The army of thieves is wandering, and the Chinese army is encamped.
In a tent similar to the Mongolian style, Li Zicheng sat directly above with a frosty face. General Quan, General Zhi, General Guoyi, etc. from the other battalions, as well as Li Yan, Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Gu Junen and others gathered together Here it is.
Inside the tent, everyone was silent, waiting for Li Zicheng to give orders.
Since then, the leaders of the bandit battalions were not so afraid of Li Zicheng. After all, people like Liu Zongmin, Yuan Zongdi and others were even on an equal footing with Li Zicheng when the bandit army first emerged.
In addition, Li Zicheng also acted like a polite and virtuous corporal with no airs, so the generals of each battalion were all laughing and joking in front of Li Zicheng, and even occasionally contradicted each other.
However, since Li Zicheng attacked and killed Cao Cao and Luo Rucai, annexed his troops, and then reorganized hundreds of thousands of troops, divided them into various battalions, and implemented various strict military laws in the army, the generals of each battalion realized that Li Zicheng was no longer a general. The former champion is now the real champion!
So now everyone is subordinate to Li Zicheng, and everyone has corrected their position. They are as arrogant as Liu Zongmin, and they dare not speak nonsense during the military meeting.
At this time, Li Zicheng looked at everyone, and his eyes finally rested on the firearms camp general Li Dingguo.
"The city of Kaifeng is tall and strong, and the defenders in the city are very tenacious, so I have orders in advance to use the corpses of Lu Xiangsheng and Fu Zonglong as bait to lure the officers and soldiers into battle, or to suppress the morale of the officers and soldiers."
"But there is news that someone has collected Lu Xiangsheng's body!"
Li Zicheng looked at Li Dingguo and said coldly: "As the commander of the firearms camp, does General Li know about this matter?"
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone looked at Li Dingguo.
"Chuang Wang Mingjian, this matter was indeed done by the last general!"
Li Dingguo stood up and saluted, and was about to defend when he saw Li Zicheng stood up suddenly and shouted: "I have an order from King Chuang: no one is allowed to collect Lu Xiangsheng's body. Why are you disobeying the order? Do you want to force King Chuang to march according to the law!" "
Li Dingguo raised his head and said: "The general will not dare! It's just that Lu Xiangsheng has fought against the Qing army several times. Even though he is an eagle dog of the official army, he is also a hero against the barbarians, so the general can't bear to expose his corpse in the wilderness, so he did this. Please forgive me, King Chuang!"
Sun Kewang and Ai Nengqi couldn't sit still either. They both saluted and begged for Li Dingguo's mercy. However, the two of them did not think that Li Dingguo had done anything wrong, which made Li Zicheng even more angry.
"The three of them are worthy of being Zhang Xianzhong's adopted sons. They came here because they were dissatisfied!"
Li Zicheng thought to himself, and then shouted: "Since you don't obey orders, what do you think Li Dingguo should do?"
Liu Zongmin laughed and said: "Grandma, since he doesn't listen to King Chuang's orders, what are you still doing with him? Just kill him!"
Tian Jianxiu, the general of the middle camp, and He Jin, the general of the system, also meant the same thing. Liu Fangliang, the system general of the left camp, Liu Xiyao, deputy general of the system, Yuan Zongdi, the system general of the right camp, and others also clamored for severe punishment of Li Dingguo. Everyone was Li Zicheng's absolute support. The confidants naturally want to maintain Li Zicheng's authority.
In addition, everyone did not have a good impression of Zhang Xianzhong. As Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son, Li Dingguo naturally became a thorn in everyone's side, and they just took this opportunity to get rid of this person.
Seeing that everyone began to besiege him, Li Dingguo was not afraid and argued loudly with everyone: "You should know that if our rebel army wants to grow stronger and eventually seize the world, we must recruit heroes from all over the world and treat the people well. Otherwise, our rebel army will never be able to escape the nature of rogue bandits." ! And Lu Xiangsheng is a hero, what’s wrong with collecting his body!”
Sun Kewang and Ai Nengqi also sided with Li Dingguo, and everyone immediately divided into two groups and began to argue tit for tat.
At this time, Li Guo, the general of the rear camp, stood up and said: "We are all the capable generals of King Chuang. If you have anything to say, talk about it. Why are you arguing!"
Although Li Guo was not Li Zicheng's biological son, he was recognized by everyone as his heir. Even Liu Zongmin and Yuan Zongdi had to give him a third. At this time, Li Guo stood up and spoke out, everyone took a step back, and the quarrel in the tent stopped instantly.
Then Li Guo looked at Li Dingguo and said coldly: "Although General Li and Lu Xiangsheng have no personal relationship or any contact, heroes cherish heroes and collecting their bodies is not a sin. But why couldn't this matter be reported to King Chuang in advance? Do you want to act privately? In this case, General Li not only disobeyed King Chuang's order, but also framed King Chuang for injustice. Is General Li willing to accept the responsibility for this crime? "
Li Dingguo was stunned for a moment, then clasped his fists and said, "The general is reprimanding, but the general is willing to accept it!"
Li Guo then clasped his fists and said, "King Chuang, since General Li already knows his fault, why not punish General Li with three months' salary as a warning to others?"
Li Zicheng said nothing, and glanced at Liu Zongmin and others. Everyone started making noise again, thinking that it was too easy to start like this.
"Ha ha."
Seeing that everyone was dissatisfied, the former camp general Li Laiheng stood up with a smile, pulled Liu Zongmin and Yuan Zongdi to sit down, and said: "Two generals, take a rest for a moment. Lu Xiangsheng has been buried anyway, so you can't offend your own people for this. Let’s find a way together and follow King Chuang to those Kaifeng mansions, what do the two generals think?”
Li Laiheng, like Li Guo, was Li Zicheng's "family member". Even though his qualifications were not as good as Liu Zongmin's, his voice in the army was no less than Liu Zongmin's.
At this time, both Li Guo and Li Laiheng stood up to defend Li Dingguo, and everyone couldn't say anything else, so they all stopped.
At this time, Li Zicheng spoke: "Even if Lu Xiangsheng is buried, we can't let it end like this. Tomorrow we will send people to dig out his bones and throw them to King Chuang outside Kaifeng City so that the officers and soldiers in the city can take a look. What will happen if you go against me!"
Li Dingguo frowned when he heard this. It was obvious that Li Zicheng's actions made him very disappointed. Li Guo and Li Laiheng wanted to say something, but they glanced at Li Dingguo and neither spoke.
"Chuang Wang Mingjian,"
At this time, former military advisor Li Yan stood up and said: "King Chuang is the co-leader of the rebel armies in the world. All the people in the world are looking forward to King Chuang to pacify the world as soon as possible to save the people from the fire and water! Now the people in the world are oppressing the people and ruining all lives. , who are they? One is the Ming court official, and the other is the Manchu and Qing Tatars."
"I think that although Lu Xiangsheng was a hawk of the Ming Dynasty, he beat up the Manchu Tartars several times, which was regarded as atonement. King Chuang whipped his body under the city, which was regarded as punishment for serving the Ming Dynasty. Now General Li buries Lu Xiangsheng, It was a blessing from his fight against the Qing army. King Chuang can no longer dig up his grave, lest someone with ulterior motives make a big fuss about it and lose the support of the people of the world!"
"Um!"
When Li Zicheng saw that Li Yan also stood up to speak for Li Dingguo, he couldn't say anything else, but the resentment in his heart could not be dissipated, so he said: "In this case, let's forget about Lu Xiangsheng. It's just that Li Dingguo, the general of the firearms battalion, does not obey military orders. If you don’t punish me, I will drag you out of the tent and give you ten lashes as a warning!”
After hearing this, Sun Kewang and Ai Nengqi begged for mercy, but were stopped by Li Guo. Li Guo pulled the two away and whispered: "If you don't want anything to happen to General Li, just shut up!"
The two of them were so frightened that they didn't dare to say anything.
Li Dingguo was then pulled out of the tent and re-entered after being scolded. At this time, his back was covered with blood marks. When Liu Zongmin, Yuan Zongdi, Hao Yaoqi and others saw it, they all grinned and sneered.
Li Dingguo said nothing, but reluctantly bowed his fists to Li Zicheng, then sat back in his seat and stopped talking from then on.
Li Zicheng snorted coldly when he saw this, wondering if he should readjust the generals of the firearms camp to prevent Li Dingguo, Ai Nengqi, and Sun Kewang from having different intentions.
It's just that except for the three of them, no one in the army is good at using firearms, and no one has fought against Liu Yan's new army, so he put this idea aside for the time being and thought of finding an opportunity to win over Li Dingguo and others. To put his mind at ease.
"Okay, now let's talk about attacking Kaifeng..."
After the military meeting ended that day, Li Dingguo returned to his camp with the support of two soldiers. In the evening, Sun Kewang and Ai Nengqi came one after another with gloomy faces.
"Haha, I was beaten. Why do you look like this? It's like you were the one who was beaten."
Sun Kewang gritted his teeth and said, "I don't think we should surrender to the King of Chuang!"
Ai Nengqi also frowned and said: "Brother, you don't know that in the afternoon, Liu Zongmin from the middle camp, Liu Fangliang from the left camp and others came to our camp and transported a lot of money and food from the camp, saying It’s King Chuang’s order that we have enough supplies in the camp and we need to give some to them.”
"What is King Chuang's order? But none of them showed a warrant. They just opened their mouths and grabbed things by force!"
Li Dingguo was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then said with a wry smile: "I originally thought that King Chuang was a tycoon in the area, and following him, I would be able to achieve great things. But today, it seems that King Chuang is just a reckless hero, with little vision and broad mind. It’s all very problematic!”
Sun Kewang said coldly: "Heroes of recklessness? I don't think so! At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Shicheng and others were the heroes of recklessness. Which one of them is not a strong man who manages the affairs of the people, manages the army and fights? But now What is King Chuang doing? Shoveling and destroying the city, coercing the people, driving the people to serve as soldiers, and looting everywhere without production. Wherever King Chuang led his army, it was like locusts passing through, leaving no grass behind and mountains of corpses. Even that When I was under the city, I created some kind of Yinmen array, it was simply the most ridiculous thing in the world!"
"What great things can such a person accomplish? He's just a bandit!"
Although Li Dingguo did not agree, he agreed with Sun Kewang's statement in his heart. Li Zicheng, like his adoptive father Zhang Xianzhong, was not a man of great achievements, so now Li Dingguo was very confused. Where is the way out for his three brothers?
Ai Nengqi looked at his two brothers and suddenly said, "Why don't we join the army?"
Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo were stunned for a moment, and then shook their heads. To seek refuge with the army now would be a dead end. The court itself was already dying. If they took refuge there, would they be buried with the court?
After a while, Li Dingguo said: "For the current plan, we can only take one step at a time. The three of us must be of the same mind and deal with everything carefully. We will look for opportunities in the future and then take care of them. It's just..."
"It's just that our way out is definitely not here with the rebels!"
Some people died, but not completely...
