Yuan Dakui couldn't accept this situation at all. He was a member of Yuan Shizhong's hometown, and it was because he owed money to the King of Hell in the famine years that he had made huge profits, so he had no choice but to seek refuge with his nephew Yuan Shizhong, who had made a big name for himself.
But during the days when he participated in the Xiaoyuan Camp, Yuan Dakui gradually discovered that the Xiaoyuan Camp was completely different from the Henan native bandits like Yu Dazhong. They had strict military discipline and only attacked the native bandits and roving bandits, not the good people and gentry, and even fought against them.
Many officials and gentry have good relations with Shanzhai.
After joining the Chuang Army, although Xiao Yuanying was forced to follow the Chuang Army, he also destroyed many powerful cottages and gentry Zhuangzi. But in Yuan Dakui's view, Xiao Yuanying is still a good army that truly loves the people and does not disturb the people, even better than the
Good for Chuangjun! He couldn't accept that Xiao Yuanying was like this, embarking on a path of destruction that should not have belonged to them.
Yuan Dakui put the knife on his neck, and had an impulse to commit suicide. But at this time, Chen De led the Ming army cavalry to launch a counterattack. The galloping horses knocked Yuan Dakui aside, and he
Only then did I give up the impulsive idea.
It seems that Xiao Yuanying is not finished yet!
Not only was Chen De's new force in the counterattack, but Yuan Shizhong also personally launched a counterattack with more than a thousand of the most precious old soldiers in Xiao Yuan's camp.
This counterattack was quite effective, and the intruders who were completely out of touch with their troops due to excessive pursuit received a blow in the head.
The officer who had talked with Yuan Dakui before changed his face from worry to joy. He felt that there was still room for saving the situation, and couldn't help but smile to Yuan Dakui next to him:
"Chen Xietai told me that the Donglu invaders destroyed the border wall and have now invaded Shandong. The imperial army is stretched thin, and now they attach great importance to our Xiaoyuan camp! As long as they can escape to Guide, as long as they can
If we can escape to Xuzhou, it will be our turn to have a good life."
Yuan Dakui was not as optimistic as he was, and just sighed slightly. But before Yuan Dakui could finish sighing, a bullet flew from nowhere and shattered the officer's Tianling Cap, and a piece of blood suddenly splashed out.
He ejaculated onto Yuan Dakui's face.
Thieves don't kill thieves...how did Xiaoyuan Camp get to the point where it was about to be wiped out by the intruders?
With a roar, accompanied by the roar of artillery accompanying the invading army, Yuan Dakui felt that everything in front of him was spinning, and then he fell to the ground, his eyes blacked out, and he fainted.
When Yuan Dakui woke up again, he had become a prisoner of the invading army.
In front of him, there was a very young-looking general asking questions.
"The Donglu have invaded Shandong territory? Where did you get the news?"
The person who asked the question had a handsome appearance, wearing a red tassel felt hat, and his right hand was resting on the handle of a tiger-head knife. He was young, but already full of power. As soon as he finished asking, two thick-waisted people came to him.
The strong-armed rebel soldiers brought Yuan Dakui over and asked him to answer this question.
Yuan Dakui was still confused. He had been knocked unconscious by the artillery fire of the Chuang army before. He had no idea about the current situation between the Chuang army and Xiao Yuan's camp. He had no idea what was going on, let alone how the battle was progressing.
step.
"Our commander specifically chose you to question you. Why are you hanging around here? Get up!"
The soldier holding him seemed a little impatient. He shook Yuan Dakui's body roughly twice. However, the young general of the Chu army, who was called "Commander", stretched out his hand and stopped the soldier's behavior.
Wen Yan said:
"Are you going to forget about the military discipline and laws of the Chuang Army in front of me? This brother from Xiaoyuan Camp, come here, I have something to ask you."
Only then did the two soldiers of the invading army let go of Yuan Dakui's hands. Yuan Dakui carefully looked around and saw that there were troops of invading soldiers in all directions, and then he boldly asked in a low voice:
"Commander...Commander, do you have anything to ask?"
Yuan Dakui thought that the soldiers of the Chuang Army called this young general "marshal". After all, Xiao Yuanying had fought with the Chuang Army for a long time. He probably knew that there were only generals above the level of generals in the Chuang Army.
, so he was called "Da Shuai".
As for the people above the general level in the military system, there are only Tian Jianxiu, Li Guo, Li Laiheng, Yuan Zongdi, and Liu Fangliang. The general who stood in front of Yuan Dakui to question him looked so young, so his status was naturally
Ready to come out.
Who else could it be besides Li Laiheng, who has been in the limelight in the south recently?
Li Laiheng spoke to Yuan Dakui in a tone similar to how an elder would treat his nephew. In fact, he was more than 20 years younger than Yuan Dakui, so he seemed quite funny. But in the eyes of the soldiers who believed in Li Laiheng's authority, this was of course
This is another manifestation of Li Laiheng's elder style.
"I heard from the captive soldiers in Xiaoyuan Camp that the Donglu had already invaded Shandong. What's going on? I heard it said that the news of Donglu's invasion of Jizhou didn't reach Shandong until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.
How can we possibly reach Shandong after only a few days?"
Yuan Dakui was helped up by Li Laiheng himself, and a helmeted and armored soldier of the Protagonist Army brought him a stool to sit on. This extra treatment made Yuan Dakui feel uncomfortable and unsteady all over his body.
the illusion.
He still lowered his head and replied in a low voice: "It's Mr. Chen... from Henan Town, will you chop off our palms, or will you send us back to your hometown?"
When Yuan Dakui was about to tell what Xiao Yuanying learned about the Qing army's invasion, he suddenly thought of the current situation of Xiao Yuanying, and suddenly changed his mind and asked Li Laiheng a question that was not so appropriate.
But Li Laiheng didn't care about Yuan Dakui's sudden change of words. He said in a very considerate tone: "You don't need to worry too much. Xiao Yuanying has never been an enemy of the Chuang Army. Yuan Shizhong lost his head for a moment and was installed by the imperial court.
The few spies around him deceived him, and this is what caused the pain to his relatives and the pleasure of his enemies. As long as you accept the adaptation of the Chuang Army, your pay, weapons, rations, military uniforms, clothing, etc. will all be rationed according to the standards of the Chuang Army.
Not just you, as long as the other soldiers and civilians of Xiaoyuan Camp give up their plans of rebellion and return to the banner of the Chuang Army, everyone will still be old friends and old acquaintances. Even Yuan Shizhong, as long as he can come back and is willing to come back, the Generalissimo will
Let bygones be bygones, what do you have to worry about?"
Li Laiheng's words did give Yuan Dakui a glimmer of hope. Although Yuan Dakui was particularly convinced of Yuan Shizhong's abilities, even he, a die-hard member of Xiaoyuanying and Yuan Shizhong's fellow villagers, felt that it was unjustifiable for Xiaoyuanying to rebel against the Chuang Army.
The vast majority of the soldiers in Xiaoyuan Camp have no hostility towards the Chuang army at all. As long as the Chuang army can forget the past and open the door, many brothers in Xiaoyuan camp are absolutely willing to drop their weapons and return to Chuang camp.
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Even some of the senior generals in Xiaoyuan Camp, most of them don't want to do things so absolutely, and they are quite critical of Yuan Shizhong's current approach.
"Okay... the commander-in-chief has said so, so I feel relieved."
"Go on, tell me, what happened when the Donglu invaded Shandong?"