In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, on June 23, Li Zicheng's vanguard Liu Zongmin's department had arrived at Luoyang Front Station, Ruyang.

Luoyang stayed behind Liu Zeqing to lead the army to Ruyang, and Liu Zongmin's troops engaged in battle, each of which was damaged, but Liu Zongmin's troops had just retreated, Li Zicheng under the command of Tian Jianxiu, Gao Yigong, Li Guo and the three of them each brought their own people to help the battle, and the Ruyang battlefield was in danger for a while.

Liu Zeqing immediately asked Luoyang for help, and King Fu immediately urged Yang Sichang in the south and Sun Chuanting in the north to come to the rescue.

Yang Sichang received a call for help and sent his generals He Renlong, Geng Shuang and others to attack the South Road of Thieves on June 24, hoping to relieve the pressure on Ruyang.

When Li Zicheng learned the news, he immediately sent his generals Liu Fangliang, Yuan Zongdi, and Hao Shaoqi to the south to resist Yang Sichang's army.

For a time, the Luoyang battlefield was stalemate.

On June 26, Li Zicheng arranged the rear affairs, and the army went out of Dengfeng City and went straight to Luoyang, Liu Zeqing was shocked when he saw this, and asked King Fu for help again, King Fu was also afraid, and directly sent someone to urge Sun Chuanting, when to come to the rescue, didn't you say that you would arrive in Yuncheng on the 20th? The rest of the journey should be six days slower.

As a result, the news I got was that Sun Chuanting's department had not yet left Shanxi, and was still wandering near Yuncheng, King Fu was furious and sent someone to ask, Sun Chuanting, what do you mean?

Sun Chuanting replied: "Don't worry, the road is muddy and difficult, and you can reach Luoyang in a few days."

Muddy roads and difficult to navigate?

The real situation is that Sun Chuanting found rumors in the army, saying that there was a large amount of gunpowder in Li Zicheng's army, and if our army rushed to it as soon as possible, then it would be the cannon fodder of Li Zicheng's army, which is also what Yang Sichang, a dog thief, wanted to see, and some people even said that these gunpowder may have been given to Li Zicheng by Yang Sichang, and the purpose was to harm our army.

Originally, this rumor sounded like nonsense, but Yang Sichang's reputation was too bad, especially after killing Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting's Qin army was due to Sun Chuanting's close relationship with Lu Xiangsheng, and as soon as Lu Xiangsheng died, Yang Sichang was directly beaten into a female cadre.

Some people even compared Yang Sichang to Qin Hui in the Song Dynasty.

The matter of reselling the gunpowder in the army to the thieves and then killing the friendly army is not valid on someone else's body, but on Yang Sichang's body, in the eyes of Sun Chuanting and Qin Jun, it is simply logical and there is no problem.

So as soon as this rumor came out, the Qin army believed it, followed by Sun Chuanting's military order that did not arrive, and the army below hesitated, and even did not open at all.

Sun Chuanting scolded his mother angrily, and he couldn't wait to slaughter all the disobedient soldiers under his command, but this group of soldiers surrounded the old Qin camp sent by Lantian, and Sun Chuanting was helpless for a while.

Sun Chuanting regretted recruiting troops in Shaanxi at this time, almost all the soldiers in Shaanxi were from Lantian, and his Qin army seemed to belong to him, but in fact, on the contrary, only half of the army under his command belonged to him, and the other half was not controlled by himself.

Of course, there is also a situation in which Sun Chuanting can use this unit smoothly, that is, when fighting foreign enemies, only when fighting against Mongolia, or when building slaves, these old Qin people will put down everything and obey Sun Chuanting's orders wholeheartedly.

But now that Sun Chuanting was sent to fight the thieves, this group of people was disobedient, looking at the six distress letters from King Qin on the table, Sun Chuanting decided to talk to the leader of the old Qin camp.

It's not a way to do it anymore.

Lao Qin Ying, a total of 5,300 people, its leader is surnamed Li, this surname, Sun Chuanting should have reacted to the problem as soon as possible, but at that time, all kinds of materials in Lantian were provided smoothly, and they were easy to use, so they did not react, and finally formed the current situation of the tail that cannot be dropped.

Sun Chuanting figured it out, looked at his lieutenant general and said, "You go to the old Qin camp and call Li Shoubei to me."

"What do you want, Master?"

Sun Chuanting said: "I didn't think about anything, I just wanted to talk to them

Something."

Hearing this, the adjutant general said, "Master Overseer, the matter you asked me to investigate has almost been investigated, and the news that the thief has a large amount of gunpowder in his hand came from the old Qin camp, and the old Qin camp doesn't seem to cover up this matter."

When Sun Chuanting heard this, he said, "Well, I know, you go and call Li Shoubei."

"Yes."

The adjutant general said and went straight to the old Qin camp, as the name suggests, most of the soldiers in it were transferred from the old Qin land, that is, Shaanxi, and later after a series of battles, Sun Chuanting's Qin army suffered heavy casualties.

So Sun Chuanting trained the new army in Hubei, gathered some new soldiers, and according to the traditional distribution method in the army, it is a model of a veteran with a few recruits, so that he can quickly lead the recruits to grow with the experience of veterans, but Sun Chuanting knows what his Qin army is like.

How many shadows of Lantian are there, if the recruits are sent to the veterans for training, the last ones who come out will definitely be a group of Lantian supporters, and it is still impossible for him to have the command of this army.

So Sun Chuanting directly gathered the remaining veterans who had gone through several wars and named them Lao Qin Ying, and the remaining 10,000 recruits were a new part, because the recruits were not affected by the Lantian veterans, their loyalty was still there, and Sun Chuanting's control over them also reached 100%.

10,000 recruits, the old Qin battalion of more than 5,000 people, add up to all the strength of the entire Qin army, and Sun Chuanting can directly command, and there is no problem with 10,000 recruits.

However, recruits are always recruits, and their combat effectiveness is very different from that of the veterans of the old Qin battalion, so when fighting, the heaviest death is the recruit battalion.

It is not that Sun Chuanting deliberately gave the recruit battalion a task of death, on the contrary, when Sun Chuanting arranged the task, the task of the recruit battalion was often safer than that of the old Qin battalion, but the gap between the recruits and the veterans was not a little bit of a star, and only after experiencing war again and again, the recruits could gradually transform into qualified veterans on the battlefield.

Of course, Sun Chuanting didn't dare to do things too obviously, if he only sent the old Qin battalion to do the task of sending him to death, and the new battalion did not do the task of life and death, the old Qin battalion would definitely not do it, so Sun Chuanting still had a bowl of water.

Try not to show too much favoritism, otherwise it will be difficult for him to be the chief official.

And the influence of veterans in the military camp is also very strong, many recruits after all kinds of experience, but also began to move closer to experienced veterans, like they learn the experience of battlefield survival, and these veterans from Lantian are not hesitant to teach, give them all the things that can be taught, gradually, Sun Chuanting found that there are many recruits in the barracks and began to call the veteran master.

This made his plan to separate the old and the new into an impasse again, and Sun Chuanting wanted to gradually grasp the authority of the entire Qin army through the separation of the old and the new, but in the end he found that it was a little discounted, which made Sun Chuanting a headache.

Now that the army has entered Yuncheng, it has stopped because of a rumor, which makes Sun Chuanting even more angry, and a little helpless.

Outsiders look at him as the commander of the Qin army very beautifully, but only he knows that he, the commander of the Qin army, can only say half of what he says in the army, and the other half depends on what the Lantian people say, to be precise, what Li Chaosheng says.

In foreign wars, he Sun Chuanting can have 100% decision-making power, so whether it is the battle between Shandong and Dolgon and Duoduo with two white flags, or after being transferred to the governor of Xuanda, he guards the border passes, Sun Chuanting can be said to be smooth, because these old Qin camps' hatred for Jiannu is stronger than their own, and when they fight, they don't need to say more, it is a howl.

But now the problem has also been exposed, and people have stopped fighting an internal war.

"Overseer!"

Sun Chuanting was thinking about it, when the big tent door opened, and the deputy general walked in and said, "Supervisor, old Qin Ying, Li Shoubei has arrived."

Hearing this, Sun Chuanting's spirit was shocked, and his eyes gradually fell on the door of the big tent and said, "Let him in."

"Yes."

The deputy general answered, followed by the curtain of the door, and walked into the house and looked at Sun Chuanting with a fist and said, "The last general, the old Qin camp garrison, Li Dewei, has seen the supervisor."

Sun Chuanting looked at this time

The young man with a scar on his face in front of him said, "Li Dewei, what do you know about calling you here today?"

"I don't know, please ask for a quote from the Overseer."

Hearing this, Sun Chuanting said: "Okay, if you don't know, I'll tell you clearly, there have been rumors in the army recently, that there is a large amount of gunpowder in the hands of the thieves, and we are rushing to Luoyang now to be cannon fodder for King Fu, but this is from your old Qin camp?"

When Li Dewei heard this, he looked at Sun Chuanting and said, "Yes."

Well?

Li Dewei's undisguised words made Sun Chuanting stunned, without saying a word, staring at Li Dewei, as if he wanted to see through the person in front of him, Li Dewei was not afraid at all, with a hint of a smile on his face, looking at Sun Chuanting, he was not afraid of this top boss at all.

The two looked at each other for a long time, and Sun Chuanting said, "Why?"

"In order to save the lives of the soldiers of the Qin army."

Hearing this, Sun Chuanting looked at Li Dewei and said, "Li Zicheng really has gunpowder in his hand that is enough to blow up the Luoyang city defense?"

Li Dewei was silent for a moment and said, "This is the news I got."

Sun Chuanting frowned slightly and said, "The news you got? Where did you get the news?"

Li Dewei said, "This overseer has nothing to say."

Syllable!

Sun Chuanting slapped the table directly and said, "Presumptuous, you are the Great Garrison of the Great Ming Xuan, I am the Great Governor of the Great Ming Xuan, I am your top boss, what can't I know, what do you have nothing to say to me?"

Li Dewei was silent, and Sun Chuanting said with a dark face, "Is it the news that Lantian leaked to you?"

Li Dewei was still silent, and Sun Chuanting shouted, "Speak."

Li Dewei slowly raised his head at this time and said, "Yes."

Sun Chuanting's face changed suddenly, Lantian's intelligence was very accurate, he said that Li Zicheng had enough gunpowder in his hand to blow up Luoyang City, so Li Zicheng really had so much gunpowder in his hand, it seemed that Luoyang was very dangerous.

Thinking of this, Sun Chuanting looked at Li Dewei and said, "Okay, I know, Li Chuang has so much gunpowder in his hand, Luoyang is in danger, let's not spread rumors, you go back, let Lao Qinying prepare and set off for Luoyang together."

Li Dewei shook his head and said, "No, the old Qin camp is all my old brothers brought out from Shaanxi, and they still have parents, wives and children at home, so they can't be allowed to die in the hands of Li Chuang like this and become cannon fodder."

"Nonsense, they are the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, fighting for the Ming Dynasty, even if they die in battle, they are also the heroes of the Ming Dynasty, this is their fate, there is no escape, how can there be soldiers who do not die?"

Sun Chuanting looked at Li Dewei.

Li Dewei shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, Master Inspector, we old Qin people have our own ideals as soldiers, and it's okay to fight for our ideals, but we don't want to fight for those in power, and we won't do it."

Sun Chuanting clenched his fists when he heard this, he hated to kill the person in front of him, he was a superintendent and could not command the soldiers under his command, which was absolutely intolerable to those in power, but he did not dare to kill the person in front of him, the reason was very simple, Li Dewei was not alone, there were 5,300 behind him, loaded with guns and ammunition, the old Qin battalion with the best weapons and equipment of the Qin army, and the strongest tactical cooperation, if he dared to move Li Dewei, the old Qin battalion would dare to mutiniate immediately.

So Sun Chuanting can't bear it, but he has to endure it.

"Ideal? What are your ideals for the old Qin people?"

Sun Chuanting looked at Li Dewei and asked, Li Dewei groaned a little when he heard this, and said, "We old Qin people only fight for two kinds of people, one is our own clan, and the other is our family."

"What's the explanation?"

Sun Chuanting looked at Li Dewei, and Li Dewei said: "My people, when foreign enemies invade, our old Qin camp is willing to stand in the forefront, and we are not ambiguous with Jiannu and Mongolia, you can command us anywhere, perform any dangerous mission, and die without regrets."

"As for the sake of our families, that is, when we are all Han Chinese, we will only fight to protect our families, and we will not risk our old Qin people's good lives because of the emperor's order, or in order to protect a certain prince, because it is not worth it, they treat us as pigs and dogs, how can we treat them as them

King!"

"Bastard! Great rebellion, great rebellion, just by virtue of your words, it is not wrong to pull you out and behead you, as a Ming sergeant, how can you say such a rebellious and rebellious word."

Sun Chuanting shouted with a dark face.

Li Dewei laughed and said, "Hahaha...... Back to the Lord, hahaha...... Who is the lord, the emperor who sits on the throne in high places? We were dying of hunger in the ravine back then, why didn't I see the emperor come to give me a bite to eat, when we were bullied by Jiannu and Mongolia, why didn't we see the emperor avenge us? Loyal as Lu Xiangsheng, he was still beheaded in the vegetable market, hehe...... No matter how faithful we are, can we faithfully surpass Lord Lu Xiangsheng?"

"You ......"

Sun Chuanting's hands trembled when he heard this, and finally put down his hand weakly and said, "Alas~ What are you going to do!"