Li Yan quickly took the three dogs to Li Zicheng's military tent.

Li Zicheng was still quite shocked that Li Yan came with the three dogs, but Li Yan wanted to intercede, even if he wanted to refuse, after all, although the deserters had been greatly reduced since the last divination, he still needed to kill a few typical standing military powers.

"The king misunderstood what I meant" Li Yan knew that Li Zicheng wanted to establish his authority, but he didn't really come to intercede, so he immediately arched his hand and said: "King, this person has gone and returned, and he knows a lot of information about the Ming army under the mountain, and his subordinates have already inquired about it, and he has a clever plan to break the enemy." ”

"Oh? Let's talk about it" Speaking of breaking the enemy, Li Zicheng became interested, and immediately asked someone to move a chair for Li Yan to sit down.

Li Yan bowed, then turned his head to look at the three dogs, and said kindly: "Three dogs, tell King Chuang everything you know." ”

Sangouzi was originally so frightened by Li Zicheng's aura that he didn't dare to speak, and he was slightly relaxed by Li Yan's mention, but he still couldn't help but tremble, and explained everything he knew with trepidation.

After listening to this, Li Zicheng pinched the beard on his chin and thought about it, and after a while, he spoke: "Mr. means to bribe the Ming army under the mountain?" Let them get out of the way? ”

Li Zicheng is not a stupid person, as soon as the three dogs said, Li Zicheng realized the opportunity.

Li Yan just likes to deal with smart people, and immediately arched his hand and said: "King Chuang, I plundered a lot of property in Huguang before, and I can't take these treasures with me, and it's cheap for the Ming army to stay, why don't you take it out and ask for a way to live?" ”

Of course, Li Zicheng is not a person who is reluctant to make money, but he also has his own worries, so he frowned slightly, and said: "What you said I naturally understand, we are not reluctant to give up those gold and silver, but this official army has always been cunning, if you give money, but still don't let go, wouldn't it be a waste of money?" ”

Li Zicheng is worried that the Ming army will eat black, which is also normal, after all, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, no one will talk to you about morality.

"Besides, there are quite a few troops besieging the mountain, and we are afraid that these treasures will not be enough to move them," Li Zicheng continued.

Li Yan also thought about this problem, Mo said that the two sides are in a hostile state, even if they are friendly troops, then they have to be weighed, the official army really colludes with the bandits, that is to cut off the head, can't kill a military leader like Zuo Liangyu, can't you still run a few generals, thousands of households, and join the army? If you don't have enough money, who wants to take the lead and do business?

However, Li Yan's meaning is obviously not as simple as letting the officials and soldiers open an opening.

"King, the officials and soldiers under the mountain have been in arrears for a year, plus there is not enough food and cotton clothing, and there are many fugitives from the mountain, what does King Chuang think about the morale of such an army?" Li Yan asked.

"That's naturally not good, when I followed the kingdom in the border army, it was because of the arrears of wages that I killed the dog's rebellion." Li Zicheng is experienced in this kind of thing, previously in the Shaanxi border army, he was promoted by the kingdom to the general, the border army is the elite of the Ming Dynasty, and the general is also a small military leader, but because of the arrears of wages, he directly mutinied and rebelled, not to mention the mixed guys under the mountain?

"So King Chuang, why should we buy all the officials and soldiers? We only need to buy one of them, make them mutiny, and make them defect, so that the officers and troops under the mountain will inevitably be in chaos, and then we will attack again, and we will naturally get miraculous results. Li Yan planned for Li Zicheng.

Although there are only more than 100 people left on the mountain, these more than 100 people are not simple, because most of the simple ones have died, and these more than 100 people are almost all cavalry troops, and many of them are from the Yulin border army.

Why Yang Sichang didn't let the numerical advantage of the besieged people go up directly, a direct reason is that the Ming army is too stretched, in the face of these elite troops, it is likely to be caught off guard, and then Li Zicheng may directly take the opportunity to slip away, if it is to surround the mountain, relying on the fortifications, maybe it can prevent Li Zicheng from jumping out of the encirclement.

"Let them mutiny? Unlikely. Li Zicheng shook his head quite unconfidently, he couldn't offer any particularly generous conditions, he was a rogue, and these people who ate official food may not be willing to make a headless deal with him.

"Wasn't the king also a boss at the beginning?" Li Yan in one sentence.

How? Being a petty officer can be loyal to the court? Thinking too much, the petty officer is the most difficult thing to do, the military salary is scraped once, the people at the bottom can't get the money to make trouble, and if they don't do it, they will be cut, and the petty officer is not a privileged class, nor is he a talented man, he is not eligible for tax exemption, the family tax money is still given, and the military salary is in arrears, and if he doesn't do it well, the daughter will be sold to be a slave in the back.

Such a dilemma was never the case in the late Ming Dynasty, and these middle- and lower-level officers were people who directly commanded the army, so the army mutiny and defection to the enemy abounded.

"What you said is also reasonable" Li Zicheng thought about it carefully, combined with his previous "class hatred".

suddenly felt that what Li Yan said made sense, if he didn't pay military salaries for a year, it was likely that his hometown would sell his sons and daughters.

"But there is no way under this mountain" Although Li Zicheng is moved, but how to buy it is a knowledge, you can't tell this matter widely, the army under the mountain also has small groups, and the situation of each group is different.

Li Yan pointed to the three dogs who were kneeling on the ground and trembling and said: "This person has followed a general from Shaanxi at the foot of the mountain, and the general has been owed wages for a year. ”

Li Zicheng then shifted his gaze to the three dogs kneeling on the ground, when the three dogs said, Li Zicheng didn't look at him squarely, deserters, naturally the most disdainful, and those who escaped once and fled back are even more despised.

"You look up." Li Zicheng's rich voice came, and the three dogs trembled with fright, and then they trembled and raised their heads to look at the first king who was "in trouble in the world".

Li Zicheng looked at the kid below, he was not very old, and he looked like an ordinary peasant child, but he could see that he was a hard-working person before, very tall, although he had been hungry for a long time and looked emaciated, but his skeleton was very thick.

"Where are you from?" Li Zicheng didn't panic and got to the point, and slowly interrogated the three dogs.

"I ...... I'm ...... I'm from Gansu......." Sangouzi swallowed his saliva and replied tremblingly.

"Gansu, where is Gansu?" Li Zicheng continued to ask.

"Jing ...... Jingyuan's ......"

"I haven't heard of it" Li Zicheng shook his head, there is no navigation map in this era, he has never been there, so he naturally doesn't know, "What's your surname?" Why are you going with us? ”

"My surname is Wang...... I was arrested by the official army before, and then I was defeated by King Chuang's army, so I followed the ......army again," the three dogs said tremblingly, in fact, he was also blamed for his bad luck, he would not be arrested at this age, but he was too tall, and he was misunderstood by the Ming army and directly conscripted.

"No name?"

"They are all called my three dogs, and they are also called my kings."

"It's so ugly," Li Zicheng shook his head.

"Do you want to die or live?" Li Zicheng stared at the three dogs and asked.

"Think...... I want to live."

"Originally, according to the rules of our camp, all the fugitives will be beheaded, but I think that if you know your mistakes and change them, and you can come back, I can spare you for a while, but well, you have to do something for us." Li Zicheng glared at the three dogs and said slowly.

The third dog Xu was shocked by Li Zicheng's aura, trembled for a long time, and then said, "I ..... I only broke the king's order from ....."

"This is what is good" Li Zicheng stood up with a laugh and said to the three dogs: "What are you always calling the king?" ”

"Wang.... Wang Xueli ....."

"I want you to tell this Wang Xueli, doesn't he have no military salary? I send it to him, as long as he follows me, the court will send him twice as much, and then I will have a share of the beauty jewelry, if this thing is done, not only will I not kill you, but also give you an official to do. Li Zicheng is naturally reluctant to risk letting his people connect, this Wang San has been under Wang Xueli anyway, so he is familiar with it, and he is also a deserter, so he doesn't feel distressed when he dies, so let him go.

"This ..... This ....." Wang San was obviously a little hesitant, joking, he ran back and went back, if Wang Xueli didn't mean to defect, he was afraid that his fate would still be beheaded.

"I'm not reluctant, if I don't want to, I'll have to cut off your head and discipline." Li Zicheng said with a smile, saying that it was not reluctant, but in fact, the threat was very strong.

"I ..... I am willing" Wang San had no choice, so he could only kowtow and say.

"It's good, but your name is really not good, I give you a name, and it won't be considered to have fallen into the prestige of our army." Li Zicheng thought for a while and said.

"From now on, you will call Wang Jinbao......"

"Wang Jinbao? This name is also rustic enough" Li Yan heard Li Zicheng give him a name, and he complained in his heart, enter the treasure, enter the treasure, really should you attract wealth and enter the treasure? But I always feel like I've seen this name somewhere.

Li Yan thought about it carefully, and Wang Jinbao ..... Wang Jinbao, grandma's, it won't be that Wang Jinbao, right?!

Li Yan studied history in his previous life, and he was most interested in "History of the Ming Dynasty" and "Qing History Manuscript", at the turn of the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were still a lot of heroic things, just the biography is a lot, this Wang Jinbao was unknown at the turn of the Ming and Qing dynasties, but later there was a Wang Jinbao in the Kangxi Dynasty who was very famous.

He was one of the four Han generals in Hexi, participated in the war against the Southern Ming Dynasty, and made great contributions in the rebellion of the three feudatories, and was later awarded the title of third-class viscount in the Kangxi Dynasty, the crown prince Taibao, as a Han general after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, it can be said that it is not easy.

Could it be that this cowardly kid in front of him is still a famous general in the future? Isn't it the same name...... Li Yan thought to himself in his heart, if he was really a famous general, would it be a pity to let him do this kind of business?

But soon Li Yan reined in and wanted to dissuade Li Zicheng's thoughts, not to mention the possibility of renaming, famous generals are also exercised, no one is born with a general species, they are all to be accumulated, even if this Wang Jinbao is really the future Wang Jinbao, he also has his own growth trajectory, if he does not exercise, he will be directly regarded as a famous general, I am afraid that he will be Zhao Kuo's second.

Li Yan thought in his heart, Li Zicheng and Wang Jinbao naturally didn't know, at this moment, Wang Jinbao got Li Zicheng's name, which means that he has to give up his life to do this errand, of course he can also choose to escape, but the problem is that this place is thousands of miles away from Gansu, where can he escape to?

So Wang Jinbao gritted his teeth and decided to gamble on this, and immediately got up and said, "I know, I will take the order!" ”

"Good!" Li Zicheng nodded with satisfaction and expressed his approval to Wang Jinbao.

Immediately, he turned his head to look at Li Yan and said with a smile: "Sir can solve my urgent needs every time, it is really the help that God has given me, what reward does Sir need?" ”

Li Yan was quite surprised when he saw Li Zicheng asking what reward he wanted, but he immediately understood that for the superiors, it is obviously not a good signal for you to do anything, so Li Yan thought for a moment, and then arched his hand and said: "King Chuang, if this kid can come back alive this time, please fill my account, my side is short of manpower, and I am short of a man to serve." ”

"Hahaha, no problem, do you want me to choose a few to send you there now, there are many widows who have lost their husbands in the back camp, if you don't dislike it, I'll give you a few" Li Zicheng laughed.

"This.... This is not necessary," Li Yan said with a black line.