The sneak attack on the grain transport team was only the beginning of Li Zicheng's temptation, and after Luo Rucai's failure in this operation, Li Zicheng immediately sent Liu Zongmin, Li Guo, and Tian Wenxiu to lead the men and horses of the headquarters to start a tentative small-scale attack on Sun Chuanting's department.

As a result, he was naturally repelled by Sun Chuanting with all his might.

And Sun Chuanting's radical behavior gave Li Zicheng a lot of confidence, you must know that Sun Chuanting didn't care about this kind of small-scale provocation before, but this time, Sun Chuanting seemed to have been stepped on by the tail, and his behavior was very radical.

This made Li Zicheng see Sun Chuanting's weakness, if he was not weak, why not.

As for Sun Chuanting, at this time, he was indeed weak-hearted, not only weak-hearted, but even a little anxious, for no other reason, two points, the first Chongzhen had already issued five holy decrees in a row to urge Sun Chuanting to attack Luoyang quickly and recover the lost territory.

And one order was more urgent than the other, the first one was polite, but the fifth letter almost pointed at his nose and cursed Sun Chuanting for being afraid of battle, so that he hurriedly sent troops.

This feeling reminded Sun Chuanting of the old things of the previous dynasty, twelve gold medals urged Yue Fei, and now Chongzhen has given him the fifth holy decree, the next one, it is estimated that Chongzhen will really scold, and even asked himself if he has not been able to send troops for a long time, is he afraid of losing his life in defeat, or has other thoughts, and wants to be a thief.

Such an order was predictable, and Sun Chuanting would not allow such an order to be sent to him, because it would be the greatest insult to himself.

But if he really wants to fight, Sun Chuanting can't stand it, the reason is very simple, what he can command now is the Qin army of more than 10,000 people under his command, and the hundreds of thousands of Ming troops tangled on the battlefield in Henan belong to the leaders of the major armies, such as Yang Sichang's legacy faction, a general army led by He Renlong, and Sun Chuanting is not bird at all.

finally waited for Zuo Liangyu to enter Henan, Sun Chuanting immediately sent someone to Zuo Liangyu to discuss Henan's military affairs, but Zuo Liangyu thought of himself as a snake on the one hand, and on the other hand, he quietly approached the army to the southeast, which was obviously preparing to escape to the southeast with the help of Henan's springboard.

As for some people saying that Zuo Liangyu is not afraid of Chongzhen cleaning him up if he does this, to be honest, Zuo Liangyu is really not afraid now, as long as it is not a real rebellion, Chongzhen has no air control over him?

So Zuo Liangyu has learned a truth over the years, that is, to stabilize the waves, to be a shrinking turtle, just a shrinking turtle, face or something, it doesn't matter, at this time of chaos in the world, what face is rubbish, the most important thing is strength, the strength of the world.

Zuo Liangyu wanted to divide the world for a day or two, he had been waiting for this goal for a long time, if it wasn't for being controlled by Li Chaosheng in Lantian, he might have formed a secession regime in the local area at this time.

It's not so much that he looked at Lantian but that Lantian hindered his development, and now that he is liberated, he has run out of Lantian, and he is naturally excited to hurry up to Jiangnan, the territory he has long been optimistic about.

It's a pity that he was transferred to the Henan battlefield, but it doesn't matter, it's just that he continues to accumulate strength.

And in the past few years, I haven't learned anything, at least my temper has improved, and I am really used to being a little bit of a person in Lantian, so when Sun Chuanting came to him to discuss the military affairs in Henan, he agreed, but he secretly led the troops to escape, and when He Renlong and other large and small soldiers came to him to isolate Sun Chuanting, he was also full of promises.

And in fact, he doesn't help anyone, he doesn't care about the battlefield in Henan, and he can even say what the future of the Ming Dynasty is, he doesn't care, what he cares about is his own glory and wealth.

Therefore, Zuo Liangyu was a passer-by on the battlefield in Henan, and Sun Chuanting couldn't count on it at all.

Such a situation has become a situation in which Sun Chuanting is isolated and helpless, and on the other hand, Li Zicheng is also a smart person, and under the advice of the three major strategists under his command, he made a very smart choice, that is, to give up He Renlong and other Ming soldiers, and jointly attack Sun Chuanting.

Niu Jinxing analyzed: "Now the army that can be fought in the entire Henan battlefield, that is, Sun Chuanting's Qin army, especially the old Qin camp under Sun, is the elite of the elite, if this army can be killed, then Henan is a plate of scattered sand, and when the time comes, the king will be trapped and ascended to heaven, and this big tomorrow will be at your disposal." ”

"And Sun Chuanting is Lu Xiangsheng's lineage, He Renlong and other large and small army leaders, all of them were Yang Sichang's line, Yang Sichang and Lu Xiangsheng's battle back then can be said to be quite fierce, resulting in serious internal differentiation in the Ming Dynasty, and this is our opportunity, now we have an army of 400,000 in Luoyang City, and the anti-kings from all over the country are also marching to Henan one after another, and there are twelve teams of about 70,000 or 80,000 horses entering Henan, so many people and horses, we have a full-scale war with the Ming Dynasty, and the outcome is unknown."

"But if King Chuang only fights Sun Chuanting, 400,000 to 10,000, even if his firearms are strong, no matter how elite the army is, they can be taken down, and if Sun Chuanting is defeated, we can incorporate Sun Chuanting's old Qin battalion, and with the old Qin battalion, we can build our own powerful firearms army on this basis, even if we start a war with Lantian one day, we will not necessarily lose!"

After listening to Niu Jinxing's strategy, Li Zicheng readily agreed, so on September 20, he launched an all-out attack on Sun Chuanting's department.

After Sun Chuanting's department entered Henan, he has been stationed in Xin'an County, and Li Zicheng is worthy of a generation of heroes, and when he started to do things, he made a big deal and opened an army of 200,000 to attack Xin'an County on the same day.

Xin'an County was in an emergency, and Sun Chuanting personally climbed the city tower to fight against the thieves, and for a time the entire Xin'an County was in a hell of flesh and blood.

After repelling Li Zicheng's eighth attack, Sun Chuanting's Qin army had already suffered more than half of the casualties, except for the old Qin battalion, which had slightly fewer deaths, only more than 700 people died, and the basic casualties of the new battalion formed by Sun Chuanting from Hubei exceeded seventy percent, and for a time the entire Xin'an county was filled with a layer of dead air.

Even if the elite of the elite is besieged by an army of 200,000, I am afraid that they will fall into deep despair.

However, in this despair, a team of black-clothed people stood under Xin'an County and looked at Li Zicheng's army who was receding like a tide in the distance and said, "How many times has this been?" ”

A young man who was a little thin but had cold eyes at the head asked, and the person on the side who heard this said: "Minister, it's the eighth time." ”

"Tiger wolf, I'm Qin Jun, but this kind of resistance is meaningless, right, what about Li Dewei?"

Hearing this, he said: "Li Dewei and Sun Chuanting went to the city wall, he said that although he is from Lantian, he has been with Sun Chuanting for so many years, and he still admires him, so he doesn't want Sun Chuanting to have anything to do, so he wants to accompany him and protect Sun Chuanting." ”

Shi Xiaolei heard this: "Sun Chuanting is indeed a respectable person, but unfortunately he is too stubborn, by the way, how much gunpowder is there in Sun Chuanting's camp?" ”

"Minister Qiyu, it's already gone, and the next time Li Zicheng comes to attack, he can only rely on hand-to-hand combat!"

"Hand-to-hand combat, this casualty is too heavy to continue fighting, there is no need for this Xin'an County to guard, by the way, where is our cavalry regiment?"

The humanitarian of the investigation department on the side: "I have passed Yima County, and I can go to Xin'an County before dark." ”

"Well, notify them, let them hurry up, I'm afraid that Sun Chuanting won't be able to hold on, and inform Lao Qin Ying, don't do anything, let them go home with us."

"Yes, I will inform Li Dewei."

The investigation department on the side said, Shi Xiaolei nodded, looked at the sun in the sky, and looked at Li Zicheng's army in the distance, Li Zicheng's rogue army is like a tide, each time it is more powerful than the other, the eighth time is still like this, the ninth time is afraid that it will be devastating, thinking of this Shi Xiaolei sighed, I hope Sun Chuanting will not be so pedantic, and pull Qin Jun to accompany the funeral.

At this time, under the city wall, Sun Chuanting glanced at the black-clothed people standing on the city wall, these people he knew about the Lantian Investigation Department, the Investigation Department came to Xin'an not to be a secret operation, but to be above board, they had seen Sun Chuanting when they came, and they had a certain degree of military intelligence sharing with Sun Chuanting.

Among them, Li Zicheng's military intelligence, as well as the intelligence that the Henan tribes turned a blind eye to Sun Chuanting's department, and Sun Chuanting also acquiesced to their existence, because it would not work if he did not acquiesce, Lao Qin Ying was the person from Lantian in the final analysis, and he only used it on his behalf, but now that the army is disheartened, Sun Chuanting sighed and asked the guards behind him: "What are the losses in this battle?" ”

Hearing this, the guards were silent for a long time and said, "The old Qin battalion has seventy-two casualties, and the new battalion has eight hundred and sixty-seven casualties!" ”

Sun Chuanting's expression darkened when he heard this: "How many people are there in the old Qin camp?" ”

The guard said, "There are more than 4,500 people. ”

"Where's the boot camp?"

"Less than three thousand, and most of them are wounded soldiers!"

Sun Chuanting's expression changed when he heard this, and then he sighed and said: "There are 14,752 people, and now there are only about 7,000 people left, and more than half of the casualties are injured. ”

"How much gunpowder is there now?"

Sun Chuanting asked again, and the guard said: "It's basically used up, and the next time the thieves attack, I'm afraid it's going to be all white-knuckle battles." ”

Sun Chuanting clenched his fists when he heard this, followed by the guards and said, "How is the military heart?" ”

The guard said with a stunned expression: "They are all willing to fight to the death for the governor!" ”

Hearing this, Li Dewei, who was following Sun Chuanting, snorted disdainfully, and when he heard this, the guards shouted angrily: "Li Shoubei, I said that the soldiers are willing to die for the governor, is it wrong?" Are you afraid? ”

Li Dewei glanced at the guards when he heard this, then walked over with a cold snort, pushed the guards away and said: "Recruit egg, who gave you the courage to talk to Lao Tzu like this, when Lao Tzu beat Jiannu, you were still alive in the mud, get out of the way." ”

"You!"

Waves!

The guards were still not convinced, and just as they wanted to speak, the guards behind Li Dewei had already pulled out their knives.

The guard trembled in fright, and almost fell to his knees.

"Li Shoubei can't help but force the palace? Or are you going to ask for a reward from your county with the head of a certain family? ”

Hearing this, Li Dewei said with a dark face: "Isn't Master Sun afraid that talking like this will chill our old Qin Ying's heart?" ”

Sun Chuanting was silent when he heard this, and Li Dewei said: "Lord Sun, let's ask ourselves, since the establishment of our old Qin camp, we have followed you from Shaanxi to Hubei, Shandong Province, and the border of the town, but once we retreated, did our old Qin camp do something sorry for the adult, do you have no shame in your heart when you say this?" ”

Sun Chuanting's brows furrowed when he heard this, and Sun Chuanting, who was on the side, said with another personal guard: "You are all allowed and supported by your county honor, if you don't have your county honor, how can you do this?" ”

"Hehe, that's right, we have relied on the county to support us today, but what about you, you Qinggao don't use the food supported by our county, you Qinggao don't use the weapons supported by our county, you Qinggao don't use the silver issued by our county, eat our county, drink our county, spend our county, and in the end complain about our county, what are you!"

Li Dewei pointed to the nose of Sun Chuanting's guards and scolded, the scolded guards couldn't say a word, there was nothing wrong with what Li Dewei said, a large part of his food and clothing was indeed provided by Lantian, which Sun Chuanting couldn't say.

The premise of a strong army is to have sufficient logistics supplies, and if the logistics point to the Ming Dynasty, you will starve to death, so Li Chaosheng will give them an extra military supply in order to let these old Qin camp people who have paid silently eat and drink well, of course, Sun Chuanting will naturally have to touch a little bit of this supply.

At this time, Li Dewei pointed his nose and scolded him, everyone present was silent, Sun Chuanting looked left and right and said: "Li Dewei, it's time to do it, what do you want to do when you jump out?" ”

Li Dewei heard this and said: "Lord Sun, I don't want to say anything about demolishing the stage, but there are some things I want to talk to my lord, my lord, now let's put aside the topic of Lantian and don't talk about any Lantian affairs, only talk about the current battlefield, I ask my lord, is there only my Qin army in Henan!" ”

Sun Chuanting seemed to understand what Li Dewei was going to say, and sighed and said: "There are 230,000 soldiers and horses in Daming Henan. ”

"Then let me ask my lord, Li Zicheng's 200,000 people attacked my Qin army, can there be a rescue?"

"Nope."

"Then I'll ask your lord again, will there be reinforcements in our next death battle!"

"No!"

"Okay, my lord, I'm done."

Sun Chuanting looked at Li Dewei and said, "Then tell your conclusions, right?" ”

Li Dewei said: "The Ming army, the mountain is self-reliant, the adult is called the Henan Governor, but in fact, no one listens, our Qin army soldiers are brought out by the adult, we are not afraid of death, and we are also willing to sacrifice our lives for the country, but is this country worth it?" ”

"Let's attract the firepower of the thieves here, you see what those military leaders in Henan are doing, Mingzhe protects himself, and tries to stand on his own, only our Qin army is guarding this Xin'an County and is struggling to support, my lord, for what, let's defend here, just to attract firepower to these moths for them?"

"This was the case in Shandong back then, and it is like this now, aren't our Qin army people? The adults just couldn't bear it, watching the Qin army die here and extinguish the fire? My lord, look at these soldiers who have followed you all the way, do you want them to be buried here with you? ”

Li Dewei asked sharply at Sun Chuanting.