Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 45
"The Holy One is here too?"

Gao Jie was a little surprised.

This kind of courtesy is a bit too much.

"Here we are, just outside the camp."

Gao Qiqian urged again: "Marquis Xingping please."

In fact, Gao Qiqian is a bit of a showman, and a cautious or suspicious person would be suspicious, but Gao Jie is a bit aggressive, or confident, after all, he has an army of 5 in his hand.

You, a feudal lord who succeeded Xiaozong, dare to kill me?
In history, Gao Jie also despised Xu Dingguo in this way.

In the end, he also lost his life in Suizhou City.

Li Benshen gave Gao Jie a wink, implying him not to go.

Gao Jie didn't even bother, and just sneaked away with Gao Qi.

Less than two miles out of the camp, I saw a large number of cavalry standing in the field with torches, thousands of people were silent, only the horses occasionally snorted.

Gao Jie couldn't help but secretly startled.

I thought Huang Chuangzi was really good at running the army.

When approaching, the cavalry split left and right.

Gao Qiqian led Gao Jie straight in.

After walking not far, he saw a man in a brocade robe surrounded by a large group of generals in the firelight.

Seeing this brocade-robed man, Gao Jie was stunned for a moment, how could it be possible?how is this possible!Chongzhen is still not dead?How could he suddenly appear in Yangzhou?
"Gao Jie, are you convicted?"

Chongzhen snorted and asked.

Gao Jie screamed, turned and ran.

But where can I run at this time?
As soon as Gao Jie turned around, the four Yi Ding rushed up and knocked him to the ground.

"My lord, my lord!" Gao Jie shouted endlessly as his head was stepped into the ground, "I am innocent, I am innocent, I am innocent!"

"Only you, have the face to say that you are innocent?" Chongzhen walked up to Gao Jie and reprimanded, "On the eve of the fall of the capital, I summoned you to be the king of Jingqin. Have you ever been summoned? It is not too much to condemn you for resisting the order and not obeying the order." Bar?"

"Sun Chuanting, the supervisor of Tongguan, was killed in battle, but you fled all the way with all the people. Is it not too much to convict you of fleeing the battle?"

"The thief attacked the city all the way. As a general, you don't want to defend the city for the country, but you run thousands of miles. It doesn't seem too much to convict you of abandoning the land without reason?"

"From Shanxi all the way to the south, all the way to rob, all the way to kill innocent people, the soldiers arrived in Yangzhou in just a few days, and a hundred miles around turned into a barren land. As the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, he was ten times and a hundred times more vicious than the bandits. Heinous crimes are unforgivable, and if the above crimes are punished together, it is only right to exterminate your nine clans!"

Gao Jie was trembling with fright at first, and then he lost his composure and laughed.

"Hahaha, Holy Majesty, you dare not kill me, you dare not kill me, you dare not! If you dare to kill me, the [-] troops outside Yangzhou City will rebel immediately, and Daming will be completely finished, hahaha, hahahaha!"

"Hahaha, the Ming Dynasty cannot do without me. Without me, Gao Jie, Daming will die! Just die!"

"Gao Jie, you overestimate yourself." Chongzhen said, "No one is indispensable in this world. You are not as important as you think. If you die, the army outside Yangzhou City will not rebel. , Ming Dynasty will not end, tomorrow the sun will rise as usual, and everything will operate as usual."

This is the truth. In history, after Gao Jie was killed, his tens of thousands of troops did not disintegrate, let alone rebelled. Instead, they obediently accepted Hongguang's division and wooing, and guarded various key points in Xuzhou.

Although the current Gao Jie was killed by Chongzhen, so what?

He Chongzhen is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and enjoys supreme authority.

As long as he expresses that he only punishes the head of evil and does not engage in expansion of the punishing company, Gao Jie's generals will definitely abandon Gao Jie and turn to him under Chongzhen's command. Human nature is to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages!
Gao Jie is already dead, why are you still following him?
Chongzhen said again: "No one will care about you."

"Impossible!" Gao Jie roared, "This is absolutely impossible, Li Chengdong and the others will not betray me!"

Chongzhen said: "Nothing is impossible. You think that Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku are loyal to you, but in fact, they are not loyal to you, but only the fame and fortune you can bring to them, but what you can give them is the same as me. I can give it too, if you can’t give it to them, I can still give it to you, who do you think they will be loyal to?”

"Eh?" Gao Jie was stunned for a moment, then said again, "No, they won't betray me!"

"You are so naive." Chongzhen said with a smile, "If you can betray Li Zicheng, they can also betray you. What's more, you don't have to bear the infamy of treason and betrayal when you switch to my subordinates. This is called abandoning the dark and turning to the bright."

"Ah?" Gao Jie was stunned, thinking about it carefully, it seemed that this was really the case.

Don't say that Li Chengdong's generals, even his nephew Li Benshen, would really rebel for him?If Chongzhen was willing to add officials and ranks to them, it would be even more impossible to rebel.

Chongzhen raised his hand, signaling Yiding to kill Gao Jie.

A guy like Gao Jie must die, and even if he can fight, he must be killed.

Seeing Yi Ding raised his waist knife, Gao Jie finally panicked and frightened.

"My lord, spare my life, spare my life! I already know I was wrong, I was wrong!"

"It's only now that I realize my mistake, it's too late!" Chongzhen swung his right hand down.

Yi Ding's high-handed waist knife swooped down and chopped Gao Jie's neck.

Hearing the sound of barking, Gao Jie's skull rolled away far away.

Chongzhen said to Gao Qiqian again: "Gao Banban, go and call Li Chengdong here."

it's me again?A bitter look appeared on Gao Qiqian's face immediately: "The old slave leads the order."

……

Let's talk about Gaojie camp later.

Soon after Gao Jie left, Li Chengdong, Hu Maozhen, Gao Jinku, Yang Chengzu, Tang Yinghu, Miao Shunhu, Li Xiangyun, Guo Hu and other generals also rushed to the camp of the Chinese army.

The eight generals each led a battalion and stationed separately.

"Ben Shen, where are the people from the town?" Hu Maozhen, the oldest, asked.

Li Benshen said: "The general town was summoned by King Fu, it must be something important."

Li Chengdong said: "I heard that the general town has been knighted? And it's still a Marquis?"

"That's true." Li Ben nodded with a deep smile, "King Fu has conferred the title of Marquis of Xingping on my uncle, and admiral of Nanzhi [-]th Mansion and the land and water troops of the four prefectures."

"Really? That's a good thing."

Li Chengdong, Hu Maozhen and other eight generals were overjoyed for a while.

When Gao Jie became an official and became a noble, they can also ascend to heaven with chickens and dogs.

While teasing each other, a servant outside reported that Eunuch Gao had arrived.

Hearing that Gao Qi had sneaked in, Li Benshen and other nine people hurriedly divided into two teams and went out of the tent to meet them.

General Gao Qiqian welcomed him into the tent of the Chinese army, Li Ben asked with a deep smile, "Dare to ask my father-in-law, where is Lord Hou?"

"Marquis Xingping is in front of the Holy One." Gao Qiqian smiled slightly, then looked around and asked, "I don't know which one is Li Chengdong, General Li?"

Li Chengdong hurried forward to salute and said, "Li Chengdong, the last general, pays homage to father-in-law."

"You are Li Chengdong? Sure enough, you were born with a strong back." Gao Qiqian said with a smile, "The sage has called your name. There is a good thing. Come with our family to meet the sage."

"Your Majesty knows me?"

Li Chengdong suddenly felt a little overwhelmed.

Hu Maozhen and others also expressed envy to Li Chengdong.

He said in his heart that Li Chengdong, this kid, would be prosperous from now on.

"Let's go." Gao Qiqian said with a smile, "The Holy One is waiting for you."

Li Chengdong didn't doubt him, and followed Gao Qiqian to see Chongzhen.

As a result, as soon as he arrived in front of Chongzhen, he saw Gao Jie lying on the ground.

Moreover, the body had been separated, and Li Chengdong was completely stunned at that time.

"Li Chengdong, are you guilty?" Chongzhen looked down at Li Chengdong and asked.

"I'm guilty, I'm guilty." Li Chengdong was stunned and quickly knelt down, not daring to say a word of excuse, "I shouldn't have run away, I shouldn't have abandoned the land without reason, and I shouldn't have harmed innocent people, I deserve death. "

"You really deserve ten thousand deaths, ten thousand deaths are not enough to atone for your sins!" Chongzhen snorted.

"However, you are not the chief culprit. After all, you are only acting according to orders. In addition, it is a time of troubles and the country is in need of employing people. Therefore, I will save you from death and allow you to perform crimes and make meritorious service before the army."

According to Chongzhen's original intention, even Li Chengdong couldn't keep these things.

But there is no way, if Li Chengdong and the others are all killed, then the tens of thousands of frontier troops outside Yangzhou City will collapse in an instant, which will not only weaken the military power of Ming Dynasty, but also pose a serious threat to the security of Jiangnan, because they are scattered and fled. The rebellious army will definitely launch crazy revenge and looting on the various state capitals in the south of the Yangtze River.

Such a result was what Chongzhen did not want to see.

So we have to continue to keep Li Chengdong and the others, and we have to appease them.

"Thank you, Lord Long En." Li Chengdong was really grateful now.

Chongzhen said again: "Li Chengdong, what position do you currently occupy, and how many people are under the bid?"

Li Chengdong hurriedly got up and responded: "Qizou Shengshang, the minister is now in the position of guerrilla, and he bids for [-] troops."

"Okay." Chongzhen said, "I will now go to you to assist Xuzhou to suppress the generals. I will lead [-] troops from my headquarters to Xuzhou and station in Tunpei County immediately. I will not stop for a moment on the way, and I will not allow innocent people to disturb the people. Anyone who violates the order will be executed immediately!" "

"Ah?" Li Chengdong was taken aback when he heard the words, and became the chief soldier?Don't you need to be dismissed?
Wang Chengen on the side reminded in a low voice: "Mr. Li, don't hesitate to receive an order to thank you."

"Oh." Li Chengdong just woke up like a dream, and quickly fell to the ground, "Thank you, Lord Long En."

Li Chengdong left in a daze, and after a while, Wu Batan came back and reported that Li Chengdong had taken his battalion of [-] troops to the north overnight.

Chongzhen couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief when he heard the words.

To be honest, Chongzhen also had no idea what Li Chengdong's reaction would be when he returned to the camp.

Fortunately, the final facts have proved that, at least until now, Chongzhen's status as emperor is still very intimidating, and the routine of controlling people with a slap and a sweet date is indeed very useful.

Of course, the main reason is that Li Chengdong's status is not high at this time, and he has not tasted the sweetness of being a warlord.

For someone like Gao Jie who has already tasted the sweetness of warlords, it is not so easy to be deterred.

Being a warlord is really addictive, and this is the main reason why Chongzhen insisted on killing Gao Jie. If Gao Jie is not dead, the army cannot be divided and drawn.

(End of this chapter)