drunk in the army.

At this time, the generals who had brought the soldiers and horses back to the camp came to Li Zicheng's military camp, and then they all walked into the tent, and it was Liu Zongmin who walked in at the head, followed by Li Guo, Tian Jianxiu, Hao Shaoqi and other generals, and the generals entered the house and sat in their own positions, Li Zicheng also sat down at this time, and Li Shichao followed behind Li Zicheng, standing, and did not sit.

Li Zicheng saw that all the generals were seated, glanced at Li Shichao and said, "Brother Shichao, you also sit." ”

Li Shichao smiled at this time: "I'd better forget it, today is the brothers of each battalion discussing the siege of the city, and I, the pro-army guard, will not join in this fun." ”

Li Zicheng didn't speak when he heard this, but Tian Jianxiu on the side smiled and said: "Brother Shi Chao, it's not right for you to say this, if you talk about qualifications in our camp, you are the oldest, if you don't admire fame and fortune, you gave me the position of leader at the beginning, how can you have today's scenery of brothers, if someone says that you are not qualified to sit here and eat, I will be the first to disagree." ”

"I won't say yes either."

At this time, Hao Shaoqi also opened his mouth and said, after hearing this, Li Guo stood up directly and pulled Li Shichao and said with a smile: "Okay, Brother Li, what are you polite to the big guy, sit down, where is it not to eat." ”

Li Guo pulled Li Shichao to sit in his place, and then Liu Zongmin took the initiative to open his ass and said, "Sit here with me, we haven't eaten at the same table for a long time." ”

Li Shichao was pulled into the banquet by everyone in this way.

Li Shichao said helplessly: "This is where you and the commanders of the first battalion eat, and it is not suitable for me to sit here as a guard." ”

Hearing this, everyone said: "Brother Li, if you weren't willing to lead an army alone, you would be sitting here now." ”

Li Shichao shook his head and said: "I'm not the material to lead the army, I'm struggling to manage the five or six hundred people in the guard camp now, don't hurt me, I'm fine now." ”

Hearing this, everyone smiled and didn't say anything.

The relationship between the generals under Li Zicheng is not very good, but there is only one person, that is, Li Shichao's relationship with all the generals is very good, including Liu Zongmin, who is above the top and very arrogant, and the relationship with Li Shichao is also very good, the reason is very simple, first, Li Shichao's qualifications are old, so it can be traced back to before Li Zicheng got into trouble, who should not look down on this old qualification.

Secondly, Li Shichao is kind to others, he has never quarreled with anyone, and when he competes, he has never blushed with others, and when there is any benefit, he also likes to give out, such as giving Tian Jianxiu the qualification to lead the army alone, and Tian Jianxiu is still grateful to Li Shichao.

In addition to this, the most important point is the position of Li Shichao, Li Zicheng's personal guard battalion commander, although there are only five or six hundred people under his hands, but the position is critical, this belongs to the emperor's personal army, and the position is comparable to the commander of the Jinyi Guard, or Li Chaomeng of Lantian.

And his position allows him not to mix with other forces, and at the same time not to snatch benefits from other forces.

As for what interests, of course, they are the displaced people, the displaced people are the most important interests of the wanderers, and the displaced people represent fresh soldiers, such as the eight or nine thousand people who died in the attack on Luoyang City today, which were lost by Li Guoying and Liu Zongmin's battalion, and the first to replenish the troops in Luoyang was these two teams, but the other teams also had losses, and they also wanted to give priority to replenishing the soldiers, so the scramble was inevitable.

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However, Li Shichao was the commander of the pro-battalion, and his soldiers were all selected by Li Zicheng from the best soldiers in each battalion, so he never robbed the soldiers from the camps, and there was no core conflict of interest if he did not rob each other of the soldiers.

A person who has no conflict of interest and is also the most trusted person by Li Zicheng, such a person, as long as he is not a bad brain, no one wants to offend him.

And this person has an easy-going personality, even without desire, smiling at people every day, how can you be bad with him, you can't be bad, this is a typical good old man, if anyone can even make such a person evil, then this person can't be better with anyone, this is what Li Zicheng said.

At the same time, we have everyone's consent, which is indeed the truth.

Li Shichao is always the most harmless existence in the camp of King Chuang.

Everyone sat down, the banquet began, everyone did not speak, began to eat meat, eat steamed buns, break the old rules of the king's camp, eat first, and then talk about things.

The big guys have been hungry for a day, and they are besieging the city and mobilizing, and they are not full, who has the heart to speak, so the big guys began to eat meat and buns, and after a few minutes, the big guys have eaten almost.

Li Zicheng took a sip of water and said, "Everyone, it's almost time for us to talk about the food, what do you think about attacking the city today?" ”

Li Zicheng's eyes looked at everyone, everyone put down the bowl quickly when they heard the words, Liu Zongmin was the first to speak: "I have been in Luoyang for the longest time, and I have hit Luoyang nine times today, through these nine times I have come to a conclusion, this Luoyang City is not as high as Ruyang, Xuzhou, these small cities, where the city wall is no more than two zhang high, our soldiers can quickly climb the city wall to seize the city." ”

"And the walls of those small cities are not thick, the city wall can be one zhang thick is not bad, our cannon bombarded him a few more times, and he can blast a gap in the wall, but Luoyang City is not, Luoyang City is at least four zhang high, and the city wall is not less than three zhang thick, our cannon bombards it, and can only make a pit in the city wall, our soldiers set up a ladder to go up the city wall, and they were beaten down halfway up."

"So I don't think it's a way to attack hard, other cities use human lives to fill in a number, but this Luoyang City doesn't know how many lives it takes to take this city, we have a total of 400,000 people, if they are all lost in this Luoyang, if the imperial army comes to suppress, we can't say that we have to hide in that ravine."

"So my advice is not to go hard."

Liu Zongmin finished speaking.

Li Zicheng nodded and looked at Li Guo.

Li Guo is also the main attacking party today, his opinion is very useful, Li Guo looked at Li Zicheng at this time and arched his hand and said: "King Chuang, today I attacked the city and found that the Luoyang wall is high, the city is thick, although Liu Zeqing can not be regarded as a generation of famous generals, but he can not be regarded as a mediocre talent, the defense is not leaky, we can't find his obvious mistakes, and he relies on the Luoyang city high, easy to defend and difficult to attack, to consume our army, our army is helpless against him, so I have two views, the first wants to capture Luoyang City, if there is no whimsy, can only rely on human lives to fill in, use human lives to lose the arrow in Liu Zeqing's hand, the gunpowder is empty, forcing him to fight with us with a white edge, we have a lot of people, we can finally take this city. ”

"But the problem is also as Brother Liu Zongmin said, we have all the people here, and when the imperial court sends the army again, we will be passive, so I don't recommend filling it with human lives."

Li Guo looked at Li Zicheng and said, Li Zicheng frowned slightly when he heard this, and then looked at the three middle-aged scribes sitting beside him, these three people were Li Zicheng's three major military divisions.

Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and Li Xin.

Li Zicheng turned his head to look at the three of them: "What do the three gentlemen have to teach us?" ”

Li Zicheng asked, Niu Jinxing, and Song Xiance all frowned, only Li Xin pondered for a while: "King Chuang, there is a plan, maybe you can try." ”