In the current situation, the emperor said that the emperor drove the expedition in person, but he didn't even see a shadow, so he was afraid and didn't dare to come, and wanted Chen Qiyu to beat the thieves almost first, and then pick the peaches!

As has been seen on the bright side, the so-called Imperial Forest Army is distributed everywhere, such as Luoyang, Xiangyang and other big cities. Originally, there were not many troops, and they were so scattered, which made many thieves feel that the pressure was not great.

They are used to it.

The imperial court was most afraid of them running around, so it was necessary to surround and intercept them, and the troops would be scattered, and there must be troops in all directions.

But in this way, even if the original strength of the two sides is about the same, but on the side of the thieves, they can decide where everyone will attack together, which is equivalent to saying: There are 40,000 officers and troops, and they are divided into four directions, which is 10,000 horses in one direction. But the 40,000 thieves can be embraced in one direction, which is equivalent to four dozen one.

Although there are many factors to consider in the actual situation, a simple comparison of forces is the most intuitive. It's also because of this that they don't feel the same amount of pressure as they did at the beginning. They even felt that Chen Qiyu's dog official felt a lot of pressure at this time!

Nowadays, there are more and more thieves gathered in this area of Hubei. The so-called snake can't do without a head, and naturally, the main meeting of the Green Forest Alliance was put on the agenda again by these thieves.

In the past, when the thieves had just started to make trouble, there were also incidents. At that time, Wang Jiayin was their alliance leader, because it was Wang Jiayin's rebellion in Fugu, which belonged to the earliest batch, and he was not immediately suppressed and made a reputation.

But if you come out to mix, sooner or later you will have to pay it back. Wang Jiayin was killed, and the thieves from all over the country were surrounded and fled for their lives, so there was no such thing as the so-called alliance leader.

But now, it is the emperor himself who drives the expedition, so many thieves, there must be a leader!

All of a sudden, everyone was arguing, once united, who would be the leader of the alliance would be more suitable!

"The eight kings of my family were the first to rebel this time, so it should be the eight kings of my family to be the leader of this alliance!"

"You can't say that, the alliance leader is going to lead us to victory, and we are the ones who are in charge of the alliance who are suitable to be the alliance leader! Not to mention anything else, Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei knows no, the person in charge of our family is called Cao Cao, which is enough to explain! ”

"Hehe, then the head of my family is already the king, and the sweeping king is also the king, and he should also be the leader of the alliance!"

"What about King Chuang? My family is also a king! ”

"We are in charge, and we have been called the celestial stars, which are the stars in the sky and descend to earth, and we should be the leaders of the alliance!"

“……”

The war of words first began to spray each other from the younger brothers of all walks of life, and then slowly began to spread, and the small leaders also began to argue with each other,-for-tat, the more noisy and noisy, and even some of them were grumpy, and later, when the mouth was gone, they began to move their fists, even those who used knives.

There is naturally a reason why there is such a fierce competition for the position of alliance leader.

The last alliance leader, it was to escape for his life, act together, unify the order, and Wang Jiayin was more special, so there were almost no robbers.

However, this time, the alliance leader is leading superior forces, at least they themselves think that they are superior forces to fight with the imperial court officials. Moreover, this time, in the case of the emperor's personal expedition, if anyone can defeat the encirclement and suppression of the official army, the prestige is definitely not comparable to anyone.

In addition, if this battle is fought well, not only may the emperor be killed, but it may even win the world. In case, that is to say, in case of the situation, if you can really win the world, then it must be the alliance leader who is the most qualified to sit in the world!

In the case that the level of civilization in later generations has been quite high, there is still news that there is a couple who assumes how to spend the money if they win the lottery, and they quarrel and finally want to divorce. From this incident, it can be seen that the thieves want to compete for the position of the leader of this alliance at this time for the sake of the great benefits that may exist, and it is understandable.

If you don't fight at this time, what if, what if you really have to defeat the encirclement and suppression of the official army this time, and then it will be smooth sailing and win the world?

So, no one will let anyone, everyone will grab it.

This matter, the more they fight, the more fierce it becomes, and finally the white knife goes in and the red knife comes out, causing a human life, which is almost called the fuse of internal strife, which makes the big leaders from all walks of life speak, and the people below don't quarrel, and they will hold a meeting to decide the leader of the alliance.

Then, another very critical question surfaced. This is the place of the meeting, and where to choose!

Don't look at the fact that they call each other brothers, and it's not that they haven't gotten together to discuss things. But now that it is related to the huge interests that may sit in the world in the future, I will definitely worry that if I go to someone else's territory, someone may have a black heart and take the opportunity to commit a black hand.

Therefore, these bandit leaders wanted to set up the place of their deliberations in their own territory. A new round of quarrels has begun again.

Anyway, each family can find its own reasons, and no one can convince the other.

Just as they were arguing, Emperor Chongzhen's eight-hundred-mile urgent decree finally arrived in Xiangyang Mansion.

The thieves suddenly became powerful, and more importantly, Zuo Liangyu's sudden rebellion, and even robbed two county towns with lightning speed, which is still quite stressful for Chen Qiyu, who has already been punished once.

Even if he talked to the emperor and felt that the emperor was different from before, the pressure in his heart was still unabated. Although he knows that the current wise emperor, will he suddenly change back? After all, the emperor is actually still the same emperor, and he has never changed people!

What can give him some comfort is that at least Jinyi Wei Baihu has been by his side, and he should know that he has indeed been doing his best. And on the thief's side, he is afraid of him Chen Qiyu and wants to get rid of him by conspiracy. Therefore, when the news reached the emperor, if someone wanted to impeach him, he believed that the emperor should first consider whether the person who impeached him was influenced by the thieves.

However, no matter what, Chen Qiyu felt that he had to make some achievements to at least defeat the thieves all the way. With the record in hand, the emperor will be able to explain it.

Therefore, during this period of time, Chen Qiyu was also in full swing, because with Liu Guoneng's internal response, he probably knew what the thieves were busy with at the moment, so he was ready to dispatch the Yongwei Battalion to see if he could take this opportunity to fight a battle by surprise.

While he was deploying, he heard a proclamation that the emperor had arrived in an urgent manner for eight hundred miles.

Hearing the news, Chen Qiyu was slightly frightened in his heart for the first time. He thought, could it be that the emperor knew that the thieves here were powerful and dissatisfied with his inaction, so he urged himself to send troops?

Thinking so in his heart, he hurriedly arranged for the matter of receiving the order.

This order, understanding the emperor's meaning, made him really shocked for a long time.

Chen Qiyu never expected that the emperor would correctly deduce the current situation according to the situation here, and explain to him, show the enemy weakness, stabilize the thieves, and not put pressure on the thieves, let them make trouble first. In addition, the Tumut Department of the Hetao has been completely annihilated, and when the emperor leads the elite south, he will annihilate it in one fell swoop.

In the will, he also deliberately explained that Liu Yue, a hundred households in Jinyiwei, would be incognito and follow Liu Guoneng to his side. Don't let Liu Guoneng send someone out to contact again, so as not to expose Liu Guoneng too many times. As for how to pass on the news, the emperor will deal with it.

Sometimes, Chen Qiyu always felt that there were the emperor's secret agents by his side, otherwise, how could the emperor know so clearly. However, his calculations from the perspective of time do not seem to make sense. Then there's only one possibility. The emperor's ability to calculate is very strong, and he can often deduce what may happen in the future from a little clue.

This ability is really too rebellious, even more powerful than the ancient Zhuge Liangdu!

In this regard, Chen Qiyu had to obey!

At the same time, he also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Because judging from this will, the emperor had already calculated that Zuo Liangyu might rebel, all of this was not that he Chen Qiyu was not dedicated, but that the enemy was too treacherous, and it happened suddenly, so it was no wonder that he was.

And now that the emperor has begun to lay out the overall situation in the periphery, it is like a net of heaven and earth beginning to shrink slowly, but the fish in the net do not know that such a big net has begun to encircle them. In this battle, it must be done according to the emperor's intentions, and when the emperor suddenly appears with the elite, those thieves will have no time to wander!

was so idle, Chen Qiyu began to adjust the deployment again. The main military force began to slowly move southward, blocking the possibility of thieves moving south. As for the east, he personally sat in Xiangyang. The west is no longer in charge, the road into the Sichuan was dangerous, and now there are the elites in the Sichuan to block the road, and it is impossible for the thieves to enter the Sichuan again.

Liu Yue, a hundred households in Jinyiwei, naturally saw this will and knew what his new task was. For him, although this matter is dangerous, it also means that there may be a great work waiting for him. There is no need to send out the news, which reduces the possibility of exposure, so it is necessary to prepare quickly.

As for the changes here, the thieves basically didn't notice it, and they were still arguing about the alliance leader.

In the end, the thieves decided to take a thousand men and horses to the Black Tiger Temple at the foot of Wudang Mountain.

As soon as this decision was made, all the thieves from all walks of life took their elites and set off towards the Black Tiger Temple, with the Black Tiger Temple as the center, and each set up camp, and then the leaders of each family entered the Black Tiger Temple with fifty guards and officially began to discuss the alliance.

Along the way, no matter who it was, they were good-tempered, and when they met people, they greeted them cordially, telling them about the years when they fought side by side together. People who don't know see it, and they think that these thieves are all a ball of harmony, and they will think that for the position of the leader of the alliance, their saliva is about to dry.

However, when the leaders of the various families officially met in the Black Tiger Temple, those who had obvious strength to compete for the alliance leader began to smell of gunpowder again.

"Do you know why the imperial court officials and troops are getting weaker and weaker? It was because I set fire to the imperial tomb a few days ago and moved the dragon veins of the Zhu family, that our righteous army was vigorous! Speaking of which, it's all thanks to my fire! Zhang Xianzhong was at the table, and he sighed loudly.

As soon as he heard this, Luo Rucai immediately disagreed, and immediately said, "If this is the case, why did you surrender to the imperial court in Gucheng?" This is also after the burning of the imperial tomb! ”

"That's right, this re-rebellion, it was our five battalions of men and horses who responded in Junzhou and secretly joined forces to defeat the imperial court officials." Hui Dengxiang immediately refuted. In fact, Zhang Xianzhong's fire really made him famous, and he was the first person in this incident, if he did not jointly suppress him, the alliance leader was the most likely to belong to him.

Speaking of this, Whitden looked at the brightly armored man present, and couldn't help but laugh and said, "Look, this one can testify, if it weren't for the sudden increase in our troops, he wouldn't have lost his armor and ran away, right!" ”

He said that this person is Zuo Liangyu, who has become a thief and is also interested in the position of the leader of the alliance. After listening to it at this time, he didn't make trouble, there were still some things in the city, and since the topic had already involved him, he opened his mouth and said: "Actually, don't you see that I deliberately released water in that battle?" ”

said casually without shame, and then he immediately said: "You don't know anything about the officialdom of the imperial court, only I know best." If you are willing to serve me as the leader of the alliance, I can guarantee that it will not be so difficult to take you to attack the weak points of the official army and divide the relationship between the imperial court, even if you want to win the great emperor in the end. Afterwards, I promise that I will never treat everyone badly......"

Before he finished his words, Li Zicheng got up and pointed at Zuo Liangyu and shouted: "Shut up, you say, how many of our brothers have you killed?" And you, as an official of the imperial court, are doing things like killing good people and robbing the people, can you still achieve great things with a person like you? I don't even know why the brothers will accept you, and if I want me to say, they will just kill you to avenge your brother! ”

He put forward the slogan of "free grain in Juntian" and began to pay attention to buying people's hearts, one of which was the propaganda of the brutality of the imperial court officials and soldiers, and the example used was Zuo Liangyu's army.

Originally, the more famous, like the thieves' officers and soldiers, there is another Zukuan department. However, Zu Kuan's house has been "clicked" by the emperor, and the crime is to harm the people. Therefore, Li Zicheng has been focusing on promoting Zuo Liangyu these days.

But after he came, he didn't expect Zuo Liangyu to become one of them. For him, it was very unpleasant.

Liu Guoneng was standing behind Zuo Liangyu, and when he heard this, he immediately pointed at Li Zicheng and scolded: "What qualifications do you have to come and grab the position of the leader of this alliance, but you were killed by the imperial court officials and soldiers to only eighteen horsemen, and fled into Shangluo Mountain." If you become the leader of the alliance, you will be able to harm all our rebels. Just you, you don't have the ability to do this! ”

"......" Li Zicheng was stunned when he heard this, and he couldn't talk for a while. This is indeed his shortcoming, and I can't refute it!

Zhang Xianzhong listened, and also said: "If I hadn't raised the banner of righteousness first and attracted the attention of the officials and soldiers of the imperial court, you probably would still be hiding in Shangluo Mountain and not daring to come out, right?" In the position of the leader of the alliance, you still have to have the ability and a responsible person to sit! ”

Zuo Liangyu couldn't help but glance at him happily when he saw that Liu Guoneng had successfully changed the topic, but he didn't speak.

When Li Guo heard this, he immediately argued loudly: "Which of you has my uncle's vision? If you want to win the world, you must first win the hearts of the people. My uncle mentioned that Juntian was free of grain, and won the support of hundreds of people, and in just a few months, he had more than 50,000 troops. ”

"What's the use of saying it nicely? Who can't shout slogans, we will, but at this time, how can there be so much food, how can we take care of our own brothers first......" Luo Rucai said this, and suddenly there was a "ah" in his heart, and he suddenly remembered a question.