Although Li Zicheng is a tyrant, he can continue to grow, but he still has his own personal abilities. He knew clearly that Kaifeng Prefecture was not so easy to defeat. At least, the mobs under his command were not good in a short period of time.

It doesn't matter if they can't fight, but Li Zicheng was ready for both. He besieged Kaifeng Prefecture, and the Ming army would definitely not stand by. When the Ming army gathered around them and they came to help Kaifeng, Li Zicheng would adopt the same tactics as Huang Taiji, and attack the aid of the points.

The attack was not possible, and Li Zicheng was still quite sure that he was relying on the large number of people to attack the officers and soldiers who came to support him from afar.

Besides, I am not afraid of losing. Even if I lose, I will flee to another place to pull up the flagpole and turn it back. However, what Li Zicheng did not expect was that at this time, Henan was no longer a famine-ridden Henan.

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, Yang Sichang joined 100,000 troops and increased his salary by 2.8 million. He proposed the strategy of "four straights and six corners, ten sides to open a net" to limit the mobility of the peasant army, defeated them one by one, and finally annihilated them. This move was quite effective within two years. Zhang Xianzhong's army was defeated and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. Li Zicheng encountered Hong Chengchou in Nanyuan, Tongguan, Weinan, and Sun Chuanting's ambush was defeated. He led Liu Zongmin and other 17 people to hide in Shangluo Mountains in southeastern Shaanxi.

In August of the 11th year of Chongzhen, the Qing army destroyed the walls from Qingkou Mountain and Qianziling to enter the pass, and launched the fourth entry into the pass. In order to implement his strategy of "to calm the country and to resist foreign countries", Yang Sichang insisted on peace talks with the Qing Dynasty, but was fiercely opposed by Lu Xiangsheng, the commander-in-chief of the King of Xuanda, and the commander-in-chief of the King. Chongzhen was unstable, and Lu Xiangsheng died in Julu, Hebei. After the Qing army retreated, Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou and others were all transferred to Liaodong to prevent the Qing army, and Li Zicheng was able to breathe in the mountains. In winter, Li was stationed in Shenglongzhai, south of Fushui Pass, and married and had children.

In the 12th year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong rebelled against the Ming court in Gucheng again. Li Zicheng led thousands of troops out of Shangluo Mountain. In the 13th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng took advantage of the main force of the Ming army to pursue Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan to enter Henan, took in hungry people, opened warehouses to provide relief to hungry people. "The hungry people from far and near carried hoes, and those who responded were like flowing water, day and night, calling one million, but their momentum was raging and could not be defeated." In the same year, Li Yan came to surrender. Li Zicheng proposed the slogan of "equal land and exemption from tuition" in the army, which was the folk song "Welcome the King of Break and not paying grain."

Thanks to Li Weiwen, after receiving two million taels of disaster relief money and food from Zhu Cilang, the disaster in Henan was alleviated. Although Li Zicheng organized hundreds of thousands of refugees at this time, he was actually complaining in his heart.

Henan was not as easy as he imagined. This time he besieged Kaifeng, and it was the best to defeat him. If he couldn't defeat him, he would have to destroy the main force that the Ming army came to support him.

Sun Chuanting was quite shocked when he learned in Tongguan that the thief Li Zicheng had besieged Kaifeng. What shocked him was not Li Zicheng's elusiveness, but when he was in Beijing, the Crown Prince Zhu Cilang told him: If you go to Shaanxi, the thief will besieged Kaifeng.

At that time, when the crown prince said these words to him, Sun Chuanting didn't feel anything. He felt that the crown prince was a little self-righteous. It was not until he waited for the news that the thieves were besieging Kaifeng that Sun Chuanting was shocked by Zhu Cixuan.

This crown prince is simply Zhuge Liang of the Three Kingdoms. No, even Zhuge Liang is afraid he doesn't have such skills. Because, Zhu Cilang will teach him the way to defeat the enemy next.

At this time, Li Zicheng was a bandit, just a bandit. No one had proposed to equalize the land and exempt the tax in Li Zicheng's army, nor did anyone propose to open the city gate to welcome the King of Chuang. The King of Chuang came and did not pay the food. Because that was the matter after Li Yan surrendered to Li Zicheng.

In other words, at this time, if the Ming army took the lead in proposing the slogan "equal land and exemption from taxes. Beat the thieves and fight and fight, and don't pay the food when the officers and soldiers come"...

Taking Li Zicheng's path makes Li Zicheng have no way to go. This is what Zhu Cilang teaches Sun Chuanting.

Don’t think this is a very simple thing. It’s okay for the thief Li Zicheng to put forward these slogans. However, if Sun Chuanting himself put forward these slogans, it is equivalent to treason!

You should know that if you equalize the fields and taxes, whoever is exempted from the taxes is exempted from whose fields. If you do not pay grain, whoever is responsible for the grain will receive.

The world is in the Ming Dynasty. The big landlord and bureaucratic group that occupied the land represents the Ming Dynasty. Equalizing the land and exempting taxes is equivalent to rebel against the Ming Dynasty of the Zhu family and establishing an army belonging to him, Sun Chuanting.

What is the food you receive? It is official grain. You don’t even need food taxes, so what the officials and soldiers of the court eat and drink.

Therefore, if Sun Chuanting proposed to equalize the land and exempt the tax, he would put forward the slogan of not paying food. What would he face in Beijing? Not to mention the endless impeachment of officials, even Chongzhen himself would have to kill him in minutes.

But Zhu Cixuan said that this is the only chance to defeat Li Zicheng. Even if you do this, if something happens, I will take it for you in the capital.

Can you withstand it? Even Zhu Cixuan, even you, the crown prince, may not be able to withstand it. First of all, if the governors in Shaanxi, Gansu, Yansui, Ningxia, Henan and other places do not have taxes, how will the state machinery operate?

Zhu Cixuan actually faces a huge pressure, but there is no way. This is one of the only ways to defeat Li Zicheng.

But at the moment, we should first unblock the siege of Kaifeng Prefecture. Sun Chuanting convened Fu Zonglong, Baoding Governor Yang Wenyue and He Renlong, who were also released from the prison, and summoned Ding Qirui, Zuo Liangyu, Hu Dawei and other four generals, and sent troops to Kaifeng together, hoping to unblock the siege of Kaifeng.

The above people can be regarded as famous generals in the late Ming Dynasty, but these people also have their own shortcomings. However, it is important to rush to Kaifeng to support him now, and nothing else can be ignored for the time being.

However, as soon as the transfer order was issued, the Heren Long Yin and Yang disobeyed, and Zuo Liangyu stopped moving. They did not accept Sun Chuanting's transfer.

He Renlong and Zhu Cilang called him He Paopau, a famous long-legged general. When Yang Sichang surrounded Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, he "returned" to Shaanxi from Kaixian County, so that Zhang Xianzhong broke through the siege and entered Sichuan calmly, and was out of control. In the Xiangcheng Battle and Xiangcheng Battle, he abandoned the commander twice and fled, resulting in the failure of the war and the two supervisors were killed. He Renlong and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were fellow villagers, both from Mizhi, Shaanxi.

There is also Zuo Liangyu. It has to be said that Zuo Liangyu is indeed talented. However, talented people are also arrogant. At first, they fought against the Qing army in Liaodong and were promoted by Hou Xun. Later, in the war to suppress the peasant army, they continued to expand their troops, becoming increasingly arrogant and domineering, and gaining their own troops.
Chapter completed!