Be the emperor from the postman

The situation in Huguang is very good.

Because Governor Song Yihe is dead, no replacement officials have been decided so far.

Everyone said that they were sick, or that someone in the family died suddenly, and they wanted Ding You.

In short, it is impossible to go to Huguang to take on the big responsibility.

The prefects of Wuchang and Jiangxia took the lead in fleeing.

Seeing that the momentum was not good, the gentry class also sent some of their children to flee to avoid being caught by the net.

For a while, the three towns of Wuhan were in a state of anarchy.

He Jinzhao's vanguard can occupy every point by going down the river, effortlessly!
Gao Yigong crossed the river from Yadanzhou and besieged Wuchang City.

Many gentry supported the officials to stick to Wuchang City, and they could not let the hammer bandits get it easily.

Although the king of Chu was also a little worried, he still didn't pay.

On the outskirts of Runing City, Henan Province, a large number of intruders have been besieged.

But Li Zicheng never gave the order to attack the city, and was still making equipment.

Li Zicheng finally confirmed that the reason why so many officials and troops were entrenched in the Runing Mansion was that the hammer bandit He Jinzhao suddenly sent troops south to attack Huguang, and at this time the soldiers were all pointing directly at Wuchang City.

He Jinzhao's move completely disrupted his original plan.

Although he has attracted millions of people in Henan, Henan suffered from years of famine. He valued Huguang's grain-producing land and wanted to use it as a base.

But now he was directly cut off by He Jinchao, which really annoyed Li Zicheng.

But Li Yan is very indifferent. In his opinion, the chaos in the world today is a good time to develop strength.

It is normal for He Jinchao to send a team to occupy the enclave of Guangdong, and now he is sending troops to Huguang.

Occupying the land of Shanshan and Shaanxi before, and then going south to attack Shu, has become the trend of strengthening Qin.

Now that he went south to "destroy Chu", it is true that he followed the strategy of the first emperor Yingzheng to unify the six countries.

Li Yan thought that if King Chuang of his family was staring at the fertile land of Huguang, how could King Qin He Jinzhao not be staring at it?
Comparing the two sides, even if our side has won consecutive battles against the Shangguan army in Henan, it is still not He Jinzhao's opponent.

Back then when the Ming Dynasty's army was strong, He Jinzhao also won consecutive battles against the Shangguan army.

Now that the strength of the Ming Dynasty's army is getting worse and worse, Li Yan doesn't think King Chuang's strength can match He Jinchao's.

I can't blame these dog officers and soldiers for hearing the name of the hammer bandit, they didn't dare to flee to Huguang to avoid him, and they all ran to Runing to stop the intruder.

It seems that He Jinzhao has drawn a boundary long ago, whoever dares to cross the boundary will be dead!

The officers and soldiers have always bullied the weak and feared the strong, and it is extremely normal to make such a choice.

Li Yan looked at the "big kings" in the room, and couldn't help sighing, after all, they were mobs.

Even if they were tough with He Jinchao, these people would not all obey King Chuang's orders.

Everyone wants to preserve their family fortune!

"I can't wait to go south and occupy Huguang."

Li Zicheng was the first to put forward such a point of view.

He was also well aware of his newly emerging strength, so he decided not to be He Jinzhao's opponent who had been training for several years to hammer the bandits.

If they are tough, the two sides will lose even the last bit of friendship.

"King Chuang, are we just admitting cowardice?" Geli pointed to He Yilong to the south and said:
"Then He Jinzhao used us to block the officers and soldiers, and he went to occupy Huguang. He didn't even leave us a mouthful of soup when he ate meat. That's not acceptable. We brothers have to talk to him."

Ma Shouying, who was smoking a dry cigarette, said nothing, with his head down, he didn't want to wade into the muddy water.

Did you all forget that He Jinchao hacked the "King Li Jin" in Shanxi back then?
I really thought he didn't dare to kill you!
"Actually, it's good for us to reconcile with the coach."

He Jin, king of Zuojin, admired He Jinzhao a lot, and besides, everyone had the same surname, and they were fellow villagers. With so many unrelated distant relatives to speak of, it would be a good thing to seek refuge with He Jinzhao.

"I agree with going south to compete with He Jinzhao for Huguang." Fake Cao Cao Luo Rucai said directly: "Otherwise, what will our troops eat and drink?"

Li Zicheng pursed his lips and remained silent. Now he was not only fighting with He Jinzhao, but also wanted to change his family to join He Jinzhao.

There are too many people in the team, but it is not easy to lead!
I'm afraid it's going to break up!

Different from He Jinzhao's operation, the younger brothers who joined his rebel army back then had long been absorbed into the Hammer bandit army, and those who were not good at fighting mostly switched to doing business or farming.

But Li Zicheng was different. He suddenly gathered a large number of people, and most of the people who could really use them were the officers and soldiers who had joined him.

When Kaifeng was captured, Li Zicheng had been elected as the "General of Civil and Military Affairs of the Fengtian Advocacy Camp". The prosperity and development situation of diverting all rivers and belonging to the sea.

All the rogues outside, except for Zhang Xianzhong, all the insurgents obeyed Li Zicheng's orders.

However, Luo Rucai was second only to Li Zicheng in terms of strength and prestige, and was promoted as "General Dewei Fumin on behalf of the sky", but he was not allowed to issue orders to the entire army.

The only difference between the two is the right to issue orders for the entire army.

Now it is quite normal for many people to appear against Li Zicheng's wishes.

He Jinzhao started his own business to make the company bigger, and it's true.

Li Zicheng also started his own business, but he collapsed halfway and had to absorb financing to grow bigger and stronger, resulting in too many shareholders, and everyone has a say.

There are even people who can easily take his place.

In the "start-up company" that Li Zicheng gathered, the leaders of each battalion have long been accustomed to holding their own plates and making their own decisions when things happen. Now, no one is happy to switch to following orders.

It used to be a comrade-in-arms relationship of equal status, and the battalions would stay if they agreed, and leave if they didn't agree, maintaining complete freedom of action, but now it has to be changed to a strict subordinate relationship between superiors and subordinates.

This is quite difficult for the peasant leaders who have the narrowness of small producers.

In particular, Li Zicheng is not the most powerful force.

For Luo Rucai, Ma Shouying and He Yilong, the most powerful leaders in the Fifth Gezuo Battalion, it was even more difficult for them to let go of their airs and obey others.

So Li Zicheng's order to the whole army was just in the midst of victory, and everyone gave him Li Chuang's face and made him happy.

But when it comes to their respective interests, who will listen to him?

From the titles of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, it indicates that there are irreconcilable contradictions.

One is called "Fengtian" and the other is called "Daitian".

In Li Zicheng's view, how can the sky be replaced?
What's more, Luo Rucai's move is even more overwhelming.

If Li Zicheng is God's son, then Luo Rucai will replace God and be your Li Zicheng's father!

Both of them want to be emperors.

This uneasy unity finally exploded into open confrontation in a very short time.

Li Zicheng started from the overall situation and felt that he should temporarily avoid He Jinzhao's sharp edge, since Daming's territory is so vast.

Since he couldn't go south to Huguang, he thought about running to Shandong.
There are also many big landlords and the like. After occupying Shandong, they went south to attack Yangzhou. I heard that there are very rich people there.

But Luo Rucai didn't want to give up the immediate benefits.

With our current strength, it's inevitable that we won't be able to wrestle with He Jinzhao.

He learned a new word, recognized it for three days and looked at it with admiration. I am no longer Wuxia Amon!
Of course, from a deeper level, he still wants to sing against Li Zicheng and fight for his own power.

Who wants to always be the second child of a thousand years?
When fighting with Zhang Xianzhong, he was ranked second in strength, but now with Li Zicheng, he is still second in strength.

Luo Rucai also thought about why he couldn't be the boss?

The hall suddenly fell into silence.

The most powerful boss fights with the strongest second child on paper.

Others also stood up to express their views.

But behind the scenes, Lao Hui Ma Shouying is stronger than Luo Rucai, but he doesn't argue.

What Fengtian, Daitian, everyone is so capable.

He has already laid down several provinces as his territory like He Jinzhao, so he still needs to make money by talking about it?
Therefore, Ma Shouying, the old Huihui, has been smoking dry tobacco all the time, without saying a word.

This time the council broke up unhappy.

Everyone cursed and returned to their camp.

Li Zicheng endured it for so long, and finally threw the teapot beside him on the ground.

"This group of ignorant things, are they worthy of negotiating terms with He Jinzhao?"

Li Zicheng stood up and walked a few steps before turning back: "Especially Luo Rucai, who called himself Cao Cao, does he have the brains of Cao Cao?

But there are more and more widows in his room! "

Li Guo also felt that he was fighting for territory with He Jinzhao, and in terms of friendship, he felt a little bit sorry.

Another one, as a trespasser who has been sent to He Jinzhao's territory many times, he has seen He Jinzhao's true strength, and he is destined to be several times stronger than what he has shown.

He didn't think King Chuang's strength could beat the Hammer Bandits!

Therefore, I also agree not to compete with the hammer bandits for territory. If you have no strength, you can only die.

Don't look at He Jinzhao's approach to people is relatively gentle on weekdays, but when he kills people, he is not soft at all.

No one dared to do the fact that he beat the magistrate to death in public in Ganquan County!

Not to mention the audacity of going to the capital with elder brother Gao and breaking into the palace to kill the emperor.

But Niu Jinxing said coldly: "King Chuang, if they dare not obey your order, there is no need to keep him."

Li Zicheng stood still, and was a little tangled for a while.

"Could it be that King Chuang forgot about our siege of Kaifeng?"

Song Xiance also felt that it would be best to get rid of Luo Ru, as there could only be one voice in Chuang Wang's army.

When the rebel army besieged Kaifeng, Henan governor Gao Mingheng forged a secret letter to Luo Rucai.

The letter said: "I received the general's secret letter before, and I know your arrangement.

When we were fighting just now, we saw that the cannon was aimed upwards and did not hurt our soldiers, which shows our sincerity.

When things are done, it will be a matter of time to seal worship.

According to the secret agreement, Hebei soldiers and horses crossed the river from the lower mouth in the middle of the night, and listened to the execution. "

When the officers and soldiers sent a letter to Luo Rucai, they deliberately let it fall into the hands of Li Zicheng's subordinates, and did not send it to Luo Rucai.

In other words, the officers and soldiers had no chance to contact Luo Rucai at all.

It's not bad that the governor of Henan poured dirty water on Luo Rucai's body. It's really that the entire rebel army's shelling was inaccurate.

The cannon whizzed and flew, all to scare people, rather than to really play a role in striking.

The words of the officers and soldiers are enough to frame Li Zicheng.

The Ming court is full of consciously divided rogues, and it is quite normal to want them to fight each other and use countermeasures.

Li Zicheng was a little skeptical about this matter and didn't take it to heart.

But now to bring it up, we have to discuss it carefully.

In addition, Luo Ru has a criminal record of surrender, so it is normal to know some Ming officials.

And there are also "loyal ministers" of the Ming Dynasty who want to feed the tiger with their bodies, and want to make the two compete.

A student surnamed Chen joined the rebel army and lobbied for dissension between Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai.

Attempting to make the two thieves look at each other with words can kill them together.

He first told Li Zicheng that you must change, and Li Zicheng should not.

Then he said to Luo Rucai that the general was distressed and the soldiers exchanged poor horses for good horses. Why don't they brand the words on the horses so that they can identify themselves as a group?

Luo Rucai was even more happy that the scholars took the initiative to go to him instead of Li Zicheng, so he asked him to do this for him.

Chen Sheng deliberately branded the horse characters in front, back, left, and right, and first branded the left side as a group.

Then he reported to Li Zicheng that Luo Ying might have had an affair with Zuo Liangyu, and Ma used the character Zuo as his name, so they would not attack each other at that time.

It was true that Li Zicheng asked someone to investigate the report, but it still didn't make Li Zicheng make up his mind to get rid of Luo Rucai.

But after the meeting just now, Li Zicheng was also a little shaken.

It's not that Luo Rucai colluded with the government and army to get rid of him, but blocked his way!
According to He Jinzhao's posture, he will occupy various places in the future, and his strength will become more and more powerful. Sooner or later, everyone will have a battle.

If you are not integrating the team at this time, when will you wait?
In the future, I will start a war with He Jinzhao, and the big and small bosses will rebel one after another, so what the hell is going on?

For the sake of long-term planning and the persuasion of several military advisers, he made a decision in his heart, but he still needed to ask Li Yan, the most important adviser.

"What do you think?"

"King Chuang, Luo Rucai and others can get rid of them." Li Yan first expressed his agreement, and then continued: "But not now."

"Why?"

"Now we are not far away from the Hammer bandits, if the news gets out, they will all go to He Jinzhao's place, and it is easy to startle the snake.

It will be safe to do this until we send troops to Shandong, and we need to discuss carefully, besides Luo Rucai, who else is on the side of King Chuang, and we must not kill innocent people indiscriminately. "

Hearing Li Yan's words, Niu Jinxing immediately stood up and accused:

"If it is broken, we will be subject to chaos. We plan and decide, thinking of going to Shandong to do it, but Luo Rucai is that brainless, will he wait until that time to give us a chance?"

"That's right." Song Xiance was eager to increase his weight in Li Zicheng's heart, and quickly echoed:
"Perhaps Luo Rucai has secretly contacted other people to seize power!"

Regarding this matter, Li Zicheng always believed that it is better to strike first, and then suffer disaster!
Li Guo agreed with Li Yan's words: "King Chuang, we are not afraid of Shang Luo Rucai at all, we might as well wait, if things fail, a large number of people will go to He Jinzhao."

"do not worry."

Li Zicheng had already made up his mind. According to He Jinzhao's temperament, he designated to look down on this bunch of "military disciplined" stinky fish and rotten shrimp.

In addition to Li Zicheng's own troops, how can the military discipline of his subordinates, especially Luo Rucai, be better?

"Think of a way, ask Luo Rucai, He Yilong, and He Jin to come over."

Li Zicheng made a decision on who to kill, not only those who opposed him, but also those who wanted to defect to He Jinzhao.