397 King Chuang is coming

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On the other side, when Li Zixiao was rushing to Ruzhou, there was information from Song County.

"What? Li Zicheng led his troops to capture Song County? ”

When Li Zixiao heard the news, he was also taken aback, and then sneered: "What a king, this is targeting Lao Tzu!" ”

Li Zixiao left Qi Wei with 800 White Dragon soldiers, and gave Qi Wei the right to recruit 2,000 local recruits, and returned to Yiyang with the rest of the White Dragon Army soldiers.

As for the work in Ruzhou City, such as grain requisition and defense, Li Zixiao gave Qi Wei some instructions, and then handed him full authority to carry it out.

Li Zixiao believes that with Qi Wei's ability, it will not be a problem to take charge of Ruzhou City.

Yiyang and Song County are adjacent to each other, and if Li Zicheng wants to attack Ruzhou, he must first attack Yiyang, which is a mountainous area with complex terrain to the south, and there is no oil or water to fish.

Therefore, Yiyang will definitely be the front line of Li Zixiao and Li Zicheng next, as long as Yiyang is not captured by Li Zicheng, there will be no danger in Ruzhou City behind.

In Li Zixiao's plan, Yiyang will be built by him into a fortress against the thieves, and Ruzhou City will be their stable logistics base.

But the strange thing is that Li Zicheng did not immediately attack Yiyang after taking Song County.

After Zhang Fugui sent the information, Li Zixiao learned that Li Zicheng actually camped in Song County for training.

"What a king, someone must give him advice, but unfortunately I have limited troops in my hands, and the risk of taking the initiative to attack is too great, so I can only brake quietly."

Li Zixiao saw Li Zicheng's plan, and planned to improve the combat effectiveness of those chaotic soldiers under him through drills.

"So, Li Zicheng's attack on Luoyang was blocked?"

Li Zixiao asked Zhang Fugui, who hurried back.

"Yes, General. According to our dark line report, Li Zicheng suffered a defeat in Yiyang and was recaptured by Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong.

Losing Yiyang, Li Zicheng also lost the only springboard for attacking Luoyang, and he couldn't do it without retreating.

Moreover, according to Xin'an's dark line report, Li Zicheng's general Song Xiance attacked Xin'an and Xinhan Valley Pass was not smooth, and it was not captured for a long time.

With Li Zicheng's retreat in Yiyang, Song Xiance also returned to Xin'an, and there was no movement for the time being. ”

Zhang Fugui stood under Li Zixiao and said respectfully.

"Did Liu Zeqing never take the initiative to attack after he captured Yiyang?" Li Zixiao asked Zhang Fugui again.

"That's right, after Liu Zeqing designed to recapture Yiyang, he couldn't hold on, so Li Zicheng had no choice but to retreat."

"Hmph, Liu Zeqing was worried that the strength in his hands would be damaged, so he didn't want to fight with Li Zicheng's rebellious army.

However, this is also completely in my expectation, Liu Zeqing is mainly to defend Luoyang, as long as he guards Luoyang, no one can accuse him of anything. ”

Li Zixiao sneered and said.

"General, I'm afraid that the thief's ice blade will be directed at us, so we must guard against it!" Zhang Fugui said.

"I know that sooner or later, I will have to fight with Li Zi, and it just so happens that I will witness what the famous King Chuang means."

Li Zixiao sneered, at this time, there was a conflict between his and Li Zicheng's interests, there must be a battle, and he didn't care whether it was justice or not.

"Order Han Tong, disperse all the scouts, I want to know every move of the thieves in Song County at all times.

In addition, let Luo lead the troops and enter Shangdian Town, give him two days to transfer all the remaining people in the town to Yiyang County.

Let Dong Zhuang recruit young people in the city and organize a city defense team, but all young people over 16 years old and under 45 years old belong to the scope of recruitment.

When the time comes, if you refuse to defend Yiyang, you have to need the Yiyang people themselves to guard, our White Dragon soldiers have limited manpower, and when necessary, we must attack decisively, how can we keep cowering in the city.

That is to say, from now on, the territory of Yiyang County will enter a wartime state, and all agricultural affairs will be abandoned, otherwise it will only find loopholes for thieves to exploit, and they will also fund the enemy out of thin air.

The old and weak women and children will be transferred to the city of Ruzhou from tomorrow, and if Li Zicheng really wants to train with me, I will break his teeth and have to swallow it with tears. ”

Li Zixiao said coldly, and the clerk next to him recorded the order and immediately went down to deliver the order.

Li Zixiao's stroke this time is not small, he directly gave up the farming of the people of Yiyang County, it was spring ploughing at this time, but once he and Li Zicheng fought, spring ploughing would not be possible.

Since spring ploughing could not be carried out, he simply gave up and made every effort to build Yiyang into an iron wall, as long as Yiyang was not broken, it would not affect the spring ploughing near Ruzhou City behind.

This means that Li Zixiao has enough food in his hands before he dares to do this, if he is replaced by other Ming troops, he will not dare to do this at all, and he will not have the strength to do so.

A week has passed, and Li Zicheng of Song County has been training soldiers and horses, and has not attacked Yiyang.

Li Zixiao was very patient, he kept waiting, strengthening his deployment, and with the arrival of the grain transportation team escorted by Zhao Zilong in Jiaxian, Li Zixiao had enough grain reserves.

During this period of time, Liu Zeqing of Yiyang, who was only thirty or forty miles away from Li Zixiao in the north, never sent anyone to contact Li Zixiao.

Li Zixiao didn't have to think about it to guess that Liu Zeqing didn't send someone because he was afraid that he would ask him for help, but Li Zixiao didn't have the slightest intention of asking for help.

However, during this period of time, Chongzhen kept urging Lu Xiangsheng in Kaifeng to exterminate the rebellious army that had just emerged in Henan as soon as possible.

There had been Zhang Xianzhong before, which gave Chongzhen a headache, and now Li Zicheng was just in Henan Mansion, making a little big noise, and Chongzhen immediately panicked.

It's a pity that Chongzhen didn't dare to transfer back the Tianxiong army in Xuandafu in the north, let alone recall the Guanning Iron Cavalry on the Ningyuan defense line.

As a result, Lu Xiangsheng could only re-recruit new soldiers in Kaifeng and wait for the arrival of officers and soldiers from other places before he could go to Henan to quell the rebellion.

During this time, Lu Xiangsheng counted on Li Zixiao to stop Li Zicheng's footsteps to the east and buy him time.

Therefore, at this time, Lu Xiangsheng would never allow Li Zixiao to have an accident.

So much so that Xu Taixin was killed by Li Zixiao some time ago, and such a serious matter was unexpectedly resolved by Lu Xiangsheng.

Even, Lu Xiangsheng did not hesitate to report to Chongzhen and beat Xu Taixin into a villain, saying that Xu Taixin colluded with bandits and raised food prices, and Li Zixiao attacked him.

However, it is not right to privately kill the five members of the imperial court, and it is Li Zixiao who waited for a harsh letter from Lu Xiangsheng.

For this kind of result, Li Zixiao himself didn't expect it.

In order to repay Lu Xiangsheng, Li Zixiao promised him that he would never let Li Zicheng's rebellious army cross Ruzhou and enter Kaifeng.

No matter how long it takes Lu Xiangsheng to recruit an army of bandits, his promise will always be valid.

At this time, for Li Zixiao, helping Lu Xiangsheng is helping himself, and he and Lu Xiangsheng are a community of interests at this time.

It wasn't until two weeks later that Li Zicheng, who was in Song County, finally made a move, and Han Tong's scouts reported that 6,000 rebel troops left Song County in the early morning of April 17.

Li Zixiao knew that this was most likely the vanguard sent by Li Zicheng, which meant that Li Zicheng was finally ready to do something to him.

There is no way to hide such a big thing at all, and the scouts led by Han Tong have been wandering in the east of Song County.

In the past two weeks, the scouts on both sides have fought dozens of times, large and small, with the White Dragon Army winning more and losing less, killing hundreds of thieves and scouts.

And Han Tong's subordinates also lost more than 30 people, you must know that all of the people who can serve as scouts in the thief army are really elites, all of them are from Li Zicheng's old camp.

Among these chaotic scouts, many of them used to be in the official army and served overnight, but unfortunately they still had to rebel in the end, because if they don't rebel, there will be no way to live.

It can be said that the scouts in the thief army are not much weaker than the scouts of the White Dragon Army, and they are more numerous.

Let Han Tong be able to obtain this place for more than a week, and finally completely control the east of Song County, forcing Li Zicheng to no longer send scouts out to clean them up.

The main thing was the kind of short musket they had just equipped.

The so-called short musket is actually a miniature version of the flint gun, which has been seen in later film and television works.

This short musket is more suitable for scouts than long-pole flint guns, after all, it is ignited with the help of flint, and there is no need for a fire rope, so there is no need to worry about not firing.

The scouts of the White Dragon Army, on horseback, can hold these short muskets in one hand, and shoot at close range, enough to easily take out the enemies rushing from the opposite side.

Of course, such short muskets only have a chance to fire, they need to be reloaded in advance, and once they have fired on their horses, they cannot reload them.

However, for the other classes, a single shot may not be enough to settle the victory, but for the scouts, this shot is enough to help them seal the victory.

Han Tong led his scouts, and in several encounters with the thief scouts, it was this short musket that caught the opponent off guard, so as to win.

Unfortunately, the manufacture of this short musket is much more complicated than that of a long flint, and more importantly, the cost of construction is too expensive.

Building a short musket is enough for Li Zixiao to build seven or eight long flint guns, so not all of Han Tong's scouts are equipped with short muskets.

There are only thirty people equipped with this kind of short musket, but these thirty short muskets are barely enough for the White Dragon Army at this time.

When the news of Li Zicheng's army came, the atmosphere in the territory under the jurisdiction of the White Dragon Army became tense.

But this is just for ordinary people, for the officers of the White Dragon Army, this kind of thing is nothing.

At this time, the White Dragon Army, through one victory after another, has played their own self-confidence, no matter what strong enemy they face, they will not feel afraid.

So after learning the news, the officers of the White Dragon Army didn't react much.

They are now officials and soldiers, and they are originally here to suppress bandits, and if they don't chase down these rebels, they should be happy.

Now these rebel armies even dare to take the initiative to attack them, which makes the soldiers of the White Dragon Army know about it, and they are all angry one by one, and they are all shouting to send troops to exterminate these bold rebel armies.

Soon, Li Zixiao's order also came down.

The soldiers of the White Dragon Army, after receiving Li Zixiao's order, immediately took action.

However, these ordinary people in Yiyang City were all nervous, kneeling on the road one after another, begging the soldiers and generals of the White Dragon Army to block the chaotic army.

In fact, after Tian Jianxiu captured Yiyang last time, he ruined the people in the city, and they didn't want to return to the rule of the rebel army.

Those rebels are simply a bunch of vampires, they will suck the last grain of food out of the hands of the people, and they will not care about the life or death of the people.

Of course, Tian Jianxiu's previous approach in Yiyang was indeed excessive, who made him lack food at that time, and wanted to rush to conquer Ruzhou City.

In fact, at this time, the army led by Li Zicheng was still innocent of the poor people, they only plundered those landlords, wealthy merchants, gentry, and nobles.

Therefore, in fact, at this time in other parts of Henan Mansion, Li Zicheng's reputation for breaking into the king's army is even much better than that of the official army.

Even if Li Zicheng was really short of food, they would use silver to buy food from those poor people, instead of robbing it.

After all, at this time, Li Zicheng didn't know how many rich merchants, big households, and wealthy gentry had looted, and he had accumulated a lot of silver in his hands, and he had no pressure at all to buy some grain.

Compared with the big landlords killed by Li Zicheng, what Li Zixiao did before was simply a small fight, but it made people call him a 'butcher', there is really no harm if there is no comparison!

On the same day, after learning that Li Zicheng had finally joined the army, Li Zixiao immediately summoned the generals of the White Dragon Army and gathered in the barracks again to discuss the next action.

When Luo, Xu Wei, Li Tianba and other generals came to Li Zixiao's handsome tent, they saw a huge table placed in Li Zixiao's handsome tent.

I saw that on this table, the ravines made of stones and dirt were vertical and horizontal, and the mountains were undulating, and at a glance, I could roughly guess it.

What is piled up on this should be the terrain of a certain place, and there are many small flags planted on it, if there are future generations here, they will know at a glance that this is a sand table.

"Huh? What's new? How I look at it, it's a bit like the terrain of Yiyang and the surrounding area!

Let's see, isn't this Yiyang County? This is Song County, this is Ruzhou City, and here, it should be Shangdian Town, right?

Wow! Good stuff! Who got this? In this way, it is much more convenient and intuitive than looking at a map.

The surrounding terrain is clear at a glance, and if you come over as an ordinary person, you can probably see it. Luo leaned on the table and exclaimed.

Xu Wei and others also gathered around this big table, praising it again and again, and even calling this thing a good thing.

The happiest person is Li Tianba, this guy used to worry the most about looking at the map, the lines drawn on it, the circles, he saw that his head was big.

Now that he is looking at this kind of sand table, it makes it clear to him at a glance, so he can't be excited.

At this time, a shout came out of the tent: "The general has arrived!" ”

All the generals immediately retreated to the sides, stood straight and shouted, "Welcome to the general!" At the same time, he made a standard salute.

(End of chapter)

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