What? The killing of the Tartars has become like this?

After listening to Liu Yihu's words, Wu Yingxiong really sighed a little emotionally, such a dangerous thing as killing Tartars has now become a matter for everyone to scramble for!

It seems that this Qing Dynasty. It's really a rabbit's tail that can't grow!

Thinking of this, Wu Yingxiong also came to his senses, looked at Liu Yihu and asked, "General Liu, how many soldiers do you have now?" ”

Liu Yihu smiled honestly and said, "Back to the prince. Their ranks are expanding rapidly, not counting those who can only make up a few old and weak, the number of elite warriors alone has expanded to 6,000! ”

"Six thousand? So many? Wu Yingxiong was taken aback, "How did you recruit troops?" ”

The number of 6,000 is left in it, in the lyrics, in the text, it is not much. But in today's era when the country's population is only tens of millions, and it is certainly not more than 100 million, 6,000 elite soldiers is really not a few. Wu Sangui allocated Wu Yingxiong to Wu Yingxiong's six guards, and the strength of the six guards together is less than 30,000, and the average number of guards is less than 5,000.

And these six guards are only under the control of Wu Yingxiong, not his own leadership, each guard has its own "general", "general" and "general" - according to the military system formulated by Wu Sangui, the descendants of the Wu family's army, that is, the leader of the "thirty guards" are called "General XX Wei" or "General XX Wei", and the deputy leader is called "General XX Wei".

Among them, the so-called "generals" are all generals who are qualified to serve as the commanders of the field. Now only Wu Yingqi, Wu Guogui, Wu Shicong, Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu, Zhang Guozhu, Guo Zhuangtu, Li Benshen, Ma Bao, Wang Pingfan, Zheng Jiaolin and other eleven people have the title of "general".

Now that Liu Yihu and Li Laishun have 6,000 troops, theoretically surpassing one of Wu's army's "guards", how can Wu Yingxiong not be surprised?

Liu Yihu did not hide it from Wu Yingxiong, and replied "honestly": "Lord Shizi, we have set up two military offices in Lizhou, Shimen and Lizhou, and distributed all the land in Lizhou to the poor peasants according to the method of the Tang Dynasty's Juntian system and the government military system. Whoever has a strong man in the family who joins the house to serve as a soldier will give them an extra share of land, and at the same time give them another salary. In Lizhou alone, there are no less than 3,000 poor men who have joined the army! Coupled with the heroes brought by them from Kuidong, the number of six thousand may be more than that! ”

"What? Have you divided all the land in Lizhou? Wu Yingxiong was taken aback, "Can the landlord of Lizhou agree?" ”

Liu Yihu smiled, "If you don't agree, you will be sent to Chongqing Mansion to help you reclaim the wasteland!" ”

"If you don't agree, you will send Chongqing to reclamation? and help me reclaim it" Wu Yingxiong was stunned, "Do they want to go?" ”

Liu Yihu still didn't hide it at all, and said with a smile: "If you don't go, you'll be killed!" ”

"Just kill your head? They're too cruel, aren't they? ”

Liu Yihu still smiled and groaned: "How can this be called ferocious? There are more Ding Zhuang of those landlords than ordinary peasant households, as long as they are willing to join the government as soldiers, a strong man will share an extra share of land, and a few more will be enough? Even if it's still a little short, they will keep an account for them, and then make up for them when they lay down Changde and Jingzhou. If you refuse to hand over the land and refuse to be a soldier, you are disloyal to the king of the west and the prince of the world! If you are disloyal to the rich, shouldn't you be killed? ”

In fact, Liu Yihu, who seems to be loyal, did not tell the truth. If the wealthy families in Lizhou want not to go to Chongqing Mansion to reclaim the famine, there is only one way, which is to sacrifice their children and nephews to join the family. And even if you join the family, you will inevitably have to hand over the land that exceeds the limit in your family. But Li Zicheng will indeed give them a blank slip in the future, and then find them back from elsewhere to make up for it.

In this way, most of the wealthy households in Lizhou who don't want to go to Sichuan to "feed the pandas" can only sacrifice their children and nephews to join the gang.

As for whether you are willing to work hard after moving in. Li Zicheng is not worried at all, when he was the leader of the rogues, he did not coerce the people!

Besides, the current general trend of the world is obviously conducive to the anti-Qing Dynasty, and if you join it, you may be able to mix up with a small hero of the founding of the country! Therefore, most of the wealthy families in Lizhou who are willing to sacrifice their sons and nephews are sincerely on the side of the anti-Qing camp.

As for those who were determined to fight against the anti-Qing rebels, except for a few who did not run away, most of them went to the Huguang Governor Yamen in Jingzhou (now the Huguang Governor Yamen is not in Wuchang, but in Jingzhou) to ask for troops.

"Unfaithful to the rich." Wu Yingxiong thought about it, and his "bear face" sank, "Kill!" ”

Now that he has experienced the destruction of his family, his mentality has become a little distorted, and his murderous spirit has risen.

"The prince of the world!" Liu Yihu and Wu Yingxiong actually found a common language.

Wu Yingxiong nodded, and said: "Six thousand strong is a lot, but you can't just rely on a large number of people to fight, you also have to have equipment, armor, food, and training. Are all of these enough? ”

"That's not enough." Liu Yihu smiled indifferently. He's a rebel optimist!

"Not enough?" Wu Yingxiong was stunned, "Then how do you fight?" ”

"There is not enough play," Liu Yihu explained, "and the last general is here for this!" ”

Wu Yingxiong frowned: "Then let's talk about it." ”

Liu Yihu said: "The last general and General Li discussed a plan to lead the Tartars and Green Battalions of Jingzhou Mansion and Xiangyang Mansion to Lizhou. As long as they come from Jiangbei to Lizhou, we will use three or four thousand elites to defend Lizhou City and Shimen City. The rest were guerrilla outside the city, attacking their grain routes.

And the prince can take the opportunity to dispatch the elite soldiers of Kuizhou to attack Xiangyang and Jingzhou! ”

Jingzhou Mansion, Jingmen Prefecture and Xiangyang Mansion together are the important towns of the Qing army to control the middle reaches of the Yangtze River!

At present, there is a new army of the Eight Banners stationed in a town, thousands of the Eight Banners stationed in the Governor of Huguang, and the green battalion under the command of the General Soldiers of Xiangyang and Jingmen, with a total strength of nearly 25,000 on the books, and if you count the Su Lajianu of the Eight Banners, the total strength is at least 40,000!

So many troops set up a long snake formation in Jingzhou, Jingmen Prefecture, and Xiangyang, which can not only echo from end to end, but also guard the danger, which is indeed not easy to fight. If some of them can be led to Lizhou on the south bank of the Yangtze River, it will be much easier for Wu Yingxiong to sneak attack Xiangyang and Jingzhou.

"But what method are you going to use to lure the Tartars of Jingzhou to Lizhou?" Wu Yingxiong frowned and asked, "Lizhou. It doesn't matter that much! ”

Liu Yihu smiled: "Shizi Ye, Xiaguan and General Li came up with one. A trick to break into the king's deception! ”

"What? Trick the king? Wu Yingxiong was taken aback by Liu Yihu's suggestion, and stood up immediately, "Li Zicheng is still alive?" ”

"To deceive is to pretend to be alive!" Liu Yihu still looks happy, looking very loyal and honest, not like he is lying at all.

He paused, and then said to Wu Yingxiong: "Lord Shizi, think about it, how much Li Zicheng is hated by others!" If he didn't really die in Jiugong Mountain back then, but cheated to Jiashan Temple in Lizhou, pretended to be a monk and lurked, and manipulated the Loyalty Camp and the Thirteen Kuidong Families behind the scenes, while also accumulating strength, summing up lessons and lessons, and waiting for opportunities. Now it's finally waiting, so it's the other way around! You look at the story. Kangxi, can he believe it? ”

"But. . . Why did he cheat to death? Wu Yingxiong is still a "bear" who likes to get to the bottom of things.

"Of course, it's for Lianming to resist the Qing Dynasty," Liu Yihu said, "If Li Zicheng doesn't cheat to death, Nanming won't be able to join forces with Chuang Ying no matter what." And if Chuang Camp and Nanming don't join forces, they will only perish faster! ”

Seems to make sense!

Wu Yingxiong thought for a while, and asked again: "Then Li Zicheng is dead or not?" ”

Liu Yihu shook his head and smiled: "You know? He wasn't by his side at the time, and the officials in the camp weren't big, so even if he was alive, he wouldn't be in touch with him. ”

Wu Yingxiong stared at Liu Yihu's face for a while, and really didn't see anything, so he nodded and said, "Then. Just let that person live for a while! As long as you can lure out the Tartars of Jingzhou, even if you let Chongzhen cheat and live! ”

"Lord Shizi, you are so wise!" Liu Yihu first put a high hat on Wu Yingxiong, and then said with a smile, "The princes of the world have risked their lives to lead the Tartars across the river this time. Why don't you give you some more shotguns and gunpowder? Kill more Tartars in Lizhou and Shimen, isn't it easier for you to sweep Jingxiang? ”

"Yes, too." Wu Yingxiong was persuaded by Liu Yihu again, "Then give you 500 shotguns and 2,000 catties of gunpowder." ”

"Thank you, Lord Shizi."

In fact, the reason why Liu Yihu offered Wu Yingxiong a "trick to break into the king" in Kuizhou Mansion was not that he and Li Laishun were really fierce and willing to use the two cities of Lizhou and Shimen to attract the firepower of the Qing army in Jiangbei. But the rumor that "Li Zicheng is back" has spread in Lizhou not long after the uprising.

Who asked Li Zicheng to let Mrs. Huang recognize him outside the west gate of Lizhou? And those old battalion soldiers (small battalion soldiers) who followed Li Zicheng into Li Zhou also wore felt hats and green robes that they had treasured for many years. Those who have experienced that era and seen the military appearance of the Dashun Army can recognize it at a glance as Li Zicheng's old battalion soldier!

So Li Zicheng came up with this living person's fraudulent life - it was obviously a real life, but it was said to be a fraudulent life!

True and false, life and death. Let Ezha, the general stationed in Jingzhou and other places and the president of Jingzhou Daying, and Cai Yurong, the governor of Huguang, guess!

And just when Liu Yihu happily went to Lizhou with the equipment he had deceived from Wu Yingxiong, the news that "that man" had returned had already spread in Jingzhou City.

In fact, this important town in Hubei, where the Jingzhou battalion, the Jingzhou general yamen, and the Liangguang governor's yamen were stationed, had become a refugee camp for local tyrants and inferior gentry in March and April of the 11th year of Kangxi.

The landlords and old fortunes from the Jiangnan area of Lizhou and Jingzhou, the southern part of Yichang Prefecture, Shinan Prefecture and Huarong County, Yuezhou Prefecture, all dragged their families with their families, crying and shouting, and fled to Jingzhou City, which was about to burst the originally small and spacious Jingzhou Hancheng.

Among them, Lizhou has basically been controlled by Li Zicheng, and the local Kuidong heroes in the south of Yichang Mansion and Shinan Mansion have raised troops, and Li Zicheng and Wu Yingxiong have sent people there to win over Haoqiang and seize territory.

However, Li Zicheng's men and horses did not occupy territory in the Jiangnan region and Huarong County that led Jingzhou, but only sent troops into "Jingnan" and Huarong County to attack the green battalion soldiers there, and "borrowed grain" from the local tyrants and inferior gentry. However, the local farmers also warmed up when they saw the good things about the division of fields and land in Lizhou, so "Jingnan" and Huarong began to mess up.

And this group of landlords and old fortunes who fled are also unfortunate masters, and every day they know the news that they are crying outside the gate of Running Flag City and asking for soldiers, and shouting "That man has returned" while crying!

Of course, at the beginning, only some of the landlords and gentry who escaped from Lizhou shouted this, but later they probably felt that "Li Zicheng's return" was easier to attract attention, so the local tyrants and inferior gentry who came from other state capitals also shouted nonsense together.

For a while, Li Zicheng's name resounded throughout Jingzhou City!

"What does that man look like? High cheekbones, large forehead, high nose bridge, deep eye sockets, thick eyebrows, one-eyed dragon beard and eyebrows are white, looking more than sixty years old, and shaved out of the house, but it still looks fierce! ”

"That person must be Li Zicheng. Because Huang Wanlin, the old man who was supposed to be guarding filial piety in Guangdong, was caught outside the city of Lizhou to greet Li Zicheng that day, he knew Li Zicheng, so he knelt down for Li Zicheng at that time, and shouted 'Emperor, Emperor'! Although Li Zicheng later did not admit it, before this, there were already leaders of the anti-thieves who called him 'Emperor' and 'Yongchang Son of Heaven'! ”

"I've seen it with my own eyes. At that time, he pretended to be a common man, and he was also waiting outside the west gate of Lizhou City to see the head of the anti-thief, I thought I would see Wu Sangui's people, but I didn't expect to see a Li Zicheng! ”

"Believe in the prince, what Cai Zhijun said is true! You two hurry up and report to the emperor! Now it's not just Wu Sangui, but also Li Zicheng! ”

The one who was kneeling in the lobby of the Jingzhou General's Mansion to report to Ezha and Cai Yurong that "King Chuang has returned" was Chen Dabao, the general of the Lizhou city guard, who fled in makeup that day.

He turned out to be really a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty!

After witnessing the "return of King Chuang", he didn't want to follow King Chuang to fight the world, but fled to Jingzhou City with a smoke and reported to Ezha and Cai Yurong!

However, at first, Ezha and Cai Yurong didn't believe in what "King Chuang returned". Isn't this nonsense? Do you want to resurrect Chongzhen when you turn around?

So these two people locked up Chen Dabao - lost their teacher and lost their land, and they absconded with makeup, which really lost the face of the Qing Green Camp! Therefore, they also reported to Chen Dabao a capital crime of escaping from the battle, and asked Emperor Kangxi for approval.

Of course, Kangxi also hated Chen Dabao for being a bastard general who only knew how to be greedy for money and was useless when he met a thief, so with a stroke of the pen, he gave Chen Dabao a military law to do!

Military law is to kill the head!

Today is the day when Chen Dabao was killed, but in the days when he was waiting for his head, the situation in several state capitals south of the Yangtze River had undergone drastic changes, and the news of "Li Zicheng's return" had spread wildly.

So before Chen Dabao was killed, Ezha and Cai Yurong decided to interrogate Chen Dabao for the last time - they must ask whether Li Zicheng really came back?

If Li Zicheng really came back, then this Chen Dabao, as a witness, could not be killed for the time being!

In case the emperor wants to ask, this head has been cut off, how can you ask? Even if the emperor doesn't mind, Chen Dabao can't answer!

Ozha saw that Chen Dabao had nothing to say, so he waved his hand and said to his Goshha: "Pull it down"

Hearing that he was going to "pull it down", Chen Dabao thought he was going to kill his head, so he screamed: "Don't kill me, I'm still useful. I'm going to fight Li Zicheng for the emperor! ”

Cai Yurong also felt that he shouldn't kill Chen Dabao, so he hurriedly stopped: "Wait a minute. Wait a while and kill the prince, maybe the emperor will want to ask Li Zicheng in person about the situation of Li Zicheng's return? ”

Ezha didn't want to kill Chen Dabao immediately, but now when he heard what Cai Yurong said, he pushed the boat down the river to spare Chen Dabao's death, he thought about it, and said to Cai Yurong: "Otherwise, let's send an eight-hundred-mile flyer to the emperor. By the way, do you want to take Chen Dabao to go? ”

"Yes, I should ask. Chen Dabao, do you think this is okay? This Cai Yurong actually asked Chen Dabao for his meaning.

"Okay, okay" Of course Chen Dabao said "okay", what's the urgency of killing the head?

Maybe after seeing Kangxi, he won't kill this head, isn't this earned?

Kangxi had just arrived in Wutai County, Shanxi Province when Kangxi learned that "that man" had returned. He was passing through Wutai County on a royal expedition!

It is already April of the eleventh year of Kangxi, and Wu Sangui may leave Qishan at any time, so Kangxi has to rush to Xi'an as soon as possible to take the town. So half a month ago, he led the civil and military officials and the beauties of the harem, under the protection of the guards and the military camp, and went to Shaanxi. After walking hundreds of miles in half a month, he was about to go up to Wutai Mountain to take a look at the monk Ama, and the news of Li Zicheng's return was sent to him.

"What? That person is actually back! ”

Kangxi, who was discussing military affairs with several confidants and ministers in the middle of the line, took the handover from Xiao Guizi's hand, and shouted after watching it for a while!

This news is amazing!

Li Zicheng actually came back to life. A Tianzi No. 1 thief who has been dead for more than 20 years has actually come back to life!

And not only lived, but also reversed again!

How good is that? A Wu Sangui has already asked for half a life in the Qing Dynasty, and now there is one more Li Zicheng, this Qing Dynasty. Isn't it going to be over?

(End of chapter)