PS: Power outage, sorry, it's late. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Three thousand taels of gold, your father-in-law, you have a good calculation."

Kong Youde twisted a gold ingot in his hand and threw it hard, but he was not excited at all in his heart, these days, he had plundered enough, and the soldiers under his command had swelled to more than 12,000 people, and the silver was naturally sufficient, what really interested him was not the gold, but the proposal from the west.

"This is Jiang Taigong fishing, the wisher is just taking the bait, the general used to divide his troops from Denglai to the west, which means to break the luck, but in fact, he divided his troops and became independent."

Secret envoy, go to Xuanhua, saw the so-called Beijing camp soldiers and horses, in the Tianjin Wei to the sea to Xuzhou Wei, hard work to find Kong Youde, it was Lin Chengzu who sent the Mongolian Hetao Eight Division, he has now been an official to the Qin Palace, and the actual position in the imperial court has also been sent to Shanxi as an envoy, of course, the Ming court to Li Jing's people, that is in principle not a single approval.

But who let everyone in the Qin Wangfu not care about this, anyway, what His Royal Highness the King of Qin appointed is a holy decree in Shanxi and Shaanxi, who dares to disrespect it? No, Lin Chengzu, who was hanging on the envoy of Daming Shanxi, had just returned from Yulin, and rushed to Nanzhili non-stop to see Kong Youde.

"Since ancient times, princes and generals, rather there is a kind, the general holds the world's heavy troops, full of prestige, and dominates the sea, but in Huguang Zhili, the Liaodong people are not enough to gain a foothold, otherwise according to the strength of the general, the king would have been torn apart long ago,"

This is true, if it weren't for Kong Youde's identity as a native of Liaodong, I'm afraid that now, there shouldn't be only 12,000 people under his command, if it weren't for the fact that he couldn't get along, the people in the interior of the Central Plains would not be willing to follow him.

Kong Youde himself is also troubled by this matter, but who can help it, the fundamental power under him is the three thousand iron horses of Dongjiang Town, Liaodong, which is impossible to give up, although he has lost some at hand now. But there are still 2,700 people, and the newly recruited foot soldiers of about 10,000 people, although they are all selected from their young and strong, are just cannon fodder.

Let him abandon his Liaodong army. It is impossible to turn to the infantry army in the mainland.

"What did the gentleman teach me?"

Since King Qin was willing to treat him politely, Kong Youde was not stupid, and he went south from Laizhou to avoid Li Jiucheng's edge. Completely take charge of the independence of the army, otherwise if you live under the people for a long time, won't you have no future?

Lin Chengzu smiled when he heard this, knowing that he was already moving, so he sat cross-legged and said, "The general, based in Liaodong, has countless elite soldiers under his command, but Li Jiucheng is the one." The prestige of the army is far better than that of the general, no matter how the command of the military formation, it is all bright for a while, the general comes to the west, the sea and the sky are vast, like a fish in water, these days, I must know myself. ”

Kong Youde is not in a hurry, anyway, starting from Laizhou, his side. He always took the so-called lobbyist with him, and he knew that one day, the one in the west would arrange for someone to contact him again. Moreover, after leading the troops westward, his life was indeed much more comfortable than when he was under Li Jiucheng, and now he has completely mastered this iron cavalry of 3,000 people, which is his capital.

"But General Er, the foundation is in Liao, although the interior is good. But there is no way to gain a foothold, unless the general is willing to abandon this part of the force and instead seek development in the interior, but dare to ask the general, is he willing? ”

Kong Youde saw him ask like this, and he didn't think about it and refused directly, "Although the sun sets in the Ming Court, but there are tens of millions of military households in the interior, although I have the advantage of cavalry, but I have no choice but to fight with each other, in the past, Xunyang led an army of 7,000 troops, and fought in the Huguang Boundary, and I lost 200 cavalry before retreating, but such soldiers and horses in the world, not to mention 100,000, I ask myself, if you leave the cavalry and take charge of the foot soldiers alone, although you can get 100,000 people, but you are not the opponent of the imperial court." ”

This is his helplessness, if you want to develop rapidly, then you must recruit people widely, but the two forces that have been faintly formed in the army have been fighting, and the Dongjiang soldiers and horses from the Liaodong Department are naturally unwilling to weaken their power in the army, so they do everything possible to accumulate the interests of the foot soldiers, which causes a problem.

In the field battle, Kong Youde was able to win the battle, and even chased and killed the incoming army of the Ming army a hundred miles away, but when he encountered the city, could the precious cavalry go into battle? It is obviously impossible, which requires foot soldiers to go into battle, but the foot soldiers are weak in the army, and they are squeezed out and oppressed by the Liaodong people, and they are not willing to die.

In the case of failing to gain a firm foothold, Kong Youde naturally needs to co-opt this part of the foot soldiers, and he is not willing to make a dead hand to rectify, so even if he wanders in the northern Anhui region for several months, Kong Youde has only broken a few county towns, but he has not been able to occupy them, and he is afraid that the strength of the foot soldiers is too strong and threatens his position, so he did not expand the army on a large scale.

"What the general said is very true, therefore, Denglai 100,000 Liao people, is the foundation of the general, my lord has a word first, the general, the dragon among the people, is the so-called court has no way, the heroes are chasing the deer, and now, the world is in chaos, try to win the prize, the general goes to northern Anhui, and even the battle is victorious, which is enough to prove the prosperity of the general's army and horses, enough to level the official army."

When Kong Youde heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, Li Jing, the king of Qin in Xifu, has hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers in the world, but the situation of the trapped dragon, there is still a little bit of climate to compete for the world, that is, the strength of the landlords entrenched in the Central Plains and Jiangnan and other places is still very strong, even if Li Jing asks himself to break the capital and kill the emperor, but he will face endless conquests, and even in the case of Tartars outside the customs and rogues in the interior, he cannot ensure his victory.

This situation is clearly seen by many people in the world, so they are not afraid, and the court is not afraid.

Because the emperor believes that he still has 150,000 troops in Xuanhua and more than 200,000 elites in Beijing, this is enough to ensure the safety of the capital, as long as Henan and Shandong are pacified, and the money and grain in Jiangnan can enter Beijing smoothly, then Li Jing's threat can be slowly cut off, and the six yamen of Nanjing and the governor's office of the five armies have begun to plan the northern transfer of the southern army to participate in the war.

Although this is wishful thinking, in essence, it has been echoed by many people, that is, Li Jing's practice of killing all the landlords in the world and dividing the fields is enough to make them feel afraid, if such a person gets the world, it will be a disaster for the scholars, so they must also come out to support the court at this time.

Kong Youde took these thoughts, and the confidence in his heart was enough, but he still couldn't figure out where his way out was.

When he questioned these words, Lin Chengzu smiled confidently and said, "The general is also the hero, as the so-called one mountain does not allow two tigers, there is my lord in the northwest, and there is a general in the northeast, isn't it happy?!" ”

He knew that Kong Youde had already entered the trap, and no one in the world would be able to stop him from the temptation of such a bright power, so he stood up and walked back and forth, and after Kong Youde made his head shake, he spoke,

"Don't you hear that the former Warring States Heroes, the two emperors of the East and the West, Qin in the west, Qi in the east, Shandong, since ancient times, is the land of the king, today the general is in the north of Anhui, north to Henan to return to Germany, there are 200,000 righteous soldiers, this heroic army, rushing to Denglai, and then in addition to the main force of the Shandong official army, seize the land of Qilu, the cause of the king is completed, the general is called the king in the east, the male lord of the Qi country, and the king of my lord in the west, is it not the state of the brothers."

After saying this, he bullied himself again, looked at each other and said, "General Liaoren, guard Liaotu, my lord Jinren, guard the land of Qin and Jin, at that time, each will rely on means to take the world as the foundation, benefit the people, and chase the Central Plains, wouldn't it be happy?!" ”

After hearing this, Kong Youde got up and muttered, "My lord is the land of Qilu, the king of Qi, the territory of the territory, the establishment of the Liaodong Kingdom, and the hundreds of thousands of righteous troops, defeating the official army, the general trend will be achieved, Qi and Qin will compete for power, each by means, the king of Qi, the king of Qi." ”

At this time, his ambition and ambition were all stimulated, people will never stop if they don't go to a desperate situation, Kong Youde raised troops from Wuqiao, he didn't plan to go back, but he was still a little worried, so he asked,

"One of the two hundred thousand is not a sincere surrender? The two generalissimos are still here, even if I return to Denglai, won't I make a wedding dress for others? ”

Kong Youde left when he left, just because Li Jiucheng was here, and he didn't have a bright future, so now when he goes back, Li Jiucheng is still there, doesn't that mean that he still has to live under others?

However, at this time, these people who were heading west did not know that Li Jiucheng was seriously ill and that the army was temporarily under the command of Geng Zhongming.

But this didn't bother Lin Chengzu, he only moved Kong Youde with just a fluttering sentence,

"In the past, Denglai soldiers and horses, generals were among the generals, Li Jiucheng was just a general, but he could be called the generalissimo, nothing more than Chen Shi who crossed the sea that day, I only heard that Chen was sometimes dead, Li Jiucheng was like a broken arm, and now the Liaodong army and horses, the siege of Laizhou failed, and was defeated by the Guanning army, trapped in Dengzhou, Li Jiucheng was difficult to support alone, and his prestige suffered a heavy blow."

"If the general returns to the division at this time, and governs the power of great victory, won't he be able to capture it? I only heard that the former deputy generals of Phi Dao, Mao Chenglu and Geng Zhongming, were the general's siblings, wouldn't they be closer than an outsider? What's more, the righteous army is all the way, there is no need for the general to say more, our Qin army entered Henan in a big way, dragging the Ming army, the general only took people into Lu, and wiped out the general army of each town in one fell swoop, and the world can be expected. ”

"If so, I will immediately lead my army north."

The news that Lin Chengzu brought about Chen was sometimes defeated and died and Li Jiucheng was trapped in Dengzhou, which hit Kong Youde's weakness at once, that is, he left that day, because Li Jiucheng and Chen sometimes joined forces in the army to balance him, and the gap between the strength of the two sides was obvious.

But if Chen Shi dies in battle now, Li Jiucheng's prestige plummets, and the Ming army besieges Dengzhou, it must be empty behind him, if he can quickly march to Denglai and defeat the Ming army, then with the support of Geng Zhongming and Mao Chenglu in the army, he may not be able to drive out Li Jiucheng.

"It's done!" (To be continued.) )