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Liu Sheng’s letter?

After receiving the letter, Li Zicheng thought of the defeat at Jitan and the loss of more than 20,000 elites. The hideous scars around his blind eyes twitched slightly.

Then he took out the letter and read it.

It was written in Liu Sheng's handwriting, and it didn't contain much content. He read it quickly.

He sneered and said: "Threatening you? Do you think you are too scared?"

Originally, Li Zicheng simply wanted to recruit strong men in Nanyang City to make up for the losses in the previous battle at Jitan.

After all, he brought 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 elite infantry with him when he came to Nanyang. If he wanted to return to Henan Province, he would have to bring 40,000 to 50,000 people with him, so as not to suffer a sudden drop in prestige due to the defeat of Jitan.

There are now more than 100,000 people in Nanyang Fucheng, and about 30% are young and strong men. He can recruit more than 20,000 strong men, and recruit some bandits and refugees on the way back to Henan Prefecture, and he can increase the number to 40,000 to 50,000 people. Small goals.

But after reading Liu Sheng's letter, Li Zicheng became angry and wanted to order Nanyang to be razed to the ground!

All the cities and houses were destroyed, and all the young men and women were taken away, leaving only the old, weak, women and children to the man named Liu!

But his eyes fell on Liu Sheng's handwriting again, and Li Zicheng felt that he should calm down when he thought of Liu Sheng leading the Yibu rebel army to attack Henan Prefecture in the future.

It has been twelve years since he started fighting in the second year of Chongzhen. Not to mention how many times he has narrowly escaped death, his heart is really tired after wandering around for so long.

When a country is in chaos, it longs for peace, and when people have been wandering for a long time, they also want to settle down.

Not to mention, he is already in his thirties and doesn't even have a child - if he doesn't settle down, how will he have time to have a child?

Therefore, he really wants to compete in the world based on the Yiluo Valley.

Regardless of whether he is happy or not, he has worries when he has a territory.

So, Li Zicheng clutched Liu Sheng's handwriting for a long time, and then exhaled a sigh of relief and gave up the idea of ​​razing Nanyang to the ground.

But he was not prepared to make it easy for Liu Sheng.

"Pass an order to all ministries to intensify recruitment and arrest of young men. No man between the ages of ten and fifty shall be spared!"

The personal attendant immediately took the order to convey the message.

Soon, more people broke into Nanyang City, sweeping house after house, preparing to arrest all the young and strong people in Nanyang!

the other side.

Luo Rucai was appreciating the twenty or thirty Nanyang beauties presented by his generals when he also received a letter from Liu Sheng.

After seeing it, Luo Rucai felt embarrassed.

'Grandma, I originally wanted to have a good time in Nanyang City with my soldiers, but now it seems I'm afraid I can't. '

Luo Rucai paid more attention to Liu Sheng's letters than Li Zicheng.

For one thing, he originally felt that before the demise of the Ming Dynasty, the rebel armies should not fight each other, but should unite to overthrow the Ming Dynasty first.

Secondly, he has a temper that bullies the weak and fears the strong. In the battle of Jitan, Liu Sheng defeated Li Zicheng, proving his strength. He, Lao Luo, was not as ruthless as Li Zicheng, so he naturally did not want to offend Liu Sheng too harshly.

As for whether there was enmity between the two during the previous battle at Jitan, Luo Rucai didn't think so.

Because he didn't even start a fight with the Yibu rebels, the army was defeated. Since he didn't fight, who do you think he is an enemy?

The more than 10,000 defeated troops can be considered as gifts from him to the Wei tribe!

Thinking of this, Luo Ru put away the letter, selected the ten most beautiful ones among the twenty or thirty Nanyang beauties in front of her, and then said: "Send the rest home."

"Ah?" Wang Long, the personal commander, thought he heard wrongly, "Uncle, you said you would send all the remaining beauties home?"

"Yes."

"Why?" Wang Long really didn't understand, "Don't you just want this one? Everyone thought that you must be unhappy after losing the battle a few days ago, so you worked hard to collect these beauties and offer them to you.

Even if you don't like the rest, you can reward them to the soldiers instead of sending them home, right? "

Luo Rucai said displeased: "Well, just do as I'm told, where does all this nonsense come from? Also, tell the generals to only collect money and food from now on, and don't go around arresting women.

Those who have been captured in the army, don't harm their lives - if they can't stay in the end, they will all be sent back to the city. "

When the matter reached this point, Luo Ru felt that what he did was enough to express goodwill to Liu Sheng.

Seeing that Luo Rucai was not joking, Wang Long could only respond and convey the order.

Luo Rucai still has a high prestige in the army, so after the order was issued, it had some effect.

As for those women who have been harmed or are currently harmed in Luo Rucai camp, they can only blame their bad fate...

Worried about the situation in Ye County, Liu Sheng sent Shen Wandeng to lead six battalions of cavalry to assist Ye County on the second day of the victory in Xinye, that is, June 14.

Following him south to Xiangyang were only the Guards Hu Benwei and Shengjie Guard, as well as the headquarters of the 5th, 6th, and 7th brigades, plus three battalions of cavalry and eight battalions of civilian warriors, totaling 28,000 More than a thousand people.

As for the Second Brigade Headquarters and its Third Regiment, as well as the remaining eight civilian warrior battalions, they stayed in Xinye.

Not only because they had to guard Nanyang City, but also because they had to guard the prisoners of the Ming army.

At that time, including the Ming troops captured by Shen Wandeng in two major victories in the Wadian area, the number of Ming troops captured by the Kuei tribe in Xinye was close to 30,000!

In addition to the previous 30,000 to 40,000 rogue prisoners, the number of prisoners in Xinye has reached 60,000 to 70,000!

Even though the rogue captives among them were actually equivalent to civilian husbands, many of them had even returned to the Xinwei tribe and were waiting to officially join the Xinwei tribe after completing one month of hard labor.

But if there are not enough troops to suppress and supervise, if something happens to these prisoners, it can cause chaos.

The Second Brigade Headquarters and its Third Regiment, plus the remaining ten militia battalions, total more than 10,000 people. There is no problem in supervising these prisoners for a few days, but after a long time, trouble is likely to occur.

Of course, in order to avoid danger, Liu Sheng had already told Wen You and others that the prisoners of the Ming army were temporarily detained and only given two meals of clear porridge a day, so that they would not risk making trouble because they were too hungry, and at the same time they would not have much energy to make trouble.

Even after making so many arrangements in Xinye, Liu Sheng was still a little worried. Considering that the Li and Luo coalition forces were causing harm to Nanyang, Liu Sheng was not prepared to stay in Xiangyang longer.

Therefore, on the morning of the second day after occupying Xiangyang, Liu Sheng summoned He Lianyue, Mao Chengguo, Zhang Ao and other brigade-level generals and held a meeting.

"See the Marshal!"

After everyone bowed, Liu Sheng said straight to the point: "I need to handle the matters in Xinye and Nanyang, and I can only leave Xiangyang to you.

I want to use He Lianyue as the chief general and Mao Chengguo and Zhang Ao as deputy generals. While under military control of Xiangyang City, I will look for opportunities to seize Gucheng. Do you have confidence? "

On his own again?

Mao Chengguo and Zhang Ao both looked at Helianyue with envy.

Then several people clasped their fists together and said, "I will live up to the commander's trust!"

Liu Sheng nodded slightly and asked, "Who do you think should capture Gucheng?"

This test question was mainly for Helian Yue, and all the generals understood it, so they all looked at it.

He Lianyue wanted to say let him go, but suddenly he thought that if Liu Sheng thought so, there was no need to ask more questions. So after thinking for a while, he said: "I think Commander Zhang can take charge of this matter."

After saying that, He Lianyue felt a little uneasy because he didn't know if this was the answer Liu Sheng wanted.

Sorry, I'm not in a good state today, so I owe you another update.

Good night~