"The Generalissimo sent me a letter asking me to go to Kaifeng, Leshan, Haozhi. What do you think?"
After the finishing work of the Battle of Mamuji was completed, Li Laiheng, under the guidance of Chen Yongfu, easily captured Guide Mansion and made another great contribution to the invasion army.
Guide is an important town in the Central Plains. The rise of the Song Dynasty, the fall of the Jin Dynasty, and even the Dragon and Phoenix Song Dynasty all have a deep connection with Guide Mansion. The city of Shangqiu is majestic and the city walls are towering. If the imperial court deployed a heavy army here, Li Laiheng would have it.
Although there are many artillery pieces, they are still unable to forge the super-heavy red cannons used when the Qing army attacked Songjin. If they really want to attack Shangqiu, they will probably have to spend a lot of effort.
Therefore, Li Laiheng was very satisfied with being able to defeat Shangqiu without losing any blood, and therefore he valued Chen Yongfu more.
What's more, after the Chuang Army entered Guide Mansion, Chen Yongfu also handed over to the Chuang Army the list of evil gentry in Guide that he had collected for a long time, and even the specific charges and evil deeds of these local tyrants and evil gentry.
Li Laiheng felt that it was just right.
Although Chen Yongfu has never defected to the Chuang Army, since the fall of Kaifeng, he knew that it was necessary to leave a way for the Chuang Army. Especially since Chen Yongfu had been exchanging letters with Chen Xin for a long time, he naturally knew about Li Laiheng's situation in Huguang.
As a result, as early as when he was stationed in Guide, he had paid special attention to collecting dirty information about the evil gentry from all walks of life, just waiting for the day when the situation changed and he really wanted to surrender to the invaders, so that he could have a certificate of surrender.
Such an act is worthy of the four-word evaluation of being bold and careful.
It's just that the more perfect Chen Yongfu is in his work, the more Li Laiheng has to worry about which camp he will end up in if he jumps sideways again and again one day.
Therefore, although Chen Yongfu had been promised before that he would only carry out a simple "reorganization" of Henan Town, how to implement this simple reorganization did not depend on the strength comparison between the two parties?
As soon as Guide Mansion was obtained, Li Laiheng knew that Chen Yongfu had lost his retreat and support, so he immediately asked Ma Bao to implement the plan of "disbanding the joint organization":
First, the Chuang Army arranged the residence of the officers and soldiers in Henan Town, and stationed their generals, officers, and soldiers separately. Especially for the soldiers in Henan Town, Li Laiheng also used the reason that the main force of the Chuang Army was stationed outside Shangqiu City, and criticized the march of the Chuang Army.
The rule was that the army could not easily enter the city to disturb the people, so they left all the soldiers in Henan Town outside the city.
Chen Yongfu and other generals were in the city, but the soldiers were outside the city. Therefore, when Ma Bao carried out his plan to "break up and consolidate", Henan Town had no power to resist. Except for some "unexpected disputes" that resulted in more than a dozen casualties.
Outside, without any fighting, the Chuang army dismantled and digested the remaining troops in Henan Town and Xiaoyuan Camp, a total of nearly ten thousand troops.
Chen Yongfu was still having dinner with Li Laiheng in Guide City at that time. They ate Shaanxi mutton steamed buns. Even the chefs were several Shaanxi chefs who Chen Yongfu had carefully prepared earlier!
His approach was really thoughtful, but he didn't expect that the invasion of the army would be so fast. Before the generals and officers of Henan Town could react, all the soldiers had been dispersed and reorganized.
When Chen Yongfu learned the news, let alone burst into tears, he was unable to react at all and just stood there in a daze.
But now that Chen Yongfu has surrendered, he even assisted the intruders in attacking Guide Mansion, and also presented a large amount of black information about the evil gentry, and sent Hou Fangyu to the west. Is there any way out with this approach?
You have to swallow the bitter pill yourself!
However, Li Laiheng would not just blindly oppress Chen Yongfu who had surrendered. Li Zicheng had already promised Chen Yongfu the official position of general. Li Laiheng also revealed to him some of Chu Chuang's business results in Huguang: such as the production volume of weapons and gunpowder, Huguang
The food production situation, the huge amount of cash that was obtained after physically eliminating a large number of officials and gentry...
After demonstrating Chu Chuang's potential, Li Laiheng hinted to him that as long as Chen Yongfu had an idea, Li Laiheng could also try to arrange for him to be appointed as the governor of a town in Chu.
Chen Yongfu was also aware of the situation. After he discovered that Henan Town had been easily annexed by Li Laiheng, he not only did not show his dissatisfaction to Li Laiheng, but immediately went to Li Laiheng's temporary headquarters to make a list of the officers and generals of Henan Town.
They were all handed over to Li Laiheng.
"Although I, the superintendent of Henan Town, have never thought of harming the people. However, in recent years, the officers and soldiers have always been in poor discipline. Even if I strictly restrain them, I cannot completely prevent Henan Town from harming the people.
For example, when we withdrew from Guide, a large-scale apportionment was carried out in Guide Mansion. Although this matter was led by Hou Fangyu, I did not strongly oppose it, nor did I restrain the soldiers of Henan Town in collecting military apportionment. This inevitably caused some
A tragedy that harmed the people. I still can’t let go of this incident when I think about it. Recently, after I changed my banner to the Chuang Army, I dreamed about the ghosts of soldiers and civilians who were persecuted to death every night. I feel so ashamed!
Most of the generals and officers in Henan Town are like me and have never thought about killing the people. However, when marching and fighting, things like this that affect and harm the people will inevitably happen. In the end, it is because we do not
Like the Chuang army, they rose up in the grasslands to save the people.
So in my opinion, all these generals must be re-selected by the Young Tiger Commander before they can be put to great use!"
Chen Yongfu and Chen Xin often corresponded, so he naturally knew that after Henan Town was broken up and reorganized, his officers and generals could not escape the process of being sent to the camp school to relearn and then be hired based on their talents.
So instead of waiting for Li Laiheng to do it himself, he might as well take the initiative to send it to his door to win the trust and favor of Chuangjun.
"General Chen... sincerely serves as the capital of the country. The imperial court cannot reuse it. It uses it in a big way and in a special way. This is also the fault of Cheng Chongzhen. The generalissimo must not make this mistake."
Li Laiheng, of course, spoke highly of Chen Yongfu's method of recognizing people. It was also thanks to Chen Yongfu that Guide was able to calm down so quickly.
Therefore, afterwards, Li Laiheng specially handed over the garden of the Hou Mansion that had been confiscated by the intruders to Chen Yongfu to live in. He also specially asked Gu Junen to send Chen Yongfu's old troops to Suiying School for re-study and assessment, and to give them higher treatment than other Ming soldiers.
Special treatment for being demoted to half a rank.
It was just a sudden letter from Li Zicheng that broke Li Laiheng's existing arrangements.
If there are no accidents, the text on this letter must have been written by Niu Jinxing. Now that Xuzhou has not been conquered and the canal has not been cut off, there is a rush to transfer Li Laiheng from the front line. Such a hasty approach is also different from what Niu Jinxing had done before.
The eager actions of the three towns are quite similar.
However, when the three towns were divided, they not only arranged for 30,000 troops from the Central Plains to come over to take over, but also arranged for Li Laiheng's adoptive father Li Guo to personally do the persuasion work.
This time, they wanted to transfer Li Laiheng directly from the army to Kaifeng, but they only needed a letter? They also requested that the army be handed over to Gu Kecheng's command later!
"Is this the Grand Marshal's idea or Qi Weng's?"
After reading the letter, Gu Junen showed displeasure and said bluntly: "The Generalissimo first transferred the envoy from Suizhou to the east of Henan, which can be said to be thousands of miles away from home. Now that he wants another letter, he transferred the envoy from Suizhou to the east of Henan Province.
Guide was transferred to Kaifeng, and he had to replace the envoy's old troops with someone else. Isn't this how Liu Bang treated Han Xin? Does the generalissimo regard you as the Marquis of Huaiyin?"
Fang Yiren rubbed his eyebrows with his fingers and said helplessly:
"Luo Rucai is doing well in Kaifeng. How could the general think that the envoy is the Marquis of Huaiyin at this time? Even if Liu Bang deals with the Marquis of Huaiyin, he will be dealing with Peng Yue and Yingbu."
"That was to deal with the Marquis of Huaiyin, but what about Han Xin? As soon as Xiang Yu died, he moved Han Xin from the King of Qi to the King of Chu, and soon demoted him to the Marquis of Huaiyin! Perhaps the division of the three towns was a precursor to demoting him to the Marquis of Huaiyin!"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Li Laiheng snorted coldly, "The Generalissimo and I are as close as flesh and blood. How can we be compared to the Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty and the Marquis of Huaiyin? Gu Junen! You are trying to drive a wedge between our family! This matter is beyond the reach of human ministers and counselors!
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Fang Yiren put the letter back on the table and said: "Perhaps the matter is not that complicated. It may be as written in the letter. The generalissimo summoned the master of the palace back to Bian just to make arrangements for the wedding so that Luo Rucai can be settled."
Heart."
"Well... I think so too, otherwise it really doesn't make sense." Li Laiheng said softly, "Now that Sun Chuanting has fled to the north bank of the Yellow River and has gathered 30,000 Qin troops again, it really gives him a chance to breathe. If he wants to solve the problem,
The Qin army is not that easy yet!
So now the Generalissimo must try to pursue Sun Chuanting until he is completely eliminated, but in this case someone must deal with Guanzhong. For such a big task, only Luo Rucai with his status can be responsible for it."
"Yes, it's just that although Cao Cao's camp has been divided and disintegrated several times, it has gradually become less and less popular. But after all, Luo Rucai was once as famous as the generalissimo, and even surpassed the generalissimo. Cao Cao, he led the army alone. If something went wrong, he would
It's hard to say what he was thinking about. That's why the Generalissimo wanted to appease Cao Cao by marrying him off."
In the letter sent by Li Zicheng, he wanted to transfer Li Laiheng to Kaifeng. The reason was not only to summon all the generals of the Chuang Army to discuss the Chuang Army's next strategic approach.
There is another important reason. At this critical juncture, Luo Rucai suddenly proposed that Li Laiheng, as a general in the army, had not been married yet, and suggested that he go to Kaifeng and choose a suitable woman to marry. With such an obvious hint, Li Zicheng and Niu
Of course Jin Xing knew that she wanted Li Laiheng to marry Luo Rucai's sister Luo Yanqing!
Li Laiheng was Li Guo's adopted son, but Luo Yanqing was Luo Rucai's biological sister. Luo Rucai hinted that he wanted to marry Luo Yanqing to Li Laiheng, which was equivalent to lowering himself to Li Guo, or even lower than Li Guo's status.
This seems to show that Luo Rucai wants to completely integrate into the camp. If Luo Rucai can be so calm and Luo Yanqing, who has an old army of Cao Ying, can be completely included in the camp, Li Zicheng will certainly not hesitate to call Li Laiheng back.