Li Zicheng, the most famous rebel in the late Ming Dynasty, was also the most successful rebel, and other rebels were wiped out by the official army one after another, but Li Zicheng became stronger and stronger, and he was still called the emperor? Established Dashun, entered the Forbidden City, forced Emperor Chongzhen to hang, if it wasn't for Wu Sangui to lead the Qing army into the customs, Li Zicheng's emperor could still be a few more days.

Zhang Chu saw such a big man standing in front of him, and felt that this time it was not in vain.

Li Zicheng was born in the thirty-fourth year of Wanli, only twenty-five years old this year, not much older than Zhang Chu, he is already the leader of the 36th Road Volunteer Army, nicknamed Chuang General, at this time the title of King Chuang still belongs to Gao Yingxiang.

Li Zicheng was also very excited to see Zhang Chu, Zhang Chu was younger than him, his territory was bigger than him, and his subordinates were more than him. In a few years, he was mixed like this, and he was almost Li Zicheng's idol.

The current Li Zicheng has not yet dominated one side, but has endured too many hardships in life.

Li Zicheng's real name is Li Hongji, and his nickname is Huang Lai'er, legend has it that when Li Zicheng was born, his father dreamed that a man in yellow entered the earthen kiln, so he gave him the nickname Huang Lai'er. This legend implies that Li Zicheng has the appearance of an emperor and will become an emperor sooner or later.

The emperor's appearance failed to improve Li Zicheng's life, and he was given to the temple as a young monk in his childhood, and he also herded sheep for the landlord. At the age of twenty-one, he was helpless and recruited to Yinchuan Post Station as a post man, responsible for taking care of the horses, so that he could have something to eat. It didn't take long for such a day, and then Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, Emperor Chongzhen has never been rich since he ascended the throne, and a minister in the first year of Chongzhen gave the emperor an idea, no money, let's reduce the post station, Li Zicheng was laid off and unemployed.

Li Zicheng, who has no job, can only borrow money to live, the borrowed money must be repaid, and he can't pay off the debt when it is due, and he was sued by the creditor to the county, and the county order arrested him, and he ran out under the rescue of relatives and friends.

After killing the creditor, he returned home and found another thing that needed to be killed: his head was green. His wife Han Jin'er committed adultery with people from the same village, Li Zicheng killed his wife again, carrying two lives on his back, so he had to flee and go to Gansu with his nephew Li Guo to join the army. When Houjin entered the Kou Jing Division, he accompanied the military Qin Wang to the Beijing Division, but the commander withheld the military salary and did not pay it, causing the soldiers to mutiny, and Li Zicheng officially joined the ranks of the righteous army.

Li Zicheng didn't look for Zhang Chu to see the idol in his heart, he wanted to buy a horse from Zhang Chu.

Li Zicheng was responsible for taking care of the horses when he was a post man, and he knew and felt for the horses very well. The two years of conquest also made him pay more attention to the construction of cavalry, always wanting to establish a strong cavalry force, the rebel army is mainly mobile combat, with cavalry can not only raid, but also can flee when the enemy is strong, so that he is invincible. He was very envious when he saw Zhang Chu's cavalry. Zhang Chu said that there were horses to sell, and Li Zicheng was moved, and at the end of the alliance, he found Zhang Chu to buy some horses.

Zhang Chu was very happy to hear Li Zicheng's intentions, this was finally opened, and immediately agreed to sell Li Zicheng's horses at a price lower than the market price, and the two sides quickly negotiated the deal, Li Zicheng's team was still very weak at this time, and the property was not very much, so only twenty horses were bought.

Zhang Chu thought to himself that it didn't matter if there was a little less, as long as he opened and established contact with Li Zicheng, it would be a matter of time before he could expand the team with Li Zicheng's ability, and there would be big business to do in the future.

Zhang Chu immediately ordered the guards to select twenty good horses from the spare horses and hand them to Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng called a general of his age to hand over the money, and introduced Zhang Chu to him: "This is my nephew Li Guo, if there is anything in the future, you can send someone to contact him." ”

Li Guo is Li Zicheng's own nephew, the same age as Li Zicheng, but a generation younger than Li Zicheng, and is in charge of the money and food in Li Zicheng's army.

Zhang Chu greeted Li Guo warmly and said, "Hello, I will have to contact more in the future." Do you buy horses, not weapons and armor? ”

Li Guo smiled and said: "My uncle likes horses the most, and if we don't buy horses, we won't have any money." ”

"Money is not a problem, I will give you two sets of armor and some weapons first, and when you have money in the future, you can buy them at any time, I welcome them." Zhang Chu was rarely generous.

Li Zicheng's uncle and nephew happily left with horses and weapons.

Zhang Chu looked at Li Zicheng's back and sighed: "It's really a hero in troubled times, only when the world is in turmoil can a hero like Li Zicheng be created, otherwise Li Zicheng may raise horses for a lifetime at the post station." How is it that the head of such a big hero is always green? ”

Li Zicheng's head was green more than once, after joining the rebel army, he married his wife Xing, and then Xing and Li Zicheng's general Gao Jie committed adultery, and was later discovered by Li Zicheng, Xing and Gao Jie surrendered to the court together, of course, this matter has not happened yet. Zhang Chu was thinking about whether to remind Li Zicheng, but in the end he decided to forget it, and now he may be beaten if he says this. Gao Jie is also a talent, after defecting to the court, he went all the way to the general army, he tried every means to recruit troops to preserve his strength, and became an influential warlord in the last years of the Ming Dynasty. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiang, the king of Fufu in the south of the Yangtze River, ascended the throne and was named Xingping Bo, and Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, and Huang Degong were called the four towns of Jiangbei.

Zhang Chu shook his head and dispelled his unrealistic thoughts, without Gao Jie, there will definitely be someone else, history is very willful and stubborn.

Zhang Chu inquired about Wei Xue's situation in the righteous army again, fortunately, Wei Xue was not with Wang Jiayin in this war, he followed Wang Ziyong in the rear, this time he did not come here, the whole person was safe and sound, Zhang Chu was relieved.

Seeing that the rebels were almost gone, Zhang Chu also returned to Zhongyang with the team. He has been fighting in Fugu these days, Zhongyang still has a lot of affairs that he needs to deal with personally, and he also misses Zhu Jishi a little, this Xiucai has taken care of local affairs well, and it is time to praise him.

Cao Wenzhao's victory in eliminating Wang Jiayin promoted himself to an official, but buried the career of another person, this person is Yang He, the governor of the three sides. This victory gave the emperor hope of exterminating the thieves, and showed that the policy of appeasement was a failure. Of course, the failure of the appeasement is not the emperor's fault, there must be someone who is not doing well, this person chose Yang He, Yang He was not only dismissed, but also put into prison, the trilateral governor was vacant, and Hong Chengchou succeeded as the trilateral governor. After Hong Chengchou took office, he changed Yang He's policy of "suppressing while pacifying" to "going all out to clear and suppress" and went all out to attack the rebels. At this time, Wang Chengen, the chief soldier of Shaanxi, Yang Jiamo, the general soldier of Gansu, and other soldiers of the army were transferred back to Shaanxi to participate in the pursuit and suppression. The officers and troops gathered in Shaanxi and concentrated their forces to attack the Shaanxi Peasant Army.

Now Hong Chengchou has both power and soldiers, and the whole person is proud, full of ambition, and decided to do a big job. What he wanted to do most was to seek revenge on Zhang Chu, who had repaired him.

So the officers and soldiers of the brigade moved towards the extension. (To be continued.) )