Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 25 Gentlemen's Agreement
Dashun Barracks.

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.

Li Yan asked: "Shouldn't you be ugly and righteous now?"

Li Nian replied: "I don't know exactly when, but the ugly is definitely over."

While talking, Li Mou hurried in and reported: "Brother, some Ming soldiers brought a lot of beef and mutton across the river and entered the Guanning army camp."

"It's expected, but it's useless." Li Yan shook his head.

"Two militaries who have lost trust with each other, it will not be so easy to regain mutual trust."

Li Nian frowned and said: "But brother, the current situation is also very difficult for us. It is not easy to break the situation, not to mention that we cannot stay here for a long time."

"Yes." Li Mou rubbed his hands and said, "Let's fight the Mongols. What if Chongzhen took the opportunity to run away? But let's fight Chongzhen and worry about being attacked by the Mongols. They have been disabled one after another, and Wu Sangui's cavalry of one thousand Guan Ning troops on the other side of the Baihe River is really troublesome."

Li Nian spread his hands and said, "In the current situation, no one dares to make the first move."

Li Yan also frowned, and he didn't have a good way to break the current situation.

After hesitating for a moment, Li Yan finally said, "Well, I'll go meet the chief general of the Guan Ning Army and see if it's possible to reach a gentleman's agreement with him."

"Looking for Guan Ningjun?" Li Mou asked in surprise, "What do you mean?"

Li Nian said: "Brother, did you say that you have agreed with the Guan Ning Army that we will deal with the Mongols, and at the same time, the Guan Ning Army will attack the Ming Army, and then the two families will use their own abilities to rob Chongzhen?"

"Yes." Li Yan said, "Guan Ningjun definitely doesn't want to waste it, and this gentleman's agreement is only good for Guan Ningjun, they have no reason to refuse."

"Hmph, Chongzhen old man has really become a treasure." Li Mou hummed, "every family will rob him."

While the three brothers were talking, a guard came in and reported: "Master You, a young man who claimed to be the Deputy Qianhu of the Zuoying Army of the Guanning Army came to visit and said he wanted to see you."

"Hey." Li Mou said with a smile.

"They came to the door themselves."

Li Yan waved his hand and said, "Please."

After a while, a young general walked in boldly.

"I am Hu Guozhu, Deputy Qianhu of Zuoying, Daming Ji Town." The young Lang said boldly, "I want to see your commander."

"My elder brother is the right army division of the Dashun Army and the general of the central government." Li Nian pointed at Li Yan and asked in a deep voice, "What do you want my elder brother to do?"

"You are Li Yan?"

Hu Guozhu turned to Li Yan: "I know you, Dad mentioned you to me."

Hearing this, Li Mou and Li Nian immediately showed a look of pride on their faces. The elder brother's name had already been heard in Guan Ningjun's ears, and the two of them also had a bright face.

Li Yan said: "Surname Hu? Is your father's name Hu Xinshui?"

"Why, have you heard of my dad's name?" Hu Guozhu's eyes lit up.

"I've heard, it's said that he's a good fighter." Li Yan nodded, and asked again, "Your father asked you to come, do you have anything to tell me?"

Hu Guozhu hummed and said: "My dad said, if it's late, the morning after tomorrow, or tomorrow evening soon, the Chahar Mongolian army will rush here, and neither our Guanning army nor your Dashun army will be there. Good fruit to eat."

Li Yan said: "So what does your father mean?"

Hu Guozhu: "My father means that the two families will join forces. Our Guanning army will be responsible for attacking the Ming army, and you will be responsible for solving the Gongtu tribe. It will not be a problem to destroy the Ming army and the Gongtu tribe with the strength of you and me. Wait until Get rid of the Ming army and the Gongtu tribe, and our two families will fight again to finally determine the ownership of Emperor Chongzhen."

"What you think is beautiful." Li Nian said, "What will you do if you run away with Chongzhen? Don't we make this trip for nothing?"

"That's right." Li Mou also said, "We can team up, but we have to change the way of fighting. We are responsible for fighting the Ming army, and you are responsible for solving the Gongtu department. This is more or less the same."

"Yes." Hu Guozhu nodded readily, "Then do as you said."

"Ah this?" Li Mou was stunned immediately upon hearing this, shouldn't he be sternly refusing?

Li Yan glared at Li Mou, and said, "Hu Qianhu, let's do what you want."

"It's okay, there's not much difference anyway." Hu Guozhu said with a heartless face, "The Ming army has a large number of weapons and occupies a favorable terrain, and built parapets and trenches, which is no easier to fight than the Gongtu Department. "

Li Yan said: "Then it's settled, when is the time to do it?"

Hu Guozhu said: "Now the time is almost ugly, let's start at Yinchu."

"Okay." Li Yan nodded, "Just wait for you to do it, and we will follow suit."

"You'd better eat the cavalry of the Gongtu tribe before we finish off the Ming army, or we'll take Chongzhen back to Yongping directly." Hu Guozhu cupped his hands and turned to leave.

"Hey, the mother-in-law thief is quite crazy." Li Mou said angrily.

Li Nian frowned and asked, "Brother, do you really do it?"

Li Yan said noncommittally: "Let the soldiers get ready."

……

At this time, Chongzhen had brought Hu Xinshui back to the Ming army camp.

Honorable officials such as Wang Jiayan who had been waiting on the shore all celebrated with their foreheads.

At the same time, he cast a strange look at Chongzhen, and the Holy Majesty's dangerous move has come to fruition!

In fact, on the way here, Hu Xinshui also thought about jumping into the Baihe River to escape, but Chongzhen didn't give him this chance at all, but tied him and Wang Chengen to the back of the same war horse by himself.

The torch in Wang Chengen's hand also changed from one to two.

In this formation, Hu Xinshui was so frightened that he didn't dare to make any changes.

Even along the way, he kept reminding Wang Chengen: "Eunuch, be careful."

After entering the Baihe River, Hu Xinshui was still reminding Wang Chengen, lest he accidentally light the brocade robe.

Because he was riding a war horse, the river only flooded to his waistline, and if he was set on fire, his upper body would still be burned to ashes.

When he arrived at the camp on the west bank of the Baihe River, Hu Xinshui was able to change out of the wet brocade robe and changed into a war robe, but the new war robe was a brocade robe filled with gunpowder and soaked in suet.

"My lord, what are you doing?" Hu Xinshui asked with a bitter face.

Chongzhen, who put on his dry clothes and armor on the mountain, walked back to Hu Xinshui: "Hu Aiqing, I'm sorry, I have to be as careful as possible in the face of a fierce general like you."

Hu Xinshui said: "Your Majesty, since I have agreed, I will not run away."

"I know." Chongzhen said, "But I still hope to have an insurance policy."

Hu Xinshui didn't say anything more, because he knew that no matter what he said, it was useless. Chongzhen's suspicion was well known to the world, but he was wearing such a brocade robe soaked in suet and filled with gunpowder, so he wouldn't even think about running away. up.

If he dared to run, a rocket could send him away.

Chongzhen said to Wang Chengen again: "Wang Daban, go and call all the musketeers here."

"Old slave obeys the order." Wang Chengen agreed, then turned and went to the front camp to gather the musketeers.

Watching Wang Chengen's figure go away, Gao Qiqian felt that the opportunity had come, and immediately said flatteringly: "Long Live Lord, you don't dare to risk Shishi with your body of ten thousand gold, and let this old slave command this battle on your behalf."

Gao Qiqian said this on his lips, but he thought to himself, Long live you grew up in the deep palace, do you know what war is?Don't wait for the musketeers to scare you when they fire their guns.

"Are you here to command on my behalf?" Chongzhen looked at Gao Qiqian with a smile.

Gao Qiqian just wanted to say that an old slave is enough for such trivial matters, but Chongzhen's next sentence almost didn't scare him to death.

I saw Chongzhen's smiling face instantly turned down, and said in a cold tone: "I will command you on my behalf, do you want to be the emperor on my behalf too? Gao Da Companion?"

"Long Live Lord!" Gao Qiqian knelt down with a puff.

"If the Lord Long Live wants to say that, the old slave will have to die."

"What?" Chongzhen snorted coldly, "Use death to force me?"

"No, I don't dare, this old slave doesn't mean that." Gao Qiqian really wanted to cry now, no, why did Long Live Lord become so hard to serve after not seeing him for a few days?

In the past, whatever he said, Lord Long Live believed whatever he said.

Seeing Gao Qiqian who kowtowed like garlic, Chongzhen's eyes became even colder.

Jiashen's country was in calamity, thousands of officials and scholars died for the country, and there were not a few nobles on death festivals. Only Wang Cheng'en, the eunuch who kept claiming to be the emperor's servant, committed suicide.

The state affairs of the Ming Dynasty were firstly caused by the Donglin Party, and secondly, by these eunuchs!

For example, the one in front of you, Gao Qiqian, one of the last pillars of the Ming Dynasty, Duke Lu Xiangsheng, was demolished by this eunuch. If the timing wasn't right, Chongzhen would have ordered Gao Qiqian to be cut up alive.

Chongzhen said coldly: "That's not what you mean, then what do you mean?"

Gao Qiqian knelt down and wept, "I have no other intentions, I just want to die for the saint."

"Want to die for me?" Chongzhen said with a chuckle, "There will be this chance."

Seeing Chongzhen's smile, Gao Qiqian secretly heaved a sigh of relief. Although he didn't know why the Long Live God was offended this time, at least the crisis was temporarily resolved.

Wang Chengen soon came with more than [-] musketeers.

After several battles, the number of muskets has decreased, but there are still more than [-] guns in total.

"Everyone." Chongzhen walked to the front of the musketeers' queue and said in a deep voice, "Put all the lead bullets on the ground."

Although the more than [-] musketeers didn't know what happened, they still took off the leather bags with lead bullets on their bodies and put them on the ground.

"Okay!" Chongzhen nodded happily, and said again, "When the two armies are at war, you just load the guns normally with powder, and then fire the guns normally, as if they were loaded with lead bullets."

"Huh?" The musketeers looked at each other.

Isn't that an empty gun?Can't kill people.

Chongzhen has already turned his attention to Hu Xinshui.

"Hu Aiqing, you also send Yi Ding back to tell your son that when the two armies are at war, take off the arrowheads of the heavy arrows and wrap the soft heads of the spears. A few pretending."

Hu Xinshui motioned for a Yi Ding who was accompanying him to come over and repeat it again.

That Yi Ding nodded repeatedly, and took advantage of the night to return to the east bank of the Baihe River.

(End of this chapter)