Li Mi got Wang Bo to come and vote, which was really a big wing.

Next, the two masters and apprentices led their troops to sweep the counties, as if they were entering a deserted land, conquering cities and breaking counties one after another, and the anti-army forces increased greatly.

Wherever the troops went, all the bandits and bandits from all over the country came to surrender. Meng Rang was even more generous and refused everyone, and all of them were granted official titles. On this point, he fully accepted Li Mi's suggestion, as generous as Yang Xuangan.

In just a short time, Meng Rang's Qi army had already rolled to 100,000 people. Although it was a motley man, it was indeed a large number of people and powerful people.

Li Mi became the Grand Marshal of the Qi army and led the attacks, while Li Mi also regarded Wang Bo as the General of the Cavalry.

"King of Qi secretly thought that although our army is large now, there is still not much food or grass, especially the land of Huaiyang has no danger to guard, and it is not a base."

Meng Rang held a wine glass in his hand, and a beauty in his arms, wearing a dragon robe, and said with some wine, "The Grand Sima is right, I am about to discuss this matter with you. Now our army has 100,000 people, and is famous for its reputation. However, Huaiyang has no danger to defend, so I plan to lead my troops to the south and go to Huaixi."

Huaixi is the west of Huainan Road, which is probably on the east and west sides of the Dabie Mountains, Yong'an, Qichun, Tong'an, Yiyang, Lujiang, and Huainan counties. This area has Dabie Mountains, Tongbai Mountains, etc., and is facing the Han River and the Yangtze River to the south. It can be a river backed by the mountain, which is a dangerous place.

Especially in this era, there were many barbarians in the mountains such as Dabie Mountains, Tongbai Mountains, etc.

These barbarians were actually ancestors of the Tujia people and others in later generations, but they were indeed not civilized enough. The imperial court did not rule tightly in these mountainous areas. Compared with Henan, the heart of the Four Battles of the Central Plains, Huaixi is undoubtedly good.

Advance can attack, retreat can defend.

If the situation is wrong, you can not only hike into the mountain, but also run away. Whether it is to run to the south of the mountain to the west, to the south of the Yangtze River, or to the Huainan River.

To put it bluntly, although Meng Rang was called King of Qi, he did not have much confidence.

However, this route was not what Li Mi wanted.

He was determined to take revenge and wanted to overthrow the Yang family. How could he be willing to hide in the mountains and fields for the rest of his life to be a mountain king?

"King, now the foolish monarch Yang Guang is still surrounded by Yanmen. All the soldiers in the world rushed to Hedong to serve the king. This is a great opportunity for us. At this time, we are a lot of people and have a very high morale. We are just taking this opportunity to march northward."

Li Mi believes that we should take the opportunity to fight Luoyang.

However, Luoyang's city was strong, so the rebel army could first attack Xingyang and seize Xingluo Cang.

"The king, Xingluo Warehouse, has three thousand warehouses, each warehouse of 8,000 stones of grain. This is the largest storage granary in Luoyang and the entire world. If our army takes the opportunity to seize this warehouse, we can summon the heroes of the world to use grain, gather in Luoyang, and siege the Eastern Capital together. At that time, all the heroes of the world will obey the king. At that time, the king will be able to advance to the emperor, and then pacify the Central Plains and establish a new dynasty."

But Meng Rang still hesitated.

Although the troops are expanding rapidly now, Meng Rang was once a clerk of Princess Qi after all, and was not the kind of ignorant grassroots. As a former member of the system, he was very clear about the strength of the court.

At present, Zhang Xutuo led the Henan soldiers to Yanmen to serve the king, but he would definitely come back. Especially when he judged that although the emperor was caught off guard by Shibi, there should be no problem.

It won't take long before the emperor will go south, and the killing god Zhang Xutuo will go south.

What to do then?

He didn't think he could do anything that Yang Xuangan hadn't done back then.

So Meng Rang was not willing to go to Luoyang.

"Duke Wei, although we are not as good as those who are thieves who live in the wild day and night in the wilderness, we are not much better. Although we now claim to have 100,000 people, but we are less than 3,000 horses and only 1,000 horses. How can we fight the eastern capital Luoyang? Even Xingluocang City is quite strong. I have been to Xingluocang City before, where the defense is very tight, and there may not be a chance."

Li Mi was very angry, thinking that Meng Rang was indeed not a big deal. He had just won some victory, but he was relieved to be a little rich man.

"King, what we do now is a rebellion that loses our heads. It is like sailing against the current, if we don't advance, we will retreat. If we don't take the opportunity to seize Xingluo Cang, defeat Luoyang, and call on all the heroes in the world, but instead think about retreating to Huaixi and hiking into the mountains. How can this be a success? If we wait for the troops in the palace to return to Henan, no matter how much we hide in the mountains, it will be useless."

But no matter how Li Mi persuaded him, Meng Rang decided to go to Huaixi.

Li Mi was so angry that she trembled all over and wanted to curse Meng Rang.

Fortunately, Meng Rang was not too much in the end. After all, today's success was thanks to Li Mi. So in the end he proposed a plan to divide the troops.

He proposed that he personally led a group to march southward and guide Huaixi to be the base.

And Li Mi led his troops north to attack Xingyang and seize Xingluo Cang.

"If you can seize Xingluo Cang by Duke Wei, I will then lead my troops north to meet and fight Luoyang together."

Now that things have come to this point, Li Mi is helpless.

So it was agreed that Meng Rang led the main force south to Huaixi, and Li Mi led his troops north to Xingyang.

Li Mi got 10,000 troops, and basically all the bandits who had just come to vote, including the one from student Wang Bodang.

Gritting his teeth, Li Mi brought more than 10,000 mobs to the north.

He went north along Cai Shu.

At this time, many elite government soldiers in Henan were damaged during the Eastern Expedition. At the beginning of the year, the Daotu envoys were dispatched from the Central Plains to the eight governors of the border, which reduced the government soldiers. The emperor was surrounded by Yanmen and summoned the troops of the world to serve the king.

Henan's pacifier Zhang Xutuo and Eastern Du guard Fan Zigaidu led their troops north, and Henan became even more empty.

Although Li Mi and Wang Bodang combined, although they were led by a mob, their morale was in full swing. The way north was unstoppable.

They successively broke through several cities, and every time they broke into one city, they took all their money, grain and equipment, and even recruited county soldiers and townsmen and brave men in the city to follow them, so their strength continued to increase.

In early September, Li Mi captured Chenliu, the canal city.

Then he rushed into Xingyang County. At this time, Li Mi's troops had soared to 80,000.

After entering Xingyang, Li Mi sent Wang Bodang to attack Jindi Pass.

Jindi Pass is located on the east bank of the canal and is not far from Hulao Pass.

The guards of Jindi Pass faced the 30,000 troops led by Wang Bodang and went out of the city to fight, but were defeated by Wang Bodang, and Jindi Pass was then lost.

When Li Mi arrived, he used Jindi Pass as the base camp and divided his troops to attack Xingyang counties.

The Wei army successively broke through Zhucheng, and finally surrounded Xingyang City on the side of the Suoshui River to the east of Hulaoguan.

The prefect of Xingyang was also appointed by the Henan appeasement envoy Zhang Xutuo. At this time, Zhang Xutuo led the elite Henan troops far away in Hedong. Fortunately, Xingyang City was the foundation of the Zheng family, so the Zheng family was of course unwilling to let the rebels break through, so they took out a lot of money, recruited warriors, and sent a monk slave Ding Zhushou, which finally repelled the first siege of the Wei army.
Chapter completed!