In fact, Li Yan's guess was right, Li Xianfeng now has more than 20,000 people in his hands, and the guerrilla Gao Qian is the only one who can really be called a fight, and there are only 3,000 soldiers.

Of course, 3,000 soldiers are enough for him to suppress the situation in Henan, even if it is a field battle with Li Zicheng, it is not necessarily impossible to win.

But now the situation in Henan is indeed extremely urgent, peasant uprisings are surging everywhere, Li Xianfeng is also exhausted, and he has to put out fires everywhere, so it is naturally difficult to concentrate his forces to deal with Li Chuang, and Li Zicheng entered Shaanxi from Nanyang to the west to confuse the officials and troops, and this time he broke into Nanyang Xichuan, all parties were unexpected, and it was difficult to form an effective blocking trend.

And Li Yan wants this opportunity.

Yidougu and the crockpot were greatly embarrassed when they heard this, Li Yan actually sarcastically ridiculed that their 100,000 army could not deal with Li Xianfeng, Yidougu had always been short-tempered, and immediately took out the saber on his waist, waved it in the air and scolded: "You are a dog-day scholar, what do you know about military affairs?" Could it be that King Chuang's subordinates are all such puffing lips and tongue-tricksters? ”

Although the crockpot was not so excited, he also pressed the handle of the knife with his hand and said with a calm face: "King Chuang, our brothers have admired your name for a long time, and we have come to join forces, but we are not here to find someone uncomfortable!" ”

At this time, Li Zicheng also had to express his position, he raised his hands to stop the words of Yidougu and the clay pot, and then said with a smile: "The two leaders are both downright men, and I have always admired them very much, but now that they are joint ventures, we have to consider the future of the two families, Li Dujian is a rare witty person among our army, although the words are not listening, but the truth is very useful, if you really want to make a situation in Henan, how can you not enter good words?" ”

Li Zicheng was obviously on Li Yan's side, and the generals in the military tent also pressed the handle of their knives to secretly guard themselves, especially Liu Zongmin's tiger eyes were round, staring vigilantly at Yidougu, for fear that he would suddenly burst out.

The crockpot heard Li Zicheng's intention to protect himself, and he also knew that if he clashed now, he would not be able to pick up the cheap, so he glanced at Yidougu and motioned for him to put away his blade.

Yidougu is naturally not a fool, and he can't be the leader of a party even if he is a fool, so he can only put the knife back in a stupid manner, but he still said unconvinced: "King Chuang knows that our brothers are not unreasonable people, nor are they reckless men who don't accept advice, the two families are working together to achieve great things, and they should brainstorm together, but this is all demeaning to us, if you can't say one, two, three, how can you convince your brothers?" ”

Li Zicheng nodded, expressing his understanding of Yidougu, and then turned his head to signal to Li Yan and asked him to continue.

Li Yan then arched his hand and said: "The two leaders are calm and impatient, although Yan has inappropriate words, but what he said is for the sake of the two major affairs, and he has no intention of despising the two leaders." ”

Yidougu snorted coldly, obviously not believing what Li Yan said, but only thinking that he broke into the camp and deliberately humiliated them.

Li Yan didn't care, but said unhurriedly: "The two leaders have a lot of soldiers and horses, but they are all outcasts, such an army can fight a good battle, if you encounter a strong army of the imperial court, it will collapse at the touch of a button, the soldiers are expensive but not expensive, the soldiers are more than 50,000, the scheduling, logistics, camping, command, everything is learning, even if it is my family's king, it can't be said to be perfect, can the two leaders be confident that they can do it?" ”

Although Itogu and Crockpot have a reckless personality, they are also self-aware, the two have never read a book, let alone any military command ability, and their achievements are not so much dependent on the military, but on personality charm and organizational ability, so although Wen Yan is unhappy, he can only admit it silently.

Li Yan saw that the two of them did not refute, knowing that they recognized his words, so he said slowly: "Li Xianfeng's department is only more than 3,000 capable fighters, all elite soldiers, daily food and grass supply, armor and equipment, and even artillery, firearms, strong bows, hard crossbows, war horses and forage, can not be counted, and now that Henan is tired, how can there be so many resources to supply him to be my enemy?" ”

"So I conclude that his elite soldiers will not exceed three thousand, roughly the same as ours!" Li Yan said categorically.

"That being said, but Luoyang is a strong city, and there are guards distributed in all directions, and they can rush to help at any time, although the officers and soldiers of the imperial court are weak, but there is no problem in defending the city, once Luoyang is delayed for a long time, the reinforcements from all sides will inevitably gather, and when the time comes, I am only afraid of catching turtles in the urn." Tian Jianxiu frowned and expressed his worries.

Li Yan nodded, expressing his agreement with Tian Jianxiu's worries, and then changed the conversation and said, "So, we can't take Luoyang first!" Instead, it should sweep the periphery first, firstly, so that Li Xianfeng could not understand the intentions of our army and scattered the defenses in Luoyang, and secondly, it should make the surrounding areas of Luoyang empty, and then fight Luoyang again, it will be isolated and helpless, and a battle can be played! ”

Yidougu took the lead in objecting: "It's just a scholar's opinion, could it be that the soldiers and horses of Luoyang and Kaifeng watched us conquer the city?" We have been in Henan for a long time, how can Chen Yongfu in Kaifeng and Wang Shaoyu in Luoyang be good for each other? ”

Hearing this, Li Zicheng also nodded in agreement with Yidougu's words, and asked: "Although the Ming Court is weak, as long as it is a person who knows the army, it is impossible to allow Luoyang to become a lonely city. ”

"But there is someone in Luoyang, and the Ming army will definitely not risk going out of the city to fight." Li Yan pointed to Luoyang and said with a blazing gaze.

"Who?"

"Blessed King!" Li Yan said firmly.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, trapping the feudal domain was not a trivial matter, Yang Sichang died because of the fear of trapping the domain, if the local officials let the local feudal king be killed or fall into the hands of the enemy, according to Chongzhen's character, if you don't Ling Chi, it is all extrajudicial grace.

Fu Fan is especially different, King Fu was originally Wanli's beloved son, and he is Chongzhen's uncle, the relationship is quite unusual, where do the defenders of Luoyang dare to venture out of the city? In case the whole army is wiped out and the thieves take the opportunity to seize Luoyang City, everyone should stop playing and hang themselves.

As for Kaifeng, it was the fief of the King of Zhou, and the King of Zhou was a vassal set up when he was Taizu, and it was also a very important vassal king, and the soldiers and horses of Kaifeng naturally did not dare to take such a risk to take the possibility of trapping the domain.

As soon as Li Yan said the word "Fu Wang", everyone already knew what it meant, and they all nodded, they actually forgot this stubble, Fu Wang Ye is their talisman, as long as Fu Wang Ye is there, it is impossible for the Ming army in Luoyang to take the initiative to go out of the city to provoke.

Li Zicheng nodded with satisfaction, and then asked, "Then according to the meaning of the capital eunuch, how should we play next?" ”

"Compared with the Ming army, the advantage of our army lies in mobility." Li Yan opened his mouth and said.

"What is maneuvering?" This is a novel term, and Li Zicheng couldn't help but wonder.

"It's speed, after Juntian is exempted, the people love me, and the people of the countryside are all looking forward to breaking the king, so we should go across the mountains, so that the Ming army can not capture our marching route, so that they can not know what I am attacking, and they will not know what I am defending!" Li Yan gestured with his finger on the map.

"Go north along the Junshui, cross the West Kip Pass, turn over the Bear's Ears Mountain, bypass Luyang Pass, go straight to Ruzhou, first turn the world upside down in Ruzhou, let Li Xianfeng think that our goal is not Luoyang, and then find an opportunity to enter Henan Mansion, sweep Yongning, Yanshi, Lingbao, Xin'an, Baofeng and other places, and completely turn Luoyang into a lonely city, and then cut off its grain and grass reinforcements, which is as easy as a snap!" Li Yan's cold eyes stared at the small dot on the map that represented Luoyang, and said slowly.

Gu Junen nodded frequently when he heard this: "This method is very good, not only can it sweep the peripheral Ming military prefectures and counties, but also force the Ming army to fight with us in the field, so that Li Xianfeng is in a dilemma. ”

Since ancient times, Li Zicheng has never heard of a person who can win the world with a rogue and a rogue army, and the lack of a logistics base has always made it difficult for him to organize a large-scale elite strategic decisive battle with the imperial court.

And now, everyone can see the situation in Henan very clearly, the whole Henan is only one fire away from being able to burn, and Li Zicheng wants to act as this flame.

The military discussion ended with the strong support of Li Yan and Gu Junen, and Li Zicheng was deeply convinced of Li Yan's analysis, and even if he made a decision to fight according to Li Yan's ideas.

Of course, there are some generals who have doubts, thinking that it is too risky, but now the army is still in a state of rope, although they disagree with it in their hearts, but everyone still goes to prepare separately.

As soon as the military discussion was over, he convened several more meetings of the generals and assigned the tasks to the rear battalion to collect the ships, the scouts to take the lead in detecting the enemy's situation, and the rest of the generals to reorganize the soldiers and prepare to set off at any time.

With the expansion of the number of people, the overall management difficulty of the army is also rising exponentially, fortunately, there is also Gu Junen, who is good at military strategy, can share the role, otherwise Li Zicheng is afraid that he will die of exhaustion in this cumbersome management.

Under the development of the growing army, Li Zicheng has attracted Li Yan's attention again, Li Yan has proven his ability to him countless times, it can be said that so far, the development of the camp is almost the original Li Yan style, Li Zicheng can also be called obedient to Li Yan.

Although Li Yan's personality is a little arrogant, but in the end, he is a talent, why should he be in the back camp? Or call him back to continue serving as a member of the army? He also took charge of the affairs of the rear camp, after all, those who can work harder.

Of course, thinking about it, Li Zicheng still consulted Gu Junen, and Gu Junen opposed Li Zicheng's transfer of Li Yan back to join the army, the reason is also very simple, Li Yan did not stay long in the rear camp, and when he was transferred back at this time, the generals of the front camp were only afraid that they would not be convinced, and they might cause some trouble.

After Li Yan went to the rear camp, the friction with the generals in the front camp obviously became smaller, Li Zijing was a gentle man again, Li Yan did a lot of chicken flying and dog jumping in the back camp, he didn't say any nonsense, and Liu Zongmin and these people also stopped for the time being.

Therefore, Gu Junen thinks that it is better to let Li Yan sharpen his temperament in the back camp, if the edges and corners are too sharp, there will be no good end sooner or later, Gu Junen does not want to see Li Yan end up with a not very good ending.

Although Li Zicheng still had doubts, Gu Junen's words completely made Li Zicheng temporarily put aside the idea of reviving Li Yan: "Li Yan is only twenty years old, he is still young, if King Chuang wants to sharpen his temper, there is an opportunity, if he does not sharpen his temperament at this time, wouldn't it be a pity to be a young talent in the future?"

This sentence made Li Zicheng feel very reasonable, Li Yan was only twenty years old, what was the panic? If you want to use it in the future, there is an opportunity, and you should sharpen your temperament, so that it is easy to use.

Of course, this is just Li Zicheng's current thoughts, because soon, Li Yan is going to give Li Zicheng a whole ruthless job, and it is also this ruthless work that makes Li Zicheng dispel the idea of letting Li Yan rise to join the army.

During this time, Li Yan was busy with military affairs, and he handed over the management of the rear camp to Li Zijing.

Li Zijing did not make any major mistakes, but this person's character is obviously a big problem, he is too benevolent and weak, and the rear camp quickly became corrupt under his control, if other chief officials encounter corruption among their subordinates, then they should be punished to some extent.

Liu Zongmin's nephew Liu Xian has violated the law and discipline in the rear camp many times, not to mention the robbery of people's daughters, and wantonly abused his power to change the military food quota.

But now that Yidougu and Clay Jar are jointly operated with Li Zicheng, the logistics have also been integrated immediately, and at this time, Liu Xian has been implicated in it......