In this way, it will be much easier to encircle and suppress these miscellaneous bandits. The general process is that when they arrive at a certain place, the White Lotus Sect in a certain place will take the initiative to come to the door and tell Qin Shuhuai where the Liukou are stationed, and Qin Shuhuai will casually send a few thousand people up to fight them, and they will be surrounded and annihilated by three strikes and five divided by two.

However, Qin Shuhuai suppressed all the rogues who were not in the miscellaneous, and most of them were not famous, because some of the famous miscellaneous rogues were all concentrated around Weinan City under Li Zicheng's arrangement.

Just stopped all the way, and it was supposed to take more than two days to reach the city of Weinan, but it took five days. However, more than 20,000 rogues were eliminated on the way—although they were all vulnerable, leaving the officers and soldiers without a sense of accomplishment.

After arriving at a certain open space twenty miles outside Weinan City, Qin Shuhuai set up camp, and then sent a large number of factory guard elites to reconnoiter near Weinan City.

He expected that the rogues of Shaanxi had already gathered here, and if they did not find out clearly, they would inevitably suffer losses.

In the evening, seven or eight groups of White Lotus Sect people came to his station, and these people were all miscellaneous people from all walks of life outside Weinan, and some of them even became quite a leader.

Based on the information of these seven or eight groups of people, Qin Shuhuai was happy, and basically the distribution of the rogues around Weinan City had already jumped on paper.

Cui Shanhu's 10,000 men were stationed at Baiheling, seven miles west of Weinan City; 15,000 men from nine dragons were stationed on the upper and northern slopes six miles north of Weinan City; and eight miles away from the east of Weinan City, 12,000 men from Qilang were stationed, and near him there was a bandit leader known as the Pillar of Heaven, with 8,000 men......

After comprehensive calculation, there are about 60,000 miscellaneous rogues around Weinan City, and about 56,000 "elite soldiers" under Li Zicheng's department in Weinan City.

The Art of War: Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles. Now the entire Weinan City and its surroundings are armed, like a woman who has taken off her clothes, let Qin Shuhuai see enough, what is the difficulty of this battle?

After summoning the generals and discussing it briefly, they quickly worked out a battle plan. The plan is very simple, that is, the officials and troops will first fight the miscellaneous rogues on the periphery, and see if Li Zicheng can come out to save them. If he doesn't come out to save them, then first wipe out those miscellaneous rogues, and if he comes out to save them, then the two sides will start a decisive battle in the field - this is something that the officials and soldiers can't ask for!

The army rested in place for the night, during which the guards rode out in all directions, hunting down suspicious people in the vicinity, so that the rogues could not find out the information of the army so easily.

It was repaired until five o'clock in the ugly hour, and before dawn, Qin Shuhuai ordered the army to prepare to start and start suppressing the bandits according to the previous plan.

According to the arrangement, He Kegang and He Renlong will take 25,000 men and horses to Baiheling, seven miles west of the city, to encircle and suppress Cui Shanhu's 10,000 people. Qin Shuhuai and Zhang Xiao took 20,000 horses to encircle and suppress 15,000 men of nine dragons eight miles east of the city. The reason why the two places were suppressed first was mainly because he was afraid that Li Zicheng would lead a large army to come to the rescue, and if the officers and troops divided too many troops, they might be broken by each one. And the risk of splitting into two groups is not big, because Baiheling and Shangbeipo are not far apart, if you encounter Li Zicheng's army, the two armies will soon be able to converge.

Just as he was about to set off, he heard a report from someone outside the account.

"Qi Qi Hou Ye, there is a person outside the door, who said that he is a close confidant of Liu Guoneng under Gao Yingxiang's account, and he can help Hou Ye take Weinan City. ”

In the big tent, He Kegang, Zhang Xiao, He Renlong, Meng Wei, Meng Hu, Zhiren, Wang Datong, Chang Wuji and others were all surprised, and even Qin Shuhuai frowned.

Meng Hu said, "Isn't it a trick made by the rogue?"

Zhiren smiled, "That's not for sure, maybe Liu Guoneng is afraid." ”

Qin Shuhuai thought for a moment and said, "Let him in." ”

After a while, a thin middle-aged man came in, and as soon as he saw Qin Shuhuai, he knelt down and kowtowed in an orderly manner.

"The little Liu Guoneng under the personal guard captain traveled to the sky and the monkey king to meet the Marquis of Qin. ”

This guy didn't forget to report his nickname when he came down, as if he was afraid that Qin Shuhuai would not pay attention to him.

Qin Shuhuai said unhurriedly, "Get up." ”

After Wang Sihai got up, he took out a letter from his arms, bent down respectfully, held the letter above his head, and said, "Qi Hou Ye, the little one is my master, oh no, it is on the order of the thief Liu Guoneng to present a letter of surrender to the Hou Ye." Liu Guoneng said that as long as Hou Ye is willing to spare the lives of him and his brothers, he will cooperate with Hou Ye to help the imperial court recover Weinan City. ”

After hearing this, everyone immediately looked at Qin Shuhuai, and no one spoke.

Meng Wei took the letter and handed it to Qin Shuhuai.

Qin Shuhuai opened the letter and took a closer look, and couldn't help but be moved.

This letter is a bloody letter, in which Liu Guoneng described in detail how Li Zicheng killed Gao Yingxiang and convened the Weinan Conference to establish himself as the king. Moreover, he also made it very clear the direct reason for his surrender to the official army, that is, he was afraid that Li Zicheng would become the 15,000 soldiers and horses in his hands and harm him. Rather than that, he surrendered to the officers and soldiers.

After reading the letter, Qin Shuhuai quietly handed it to Meng Wei and asked them to read it too.

Then he sank into deep thought. The letter was so informative that he needed to analyze them one by one.

First of all, Gao Yingxiang was killed by Li Zicheng, is this possible?

Qin Shuhuai groaned and felt that it was very possible. When Li Zicheng rebelled back then, he killed his old boss Wang Guo, who was so kind to him, so why not kill Gao Yingxiang for the sake of ambition now? Moreover, didn't Li Zicheng in history later change from a "general" to a "king", but now it is just a little earlier?

Secondly, Liu Guoneng wants to surrender the official army, is this possible?

This is going to start with the life trajectory of Liu Guoneng in history......

At this time, He Kegang said, "Master Hou, this Liu Guoneng is a big name, I heard of it when I was in Liaodong, and it is said that he is very good at planning and fighting, he only had about 30 people at the beginning, and it has expanded to more than 18,000 people in two years. ”

He Renlong also said, "Master Hou, the last general and Liu Guoneng have fought twice, and if you say something embarrassing, the last general did not take advantage of anything, but was beaten by him and Li Zicheng together...... In short, this person is not simple, Hou Ye needs to think twice!"

Meng Hu also said, "Master Hou, this old boy is coming down now, and he doesn't have any good intentions." Isn't this the 'deception' scheme that storytellers often talk about?"

Wang Sihai heard that none of the generals present believed it, and couldn't help but smile at the sky, "Haha, I think there are some great characters in the official army array, but I don't want to be a group of idiots who can't tell the difference between good and bad!"

When Meng Hu heard this, he was furious on the spot, and a dodge rushed up to clasp Wang Sihai's neck, and said in a condensed voice, "Boy, it's easy for you to lose your head when you talk like this." ”

Wang Sihai sneered disdainfully and said, "If you want to kill, you will kill." Kill me, and you can go and attack Weinan City. Without the help of my master, you don't want to conquer tens of thousands of people if you don't die. ”

Meng Hu was even more angry and was about to have a seizure, but he heard Qin Shuhuai say, "Meng Hu, retreat first." ”

Then, he walked up to Wang Sihai, smiled slightly, and said, "Heavenly Monkey, you said that General Liu wants to sacrifice the city, but I don't know how to sacrifice the law?"