385 When the time is ripe, replace the Ming Dynasty

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After Li Zixiao arrived in Kaifeng City, Lu Xiangsheng and Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan at this time, came out to greet him, and Li Xianfeng was in charge of Henan affairs at this time and assisted Lu Xiangsheng in suppressing bandits.

Originally, Li Zixiao was worried that on this trip to Kaifeng, he would meet Yin Tianxing, the former governor of Henan, and he would not know until he arrived in Kaifeng.

Yin Tianxing was deposed in the autumn of last year, which made Li Zixiao feel a pity.

For this Henan prefect who has been sending troops to encircle and suppress in the early days of the establishment of the White Dragon Army, Li Zixiao has always wanted to meet him.

"Haha, Master Li, I didn't expect you to come with troops so soon, and the old man just arrived in Kaifeng last night." After Lu Xiangsheng saw Li Zixiao, he greeted warmly.

"I came by boat with soldiers, that's why I'm so fast." Li Zixiao smiled and said.

"No wonder that's the case, but you arrived so quickly, we were caught off guard, and we didn't even have time to arrange the welcome ceremony for you."

"Lord Lu, don't be so polite to you and me, we are all working for the imperial court, and when the bandits are exterminated, let's come back for a celebration banquet."

"Haha, Master Li is right, it's good to have a celebration banquet when the time comes."

Just as Lu Xiangsheng and Li Zixiao were talking, a middle-aged official wearing a red governor's robe and a sheep's beard next to him echoed with a smile.

"Master Li, let me introduce to you, this is the governor of Henan who was just appointed by the Holy Lord last winter, and now he is in charge of Henan's affairs and assists his official in exterminating the bandits."

"Master Li, this is the General Li I told you, or is it your own family!"

Lu Xiangsheng smiled and introduced Li Zixiao and Li Xianfeng.

"Master Li is young and promising, like this official when you are so old, you have just been admitted to the Jinshi, you can't compare!"

"Governor Li is polite."

Generally speaking, Li Zixiao's trip to Kaifeng was quite harmonious with Lu Xiangsheng and Li Xianfeng, the two biggest officials in Kaifeng at this time.

Next, Lu Xiangsheng took Li Zixiao to the Kaifeng Mansion, ready to introduce Li Zixiao to the bandit problem in Henan at this time.

"Let the governor give General Li a story about the bandits in Henan at this time." Lu Xiangsheng spread a map of Henan on the desk and said.

"Okay, then the old man will come and talk about it."

Li Xianfeng walked to the map, looked at the enlarged map of Henan, sighed, and then said to Li Zixiao: "Soon after the Chinese New Year, we received a letter from Henan Prefecture.

It is said that the bandits led Li Zicheng to lead his troops, killed them from the Shangluo Mountain in the west, and entered the territory of Henan Province. In just half a month, it swept half of Henan Province.

Successively occupied the Lu family, Lingbao, and Xiangdong had reached Yongning (Luoning in later generations), and the official immediately ordered the officers and soldiers of the Hongnong Guard to send troops to encircle and suppress the bandits.

But as a result, in less than three days, thousands of officers and soldiers of the Hongnong Guard Station were defeated by Li Zicheng, but at that time, there were no soldiers to send in the hands of the officials!

In February, in just one month, Li Zicheng's bandits had reached tens of thousands, and Li Zicheng led his troops to continue to plunder eastward.

And Gao Yigong, the thief's subordinate, led 3,000 men and horses south to Nanyang Mansion, and it was from that time that the situation between the two provinces was completely eroded.

At the beginning of this month, I got the news that the thieves had led their troops to break through the rope pond in Henan Mansion, and the soldiers arrived in Xin'an and Yiyang, and the Fu King of Luoyang sent people to ask for help.

At the same time, the thieves divided their troops in Yiyang and went south, entered Ruzhou, occupied Yiyang, and besieged the city of Ruzhou.

And the situation in Nanyang Mansion is even worse, half a month ago, the high power department of the thieves has grown to tens of thousands of people and attacked Nanyang.

Because of the thief's high level and the breakthrough of Nanyang, we were also impeached by Lord Yang.

At this time, Lord Yang, who was sitting in Xiangyang, had to go north from Xiangyang to prevent this group of thieves from entering Huguang again. ”

Li Zixiao listened to Li Xianfeng's story silently, but the more he listened, the more frightened he became.

He didn't expect that in just three months after Li Zicheng entered Henan, the situation in the Sanzhou Prefecture in the west of Henan was already so bad.

"This is much worse than history!"

Li Zixiao was also depressed in his heart, and Li Zicheng's expansion in Henan at this time was far greater than Li Zicheng in the same period in history in Li Zixiao's memory.

If Li Zicheng's expansion is followed, it will not take three or four months, and it is estimated that he will be able to come to Luoyang City, and Luoyang will be out of danger at that time.

Historically, Li Zicheng will not attack Luoyang until this winter, and will not attack Luoyang City until January next year.

At this time, Li Zicheng said that he should continue to retreat in Shangluo Mountain, and even if he came out occasionally, his range of activities was only limited to the western part of Henan Mansion and Nanyang Mansion.

"What is the reason that made Li Zicheng come out early, and his flow route seems to be different from history.

Could it be that it is affected by my little butterfly, but I have tried my best to avoid interfering with Li Zicheng's exhibition, is this not good?

Forget it, I don't want to do it so much, from the current point of view, no matter whether Li Zicheng left the mountain in advance or not, and how the route of the flow changes, his goal is still to keep an eye on Luoyang. ”

In fact, Li Zixiao also knew that although he had never had any contact with Li Zicheng and other rogues.

But his influence on Li Zicheng is still very large, after all, he poached Li Zicheng's most important subordinate in the future, Li Yan, in advance, which will directly affect Li Zicheng's next series of combat policies.

After all, in the original history, Li Yan should have joined Li Zicheng this year.

And seeing that Henan has been drought for many years, locusts and other disasters, and the people can no longer live, he timely proposed 'free land payment'.

At the same time, he suggested to Li Zicheng that he put forward the policy of 'not killing indiscriminately, helping the poor, recruiting talents, winning people's hearts, and fighting for the world according to Heluo'.

helped Li Zicheng rectify the military discipline of the righteous army, so that Li Zicheng's righteous army grew rapidly, it can be said that the power behind Li Zicheng expanded rapidly, and Li Yan made great contributions.

And Li Zixiao's series of policies in Xuzhou at this time were actually implemented in accordance with Li Yan's suggestions, and of course Li Yan also revised them according to Li Zixiao's different situations.

"Divide the land and reduce the endowment, and encourage business." This is the core of Li Zixiao's policy.

And 'help the poor, accumulate grain, occupy the righteousness, collect people's hearts, set the north of Jiangsu and look at Yulu, and when the time is ripe, take the Ming Dynasty and replace it. ’

This is the policy that Li Yan proposed to Li Zixiao again in Xuzhou to fight for hegemony.

All hit the nail on the head, and when it came to Li Zixiao's heart, it coincided with Li Zixiao's thoughts.

But at this time, Li Yan had already taken refuge in Li Zixiao, and would never appear under Li Zicheng again, but he didn't know what kind of changes would take place in Li Zicheng's policy.

At least for now, Li Zicheng's strategic vision is still good.

At this time, he also saw the weakness of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the various natural and man-made disasters in Henan for many years, so that the people could not live for a long time, and knew that that kind of place was the soil suitable for them to breed.

As for why Li Zicheng's current combat style is much more radical than in history, Li Zixiao does not know, and most likely Li Zicheng has a new master around him to guide him.

Anyway, since ancient times, there has been no shortage of talents in Huaxia, but many talented people lack a stage for them to display their talents.

Perhaps, the position vacated by Li Yan's side by Li Zicheng will be filled by others immediately.

"Lord Li, Master Li, are you listening?"

"Ah, listen, the Governor continues!" Li Zixiao felt that he came back to his senses and said.

Li Xianfeng obviously saw that Li Zixiao was distracted just now, but he couldn't say anything, and continued to introduce him: "Half a month ago, the saint ordered Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Shandong, to lead his troops to help Luoyang.

At this time, the 20,000 horses led by General Liu had arrived in Luoyang, advanced to Xin'an and Yiyang, and effectively stopped the thieves. ”

"I don't know where Lord Lu and Lord Governor want me to lead my troops to suppress the bandits? It won't be to Luoyang too. ”

Li Zixiao asked out loud, what he was most worried about was going to Luoyang, although Luoyang was a rich place, but for Li Zixiao, it was also a stove.

Whoever passes now will be roasted on the fire, and will face Li Zicheng's most powerful soldier.

This territory in Luoyang is targeted by Li Zicheng, it is a jackal, but it is not so easy to deal with, so Li Zixiao does not want to go to Luoyang.

"Luoyang has 20,000 horses of General Liu's soldiers, which is enough, and now trouble appears in Ruzhou, once the thieves' subordinates capture Ruzhou.

They can obtain a large amount of food and ordnance in the city of Ruzhou, and then they will go north from Ruzhou to attack Luoyang, and Luoyang will be in danger.

Therefore, Ruzhou must not fall into the hands of thieves, and after discussing with Lord Lu, I decided to send your men and horses to support Ruzhou, and finally be able to exterminate the bandits raging in Ruzhou.

When the time comes, let's talk about going north and Liu Zongbing to deal with the people of the thief headquarters. Li Xianfeng touched his sheep's beard and said to Li Zixiao.

Originally, Li Xianfeng was worried that Li Zixiao would not agree, after all, Ruzhou could not be compared with Luoyang, even if it was a state capital, it was still a small city with few people and was relatively barren.

It can be compared with the wealth of Luoyang, otherwise the Shandong general army would have chosen to go to Luoyang without hesitation, instead of going to Ruzhou or going south to Nanyang.

"Okay, I know, I will lead my troops to Ruzhou to support."

But to Li Xianfeng's surprise, Li Zixiao didn't even bargain, so he agreed in one go.

At the same time, Li Zixiao was in his heart at this time, and sneered: God really help me, although Ruzhou is small, it is a profitable land, and Luoyang cannot go for the time being.

And Ruzhou is just south of Luoyang, as long as I control Ruzhou in my hands, when Li Zicheng really captures Luoyang, maybe I can fish in troubled waters and eat a bite of meat!

Of course, Li Xianfeng didn't know what Li Zixiao thought, but Li Zixiao agreed so readily, which still made Li Xianfeng feel good.

Li Xianfeng patted Li Zixiao's shoulder and said with relief: "Lord Li is really loyal and brave to the country, and when the general exterminates the bandits in Ruzhou, I will work with Lord Lu to ask for credit to the saint and Lord Li." ”

"Lord Governor, let's go to Ruzhou to suppress bandits, but this time I only brought half a month's grain from Xuzhou, and all our food supplies in Ruzhou in the future will be provided by Kaifeng Prefecture."

Li Zixiao finally raised this important question, he didn't want to lead his soldiers to fight on the front line, but the imperial court would not provide them with food and make them hungry.

"Lord Li, rest assured, all the food supplies you have for the bandits in Ruzhou will be provided by Kaifeng Mansion and Ruzhou Prefecture." Li Xianfeng gritted his teeth and said.

"Okay, since the adults have said so, then the lower officials don't have any requirements. Our men are ready to open at any time. Li Zixiao straightened his waist and said loudly.

"Okay, the military situation in Ruzhou is urgent, Lord Li asked his men to rest for one night, and finally they will come out tomorrow."

"Okay, I'll go out of the city later, straighten out the soldiers and horses, and start tomorrow morning." Li Zixiao agreed.

"Master Lee." At this time, after Li Xianfeng finished speaking, Lu Xiangsheng stood up and said.

"After you arrive in Ruzhou, first hold Ruzhou, and then seize the opportunity to attack and defeat the bandits who encircle and suppress them, and I grant you the right to make a decision on the spot.

When the time comes, you will be in charge of the defense of Ruzhou, and I hope to hear your good news in Kaifeng as soon as possible. ”

"Obey the order, the two adults are waiting to drink the official's celebration bar."

After speaking, Li Zixiao did not hide in Kaifeng Mansion anymore, and went straight out of Kaifeng to the White Dragon Army camp outside the city.

Li Zixiao didn't take Kaifeng for two hours, and he hurried out again, this was the first time he came to Kaifeng, but it would never be the last.

"Pass the order, the whole army has a good rest tonight, start tomorrow morning, rush to Ruzhou, and send Xu Wei's 'iron-blooded battalion' as the vanguard to open the way in advance."

After Li Zixiao returned to the White Dragon Army camp, he asked Quartz to convey orders to the soldiers of the White Dragon Army.

Subsequently, Li Zixiao gathered his generals to discuss things in his big tent and decided on the route to Ruzhou.

In the end, after Li Zixiao and his generals discussed, they decided to go through Zhongmu, to Zhengzhou, and then south to Xinzheng, bypassing Jingshan, to Yuzhou.

Finally, they entered the territory of Ruzhou, rested in Jiaxian, and then supported Ruzhou. ’

Li Zixiao and his generals discussed this marching route is relatively conservative.

Li Zixiao has always warned himself that when entering Henan to suppress bandits, he must be cautious, not seeking merit, but seeking no fault, no matter whether he can exterminate the bandits or not, he must not let his men and horses lose too much.

Since it has been discussed, Li Zixiao ordered to bury the pot and cook, so that the soldiers can eat and rest tonight, and they will still have the energy to march tomorrow morning.

By the early morning of the next day, a little more ugly, in the camp of the White Dragon Army. The soldiers of Xu Wei and Qi Lin's 'Iron and Blood Battalion' started in advance just after breakfast.

And the Chinese army under Li Zixiao's command, after the Tao was over, all began to assemble, and the sky was still dark at that time.

"Lord Lu, do you think that after this Lord Li arrives in Ruzhou, can he really stop the decline there?"

Li Xianfeng and Lu Xiangsheng stood on the city gate tower in the morning, looking at the long dragons of torches winding in the west of the city, and asked.

"I hope he lives up to his expectations." Lu Xiangsheng looked out of the city with his eyes and said in a low voice.

(End of chapter)

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