Daming kill

Chapter 181: Stable as Mount Tai
On the morning of the 16th day of the first lunar month in the [-]th year of Chongzhen, Zuo Menggeng, with blisters on the corners of his mouth, trotted all the way into Zuo Liangyu's room, only to find that his father had already gotten up and was leaning on the recliner with his eyes closed, quietly warming up by the fire.

Surprised, Zuo Menggeng couldn't help but said in a hurry: "Father! Please, don't pretend to be sick and go see Uncle Fang Shi. It's been a whole night, and he fainted from crying several times."

But Zuo Liangyu only opened his eyes and glanced at Zuo Menggeng, then closed his eyes again, and continued to ignore him like last night.

Zuo Menggeng had no choice but to sit aside with a loud sigh.He understood that it would be useless to say any more at this time, and the only thing he could do was to wait for Zuo Liangyu to change his mind.

Zuo Menggeng couldn't understand what Zuo Liangyu meant, he found everything inexplicable and incomprehensible.

Not only did Zuo Liangyu refuse to meet Fang Guoan when he first came to see him yesterday afternoon, but even after learning that Li Ping had annihilated Fang Guoan's army that was going to take revenge, he still did nothing but continued to pretend to be sick.

This confuses everyone and makes the air in Wuchang and Hanyang weird.

The discussion and "indignation" soon turned into wait-and-see and silence. The generals of Zuo Liangyu who had hurriedly gathered outside Zuo Liangyu's residence also gradually dispersed, leaving Fang Guoan wailing alone.

Anxious Zuo Menggeng understood that the change must start with Zuo Liangyu's willingness to meet Fang Guoan, and he tried his best for this.

But everything is useless.

No matter how much he begged his father last night, Zuo Liangyu only treated him as air.

As time passed, one of Zuo Liangyu's confidants walked in from outside.

He cautiously scanned the entire room first, and then he clasped his fists and reported to the only father and son in the room: "The soldiers and horses of the general Zhao Jin and the guerrilla Shi Ming are still staying in their camps honestly, not a single soldier died. After leaving, the fleet under its control has not seen any changes, and it is no different from yesterday afternoon."

"Understood." Zuo Liangyu finally spoke softly.

Zuo Menggeng stared at the soldier who turned and retreated in surprise for a moment, but when he looked back, he found that Zuo Liangyu, who was at the head, opened his eyes again and squinted at him.

Zuo Menggeng was a little confused and said: "Father, since you are worried about them, why didn't you directly deploy troops to take precautions yesterday?"

But Zuo Liangyu didn't answer this question, but instead asked: "Do you still think I should meet Zongbing Fang?"

Seeing that his father was willing to talk to him, Zuo Menggeng suddenly became excited. He hurriedly sat up straight and said, "I don't understand why my father is like this? Then Li Ping killed the friendly army and the general officer because of a trivial matter. Then he launched a private war and killed thousands of friendly troops. Everyone who heard it was horrified.

As the sufferer, Fang Shishu came to see his father to uphold justice, which is only natural.Even though father hadn't figured out what to do with Li Ping for a while, he still couldn't keep him out!
Father is like this now, and those who don't know the truth think that Li Ping's lawless actions were ordered by us.Not only is it absurd, but it also confuses the army. "

"Do you think Li Ping's crime is unforgivable?" Zuo Liangyu continued to ask indifferently.

"Of course, does it need to be said?" Zuo Menggeng was filled with righteous indignation, but immediately he reacted and asked doubtfully: "Does father want to protect that Li Ping? Why do you have such an idea?"

Seeing that Zuo Liangyu was silent, Zuo Menggeng became a little excited and said: "It's true that Li Ping is a guerrilla, and it's true that he just won the Huangpi victory to save his father's face, and he was just praised by his father in front of all the troops. You can't just get worried and not punish him because of this!
Then Li Ping didn't kill someone else, it was Fang Wuke!That is Fang Shishu's own nephew.

A general, who was not in his battalion, was chopped off as soon as he said it. Whoever gave him the courage and who gave him the power.

Not to mention, he dared to brazenly attack and kill his allies, not one or two, let alone ten or hundreds, but thousands.

What is this behavior?
This is simply lawlessness and lawlessness!Does he still know what awe is?But do you know what the rules are?But he still puts you in his eyes..."

Zuo Menggeng's mouth was constantly spraying like a cannonball, and his emotions became more and more agitated, as if he wanted to say all the things he had been holding back all night and all the reasons he thought of.

But his eyes still know that he has been watching his father closely, for fear that his father will refuse to listen again.

But this time, Zuo Liangyu didn't interrupt Zuo Menggeng, and didn't close his eyes again, but just looked at Zuo Menggeng and his son to vent.

When Zuo Menggeng finally realized that he had talked too much and stopped weakly, Zuo Liangyu continued calmly: "Fang Wuke robbed Li Ping's woman, and Li Ping cut him off. Is it? Fang Zongbing's thousands of troops went to attack Li Ping, and if Li Ping didn't fight back, would he have to wait to die?"

Zuo Liangyu seemed to be planning to discuss it with his son.

"Ah... ah?" Zuo Menggeng was a little caught off guard by the sudden continuous questioning, and when he regained his composure, he hastily explained:
"Father, you don't know. That woman is not Li Ping's wife and concubine, and no one has heard that Li Ping plans to marry her. She is an orphan girl with a broken family, and she has been staying in Zhao Jinying these days. In this way A woman, every battalion catches a lot, no one really takes it seriously, then Li Ping is simply making a fuss out of a molehill, and is used to being domineering.

The thousands of troops lost by Uncle Fang Shi were not there to attack Li Ping, they just wanted to seek justice for Fang Wuke's death, to ask for an explanation, at most they would shake their fists, and they had no intention of fighting each other at all.And Fang Shishu himself doesn't know..."

But Zuo Liangyu, who patiently listened to the explanation, had a strange expression on his face, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and his tone was full of sarcasm:

"No matter what you say, that woman is also Li Ping's woman. This is something that many people know. Even I have heard that Fang Wuke has indeed robbed Li Ping's woman. This is a fact. Any man with a bit of a temper Neither can be tolerated.

As for Fang Zongbing sending troops to attack Li Ping, are you stupid? How could 3000 people be sent out without the command of the chief general of the first army? Do you really think everyone else is a fool?And 3000 people just went to fight!Can you believe this kind of nonsense? "

Zuo Menggeng was stunned again by the questioning, he scratched his head for a long time before he thought of something and said: "Father, listen to me..."

But Zuo Liangyu interrupted him without any doubt: "Stop talking." Then he asked: "What does my wife say?"

"My wife?"

Zuo Menggeng murmured inexplicably, and then said confusedly: "What does she know as a woman, all she knows is to persuade me not to be angry, and ask me to listen to my father's arrangement. Whatever she says is her own, Li Ping has no choice but to do it. Are you still thinking about saving her back then?"

"Alas!" Zuo Liangyu sighed deeply, and then said with a little resentment: "You really don't understand as well as your lady! As a father, I really hope you can figure it out yourself!"

"What do you mean?"

"What do you mean! Have you figured out who you are? Zongbing Fang has a long friendship with us, but no matter how good the relationship is, we can't become an army after all. You are not a relative of Zongbing Fang, let alone his. subordinate.

But Li Ping is your subordinate, and he is also a fierce general who is willing to follow us, and even your wife's life-saver.

How can you just forget about your own interests, let alone distinguish between right and wrong?

Li Ping killed Fang Wuke because Fang Wuke robbed his woman first, not because Li Ping was just looking for trouble.Li Ping's troops who defeated Zongbing Fang were near his own camp, which was a counterattack.In theory, Li Ping was right, but in the end, Fang Zongbing suffered a big loss.

If one had to say that Li Ping was at fault, then his behavior could only be regarded as a little violent.

You don't distinguish between relatives and estrangements, and you don't distinguish between things. How do you want the 20 troops under my command to look at each other?In the future, I plan to count on someone who is willing to work for my Zuo family.Besides, do you want to push Li Ping to the side of the bandit army?

When the bandit army was about to attack, that party's unprofessional behavior was really hateful and disturbed our army's morale.But you Uncle Fang Shi lost his head for some reason and resorted to such a dizzy trick of sending troops to retaliate, which made everything even more unmanageable.

The palms and backs of the hands are full of flesh. I don't see Zongbing Fang's attitude. It can be regarded as missing old relationships and giving him a lot of face.

Son!You are confused! "

……

When Zuo Liangyu was teaching Zuo Menggeng, Li Ping was taking a walk along the Yangtze River, and there were people poking their heads from time to time in the scattered cabins on the river not far from him.

These scattered boats have slowly appeared on the nearby river since last night, and they are getting more and more gathered, and they are still coming and going.

But Li Ping didn't pay attention to them, and he didn't ask them to drive them away.

He still has no regrets for what he did yesterday, and he will never regret it.

But now, what should he do?
He needs to continue to wait for Zuo Liangyu's attitude.

Li Ping has realized that the relationship between Fang Guoan and Zuo Liangyu is by no means that simple.

Of course, it's not that the relationship between the two is not good.

But in the most turbulent and chaotic era in the late Ming Dynasty, the wariness and estrangement between them were almost natural and could not be eliminated.

Because Fang Guoan is the commander-in-chief of one side, he has already established his own connections at the top, and his soldiers and horses have too much independence, and they will fly away again one day.

This can be seen from the fact that Fang Guoan's army was greatly suppressed by Zuo Liangyu in terms of military expansion and the arrangement of his army's garrison locations.

Otherwise, Fang Wuke, Fang Guoan's nephew, would not have only made a fortune during Xiangyang's crazy military expansion trip.Of course, maybe Fang Wuke might not be good at leading troops, and even Fang Guoan dared not entrust him with the responsibility of leading a heavy army.

If Li Ping really wanted to run, with the reaction speed of Fang Guoan's army, it would be impossible to capture any of Li Ping's troops, nor would it be possible for the logistics battalion.

So after Li Ping killed Fang Wuke, he didn't urge the whole army to go north to avoid disaster immediately.Just to be on the safe side, let Song Baolai take Zhao Lanyue and Gao Lei to take a boat to Huangpi for shelter first, and at the same time urgently call people who can ride horses in Huangpi to come to support.

He felt that Zuo Liangyu was likely to die.

A person's temperament can always be predicted from many aspects. Although it may not be accurate, it is often close to ten.

Of course, Song Baolai had very objections to Li Ping's desire to stay, and it was incomprehensible. He almost turned his back on Li Ping.However, Zhao Lanyue easily shut up Song Baolai and took him away.

Zhao Lanyue respects Li Ping's choice and is willing to believe in Li Ping's choice.

And Zuo Liangyu's attitude is indeed very interesting.

Although in the end Fang Guoan gave Li Ping an unexpected big battle, Zuo Liangyu's army did not appear, and he did not even send anyone personally.

This also gave Li Ping hope.

So after cleaning up Fang Guoan's army who came to make trouble, Li Ping still didn't leave, but stayed where he was.

After reconnaissance and painful thinking, he decided to continue to wait and see.

Anyway, I don't want to go to the peasant army, maybe I can continue to take risks and see what Zuo Liangyu will do.

Although it was impossible to send someone to find out what Zuo Liangyu was doing at the moment, Li Ping hadn't been attacked after a whole night, and no army or large fleet had even approached. Only those sentries in the distance Ordinary boats onlookers.

Li Ping didn't know whether his adventure was right or wrong, but he could only wait.

Li Ping was waiting, but in fact Zuo Liangyu was also waiting.

Zuo Menggeng, who had been deeply educated once, was very downcast. Although he still had a lot of dissatisfaction, he knew his father's choice after all, and he also knew that this choice could not be changed.

Originally wanted to hide in desperation, but Zuo Liangyu refused to let him go, and asked him to wait patiently without explaining.

Not knowing why, Zuo Menggeng had no choice but to wait with his old father foolishly while thinking hard.

It's just that Zuo Menggeng has no idea what to wait for.

However, his contemplation soon came to an end, and another secret report from Zuo Liangyu's personal soldiers taught him a lesson again.

"Guerrilla Li Ping released everyone who captured Fang Guoan's general soldiers this morning, but their weapons, armor and horses were all confiscated. The people in his camp were doing things like collecting firewood and doing laundry, and they all seemed to be stationed. , there is no sign of leaving. And many people have seen General Li Ping himself by the river, he is not wearing armor, and he is walking leisurely..."

Zuo Liangyu's personal soldiers recounted in detail a lot of information that he saw or confirmed with his own eyes.

After listening to the report, Zuo Liangyu stood up, and then said in a deep voice: "Order: The fleet prepared yesterday and promised to supply Li Guerrilla can set off. In addition, we will send 10 beauties and 50 rough women. "

Glancing at Zuo Menggeng, who was staring wide-eyed, Zuo Liangyu said angrily, "Don't be in a daze, go and inform Zhao Jin's soldiers that they can withdraw from Hanyang according to the military order the day before yesterday, so don't be afraid to move." .”

But after Zuo Menggeng left and Zuo Liangyu was left alone again, he shook his head in an old way and said to himself: "Li Ping's actions are so intense and thoughtful, good fortune and misfortune are unpredictable!"

However, he didn't want to say this to his simple son.

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(End of this chapter)