Li Zicheng agreed to Li Yan's request, after all, he still took out two hundred cavalry, after Song Xiance joined, the forces of the White Lotus Sect also began to be integrated by the breaking army, Li Zicheng even privately promised Song Xiance that he should be treated as the state religion in the future, which made the White Lotus Sect almost use its strength to support Li Zicheng's cause.

According to the results of his discussion with Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, and Gu Junen, it will take some time to rectify the soldiers and horses to launch the Luoyang Campaign, and they are bound to win Luoyang.

And the person sent by Li Zicheng is also Li Yan's old acquaintance, that is, the general of the Ming army who defected in Yufu Mountain, Wang Xueli.

It is said that Wang Xueli is also unlucky, since he was invited into the back camp, there has been no future, with the expansion of the army, many people have been promoted, but perhaps it is dissatisfied with Wang Xueli's original "small abacus", Li Zicheng seems to have forgotten this person directly.

In this context, after a year, Wang Xueli was a general, and the cavalry under his command only increased from one hundred to two hundred, that is, these two hundred were privately allocated to him by Li Jinnian and his merit anyway.

This time he learned that he was going to Li Yan to listen to the tune, Wang Xueli was simply overjoyed, and he also saw that there was no way out of Li Zicheng, Li Yan had an incense affair with him, and he didn't think he would be too slow to treat himself, so he packed up overnight and went to Li Yan with the two hundred cavalry of his department to defect to Li Yan in the starry night.

Li Yan was also very surprised to see that it was Wang Xueli, this person has not had much news since he broke into the camp, if he hadn't seen him today, Li Yan would have even thought that he had died in battle.

But fortunately, Wang Xueli is a person Li Yan is familiar with, and immediately set up a banquet to greet him, and the two talked happily at the banquet.

"It's been almost a year, Li Guanjun's prestige, I often hear about it in the back camp" Wang Xueli rarely drank so freely, his cheeks were flushed, and he drunkenly raised the wine bottle and complimented.

"Mr. Wang smiled" Li Yan smiled indifferently, and also raised the wine bottle and said: "This time, you and I should work together to make a contribution, and it will be okay to seal your wife and son in the future!" ”

"It's up to the army to show love." Wang Xueli hurriedly took over the conversation.

Now Li Yan's status in the army is very different from him, how far he can go in the camp depends on how Li Yan uses himself, so there are a lot of politeness and compliments between words.

The two chatted a lot, and what made Li Yan happy was that the people brought by Wang Xueli this time were really informative, two hundred cavalry, all of them were fully armored, although it was said that the establishment still belonged to the rear battalion moderation, but after all, it can be mobilized by himself now, which is a force that cannot be underestimated.

Of course, Li Yan still couldn't be completely satisfied with Wang Xueli, and after promising that Wang Xueli would reuse him, Li Yan also offered his own price.

"Wang Jinbao and Jia Yan are both warriors, and it is a waste to stay with me, I intend to let them kill the enemy with the general of the Wang Ministry, I don't know what to do?" Li Yan took the opportunity to put forward his own conditions, and the interests always had to be exchanged with each other.

Wang Xueli is actually unhappy in his heart, any group is self-contained, why is this not the case under Wang Xueli's command? Everyone already has a fixed framework, a radish and a pit, and now two people are suddenly stuffed in, and they are still Li Yan's cronies, which is not easy to do.

You can't use Li Yan's cronies as big soldiers, right? If he wants to be replaced, he will inevitably cause trouble in the army, but unfortunately, now that he has a request for Li Yan, he can only give up his hand after thinking for a while: "Harm, where is this talking about Guanjun?" I'm under your account now, so it's a matter of changing my words, so it's naturally no problem to let the two young heroes in. ”

"I can rest assured that Mr. Wang said this" Li Yan suddenly laughed, personally filled Wang Xueli with wine, and then advised: "These two are just going to practice, Mr. Wang should not condone it because of my face......"

These words were also to give Wang Xueli the steps, telling him that Li Yan had no intention of challenging Wang Xueli's authority, so that Wang Xueli should not be careful.

"Of course, my life still has to be saved," Li Yan added.

Wang Xueli was clear about the meaning of the words, and hurriedly got up with a wine glass and said: "Don't worry about the army, this matter is on me, the two heroes will go to the tent to be a personal soldier, if they have merit in the future, they will definitely be promoted." ”

Pro-soldiers, that is Wang Xueli's personal guard, must be a cronies to do, Wang Xueli's statement is also to show Li Yan that he is willing to obey his moderation.

"In this way, there will be the general manager of the Ministry of Lao Wang" Li Yan smiled with satisfaction and got up and toasted Wang Xueli, it seems that in these days of breaking into the camp, Wang Xueli's skills have risen, and many things are transparent at a glance, and it is effortless to talk to such a person.

After arranging Wang Jinbao and Jia Yan into Wang Jinbao's department, Li Yan was completely relieved, and when people entered, it was Wang Xueli's attitude.

A few days later, Gu Fuguang's letter also arrived, he disguised himself as a business traveler and successfully infiltrated Luoyang, not only that, but also relied on the silver Li Yan gave him to buy off many officials in Luoyang, of course, as a businessman.

For Gu Fuguang, who is generous and good at being a man, Luoyang officialdom is very interested in him, and he drinks at banquets every day, and even the chief soldier Wang Shaoyu personally met him and asked him about his business.

According to Gu Fuguang's return, Luoyang can be said to be a golden jade and a ruined outward, officials at all levels have their own ghosts, calculating each other, King Fu is powerful in Luoyang, wantonly accumulating wealth, and the people privately scold him as the "pig king".

And the worst is the Luoyang soldiers, Wang Shaoyu may have a little ability to fight, but drinking the blood of the soldiers is obviously even more powerful, eating empty salaries, drinking the blood of soldiers, pretending to receive pensions, killing good and risking merit, and he has not left any of the things that the beasts do.

The soldiers in Luoyang hated Wang Shaoyu and cursed him for his short life in private, and Gu Fuguang seized this opportunity to marry many junior officers, especially mentioning some junior officers in the army such as Tian Hu, Xie Yinglong, Ren Jirong, these people all hated Wang Shaoyu's tyrannical expropriation, and Gu Fuguang donated some cotton clothes and food for them in the name of "righteous businessmen", which was very favorable.

Seeing this, Li Yan was overjoyed, he knew that Luoyang was difficult, but he didn't expect Luoyang to rot like this, it seems that it is really not impossible to fight Luoyang, after getting the cavalry and intelligence, Li Yan immediately decided that things should be done sooner rather than later, and sent troops to attack Luoyang on the same day!

The next day, Li Yan instructed Zhao Jing to impose martial law in Yongning, and then found Gao Yigong and told Gao Yigong that now according to the next plan, it is necessary to attack Luoyang, which is bound to be a big war, and it is necessary to prepare, so it is necessary to expand the reserve army and conduct some exercises at the same time.

Gao Yigong had no concept of the exercise, so Li Yan told him that the exercise was a simulated field battle, and the reserve army had not yet fought in the field, and if he did not act, there would be problems in the future.

As soon as these words came out, Gao Yigong figured out the key to it, and he was still convinced by Li Yan's words, and immediately agreed to do this exercise with Li Yan.

With the support of Gao Yigong, Li Yan immediately ordered the whole army to be assembled, with all the food and blades, and all the archers hung up the bowstrings, and at the same time recruited young and strong people in Yongning, and the strength was expanded to more than 2,000 people.

Such an abnormal behavior naturally attracted Guo Junzhen's attention, after getting the military order, he did not fight, but just ordered the soldiers to do as ordered, Liu Wenbing also found him, and asked Guo Junzhen: "What kind of drills are the thieves going to do when they gather like this, do you always know what's going on?" ”

Li Yan had already distributed the definition of the exercise to all armies, and everyone knew that this was a simulation of actual combat, and they were quite eager to try this novelty, and they didn't know how to play it.

"If something goes wrong, there must be a demon" Guo Junzhen didn't believe in any exercises, and said coldly.

"Isn't that what a big move does the Li thief have?" Liu Wenbing also frowned when he heard this, although they were forced to trap thieves, they still had the court in their hearts.

"I don't know, now in Henan, the thieves are reckless, inviting people to buy people's hearts, I heard that Governor Li is still in the north, and the surrounding court defenders only dare to defend the city and dare not fight in the field, such a big move, I can't see what Li Thief thinks." Guo Junzhen sighed and said.

"You can't want to fight Luoyang, right?" A bold idea suddenly popped up from Liu Wenbing's mind, now the army is invincible, all the county towns are hit, and the city has not yet been hit, according to the strategy trend of the army, it is obviously cleaning the periphery of Luoyang, and after the periphery is cleaned, it is time to hit the main city.

"Impossible, the thieves are still in the Xin'an area, Luoyang is a strong city without tens of thousands of troops can't be defeated, it's really a thief to fight, why do you want to do this kind of thing?" Guo Junzhen shook his head in denial.

"What if the Li thief wants to fight?" Liu Wenbing continued to ask.

Hearing this, Guo Junzhen smiled dumbly and said: "Li Thief's department is only 2,000, so he wants to fight Luoyang?" Isn't it madness? ”

Liu Wenbing also felt that it made sense when he heard this, two thousand people fought Luoyang, what is it that is not crazy? Then he said, "What should we do?" ”

"And follow, as soon as there is a chance, he will defect and kill Li Thief, and use his head to report to the imperial court!" Guo Junzhen's eyes were cold, and he spoke.

......

In fact, Liu Wenbing is right, Li Yan is crazy, and he really wants to lead troops to touch Luoyang.

Yongning to Luoyang is still separated by Yiyang, but it has been fought before, although the army later gave up Yiyang to fight, but the court did not dare to send people to Yiyang to die, so Yiyang was nominally recovered by the imperial court, but in fact it was a three-regardless zone.

Li Yan led the troops out of Yongning on the second day of the first month, and arrived in Yiyang on the fourth day of the first month, looking at the traces of the battle a month ago, Li Yan and Gao Yigong had to sigh the tenacity of the people's vitality.

"Lao Gao, we have to recruit troops in Yiyang, and we have to move very quickly," Li Yan said as he looked at the dilapidated city walls of Yiyang.

"Recruiting again?" Gao Yigong was stunned for a moment, looked at Li Yan suspiciously, and then said, "Didn't you oppose the expansion of the reserve army before?" Why is it so unusual? Besides, we are just doing a drill, so why bother in such a hurry? ”

"I lied to you," Li Yan said lightly.

"Huh?" Gao Yigong didn't react yet, and froze in place.

Li Yan turned his head to look at Gao Yigong and said word by word: "I never thought about doing any exercises. ”

"Then why do you go to such a long time?" Gao Yigong felt that he was confused, and if he didn't do drills, what would he do when he came out?

"I'm going to fight Luoyang." Li Yan said word by word, his eyes were full of ambition and madness.

"Hit Luoyang?!" Hearing this, Gao Yigong almost fell off the horse, this person wants to fight Luoyang? Crazy?