Li Yan asked: "Isn't it time to get rid of the ugliness?"
Li Nian replied: "I don't know exactly when, but Chou Zheng must have passed."
While he was talking, Li Mou hurriedly walked in and reported: "Brother, several Ming troops brought a lot of beef and mutton across the river and entered the Guanning Army camp."
"It's expected, but it's useless." Li Yan shook his head.
"It's not that easy for two armies that have lost trust in each other to regain mutual trust."
Li Nian frowned and said: "But brother, the current situation is also very difficult for us. It is not easy to break the situation, not to mention we can't stay here for a long time."
"Yeah." Li Mou rubbed his hands and said, "Let's fight the Mongols. What if Chongzhen takes the opportunity to escape? But let's fight Chongzhen, and we are worried about being attacked by the Mongols. Even if we lose half of our troops, we can defeat the Ming army and the Mongols."
We have been crippled one after another, and there are Wu Sangui's thousand Guan Ning Army cavalry on the other side of the Baihe River, which is really troublesome."
Li Nian spread his hands and said: "In the current situation, no one dares to make the first move."
Li Yan also frowned, and he had no good way to break this situation.
After hesitating for a moment, Li Yan finally said: "In this case, I will go meet the general of Guan Ning Army to see if it is possible to reach a gentleman's agreement with him."
"Looking for Guan Ningjun?" Li Mou said in astonishment, "What do you mean?"
Li Nianze said: "Brother, are you saying that we have made an agreement with the Guan Ning Army that we will deal with the Mongols, and at the same time, the Guan Ning Army will attack the Ming Army, and then each of the two families will rob Chongzhen according to their own abilities?"
"Yes." Li Yan said, "Guan Ningjun definitely doesn't want to waste it. Moreover, this gentleman's agreement only benefits Guan Ningjun and does no harm. They have no reason to refuse."
"Humph, Mr. Chongzhen is really a treasure." Li Mou snorted, "Every family wants to snatch him."
While the three brothers were talking, a guard came in and reported: "Right Military Advisor, a young man who claims to be the deputy Qianhu of the left camp of the Guan Ning Army came to visit and said he wanted to see you."
"Hey." Li Mou smiled.
"They came to the door themselves."
Li Yan waved his hand and said, "Please."
After a while, a young general walked in proudly.
"I am Hu Guozhu, deputy chief of Qianhu, Zuoying, Ji Town, Ming Dynasty." The young man said proudly, "I want to see your coach."
"My brother is the right-hand military advisor of the Dashun Army and the pro-military general of the Zhongquan Army." Li Nian pointed at Li Yan and asked in a deep voice, "What do you want from my brother?"
"Are you Li Yan?"
Hu Guozhu turned to Li Yan: "I know you, my father told me about you."
Hearing this, Li Mou and Li Nian immediately showed a look of pride on their faces. Their brother's name had already spread to Guan Ningjun's ears, and their faces were also bright.
Li Yan said: "The surname is Hu? Is your father's name Hu Xinshui?"
"Why, have you heard of my father's name?" Hu Guozhu's eyes lit up.
"I've heard that he is a very capable warrior." Li Yan nodded and asked, "Did your father ask you to come here? Did you tell me something?"
Hu Guozhu hummed and said: "My father said that the Chahar Mongolian army will arrive here as early as the morning after tomorrow or as early as tomorrow evening. By then, neither our Guan Ning Army nor your Dashun Army will be here."
Eat the good fruit."
Li Yan said: "So what does your father mean?"
Hu Guozhu: "What my father means is that the two families will join forces. Our Guan Ning army will be responsible for attacking the Ming army, and you will be responsible for solving the Gongtu tribe. It will not be a problem to destroy the Ming army and the Gongtu tribe with the strength of you and me. Wait until
After the Ming army and the Gongtu tribe are eliminated, our two families will have another battle to finally decide who will belong to Emperor Chongzhen."
"What you have in mind is quite beautiful." Li Nian said, "What will happen if you just take Chongzhen and run away? Aren't our trips in vain?"
"That's right." Li Mou also said, "You can join forces, but you have to change the way of fighting. We are responsible for fighting the Ming army, and you are responsible for solving the Gongtu Department. This is more or less the same."
"Okay." Hu Guozhu nodded readily, "Then I'll do as you say."
"Ah this?" Li Mou was stunned when he heard this. Shouldn't he refuse sternly?
Li Yan glared at Li Mou and said, "Hu Qianhu, I'd better do what you want."
"That's okay, there's not much difference anyway." Hu Guozhu said with a careless look, "The Ming army had a large number of firearms and occupied favorable terrain, and built protective walls and trenches. It was no easier to fight than the Gongtu Department.
"
Li Yan said: "Then it's settled, when is the time to do it?"
Hu Guozhu said: "The current time is almost Chouzheng, so let's start at Yinchu."
"Okay." Li Yan nodded, "As long as you take action, we will follow suit."
"You'd better eat the Gongtu tribe's cavalry before we deal with the Ming army, otherwise we will take Chongzhen back to Yongping directly." Hu Guozhu bowed his hands and turned to leave.
"Hey, the mother-in-law is quite crazy." Li Mou said angrily.
Li Nian frowned and asked, "Brother, are you really going to do it?"
Li Yan said noncommittally: "Let the soldiers be ready."
…
At this time, Zhu Gaoyuan had brought Hu Xinshui back to the Ming army camp.
Wang Jiayan and other distinguished officials who had been waiting on the shore all bowed their heads in celebration.
At the same time, he cast a strange look at Zhu Gaoyuan, His Majesty succeeded in making this dangerous move!
In fact, on the way here, Hu Xinshui also thought about jumping into the Baihe River to escape, but Zhu Gaoyuan didn't give him this chance at all. Instead, he personally tied him and Wang Chengen to the back of the same war horse.
The torch held by Wang Chengen also changed from one to two.
Hu Xinshui was so frightened by this formation that he did not dare to make any move.
He even kept reminding Wang Chengen along the way: "Father, be careful."
After entering Baihe, Hu Xinshui was still reminding Wang Chengen, fearing that he would accidentally set his brocade robe on fire.
Because he was riding a war horse, the river water only reached his waistline. If he was set on fire, his upper body would still be burned to ashes.
After arriving at the camp on the west bank of the Baihe River, Hu Xinshui was able to change out of his wet brocade robe and change into a war robe. However, the new war robe was a brocade robe filled with gunpowder and dipped in mutton oil.
"Your Majesty, what are you doing?" Hu Xinshui asked with a bitter face.
Zhu Gaoyuan, who put on his dry clothes and put on his mountain armor, walked back to Hu Xinshui: "Hu Aiqing, I'm sorry. Facing a fierce general like you, I must be as careful as possible."
Hu Xinshui said: "Your Majesty, since I promised, I will not run away."
"I know." Zhu Gaoyuan said, "But I still hope to get some insurance."
Hu Xinshui said nothing more, because he knew that no matter what he said, it would be useless. Chongzhen's suspicion was well known to the world, but he was wearing such a brocade robe soaked in mutton oil and filled with gunpowder, so there was no chance of escaping.
Already.
If he really dares to run, a rocket will send him away.
Zhu Gaoyuan said to Wang Chengen again: "Wang Daban, go and gather all the musketeers."
"I obey the order." Wang Chengen agreed, then turned around and went to summon the musketeers in the camp ahead.
Watching Wang Chengen walk away, Gao Qiqian felt that the opportunity had come, and immediately said with a flattering look: "Long live my lord, you don't have to risk your life with a body of thousands of gold, and let me command this battle on your behalf."
Gao Qiqian said this, but secretly thought to himself, Long live my Lord, you grew up in a deep palace, do you know what war is? Don't wait until the musketeers fire their cannons to scare you.
"Are you coming to take command on my behalf?" Zhu Gaoyuan looked at Gao Qiqian with a smile.
Gao Qiqian was about to say that an old slave was enough for such a trivial matter, but Zhu Gaoyuan's next words almost scared him to death.
I saw Zhu Gaoyuan's smiling face instantly turned serious, and he said in a cold tone: "You will be my commander. Do you want you to be the emperor on my behalf? Gao Daban?"
"Long live the Lord!" Gaoqiqian knelt down.
"If the long live master says this, the old slave will have no choice but to die."
"What?" Zhu Gaoyuan snorted coldly, "You want to force me to die?"
"No, I don't dare. This is not what I mean." Gao Qiqian really wanted to cry now. No, why has Master Long Live become so difficult to take care of after not seeing him for a few days?
In the past, Long live the Lord would believe whatever he said.
Zhu Gaoyuan's eyes became even colder as he watched him kowtow as if he were pounding garlic.
During the Jiashen national calamity, thousands of officials and scholars died for the country, and there were also many nobles who died. Only one eunuch, Wang Chengen, who kept claiming that he was the emperor's slave, committed suicide.
The national affairs of the Ming Dynasty were caused by the Donglin Party and the eunuchs!
For example, the person in front of me, Gao Qiqian, the penultimate pillar of the Ming Dynasty, Lu Xiang was promoted to Duke, was demolished by this eunuch. If not for the wrong timing, Zhu Gaoyuan would have ordered Gao Qiqian to be chopped off.
Zhu Gaoyuan said coldly: "That's not what you mean, then what do you mean?"
Gao Qiqian knelt down and cried: "Old slave, I have no other intention. I just want to die for the saint."
"Want to die for me?" Zhu Gaoyuan chuckled and said, "There will be this opportunity."
Seeing Zhu Gaoyuan smiling, Gao Qiqian secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Although he didn't know why he offended Long Live Lord this time, at least the crisis was temporarily resolved.
Wang Chengen soon arrived with more than 300 musketeers.
After several battles, the number of muskets decreased, but there were still more than 300 in total.
"Everyone." Zhu Gaoyuan walked to the queue of musketeers and said in a deep voice, "Put all the lead bullets on the ground."
Although more than three hundred musketeers did not know why, they still took off the leather bags containing lead bullets and placed them on the ground.
"Okay!" Zhu Gaoyuan nodded happily and said, "When the two armies are fighting, you just charge the gun barrel normally, and then fire the gun normally. It will be treated as if it is loaded with lead bullets."
"Ah?" The Musketeers looked at each other.
Isn’t that a shot in the dark? It can’t kill anyone.
Zhu Gaoyuan had already turned his attention to Hu Xinshui.
"Hu Aiqing, you also send a Yiding back to tell your son that when the two armies are fighting, take off the arrowheads of the heavy arrows and wrap the soft ends of the spears. Whenever there is a flash of gunfire here, lie down quickly.
A few are just pretending."
Hu Xinshui motioned to a Yiding accompanying him to come over and repeat it again.
The Yiding nodded repeatedly and returned to the east bank of the Baihe River under the cover of night.