On the 11th day of the first lunar month, Li Zhi stood on the training ground to watch the training of 16,000 sharpshooters. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

From time to time, crackling shots rang out on the training ground, and humanoid targets 400 meters away were shot one after another, and sawdust flew everywhere.

As the scope workshop continued to produce scopes for the troops, Li Zhi's sharpshooter unit has now expanded to more than 10,000 people. Although these more than 10,000 people do not have the elite sharpshooters selected by the 50,000 out of 10,000 during last year's Northern Expedition, they can still give full play to the mechanical performance of sniper rifles.

With more than 10,000 people accompanying the army to the south, this war against the two towns in Jiangbei can be said to be victorious.

Li Laosi stood beside Li Zhi, he looked at the humanoid target in the distance, and said in a deep voice: "Dongjia, the infantry of the second town of Jiangbei is not to be afraid, but if we attack strongly, the six hundred cannons that Hongyi sold to Qian Qianyi may cause us a lot of casualties. Even if we brought 1,000 cannons to fight against us, we would have at least 1,000 killed. ”

Li Zhi was silent and did not speak.

Zhong Feng arched his hand and said: "I asked for my life with the army commander Chen Bing in the suburbs of Beijing at that time, and I saw Wu Sangui. I don't think this person is a strong-willed person. Wu Sangui was first in the Guanning Army, and then Qian Qianyi was asked to form the Jiangbei Army, which was only a year in Jiangbei, and his roots in Jiangbei were not deep. ”

Li Zhi nodded.

Zhong Feng said: "I think the army commander can write a letter to Wu Sangui and persuade him to abandon the darkness and join my tiger army." As long as the proprietor explains the combat strength of our Tiger Army, maybe Wu Sangui will suddenly wake up and bring thousands of artillery to surrender to me. In this way, there is only one town left in the second town of Jiangbei, and we can easily defeat the enemy with thousands of cannons. ”

Li Zhi looked at the soldiers in the distance, remembered the Wu Sangui in history who let the Manchu Qing enter the customs, and finally rebelled against the Qing Dynasty from Yunnan, and said slowly: "Wu Sangui is capricious and unprincipled, and I really don't want to use him." ”

After a pause, Li Zhi said, "But for the sake of our soldiers of the Tiger Army, I will write a letter to him." ”

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On the twentieth day of the first month, Wu Sangui sat in the general soldier's mansion in Dongzhen, Jiangbei, looking at Li Zhi's letter, frowning.

Li Zhi explained that he would carry 1,000 heavy artillery to the south, and it would be easy to destroy the two towns in Jiangbei. Li Zhi even explained that the sharpshooters who destroyed the artillery of the Jiangbei Army at the beginning now have more Tiger Ben Army. Jiangbei Town has no possibility of defeating the Tiger Ben Army at all.

Li Zhi promised that as long as Wu Sangui joined the Tiger Ben Army, he would grant Wu Sangui the position of head of the general, just like Zu Dashou.

Wu Sangui looked at the letter, and anger gradually appeared in his eyes. He crumpled the letter and held it firmly in his palm, as if that would quench his anger.

Wu Sangui is a person who is easy to advance and difficult to retreat.

It was very easy to let Wu Sangui be promoted. With Wu Sangui's cleverness, after being promoted, he can quickly grasp the key to his new position and meet the source everywhere. But if you want Wu Sangui to retreat and let him step down from his high position, it will be more uncomfortable than killing him Wu Sangui.

At least in Wu Sangui's thirty-four years of life, he has never retreated from being promoted all the way to the top of his career.

In order not to lose power, Wu Sangui is willing to do anything. No matter what kind of force it is, he is willing to cling.

And on the twelfth day of the first month of the nineteenth year of Chongzhen, Wu Sangui now feels that the most worthy force is not Li Zhi, but the gentry of the world.

Compared with Li Zhi, who rose like fireworks, Wu Sangui was more optimistic about the strength of the gentry. You must know that the gentry is not one person, but millions of people, and these people hold all the wealth, power and public opinion of the Ming Dynasty. Whether it is the court or the countryside, it is actually controlled by these gentry.

The civil officials are only a part of the gentry, but a part of the civil officials has made a little move of their mouths, and the huge cost of the Guanning Army has existed in western Liaoning for more than ten years.

And now, under Li Zhi's step-by-step persecution, the gentry of the world, including civil officials, scholars, and meritorious landlords, have gradually united. Under the pressure of survival, these Venerable Masters, who actually controlled all the resources of the Ming Dynasty, had to use all their strength to fight against Li Zhi.

How powerful is that? It's the whole world! Even if Li Zhi had advanced weapons, Wu Sangui did not believe that Li Zhi could defeat the power of the entire world.

The more Li Zhi took a step forward, the more united the gentry became, and sent out a greater joint force to counterattack Li Zhi.

Wu Sangui chose to stand on the side of the gentry, and Li Zhi's persuasion made Wu Sangui scoff.

Of course, at present, Li Zhi's strength is superior, but this is only the surface of the matter. As long as it is sorted out by various means, the gentry will throw a heavier punch, so heavy that Li Zhi can't stand it. As long as the soldiers and horses of the two towns in Jiangbei are preserved, it will not be a problem to make a comeback.

Wu Sangui thought about it, and suddenly shouted loudly: "Prepare the horse, go to Zuo Shuai's mansion!" ”

Wu Sangui took his family and rode quickly to the General Military Mansion of Xizhen, Jiangbei, that is, Zuo Liangyu's official residence. In Santang, Wu Sangui met Zuo Liangyu, who was drinking tea there alone.

Zuo Liangyu did not wear an official robe, but he was dressed in white. When he held the teacup, he was extremely elegant, and he looked like a scholar.

Wu Sangui sat on the chair and said with a smile: "The fire has burned his eyebrows, Zuo Shuai is still in the mood to taste the tea?" ”

Zuo Liangyu didn't look at Wu Sangui, but just blew the tea leaves in the teacup.

Wu Sangui observed Zuo Liangyu's face and said, "Now Li Zhi wants to lead an army of 40,000 and a thousand heavy artillery to crusade against our Jiangbei army. Nanjing Liudu, Yangzhou Suzhou, is in danger. What is Zuo Shuai's good strategy? ”

Zuo Liangyu put the teacup on the coffee table, looked at the young Wu Sangui, and smiled.

"At the beginning in Anqing, Li Zhi shot and killed my soldiers, and I have formed a bond with Li Zhi since then, and I can't vote for Li Zhi. Wu Zongbing once fought with Li Zhi, why didn't he just vote for Li Zhi? ”

Wu Sangui laughed and said, "Li Zhi'er is a flash in the pan, how can he be the opponent of the gentry in the world. Even if he can impose his prostitution on Nanzhili for a while, he will eventually perish. ”

Zuo Liangyu looked at Wu Sangui and said, "If Nanzhili falls to Li Zhi, where will Wu Zongbing's Jiangbei East Town survive?" Could it be that General Wu wants to flee without a fight? ”

Wu Sangui looked at Zuo Liangyu and did not answer this question. The two looked at each other for a while, as if they had reached a tacit understanding and made a joint decision.

Both of them had a heavy face. Although this decision had to be made, it was also helpless.

A family member suddenly ran at the door: "Qian Qianyi, Qian Lao's sedan chair has arrived at the bridge!" ”

When Zuo Liangyu heard this report, he sighed helplessly, as if he was very tired of Qian Qianyi's arrival.

Wu Sangui said coldly: "If it weren't for Zhang Shenyan, Qian Qianyi and the others would have beaten Li Zhi in Xinzhou." ”

He shook his official robe and stood up, and said, "But things still have to be done on the scene, Zuo Shuai and I will go out to meet Qian Qianyi together!" ”