Shanxi, Jincheng, Dadonggou.

Winter is coming, the snow is covered, a winter scene, the Dadong ditch is covered in silver, and the branches are still hung with frost, which looks indescribably beautiful.

At this moment, a rabbit peeked out of the snowdrift, its sensitive big ears moved, its eyes looked around, and found that there was no danger, so it jumped out of the snow shell, and its three-petal mouth moved up and down, and its big ears went around listening to the wind and grass, but fortunately everything was normal.

Seeing that there was no danger, the rabbit jumped out of his nest, jumped twice, and then found the route he had taken, where there were his own footprints.

In the rabbit's opinion, the road he has traveled proves to be safe, after all, he has already taken the risk once, and if there is danger, he should have been out of danger last time.

But the rabbit didn't know that its self-righteousness would cost it dearly.

The rabbit jumped through a patch of grass and was about to burrow into the woods when suddenly a hemp rope was tightened on the ground, and the next moment the rabbit was directly covered by a rope loop made of hemp rope.

"Hahaha...... Caught it! ”

A hearty laugh sounded, and then I saw a big man laughing out of the woods, grabbed the rabbit's ears and said, "This rabbit is so fat." ”

The laughter of the big man soon attracted several big men nearby, and everyone gathered around, and a bearded man said: "King Chuang, good luck, this big fat rabbit, turn around and stew in a pot, you can make up for the tall sister." ”

Hearing this, the big man looked at the rabbit in his hand, and his expression softened and said: "The Gao family sister has suffered with us, especially this year, running back and forth between Henan and our Shanxi, I am really tired, but this rabbit was hit by our big guys together, how can it only be given to the Gao family sister, in this way, the right thigh of this rabbit is given to me, I will give it to the Gao family sister, and the rest of the meat brothers will share it." ”

After listening to Li Zicheng's words, the brothers even said no, but Li Zicheng said: "Why not, we are all brothers, when the uprising was uprising, but it was said that we should share blessings and difficulties, and now a rabbit can not be distributed fairly, what is it fair and just, what is it that we are talking about, and what is brotherhood, don't shirk it, let's stay in this ravine, the mouth is about to come out of the birds, the brothers used to be well-known men in the rivers and lakes, no meat and no joy, and now they follow me, but they suddenly drink too little, I am sorry for everyone." ”

"King Chuang, don't say that, when we follow you to eat a large piece of meat and drink a lot, we don't necessarily have brothers to thank you, and now we are in trouble, and we are complaining to you, this is still not human."

"That's right, we followed King Chuang to drink a lot of wine, and when we ate a large piece of meat, we didn't say anything, and now we are in trouble, just say this and that, are we embarrassed to call ourselves heroes, and it will be shameful to be famous in the rivers and lakes in the future."

Hearing this, King Chuang didn't say anything on the surface, but he was still very happy in his heart, and at this time, his eyes looked at the core backbone around him, Li Guo, his nephew, Li Shichao, the person he trusted the most, Li Laiheng, Tian Jianxiu, He Jin, the rising star, the core backbone of the future army.

Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Li Yan, this is his core strategist, and finally Li Zicheng looked at Liu Zongmin.

These people belong to Liu Zongmin, if he is in a practical sense, he should be Li Zicheng's partner, because when he first joined, he himself had a group of core people, and he was considered to be merging with assets.

And when he asked to save Gao Yingxiang, he was stopped by Lu Xiangsheng and blocked on the mountain, it was Liu Zongmin who gave up everything to save himself, and in order to save himself, Liu Zongmin also killed his wife and concubine to encourage morale.

These Li Zicheng can't be forgotten, so after everyone expressed their opinions, Li Zicheng's eyes looked at Liu Zongmin, among these people, Liu Zongmin's attitude is very important, if he doesn't support himself, he can't do this thing.

Liu Zongmin looked at Li Zicheng and smiled heartily: "King Chuang, what is the success or failure of this moment, as long as the corrupt officials of the Ming Dynasty are still there, and the Dog Emperor is still there, there are countless poor people, and if there are poor people, we will have the opportunity to make a comeback. ”

Li Zicheng couldn't help laughing when he heard this, today's incident looks like a rabbit, but Li Zicheng has his own political purpose in it.

For more than a year, they have been hiding in the ravines and ravines of Shanxi, although everyone has not said anything on the surface, but in private, King Chuang knows that everyone has begun to complain.

After all, most of the generals who followed Li Zicheng were born bandits, accustomed to the life of big fish and meat, and full of wildness, if you let them hold back in a ravine, they must complain, but Li Zicheng is full of personal charm, plus Li Zicheng is fair and leads by example, which makes the following only complaint, not substantive infighting.

But this emotion has also been stimulated to a critical point, if it is not handled well, the situation will definitely not be optimistic, so Li Zicheng will use the rabbit to say this.

Li Zicheng looked at the brothers and said with a smile: "I am very relieved that everyone can have such thoughts, to be honest, hold in this ravine, let alone everyone, even I can't hold it back, but now is not the time for us to get into trouble, Daming has not yet reached his most vulnerable time, so we must be patient, we have already failed once, I don't want to fail a second time." ”

"The last failure, I lost 100,000 troops, lost hundreds of brothers, this is my Li unforgettable pain, experienced a failure, we have to have a long memory, so we must be at the most appropriate time, launch an uprising, this time we want to completely overthrow the Ming Dynasty, establish our dynasty, when the time comes, you are all the founding heroes, you have the endless glory and wealth."

Li Zicheng said this, everyone's eyes lit up, as if they had seen what they looked like when they captured the capital and became the ruler of the world. “

Li Zicheng said to everyone very happily that as a qualified leader, painting cakes is the most basic and important skill, and a leader who can't draw cakes is definitely not a qualified leader.

Seeing everyone regain their vitality again, Li Zicheng put his mind at ease, after all, these guys have been decadent these days, drinking and drinking, gambling and gambling, and military discipline has been sloppy to a terrible point.

Now that the military spirit has recovered again, Li Zicheng also took the opportunity to say: "Everyone, I have another good news to share with you, everyone knows that in the past six months, the Gao family sister has been going back and forth between Shanxi and Henan, do you know why the Gao family girl is old and goes to Henan?" ”

As soon as Li Zicheng mentioned this, everyone also came, and at this time, the best heel, Li Guo said: "Why? ”

Li Zicheng said: "I tell you, our opportunity is here, Miss Gao after half a year of observation, the water level of the Yellow River has risen by more than three feet in the past year, which is a precursor to a big flood, so Miss Gao took people to the upper reaches of Kaifeng, Henan, deliberately raised the embankment, so that the water level rose again, so that in the spring of next year, as long as there is another rainstorm, the Yellow River will inevitably burst the embankment, and then the water will flood Kaifeng Mansion, and millions of people in Henan will become victims overnight. will immediately become a million soldiers, with these million soldiers, we can move to the Central Plains, who can stop it then? ”

Hearing this, the eyes of all the generals were red, and their breathing became short, millions of victims, what a huge number of soldiers, didn't they get up at once?

These generals can't do anything else, but after so many years of rogues, they have learned the most terrible skill, that is, to incite the people to revolt, so to speak, as long as there are homeless, as long as they use a little means, in the blink of an eye, these homeless people will become rogues, and there are many rogues, what is the government afraid of.

Therefore, when Li Zicheng said that he wanted to flood the huge plan of Kaifeng Mansion, the eyes of all the rogues lit up, and there was a flame of hope in their eyes.

After all, this flooding and opening seems to be very feasible.

"So brothers, our comfortable days are numbered, from now on everyone should be nervous, abstain from drinking, take away the gambling money, go back to sharpen the knife, practice martial arts, don't wait until it's time for us to move the knife, find that the knife can't be wielded, and then let the officers and soldiers cut off their heads, don't say that you are our righteous people."

Li Zicheng said, after hearing this, everyone laughed and said: "I know, King Chuang, no, as long as King Chuang gives an order, I will kill the officers and soldiers who will lose their armor and only hate my father and mother for having two legs." ”

Li Zicheng smiled when he heard this: "That's good, brothers......"

"King Chuang, King Chuang, great news, good news."

Li Zicheng was just about to consolidate it while the iron was hot, when he saw a scout-like rogue roaring loudly on the hillside in the distance, running from one side of the mountain to this side, running and running and sliding under his feet, sliding down the mountain for a long distance, and his nose and face were swollen, but he didn't care at all, and ran to this side with great excitement, shouting in his mouth: "Great joy, great joy." ”

When he got closer, looking at the scout with a blue nose and swollen face, Li Laiheng couldn't help but joke: "What's like this, your daughter-in-law gave birth?" ”

The scout listened to Li Laiheng's words and said, "Tell the general, I don't have a daughter-in-law." ”

"You don't have a daughter-in-law, are you quite proud?"

Li Laiheng looked at the scout happily, and the scout said: "Of course, General I told me that women will only delay the speed of my knife, and when the time comes, they will be hacked to death when they go to the battlefield." ”

"Hehe, hahaha......"

Listening to the scout's words, the generals couldn't help laughing, looking at this young man who was only fifteen or sixteen, they couldn't help but say, "Who is your general?" ”

Hearing this, the scout said proudly: "The pro-guard battalion, Li Shichao is in charge." ”

"Lao Li."

Hearing this, everyone looked at Li Shichao with a blank and cold face in surprise, they have changed countless women over the years, but Li Shichao doesn't seem to have even a woman, there won't be anything wrong with Lao Li, right?

Everyone looked at Li Shichao, and Li Shichao looked at everyone with a blank expression: "If anyone doubts Lao Tzu's ability, he can send your daughter-in-law here, and I will train and train you for you." ”

"Forehead ......"

When everyone heard this, there was a black line, if it weren't for Li Shichao's old qualifications, they would all want to beat Li Shichao, but Li Shichao said very abruptly: "I am King Chuang's personal guard, and my responsibility is to take care of King Chuang's safety at all times, if I look for women everywhere like you and indulge in women's sex, if there is any negligence that causes King Chuang to be victimized, how should I deal with myself?" ”

Listening to Li Shichao's words, everyone couldn't help but feel ashamed, especially those rising stars, over the years, Li Shichao has given them countless opportunities to lead troops alone and be independent.

Now listening to Li Shichao's words, they feel that the old-timers are real righteous people.

Li Zicheng was also moved when he heard this, among the entire righteous army, the most reassuring thing for him was Li Shichao, and he was not close to women for his own safety, what a sacrifice, Li Zicheng looked at Li Shichao at this time and was inexplicably moved, Li Shichao looked at Li Zicheng at this time and said: "King Chuang, let's not talk about those children's affections, as long as I can overthrow this rotten Ming Dynasty and let the people live a good life, I can do anything." ”

Hearing this, Li Zicheng patted Li Shichao's shoulder and said no more.

And the reason why Li Shichao is really not close to women is that there is a telegraph machine in his house, although Li Zicheng can't understand this kind of thing, but he can't put it on the surface, if there are multiple women in his tent, how can he send a message to Lantian, you know, his real identity is Lantian's secret spy, his ultimate task is to undercover Li Zicheng, but he can't fail the mission because of a few women.

Li Zicheng patted Li Shichao's shoulder with emotion, Li Shichao didn't say anything, everything was silent.

Li Zicheng recovered his emotions for a while, followed by looking at the scout and said, "By the way, you just said good news, what kind of good news is it?" ”

When the scout heard this, he immediately took out the intelligence report from his arms: "King Chuang, this is the information sent back from the capital eight hundred miles in an emergency, and the information says ......"

"Say what?"

Everyone was whetted by the scout, and the scout said: "Three days ago, the emperor beheaded Lu Xiangsheng. ”

"Who!"

Hearing this, everyone's eyes widened.

"Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the Ming Dynasty."

The scout was repeating, and everyone was stunned when they heard this, is Chongzhen brain-dead, he killed Lu Xiangsheng, I'm afraid this is not just brain-dead.

At this moment, everyone couldn't believe that the man named King Lu Yan was killed by Chongzhen like this, how stupid Chongzhen must be to do this kind of thing!

They don't understand, they don't even dare to believe their ears.