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He thought to himself that if he impatiently said that he could not blame the past, he would most likely be looked down upon by these guys, and it might be better to use this opportunity to take the opportunity to warn them, and the effect might be better.

"Hmph, you follow the giant thief Zhang Xianzhong, attack the state and plunder the county, kill the court officials, and poison the people, even if the official beheads you, you deserve it!"

As soon as Li Xiao's cold words came out, the faces of the four rogue generals all showed embarrassment, and everyone lowered their heads and said nothing.

Li Xiao looked around at the crowd, sneered in his heart, but said calmly on his face: "However, thinking that you were coerced by Zhang Xianzhong, there are many unavoidable things, this official will be lightly punished this time, and give you the opportunity to make meritorious contributions." However, this official wants to make it clear to you that if in the future, there will be another act of committing adultery, poisoning the locality, and harming the people, and this official will not spare it! ”

Jin Tongwu had cold sweat on his back, and took the lead in saying to Li Xiao: "Please rest assured, Lord Li, I will join your army now, and I will not make trouble like before. ”

Li Xiao smiled and said: "The prodigal son will not change his money, if you can change your mind from now on and serve our army loyally, Li Xiao will definitely not treat you badly." In the future, if he has made meritorious contributions, he will also be greatly promoted by his own officials. ”

What Li Xiao didn't expect was that as soon as he finished his words of relief, Li Dingguo, who had not spoken, interjected coldly: "My lord is saying it well now, but I'm afraid that my lord won't believe it, so that I will settle accounts after the autumn." ”

Li Xiao looked at Li Dingguo's hesitant face and said with a smile: "Ning Yu, I remember that some time ago, you promised the official that as long as the official defeated that Zhang Xianzhong, you would have nothing to say, loyalty anyway, but seriously?" ”

Li Dingguo stiffened his neck and said loudly: "The husband has made a word, and the horse is difficult to chase." Since Master Li was able to defeat my father-in-law, Li had no words and surrendered loyally. It's just that this matter, one yard is one yard, and I'm afraid that Master Li will have a bad heart for us after all, so it will be difficult for me to get ahead. ”

Li Xiao laughed, he waved his hand, called a sergeant next to him, and whispered to him.

The sergeant said yes and turned to go out.

Soon, the sergeant led the rampant sentry commander Wu Zhuang, who was still covered in bloody armor, to the living room.

Feng Shuangli, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Jin Tongwu all looked at Wu Zhuang who walked in, and they didn't know what kind of medicine Li Xiao's gourd was selling.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this officer will introduce you, this is Wu Zhuang, the commander of our army's rampant sentry, who has just been promoted to the deputy chief of Chifeng by this officer because of his exploits in this battle." Li Xiao said lightly.

After he finished speaking, Wu Zhuang's face showed a look of surprise, and then he quickly comprehended, and bowed to Li Xiao and hugged his fists: "Under Wu Zhuang, thank you Lord Li for your reward." ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, this official would like to introduce this deputy chief of Wu, he was originally from Fushan County, Shanxi, and was forced to join the rogue and follow the bandit leader Black Scorpion, becoming an ordinary rogue new annex. At the beginning of last year, the Black Scorpion Department was annihilated by our army, and Wu Zhuang was captured by our army. Subsequently, Wu Zhuang attacked the Tartars in the north and killed the Liukou in the south, and his performance was quite outstanding, from the vice captain to the captain, and then to the commander of the rampant sentry, and now Wu Zhuang was brave and outstanding in the battle with the thieves, and was promoted to the deputy chief of the Golden Wolf by the official. ”

After listening to Li Xiao's introduction, the four rogue generals all understood what Li Xiao meant by calling Wu Zhuang, and they all bowed their heads in contemplation.

Such a small thief and a new soldier in the army, can still rely on his own skills and efforts to emerge step by step in Li Xiaojun's army, himself is such a battle-hardened general, will his future performance and future be inferior to such an ordinary soldier?

After Li Xiao asked Wu Zhuang to step back, Liu Wenxiu's face showed excitement, and he arched his hand and said: "My lord doesn't care about his past suspicions, and he is only rewarded for his merits. Liu has no second words, and he will definitely work harder in the future to report to the adult. ”

After Liu Wenxiu finished speaking, Jin Tongwu, Feng Shuangli, Li Dingguo and others all nodded silently and agreed with Liu Wenxiu's statement.

Li Xiao nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, if you have made such a statement, the official will be much more relieved." Next, the officer will arrange your positions in the army. ”

Li Xiao arranged that because the three main forces of Li Xiao's army, the general of Chifeng, the general of Tielong, and the general manager of the golden wolf, all had to expand the troops and horses, they were put into the three generals.

Among them, Li Dingguo is the deputy director of Chifeng.

Feng Shuangli is the chief of the three sentinels of the Iron Dragon.

Liu Wenxiu is the chief of the second sentry of the Golden Wolf.

Jin Tongwu is the deputy chief of the second post of Chifeng.

This arrangement, except for Li Dingguo, who was exceptionally promoted and reused by Li Xiao, the rest of the arrangements all took into account the original official rank and status of these rogue generals. The level at which they started in Li Xiao's army was much higher than that of Wu Zhuang.

Seeing that the young Li Dingguo was so reused by Li Xiao, the other three were very surprised, especially Feng Shuangli, who was originally the highest status among these people, and there was a faint jealousy on his face.

Li Dingguo himself was also very surprised by Li Xiao's exceptional reuse of himself, and he looked at Li Xiao who was smiling at him with an unbelievable look.

"As far as this official knows, Ning Yu is in Zhang Xianzhong's department, although he is young, he is the most brave and good at fighting, and he is resourceful, and his department has the least infringement on the people, so this official has been thinking for a long time and specially promoted you to be the deputy chief of Tielong. I hope that you will serve our army better in the future and fight for a good future for yourself. Li Xiao said to Li Dingguo with a smile.

Li Xiao's words were very skillful, not only to encourage Li Dingguo, but also to explain to everyone the reasons why Li Dingguo was promoted and reused.

Li Dingguo stood up from the chair, knelt down on one knee, and clenched his fists: "Lord Li attaches so much importance to the subordinates, and entrusts them with important responsibilities, and the only way to do their best is to break their bones and bones in order to answer the grace of such an acquaintance!" ”

Li Xiao laughed, helped him up, and then ordered a feast to entertain the four people.

After the banquet, Li Xiao discussed with the generals again and decided on the arrangements for the generals of all important posts, and the specific personnel arrangements are as follows:

Chifeng General Manager Tian Wei, Deputy General Director Li Dingguo. Its army is stationed in Chifengwei, Shandong.

Tielong General Manager Chang'an Monk, Deputy General Manager Mo Changrong. Its army is stationed in Tielong City, Shanxian County, Shandong.

The chief of the golden wolf is Duan Shidi, and the deputy chief is Wu Zhuang. Its army is stationed in Jintang City, Xuanfu North Road.

Among them, each total number of men and horses is rated as three sentinels, each of which is 5 teams of shield soldiers and 10 teams of spearmen. In this way, each total soldier has a total of 15 shields, 30 spearmen, and 200 Xuanhu heavy cavalry, 200 flying harriers, and 600 auxiliaries as logistics and transport teams.

In addition, Li Xiao decided to equip each with 60 trebuchets, and the slings were served by auxiliaries, because the operation was simple, if the number of soldiers was not enough, a group of young people from the garrison could be temporarily recruited from the city to help.

The total number of soldiers and horses in this way is 5,590, including infantry, cavalry, and firearms, and it initially has the ability to stand alone.

The rest of the artillery and firearms troops, because of their small numbers, are all under the responsibility of Chifeng for the time being. And the rampant sentry, because there are not many elites in the army, these 400 rampant sentry posts are also temporarily owned by Chifeng, and the other two are not equipped for the time being.

Next, Li Xiao began to recruit displaced people on a large scale to replenish his troops. It's just that at the same time, Li Xiao also quickly sent an envoy to report the victory to Li Maofang, the governor of Shandong.

Because his son Li Haoran served in Li Xiao's army, Li Maofang did not have the slightest idea of sharing Li Xiao's military exploits, and immediately forwarded Li Xiao's report to the imperial military department.

Of course, Li Maofang himself also attached a letter of recital, which emphasized that it was under his own overall leadership and full support that Li Xiao was able to achieve this great victory, so as to repel the attack of the thieves, so as to prevent the land of Shandong from being poisoned.

I don't know if Governor Li, who did not send a single soldier to support Li Xiao, would feel guilty when he wrote this recital.

A week later, Zhang Fengyi, who was busy with the situation raging in all directions, was overjoyed to see the piece sent by Li Maofang.

Under the circumstance that the situation in the whole country is erosive, Li Maofang's letter is simply like a rain in a great drought and a charcoal fire in the heavy snow, which is very precious.

Zhang Fengyi ran briskly towards the East Warm Pavilion of the palace at the fastest speed.

Dressed in a patched Ming Huang Tuan dragon robe, Emperor Chongzhen, who was reviewing the chapters of various places in the Dongnuan Pavilion, has been much haggard since this time.

In the imperial court, everyone knows that some time ago, the cruel act of conquering Fengyang and excavating and destroying the imperial tomb gave the already emaciated emperor another huge and heavy blow.

Fengyang is the central capital, the place where the Zhu family is prosperous, but it was so tragically destroyed and poisoned by the rogues, which made Emperor Chongzhen heartbroken.

In the Taimiao, kneeling in front of the portraits of the ancestors and ancestors, he wept and sighed: "Mourning my Zhongdu, it was originally the fundamental place of all eternity, once it turned out to be a skeleton field, it was good and painful, and it was good and hateful." ”

Chongzhen hated Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and other bandits, and after learning the news that Fengyang was destroyed and the emperor was dug up, the angry emperor ordered that the Shaanxi soldiers under the command of Hong Chengchou should be transferred out of the customs and suppress these rampant and uncontrollable rogues with the officials and troops of the Central Plains provinces.

After some nervous troop deployment, the emperor finally pieced together 70,000 officers and soldiers on the side and belly. More than 1 million taels of money were issued as military salaries, and a time limit was set to wipe out all the rogues in the southeast within six months.

It's just that the speed at which the situation deteriorates far exceeds Chongzhen's imagination.

The officers and troops of Hong Chengchou's department, in accordance with Chongzhen's strict orders, marched from Shaanxi to Henan, preparing to enter Nanzhili from Henan to suppress bandits. Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived in Ruzhou, Henan, he got the news that a large number of rogues had entered Qin. In order to avoid a fire in the backyard, he had no choice but to pull up the team of He Renlong and Liu Chenggong with his subordinates and rush back to Shaanxi, and at the same time transferred the general soldier Cao Wenzhao to move from Huguang to Shangluo and Xing'an areas in Shaanxi to guard the passage of Liukou into and out of Henan and Huguang.

On the day of the fierce battle between Li Xiaobu and Zhang Xianzhong's troops in Iron Dragon City, Emperor Chongzhen got a bad news that could be called a thunderbolt.

That is, Cao Wenzhao, the chief military officer who was known as "there is a Cao in the army, and the thieves are afraid to hear it", died in an ambush.

Some time ago, Cao Wenzhao personally marched to Gansu with 3,000 soldiers in order to avenge the revenge of the deputy generals Ai Wannian and Liuguo Town who were destroyed by the Liukou, and met with a large group of Liukou in Hutou Town, Zhenning (now Zhengning) County. Liukou saw the characteristics of Cao Wenzhao's eagerness to take revenge and lightly advance the enemy, and adopted the tactic of luring the enemy into depth, "ambushing tens of thousands of horsemen, encircling in all directions, and flying arrows and insects." Cao Wenzhao was besieged, and he knew that he could not get out, so he had to draw a knife and kill himself.

Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, after receiving the news of Cao Wenzhao's death, looked up to the sky and wept and repented. Subsequently, he reported the matter to the imperial court, Emperor Chongzhen heard the news, was also heartbroken, and stayed awake for many days in a row, so he issued an edict, posthumously presented Cao Wenzhao as the crown prince Taibao, Zuo Du Governor, and gave the funeral ceremony, so that his descendants hereditarily commanded the official position of the servant, and then ordered Yousi to build a temple for Cao Wenzhao, and pay tribute in spring and autumn every year.

During this time, Emperor Chongzhen's mood was extremely bad.

Could it really be that the number of great bright qi is about to run out?

This cruel reality that he did not want to face, but always put in front of him, was like a heavy boulder, weighing down the young emperor.

"Your Majesty, great victory, great victory!"

A shout of joy came from outside the hall, interrupting Emperor Chongzhen's mournful thoughts.

"Your Majesty, it was Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, who came and said that there was good news to report to His Majesty." A eunuch holding a gold medal whisk whispered to Chongzhen.

"Oh?" In Chongzhen's faint eyes, a hint of brightness jumped on the ground: "Quickly pass him into the hall." ”

Zhang Fengyi walked into the hall quickly, he was happy, in the cold weather, he was flushed, he followed the eunuch into the hall, and then bowed down.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"Aiqing is flat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Zhang Fengyi straightened up, his face was full of joy, he said loudly to Chongzhen: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, according to the report of Shandong Governor Li Maofang, Shandong Chifengwei commanded Li Xiao, led the troops of the headquarters, in Tielong City, Shanxian County, the opponent of the giant Zhang Xianzhong, fought hard for days, and finally won a great victory, a total of 33,620 Liukou heads were killed, and the seizure was not counted, and two large boxes of funeral treasures and objects looted from the imperial tomb by Liukou were found that day, all of which have been sealed in the warehouse. ”

Emperor Chongzhen's face suddenly flashed with surprise and disbelief, he stood up from the dragon chair and said loudly: "There is such a great victory?!" Nine buds, quickly show me the concerto! ”

Zhang Fengyi hurriedly handed Li Maofang's piece in his hand to the eunuch next to him, and the eunuch transferred it to Emperor Chongzhen.

Emperor Chongzhen took a quick look at the lines, and gradually, his face was like seeing the sun, and a heartfelt smile bloomed.

"What a Li Xiao! True wisdom and bravery, with less than 8,000 soldiers and horses, he defended the lonely city and defeated the 50,000 army of thieves. Chongzhen's face was full of emotion: "Li Xiaoli defeated the rogue and recaptured the treasures of my imperial tomb, which is really a rare loyal minister and good general in my Ming Dynasty!" ”

Zhang Fengyi interjected on the side: "What Your Majesty said is very true, if it weren't for this Li Xiao's efforts to turn the tide, the situation in Shandong would have been a piece of erosion and difficult to clean up." ”

"Li Xiao is so brave and capable, he avenged me for this great revenge for digging the tomb, and I deserve a heavy reward." The young emperor paced back and forth in front of the imperial table, his face flushed with excitement, he stood on the ground, and said loudly: "Jiubao, quickly send someone to Shandong Kancha to bring back the treasures of the imperial tomb that Li Xiao has obtained." If the battle exploits are true, return immediately, I, I will give him a marquis! (To be continued.) )