Chapter 163: The Alliance
Zhang Liwei and Wang Guozhong fled into Cao Wenzhao's camp and presented Wang Jiayin's head to Cao Wenzhao, Cao Wenzhao was overjoyed, and looked at Wang Jiayin's head over and over again, but he couldn't believe that this head was real, Wang Jiayin, a bandit who had been crisscrossing Shaanxi and Shanxi for many years, died like this, and the head was still in his hands. This time, Wang Jiayin's legs are useless no matter how fast they are, and it is even more impossible to come back from the dead.
After being happy, Cao Wenzhao did not forget his work, appeased Zhang Wang and the others, promised to ask the emperor for a reward for the two, and ordered the two to go down to rest, Cao Wenzhao still has aftermath work to do.
He ordered all the soldiers and horses to rush to the camp of the righteous army overnight, and made the soldiers shout as he rushed: "Wang Jiayin is dead!" "Wang Jiayin has been killed by the official army!"
When the shouts were heard in the camp of the rebels, someone immediately went to the big tent to report to Wang Jiayin, and all they found was a headless corpse.
In a panic, the news of Wang Jiayin's death was leaked, and soon spread throughout the army, and the rebel army, which was already unstable, finally collapsed, coupled with the shouting of the officers and soldiers outside the camp when they attacked, no one could come forward to lead the all-out resistance, and they all thought about how to escape from here quickly to save their lives.
The rebels fled desperately backwards, and Cao Wenzhao led his troops to chase and kill all the way behind, until he had no strength to kill people and his legs were weak. In this battle, more than 10,000 rebels were killed, and the rest fled, and Wang Jiayin's main force was completely wiped out.
Cao Wenzhao immediately reported the news of the victory to the Son of Heaven and attached Wang Jiayin's head.
Emperor Chongzhen was overjoyed when he saw the news, and the problem of thieves who had plagued him for many years was finally solved, and after that, he could make great achievements and be able to serve a generation of saints just around the corner.
The ministers of the court took the opportunity to praise the emperor well, without the emperor's decision, he would definitely not be able to eliminate the thief so quickly, and the emperor's leadership was a guarantee of invincibility. In the end, even Emperor Chongzhen believed it, and it was indeed the case.
This time, Emperor Chongzhen was rarely generous, and immediately approved the reward, and Cao Wenzhao was promoted to the chief soldier. Zhang Liwei and Wang Guozhong, who killed Wang Jiayin, also gave a lot of rewards, and were assigned the post of deputy commander-in-chief. The officers and soldiers were jubilant, the barracks were full of joy, and Cao Wenzhao was also full of ambition, and he was determined to work hard again to sweep away the remaining thieves in one fell swoop, and his merits were complete.
On the side of the rebels, the situation was critical, not only did they lose the most elite troops in this battle, but Wang Jiayin's death made the rebels leaderless. Let the rebels from all walks of life fight against Cao Wenzhao alone, no one has the strength, and in the end it is inevitable that they will be broken one by one, and everyone urgently needs to unite. At this critical moment, Wang Jiayin, the prime minister of Wang Jiayin, stood up.
Wang Zizi, nicknamed Zijin Liang, followed Wang Jiayin to fight for many years, and Wang Jiayin was named prime minister when he became king. Wang's appeal was much weaker than Wang Jiayin's, and he was unable to directly issue orders to the rebels, so he sent people to contact everywhere and invited the generals of the rebels to come to the alliance to jointly elect the leader of the alliance to preside over major events. In the end, a total of 36 Route Volunteers were assembled, known as the 36th Battalion. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, all the famous rebel leaders were concentrated here. Here there are Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, Zhang Xianzhong, the eight kings, Luo Rucai, Cao Cao, Liu Guoneng, Li Zicheng and others.
There was also a group of people who were not invited, but they came uninvited, saying that they wanted to participate as observers, and this group of people was Zhang Chu's security army.
Zhang Chu's strength is very strong, and he is also creating an opposition to the court, but Wang Ziyong feels that Zhang Chu and himself are not on the same road. Moreover, the security army also had a bloody battle with Wang Jiayin's team, and was driven out of Fugu by Zhang Chushengsheng. This revenge has not been avenged to this day, and it is absolutely impossible to invite Zhang Chu to come to the alliance.
However, Zhang Chu has been paying attention to the battle between Wang Jiayin and Cao Wenzhao, and he knows the bravery of Guanning Iron Cavalry, but he didn't expect that Wang Jiayin's tens of thousands of elites would be defeated so quickly, and in the end he didn't even save his head, and he couldn't help but regret that he was missing a good partner.
Hearing the news of the alliance, Zhang Chu was very happy, all the people who were going to participate were celebrities, all of them were historical celebrities, and such a good opportunity could not be missed. It would be nice to find one or two collaborators in between.
If I was not invited, I could recommend myself, and Zhang Chu wrote a letter to Wang Ziyong asking to participate. Wang Ziyong thinks that now you have a large territory and a large army, and I have invited you, and you are not allowed to be the leader of the alliance. So there was no response to Zhang Chu at all. Zhang Chu is unwilling, he doesn't welcome me to form an alliance, can't I go and see? I also wrote to participate as an observer. Wang Ziyong didn't understand what this observer was at all, and he didn't bother to answer Zhang Chu.
Zhang Chu, who did not receive the invitation, decided, you don't invite me, I will go by myself.
Zhang Chu set off with 2,000 cavalry, and when he came to the location of the alliance, he was found and stopped by the righteous army on guard. Zhang Chu identified himself, and the sentry immediately ran to report to Wang Ziyong. Wang Ziyong was also taken aback after receiving the report, this Zhang Chu has always been greedy for money and unprofitable, he wrote a letter to participate in the alliance, Wang Ziyong didn't take it seriously, he didn't expect him to come uninvited.
Wang Ziyong transferred a team of people to meet Zhang Chu with him, he wanted to find an opportunity to kill Zhang Chu better, but it was better to drive him away. However, when it came to the location, the king changed his mind for his own use. Because the two thousand cavalry brought by Zhang Chu were lined up there, plus the spare horses, the lineup was very large, Zhang Chu's cavalry was well-equipped, in order to participate in this conference, Zhang Chu ordered them to wipe the iron armor brightly, and at this time, he took the saber out of the scabbard and held it in his hand, straightened his body, and posed.
"Prime Minister Wang Cheng has always been good, and he misses it very much after not seeing him for many days." Zhang Chu greeted Wang Ziyong from afar.
"Welcome to Zhang Dashuai." The king himself saw that he could not send this plague god away, so it was better to stabilize him and not make trouble.
"I heard that all the rebels are meeting here, I came here to observe, observation is to see, I only look at it, you are busy with you." Zhang Chu was very conscious and expressed his intention.
"Okay, please." Wang Ziyong thinks that it is better for you not to participate than anything, otherwise this soldier is really difficult to deal with, they have been killed by the Guanning Iron Cavalry, looking at Zhang Chu's cavalry combat effectiveness, I don't know how, this war horse equipment is much better than the Guanning Iron Cavalry.
Zhang Chu led the team to the location of the alliance, looking for favorable terrain to set up camp, and other rebels from all walks of life also arrived one after another, each looking for a place to station, waiting for the meeting meeting that began tomorrow, Wang Ziyong sent people to set up a huge tent on the flat terrain, as the main venue of the alliance tomorrow. The rebels were on high alert to each other, and some of the leaders were thinking alone about what kind of attitude they should show tomorrow, while others were looking for good contacts and trying to keep warm together.
The next morning, the center of the venue was lively, and a group of people danced and played swords outside the big tent, performing martial arts. attracted people from all walks of life to come over to watch. Wang Ziyong is also strange, he didn't arrange someone to perform, and when he walked over, he saw Zhang Chu there, and the performers were all security guards.
Wang thought to himself, he said that he would not make trouble, what kind of trick is this. (To be continued.) )