Daming kill

Chapter 286
In mid-February of the 17th year of Chongzhen, Wuchang, Pingzei General's Mansion.

All the generals who gathered here were listening to Zuo Liangyu and his son being furious with their heads in unison.

In the past two years, Zuo Liangyu has rarely lost his temper, especially in public, and it was unprecedented for the father and son to lose their temper together.

No one dared to say anything.

Due to being too excited, Zuo Liangyu, who was sitting in the chair, used his hands to prop up her upper body straight, and coughed violently for a while every time she said a few words.Even from time to time, generals would boldly raise their heads and look worriedly at their old man.

But Zuo Liangyu's son Zuo Menggeng turned a blind eye to this, and continued to rage with his face flushed.

The governor Yuan Jixian and the censor Huang Shu who were sitting on the side were also silent.

Since the conflict between Lu Daqi and Zuo Liangyu, the largest and only heavy military group in the south, became completely open and irreconcilable, the Ming court had to replace Lu Daqi, and Yuan Jixian also assumed the post of governor again in the first month.

It may feel like a bit of a joke, but such is history.

Although he knew that Zuo Liangyu's health was deteriorating, Yuan Jixian never persuaded Zuo Liangyu to calm down.

He knew that now was not the time to persuade, and he didn't want to persuade.

While Yuan Jixian didn't speak, Huang Shu also didn't speak, because he didn't know what to say.

It's really outrageous!

After continuous crazy expansion, Zuo Liangyu's army now numbered 80 people. The sheer size was not only shocking, but also very impressive.

As a result, the Ming court also pioneered the replacement of civil officials and important ministers (Lu Daqi) due to civil and military discord.

This is an absolute grace and a lot of face.

But for several months in a row, although Zuo Liangyu repeatedly ordered his subordinates to attack Chengtian Mansion, the key state capital going north, they all failed.

Although Bai Wang, the general Guoyi who was stationed in Chengtian Mansion, had few soldiers, he miraculously defeated Zuo Liangyu's troops who had many soldiers, and even took Hanchuan back.

Although those who know the details know that the 80 soldiers that Zuo Liangyu claims are actually just an imaginary number, and there is a lot of water in it.

And these soldiers are not all near Wuchang. In addition to many needing to be stationed in other areas of Huguang and Jiujiang, there are also recruiting troops such as Liu Hongqi, a former native bandit with [-] troops in Henan.

But no matter what, there are still 20 troops around Wuchang, which is Zuo Liangyu's base camp. In terms of actual force, it still has an absolute advantage over Baiwang, who has only more than [-] regular soldiers.

So Zuo Liangyu's failure was very embarrassing.

If it is said that Zuo Liangyu and his subordinates may have been more or less not really dedicated before, and they may have been pretending to be snakes all the time, but a few days ago, Zuo Liangyu personally arranged the deployment and the first multi-way army to attack together. Moreover, each route was able to guarantee the formation of a superior military force alone, and it still suffered a shameful defeat even though Zuo Liangyu had repeatedly ordered that he must move forward bravely.

This is completely unacceptable!
And the casualties of the various armies were still painless, that is to say, no one was injured, and it was sprinkled with a handful of salt.

In this case, it would be inappropriate for Zuo Liangyu to say hello, me, and everyone not to show off.

What's more, Zuo Liangyu is still holding his breath.

"Ping thieves, ping thieves, with your appearance, I, the general of pacifying thieves, has become a joke. It is no wonder that the emperor wants to make generals of catching thieves again. Cough cough...cough cough...I don't think I can take you with me anymore, why don't you all go Let’s follow General Zheng Zei! Cough cough...cough cough...he will return to Huguang in a few days, so you can serve him conveniently." Zuo Liangyu finally mentioned General Zheng Zei in his anger, and disgusted the generals.

General Zheng Zei is a new general appointed by Chongzhen, and it is also a thorn in Zuo Liangyu's heart that everyone knows.

In the history of the Ming Dynasty, there were generals such as Zhenglu, Pinglu, Jinglu, Zhengnan, Zhengxi, Zhengyi, Pingyi, Pingman, Zhengman, Pingyan and Pingliao, etc., but the generals with the name of thief were only A general of flat thief.

And normally, there will only be one general in a period.

Now that a general who recruits thieves is suddenly sealed off, some things are self-evident.

In particular, this general who recruits thieves is still their old acquaintance, Li Ping, the youngest first-rank officer under Zuo Liangyu.

This is also the root cause of Zuo Liangyu's sudden deployment and hastily ordering many armies to attack Chengtian, and today it is rare for Zuo Menggeng to speak nonsense in front of the generals in front of him.

He should have known that he had to explain something to the emperor, and knew that the most important prerequisite for him to maintain his status was not to let the emperor have a choice.

And don't say that Zuo Liangyu lost his temper!

Almost everyone was stunned when they heard that Li Ping had been appointed as a thief general.

Dissatisfaction, complaints, scolding, all kinds of dissatisfaction reactions, anyway, there is a lot of excitement.

Even Yuan Jixian felt that it was inappropriate,
Li Ping is too young, and his history of killing thieves is less than two years old, so he really can't convince the public.

Not only breaking the rules, but also chilling the hearts of many generals.

It would indeed disgust many people to ask the generals to listen to orders in front of this young man who they had never looked at before, or to bow down when they meet in the future.

"Marshal, I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed! Marshal treats us with great kindness, and we only want to follow you and recognize you forever."

"That's right, that's right, the commander-in-chief is our reborn parents, we are willing to follow to the death!"

"Old general, we are incompetent. Please punish us severely. Please punish us severely. But don't say anything about driving us away."

……

There were noisy and chaotic shouts in the hall, and Zuo Liangyu's generals who had been afraid to speak out began to blame themselves and show their loyalty. Many people even burst into tears. The scene was extremely touching.

But Yuan Jixian rubbed his head at this moment.

After scolding for a long time, it seemed that the thunder was furious, but it didn't mean to actually punish any general.

Don't know how useful this can be?
And this also made him a little embarrassed, as if he had done a great evil in ordering Li Ping to return to Huguang.

But what can he do?
Zuo Liangyu's army is not good, he must find an army that can fight!
Therefore, as soon as Yuan Jixian became governor in the first lunar month, he immediately sent people to chase after Li Ping, ordered him to return to Huguang, and then prepared to attack north.

Sun Chuanting was defeated, and Yuan Jixian realized that there would be big trouble in the north.In recent days, it has been heard that Li Zicheng has vowed to march to the capital, which has strengthened his judgment.

It also made him anxious.

It's just that he really didn't expect that Li Ping would suddenly be named a general who recruits thieves, which seemed a bit troublesome.

But it's just a hassle.

Compared with the overall situation, this is nothing!
And their narrow-minded emperor pinched his nose and replaced Lu Daqi, and he didn't know how much anger was in his stomach.Seeing Zuo Liangyu with hundreds of thousands of soldiers but continuing to wander in the south doing nothing, I don't know how much I was holding my breath.

From this point of view, Yuan Jixian found that he also sympathized with the emperor, and then he could understand that the emperor's series of cards did not follow common sense.

Rubbing his head, Yuan Jixian quickly remembered another headache.

Li Ping has cut off contact with them since he entered Sichuan without authorization, and now he does not know that his military order has been confiscated.

According to the time, his military order should have arrived, and then the messenger should have come back as a fast boat down the river.

But now, there is still no news from Li Ping, and the person he sent to deliver the order has disappeared.

I don't know what happened?
This made him unconsciously think of the tradition that the generals of the Ming Dynasty would not be so obedient when they had some ability, and Li Ping's consistent style of doing things his own way.

Yuan Jixian became more and more uneasy.

The more he thought about it, the more he had a headache. Yuan Jixian's eyes couldn't help looking at Zhao Jin, the commander in chief who was standing quietly in the crowd, and then focused for a long time.

Zhao Jinjin's general soldier came down with the notice that he would assume the post of governor.

Zuo Liangyu will attack Chengtian this time, but Zhao Jin, who took over Jingzhou after Li Ping entered Sichuan, did not participate.

At that time, the Dashun Army stationed in Xiangyang sent some people to join the old Hui Hui Ma Shouying who was unwilling to enter Sichuan with Zhang Xianzhong and tried to regain control of Jingzhou, and the two sides had been fighting for a long time.

Zuo Liangyu failed to attack Chengtian Mansion, but Zhao Jin won a major victory.

Not only did he defend the entire territory of Jingzhou, but he also severely damaged the invading enemy army, beheading and capturing thousands of people.

Zuo Liangyu yelled at the generals today, but I heard that last night in the mansion he specially entertained and praised Zhao Jin, who came soon after he was called, and promised many rewards.

When Zuo Liangyu and his son finally lost their temper, Yuan Jixian hurried back to his mansion.

Zhang Kuang was honestly still waiting for him.

"Clean up immediately, enter Sichuan, don't wait here. I just told the general soldier Zhao Jin to send troops to escort you. At the same time, he also promised to give a letter of divorce to the general who recruited the thief." speak up.

Zhang Kuang arrived in Wuchang just before Yuan Jixian went to Zuo Liangyu's place, and the two had already talked for a while.

Yuan Jixian's words stunned Zhang Kuang for a moment, but he didn't ask why, but quickly and seriously agreed, as if not surprised: "Understood, I'll leave right away, what else can the servant have to say."

Zhang Kuang respected Yuan Jixian very much, and he knew that it was because of Yuan Jixian that he was able to achieve sage listening.

Li Ping worshiped the general who recruited thieves on the tenth day of the first lunar month, and then the order was spread to Wuchang at an unprecedented speed in early February. At the same time, Ling Zhang Kuang was also the supervisor.

But it happened that at this time Zhang Kuang had just gone to De'an Mansion according to the order of Yanji, the former supervising army and participating in politics in Wuchang City, the fleeing king.

De'an Mansion is just north of Hanyang Mansion, sandwiched between Chengtian Mansion and Huangzhou Mansion, probably today's Hubei Anlu and Suizhou areas.

Wang Yangji had been appointed as the censor of Youqian Capital before Chengtian Mansion was captured, and he was also ordered to governor Chengtian and De'an Mansions that Li Zicheng did not know had been captured, but he had not received the order at that time.

Wang Yangji, who came back now and received the order, ordered Zhang Kuang to go to the presiding place of the De'an Mansion, which had just been recovered from half the territory, including Fucheng. Zhang Kuang dared not refuse.

Therefore, it was relatively late for Zhang Kuang to receive the news that he was serving as the supervisor of Li Ping's army.

Moreover, since Yuan Jixian notified him that he could wait for Li Ping's army to return in Wuchang, and the notification to Li Ping's general who recruited thieves had already been sent to Sichuan first, and the battle to recover De'an Mansion was still going on, so Zhang Kuang was not too worried. In a hurry, he rushed over after completing the urgent affairs at hand.

However, Zhang Kuang, after listening to the explanation, shook his head slightly after walking out of Yuan Jixian's mansion, and then sighed deeply.

Zhang Kuang is a very smart person, known for his wisdom, he knows that Yuan Jixian thinks things are simple.

But the target is the general who he wants to supervise the army, and there are some things he can't say lightly.

Fortunately, Zhang Kuang is currently at odds with Huang Shu. He is very displeased with Huang Shu's work and behavior, and Huang Shu has been targeting him, so he is still very happy to go to Sichuan, and he will not feel hard at all.

He just asked Zhao Jin to send troops to send him and Li Ping to give him a letter of divorce. Presumably, Zhao Jin was unable to evade Yuan Jixian at the time, but would he deny it later?

This looks like another headache!

And as expected, Zhao Jin was really having a headache at this time, he had just had a brief conversation with Chief Soldier Hui Deng and then parted ways.

Hui Deng retreated to Yunyang Mansion in Wuchang and Li Ping respectively at the beginning, and participated in part of the battle to defend Yunyang Mansion.In December last year, he and another former leader of Zuo Liangyu's tribe, Xu Yong, crossed Li Zicheng's control area to Wuchang to return to Zuo Liangyu's command on the grounds that he was not a member of Xun, and was also promoted to the commander-in-chief.

De'an Fucheng was recaptured by Prime Minister Hui Deng and another man named Mao Xianwen, but they had never experienced a major war or even a more intense battle.The Dashun Army was shrinking their defenses and easily chose to give up.

But no matter what, this is still a major victory for Zuo Liangyu.

Moreover, it is precisely because Zuo Liangyu's troops occupy a large number of areas that various bandits have given up and are not prepared to hold on to, his successive failures in attacking Chengtian Mansion make it difficult for civilian officials who do not understand the specific battle to jump out and criticize fiercely. .

Because of De'an Mansion, Prime Minister Hui Deng's troops did not participate in the attack on Chengtian Mansion, but he also did not receive special hospitality from Zuo Liangyu like Zhao Jin.And after listening to the training in Wuchang, he also needs to go back as soon as possible, and continue to follow Zuo Liangyu's order to recover the entire territory of De'an Prefecture and clear up the remnants of thieves.

When Zhao came to Wuchang this time, many of Zuo Liangyu's generals were afraid to show kindness to him for many reasons, but Prime Minister Hui Deng was an exception.

And he congratulated Zhao Jin on Li Ping's promotion to the general who recruited thieves without any taboo.It may even be because he is about to leave Wuchang and he really has a good impression of Zhao Jin. He also said something meaningful:
"Brother, the world is in chaos today, and people's hearts are not old. Many things are not as simple as they appear on the surface. Please be careful."

Zhao Jin knew that Prime Minister Hui Deng saw Yuan Jixian looking for him, and he was waiting not far away at that time, and also knew that Zuo Liangyu must call all the generals here with great fanfare this time, so it was strange that he only cursed.

So it's really not easy to write a letter to Li Ping!
(End of this chapter)