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Volume 1 Songjiang Mansion Chapter 243 Parting ways

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    Seeing Li Zicheng leaving with the people, Jiang Yuyang immediately got in and said to Zhang Lei: "Master Zhang, is this matter settled?"

    Zhang Lei said with a smile; "Okay, don't be too happy. This thing is half done, and there is still the other half. We have to wait until the headcount of his number is calculated, then it will be considered done. We are here."  Just wait, to be honest, this move is really amazing, half true and half false, even gods can't tell the difference."

    "That's right. In fact, I came up with this idea after listening to two soldiers discussing that they were homesick. If you said there are people here who want to go home, then there must be some there too. I just  They just amplified the homesickness a little bit."

    Zhang Lei suddenly felt worried and asked: "That's not right. I suddenly remembered that people's hearts are full of flesh. People over there want to go home, so people here must also want to go home. So what?  manage?"

    "Isn't that just right? If no one from us stays here, then Li Zicheng will naturally know that this is our plan. And if there are people here, then he will firmly believe that this is not our conspiracy.  Ah." Jiang Yuyang said.

    "But if we lose too many people, it will be very disadvantageous for us. So what should we do?" Zhang Lei asked.

    Jiang Yuyang replied: "Master Zhang, you don't have to worry about this. Think about it, our people have reclaimed land here, right? How many people are left? At least tens of thousands. Of course that's my estimate. There are so many  People here, if we provide them with some help, then we can completely form a border town. Establishing a border town in such a place is equivalent to establishing an outpost against the Manchus. If it still  If the Qing army invades, then all the people will be soldiers. Wouldn't it also be a powerful force? Thirdly, we have more people now than Li Zicheng. Since he left so many people, we left  There must be fewer people than him. He went to read out this thing, but we didn't. By then there would be very few people who knew about it. The soldiers from our two families didn't interact with each other. Don't you think so? The most important thing is  Yes, let Li Zicheng's men rush to the front during the war, it doesn't matter how many soldiers we have."

    "Haha, after what you said, I suddenly understood. Very good, let's do it. According to what you said, no matter what happens, we can basically be invincible. That's really great.  Okay. Hurry up and send someone to see what's going on over there. Oh, by the way, the most important point I want to explain is that what you just said, I think the issue of non-publicity in our army is very important.  We have to tell him, otherwise Li Zicheng will find out the clues." Zhang Lei felt relieved and said with a smile.

    Li Zicheng returned to his military camp, then took out the document and asked people to publicize it in the army. He also doubted Zhang Lei at first, but seeing that he had already publicized it in the army, he even  The last bit of doubt was dispelled.

    I heard that if you don¡¯t want to fight, you can stay here to reclaim wasteland.  Providing food to the soldiers on the front line made those who wanted to go home immediately become excited. Most of them were farmers. Now they just picked up their farm tools again, and they didn't have to go to fight outside the customs.  What a wonderful thing that was. They all said that this decision was very wise.  So they all went to Li Zicheng to sign up. When Li Zicheng finally counted, the number of people actually reached 100,000, which he did not expect.  One hundred thousand people is quite a large scale. You see, even Sun Chuanting's total military strength is less than one hundred thousand.

    But as the saying goes, military orders are like mountains. This is what he promulgated. If this order is revoked or not implemented because it does not achieve its expected purpose, it will cause a loss of prestige. Since public opinion can be trampled on at will, then this  Naturally, no one will abide by the coach's authority. This is all mutual. If you want to get something, you have to give something you already have in exchange.

    So, 100,000 people from Li Zicheng's army stayed to reclaim wasteland and plant food, and more than 20,000 people from Zhang Lei's side were willing to stay, adding up to 135,000 people.  These people were separated from the team, and Zhang Lei and the others immediately surrounded a large area here to provide them with a place to recuperate in the future.  The remaining people continued to the north under the leadership of Zhang Lei and Li Zicheng. In order to ensure that these 130,000 people could perform their duties, Zhang Leilai entrusted Sun Chuanting to stay and manage Sun Chuanting's army.  Ray came and took over.

    So the remaining people set off again. There were more than 560,000 of them, still a huge group. They set off, and they continued to go north to fight against the Tatar army.

    ?On the Tatar side, it is impossible for Huang Taiji not to know about Zhang Lei's personnel transfer of hundreds of thousands of people. If he doesn't know about such a big thing, then he probably won't know if he is assassinated one day.  knew.

    If he knows that he already knows, he will definitely send someone to resist or do something else. If this person is not himself, it will be his son Yebushu. He is the most capable of fighting among all his descendants.  of.

    So Ye Bushu led an army of 500,000 people out of Shenyang, Shengjing, and headed west to where Zhang Lei and others were.  After Zhang Lei learned of their movements, he hurriedly called Li Zicheng over.

    "Now the Manchu and Qing Tatars have discovered our traces, and we are here to fight with them. Now I have an idea, that is, we divide our troops into two groups. I will continue to go north and go around their backs.  , and you take people directly to the Northeast, where there is fertile land that has not yet been cultivated, especially the great land of Beidahuang on both sides of Heilongjiang, which is thousands of miles of fertile fields and gold. I will provide you with all the food and clothing. It is cold now.  , I will provide you with all the cotton-padded clothes you need. If you take your people there, it is best to establish a base. Then we can use the stronghold form, point by point, to cover the entire place inside and outside the pass.  They are all developed, and by that time, even if they don¡¯t have to fight the Tatars head-on, I¡¯m afraid they can be driven into the vast desert.¡± Zhang Lei said.

    Li Zicheng said: "This"

    Zhang Lei continued: "This is my idea. If you can't decide, then I will help you decide. Let's go separately now. I will go around behind them to fight, and I will provide you with another one."  Ten thousand three-eyed blunderbuss and one million bullets, so now you have 20,000 three-eyed blunderbuss, right? Twenty thousand three-eyed blunderbuss should be enough."

    Now that the number of people is 100,000 less, they are no longer Zhang Lei's opponent. It is precisely because of this that Zhang Lei is confident when he speaks. Both sides know well about the 20,000 three-eyed blunderbuss, but that  A layer of window paper cannot be punctured.

    "Also, you have to remember that you are a Han, a noble Han. After the lowly Manchus are eliminated, there will be peace outside our customs, and you will get what you want - although not  It may be what you want most, but it is also enough to achieve part of your goals - I am fully capable of guaranteeing this." Zhang Lei said.

    Li Zicheng said nothing. It seemed that Zhang Lei had already decided that he, Li Zicheng, would never be Zhang Lei's opponent outside the customs.  So Li Zicheng could only remember Zhang Lei's words bitterly in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it on the surface. After getting the three-eyed blunderbuss from Zhang Lei, Li Zicheng set off.

    "King Chuang, why should we listen to Zhang Lei?" The lieutenants around Li Zicheng were very puzzled by Li Zicheng's decision.

    Li Zicheng couldn't help but laughed bitterly and said: "You think I want to listen to him? Do you think I am so easy to bully? But what can I do? Now I understand, he Zhang Lei set it up before  There was a trap for me to fall into, but the funny thing is, I still forced my way into it, and lost 100,000 troops in vain. Look how many of us there are now? Can we fight with Zhang Lei?"

    So the deputy general also fell silent and stopped talking. The group of people just walked like this. The weather was getting colder and colder. Some soldiers couldn't stand it and ran away while everyone was not paying attention.  Li Zicheng would get angry before, but in the end he let them go.  His mood was very low, and he was no longer in the mood to start a war before it even started.

    After a while, they brought people to Datongwei. Here, Li Zicheng stopped. He felt that it was necessary to make an adjustment. The most important thing was that he didn't even know how many people he still managed. This  It's definitely not a good thing for a coach.

    During the period of stay in Datongwei, Li Zicheng unexpectedly received a group of people. These were sent by Zhang Lei to deliver supplies to them. Not only did they have food, tents, cotton clothes, etc., but more importantly, they also had a copy of Zhang Lei's supplies.  Letter to Li Zicheng.

    The letter above was naturally something Zhang Lei said to prevent Li Zicheng from surrendering to the Qing Dynasty. After reading it, Li Zicheng tore up the letter without saying anything.  However, after receiving these equipment, he also knew that Zhang Lei had not lied to him about this, so he immediately became motivated.

    He continued walking with his people. He had no way out. The only thing he could hope for was that Zhang Lei would come as promised again and send people to support him within the agreed time.  (To be continued.)
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