Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 1053 Effortless
Xu Yixian felt that Li Zicheng's operation was too normal.

Li Zicheng stormed Henan on a large scale in a short period of time, known as a million.

But how many people can really control it in his hands and pull it out to fight?
"King Qin and Li Zicheng formed a simple alliance. After we arrived in Huguang, there must have been great differences."

Xu Yixian pointed to Yang Chengzu who was beside him and said, "Is it?"

Yang Chengzu looked in astonishment at Xu Yixian, the military adviser who was highly valued by the Eighth King Zhang Xianzhong, who had become He Jinzhao's guest, subconsciously nodding repeatedly.

Luo Rucai spent a long time with Zhang Xianzhong in the early stage, so the two of them knew each other a lot.

Because Zhang Xianzhong also thought about poaching Luo Rucai's corner.

Although Yang Chengzu didn't have much brains, he really dared to fight and he was a person worth wooing.

Xu Yixian and Yang Chengzu also had contact before.

"Officials, soldiers and gentry intervene, sowing dissension is secondary." Zhang Fuzhen squeezed his beard and smiled:

"The main reason is that Li Zicheng also wants to unify orders, not what he said. The subordinates have their own ideas and don't listen to him."

He Jinzhao also understands that it is impossible for everyone to sit down and talk with each other when they have developed to this point.

No one will give up the interests in their hands, but often solve the problem based on the size of their strength and adopt the method of fighting.

Whoever has bigger fists and is more ruthless will be able to secure the position of big brother.

Regardless of whether the means are drastic or not.

In short, the second generation of King Chuang is much more ruthless than the first generation of King Chuang.

"How many people did you bring?"

He Jinzhao wasn't gathering about Li Zicheng either, it had already happened anyway, even though he didn't like Luo Rucai either.

"Back to Commander, there are only three thousand confidantes, but all of them are elite." Yang Chengzu immediately said proudly:
"Everyone is cavalry. I brought all the horses from the camp, one for each of them."

One man and one horse in He Jinzhao's camp were not considered elite cavalry. With the supply of Mongolian horse farms, even Huang Taiji in Liaodong could ride horses, so He Jinzhao's strength was not as strong as He Jinzhao's.

"Not bad." He Jinzhao looked at Yang Chengzu who was sitting opposite and said:
"I'm very happy that you can join me, but you know, if you want to join the Hammer Bandits, it's impossible to preserve your own organization. What kind of independent independence is there, and the rules in our army are quite strict. If you dare to break the law, If it is light, you will be hit with a military stick, if it is serious, your head will be lost."

"Marshal He, I thought you could be the emperor. Anyway, I, Yang Chengzu, came up from the bottom step by step. I only have this little ability, and I'm not afraid to start all over again."

"it is good."

He Jinzhao laughed twice, walked over and patted Yang Chengzu on the shoulder and said:
"It's rare to see people as wise and foolish as you. We both have some affection. I will accept you. You go and bring people to Wuchang City and invite them to watch the battle. Those who want to stay stay, and those who don't want to I will give them some dry food for travel expenses and let them leave by themselves."

"Thank you, handsome."

Yang Chengzu smiled all over his face, and walked back with cupped hands, ready to tell his subordinates the good news.

When Yang Chengzu left, Ji Gui squeezed his beard and said:
"King Qin, Li Zicheng is obviously stimulated. He will integrate the rest of the rebel army in a short time, and he probably doesn't dare to go south to Huguang, lest we use this excuse to stand up for others."

He Jinchao nodded. Li Zicheng's actions would definitely speed up the unification of military orders.

Not to mention the internal strife among the rebels, they had to fight each other to see the effect.

Yang Chengzu rode his horse and galloped towards the temporary camp he had set up.

Many soldiers are looking forward to it, after all, the most powerful rebels in the world today, besides Chuang Wang Li Zicheng, is Hammer King He Jinchao.

Now King Chuang is unreliable, so he happens to defect to King Hammer.

Wang Long rushed to meet him: "Brother Yang, how are you?"

"Marshal He can certainly take us in." Yang Chengzu also heard what He Jinzhao's Tan Ma said on the road, and repeated at this time:
"Marshal He has a strong army, and you all know that he has high requirements for military discipline."

Wang Long and the others nodded repeatedly. If Li Zicheng hadn't killed Luo Rucai suddenly, they wouldn't want to join him either. Who wouldn't want to be happy?
"After we join, we will be organized into the camp. Only by making meritorious service can we become official soldiers of the Hammer Bandit."

Hearing this, Wang Long and the others looked a little ugly. Did He Jinzhao look down on their brothers and deliberately raise the threshold?

"As long as you make meritorious service, Marshal He will give you the land, the house, and the wives. If the credit is greater, even the military medal is gold."

The hammer bandit propagandist looked around at the crowd and said: "If you die in battle, you will enter the Hall of Valor to enjoy incense and worship for generations, and you will not be afraid of being disabled.

Marshal He will support you for the rest of your life. This is the benefit that you can't get by working hard for the Ming army and the rest of the Rogue Mountain Kings.

One is for a short period of time and the other is for a long period of time.

How to choose, you decide on your own, my Marshal never pushes others to make things difficult. "

Since a large number of soldiers surrounded the hammer bandit's propagandist to ask questions, how many of these bandit soldiers could resist the hammer bandit?
On weekdays, the bosses are the ones who eat delicious food and drink spicy food. It is thankful that ordinary soldiers like them can eat some meat.

Yang Chengzu mainly believed that He Jinzhao could do great things, and someone with a little ability like him would definitely have more uses in the future, so he naturally wanted to follow He Jinzhao.

Seeing that the soldiers were so angry, Wang Long and others didn't say anything more.

Now that Hammer Bandit's conditions are set out, looking at the whole world, I am afraid that there is no other company that can give ordinary soldiers such great benefits.

Therefore, only by making military exploits can one become a soldier of the Hammer Bandit. It is not a matter of intentionally embarrassing others.

On the contrary, He Jinzhao, you have no problem joining the Hammer Bandit. As long as you dare to make meritorious service, I dare to reward you.

It depends on whether you personally have the idea of ​​daring to fight for your life.

When this army was taken by Yang Chengzu outside the camp of the hammer bandits, everyone looked at the camp from a distance. The patrolling soldiers, large numbers of war horses, and boats covering the sky by the river were all shocked by the momentum of the hammer bandits. Living.

Gao Yigong came to meet this group of people, and told them to put their war horses in another camp, there would be a special groom to wait on them, and told them to eat first.

After the meal, everyone lined up outside Wuchang City.

On their other side, thirty guns were launched.

Those guys are targeting, debugging.

Yang Chengzu and others all participated in the three opening battles, and had a "certain" understanding of the artillery of the rebel army.

Now it's a bit strange to see that the hammer bandits only pulled out thirty cannons.

"How come Marshal He has so few cannons?" Wang Long muttered softly.

"I do not know either."

Yang Chengzu just came here first to establish a relationship with He Jinzhao, and then he successfully joined him, no matter how much he didn't know.

He Jinzhao didn't play the game of entering the camp alone and having a drink with them, it's unnecessary.

It would be great to be able to send my brother-in-law out to chat with a few fellow villagers.

The hammer bandits outside the city rolled out their cannons, looking safe, but most of the temporary soldiers on the city wall were trembling.

It was only when the situation was very critical that Zhu Huakui, king of Chu, took out a little money to recruit thousands of stragglers who fled from Chengtian (Ling Zhongxiang) and De'an (now Anlu).

These people still can't keep up with Zuo Liangyu, or feel that Zuo Liangyu is incompetent, soldiers who don't want to continue to escape, or people who want to take some credit to change their families.

The king of Chu appointed Shi Xu Xueyan, the governor of the Chu Mansion, to lead him, known as the recruit of the Chu Mansion.

Do not allow other civil and military officials to intervene.

In fact, these "recruits" were all frightened birds who were defeated by the hammer bandits, and they had no combat effectiveness at all.

The officials of Ming Dynasty persuaded them to pay this little money, but many local gentry really grasped this point and went to negotiate with the King of Chu before they let go.

Everyone encouraged the servants at home and recruited the young and strong in the city, so that many soldiers stood on Wuchang City.

There are still people who don't even have weapons, but hold wooden sticks and spend money every day. There are many people there.

"How to do?"

Fu Shangrui, the governor of Wuchang Prefecture, looked at the neatly arranged cannons and the new wave of reinforcements outside the city, as if he was watching a battle.

Na He Jinzhao didn't take their perseverance seriously at all.

Ming Daoist Wang Yangji saw that the situation was not good, and quickly whispered: "Why don't we run from the south gate, there are no thieves in that direction."

"fart."

Fu Shangrui hurriedly scolded: "I'm sure there are a large number of hammer bandits waiting for us within four or five miles of the south gate."

"What should I do?"

"Wait a minute."

Then someone from the hammer gangsters dispatched and began to persuade the people on the city wall to stay away from the city wall quickly. After a while, the cannons all had eyes, pointing to where to hit, and it would be too late if they didn't run away.

Of course, Yang Chengzu and the others also heard these words, subconsciously thinking that this was He Jinchao trying to scare the defenders on the city wall.

Naturally, some young people were frightened, and the chain reaction took away a large number of people.

But there are still many servants who persist.

At this time, the Chu soldiers under the command of Shi Xu Xueyan, the head of Chu Wangfu, simply ignored him who was jumping.

No one wanted to stop the gang of young men who were fleeing. It was fine for these people to make up their numbers on the city wall, but if they really wanted to fight, it would only add to the chaos.

"Stop them quickly."

But Hao Jiusong, the leading Chu soldier, said: "Chang Shi, don't get excited, these people standing on the city wall will actually get in the way."

Xu Xueyan nodded again and again: "Can you really stop the hammer bandits?"

"Don't worry about Chang Shi." Hao Jiusong patted his chest and said, "I will definitely protect Chang Shi thoroughly."

"Good good."

When people were almost gone, Zhou Da ran up to He Jinzhao and said, "Commander, the artillery fire is ready, do you want to fire?"

"open."

Hearing He Jinzhao's reply, Zhou Da immediately asked people to wave the flag.

The artillery spotter received the signal and shouted, "Fire."

With the waving of the red flag.

The fuse was ignited and the cannons roared.

The three-story attic on the gate of Wuchang City was directly bombed down, and there were holes in the suspension bridge and the gate.

A salvo went down.

The servants near the city gate ran away crying and howling.

The gunfire was too loud, and the scene it created was truly horrific.

As for the Tuiguan who was still saying wait just now, he just abandoned the city and fled, running down the city wall in a panic.

And the long history of the Chu Palace was indeed taken good care of by the "Chu Bing Leader" Hao Jiusong. They opened the other two city gates, lowered the drawbridge, and invited the hammer bandits to enter the city.

Yang Chengzu was holding the binoculars in his hand, watching the cannon fire, the dog officer army opened the city gate and invited them to enter the city, it is too simple.

"He Dashuai's soldiers are so accurate that there are thirty of them?"

Gao Yigong didn't mind the binoculars being passed around by others, he shook his head and said, "It's just to let you see that there are 30 cannons shooting accurately. The extra cannons are not worth setting up outside Wuchang City."

This action immediately shocked Wang Long and others. Compared with so many cannons under Li Zicheng's command, how many of them can be beaten as Marshal He?
Li Dingguo took the lead in entering the city, controlled the four city gates, went straight to the palace of the king of Chu, captured the king of Chu Zhu Huakui, and took all the gold and silver in the palace.

He Jinchao entered the palace of the King of Chu, and sat on a gold-covered chair given to the King of Chu by Zhu Yuanzhang when he divided the princes during the Hongwu period, feeling the antiques of more than 200 years.

"There are so many gold, silver and jewels, you risk your life for money, you are really out of your mind!"

He Jinzhao put down the booklet in his hand, it was just a booklet from the treasury of the Prince of Chu's Mansion, after counting, there might be more than this.

King Chu was kneeling on the ground, with a gray beard and a lot of age spots on his face.

He wept loudly.

"Either kill me, or return the gold to me!"

In short, when the king of Chu is not alive, he will have no money, and he is a complete old rascal.

As for the family members of King Chu, they were trembling, they were not like King Chu at all.

On the other hand, He Fengsheng, a former scholar of the Chongzhen cabinet, begged for death and would never surrender to the hammer bandits.

Before the hammer bandits besieged the city, he also asked the king of Chu to take out several 10 taels of silver to learn from the king of Zhou.

But the King of Chu refused to take the money no matter what anyone said.

He Jinzhao looked at the man who had already made up his mind, and asked, "Where's your family?"

Hearing this, He Fengsheng finally broke his defense even though he had cultivated himself well.

He began to cry loudly, crying worse than King Chu.

He Fengsheng secretly sent away more than 20 members of his family by boat, and stayed here to advance and retreat with the king of Chu, which can be regarded as a dedication to the country.

Such a plan is also extremely normal.

It's a pity that Zuo Liangyu didn't want the remaining boats around Wuchang. Could it be a good boat?

So the whole family drowned.

Zhang Fuzhen told He Jinzhao what happened to this person.

He Jinzhao heard these two men in their seventies and eighties crying loudly in the hall, he didn't bother to respond, and directly ordered someone to throw them out of the palace, leaving them to fend for themselves.

He Fengsheng committed suicide by throwing himself into the lake after leaving the house, while the King of Chu sat by the Dunzi Lake and continued to cry bitterly.

Nothing!

my money.

After crying, King Chu went to the mausoleum that had been repaired earlier. He had to live in early, otherwise he would have no chance if he died.

After He Jinzhao finished listening to the situation of the two, he continued to deal with the others.

A group of civil servants of the Ming Dynasty, including people like He Fengsheng, yelled that they would never surrender, and then He Jinzhao chopped off their heads.

As for Gao Yigong and others, they wantonly arrested those gentry who agitated to defend the city. Today, they will kill a person in Wuchang City and hang their heads on the city wall to show the public.

In short, those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me perish!

In addition to arresting people according to their plans, the hammer bandits also mostly maintained law and order in the city to avoid more riots.

In the vast rural areas outside Wuchang City, hammer bandit propagandists have long gone to the countryside with people to preach policies to the people.

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(End of this chapter)