616 retreat, with a plan

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Li Zixiao never thought that he would implement heavy armored cavalry and heavy infantry on a large scale in the White Dragon Army, these two arms, because history has proved that they have fallen behind.

At this time, Li Zixiao still focused on the development of firearms, because Li Zixiao knew that thermal weapons were for the master of war.

And this time, the reason why Li Zixiao sent these heavily armored soldiers was to win and solve the problem of the stalemate between him and Li Zicheng under Kaifeng City at this time.

On the other hand, Li Zixiao is also looking forward to it in his heart, whether Li Zicheng will take a fancy to these iron cans and buy them from himself!

Li Zixiao had long wanted to let go, and sold Li Zicheng's weapons and armor, because at this time, Li Zixiao also had a financial crisis in Jiangbei!

Therefore, Li Zixiao began to find ways to make money everywhere, and Li Zicheng was regarded by him as a big financier.

Moreover, even if these Mingguang armor and Song Dynasty Bu armor were sold to Li Zicheng, it increased Li Zicheng's combat power to break into the army.

At that time, the most headache will only be the Ming army, because if Li Zicheng evacuates Kaifeng as promised this time, Li Zixiao and Li Zicheng's army will break into the army in a short period of time, and there will be no conflict of interest, and it will be difficult to start a big battle again.

On the contrary, the first headache for the stronger army is the Ming army, followed by the Tartar army.

Li Zixiao is very much looking forward to it, if Li Zicheng really buys a lot of these heavy armor equipment from him, will Li Zicheng's army turn the tide of the battle when he fights the Tartar army again.

Even if Li Zixiao and Li Zicheng would fight later, he would not be afraid of these heavily armored soldiers, because the firearms in Li Zixiao's hands were enough to restrain them.

This kind of heavily armored soldier is placed in Li Zixiao's hands, and it will be very useful to deal with Li Zicheng or the Tartar army.

But if it is put in Li Zicheng's hands and wants to use it to deal with Li Zixiao, it can only be said that Li Zicheng thinks too much, if he really dares to do this, he will definitely cry to death afterwards.

Not to mention, the flintlock pistols, iron-clad mines and other firearms that Li Zixiao's army is now preparing can pose a deadly threat to these heavily armed soldiers.

And as Li Zixiao's arsenal is improving and developing new firearms, Li Zixiao believes that he will be equipped with more powerful firearms in the future.

In the face of more advanced firearms, these iron cans will be completely swept into the garbage heap of history, and they will only have to enter the museum in the future.

"King Chuang, Li Huan and those thousand brothers, what a miserable death! You can't forget it, King Chuang, let me lead the troops to kill it, and slaughter that Li Zixiao. ”

At this time, Li Zongmin, who was on Li Zicheng's side, looked at the 1,000 soldiers who died in front of him, tears fell, and he gritted his teeth and said to Li Zicheng.

In the face of his subordinate Liu Zongmin's invitation to fight, Li Zicheng did not say a word, and continued to have a gloomy face.

But at this time, Niu Jinxing immediately stood up and objected: "No, King Chuang, we did lose this battle, since we lost, then we will fulfill the bet with Li Zixiao and withdraw the army." ”

"Niu Jinxing, I X your mother, I really doubt that you are a spy sent by Li Zixiao, why are you talking for Li Zixiao everywhere.

Didn't you see the brothers who died in the battle in front of you, how miserable they were?

You don't want to avenge them now, and you even persuaded King Chuang to withdraw his army, I don't think you have a good heart, Lao Tzu killed you. ”

Liu Zongmin roared angrily, and even drew his sword to kill Niu Jinxing.

"Brother Liu is angry, the military advisor is also kind, don't be impulsive, we will listen to the king."

Seeing that Liu Zongmin drew his sword to kill Niu Jinxing, Gao Yigong on the side, Tian Jianxiu and the others rushed over to stop it, and persuaded him.

On the contrary, Niu Jinxing faced Liu Zongmin wanting to kill him, but he was not afraid, and said in a deep voice: "Since King Chuang made a bet with Li Zixiao before, and now that he loses, we have to admit it."

You don't want King Chuang to bear the name of a dishonest villain, which will be a huge damage to King Chuang's reputation.

Besides, after this battle, the morale of our army was hit, but Li Zixiao's morale was high, and this battle must not be fought.

Now that the army is withdrawn, we are not defeated, we are just admitting defeat and admitting defeat, even if someone mentions it in the future, it can only be said that King Chuang is trustworthy and keeps his promises.

If you want to achieve great things, you must always pay sacrifices, and you must not make big mistakes for the sake of a mere battle of will! ”

Niu Jinxing seemed to be shouting to Liu Zongmin and others at this time, but in fact, his words were all said to Li Zicheng, who was silent on the side.

"Okay, don't make any noise, the enemy is now, but your own people are making trouble first, what kind of system!"

Finally, Li Zicheng was no longer silent and scolded everyone.

Seeing Li Zicheng speak, everyone was honest, even the short-tempered Liu Zongmin did not dare to disobey Li Zicheng's words at this time.

"The military advisor is right. At this time, it is not the time for us to have a decisive battle with Li Zixiao, and this debt has been written down by this king again.

When he finds an opportunity in the future, this king will ask him Li Zixiao and the principal with interest to get it back. ”

In the end, after listening to Niu Jinxing's words, Li Zicheng calmed down and made a decision.

"King Chuang, if we withdraw our troops, my subordinates ask to bring a team of people to see Li Zixiao again, and my subordinates have the confidence to persuade Li Zixiao to sell us weapons and armor."

At this time, Niu Jinxing was relieved to see that Li Zicheng had finally figured it out and was willing to withdraw his troops.

He decided to surprise Li Zicheng again before leaving.

"The military advisor is right."

After Li Zicheng heard Niu Jinxing's words, he was overjoyed at first, but then shook his head and said: "No, no, the military advisor is the right-hand man of this king, and this king can't let you take this risk."

In case Li Zixiao turned his face ruthlessly and detained the military advisor, how would it be good for this king.

Without a military advisor, it is comparable to making this king lose 100,000 troops! The proposal of the military advisor is not suitable, it is not suitable, you can find someone else to replace the military advisor! ”

After Li Zicheng finished speaking, Niu Jinxing was very useful, and Niu Jinxing immediately knelt down to Li Zicheng and said excitedly: "With the words of King Chuang, even if your subordinates die, it is worth it."

King Chuang rest assured, his subordinates are still very sure that they will go, at this time, Li Zixiao does not want to fight with us, he will not touch me, that will not do him any good.

King Chuang, please believe your subordinates, we have saved a lot of silver in our hands through more than a year of siege and land, but it is useless to put this silver in our hands.

We need to use this silver to buy armor and food to strengthen our strength, and in terms of armor and weapons, Li Zixiao is a very suitable buyer.

His subordinates control the land north of the river, and the armor they make is also extremely good, and even we have to buy firearms, so this trip, my subordinates must go. ”

Seeing that Niu Jinxing was so resolute, Li Zicheng was actually moved by him in his heart.

Indeed, through Li Zicheng's more than a year, he has been crisscrossing half of Henan and half of Huguang, defeating dozens of large and small county towns, and destroying his family and clans, and he himself can't remember how many.

Thus, let him accumulate a huge amount of money again, which is really useless in his hands.

At this time, it is better to spend it in exchange for weapons and armor to increase the strength of his army, because next, he is ready to fight back to Shaanxi, which is where he started.

According to Niu Jinxing's plan for Li Zicheng to be the future emperor, after he left Kaifeng this time, he was ready to return to Shaanxi, seize Xi'an, and then use Xi'an as the capital to expand his territory in all directions.

If Li Zicheng wants to be the emperor, he must have a solid base, which Niu Jinxing also got inspiration from Li Zixiao.

And at this time, there are really not many places left for Li Zicheng to choose, and Niu Jinxing can only choose Shaanxi in the end.

Although Shaanxi at this time has suffered from natural and man-made disasters for many years, bandits are everywhere, and the population has decreased sharply, in fact, it is not a good foundation.

But there is no way, Li Zicheng wants to choose to lay Kaifeng as a foundation, but this is not impossible to beat!

If there was a better choice, Niu Jinxing didn't want to suggest Li Zicheng to return to Shaanxi, but Shaanxi was really in tatters at this time.

Maybe there is only one Xi'an, barely a little oil and water, and the people in other places are all poor as pants.

However, Li Zicheng's choice to return to Xi'an was not without benefit, but there Li Zicheng was able to get the support of the vast majority of poor peasants.

Niu Jinxing believes that as long as Li Zicheng returns to Xi'an this time and ascends to the heights, he will definitely be a follower, and Li Zicheng will never be short of troops at that time.

"Well, everything will have a labor division. This king will let Tian Jianxiu lead a thousand elite soldiers, leave behind to protect the military division, and wait for the military division to negotiate with Li Zixiao, and then let Tian Jianxiu escort the military division to chase the army. ”

Li Zicheng was finally persuaded by Niu Jinxing and agreed.

Woooooo

As the horn of Li Zicheng's army sounded, the more than 60,000 troops outside Kaifeng City slowly withdrew in the southwest direction.

At the same time, Li Zicheng also sent people to contact the other two troops outside, led by Li Guo and Song Xiance, to ask them to withdraw as well, and then join up in the Wei area.

"Whew, it's finally withdrawn."

On this side, when Li Zixiao saw that Li Zicheng's army had finally withdrawn, he was also relieved in his heart.

"Give an order to Luo Chao and Zhao Zilong, don't attack Li Zicheng's men, but follow behind their army, monitor their withdrawal, and watch them cross the Shahe River."

At this time, Li Zixiao issued a new order to the two cavalry teams of Luo Chao and Zhao Zilong, who had been lurking in the south.

"Withdraw, the thief army withdrew, Kaifeng is defended!"

Watching Li Zicheng's army slowly withdraw, at this time, on the Kaifeng city wall, it fell into a carnival again, and many Ming soldiers shouted one after another.

"Haha, the thief has withdrawn, okay, okay!"

Yang Wenyue looked at the troops who were slowly withdrawing outside the city, and also laughed heartily and said.

At the same time, Ding Qirui, Gao Mingheng and other Ming officials all showed joy one by one, but there was only one person who couldn't see any joy on his face, and that was Chen Yongfu.

"Why did Li Zicheng, the leader of the thieves, withdraw like this? Why didn't he fight with Li Zixiao!

In the previous meeting, what did Li Zixiao say to Li Zicheng, shouldn't they lose both! Why not fight. ”

Chen Yongfu looked out of the city at this time, he had already withdrawn a long way from the army, and then looked at Li Zicheng's White Dragon Army who was still outside the city, his face was very gloomy, and he shouted frantically in his heart.

Such a result is not what Chen Yongfu sees, in this way, as soon as Li Zicheng withdraws his troops like this, the tens of thousands of horses brought by Li Zixiao's men are basically well preserved.

After Li Zicheng withdraws his army, if Li Zixiao wants to lead the army into Kaifeng, can he Chen Yongfu still choose to refuse?

If you wait for Li Zixiao to lead the tens of thousands of horses under him, once he enters Kaifeng, then he can still drive him away in the future, and in the future, he can still have the final say in Kaifeng City?

At this time, Chen Yongfu thought a lot in his heart, and the more he thought about it, the more irritated he felt in his heart, because in the face of such a situation, he found that he was helpless and helpless.

And when he looked at it again, at this time, the surrounding soldiers hugged and cheered one by one, and they were very happy, which made him even more unhappy.

"Hmph, what's there to be happy about, I don't know what he Li Zixiao and the thief leader Li Zicheng met and talked about before, I'm afraid Li Zixiao secretly made some shady deals with Li Zicheng!

Otherwise, how could Li Zicheng withdraw his troops so easily! You're rejoicing too soon. ”

Chen Yongfu looked at the happy Ding Qirui, Yang Wenyue, Gao Mingheng and others around him, and did not forget to slander Li Zixiao at this time.

Sure enough, after Chen Yongfu finished speaking, Ding Qirui and Gao Mingheng's faces suddenly changed, which was exactly what they were worried about.

On the contrary, Yang Wenyue was dissatisfied with Chen Yongfu's words, and said: "General Chen, think about it too much, in this case, it is already very rare for General Li outside the city to force Li Zicheng back."

Don't forget, at this time, General Li only brought 20,000 or 30,000 horses, and if he really fought with Li Zicheng's army outside the city, General Li might not be able to win.

Perhaps it was General Li who saw such a situation and did not directly attack the thief army.

Instead, he chose to coerce Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng's side had lost to General Li several times, and most of them were also very jealous of General Li's army.

Li Zicheng didn't want to use these horses under his command anymore, and when he saw that there was no hope of capturing Kaifeng, he would fight Li Zixiao again, even if he won, it would be meaningless.

In this case, if it were me Li Zicheng, I would also take the initiative to withdraw the army.

As for the conjecture that Chen Zongbing said before, Ben Jiang felt that he was a little bit of a villain's belly. ”

After Yang Wenyue finished speaking, Ding Qirui and Gao Mingheng also nodded.

At this time, Chen Yongfu suddenly moved in his heart and came up with a good way to stop Li Zixiao from entering Kaifeng.

He turned around and said to Yang Wenyue: "Lord Yang, in fact, it is very simple to prove that Li Zixiao and the thief leader Li Zicheng did not make any secret deals.

That is, he Li Zixiao ordered his army to camp outside the city and not enter Kaifeng, so as to prove his innocence. ”

"In the past ......, General Li led a large army to come all the way to rescue us, and now the thieves have been repulsed, but General Li and his men are not allowed to enter the city to rest, this seems unreasonable!"

After listening to Chen Yongfu's words, Yang Wenyue also hesitated slightly and said.

(End of chapter)