Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Battle of Xiangxi II

"Mingjin retreats." Gao Yigong's face darkened, and he said, "Call all the generals to me, and Miao Jin, who attacked the village, to call over." ”

"Yes." Left and right obviously felt Gao Yigong's suppressed anger, and he didn't dare to say anything. Go down and execute it immediately.

But after a while, dozens of generals, large and small, were called.

Gao Yigong looked at everyone with blazing eyes, and looked at the past one by one, everyone didn't dare to look at Gao Yigong, and they also felt that they were playing too badly today. The second is the result of the accumulation of high merit.

After Gao Yigong was defeated by Li Guo, his mind was shaken, and he was not too concerned about many things in the army. Think more about his own future. But after all, he is a general, and many of his subordinates were all followed by Gao Yigong fourteen years ago by Chongzhen, and they were also killed by Gao Yigong from Yan'an all the way around a big circle to Huguang.

It's not a hardcore, it's a hardcore. The fear of Gao Yigong is like the fear of Zhang Xuan's soldiers against Zhang Xuan.

Gao Yigong paced slowly and said: "Brothers, I have been a senior person recently, but there is something that offended your brothers, is it because Gao Yigong has deducted military salaries?" Is it because I did it unfairly, or did I bully my brothers? ”

For a while, everyone was afraid to speak.

"Yes or no?" Gao Yigong said sharply: "Are you talking? ”

"Nope." The group said one after another.

Gao Yigong said: "In that case, what kind of battle did you fight me, Miao Jin, you said it yourself?" ”

Miao Jin's face turned pale, and he knelt on the ground with a "plop" and said, "The last general will act unfavorably, please punish Master Hou." ”

"In that case." Gao Yigong pursed his lips lightly and said, "Pull it out and cut it." ”

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was surprised.

The generals who can serve as the vanguard of the first army dare not say that they are all cronies of the main general, but they must also be very capable, otherwise they will not be able to sit in this position.

Miao Jin can be regarded as an old man in the rebel army, with deep qualifications, and he has come to this day step by step. But because of a failed attack, he was going to be beheaded, and everyone was a little unacceptable.

Miao Jin also defended loudly and said: "Master Hou, if you want to kill me, I, Miao Jin, can't say half a 'no'." But I am not convinced of this charge alone. ”

"Okay." Gao Yigong said: "You are an old man of the righteous army, you don't live up, I'll give you a chance to speak, today's battle is to carry a girl, and it's better than you." Shame on you outside, what else do you have to say? ”

Miao Jin didn't know what to say for a while, he was not a well-spoken person, so he suddenly said his true words and said, "Hou."

Master, I have been fighting in the official army for half of my life, and I have somehow become a member of the official army, if I still have to fight with the old brothers of the righteous army. I am, I am -----"

What Miao Jin said resonated with many people, and for a while, almost all the generals were concerned. There has been some change in the atmosphere.

Gao Yigong's eyes swept over, and he secretly said in his heart: "Sure enough." ”

Maybe the above don't care about these estrangements, the lowest level of the soldiers, just mixed food, haven't thought about this yet, only the backbone of the loyal battalion, these officers, where have not fought for several years, even if they can't talk about the blood feud with the officers and soldiers, but it is definitely not friendly.

Taking Miao Jin as an example, in the most difficult time of King Chuang, that is, in the winter of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, there were only a few hundred people left in King Chuang, hiding in the mountains, and Miao Jin was one of these hundreds of people.

Such a person is not Miao Jin, although many people joined the camp later, but it did not hinder the disaster and famine in the Chongzhen period, I don't know how many people died, and how many of them were killed by the official army.

This is a bad debt, I can't tell if it's a certain person, but on Daming's head, there is nothing wrong with the decision.

If the Ming army is too strong and has to surrender, in fact, they don't have so many opinions, and in the troubled times, surviving is more important than anything else.

After all, the living are more important than the dead.

But what is the situation of the Ming Dynasty now, it is precarious, and it is strange that they have no complaints in their hearts if they want them to continue their lives for the Ming Dynasty.

If they are facing the Qing army, the Qing army has a deep enmity with the sea of blood that broke into the camp, only above the Ming army, and never below. Coupled with what the Qing army did, it was simply inhumane. That's why they can persevere.

In history, it was these people who insisted on opposing the Qing court. Persisted until Gao Yigong's father and son, Li Guo's father and son died in battle, and persevered until the fall of the Ming Dynasty and Wanli was killed. persisted until three years of Kangxi.

However, when they faced the old brother of the righteous army, Xia Jun, they did not have this belief in perseverance at all.

Gao Yigong's eyes swept and said secretly: "People's hearts are scattered." ”

At this moment, no one mentioned King Chuang. Sure enough, it is important for the dead to have the living, no matter how wise and martial the king was at the beginning, how much kindness there is to them, at least a few people read the kindness of the king, for most people, although they are grateful to the king of Chuang, the Mid-Autumn Festival of the Qingming Festival, it is okay to have a few more pillars of incense, but to let them repay each other with their lives, it is not.

It may be ungrateful, but it's human.

Gao Yigong said: "You know, how can I not know? When I defected to the imperial court, I may still have the intention of avenging King Chuang, but it's a pity that the will of heaven is like this, and it is not something that we can recover, and it is also counted as Longwu

It is the lord of Zhongxing, but it is the end of the Ming Dynasty. Just take refuge in Cao Ying, and you must also choose a good time. ”

"You also know that Zhang Xuan destroyed the Marquis in the first battle, and the Marquis only left thousands of soldiers to go east, and I don't know where he has arrived at this moment. Cao Ying couldn't look down on us at all, thinking that we were just like that, the real elites of the camp were all defeated by the Eastern Prisoners, and the rest were just some remnants of the defeated generals. Gao Yigong said.

"What?" When the people below heard this, they were all furious for a while, and said: "What is Cao Ying, it's just hiding behind and picking up a bargain, if it weren't for me breaking into the camp and fighting with Donglu several times and consuming Dongyu's troops, how could Donglu stop under Xiangyang City?" ”

"Yes, isn't it that Cao Cao has a good son-in-law? Zhang Xuan is a little stronger than Li Junshi. ”

For a while, there was nothing to say.

Now that a few years have passed, the content of Zhang Xuan's advice for Luo Rucai in Xiangyang and the content of Li Zicheng's strategy have long been spread, and there is even a little more joke interpretation.

In fact, in Zhang Xuan's current view, there is no right or wrong in many strategic plans, only the difficulty of implementation. For example, now the Xia army has also begun to be troubled by the source of soldiers, war horses, and other problems, if it could have swept the north at the beginning, there would never be such a problem. The reason for Li Zicheng's defeat is of course a strategic problem, but the bigger problem is Li Zicheng's own problem, just like gathering hundreds of thousands of heavy troops and fighting a battle of stones, it is not without a chance to win.

However, the lower-class non-commissioned officers were seldom able to analyze the problem objectively.

In their interpretation, Zhang Xuan had already sat on a wheelbarrow and shook a goose feather fan. Even Luo Yujiao has become as beautiful as a fairy. Stunning beauty in general.

Let Zhang Xuan fall in love at first sight, and finally for the beauty. Lay the foundation for the old man.

Even this kind of folklore-like thing, in the Wenzong Dynasty, also means that the Zhang family is right. Based on folklore, he gathered many literati and writers to compile a magnificent masterpiece "The Beauty of the Mountains" with millions of dollars.

Of course, that's an afterthought.

Gao Yigong said: "Okay. Form is stronger than man. Cao Ying pressed me to break into the camp, and he was already settled, but this is definitely not because I can't fight the soldiers who broke into the camp. The reason why I didn't surrender to Cao Ying was not to serve the government to the end, but to win battles. Let Zhang Xuan not look at me and wait, and then surrender, otherwise after we surrender, we will only be dismissed as farmers, and your brothers will follow me to fight in the south and the north, is it just for this? ”

This sentence does speak to the hearts of these people.

The soldiers below may not have other ideas, but it is absolutely impossible for such middle-level generals not to have the slightest idea to let them give up all their rights and be honest peasants, so they can't do it.

Just like a dog who has seen human blood, it is rare to continue to be a dog, and after tasting the taste of power, how many people can be content with it?

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