Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 222
But just as Zhu Cihuang marched westward and was not far away from the camp, an accident suddenly appeared.

As soon as he set foot on the march, Xu Dingguo gathered all the generals and personal soldiers of his army around him, and planned big things with them.

"Nowadays, the country's affairs are getting more and more difficult. My Ming Dynasty lost nearly a million soldiers and the people's livelihood is in decline. It's all because there are traitors around His Majesty. As the saying goes, when a country is about to perish, there must be evildoers. It is those evildoers who will destroy our country."

Xu Dingguo suddenly acted like a fortune teller, saying ghostly words to the generals and soldiers he had summoned.

"General, who is the evildoer you are talking about." A soldier was puzzled by Xu Dingguo's words.

They are just big soldiers who serve as soldiers and eat food. Although they occasionally care about national affairs and daydream about blaming Fang Qiu, they don't know who the evildoer who is harming the country is.

Hearing the soldiers' questions, Xu Dingguo cast a glance at him, as if he was a little dissatisfied with his poor cooperation.

But fortunately, I have already instilled in the soldiers that they should listen to their own words and not to listen to the court's words. There are bad people in the court, and the emperor's orders may not really be the emperor's will.

So now as long as they make up a similar reason, they can encourage them to fight for themselves and point their swords at Zhu Cihong.

"Of course it's Liu Bao, Qian Qianyi, Shi Kefa, Zhang Yong, Zhang Zhong, Zhang Chao and others beside Zhu Cihong." Xu Dingguo answered the soldier who just asked the question in a tone that did not tolerate anyone's questioning.

"They bewitched the emperor, provoked wars, made the people of the world exhausted for their ambitions, destroyed our hometown in the flames of war, and separated you and my wife, all because of them. Only by killing them can we live a stable and peaceful life .” Xu Dingguo’s words were very deceptive.

It's not because his voice is so attractive, a man who has been in the field for a long time, his vocal cords seem to have been cut by a knife, and he can make a nice voice.

It was because of that sentence of a stable life that attracted everyone, not to mention those soldiers who served as soldiers and fed food, even the generals present also longed for peace in the world.

Although with the war, they can quickly make achievements, but such good opportunities often do not come to these young people without identity background.

Instead of pursuing illusory achievements, it is better to find a way to live well.

"Mr. Qing's side! The world is peaceful."

At this moment, Xu Dingguo's deputy general suddenly stood up and raised his arms and shouted.

These seven words summed it up very well. What Xu Dingguo said meant that, if he killed Zhu Cihong, the world would be peaceful.

"Mr. Qing's side! The world is peaceful." Xu Dingguo found that the slogan put forward by the deputy general was very inspiring, so he also raised his arms and shouted.

On the side of the Qing emperor, this slogan has been used for thousands of years. In history, those who really initiated the Qing emperor's side are often rebellious officials and thieves. But what is ridiculous is that after using this slogan, there will really be many people response.

As for whether these people really want to eradicate the traitors and restore peace to the world, or have ulterior motives, then the benevolent see benevolence, and the wise see wisdom.

But, no matter what, at least Xu Dingguo succeeded in using this slogan this time. The soldiers and generals gathered by him all chanted fanatically as if they had been brainwashed by a cult organization.

Only one person remained calm at this moment, and that was the eunuch Zhu Cihong sent to Xu Dingguo's army to oversee the army, although Zhu Cihong didn't like eunuchs very much, and he didn't like to put too many people in the army.

Because many examples in history have proved that doing so will tie the hands and feet of the leading generals and prevent them from fighting well, and it may not be able to absolutely guarantee the loyalty of the army.

Although there are not many examples of the supervising army and the commanding general colluding to start a rebellion, or the commanding general slashing the supervising army, and then setting off a rebellion, there are definitely some.

But this is the system of the Ming Dynasty, and it is a rule for the emperor to send people to the army. Besides, if you don't worry about inserting some people into the army, who dares to use Xu Dingguo's semi-warlord troops without worry.

"You, you, the emperor is so close, how dare you plot rebellion." Seeing this crazy scene in front of him, the eunuch who was overseeing the army was so frightened that his face turned livid.

I saw him pointing at Xu Dingguo, tremblingly saying this sentence.

"Hmph, eunuch who gets in the way." Xu Dingguo cast a glance at the eunuch.

He has long been displeased with eunuchs, why do these eunuchs rise to high positions and come to the barracks to serve as supervisors, they are usually more prestigious than these generals in command.

Is it just because of the thing that cut the crotch?

If a civil servant, a Wen Juren, Wen Jinshi came to serve as a military supervisor, then Xu Dingguo would still pay attention to him, and spare his life for the sake of the other party's fame and literary talent.

But what is a eunuch?Cut it and chop it.

I saw Xu Dingguo walking quickly to the side of the eunuch of the supervising army, and cut off his head with a knife in his hand.

The eunuch of the supervising army had no time to react, and when Xu Dingguo held the head in his hand, he realized that he was dead when he saw that his body was missing a head.

"Use this eunuch's head as a sacrifice to the flag."

"I have already discussed with Bo Dongping Liu Zeqing, and I will join forces with him in a while to surround and kill the treacherous ministers around Zhu Cihong." Up to now, Xu Dingguo is still using the banner of killing the treacherous ministers around Zhu Cihong.

"Together, we and Liu Zeqing have more than 5 troops, while Zhu Cihong has only 3 to [-] people. Soldiers, I have the advantage in this battle."

Xu Dingguo naively thought that he and Liu Zeqing would suddenly set off a rebellion, gather tens of thousands of people, and take advantage of Zhu Cihong's unpreparedness, so that they could kill Zhu Cihong and capture Zhu Cihong.

It's a pity that they forgot that Zhu Cihong was not an ordinary person, not to mention that Zhu Cihong went all the way south from the capital, experienced many dangers, defeated King Fu in Jinling, and seized the throne, how can he be a mediocre person.

When Xu Dingguo and Liu Zeqing were surrounded by the Ming army transferred by Zhu Cihuang, he would realize how stupid his actions were.

At the same time, Liu Zeqing also killed the supervising army in his army, and told the generals and soldiers in the army that he wanted to be on the side of the Qing emperor.

It's just that Liu Zeqing's problem is a little bigger than Xu Dingguo's, because most of his soldiers come from the garrison army, or are martyrs who volunteer to join the army to defend the country, while most of Xu Dingguo's men are recruited from landlords' armed forces or bandits.

As soon as Liu Zeqing said that he wanted to clear the emperor and kill Zhu Cixiang, many generals and soldiers stood up to oppose him. Firstly, they could not see hope. Secondly, most of these people retained their loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, or they were used to the Ming Dynasty. exist.

(End of this chapter)