Chapter 8 Welcome

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Xiao Tianjian immediately looked at the high slope of the official road south of Tianlongzhai, looking into the direction of the official road in the distance. Behind him were 400 soldiers of the Xingtian Army. Yan Chongxi and Luo Lidu stood behind him. The battle flag of the Xing Tianjun fluttered from time to time with the breeze, making a sound of hunting.

Four hundred soldiers were also armored, holding the weapons in their hands tightly, and looking into the distance with excited eyes. The whole army was silent. Except for a few horses hitting their noses from time to time, there was no more noise.

Xiao Tianjian received an exploration report three days ago. A large number of rebels had reached the area of Fengxiang. However, they failed to attack Fengxiang County for a day. Instead, they lost a lot of people. Now they have begun to march towards Yanyang, and there are more rebels after them, which are also coming towards them.

Xiao Tianjian lamented in his heart that the time to come was finally coming, and his stable life was over. Now he and Fu Deming have a consensus. This time, after Gao Yingxiang and other rebels jumped out of the siege of the carriage gorge officers and soldiers, it was impossible for the government to do anything with them in a short time, and After so many rebels rushed out of Shangluo Mountain, there is no doubt that they will sweep most of Shaanxi like a fierce tiger out of the gate, and not to mention that when a large number of rebels cross the border, whether their Xing Tianjun can be alone. Even if the Xing Tianjun is not wrapped up in so many rebels, there will be a large number of officers and troops to welcome Gao Ying. Xiang and other all kinds of rebels, if they don't leave, will become the focus of large-scale officers and soldiers.

Although the Xingtian Army now has a certain strength, compared with these long-standing volunteers, their soldiers will have a short time to become an army. Although they have experienced several battles, they are still much less than these veteran Rebels. They meet the guards like Fengxiang Mansion and the general If the township soldiers say, they still have a chance to let go, but once they are targeted by the brigade officers and soldiers, they will be unable to support them at all with their current strength.

So after learning the news that the Rebels had appeared in Fengxiang Mansion, Xiao Tianjian began to arrange for the evacuation here, but what he never expected was that before he led the team to leave, someone had come to him yesterday.

What surprised Xiao Tianjian was that it was not someone else who came to him this time. Unexpectedly, it was Li Zicheng who had been thunderous for his future generations. He had also heard of the people who came to him. It was Tian Jianxiu, a general under Li Zicheng's command. Xiao Tianjian didn't expect that Li Zicheng would take the initiative to find his door so soon. In the past, Tian Jianxiu was connected to Tianlongzhai with both curiosity and the psychology of wanting to see this once famous figure in history.

Tian Jianxiu is actually not too old, and his figure is not tall, but he is very calm and modest. As recorded in historical books, although he is a general, he has a bit of elegance. Xiao Tianjian liked him as soon as he saw him yesterday.

And Tian Jianxiu's words were also very euphemistic. He did not put on the air of being an old-fashioned volunteer at all. He was very polite to Xiao Tianjian. After a greeting, Tian Jianxiu directly explained his intention to Xiao Tianjian.

Tian Jianxiu came to Xiao Tianjian only two intentions. First, he wanted to invite Xiao Tianjian's Xing Tianjun to join the gang. The other was to tell each other bluntly that they had just rushed out of the siege of the officers and soldiers and came to the local area. The grain was not good. He hoped that Xiao Tianjian could help them and help them. Batch grain and grass.

If Xiao Tianjian is still a person who has just come to this era and is at a loss, and meets the invitation of someone like Tian Jianxiu, he will probably not even fart. He will directly follow Tian Jianxiu to find Li Zicheng to join the company, but now Xiao Tianjian is no longer the original Wu Xia'a. I was confused, so Xiao Tianjian would not run to follow Li Zicheng.

After Tian Jianxiu entered Tianlongzhai, he was also shocked by the spirit of the soldiers and generals of the Xingtian army. He didn't expect that in this small place in Yanyang, he didn't know when he would hide such a powerful pole. When he saw Xiao Tianjian, he couldn't help but be shocked by Xiao Tianjian's appearance. At once, with Xiao Tianjian's figure, it is really rare in the world today. He saw that Xiao Tian's fitness is six feet tall, and it is a bee's waist. Between his hands and feet, there is quite a kind of general style, which makes people can't underestimate him.

Tian Jianxiu thought about what he heard about Xing Tianjun from the local guide before he came, so he did not dare to underestimate Xiao Tianjian. Although he expressed his attitude and wanted to invite Xiao Tianjian to lead his Xing Tianjun to join the group, he did not dare to directly propose to let Xiao Tianjian devote himself to Li Zicheng's command, but he was very euphemistically. Ask Xiao Tianjian to follow the king to conspire together.

And this king of the breaker is not talking about Li Zicheng, but Gao Yingxiang, the most famous leader of the Rebel Army today. Although Li Zicheng leads the army and has great autonomy at this time, he is nominally still the leader of the eight teams under Gao Yingxiang's command. Gao Yingxiang claims to be the king of the breaker, while Li Zicheng is still only called a general, which is Gao Ying. A soldier and horse under Xiang's command.

Xiao Tianjian is naturally clear about the relationship between Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, so even if Tian Jianxiu invites Xiao Tianjian to join the partnership, he still wants to invite him to join Gao Yingxiang. In this way, if he agrees, he will be on an equal footing with Li Zicheng.

Xiao Tianjian did not reply to Tian Jianxiu's invitation yesterday. Now he is very happy to take a group of brothers to be the king of grass on his own mountain. He doesn't want to be a younger brother at all. In that case, he has to be constrained a lot. It's not as comfortable as his own family now.

However, he did not refuse Tian Jianxiu's request for his help. Yesterday, even if he agreed, he was willing to give Li Zicheng a thousand stones of grain and three thousand taels of silver. In addition, he would give them 30 mules and horses, 300 long guns, 20 gallium, 30 stick knives, 20 single knives, and three-eyed guns. Sixty shots, 20 old fireshots, 40 pairs of various bows and crossbows, and some of the lead bullets used for gunpowder and three-eyed gunshots.

In fact, the main reason why Xiao Tianjian is so generous is not that he wants to please Li Zicheng, an awesome man in history, but because he wants to take this opportunity to have some good relationship with Li Zicheng. For a long time in the future, it is estimated that he is likely to deal with these people often. He thinks it is still necessary to make friends with this awesome man in the future Rebel Army.

The most important reason is that the officers and soldiers who beat Lijiazhuang and defeated Fengxiang Mansion these two times. Their Xing Tianjun has received a lot of materials. Now he has decided to leave this place as soon as possible. With the so much food stored in Tianlongzhai, it is impossible with the transportation capacity of his Xing Tianjun. Take it away, and for a long time in the future, they will live a life of wandering around. It is impossible to carry so many materials on the road. Instead of throwing them away or taking them away by others at that time, it is better to be more generous now and give them directly to Li Zicheng, who came to ask for help, and those weapons, However, they are all the materials seized by Xing Tianjun in these battles. After selection,

As the saying goes, it is better to send charcoal in the snow than to add to the icing on the cake. Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang have just been newly defeated in the carriage Gorge. At this time, although they have escaped from the encirclement of the officers and soldiers by means of fraudulent surrendering, they must have suffered a great loss of strength. At this time, they must need a large number of supplies and equipment to supplement themselves. Keeping these things is not a good thing, and it is likely to cause disaster for Xing Tianjun. From beginning to end, Xiao Tianjian did not intend to follow the example of other volunteers and let go to expand and recruit his subordinates. He always insisted on the principle of elite soldiers, insisting that there were not many soldiers but more, so although he had the strength after he took down Lijiazhuang. He expanded the number of soldiers and horses to thousands of people, but in the end, he only selected 500 young and strong people from so many exiles to join the army. Therefore, the stock of weapons in Tianlongzhai has exceeded his current needs. In addition, they have also created a lot of three-edging guns during this period, and replaced a large number of ordinary long The head of the gun makes the number of weapons in their inventory exceed their needs.

What's more, this time he promised to give Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang some of the weapons that he did not prepare for the soldiers of the Xingtian army. Even those bows and crossbows were selected for the rest of the defective products for the Xing Tian army. Naturally, he would not be so stupid that even the armor they didn't use enough was given to Li Zicheng. Batch.

Therefore, Xiao Tianjian is not a miser. Since he can't use it, it's better to throw it to Li Zicheng all at once. At least whenever Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang mention this matter in the future, they will have to accept his feelings.

Yesterday, when Xiao Tianjian reported a list of various materials for Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang, Tian Jianxiu's expression at that time was quite beautiful. Although Tian Jianxiu was also a person who had seen a big scene, at the beginning of his visit to Xiao Tianjian, he didn't expect that he just said that Xiao Tianjian took it out so generously. Give them so much supplies.

Tian Jianxiu is a knowledgeable person. After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, the amount of these materials can be calculated. The value of these materials is added together. At least on the market, it is worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, and Xiao Tianjian didn't think much at all. He promised to give it to them with a wave of his hand.

At that time, Tian Jianxiu immediately stood up and punched Xiao Tianjian to the ground. He even claimed to thank him and let Xiao Tianjian be polite for a while before giving him back to his seat.

With Xiao Tianjian's generous promise, the two sides talked much more harmoniously. Xiao Tianjian learned a lot about all kinds of rebels from Tian Jianxiu.

This time, the volunteers who killed from the Shangluo area are not only Gao Yingxiang's family, but also Luo Rucai, nicknamed Cao Cao, who returned to Shaanxi with them. Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, always returned to Ma Shouying all the way, and Liu Guoneng all the way. These characters Most of Xiao Tianjian has heard of it before, especially for the Eight King Zhang Xianzhong and Cao Cao Luo Rucai, which is even more like thunder. Therefore, when listening to Tian Jianxiu talking about these people, Xiao Tianjian is quite excited. A year ago, even if he held a gun to his head, he did not expect that there would be one. I might get along with these people.

In addition, there are more people who are not less famous. Lin Lin is always no less than 20. Many people's names or nicknames, Xiao Tianjian has never heard of before, but when Tian Jianxiu said it, he said it casually like several treasures. This alone makes Xiao Tianjian admire his memory. Yili, and Xiao Tianjian also has a feeling that now the leaders of all kinds of volunteers are used to giving themselves nicknames. For example, Tian Jianxiu himself has a nickname, called Suo Tianli, and the nicknames given to themselves by Wang Gao Yingxiang is quite good. Most of the nicknames led by the rebels are not known at all. , it even makes people have an ironic feeling, such as one hundred thousand, sweeping king Zhang Yichuan, the change of the king of the world, the king of the Xingshi Kingdom Ning, the mixed king, the whole world king, Jiutiao, Shuntian Wang, Taiping Wang, Jing Tianxia, Wabei Wang, climbing king, Ziweixing, clam circle... It seems that there are as many as ten or twenty kings alone. There is even a person who is called Sole Light, and I don't know what they think. It's really uneducated!

However, when he thought of the nickname he casually gave himself a while ago, Xiao Yixu, Xiao Tianjian thought of it and laughed a little, saying that others were uneducated, so his nickname can also be said to be one of the most uneducated! It seems that we need to change this nickname in the future, otherwise, we will be despised!

This time, so many road rebels have basically returned to Shaanxi. Now they have been divided into three roads and killed all parts of Shaanxi (the Shaanxi mentioned here is not the later Shaanxi Province. Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty was called Shaanxi Political Secretary, covering the whole territory of Shaanxi Province, as well as most of Gansu and Ningxia. A part of Qinghai Province, Shaanxi was very big at that time!).

The way of Fengxiang happened to be led by Gao Yingxiang. After listening to it, Xiao Tianjian had a certain understanding of the situation of the rebels at present. He thought that his luck seemed to be good. Fortunately, he did not run into the other two ways of the rebels. Otherwise, he would have gathered so much food at the moment. Maybe he was targeted by those people and ran over directly and copied his Tianlongzhai!

With a good impression of Li Zicheng, Xiao Tianjian felt that it should not be a bad thing to be generous this time and take the initiative to take out such some food weapons and give them to Li Zicheng.

Originally, Xiao Tianjian wanted to hold a banquet to entertain Tian Jianxiu yesterday, but Tian Jianxiu did not dare to neglect after receiving Xiao Tianjian's reply. After talking for a while, he declined Xiao Tianjian's hospitality and said that he would return Xiao Tianjian's reply to Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang as soon as possible. He would bring them tomorrow. After receiving Xiao Tianjian's gift, before leaving, Tian Jianxiu still took Xiao Tianjian's hand and asked Xiao Tianjian to consider his proposal again. He wanted Xiao Tianjian to join Gao Yingxiang and take care of each other in the future.

Today, Xiao Tianjian took these subordinates out of Tianlongzhai to welcome the arrival of Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng.