Gao Yingxiang is indeed kind to Li Zicheng, but Li Zicheng believes that Gao Yingxiang lacks the bearing and ability to rule the world, and he may not be able to realize the ideal in his heart, or to put it bluntly, ambition!

Li Zicheng, who has always been conceited, feels that he still has to rely on himself for everything. If he is the "king of Chuang", he will definitely not lose Shangluo, and now that the official army has already been defeated, the good situation of the army in southern Shaanxi will never be ruined in one fell swoop.

Looking at the door of the room where Gao Yingxiang was, only a dozen haggard guards guarded him, Li Zicheng felt in the dark that this was the opportunity God gave him.

He summoned some of his henchmen and said to them, "What if the king is so frightened that he is so sick that he is so sick that he is not cured?"

Several henchmen naturally understood the meaning of his words, and immediately said, "I am the 'general' who takes over!"

Li Zicheng smiled slightly, finally showed his hideousness, and said, "Since this is the case, then I'll go and send King Chuang a ride!"

At three o'clock on June 23, the third year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's nephew Li Guo led 200 people to kill more than a dozen of Gao Yingxiang's guards and broke into Gao Yingxiang's house. Gao Yingxiang, who was startled in his sleep, was quickly held down by a group of big men, and then Li Guo covered him to death with a wet towel.

The vigorous generation of King Chuang fell, and he probably never dreamed that he would end his life in this way.

Subsequently, Li Zicheng sent people to kill more than a dozen soldiers in the outpost, cleaned up the scene, pretended that King Chuang died of illness, and then carried his body back to Weinan City.

After returning to the teacher, Li Zicheng told Liu Guoneng and others the news of King Chuang's "death". Liu Guoneng was a little suspicious, because he had not heard the news of King Chuang's illness before, and just a few hours after Li Zicheng left, King Chuang "died of illness"? He was full of doubts and did not dare to openly doubt Li Zicheng, after all, Li Zicheng's prestige and power were far greater than his, and in terms of soldiers and horses, Li Zicheng had nearly 40,000 descendants, and he was only 15,600. However, after the seeds of suspicion were planted, he decided to find out in secret.

Due to the imminent advance of the official army, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Weinan City did not mourn in secret according to Li Zicheng's arrangement. But Li Zicheng was anxious to take the position, so he naturally wanted to inform all the rogues to know about this matter.

At this time, the major generals under the tent of King Chuang, such as Liu Guoneng, Man Tianxing, Chaotian King, One Gust of Wind, Liu Jiusi, etc., were all in Weinan City, and Li Zicheng notified all the rogues near Weinan, such as Cui Shanhu, Qilang, Jiutiaolong and others, and summoned all these people to Weinan City to negotiate follow-up matters.

Unsurprisingly, under the unanimous recommendation of everyone, Li Zicheng inherited the name of "King Chuang" after the death of the old King Gao Yingxiang, and became the new leader of all walks of life!

After two years, Li Zicheng finally became the tyrant among bandits.

And just when Li Zicheng was meeting with leaders from all walks of life, Liu Guoneng quietly went out under the pretext of going out, came to the place where Gao Yingxiang's body was stored, and used money to buy off the guards, so that he could go in to "pay respects to his remains". In the house, Liu Guoneng saw several scratches on Gao Yingxiang's arms and other parts, and through careful observation of his mouth and nose, he concluded that Gao Yingxiang was covered to death, not by illness.

Liu Guoneng, who was cold behind him, immediately withdrew from the house, and once again bribed the guards with a lot of money, asking him to keep it safe and not to mention himself to anyone. The guard wouldn't say anything, otherwise he wouldn't have any good fruit to eat, would he?

Liu Guoneng returned to the house as if nothing had happened, and continued to discuss with the rogues how to defend Weinan City. At this time, his heart was turned upside down, and he knew that since Li Zicheng would kill Gao Yingxiang, he would kill him one day. Because in terms of prestige, whether in Gao Yingxiang's department or in the hearts of all the rogues, he is second only to Li Zicheng. Moreover, he and Li Zicheng have always been at odds, and he still has 15,000 troops in his hands, so Li Zicheng has even more reasons to kill him.

But in fact, Li Zicheng didn't want to move Liu Guoneng at all, at least not now. The reason is very simple, the official army is about to make a comeback, isn't he looking for death when he fights with Liu Guoneng at this time?

With Li Zicheng's shrewdness, he naturally would not do such a stupid thing. Therefore, at the Weinan Conference, Li Zicheng took the initiative to give Liu Guoneng the name of his "general". He hoped that this would dispel Liu Guoneng's doubts.

But Liu Guoneng was in great shock and fear, and he didn't believe Li Zicheng at all.

The Weinan Conference lasted all night, and under the chairmanship of Li Zicheng, a relatively complete defense plan for Weinan was formulated.

According to this plan, the allied forces and the defenders in Weinan City will rely on the strong Weinan City to carry out internal and external joint defense, and according to Li Zicheng's estimate, it will not be a problem to hold it for half a month. And as long as he holds on for half a month, Weinan can be saved, because he knows that Huangtaiji in the north has already gone south, and Qin Shuhuai must go north to Jizhen to guard the Jingshi - compared to Shaanxi, the Jingshi is naturally a hundred times more important! And once Qin Shuhuai withdraws his troops, he Li Zicheng will definitely be able to make a comeback. This time, he wants to control the whole territory of Shaanxi!

Let's say that Qin Shuhuai led an army of 45,000 and set off from Shangluo and went to Weinan along the line of Banqiao, Li Miao, Dongyu and Jiujianfang. Of his 45,000 troops, 5,000 were the best men selected from among the rogues who had surrendered.

Qin Shuhuai did not slaughter all the surrendered rogues before setting out on the expedition, this is not because he was merciful all of a sudden, but because he had two considerations. First, the strength of the official army is currently seriously insufficient, and it is difficult to recruit soldiers, so he plans to select a certain number of strong men from among the rogues, and after strict training, they can be used by the officers and soldiers. He didn't worry that these rogues would turn against the water, because they didn't have any firm beliefs, and they joined Gao Yingxiang's department just to make a living, so they could be naturalized - back then, the Mongols could naturalize a large number of displaced people who had been slaughtered to help them fight, and now he wants to naturalize the same Han Liukou, so why can't he naturalize them? Second, he needs these soldiers to make a living advertisement, indicating that the surrendered officers and soldiers may not die, and they can live well, so as to reduce the will to fight of other rogues.

So, he first killed all the big and small leaders in the more than 20,000 soldiers, killing more than 2,000 people in total, and among the remaining ordinary soldiers, he selected about 10,000 strong men, and added them to the major battalions after scattering. And most of the rest are old and weak soldiers, as well as those who look like roe deer and rat-eyed and slick (yes, just look at the face, who made you a rogue?), and they were all secretly and in batches taken somewhere outside the city and executed en masse!

Straight to the point. When Qin Shuhuai led the army south, the White Lotus Sect people mixed in the ranks of the rogues played a huge role. Elder Yue said before that most of the funds of the White Lotus Sect in recent years have been spent on the disaster victims, in fact, they are mainly spent on the three sides, because the three sides have the most disaster victims. Because of this, many of the victims on the three sides joined the White Lotus Sect, and after being brainwashed, they mixed into the ranks of the rogues. There are not many White Lotus Sect members in Gao Yingxiang's department, because as I said before, Gao Yingxiang has carried out several major purges internally, and many White Lotus Sect people have been cleansed. However, there are many White Lotus Sect people in the other rogue circles, it is said that there are at least a thousand people in total, if it weren't for Qin Shuhuai coming to the three sides, these White Lotus Sect people still want to continue to develop, and they want to control a few rogues!