please make me king

Chapter 1126 Hongchengzi

The story was divided into two parts, let's say that Lu Yunchang, chieftain of the Nalu clan, was shocked when he learned that the rebels had occupied Lanzhou.

Lu Yunchang couldn't help sighing sadly: "It's not going to help!"

"Father, why did you say that?" His son Lu Hong said in disbelief, "How can I increase the ambition of others and destroy my own prestige?"

"You don't know something." Lu Yunchang frowned and said, "Lanzhou is located in an important place, I have already written a letter to that general, Fei Yizai, asking him to help with important matters."

"I never thought that this guy is a coward, even if he destroys his family, he will be a dog for that thief!"

"As a result, he came and went again and again, delaying the time, but let the thief take the lead."

Although Lu Yunchang was in the frontier, he got a lot of information about the rebels through his business trips.

It's just that these people are not professional spies, and the information they provide will inevitably be misrepresented.

The matter of the rebel army cleaning up the military settlements in Xi'an Prefecture was a big one, coupled with Zhang Bojing, Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin and others' aggressive methods, suddenly a lot of false rumors arose.

For example, the Fei family in Xi'an was rumored that all their family property was taken by the rebels. There were hundreds of people in their family, the males were killed, and the female relatives were plundered by the rebels as military prostitutes.

Lu Yunchang believed this nonsense, and at first Nalanzhou General Fei Yizai also believed it.

It's just that after Fei Yizai received the letter from the family, the rumors were naturally self-defeating, and Lu Yunchang was tricked instead.

Nalu Yunchang and the chieftains of Dongqi and Dongli had already negotiated and decided that they planned to wait for Fei Yizai's reply, and then combined internal and external affairs to seize Lanzhou City in one fell swoop to occupy the rebel army.

As a result, Dongqi and Dongli's families were held back by Zhang Yingchen, and the letter he wrote to Fei Yizai fell to nothing, and all his plans fell through, and he immediately had an ominous premonition.

"Then what should we do?" Son Lu Hong was almost frightened.

Originally, he didn't agree with Laoshizi's raising of troops, but it turned out that the Lu family controlled Zhuang Langwei on this side, and the culprits on the other side went to Lanzhou.

Suddenly, as if someone had strangled his heart, Lu Hong trembled with fear.

"What should I do? What can I do!" Jiang was still hot, and Zhuang Lang's general Lu Yunchang snorted coldly, "But the soldiers will block it, and the water will cover it."

"It's dead to straighten Zhuang Lang's army and prepare for the way, and Zhuang Lang will take me as the leader."

"We should use all the chieftains and local Han officers and soldiers of the eight families under my family's command to occupy the thieves."

Which eight chieftains?
They are Hongshanbao Tu Commander Qianshi, Gucheng Tu Commander, Dayingwan Tu Command Deputy Commander, Datongxia Tu Commander Tongzhi, Hongshachuan Zhengqianhu, Majunbao Deputy Qianhu, Xiping Zhengbaihu, Xiliu He has a hundred families and eight families.

Among them, the first six families are all offshoots of the Lu family, while the latter two are the Yang family and the He family.

Although these eight families have been favored by the emperor for generations, they are also headed by the Lu family in everything, and they are connected with each other.

"Our family has [-] Tu and Fan households, and originally there are [-] Tu Fan elites. If we lose this battle, the whole family will inevitably be exterminated." Lu Yunchang couldn't help sneering.

"Therefore, it is necessary to send an order to each family to send out one person to ward off thieves, counting the number of three thousand soldiers."

"The other eight chieftains, depending on the size of their family property, each sent a hundred to thirty to fifty people, and led their soldiers to serve in the camp."

"In addition, pick more than a thousand from the Han army, a total of five thousand, and follow me to Hongchengzi to defend against the enemy."

"These Han army and the other eight chieftains may not be of one mind with us!" Lu Hong couldn't help but wonder.

"Not one mind?" Lu Yunchang sneered, "You tell them."

"Thieves are not so easy to talk about. The four guards in Xi'an are a lesson from the past."

"Follow me, fight to the death, there is still a chance. If you don't follow, but when the thieves arrive, the whole family will take life and death, and it will be too late to regret it!"

"This..." Lu Hong hesitated when he heard the words.

"We have already killed Zhuang Lang's soldiers and guards. Now the officers and soldiers can't tolerate me, and the rebel army can't tolerate me. Is there still a way for our Lu family to retreat?" Lu Yunchang couldn't help reminding.

It turns out that the first thing that Denglu's army did was to drag out Zhuang Lang's soldiers and prepare them for attack.

The reason on the surface is naturally that Bing Beidao failed the emperor's favor and followed the thief, "I will kill him for the world", but in fact, this is the method of the Lu family to monopolize power.

In addition to Zhuang Langwei, who has the highest status and the most power among the officials, Bing Beidao, the most prestigious and powerful person is Lu Yunchang, who was Zhuang Lang's general at the time.

With the death of Bing Beidao, Lu Yunchang can mobilize the entire Zhuanglang local Han officers and soldiers reasonably and legally, and he can also eliminate the influence of the Ming court on him. It really kills two birds with one stone.

"My son understands, I'll make arrangements now!" Lu Hong didn't hesitate any more when he heard that, he nodded quickly and was about to leave.

"By the way, I will leave it all to you. As a father, tomorrow I will lead thousands of 'Lu Family Soldiers' to Hongchengzi to set up defenses to wait for the soldiers." After thinking about it, Lu Yunchang instructed again.

"There are still two hundred Lu family soldiers left, and I will hand them all over to you to lead. You can choose more than a thousand officers and soldiers in the guard for me, and you must guard Liandeng City tightly for me."

"You must know that when Lian Deng is alive, the Lu family is there; when Lian Deng is dead, the Lu family is dead!"

"Yes, my son understands!" Lu Hong replied again, and closed the door with a creak.

Lu Yunchang didn't move when he heard the movement behind him, only the light from outside the window came through, shining mottledly on his cloudy and uncertain face.

One mistake, never again!

Hongchengzi is the most important town on the thoroughfare from Zhuanglang Liandeng to Lanzhou. It was named Hongcheng because it was built with red clay. It is seventy miles southeast of Yongdeng.

If the chieftain of the Lu family took this position, the rebels would not be able to advance westward; if the rebel army took this position, the door of Zhuanglang would be wide open, and the Lu family could only retreat to Yongdeng County, where Zhuanglang ruled.

Therefore, this place is very important, and if it is lost, the Lu family will be in danger of collapse.

The sun had risen, and Lu Yunchang looked at the sun on the eastern horizon, feeling quite as if the clouds had cleared and the mist had dispersed.

"Patriarch, this is the Thanksgiving Temple. It was built by Emperor Hongzhi in order to commend my loyalty to the country. It is the most effective. With the blessings of Bodhisattva and Buddha, I must be invincible and defeat the enemy!" Hongchengzi Defensive Lu Sheng couldn't help but excitedly said.

"Oh?" Lu Yunchang frowned, then smiled and said, "Since I've arrived here, it's bound to make it difficult for the thieves to escape!"

But after hearing the words of Lu Sheng from his clan, Lu Yunchang found that most of the Lu clan and officers and soldiers still had a heart for Daming, which really made him unhappy.

This Thanksgiving Temple is a Tibetan Buddhist temple with Han-style architecture. When Lu Yunchang walked into the Daxiong Hall, he saw that there were two disciples of the third Buddha and two menacing disciples in it. law enforcement, etc.

Who are these three Buddhas?

The Buddha of the past is the lamp-burning Buddha, the Buddha of the present is Sakyamuni, and the Buddha of the future is Maitreya!

"Disciple Lu Yunchang, please pray to the Buddha of the Third World to bless me. I will win this battle and defeat the bandits." Although Lu Yunchang was skeptical about this.

But he still couldn't help bowing sincerely in accordance with the Tibetan Buddhist prostration etiquette.

(End of this chapter)