Chapter 105: The First Commander of Bamboo Stream (1)
"Bamboo Creek...Bamboo Creek!"
This summer rain in the Zhuxi Mountain area really made Li Laiheng dream back to three years ago.
Three years ago, he was Li Laiheng, a civilian husband in Zhuxi and a soldier in the army. All those scenes were still so familiar. He could clearly recall every picture and scene from that year, and he was stuffed into his arms.
dagger, Bai Youcai who was killed by officers and soldiers, and Li Shuangxi, Bai Wang, whom he had just met at that time...Liu Zongmin!
When Li Laiheng was whipped by the unruly and domineering officers and soldiers in Zhuxi County, how could he have imagined that three years later he would return to this original land with tens of thousands of troops?
Bai Wang has become his confidant. This is something that no one could have expected three years ago. What about Li Shuangxi? He should be doing well with the Central Plains Army. Li Guo occasionally mentioned Li Shuangxi to Li Laiheng.
According to the situation, it is said that he is now the chief general of Li Zicheng's Shuaibiao army; only Liu Zongmin...
That rugged and brave hero has fallen forever in the blood and fire of Yilingzhou City.
After the invading army swept across Jingzhou, Li Laiheng also took Gu Kecheng back to Yiling in person. Both of them were witnesses to the battle of Yiling two years ago, and Gu Kecheng even witnessed Liu Zongmin's death in the battle.
One scene.
Chen Kexin also went. He is a native of Yiling. When the Battle of Yiling happened two years ago, Chen Kexin was still the leader of the regiment training in the city, but now he has become the deputy capital camp field envoy of the Breaking Army and De'an Yin's life experiences
The changes in the current situation are indeed a bit dizzying in this era.
Is this the scene at the end of the Ming Dynasty? An era in which absurdity reflects hope, and hope reflects despair, the Ming Dynasty in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the last late summer before the end of the world.
Li Laiheng and Gu Kecheng paid homage to Liu Zongmin's mausoleum in Yiling, mourning the hero who should have left the most glorious color in the history of the invasion army.
The memorial document was written by Chen Kexin. It is said that Chen Kexin was not familiar with Liu Zongmin, but because of his work, he often hung out with Bai Wang, and he was immersed in many stories about Liu Zongmin, and he knew that this was a Liangshan with a lot of Water Margin color.
figure.
Under his sweeping strokes, Liu Zongmin seems to have become the Fan Kuai, Zhang Fei and Cheng Yaojin of this era, and even has a touch of Chang Yuchun's style.
Li Laiheng knew that this was not Liu Zongmin's true face, but he was not a sincere person like Gu Kecheng who truly admired and respected Liu Zongmin. Instead, he only regarded Liu Zongmin's high regard for him before his death as a kind of political capital.
.It is impossible for a person like Li Laiheng to act purely out of emotion, so he did not correct the eulogy in Chen Kexin's hand.
As for Gu Kecheng, it may be much more difficult for him to understand the difficulty of the four-six parallel prose than for Li Laiheng to become a sincere person with an innocent heart.
But putting these aside, the worship of Li Laiheng and Gu Kecheng in Yiling did become a scene that shocked the soldiers of the Breaking Army: Shao Hushuai, the successor of the Breaking Army appointed by Liu Zongmin, and Liu Zongmin's most recent
The highly regarded lieutenant general Gu Kecheng, at the place where General Liu was sacrificed, at the place where the invading army had paid a bloody price, with such a grand scene and such unparalleled military power, declared the path of the invading army in the past two years.
Correctness!
Xia Yu adds to the divinity and charm of this scene:
Li Laiheng still wore the iconic red tassel felt hat, but added a rainproof raincoat to his Yangwu blue cloak. The soldiers lined up behind Li Laiheng, leader Zhang Pi with a pro-military sign
Led by Rui and Wang Deren, they all wore dark blue smocks, raincoats, and helmets on their heads. They stood motionless in the rain, like mountains or pillars in the middle of the Yellow River.
Such military might is truly impressive.
The wind and rain moved slightly, and a layer of chill made Li Laiheng's spirit clearer. He looked at the stacked mountains in the west of Yunxi, and thought of Bai Youcai who died in Zhuxi County, Liu Zongmin who died in Yiling Prefecture, and many others
Other soldiers who died in the breakout army.
They paid a lot, but what they got back was not enough to reverse the trend of history.
After bidding farewell to Liu Zongmin's mausoleum, Li Laiheng basically handed over the general government affairs of Huguang to the three military governors Chen Xin, Bai Wang, and Gao Yigong. It was also the day before he arrived in Zhuxi County. Zhang Xianzhong was just as Li Laiheng expected.
Like that, he abandoned the city of Wuchang and headed south to the land of Hunan and Hunan.
Ma Bao, who was already waiting across the river outside Wuchang City, immediately joined Li Fengwu, who was promoted to captain due to his achievements in the Battle of Hankou, and led 5,000 soldiers and horses. With the cooperation of Lin Chengcheng's navy, they easily crossed the river.
Crossed the river and captured the most important capital city of Huguang without a fight.
In Zhuxi County, Li Laiheng soon received letters from Secretary Fang Yiren, Marching Sima Gu Junen and Wuyue Jiedushi Gao Yigong:
Fang Yiren's letter mainly talked about the expansion of the township official school and the camp school. He also mentioned that Chen Kexin had organized a group of village envoys to go to Wuchang Prefecture to implement the new camp law.
Fang Yiren comes from a high-ranking family and has always been a good-tempered person. No matter who he gets along with, he can handle the relationship very properly and perfectly. Whether it is Xie Zheng, who has always been close to Gu Junen, or Chen Xin's old friend and deputy
Chen Kexin, the envoy to the capital camp, all expressed deep admiration and admiration for Fang Fang's benevolent conduct;
Gu Junen's letter mainly talks about military issues. He and Li Polu, the military recruiter in charge of recruitment and training in the Chuang Army, are not getting along very well. Li Polu is a prudent person, and he doesn't like Gu Junen's unconventional attitude.
He has a very casual work style and the two often have conflicts over military training issues.
Gu Junen's letter contains all his attacks on Li Polu. The most serious one is that he even attacked Li Polu, who was a retired general in the army, and missed his old master.
Li Laiheng flipped through it casually and laughed it off. He knew the personalities of Li Polu and Gu Junen well, and he thought that Gu Junen should not be allowed to get involved in such detailed work in the future.
As for the letter written by Gao Yigong, he first told the detailed story of how he led his troops to take over Wuchang Mansion and set up a commander's mansion in Wuchang City.
Then he suddenly changed the topic, saying that the intruders relied on "general trends" to force Zhang Xianzhong away. The battle to capture Wuchang did not involve any fighting at all, and the soldiers were not injured. The entire battle process was very easy. However, many Wuchang citizens asked
After he revealed that Ma Bao's troops had entered the city, he took advantage of the uncertain and chaotic period in Wuchang to plunder a large amount of public and private treasury.
Gao Yigong was the military governor of Wuyue, while Ma Bao was the mighty general of the cavalry. Under the right-wing military system of the Chuang Army, the general could control the military commander. But the military governor was at least in the same position as General Guo Yi.
In terms of level, it is even more than half a head higher. Logically speaking, Gao Yigong, as the governor of Jiedushi, can completely control the mighty general Ma Bao. Since he caught Ma Bao, it is said that everyone will get the loot, then
There is no need to write a letter to report to Li Laiheng, you can handle it yourself.
Li Laiheng read the letter three or four times. He knew Gao Yigong's character and knew that his nominal "uncle" was a man with no ambition for power. Was his behavior unintentional?
This move, or does it have other intentions?
Li Laiheng used himself to save others, and of course he believed that the letter written by Gao Yigong had a very strong political meaning.
Take the Chuangjun system as an example:
First, Gao Yigong, as the governor, had the power to directly deal with the mighty general Ma Baogan's violations of military discipline;
Second, although Li Laiheng was the Jianghuai Economic and Strategy Envoy and the Controlling General, under the right-wing military system of the Chuang Army, the Controlling General could indeed control the Temperance Envoy, but there was absolutely no reason why Gao Yigong had to report the work situation to Li Laiheng first.
"There are no factions in the army, and there are all kinds of strange things. Fang Yiren does things too smoothly, which makes people uneasy. But Gu Junen's blatant attack on his colleagues, wouldn't it be a deliberate act of self-defeat? As for Yi Gong... I
I would rather believe that he is just used to discussing things with me, and there is no other hidden meaning."
Li Laiheng pondered for a while and stretched out his right hand. Zhang Pizhu understood and ordered his soldiers to put pen and paper on the table.
"What he did in Leshan is excellent, and he should be praised more. Doesn't he like to collect ancient books? When we conquered Jingzhou a while ago, I remember that at the palace of King Hui in Jiangling, we got the only copy of the Song Dynasty ""
"Shibi Jingshe Sound Notes on Tang Shu Detailed Sections". Piju, when you return to Xiangyang, please remember to send a volume to Leshan."
Zhang Pikui stood beside Li Laiheng and hummed, then asked with confusion: "Are you only going to give me one volume? When I conquered Prince Hui's Mansion, because of Commander-in-Chief's instructions, I specially asked people to read that set of books... I remember
There are more than 50 or more than 100 volumes, so why not give Secretary Fang just one volume?"
Li Laiheng sneered and said: "This person in Leshan is greedy. We can't satisfy him too casually. We have to hang him up all the time. Otherwise, after a while, you will have to go to the study and garden to find our Secretary Fang."