Zhou Xian first received a letter that had already attacked Cheng's clan, followed by the specific details of the battle results, and finally a private message from Kai Li. Needless to say, the first two letters were too much, but Kai Li's letter surprised Zhou Xian slightly, feeling that what Jinse said to him before did not seem to be in vain.

In his letter, he said that most of the captives were Henan people, and the people of Henan were of the countryside. He proposed to approach them as their Henan people, let them eat, save the wounded, and bury the dead. Those who are willing to surrender will pick out the young and strong men from them and join them to the army. Those who are unwilling to surrender will distribute money and grain to let them leave. The former can supplement the lost forces of their own army, while the latter can spread the name of benevolence and righteousness of the official army.

Li Zicheng marched into Henan from Shangluo Mountain and quickly expanded his strength through the famine. Of course, his direct descendants were mainly Shaanxi people, but his middle and low-level generals and ordinary soldiers were mainly Henan people.

The ancients were in the village and community, and they had the same accent. Whether they knew it or not, they would be born closer.

Kai Li’s suggestion is based on this point. Li Zi became a Shaanxi native and Zhou Xian was a Henan native. This is an ordinary regional division, but in the minds of ordinary soldiers who don’t know a lot of characters, the difference is very obvious. Even if Li Zicheng’s confidants included Henan people like Niu Jinxing, Li Yan, and Song Xiance, under the same conditions, Zhou Xian was more attractive to them. Just like when Zhou Xian attacked Liu Zeqing, the latter could still recruit a large number of local people to serve him even if his reputation was not good.

This is absolutely unreasonable, but that's the case. It was beyond Zhou Xian's expectation that Li Kai was able to realize this in advance and use it.

Zhou Xian picked up the pen and wrote a sentence "Accurate" on Kai Lee's letter, and returned it to the cavalry and said, "You should hurry back now and tell Kai Lee to do everything according to what he said. In addition, take the letter back and hand it over to Liu Konghe. After he read it, he will know what to do?"

The cavalry put two letters into his arms, bowed to Zhou Xian, and left on a horse.

Zhou Xian turned his head and asked, "How far is it from Teng County now?"

The man's name was Tan Xian, who was a fellow tribe of Tan Shimai. He followed him to Jining and was sent to lead the way. He bowed and replied, "It's still about ten miles away. After crossing the Beisha River, you can enter Teng County."

Zhou Xian looked up at the sky, only the cold star counted, and the third time had passed. He turned to Yu Qi and said, "Lewu, go and send orders to help the brothers speed up."

Yu Qi frowned, "Master General, you will not be able to stand it if you speed up the brothers."

Zhou Xian shook his head and said, "It's considered a victory when it's time to go. It's too late until dawn."

Yu Wen said on the side: "What the Supervisor is saying is. The key to whether we can win this time is whether we can deceive Li Dingguo. Once it is dawn, it will be difficult to deceive him."

Zhou Xian nodded and said to Yu Qi: "Go!"

After a while, loud shouts came from afar. "The whole army accelerated forward."

Seeing Zhou Xian frowning, as if he was thinking. Yu Wen comforted him and said, "Don't worry, the commander-in-chief. Since things have come to this point, let it go! The personnel are done, and whether it can succeed depends on fate!"

Zhou Xian shook his head and smiled bitterly: "You are very open-minded."

Yu Wen beat Hache and said in a lazy tone: "Anyway, the fights are all the people who are fighting. If we can unite within the Ming Dynasty, how can we be rampant?"

Zhou Xian nodded without refuting him. He was in Liaodong and had been a slave for nearly ten years. His experiences and different ideas have led to different ideas. People who pursue profits are so easy to unite and work together? Even if Zhou Xian is willing to preside over this matter, he must first have a certain ability to protect himself, and at least eliminate the direct threats faced by Shandong.

When Dingtao was taken back, the western Shandong had already settled, while Li Dingguo still threatened southern Shandong. Unlike He Jin, Li Dingguo was a good general of the age, and although there were few soldiers, he was extremely threatening. Especially the five thousand cavalry in his hand were simply cheating in southern Shandong. He was rampant and unstoppable.

The lack of cavalry has always been the main problem facing Zhou Xian. Although he worked hard, he could not maintain enough quantity because of one or another. Now he has barely collected enough numbers of 2,000, but his combat power is far inferior to those of the soldiers under Li Dingguo's army.

He did not dare to fight against Li Dingguo with his only cavalry. He had always adopted a defensive strategy of building more forts and deploying more soldiers in southern Shandong. However, this could only defend some important places, resulting in serious population loss in southern Shandong, and many fertile land was deserted, while some policies implemented in other places were completely ineffective in southern Shandong.

In order to deal with this cavalry of Li Dingguo, Zhou Xian also specifically solicited solutions from generals in the army and students in the martial arts lecture hall. Finally, Yu Wen, who had just returned to Shandong, proposed that it would be best to trap Li Dingguo in a city so that his cavalry could not be exerted and his forces could be concentrated to fight with him.

Zhou Xian combined some of the ideas of others and adopted a series of tricks to lure the enemy, so he had such a rush to march. If he could take down the cavalry under Li Dingguo, let alone solve the threat in southern Shandong, it would be better to recover Xuzhou.

Li Zicheng defeated Sun Chuanting and marched into the capital. This not only caused the court to panic, but also made the Longwu New Dynasty, which had just occupied the Jianghuai River, frightened. Although Li Zicheng was currently busy fighting with the official army, he not only did not attack them, but instead tried his best to win over them. But everyone knew that this situation would not last long.

Zhu Youjian summoned his ministers and finally unanimously decided to take advantage of Li Zicheng's battle with the official army in the north and march into Nanjing. The Longwu army west of the canal gathered towards Anqing, and the Longwu army east of the canal gathered in Yangzhou, preparing to attack Nanjing from both directions.

For this reason, most of Xuzhou's troops were transferred to Yangzhou. Except for the 5,000 cavalry of Li Dingguo, there were only 3,000 elite soldiers left. The rest were newly recruited township warriors, and they were not even equipped with enough weapons. In Tancheng and Pizhou near Xuzhou, there were not even a single soldier, and they only rely on local township warriors to maintain public order.

This is Li Dingguo's confidence. There are many plains around Xuzhou, and the cavalry under his command can maintain a huge area. Because even if Zhou Xian can capture these places, he can still rely on cavalry to trap the official army occupying the city. Therefore, whether he can eliminate the cavalry under Li Dingguo is crucial to Zhou Xian.

The reason why Zhou Xian was so risky this time was not only because of the long-term threat brought by Li Dingguo, but most importantly, the Longwu Army's march strategy.
Chapter completed!