For Song Xiance, there is actually no risk in making such a decision. If the judgment is accurate, it is of course Song Xiance's foresight. If the judgment is wrong, then Song Xiance has left enough escape paths for his words. And at that time

Chuangying had completed the campaign goal of capturing Kaifeng. After this great victory, Li Zicheng would definitely be very open-minded, and he would not blame Song Xiance for the small mistakes in his judgment.

This discussion also caused a slight change in the deployment of the Li and Luo coalition forces. They have regarded the siege of Kaifeng City as a secondary goal and put the encirclement and reinforcements in the primary position. Of course, the Li and Luo coalition forces are now

The army's military resources are quite sufficient, so reducing some of the troops besieging Kaifeng City will not have any impact.

After solving such an important issue, everyone discussed some trivial matters. Seeing that the corners of Li Zicheng's eyes were already a little tired, Li Yan and the others resigned knowingly. However, Song Xiance remained motionless in his seat.

Li Zicheng said: "The student has something to discuss with King Chuang alone."

When everyone left the study, Song Xiance approached Li Zicheng and whispered: "King Chuang! There is only one dragon chair, two people cannot sit on it!"

Li Zicheng was shocked by Song Xiance's sudden words. He tried hard to suppress his excitement and asked in a low voice: "What did Mr. Song say?"

"King Chuang! What the student said today was from the bottom of his heart. Some of his words were unpleasant and unpleasant to express, so please don't blame me if you offend me."

"What are you talking about? After your husband came to my camp, when did he not think about our camp? Sir, just say it clearly."

"Okay! I'll ask you one more question here, King Chuang. How sure do you think you are of winning the world?"

Li Zicheng pondered for a while and affirmed: "50%! As long as Kaifeng is captured, it will be 50%!"

Song Xiance smiled and said: "Does King Chuang think so? After taking Kaifeng, he immediately went south to pacify Runing and returned to Germany. He first occupied Henan and Huguang provinces in the Central Plains, and then went west to seize Sichuan and Shaanxi, and then went out

The army passed through Shanxi and headed north to Zhili to seize the city of Beijing. In one fell swoop, they occupied most of China, and then swept away the remaining remnants in various places, to try to conquer the world in one fell swoop?"

"That's it." Li Zicheng's words to Song Xiance were a little strange, "Isn't this decided by several gentlemen and the generals in the camp together?"

"Haha!" Song Xiance said with a smile, "What King Chuang said is right. But what we were talking about at that time was the general trend of the world, not the internal situation of our rebel army. According to what students have heard today, if King Chuang is still like this, you can be sure at most that

Thirty percent, or even a little less.”

"Huh? Why do you say that, sir?" Although he understood the meaning of Song Xiance's words, Li Zicheng still frowned.

"King Chuang! There are no two days in the sky, and there can't be two leaders in the rebel army. According to the students: Cao Cao failed to succeed and failed too much. Now we should find a way..." Song Xiance gestured with his hand to chop with a knife.

The gesture explained what he meant.

After Li Zicheng heard this, he did not scold Song Xiance as if he was pretending. Instead, he took off the felt hat on his head and rolled it over and over in his hands.

After rolling around for a while, Li Zicheng also opened his heart to Song Xiance: "Sir! I know that Mr. Li is loyal and courageous, and this is just for the sake of our camp. But... I am afraid of what the people in the world will think!"

With the rapid expansion of the strength of the Chuang camp, Li Zicheng and the others' confidence has indeed doubled. And now everyone in the Chuang camp has indeed begun to dream of becoming princes and generals. So now Li Zicheng has begun to build an archway. They want to

It showed the legitimacy, formality and justice of his own camp, so he had some scruples about annexing other peasant army troops.

After hearing Li Zicheng express his feelings personally, Song Xiance was greatly refreshed. He asked again: "King Chuang! If there is no rebel army from Cao Cao now, can we defeat General Wu of Runing by just relying on us to break into the camp?"

officers and soldiers?”

Li Zicheng thought about it and replied: "If we go all out to break into the camp, the winning rate will be as high as 80% or more. However, in this way, our strength in breaking into the camp will also be greatly reduced."

Until now, Li Zicheng and others still estimate based on the land income in Runing and Guide: the strength of the Runing army is about 30,000 to 40,000. To be honest, their estimate is not as good as that of the army in Shengjing, Liaodong.

Huang Taiji is far from the actual strength of the current Runing Army.

However, this is also inseparable from the fact that the Runing Army has always kept a low profile, the Ming Dynasty's backward communication conditions, the Runing Army has been strictly implementing the "Three Decree", and the Runing Army's Internal Affairs Department has been effective in its work.

Song Xiance began to persuade: "King Chuang! As you said, what chance does Chuangying, whose strength has been greatly reduced, have the chance to win the world? If Cao Cao really fled to Shaanxi as he said, then our chances will be immediately reduced to 30%. And the two armies combined

In one place, there is only a five-point certainty, and we have to be careful that Cao Cao sends troops but fails to do anything. What is even more worrying now is that when the newly attached troops see Cao Cao being carefree, they will all be tempted and want to go to him. If

If this goes on for a long time, our camp will be in danger! But if we get Cao Cao's 40,000 to 50,000 troops, and under the unification of power, your chances of Chuang Wang will be doubled to 70%. This time, Chuang Wang, you will always

It’s time to understand!”

Because he wanted to establish his own political power, Li Zicheng's camp has now begun to restrict the looting of his troops, and allocate the weak labor force to start farming in the army. Discipline has also become strict, and basically does not disturb the people.

However, Cao Cao and Luo Rucai's troops still maintained their rogue nature. They enjoyed eating and drinking spicy food every day. After eating all the troops, they would be recruited on the spot, that is, they would rob them on the spot. Such a life of getting something for nothing was quite attractive, and it also gave soldiers who broke into the camp a lot of money.

It set a bad example. Many veterans of the Ming army who were accustomed to oppressing the people and the small peasant army and bandits who were attached to them all liked to live in Cao Cao's camp, and even some of the men who broke into the camp escaped.

What is even more irritating is that Cao Cao and Luo Rucai are still very serious about returning home in glory, and among his army of more than 50,000 people, veterans of the former Shaanxi Qin Army account for the vast majority. Therefore, when Luo Rucai saw that he was now

The soldiers and horses were strong, so they kept clamoring to divide their troops and return to Shaanxi. This gave Li Zicheng an even greater headache.

If it weren't for the purpose of maintaining the alliance between the two armies, breaking into the camp might have caused friction long ago. If Li Zicheng hadn't been suppressing it, his disgruntled generals wouldn't have swallowed their anger like they did now.

Li Zicheng thought about Song Xiance's words. He rolled his felt hat a few more times, then put the hat on his head and said, "We have to wait until we defeat Kaifeng and then defeat Butcher Wu. For now, just be patient! But

Mr. Song, before we take action, only you and I can know about this matter! It must not be spread outside!"

Song Xiance smiled and nodded, then took a long breath...

"Then shall we send an envoy to Cao Cao's camp to stabilize him?" Li Zicheng then asked with a smile.

"Of course!" After solving the problem in his mind, Song Xiance felt relaxed. "In addition to the envoys from Cao Cao, send another group of envoys! Let them go to Runing and discuss with Commander Wu there. If he

If he joins our camp, we will make him a prince and give him a border province so that he can become a country."

"Hahaha——! Will Butcher Wu believe it?" Li Zicheng was also amused by Song Xiance's whims.

"Believe it or not, maybe he really agreed. Otherwise, why didn't General Wu take advantage of the good opportunities in the past to attack us and break into the camp? Even if it doesn't work, it's just a delaying tactic. If it's delayed,

In the last two or three months, Kaifeng City was in the hands of our camp, so it’s not up to him. Hahaha——!”

"|Hahaha——! Not to mention, this is a good plan by Mr. Song! If the negotiation can be completed, what if Wu Butcher is given a prince title and given to several provinces in the southwest? Even if it fails, it is nothing more than

Just a few people and some property. Hahaha——!”

…

Runing, in Wu Shigong's study.

"It is said that the King of Hell is easy to meet, but the devil is difficult to deal with. I didn't expect that the current Lord of Hell is so difficult to deal with. It was not easy to send Governor Yang away, and then Governor Hou came. Fortunately, he was sent to him through hard work and coercion.

We went to Zuo Fool. What we enjoy is that we feel relaxed. Hahaha——" Wu Shigong laughed.

Deng Qifan also laughed a few times, and then reported: "There is news from General Zuo: He also gave the Hou Governor 5,000 troops as his standard camp, which is really a big gesture. In comparison, Chang Jing

You are much more stingy."

After the defeat in Zhuxian Town, Yang Wenyue fled to Guide with his remaining troops, and then gathered the remaining troops of Hu Dawei, with only over 7,000 troops. After that, Yang Wenyue hid in Guide and refused to leave.

He didn't dare to fight with the peasant army anymore, he just kept grinding Wu Shigong, asking him to make up for his losses.

But this made Wu Shigong very troubled. Although he kept scolding Yang Wenyue behind his back: How could his governor of Zhili live and work in peace and contentment in Guide? But in person, Wu Shigong did not want to quarrel, so in the end he could only

He gave Yang Wenyue a batch of food, wages and weapons, and respectfully sent these plague gods out of the country.

Unexpectedly, just after Yang Wenyue left, the commander Hou Xun came to Runing again. He wanted to use the Runing army as the main force to create the core of a new encirclement and suppression army.

But how could Wu Shigong agree to this idea? No matter what, Wu Shigong was not willing to let Runingjun have a mother-in-law on his head, no matter how good the relationship was. So Wu Shigong used all means and spent a lot of money.

The high price finally coaxed Hou Xun to go to Zuo Liangyu.

When Hou Xun rushed to Zuo Liangyu's tribe, because his suggestion was vetoed by Emperor Chongzhen, he had no choice but to order Zuo Liangyu's and Wu Shigong's tribe to go north. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature for more novel updates.
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