As a meticulous worker, being caught by someone like Chen Mingjie is definitely an unqualified meticulous worker. But in fact, Chen Mingjie is an excellent agent, and he deliberately exposed it. Among the newly-income refugees of Li Zicheng, a group of Li Guodong's personal guard agents were actually mixed up. As long as they don't want to be exposed, Li Zicheng's counter-espionage skills can't do anything to them at all.

Li Guodong's help of Li Zicheng did not mean that he fully agreed with the peasant's rebellion. To be honest, why did some people become great landlords and gentry, while others could not even eat? In fact, the reason was very complicated. It cannot be said that those rich people had their original sins. Some of the rich people's money was accumulated through hard work for generations. It was not easy for those who could get fame and fortune. How difficult was it to be able to get a scholar in the imperial examination system back then? Not to mention the juren. No one asked about it for ten years, and the world knew about it. The efforts in it were not something that ordinary people could imagine.

The one who is wrong is not the individual, but the system of civil and noble and military, and the system of tax exemption for gentry!

Rich people don’t have to pay taxes, but poor people keep increasing their responsibilities. With such a system, it’s strange that the Ming Dynasty will not collapse. The real guilty are those corrupt officials, some vassal kings who are rich and unkind, such as the blessing kings.

At this point, history has undergone major changes. If this continues, it is unknown whether Li Zicheng will be beaten to death by several farmers in Jiugong Mountain in the future. If not, then Li Guodong would not mind letting his special agent team take action and helping history get on track.

On November 5, 2012, the 12th year of Chongzhen, Li Guodong led his army to Xiangyang.

From a distance, I could see a big banner with the word "left" on the top of the city fluttering in the wind, and I never saw the banner of Yang Sichang and others.

"The people above opened the door quickly! We came here to assist in the suppression of the bandits in accordance with the imperial edict of the court and the command of the commander Yang!" Li Guodong asked the cavalry to set up neat formations outside the city, and then let the loud cavalry go forward and shout.

Taking advantage of this time, Li Guodong carefully observed the city of Xiangyang and saw that this city is indeed the most powerful city in the world. Although the height of the city wall is not as tall as the two capitals in the north and south, the moat is extremely wide, and the widest part is nearly a hundred feet. Such a moat can be regarded as a lake! No wonder Xiangyang could stop the Mongols for six years back then. This is indeed the most powerful city in the world, and it is indeed not a waste of its reputation.

However, in Li Guodong's memory, Xiangyang City was later destroyed by Xianjun. The general of Xianjun who captured Xiangyang City was Zhang Dingguo. The young man in white was both wise and brave, and he defeated Xiangyang. Later, Zhang Dingguo defeated Qin Liangyu and was indeed very good at fighting.

Thinking of Zhang Dingguo, Li Guodong felt that such a good general should be recruiting him. At this time, Li Guodong remembered that in his Shanxi, there was a good general named Wang Fuchen. He had forgotten this person before. After returning to Shanxi this time, he must dig Wang Fuchen from Jiang Xiang.

"Master General, Jinyang's army is here! It has arrived outside the city." Inside the city, Zuo Liangyu's general Xu Yong came to report.

Zuo Liangyu asked, "Is it the great defeat of Jiannu and the famous Jinyang Army?"

"Go back to the Grand Marshal, that's right."

"How many people have they come?"

"About six thousand people."

"Why are there so many people? Didn't you hear that there are more than 30,000 people in the Jinyang army? There are so many people coming, and are you planning to follow behind to get a bargain?" Zuo Liangyu glared.

Xu Yong quickly replied: "Master General, I heard that it was General Yang who asked him to leave all the main infantry in the north and did not bring them."

Zuo Liangyu was very dissatisfied with Li Guodong. In his heart, Li Guodong was originally a horse thief outside the border. After fighting for so many years, he had only accumulated the strength of 30,000 troops. Now Zuo Liangyu has more than 200,000 troops. But he didn't understand that if his more than 200,000 troops really met Li Guodong's 30,000 people, he must have lost it.

"Let's go, let's go up to the city and take a look!" Zuo Liangyu stood up.

Zuo Liangyu took Zuo Menggeng, Zhang Yong, Xu Yong, Lu Guangzu, Ma Tengjiao, Li Guoying, Wu Xueli, Zhang Yingyuan and other generals to climb the Xiangyang city tower. Through the spacious moat, he looked at the Jinyang cavalry lined up on the other side of the moat.

"What a neat formation!" Li Guoying exclaimed, "It is probably difficult for Jiannu to be able to list the cavalry in such a neat formation! No wonder Wu Weibo faces Jiannu and will never be defeated in a hundred battles!"

The other generals of the Zuo family army also praised the Jinyang army. Looking at the rows of black armor, big red cloaks, and all tall horses, each with envy. Although there are many soldiers in the Zuo family, to be honest, the Zuo family army is just a group of mobs whose combat effectiveness is not as good as the tide army. In contrast, the opposite side is the real elite army.

Look at the two sides of the heavy cavalry wearing black armor, there are light cavalry riding all Mongolian horses, big red mandarin duck battle jackets, and red armor on the outside.

After all, light cavalry is not like heavy cavalry. It does not require full-body protection armor. It only has one piece of armor and a helmet, and there is no protection on both arms and legs. However, the armor on their bodies is very good, especially the defense performance of arrows is very good. This is a kind of semi-protective iron-inserted cotton armor. Because there is no arm guard and knee pads, the calf and forearms are not protected. Its weight is much lighter than the full-body protection armor of heavy cavalry.

Zuo Liangyu was surprised to see the Jinyang army's cavalry lineup and the army was very majestic. But he thought again: This may be the elite cavalry of Li Zhe. However, it is quite powerful to be able to support more than 6,000 cavalry. But looking at his side, there are only more than 200 servants. What can this person do if he is powerful? How can he compare to my 200,000 army?

Hearing the Jinyang army outside the city shouting and opening the door again, Zuo Liangyu asked someone to reply to the city: "Tell the people under the city that the master can only bring their servants into the city, and the rest of the cavalry will be stationed outside the city and will not enter the city to disturb the people!"

In the late Ming Dynasty, it made sense that cities in various places did not welcome guests into the city, because local people were afraid of visitors. If the local soldiers were local soldiers, they were worried that many of the local people were their own fellow villagers, and they would not be able to see them. They would not harm the local people any more. At most, they would just rob a few copper coins, grab a chicken or two chickens and ducks, set up gambling to cheat people, or tease the girl and his wife, and would not break into the house with a knife and rob it openly. But the visiting army was different. Anyway, they came from other places, and the locals didn't know themselves, so they robbed them.

Of course, Li Guodong knew this rule, so he asked someone to reply: "Yes, let's go to the city with uncle and 200 personal soldiers, and the rest of the brothers were stationed outside the city."

The city gate slowly opened, and Li Guodong brought two hundred elite soldiers to Xiangyang City with his horses. He was not afraid that Zuo Liangyu would make things difficult for him. After all, he was also an official in the court and his identity as a Wu Weibo.

When I entered the city, I saw that the originally prosperous Xiangyang City is now in a bleak state.

Xiangyang is a place that must be fought for by military strategists, and naturally it is also a major transportation route. From Xiangyang to the southeast, you can reach Wuchang and connect to the golden channel of the Yangtze River; from Xiangyang to the west, you can enter Hanzhong, and to the north is Nanyang, which has convenient transportation and is prosperous on weekdays. However, now, almost all shops have close doors.

Li Guodong rode over and could vaguely see some people looking outside tremblingly from the crack of the door behind some closed doors.

It seems that Zuo Liangyu has not suffered a lot from the people of Xiangyang! Although the Zuo family army is also stationed in Hubei, in fact, they are not real local troops. Most of the Zuo family army is directly adapted from the bandits, and they do not divide the fields and train the recruits like Li Guodong. The Zuo family army is almost the same as the bandits, and they all rely on robbers. Moreover, because of the identity of officers and soldiers, this bandit army is even more hateful than the bandits.
Chapter completed!