When Niu Jinxing saw him looking over, she immediately felt a little uncomfortable and asked coldly: "What are you doing?"
Song Xiance smiled and said, "Brother Niu, you still have a way out!"
When Niu Jinxing heard this, he turned to look at He Jin who was staring at him, and replied without hesitation: "I am loyal to the general, a way out? What a joke, am I that kind of person?"
"What about your little one?" Song Xiance asked immediately after hearing this.
When Niu Jinxing heard this, her heart ached. It was such a pity that the general had rewarded those three beautiful daughters-in-law.
But on the surface, he still replied immediately: "Brothers are like brothers and sisters, and women are like clothes. Who is more important, do you need me to say?"
Brothers are like brothers and sisters, women are like clothes. This is Liu Bei's mantra in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". At this time, it was the late Ming Dynasty, and "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" had already been circulated, so it was widely known, especially among the bandits. Popularity.
After hearing this, Song Xiance clasped his fists and saluted, "Brother Niu is a righteous man. I believe the general will not treat Brother Niu badly!"
He Jin looked at them and said nothing from the beginning to the end. Hearing them start to compliment each other, he sneered in his heart.
Literary men are the most spineless. If they weren't watching, their attitude might not be like this!
At this time, it is the most critical time for the general. We must help the general pass this level!
Speaking of which, He Jin was really Li Zicheng's best friend.
In the original history, He Jin's Fifth Gezuo Battalion defected to Li Zicheng. As a result, Li Zicheng wanted to annex the Gezuo Fifth Battalion and even killed He Yilong and others. Not only was He Jin not dissatisfied at all, but he helped Li Zicheng appease the Gezuo. The fifth battalion on the left greatly increased Li Zicheng's strength.
In this plane, Li Zicheng also killed He Yilong and others, and He Jin had the same reaction. Not only was he not dissatisfied, but he also appeased Ma Shouying and others. This time, after receiving the joint letter from Li Guo, Gao Yigong and others, he did not surrender. Instead, he rushed to notify Li Zicheng as soon as possible.
Li Zicheng's ability to grow into the most powerful among the many thieves in the late Ming Dynasty was certainly not just luck, but also his ability and charm. Naturally, it would not be a surprise for such a situation to occur.
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Early the next morning, Li Zicheng finally woke up. When he saw a group of men with red eyes surrounding his bed, he knew that they had stayed up all night and were guarding him.
Maybe it was because he had slept enough, or maybe it was because a night had passed. Therefore, Li Zicheng did not continue to be furious after waking up, but calmed down.
When Song Xiance and others saw that he was awake, they naturally gathered around to express their concern. His words and demeanor all showed concern.
But Li Zicheng ignored this and immediately got out of bed. After he stood in front of the map, he began to ask He Jin for more details and considered them carefully.
During this period, news continued to come. Li Zicheng was no longer so angry, and just listened with a gloomy face. When he felt that it was about the same, he began to make arrangements.
This performance was really different from when he heard the news yesterday.
He Jin saw this and couldn't help but feel very pleased: This is the hero he knows!
The arrangement Li Zicheng made was to try his best to conceal the news from Chongqing and notify all his subordinates who had not rebelled to leave Shu immediately and enter Guizhou.
It is said that the hozens disperse when the tree falls. However, the tree has not yet fallen, and naturally the hozens have not dispersed either. Moreover, the current situation is much better than when the Eighteenth Cavalry fled into Shangluo Mountain.
In this way, Li Zicheng fled into Guizhou with 30,000 troops and 50,000 troops led by Liu Zongmin as the vanguard, totaling less than 100,000.
Among his men, there were civil servants such as Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance, and in addition to He Jin, the military generals also included Liu Zongmin, Ma Shouying, Liu Xiyao and others who entered Guizhou early.
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When the news about Li Zicheng reached Chongqing, Zhang Mingwei was not disappointed. If Li Zicheng had fewer people, how could he help the court fight those toasts?
Even in Zhang Mingwei's mind, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng still have many uses. For example, should we drive them to Annan, Dongwu and other places? The imperial army is pursuing them...
Of course, this idea was still too early, and there were too many variables. Zhang Mingwei did not tell anyone about this idea. Now, he only focuses on reorganizing the bandit army and appeasing the local people.
The territory occupied by Li Zicheng was not small, including Kuizhou Prefecture, Shunqing Prefecture, Chongqing Prefecture, Bozhou Xuanwei Division, Luzhou, etc. It would take a lot of effort for the court to re-establish order.
But these things can basically be left to your subordinates. If he had to worry about it, what else would Sichuan Governor Liu Zhibo do?
At this time, his focus was still on the southwest side of Shu. Firstly, Zuo Liangyu was still entrenched there, entangled with the chieftain who had fled back and continued to resist; secondly, there was the treasure land of Panzhihua, which contained other minerals besides iron ore, and the imperial court must occupy it and develop it as soon as possible.
As long as Panzhihua is used as a base for development, like the southwest of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court's commanding power will be greatly enhanced and the scope will be greatly expanded. The imperial court's emphasis on the southwest does not need Zhang Mingwei to emphasize it.
However, as Zhang Mingwei said to Sun Chuanting, in order to not only eliminate the chieftains in the southwest Sichuan area where there are many chieftains and restore the native land, but also achieve long-term peace and stability, it cannot be solved by sheer numbers of troops, but by winning over the hearts and minds of the people.
For this reason, in Chongqing, Zhang Mingwei left the civil affairs to Liu Zhibo and the reorganization of thieves to Sun Chuanting. He himself led the troops to southwest Sichuan and went to take charge personally. As for Li Zicheng, he did not pay the most attention to it and did not send troops to pursue Guizhou.
However, before rushing to Sichuan Xingdusi, he first returned to Chongqing and replenished supplies before setting off.
Along the way, Zhang Mingwei would also stop and inspect the places where the remnants of the chieftains had been eliminated and where the land reform was being carried out. If there was anything he did that dissatisfied him, he would point it out on the spot and ask the magistrate to correct it.
The basic policy and strategy is to eliminate ethnic barriers, carry out land reform, turn former serfs into self-cultivators, and improve their lives.
Not to mention, without the chieftain's instigation, these policies were implemented smoothly, and the original serfs also supported the imperial army. Even when they heard that Duke Xingguo's army was arriving, these serfs rushed out and knelt down one after another.
All the melons and fruits at home, as well as chickens, ducks and other items that were available were taken out and dedicated to Zhang Mingwei.
Because they know that they can have such a huge and earth-shaking change, it is all brought to them by Xingguo Gong.
Seeing this, Zhu Aina smiled and said to Zhang Mingwei: "Zhuge Wuhou's influence in Shu is probably going to be surpassed by Mr. Zhuge Wu!"
To this, Zhang Mingwei replied with a smile: "The name of Princess Kunxing is well known in Sichuan now! You see, there are many more female soldiers in the army, but they are all here for your reputation."
Compared with the Central Plains, ethnic minorities have much less scruples. The women among them admired female soldiers after hearing and seeing them in the army. There are not a few women who take the initiative to join the army.
Although their Mandarin language was not very good, Zhu Yu'ao was delighted because of their racial talents in singing and dancing, so she expanded her artistic troops from the original 500 to 1,000.
Zhang Mingwei did not stop this. Just let her lead the new with the old, and also start to split.
Most of the original art soldiers were sent to various armies and left Shu with the armies to go to Dongjiang and Shanhaiguan. Most of the newly recruited literary and art soldiers will remain in the armies in Shu, and will also follow the army into Yunnan and Guizhou.
The reason for this arrangement is that Zhang Mingwei encountered a new problem in the process of suppressing bandits in Sichuan: the language problem.
In the Central Plains area, Mandarin is the standard. Although many people speak dialect, or Mandarin with a dialect, the Mandarin is still understandable.
However, in this Shu area, especially the people in the chieftain's territory, the more remote the place, the fewer people understand Mandarin, and they can't even understand Mandarin.
Not only that, the words spoken between the two chieftain territories may have been different. This language barrier problem is quite a headache.
This is also the case, so the people in these chieftain's territories will be easily bewitched by the chieftain and become hostile to the imperial army. It can be said that this is the biggest problem encountered by the imperial troops when they invade the remote chieftain territories.
As a result, many of the literary and artistic soldiers brought by Zhu Yuyao with the army were from ethnic minorities.
But again, the problem is that the languages of the chieftains may be different, and these new literary soldiers may not be able to understand the languages of other chieftains' territories. But when I set off from Chengdu, I tried my best to choose as many as possible.
However, due to the small number of people, there are still many problems in publicity and communication.
No, the person in charge of leading the attack on Sichuan Xingdusi was Bai Guangen. When he heard that Duke Xingguo was leading the army in person, he returned from the front line to greet Zhang Mingwei. His first sentence was to complain that the people here were unable to communicate and were very hostile. The imperial officers and soldiers prevented him from making much progress.
"My lord, you don't know, but our good intentions have been ignored by them! If you ask me, those who are stubborn can just be killed!"
Before Bai Guangen could wait for Zhang Mingwei to speak, he continued: "But it's difficult to kill them all! Really, if they can beat us, we will fight. If we can't beat them, we will run into the mountains. If the general sends troops to chase them, It’s easy to fall into an ambush. Oh, I’ve never encountered this kind of war in my life, I might as well fight against the rebels!”
Zhang Mingwei laughed when he heard it. As the saying goes, there are all kinds of enemies. You can't ask the enemy to do what you imagine!
So, he smiled lightly and said: "I knew you would have a lot of problems here, so I'm here!"
