434 Lu Xiangsheng was defeated and made an appointment to meet Li Zicheng

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As soon as Li Zixiao returned to Xuzhou, he received several good news in a row.

In addition to the bumper harvest in Xuzhou, when Li Zixiao was even happier, Lin Waner and Guan Mingxi were two months pregnant.

After learning the news, Li Zixiao was not only happy, but also breathed a long sigh of relief, proving that there was nothing wrong with his body.

"I didn't expect to win the bid at one time, hehe!" After Li Zixiao learned the news, he muttered to himself.

Moreover, after the news of the two daughters' pregnancy spread, Li Zixiao's subordinates were all very happy, and at this time, Li Zixiao's heir problem was not just Li Zixiao's personal problem.

The only thing that was not very happy was that Lin Yu fell, she was the first to follow Li Zixiao, but she let Lin Wan'er and Guan Mingxi take the lead.

This made her very annoyed, so as soon as Li Zixiao came back, Lin Yuluo was entangled and was pulled to be used as a seeder.

"Report, General, Ruzhou Urgent."

At the beginning of September of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zixiao received an urgent report from Qi Wei from Ruzhou in Xuzhou.

"Could it be that the war in Henan has changed a lot? Show me the fold. Li Zixiao said eagerly.

After Li Zixiao got the fold and read it, his face was not very good, and he whispered to himself: "Sure enough, as long as it drags it down, Li Zicheng can turn defeat into victory."

The resilience of the officers and soldiers under Lu Xiangsheng was too poor, and they were slowly dragged to death. ”

It turned out that Qi Wei reported in the middle of the compromises that Lu Xiangsheng was defeated in Henan at this time, although it was not a fiasco, but he was defeated by Li Zicheng after all.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng took the remnants and had no choice but to retreat to Luoyang to join Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong, while Li Zicheng took the power of a great victory and swept the entire Henan Mansion and Nanyang Mansion again.

Even, half a month ago, Li Zicheng led tens of thousands of rogues to re-attack Tongguan, hoping to open up the passage into Shaanxi, but failed.

But only five days later, Li Zicheng's general Song Xiance made a surprise attack on Shaanzhou in the east, obtained a ferry, crossed the Yellow River, and entered Shanxi.

For a time, in just half a month, Song Xiance was in Shanxi, breaking through the four cities of Pinglu, Jiezhou, Yuncheng and Anyi, and plundered countless money and grain, which suddenly alleviated the dilemma of insufficient money and food in Li Zicheng's hands at this time.

It turned out that since the last time Li Zicheng was almost besieged in Fuchang, he was chased and killed by Lu Xiangsheng all the way, and he hid in Kunshan and escaped.

In the following two months, Li Zicheng led his subordinates all the way south, wandering in the vast area of southern Henan Prefecture, northern Nanyang Prefecture, and western Ruzhou Prefecture.

Li Zicheng fought like this, and Lu Xiangsheng designed to encircle and set up ambushes several times, but all of them were discovered by the other party in advance, and in the end, it was the officers and soldiers who couldn't hold on first.

When Lu Xiangsheng led the army to Luanchuan, his officers and soldiers refused to leave anymore and asked for rest.

Even the generals under Lu Xiangsheng didn't want to chase anymore, and Lu Xiangsheng had no choice but to order to rest in Luanchuan.

However, on the same night, they encountered Li Zicheng's night attack, and after the bloody battle, the officers and soldiers were defeated and retreated.

After Luanchuan was defeated overnight, the 30,000 horses in Lu Xiangsheng's hands were killed, captured, and scattered, and there were less than 10,000 people left in his hands.

But these 10,000 people can be said to be the most elite force in Lu Xiangsheng's hands.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng also realized that the power in his hand was no longer capable of exterminating Li Zicheng, and he was forced to go north to Yiyang, preparing to hold Luoyang.

As for other places, they have long been eroded, and Lu Xiangsheng is already planning to give up in his heart.

Even, in this battle, Lu Xiangsheng was injured, but fortunately it was not fatal, and it made him unable to continue to lead the troops.

Li Zixiao can imagine that without the checks and balances of Lu Xiangsheng's army, Li Zicheng's strength will inevitably expand rapidly in the next period of time.

This time, Li Zicheng will definitely learn the lesson of the failure of the last attack on Luoyang, and only after accumulating enough strength will he attack the fortified city of Luoyang.

And Lu Xiangsheng sent an order to Qi Wei two days ago, asking Qi Wei to rush to Luoyang with the White Dragon Army of Ruzhou City, and prepare to fight Li Zicheng again in Luoyang.

But Qi Wei refused Lu Xiangsheng's order on the grounds that there were too many recruits and insufficient troops, because this was Li Zixiao's previous instructions.

Let Qi Weizha be in Ruzhou and try not to interfere in the war between Lu Xiangsheng and Li Zicheng, but now Li Zixiao knows that it is impossible to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight again.

If Qi Wei insisted on not sending troops, Lu Xiangsheng would definitely think that it was Li Zixiao's instructions, and the relationship between Lu Xiangsheng and Li Zixiao would take a sharp turn for the worse.

"It seems that I am going to Ruzhou again, it is time to contact Li Zicheng, and let Li Zicheng take Luoyang, which is in my interests."

Sure enough, a day later, Lu Xiangsheng sent someone to Xuzhou in person and sent a strongly worded letter of questioning.

So, Li Zixiao sent a letter back to Lu Xiangsheng, saying that he would immediately rush to Ruzhou in person to deal with the matter.

"Quartz, gather the guard battalion, and in three days, rush to Ruzhou."

And just when Li Zixiao set off from Xuzhou and went to Ruzhou again, he also got news from Yangzhou that the first batch of ships delivered by Zheng Zhilong had arrived.

Among them, including a three-masted gunboat, ten bird boats, ten rushing boats, and thirty sand boats, Lu Yuan and Hong Sheng's sailors have secretly received these ships on the Yangzhou River.

At the same time, Li Zixiao also secretly ordered that more than 100 artillery pieces, more than 300 flintlock guns, and 500 explosive bombs that he had transported to Yangzhou in advance should be handed over to the Zheng family to take away.

At the same time, Li Zixiao also learned that after Shi Kefa arrived in Yangzhou to serve as the city envoy, he was quite rational and not too radical.

On the one hand, Shi Kefa strengthened the connection with Lin Yongnian, the prefect of Xuzhou, and at the same time accelerated the final construction of Yangzhou Port, and initially began to carry out the responsibilities of the Municipal Shipping Division.

Although Shi Kefa is stubborn, he is still a smart person, and Li Zixiao's previous worries were all superfluous, which made Li Zixiao breathe a sigh of relief.

On September 5, the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zixiao once again embarked on the second journey to Ruzhou under the protection of the guard battalion.

This time, he still took the water route, then landed in Kaifeng, and then went to Ruzhou by land.

Three days later, Li Zixiao came to Ruzhou City.

"General, you're here!" Qi Wei was also relieved when he saw Li Zixiao arrive.

To tell the truth, how can Lu Xiangsheng also be the governor of the five provinces under Chongzhen's personal order, Qi Wei still has to bear a lot of pressure to refuse Lu Xiangsheng's order.

But it can also be seen that Qi Wei has put Li Zixiao's order above the court order at this time.

"Well, you're doing a great job."

Li Zixiao smiled, patted Qi Wei's shoulder, and said appreciatively.

"What about Zhang Fugui? Is he coming? Li Zixiao looked around and asked.

"General, Zhang Jusi has received the news that the general is coming to Ruzhou, and he must be able to rush back soon."

"Okay, let him come, come to me immediately."

Li Zixiao was anxious to see Zhang Fugui because Li Zixiao secretly sent Zhang Fugui to get in touch with Li Zicheng.

Li Zixiao's land, Li Zicheng's main target for the next attack is Luoyang City, and for Li Zicheng's capture of Luoyang City, Li Zixiao actually wants to see it.

Because Li Zixiao also hopes to get a piece of the big fat from Luoyang City, and Li Zixiao also hopes to destroy the Ming Dynasty with the help of Li Zicheng's hand.

Anyway, Daming died in the hands of Li Zicheng, which is the most suitable for Li Zixiao.

At that time, Li Zixiao will be able to raise troops justifiably and occupy the surrounding territory, no longer as timid as now, and can only be temporarily confined to the Jiangbei area.

Before this, Li Zixiao dealt with Li Zicheng in order to gain power, and now the title of a Zhenguo general is enough for Li Zixiao to use.

The official position is no longer of much significance to Li Zixiao at this time, at this time he just wants to see the world more chaotic, let the decaying tree of Daming fall, and he can replace it.

In this way, at this time, Li Zixiao and Li Zicheng have more common interests, so that he will no longer help the official army to deal with Li Zicheng.

On the contrary, he wants to help Li Zicheng and let him break through Luoyang as soon as possible, otherwise Luoyang, which is in the seat of Lu Xiangsheng, will never be so easy to fight.

You must know that in this life, because Li Zixiao defeated Li Zicheng in Ruzhou before, the strength in Li Zicheng's hands is actually much weaker than the same period in history.

In addition, it turned out that there was no Lu Xiangsheng in Luoyang in history, and there were nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers brought back by Lu Xiangsheng.

Therefore, Li Zixiao came to Ruzhou this time, mainly to meet Li Zicheng secretly, cooperate with him, act in a play, and then share the big cake of Luoyang.

As for Li Zicheng, who has long hated him to death, and can't wait to drink his blood and eat his flesh, whether he will cooperate with him, Li Zixiao is not worried at all.

Because, this is not Li Zicheng's willingness, even if Li Zicheng hates Li Zixiao again, as long as he is not stupid, he will choose to cooperate with Li Zixiao at this time.

"Qi Wei, the thief general I captured last time, Dang Shousu, is it okay now?" Li Zixiao asked Qi Wei.

"Back to the general, we followed the general's orders, secretly detained him, and served him with good food and drink, that guy is estimated to have gained a few pounds now!"

Qi Wei replied with a smile.

"That's good, as long as this person is not dead, I still have a lot of use. Let's go, take me to the barracks. ”

Li Zixiao knew that Dang Shousu was not dead, so he was relieved, because the next thing Dang Shousu was the meeting gift he wanted to bring when he went to meet with Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang.

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Just when Li Zixiao arrived in Ruzhou City, hundreds of miles away in Henan Province, a place called Jiuxian Town.

Li Zicheng's army of rogues was stationed here at this time.

"Report, King Qi Chuang , just now there was a person outside the camp sneakily approaching our army camp, and was caught by the patrolling brothers, who claimed to be a person sent by the general of the imperial court and Zhenguo, and wanted to meet King Chuang.

The brothers on patrol did not know what to do, so they brought the man, who was now being taken out of the camp, and had come to ask the king for instructions. ”

At this time, in Li Zicheng's Chinese army camp tent, Li Zicheng was summoning his subordinates Gao Yigong, Liu Zongmin, Niu Jinxing, Li Guo and others to discuss the next combat operations, when a soldier came over to report.

"What? It's that damn Li Zixiao's person, and he still wants to meet King Chuang, so Lao Tzu went to cut him. ”

When Liu Zongmin on the side heard this, he was on fire at that time, and he was about to rush out to kill people.

"Zong Min, come back!" Li Zicheng stopped him loudly.

Li Zicheng looked at Niu Jinxing next to him, only to see Niu Jinxing nodding slightly, although Li Zicheng's face was not good-looking, he still said to the soldier: "Bring people in." ”

Soon, a young man dressed in ordinary people's clothes was escorted in by two bandits.

"Get on your knees!"

The two bandits asked the young man to kneel, but the young man was very stubborn, he just didn't kneel, and snorted coldly: "The famous King Chuang treats the envoys like this, and it is really a group of rogues." ”

Li Zicheng's eyes flashed with cold light, staring at this young man, but then he waved his hand to the two bandits behind him and said, "You guys go out." ”

Li Zicheng's eyes were cold, and he could see that people's hearts were hairy, and Leng Feng was also beating a drum in his heart at this time, and he was afraid that Li Zicheng would really ask nothing, so he let people push him out and behead him.

But Leng Feng is still gambling, betting that Li Zicheng is also a generation of heroes, and this patience and bearing are still there, and he will inevitably ask him clearly about the purpose of his visit.

Fugui was in danger, and this time Leng Feng took over this dangerous task from Zhang Fugui's hands, but he couldn't but also wanted to make a great contribution and get promoted.

As for Zhang Fugui, that guy spares his life like gold, how can he risk his life!

"You said you said the person sent by the surname Li?" Li asked in a cold voice.

"King Chuang, please pay attention to your name." Leng Feng retorted.

"My TM's ......"

Liu Zongmin, who was on the side, had long been unaccustomed to Leng Feng's attitude, and was about to stand up at this time, but was stopped by Li Guo on the side.

Even Li Zicheng's face became more and more ugly, he was full of hatred for Li Zixiao.

"Haha, don't be surprised by this envoy, my king is in a bad mood today, I hope you will forgive me. However, you said that you said that the envoy sent by General Li has evidence. ”

Niu Jinxing, who was next to him, saw that Li Zicheng's face was as black as the bottom of the pot, and he was about to get angry, and he felt that he stood up and spoke.

Niu Jinxing didn't want Li Zicheng to give the order and drag this young man out and cut him down, in fact, Niu Jinxing was also very curious about Li Zixiao sending someone to contact them.

He was curious, what did Li Zixiao send someone to contact them secretly? Persuasion? Impossible, if Li Zicheng wanted to surrender, he would have accepted the imperial court a few years ago.

Before, Li Zicheng would rather hide in Shangluo Mountain than accept the imperial court's edict.

Now that Li Zicheng has risen again, and the officers and soldiers who have just defeated Lu Xiangsheng are gaining momentum, how can they surrender to the imperial court!

Niu Jinxing also knew Li Zixiao, and always thought that Li Zixiao was a heroic figure in his heart, and it was not simple, it was impossible to be so stupid, so he sent someone to Zhao'an Li Zicheng at this time.

Moreover, looking at Leng Feng's dress, it doesn't look like it, it's more like Li Zixiao secretly, wanting to get in touch with Li Zicheng.

This made Niu Jinxing even more curious, curious about what kind of medicine was sold in Li Zixiao's gourd!

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