After this battle, while cleaning up the battlefield, they learned an important piece of news from their captives.

The reason why Zuo Liangyu pursued him fearlessly was probably because he received that the Ming court had sent the eunuch Lu Jiude, the eunuch Huang Degong, and the general Song Ji to lead the troops to Henan to support the suppression of bandits.

The officers and troops attacked this time, about 15,000 people, more than 4,000 foot soldiers were killed and wounded, 2,000 cavalry troops lost, and 2,000 escaped in the chaos. More than 2,000 prisoners were captured, countless weapons and 600 horses were captured, and the rest were evacuated with Luo Dai and Zuo Liangyu breaking through.

Calculating the losses of Gao Yingen's troops, Cai, Yan, and Wei rushed into battle in the mountain stream, although the momentum was sufficient, but the killing was too fierce, and they also encountered fierce resistance, and their own back injuries were also about 1,500 people, and the flank Cao Mang's troops fought hard, folded hundreds, and in the final charge, they folded another thousand, and even the wing of Luo Dai in the battle of the face saw that he could not withdraw in time and also folded hundreds.

According to statistics, after this battle, there are more than 4,000 left in the team of 8,000 people, of which nearly 1,000 are slightly injured, which is indeed not a big victory for them.

However, the two battalions of Hui and Left were different, and they suffered more than 1,000 injuries in each unit, and they were not injured or hurt. Even if Gao Yingen's department added Yang Kai's last tough attitude to the two thousand captives under his command, it was only barely on par with the other two teams.

Moreover, these prisoners who had just been admitted to the camp could not become a living combat force, and they were surrounded by Gao Yingen's people in the position of the Chinese army, and after Yang Kai truceed, he was taken down to treat his wounds, and he didn't say anything about it.

All in all, the casualties of the officers and soldiers were far heavier than theirs, and with the excellent results of this battle, Gao Yingen's troops had been completely integrated into this large army, and had gained enough credibility to raise the banner of the camp again.

After the battle, their three battalions did not stay long, packed up the booty, and after a brief count of the number of people, they quickly led the men down to the south at dusk, looking for the convergence of the eyes of Geri.

It's just that this time they marched again, it was completely different from when they were pursued by the official army before, or on the way to the two cities of Yanling and Fugou, as if they were people in two worlds.

The four battalions of thieves rushed to the boundary of Yuzhou at dusk the next day to complete the meeting again, and after a short meeting, Lao Huihui did not have any thoughts about the two cities of Yuzhou and Xuchang, nor did he linger in the slightest.

The cautious and cunning mind steadily controlled his thoughts, and he knew very well that he had already gained enough benefits from going to Kaifeng this time, and as long as they did not suffer losses in the future, they would have a broader world in the future, and they were not in a hurry at this time.

In the end, only a team of 100 households was left to clean up the traces of their march, and ordered the army to march downstream along Yingshui and go straight to the direction of Yuncheng.

Yuncheng borders Ruyang and Runing, and can go straight into the belly of the two provinces to the south, peeking into the two provinces of Nanzhili and Huguang, and more importantly, at this moment, the eight kings, Cao Cao and others are also active in the eastern part of Hehen Province.

After a series of great victories, Lao Huihui set the repair place in such a strategic location, of course, not entirely for the sake of repair, he came up with the idea of ordering thieves from all sides to gather in Yuncheng to renegotiate the next uprising.

When King Chuang was still there, he didn't need to worry about these things, but now that King Chuang is gone, they have achieved such a gratifying result, as the mastermind of the thief camp, he needs to do these things.

Not only to maintain the morale of the rebel army, but more importantly, to carefully consider the two questions that Yang Kai posed to him—strategic direction and political goals.

In the face of these two unfamiliar words, he was a little confused about the specific analysis, but the general meaning, he could understand, that is, he knew what they were going to do next and what they wanted to achieve in the end.

If not, it would be like marching all the way down the way, and Yang Kai put forward another point of view to him, all sides are fighting for war, and in the end they will only end up being broken by the officials and soldiers.

He agrees with that. Looking back at his various experiences in the uprising over the years, Lao Huihui can easily imagine that it seems that they have united against the official army, and nine times out of ten they have profited, while those who fought separately against the official army have almost all suffered defeats without exception.

Not to mention, it is as strong as King Chuang was also captured in the first battle of Heishuiyu, and they are the disaster brought about by fighting alone. The more they thought about it, the more they felt that it made sense, so they chose a position that was temporarily away from the war, wanting to take advantage of the opportunity that the Ming court had not fully reacted to complete this matter.

After all, once the imperial court learned of the misfortune they had committed in Zhongzhou, Emperor Chongzhen would be furious, and might even catch a glimpse of the Qing army, which was always threatened by the Great Wall, and concentrate all his forces to completely suppress their group of rebels who were called thieves in the troubled country.

After marching for several days and gathering the strength of four battalions, they easily took Yuncheng. Lao Hui thought of such an important matter, and when he saw that blood was not good, he gave an order to prohibit the indiscriminate killing of the inhabitants of the city, but no one refuted it, after all, everyone knew that the mastermind was heavy, and they had already looted enough resources in their hands.

The rebels who can eat and drink enough and can still share the surplus money in their hands are much kinder than the thieves who are unpredictable in life and death, running around, and unpredictable things tomorrow today.

After entering the city, the city was divided into four areas, southeast, northwest, and middle, and the camp headquarters sat in the center of the city.

Yang Kai was too deep due to the wound of the arrow in the shoulder, and during the march, he lacked good wound medicine, so he could only bandage it simply, and he had to move on horseback.

On the same day, in the last resolution, Yang Kai instead of discussing, submitted the impassioned "Heroic Order" that had been drafted upward, and then read it out in public, Lao Hui slapped the table, and the three palms applauded in unison, and the matter should be completely decided.

Ordered all parties to find someone to copy the article, and then lined up more than 20 small pipes, with heroic orders, to ride to the area infested by thieves from all sides, and then let people put the five-color flags of the four major battalions of Hui, Zuo, Ge and Chuang on the city wall.

Under the "care and care" of everyone, Yang Kai finally stole half a day of leisure and walked out of the encroaching official office of Lao Huihui.

But another man came waiting for him outside the door.

Seeing him come out, he hurriedly greeted him, didn't say anything but wanted to hold Yang Kai, but was stopped by the latter reaching out. This person was Yan Hou, Yang Kai saw his expression, and knew that he had something in his heart, so he asked directly:

"Yan Baihu has something to do with me?"

He made meritorious achievements in the first battle of Shanshan, and has been promoted from the commander of ten to one hundred households, and he is still under the command of Han Bin.

Yan Hou's body paused obviously, but looking at Yang Kai's face and seeing that he was expressionless, he couldn't guess Yang Kai's thoughts, so he simply didn't hide it, and said, "The prisoners accepted on the battlefield, I don't know what to do with them?" ”

After entering the city, those captives were imprisoned in a few places by Gao Yingen, after all, it was Yang Kai who personally protected him, and he still gave some face, and did not use a large butcher's knife.

Although Yan Hou has now completely become a thief, he has also experienced those dark days, he feels deep sympathy, and has always been worried, but today he finally didn't hold back, gritted his teeth and came to Yang Kai.

"If you have an idea, you might as well say it together, and when you get along recently, you should know that I am not a person who can't listen to other people's plans." Yang Kai saw that he looked unsatisfied, but he didn't rush to give an answer.

"After thinking about it, the subordinates did think of a way, which was seventy or eighty percent sure that they could be loyal to the family, but this plan was difficult to achieve by only one person, and the head of the family also needed to come forward in person as a guarantee."

What Yan Hou thought in his heart was not the benevolence of the Sacred Heart, and now he probably had the same idea as Chen Yuzhu at the beginning, anyway, he has become a thief, so it is better to pull more people into the tiger's den. I felt a little comforted in my heart, and I also felt that these people could be used by them.

"Tell me what you think." Yang Kai gave him a soft smile and walked forward.

Yanhou was overjoyed when he heard this, and quickly followed his pace, and said in a loud voice: "We ...... like this"

The two walked side by side along the street, and at the end of the row of streets, Yang Kai finished listening to Yan Hou's plan, and changed his opinion in his heart about this officer and army commander who met for the first time and was still a dead or alive commander, nodded appreciatively, and said:

"I can take these people out of the city when I lead the troops out of the city and reward the generals, and if you can do this, how about forming a thousand-man team of these captives, and you will have a thousand households?"

How could Yan Hou have thought that Yang Kai was not only willing to listen to his own opinions and support his actions, but also to make such an amazing decision, you must know that people like Han Bin and Cao Mang, Cai Dan is a thousand households, what kind of identity is he, what kind of identity he has never dared to think of happening to his own body, and suddenly his heart has been completely convinced, his body follows the activities in his heart, and he wants to kneel down on one knee when he is on the street, Yang Kai subconsciously wants to help him up, but he forgets the pain on his shoulder, and as soon as he helps his arm, he reflexively let out a painful snort.

"The wound on the shoulder of the boss is still not healing?" Yan Hou immediately stood up straight and bit back to hold Yang Kai.

Yang Kai gently rubbed his shoulders a few times and said, "It's okay, it's just that it's still a little swollen, I've been busy with various things, and I don't have good medicine for injuries, so I can get better." ”

Yan Hou was full of doubts in his heart, and asked: "Why, the lady who gave the plate to the head of the house at the beginning, and his subordinates thought that the master threw it away after finishing it on the road."

But these days after entering the city, I saw her again, following a group of women, children, the old and weak, and bandaging the wounds of many disabled brothers in the camp. ”

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Yang Kai frowned at him, completely unaware of what he was talking about.