The 592 Great War began

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"Master Inspector, the last general pleaded guilty, it was the last general's poor training that allowed such scum to appear under his subordinates, and the general has now killed him with his own hands."

After Zuo Liangyu hurriedly killed Shen Wantao, he came to Ding Qirui again and pretended to plead guilty.

At this time, even Zuo Liangyu himself knew that as long as Ding Qirui's brain was not dizzy, he would never be punished.

Sure enough, Ding Qirui saw Zuo Liangyu personally plead guilty, so he said lightly: "Since the culprit has been punished, General Zuo doesn't have to be like this."

This can't be completely blamed on General Zuo, this matter has come over like this, what do you say? General Lee. ”

As he spoke, Ding Qirui looked at Li Zixiao and asked.

"Everything is up to the Governor." Li Zixiao said casually.

In front of him, Ding Qirui made it clear that he didn't intend to hold Zuo Liangyu responsible, so it was useless for Li Zixiao to say anything.

"Well, it's all a misunderstanding today, why don't General Li come to our camp and talk about how to deal with the thieves next?"

Ding Qirui also took a fancy to the team in Li Zixiao's hands at this time, hoping to let Li Zixiao join them to deal with Li Zicheng.

But Li Zixiao is not stupid, he is not willing to meddle in this troubled water for the time being, at this time in Zhuxian Town, there is constant friction between the Ming armies.

Before they could fight Li Zicheng's rogue army, they had already consumed part of their energy because of all kinds of internal disagreements and frictions.

Even, at this time, the several Ming armies gathered in Zhuxian Town, because they belonged to different generals, it was difficult for Ding Qirui to even fully command.

Li Zixiao is not optimistic about Ding Qirui's side at all about this battle.

In this case, if Li Zixiao also brought people into Zhuxian Town, with the Liangzi he had just taken over with Zuo Liangyu, then there would be a lot of excitement to watch.

Besides, Li Zixiao has a problem, he has to find a boss to take care of him, once he enters Zhuxian Town, he will have to obey Ding Qirui's command.

Therefore, Li Zixiao will never agree to come over at this time.

"Haha, I'm afraid Lord Ding is wrong, Ben Jiang also passed here, and accidentally discovered that the group of scum soldiers under Zuo Liangyu slaughtered the people, so he rashly made a move.

Ben General's men are so small that they can't get involved in your next battle with the thieves, so Ben is ready to take people away.

Here, Li first wished Lord Ding in advance that this time he could successfully defeat the thieves, lift the siege of Kaifeng, and it was best to exterminate Li Zicheng in one fell swoop. ”

Li Zixiao opened his eyes and said nonsense, in short, the meaning was obvious, and he directly rejected Ding Qirui's invitation.

Originally, there was no order for Li Zixiao to participate in the war in the order of the imperial court and Chongzhen this time, so at this time, Ding Qirui had no choice but to force Li Zixiao to lead troops to participate in the war.

"Well, in that case, this official will not force General Li to stay, and I am willing to borrow General Li's auspicious words to win the battle against the thieves."

Ding Qirui saw Li Zixiao's refusal, looked at Zuo Liangyu's ugly face on the side, and then said.

At the same time, Ding Qirui also thought in his heart that maybe it would be good not to let Li Zixiao bring troops over, otherwise Zuo Liangyu would be even more unwilling to obey his orders.

"Lord Ding, generals, Li has taken his leave. I hope that after you go back, you must take good care of your subordinates, and don't let your subordinates appear scum like General Zuo's subordinates.

We are the Ming Dynasty official army, not some mountain bandits, what we have to do should be to protect the people, not to slaughter the people, otherwise how can we be worthy of the saint. ”

Before leaving, Li Zixiao did not forget to say this to Ding Qirui, Yang Wenyue, Hu Dawei and other Ming army generals.

And after everyone heard Li Zixiao's words, they also nodded again and again, but Zuo Liangyu on the side had a gloomy face like dripping water at this time, and he didn't say a word.

In his heart, Zuo Liangyu had already hated Li Zixiao to death, because Li Zixiao did not forget to slap him in the face before leaving.

"Li Zixiao, you wait for Lao Tzu, one day, Lao Tzu will slaughter you with his own hands. And Yang Wenyue, you also wait for Lao Tzu. ”

Zuo Liangyu held a grudge in his heart, not only hated Li Zixiao to death, but even told the truth to Ding Qirui just now and confessed the atrocities of Shen Wantao's subordinates, and held a grudge in his heart.

In addition, the dozen or so carts behind were all the grain that the scum had stolen from Chenjiabao, and Li wanted to bring all of them back and return them to the people of Chenjiabao.

Lord Ding and the generals, there is no objection. ”

Finally, Li Zixiao pointed to the more than ten miles of cars on the official road in the distance and said.

"Listening to General Li's arrangement, the people of Chenjiabao have suffered, and when this battle is over, after we defeat the thieves, this official will definitely let the imperial court allocate a part of the pension to the people who survived in Chenjiabao."

Ding Qirui also assured.

However, for Ding Qirui's assurance, Li Zixiao scoffed in his heart.

It's not that Li Zixiao doesn't believe Ding Qirui's words, according to Li Zixiao's previous understanding of Ding Qirui's collection of information, this person has outstanding ability, and he should abide by what he said.

However, Li Zixiao knew that most of them would lose to Li Zicheng in this battle, how could Ding Qirui still take care of it at that time, just a Chen Jiabao.

Ding Qirui is probably unlikely to fulfill this promise.

"Then Li has said goodbye, Zilong, let's go!" Immediately, Li Zixiao took the Feilong Battalion and left with more than a dozen carts.

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And at this time, in the county seat of Weishi, Henan.

The county seat of Weishi was in the southwest of Zhuxian Town, almost fifty miles away from Zhuxian Town, and at this time it had been occupied by Li Zicheng's army.

Liu Zongmin, Li Zicheng's number one general, after occupying the county seat of Weishi, began his favorite job, severely interrogating the landlords and gentry in the city.

In just half a day, Liu Zongmin dug out more than 100,000 taels of silver from the secret cellars of those big families in the county town of Wei.

Such a result not only did not make Liu Zongmin stop, but made Liu Zongmin even more excited, and let his subordinates extract confessions more cruelly from those big Wei families.

Liu Zongmin firmly believes that there must be many people in this group of Wei clan's big families who have not completely spit out the silver in their mouths.

If he had worked harder and pried open the mouths of all the big dealers, he should have found more silver.

I have to say that Liu Zongmin may be born with this potential, ruthless and greedy enough, especially suitable for doing this kind of torture to extract confessions.

At the same time, Li Zicheng asked Li Guo to recruit troops in the Wei family, which also went very smoothly.

Anyway, at this time, Li Zicheng is not lacking silver, and this time Li Zicheng recruited troops, and he completely smashed it with silver.

The reason why Li Zicheng was willing to spend money to recruit troops this time was not to choose to coerce the homeless.

It is because Li Zicheng recruited troops in the Wei clan this time, which was prepared to expand the elite men and horses under his command, not to expand his co-service army.

Li Zicheng has strict requirements for the recruitment of elite men and soldiers under him, and the first thing is that he must be physically strong and not too old.

Don't look at the homeless people who were coerced by Li Zicheng at this time, there are more than 300,000 people, but there are really not many of them to choose from, which can make Li Zicheng look at it.

The main reason is that these homeless people have not eaten enough for a long time, and they all have yellow faces and thin bodies, and Li Zicheng will not want them.

The Wei family is located in the hinterland of Kaifeng Mansion, and over the years, the territory of Kaifeng Mansion has been much more peaceful and peaceful than other surrounding state capitals.

The people here are also living better than the people in other state capitals, at least most of the people here are well fed.

This makes it possible for the people here to be a lot of strong men, as long as they are recruited, after a period of training, and then go to the battlefield to see blood, they can become an elite soldier.

Therefore, after Li Zicheng hit Kaifeng, he recruited new soldiers in the surrounding counties that were broken by him, and they were all paid for settling in.

Li Guo led people to put boxes of silver at the gate of the city, and let his soldiers beat gongs and drums loudly.

All the young men who came to apply for the recruitment could immediately get ten taels of silver, which immediately attracted many young men to sign up for the recruitment.

Moreover, over the years, Li Zicheng has indeed made his name.

Especially at the beginning of this year, after he conquered Luoyang and marched into Kaifeng, he also followed Li Zixiao's 'land reform' policy and put forward the slogan of 'dividing the land and not paying grain'.

In this way, Li Zicheng's prestige has skyrocketed among the people, and even the people everywhere are looking forward to Li Zicheng after hearing the news.

Now, Li Zicheng has played the banner of recruiting soldiers, and he also gave each person a settling-in fee of ten taels of silver, which is a lot of silver.

In these years, even in the county seat of Kaifeng Prefecture like Wei's, ordinary people have a tight life.

Now, if you are recruited to join Li Zicheng, you can not only get ten taels of silver to subsidize your family, but you can even make your family lose one less young and strong rations.

This will greatly reduce the burden on the families of these ordinary people, so more and more young men have come to sign up.

Because there is a lot of coal in this area of Weishi, there are many coal mines, and many young men used to work in coal mines to earn a little silver for their families.

These young men have been mining in the mines all the year round, and they have all trained their strength, and they are obviously more suitable for serving as soldiers and eating food than ordinary farmers.

Now the county seat of Weishi has been broken, and the big merchants in the city have also been arrested.

There was no one to give the miners money, so as soon as these people turned around, they simply went to enlist in the army and eat food as soldiers, which is also good.

At least, the ten taels of silver in front of him are real.

Therefore, in a short period of two or three days, there were as many as seven or eight thousand young and strong men from Weishi County who came to enlist to join the army.

Li Guo selected more than 5,000 people from the young and strong men who signed up and incorporated them into Li Zicheng's elite people for training.

Li Zicheng constantly sent troops on the side of Weishi County to attack the Ming army in Zhuxian Town, and put on the appearance that he would start fighting at any time.

But he pursued stolen goods and salaries in Weishi County, recruited troops and horses, and also searched for Roman horses, mules and donkeys, cloth, and grain, but he didn't do much to the ordinary people.

It is precisely because of this that after Li Zicheng returned to Kaifeng Mansion this time, they began to gain the support of the people because of the further improvement of the policy on treating the people.

Now, the people around Kaifeng Mansion are no longer talking about bandits as they were in previous years, and they are worried that an army of rogues like Li Zicheng will come over.

At this time, these people hoped that Li Zicheng would lead troops to fight, but these people were really desperate for the current government and had enough of the current days.

"King Chuang, let me take someone to attack the Ming army, it's not a matter if we continue to stalemate like this!"

On this day, Gao Guiying, a general under Li Zixiao, found Li Zicheng and asked to fight.

"General Gao, don't be anxious, it's not time yet."

Li Zicheng didn't speak, but Niu Jinxing on the side opened his mouth and said to Gao Guiying.

"Strategist, when is the time! We have been here for almost half a month, and the Song Xiance brothers are still leading people to attack Kaifeng.

The Ming army gathered in Zhuxian Town in front of us is already nearly 200,000 people, and we can't stay here all the time and do nothing! ”

Gao Guiying said with an eager look.

"Haha, General Gao, at this time, the Ming army in Zhuxian Town is more anxious than us, the more people and horses they gather in Zhuxian Town, the more anxious they should be.

We are now waiting for the Ming army to move first, to show the flaws first, and a big war may break out at any time.

You and your old battalion are all the most elite men and horses under King Chuang, and once the fight starts, if you are sent to the battlefield, you will definitely win.

So, now you go back and be ready to fight, and trust me, it won't be long. ”

Niu Jinxing walked up to Gao Guiying, smiled and patiently persuaded him.

"But ......, hey, well, my subordinates have retired."

Gao Guiying wanted to say something, but she didn't say it, just sighed and prepared to leave.

"Report, emergency military report!"

And at this moment, a sergeant rushed in in a hurry, shouting loudly along the way.

"What's the matter?" Li Zicheng was also attracted to him, and asked the soldier who had just rushed into the lobby.

At this time, Gao Guiying, who was about to leave, was also attracted and did not leave for the time being.

"Back to King Chuang, General Song of Kaifeng just sent someone to deliver the news, half a day ago from the east gate of Kaifeng City, killed a Ming army horse, they escorted a batch of grain, towards the direction of Zhuxian Town."

"Okay, the food of the Ming army in Zhuxian Town is really almost consumed, King Chuang, now the time has come, it's time to start a war, and you can't let this batch of grain be sent to Ding Qirui's hands."

Niu Jinxing turned to Li Zicheng and said.

"Okay, listen to the military advisor, gather all the generals to come to discuss and prepare for war with the Ming army." Li Zicheng also made up his mind.

Niu Jinxing smiled slightly, turned around, looked at Gao Guiying at the door, and said, "General Gao, you don't have to go, come back, let's get ready to fight." ”

"Haha, that's great!" Gao Guiying laughed and turned back.

Half a day later, as Liu Zongmin, Li Guo, Gao Yigong and other generals rushed to arrive, Li Zicheng convened the generals to discuss how to fight this battle next.

In the same way, at this time, in Zhuxian Town, which was fifty miles away, Ding Qirui was also convening a meeting of the Ming generals to discuss the next battle against the invading army.

Ding Qirui also understood that once the grain and grass were sent to them in Kaifeng City, it would probably be the end of the confrontation between the two of them, and the war should break out.

(End of chapter)