9. The second encirclement and suppression of the government

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With Qi Wei joining, Li Zixiao appointed him as the captain of the second cavalry team, commanding three hundred cavalry. Please search (product #) to see the most complete! The fastest update

As for the captain of the first cavalry team, after Luo Chao came back, he was forced to go from Li Zixiao.

Originally, according to Li Zixiao's original plan, the six hundred cavalry would be combined into one team, led by Qi Wei alone.

However, after Luo Chao personally led the cavalry team and exterminated the rogue bandits, he completely liked the cavalry battle, so he had to resign as the captain of the fourth team of soldiers and go to the cavalry team.

Luo Chao also knew that the cavalry captain in Li Zixiao's heart was Qi Wei, and even willing to act as Qi Wei's deputy to go to the cavalry team.

Subsequently, Li Zixiao thought about it, Luo Chao was not inferior to Qi Wei at all in leading troops to fight, and his riding skills were also very good, and he seemed to be very suitable for leading the cavalry team.

And Li Zixiao also knew that if he rashly let Qi Wei join the White Dragon Army, he would serve as the captain of the Six Hundred Cavalry Team.

On the contrary, letting Luo Chao, who had already followed him, be his deputy, would definitely cause dissatisfaction among his generals, and if Luo Chao was also allowed to lead a cavalry team, it might be easier to convince the public.

And Li Zixiao also knew that once Qi Wei served as the cavalry captain of the White Dragon Army, the cavalry of the White Dragon Army in the future would probably come from his subordinates, and Li Zixiao didn't want someone under him to monopolize power.

At this time, letting Luo Chao join the cavalry team can be regarded as a balance for Qi Wei, and now Li Zixiao has unconsciously begun to learn these tricks.

This is more or less influenced by Qian Guangyuan, but this is not a bad thing in Li Zixiao's opinion, because he will have to learn these sooner or later.

So, Li Zixiao divided the six hundred cavalry into two and formed two teams, with Luo Chao and Qi Wei each leading one team.

Moreover, the team led by Luo Chao was the 300 cavalry he personally brought out this time, and after a real combat charge, some cavalry had seen battles, and their hands were stained with blood, so they became veterans.

On the contrary, it was the three hundred cavalry in Qi Wei's hands, and there was no blood yet.

As for the candidate for the captain of the fourth team of soldiers after Luo Chao left, Li Zixiao also chose it, so he let Li Tianba serve as it.

Needless to say, Li Tianba's martial arts skills can compete with all Li Zixiao's generals, the quartz with the highest martial arts, and he can be said to be the first.

As for strategy, don't look at Li Tianba as a big boss, but Li Zixiao only learned from Qi Wei that this guy turned out to be literate and hyphenated, and he often read military books.

"This is not Li Yuanba given to me by God, this is simply a thick and fine Zhang Fei!" Li Zixiao also exclaimed after learning the news.

Don't look at the current film and television dramas that describe Zhang Fei as a reckless man, he only knows how to drink, kill, and be strong in martial arts.

In fact, Zhang Fei in history is also a rough and fine, well-read poetry and books, knows the art of war, and is brave and strategic, which can be seen from his excellent combat experience in leading troops in history.

It's a pity that there are too few records of Zhang Fei in ancient historical documents, but he is still one of the most popular ancient Chinese generals.

Of course, he also has flaws in his character, that is, he is too irritable, drunk and irritable, and does not know how to sympathize with his subordinates, which is also the main reason why he was finally killed by his own subordinates.

Guan Yu "treats the soldiers well and is proud of the scholars", and Zhang Fei "loves and respects the gentleman and does not care for the villain." This is from the record of Zhang Fei's character in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

This is also related to the early experiences of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, one was born as a pawn of a peddler, and the other was born in a rich family, of course it will be different.

In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", when evaluating Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, he said: "Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are both called the enemies of ten thousand people and are the tigers of the world.

Yu reported to Cao Gong, Feiyi explained Yan Yan, and had the style of a countryman. Ran Yu is rigid and self-conscious, violent and ungraceful, defeating with shortness, and rational numbers are often also. ”

In Li Zixiao's opinion, it is still very pertinent.

Li Zixiao can compare Li Tianba with Zhang Fei, which is enough to see that he attaches great importance to Li Tianba, and his henchmen do not have much objection to letting Li Tianba serve as the captain of the fourth team of soldiers.

At this time, Li Zixiao's subordinates had expanded to nearly 5,000 people, excluding the auxiliaries, men, and horsemen who were in charge of the later Axis Battalion.

There are about 3,800 soldiers who can really be put into battle, including the White Snake General Village, the White Tiger Village, and the people and horses left behind in the three strongholds of Zhouzhuang under Li Zixiao.

At this time, Li Zixiao's sense of urgency in his heart was even stronger, because he had a hunch that it would not be too far from the arrival of the second encirclement and suppression of officers and soldiers.

Li Zixiao's hunch was indeed not wrong, and soon he would receive bad news.

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In the midst of Li Zixiao and his subordinates' intense busyness, another half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

The time entered the middle of May, and in the past month or so, the spring plowing work in the area controlled by the White Dragon Army has come to an end.

At this time, the White Dragon Army under Li Zixiao had completed the control of the entire Yongcheng County and cleared all the big households in Zhuangbao except for the county seat.

Let the task of redistributing land to the local people be completed, which also makes the prestige of the White Dragon Army rise among the local people.

In the mountainous areas north of the county, the fields that had been abandoned in large quantities due to bandits have basically been recultivated, and even a number of wastelands have been reclaimed.

The people who reclaimed the land were all displaced people who fled from other places, and Li Zixiao sent people to organize them to reclaim wasteland.

As long as the White Dragon Army lasts until the summer harvest, it will begin to harvest, instead of constantly filling in food, feeding these displaced people and ordinary people, and the burden will be completely lightened a lot.

At that time, these displaced people and local people can basically solve the problem of eating by themselves, and they can even feed back to the White Dragon Army and provide them with military rations.

And in the past month or so, several teams of soldiers of the White Dragon Army have not been idle, taking turns to attack, constantly going deep into several surrounding states and counties, and extorting the big families in the surrounding counties.

It really made them extort money back, quite a lot of food, and all kinds of supplies.

After all, the big landlords in the surrounding counties have long known about the tragic plight of the big landlords in Yongcheng County, and they all try not to anger the White Dragon Army.

This has basically solved the grain problem on the side of the White Dragon Army, at least the current grain storage support until the autumn harvest has been completed without a problem.

It is precisely because the White Dragon Army has enough food in its hands that it distributes food to the people and displaced people below through cash-for-work.

This made it rare for the local people to not starve to death in the spring famine season, let alone go out to escape the famine.

Even the tens of thousands of displaced people who fled here from other places have been properly resettled, at least not leaving the land in Yongcheng County deserted.

However, with the continuous expansion of Li Zixiao's power, it caused great panic among the landlords and old fortunes in many surrounding states and counties.

Those landlords who were extorted by the White Dragon Army turned their heads and complained to the government, and in the end, all these letters of complaint were transferred to Yin Tianxing of Kaifeng Mansion.

At this time, with the end of spring ploughing, Yin Tianxing finally made up his mind to come out, and finally made up his mind to eradicate Li Zixiao's gang of thieves.

Before Yin Tianxing sent troops to recruit the White Dragon Army, he first ordered the state capitals to strengthen their garrisons, so that they could organize their own village warriors in various places and unite to resist the attacks of the rogues.

The landlords and old fortunes in the surrounding states and counties, after hearing about the tragic fate of those landlords and old fortunes in Yongcheng County, were also afraid that they would become the next target of the White Dragon Army.

Therefore, they did not hesitate to take out money to arm their own Zhuang Ding Xiangyong, and repaired the village wall fort to strengthen their own protection.

He also sent the township Yongzhuang Ding out of the village, united with the officials and soldiers of the government and the fast catchers, set up cards at various key crossings, and gradually began to build a relatively tight defense network around Yongcheng County.

And after more than a month of raising money on Yin Tianxing's side, the opening money for the officers and soldiers of Xuanwuwei has also been gathered, and his subordinates have issued it to Wei Liangde, a thousand households of Xuanwuwei.

Only later, Wei Liangde gave a little money to his subordinates, and Yin Tianxing didn't bother to care, as long as they could start on time and go to exterminate the White Dragon Army.

There should be a total of 2 officers and soldiers in the Xuanwu Guard, but excluding those who eat empty salaries, there are actually less than 800 people, and of course Yin Tianxing knows this.

He could only transfer a group of officers and soldiers from other thousands of households in the surrounding area, and gathered 1,500 officers and soldiers from the guards, plus the more than 3,000 villagers he recruited, to form an army of nearly 5,000 bandits.

On the other hand, Yin Tianxing colluded with the capital of Fengyang Mansion to command Wu Laiyun, a fellow intellectual, and asked him to raise troops and horses from the south, and jointly attack Li Zixiao from the north and south.

And Wu Laiyun also attaches great importance to this matter, after all, the letter in Li Zixiao's hand is not only Yin Tianxing's handle, but also his life.

Wu Laiyun is the commander of Fengyang Mansion and a military attache of the imperial court, and it is much more convenient than Yin Tianxing to mobilize the officers and soldiers of the imperial court.

In addition, Wu Laiyun was the younger brother of the commander of Fengyang Mansion at this time, which could be described as a family, so he could easily persuade Wu Laifeng, the commander of Fengyang Mansion, to transfer a large number of officers and soldiers from the guard post who stayed in the division to prepare to encircle and suppress Li Zixiao.

Because Fengyang had been broken by Li Zicheng's rebels before, and he also dug the ancestral grave of the old Zhu family, he almost didn't kill Emperor Chongzhen.

It is precisely because of this that Emperor Chongzhen later ordered the rebuilding of the Zhongdu Remaining Division, and re-recruited a large number of soldiers, so that Wu Laiyun could easily gather a court army of more than 10,000 people.

These are all officers and soldiers of the imperial court, unlike Yin Tianxing's side, most of them are village warriors, although these officers and soldiers have only been in the army for more than a year, they are much stronger than those loose village warriors.

Not to mention weapons, the weapons and equipment of the imperial court officers and soldiers in Fengyang Mansion are generally better than those in the surrounding states and counties.

Emperor Chongzhen's order to stay behind in the reconstruction of the division was not in vain, even if it was the Ming officials who were greedy for ink at this time, it did not mean that they did nothing at all.

On this day, Li Zixiao was watching in the school field, and when Zhou Dazhu and a sentry general were drilling, he ran into a soldier from the gate of the village and handed Li Zixiao a letter.

Li Zixiao took the envelope, opened the envelope, took out the letter paper and looked at it, so his brows immediately furrowed.

It turned out that this letter was sent by Wei Hong from Kaifeng, and Wei Hong informed Li Zixiao in the letter that Yin Tianxing, the prefect of Kaifeng, had secretly dispatched troops and was ready to do something to them.

At this time, Dong Zhuang, who was originally staying in Xuzhou City, also hurriedly returned to the village and found Li Zixiao.

Dong Zhuang said to Li Zixiao: "Big boss, the big thing is not good, just now the Xie family got news from Fengyang, saying that Fengyang Mansion is going to send troops to deal with us, please prepare quickly." ”

After hearing Dong Zhuang's words, Li Zixiao immediately believed the news from Wei Hong, it seems that this matter should not be fake, and the calculation time is almost the same.

After all, he knew about the collusion between Yin Tianxing, the prefect of Kaifeng, and Wu Laiyun, the commander of Fengyang, to resell the ordnance, and the letter is still in his hands.

These two people are in a mess, since Kaifeng has already done it, of course Fengyang's side has to echo, and things can't go wrong.

So Li Zixiao sighed, the heart should come and come, since it is here, then there is only one way to deal with it immediately!

He immediately sent people to scout, and the important generals stationed in Baihu Village and Zhou Zhuang, Zhou Dazhu and Liu Chongji's subordinates, all recalled to White Snake Village to discuss this matter.

At the same time, he replied to Wei Hong, asking him to return immediately, so that Zhang Ergouzi could fully take over the intelligence work in Kaifeng, and he needed Wei Hong to come back and lead the troops at this time.

The generals who got the news did not dare to slack off, and they all quickly returned to the White Snake General Village, gathered in the conference hall, and listened to Li Zixiao's orders.

Li Zixiao briefly told his generals about the government's coming to suppress this time, and the generals' reactions were very calm, because this had long been expected by them.

Li Zixiao immediately asked the scout captain Han Tong: "Han Tong, during this time, you are responsible for sending people to keep an eye on the situation of the official mansions in Kaifeng and Fengyang, is there any movement over there?" ”

As soon as Han Tong heard Li Zixiao mention his name, he immediately stood up and replied: "Qiqi is in charge, this matter is definitely true, and my subordinates have just received a report from the sentinels sent to Kaifeng and Fengyang.

said that the Kaifeng government has begun to take action, is preparing grain, and from the big households in the Kaifeng area, they are ordered to summon the township to Kaifeng Mansion to obey the order, and come to us with the official army to ask for us.

This time, part of the officers and troops were transferred from the Xuanwu Guard, and the other part was mobilized from other local guards, and the strength was about 2,000 people.

Coupled with the Xiangyong recruited by the government, the approximate strength will not exceed 4,000, and the leader is said to be a guerrilla general surnamed Tong, which is also the largest force that can be used in Kaifeng Prefecture at present.

As for the official government on Fengyang's side, it seems that there is also a big operation, but because of the distance, there is no more detailed information to be sent, but it is estimated that the number of troops sent by Fengyang's side will not be less than that of Kaifeng Mansion. ”

Li Zixiao nodded with satisfaction after hearing this, and the discovery of the scout team also indirectly confirmed the information sent back by Wei Hong.

Han Tong's scout team has now grown to 100 people, all of whom are veterans with combat experience, and they are already very mature in detecting intelligence. (To be continued.) )

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