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To be honest, the information Gao Yingdeng got was a bit disappointing.

Originally, Liu Shizi still had a little hope in his heart, thinking about whether the imperial court would collect a batch of grain and grass in Qingyang Mansion for joint operations between Shaanxi and Ningxia.

As a result, the information Gao Yingdeng gave here was that the Ming army put the grain storage camp in Xi'an Fucheng just as the generals in the Marshal's Mansion had already estimated.

When the information was settled, Liu Shizi was so annoyed that he yelled and cursed in the tent of the Chinese army commander in the middle of the night.

Hong Chengchou and Chen Qiyu have no shame at all. What does it mean to put the grain table in Xi'an Fucheng?Five hundred miles from the grain land to the front line is already considered a long way. Where is the front line they imagined?Along Liupan Mountain!

Obviously, these dog officials have no determination to regain lost ground at all!
I just want to see the marshal's mansion sitting in a sad city, waiting for grandpa to run out of food first and then die.

The intent is very vicious.

At the same time, another matter mentioned in Gao Yingdeng's information is equally significant to Liu Chengzong.

Lord Chongzhen is serious.

Emperor Chongzhen made more serious preparations for this battle than ever before, and decided to issue 20 taels of internal funds and 10 taels of Taipu Temple. A total of 30 taels of silver were being transported to Xi'an.

These two pieces of news, the location of the grain storage, and the distribution of internal funds to prepare for war, are basically in line with Liu Chengzong's judgment on the officers and soldiers. He doesn't think it's fake news.

However, Gao Yingdeng's source of information is a bit stupid-his Tangqi crossed Qinzhou and entered the boundary of Longzhou in Fengxiang Mansion.

It is said that the Tang soldier was terrified at that time, and slowly backed away while waving the flag, but the Sichuan soldiers on the mountain road ran very fast, shouting as they ran, and spoke with a Shu accent so fast and fast that Tang Qi couldn't understand it. It took a long time to figure out that this group of people wanted to surrender.

Gao Yingdeng came here overnight this time, not only to deliver information, but also to give credit to that Tang soldier named Ma Changli.

Liu Chengzong felt that there was no problem with the information, but the Sichuan soldiers surrendered very strangely, so he ordered Gao Yingdeng to take them to Longxi for custody and separate them from the army, so as not to be spies of the imperial court.

"The commander-in-chief is worried that there are spies from the imperial court among them?" Gao Yingdeng felt that the possibility was unlikely, and shook his head, "I think that even if we send spies, we should let the Shaanxi Township Party come. At least it is easy to win trust. Eight or nine battalions of ours are all from Shaanxi, and a team of Shu soldiers as spies is too eye-catching."

"Eight, eight Qin army battalions, and two Gansu and Shaanxi mixed formations. There are only two serious Gansu battalions."

Liu Chengzong is very familiar with the soldiers under his opponent, so he said something casually, but still with a cautious face: "What if we do the opposite?"

In fact, if he insisted that these Sichuan soldiers were spies, Liu Shizi also felt that the possibility was unlikely, but now he knew that Hong Chengchou and Chen Qiyu were busy plotting against him, so he would inevitably think more deeply when encountering any disturbance.

But he really couldn’t figure it out, so Liu Chengzong simply waved his hand and said, “It doesn’t matter, anyway, send the person to Longxi for custody first, and if you can’t communicate well, give paper and pen first, such as why you surrendered, how do you know where the food is stored, and internal funds. Let them write first. I’ll transfer Ajia from Juerwan to chat with them, and I can always figure out the situation.”

The hostess of Dajianlu Guozhuang is proficient in Southwest dialect and is also good at being a broker.

However, Liu Chengzong did not expect that before Ajia from the Juerwan market came, the Sichuan soldiers would recruit all the situations.

There is indeed a situation inside, and it is a situation that Liu Shizi can't even think of-Deng Qi is dead.

Last year, Deng Qi's battalion had a mutiny in Jingning Prefecture. It was only thanks to the care of the academician Wang Yingxiong that they escaped the court's punishment. After that, they lived cautiously in the past few months, for fear of making any mistakes again.

This led to the news that Lord Chongzhen had issued internal money to the front line, and other generals sent people to Xi'an Mansion to ask for payment, but he had no face to send people because of his mutiny, probably because he felt that the payment would have to be paid sooner or later, and it was meaningless to join in the fun.

Liu Shizi saw half of the Sichuan soldiers' report, patted his thigh and said, "Why are you being polite to the emperor!"They are all officers and soldiers, if you don’t ask for them, you don’t know whether the court will pay you or not?

He could no longer control that battalion of Sichuan soldiers. In Deng Qi's eyes, the mutiny and robbery of the soldiers made him fearful, and the soldiers in a battalion were all disobedient and clamorous.

In the second year of Chongzhen, he took them out of Sichuan, saying that he would drive Huang Taiji away and take them home; Huang Taiji left, Deng Qi was promoted to Zunhua General Army Officer, and there were thousands of households in the world. They did not go home, and were transferred to Xifengkou to fight with Donglu.

Wuqiao Mutiny, they were transferred to Shahe to guard against bandits, Deng Qi said that after fighting the rebels, he would take them home, and they went to fight bloody with the rebels; the rebels were gone, and the bandits entered Hebei again, Deng Qi said that after fighting the bandits, they would take them home, and they continued to fight against the bandits from Shaanxi, if Zuo Liangyu hadn’t rescued them, they would have been wiped out in Jinan.

Deng Qi was always unable to fulfill his promise, and promised them to return to their hometown time and time again, but time and time again he broke his promise under the urging order of the court.

Up to now, the mood in the Sichuan barracks has been set on fire, and the imperial court wants to transfer them to garrison Longzhou. As the first-line troops defending Liu Chengzong, the Sichuan soldiers are going crazy-the emperor really didn't intend to let them live!
Then the news of Chongzhen's distribution of internal funds spread to the army, and the sergeants clamored. Under the leadership of his subordinate Liao soldier general Wang Yuncheng, he asked Deng Qi for payment, resenting him for withholding payment.

In fact, for Sichuan soldiers at this moment, it doesn't matter whether silver is silver or not. They looked around, and in the chaotic future of Ming Dynasty, they didn't see the imperial court leaving them a way out. ,

But Deng Qi was not killed by Wang Yuncheng.

Wang Yuncheng didn't dare to kill him either. He was from a Liao army. Deng Qi joined this army when he was stationed in Zunhua. Because he was good at commanding cavalry, Deng Qi relied heavily on him.

However, things went beyond people's expectations. This invincible general who fought from Shanhaiguan to Sanguan for several years and was invincible in hundreds of battles did not die on the battlefield, or even at the hands of his own soldiers. In the end, Deng Qi actually used a very ironic way.

The main general died unexpectedly, and the leader was another general from the Liao army. The entire Sichuan barracks was in confusion, and many people deserted and ran away.

The more than 30 Sichuan soldiers who fell into Liu Chengzong's hands ran out from Longzhou at that time.

Liu Chengzong looked at the letter, clenched his fists tightly, and showed a complicated look on his face under the overlapping of multiple expressions.

First of all, he felt sad for Deng Qi's death. As one of the important opponents in this battle, Liu Chengzong did a lot of work, so that even though he had never met Deng Qi, he was very clear about this person's life history, as if he really knew this person.

The end of the journey of life is death, so death itself is not a sad thing, what matters is what you do when you are alive.

At this point, Deng Qi lived a very heroic life. He joined the army in the first year of Tianqi, suppressed An Bangyan, King Qin fought at Xifengkou, punched Kong Youde in Shahe, and went to the Central Plains to suppress the peasant army. In 14 years, the army and horse fought hundreds of battles at a frequency of half a month, and only lost three times.

As of the eighth year of Chongzhen, this is the number one firefighting captain who can play all the games in Daming.

Liu Chengzong felt that it was a pity that Deng Qi was only one step away from becoming a first-class star, really one step away, and it was a very simple step: run over and let Liu Shizi give him an arrow.

The arrow was placed in the face, and he fell from the horse and fell to the ground on the spot in the battle. Deng Qi will be a first-class famous general who will not be able to escape in the late Ming Dynasty.

It's too late now, if you don't die heroically, I'm afraid you will be reduced to a third-rate little school-like unknown person.

A man as fierce as Li Rusong led an army of 25 troops across the Yalu River on the 4000th of the twelfth lunar month. On the seventh day of the first lunar month, soldiers approached the city of Pyongyang. In the early morning of the eighth day, he launched an attack on Pyongyang City, which was guarded by 1 people.

Even the siege and pursuit took less than eighteen hours.

The battle of Bichiguan, and the 24 Liao cavalry field battles of Zha Dashou were besieged by 25 Japanese, all of which lasted from the [-]th to the [-]th.

But such a fierce person, after the Battle of Pyongyang, it is not too much to say that he has shocked East Asia. People mentioned that he is still "the son of Li Chengliang". Why?It was because it was so easy to die—if he finished fighting North Korea and died of illness immediately after returning home to report on his duties, later generations would say that he was the time-limited SSR God General experience card held by Lord Wanli, and his evaluation would directly rise by two grades.

Even if Xiang Yu decided to cross the Wujiang River back then and drowned half of it in the water, then there would be no god-like overlord of Western Chu in later generations, and even Liu Bang, who forced Xiang Yu to death, would not have such a glorious face.

Every step of life determines the future, what you do today determines what you will have tomorrow, and what you do before you die determines what you will have after death.

However, Liu Shizi was more excited than the pity and regret for Deng Qi's accidental death.

Before the battle started, it was too unlucky for the Ming army to fall to the death of a general. More importantly, Deng Qi's death opened the Ming army's defense line at Liupanshan.

Enduring the pity, joy and excitement while staring at the sand table to search for the enemy's flaws, this is the main reason for the complicated expression on Liu Shizi's face.

However, he didn't delay for too long, and after a quick thought, he ordered Yu Linqi to send Ma Xiang, the commander of the Tangqi of the Chinese army, and ordered him to lead the Tangqi out of the nest, covering Qinzhou, Longzhou and Zhenyuan with all their strength.

Ma Xiang joined the Marshal's Mansion as a surrendered soldier of Ningxia Tangqi Baizong during the Hehuang War. Since then, he has served as Dai Daozi's deputy. After Dai Daozi went to Tianshan, he served as his successor and led Liu Chengzong's Tangqi.

But he and Dai Daozi are two extremes.

Dai Daozi was not from Tangqi. He was an officer and a small leader of the Ningxia army, so he was very independent. He always wanted to take care of his old job when he was doing Tangqi work.

But Ma Xiang was different. He came from Yeburen. After He Huchen defeated Huanglong Mountain, he started to form the Tang Bing. In the Hehuang War, he voted for Liu Chengzong.

The three battalions mentioned by Liu Chengzong are the Tang Jiuzhou Department stationed in Huating, the Deng Qi Department in Longzhou, and the Zuo Liangyu Department in Qinzhou.

"Marshal, there is one thing I don't know about my humble position."

Ma Xiang originally took the command with fists in his arms, and was about to retreat and assemble his troops to go to the front line. After listening to Liu Chengzong's advice, he couldn't understand after thinking about it, so he asked, "Even if Deng Qi is dead, these three battalions will definitely move?"

"Yes, if these three battalions do not move, then the so-called Deng Qi's death must be false news; on the other hand, if Deng Qi is dead, someone from these three battalions must move." Liu Chengzong said with certainty: "I want to see, Tang Jiuzhou and Zuo Liangyu, who can take down this Sichuan army camp!"

The latter mission, keeping an eye on the movements of the three battalions, was very simple for Ma Xiang, but it was more difficult for Tang Bing to confirm the news of Deng Qi's death.

"Then if the imperial court promotes its deputy general to lead the army, will they still be stationed in Longzhou?"

Liu Chengzong waved his hand. There was no such problem. He said: "Deng Qi died, and he really fell to his death. This battalion will be gone."

Deng Qi said that he fell to his death, but he was actually forced to death. If he was forced to death by the soldiers he led, this battalion would not exist for the court.

Because no matter what the final cause of Deng Qi's death was, as long as he was not dying of illness and old age, there was only one cause of his death in the court: corruption and perverting the law, being unfavorable to the soldiers, and not being good to the soldiers.

The imperial court will compensate the Sichuan soldiers, and then hand over the troops to others to dilute the influence of the Sichuan soldiers' grouping.

If Deng Qi's deputy general was promoted to continue to lead the army, and he had the prestige to pay for the soldiers, he would find that the real cause of Deng Qi's death could not be explained if he led this army.

Of course, there is another possibility. The successor is more 'capable', and the white crane spreads its wings between flattening the bandits and turning them into bandits, and grasping the balance between looting and rebellion and solving practical problems for the court. Then this army may be able to survive, but it is not the army that the court wants.

Therefore, the imperial court will definitely allocate this battalion to other general soldiers. Although this is only an expedient strategy to check and balance each other, it is at least better than letting Wang Yuncheng, who forced Deng Qi to death, lead the army.

The reason why Liu Chengzong asked Ma Xiang to keep an eye on Tang Jiuzhou and Zuo Liangyu and not to care about others was because they had cooperated with Deng Qi the longest and had the most tacit understanding, and it was possible to win over Sichuan soldiers.

Soon, the brigade commanders and generals of the marshal's army all rushed to the camp after receiving the news. For a while, Zhang Tianlin and others felt like a dream when they heard that Deng Qi had died.

They are still trying to find fighters here, and the government and army have already created fighters!

Soon the Tangqi on the front line verified the authenticity of the news. The Sichuan army stationed in the direction of Longzhou had all pulled out their camps in a mess, and approached Qinzhou via Baoji...but they didn't approach, and bumped into Ma Xiang's Tangqi halfway.

This news is equivalent to confirming that Deng Qi is dead.

"Speech the whole army and pull out the camp."

When Liu Chengzong received the news from Ma Xiang during the military discussion, he immediately slapped his palm on the table, scaring all the generals to sit upright, but he got up and said: "We marched to Baoji, Zuo Liangyu rescued Baoji, we will attack Qinzhou; Zuo Liangyu stays in Qinzhou, we will go to Longzhou-they talk, we will go to Guanzhong to play!" (End of this chapter)