Chapter Seventy-Two: He Ying Arrives Again

"Nope." Luo Rucai said: "Leaving the Yellow Tiger like this is not in line with the morality of the rivers and lakes. ”

Ji Jue understood.

Ji Jue has been following Luo Rucai for a long time, and many people can't compare to Luo Rucai's understanding.

Luo Ru was born as a bandit, and his Luo family has been a bandit for more than 100 years. Relying on fighting and killing alone, a bandit can't sit for long, and it is necessary to maintain a balance with the forces on the official side, and also to have friendships with friends in the rivers and lakes. Those can't rob the road. In "Smiling Proud Jianghu", Lin Zhenyuan talked about the survival of Fuwei Dart Bureau, which is actually a true portrayal of this situation.

As bandits, the Luo family must have a good reputation.

Because you have a good reputation for preaching righteousness, passing caravans believe that you only take a cut and do not kill people. Only the official-faced people on the ground believe that you will not be brainless to do big cases, and often help friends in the rivers and lakes, and when you are in trouble, someone will rescue you.

This is the source of the Luo family's most moral and family motto.

But you really think that Luo Ru is a righteous man and a gentleman, and righteousness is thin and cloudy, then you are very wrong. This is the case alone, and Luo Rucai can't go today.

Ji Jue's understanding of Luo Rucai's sentence was: "You Ji Jue, go and find me a moral reason for the rivers and lakes." ”

Luo Rucai's good face is good pomp and fame.

Ji Jue understood in his heart, and his heart secretly turned to be so prepared.

"Newspaper. The Eight Kings visited. The guard said.

"Please." Luo Rucai and Ji Jue glanced at each other and said.

Zhang Xuan was just a spectator to observe the power struggle at the top of the rebel army.

"Brother Luo, it's the younger brother, I'm not, I'm here today to make amends for Brother Luo." As soon as Zhang Xianzhong came in, he gave a salute first.

Luo Rucai hurriedly took a few steps forward and said, "It's easy to say." Between you and my brothers, what else do you share with each other, you also suffered a traitor's big loss at the beginning, I should be considerate. ”

"No, no, no." Zhang Xianzhong said: "It's the little brother who made the decision without authorization, you should say hello to Brother Luo, I think Brother Luo won't give me face." It's me who was too reckless. ”

Zhang Xuan sneered in his heart and said secretly: "This Zhang Xianzhong is still angry in his heart. He looked at Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, who were not in harmony with each other, and then pretended to have a good relationship, and secretly said in his heart: "The hypocrisy in Vanity Fair is the same in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad. ”

At this moment, a person came to Ji Jue's ear and whispered a word, Ji Jue's eyes suddenly lit up, and he whispered to the visitor: "Go and tell him everything about the situation here." The man whispered yes and immediately went down.

Ji Jue turned his eyes to look at Luo Rucai and said secretly in his heart: "The reason is here." People who come are not too stupid to know what to do. ”

"Hold the plate," said one of the guards, "He Ying, the messenger of the general, has arrived." ”

The four words of the messenger were transmitted to Zhang Xianzhong's ears, Zhang Xianzhong's pupils shrank slightly, to be honest, Zhang Xianzhong now regards Li Zicheng as his biggest opponent. So I'm extraordinarily sensitive to anything that Li Zicheng does.

As soon as Luo Rucai heard these four words, he immediately looked at Ji Jue, who nodded slightly.

"Please." Luo Rucai said.

After a while, He Ying arrived and said, "He Ying under the command of King Chuang visited the Eight Kings and met King Luo. ”

"Okay?" Luo Rucai said.

He Ying's face was slightly bad, and he said, "King Chuang opened the seal and hurt a glance. ”

"What?" Luo Rucai was taken aback and said, "Brother Li is good?" ”

He Ying said: "King Chuang has been blessed by heaven, and he is already fine, but the soldiers and horses have not been trained and can no longer fight, so King Chuang is ready to find a place to repair for a few months, and then meet the court." ”

After Li Zicheng entered Henan last year, he had only a few hundred people, and he could not even defeat a single county seat, but in less than a year, it expanded to hundreds of thousands, known as one million, which shows the speed at which Li Zicheng's army expanded.

It was also Li Zicheng's attack on Kaifeng, so that Li Zicheng knew that in fact, in addition to thousands of old people, there were few people who dared to fight, and if he didn't practice, he would rush into battle like this, which would be simply sending food to the officers and soldiers.

Therefore, the army had to repair for a while before it could fight again. Moreover, after Li Zicheng opened Luoyang, he obtained too many materials, so that he could support it even if he repaired it for several months.

Luo Rucai felt a little envious in his heart.

Don't look at the comings and goings of the righteous army, invincible, just think that the righteous army is quite powerful. But the rebel army has no logistical supplies, they have to get it from the officials and soldiers, and if they don't fight, they don't open the county seat, and everyone will starve to death in a month or two.

At least Luo Rucai's department will not be able to do it like Li Zicheng, and he will repair it for several months as soon as it is repaired.

"When King Chuang came, let me send a thousand war horses to King Luo, the year before last to save my life, I can't repay it, today I take a thousand war horses as a gift, and ask King Luo to smile." He Ying said.

In fact, He Ying's mission before coming was to see if he could pull Luo Rucai and go north with Zhang Xianzhong to join forces with Chuang Ying. However, after he came. immediately learned about the gap between Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, as well as Ji Jue's hints.

He Ying gave Ben to Luo Rucai, and Zhang Xianzhong gave 500 horses each, which became 1,000 horses to Luo Rucai.

Luo Rucai said: "Oh, the rebels should have watched and helped each other, this was two years ago, Brother Li still remembers, it's really rare." ”

A thousand war horses is not a small number, and for the righteous army, neither food nor silver is useful for livestock. And no cattle are useful than war horses. When these thousand war horses arrived in Luo Rucai's hands, Luo Rucai would immediately be able to produce a thousand more cavalry.

Zhang Xianzhong felt extremely uncomfortable.

Luo Rucai saved Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong also knew that at the end of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng was surrounded by officials and soldiers in Xiangyouping. After Luo Rucai learned about it, despite being sick at the time, he rushed away with the army, and surrounded the officers and troops with Li Zicheng, killing the two general soldiers of the officers and soldiers, which was also a great victory.

And there is also a lot of cooperation between Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai.

For example, when Yang Sichang recruited the rebels, almost most of the rebels were shaken, and Zhang Xianzhong was among the unforgivable, and Luo Rucai said something at that time, saying: "Thieves don't kill thieves." "Killed the envoy to self-evidently, with Luo Rucai's strong support, he Zhang Xianzhong was able to collect a lot of righteous troops, so that he came out of the defeat of Agate Mountain.

But now Zhang Xianzhong feels that Luo Rucai's power is getting bigger and bigger, which makes him feel like he is on his back.

If Luo Rucai's reputation is better than his own, his popularity is better than his own, and even his strength is higher than his own, how can he maintain the situation of the separation of the joint ventures, it is likely that he will become Luo Rucai's vassal unconsciously.

This is something that the arrogant Zhang Xianzhong will never agree.

"I asked the two of them to go north to join forces with him and conspire with him." He Ying said.

Luo Rucai smiled and said: "This matter is big, I need to think about it, and I ask the envoy to wait a while, come here, take this brother down, and settle it well, don't slack off." ”

Someone immediately took He Ying down.

He Ying came and went in a hurry, which immediately changed the atmosphere in the court. The chat between Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai suddenly became awkward, Luo Rucai originally wanted to give Liu Guoneng's captives to Zhang Xianzhong, but at this moment he couldn't think about it anymore.

Because the gap in strength between the two sides has widened. Liu Guoneng is soldier was originally from the rebel army, as long as it was absorbed, it would be an army, but if he gave half of the prisoners, would it be difficult to give Zhang Xianzhong another 500 horses?

What will Luo Rucai gain in the future, will he give Zhang Xuan some more?

That's not how things work. Not to mention whether the relationship between the two sides can be maintained at that time, I am afraid that Luo Rucai's subordinates will have complaints.

Zhang Xianzhong chatted with Luo Rucai for a while, and there seemed to be nothing to talk about, so Zhang Xianzhong took his leave.

Zhang Xuan looked at Luo Rucai's figure of sending Zhang Xianzhong away a little stunned, and he already had a premonition in his heart, the period of joint war with Zhang Xianzhong is over, and I am afraid that he will have to join forces with Li Zicheng in the future, but he doesn't know what kind of style Li Zicheng, the famous king of Chuang in later generations, is. Compared with Zhang Xianzhong, the king of Daxi, who is higher and who is lower.