However, Li Laiheng understood the meaning of Fang Yiren's words better. If now, in order to avoid Li Zicheng losing face, Li Laiheng would kill Mrs. Xing himself.
That is using the name of benevolence and righteousness accumulated by Li Laiheng over the years to exchange for a little favor from Li Zicheng.
So the fundamental question of which is more important lies in which is more important, Li Laiheng's reputation or winning Li Zicheng's favor.
Gu Junen felt it didn't matter, he simply said bluntly: "Shijun, most of the generals in the Chuang army are upright men with no other intentions, people with the temperament of waving flags, do you really think that not killing Mrs. Xing can be called benevolence and righteousness?"
I'm afraid all the generals are eager to disembowel Mrs. Xing immediately."
"It is up to the master of the palace to decide whether to kill or not." Fang Yiren said, "If the master of the palace wants to take over the world, where do he want to take it from? Taizu of the Ming Dynasty once said that the world of the Ming Dynasty was not taken from the hands of Meng Yuan, but from the hands of Meng Yuan.
In the hands of all the heroes, where will the Palace Lord’s world start?”
Li Laiheng closed his eyes and thought for a while. The warmth on the city wall indicated the coming of winter and spring. In his ears, he vaguely heard the shouts of the Qin army below the city...
Do you want to kill Mrs. Xing now?
That is by no means a difficult matter, but Li Laiheng has to consider his true intentions, where is his purpose, and what is the ultimate goal. For this goal, is there really any reason to kill a woman to please Li Zicheng?
Li Laiheng opened his eyes:
"Your Highness is a generous person. It should not be up to me to decide whether to kill Mrs. Xing or not. Send her to Taiyuan and let His Highness decide!"
Gu Junen clapped his hands and sighed: "This puts His Highness in a dilemma. To protect his reputation for generosity, His Highness has no choice but not to kill Mrs. Xing. He will blame Chu Chuang for this!"
"How straightforward. The master of the palace can control the world with his ten fingers, why should he care about such a trivial matter?" Fang Yiren said with a smile.
Gu Junen had a strange expression on his face and said: "With ten fingers, I can take over the world... Don't let Leshan really instigate you to be Li Cunxu."
"Hahaha. Li Cunxu is more brave than Xiang Ji. How can he instigate this!"
After Fang Yiren laughed for a while, he turned to Li Laiheng and bowed his hands to Li Laiheng with a sense of relief: "Today I know the generosity of the master of the palace, and I can feel relieved about the future of the Chuang Army and the future of the world."
"Humph." Li Laiheng raised the corners of his lips and said with a sneer, "Fang will be relieved after a hundred years!"
"What are you talking about!"
"Okay, okay. Send troops to control the rest of the Qin Army first. Be it Mrs. Xing, Li Benzhen or Li Yuanyin, please invite all the generals of the Qin Army into the city."
Gu Junen said hesitantly: "The Huailai Incident just happened. Li Benzhen and the others may not dare to come into the city."
"One moment and another, do they still have a choice now? Come and vote for me, you have to make some gestures! I'll wait for them at the Commander's Mansion. Chuang Jun is condescending now, and his stance cannot be softened."
After Li Laiheng stopped laughing, he went straight back to the Xingyuan Commander's Mansion in Zhending City, and sent Gu Junen and Hao Yaoqi to lead their troops to control more than a thousand Qin troops.
The invading army had originally set up some camps outside Zhending City, so Li Laiheng ordered the Qin army to be placed in these camps to rest and recuperate, and were not allowed to enter the city. Only Mrs. Xing, Gao Jie's nephew Li Benshen, and Li Chengdong's adopted son Li Yuanyin were the only ones.
Allow them to ride into the city alone.
In the original historical line of later generations, after Gao Jie was assassinated by Xu Dingguo in Guide, his old troops surrendered to the Qing army under the leadership of Li Benzhen. From then on, Li Benzhen followed Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui, serving them in front of and behind the horse, and became the admiral of Guizhou. Until Wu Sangui initiated
During the San Francisco Revolution, Li Benzhen decisively raised troops in Guizhou.
This person Li Laiheng was not very popular, but Li Chengdong's adopted son Li Yuanyin, in the original historical line, it was Li Yuanyin who actively persuaded Li Chengdong, who controlled Guangdong Province, to raise troops anyway, which ultimately contributed to a brief resurgence of Nanming.
Li Chengdong failed to attack Ganzhou and died after falling into the water. As one of the heirs of Dongxun's faction, Li Yuanyin became one of the few military leaders in the Southern Ming Dynasty who actively supported Yongli and resisted the invasion of the Qing army.
Later, the Qing army invaded Guangdong, and Emperor Yongli took the lead in fleeing. Li Yuanyin stayed alone in Zhaoqing to resist the pursuit of the Qing army. Yongli was cowardly and incompetent by nature, and he immediately "jumped off" to escape at the first sign of trouble. When he fled from Wuzhou to Nanning, he could not escape at all.
There were no arrangements to stay behind. Just like ordinary people, they only knew how to escape. After "moving", all options for escape were naturally lost.
Li Yuanyin couldn't bear to see the entire Guangdong province occupied by his adoptive father Li Chengdong, who had returned anyway, and was unwilling to withdraw into Guangxi controlled by Chen Bangfu, so he volunteered to go to Gaozhou. Leizhou was preparing to collect the embers and fight with the Qing army again. After the defeat in Qinzhou
, was killed by Geng Jimao, and he was finally considered a man.
Li Laiheng was quietly waiting for the arrival of these old generals of the Qin Army in the commander's mansion. In a sense, they could be regarded as "old friends" of the Chuang Army!
After all, we have been fighting against each other for more than ten years.
Fang Yiren was busy handling the documents. Li Laiheng felt deeply that a decisive battle between the Ming and Qing coalition forces and the Chuang army was about to break out in North China. He estimated that the current balance of power was that Huang Taiji's side was obviously stronger, so he was eager to recruit more
The forces are also stepping up their efforts to have Fang Yiren and Gu Junen break into Huguang and Shandong behind Chu, and mobilize more troops to move north quickly.
Although Li Zicheng has lifted the siege of Taiyuan, and Shaanxi is constantly sending more troops to the east to aid, the total strength of the army in Shanxi is only about 70,000. Before the decisive battle, how much can it be increased? Can it be
Reaching the number of 100,000? It is not yet known.
In Hebei, after Li Laiheng and Liu Fangliang have been replenished, the total strength is 50,000. Li Laiheng also wants to recruit reinforcements from Huguang, Henan, and Shandong, but time is on the side of the Qing army. As long as Huang Taiji digests the strength of the Ming army, it is estimated that
will take the initiative to launch an attack.
There was no danger to defend in the Hebei area, making it easy for the captives and cavalry to roam freely. Li Laiheng estimated that the decisive battle should take place in the Beizhili area.
With the current army of 70,000 in Shanxi and 50,000 in Hebei, the total strength is only 120,000. Although judging from the past situation, 120,000 soldiers are already a force powerful enough to dominate the world. However, compared with Huang Taiji's current
The strength at hand is far inferior.
Guan Ning's army has about 20,000 people, Qin's army has about 30,000 people, and Datong's frontier army has 20,000 people, so there are as many as 70,000 people. Not to mention the Ming army in Xuanfu, Miyun, Tongzhou, Changping, and Zunhua
There are also more than 20,000 miscellaneous border troops in other places.
Calculated this way, the Ming and Qing coalition forces alone had about 90,000 Ming troops.
After the general mobilization of Huang Taiji, there were about 30,000 to 40,000 people in the Eight Banners of Manchuria, more than 10,000 people in the Eight Banners of Mongolia and Chahar, about 20,000 to 30,000 people in the Eight Banners of the Han Army, less than 10,000 people in the Three Shun Kings, and the Yishun Public Department.
, In addition, Mongolia, a foreign vassal, can also recruit tens of thousands of people.
Even if the old and weak men from Manchuria and Mongolia were left to stay outside the pass, Li Laiheng estimated that the Qing army could mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops to go south.
Considering that Huang Taiji used deception to control the Ming government, when he went south to fight against the Chu army, he would inevitably leave some troops to control the city of Beijing. Li Laiheng estimated that the total force of Huang Taiji going south for the decisive battle, after uniting with the Ming army, would be within ten
Around 70,000 to 80,000 yuan.
Compared with the 120,000 troops of the Chuang Army in Shanxi and Hebei, they are indeed far ahead...
Therefore, Li Laiheng must do everything possible to recruit reinforcements and absorb available forces from the Ming army, including the remnants of the Qin army and other troops that may surrender to the Chu army.
Not killing Mrs. Xing and making such a gesture will definitely be attractive to the Ming army's surrender.
After all, although the Qing army had the victories of Datong and Yanmen, it also had the defeat of Baigouhe. It did not show overwhelming superiority in combat power against the invading army. It also used assassinations and sneak attacks to kill Sun Chuanting, and used deception to control it.
It is impossible for the Ming government to win the complete confidence of the Ming army generals, and a considerable number of Ming army generals are bound to be wavering and undecided.
These people will become forces that Li Laiheng can fight for.