I want to be emperor

Chapter 8 Planning to seize the throne
In the mountains in the south of Yiyang, Luo Zhixue took Lin Ahyu to sit and rest on the ground under a boulder. Not far in front of him was Sun Jiancheng, and more than ten people around him also belonged to Sun Jiancheng's confidantes. Rest, drink water and eat dry food.

Obviously, the dozen or so people belonged to Sun Jianli's faction.

Although Luo Zhixue didn't make any choices, he naturally became a member of Sun's faction.

This point has been confirmed since he was assigned by Li Tonglin to Sun Chengli's command to be in charge of registering and compiling the luggage, and it was further deepened when he cooperated with Sun Chengli to uncover Fang Da and other army rats.

Others in the army, including Sun Jiancheng, naturally regarded him as one of their own. Along the way, Luo Zhixue was able to lead Lin Ahyu to escape smoothly, and won the support of Sun Jiancheng's faction during the previous breakout. The cover of the troops is all because of this.

Luo Zhixue understood this very well.

But now, Sun Jiancheng is clearly in crisis!
Seize the throne crisis!

Not long ago, after they got rid of the pursuit of the officers and soldiers, the three remaining leaders of the rebel army, namely Sun Chengli, Fei Bingcai, and Dao Scar, got together to briefly discuss the follow-up plan.

But other follow-up plans are not important, it is nothing more than continuing to escape all the way and completely getting rid of the officers and soldiers.

The problem is that now this rebel army of more than 70 people has no leader.

And the remaining three bosses all started to compete for the leadership position.

After all, the three of them used to be Li Tonglin's confidantes, Sun Chengli was in charge of the supplies, Fei Bingcai and Dao Scar were the main generals leading the brigade of refugees, and they were all the main generals of the second echelon of this rebel army.

As for the first echelon, there was only Li Tonglin.

Once Li Tonglin died, together with the commander Li Tonglin's personal soldiers, and the third brother Wang who held the greatest military power, he also died in battle with Li Tonglin. high-level.

The problem is that they all want to be the leader, but they don't have enough strength to directly take the position.

This was also when the three of them discussed countermeasures just now.The reason for the final breakup.

Luo Zhixue even felt that if they weren't still in the mountains, and these three people still had ambitions, and they didn't want to just leave the big team and take a few confidants to become petty thieves, the three of them would have died on the spot. We can break up directly.

The question is, what to do now?

Luo Zhixue was thinking about this question while eating dry food.

First of all, he didn't intend to break away from this team and escape on his own.

It will be chaotic, and his future is uncertain after leaving the big team.

Besides, Luo Zhixue was very interested in the rebel army in front of him.

After the previous breakthrough, this rebel army seemed to have changed from more than 1000 people to the current number of more than 70 people. However, except for a few people such as Luo Zhixue, the rest of the 70 people were all cavalry!

These cavalry used to be the elite of the Yulin Frontier Army, and their combat power was at least not much worse than the hundred or so elite cavalry under the previous command.

in case……

If you can control this elite cavalry... Maybe you can do some unusual things.

For example: rebel!

Since God let me go to the troubled times at the end of Ming Dynasty, Luo Zhixue always felt that he should do something, regardless of whether it was for the country and the people or for his own ambitions, or simply to make his life more comfortable.

And there is nothing like playing rebellion to realize your many ambitions.

But as the saying goes, one hero has two gangs. If you want to do something as difficult as a rebellion, you must have someone under your command.

And Luo Zhixue asked himself, it is impossible to run into a group of people, say a few fake words, and make people accept him and worship him, treat him as the son of destiny, and give him cannon fodder if he wants to die...

Therefore, for the time being, Luo Zhixue didn't plan to leave this rebel army directly, but he still wanted to use this rebel army and Sun Jiancheng to build his own power.

Since he didn't plan to break away from this rebel army and planned to use Sun Jiancheng to build his own power, Luo Zhixue now had a problem.

Sun Jiancheng is competing with Fei Bingcai and Dao Scar for the position of leader, and success is not only related to Sun Jiancheng, but also related to his future plans for Luo Zhixue.

At this time, helping Sun Jiancheng is helping himself.

At this time, Luo Zhixue looked at Sun Chengli in front of him, and after thinking for a while, he immediately stepped forward and walked to Sun Chengli's side: "Brother Sun."

Sun Chengli turned his head slightly to look at Luo Zhixue, and nodded slightly. Although he squeezed out a smile, the sadness on his brows still couldn't part: "Brother Luo, you must be tired from the journey."

Luo Zhixue shook his head: "Little brother, although my bones are weak, I can still walk a few steps."

As he said that, Luo Zhixue took another look at Sun Chengli, and immediately lowered his voice and said, "Brother Sun, you have to make a quick decision. If you succeed, you will be the leader of an army. If you lose, there is no room for us here."

Sun Chengli knew very well what Luo Zhixue was talking about. It was no secret that he, Fei Bingcai and Dao Scar were competing for the position of leader. Just now Luo Zhixue was behind him and watched the whole trio of verbal disputes.

Hearing Luo Zhixue's words, Sun Chengli put down the dry food in his hand and said, "I understand this matter, but it's just not easy to do. Those two people won't give in easily."

Luo Zhixue said: "The key to this matter is not the two of Fei Dao, but the remnants of the General's personal soldiers."

"Now the general's remnant army has no leader, if we can take it in, the big thing will be settled!"

"At that time, the two of Fei Dao will either live under the general, or flee in embarrassment, or die under the chaos of the sword, but no matter what, we will be invincible!"

"In addition, there are more than forty soldiers, plus our old troops, the foundation has been established."

Sun Chengli nodded slightly after listening to these words: "That's the truth!"

Luo Zhixue's words touched his heart, and Sun Chengcheng actually planned it too!

Sun Jiancheng is very aware of the current situation. If he wants to compete for the top position, it is very important to get the support of Li Tonglin's soldiers who are more than 40 people, and it is even his only choice right now.

At this time Luo Zhixue continued: "I am afraid that we are not the only ones who know the importance of those personal soldiers, so it is better sooner rather than later, before they take action, directly make a big bet and settle the matter first."

"Although there is no leader in the personal army, there are still a few sentry officers. As long as these few people are brought over, the big thing will be more than half."

Sun Chengli said: "How to pull it? You have to know that we are not the only ones who think this way, and the other two parties may also think the same way. If we can pull it, they can naturally."

Luo Zhixue said: "We have a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, we will prescribe 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 most importantly, we give them a future!"

"We can't keep running like this, can't we, we can escape for a while, but we can't escape forever!"

When Sun Chengli heard these words, his interest had already come.

"future?"

What future do these people have? It is nothing more than avoiding the siege of officers and soldiers all the way, while plundering food, grass, gold and silver, and continuing to recruit soldiers along the way. How long can this last?

As for the future?

To be honest, even Sun Chengli himself doesn't know what to do in the future.

At most, he would go all the way south to Chubei according to the method Li Tonglin had finalized before, either defecting to Zhang Xianzhong and other leaders of the rebel army, or fishing in the troubled waters of the chaotic Chubei.

Immediately, Sun Chengli said, "Brother Luo, what are your plans?"

Luo Zhixue immediately made up his plan and said: "Our biggest trouble now is the encirclement and suppression by officers and soldiers. We were chased by Zuo Liangyu when we were in Henan Province, and we were chased and beaten by Chen Zhibang when we arrived in Ruzhou."

"And our strength is limited. Even if we are all elite cavalry, we can't stand the encirclement and suppression of many officials and troops, so we still have to avoid the edge for the time being."

"We want 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 reason why we were chased by the officers and soldiers all the way was because there were too many people, and the goals were big, and the food consumption was also high, and we were forced to attack cities and large farms. Otherwise, there would be no food and grass. The army naturally followed us."

"But now we only have a few dozen people, and the consumption of food and grass is not large, so we can act in a low-key manner. If it doesn't work, we can use gold and silver to buy food and grass."

"As long as we keep a low profile, we can get several months of rest and recuperation time. With this time, we can do a lot of things."

Sun Chengli also nodded slightly: "At the beginning, I also told the general that there is no need to recruit those young and strong refugees. Those young and strong refugees seem to have a lot of people, but they can't fight. Before I saw the generals and soldiers, I ran away first. .”

"And more people eat more. In order to feed them, we have to attack farms and villages with more than a hundred old brothers, or there will be not enough food."

Luo Zhixue said: "What Brother Sun said is true. When we fight against the government and army, it is useless to bring a group of refugees. We must be elite and have enough mules and horses, so that we can advance and retreat freely."

Playing rebellion in Shaanxi and Henan where the government and army are still relatively strong, it is unreliable to directly pull a large number of refugees, young and strong, to attack the city. Starve to death, because the more people eat, the more they eat.

With tens of millions of people, you have to keep attacking the cities garrisoned by the officers and soldiers to get enough food.

Once the siege of the city does not go well, without the active encirclement and suppression by the officers and soldiers, you will have to collapse due to lack of food.

The most important thing is that these refugees have no combat effectiveness, and it is unreliable to expect them to fight against the strong city.

Therefore, Luo Zhixue believes that for now, it is still necessary to follow the route of high-mobility elite soldiers, with strong combat effectiveness, high mobility, small targets, and relatively easy replenishment of food and grass.

When you can advance and retreat freely, then there is a lot of room for choice.

(End of this chapter)