stubborn thief

Chapter 109 Air Volume and Weather

Isn't that right?

240 frontier soldiers defected, and Liu Chengzong was naturally full of joy.

But then fell into deep worry.

Originally, all the troops in front of Baijiachuan were in chaos a few days ago, but the orderly formation of the mule battalion was nothing.

Anyway, everyone else performed poorly, and only Gao Yingxiang's headquarters and his mule camp were still standing there.

It would not embarrass Gao Yingxiang.

He and Gao Yingxiang hadn't been close before, and he even insisted that his father and Gao Yingxiang were a little unhappy.

The so-called master and apprentice were helpless in prison back then, but now they are taking advantage of the trend to survive together.

But Yang Yao, who came from nowhere, made such a fuss. If Liu Chengzong and Gao Yingxiang were to switch, he would be very upset—who is the leader?
To judge others by oneself is called pretentiousness.

Together with Gao Yingxiang again, sooner or later they seem to be inseparable.

Snapped!
Gao Yingxiang slapped the table heavily with his palm, startling Liu Chengzong, and pressed his hand on the handle of the knife again, thinking that I was worried about the appearance of the gods, and you, Master Gao, don't even match my looks?
In the end, who knew that Gao Yingxiang didn't look at him at all, and pointed at Yang Yao with his arms: "Damn it, am I, Gao Yingxiang, so worthless?"

"Hahaha!" After finishing speaking, he raised his head and laughed loudly, patted Liu Chengzong on the shoulder and said, "Lion, good thing! Don't let people worship you all the time, and accept these brothers... You must work hard for General Liu in the future, otherwise We all blame you!"

This is the second time Liu Chengzong has seen Gao Yingxiang's strengths, which is his grandeur.

Few people can be sincerely happy for others when the same thing is done to others.

Even congratulating against one's will is an act against human nature.

Whether it is sincere or not, it is very generous.

After all, Gao Yingxiang saw that he didn't move, thought he was worried about food and grass, so he leaned over and whispered: "It's okay, I still have food and grass."

Liu Chengzong didn't speak, he got up and backed away, bowed and cupped his fists apologetically towards Gao Yingxiang.

Gao Yingxiang raised his hand and patted his arm, pointed at Yang Yao, with a look of 'let go, big brother is covering you'.

He thought Liu Chengzong was grateful for the food aid, but in fact Liu Chengzong was grateful to Gao Yingxiang for teaching him.

Becoming a leader is easy.

When everyone doesn't know where to go and leads a way, his opinion is the direction of the team.

But it is very difficult to be a good leader. There are many people in the world who are born emperors and generals, but they end up betraying their relatives.

Air volume is important.

Liu Chengzong turned his head, stepped forward with some precautions to help Yang Yao up, and asked, "You said it was Gu Yuan's Baizong, how did you find me?"

Yang Yao got up, Liu Chengzong was younger than he imagined, which made him unable to react for a while, he paused before nodding, knowing that he was asking where he came from, so he clasped his fists and said: "The general was also a frontier soldier before, thanks I won’t say much about the salary, last year in the twelfth lunar month, a few deserters in the camp were caught by Chief Qian on the Wanshou Festival, and were chopped alive on the general platform.”

Oh, it was the frontier army who mutinied in Guyuan last year.

Liu Chengzong nodded, and glanced at Cao Yaogaoxian who were sitting at the other table. He was very clear about this. Their two teams of Yuhebao frontier troops were dismissed because of an accident in Guyuan.

Yang Yaodao: "Brothers like me killed Mr. Qian and attacked Sanshui and Yaozhou all the way. Later, we voted for the second brother of Baishui Wang. After the death of the second brother, he was hunted down by the government army and wandered around."

In fact, Yang Yao didn't need to say, Liu Chengzong knew how many battles he had experienced just by looking at the armor full of scars.

"When all thoughts were lost, I heard that the general was attacking the post city in the north to defeat the government and army, and released the defeated soldiers so as not to disturb the people. I decided to go and find out along the way. I happened to see the Monkey on the road and knew that the general was camping here. That's why I came."

Liu Chengzong nodded secretly, it made sense, he said: "Nowadays is an extraordinary time, since Mr. Yang Baizong once defected to Second Brother Wang, do you recognize Song Shouzhen, a brave general under him?"

"Hero general?"

Yang Yao recalled briefly, shook his head and said, "Second brother Wang's subordinates are all brave men like me. There is no hero named Song Shouzhen, but there is an erhu player surnamed Song, who lives in Lehu of Fuzhou."

That being said, you are right.

Liu Chengzong no longer had doubts in his heart, stepped forward to pull Yang Yao, cupped his hands and said: "Yes, he is a happy household, since both are brothers in the frontier army, from now on Liu will rely on Brother Yang a lot."

Everyone was overjoyed, Gao Yingxiang waved his hand and said: "Bring a few more bowls, Yingen will go outside the camp with Tianhou, arrange a camp for Mr. Yang's people, and then call all the leaders of Mr. Yang's team to drink and eat meat." , and let the lion get to know the new subordinates."

Zhong Dou Xing and Shang Tian Hou took orders to go to work, and Yang Yao was also dragged to the table by Liu Chengzong.

Gao Yingxiang hesitated to speak, but in the end he couldn't hold it back. Holding the wine bowl, he looked at Yang Yao with a very strange look: "Mr. Has Mr. Bai never heard of Gao’s name?”

It's very strange, Mr. Gao has been running in the four border towns for so many years, and the Mongolians outside the mouth fled to Han, and they all know to come to join me. Is it so famous in Guyuan?

Yang Yao's answer was very official and polite: "King Gao Chuang's name is as loud as thunder, and I have heard of it for a long time."

Gao Yingxiang paused, as if something was stuck in his throat, adjusted his breath and recovered from the embarrassment, leaned forward, looked at Yang Yao: "Then why didn't you vote for me?"

This is what Gao Yingxiang is most puzzled about.

It's not that Liu Chengzong is not good, Liu Chengzong is very good, otherwise he wouldn't have turned into Shanxi specifically to find someone.

But isn't it good to enjoy the shade under a big tree for taking refuge in this matter?
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Wang Jiayin is a big tree, and Gao Yingxiang is also a big tree, but Liu Shizi is a dangerous wall, and he goes to others for safety, and Liu Chengzong is dangerous.

It's not surprising that Yang Yao and his group specially approached Liu Chengzong, after all, they are all frontier soldiers, so they naturally have a higher foundation of trust.

But he, Gao Yingxiang, was clearly here, and it was impossible for the Heavenly Monkey not to mention it, so Yang Yao still didn't even look at him.

He wanted to know what went wrong here.

Gao Yingxiang looked at Liu Chengzong first, then looked at Yang Yao, and explained: "This has nothing to do with your voting for Liu Shizi. It doesn't matter if more people vote for Liu Shizi or Tianhou in the future. Everyone has their own aspirations! It's just that Gao Must know..."

He sat upright and patted his generous chest, and said sincerely: "Is it because I can't convince others or I have a bad reputation, I have to change."

The position of Baizong is not high, but the general talent, intelligence, and cultural level are not too bad.

Grassroots soldiers must have participated in at least two battles and achieved military exploits. In the middle, they must lead the team as a team manager and learn military knowledge in martial arts and fortresses before they can serve as the commander-in-chief.

Either they were born as hereditary guard officers, which is much simpler. Most of them are qualified for the position of battalion officer due to their family background and guard education.

What's more, Yang Yao, who was killed out of the mutiny, has realized his actions after a short period of integration, and put Liu Chengzong in an awkward position.

He also had a hard time in his heart and couldn't tell. He thought that according to Liu Chengzong's ability, even if he joined forces with these refugee troops, he should be a figure who was enshrined as an ancestor in the camp and had to walk sideways when he went out.

Who knew Liu Chengzong was so young?

"General Liu, King Gao Chuang, to tell you the truth, before I came here, I didn't expect that the general is so young and promising... But even if I knew, I would still go to General Liu."

While talking, Yang Yao observed the expressions of the people at the wine table, and said, "I don't know how talented Chuang Wang is, but in Ningzhou, Qingyang, I once joined forces with Sun Houer, He Zijie and other local thieves, and later I also voted for the king. Second brother, you all treat my brothers in the frontier army with great respect, and treat them with respect, we have more than 800 brothers."

This description is basically equivalent to Liu Chengzong's position in Gao Yingxiang's place, with full control of military rations, no need to work hard, and keeping one is a patron saint for meeting the officers and soldiers.

Yang Yao raised his hand to show the shape of Er, with a sadness that couldn't be concealed: "The dead are dead, and the scattered are scattered. Now there are only a few people left. I didn't want to vote for the big leader, but if we let go, we will My heart is gone."

This is actually a very dark truth. In the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", raising eagles is better than employing people. It is said that if you are hungry, you will use it, and if you are full, you will go away.

Of course, hunger and fullness do not mean whether you can have enough food, but the security, wealth and satisfaction of various desires that the group can provide.

A group of frontier soldiers plundered wantonly, and it was not difficult to get the goods, but if they got the goods, why did others follow you and run back to their hometown with gold, silver, silk and satin?
You are the leader of the bandits, not the soldiers.

Even if they stay by their side, they will change from a group of desperadoes to a group of rich men. How much of their desire to fight can they keep?
To put it bluntly, as long as I can live well, I don't want to live a precarious life.

"Since we must defect, we have had enough of the suffering of being greedy for property and fighting when we should run, and panicking and fleeing when we should fight. We must defect to those who know how to fight. Not only the leader knows the soldiers, but the subordinates must also be good men."

After Yang Yao finished speaking, he picked up the wine bowl and said to Liu Chengzong: "Nowadays, the leader who is famous outside, I will only vote for General Liu's department, and he looks like a rebel army."

Liu Chengzong nodded secretly, looked back, and took a sip of the wine in the bowl.

He drank dead wine with food and wine since he was a child, and he has a good capacity for alcohol.

But I am not greedy for alcohol, and I am a little afraid of drinking.

I always feel that this is a summoning ceremony.

It seems that as long as he makes the gesture of holding a wine bowl and pouring it into his mouth, a stern-faced elder brother will be summoned behind him, angrily scolding him that drinking is not allowed in the army.

Yang Yao is very interesting, this is a boss who pursues righteousness.

Righteousness, Liu Chengzong understands.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, nearly a thousand years of struggle for hegemony led to the rapid growth of military technology theory in the Central Plains, reaching the bottleneck of the technical conditions at that time.

Since then, there has been no dynasty that did not maintain the regular army without the righteousness of defending the country and personal honor.

However, the fortunes of the state-owned fortunes are ups and downs. The early prosperity of each dynasty not only has great righteousness, but also has the benefits of conferring meritorious service, military exploits, and even the descendants of the world.

But at the end of the dynasty, generally only this kind of righteousness was left to give the army a breath of air.

However, Liu Chengzong felt that looking through the history books, it is extremely rare for the army to be as aggrieved as it is today.

I don’t know how many peasant uprisings in the world, there are more bandits and bandits, but the officers and soldiers have always held the righteous side. Even in the last years of the dynasty, few regular troops surrendered to the rebels at the beginning of the rebellion.

Putting down the rebellion for the country, increasing officials and becoming nobles, the perfect combination of national destiny and personal development.

Especially in the Ming Dynasty, when organization, training, morale, guns, armor, and equipment were all incomparably more complete than their predecessors.

For more than 1000 years, the contrast in strength between peasant uprisings and the government and the army has never been so wide.

At this moment, Liu Chengzong suddenly wanted to laugh, but was afraid of crying out of laughter.

Sitting opposite him was a former military officer of the Ming Empire who was devoted to righteousness.

When the righteousness of defending the country is overwhelmed by hunger, we can only find a balance point between the military and chaos and the security of the people.

It's not funny, it's ironic.

The ridiculous thing is that he is the balance point in Yang Yao's eyes.

Soon, several of Yang Yao's subordinates were brought by the Heavenly Monkey, and another table was set up in the camp.

The infantry chief named Wang Wenxiu was not at all delicate, with a big beard and hair tied together.

Hu Sanhuai and Wu Yangchen are two management teams, one is thin and the other is fat, and the two brothers Han Shipan and Han Shiyou are both strong and strong, and they are the leaders of the servants.

They are all elites from Guyuan Town.

When they met each other, they were still a little cautious, Gao Yingxiang no longer obsessed with asking the frontier soldiers what their own shortcomings were, and used his experience of traveling around the four towns to enliven the atmosphere at the wine table, that was really the best in the world.

Even Liu Chengzong, who didn't want to drink too much, drank half a bowl, which was still in his heart.

As for Cao Yao, needless to say, he is a drinker, and he managed to catch the drink, and it is almost the same if he is carried back without drinking.

Liu Chengzong was a little worried that Cao Yao was drinking too much, and at first glanced at him, he was fine, and the two chatted for a while, feeling that it was time to go back to Yan'an, and miss his mother-in-law.

But after a while, all the meat on the table was finished and the scene was about to end. Looking back, Cao Yao and Feng Ru were no longer on the table, nor under the table. They searched around, and they built a few stones on the east side of the hill, and kowtowed Come.

He kowtowed and called people's names, and finally wept with his tongue out, Gao Xian and Wei Qian'er, who hadn't drunk, were left standing with arms folded at the foot of the mountain, extremely embarrassed.

They called hundreds of names that Liu Chengzong hadn't heard before. If they hadn't heard the name Liu Yujie inside, they really didn't know what they were doing.

Even Gao Yingxiang and the others were alarmed. They leaned over to look up the mountain and asked Liu Chengzong, "Lion, what are your two brothers doing? Who is Liu Yujie? They sound familiar."

Liu Chengzong sighed: "General Du, the general of General Du, took them out from Sarhu in Wanli 47, met Xiong Jinglue in Liaoyang, and was beheaded...Master Gao laughed, and the two drank too much. It's Sipao Ze."

"Take them back to the camp, and work hard at night, don't let these two drunken lunatics blow up the camp again." Liu Chengzong said to Wei Qian'er, then turned his head to bid farewell to Gao Yingxiang, and then said to Yang Yao: "Let's go, Let’s go back to the camp too, and I’ll give you and Mr. Wang Baizong two outposts to make up, go back to the camp and explain in detail, and I’ll go back to Yan’an with me tomorrow.”

Everyone raised fire and walked through the mountains to return to their respective camps.

The two brothers Han Shipan and Han Shiyou became the captains of Liu Chengzong's servants, Yang Yao and Wang Wenxiu each led the front and rear post chiefs, and the frontier troops under their command were reorganized into soldiers under the post on the spot.

In the early morning of the next day, Liu Chengzong bid farewell to Gao Yingxiang and led his troops to Yan'an.

"Lion, lion!"

As soon as he walked out of the mountain pass, he heard someone calling himself. When he turned his head, it was Gao Yingxiang who was chasing after him on a galloping horse with a thick spear in his arms.

When he got closer, he could see clearly that what Gao Yingxiang was holding was not a spear, but a long vermilion pole with no front, and an old tasseled head and pheasant tail beading that he didn't know where it came from. banner.

"Master Gao? This is..."

Gao Yingxiang didn't speak, just smiled on the horse, raised his arms and held the one-foot-two-foot flagpole in his palm and shook it. The red-faced and yellow-edged flag was unfurled in the wind, with the big Liu character embroidered with yellow thread in the middle.

Gao Yingxiang beat the horse and handed the flag to him, and said with a smile, "You should have your own flag, General Liu."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)