Chapter 67: Bloodstained at the Gate
Li fell into the big tent of the Chinese army, and looked at the secret documents sent back from Zhuocheng.
On the night of the test with Wu Ta, Li Luo wrote a secret letter, ordering Ni Qing to urgently send it to Prince Chun and Yang Wanli of the Privy Council, and not to pass through the hands of a third person.
After reading the secret letter, Li Luo sighed slightly, packed the letter, blew out the light, and sat alone in the dark.
The next day, Li Luo convened the generals and Huai Wang to discuss the matter with the Chinese army.
King Huai has been indulging in the camp in the past few days, and there are already many soldiers in the army who know it, plus King Huai and Dou Sheng are high-spirited on weekdays, although Li Luo rectified several times on the way, but in the end it was not painful, and the military heart was somewhat fluctuating.
Seeing this, Liu Ce carefully hinted at Li Luo and took measures earlier.
However, Li Luo only gave a strict order, ordering all departments in the army to build a camp, if they are not qualified, the generals of the department will be punished in front of the camp, and the army must build a large camp before the first heavy snowfall.
The camp is the place chosen by several generals in the army after surveying, the army is stationed on two mountain bags, there is a small stream about five feet wide in the valley in the middle, the water is abundant, and the defense line fort set up by Di Jie is fifty miles in front, and the two places are flat and flat, the weather is better, and you can see the curling smoke rising from the fortress in front.
When the village was fixed, King Huai obstructed in every possible way, wanting to let the army retreat fifty miles, Li Luo just didn't allow it, King Huai was secretly angry, and no one in the army except Dou Sheng echoed him, Li Luo's face was as usual, and he didn't see King Huai's unreasonable trouble, and after the military order was issued, the three armies immediately built a camp, and no longer paid attention to King Huai's noise.
King Huai then looked for Li Luo again, urging Li Luo to return to the capital earlier, unwilling to stay in Xifu for a long time, Li Luo also helped build a camp in the army these days, and heard King Huai chattering in his ear, just smiled and did not agree.
King Huai had no choice but to go back to the tent to have fun every day, and naturally he inevitably seriously injured Li Luo with bad words, making himself suffer from the wind and sand, and he was also frightened.
When King Huai arrived at the big tent of the Chinese army, all the generals had already arrived, since the first day of the Chinese army meeting, King Huai was the last to come every time, and the generals were very dissatisfied except for Dou Sheng Qi Shao Bing, but the commander Li Luo was not unhappy, and the generals had to slander secretly, but the anger gradually accumulated.
As soon as King Huai entered the big tent of the Chinese army, he said disrespectfully: "The weather in Xifu is getting colder and colder, and the water is frozen at night. This king suffers from the cold here, guarding the frontier, those idle and incompetent people in the royal city will not know where to drink flower wine, let's go back soon, if the soldiers in the camp are frostbitten, what if the soldiers in the camp are frostbitten. After speaking, he sat down on the throne of the prison general.
Several generals have a bad face, and the call for the winter cicada is even more obvious, since the Qiquan Mansion, King Huai has nothing to do with the invitation to the winter cicada to go over, and say something that is not in line with the identity of the prison army.
Once Hucha Winter Cicada was annoyed, in the prison army tent and Huai Wang and Dou Sheng drank a few glasses, in the past, Hu Cha Dong Cicada drank a lot of wine, I don't know why I didn't drink much that day, I was a little drunk, dizzy, just when Li Luo came over and said something to Huai Wang, by the way, Hucha Winter Cicada was sent back to the front army.
The next day, I got up and had an unbearable headache, and I rested for a long time before I came to my senses, and the guards saw that the Hucha Winter Cicada was snickering, and the Hucha Winter Cicada thought that the guards were laughing at their poor drinking, and they were not angry.
After a while, Hu Cha Dong Cicada felt that something seemed to be wrong, and the wine drunk in the prison tent was afraid that there was fraud in it, so he immediately angrily picked up the Star Sword to find King Huai.
On the way, he changed his mind and went to find Li Luo, Li Luo looked surprised, and only did not understand the meaning of the words of the winter cicada, so angry that the winter cicada almost bit his silver teeth, but there was no evidence, so he had to give up.
At this point, seeing King Huai again, Hu Cha Dong Cicada was all angry, and the murderous aura was implied, and King Huai's heart was also a little hairy, and as soon as he arrived in Xifu, he urged Li Luo to set a date to return to the capital earlier.
King Huai then said: "Imperial nephew, what is the matter with coming over today? Hurry up and finish, let's disperse early. Why is it so cold in your big tent, and you didn't ask someone to add a few more braziers, if the next time the Chinese military council is held in this king's tent, it can be warmer. After speaking, he wrapped the fox fur brocade fur on his body and shrunk into a ball.
Huaiwang is like this, and the generals are already commonplace, Li Luoduan is sitting in a handsome position, wearing a plain clothes, and only adding a cotton coat. Li Luo looked at the generals in the camp and said calmly: "Recruit you to the big tent of the Chinese army, just for one thing, and I have to make a decision today." ”
Liu Ce's heart moved, he looked at Li Luo, and suddenly felt slightly startled, in the past in the Chinese Military Council, Li Luo brought the old man surnamed Shen more, and sometimes Chu Ying'er would also be present, but today in addition to these two people, Wu Ta was also in the tent.
Li Luo didn't wait for the generals to respond, he took out a letter from his arms, opened it, glanced at it, and said slowly: "This is from the Privy Council of Wangcheng, and it was written by Lord Zongbo Yang himself, please listen carefully." ”
After a slight pause, Li Luo read: "Xuanlou Xian's nephew was enlightened, at the invitation of the virtuous nephew's letter, foolishly sorted out by the Privy Council, from the Western Expedition army left Zhuocheng, through Zhuozhou, Yuegong, Quan, Hulu three prefectures, and finally stationed in Shahu, along the way a total of five counties and 27 prefectures, of which three counties and 19 mansions of the Western Expedition army asked for tribute, the contract silver was 1.84 million taels, a total of 53 maids, and only 6 out of 40 returned...... Also, there were more than 117,000 people in the army of the Western Expedition, but the Tomb Zaifu received enough food orders for the 170,000 army, and I will not read the rest anymore. After speaking, Li Luo put the letter on the table in front of him.
There was silence in the tent, and the people were surprised, angry, frightened, or embarrassed, and their faces changed in a thousand ways, except for the sound of heavy breathing.
Shen Xiangdong was extremely surprised, he didn't expect Li Luo to poke this matter out in such a way, and he didn't even leave a little room for maneuver.
Li Luo said lightly: "If you have any ideas, you can say them and listen to them." All the way to the west, the army looted money, all in the eyes of the imperial court, and even more aroused the local people's hatred. We were supposed to defend our family and country, but who knew that it was only a few days, and we all became the ones who brought disaster to the country and the people. ”
Liu Ce bowed his hand and said: "General, this matter is very important, and you still need to be careful to collect evidence, it is better to wait until you return to the royal city, and then investigate in detail with the Privy Council." ”
Li Luo frowned and said: "General Liu, this way of marching, when it comes to marching formations, the management of the army is rigorous, General Liu is the leader of my western expeditionary army, even in the Dagan army, in my opinion, there are not many people who can match General Liu, it's just." ”
Li Luo paused, glanced at Liu Ce and said, "What is it that has worn down General Liu's courage?" Joining the army is to talk about conspiracy and conspiracy, and sometimes it is not an exaggeration to be ruthless, but if the blood is cold, what is the use of joining the army? General Liu, I always think of that little girl, you and I always need to be the hope in some people's hearts. ”
Liu Ce was silent, bowing his head and not saying anything, not knowing what he was thinking.
Hucha Dong Chan glanced at his brother, stood up and said, "General, Dong Cicada has something to say. ”
"County Lord, please speak." Li Luo nodded and said.
"The army of the Western Expedition crossed all the way, harassing local states and counties, corrupt and perverting the law, and violating discipline in the army must also be investigated and punished. If you don't find out, how can you give an explanation to the 100,000 generals in the army, the army's morale is unstable, how can this battle be fought? If you can't find out, hmph, the winter cicada and the former army of Muzhou will be the first to disagree. ”
King Huai and Dou Sheng glanced at each other, and they both saw the horror and fierceness in each other's eyes.
King Huai snorted and said: "The county lord should be careful what he says, if he exaggerates, it is easy to provoke the army's instability." In this way, the county lord marched all the way, led an army as a woman, and took more than a dozen female guards, rampage in the army, if anyone can't see it, he will teach a lesson, this way, the army has hundreds of soldiers who have suffered under the county lord. In this way, how can the morale of the army be stable? I don't know who the county lord is behind it? After speaking, he glanced at Li Luo on the handsome position.
"Well, yes, what the prison guards said has happened." Li Luo ignored Hu Cha Dongciao's angry face, nodded and replied, "If you have any other disciplinary violations, you can talk about them and find out about them today." ”
Hu Chajing stood up and said: "General, the supervising army said that the last general's sister committed murder in the army, these people are all good-looking when they see the last general's sister, and they will only do it when they are moved by lust." If it is said that military regulations are violated, the first thing is to supervise the army, and the army is not allowed to bring family members and maidservants, but the supervising army camp tent sings every night, and the officers and men in the army have heard of it, isn't this counted? ”
King Huai snorted coldly: "General Hucha seems to have a lot of complaints about this king, is it possible that if your sister is allowed to bring a maid, you are not allowed to have maids in the camp of others?" Hmph, who knows what the maids in the former barracks were for. As soon as the words fell, the Hucha brothers and sisters were all furious, and Hucha Dongcicada said angrily: "Li Chengyue, you have a clean mouth, you have had a lot of difficulties with me along the way, and did you do anything to the wine I gave me in your account last time?" ”
Hu Chajing was stunned for a moment, then became furious, and shouted: "Old horseman! When his hand pressed on the handle of the knife, he was about to jump out, Li Luo's eyes suddenly soared, forcing Hu Chajing to stop, Liu Ce hurriedly grabbed Hu Chajing and said, "Sit down quickly, there is a general in everything." ”
Hu Chajing was extremely angry, but at these times in the army, he respected Liu Ce a lot, forcibly suppressed his anger, and sat on the general's seat.
King Huai opened his triangular eyes and said in a dark voice: "Hmph, let's not say that there is no evidence to slander this king, just now you said wildly, this king can dismiss your military position and let you go back to your hometown to herd sheep." Li Luo, if there is nothing else, this king will go back, and there will be a miasma! After speaking, he gave Dou Sheng a color, and got up to get out of the account.
Li Luo glanced at the tent indifferently and said, "The matter is not over yet, and no one can leave this big tent of the Chinese army." ”
"Li Luo," King Huai suddenly turned around and said sharply: "This king is the western expedition of the Bandung Emperor, and there is a holy decree written by the emperor himself, he can act on behalf of heaven in the army, this king wants to leave, who dares to stop me?" ”