Li Zicheng's army was in a big tent, and all the generals came back one after another to participate in the military meeting.

Li Guo, who led the cavalry, finally entered the Chinese military tent. He found that the Chinese military tent was very dull, everyone lowered their heads, and no one spoke.

Thinking about it, a war like this is too humiliating and helpless.

How should this next war be fought? I'm afraid this problem needs to be solved urgently!

When Li Zicheng saw that Li Guo had also arrived, his face was gloomy, and he asked, "What's the matter, are you dumb?" ”

"General, why don't you let me lead the people of my headquarters to kill them." Seeing that the others didn't answer, Liu Zongmin stood up and shouted, "I dare to guarantee that my subordinate brothers are all reliable, and none of them will betray!" ”

This time, in fact, not only those cannon fodder soldiers defected, but even some of those elite infantry soldiers surrendered.

Relatively speaking, those ordinary soldiers can't eat enough here, they are treated the worst, and they consume the firearms of the officers and soldiers when they go into battle, and they are not stupid, they have the opportunity to defect in the past, of course, they will mutiny, which is also within their comprehension.

However, some of the elite infantry soldiers who rebelled in the past, they were all old brothers who had been with them for many years, and many of them were from the border army, and they even betrayed, which made everyone present realize that the problem was a bit big.

is also the same, Liu Zongmin stood up and shouted, especially emphasizing that there will be no betrayal by his subordinates.

Hearing his words, Gao Yigong, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Fangliang, Hao Shaoqi, Tian Jianxiu and other generals naturally expressed their positions, saying that there was no problem with their subordinates and they could take the lead first.

As soon as they said this, the morale in the Chinese army's tent finally rose somewhat.

Li Zicheng saw it, and he was a little relieved.

When Song Xiance saw it, he opened his mouth and said to Li Zicheng: "General, this battle is extremely weird, compared to the previous war, this battle is probably going to be elite." ”

The elite of the thieves is the old thief that Li Zicheng has accumulated over the years. Loyalty is still much more reliable than that of ordinary soldiers, and it is unlikely that there will be a pre-battle rebellion.

However, these elite thieves are Li Zicheng's family background, if they go to fight with the elite official army in front of them, then what should they do next?

Although in their eyes, the current Central Plains is actually the elite of this imperial court. However, don't forget that Qin Di still has Sun Chuanting, an old opponent. The more he didn't move in Qindi, it meant that when he came out, the more fierce he would be.

If you want to say it again, the Yongwei battalion of the imperial court is also considered to be elite, but that Huang Degong seems to be at war with Zhang Xianzhong in the Fengyang area now, so he can ignore it for the time being. But even so, with Sun Chuanting's team to fight, it is absolutely impossible to let the elite lose too much here!

Niu Jinxing on the side obviously saw what Li Zicheng was thinking, so he showed an angry look and said to Li Zicheng: "General, in this battle, we agreed with Cao Cao to attack the official camp of the imperial court, but he used the excuse of procrastination, obviously perfunctory, and wanted to reap the benefits of the fisherman." Such wolf-hearted and dog-hearted people may join forces with the imperial court officials and troops to fight us in the future, so it is better to get rid of them and swallow them again! ”

When Li Zicheng heard this, his eyes couldn't help but light up.

There are also a lot of old thieves on Luo Rucai's side, and if they can be annexed, the strength will be strong enough. If you fight with the elite of the court officials and army in front of you, you won't be so distressed.

However, those who come out to mix the rivers and lakes must pay attention to their faces. Although Li Zicheng at this time was already in a period of transition, he broke away from the reckless rivers and lakes and began the road of dominating the world.

However, Luo Rucai saved him when he was almost killed by Zhang Xianzhong. For a while, he couldn't make up his mind to swallow Luo Rucai's people.

Thinking so, he said hesitantly: "Lao Luo, I still know that he will definitely not join forces with the imperial court to deal with me." ”

Song Xiance, as Li Zicheng's strategist, of course, what he wanted was to help Li Zicheng dominate the world and seize the honor of the Ninth Five-Year Plan. As for the morality of the rivers and lakes, personal grievances, etc., it is impossible for him to consider.

At this moment, the most advantageous approach for Li Zicheng is to annex Luo Rucai's men. At this point, he has been reminding Li Zicheng with others before, and it can be regarded as some progress. Now seeing that Li Zicheng still hasn't made up his mind, he decided to push it forward.

So, he said to Li Zicheng solemnly: "General, before the war, someone saw that the Duke of Xingguo had sent someone to Luo Rucai to talk about things, and then, Luo Rucai originally promised to send troops to attack the official army together, but it turned out to be a procrastination, and we laughed at it instead. ”

Speaking of this, he solemnly emphasized: "The general is the true son of heaven destined by God, but Luo Rucai thinks that he is a great general, and he wants to be on an equal footing with the general, which is unbearable. In this world, there is absolutely no reason for two people to sit together! ”

"Second, it was he Luo Rucai who first colluded with the officials and the army, tore up the agreement, sat back and watched our army lose the battle, and plotted against the general's heart, which is already Sima Zhao's heart is clearly revealed. If you don't strike first, the general will definitely suffer a big loss. ”

After saying this, he turned his head to the generals and made a look, then knelt down on one knee, clasped his hands into fists, and said to Li Zicheng in a very sincere tone: "Please also ask the general for the sake of our loyalty, strike first to keep us safe!" ”

"General! Let's start first! Liu Zongmin was the first to kneel down on one knee and shouted.

The others also knelt down one after another, begging Li Zicheng to strike first and suffer later.

Looking at his subordinates kneeling on the ground, Li Zicheng looked very embarrassed, and the pain on his face seemed to be about to give birth to a child.

As soon as Song Xiance saw it, he knew that it was going to be done.

So, he shouted earnestly: "General, give the order?" ”

"General, General......"

Hearing the voices urging him in the Chinese army's tent to rise and fall one after another, Li Zicheng suddenly showed a righteous and awe-inspiring face, waved his hand and said: "Forget it, it was he Luo Rucai who was unrighteous first, so be it!" ”

As soon as he heard that Li Zicheng agreed, all of a sudden, the people in the Chinese military tent were as happy as the New Year.

Song Xiance immediately stood up and hurriedly said: "General, without further ado, it is better to summon Cao Cao over immediately to discuss the matter, and use the unstable morale of the army as an excuse to discuss the follow-up war, and then cut him down!" ”

"Yes, I've been looking at him for a long time!" Liu Zongmin immediately shouted, "As soon as I enter the camp gate, I can cut him!" ”

Others also followed suit, killing Luo Rucai was like slaughtering a chicken and slaughtering a dog.

However, Li Zicheng immediately shook his head and said: "No, at this time, if you invite him over to discuss matters, he will definitely be vigilant, and he will not say if he comes, even if he comes, he must be very guarded, and it is not so easy to start." ”

Speaking of this, he looked at his subordinates present solemnly and said: "You remember, it was Luo Rucai who was unjust, and his subordinates were all good men, so they couldn't kill more, but they cheapened the court." ”

The implication is that he wants to be Luo Rucai's men, not his subordinates.

In this regard, Song Xiance and others naturally knew about it. However, under this premise, there is no good way for a while.

However, Li Zicheng, seeing that they were a little embarrassed, said confidently: "Bring grain and grass, I will personally go to his camp, and I will say that I will send him grain and grass, and ask him to attack the camp of the imperial court officials and soldiers together." In this way, he will not doubt him, and he will meet me, and when the time comes, he will suddenly make trouble, as long as he kills Luo Rucai. If a person dies and cannot be resurrected, his subordinates will have to obey my orders! ”

As soon as he heard this, Song Xiance weighed it, and it did make sense, but he still hesitated a little when he asked Li Zicheng to take the risk.

Others listened and thought the same thing. Therefore, Li Guo, Gao Yigong and others expressed their stance one after another, and they used the excuse of sending grain and grass to kill Luo Rucai!

In this regard, Li Zicheng rejected it all, so he listened to him: "You can't do it, I still have to do this thing!" ”

After saying that, he didn't give his subordinates a chance to say more, so it was decided.

Moreover, he also urged Song Xiance to say: "Without further ado, send someone over to inform me first, and I will bring grain and grass over later!" ”

This anxious, how can there be half a sense of nostalgia.

But this is the best, Song Xiance and the others thought in their hearts, so they hurriedly went to prepare.

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"There is an escort of grain and grass to the Luo thief camp over there in the Li thief camp!" On the side of the imperial court official camp, Wu Sangui hurriedly entered the Chinese military tent and told Zhang Mingwei with a little excitement.

When Zhang Mingwei heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly took his generals to the watchtower to see the situation.

Sure enough, I saw that on the side of Li Zicheng's camp, there was a cavalry escorting the grain cart to Luo Rucai's camp. It can be seen that there are quite a few of them. The most important thing is that in the team escorting grain and grass, there is even the banner of Li Zicheng. This means that Li Zicheng personally wants to go to Luo Rucai's camp.

Zhang Mingwei carefully observed the team transporting grain and grass with a telescope, and suddenly asked: "If you are Li Zicheng, what will you do in the past few days, especially today's events?" ”

Hearing this, all the generals answered one after another.

"I must be very angry, I want Luo Rucai to give an explanation!"

"It's so unjust, it's possible to kill him!"

"That is, it is a great general and does not send troops, how can there be such a friendly army?"

“……”

Listening to what they said, Zhang Mingwei smiled, pointed to the team in the distance and said, "You see, it seems that Li Zicheng not only did not blame Luo Rucai, but also sent him so much grain and grass. Oh, that's interesting! ”

"Interesting?" When Bai Guangen heard this, he couldn't help but be a little surprised, and he couldn't figure it out, so he asked. In his opinion, this is obviously a very boring thing!

When Zhang Mingwei heard this, he put down the binoculars, turned his head to look at him, and said in a very confident tone: "If I guessed correctly, Li Zicheng is a weasel giving a New Year's greeting to a chicken, and he is uneasy and kind!" ”

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon! In the eyes of these generals around him, Li Zicheng should be angry, but instead he went to Luo Rucai's side in person and didn't say anything, and he also divided so much of the grain and grass that was very precious at the moment, which was definitely a fraud.

Others may not know, but Zhang Mingwei has the original history to refer to, and he can look at this matter from a later perspective.

If you want to say that Li Zicheng has an extraordinary tolerance and doesn't care about Luo Rucai's thoughts, then he will not kill Yuan Shizhong and annex Xiao Yuan's camp in history, kill He Yilong and annex the fifth battalion of Gezuo, and kill Luo Rucai to annex his people.

Therefore, just by pushing it back, Li Zicheng's intention to go to Luo Rucai's side is already obvious.

Not to mention, Zhang Mingwei seems to remember that Luo Rucai was in his own account and was killed by Li Zicheng.

Although history has changed, this is not necessarily the case. However, from the fact that Luo Rucai was killed in his own account, it can actually be inferred that I am afraid that he was wary of Li Zicheng, but this situation will only occur when he is not thorough. And for now, it should be in line with this situation!

However, others do not know as much information as Zhang Mingwei, so they still have a lot of doubts about the conclusion he has reached.

Only Yuan Shizhong agrees with Zhang Mingwei's statement, but he is not so sure whether he is about to be exhausted.

Zhang Mingwei didn't care what they thought, so he issued a military order: "All the armies are going to prepare, if there is really a situation of thieves and infighting, immediately raid Luo Rucai's camp!" ”

"The last general obeys!" When these generals around them heard this, they immediately clenched their fists and took their orders.

Subsequently, Zhang Mingwei himself was still on the watchtower, and in addition, he also asked people to go to other watchtowers to observe the movements of Luo Rucai's camp in the distance from different angles with binoculars. Any abnormalities are found and are indicated by flags of different colors.

And inside the camp gate leading to the east, Wu Sangui, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen, Ma Ke, Li Fuming, Yuan Shizhong and Zhou Yuji, six generals, led 15,000 horsemen, silently preparing.

It can be said that this assault force is already the strongest mobile force that can be mobilized in Zhang Mingwei's hands. Although there are still cavalry troops, they must be responsible for receiving them, and they must also guard against accidents in Li Zicheng's camp, etc.

"You say, can the leader of the thieves really fight among themselves?" As he waited, Marco turned to the Don aisle to his left.

Tang Tong listened, checked his flintlock short gun, aimed at Luo Rucai's camp before saying, "How do I know?" It's better to get up to strife, so let's go and fight for a while, this body is full of hair! ”

"Hehe, you want to accumulate military merits as soon as possible and be promoted back to the general army, right?" Marco listened and said with a smile.

When Tang Tong heard this, he turned his head to look at him and said, "Don't tell me, you don't want to?" ”

Marco listened, glanced at the others, and smiled.

That's right, everybody wants to. If you want to say that the most eager to make military achievements in the army today, it is definitely the five of them.

The battle of Songjin is really no way, the grain and grass are cut off, even if you don't escape, it is impossible to win!

To be honest, all the while, the five of them felt a bit of a heartwarming loss. At least they felt that they didn't use all their strength, which was a pity.

was taken down from the position of the chief soldier, and naturally he was definitely unwilling.

Now with Xingguo Gong, this war has been fought inexplicably easily, and their credit has not been great. Because of this, they held back, and they had to fight him well to win back their position as the commander-in-chief.

At this time, hearing their conversation, Yuan Shizhong said with a smile: "Don't worry, believe in Guogong, you will be able to have military merits in a while!" ”

"That's, for sure. When the time comes, Li Zicheng's dog head will be mine, and no one will rob me! Bai Guangen heard this and immediately said.

When others heard this, they naturally wouldn't agree.

Among these people, only Zhou Yuji did not speak, he is now a loyal uncle, and if he goes further, it is estimated that this military merit in front of him will definitely not be enough. Therefore, at this time, he was worried that Guogong's guess would not be accurate, don't be at that time, the enthusiasm of these generals behind him has been poured cold water!

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On Luo Rucai's side of the camp, at this time, he was a little unconvinced, so he confirmed again: "Li Zicheng really has to personally escort a large amount of grain and grass over?" ”

"Yes, it's coming soon!"

Hearing his subordinates' answers, Luo Rucai couldn't help but be suspicious, so he asked again, "How many people did you bring here?" ”

"It's only a thousand to ride!" After his subordinates answered, seeing Luo Rucai's face, he hurriedly added: "It seems that they are all escorting grain and grass." ”

When Luo Rucai heard this, he still didn't believe it in his heart, so he immediately ordered to go down and let his subordinates prepare quietly, and then he went out the door.

When he arrived at the camp gate, Li Zicheng had already arrived, and when he saw him appear, he saw Li Zicheng immediately shouting at him: "Okay, you Cao Cao, what happened to that formation just now?" Why is it procrastinating for so long? ”

Luo Rucai listened to it for a while, he didn't guess wrong, and sure enough, he came to Xingshi to ask for guilt. So, he waited to say what he had prepared.

Unexpectedly, Li Zicheng had already turned over and dismounted at this time, walked over to him, and said at the same time: "Is it that the food and grass in the army are exhausted, and the rabbits and cubs under him are disobedient?" ”

Luo Rucai was stunned when he heard this, what did Li Zicheng think?

He quickly came back to his senses and hurriedly replied: "Yes, the general is really like a god, and I am really hungry to drink the northwest wind!" ”

The issue of grain and grass is indeed a big problem, although Luo Rucai is exaggerating, he is indeed very nervous. Therefore, it is also reassuring to answer casually.

"I already knew!" Li Zicheng came to him and said with a smile, "I'm lucky, I just got a new batch ......of grain and grass, I'll share some with you."

Speaking of this, he paused and said solemnly: "The grain and grass are given to you, if you dare to delay the military situation, then I will not be able to explain to my brothers." Fighting this court official army is not a matter for me Li Zicheng alone! ”

After finishing speaking, he waved his hand again and said to Luo Rucai's subordinates: "Why are you still stunned, hurry up and move the grain back." If you don't want to, it's okay, I'll take it back! ”

When Luo Rucai's subordinates heard this, they couldn't help but turn their heads to look at Luo Rucai, and for a while, this was different from what they expected, and they didn't know what to do.

Luo Rucai immediately smiled and said, "The general personally sent it over, why don't you thank you quickly?" ”

When he turned his head to order his men, he also winked. His cronies knew at a glance that this was a thousand horses that Li Zicheng was not allowed to ride into the camp.

So they hurriedly shouted to the soldiers inside the camp gate to carry the grain. And Luo Rucai stared at it to see if Li Zicheng wanted this thousand to ride into the camp.

As a result, he was still worried in vain.

I saw Li Zicheng's people, who handed over the grain very happily, and had no intention of entering the camp at all.

Seeing this scene, Luo Rucai couldn't help but doubt that he was suspicious. After all, he saved Li Zicheng, and this treatment is naturally different from others!

At this time, so much food was delivered, it was a charcoal in the snow!

Luo Rucai was suddenly grateful in his heart, and at the same time, he also felt a little embarrassed for the misunderstandings he had with Li Zicheng these days.

Li Zicheng obviously saw it, a smile appeared on his face, and he said loudly to Luo Rucai: "Old Luo, my Song dwarf has already come up with a clever plan to deal with this official army, go, go to your military tent and tell you." This time, you must cooperate with me to defeat this imperial army! ”

Hearing this, Luo Ru suddenly realized that he still had to ask for himself in the end!

So, his suspicions were basically gone, and he hurriedly led Li Zicheng to the Chinese military tent. However, he was still more cautious, and at the same time looked at Li Zicheng's men.

But seeing that Li Zicheng's 1,000 riders came to ride, he still didn't mean to enter the camp at all, but was just handing over the remaining grain. Those who followed Li Zicheng into the camp were just about 50 of his personal guards.

Seeing this, Luo Rucai's suspicions were gone, so he gave his eyes to his subordinates and withdrew the preparations in the camp, so as not to be seen by Li Zicheng and cause some unpleasantness. At the same time, his attitude was more enthusiastic, leading Li Zicheng to his military tent.

Soon, they arrived at the door of Luo Rucai's Chinese military tent.

Li Zicheng turned around and ordered his guards to stay outside, and he wanted to discuss with Luo Rucai.

After finishing speaking in front of Luo Rucai, he entered the Zhongjun tent and walked towards the hanging map. Suddenly, he remembered something again, so he said to Luo Rucai: "By the way, recruit all your subordinate generals, save time to talk back and forth, trouble!" ”

As soon as Luo Rucai heard this, he felt that it made sense, so he immediately turned around and ordered the leader of the guards who followed him: "Go, call them all!" ”

Li Zicheng arrived in front of the map, pointed to the map and said to Luo Rucai: "Old Luo, come and see, Song Xiaozi's strategy is like this......

As he spoke, he winked at the leader of the guards beside him.

Luo Rucai didn't doubt him, so he leaned over to see the situation.

And outside the tent of the Chinese army, all of a sudden, the people outside heard the screams inside, and suddenly, those Li Zicheng's personal guards also immediately moved, and moved to the sentry posts on duty outside the tent of the Chinese army.

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Inside this camp, especially the matter of the Chinese military tent, Zhang Mingwei and others outside, even if they hope for a telescope and see farther, it is impossible not to see it.