In terms of road conditions at this time, it is about 200 miles from Ruzhou to Luoyang, although there is an official road from Nanyang to Luoyang."

However, it fell into disrepair."

It's not a good road.

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info over time"

The official road was full of rut marks with a height difference of one or two feet, and the carriages ran on them, swaying from side to side as if dancing, but the wheelbarrows went smoothly.

Even so"

The road from Ruzhou to Linru is not bad, after all, it is a land of flat rivers.

After Daxingbao, to the territory of Song County, there are dozens of miles of hills and mountains, and then follow Yishui to the north to Longmen Pass, the mountain roads in these two places are even more difficult to walk.

The Shunxiang army had a large number of wagons, mules and horses, which did not require manpower, and they traveled empty, although they dragged ten heavy Hongyi cannons, the speed of the march could be maintained.

The main reason is that Chen Yongfu's heavy reinforcement team has slowed down the speed, the big enemy is nearby, and Chen Yongfu does not dare to divide any rear army, and all the radiant weights are accompanied by the Chinese army.

Their lifting team used wheelbarrows and large board carts to transport heavy tents and other things, and they relied on manpower to walk, and their physical strength and training were much inferior to those of the Shunxiang army, so this speed could not be fast, and this was still without transporting grain and grass.

Fortunately, there are Shunxiang troops, and their armor and other items can be transported by the heavy team, and the soldiers only have a well of weapons in their hands, which greatly reduces their burden.

Only the soldiers of the Shunxiang Army are still fully armed and fully armoured, and these well-nourished and well-trained professional soldiers are wearing dozens of catties of armor, marching and walking, all of them are in high spirits.

On the seventh day of the first day of the army, Li Guangheng's Gengbu cavalry Qianzong, together with Wen Daxing's Yebushu Qianzong, served as the front army to find out the enemy's situation and plan the place to camp.

They walked a hundred miles that day, and arrived at Daxingbao in the afternoon, where they prepared a good resting place and abundant food for the main army, so that as soon as the main force arrived, they could rest at ease and recover their strength.

In the evening, Wang Dou and Chen Yongfu led the army to arrive and walked a hundred miles, and the Shunxiang army was fine."

Chen Yongfu's battalion soldiers and those people were so tired that they couldn't breathe, but fortunately, the rest camp was perfect and the meals were abundant, so that they could recover their physical strength quickly.

Li Guangheng greeted Wang Dou and others at the camp, but Wen Daxing's Ye Bu collected them, but they continued to move forward and quietly dispersed to the area between Daxingbao and Longmen Pass.

They gathered the night guards in Luoyang, Yongning, Yiyang and other places in the past few days, and continuously sent back the latest information for the army.

According to the military routine, the Shunxiang army has gone deep into the bone marrow, and the Shunxiang army attaches great importance to the aspect of holding other sentinels.

According to Wang Dou's estimate, the hilly and mountainous areas from Daxingbao to Song County, as well as the mountains around Longmen Pass, are all good ambush places, and they need to be carefully investigated and beware of ambushes.

Sure enough"

Those invading troops did not change their stubborn nature, and there were no lures or ambushes in these two places.

Those lure soldiers were easily defeated by Li Guangheng's cavalry, and there was sentinel intelligence that did not collect at night, and Li Guangheng also took one step at a time, and he would not venture into the ambush at all, but just waited for the main force outside the ambush circle.

With the lessons of Liu Fangliang and others, the Chuang Army also knows the combat effectiveness of these officers and soldiers.

10,000 people have no chance of winning against 1,000 people, their main force of nearly 10,000 followed, and if they want to besiege, they are afraid that tens of thousands of people will be needed, so many troops and complicated planning, in a hurry, where can those generals who break into the army be busy?

After a few troubles, the intruders were bored and retreated.

The ambush ability they are good at is unscrupulous in front of the Shunxiang army.

The army was in danger all the way, which made Chen Yongfu rejoice, and he went on the road alone, afraid that he would be ambushed many times.

In Wang Dou's view, as long as an army has a good ability to sentry, the probability of being ambushed can be reduced by eight or ninety percent.

The officers and soldiers were repeatedly ambushed, and it was difficult for the Shunxiang army to be ambushed, and this is the reason.

From Daxingbao to Longmen Pass, the Shunxiang army and the forward battalion walked for two days, and on the afternoon of the ninth day of the first month, the army arrived at the Weiwan post on the left bank of Yishui.

Lee Kwang Heng's vanguard army"

Wait here early.

Although it was still early, Wang Dou still ordered to set up camp, with his own guards, as well as the generals of the Shunxiang Army, together with Chen Yongfu"

I visited the world-famous Longmen Grottoes with great interest.

Xiangshan and Longmen Mountain face each other, Yishui flows through it, and this Longmen Mountain is the crown of the eight views of Luoyang.

At this time, Yi Shui was already covered with thick ice, and standing on the ice surface and looking at both sides, it was like a natural gate.

Between the cliffs where the mountains and rivers depend on each other, there are countless Buddhist shrines and grottoes, or majestic or majestic, or lively or delicate, and a strong atmosphere of civilization comes to the face.

Wang Dou was amazed, Wang Dou was so interested, Chen Yongfu and Qin Yi beside him all showed proud expressions on their faces.

Although they are not from Luoyang, this Longmen Grottoes is also their pride.

Only Gao Shiyin muttered: "Some stones, what's so beautiful?"

”

, Wang Dou smiled and said: "Brother Gao, don't underestimate these grottoes, this is the essence of my Chinese civilization......"

Gao Shiyin said: "What the general said is that it is indeed the essence.

He tightened his cloak, and the confrontation between the two mountains here was like a wind outlet, standing there, the cold wind gusted, and it was extremely unbearable.

In Gao Shiyin's opinion, looking at these stone statues, it is better to go back to the camp to eat and drink some wine and meat.

Qin Yi said: "The Xiangshan monk once said: the suburbs of Luodu, the victory of mountains and rivers, and the first place in Longmen.

This grotto from the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty more than 400 years of excavation, there are more than 10000 caves gold, more than 100,000 statues, and there is the essence of the stele forest of calligraphy masters in the past dynasties.

Tang Ji Chu shot the monument of the Yique Buddha shrine in Zeng Shu, which can be called a model of Tang Kai.

The student is fortunate to have traveled in Luoyang for two years, and has stayed in Yique many times, if the general is interested, the student is willing to act as a guide.

”

Wang Dou was overjoyed: "With Mr. Qin's guide, I will definitely be able to return home today."

”

Wang Dou was indeed happy to return that day, but unfortunately, now the war is in chaos, and there is no tourist near the crown of the eight views of Luoyang, which is a fly in the ointment.

The local depression and dilapidation also made Wang Dou sigh, perhaps, the future is too peaceful, and he can do something.

Early in the morning of the 10th day of the first month, Wang Dou and Chen Yongfu led the army to set off, and the Longmen to Luoyang City was less than 30 miles, and at the end of the Ba Shi, their army reached the south bank of Luoshui.

The magnificent Luoyang city is like a picture scroll, majestic towering in the frozen north, in the clairvoyant mirror, you can see the famous Luoyang Nanguan Wharf outside Dong Feng Gate, the wharf gate tower that "Luona Yanguan"

Four big words are so clear.

Looking at this magnificent and majestic city, Wang Dou was overwhelmed."

Luojing, the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, was once the center of world civilization, but now it ...... "If you ask about the ancient and modern things, please only look at Luoyang City"

The ancients were honest and did not deceive me.

On the 10th day of the second month of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Yongning City.

Of course, this Yongning is not the Yongning City on the East Road of Xuanfu Town, but the Yongning City not far from Luoyang in Henan Province, which is called Luoning County in later generations.

Yongning City was originally the personal fiefdom of the King of Wan'an, at the beginning of the month was captured by Li Zicheng, the war was not fierce, under the combination of the hungry people, it can be described as breaking with a drum, and the casualties of the army were less than 100 people.

In Li Zicheng's view, the attack on Yongning City, has been regarded as a large casualty, when he broke through Yiyang, Yanshi, Xin'an Zhucheng, tens of thousands of troops surrounded, war drums beat, the local defenders immediately fled or surrendered, his army often did not lose a single soldier.

So far, in addition to the Luoyang city column in Henan Province, the remaining dozen cities have been owned by the Chuang army.

The military strategy was surprisingly smooth, especially the return of literati such as Li Yan Brothers, Niu Jinxing, and Song Xiance, and Song Xiance even presented "Eighteen Sons, the Main Artifact"

's proverbs made Li Zicheng's thinking begin to change, perhaps, he can also fight the country and win the world, right?

Therefore, he changed his previous days of attacking the city only for the jade silk woman, and began to take military discipline seriously: "Whoever kills one person is like killing my father, and whoever fornicates one person is like adultering my mother."

”

Li Yan also made up for him "Yingwen King, Don't Pay Food"

and other songs, and proposed "Juntian free grain"

and other slogans, so that his army is growing rapidly.

In every city he went, there were always hungry people who were willing to respond, so that his siege of the city could be described as effortless.

Absolutely"

Li Zicheng can't change the "abandoned city" that bulldozed the city wall

Actions, every time a city is captured, the local walls are leveled.

In order to support his army, the local government officials were also swept away by him.

Needless to say, the poor people have no food or drink, and now all the wealth, money, and grain of the big households everywhere are also owned by the army, in order to survive, they are "conscious" every day

The people who joined the army poured in like a tidal wave.

Basically, the ordinary people in the cities trapped in Ernanfu became his "soldiers"

, so calculated, the army soared to hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of "warriors"

, and not surprisingly.

For Li Zicheng, of course, it is a good thing to have more soldiers and horses, but in order to support these "sergeants"

, he had to keep conquering the city"

It also set a record of capturing three cities in seven days, and everywhere he went, he swept away the local wealth and silk, and added tens of thousands of "soldiers"

, the pressure is heavier, and then move on to the next stop...... There is pressure, there is motivation, although it is difficult to feed the soldiers and horses under his command, but Li Zicheng is not too worried, Daming has more cities, and more people and wealth.

There are eight mansions in Henan alone, Henan Mansion is swept away, you can go to Kaifeng Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion is swept away, you can go to Nanyang Mansion.

It is the whole of Henan that has been swept away, and you can go to Huguang.

Huguang is gone, you can go to Shaanxi.

The world is so big, where can I not go?

As long as there are soldiers and horses in hand, this great tomorrow will be a good stage for heroes and heroes to display their goals.

Yongning is a beautiful place, with beautiful rivers and splendid culture.

However, there is less arable land in the territory, there are seven mountains, two plateaus and one river, and most of the fields are mainly early land and early slope land.

In the current climate of the Ming Dynasty, the seedlings can't survive when watered, let alone on the dry slopes.

Most of the land in the territory was also occupied by the king of Wan'an and the local official Shen Haojie, and the drought for several years also made the local people extremely poor.

Although Wu Dalie, the county governor of Yongning, is also fair and honest, and there are many good deeds to help the victims on weekdays, it does not prevent the poor and crazy hungry people from cooperating with the outside world, cooperating with the army to fall Yongning County, and finally because of forcing the county seal to find the whereabouts of the county seal, Wu Dalie was tortured to death by Li Zicheng.

A magistrate is dead, and the local people can't take care of so much, because Li Zicheng dared to kill the king of Wan'an, his prestige was even more shocking, and there was an endless stream of people who joined the army.

There are also horse thieves, mountain bandits, swordsmen, poles, etc., who are all recruited by Li Zicheng and become foot soldiers or horse teams of the army.