After Mao Wenlong borrowed Chongzhen's letter from Zhao'an and knocked Li Zicheng hard, he cooperated with him, and the two armies temporarily ceased to unite to deal with Lu Xiangsheng's 100,000 army.

Lu Xiangsheng had heard about Li Zicheng's movements, but he didn't understand that Li Zicheng actually reached a cooperation with Mao Wenlong at a critical moment. Therefore, he still launched a large-scale pursuit of Li Zicheng's army, looking forward to ending this dispute as soon as possible.

Mao Wenlong stood on the tower of Runing Mansion early in the morning and watched a battle, the 20,000 troops led by Li Zicheng's subordinates went to war, and were killed by Lu Xiangsheng's 30,000 soldiers and horses and lost their armor.

"This rebel army is really not to be worried, let them fight a tailwind war can be competent. When you touch a hard stubble like this, even if it wilts. Mao Wenlong shook his head and sighed lightly.

It was the rebel army that did not concern him in his eyes that he chose to cooperate with Li Zicheng. If Li Zicheng could really threaten Mao Wenlong, he would not cooperate with him.

Hong Chengchou chuckled and said, "This is not exactly what you want, what is there to sigh." ”

Mao Wenlong said: "It's just whining, but these rebels are not useless, their vitality is like weeds, and the spring breeze blows and grows." It is a pity that such good conditions have been made like this. ”

Hong Chengchou was stunned for a moment, then suddenly frowned and asked, "Could it be that the general army also wants to follow Li Zicheng's example, hold high the banner of the uprising, and then incorporate those peasant armies?" ”

If Mao Wenlong follows Li Zicheng's example and holds high the banner of righteousness, he will inevitably be able to gather a large number of displaced people in a short period of time. But this does not have any benefits, it will only drag down Mao Wenlong.

After all, the combat strength of these so-called rebel armies is obvious to all, and they are not vulnerable at all, but they are only superior to the number of people. Once this advantage is gone, they are really just a group of outcasts with weapons and some organizations.

Mao Wenlong shook his head and said, "Don't get me wrong, Li Zicheng and I have taken two completely different paths. He wants to overthrow the imperial court, but I don't care, I don't care about the life and death of the imperial court at all. As long as others don't come to disturb me, it's no problem for me to die in this Henan. ”

Hong Chengchou glanced at Mao Wenlong in surprise, but he quickly understood that what he said just now was just Mao Wenlong's words. As for whether it is his true thoughts, it remains to be studied.

After suddenly coming to his senses, Hong Chengchou stopped talking about the topic just now, he raised his hand and pointed in the direction of Li Zicheng's army and said, "Is it time for us to make a move?" ”

Mao Wenlong has never looked elsewhere since just now, and has always been staring at the situation on the battlefield. He nodded and said, "It's really time to smash Lu Xiang's sharpness." ”

Mao Wenlong immediately turned around and looked back at the city, only to see that 40,000 troops had already gathered in the city. With a smile, as long as Mao Wenlong gave an order, these soldiers could rush out and give Lu Xiangsheng a blow to the head.

After a moment of silence, Mao Wenlong ordered: "Open the city gate!" ”

After a creaking sound, the gates opened. Cheng Zuo, Xu Fuzuo, Qingfeng, and Li Jie each led their troops to rush out in turn.

"Kill ......"

In the earth-shattering killing sound, the 40,000 Dongjiang troops took advantage of Lu Xiangsheng's pursuit of Li Zicheng's deserters and directly killed Lu Xiangsheng's base camp.

In less than an hour, the cavalry of the Dongjiang Army took the lead in the camp of the imperial army, followed by countless infantry.

The sudden attack, Lu Xiangsheng was not in the camp, and the time of the Dongjiang army's sneak attack was just right, and he was caught off guard by killing the imperial army.

At this time, Li Zicheng, who had quietly led his troops to ambush behind the imperial army, did not hesitate to launch an attack after hearing the movement of the Dongjiang army entering the imperial army camp. A full 60,000 soldiers and horses entered from its rear, echoing exactly the Dongjiang Army.

The camp of the imperial army was attacked, and it became chaotic in an instant, and was killed by Mao Wenlong and Li Zicheng's subordinates.

Cheng Zuo led 5,000 cavalry and went straight to the enemy's central army, and his goal was very clear, to occupy the enemy's stacked grain first. and then hold on to it, otherwise Li Zicheng will take the opportunity to rob.

Sure enough, not long after Chengzuo and their occupation of the grain, Li Zicheng personally led the army to arrive. When he saw that the Dongjiang Army had actually seized the grain first, he could only curse twice, and then moved elsewhere.

Chengzuo glared at Li Zicheng, who was leaving, viciously, and said in a smug voice: "The chief soldier is like a god, and he has already seen through your thoughts, and you deserve to have no benefits." ”

Li Zicheng personally led nearly a thousand personal soldiers to rush left and right in the camp of the imperial army, looking for an armory or anything that could be taken away. However, Li Zicheng soon found that he was once again pitted by Mao Wenlong.

Every time he found something, he always found that the Dongjiang army had occupied it before him. Li Zicheng became more and more angry, and after slashing down a few officers and soldiers, he suddenly viciously ordered his subordinates: "Set fire to this camp, Mao Wenlong did too much, then don't blame me for being ruthless." ”

Li Zicheng was in a hurry, and he was ready to let Mao Wenlong not want to get the things of the imperial army.

His men, on his orders, soon lit torches and set fire to them, and in a matter of moments, the camp of the imperial army was completely surrounded by raging flames.

Lu Xiangsheng, who was chasing the rebels, suddenly got a report, as if the camp was on fire. He turned around in surprise and looked at it, without any nonsense, immediately stopped the pursuit, and hurried back to the camp.

However, he was still a step late, and by the time he rushed back, the whole camp was littered with corpses, and his men were killed and wounded. The entire camp was also completely burned to ashes by a fire.

"Damn, who did that?" Lu Xiang was so angry that he yelled at the sky.

Soon after, the soldiers who had gone to inquire came back and reported: "Governor, the whole camp has been consumed by fire, and all the food and weapons piled up in the camp have been emptied. There's nothing left in it! ”

Lu Xiangsheng was so angry that he threw a whip directly on the soldier's body, knocking him to the side, and he galloped directly into the camp to check it himself.

After a long time, Lu Xiangsheng's angry roar was heard in the camp.

After Lu Xiangsheng vented his anger, he slowly calmed down, if Li Zicheng alone would definitely not be able to sneak attack his camp, there must be others involved. And there is no one else in this vicinity except Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army.

Once he stumbled into a thousand years of hatred, Lu Xiangsheng was angry at his carelessness, which led to the current situation. The food is gone, the weapons are gone. The 100,000 army was killed, wounded, and scattered, and there were less than 60,000 troops left. It can be said that it is already a situation of inevitable defeat, if there are no reinforcements and food and grass, then he can only withdraw his troops as soon as possible.