Daming kill

Chapter 262
"Brother Huang, your body is far behind when we first met, you must take care of yourself!" Li Ping looked at Huang Chengdong who was invited to sit awkwardly on the chair and greeted with concern.

His words were half-truth, half-false, and a little teasing.

Li Ping still vaguely remembered that although Huang Chengdong was thin at that time, he was in a good mental state, unlike now, although his cheeks were bulging and he was fairer, but he looked like a sick and consumptive ghost.

It seems that after this guy's ascension, he has a lot of sensuality.

It was impossible for Huang Chengdong to know Li Ping's true feelings, and he was very confused when Li Ping called him to talk at this time, and he also heard the teasing taste in Li Ping's words.

He decided to be careful.

Although he and Li Ping were the only ones sitting in the entire tent, he would never think that he really had weight in Li Ping's heart because of this.

With only two rolls of eyeballs, Huang Chengdong changed his smiling face into a bitter melon face, and at the same time moved his buttocks that were already half-slung on the chair, and continued as if he had been greatly wronged:
"General soldier, although I mistakenly entered the bandit army, I was always in Cao Ying's heart. I couldn't eat well and sleep well every day. I was worried all day long, and my heart was miserable! This body is getting worse day by day, if it weren't for you ...."

"But I remember when you killed Fang Wuke, you are not much different from now! No, it should be that the eye circles are darker, not as good as now." Li Ping interrupted Huang Chengdong's nonsense at all.

Huang Chengdong choked up in an instant, his whole face turned red and sweat broke out.In a daze, he found that Li Ping was looking at the women's clothes on the ground with a half-smile.

Although it dawned on Li Ping that he was probably just joking, Huang Chengdong still didn't understand what Li Ping wanted to do, but he also knew that he couldn't make up any more nonsense.

So he had no choice but to bite the bullet and cry: "Chief soldier, I, I know that I am a bastard, but I have never been sorry to you! Being a thief is really helpless! I have nowhere to go!"

"But why did you come to Zhang Xianzhong? At that time Li Zicheng was very close to you, but Zhang Xianzhong was far away from Huguang." Li Ping was really curious.

Seeing that Li Ping didn't intend to pester him to become a thief, but asked along with a relaxed expression like a conversation between friends, Huang Chengdong was slightly relieved.

After adjusting his expression, Huang Chengdong replied in embarrassment: "At first I voted for the intruder, but, but you also know that the intruder's place is too strict, I really can't stand it, and I'm afraid I will lose my head, so I just I was able to leave. Later, when the thief entered Macheng, I voted for the thief again."

"Oh." Li Ping nodded, and then suddenly said: "Zhang Xianzhong's defenders in Xiangyin City have run away."

"Ah?" Huang Chengdong didn't react immediately.

"The soldiers and horses you stayed in Xiangyin City abandoned the city and ran away." Li Ping repeated.

Huang Chengdong blinked his eyes several times in a daze, his expression became even more confused, and he heard Li Ping say "you".

But what Li Ping said next made him even more stupid: "Xiangyin City will be yours soon."

"What, what, what?" Huang Chengdong stammered.

At this time, Zhou Wen, Ma Yong and others in the tent also looked at Li Ping in shock. They also didn't understand what it meant. The only thing that was certain was that Li Ping had a new idea, and one of them didn't discuss it with them. thought.

But none of them made a sound and continued to keep quiet.

"There are a lot of prisoners, and my soldiers are also very tired, so they don't have the energy to guard them strictly. You will take advantage of the chaos and escape tonight with your men, and then occupy the unguarded Xiangyin City." Li Ping directly explained his plan.

"I, I don't want to run. I want to work with the chief soldier, even as a groom." Huang Chengdong begged instinctively.He couldn't figure out what Li Ping meant, and felt that it was necessary to protect himself first.

But Li Ping ignored him, and continued to say: "Tomorrow, my troops will march towards Xiangyin City. When I find that you have occupied Xiangyin City and made a stance of holding on, I will retreat. The day after tomorrow, I will The army will retreat to Yuezhou in an all-round way."

"But... why?" Huang Chengdong still didn't turn the corner.

Li Ping smiled, and said with a sincere expression of harmlessness to humans and animals: "Brother Huang, we finally had friendship, and I owe you a favor, and I can't hurt you because of emotion and reason. Stay with me, Although Fang Guoan is dead, you still can't pass Zuo Menggeng's test. Similarly, as a fugitive, you can't pass Zuo Liangyu's test either.

And it is impossible for me to fight them again for you.

Although Zhang Xianzhong suffered such a big defeat, there are still 30 people, which should not be underestimated.Although I won, it was just a fluke.Moreover, my casualties in this battle were not small, and the plight of the small number of soldiers was even worse. It was far from enough to continue to compete with Zhang Xianzhong. The only safest way was to retreat.

When you go back to Zhang Xianzhong, you can continue to be free and easy, and I have an old friend with him, so I don't necessarily have a free time at any time, which is good for both of us.

Is it true? You can think about it carefully. "

Seeing that Li Ping was not in a hurry to hear the answer, Huang Chengdong immediately became thoughtful, and he also noticed that when Li Ping said that Zuo Liangyu and Zuo Menggeng were calling them by their first names, he confirmed some of the rumors he had heard. .

Zhou Wen and the others also looked thoughtful, and they were also digesting Li Ping's statement that might be half-truth.

However, Huang Chengdong's thinking ended very quickly, and then suddenly he knelt down in front of Li Ping and began to cry, all kinds of nasty and touching words, including poisonous oaths, continued to erupt from his mouth.

"Are all your subordinates trustworthy?" Li Ping asked after waiting for Huang Chengdong to perform for a while.

"Most of them are supporters. Many of them are my former subordinates, and I am a grasshopper on the same rope. I have other ways to ensure that nothing bad will happen. I will not make fun of my own life. This Please don't worry, Commander." Huang Chengdong immediately put away his disgusted expression and said seriously, as if he was afraid that Li Ping would go back on his word.

"Then I won't keep Brother Huang, we need to hurry up." Li Ping smiled.

But Huang Chengdong was a little stunned and said: "Don't you need me to write you a guarantee or leave a letter or something?"

"No need, Brother Huang, I can trust you." Li Ping said firmly, and then turned his head to Lu Liang, the chief of operations, while Huang Chengdong suddenly choked up again and nodded desperately: "Lu Liang, this matter is up to you to arrange. You must be safe and comprehensive, and you must not leave any hidden dangers for my brother Huang."

After Huang Chengdong thanked him and left, Li Ping looked around at the subordinates in the tent and said apologetically, "I also want to lead the army to take advantage of the victory and continue going south to wipe out the thieves in one fell swoop, but the reality is that this is too risky." , It is also unlikely. We must keep a clear head and not get carried away, I hope you understand."

What Li Ping said was sincere, without any other calculations.

This unplanned victory made him no longer consider going to Sichuan with Zhang Xianzhong, and he felt that he had the ability to stay in Huguang.

The surrounding area of ​​Dongting Lake with Yuezhou as the core is not only fertile, it can be attacked and defended, and it can also build a large navy in the vast Dongting Lake, which is obviously a pretty good base.

However, he was still worried that people would not understand.

After all, this victory was unprecedented!He worries that some people feel they can already walk sideways.

But Zhou Wen was the first to agree with him unexpectedly, saying: "The chief soldier's consideration is right, we can't be arrogant and overheated just because of this victory. Think about it just yesterday, except for the chief soldier, we were still trying to escape. Suppressing the bandits is not something that can be accomplished overnight, the commander-in-chief's judgment on the current situation is accurate, and it is indeed the safest thing to retreat to Yuezhou to rest."

Hearing what Zhou Wen said, Li Ping felt relieved. He knew that he didn't need to spend any more energy to unify everyone's thinking.

Sure enough, following Ma Yong and Duan Qiang's unsurprising follow-up statement, no one in the entire tent raised a different opinion.

As for Li Ping letting Huang Chengdong go back, it is even more impossible for anyone to raise objections.

Regardless of whether Li Ping was really nostalgic or had some other purpose, everyone at least understood that people like Huang Chengdong staying with the enemy would only benefit them and not harm them.

"Okay, let's clean up the battlefield for another day tomorrow, bury all the enemy's corpses, and return to Yuezhou the day after tomorrow. When we leave, all the prisoners, who are from the surrounding area and Changsha, as long as they are not big bosses or who may cause trouble to Huang Chengdong Release them all." Li Ping said briskly.

"what?"

"what?"

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Seeing everyone's "ah", Li Ping said with a smile: "There are too many prisoners, we can't afford to keep them, so we might as well release them to disintegrate the enemy army and win the hearts of the people."

After the war, there were many trivial matters and more things that needed to be arranged and deployed. Although he was very tired and exhausted, the big tent where Li Ping stayed was not cleared until late at night.

At this time, he began to wash and change clothes,
The little orderlies and his guards also took this opportunity to carefully and conscientiously tidy up the tent.

Li Ping decided to live in Zhang Xianzhong's tent that happened not to be burned tonight. This was an effective means to further enhance his own morale and destroy the will of the captives.

However, Li Ping did not agree to Zhou Wen's suggestion that Chen Zidao, who had surrendered yesterday, take his original subordinates to serve as guards outside the account for Li Ping.

He doesn't think it makes much sense to do so, and he doesn't think he needs to use this method to win people's hearts.

And he was tired, he really needed to rest, and he needed to rest with peace of mind.

Watching the little orderlies remove the women's clothes and some indescribable special items in the tent one by one, Li Ping, who was cleaned up, couldn't help cleaning himself while thinking a lot.

Although Zhang Xianzhong generally exempted three years of taxation and opened warehouses to release grain during his stay in Huguang, he treated ordinary people with good military discipline. The support of the lower classes.

But also some aspects of him are also very speechless, and can even be said to be obvious flaws.

Not to mention being too cruel and bloodthirsty to the wealthy gentry, and not forgetting to engage in extravagant activities when fighting a big battle, how can his troops be effective.

Yesterday Zhang Xianzhong's troops started crossing Baishui to prepare for a decisive battle with Li Ping, but they had the leisure to transport more than 1000 young women from wealthy gentry families across the river, and then became Li Ping's captives.

It is said that there are still many young women who have not had time to be transported across the river.

This reminded Li Ping of Zhang Xianzhong who was fond of women, showy, and pleasure-seeking when he was reading leisure history. This kind of useless bird that has not achieved a great cause has worked hard, even obsessed to the point of erasing the words "dedicated" and "loyalty" left on the ancient inscriptions, and so on.

This is very unlike what a hero who wants to achieve great things should do.

In the past, Li Ping was half-believing, but now it seems that even if it is not entirely true, it is almost inseparable.

No wonder Huang Chengdong was able to get along like a duck to water in Zhang Xianzhong's army.

Moreover, today's battle also made Li Ping have serious doubts about Zhang Xianzhong's ability to command large-scale battles (not including sneak attacks). A place to be awed and held in high regard by him.

Li Ping already knew that in September Zhang Xianzhong's tens of thousands of elite raids (mainly sneak attacks) defeated Zuo Liangyu's 9 troops were commanded by Sun Kewang, and Zhang Xianzhong himself was still in Changsha at that time.

In fact, Li Ping's feeling was right.

In the original history, during the period from 1639 to October 1643, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and the 10th Battalion of Gezuo successively fought 18 important battles with the main force of the government and army.

Note that this only refers to the battle that broke out with the main force of the official army.

Among them, the official army won 5 times, and coincidentally, 5 of these 4 times were under the command of Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhang Xianzhong participated in 18 of the 9 important battles, won 4 times with Luo Rucai and 1 time with the Gezuo Fifth Battalion, and lost 4 times he commanded alone.

Li Zicheng participated in 8 times and won all of them. The first 7 times he cooperated with Luo Rucai. Only the final decisive battle with Sun Chuanting was directed by himself.

Luo Rucai took part in 11 times, and won all 10 times with Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong, and lost to Qin Liangyu when he conducted independently.

Of course, the more general rule in these 18 battles is that the peasant army wins when they fight together, and loses when they fight alone.For example, in the Battle of Jiaxian, Li Zicheng was defeated by Sun Chuanting at first, but Luo Rucai turned the defeat into victory as soon as Luo Rucai reinforced him.

However, Zhang Xianzhong broke up with two partners one after another. He fought independently for the longest time and lost the most.

Li Ping realized that Zhang Xianzhong, who once made him very afraid, had lost all his aura in his heart, and Zhang Xianzhong in his eyes was changing from an unattainable high in the history books to an ordinary thief in reality.

He began to feel more and more confident in himself, and his mood began to relax more.

After everything was packed, he was so tired that he fell asleep almost as soon as he lay on the bed.

(End of this chapter)