Day 2. Li Zhen left the meteorite area with Yang Banhou, Lu Shaochuan and Smith, as well as the soldiers in the army, and then sent soldiers to disguise themselves as civilians to spread the news of the inscriptions on the meteorite.

In order to expand the news, Li Zhen sent hundreds of soldiers.

Within a day, the news spread.

The villages around the meteorite field are spreading the news of meteorites. In particular, this area is close to Jiangbei Daying, and the surrounding places are controlled by Li Zhen, and the local gentry and clans have all gone to Jiangbei Daying to see Li Zhen, and they also hope that Li Zhen will suppress bandits. After they got the news of the rumors, they recognized that this was beneficial to Li Zhen and began to spread it wildly. Regardless of whether the news is true or not, they quickly expand the news.

For a time, not only Jiangbei Daying, but even near Yangzhou were rumors.

And, the version of the message is getting more and more outrageous.

In the barracks of the Taiping Army, Shi Dakai took Shi Zhenji and Zhang Suimou to inspect the camp.

After the three of them discussed, they had already set a strategy and were ready to rush to Sichuan quickly, so they were recruiting elite soldiers. Walking in the barracks, Shi Dakai saw many soldiers bowing their heads and whispering.

"I said, 'Do you know the news?' Patches of boulders appeared from the east of our camp. It is said that when these stones fell, there were gods and men surrounding them...... Well, on the top of the stone, there are eight words engraved: 'Leaving Beijing, there is no corpse to die'. Each stone is carved into it, and some of the stones have a series of images on it, carved with a clear dog surrounding us. ”

"Wrong, your message is wrong. Thirty miles north of our camp, there are countless boulders outside the sky. When the stones landed on the ground, all the surrounding livestock were wiped out. Not only that, but there are also words on the stone, but it is not the eight characters of running away from Beijing and dying without a whole body, but the eight characters of 'turning your back on the Father and not dying well'. What I said is absolutely correct, because my brother lives over there, and he sees it with his own eyes and cannot go wrong. ”

"Bullshit, what you say is not reliable. It is clearly forty miles to the northeast, and the words engraved on the stone are neither 'running away from Beijing and ending badly', nor 'turning away from the Father and dying well', but there is a passage saying that the prince is ambitious and wants to stand on his own. You don't know what's really going on. ”

……

In the barracks, news flew all over the sky.

When Shi Dakai took Zhang Suimou and Shi Zhenji on inspection, he was in an extremely bad mood. Zhang Suimou wanted to punish the talkative soldiers, but Shi Dakai stretched out his hand to stop him. He took Zhang Suimou and Shi Zhenji through the camp and returned to the camp. Shi Dakai's face was pale, and his heart was furious. Obviously, this was made by Li Zhen. It's just that he didn't expect Li Zhen to make a fuss about the meteorite that fell from the sky.

"Damn! Hateful, damn it! ”

Shi Dakai gritted his teeth and spoke, secretly hating Li Zhen for making a fuss in the name of God, as if he had really become a traitor.

The so-called three people become tigers, Shi Dakai is worried that there are too many people to say, and he can't explain it clearly.

Zhang Suimou said: "Lord Wang, please calm your anger, this is made by Li Zhen." He wants to provoke you and shake the hearts of our troops! ”

Shi Dakai nodded and said, "I know this is Li Zhen's ghost, except for him, there will be no one else." The problem is that I just said that the extraterrestrial meteorite is the Father of Heaven and indicates that our decision to leave Nanjing is correct, and it is in the name of the Father. Now that Li Zhen has treated others in his own way, he has said that the words slandering me on the meteorite are an omen handed down by his Heavenly Father, how can I refute it? ”

Shi Da Kai Titus was depressed and very unhappy.

Because if he denies the matter of extraterrestrial meteorites, he denies what he himself said, and he also denies the existence of the Heavenly Father.

Shi Da had a headache at the beginning, and his teeth itched with hatred.

Shi Zhenji smiled coldly and said indifferently: "Brother Wang feels a headache, but Brother Chen doesn't feel it at all. It's just a rumor, don't care. We didn't care, and things gradually subsided. The current Manchu Qing Dynasty is only Li Zhen who is slightly more powerful, and the rest of the Qing dogs are stupid. As long as we get rid of Li Zhen, we will let the prince gallop. Wait for the prince to enter Sichuan with the army, accumulate enough strength, and then clean up Li Zhen. ”

Shi Dakai looked helpless and said: "Now there is only this, Zhenji, you and Sui Mou should hurry up and select soldiers, add another 10,000 elites, and when the number of soldiers reaches 60,000, immediately prepare for going to Sichuan." This was to be completed within three days. ”

"Yes!"

Shi Zhenji and Zhang Suimou agreed to come down and immediately went to prepare.

……

Three days passed in a flash.

In the past three days, there has been no movement in Shi Dakai's military camp, and Li Zhen has been waiting impatiently. On that day, he asked the craftsman to engrave words on the meteorite, intending to disturb Shi Dakai's military morale. In addition, Li Zhen also asked Yang Banhou, Lu Shaochuan and Smith to lead their soldiers to act separately, just to wait for Shi Da to send troops to distribute the attack. It's a pity that Li Zhen was ready, but Shi Dakai did not send troops and remained unmoved.

Li Zhen asked Yang Banhou and others to wait patiently, and sent soldiers to inquire about Shi Dakai's movements.

At noon, Li Zhen and Long Xi were eating.

The 1,000 soldiers under his command were also eating.

In the camp tent, Long Xi sat next to Li Zhen and said, "Dashuai, Shi Dakai is unusual, he is a fierce opponent!" ”

Li Zhen swallowed the rice in his mouth and said, "This person is indeed powerful, even better than Li Xiucheng." ”

When Long Xi heard this, he said: "Li Xiucheng has returned to the marshal, this time he led the troops to fight with Shi Da, but you let Li Xiucheng stay in the army, why is this?" If Li Xiucheng is allowed to come to the scene in person, I am afraid it will be easier to defeat the other party. ”

Li Zhendao: "Don't worry, Li Xiucheng and I have my own arrangements." ”

"Step! Trample! ……”

There was a sound of footsteps, the tent curtain was rolled up, and the soldiers who had inquired about the news returned. The soldier raised his hand and saluted, and said, "Great Marshal, there is news from the front, Shi Da opened the camp and got up, avoided the Jiangbei camp, and headed towards Shandong in the north. ”

"What, Shi Dakai went to Shandong?"

Li Zhen exclaimed in surprise, his face full of surprise.

He stood up, holding a bowl of rice in his left hand and chopsticks in his right hand, pacing back and forth in the tent. After a while, Li Zhen instructed: "Shi Dakai has just started to send troops, and it is not sure yet, you go to find out the news again and report it as soon as possible." ”

The soldiers left, and Li Zhencai sat down.

Long Yu said: "Dashuai, this Shi Dakai's action is really unexpected!" We all thought that Shi Da was coming from a meeting, but he ran towards Shandong. This person is not limited to the form, almost an antelope hanging horns! ”

Li Zhen said: "For the time being, it is impossible to determine Shi Dakai's movements, after all, no one knows Shi Dakai's thoughts. Let's hold our ground for the time being and see what Shi Dakai wants to do next? Then determine what to do. ”

Long Xi nodded, agreeing with Li Zhen's opinion.

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