So, he blinked, glanced at the people present, and began to make some calculations in his mind, and for a moment, he didn't speak.
However, everyone else was still arguing. Throughout the Black Tiger Temple, the sounds of banging the table, shouting, and scolding all mixed together and spread far away, causing the subordinates of the various leaders at the door to turn their heads from time to time. Go inside the temple.
Behind Zuo Liangyu stood Liu Guoneng, who shouted a few words to Zuo Liangyu from time to time. Behind Liu Guoneng, there were still a few people standing, one of them was Liu Yue, a member of the Jinyiwei Hundred Household. But at this time, his identity was Liu Guoneng's personal guard.
In such a place where he was dealing with bandits, it was inconvenient for Zuo Liangyu to bring his original men over, so Zhang Yong and others waited at the foot of the mountain with a thousand men and horses. Because Liu Guoneng was originally the bandit leader and was familiar with these bandit leaders, he was naturally the one to accompany Zuo Liangyu in the negotiations. In this way, Liu Guoneng can bring Liu Yue in.
Of course, Zuo Liangyu also asked Wang Gui secretly and received the reply that these people were Liu Guoneng's confidants, so there was no doubt. After all, the faces in the bandit team are constantly changing, and no one can keep an eye on them. At most, if a familiar face is gone, just ask if he is dead!
So, in this way, although Emperor Chongzhen was approaching Tongguan and had not yet entered the border of Henan, he knew the movements of these bandits clearly. During the march, I was riding on my horse, seemingly silent, but actually I was watching the text live broadcast of various bandits competing for the leader of the alliance.
After watching it for a while, he felt a little bored. There is no way to tell who is better than the other in such a war of words!
At this time, Emperor Chongzhen wished he could be a host in the Black Tiger Temple and tell them that it is useless for you. If you want to be the leader of the alliance, you still have to look at your strength.
You can choose real-person PK, and the last one standing is the alliance leader. It doesn't matter whether a white knife or a red knife is used.
Or you can spread out your troops and fight each other for a while, the winner is king!
Why can't these thieves understand such a simple thing?
Just when Emperor Chongzhen was a little bored, someone woke up.
"It's not an option to continue like this. It's going to be dark now. If you want me to say it, just say it bluntly. Choose my hand. Anyway, the leader who has the most support from everyone is the leader!" Zhang Xianzhong slapped the table and raised one foot. He stepped on the stool he was sitting on and shouted loudly.
After saying this, he glanced over. Suddenly, a few small forces who had a relatively good relationship with Zhang Xianzhong immediately cheered and raised their hands.
When Luo Rucai saw him, he couldn't think about the previous problem anymore, and quickly shouted: "Everyone knows that I, Cao Cao, have always been generous. Whoever chooses me, Luo will never treat me badly. Let's see now, those who oppose me, Cao Cao, will not be treated badly." Raise your hands!”
So, some people raised their hands in favor of Zhang Xianzhong, and some people raised their hands against Cao Cao. Anyway, the scene was very chaotic.
Li Zicheng felt bad. He came from other provinces alone and had not yet established relations with them. If this came to a vote, he would be able to compete with the Eight Kings and others. So, he didn't even care about being polite, and shouted: "I believe that everyone still doesn't understand my current strength, Li, but I can guarantee that my rebel army has the strongest combat effectiveness. It is still better to defeat the official army." It depends on me, Li. You believe me!"
When Hui Deng saw him, he immediately called out; Liu Guoneng despised all this in his heart, but he actively participated in it and shouted along.
Just like that, the vote that Zhang Xianzhong started with quickly became negative.
The position of alliance leader is really of great importance, and their qualifications are almost the same. No one is convinced by the other. It would be strange if it takes half a day to decide who the alliance leader is!
So, when it got dark and my voice became hoarse, there was still no result, and these bandit leaders broke up unhappy.
At this time, Emperor Chongzhen had just arrived at Tongguan. As long as he left Tongguan, he would reach the boundary of Henan.
He ordered the army to rest and recuperate here, waiting for the arrival of the war horses from Shanxi. Of course, Tongguan has also been closed to pedestrians. To be precise, people from Henan can enter Shaanxi, but from Shaanxi, as long as they see a large number of imperial officers and soldiers at Tongguan, they will not be able to leave.
In addition, Emperor Chongzhen also sent a messenger to Luoyang to ask for money and food from Prince Fu's Mansion. The Panshi Camp left Luoyang and headed towards Nanyang Mansion, slowly narrowing the encirclement.
In the next few days, the leader meeting of the bandits still had no results, and many strange things happened.
For example, Li Zicheng's subordinates, Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Yuan Zongdi and others all declared their independence as a battalion, and then they had to participate in a show of hands vote. As a result, other people stopped working and began to dismantle their own, which caused a lot of commotion.
Some people also proposed the situation of drawing lots and letting God decide who should sit as the leader of the alliance. The powerful Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others immediately refused. The reason is very simple: everyone came out to rebel, and my fate is up to me!
Zuo Liangyu or the roundworm in Emperor Chongzhen's stomach thought together with him, and suggested that everyone send an army to decide the outcome. Of course, the kind without weapons, the winner is king!
This proposal was immediately rejected by the other bandits. When it comes to using elite soldiers to restrict the battlefield and fight in battle formations, it is naturally inferior to Zuo Liangyu, a serious officer and soldier, and no one is willing to do this.
In the end, it was Luo Ru who asked the question that came to his mind. He said to the bandit leaders present: "We don't have much food in the army now. If we continue like this, we will run out of food. No matter how much food we have, we will not have enough food." All the soldiers are useless. Don’t even think about shouting slogans when you become king. That’s nonsense. Therefore, I think we can’t rest like this anymore. Everyone gets involved and sets a time limit to see who gets more food. If you kill more officers and soldiers, then who will be the leader of the alliance, how about that?"
This problem is very practical. In addition, in the past few days, no one has been satisfied with the outcome of the discussion. Therefore, these bandit leaders have all started thinking about this proposal.
However, this suggestion is also problematic. For example, everyone wants to pick the weakest persimmons, but the surrounding cities that can be captured easily have already been captured. The next battle was not so easy to fight. All the bandits who were relatively weak were rushing to fight, so they started fighting again.
But this time, several powerful thieves, such as Chuang Wang Li Zicheng, Eighth King Zhang Xianzhong, Guo Tianxing Hui Dengxiang, Cao Cao, Luo Rucai, and Zuo Liangyu's tribe united for the first time and no longer gave birth to the weak thieves. Chance. In fact, they must be eliminated. Apart from these few, the others are simply not strong enough to conquer the city.
The dispute couldn't come to an end, so in the end these families agreed to take half a month as a deadline to act independently, and see which family gained the most and achieved the greatest results, who would be the leader of the alliance.
After this was settled, the first Black Tiger Temple meeting ended.
Emperor Chongzhen also watched this farce from beginning to end. To be honest, he was not satisfied with the outcome of the Black Tiger Temple meeting. The bandits were fighting on their own and attacking everywhere, which was not what he wanted to see.
Therefore, after thinking for a long time, he sent another messenger to Nanyang Mansion. At the same time, he also asked Zheng Chongjian to speed up the arrangements for the finishing work in Shaanxi, especially the horse materials, and to prepare more. Although there are more cavalry, the pressure on logistics is also great.
Emperor Chongzhen decided to either stay still or move like a thunderous force, not giving the bandits a chance to breathe. Therefore, horse feed and other logistical needs must be prepared in advance in Tongguan. This point is different from that in Shaanxi, where preparations need to be made in various places.
When the half-month period agreed by Liliu Thief was approaching, more than 15,000 war horses had been delivered to Tongguan. Originally, the cavalry army was equipped with war horses, and the others were mounted infantry, and the war horses were just transportation tools.
The arrival of these war horses excited all the officers and soldiers, and gave them greater confidence in wiping out the bandits. This time when the officers and soldiers accompanied the imperial commander to suppress the bandits, they felt the most comfortable. There is no need to worry about running out of food, or making things difficult for the local government, etc. The morale of the army is extremely high, and they can't wait to surround and suppress the bandits right away.
While they were enjoying themselves, the appointed time came and the bandit leaders from all walks of life gathered at the Black Tiger Temple again. This time, they were not as relaxed as they were at the beginning.
They didn't expect that counties and cities that they thought were easy to attack in the past would suddenly become difficult to attack. After many investigations, they finally found the reason. It was Chen Qiyu, the governor of the five provinces, who gave an order to the local governments, asking them to be on tight alert and to unite the army and the people to ward off the thieves.
The most important thing is to give local officials the power to allow local officials to send troops to forcefully ask for money and food if they don't have money and food, and the squires in the city are unwilling to give it voluntarily. No matter what the background of the local squire, they all did this. All consequences will be borne by the Governor-General of the five provinces.
Just such a move suddenly made it difficult to fight in these cities, and it was even impossible to send people to sneak in. If you make the slightest move, you will be noticed and beheaded on the city wall. This kind of precaution has even reached the point where, as long as the city residents are not the guarantors and the unfamiliar faces are there, they would rather kill the wrong person than let them go.
"Damn Chen Qiyu, this bitch, how can he be so courageous? I have never seen him do such a thing before, and he is so responsible!" Zuo Liangyu cursed loudly for this.
"No, maybe Chen Qiyu, a dog-eat-dog official, jumped over the wall after losing a few cities before!" Luo Rucai also said in surprise, "To even forcefully ask for money and food from those squires, it's a bit like our style!"
Naturally, they didn't know that Chen Qiyu dared to issue this order because he was following the emperor's order. In other words, the emperor asked him to do this, so there was nothing to be afraid of!
Li Zicheng's behavior was a little different from theirs. He laughed, which was particularly abrupt, attracting the attention of all the bandit leaders. Then he said: "Everyone, since Chen Qiyu did such a thing, there is no need for us to beat him. As long as we can If you continue to deal with him, you will definitely be attacked by others, and you will definitely be punished by the emperor again!"
"How to deal with it?" Upon hearing this, Zhang Xianzhong immediately asked forcefully, "We have so many people, how can we get so much food to deal with it?"
"Yes, it seems that people are starving to death in every camp, right?" Prime Minister Huiden nodded in agreement, "Don't deny it, I saw corpses being thrown out!"
After the rebellion started again, every family had almost eaten the food that had been stored up. I originally thought that I would be able to harvest something this month, but things turned out to be the opposite, and the food supply was no longer available.
The elite men of each family were fine, but the people who were held hostage could only drink one gruel a day when there was no war. Some of the weaker ones were even given up by the bandits and did not even have to drink the gruel.
When talking about this heavy topic, the Black Tiger Temple suddenly became silent.
They had to admit that they originally thought the situation was great, but now it seemed that the imperial court was still capable, and at least it had to fight some tough battles.
There was silence here, but the rapid footsteps coming from the temple door made the movement a bit louder.
"No one can enter each house now, stay here."
"No, I have something important to ask to see my King Chuang!"
"No, as agreed, each family can only admit so many people!"
"Yes, if you want to do this, then I also have something urgent to do and want to see my Eight Kings. How about we come in together?"
"I'm really in a hurry. I have news about the emperor!"
"..."
Clearly hearing the movement outside, especially when he heard the last sentence, Li Zicheng stood up and shouted quickly: "Let the people in!"
After saying that, he suddenly raised his legs and left. Obviously, he didn't want to wait for anyone to come in, but he was going out.
When the other bandit leaders heard this, they immediately shouted for them to be released outside. At the same time, Zhang Xianzhong stopped in front of Li Zicheng and said to him with a smile: "If you have any news about the dog emperor, please come in and listen together. King Chuang doesn't need to go outside!"
Upon hearing this, Luo Rucai immediately agreed: "Yes, there is no need for King Chuang to go out in person, just call him in and listen together."
"..."
Other bandit leaders also have the same attitude. While stopping Li Zicheng, they shouted for him to be released.
The subordinates from various families outside the door heard their bosses shouting to let him go, so they stopped stopping him.
Li Zicheng really thought that it would be better if he knew the emperor's news, but he had no choice but to be stopped at this time. Looking at Gao Yigong striding in, he couldn't help but feel a little resentful in his heart.
Gao Yigong didn't think about this. After striding in, he clasped his hands and reported to Li Zicheng: "Brother, the Dog Emperor is in Nanyang Mansion. We just got the news that there are more than 10,000 people from the Panshi Camp accompanying him."
Panshiying, the former Qin army, was still an elite one, with more than 10,000 people guarding the city. Gao Yigong didn't think that Li Zicheng's men and horses could defeat it. Based on this, he said it publicly here. Otherwise, if the emperor is a soft persimmon, he is not a brainless person and will shout openly.
Upon hearing this, all the bandit leaders were stunned for a moment and then became overjoyed!
. Miaoshuwu
