In fact, the real reason for the crusades to stop was not only to digest the newly acquired land such as Tongguan and start to drive away the corrupt officials and cruel officials to take over the city, but the more important reason was that there was a drag on the east side.

This person who dragged his back was not someone else, but the ghost King Gao Yingxiang and his nephew, Li Zicheng, who was called the General of Chuang.

In May of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Gao Yingxiang rushed to Shanxi with the joint gift from Lu Shi and Zhao Zi. The one who followed was no longer the real refugee who was driven away by the official army all day long, but 30,000 real powerful generals who had been in war for the rest of their lives. This was a truly trained warrior.

As soon as he entered Shanxi, he was like a fish in water. He was so comfortable and comfortable. He met with Wang Jiayin and Wang Ziyong, who had originally entered Shanxi. He was even more prosperous. For a time, the entire Shanxi was disrupted by them. In history, they also had a large army of Shanxi and Shaanxi to encircle and suppress it. However, now, the entire Shaanxi official army tyrants were either annihilated or restrained by King Lu Shi, who had been unable to move at all. This gave Gao Yingxiang an absolute opportunity to plunder Shanxi with peace of mind.

Shanxi is not as poor as Shaanxi. Shanxi was a place where the land was poor and the people were barren. Shanxi was a place where the Ming Dynasty came from in the north. The land was fertile and the population was dense. Although it also suffered a severe drought, the situation was hundreds of times better than that of Shaanxi. There were even more Shanxi people who were willing to manage the business that was regarded as a cheap business at that time, and there were even rich households everywhere and sufficient supplies. When Gao Yingxiang arrived, he responded to the call. Even if he didn't, he was already in charge. For a while, his troops were in good condition.

In June of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng, his nephews Li Guo, Zhang Xianzhong and other troops also traveled east to attend the meeting, which further increased Gao Yingxiang's strength. In order to win over Li Zicheng, a brave man who dared to fight, Gao Yingxiang had put in all his efforts. In fact, Li Zicheng was secretly happy and tried his best to show his loyalty. In this way, he gained Gao Yingxiang's trust and became the leader of the tenacious leader below one person and ten thousand people in this rebellion army.

The leader of the rebel army, Wang Jiayin, was killed by Cao Wenzhao, the general general of Nanshan (some say it was killed by a traitor). The rebel army from Shaanxi and Shanxi formed a 36th battalion. Gao Yingxiang seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and used various means. In the end, he was praised as the leader by everyone, and was collectively called the "King of Rebellion".

After integrating various rebel armies, Gao Yingxiang even "recruited soldiers everywhere." In just a few months, the rebel army reached a terrible ten thousand. He truly achieved many soldiers and widespread generals. Therefore, Gao Yingxiang, who had far-sighted vision, immediately divided the four attacks and successively conquered Ningxiang, Shilou, Jishan, Wenxi, Hejian and other prefectures and counties. Their power was unparalleled.

At this time, Gao Yingxiang, who was plotting by Lu Shi, who let the tiger into the mountain and designed a barrier between the government and himself, had no intention of appreciation at all. He hated Lu Shi to the core and had a reason why his hometown was difficult to leave. The old subordinates were born in Shaanxi, and they were full of money at this time, with a lot of money on their waists and a lot of soldiers around him. They really had a sense of complacency. However, what is the greatest pain in life? Walking in the night in brocade clothes, and what is the most proud thing in life? Of course, he returned home in glory, and now these guys who had never survived famine and beg for food earlier had a sense of nouveau riche, the kind of brothers who were eager to show off in front of old old neighbors and even wanted to show off in front of the ancestral graves. They all wanted to give up and return to their hometown with glory.

When Gao Yingxiang came to cater to the homesickness of the brothers, he mainly peeked at Lu Shi's foundation. Li Zicheng also wanted to compete with Lu Shi in his heart. They were all young people and had a group of brothers who were willing to die. What was worse than that?

However, if you are not convinced, the times are stronger than others. Gao Yingxiang is not confused in a good manner. He knows his strength. Although he claims to be 200,000, the real elite is only 70,000 to 80,000. He still has the power to fight against the scattered and rotten Shanxi official army. When dealing with Lu Shi on the Yellow River, it is definitely a relationship between eggs and stones. When he thinks of fighting with Lu Shi at that time, although he feels cowardly, he has to admire, envy, and be jealous of Lu Shi's strength.

My hometown is just a short distance away. Looking at the wealthy population everywhere, but because of the Lu Shi, I have become a road to the world. How can I be content with this and how can I not be frustrated?

However, everything happened when Lu Shi went south to Weinan.

On this day, the leaders of the thirty-six families were summoned by Gao Yingxiang to discuss the major plan. The reason for the meeting was nothing special. There was the next issue of staying or leaving, that is, the development direction.

The originally wealthy Shanxi, after many heroes who practiced the heavens, had already lost summer grain. Now even the autumn grain is hopeless. The rich households who should be collected have been recruited into poverty. The righteous men who should be recruited have long been recruited. All the counties that should be captured have been captured, and all the collected counties that should be collected have been collected. Although there are many remaining big cities in Shanxi, those cities cannot be fought for by hard work. On the other hand, facing Shanxi, which has already eaten and drunk, there is no development potential. The rest must give full play to the traditional advantages of the rebel army, survive in the movement, and develop in the movement. This has been unanimously agreed.

Then there was the question of where to develop. At that time, there were many different opinions and no consensus. More than thirty leaders of the families were divided into three distinct factions.

The first faction was the southern faction represented by Li Zi as more effective, which was to demand the army to march towards Henan.

The reason is nothing else, then Henan is not broken and life is easy to make do with. If you develop there for a period of time, your strength will become stronger. At that time, if you let us gallop, you can lay the foundation for the overlord.

The second faction was led by Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, who was known as Cao Cao, was the leader. Their suggestion was to enter Henan, then switch to Hubei, directly enter Sichuan, and lay a foundation.

The reason for him is that since ancient times, Sichuan has been the country of Tianfu, with extremely abundant resources and dangerously guarding on all sides. We can get rid of the endless encirclement and suppression of the government army and truly gain a foothold to establish a base.

Of course, this proposal was immediately scoffed by other factions represented by the Fifth Camp of the Glea.

If you gain a firm foothold, everyone thinks of the wandering days of running around and living without a certain place? Settling down one day earlier will make you a safe and peaceful day earlier.

At the beginning, what are we? We are a group of real bandits. Looking at these leaders from all over the world, we have come up with a senior official who has been a well-known official and has established a base. Do you understand?

If you don’t understand, then what do you rely on to raise soldiers? What do you rely on to eat? Outside Sichuan, we can gallop freely. The world is very big, and there is a lot of money and food. As long as we move, we will have endless food and food for soldiers.

Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng also agreed with this proposal. Although Sichuan is good, there are still many supplies. They can go in with hundreds of thousands of people. Not to mention too much, they will starve to death in just one year.

From a strategic perspective, "Sichuan does have steep surroundings that can be defended, so that the government troops cannot enter the suppression, but in fact, it is not trapping yourself to death? Your Eight Kings (Zhang Xianzhong) are a person who reads the text and writes. You have not read history, you have not read the Three Kingdoms yet? You have not read the Three Kingdoms, you have not heard of the blind storytelling? In history, the hero who was the king and domineering hero came from Sichuan? Didn't he be trapped to death for self-protection? Isn't this a desperate dynasty in Sichuan in the end?

After a few words, Zhang Xianzhong was speechless.

The third party's Five Gate Camp is simply nonsense. Their suggestion would simply lead people to the capital, saying that they would not be able to seize the throne of the emperor and be happy.

Judging from this suggestion at that time, I definitely disliked my vigorous career being too prosperous, so I looked for death.

Although the Ming Dynasty was in troubles internally and externally, the Ming Dynasty was in a state of defensive military strength, the military force at the gate was still in combat, at least it was more than enough to deal with these rabble composed of refugees.

So everyone gathered in the tent and clamored endlessly to discuss, argue, quarrel, abuse, and even to make a move.

However, this has been held for a few days. Everyone pointed out the direction they wanted to move, but no one asked to go west. Although the soldiers were anxious to go home and go back to Shaanxi, everyone deliberately did not mention the direction they were going home.

Even the Fifth Camp of Gezuo, who was truly from Shaanxi and Gansu, had their eyes red, but they didn't propose to fight back to their hometown.

At this moment, when the cousin who was left in Shaanxi, Xingye reported Lu Shi's actions to go south to Weinan, the generals who were chaotic in the tent were silenced, and then cheered together. When they went home, they really had hope.

So, the leaders who had originally had differences of opinions and could not coordinate, but this time, they surprisingly unified their opinions for the first time: "Take the great opportunity of Lu Shimao's head south to Weinan, we rectified the army and rushed to the ferry, killed the Yellow River, and returned to our hometown."

When this decision was notified to the entire army, the morale of the entire army immediately rose extremely high, and everyone was eager to try and ready to follow the Great Chuang King back to their hometown at any time.

When Gao Yingxiang sent troops behind him at this critical moment, the news that he was sent to the Guangwu garrison in the three northeastern counties sent people to report, Lu Shi looked at the information in his hand and was not as angry as other operations, and only had a helpless and bitter smile.

Originally they were born from the same root, why are they too anxious to fight each other? This metaphor is actually not appropriate, but Gao Yingxiang's actions at this time once again made Lu Shi feel that Ganzi was short-sighted in the late Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!