Chapter 164: Li Zicheng
The conference had not officially begun, and Zhang Chu brought people to the outside of the venue early.
Looking at the crowd of people standing around him, Zhang Chu walked to the middle and said loudly: "Idle is also idle, how about letting my guards show you martial arts and kicks?" ”
The people here are all swordsmen licking blood, experienced in a hundred battles, naturally interested in martial arts, everyone consciously gave up the field, Zhang Chu ordered a guard to go down the field to practice a fist and kick, sure enough, after being taught by a famous teacher, the practice is tiger and tiger, and the power is abnormal. After a set of boxing exercises, everyone applauded, applauded continuously, and another guard performed a set of knife techniques with a steel knife in his hand, this set of knife techniques is simple and unpretentious, indeed sharp and fierce, at a glance, you will know that this knife method is designed for killing enemies on the battlefield. Everyone silently watched the guard's drill, thinking in their hearts how to deal with this knife if it slashed at themselves, the knife flashed, and everyone felt the pressure from above.
After practicing the knife, the morale of the guard does not grow, and the face does not change, and at first glance, it is a practitioner who often exercises.
Zhang Chu picked up a knife and walked into the hall and gave a salute to everyone, everyone thought, does this leader want to practice by himself?
Unexpectedly, Zhang Chu was a mouthful of words that he didn't practice, and he arched his hand to everyone and said: "Hello everyone, I am Zhang Chu of the security army, and I am honored to participate in this grand event." ”
When he said this, the people present were taken aback. Everyone didn't know Zhang Chu, and when they saw him young, they thought he was the leader of a small group of rebels. Everyone is very familiar with the security army, and the security army has also been famous over the years, but this reputation is a bit complicated, in addition to the strong strength of the security army, which has repeatedly defeated the official army, and can also occupy a place and live a good life, that is, Zhang Chu looks at his territory like a vicious dog, the official army is not allowed to enter, the righteous army is not allowed to enter, and sometimes even the displaced people are not accepted. Whoever enters his territory, he bites whom.
Everyone recited Zhang Chu's resume here, and Zhang Chu continued there: "Everyone is mixed up on the battlefield, and they know the importance of a blade that can be used at hand, and a good blade can sometimes save lives." Today I brought you the new production of Zhongyang stainless steel knife, each one is a sharp weapon for sharpening iron like clay, you see what I am holding is the Zhongyang knife, his is now commonly used by officers and soldiers embroidered spring knife. As he spoke, he pointed to a knife in the hand of a middle-aged guard next to him, "Come over and let everyone see the power of the Zhongyang Knife." After speaking, I saw Zhang Chu take out a few copper coins and put them on the embroidered spring wan held by the guard, and then raised the knife and cut down, the copper coin was immediately cut in half, scattered all over the ground, and the embroidered spring knife was also broken in response, only half of it was still in the hands of the middle-aged guard.
Everyone is an expert, Zhang Chu used the Zhongyang knife to cut the embroidered spring knife that was lying flat is a bit tricky, but it takes a sharp and good knife to cut the copper coin in half.
Zhang Chu saw Wang Ziyong coming over, and he was even more energetic. He beckoned to Wang Ziyong and said, "The quality of this knife is the most important for Prime Minister Wang, I sold them a lot before, you say yes." Everyone turned their eyes to the king himself, and some people greeted him with a salute.
Wang Ziyong was noncommittal to Zhang Chu's words and did not say anything. He had made many transactions with Zhang Chu before, and the enmity with Zhang Chu was still there, and the entire rebel army was reluctant to publicize the transaction between the two sides.
Zhang Chu saw that the king was silent, and continued to take care of himself: "We not only have extremely sharp steel knives, but also extremely strong armor. Zhang Chu had already prepared, and the guards moved over a human-shaped wooden stake with plate armor on it. The guard stood on the stake and fired several arrows at the stake with the crossbow arrows in his hand, which clanged on the armor and fell to the ground. Another guard used to use an embroidered spring knife to slash fiercely, which made the leaders of the rebel army present feel a little heartbroken, and every pair of armor in the rebel army was very precious.
The guard stopped and showed everyone the embroidered spring knife, which had already curled its blade, and the armor had been cut in a few places, but it was not broken. Zhang Chu took the opportunity to say, you see how strong this armor is, the swords and arrows of the Ming army can't help it at all.
Wang Zi was very dissatisfied with Zhang Chu in his heart, you said that if you don't make trouble, you can't treat this as a market to sell things, and you also personally went on the field to sell, it is really shameless to ask for money. So he said angrily: "Your knife is extremely sharp, and the armor is abnormally strong, if you use your Zhongyang knife to cut the armor, which one will be broken?" ”
Everyone burst out laughing.
Zhang Chu picked up the Zhongyang knife and looked at it and said, "I don't know which one will be broken, the knife or the armor, but people will definitely not die." After speaking, he picked up the knife in his hand and slashed at the armor, only to sparks scattered. Zhang Chu continued: "The person with the knife is still sharp in his hand, and the person with armor can continue to charge. He showed the knife to the crowd, and there was not a single sign of damage on it. The armor had only been cut through a small opening, and there would have been no serious injuries if there were people inside.
Wang Ziyong thought of the two thousand cavalry who came with Zhang Chu, everyone was wearing such armor and holding the Zhongyang Treasure Knife, and he couldn't help but feel a little chill in his heart, if he encountered such a group of iron barrels on the battlefield, what would he have to use to deal with it.
At this time, Zhang Chu carried out even more shameless propaganda over there. "Everyone knows that brother, I recently became a Mongolian horse, the grassland is our own home, whoever needs a war horse can find me, the supply is sufficient, and the price is cheap."
Wang Ziyong really didn't want to watch Zhang Chu's performance, so he beckoned: "Leaders, please, let's start discussing the matter of the alliance." "I led everyone into the big tent.
Without the audience, Zhang Chu lost interest in performing and followed everyone to the big tent to watch the excitement. This time he was really honest, just quietly observing without saying a word.
Although there were differences among the leaders of the rebel army, now that the official army and soldiers were pressing, they all put aside their prejudices, and soon reached a one-to-one point, elected Wang Ziyong as the leader of the alliance, unified the strength of the rebel army, and jointly fought against the official army.
Wang Ziyong was very satisfied with this result, and the other rebel leaders also had an extra sense of security in their hearts. The 36 Route Righteous Army added up to more than 200,000 people, so how could it have a little chance of winning against Cao Wenzhao's more than 3,000 people.
Most of the leaders dispersed, and the remaining influential ones went to the side to secretly study the future actions of the rebels.
There were not a few people left in the venue, Zhang Chu stood there a little melancholy, he came here to take a look at those famous historical celebrities, but a group of people were in a mess, he couldn't tell who was who, and no one introduced him. The propaganda of bringing things by himself and working hard, all the rebels were not interested, and no one said that they wanted to buy it, and this trip was going to be in vain.
Zhang Chu walked towards his camp with the guards, preparing to return early, when a voice came, "Is Zhang Dashuai going back to Fugu?" ”
Zhang Chu raised his eyes and saw that a young general who was not much older than himself was greeting him on the side of the road.
"Yes, I'm going to go, I don't know who the general is?" Zhang Chu looked at the other party and asked.
"In Xia Li Zicheng, I want to do some business with Dashuai." The visitor replied as he saluted. (To be continued.) )