In the lobby of the Qi County Government of Henan Prefecture, far away from the capital, a headless corpse was lying on the ground, and blood was gushing out of its neck. The head of the corpse was actually brought into the hand by Li Zheng with murderous aura. At the same time, a burst of cheers were coming from afar.

Li Zicheng stood beside him, and Zhi looked at the huge lobby with satisfaction and smiled at a young man standing next to him, saying, "Brother Li, it seems that it is God's arrangement to meet us! Look, we took the county town in just half a day, and this dog official and county magistrate also became our sword ghost."

This young man is not someone else, but the young man he met in a restaurant a few days ago, and the young man's name is Li Yan.

Li Yan looked at Li Zicheng who was laughing proudly and was also mixed with emotion. He and his friend came to the restaurant to drink at Wenxiang. He complained a few casually, but Li Zicheng heard it.

This guy came over to chat with him with shame. After chatting for a while, they found that they had unexpected speculation. However, when Li Zicheng and others finally revealed their identity and invited him to join the gang, Li Yan was still scared.

He is not a fool, he should understand what Li Zicheng means. Either join them or die.

Is Li Yan afraid of death? The answer is yes, and soon he became one of the bandits.

In this time and space, Li Zicheng and Li Yan met nine years earlier.

Now Li Zicheng is just a small bandit with hundreds of subordinates, and Li Yan is just a 21-year-old young man. Perhaps it was a destined encounter. After deciding to join the bandits, Li Yan quickly proposed several ideas for Li Zicheng.

Li Yan advised Li Zicheng that since Gao Yingxiang is dead and the rebel army has no leader, Li Zicheng can proclaim himself the new King of Rebellion, so that he can gain fame.

The reason why the rebel army suffered frequent failures in the past few times was because the reputation of the rebel army was too poor. This time, we should take this opportunity to re-establish our reputation. The old saying since ancient times is well said, those who win the hearts of the people will win the world. As long as we win the hearts of the people, the rebel army will develop much smoother in the future.

After hearing Li Yan's words, Li Zicheng, who was at best a semi-illiterate, felt as if he had a treasure. He immediately appointed Li Yan as the military advisor and the third leader. In addition to himself and Li Guo, he was the third person.

In the next few days, Li Yan also actively provided advice for Li Zicheng.

He not only sent people to walk in Qi County for rumors, "The army of Wang Renyi will not kill or plunder."

He even made up nursery rhymes, allowing children in Qi County to sing everywhere: "When the door is opened, we will welcome the King of Chuang, and the King of Chuang will not pay food when he comes." "When the door is opened, we will worship the King of Chuang, and everyone will be happy to discipline."

In an era without newspapers, television and the Internet, such rumors are astonishingly lethal.

The people of Qi County have lived a hard life, and many farmers who have lost their land have been pouring into the county town for their livelihoods to find a way out.

Because it was the harsh winter, people were frozen to death and starved to death every day. However, County Magistrate Zhang not only did not send people to build hangars to prepare porridge, but instead sent yamen soldiers to try to drive the farmers out. Such behavior also led to public grievances in the city.

At this time, the appearance of this nursery rhyme was like throwing a spark into a pile of dry firewood, which instantly ignited a raging fire. For a moment, the entire Qi County was talking about this song.

In just a few days, Qi County was talking about the King of Rebellion. Before the magistrate Zhang could react, just at dawn today, Li Zicheng, Li Guo and Li Yan led dozens of bandits who had been infiltrated into the city in advance to kill the soldiers guarding the city gate and opened the city gate and put hundreds of bandits who had already lurked outside the city into the city.

For a moment, the sound of killing sounds were everywhere, and the soldiers guarding the city were caught off guard were fleeing everywhere. Li Zicheng led his subordinates to rush to the county government without hesitation and chopped off the head of the county magistrate Zhang who was about to escape. At this point, Qi County fell into his hands.

At this time, a burst of cheers came from outside the door, and then a burly thief strode in and fisted at Li Zicheng and said, "King of Chuang, we have opened the granary according to your instructions and the military advisor, and distributed the food inside to the refugees in the city. Now everyone is cheering, and many people are asking to join the rebel army."

"good!"

Li Zicheng laughed and gave Li Yan a thumbs up, "Brother Li is indeed amazing. Just using a little means to capture the hearts of the people in the city. It's really amazing."

Li Yan waved his hands repeatedly, "The King of Chuang is too rewarded, I just follow the will of the people. The people of Qi County have been suffering from the magistrate of Zhang County for a long time. This time, we have only done something that the people wanted to do but dare not do, which has caused such a big response."

"Brother Li doesn't have to be too humble. It's your credit, it's your credit. No one dares to take it." Li Zicheng changed the topic and asked immediately: "But although Qi County has won it, what should we do next. I still want to hear your opinion from Brother Li."

Li Yan had long considered this. He took out a map from his arms and walked to the book desk in the lobby to spread the map on it.

This picture was drawn by Li Yan himself, and it looks very simple. The knowledge on it roughly describes some place names and routes.

Li Yan pointed to the map and said, "Please look at King Chuang, this is Qi County where we are now.

Now we are in the west of Henan Prefecture and Mengjin where the Jiangning Army is located. To the north is Daming Prefecture, to the east is Fengyang Prefecture, to the south is Wuchang Prefecture. It is impossible to go to the west. The Daming Prefecture in the north is not easy to fight. So we only have two roads east or south. I wonder what the King of Chuang thinks?"

Li Zicheng touched the short beard on his chin and hesitated for a moment, "Ma Laba, we only have hundreds of old camp brothers now, and even the newly recruited brothers are only four or five thousand. This little force is really too small.

When the Emperor of Ming Dynasty was in Fengyang Prefecture, I heard that there were always heavy troops there, so it was definitely not easy to fight, so I think it would be better for us to advance south. First, we can avoid the Jiangning army, and second,... the south has always been a wealthy place, and the troops are weak, so it should be easier to advance there."

"Well... I think so too."

Li Yan nodded, "We should quickly summon everyone to attack Runing Mansion, and then head to De'an Mansion and Wuchang Mansion after taking down Runing Mansion. These places are rich places. As long as we can take down these two places, the power of our rebel army will expand rapidly. It should be no problem to train tens of thousands of troops by then."

Li Guo, who was standing beside him, couldn't help laughing: "Brother Li Yan is wrong. If he can take down these two places, not to mention tens of thousands of troops, there will be no problem with the 200,000 to 300,000 troops."

Li Yan was interrupted and was not angry. He just asked lightly: "Did brother Li Guo say the kind of army that was about to collapse by the Jiangning Army a few days ago?"

Li Guo: "..."
Chapter completed!