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The information sent by Nanyang Xunfengwei was not a secret report, but an urgent report.

Liu Sheng opened it and found that the content was quite long.

It turned out that when Weibu and Zuo Liangyu were fighting in Xinye, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai bypassed Zhenping County and appeared outside Nanyang City.

At first, the Ming army sent a thousand elite troops to pretend to be defeated and fled back, trying to sneak into the city.

However, the defending general discovered something was wrong, so the surprise attack turned into a siege.

Because of the transfer orders of Ding Qirui and Zuo Liangyu, Mengruhu took away four to five thousand people from Nanyang to participate in the Xinye Battle, resulting in a serious shortage of Nanyang defenders.

Although the prefect Qiu Maosu, the county magistrate Yao Yunxi and others mobilized the people to defend the city, under the siege of 50,000 to 60,000 people from Li and Luo's coalition forces, there were rogue bandits in the city who set fire to cause chaos. .

The Weibu spies in the city finally escaped that night and sent the information to Xinye overnight, and then sent it to Xiangyang from Xinye.

After reading it, Liu Sheng frowned and asked, "Nanyang Fucheng is such an important place. Didn't Xunfengwei deploy spies outside the city?"

If Xunfengwei has spies outside the city, they should be able to send out the information as soon as the Li and Luo coalition forces attack Nanyang.

But having said that, even if Liu Sheng had learned about this two days earlier, he would still have focused on pursuing Zuo Liangyu and taking Xiangyang.

Nanyang could only let Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai cause trouble.

Because with the strength of Li and Luo, the Wei tribe sent fewer troops to Nanyang. It is possible that not only could they not drive them away, but they would be eaten by them.

If more troops are sent, will Xiangyang still need it?

When Ding Qirui and Zuo Liangyu were defeated and fled to Xiangyang, they still had more than 30,000 soldiers and horses around them. If Liu Sheng had not pursued them in a hurry, Zuo Liangyu might not have calmed down to appease the defeated army and stick to Xiangyang.

Comparing Nanyang and Xiangyang, Xiangyang is obviously more important.

However, the fact that this information came so late is indeed Xunfengwei's problem.

Li Weiqi showed a look of shame, lowered his head and said: "We only deployed two spies on the outskirts of the city. It must be that the Li and Luo coalition forces arrived too quickly, and they were bundled into the Li and Luo team together with the people in the suburbs, and were lost. It was my life that prevented me from sending out the information.”

Liu Sheng knows that reality is not like online novels, and things always go smoothly.

Xunfengwei has been quite effective since its establishment. Even if there are omissions, it is only a minor problem. However, after a long time, a major mistake will inevitably occur.

After thinking about it, Liu Sheng said: "The sacrificed spies will be compensated as usual, but Xunfengwei needs to reflect on this matter and take it as a warning to prevent similar things from happening again!"

"Yes!"

After Li Weiqi left, Liu Sheng thought for a while.

I feel that even if the Weibu cannot send troops to Nanyang Fucheng for the time being to drive away Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, they cannot let the two go too far.

Liu Sheng didn't know Luo Rucai's deeds, but Li Zicheng had many records of massacres in later history, and his destructiveness among the peasant armies in the late Ming Dynasty was second only to Zhang Xianzhong's troops.

So Liu Sheng wrote a letter and sent someone to Nanyang to deliver it to Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, warning them not to kill too much in Nanyang and leave as soon as possible. Otherwise, when he frees up his hands, he will attack Henan Prefecture first!

After finishing this matter, Liu Sheng asked his personal guards to call Kuang Yueguang over.

"Fang Liao meets the commander-in-chief!"

Fang Liao?

Liu Sheng was stunned for a moment, then asked with a smile: "Have you changed your name, sir?"

Kuang Yueguang said: "Yes."

Liu Sheng asked curiously: "Why are you named Fang Liao?"

"My ancestor of the Kuang family in Panyu was the father-in-law Fang Yuping during the reign of Emperor Xiaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty. Later he changed his surname to Kuang, so his subordinates now changed their surname to Fang. As for the name 'Liao', it's just that the word "Pi" has the same meaning as "Guang"."

"That's it." Liu Sheng nodded, and then went straight to the topic and asked: "Our Wei tribe currently occupies Xiangyang City. Does Mr. Fang have any suggestions?"

Fang Liao (Kuang Yueguang) pondered for a moment and asked: "Are the soldiers and horses under the commander's command not enough to attack the entire Xiangyang Prefecture immediately?"

"Why does Mr. Fang think so?"

Fang Liao said: "If the commander really had many troops and defeated Zuo Liangyu in Xinye, he would not have allowed him to bring back so many defeated troops."

Liu Sheng nodded, "Yes, my troops are indeed not enough to occupy the entire Xiangyang Mansion."

Fang Liao said: "Even if the commander is short of troops and horses, if we want to secure the fertile soil of Nanxiang, there are two cities that must be captured. One is Zaoyang, and the other is Gucheng.

With Zaoyang in its possession, it can guard the northeast land passage of Xiangyang Prefecture; Gucheng is the key point in the west of Xiangyang and can control Yunyang and Jingzhou Prefectures.

Of course, if there are enough troops, it would be better to continue westward to capture Gwanghwa and Kyunju. "

Liu Sheng nodded and asked, "How does Mr. Fang think the Wei tribe should govern Xiangyang City?"

Fang Liao said without hesitation: "Before the rebel army goes south, Xiangyang City can naturally only be managed as a military town. It needs to station heavy troops and reduce the number of people in the city who are not engaged in production."

Liu Sheng felt that although Fang Liao's military insights were not outstanding, they were not bad either.

The method of governing Xiangyang City is also very practical.

He really lacked the talents to govern a place.

Simply be bolder in hiring people.

"Since Mr. Fang doesn't want to expose his identity, why not temporarily serve as the counselor of the Military Affairs Hall of our Wei Ministry. I will leave a rebel army to guard Xiangyang, and Mr. Fang will assist the military and political officials in handling Xiangyang's civil affairs as counselor. How about that?"

Fang Liao did not say whether he was satisfied or dissatisfied. He bowed directly and said: "I accept the order."

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On the second day after Nanyang City fell, there were still sounds of fighting coming from many places in the city.

However, many Ming troops and rural warriors are still fighting with the street bandits.

But most places have been controlled by Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai. Not only have they become hell on earth, but there are also constant cries.

Li Zicheng was busy catching young men and forcibly recruiting them into the army as new recruits, while many generals under Luo Rucai were busy searching for young women - Luo Rucai liked beautiful women, and the generals in the army were naturally very seductive, and they robbed, raped and humiliated women. happy.

Therefore, there was not much conflict between the two regarding the division of the population.

But both of them need money and food, especially food.

The two men reluctantly divided up the money, food and treasures of the Tang Palace in a peaceful way. But the money and food from the big households and wealthy merchants in the city belongs to whoever grabs it.

Therefore, on the second day after Nanyang was captured, there were many conflicts between the two groups, and they seemed to be inseparable.

Outside the west city gate.

Li Zicheng watched the young men being taken out of the city in groups, but his face was extremely gloomy.

He was still dissatisfied with the distribution of money and food in the Tang Dynasty.

He sent out more than 10,000 people to attack the city, and Luo Ru only sent out 40,000 people. He used this as an excuse to take away 70% of the money and food of the Tang Dynasty!

This was the result of a dispute between him and Luo Rucai - originally Luo Rucai only wanted to give him 20%.

Although he has few soldiers and horses in Nanyang, he has many in Henan Prefecture. What is lacking is money and food, especially grain.

It was he who had the idea to attack Nanyang Fucheng, but he only got 30% of the money and food. How could he be willing to do so?

Not to mention, during the sacking of the entire city today, Luo Rucai relied on the strength of her numbers to seize a lot of good territory.

'This Lao Luo, you must show him how powerful he is, otherwise he will be really easy to bully! '

Just when Li Zicheng was thinking this, Tan Ma came galloping over and delivered a letter, saying: "King Chuang, Tan Ma from the Department of Wei has sent a letter!"

Second update.

Good night~

There have been a lot of things going on lately, so updates are always delayed, so I try to resolve them as soon as possible.

Sorry.