Chapter Seventy-Seven

On the issue of the rebellion of the Liukou in Shaanxi, the policy adopted by the imperial court was to supplement the suppression and appease the main thing, and to use both the suppression and the appeasement. This policy looks good, and it can show the court's generosity and love for the people. But in the process of implementation, it was exploited by the rebels. For example, when many rebels saw that the general trend had gone, they adopted the strategy of surrender by deception, surrendered first, and promised to recruit peace, but as soon as the crisis was lifted, they immediately changed their faces, and they should continue to rebel and continue to rebel. As a result, the situation in Shaanxi has become even more chaotic.

The governor of the three sides, Yang He, presided over the overall situation of suppression, but he was good to the people, but because of his soft personality and too benevolent, it became more and more difficult to control the rogues. The imperial court ordered him to speed up his pace and quell the rebellion several times, but the result was not effective. However, his subordinates, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Yansui, did not act in accordance with his "policy of suppression", and went all out to recruit and suppress, not only to suppress, but also to kill and surrender, and those rogues did not dare to run to the ground under Hong Chengchou's jurisdiction. The big guys all know that in front of this adult, it is useless to deceive and surrender.

So, in the imperial court, the Yue Party officials headed by Yang Yishan began to impeach Yang He one after another, who called you Yang He was promoted by Fang Congzhe. The new first assistant Zhou Daodeng is an honest man, but when this honest man is doing things, he is really a bit ***, he directly kicked the ball to the Queen Mother, and let Zhang Yan make his own decision. The matter of suppressing bandits has repeatedly failed to achieve results, of course, Empress Dowager Zhang is very dissatisfied with Yang He, and has the heart of replacement, if this matter is Zhou Daodeng to help make a board, it will be decided, but no one wants to offend honest people, and Empress Dowager Zhang regards Yang Yishan and his gang as people in the Yue Party, and does not want to be led by their noses, and they get around.

Yang He continued to be his trilateral governor, busy every day, but the rebels were getting stronger and stronger. Lord Yang also wanted to make meritorious contributions to the court, but the traitors always didn't give face, and rebelled at night, which made him angry.

On this day, Lord Yang decided to dispatch troops and horses to teach the traitors who had disgraced him a lesson, so as to report a great victory to the court and keep his position. After all, it's not a matter of being ginseng twice in three days.

As the governor of the three sides, it is a trivial matter to mobilize troops and horses, but it is also a common practice for the three armies to go first without moving grain and grass. Generally speaking, it is common for local generals to drink the blood of soldiers and eat empty quotas, but when it comes to the real fight, they must also pay enough money, otherwise who will give you their lives.

The sub-guard of Pingliang Mansion's subordinate general kingdom may be crazy for money, and he dares to deduct the military salary allocated at this time. It happened that Governor Yang's message was sent to Pingliang, asking the kingdom to mobilize troops and horses to suppress the bandits. The governor's military order, how dare the kingdom disobey, immediately mobilize troops and horses, ready to go to war.

As a sub-guard general, the full number of soldiers under the kingdom is 5,000, and in the past, there was a net quota, and the number of people under his command was less than 2,000.

The soldiers and horses were lined up in the military field, and the kingdom first made a generous statement, and then he was about to lead the division forward. But just after he finished his tirade, a man stood up, this man was just a small boss, but he was tall and felt like he stood out from the crowd.

"General Wang, it is within our duty to go out to suppress bandits, and it is incumbent on us to do so, but the general owes us military salaries, so you have to give me an explanation today. I'm waiting for my life to be a soldier, and I have to eat enough to fight! ”

As soon as this man's words spoke, the other soldiers were immediately in an uproar, and many people followed suit, "That's right, general, it's not impossible for us to follow you to the war, but you have to pay the arrears of military salaries." It is only natural for brothers to serve as soldiers and eat food, but you do not pay military salaries, what is the reason? ”

The soldiers made a fuss, and the kingdom's heart was on fire, but there were so many noisy people that they couldn't all be cut down. If you want to kill someone, the most you can do is kill the leader. The first to speak, it was the general who didn't know each other, and Wang Kingdom glared at him fiercely and said, "Brothers, it is indeed a matter of course to be a soldier and eat food, and the general will not refuse to give it. However, the silver from the imperial court has not been delivered for a while, otherwise when this battle is over, I will make up for it for you, what do you think? ”

"If you don't come to this set, the war will kill people, and after the battle, I don't know how many brothers here can be left? If you don't give it now, will you burn it to us when the brothers die? The ugly story tells you that the brothers have already discussed that if you don't pay us and want us to go out to war, there will be no door! The general shouted.

Seeing that the general was singing against himself again, the kingdom was very angry in his heart, and thought that the originally honest soldiers must have been instigated by this guy, so he simply thought of killing this fight first, and then took his head to deter other officers and soldiers. Having made up his mind, a smile appeared on the kingdom's face, and he said: "It is true that the military salary of the imperial court has not been delivered yet, otherwise in this case, I will first pay some out of my own pocket and advance some to the brothers, and when the military salary is delivered, we will distribute it." ”

"That's fine!" …… Seeing the compromise of the kingdom, the soldiers shouted loudly with satisfaction.

This is also an expedient measure for the kingdom, he has been a general for so many years, and he knows that if he does not pull out a dime, it is really difficult to command soldiers to fight. Although I was reluctant to pay for the silver, I had to take out some of it. He then instructed his cronies to go and collect their salaries.

In fact, he didn't plan to give much to the soldiers, and each person gave two taels of silver, which was very good. The kingdom knows a lot about these bitter soldiers, as long as they have a little money. And he also knew that as long as there was silver, the hearts of the soldiers would not be so aligned, and at this time, no one would dare to say more than half a word, and they would be more honest.

When the money came, the kingdom pointed to the chief and said in a loud voice, "Come here first!" The boss was very arrogant, and when he saw that the kingdom was pointing at him, he didn't take it seriously, but walked straight forward. When he came to Dianjiangtai, the kingdom suddenly gave an order, "Take him down for me!" ”

The henchmen under his hand immediately moved and pounced on the commander. But they really didn't expect that the general was not only tall and powerful, but also very flexible, dodged to the side, and dodged. He now also saw that the kingdom was trying to take his own life, killing chickens and monkeys, and it was much better for others to die than to die himself, so he casually drew his waist knife, raised his hand, cut down a soldier who was closest to him, followed an arrow step, and rushed towards the kingdom.

The two were not far away, and the kingdom thought that it was always a matter of grasping a small handful, and he didn't want the situation to change abruptly, so he would hack the soldiers to death and pounce on him. He hurriedly drew his saber and shouted, "Stop him!" ”

The two soldiers immediately stopped him, and the two soldiers were knocked to the ground on the spot, and the steel knife in his hand was waved left and right. Immediately after, he raised the steel knife high and slashed at the top of the kingdom's head.

The kingdom was shocked and shouted, "You dare to ......" The answer was soon revealed, it was a silent answer, and with a "plop", the kingdom fell to the ground with its back to the sky.

After killing the kingdom, he put the steel knife in his hand and said loudly: "The kingdom will not pay the army, but will kill me, you can see it clearly, I have no choice but to kill him!" Brother, I'll leave now, brothers, if you still look at the past feelings, please don't stop me! I see that the imperial court is exhausted, and Lao Tzu plans to reverse today, if you can afford to look down on my brother, follow me! Brother promises, even if there is only one bite to eat, it will be eaten by the big guys! ”

After speaking, he strode in front of the officers and soldiers. Those soldiers and ruffians had already been shocked by his momentum, and whoever dared to stop him, wherever he passed, the soldiers got out of the way.

"Uncle, you wait for me, I'll go with you!" This kung fu, there is a man, shouted loudly. This man, surnamed Li, is named Li Guo.

In this way, the total life is self-evident, his name is Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng killed the generals and decided to rebel, and Li Guo was the first to respond. He is a general, and of course there are soldiers who follow him, and those soldiers are quite moved to see Li Zicheng's impassionedness, and they shout loudly one by one, "Brother Li, the brothers are willing to rebel with you!" ”

Jin Lin is not a thing in the pool! Li Zicheng left the barracks and joined the rebellion with his nephew Li Guo and the hundred soldiers. With his current strength and fame, he naturally didn't dare to establish himself as a king, so he defected to a person, and this person was Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang. With his own bravery, Li Zicheng soon had a place under Gao Yingxiang's account and became a famous general under Gao Yingxiang!

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July of the second year of Chongjing.

With the help of Zheng Zhilong, Yue Su relied on heavy ships and sharp artillery to eliminate almost all the pirates along the coast of Fujian.

The next goal is to recover Penghu and Taiwan. Compared with Taiwan's wãn, Penghu is still relatively easy to recover, and only a few encounters with Dutch arms on it are nothing.

After some deliberation, Yue Su decided to send five huge warships, 100 large and small warships, and 5,000 soldiers and horses to recover the Penghu Islands.

Naturally, everyone is willing to grab this kind of credit. Kong Youde, Mao Youjian, Zheng Zhilong and other generals stood up one after another, expressing their willingness to lead the army to recover Penghu.

Facing the enthusiasm of his generals, Yue Su was very happy. But Zheng Zhilong had already made a lot of contributions to the extermination of pirates, and the credit for recovering Penghu had to be his turn. So, Yue Su gave this credit to Mao Youjian and made him the main general, leading the fleet to capture Penghu. However, Lord Yue was also afraid of affecting the enthusiasm of other generals, and told them that there is still a bigger battle to be fought in Taiwan, and you should rest well until you take Penghu, and you will let go of it!

Since the adult said so, of course Zheng Zhilong is inconvenient to say more, the friendship between Kong Youde and Mao Youjian is there, and it is not good to fight for merit. Mei Zizi's Mao immediately received the order, ordered all the people, and set off.