East Factory Governor

Chapter 550

Gao Yingxiang's kindness to Li Zicheng is indeed as great as a mountain, but Li Zicheng believes that Gao Yingxiang lacks the bearing and ability to rule the world, and following him may not be able to realize his ideals, or to put it bluntly, ambition!

Li Zicheng, who has always been conceited, feels that he still has to rely on himself in everything.If he was the "king of Chuang", he would never lose Shangluo, and now that the government and army had already been defeated, the good situation of the Chuang army in southern Shaanxi would never be ruined just like that.

Looking at the door of Gao Yingxiang's room, only a dozen or so haggard personal guards guarded it, Li Zicheng felt in the dark that this was an opportunity God gave him.

He called some of his confidants and said to them, "On the way to the king, I was so frightened and exhausted that I became seriously ill. What if the king died?"

The few confidantes naturally understood what he meant, and immediately said, "It's the 'Chuang Jiang' who will take over!"

Li Zicheng smiled slightly, finally revealed his ferocity, and said, "In this case, then I'll go and send King Chuang a ride later!"

At three o'clock on June 23 in the third year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's nephew Li Guo led 200 people to kill more than a dozen guards of Gao Yingxiang and broke into Gao Yingxiang's house.Gao Yingxiang, who woke up from his deep sleep, was quickly pinned down by a group of big men, and then Li Guo smothered him to death with a wet towel.

The vigorous Chuang Wang of a generation fell, and he probably never dreamed that he would end his life in this way.

Afterwards, Li Zicheng sent people to kill more than a dozen soldiers in the post, cleaned up the scene, and pretended that King Chuang had died of illness, and then returned to Weinan City with his body.

After returning to the teacher, Li Zicheng told Liu Guoneng and others the news that King Chuang had "died of illness".Liu Guoneng was somewhat skeptical, because he had never heard of King Chuang's illness before, and King Chuang "died of illness" in just a few hours after Li Zicheng left?Full of doubts, he did not dare to doubt Li Zicheng openly. After all, Li Zicheng's prestige and power were far greater than him, and in terms of soldiers and horses, Li Zicheng had nearly [-] direct descendants, while he had only [-] to [-].However, after the seeds of doubt were planted, he decided to find out in secret.

Due to the imminent advance of the army, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Weinan City, according to Li Zicheng's arrangement, kept the mourning secret.But Li Zicheng was eager to take the position, so he naturally wanted to inform all the rogues about this matter.

At this time, the major generals under King Chuang's tent, such as Liu Guoneng, Mantianxing, Huntianwang, Guafeng, Liu Jiusi, etc., were all in Weinan City. All these people were summoned to Weinan City to discuss follow-up matters.

Unsurprisingly, under the unanimous recommendation of everyone, Li Zicheng, just like in history, inherited the title of "Chuang Wang" after the death of the old Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, and became the new leader of all the rogues!
After two years, Li Zicheng finally became the tyrant among bandits.

While Li Zicheng was meeting with various leaders, Liu Guoneng went out quietly with an excuse, came to the place where Gao Yingxiang's body was stored, bought the guards with money, and was able to go in to "look at the remains."In the room, Liu Guoneng saw several scratches on Gao Yingxiang's arms and other parts, and through careful observation of the abnormalities of his mouth and nose, he concluded that Gao Yingxiang was smothered to death, not died of illness.

Liu Guoneng, who was feeling cool behind his back, immediately exited the house, and once again bribed the guard with a lot of money, asking him to be careful not to mention his visit to anyone.The guard wouldn't say it, otherwise he wouldn't have any good fruit to eat, would he?

Liu Guoneng returned to the house as if nothing had happened, and continued to discuss with various rogues how to defend Weinan City.At this time, his heart was overwhelmed. He knew that since Li Zicheng would kill Gao Yingxiang, he would kill him one day.Because in terms of prestige, whether in Gao Yingxiang's department or in the hearts of all the rogues, he is second only to Li Zicheng.Moreover, he and Li Zicheng have always been at odds, and with a [-] army in his hands, Li Zicheng has even more reason to kill him.

But in fact, Li Zicheng didn't want to touch Liu Guoneng at all, at least not now.The reason is simple, the officers and soldiers are about to make a comeback, isn't he courting death at this time with Liu Guoneng's infighting?

With Li Zicheng's shrewdness, he would not do such a stupid thing.Therefore, at the Weinan Conference, Li Zicheng offered to give Liu Guoneng the title of "breakthrough general".He hoped that this would dispel Liu Guoneng's doubts.

But Liu Guoneng was in great shock and fear, and he didn't believe Li Zicheng at all.

The Weinan Conference was held all night, and under the auspices of Li Zicheng, a relatively complete defense plan for Weinan was formulated.

According to this plan, the allied forces and the defenders in Weinan City rely on the strong Weinan City for internal and external defense. According to Li Zicheng's estimation, it will not be a problem to hold for half a month.And as long as it lasts for half a month, Weinan will be able to keep it, because he knows that Huang Taiji in the north has already gone south, and Qin Shuhuai must go north to Ji Town to guard the capital - compared to Shaanxi, the capital is naturally a hundred times more important!And once Qin Shuhuai withdraws his troops, he, Li Zicheng, will surely make a comeback.This time, he wants to control the entire territory of Shaanxi!

Let's say that Qin Shuhuai led an army of [-] troops, starting from Shangluo, heading for Weinan along the line of Banqiao, Limiao, Dongyu, and Jiujianfang.Of his [-] troops, [-] were selected from among the surrendered bandits.

Qin Shuhuai didn't slaughter all the rogues who surrendered before he went out to fight. It's not because he suddenly became merciful, but because he had two considerations.First, the strength of the army is seriously insufficient and it is difficult to recruit troops, so he plans to select a certain number of strong men from the rogues, and after rigorous training, they can be used by the army.He is not worried that these rogues will turn against him, because they don't have any firm beliefs, and they joined Gao Yingxiang's department just to make a living, so they can be naturalized - back then, a large number of Mongols who were slaughtered in the city could be naturalized The vagrants helped them fight, so what's wrong with him wanting to become a rogue who is also a Han Chinese now?Second, he needs these surrendered soldiers to make a live advertisement, showing that the surrendered officers and soldiers may not necessarily die, and they can still live well, so that the fighting will of other rogues can be reduced.

Therefore, he first killed all the big and small leaders among the more than 2 surrendered soldiers, killing a total of more than 2000 people. Among the remaining ordinary soldiers, he selected about [-] strong and strong men, and after they were dispersed, they were added to the various camps. among.Most of the rest are old, weak and remnant soldiers, as well as people who look slick and unsteady (yes, it depends on your appearance regardless of the reason, who told you to be a rogue?), and they were all secretly taken to somewhere outside the city in batches. Mass execution!

Closer to home.When Qin Shuhuai led the army to the south, the Bailian sect who was mixed in with the bandits played a huge role.Elder Yue said before that most of the funds of the White Lotus Sect in recent years have been spent on the disaster victims. In fact, it was mainly spent on the three sides, because the three sides have the most victims.It is also because of this that many disaster victims on the three sides joined the White Lotus Sect, and after being brainwashed, they mixed into the ranks of rogues.There are not many members of the White Lotus Sect in Gao Yingxiang's department, because as I said before, Gao Yingxiang has carried out several major cleanings inside, cleaning out many members of the White Lotus Sect.However, there are many other rogues in the Bailian Sect. It is said that there are at least a thousand people in total. If Qin Shuhuai did not come to the three sides, these Bailian Sect members still want to continue to develop and control several rogues. Woolen cloth!
(End of this chapter)