Yang Sichang understood what Zuo Liangyu meant to drive away Li Guodong who was competing for his merits. But Yang Sichang really didn't want Li Guodong to leave because Li Guodong's cavalry was the strongest cavalry in the Ming Dynasty except for the Guanning Army. Without such a large-scale cavalry, it would be much more difficult to expand the results of the war when he won with Zuo Liangyu's infantry.

Except for his own servants, the rest of the Zuo family army were infantry, and it was very difficult to pursue the defeated bandit army. What's more, among Zhang Xianzhong's troops, many of them were originally from shangren in the mountains. Those people ran as fast as they ran. The old camp soldiers of Xianjun were all cavalry. It was not easy for the Zuo family army to catch up with them.

The so-called shanty townsmen are refugees who do not have household registration in the mountains from Hubei to southern Shaanxi. They are refugees who live in shanty towns on the mountain. They do not have their names in the demographic statistics of the Ministry of Revenue. When the weather is good, shanty townsmen plant crops in the mountains and hunt for a living. In the year of disaster, they become mountain bandits. Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng rose up after several defeats, relying on these shanty townsmen.

This time, Li Guodong followed Zuo Liangyu. After Zuo Liangyu defeated the Xianjun, Li Guodong pursued the bandit army from behind, and there were many shanty towns among the prisoners.

The hangren people are excellent soldiers. They have lived in the mountains since childhood and can bear hardships. Because of their long-term climbing, strong body, and frequent hunting, they are very accurate in archery, but they don’t have good bows and arrows. As long as these hangren people are brought back and after a period of training, they are excellent soldiers.

Yang Sichang also saw that Li Guodong had captured a large number of prisoners, so he handed over the prisoners to Wang Quan and asked him to take them to build a dam. Yang Sichang naturally knew in his heart that those prisoners could become soldiers at any time. He saw it and did not say it. After all, only Li Guodong won every battle against the Shangqing army at present, and the rest of the Ming generals defeated the Shangqing army more and won less.

"General Zuo, although Wu Weibo beheaded the most, captured the most, and seized the most, you are the main result of defeating the bandits. I can ask him to give you the first level, which is also your credit. His cavalry is just chasing the bandits. Liangyu, you have too few cavalry under your command and won many times, but it is difficult to expand the results of the battle. This is the reason why I left Wu Weibo." Yang Sichang advised.

Although Zuo Liangyu was unwilling to accept it, she had nothing to say.

In fact, Li Guodong felt that he had already made almost the best. If he continued to fight like this, he would be unable to disobey Yang Sichang's orders and would have to enter Sichuan. He did not want to enter Sichuan, so he needed to find an excuse to leave Hanzhong.

Li Zicheng should have action too. Li Guodong said in his heart that he could only wait for Li Zicheng to take action and find an excuse to leave.

"Brother, Li Zicheng is out of the mountain!" Zhang Shuheng brought Li Guodong the latest military information.

When Li Guodong heard this, he was simply sleepy and gave him a pillow! He was overjoyed and said, "Okay! That's great! I'll wait for this day!"

"Brother, are we asking Mr. Yang that the thieves will go out of the mountain and we will go to Henan to deal with the thieves?" Han Dashan made a suggestion.

"No need!" Li Guodong shook, "Now the court has not received any news yet, so we have no choice but to propose to wipe out the trespasses. In that way, the commander Yang will be unhappy. It would be better to wait for a while and wait for Yang Sichang to get the news, and we will volunteer to go to Henan."

Then, Li Guodong called Zhang Shuheng aside and whispered in his ear: "Shuheng, you have to find a way to put our people in the Jinyiwei, and it is best to become a general of the Han Dynasty and enter the palace. If it is useful in the future."

"As for the orders of humble duties," Zhang Shuheng replied.

Now the Jinyiwei was deposed by Chongzhen, almost just a decoration. In addition to implementing Chongzhen's edict to arrest a few people, he was responsible for the protection of the palace. He had lost his original role in intelligence and supervision of officials, etc. Zhang Shuheng had to arrange a few people to get involved in the Jinyiwei, which was something that could be done.

In Zhejiang Chuan County, Li Zicheng broke out from the tiger's mouth. Li Zicheng, who had been dormant in the mountains for a year and a half, fled into the Shangluo Mountains at the end of the year before yesterday, only eighteen cavalry were left. Later, he gathered defeated soldiers and recruited bandits and hangren in the mountains, and his troops expanded to more than 30,000. Last year's Henan disaster helped Li Zicheng a great favor. Countless homeless victims entered Shangluo Mountains to ask for food. Li Zicheng refused everyone and gathered all the refugees.

"Eat and wear fucking, and don't pay any food when the King of Breaking comes!"

Hungry people from various counties in Nanyang came to join Li Zicheng.

Shortly after Li Zicheng left Shangluo Mountain, his army was like snowballing, and soon expanded to a scale of more than 100,000 people.

The hungry people who defected to Li Zicheng were mainly farmers who were oppressed and exploited the most and lived in the worst situation, including some people who were powerless and powerless, who had been forced to break into small lands under natural disasters and man-made disasters for many years, as well as small vendors, small handicraftsmen, various craftsmen and miners who were unemployed and unable to survive. Even some middle-aged landlords also came to invest. Some of the powerless middle-aged landlords have already gone bankrupt and most of them are on the verge of bankruptcy. There is no way, who has made no one with fame and honor in their families exempt them from tax exemption?

The weather is good on weekdays and the additional Liao salary paid has already made the middle-aged landlords who have no power almost breathless. Last year, they encountered a disaster, and the crops were almost pelleted, and those middle-aged landlords went bankrupt one after another.

In fact, after Emperor Chongzhen learned about the disaster in Shanxi, Henan and Shandong, he had issued an imperial edict to exempt him from taxes, but the local officials were exempted from taxes, that is, the imperial grain was exempted from paying, but the local officials still had to collect taxes! Those unscrupulous officials not only did not pity the people who were suffering from disasters, but also had to scrape off the common people who had already eaten tree bark and ate grass roots!

Xie Haotian commanded a group of strong men who were striking irons. He was originally a medium-sized landlord. During the Tianqi period, his family still had more than 200 acres of land, five large tiled houses, and dozens of tenants worked for him. However, since the Chongzhen period, under the government's extortion, bullying of wealthy families, robbery of officers and soldiers, and various natural disasters and man-made disasters, Xie Haotian's family quickly declined, and his family eventually died. Last year, he sold his land and house and opened a snack bar in the county town.

With his wife's good skills, the noodles are chewy and the noodle soup is very delicious. His business in the county town can barely maintain a family life.

But even if you want to do a small business, you have to have a backstage. Xie Haotian, who has no backstage, went bankrupt shortly after bullying, officials and soldiers. Xie Haotian had no choice but to rent a few acres of land to plant in the mountain. Who knew that it would be another disaster year, and the crops were not harvested, and the government came to ask for food and salary.

Xie Haotian, who could not survive, led more than a dozen craftsmen to join the riot army.

"King of Chuang, we have more and more people, and there is no enough food. We must break through Zhejiang and Sichuan County and open the granary in the city so that the people who follow us can survive." Luo Hu said.

Luo Hu is a powerful general under Li Zicheng. In real history, after he entered the capital, Li Zicheng rewarded him with the palace maid Fei Zhen'e, but was stabbed to death by Fei. Luo Hu's military discipline is the best among the rebels, and he does not offend the people. Because he was an orphan adopted by Li Zicheng, he suffered from childhood and knew the suffering of the people, so he sympathized with the hungry people who were hungry and dying.

Li Zicheng laughed: "There was a supporter in Zhejiang and Sichuan City! As long as our army attacked the city, Zhejiang and Sichuan County will be destroyed!"

At this time, the prisons in Zhejiang and Sichuan were already overcrowded. Seven or eight out of ten people who were imprisoned in prison were ordinary people who could not pay the land tax. They were sent to the prison by the yamen officials in various names, and some were hungry people who entered the city to beg for money, and they were also imprisoned in class rooms.

"King of Breaking, the villain is willing to go into the city to be your inner support!" Xie Haotian volunteered to stand up, "The villain is a local from Zhejiang and Sichuan, familiar with the situation in the city."
Chapter completed!