Chen Jisheng listened to Zhang Chu's words and couldn't help but worry about his future in Dongjiang. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Don't worry about this, Dongjiang has its unique geographical conditions, otherwise Lao Mao Shuai would not be able to take you to develop in Dongjiang. Now it's just that the situation has changed, and the Houjin people have become stronger, squeezing your living space. If the Dongjiang Army becomes strong enough, there is still much to be done in the Dongjiang River. I have a large number of factories and mines in Shandong and Shanxi, which can produce a lot of cloth and iron tools that are urgently needed in Northeast China, and I also have a fleet of ships to deliver grain from Jiangnan to Denglai, and the grain transported saves a lot of labor and is much cheaper than Cao Yun. If you bring precious medicinal materials such as ginseng from the Northeast to Jiangnan, the profits here are also very considerable. There are also Houjin people who can rob us, why can't we rob Houjin people? I have done this several times, killed more than 2,000 Tatars, and exchanged tens of thousands of taels of silver from the emperor. Zhang Chu decided to tempt them with something real.

"Are the Tartars really that easy to deal with?" The ferocity of the Houjin people once left a deep impression on Mao Chengzuo.

"The bravery of the Tartars was before, but now it is different, because we have a sharper weapon against them, and that is the musket, and a child with a musket can kill a white armor. I have an idea to sell muskets to the Han people in the northeast to protect themselves, or to kill the Tatars and give us their heads in exchange for silver. The Tatars are already sparsely populated, and we slowly bleed the Houjin people like this, and it won't take a few years for the Houjin people to roll back to the deep mountains and old forests where their ancestors stayed. Zhang Chu is ready to attack the weakness of the sparse population of the Houjin, even if it is a one-on-one exchange, the Han people can survive the Houjin people to death.

"We also have muskets in our team, which can be used cumbersomely, not far and inaccurate, although they can break through the iron armor at close range, but they can't engage in hand-to-hand combat when they are close, so the musket is always a chicken rib in the team." Liu Xingzhi has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, and he is very familiar with muskets, he listened to Zhang Chu's words as if to fool everyone, and pointed it out on the spot.

"You're talking about vintage muskets. Our security forces are equipped with new muskets, which are not only easy to use but also accurate in long ranges. Zhang Chu is still very confident in the muskets in the hands of the security army.

"Let's go back and ask our brothers what they want to do." Mao Chengzuo and the others couldn't make a decision on the spot, and wanted to go back to discuss and discuss, so they made an excuse to leave.

Back in Mao Chengzuo's battalion, the four of them sat in the big tent and were silent, and finally Mao Chengzuo spoke first: "I think Zhang Zongbing's method may be feasible, if it succeeds, the Dongjiang people still have a glimmer of life, at worst, we accept the reorganization, Zhang Chu should also pay the soldiers, and everyone will not go hungry." ”

"This Zhang Chu can only talk in the vernacular, and the Jin people are like paper paste, and he still dreams of recovering Lushun and returning to land, I don't think not only Lushun can't get it back, but even this Ming is about to die. You can calculate how many cities outside the pass have been lost by the Ming army in the past few years, and which one has finally been recaptured. Now that we in Dongjiang no longer have the strength to fight against the Houjin, the Houjin people have no worries, and it is easy to bypass the Shanhaiguan Pass and enter the Jingshi area. Last time, the Jin people entered the customs and looted in the Gaoshi area for half a year, and which army could defeat them, maybe the emperor Taiji sent troops into the customs to break through the Beijing city and the Ming Dynasty died, we still have to find a way to retreat as soon as possible, this Ming is unreliable, it is better to take refuge in Houjin. Liu Xingzhi strongly opposed being co-opted by Zhang Chu, and even put forward the words of defecting to Houjin.

"Shut up!" Chen Jisheng loudly frightened Liu Xingzhi, "We are the people of the Ming Dynasty, and even if we starve to death in the Dongjiang River, we will not take refuge in Houjin." “

"If you don't take refuge in Houjin, you think you will have a good end if you follow Zhang Chu, Zhang Chu said that the reorganization of the Dongjiang Army actually took away your military power, and in the end you have no soldiers and no generals, and you don't know how to die. Huang Taiji's attitude towards the Han people is very different from Nurhachi's, many Han generals who surrendered to the past have been reused, and we can have a bright future after we surrender to Houjin, why not? Liu Xingzhi continued to persuade several other people.

"Hugh has to say more, we can't do anything about taking refuge in Houjin. How many Han Chinese did Nurhachi slaughter kill in the city back then, and I must avenge this revenge. Chen Jisheng was unmoved.

"Revenge, I think I'm looking for death, I'm not here to accompany you." After Sun Xingzhi finished speaking, he got up and walked outside the big tent.

"You! You! ......" Chen Ji stood up from his chair and trembled, unable to even speak neatly for a while.

Mao Chengzuo and Xu Futai hurriedly went over to support Chen Jisheng, and looked helplessly at Liu Xingzhi's departing back.

The four top leaders of the Dongjiang Four Associations are not of the same mind. Chen Jisheng was the former deputy general of Dongjiang who followed Mao Wenlong for many years and was very loyal to Mao Wenlong. Mao Chengzuo is young, and Xu Futai has little qualifications and no appeal. Liu Xingzhi was Yuan Chonghuan's man who installed him in the Dongjiang Military Town. At that time, Liu Xingzhi had Yuan Chonghuan's support, and the momentum once overtook Chen Jisheng, and later Yuan Chonghuan was executed, and Liu Xingzhi relented a little. Liu Xingzhi was very loyal to Yuan Chonghuan, and he always held a grudge against the emperor for executing Yuan Chonghuan, and he was also afraid that the imperial court would one day liquidate Yuan Chonghuan's remnants, so he had always made a way out for himself. Before Zhang Chu came to Dongjiang, he had already sent someone to get in touch with Huang Taiji, and the two sides had many discussions to study how Liu Xingzhi would take refuge in Houjin.

Zhang Chu's arrival made Liu Xingzhi feel that time was pressing, and he decided to take action in advance. The few words just now were just his hope that he could bring more Dongjiang soldiers to the past to increase his bargaining chips for surrender, and he didn't believe that Chen Jisheng would surrender. Therefore, he failed to persuade him to surrender, and hurriedly ran back to the island where he was stationed to prepare for surrender.

When Liu Xingzhi returned to the island, he immediately called one of his cronies, who had been running errands for Liu Xingzhi, connecting Liu Xingzhi and Huang Taiji and passing information to them. Liu Xingzhi sent his cronies to bring a handwritten letter to Huang Taiji, in which he stated that he had made up his mind to defect to Houjin, and mentioned that Zhang Chu, the commander of Dengzhou, had come to Phi Island with a fleet and only led a thousand men to be stationed on the island. If Zhang Chu is captured alive, he can not only eliminate the security forces on the island, but also force the fleet at sea to surrender with Zhang Chu as a hostage, and Houjin can get a large number of valuable ships.

Liu Xingzhi's cronies quickly sent the letter to Huang Taiji through the previous channels, and the Huang Taiji who received the letter was of course happy that someone in Dongjiang was finally willing to surrender, but what made him even more excited was that he saw a familiar name, although Zhang Chu's official position was small, it was always ghostly, and almost all the defeats of the Jin people in the last few times were related to Zhang Chu. How could Huang Taiji let go of this great opportunity, he immediately ordered a Niu Lu Ezhen to go straight to Phi Island with 1,500 Houjin soldiers, and ordered Zhang Chu to stay on Phi Dao regardless of whether he lived or died. (To be continued.) )