Chapter 47: The Last Legacy
The Qing army suddenly began to fire and? Actually killing each other?
Everyone turned their attention to Mrs. Xing, and Mrs. Xing replied very clearly: "There are not a few people who contact me now, but they are all bargaining with me, and it is not yet time to officially put it into action!"
When Mrs. Xing said this, everyone became confused, but Empress Zhang had seen the battle in the harem and came up with the greatest possibility: "It should be that Jianyu suddenly made a move against Gao Jie's old department, and now the biggest instability factor among Jianyu is tens of thousands of Gao Jie's old department!"
Now the most contact with Mrs. Xing is Gao Jie's old department, although the rest of the people from all walks of life also contact Mrs. Xing, but they are all inconspicuous little people and do not have much enthusiasm, only Gao Jie's old department is particularly enthusiastic about the former "Mrs. Xing", and they all want to get the maximum benefit between the Ming and Qing dynasties.
And Mrs. Xing also felt that there was such a possibility: "Niangniang is right, if Jianyu clears Gao Jie's old department, we will be in big trouble!"
In any case, Duoduo still has tens of thousands of troops in his hands, and if these 50,000 or 60,000 troops are allowed to flee back to Nanjing, it will definitely be a confrontation between Jiangning and Hangzhou, and Liu Yongxi immediately ordered: "In this case, let's do it quickly!"
Different from the previous outpost battle, both sides did their best in this fierce battle, although the battle was short but extremely fierce, with hundreds of casualties on both sides, and the riding and archery skills of the Eight Banners were also exerted to the extreme.
In a defensive battle, an arquebusier hiding behind a fortification had a chance to take out the most elite Eight Banners cavalry, but in the attack it was the Qing army who had the upper hand, and the Vietnamese Ming army now had more important matters to deal with.
In a short period of time, they sheltered nearly 1,000 Gao Jie's old subordinates and hundreds of dependents, but almost all of these soldiers and horses had been broken up and could not be organized, and it was already very extreme for an officer to bring thirty or forty people to defect.
Fortunately, they knew some details of this upheaval, and Liu Yongxi and Madame Xing finally knew what was going on in the Qing military camp from these old subordinates.
The purge of Gao Jie's old department was suddenly launched yesterday afternoon, when Duoduo convened the generals to discuss the discussion and released a rumor that it was to discuss how to withdraw to Nanjing, but no one expected that at this military meeting, Duoduo suddenly accused Guo Hu, Yang Chengzu and others belonging to Gao Jie's old department of "collaborating with thieves" and prepared to bring the troops to the Jinhua thieves.
Empress Zhang, Liu Yongxi and Mrs. Xing were all caught off guard because of Duoduo's sudden attack, not to mention Guo Hu and Yang Chengzu, more than a dozen old Gaojie, including Guo Hu, Yang Chengzu, and Yu Siming, were killed on the spot, but Duoduo's purge action had just begun, and the current Gaojie's old department had undergone a earth-shaking reorganization.
Although Duoduo killed some of the strongest warlords in Gao Jie's old army, he still left behind the oldest and strongest Li Benshen, who was still alive but was said to have been placed under house arrest by Duoduo, and his soldiers and horses were also controlled by Liu Liangzuo.
And in this upheaval, the two old acquaintances of Liu Yongxi and Mrs. Xing who benefited the most: "Li Chengdong? High intake? Sure enough, they are all white-eyed dogs who can't be fed!"
Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku were originally second-rate generals under Gao Jie, but after yesterday's drastic change, their strength skyrocketed, and Duoduo promised them many benefits in addition to assigning many of Gao Jie's old departments to them, so Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku were particularly active in this mutiny to solve Gao Jie's old department, they annexed dozens of battalion heads while their hands were stained with the blood of many old friends and old comrades.
Now Li Chengdong is said to have nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, and Gao Jinku also has six or seven thousand soldiers and horses, and these two old acquaintances of Liu Yongxi are now proud of the spring breeze and do not plan to lose sincerity to the Yue Ming army, and Liu Yongxi also does not consider receiving these two time bombs: "This Prince Yu is indeed not simple, he quickly cut through the mess, and solved the big problem at once, fortunately, I am not ready to accept Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku, these two scumbags!"
Originally, due to Mrs. Xing's relationship, Gao Jie's old department was the most vulnerable link of the Qing army, but after Duoduo was so clean-up, Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku, who had just handed over the name and soared in strength, would definitely not be ready to surrender to Liu Yongxi, and Liu Yongxi also knew that Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku, the two white-eyed wolves who were particularly good at tossing, really wanted to take refuge, and they were probably even more difficult to deal with than the Qing army.
Therefore, he immediately said to Mrs. Xing: "Sister Xing, Guo Hu and Yang Chengzu are willing to abandon the secret and revolt on the spot, which is the best opportunity to annihilate Jianyu, but they can only be hated to be betrayed by Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku, so this time anyone can go in the pursuit of Huzhou, but Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku, the two thieves, can't let go!"
Mrs. Xing didn't know why Liu Yongxi suddenly changed her mind, after all, although Guo Hu had contacted her once, he had no sincerity, and as for Yang Chengzu, he didn't contact her at all, but she knew that Liu Yongxi must have a deep meaning when he did this: "What the husband said is very true, the hope of recovering the Ming Dynasty is defeated in the hands of these two white-eyed wolves, when I think of the spirits of General Guo and General Yang in the sky, I feel that I must not let them go!"
Guo Hu, Yang Chengzu and more than a dozen old generals of Gao Jie who were killed at the same time were all very pretentious and had little contact with Mrs. Xing, but as soon as they died, Mrs. Xing and Liu Yongxi endorsed them instead, announcing that they were originally preparing for a pre-battle uprising, but they were betrayed by Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku in the process of uprising, completely confirming their name as "thieves".
For this reason, Liu Yongxi has decided not to accept the surrender of Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku, and even claimed that if anyone comes with the heads of Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku, he will definitely be rewarded.
Although Duoduo and Li Shutai knew that Liu Yongxi and Mrs. Xing were just bluffing, and there was no such thing as Guo Hu and Yang Chengzu preparing to start an incident before the battle, this news still had a very huge impact on Gao Jie's old department.
Although in terms of strength and influence, Guo Hu and Yang Chengzu are not as good as Li Benshen, but after all, they have followed Gao Jie for many years and have thousands of soldiers and horses under their command, and their influence is amazing, and now they are swallowed up by Gao Jinku, Li Chengdong and Liu Liangzuo In the past, their old departments were a hundred unconvinced, and after hearing the news that Guo Hu and Yang Chengzu were originally ready to throw themselves into Liu Yongxi, these old departments naturally made a decision at the first time.
Although Duoduo, Li Chengdong, and Gao Jinku tried their best to even kill a lot of people for this, there were still hundreds of Guo Hu and Yang Chengzu's remaining troops who broke through the many blockades to join Liu Yongxi's division and brought accurate information about the Qing army, and hundreds of other Gao Jie's old troops also broke through.
And at this time, the army of the princess of Jianguo finally arrived, and Liu Yongxi played that slogan again: "Anyone can let go of this battle of Huzhou, but not Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku, the two white-eyed wolves, must be worthy of the spirits in the sky of Guo Hu and Yang Chengzu!"
Liu Yongxi and Mrs. Xing seem to have hated Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku to the bone because of this incident, and would rather let go of the Manchurian Eight Banners and the Mongolian Eight Banners than let go of Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku, let alone accept their surrender.
Although a day or two ago, he was still proud of the spring breeze and felt that he couldn't miss the golden opportunity, but now Li Chengdong is furious: "I knew that this thief was so vicious, I should have gotten rid of him in the first place, and this time Guo Hu and Yang Chengzu's affairs were all orders from King Yu, what does it have to do with me!" I didn't do it at the time, I'm afraid now you're going to collect my body!"
Li Chengdong really felt that he was particularly wronged, after all, he was only halfway through the meeting that he knew that Duoduo and the Manchurian nobles wanted to purge Guo Hu and Yang Chengzu and put Li Benshen under house arrest.
But now Liu Yongxi and Mrs. Xing actually insisted that Yang Chengzu and Guo Hu, the two general soldiers, had already contacted the Yue Ming army in advance to prepare for the pre-battle uprising, and it was entirely because Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku betrayed them that they were defeated, and Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku felt that they were too wronged.
Liu Yongxi didn't even agree to accept the surrender of Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku, and wanted to put Li Chengdong to death, which made Li Chengdong more and more angry: "Liu Xiaothief, I have nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses under my command, and I can make you Jinhua thieves die at any time without a place to be buried!"
It's just that Li Chengdong forgot that his expression when he accepted Duoduo's order to purge can be described as jubilant, and he never planned to surrender to Liu Yongxi because he had nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, and even felt that as long as he mastered these nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, he could replicate Liu Yongxi's success and become the third force between the Ming and Qing dynasties.
It's just that he didn't expect Liu Yongxi to be so vicious, he would actually take a knife on himself, and Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku, who have expanded in strength, are now the weakest time in a sense, although there are nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses under their command, but those old departments of Yang Chengzu and Guo Hu don't regard him as the same thing, they always want to run south, and even Li Chengdong's old departments are thinking about whether to follow Mrs. Xing.
After all, now Liu Yongxi only said that he wanted to hunt down Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku, the two white-eyed wolves, and didn't even accept their surrender, but he didn't mention how to solve the problem for people other than Li Chengdong and Gao Jinku, so naturally everyone was welcome to bring the team over.
In the past, everyone thought that Liu Yongxi slept with Mrs. Xing, but now everyone not only accepts the facts, but also thinks that Liu Yongxi is the second Gao Jie, and Mrs. Xing will definitely be reused in the past.
In fact, Duoduo's purge order can be said to have helped Liu Yongxi a lot, after putting Li Benshen under house arrest and killing Guo Hu, Yang Chengzu and more than a dozen old Gao Jie generals, Gao Jie's old generals can no longer find many big names, and even if they break through and have at most one hundred and eighty people left, Liu Yongxi can now smoothly accept Gao Jie's last inheritance.