Listening to Governor Gao's sincere resignation, Jia Minghe felt a little ashamed, now breaking into the army to besiege the city, if he can't hold on, it will be the end of the whole army, and Xu Ping outside the city is his big enemy.

Gao Mingheng saw that Jia Minghe was speechless, so he persuaded bitterly: "Jia Shuai, after all, you still have to put your father first, now it's just a matter of urgency, if it weren't for the thieves who betrayed Huang Hou and brought these thieves to besiege the city, where would there be such a disaster." ”

As soon as the governor mentioned the relationship between Xu Ping and the Marquis of Zhendong, Jia Minghe felt that he was at a loss, just like discussing the matter of persuasion at the head of the city that day, Jia Minghe had no choice but to retreat and return to the garrison with the "field ladies" who had been assigned to the officers of the new army.

Back at the barracks of the new army, Jia Minghe instructed his subordinates to arrange shelters for these girls and send patrols to prevent anyone from harassing them.

"Go and ask where these women's homes are," Jia Minghe planned to ask the soldiers to report to their families that they were safe, and if their families knew that their daughters were treated well in the new army, Jia Minghe estimated that their families would be more reassured: "Go and do it immediately." ”

"Dashuai, I'm afraid this is not good." Wei Landu went to see Gao Mingheng with Jia Minghe just now, he figured out the governor's intentions, and persuaded him: "If you act like this, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the friendly army and the governor, we still keep it secret, and wait until Kaifeng is released before we put it back." ”

Jia Minghe thought about it carefully, nodded and said: "Now is indeed the time to be in the same boat, and it is not appropriate to quarrel with friendly forces, alas. Xu Ping really lost all the face of the Hou Ye, and now the gentry are talking about it, and they all look at our new army differently, although the court does not blame the Hou Ye, but such a big disaster, I don't know how to understand it in the future. ”

For Jia Minghe's worries, Wei Lan Duye has no good way, now the Shanlan battalion is the most effective force in the city, and the Zhou Wangfu and the Henan Governor Yamen are reluctant to say anything, but in private, there are already people talking about whether this new army is really reliable - since Xu Ping cannot be persuaded to surrender, then naturally some people are worried that these new troops will be persuaded by Xu Ping to surrender in turn. Wei Landu could only be relieved: "We are loyal to our duties and keep Kaifeng from losing, and in the future, the new army will send reinforcements to capture Xu Ping and bring him into Beijing, and the court may not pursue the fault of the Hou Ye." ”

Thinking that Zhendonghou had indeed not accepted Xu Ping's disciple, although the rumors were full of rumors, Jia Minghe believed that there would always be a day when the truth would be revealed, and he could only let go of this worry for the time being.

"Defend the land for the Son of Heaven and protect the family for the people," Jia Minghe remembered today's contradictions, and muttered in his mouth: "If you can't have both, what should you do?" ”

"If you think about it, you should put public before private." Wei Landu whispered: "The last general thinks that the governor is right, we eat the imperial grain, wear the imperial clothes, and get the imperial salary. ”

"That's right," Jia Minghe suddenly realized, with a relieved expression on his face, and nodded again and again: "The order that Master Hou gave us is to eliminate the thieves - and Xu Ping, we just want to have a clear conscience." ”

……

"Why do you wear black?" Liu Zongmin noticed that several battalions under Xu Ping, including Li Dingguo's subordinates and Sun Kewang's personal guards, no longer wore gray clothes, but changed into black clothes.

"Brother Xu's move is very appropriate," Niu Jinxing didn't immediately remember the story of Daliang just now, and felt that he had lost face, and even faintly felt that this would make Li Zicheng's line look down on the side lineage, and at the same time, it was also to get closer to the relationship, so he praised it repeatedly: "Ming Shang Huode, water overcomes fire, of course we have to wear black." Niu Jinxing also suggested to Li Zicheng: "We should also pass on the black clothes in the future." ”

Sun Kewang grinned and was about to speak, but when he saw Xu Ping looking at him, he shook his head slightly, and took back the words that made fun of Niu Jinxing.

At this time, the exchange work was basically completed, and Li Zicheng summoned all the generals to his camp to discuss matters.

Xu Ping took the time to drag Sun Kewang aside and complained to him: "Why do you have to lose the face of the military division like this? ”

"Haha, the water is still dark, Mr. Niu can really think about it." Sun Kewang didn't take Xu Ping's reproach to heart at all.

Li Dingguo said with a smile on the side: "If King Chuang and the military advisor know that we are afraid that our clothes will not look good if they are dirty, and we deliberately chose black clothes, I don't know how to feel." ”

Xu Ping shook his head vigorously: "The allusion to Daliang just now, is it that Brother Sun just said to Brother Li, deliberately trying to embarrass the military division." ”

"Not bad! I just explained it to the fourth child," Sun Kewang said with a big grin: "I originally wanted to embarrass Brother Xu, but the general is not like Mr. Niu who is unlearned and unskilled. ”

"This allusion is definitely not as good as a martial artist," Xu Ping felt that Sun Kewang seemed to be deliberately embarrassed by Niu Jinxing, so he asked, "Why is Brother Sun like this?" ”

"I heard that Niu Venus wants our territory." Sun Kewang's face suddenly became fierce, and he began to call Niu Jinxing by his name: "My face is light, if I don't give Brother Xu face, I will give him a white knife in and a red knife out." ”

"We are all subordinates of King Chuang, how can this be called wanted." Xu Ping didn't expect Sun Kewang to be so well-informed, and he was slightly surprised: "I have already given Dengfeng County to the military division." Seeing that Sun Kewang's face was full of displeasure, Xu Ping added: "When Kaifeng is broken, I also promise to govern the surrounding areas of Luoyang for King Chuang." ”

"Did King Chuang promise you?" Sun Kewang immediately asked.

"King Chuang has no objection."

"I'm asking if King Chuang has agreed to come down immediately."

"Of course not," Xu Ping also felt that this matter was not in a hurry: "Kaifeng has not been opened, and there is spare strength to govern Luoyang." ”

"Hmph, it must be Niu Venus who is getting in the way, right?" Sun Kewang sneered: "Brother Xu should be more vigilant, I think Niu Jinxing is uneasy and kind." ”

"Brother Sun's words are serious," Xu Ping felt that this private conversation made him feel very uncomfortable: "We are all subordinates of King Chuang, how can we fight in the nest now?" ”

"If I were Brother Xu, if King Chuang didn't agree to give me Luoyang, I wouldn't want to go to Dengfeng, and a county that had been governed would be exchanged for a ruin, and King Chuang would make enough money." Sun Kewang snorted angrily and said: "Last time, King Chuang didn't like us, and now it's still like this, it must be Niu Jinxing who is saying bad things about us behind our backs." ”

Seeing that Xu Ping was speechless, Sun Kewang shouted: "Brother Xu, our territory is all we desperately grabbed, if someone wants to take it away, we have to fight with him." King Chuang treats us well, we consider himself to be Lord, and if he doesn't want to treat us well, we are against him, so what? ”

"Brother Sun will not mention this in the future," Xu Ping listened to Sun Kewang and became more and more disagreeable, even if the three of them were surrounded by henchmen, he didn't dare to let them listen to it anymore, and after letting the guards walk away, Xu Ping Zhengse said to Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo: "I can have today, it was all given by King Chuang, when I went to the camp alone, King Chuang gave me military power." ”

"Alas," Sun Kewang obviously disagreed with Xu Ping's words, and his face was full of disdain: "When Brother Xu arrived at the camp, how long did King Chuang go to Shangluo Mountain?" In the first half of the year, there were only 18 cavalry, and tens of thousands of homeless people had just been recruited, and there were only more than 10,000 people in five battalions who could fight. Brother Xu is Huang Hou's personal disciple and eldest disciple, how dare King Chuang not treat him like a guest? ”

Li Dingguo said on the side: "Brother Xu is now the general of the camp, the number two person, but this is not given by King Chuang, it was shot by Brother Xu and our brothers, and the two mansions of Kaifeng and Guide are also managed by my third brother's hard work, and the white stripes and six-eared macaques in the waves are also for Brother Xu and my third brother." We have no dissent, we don't stand on our own, and the king doesn't reward us well, but listens to Mr. Niu's desire to take our territory, which is also too chilling. ”

"It's not for nothing, tens of thousands of brothers under King Chuang, they always need to eat." Xu Ping relayed the conversation with Li Zicheng to the two of them just now, King Chuang is the leader, Xu Ping is their subordinate, if all the income is sent to the camp in Xuzhou first, and then distributed by Xu Ping at his discretion, it is indeed a little inappropriate: "We eat well and dress well in Henan, and the other leaders will inevitably be a little red-eyed. In fact, King Chuang still thinks of our merits, you see what I said, King Chuang agreed not to let others attack Nanzhili, otherwise the agreement between Brother Sun and the Jiangbei Army will still be a little troublesome. ”

"They dare!" Sun Kewang shouted: "If they dare to go to my territory to go wild, I am not as good at talking as a general, and I will not give face even if I break into the king at that time." ”

"Brother Sun misunderstood King Chuang," Xu Ping remembered that after the conflict between Sun Kewang and Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng rushed to his camp late at night, and Xu Ping had also mentioned the clip with Sun Kewang before this conversation.

"Ha," Sun Kewang said with a smile: "King Chuang is also a hero of the Central Plains for more than ten years, does Brother Xu really think that he is such a soft-hearted person?" ”

While speaking, he was almost at the camp of King Chuang, Sun Kewang and Xu Ping were slightly separated, Xu Ping, who Sun Kewang asked just now, was noncommittal, and when there was no one around, Xu Ping said to himself in a voice that only he could hear: "I believe it." ”

……

The meeting in Li Zicheng's camp was attended not only by Li Zicheng and Xu Ping's direct generals, but also by many other leaders of the rebel army, and Luo Rucai and his subordinates also gathered here.

Li Zicheng sat in the first place, letting Xu Ping stay on his left side, when Li Zicheng appointed Xu Ping as the general, Luo Rucai still complained, feeling that he was second only to Li Zicheng in his contribution to the camp, why didn't he give him this nominal second position? At that time, Li Zicheng personally ran to appease Luo Rucai to suppress this matter, but now the people in the camp have no objection to this. In addition to Yu Shenhe and several other direct generals of Xu Ping, Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo also sat next to Xu Ping with their men.

After everyone sat down, Li Zicheng signaled that Xu Ping could start.

"Everyone knows that the imperial court has approved the plan of Zhendonghou to expand the new army, and in just a few months, Zhendonghou has expanded the new army to thirteen battalions, each with 4,000 people, even if we remove the battalion that we surrounded in Luoyang, Zhendonghou already has 40,000 troops in his hands." Xu Ping's tone was a little low, and the generals of the righteous army in the room were all solemn, and they all knew very well that Zhendonghou's army was not the same as the other Ming army, and the three battalions of the new army would put great pressure on the camp: "About fifteen days ago, the imperial court took Hou Xun as the supervisor and ordered the new army to set off to relieve the siege of Kaifeng. We expected to be attacked by six or seven new battalions, not a force we couldn't deal with, but—"

This time, the imperial court gave Hou Xun the task of exterminating the Chuang army, but he did not immediately march into Henan, but tried his best to persuade the imperial court to give him all the power to control the Chu army, the Jiangbei army, and even the Fengyang forces in the central capital, so that he could mobilize these troops to participate in the suppression of the Henan Chuang army. This was very unexpected by Xu Ping, it was okay for Hou Xun's request to be deceived by the imperial court, but Xu Ping was a person who had participated in the Battle of Shandong and had some knowledge of the inside story from He Baodao, and he knew very well that Hou Xun's suggestion was mostly planned by the Hou of Zhendong behind his back.

"The imperial court agreed to Hou Xun's plan, and now Hou Xun has ordered Zuo Liangyu to lead the Chu army north to attack us from the south, and at the same time let the Jiangbei army be ready to attack us from the east at any time." The gloom on Xu Ping's face became stronger and stronger, the strategic deployment of the new army was somewhat unexpected by him, and Kaifeng was not under Kaifeng, Xu Ping was difficult to send troops to reinforce Shandong, and the threat of the Chu army on the southern front also made the camp contained: "I wanted to re-establish the new army again in Kaifeng, and then immediately after capturing Kaifeng, I sent troops to Shandong to connect with the Dongjiang Army, but I didn't expect to be preempted by the new army." ”

Since Hou Xun's strategy must be instructed by the Marquis of Zhendong, and if the target of the new army is Henan, it will not delay time at all to give Xu Ping the opportunity to further develop and grow, so as soon as Xu Ping heard the news, he realized that the new army planned to attack Shandong first and destroy the Dongjiang Army to relieve his worries, and perhaps there was also the meaning of military training.

"How long will it take for the new army to attack Shandong." It was Luo Rucai who asked.

"Soon." The mobilization of other armies will take a long time, and it will not be until June at the earliest, but the new army will always act quickly once it has a plan, and Xu Ping knows that Hou Xun, who is the superintendent, will obviously fully support Zhendong Hou's plan: "I just received the report yesterday, Hou Xun has ordered the new army to go south into Shandong under the pretext of not delaying time, and ask the local officials of Shandong to receive grain and grass, and they will start to clear Ji Huisi's department in the near future." This order was given ten days ago, and I guess that by now the new army should have marched towards Shandong. The intention of the new army was very obvious, they intended to concentrate their forces first to defeat the Shandong rebels, and then the whole division would march towards Henan. Xu Ping made a prediction after careful consideration: "Ji Huisi is exhausted, and I think it will be difficult for him to survive June." Then at the end of June or the beginning of July, the new army will mobilize twelve battalions to Kaifeng......"

"We really shouldn't exchange food with the Ming dog in Kaifeng, otherwise we can go to Shandong." There is a gossip below, although there are many fewer rules for breaking into the camp than the officers and soldiers, but such a speech is obviously still very rude at this kind of meeting, Xu Ping glanced at the person who spoke, and it was the leader of another side of the camp. Xu Ping has long felt that compared with the new army, the camp is like a big alliance, and the status of the king is the leader of the alliance rather than the master of everyone.

When Xu Ping looked over, the general who spoke out of the camp looked at Xu Ping without showing weakness, and some other generals with similar status also buzzed in agreement. These people, like Luo Rucai and Sun Kewang, were the kings of one side before Li Zicheng went to Luoshan, and now they still have their own independent forces. Li Zicheng will give them the spoils of war every time he wins, and Xu Ping's income from the local government will obviously not be given to them, and the bull Venus he handed over to Li Zicheng may not give them a lot. At present, this group of people is the poorest and most difficult group of people, and they are also the most dissatisfied with Xu Ping's replacement of grain and Kaifeng. As for this kind of guy who was born a bandit and still has a heavy habit, Sun Kewang has always advocated that it be eliminated, just like his cleansing in Guide. Moreover, this purge did encourage the scholar class in Henan, who felt that the camp Xu Pingbu was different from the past and could be observed, but Li Zicheng still maintained his friendship with these poles.

"Even if you don't change the grain, Kaifeng won't be able to fight for a while," it was about his own strategic and military authority, Xu Ping said in an accentuated tone: "We still haven't had time to rush to Shandong." ”

"General Xu is not the great disciple of Huang Hou, can't he bear to watch the elders of the sect starve to death?" The man reluctantly added.

Xu Ping's men glared angrily at the person who spoke, whether they agreed privately or not, but now any attack on Xu Ping would be regarded by Yu Shenhe and them as an attack on themselves. Some other pro-Xu Ping generals rebuked loudly, that is, most of Li Zicheng's descendants and generals also stood on Xu Ping's side, after all, Xu Ping was pulled by Li Zicheng and came to the camp alone, and now even if there are some of his own forces, he can still be regarded as Li Zicheng's cronies. Even Niu Jinxing shouted at the unlucky ghost: "If you have anything to say, it's good to say it,

Seeing so many people opposing, the face of the person who spoke out at the beginning turned a little pale, and he bowed to Li Zicheng and said: "King, I am a rough person, I don't know any rules, I am straight, and I can say whatever I want." ”

"Nothing, nothing." Li Zicheng waved his hand and said: "Our own brothers, who are like-minded, where are there so many rules." ”

Xu Ping withdrew his gaze from the man's face, he felt that this issue was not clear and did not want to delve into it, since Li Zicheng spoke, he took the opportunity to quickly pull away from the topic and return to the military issue.

"The Chu army and the Jiangbei army will also send troops to fight?" Luo Rucai heard Xu Ping read the imperial court's mansion report, and interjected and asked, "How many people will they come?" ”

"Yes, Hou Xun wants them to come too, but I'm not too worried about them, the combat effectiveness of the Chu army is worse than that of the Qin army, and it will not be difficult to deal with, and the Jiangbei army has been broken by us."

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