Li Yan heard clearly that just now Sun Chuanting was not talking about himself, but that the emperor had already thought of it!
He had read from the Di newspaper before that the emperor discovered this, the emperor invented that...
Now he heard from Sun Chuanting that the emperor knew this, and the emperor planned that...
It gave him the feeling that the emperor had become omnipotent!
At this moment, Li Yan immediately had a thought: Could that legend be true?
Even though he was under Li Zicheng, he had already heard rumors that Emperor Taizu appeared and gave treasures to the current emperor!
For readers, they will definitely not believe this kind of thing at first.
If we really believe that our ancestors will show their spiritual power, there won’t be so many people who forget about their ancestors.
For example, if Fan Wencheng, who claimed to be the descendant of Fan Zhongyan, really believed that his ancestors would manifest their lives, he would never dare to join the Tartars to harm his country unless he was pretending to be a descendant of Fan Zhongyan.
Think about it, Fan Zhongyan, who worries about the world first and rejoices after the world's happiness, actually knows that his descendants have planned countless tragedies for the people of the world, and will definitely show up and destroy this unscrupulous descendant.
While he was thinking about this, Sun Chuanting finally frowned and said: "Come here, please order the troops to discuss matters!"
Although Emperor Chongzhen had told him in his decree that he had already rushed for 800 miles to the three governors to block Yinxi's side, asking him to help defend the new Sichuan governor Lu Daqi and guard the Shu territory.
However, Sun Chuanting did not dare to guarantee that Sichuan was already prepared. Communication was inconvenient, which was the only trouble.
Another reason why Sun Chuanting fought steadily and slowly moved south was because he also considered the situation in Sichuan, fearing that the army of thieves would rush into Sichuan before they could prepare in time.
I really didn’t expect that before Li Zicheng was threatened here, he would actually plot Sichuan first!
Seeing the soldiers leaving, Sun Chuanting stopped staying at the top of the city. When he was about to go down to the top of the city, he suddenly saw another fast horse galloping towards him and reported to him: "Sir, Zuo Liangyu's command is about 30,000 people.
We captured Kuizhou yesterday!"
Upon hearing this, Sun Chuanting and others, including Li Yan, were all shocked.
None of them expected that Zuo Liangyu would jump into Sichuan first!
It seems that Zuo Liangyu, the chief soldier during the Chongzhen period, was the most popular, and it was not without reason!
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In the afternoon, all generals rushed to the original government office in Nanyang within the specified time, which is now Sun Chuanting's residence.
They didn't know what had happened. Before Sun Chuanting came out, they asked each other and Sun Yingyuan explained the situation.
Upon hearing this, to be honest, these generals who led the troops actually had some opinions in their hearts.
If they follow their ideas, they will attack so steadily and rush forward without giving Zuo Liangyu and other thieves time to deal with them, just kill them.
That is to say, civil servants are more troublesome. They have to pay attention to this and that. Now it’s better. Zuo Liangyu ran away!
However, no matter how much they had opinions, they did not dare to speak out. After all, Sun Chuanting's prestige was displayed there. Not to mention being their commander-in-chief, the concept engraved in their bones of using civility to control military force also affected them.
Not long after, when the allotted time was up, Sun Chuanting walked out of the back hall. Following him were Li Yan and Hong Niangzi.
This situation surprised the generals who were born as thieves, such as Lin Chengcheng and others from the Fifth Battalion of Ge Zuo, and even Yuan Shizhong.
Li Yan and Hong Niangzi were from Li Zicheng, and they had met most of them.
Especially since Li Yan was a serious member of Li Zicheng's army, and the Red Lady was a female general, their pairing would be even more impressive.
This sudden appearance in front of them, and also appearing behind Sun Chuanting, was really beyond their expectations.
As soon as Sun Chuanting stretched out his tent, he roughly explained the situation to his generals, and then said: "I have sent an order to the Governor of Baoding, asking him to send troops to meet in two directions. One is to march west to Kaifeng, and then south to Nanyang, as our rear guard
Army; the second route is to go south along the canal and move westward at any time to block the way that thieves may turn eastward and then turn northward."
Having said this, he paused, then said with a serious expression: "Chen Yongfu, where is Lin Cheng?"
When Chen Yongfu and Lin Chengcheng heard this, they immediately stepped out of the queue, cupped their fists and responded: "The general is here!"
Sun Chuanting immediately issued an order: "You two, lead your troops and set off immediately, go south from Tang County on the east line, pass through Zaoyang and attack Xiangyang!"
"General, I will obey your order!" Chen Yongfu and Lin Chengcheng both clasped their fists and accepted the order.
"Yuan Shizhong, where is He Yilong?"
After hearing this, Yuan Shizhong and He Yilong immediately stepped out of the queue, cupped their fists and responded: "The general is here!"
"You and two others will lead our troops and head west out of Zhechuan, pass through Dangzikou, and seize Xunyang, Junzhou and Gucheng."
As soon as Sun Chuanting's military order came out, Yuan Shizhong and He Yilong did not hesitate and immediately responded with clasped fists: "I will obey the order!"
Sun Chuanting glanced at the others and shouted in a deep voice: "The rest of the generals, follow me to Xinye and go to Xiangyang!"
"General, I obey!" A louder response sounded in the lobby.
This layout still advances southward in a flat push method, but the speed is much faster than before. It is no longer about occupying one place and appeasing another first, but approaching the front line of Xiangyang.
As for the excessive speed that might lead to remnants of bandits causing chaos in some places, Sun Chuanting handed over the matter to the Governor of Baoding.
Although this would consume more money and food, the war ahead did not proceed exactly as expected, so the plan could only be changed according to local conditions.
It can even be said that this is a strategic change that affects the entire country.
When they were in the back hall just now, Li Yan proposed a bigger plan to Sun Chuanting. Only after Sun Chuanting's approval did he move to mobilize more troops to join the war.
Sun Chuanting only revealed part of this matter to his generals. As for the rest that he did not disclose, he felt that his generals did not need to know.
His new strategic layout, Sun Chuanting immediately sent it to the capital at a speed of 600 miles and reported it to Emperor Chongzhen.
As soon as Emperor Chongzhen saw him, needless to say, he took out his mobile phone and initiated a video communication request to Liu Weichao.
He has developed a habit of asking Liu Weichao's opinion on important matters.
As soon as the video was connected, Liu Weichao appeared on the phone with a smile.
Emperor Chongzhen knew that his side was convenient for answering, so he said to Liu Weichao: "Just now, Sun Qing... Sun Chuanting sent an urgent report, saying that Zuo Liangyu suddenly jumped into Shu, and Li Zicheng originally wanted to enter Shu. Sun Chuanting
Worried that Shu was not ready yet and there would be chaos, Li Yan proposed..."
When Liu Weichao heard this, he was a little curious and immediately asked: "Li Yan, which Li Yan? Is it the one under Li Zicheng?"
"Well, yes." When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he smiled and explained, "This Li Yan, along with his matchmaker, took the initiative to vote. It was also the news he brought back that Li Zicheng also wanted to join Sichuan."
After explaining, he continued his original topic and said: "Li Yan suggested that taking advantage of this chaos, it is possible to deal with most of the bandits. He will persuade the people from the fifth camp of Gezuo to
Go with him to persuade Li Zicheng's men to accept the recruitment; and then ask Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu to also go south, so that they can persuade Zhang Xianzhong's men to accept the recruitment."
At this point, seeing Liu Weichao seeming confused, Emperor Chongzhen continued to explain: "Li Yan's statement is that Zuo Liangyu entered Sichuan first, disrupting Li Zicheng's deployment, and Li Zicheng's
The army had just annexed Luo Rucai's troops and had not yet completely appeased them, so he estimated that Li Zicheng's military advisor Song Xiance would definitely persuade Li Zicheng to go south to Hu Guang. This would also lead to a conflict with Zhang Xianzhong."
After saying so much in one breath, Emperor Chongzhen slowed down for a moment, and then continued: "No matter what kind of conflict there will be between Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, chaos will definitely be inevitable. Therefore, this gives the court an opportunity to send people to recruit people.
, there should be more people abandoning the dark side and turning to the bright side!”
After hearing this, Liu Weichao immediately spoke: "I have a question. It seems unreasonable to ask their original subordinates, namely Li Zicheng's subordinates, to persuade Li Zicheng's people to accept the recruitment, and Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates to persuade Zhang Xianzhong's people to accept the recruitment.
, Don’t those who are in the world care about the word righteousness? Will their original brothers agree to deal with them in turn? "
When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he immediately smiled and said: "Sun Chuanting also mentioned this matter in his memorial. It should be said that considering that Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu might be reluctant, Li Yan also gave them a reason to persuade them!
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"Oh?" When Liu Weichao heard this, he couldn't help but be very curious and asked quickly, "What's the reason?"
Could this Li Yan be from a gangster background? Because he doesn’t know that justice is the most important word in the gangland. Accepting the recruitment would be tantamount to betraying his brother and poaching his original brother. For ordinary gangsters,
For humans, this should be unacceptable, right?
There are many such examples in many movies and TV series that Liu Weichao has watched. Anyone who does this must be a villain!
According to the description of Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu in history books, they shouldn't do this, right?
Thinking about this, to be honest, he was very curious, what advice did Li Yan give Sun Chuanting to convince Liu Wenxiu and Li Dingguo to help the court deal with Zhang Xianzhong?
Emperor Chongzhen was not as surprised as Liu Weichao. After all, he was the emperor. His understanding of this was completely different from Liu Weichao's. He thought it was a matter of course.
Therefore, when he saw Liu Weichao asking questions in surprise, he was a little puzzled, so he told Liu Weichao the reasons for Li Yan's persuasion.