Chapter 30: Secret Schemes

Duan Hongyu said: "They all want each other to do it, preserve their own strength, and pull each other's skins, so they have dragged on until now." In my opinion, launching a general attack on Ten Thousand Blades Mountain this time must have been strongly requested by Shangguan Jinpeng. I know Shangguan Jinpeng too well, he has always regarded my Ten Thousand Blade Mountain and Dashun Army as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh, and he must get rid of them first and then quickly!"

Tang Ma said angrily: "This Shangguan old thief is really damned!"

Duan Hongyu said: "Even if he deserves to die, but after all, he still has strong strength, since defeating Wanjian Mountain and Erlong Mountain in Qingshakou, his power has reached its peak, and his prestige in the rivers and lakes is also unparalleled, all factions in the green forest are flocking to him, and they have taken refuge!"

Zhan Tianlun scolded: "These scum of the rivers and lakes, if you have milk, you are a mother, it's really hateful!"

Duan Hongyu said: "It's no wonder that they, in such a chaotic situation, everyone is in danger, and most of them take refuge in Shangguan Jinpeng to protect themselves!"

Tang Ma said: "But these people don't hesitate to be traitors in order to save their lives, and they are really angry, if they don't slaughter them one by one, this evil breath in my chest is really difficult to come out!"

Duan Hongyu said: "You are wrong, Shangguan Jinpeng is not a traitor!"

Tang Ma said loudly: "What are you talking about? Shangguan Jinpeng is not a traitor! He colluded with the Qing army to slaughter my heroes of Wanjian Mountain, isn't he still a traitor?"

Duan Hongyu said: "Shangguan Jinpeng didn't shave his hair and lower his hair, how can he be regarded as a traitor?"

Lu Xue'an said: "A traitor is a traitor, it's not about whether he shaves his hair or not, he is a traitor when he unites with the Qing army." ”

Duan Hongyu said: "I know Shangguan Jinpeng better than you, even if everyone in the world becomes a traitor, he will not be a traitor." He hated the Manchus extremely in his heart, and now he was forced to cooperate with the Manchus. Because without cooperating with the Manchus, he will not be able to destroy us, he will not be able to strengthen his own power, and his ideals will not be realized!"

Zhan Tianlun said: "I really don't know what he wants to do!"

Duan Hongyu said: "Shangguan Jinpeng and us are two kinds of people, and it can be said that they are completely opposite to us. Now there are three major forces, namely the Ming Dynasty, the Great Shun and the Manchu Qing Dynasty. We are loyal to Dashun, and he is loyal to Daming. None of these three forces is sure of victory, and the two forces must unite to destroy the other, and then the final decisive battle can be carried out in order to produce a real winner. In the past, it was the Ming who was strong and weak, and it was the Great Shun that united with the Manchus to destroy the Ming Dynasty. Now that the Ming Dynasty has been destroyed, the contradictions between the Great Shun and the Qing Dynasty will immediately become acute, and it is not surprising that the remnants of the forces loyal to the Ming Dynasty colluded with the Manchus!"

Tang Ma said: "Impossible! When did my Dashun righteous army collude with the Manchu Qing Dynasty? If Li Zicheng is really that kind of person, the heroes of the green forest in the world will never die for him!"

Duan Hongyu said: "Cooperation is sometimes a tacit understanding, and it doesn't necessarily have to be a dialogue or a contract, and it doesn't have to be fighting side by side. Over the years, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has been advancing step by step outside the Guan, and the rebel army has been rampage in the Central Plains, which is actually a disguised union. What is certain is that if there was no Manchu invasion in Liaodong, neither Li Zicheng nor Zhang Xianzhong would have won the victory. Not to mention the invasion of Beijing, the Dashun army has been wiped out by Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, and Zuo Liangyu in Shaanxi and Henan. I can say with certainty that when Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong encountered a major setback, they sincerely hoped that the Manchu Qing would put pressure on the Ming Dynasty, because only when the Ming army transferred all the main forces to the Guanwai could they have a chance to turn defeat into victory! In the same way, the Manchu Qing did not want the Ming Dynasty to completely wipe out the righteous army and thus throw all its military strength into Liaodong. Every time when the rebel army was about to be destroyed, the Qing army attacked outside the pass, and this cannot but be said to have ulterior motives!"

Zhan Tianlun, Pang Tianyue, Tang Ma, and Lu Xue'an didn't want to admit it after listening to Duan Hongyu's words, but they also felt that it made sense.

Duan Hongyu said: "It is precisely because the Ming Dynasty has died that the Manchu Qing Dynasty aimed its main goal at Dashun. The remnants of the Ming Dynasty also wanted to reach some degree of compromise with the Manchus in order to use the Manchu power to get rid of their greatest rival, Dashun. Shangguan Jinpeng and the others hit it off with Suo Long in such a situation. ”

Tang Ma gritted his teeth and said, "But this change is too fast!"

Duan Hongyu said: "It's not that the changes are too fast, it's that King Chuang and his subordinates haven't made timely adjustments to the situation. Although Shangguan Jinpeng colluded with the Manchus, the inherent contradictions between them were irreconcilable. Unless Shangguan Jinpeng surrenders to the Manchus with all his heart, there will be a bloody battle between them, and it will be ten times more tragic than the Battle of Qingsha Valley!"

Zhan Tianlun exclaimed: "Tenth brother, you said that there is still a battle between the Moth Army and the Qing Army?"

Duan Hongyu said: "Of course! When Shangguan Jinpeng founded the army, he preached to his subordinates the ideal of 'serving the country with loyalty', and he did not dare to change this banner. If he changes, don't talk about us, even his subordinates won't let him go. And based on my observation by Shangguan Jinpeng's side for so many days, I found that he was definitely a person who served the country loyally, and it was by no means a big evil. ”

Tang Ma said: "Shangguan old thief killed so many of our brothers is not a great evil, so how can it be considered a great evil? Tenth brother, you have been in the Moth Army for so many days, but you have been bad!"

Duan Hongyu said: "I'm not stupid, I stayed in the Moth Army for so long, just to observe them." I am sure that they are by no means a team willing to be traitors! Shangguan Jinpeng joined forces with the Qing army because deep down in his heart he always believed that the rebels were thieves who disturbed the world, and he had always treated the rebels as the number one enemy, and he must get rid of them first and then quickly. ”

Tang Ma said: "But the Manchu Qing Dynasty has come in, and he is still so stubborn." ”

Duan Hongyu said: "You can scold him or hate him, but Shangguan Jinpeng is still Shangguan Jinpeng." He was born as a scholar, and there is an essential difference between him and those of us who came from the green forest. He is firm in his beliefs and very arrogant, and the ideas formed in his mind are difficult for others to change. He may not have realized the magnitude of the Manchu ambitions, but in any case he had always regarded the rebels as the first enemy to be eliminated. Because in his opinion, although the Manchu Qing Dynasty was powerful, with the strength of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the internal unification could be completed and the true potential of the Ming Dynasty could be brought into play, it would be completely able to contend with the Manchu Qing and even eliminate them! At least they could fight against them. ”

Zhan Tianlun said: "This Shangguan Jinpeng is really a granite head, and he doesn't know how to be flexible at all!"

Duan Hongyu said: "We can't change Shangguan Jinpeng, just like he can't change us." Now the situation we are facing is very dangerous, Li Zicheng's army was defeated and ran westward, and he was still unable to protect himself, and he could not help us at all, and after the battle of Qingshakou, we lost our troops and lost our generals, and our strength was greatly weakened, and we made a slight mistake, not to mention avenging the brothers, even the last bit of fire was afraid that it would be buried!"

Tang Ma said: "But even so, we can't be afraid of Shangguan old thief." If he wants to fight or kill, we will accompany him to the end, and every inch of my Ten Thousand Blades Mountain will become the grave of the Moth Army!"