I Xiaoxiong

Chapter 199 Missing
King Wu died.

Because of a very accidental thing.

Of course, if he hadn't been sick, he wouldn't have died of fright when he woke up at night.

After seeing Zhao Deyu's appearance, everyone felt a little sad.

His face was frightened, as if he had seen something particularly frightening.

Xue Gu and the others showed grief, but they dared not speak out.

Zhao Chengqi had mixed feelings.

He was originally just a prince and grandson who didn't know the world, but now he has no one to rely on.

Thinking of what Aye had said to him yesterday, his heart sank in the end and he "fainted".

Xue Julin and others saw that Zhao Chengqi was "excessively sad", and they all told the attendants to take good care of him and not to make the "son" too sad.

Afterwards, Xue Gu and other people in charge went to the big tent of the Chinese army to discuss matters.

In the military tent, the main seat was vacant, and everyone still sat in their usual seats, but after sitting for a long time, no one spoke.

For them now, it seems that half of the sky has collapsed.

They could imagine that when the news of King Wu's death spread, it would affect the morale of the army. Well, this thing is gone now.

But how do you say that the rebels gathered together under the banner of King Wu.

Now that the achievements have not been accomplished, the flag is about to fall.

"Actually, it's not completely hopeless."

A voice broke the silence.

Everyone looked around, but it was Qian Luo who joined the army.

"Qian Canjun can speak bluntly, we are all grasshoppers on the same rope now. Just speak bluntly."

Xue Julin's face was heavy, and his tone was very low.

"We still have 1 veterans and [-] sailors. The imperial court can't tolerate us. Why don't we go and vote for Honglian Road?"

"what?"

Liu Taiqing, Li Zichun and others all exclaimed.

Zhao Chengjun said: "Mr. Qian, are you confused?"

Qian Luo said: "Confused? Cheng Jun, do you think that this is when the prince is still there? Do you think that this is a time when we are still under the city of Shouzhou and we still have a chance to go north?"

These two rhetorical questions left everyone speechless.

"I know you have concerns. Before the prince was still there, it was already the limit to communicate with Honglian. We didn't even think about joining forces. But now that the prince is gone, what can we do to gather people's hearts? Even if we go back to the south of the Yangtze River, those aristocratic families Is the rich family still asking for money and food like when the prince was around?"

Qian Luo's continuous questioning made everyone fall into deep thought.

But he has no intention of stopping.

"Gu Changshi, you are from a famous family in the south of the Yangtze River, but are you still in the Gu family?"

Qian Luo's question made Gu Xianglin frown, speechless for a while, and just shook his head.

He just received a letter not long ago, and the Gu family had expelled him from his clan, that is, expelled him from the family.

It was after Fu Jinchuan's surprise attack on quarrying on New Year's Eve and tens of thousands of troops crossing the river.

In other words, he has nothing to do with the Gu family now.

Of course, if King Wu turns defeat into victory, it will be another scene.

And Gu Xianglin also understood that the Qian family was a big family in Hangzhou, and Qian Luo's situation was similar to his, so it could be regarded as the family's bet on King Wu.

Now that King Wu's death has been defeated, the Gu family and the Qian family will inevitably start to split.

They must be expelled from the clan, so as not to hurt the whole family.

This is also the long-standing behavior style of the aristocratic family, which he has long known.So. Now is not the time to think about the family.

This bend, in his head, finally turned around.

"I understand what Qian joined the army. Now whether it is your Pengcheng Liu family, your Hedong Xue family, or my Jiangnan Gu family, none of these have anything to do with us. Even these people outside may be able to live, but we are the only ones. It is the imperial court that must be killed. The big man will die when he dies, but it is a joke for us plotters to talk about loyalty, filial piety and righteousness. Now we retreat to the south of the Yangtze River to defend ourselves, and we are lingering. If we go to vote for the red lotus Maybe you can still deal with the imperial court. Maybe you can't do something."

When everyone heard this, their faces were ugly, because even if they were rebellious, at least they were officials.

If you want to go to the Red Lotus Army, then you are really a thief.

But what Gu Xianglin and Qian Luo said is very clear. Now that these people have even done the rebellion, it is out of date to talk about loyalty, filial piety and righteousness.

"But even if we go to vote for the Red Lotus Army, what can we do? Our [-]-strong army has been defeated by the officers and soldiers. If we go with Honglian, we will be able to compete with the imperial court? Besides, we are defeated now, so go vote. Red Lotus Army, what's the matter? They can look down on us? I don't want to live under the fence."

Zhao Chengjun said very disdainfully.

After all, he is from the Zhao family.

is the clan.

Although they rebelled, they are still the Zhao family.

Qian Luo shook his head and said, "No. It's not like sending someone under the fence. We can still support Mr. Sanlang to be the King of Wu, and then we can talk about joining forces with Honglian."

"Now we still have the confidence to talk to Honglian about confluence?"

Li Zichun is also not optimistic about this matter.

Qian Luo said: "We people are confident."

"us?"

"Yes, it's us. Gu Changshi is very intelligent and talented, and he has the talent of Wang Zuo. Dudu Xue and Dudu Liu are all famous generals, but even with hundreds of thousands of people, Dudu Wang is good at water warfare, and no one in the world can match him. , Li Dudu, General Zhao, you all know how to arrange troops and set up camps. In the Red Lotus Army, there is only Pang Zhigu, who has some strategy, and the rest of them are just people who only know how to deceive people. There are tens of thousands of veterans and thousands of generals.”

Speaking of this, they understood what Qian Luo meant.

Strange things to live in.

Originally, in their eyes, the Red Lotus Army was just a mud-legged person, what kind of climate could it become?
Give them a state and a county, can they understand it?
Did they know how to make siege engines?Know how to march and deploy?Know how to beat the drums and get the money?

They don't understand.

But we get it.

"Coco." Zhao Chengjun groaned twice, but finally said nothing.

Because he has nothing to say now.

Sooner or later, his parents were brought up by his uncle Zhao Deyu since he was a child. Now that his uncle is gone, the army is facing such a situation again.

He was actually very flustered in his heart, but as a child of the clan, he was still very resistant to being with the Red Lotus Army.

After all, even if they rebelled before, they used the name of the Qing emperor to punish the country's thieves. Now this name is gone, and only the word rebellion is left on the head.

But he resisted this reality in his heart.

This is the sadness of him, as a son of the clan.

His prestige in the army is definitely not enough to compete with Xue Julin and others, so he also knows that as long as these people agree on this matter, all he can do is to follow the trend.

As for surrendering to the court, it is probably a dead end.

More than 20 years ago, the King of Lu rebelled against him. As long as the clan members of King Lu were involved, all participants were killed.

Failed, that's how he ended up.

Go back to Jiangnan first, and then connect with the Red Lotus Army.

This is the result of this discussion.

Before everyone had left the tent of the Chinese army, someone came to report, which made the civil and military who were usually mature, prudent and decisive, a little flustered.

Zhao Chengqi disappeared.

(End of this chapter)