On June 20, Li Xing returned Xiangyang City to the Tongzhi of Xiangyang Prefecture. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAlthough the prefect of Xiangyang has been beheaded, Tongzhi is still there. After Li Zhi's army withdrew, Tongzhi took over the city and controlled order in the city.

Three thousand iron horsemen rode fast horses, marched out of Xiangyang City, and returned to Tianjin. Xue Sanku turned his head to look at Xiangyang City, which was getting farther and farther behind, and said, "Commander, Xiangyang City is rich and a good base. Isn't it a pity that we withdrew like this? ”

Li Xing said lightly: "Big brother said, now is not the time." We now occupy Xiangyang City, which does not make legal sense. ”

"And now our Tiger Division is scattered in four places, and there is a danger that the troops will be scattered. In the unlikely event that the Son of Heaven sends troops and horses from all over the world to attack, our Tiger Warriors in the four regions are at risk of being broken by each other. At such a critical juncture, it is the proper way to gather troops in Tianjin. ”

Xue Sanku was still a little unwilling and sighed.

Li Xing said with a smile: "Don't be in a hurry, in the future, as the eldest brother's career gets bigger and bigger, our territory will get bigger and bigger, and there will be a lot of cities for you to manage at that time." I'm afraid you won't be able to control it then. ”

Xue Sanku stopped sighing and laughed.

On July 11, Li Xing's army dragged boxes of silver back to Tianjin.

Zhong Feng, who attacked Jinan Mansion, and Li Laosi, who attacked Suzhou Mansion, have also returned to Fanjiazhuang and brought back a lot of silver. The 20,000 Tiger Warriors regrouped in the barracks and waited for battle.

Li Zhi divided it into ten batches and sent all the 1,310,000 taels of silver obtained from the raid to the capital. The Son of Heaven didn't say much and accepted Li Zhi's silver.

However, the imperial court quarreled for a month about how to deal with Li Zhi's problem, but it never reached a result. There was an uproar at the court, and the news soon spread. The people of the entire capital knew that the Chinese official of the dynasty demanded that the Son of Heaven characterize Li Zhi's series of actions as a rebellion, and asked the imperial court to send troops to attack Li Zhi. But the Son of Heaven resolutely did not agree to start a war with Li Zhi, and retreated again and again in the face of the offensive of the civilian officials, struggling to support.

Lee Sik learned about the situation in the imperial court from Han Jinxin's informant every day, and secretly laughed. These civilian officials kept saying that they wanted to attack Li Zhi's Tianjin, but they had no troops or horses that could be dispatched. You must know that Li Zhi's soldiers and horses are in Tianjin, Gyeonggi, and they are eyeing each other.

If the imperial court came to the conclusion that Li Zhi wanted his life, how could Li Zhi be arrested?

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On July 13, Guo Chaotang, the imperial historian of Zuo Du, came to Tianjin and found Li Zhi, who was waiting for the decision of the imperial court in the general military palace.

Guo Chaotang is a middle-aged man with a white face and beard, a square face and big eyes, and a medium build. He came this time, and I don't know whether he was representing himself or the Chinese officials of the DPRK, and his identity was somewhat delicate, and it seemed that the civilian officials were trying to test Li Zhi.

Guo Chaotang swaggered into the General Soldier's Mansion, and only bowed his hand to Li Zhi as a salute.

According to Li Zhixing's identity as Guobo, how can this Guo Chaotang bow ninety degrees to be considered polite. Li Zhi looked at this arrogant Zuo Du Yushi and frowned.

Guo Chaotang didn't look at Li Zhi's face, and said to Li Zhi: "The general soldier has a big disaster coming this time, do you know?" ”

Li Zhi suppressed his anger and asked lightly, "Why is my disaster coming?" ”

Guo Chaotang said eloquently: "The general army sent troops to Xiangyang, Jinan and Suzhou, slaughtered the leaders of Shilin, the local gentry and the imperial court officials, and committed the great crime of extermination. As soon as the imperial army was launched, the soldiers and horses of the general army were wiped out in an instant, and the nine clans of the general army could be destroyed. ”

When Li Zhi heard this Guo Chaotang's presumptuous words, he sneered and said, "What about Ben Bo? ”

Guo Chaotang waited for this sentence, he looked at Li Zhi, and said: "Now the catastrophe caused by the general army is irreparable. I advise the commander-in-chief to judge the situation and turn himself in as soon as possible. If the general army appeases the soldiers and horses of Fanjiazhuang and rides into the capital alone to surrender, it may avoid the disaster of annihilation. In exchange for the peace of a clan. ”

When Li Zhi heard this, he didn't speak.

It seems that the civil officials have no way to do anything about themselves, so they will use such a ridiculous Guo Chaotang to talk.

The civil officials wanted to take down Li Zhi and kill Li Zhi to avenge Zhang Pu, but they were also afraid of Li Zhi's tiger master. If the imperial court summoned Li Zhi to the capital and ambushed the sword and axe men to take Li Zhi, they would probably be able to kill Li Zhi. But in that case, the panicked Li Xing and others will undoubtedly rebel.

The combat strength of the 20,000 tiger division is amazing, and the imperial court does not know how many soldiers and horses must be transferred to quell the rebellion. Under the control of the Manchu Qing and Li Zicheng, whether the imperial court could transfer 100,000 troops to quell the rebellion is a big question mark.

Although the civil officials hated Li Zhi, they were not stupid, knowing that Li Zhi had a strong army and could not be killed easily. Only by being sure to defeat the Tiger Benshi can Li Zhi's life be taken. However, they thought about it, and there was no way to draw out 100,000 border troops to crusade against Li Zhi.

In desperation, they used three indiscriminate methods to ask Guo Chaotang to threaten Li Zhi, persuade Li Zhi to appease the tiger master, and then go to the capital to surrender.

However, Li Zhi is not a fool and will not fall for such a set. Hearing Guo Chaotang's words, Li Zhi felt that his IQ was despised.

Li Zhi slapped the table angrily and shouted: "You go back and jump up and down with Chaozhong!" Don't be lucky, I, Li Zhi, killed Zhang Pu, two governors and three prefects, but these are damned people, I, Li Zhi, killed them with dignity, and no one can find trouble because of this! ”

That Guo Chaotang was frightened by Li Zhi's anger, and jumped up from the chair with a swish, looking like he was about to run.

After a while, he saw that Li Zhi didn't let people catch him, and the panic on his face faded slightly.

"The general soldier is going to confront the Manchu civil and military forces?"

Li Zhi glanced at this Zuo Du Yushi lightly, and said coldly: "Get out!" ”

That Guo Chaotang heard Li Zhi's rolling words, and his face turned pale with fright. He looked at the Tiger Warrior standing in the room, his face was full of panic, and he immediately fled out of the door. Running so fast, he tripped on the threshold as he went out, and after a few steps to stabilize his body, he almost fell to the ground.

When the soldiers in the house saw this scene, they laughed out loud, and laughed so much that their faces were bloody.

Li Zhi said coldly: "The Chinese official of the DPRK, is this such a subordinate indiscriminate? ”

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Sending off the ridiculous Zuo Du Yushi Guo Chaotang, Li Zhi held a drill outside Fanjiazhuang.

In this exercise, Li Zhi invited all the civil and military officials from 20 counties in Tianjin, one prefecture, two prefectures, to observe the exercise. Although Li Zhi is now in a catastrophe and is attacked by the Manchu civil officials, his future may not be guaranteed, but Li Zhi has 20,000 elite soldiers who control the entire Tianjin town after all. Even if the civil and military officials were optimistic about Li Zhi's future, they did not dare to resist Li Zhi's call in Tianjin.