When Li Chengliang learned about the outcome of the Battle of Liaonan, the battle to attack Gule Village was also at a critical juncture. However, after reading the battle report sent by Kuai Ma, he ordered the troops to withdraw back to the camp with an ashen look on his face, and the order said: "Tomorrow Fight again”.
Li Chengliang had many cronies and even more generals. On weekdays, the main tent of the camp was filled with talented people and overcrowded with people. But today, Li Chengliang was in a bad mood and drove all the generals out, leaving only Li Rubai and Zu Cheng. Train two people to enter.
Li Rubai and Zu Chengxun didn't know what happened yet, but they saw that Li Chengliang's face was ashen, and they both looked like they didn't dare to take a breath. They stood aside tremblingly and waited for Li Chengliang to speak.
Who would have thought that after Li Chengliang had been sulking for a long time, both of them were shocked as soon as he spoke: "Weiji, I intend to recommend you to be a coroner."
Weiji was Zu Chengxun's nickname, and he was nicknamed Shuangquan, but Li Chengliang considered himself his "old leader" and didn't need to be so polite, so he just called him by his given name.
Zu Chengxun was happy at first, and then became confused, pretending to be surprised: "Why is this? Qin Xierong took office less than half a year ago..."
"Don't mention this idiot!" Li Chengliang was suddenly furious and slapped the table in front of him, knocking the teacup off the table. The tea splashed all over the floor and even splashed on Zu Chengxun's face.
But although Zu Chengxun was shaken by the scalding tea, he didn't dare to move. He only dared to stand and watch Li Chengliang get angry: "I asked him to use the camera to decide when to rescue Liaonan. This idiot is dragging his feet. They always stood still, and as a result, Liaonan defeated the Tumen and the Chaohua Division, not to mention the two units, and even captured the Chaohua alive, and frightened the Tumen back!"
Zu Chengxun was shocked: "Liaonan has always had weak troops. Is this...serious?"
"It's more real than the Jurchens' Dongzhu!" Li Chengliang gritted his teeth and said: "Tumen and Chaohua, two losers, fell into the trap of high-ranking officials... Bingxian's plan, and they were half-crossed by Jinghua's fleet on the Daliao River. And the attack alone killed thousands of people in the river! What's even worse is that these two trashes were actually separated by the Daliao River. Tumen didn't cross the river on the north bank, but Chaohua brought seven or eight thousand soldiers. The horse crosses the river..."
When Li Rubai heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief and interjected: "That's okay, Liaonan will definitely not be able to eat seven or eight thousand Tatars."
"Are you deaf or stupid?" Li Chengliang scolded: "I just said that Fried Flowers was captured alive, how can you forget it as soon as I finished speaking?"
Li Rubai really didn't listen carefully. He immediately shrank his neck when he was scolded and didn't dare to say anything more.
But Zu Chengxun seemed to be in disbelief and said hesitantly: "Although Chaohua is stupid, he can be regarded as a man who has been fighting for many years. He also led seven or eight thousand cavalry, how could he be captured alive?" Don’t we know yet, how many soldiers are there who can fight? Even if Ma Dong and Ma Chengen brought some Ma Jiajun and Ma Jiajun, there are only 2,000 people who can stand up to the sky. How can we win against the speculators? Flowers?"
Zu Chengxun only mentioned Ma Dong and Ma Chengen because the Zhang family can only be regarded as "junior generals", and Zhang Wanbang's own status is also average. He is just a guard, and he really can't get into Zu Chengxun's eyes. .
Li Chengliang snorted hard and said: "The people brought by Ma Dong and Ma Chengen are indeed not bad, but Weiji, you also missed one person - Zhang Wanbang."
Zu Chengxun was indeed a little surprised: "Zhang Wanbang? Zhang Bingzhong's son? That Dongchang Fort Beiyu? It's just a Beiyu..."
"A mere Beiyu?" Li Chengliang looked sarcastic, but he didn't know whether he was mocking Zu Chengxun or himself: "Yes, a mere Beiyu, I almost forgot his name... But it's just a mere Beiyu A prepared guard, with only 1,500 infantry, blocked the desperate charge of Chaohua's five thousand cavalry. By the way, he created an opportunity for Ma Chengen to charge out from the side and defeat Chaohua. capture!"
"This is impossible!"
Zu Chengxun and Li Rubai widened their eyes at the same time and said no in unison.
"What's impossible?" Li Chengliang glared at them in return: "Jiang Enyuan, Pu Yuanyi and Cao Jian dare not disobey the commander of the army. Is there no one else available to me in the Liaonan Army?" Don’t you know the situation in Liaonan?”
Of course that was impossible. Li Chengliang was deeply rooted in Liaodong, so how could he only reach the level of commander? There are countless officers who have quietly contacted him below. The information he has obtained here has obviously been mutually corroborated, and there is absolutely no way it is false.
It seems that there is no point in dwelling on this issue. Zu Chengxun quickly changed the subject and said: "Even if Liaonan is victorious, it will not defeat Qin Xierong. After all, it is not that he has not sent troops, but... uh, let's go. Gotta go slower.”
"This is what makes me angry!" Li Chengliang's voice became louder again, and he cursed bitterly: "If he just slows down to the end, then forget it! Dawei asked himself to go to the memorial, just because he was worried that other defense areas would be If someone takes advantage of the situation, it's not like he has no one to say. I can go to Shu to beg for mercy for him. For the sake of my old face, the emperor will probably issue an edict to rebuke him, and I will be punished for three months at most. It's over..."
"But he shouldn't have done it. He shouldn't have been motivated by profit and wanted to hunt down the remnants of the fried flowers. As a result, he was forced to kill Hai's grandson, a little Taiji named... Zaisai. After a sudden beating, he lost more than a thousand cavalry! The most hateful thing is that of the more than a thousand cavalry he lost, more than 800 of them were all the capital left by me to guard Liaoyang!"
Li Chengliang was so angry that his cheeks were shaking, and he gritted his teeth and glared at Zu Chengxun and Li Rubai, who had dull faces: "Do you think he can continue to do his job as the deputy commander? His losses this time were greater than Cao Yun's losses the year before. , Cao Yu still had thousands of servants under his command, and they were all dismissed from their posts and imprisoned. How virtuous and capable is Qin Deyi to keep this position?"
Although Li Chengliang said this, Zu Chengxun and Li Rubai both knew that the real reason why Qin Deyi couldn't keep his seat was not the loss of more than a thousand horses, but the fact that more than 800 of the more than 1,000 horses were missing. It was Li Chengliang who "lent" Qin Deyi's housekeeping capital.
Now that he has almost completely lost all his capital, what else does Li Chengliang want him to do?
Although there are many generals under General Li's command, they are too many to support. How can they be willing to raise rubbish!
Zu Chengxun felt relieved now. It seemed that Qin Deyi had really fallen into trouble this time, and it was so miserable that he might have completely lost Li Chengliang's trust.
In other words, as the deputy commander-in-chief, he is a sure shot.
Wonderful! This is really hard to find anywhere, and it takes no effort at all! The big hat of the deputy commander guarding Liaoyang was floating on his head!
But Zu Chengxun was not a young boy after all, so he did not immediately burst into laughter. Instead, he pretended to be emotional and sighed: "I didn't expect that Qin Xierong would... make such a mistake this time. It's really disappointing."
This sounded like emotion, but in fact it was just rubbing salt into the wound, in order to confirm Qin Deyi's "misstep". Unfortunately, Li Chengliang did not notice it in his rage. Instead, he sneered: "Fortunately, the official document he sent before, The commander has always refused to reply because the war situation is urgent, otherwise I would not be able to get away with it this time! Huh, you are doing your own thing!"
Li Rubai nodded repeatedly after hearing this, while Zu Chengxun was shocked, but did not dare to show it at all. Instead, he nodded even faster, as if "I think so too".
After a while, seeing that the Li family and his son were both silent, Zu Chengxun finally couldn't help but ask: "Then... Commander, the matter is over, what should we do now? Here in Gule Village..."
This question was quite level. He didn't ask Li Chengliang if he wanted to go to court immediately and impeach Qin Deyi himself first, so as to clear up Li Chengliang's relationship with him. Instead, he asked what should be done here in Gule Village.
In fact, this is to remind Li Chengliang that although the situation in Gule Village is quite urgent, the other side... seems to be even more urgent.
But what Zu Chengxun didn't expect was that after Li Chengliang thought for a moment, he said resolutely: "Gule Village still needs to be fought, and it must be fought well, and it must be fought resolutely!"
He didn't care about Zu Chengxun's look of astonishment. He paused and continued: "As for Qin Deyi, I will go to the meeting to plead guilty...please recommend the crime of negligence."
