A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 771
At the beginning of November, all the Liuying people who went south returned one after another. At this time, they had captured Runing Prefecture and gained a lot. Zhu Cihui was captured.

Li Zicheng also named Zhu Youxi the uncle of Xiangyang at first, but soon changed his mind and issued a military order to execute Zhu Youxi and others in Biyang, Henan.

Every family and camp, except for a small number of people who continued to stay in Runing Mansion, Nanyang Mansion and other places to attack the city, most of the rest, especially Li Guo who broke into the camp, Yuan Zongdi and others, all returned to Henan Mansion.

But at this time, the conflict between the camp and the Ge and Zuo camps became more and more serious. Luo Rucai and others were addicted to sensuality, and Li Zicheng couldn't stand it very much.

Luo Rucai, He Yilong and the others were also very dissatisfied with Li Zicheng's frugality and stinginess, and they also reviled: "You are a poor postman, if you are close to him, you will dirty my clothes."

They cursed in private, thinking that Li Zicheng's behavior really insulted the name of the Rebel Army and the sacred word of rebellion.Take off millet rough, make a fart of rebellion, if they rebelled to live such a life, they would have recruited them early.

They scolded badly in private, and translated in the words of later generations, you, Li Zicheng, are a bitch, you are a fool if you have money, and it is difficult for a poor man to become rich and handsome if you have gold fingers. No aristocrats.

He even scolded Li Zicheng for being duplicity, for being a whore and setting up a chastity archway.

Didn't you, Li Chuang, promote the high and the low, the rich and the poor?It seems that the most talked about is from the fact that I can be rich, and die from doing nothing, right?It seems that your ultimate goal is still to be rich and powerful, and the present roughness is just a pretense.

And we don't believe it even if you kill it, you really won't enjoy it, the deeper your depression, the more violent the outbreak will be, I don't believe it anymore, the dog can change to eat shit.

Li Chuang, a hypocrite!

This is not like us, the real husband is also, one is one, two is two, truly showing one's own nature.

Not only that, but they were also arguing endlessly with Chuangying about whether to attack Shaanxi or Huguang.

According to Luo Rucai, He Yilong and others' idea, of course, is to go to Shaanxi and return to their hometown with a good clothes.

In Huguang, there are many mountains and rivers, and it is difficult for their cavalry to spread out. Maybe they will be blocked by officers and soldiers when they are not careful. They are very dissatisfied with their intention to break into the camp and go south.

One day, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai had a serious dispute over whether they should "specialize the land".

On this day, Li Zicheng bought wine and swallows, and said in a provocative way: "I and you have drafted a marsh, and I can't measure it up to this point. Today, in the middle of Huguang Pass, we will cut the land to divide the king."

Luo Rucai replied: "We run rampant in the world for the sake of quick ears, why do we specialize in soil?"

Li Zicheng was displeased, and was extremely dissatisfied with Luo Rucai's answer.

Of course, all parties can clearly see the contradictions among the various ministries in the Liuying camp. For example, on the government side, Hou Xun, the supervisor who has gone south to Kaifeng, said excitedly: "The various ministries of the bandit camp, such as Cao Cao's branch, peeked at Li Zicheng's plans to merge. Heart, the yin phase guesses two."

He thought that he could take advantage of the gap to break his heart, and even secretly ordered Chen Yongfu, the general soldier of Henan, Gao Mingheng, the governor, etc.: "Use thousands of gold to act against the enemy, so that you can kill yourself."

At this time, Henan Governor Gao Mingheng's forged "reply letter" to Luo Rucai also fell into Li Zicheng's hands. The scholar named Chen who bid farewell to Governor Gao that day and volunteered to enter the bandit camp, and practiced counterintuitive schemes, was also walking in various ministries of the exile camp.

Li Zicheng and others were of course very welcome to the literati to vote, so they gave the scholar surnamed Chen the convenience. He lobbied and separated between Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, trying to make the two thieves get along with each other by talking.

He first said to Li Zicheng: "If you are talented, you must change."

Li Zicheng should not.

The scholar surnamed Chen came to Luo Rucai's side again and said: "General, a poor man changes a bad horse to a good horse, and I brand it with characters, so that people can identify themselves as a group."

Luo Rucai said: "Be kind, give birth to it and do it for me."

Chen Sheng divided it into 'front', 'back', 'left' and 'right' to burn the horse characters, and first burned the left to form a group, and reported to himself: "Luoying Dongtong Liangyu, horses use the left character as their name. carry on."

It's even more gnashing of teeth to believe in self-detection.

A civil strife was brewing in the various ministries of the Liuying camp. The cause was still Li Zicheng's autocratic heart. He had strong soldiers attached to him, and he could no longer bear the fact that the camps did not belong to each other. It's something they can't stand.

However, in the fight with Li Zicheng, it is obvious that our own strength is still at a disadvantage. Even the Ge, Zuo, Cao Ying, and Xianying parties combined cannot beat the camp.

So at that time when the masters got together, He Yilong asked Luo Rucai to come up with a plan. Luo Rucai's strategy was 36 tricks, and the best strategy was to go ahead.

As long as the soldiers and horses from the south went back, they would leave the camp and leave. From then on, the sea and the sky will be bright, where can Daming not go, why bother to mix with Li Chuang?
……

Sun Kewang, like Li Dingguo, has been watching closely the signs of this civil strife and torrential rain. The deterioration of the relationship between Chuangying and the Revolutionary and Zuoying battalions may not have been fueled by their two brothers. dissatisfied.

Regarding this point, Li Dingguo also asked his eldest brother in private why he did this. Sun Kewang laughed and said: "If you want to get an official, kill and set fire and be recruited!"

He said to Li Dingguo: "Second brother, I have thought about it for my brother. There is no future for being a bandit and wandering around, so we have only one way to recruit security. It's just that if we want to recruit security first, we need soldiers and horses..."

He analyzed for Li Dingguo that among the several allied armies, needless to say, there are tens of thousands of cavalry and nearly 20 infantry in the camp.On Ge and Zuo, there are also more than 1 horsemen and tens of thousands of infantry. As for the Cao camp they offered their camp to Luo Rucai, there are only a few thousand horsemen and tens of thousands of infantry.

Their separate camps have fewer horsemen and infantry, so civil strife must be created!
He also took advantage of this good opportunity to fish in troubled waters, and gathered the remnants of Ge, Zuo, and Cao Ying. With the capital, he had the capital to recruit security.

He said to Li Dingguo in high spirits: "Brother, I can see clearly that Li Chuang wants to go south to Huguang, and he will plot Shaanxi when he is introduced. So we avoid these two places, go to Nanzhili, Fengyang Mansion, and Luzhou Mansion Go, because we have soldiers and horses at hand, and after recruiting security, it will be easy to find a position as the deputy general of the general army."

He said: "Nanzhili is rich and prosperous, we can manage it with peace of mind, imitating that Wang Dou, building high walls, and accumulating food widely... Why is Wang Dou flying and domineering and has been safe? It is because of the skin of the government. If we are always surrounded and suppressed, it will be difficult to settle down and gather together..."

He said: "If you don't gather together, where will the strong army come from? I really think that if you coerce some hungry people, you can achieve great things. Don't look at Li Chuang dancing happily now, in the future..."

He sneered a few times, with disdain in his eyes.

Li Dingguo sighed: "Yes, there is no future for being a bandit. Soldiers come quickly and disperse even faster. Sometimes when you think about the past, it is like a dream."

He sighed and looked at the Xuanfu Times in front of him, all of which were collected through various channels and spent a lot of money, one of which was about the large-scale development of Saibei: "Wang Dou has more power, if we wait No matter how much you wander around, the gap between him and him is getting bigger and bigger... It's time to recruit..."

It's just that he couldn't bear it: "They are all volunteer brothers, Master Cao treats me well..."

Sun Kewang disagreed: "Those who achieve great things don't care about small things, and uncles are also stubborn. They are the pioneers of the king. They are the pioneers. It is also their honor to be our pioneers."

The two were discussing and talking. At this time, their camp is also located outside the camps. There are many escape routes around the camp. This is naturally arranged by Sun Kewang and others so that they can escape if something happens. .

Their old camp was also on a ridge, with a wide field of vision, and they could tell at a glance if there was any disturbance.The two brothers even stayed in a ruined temple. At this time, there was heavy snow falling all over the sky, and they saw a vast expanse of whiteness.

In the misty snow, the majestic Luoyang City could be seen faintly. Looking to the west, one could see continuous camps spreading across the sky, densely packed with thieves gathering in Henan Prefecture, every family and camp, and all the places where they could set up camps were occupied by them.

The cold wind was howling, and the snow was falling like hemp. The two brothers were both wrapped in fur coats, wearing fur hats, and wrapped their faces and necks with thick scarves.They stood in front of the temple, listening to the stern cold wind rushing against the temple behind them and breaking the door, and the whirlwind pouring in through the gaps in the door panels, the temple was full of rustling and various sounds.

Looking at the camp, Sun Kewang murmured: "Just yesterday, all the soldiers and horses of the battalions gathered and returned..."

He paused, and Li Dingguo went on to say: "So soon, it's just a matter of these two days."

At this moment, Xiao Xiao's horse hissed, and a rush of hooves came from the other side of the mountain. The two brothers looked at each other, and Li Dingguo said softly, "Here we are."

Sun Kewang said: "Pack up your things and prepare to run..."

……

The conflicts among the various ministries of the exile camp finally broke out, and Li Zicheng decided to use force to solve the problem.

In the early morning of the third day of November, Li Zicheng invited Luo Rucai, He Yilong, Ma Shouying, He Jin, Liu Xiyao, Lin Chenggong, Sun Kewang, and Li Dingguo to wait until they broke through. The old camp went to the banquet.

Although He Yilong and the others decided to leave, they still decided to go to the banquet with the idea of ​​getting together and going away, but Ma Shouying did not speak to Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, and left the camp on the same day.

During the banquet, Li Zicheng ordered the soldiers lying in ambush to execute He Yilong, He Jin, and Lin Chengcheng. Liu Xiyao knelt down and begged for mercy, willing to serve the camp so that he would not die.

On the same day, Li Zicheng personally led a hundred fine riders to Cao Ying, saying that he had an important matter to discuss with Luo Rucai, and then killed Luo Rucai after entering the account, and announced to the soldiers of Cao Ying that Luo Rucai was guilty of collaborating with the enemy. Believe that you are forced to act.

However, Luo Rucai, He Yilong and others were killed, which still caused a great shock in the camps, and the subordinates were very dissatisfied, Li Zicheng tried every means to win over, and it took half a month to decide.

Most of the battalions and armies dispersed, each looking for its own way out. Among them, the volunteer battalion had the most troops, such as Luo Rucai's nephew Wang Long, his own general Yang Shengzu, his subordinate general Li Rugui and others, as well as the old Hui Hui Ma Shouying, Ge and Zuo Po many. People and horses took refuge one after another.

Afterwards, when Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo ran out of Henan Mansion, they had 5 horsemen and [-] infantry.

They remembered their goal and only went south to Zhili.

After Li Zicheng killed Luo Rucai, He Yilong and others, although he took care of them for a long time, he gained quite a lot. Most of Cao Ying, Ge and Zuo's troops were still owned by them.

He also implemented the strategy presented by Gu Junen at that time. In November of the 15th year of Chongzhen, known as a million-strong army, he marched from Nanyang to Hubei and marched towards Xiangyang.

(End of this chapter)