Li Zicheng and others hesitated and watched for a few days because the Qing soldiers entered the frontier. After Li Yan had more troops to send, they immediately retreated./They knew that the soldiers were very fast and could not give Zuo Liangyu time to prepare, so they didn't wait for the end of the year to go south and rushed towards Xiangyang.

Li Yan still let Chen Yongfu walk in front, and his troops followed behind. Chen Yongfu now had no resistance because the food and grass he brought was used up, and Li Zicheng was cleaned very clean in various places. He had to rely on Li Yan's food and grass to maintain the troops.

However, after Ru Ning met Tian Jianxiu, Li Yan changed his strategy and asked Li Zhong to lead 6,000 troops to advance towards Xinyang with Chen Yongfu. However, he himself led 10,000 troops to advance towards Nanyang. Because Tian Jianxiu said that the gold and silver promised to Li Yan were in Nanyang, and he would give it to whoever went first.

Li Yan did not value the gold and silver, but felt that Li Zicheng seemed to not give up. Since he placed the bait in Nanyang, he would go there in person, take advantage of the rapid troops to come to Runing, and fight another battle, completely defeating Li Zicheng's desire for luck, so that he could restorate production and order in Henan with peace of mind.

Run in mid-November, when Li Yan arrived near Nanyang, the scout reported that there was a team of thousands of people waiting outside Nanyang City.

When Li Yan led his troops over, he saw that it was Tian Jianxiu who was waiting outside the demolished city wall.

Tian Jianxiu rode alone, came to Li Yan, clasped his fists and said, "General Li is really careful. He refuses to walk a few more steps every day, so he has to wait here for five or six more days."

Li Yan looked at the more than a thousand troops under the city and said with a smile: "You have to be careful. If you follow your words, wouldn't it be a waste of war in the past few years? Brother Tian, ​​since you are all leaving, why did you demolish the city wall here again?"

"We have no choice, either." Tian Jianxiu said with a smile: "We always have to find something for Brother Li, otherwise we will not feel at ease when we go to Huguang."

Li Yan didn't want to be polite anymore, so he went straight to the point and said, "Since Brother Tian has been waiting for a few more days, then I won't delay Brother Tian. Let's hand over earlier, and Brother Tian will catch up with the team soon."

"Okay, General Li, please." Tian Jianxiu invited.

At this time, some boxes were carried out, and Tian Jianxiu's men opened the boxes. The yellow and white gold and silver inside were particularly dazzling in the sun.

Li Yan ordered, and his personal soldiers brought more than a hundred people up, poured out all the gold and silver in the box, making a clamor. Then they weighed the box first, then put the gold and silver back into the box, and weighed it again.

"General Li can't trust us?" Tian Jianxiu asked with a cold face.

Li Yan looked at the gold and silver and said with a fascination: "This is a good thing. Who doesn't want to have more? It's better to be careful, these are all Li's belongings."

Tian Jianxiu saw that Li Yan's eyes had never left those yellow and white things, and he was despised in his heart. But he was immediately happy. Since Li Yan loved money so much, he would have a way to deal with Li Yan in the future.

He nodded and said, "General Li is right. If the family had so much money at the beginning, he would not have to sacrifice his life to rebel." Then he asked, "General Li, since you want gold and silver, we have all the wealthy officials and gentry families and the cellars are full of silver. The general needs to be able to sell us some artillery and ammunition, the price is easy to say."

Li Yan glanced at Tian Jianxiu, then looked at the gold and silver that were still packed by the soldiers, and did not speak. After a while, he said, "Forget the artillery, I'm not enough. But I can sell some of your chain mail."

Tian Jianxiu was a little disappointed. Cannons are Li Yan's weapon. Although the chain mail is precious, it does not have much protective effect when facing cannons. But he still asked: "Then General Li will offer a price."

"Five hundred taels per harvest." Li Yan immediately quoted.

Tian Jianxiu smiled and looked at Li Yan, nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll get twenty."

"Brother Tian, ​​what's the point of getting twenty? Why do you need to get two hundred? It's definitely good to get these guards under your command." Li Yan was selling like a businessman.

Tian Jianxiu said helplessly: "Brother Li, your chain mail is too expensive, I can only buy so many. Although we have copied a lot of wealthy families, we can't buy a few pieces of Brother Li. If Brother Li is willing to sell artillery, we can buy them even if they sell ten thousand taels of taels at a time!"

Li Yan said regretfully: "Let's go ahead, let's talk about it later."

"General Li, we abide by the agreement and ask General Li to abide by it." Tian Jianxiu reminded with a smile.

Li Yan responded: "As long as you no longer enter my territory, I will naturally not cause trouble for you."

"Okay, then Tian will say goodbye." Tian Jianxiu said goodbye with fists, then left Nanyang with his troops and headed towards Xinye. There was their last stronghold in Henan, with only a small number of troops garrisoning and demolishing the city walls. They would evacuate at the end of the year as agreed.

As for Xiangyang, although Zuo Liangyu is still ready to hold on, they have received the information that Zuo Liangyu has transported all the military capital and goods to Hanyang, and he will not be able to hold on for long.

More importantly, the people in Huguang were fed up with Zuo Liangyu's exploitation and welcomed their arrival. The people went to greet them one after another, led them the way, and took out food for them to enjoy, so that they had no worries during the war.

When Li Yan waited for Tian Jianxiu to leave, he immediately asked his troops to set up camps and deploy defenses inside and outside Nanyang City, and sent a letter to Qian Er to enter Fangcheng County and be ready to rush to help at any time. Regardless of whether Li Zicheng had a conspiracy or not, he had to be prepared and not let himself fall into a passive position.

Then he ordered Sun Sifu: "Send a letter to Zhao Datong from Luoyang, ask him to send someone to Shaanxi to contact Gao Jie. See if he can buy war horses from Shaanxi."

"I'll do it now." Sun Sifu agreed with a smile. He knew that their commander was not a greedy person, so how could he care about this little gold and silver?

A few days later, Tian Jianxiu arrived outside Fancheng and caught up with Li Zicheng. He reported on the meeting with Li Yan in detail to Li Zicheng.

"Hahaha," Li Zicheng said with a smile: "Since he likes money, it will be easy to deal with. If he is asked to do something in the future, he will give him money."

Gao Yi made an incredible contribution: "I didn't expect that Li Yan was actually a greedy person."

Liu Zongmin also said with a smile: "As men, they always like wine, sex, wealth and power. Anyway, those officials, gentry, wealthy and merchants have more money, so we just grab them. Even if we give him 1.8 million taels a year and let him rebel with us, it won't take much time. The world is ours."

Li Zicheng nodded and said, "That's right! In the past two days, the people will take us around Zuo Liangyu's stronghold and pass directly through the Han River. Without the barrier of the Han River, it is easy to take down Xiangyang. Then he went downstream and dug the imperial tomb of Chengtian Prefecture for him, and the dragon veins of the old Zhu family were really broken."
Chapter completed!