At the order of Li Zicheng, a military meeting was held immediately.

Li Zicheng said: "This Zhu Cilang has disgusted me repeatedly, which is really despicable! You all tell me, is there any way to kill him?"

After Li Zicheng finished speaking, the others present also looked at each other.

Kill Zhu Cixuan? This matter seems to be really difficult to deal with.

Li Guo said tentatively: "Your Majesty, otherwise we would have a head-on battle with Zhu Cixuan? In fact, it is not that there is no chance of winning."

Li Zicheng glared at Li: "Whatever you say is certainly a victory! But before the battle, we must take some measures to weaken Zhu Cilang."

Li Zicheng knows his family's affairs. Although he has 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, it is so powerful, but in fact, there are not many people who can fight.

Most of the soldiers were actually forcibly arrested by strong men, and many of them had not experienced serious military training. It would be impossible to expect them to grow up and compete with the Ming army at once.

Many of the troops that could be fought were killed or captured by the Ming army in the previous battles.

On the other hand, the Ming army on Zhu Cixuan was a regular army, and it was trained by the battles of Beijing, Gu'an, Baoding and even Shanhaiguan. The combat effectiveness was not on the same level.

If not, how could Li Zicheng tolerate Zhu Ciyang, whose troops were less than half as strong as him, so arrogant?

After Li Zicheng finished speaking, the ministers nodded repeatedly, but no one could give a decent plan.

Li Zicheng looked at the Dashun ministers present and sighed secretly in his heart.

After several major wars, several major military advisors under Li Zicheng, Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Li Yan and others were gone.

Nowadays, Dashun has gone from being a wealth of talents to being incompetent, and now no one has even made an idea.

It's a sin!

Forget it, I don’t expect these wastes to do it myself.

Li Zicheng snorted and said, "I have an idea."

After Li Zicheng finished speaking, everyone looked up and showed a surprised expression.

Li Guo hurriedly said, "What is your majesty's plan?"

Li Zicheng touched his beard and said lightly: "Didn't Zhu Cixuan cut off Li Yan's food and grass some time ago? This time, it's my turn to cut off his food and grass!"

When talking, Li Zicheng also showed half of the fox's smile.

Li Guo was stunned when he heard this: "Your Majesty also wants to cut off food? But how do we know where Zhu Ciyang's food is?"

Although the others didn't speak, they probably had this expression.

Li Zicheng smiled slightly and said confidently: "You don't know, it doesn't mean I don't know! Li Guo, I will give you ten thousand elites. You can leave the city at night tonight. Be sure to arrive at Jiangshui River before tomorrow dusk, and retreat immediately after burning Zhu Cilang's food and grass!"

Li Guo was half-believing and half-doubted, but looking at Li Zicheng's confident look, he naturally had to take this order.

Li Zicheng looked at Li Guo's leaving figure and felt a little proud.

"Zhu Ciyang, Zhu Ciyang, you can use tricks, I don't know?"

Li Zicheng really used a little trick for this plan.

What plan?

spy!

As we all know, most areas in Shandong have been recovered by the Ming Dynasty, so it is urgent to restore the ruling order locally.

But the previous Ming officials were either killed by Li Zicheng or surrendered to Li Zicheng. For the Ming Dynasty, these guys were not trustworthy.

But if sent from other places, outsiders will not be familiar with local affairs for a while and will not be able to get started.

So who can help the government rebuild order? The local gentry is undoubtedly a very good choice.

Therefore, after the Ming Dynasty recovered Northern Zhili and Shandong, many of the gentry families who provided a large amount of manpower and material resources to help the Ming Dynasty entered the grassroots government offices of the Ming Dynasty and took up some official positions.

Of course, these positions are not very core, but they are enough to provide them with some information that is enough to affect the situation of the war.

I want to say here that not every gentry hates Li Zicheng.

After following Li Yan's advice, Li Zicheng was quite tolerant of the gentry all the way over. He mainly killed local officials and could accept any gentry family who were willing to surrender.

However, the gentry families were all beneficiaries of the original Ming ruling order. Li Zicheng's arrival changed this order, causing serious losses to the interests of many gentry families. Therefore, they strongly opposed Li Zicheng.

Most of the gentry families opposed Li Zicheng, while a small number of the gentry families chose to protect themselves and be loyal to Li Zicheng.

These gentry families not only gained a lot of benefits, but their children also entered Li Zicheng's army to serve as generals.

So after retreating from Shandong, Li Zicheng allowed some more loyal gentry families to stay in the local area, and sneaked into the ruling order of the Ming Dynasty under the banner of returning to the Ming Dynasty to see if they could get any help.

In such a chaotic world where Li Zicheng and the Ming Dynasty attacked back and forth, it was actually difficult for the Ming government to distinguish which gentry families were on Li Zicheng's side.

Even if someone reports it, it can be said that he died in battle, died of illness or even disappeared when fighting against Li Zicheng. Anyway, the situation is so chaotic, where can I find evidence?

Facts have proved that Li Zicheng's lurking is really helpful.

The information this time was that a general's family in Shandong was ordered to assist the Ming government in transporting grain, so he learned about the grain transport route to Yongnian City, and sent someone to report it quickly to Li Zicheng.

The letter arrived two days ago, but Li Zicheng was too lazy to pay attention to it at that time.

It was not until Li Guo was motivated that Li Zicheng found this information again and confirmed that there was enough time to make plans this time.

According to information, this group of grain transport teams from Jiangnan had only two or three thousand guards, and they were all local soldiers from Jiangnan, and lacked training and combat effectiveness.

Such troops can scare the refugees. If they really fight, wouldn’t they be kneaded by Li Zicheng at will?

Giving Li over 10,000 elite soldiers is all Li Zicheng's very safe consideration. Normally, one or two thousand is enough!

Moreover, Li Zicheng believed that Zhu Cilang would not have thought that Li Zicheng would accurately control the information of this grain transport team.

As long as Zhu Cilang's food and grass are burned, Zhu Cilang's attack speed can greatly delay, and may even force Zhu Cilang to retreat.

In that case, wouldn’t Li Zicheng have a chance to win?

As Li Zicheng thought about it, the smile on his face became more and more intense.

"Zhu Ciyang, Zhu Ciyang, you must play tricks with me, right? I will let you know this time that I have eaten more salt than rice you have eaten. What do you use to compare with me?"

A picture appeared in Li Zicheng's mind. In the picture, Li Zicheng sat on the throne with radiance, while Zhu Cilang was tied up and knelt on the ground and begged for mercy tremblingly.

Just think about it and it feels beautiful!

Li Zicheng was happy and was waiting for Li Guo to bring back good news!

On the other side, Zhu Cilang also got good news.

"The Red Cannon, finally arrived!" Zhu Cilang was also a little moved when he looked at the twenty Red Cannons in front of him.

These silly, big, black and thick things that seem unremarkable from the perspective of later generations can become the weapon of killing in this era.

When the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, it was also because of the red cannons seized from the Ming Dynasty that it bombed all the way, which made most of the resistance of the Ming army and civilians useless.

So some voices believed that if there were no heavy weapons such as the Red Barbarians and Cannons in that world at that time, the Southern Ming might have really been able to survive like the Eastern Jin and Southern Song.

Of course, it doesn’t make much sense to talk about these things now, because Zhu Cilang did not intend to let the Ming Dynasty survive, but to destroy all the enemies of the Ming Dynasty!

Zhu Cixuan said to Li Guozhen beside him: "From tomorrow, we will prepare for a formal siege!"

Li Guozhen nodded, and was also ready to beat his hands, saying, "Your Highness, I have long wanted to kill this Li Zicheng."

After Zhu Cixuan and Li Guozhen separated, they returned to their tent.

Fang Gongqian handed over a letter: "Your Highness, this is your Majesty's letter."

Zhu Cilang said oh and opened it casually.

Generally speaking, such letters rather than decrees should not be involved in any military and national affairs, and it is mostly some nagging by Emperor Chongzhen.

As Zhu Cilang expected, what Chongzhen wrote in the letter was actually the same thing, nothing more than Chongzhen's instructions to Zhu Cilang not to do anything randomly, to fight well, and ensure safety.

Zhu Ciyang yawned and thought to himself: "This cheap father is only in his thirties, why are he as long as those 60-year-old fathers in the TV series?"

No matter how much you complain, it is also the intention of the cheap father, so Zhu Cilang naturally wants to write a reply.

Just as Zhu Cixuan was writing hard, the system sound suddenly rang.

"Please ask the host to arrive in Jiangshui before tomorrow dusk and defeat the attack of 10,000 troops from Li Guo's troops on the Ming grain transport team."

Zhu Cixuan paused the brush in his hand, and the ink fell from the tip of the pen, and immediately dyed a piece of paper black.

"Food food? Good guy, I didn't expect that Li Zicheng would play this trick with me..." Zhu Cixuan muttered, his expression a little strange.

If it weren't for the system's reminder, maybe Li Zicheng might have really been plotted against.

But unfortunately, I am a cheating man!

Zhu Cixuan stood up, threw the half-written letter paper in an oil lamp to light it, and then walked out of the door.

Fang Gongqian, who was waiting at the gate, was stunned for a moment: "Where is Your Highness going?"
Chapter completed!