In the mountains south of Yiyang, Luo Zhixue took Lin Yu'er to sit on the ground under a huge rock to rest. Not far in front of him was Sun Chengli, and around ten people were also Sun Chengli's confidants. Rest, drink water and eat dry food.
Obviously, these ten people all belong to Sun Cheng's faction.
Although Luo Zhixue didn't make any choice, he naturally became the person who founded Sun's faction.
This has been confirmed since he was assigned by Li Tonglin to be responsible for the registration and registration of baggage under Sun Chengli. Later, he cooperated with Sun Chengli to find Fang Ah Da and other military masters, which further deepened this point.
Others in the army, including Sun Chengli, naturally regarded him as one of their own. Along the way, Luo Zhixue was able to escape smoothly with Lin Yu'er, and obtained Sun Chengcheng's subordinates in the previous breakout. The people and horses covering up are all because of this.
Luo Zhixue understands this very well.
But now, Sun Chengli is obviously in crisis!
Crisis to seize the throne!
Not long ago, after they had just escaped the pursuit of officers and soldiers, the three remaining leaders of the rebel army, namely Sun Lili, Fei Bingcai, and Dao Scar, got together to briefly discuss the follow-up plan.
But other follow-up plans are not important. They are just to continue escaping all the way and get rid of the officers and soldiers completely.
The problem is that now the rebel team of more than 70 people is leaderless.
And the three remaining bosses are all vying for the leadership position.
After all, the three of them used to be Li Tonglin's confidants. Sun Chengli was in charge of the baggage affairs. Fei Bingcai and Dao Scar were both the generals who led the large group of refugee soldiers. To be honest, they were all the main generals of the second echelon of the rebel army.
As for the first echelon, there is only Li Tonglin.
After Li Tonglin died, together with the commander Li Tonglin's personal soldiers and Wang Sange, who held the greatest military power, he also died in the battle with Li Tonglin. The remaining three people, Sun Lili, Fei Bingcai, and Dao Scar, became the only defeated generals in this remnant army. of high-level people.
The problem is that they all want to be the leader, but they don't have enough strength to take the position directly.
This was also the time when the three of them were discussing countermeasures. The reason for the unhappy ending in the end.
Even Luo Zhixue felt that if they were not still in the mountains now, and these three people still had ambitions and were unwilling to leave the big team and go alone with a few confidants to become petty thieves, they would probably have died on the spot. We can break up immediately.
The question is, what to do now?
Luo Zhixue was thinking about this problem while eating dry food.
First of all, he had no intention of leaving the team and escaping on his own.
The situation was chaotic, and his future was uncertain after he and Lin Yuer broke away from the large team.
In addition, Luo Zhixue was very interested in the rebel army in front of him.
After a previous breakout, this rebel army seemed to have grown from more than a thousand people to more than 70 people now. However, except for a few people such as Luo Zhixue, the more than 70 people were all cavalry!
These cavalry used to be the elite of the Yulin frontier army, and their combat effectiveness was at least not much worse than the more than 100 elite cavalry under the previous official army.
if……
If you can take control of this elite cavalry... maybe you can do something unusual.
For example: Rebellion!
Since God allowed him to live in the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty, whether it was for the sake of the country and the people or for some of his own ambitions, or simply to make his life more comfortable, Luo Zhixue always felt that he should do something.
And there is nothing better than playing rebellion to realize your many ambitions.
But as the saying goes, if a gang of two men wants to engage in such a difficult thing as rebellion, they must have someone under their control.
And Luo Zhixue asked himself that it was impossible for him to go to a group of people and say a few false words to make people worship him, treat him as a son of destiny, and be used as cannon fodder for him, life or death...
Therefore, Luo Zhixue does not plan to leave the rebel army directly for the time being. He also wants to use this rebel army and Sun Lili to establish his own power.
Since he does not plan to break away from this rebel army and plans to use Sun Chengli to establish his own power, there is now a problem in front of Luo Zhixue.
Sun Chengli is competing with Fei Bingcai and Dao Scar for the leadership position, and whether he succeeds or not is not only related to Sun Chengli, but also to Luo Zhixue's future plans.
At this time, helping Sun Chengli was helping himself.
At this time, Luo Zhixue looked at Sun Chengli in front of him. After thinking for a while, he immediately stepped forward and walked to Sun Chengli's side: "Brother Sun."
Sun Chengli glanced sideways at Luo Zhixue and nodded slightly. Although he squeezed out a smile, the sadness on his brows still couldn't go away: "Brother Luo, you must be tired from this journey."
Luo Zhixue shook his head: "Brother, although my body bones are a little weaker, I can still walk a few steps."
After saying that, Luo Zhixue glanced at Sun Chengli again, and immediately lowered his voice and said: "Brother Sun, you have to make a decisive decision. If you succeed now, you will be the leader of the army. If you fail, I'm afraid there will be no place for me and others here."
Sun Chengli knew very well what Luo Zhixue said. It was no secret that he, Fei Bingcai and Dao Scar were competing for the leadership position. Just now Luo Zhixue was behind him and watched the whole verbal dispute between the three of them.
When Sun Chengli heard Luo Zhixue's words, he put down the dry food in his hand and said: "I understand this matter, but it's not easy to do. Those two people will not give in easily."
Luo Zhixue said: "The key to this matter does not lie with Fei Dao and the other two, but with the remnants of the general's personal soldiers."
"Now the remnants of the general's personal army are leaderless. If we can capture them, great things will happen!"
"At that time, the two Fei Dao will either be under the general, flee in confusion, or die under the sword, but no matter what, we will be in an invincible position!"
"In addition, there are more than forty soldiers, plus our old troops, the foundation is set."
Sun Chengli nodded slightly after hearing these words: "That's the truth!"
Luo Zhixue's words spoke to his heart. In fact, Sun Chengli also had this plan!
Sun Chengli is very aware of the current situation. If he wants to compete for the top position, it is very important to obtain the support of the more than 40 Li Tonglin soldiers, and it is even his only choice at the moment.
At this time, Luo Zhixue continued: "I am afraid that we are not the only ones who know the importance of those soldiers, so it is better to make a big bet to settle the matter sooner rather than later before they take action."
"Although the Guards Corps is now leaderless, there are still a few sentry officers. As long as we pull these few people over, half of the big problem will be solved."
Sun Chengli said: "How to pull it? You have to know that we are not the only ones who think so. The other two parties may also think so. If we can pull it, of course they can too."
Luo Zhixue said: "We have a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, we give the right medicine. If they want money, we will give them money; if they want the right to speak, we will give them power."
"On the other hand, and the most important thing is that we give them a future!"
"We can't keep escaping like this, right? We can escape for a while, but we can't escape for the rest of our lives!"
When Sun Chengli heard these words, he became interested.
"future?"
What future do these people have? They are just avoiding encirclement and suppression by officers and soldiers, looting grain, grass, gold and silver, and continuing to recruit troops. How long can this last?
As for the future?
To be honest, even Sun Chengcheng himself doesn't know how to go in the future.
At most, they can follow the method Li Tonglin decided on before and go all the way south to Chubei, either to defect to Zhang Xianzhong and other big leaders in the rebel army, or to fish in troubled waters in the chaotic Chubei.
Immediately Sun Chengli said: "Brother Luo, what are your plans?"
Luo Zhixue immediately put forward the plan he was thinking about: "Our biggest trouble now is the encirclement and suppression by officers and soldiers. When we were in Henan Prefecture, we were chased by Zuo Liangyu, and when we arrived in Ruzhou, we were chased and beaten by Chen Zhibang."
"And our strength is limited. Even if we are all elite cavalry, we cannot withstand the encirclement and suppression by many official troops, so we still have to avoid the edge for the time being."
"We need to find a remote place to cultivate and recuperate for a period of time, and keep a low profile to recruit troops and accumulate food."
"After all, the main reason why we were chased by the army all the way was that with more people, the target was bigger, and with more people, food was consumed more. We were forced to attack cities and large farms, otherwise we would have no food and grass. In this way, the officials The army naturally focused on us."
"But now there are only a few dozen of us, and we don't consume much food and grass. We can keep a low profile. If that doesn't work, we can still use gold and silver to buy food and grass."
"As long as we keep a low profile, we can definitely get a few months of time to practice and recuperate. With this time, we can do a lot of things."
Sun Chengcheng also nodded slightly: "I also told the general at the beginning that there is no need to recruit those young and strong refugees. Those young and strong refugees seemed to have many people, but they were unable to fight. Before they even looked at the officers and soldiers, they ran away first. ."
"And more people have more food. In order to feed them, more than a hundred of us old brothers have to attack villages and towns, otherwise there won't be enough food."
Luo Zhixue said: "What Brother Sun said is true. When we fight against the army, it is useless to bring a group of refugee soldiers. We must be elite and have enough mules and horses, so that we can advance and retreat freely."
In Shaanxi and Henan, where the official army is still relatively strong, it is unreliable to directly lead a large number of young and strong refugees to attack cities and seize territory. Even if they are defeated without being encircled and suppressed by the official army, they will still have to sacrifice themselves. Starve to death, because the more people there are, the more they eat.
With tens of thousands of people, you have to constantly attack the cities where the government troops are stationed to get enough food.
Once the siege of the city does not go smoothly, the army will first collapse due to lack of food without having to actively encircle and suppress the army.
The most important thing is that these refugees have little fighting ability. It is unreliable to expect them to defend the city.
Therefore, Luo Zhixue believes that for now, it is still necessary to adopt the route of highly mobile elite troops, which have strong combat effectiveness, high mobility, small targets, and it is easier to replenish food and grass.
When you can move forward and retreat freely, there will be more room for choice.
