Li Zicheng did not stay long after capturing Baofeng, and in less than six days before and after, he ordered people to destroy the city wall of Baofeng and left.

It is worth mentioning that because the army in Baofeng is killing corrupt officials and exterminating local ruffians and hooligans, the people of Baofeng actually have a good impression of these "rogues", and when the army is about to leave, the people actually keep it.

Such a situation can also be said to be a microcosm of the entire Henan situation.

It wasn't until Li Zicheng destroyed the Baofeng city wall and led the army to continue to advance towards the next goal that Li Xianfeng had just received information about the fall of Lushan, and one Lushan was obviously not enough for Li Xianfeng to give up the low-hanging fruit in the north, so he simply suppressed it and ignored it, planning to wait until the northern rebel army was pacified and then wave his army to destroy Li Chuang.

After all, according to Li Xianfeng's idea, Baofeng, Jiaxian, Yiyang and these counties have soldiers and horses stationed, although the number is not large, but the army as a rogue lacks siege weapons, and it is not so easy to get it, in fact, until now Li Xianfeng has not attached importance to Li Zicheng, and even Li Zicheng's strategic goals have not been clarified.

However, facts have proved that Li Xianfeng obviously overestimated the strength of the Ming army and greatly underestimated the combat effectiveness and mobility of Li Zicheng's troops.

At the beginning of December, Lushan was broken, but Baofeng was broken on the 10th, that is, Baofeng had a capable general like Guo Junzhen to be able to resist a little, which allowed Baofeng to hold on for a while, but other places in Henan did not have such good luck.

Only three days after the evacuation of Baofeng, Li Zicheng sent troops to Jiaxian, and Luo Rusong, the commander of Jiaxian County, saw that the army was strong, and he was so frightened that he could not possess his body, and fled for his life outside the city overnight.

Unexpectedly, before the people ran far, they were chased by the cavalry led by Liu Zongmin, and pursued all the way, and before they ran out of Jiaxian, they were defeated by the breaking army, beheading more than 70 people, and Luo Rusong was also beheaded by Liu Zongmin to repay the merits.

Li Zicheng directly hung Luo Rusong's head on the bamboo pole and showed it to the people of Jiaxian, and immediately raised the county in an uproar, and the county Haoqiang took the initiative to open the city gate and fled south in order to avoid being killed.

It didn't cost even a day to conquer Jiaxian, Li Zicheng followed Niu Jinxing's strategy, and inspected hundreds of officials in Jiaxian, and all those who committed adultery and corruption were all sent to the city gate to be beheaded.

The black humor is that Li Zicheng actually put Zhu Yuanzhang's "Great Message" out and sentenced the officials of the Ming Dynasty to the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

In the end, even Li Yan couldn't stand it anymore, and joined hands with Gu Junen to write to Li Zicheng to request that lower-grade officials and those officials with good reputations be pardoned and incorporated into the army, so that Jiaxian County would not have no officials left.

Of course, that's it, Li Zicheng also killed more than 30 officials in Jiaxian, killing the entire Henan officialdom in a panic, for the people, according to Niu Jinxing said, the confiscated officials' property, cloth and grain were all distributed, and for a while, the people of Jiaxian County shouted long live, which greatly enhanced the reputation of the army.

Li Zicheng's stay in Jiaxian was even shorter, and he only spent one day opening warehouses to release grain, distributing property, collecting captured Ming troops, and recruiting some young people, and then he didn't even have time to destroy the city, so he evacuated overnight and went straight to Yiyang.

From Jiaxian to Yiyang, there is Ruzhou City on the way, but the Ruzhou defenders are afraid of Li Zicheng's prestige, and they actually sit in the city to defend themselves, refusing to leave the city to block the enemy, so cowardly behavior greatly boosts the morale of the breaking army.

Li Zicheng ordered Niu Jinxing to write two big characters on the bamboo plaque, "free to send", and put them directly under the city of Ruzhou, making the Ruzhou officials ridiculed and embarrassed.

Don't fight Ruzhou because the city of Ruzhou is tall, and it is not cost-effective to really fight because the consumption is too big, and secondly, the main strategic target of the army is Luoyang, and the defenders of Ruzhou cannot go out of the city to harass him, so why worry about him?

In fact, according to Li Yan and Gu Junen's ideas, Ruzhou should still be attacked, after all, it is not good to bet on whether the Ming army will go out of the city at a critical moment, but Niu Jinxing insisted that it should be raided first to plunder the small county, isolate the main city, and then attack the main city, and Niu Jinxing himself is also planning to do both, if the Ruzhou defenders go out of the city, then they will directly eat the Ming army in Ruzhou in the field battle.

It's a pity that Ruzhou finally chose to watch from the wall.

Ruzhou didn't dare to fight, the rest of the things were easy to do, Li Zicheng arrived in Yiyang in two days, saluted first and then soldiers, sent people to Yiyang to persuade him to surrender, Yiyang County ordered stern refusal, after all, Baofeng and Jiaxian Zhuyu were in front, and it was impossible for him to surrender.

Yiyang refused to surrender, and Li Zicheng was not polite, and immediately ordered Tian Jianxiu to lead the army to attack the city Yiyang was not a strong city, and the army only spent one morning to attack the head of Yiyang's city and kill the generals defending the city.

Yiyang County ordered that he knew that the city would die, so he hanged himself in the official office, and the army immediately conquered Yiyang, and after breaking Yiyang, the army opened a warehouse to release grain, killed officials and helped the people, and immediately destroyed the city wall of Yiyang.

Yiyang was beaten, and the Ruzhou defenders finally made some moves, after all, if they really didn't save them when they died, they couldn't explain to Li Xianfeng, so the Ruzhou prefect still sent hundreds of people to mean that they were slower than turtles, just thinking that they would not save Yiyang if they wanted to die.

As soon as the news of the fall of Yiyang came out, the defenders of Ruzhou hurriedly retreated, but unfortunately they were still caught up by Liu Zongmin and Li Shuangxi's cavalry, and they were defeated, killing more than 300 people, which was considered to have completely disabled the Ming army in Ruzhou.

After eliminating the living force of the Ming army in Ruzhou, Li Zicheng did not directly attack Ruzhou City, Ruzhou was almost swept by the breaking army, and only the lonely Ruzhou City was left with no climate, Li Zicheng didn't bother to care about them, and rushed directly into the territory of Henan Mansion and went straight to Yiyang.

Tang Qitai, the magistrate of Yiyang, is an upright official, but it is a pity that in order to shirk the responsibility, the Ruzhou side actually held down the military situation and did not report it, and when Li Zicheng's army arrived in Yiyang, Tang Qitai woke up like a dream, but unfortunately it was too late.

The city gate of Yiyang was raided by the cavalry of the invading army before it could be closed, and the city gate was captured.

The most pitiful thing is Tang Qitai, who wanted to hang himself but didn't have time at all, and was captured alive on the spot by the soldiers who broke into the army and escorted to Li Zicheng for trial.

Li Zicheng came up and angrily reprimanded Tang Qitai: "Henan is so famine, the people are starving all over the land, isn't it a disaster for officials such as you?" ”

Tang Qitai had long had the will to die, and scolded Li Zicheng with a dumbfounded eye: "God doesn't bless the people, so you give birth to thieves such as Er, why don't you kill me?" ”

Li Zicheng didn't have the patience to debate with Tang Qitai, so with a wave of his hand, he ordered someone to pull Tang Qitai down and behead him, and in order to show his martial arts, he also hung Tang Qitai's head on the city gate to deter the imperial court.

After the end of the Battle of Yiyang, the army turned the whole of Henan upside down, and it was impossible for Li Xianfeng not to pay attention to it first, and the documents asking for help from all over the country flew to his desk like snowflakes, and then he realized that Li Zicheng had become so big in Henan.

On December 21, the army conquered Yiyang, and then the army rushed to Yongning, Yongning Zhixian Wu Dalie and Yongning County Wang Zhu Cai hurriedly asked Li Xianfeng for help, affirming that if there were no reinforcements, Yongning would not be defended!

Zhu Cai has been doing evil in Yongning for many years, what is the robbery of the people's daughters, setting up cards to collect taxes, that is a daily operation, the people of Yongning all hate him, and now Li Zicheng has led the army to come, and the people of Yongning have all responded, and to Yongning, the army is 30,000, the soldiers are 3,000, and the banner is connected for dozens of miles.

Just looking at the formation of the invading army, Zhu Cai, the king of Yongning, was so frightened that he almost fainted, and Wu Dalie, the magistrate of the county, was still a little bold, wearing armor and being sharp, standing on the city wall and confronting the invading army from afar, obviously he would not admit defeat so easily.

In the face of Yongning, Li Zicheng adopted Niu Jinxing's strategy, and the reason is very simple, as Niu Jinxing said, Zhu Cai is greedy and cowardly, and he will be greedy.

In fact, Niu Jinxing obviously overestimated Zhu Cai, the army had just completed the siege, and Zhu Cai ignored Wu Dalie's dissuasion and forcibly "broke through", and the end was naturally conceivable, and the army immediately made deployments, taking advantage of the chaos of the Ming army to launch a surprise attack, crushing the defenders of the Ming army on the spot, and capturing Zhu Cai alive.

Zhu Cai was arrested, and the Ming army defending the city also lost the courage to defend the city, tied up Wu Dalie, and surrendered to Li Zicheng, just like that, Yongning announced the fall, and Zhu Cai also became the first vassal king to fall into the hands of Li Zicheng, this is the real blood of the heavenly family!

As before, Li Zicheng ordered someone to tie up Wu Dalie again, and asked him why he wanted to squeeze the people for the imperial court? Especially gave the example of Zhu Cai, saying that Wu Dalie was an official who did not notice, which is really ridiculous.

Wu Dalie didn't talk to Li Zicheng about it, he spat Li Zicheng directly, and then scolded angrily, the scolding was so ugly that even Li Zicheng, who had always paid attention to killing people but nodding his head, couldn't bear it, and angrily ordered the soldiers to cut Wu Dalie's tongue with a dagger.

Wu Dalie was gouged out of his tongue, still scolding endlessly, although he couldn't make a sound, but the blood in his mouth was still splattered everywhere, and finally Li Zicheng had no patience with this stubborn Ming Dynasty bureaucrat, and ordered someone to assassinate him with a spear, and still cut off his head and hung it above the city gate.

Of course, Wu Dalie is an official is considered upright, and his reputation among the people is not bad, after the retreat of the army, the people of Yongning spontaneously collected the corpse for it and buried it in the suburbs, until the death of the Ming Dynasty decades later, the imperial court made people build a temple for Wu Dalie in order to win the hearts of the locals, and also gave him an official, but this is all a later story......

It's not difficult to kill Wu Dalie, it's just a county, and it's not a big deal to kill it, the question now is, how to deal with Zhu Cai, the king of Yongning, this is a real prince, although it is not as valuable as those near it, but it is also Zhu Yuanzhang's bloodline! It is also the existence of the nobility of the sky in ordinary times.