Chapter 114 Nails, Nails

Winter slaughter means that all things have entered a dormant period.

The winter of Chongzhen's ten years was very strange.

When almost all the rebels and robbers began to open up the fields, only the Ming government was glad that the first winter day in the Ming Kingdom with almost no rogue came as promised.

It has long become a habit to open up land in Lantian County, and under the condition that the livestock tools are complete, under the neat and uniform planning, people have built reservoirs and opened up land at an unprecedented speed.

Zhang Bingzhong's subordinate Sun Kewang also used whips to drive cattle and horses and the families of the rebel army to recultivate the fields around Xiangyang at an unprecedented speed.

After the Battle of Hancheng, Li Hongji only took more than 50 cavalry and fled the battlefield and hurriedly entered Shanxi.

Unexpectedly, when I entered Shanxi, I thought that I could make a comeback with the help of Shen Yikui's power, but I didn't expect that Shen Yikui would die of illness, and his subordinates had already scattered and took refuge everywhere.

After being attacked twice, Li Hongji, who was terrified and helpless, was unable to gain a foothold in Shanxi and had to enter Henan again, although he killed many thieves with bad intentions.

When he arrived at Mengjin and saw the surging Yellow River, Li Hongji, who wanted to go back to Shaanxi, remembered Yun Zhao's gloomy face, and finally sighed and led more than 700 people who had finally gathered up to Hubcheng Mountain.

Mengjin has been sacked by war several times, and it has long since disappeared from the grand occasion of Mengjindu.

After the arson army plundered the impoverished Mengjin County Ya, Li Hongji was already exhausted and had to recuperate in the Hubcheng Mountain.

There was not much grain in stock, and the surrounding counties were almost empty, so in desperation, Li Hongji had no choice but to take his subordinates to Tuntian in the Hubcheng Mountains.

A fire burned the barren grass on the southern slope of the mountain, and Li Hongji was the first to carry a hoe into the wasteland full of grass and ashes, and buried himself in clearing the wasteland.

If the field cannot be replanted and planted at the beginning of spring, next year, if the situation does not change significantly, they will have to wander again.

And at this moment, it is too dangerous to wander in the relatively calm land of the Ming Dynasty, as long as there is a little force in his hand, he wants to capture him, the former king of Chuang, and ask the court for a reward.

The flames overflowed the emperor, and a boulder covered by wild grass appeared in Li Hongji's eyes, trampling on the warm land, Li Hongji came to the front of this boulder, and on a whim, he actually found an axe and chisel, and spent a whole day chiseling a huge forbearance character on this boulder!

Mt. Hubseong!

"At the foot of Jibei Hubcheng Mountain, Huangshi Gong is me!"

Li Hongji stroked the word "forbearance" that had just been carved and said in a low voice: "Zhang Liang has Huangshi Gong to teach the divine book, and then he has made meritorious contributions.

Where is the Huangshi Gong of a certain family? ”

Li Guo, a nephew who was about the same age as him, saw that his uncle had stood on the edge of the boulder for a long time and did not leave, so he cautiously approached: "King Chuang, don't think too much, the matter has come to this, it's time to go back and rest." ”

Li Hongji said: "I have bad luck, and I have had two or three incidents, but I have no good results, and I will affect you." ”

Li Guo said with a smile: "How is this appearance at this time compared to our uncle and nephew in the border village?" ”

Li Hongji said: "Yes, it's great to start all over again, but this time, we can't repeat the mistakes of the past." ”

Li said: "What my uncle said is that our first batch of old brothers are here, as long as we recuperate and let the brothers go around to recruit soldiers and horses, within two years, we will have another 100,000 soldiers." ”

Li Hongji leaned over and pinched a handful of dirt and said: "The world is gradually stabilizing, which is extremely unfavorable to us. ”

Li Guo picked out a stone from the ashes of the grass and trees, threw it out from afar, and said, "Li Jin said that this world will not be stable for too long.

The Lantian Yun clan is already aggressive, and Zhang Bingzhong's trapped in Xiangyang is not a long-term solution, as long as my uncle waits for these two to pull the flag again, we will definitely have a chance to recover in the troubled times. ”

Li Hongji shook his head and said: "The Yun family is rich and noble, and refuses to twist into a rope with my mud legs, we sent people to contact the Yun family, hoping that they can start an incident in southern Shaanxi, and attack the north and south with our northern Shaanxi rebel army, and then take Xi'an City a long time ago, and then take Guanzhong as the foundation, and then march into Henan and Shanxi, like a grassland fire, it will definitely become a trend that will sweep the world."

Over the years, Zhang Bingzhong, Luo Rucai and I have sent envoys to go, and there are as many as six people before and after, but unfortunately, only three people have returned.

Whether it is coercion or good words, the Yun family is not in the oil and salt, and I even think that he looks down on us people from the bottom of his heart.

They are all heroes in the green forest, only he is the Yun family, who pretends to be high and superior everywhere.

Now, they have become high-ranking officials of the imperial court, and although they did not join forces with the imperial court to attack us, they gave us a grounding order in Shaanxi.

If we can still return to Guanzhong, why should we end up here? ”

Li Guo put away the axe and chisel that Li Hongji had dropped, looked at the ugly word "forbearance" on the stone and sighed: "You still have to endure it......"

Li Hongji said with a smile: "What you just said is right, how can it be a thousand times better than when we were in the border village."

We don't have anything in the first place, and it's no big deal if we have nothing, as long as our brothers are here, as long as this troubled world doesn't end, sooner or later our brothers will turn over. ”

Li Guo's expression was solemn, but Li Hongji seemed to pour out all the anguish in his chest because of the word "forbearance".

Turning back to Li and saying, "We still have to recruit troops!" ”

Li Guo smiled bitterly: "This is nature, this is nature!" ”

Under the dim light, the faces of Yun Zhao and Li Dingguo were half hidden in the darkness and half exposed to the light, exposing the faces of the two conspirators.

The map on the table has been charcoal-drawn.

"Why do you think the Mongols will help you attack the Jianzhou people?

These two times, I pretended to be a slave, and every time I was about to win, you would send a Mongolian cavalry to destroy my grain route, and also rob me from behind, what is the reason? ”

Li Dingguo's eyes were almost on fire.

Yun Zhao said in a low voice: "I have a Mongolian internal response. ”

"This is impossible, the Mongols are our long-cherished enemies, and there is no possibility of reconciliation."

"I didn't reconcile with the Mongols, I just encouraged them to stand on their own feet, and encouraged those poor Mongols to live a good life with the Han people."

"Who will believe you?"

"When people are extremely poor, there is basically nothing that cannot be sold, just like our Han parents, for a bite to eat, they can sell their children and daughters."

"So the Mongols are willing to follow you?"

"People don't want to follow me at all, they follow their food, and only I have food."

"I've heard that it's not difficult to make a living on the grasslands."

"What Gao Jie: What they are doing on the steppe is to make it impossible for the Mongols who can barely make ends meet."

Hearing Yun Zhao say this, Li Dingguo stood up, leaned on the table and looked at Yun Zhao and said, "What is the difference between what you did on the grassland and what we did in the Central Plains?" ”

Yun Zhao also looked at Li Dingguo and said: "It may be more cruel than you, we will take away the cattle and sheep that can be taken away, and we will kill the cattle and sheep that we can't take away." ”

"Why do you want to do such a thing that harms others and yourself?"

Yun Zhao sighed and said, "In order to make those shepherds lose everything, they can only follow us!" In order to greatly weaken the power of Jiannu, and to prevent the Mongols from having a chance to make a comeback. ”

Li Dingguo sat back in his chair and said lightly: "Do you really have your own strength among the Mongols?" ”

Yun Zhao nodded and said, "There are quite a few, and they are still expanding dramatically." ”

"So, when you fight on the steppe in the future, you will mainly use the soldiers and horses of your headquarters, supplemented by the Mongolian cavalry, right?"

Yun Zhao shook his head and said, "Not necessarily, the soldiers and horses of the headquarters will play the role of supervising the battle team more often." ”

Li Dingguo nodded and said: "The strategy is very poisonous, it is a good idea to let the people of Jianzhou fight with the Mongols, the problem is that no one in this world is stupid, including the Mongols." “

"After the Mongols and the Jianzhou people become enemies with a deep blood feud, it will not be too difficult."

Zhang Guofeng really couldn't stand the appearance of these two people, so he simply found two oil lamps and lit them together, and there were three lights in a small room, which suddenly became bright.

"The forces of Lantian County have broken through Guanzhong to Mianchi County?" Li Dingguo sat up straight, looking very humble.

Yun Zhao took a sip of tea and said: "Li Hongji has fallen into the grass in Hubcheng Mountain, so I designated the forces of Lantian County to Mianchi County, just because I don't want him to plot against Guanzhong again." ”

"Li Hongji is finished, you don't need to kill him all."

"I didn't kill him, I just didn't let him look west, he just went all the way to the east."

Li Dingguo sighed and said, "You planted a nail next to Li Hongji?" ”

Yun Zhao looked at Li Dingguo and said, "I also planted a nail next to Zhang Bingzhong. ”

"Whose side did you not plant a nail on?"

Yun Zhao smiled: "I sleep on the big bed, there are secret channel mechanisms under the bed, who do you think I will let go easily?" ”