Li Laiheng easily captured the two county towns of Ye County and Wuyang County, which surprised Yuan Shizhong, who was active in the Linying area. He had originally agreed to attack Liu Guoneng with Li Laiheng through the contact of Liu Jingting, the envoy who broke into the camp.
But in fact, when Li Laiheng attacked Ye County and fought a decisive battle with Liu Guoneng, Xiao Yuanying turned a corner and avoided Ye County, and instead plundered Chen and Ying.
To put it bluntly, Yuan Shizhong broke the contract. He used Li Laiheng to contain Liu Guoneng, so that Xiao Yuanying could easily control the states and counties in eastern Henan and made a fortune.
So when Yuan Shizhong heard that Liu Jingting, the envoy who broke into the camp, had arrived near Linying again, he was startled. He wondered if Li Laiheng was angry because he had missed the appointment and was preparing to attack Xiao Yuan's camp with fire?
It was still raining lightly outside the military camp, and the rain sparsely hit the leaves. The dust was wetted by the rain, and the outside of the camp became muddy. Yuan Shizhong couldn't care about the haze and rain anymore. He only wore a short jacket over his shoulders.
He then personally went to the gate of the military camp to greet Liu Jingting.
Mr. Liu still looks like an elder with white hair and white beard. He is already old, but he has taken on the most arduous and arduous task of envoy for Li Laiheng. All in order to get more from Li Laiheng that Liu Jingting is most interested in.
The anecdotes of the rivers and lakes and the stories of heroic heroes are good for the creation of narrative scripts.
Yuan Shizhong only approved short cloth shoes, and despite the rain and mud, he went to the camp gate to meet Liu Jingting in person, which made the old gentleman have a good impression of this "righteous thief".
He bowed to Yuan Shizhong and said softly: "How has General Yuan been doing since we were away last time? How can I not feel deeply ashamed to come to see him in person despite the wind and rain?"
Yuan Shizhong wiped the rainwater on his head with the back of his hand and replied: "I am in very good health and have no discomfort. There is no need to worry about the old gentleman. Ever since I met with the old gentleman and Mr. Leshan last time, I feel that both of you are precious to me."
It is even more necessary for the army to cooperate. Now Henan is in chaos, with only a hundred people surviving, and it is necessary for the rebels to join hands to rectify the prefectures and counties."
He was worried that Li Laiheng was going to settle the old score of Xiao Yuan camp's failure to arrive, so he hurriedly said: "After I agreed with your army to attack Liu Guoneng from both sides last time, I led my troops southward at night to attack Liu and Li's queen. But I didn't expect that Li Laiheng would attack Liu Guoneng.
The city gentry recruited local warriors and defended the city very strongly. Xiao Yuan's camp was not as good at attacking as the invading army. It was thwarted by the local soldiers and set foot on the city. It was too late to advance even an inch and missed the opportunity for a decisive battle. I originally wanted to appoint someone to go to Ye.
The county commander explained that the old gentleman came to Linying first."
Li Laiheng took advantage of Yuan Shizhong, so of course he had to keep this account in mind first. It was just that there was no benefit in breaking up with Yuan Shizhong now, so Li Laiheng took the initiative to send Liu Jingting to Linying to declare his friendship.
After listening to Yuan Shizhong's explanation, the old man comforted him, saying that Chuangying didn't care about this, but was very concerned about the setback of Yuan Yingdun's army in Lincheng. He also sent Yuan Shizhong a list saying that
Li Laiheng has raised a large amount of grain and fodder materials and is preparing to give them to Xiao Yuanying as compensation.
When Yuan Shizhong saw the numbers of grain, silver, equipment and weapons written on the list, he was secretly happy at first, and then he was shocked. He quickly returned the list to Liu Jingting and said, "I really admire your commander's thoughtfulness and thoughtfulness. But we are here.
There were also a lot of seizures around the city. Little Yuan Camp's supplies did not suffer any loss, but increased a lot... I don't think it's better than this. How about the old gentleman taking a sum of military supplies from us back to Ye County according to this list?"
"Haha, how can this be so embarrassing!"
Liu Jingting stroked his beard and smiled. Li Laiheng asked him to give him this list of gifts. Of course, his intention was not to give gifts, but on the contrary, to extort Yuan Shizhong.
Yuan Shizhong understood Li Laiheng's intentions immediately. He quickly ordered his subordinates to raise eight thousand shi of grain, five thousand taels of silver, one thousand kilograms of gunpowder, and hundreds of sets of weapons such as swords, spears, and armor.
A gift to apologize to Chuangying.
The Xiaoyuan camp is not as wealthy as the army that conquered Luoyang and captured Shanji. It was only because Li Laiheng restrained Liu Guoneng recently and plundered Chen Ying comfortably that he was able to come up with such a compensation military resource.
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Yuan Shizhong felt heartbroken, but he also knew that Xiaoyuanying was at a disadvantage. In terms of strength, although Xiaoyuanying claimed to have 20,000 soldiers, most of them were just coerced followers, able to fight with the official army and invade the army.
Compared with soldiers, the "elite thieves" only number a thousand or so.
With such strength, he could not challenge Li Laiheng, who had more than 2,000 direct troops, plus Liu Fangliang's 5,000 troops.
Yuan Shizhong once again sent his subordinates to entertain Liu Jingting well. He changed his previous arrogant attitude when Liu Jingting visited Xiao Yuan's camp, and tried his best to show off the behavior of trying to get close to the camp.
The house where Liu Jingting lived temporarily was changed from the ordinary soldier barracks he lived in last time to a wing of a temple near Linying. Yuan Shizhong also inquired about Mr. Liu's preferences and specially sent him some novels and novels.
Top quality tea.
After returning to the military camp, Yuan Shizhong took a breath and exclaimed with a literary staff member of the Military Counselor: "What kind of role is Li Laiheng? Now in Henan, the legend of Mr. Li is getting more and more outrageous, and some people are making it up.
It is said that Li Laiheng descended from the Tiangang Star!"
The staff of Xiao Yuan Camp narrowed his eyes and said: "If Xiao Li is so powerful, what kind of role is Old Li? I heard that Li Zicheng is fighting fiercely with tens of thousands of the main troops of the Henan army in northern Henan. Xiao Yuan Camp wants to deal with Liu Guoneng
It is very difficult for more than two thousand officers and soldiers, but Li Zicheng can actually withstand tens of thousands of officers and soldiers. The Qin invaders cannot be underestimated. What is your next plan?"
Yuan Shizhong beat his hands with his fists and said angrily: "Li Zicheng conquered Luoyang, opened warehouses to release grain, and helped the people, winning the hearts of the hungry people in Henan. I heard that when the invading army was in Luoyang, people everywhere came to welcome the scenery, day and night.
.I think since Luoyang, no one can compete with this old Li for the hearts and minds of Henan. If we don't have a better way out, maybe we can only follow Li Zicheng."
Yuan Shizhong was not born ambitious, but one big difference between him and other well-known bandits in Henan, such as Li Jiyu, Yu Dazhong, Shen Wandeng, was that he was not proud of being a thief in his heart, but always had the desire to recruit people.
The idea of being an official.
"It's a pity that Xiong Wencan, who was the governor, was killed, and Yang Sichang, who was also used as governor, also died. I don't know who the new governor Ding Qirui of the imperial court was? There is really no hope at all on the road to recruitment. We can only wait and see.
Got it!"
Yuan Shi was depressed because he didn't know that it was Li Laiheng who conquered not only Ye County but also Wuyang County, and his martial name became famous for a while.
At this time, Li Zicheng in northern Henan was also fighting with He Renlong's Qin army in Lingbao. He Renlong, who had established communication channels with the camp through the "Tiande King" incident, had no intention of attacking with all his strength.
When Li Zicheng attacked Lingbao, he deliberately withdrew the road, allowing Li Zicheng to break through the blockade of Yang Wenyue, Hu Dawei and other Baoding soldiers and attack Lingbao City.
After Li Zicheng completed his rest and recuperation in Lingbao City and voluntarily withdrew, He Renlong followed the agreement and "recovered" Lingbao for the court without spending a single soldier, and also captured and killed several members of the intruding army like the "King of Tiande"
An ordinary Chinese army commander.
The rebel forces of Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, who fought together, also broke through Zuo Liangyu's blockade and captured Suizhou, an important town in northern Hubei. Afterwards, the Xian and Cao coalition forces gradually moved northward to Henan, tending to join forces with Li Zicheng, which made
The imperial court was extremely nervous and had to mobilize Zuo Liangyu, who was guarding Huguang, to also send troops to Henan to suppress the attack.
Fu Zonglong, the newly appointed governor of Qin in Chongzhen, finally couldn't hold himself back and went to the front line of Henan to supervise the officers and soldiers to suppress Li Zicheng. However, Li Zicheng took advantage of the slackness of the officers and soldiers after recovering Lingbao and suddenly returned north again, taking advantage of the congratulatory dragon to capture Lingbao.
When the city was moved to the Henan patrol and guarded by Gao Mingheng's militia, Lingbao was captured again.
After Fu Zonglong, who had just been appointed as the commander of the army, was so mercilessly beaten in the face, he was of course furious. He immediately mobilized the officers and soldiers from Qin, Yu, Bao and Chu in Henan Province to concentrate in the Lingbao area, trying to deal with it.
Li Zicheng returned the favor.
But this played into Li Zicheng's plan. He took advantage of the numerous factions of the army and the different commands, and focused all his attention on the favorable situation in northern Henan. He went out day and night, and passed through Xiong'er Mountain in a very short time, passing half of
Henan, at the end of June of the 14th year of Chongzhen, suddenly appeared under Dengzhou City in Nanyang Prefecture.
At this time, Li Laiheng and Liu Fangliang's troops were entrenched in the Yuzhou and Yexian areas northeast of Nanyang Prefecture. Li Zicheng's main force suddenly appeared in the Dengzhou area southwest of Nanyang Prefecture as a surprise force. The coalition forces of Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai also moved north from Suizhou.
Move closer to the south side of Nanyang Mansion.
The three major rebel forces that shocked the world, Chuang, Xian, and Cao, are about to gather together.