Chongzhen Chat Group

After seeing Zhang Dingguo's report, he felt somewhat relieved. At least so far, everything is going according to plan.

Sun Chuanting was also in the chat group. After learning that Zhang Dingguo was setting off, he reported his location to let Zhang Dingguo know. At the same time, Lu Ruipeng and Zhang Fengyi also reported their positions respectively. That night, many people had no sleep.

At this time, the function of instant communication in the chat group becomes extremely important. This reassured all parties involved in the operation, especially Sun Chuanting and Zhang Dingguo, and reduced the possibility of mistakes.

Just like now, under the weak moonlight in the middle of the night, Sun Chuanting could lead his men and walk along the official road with confidence without lighting torches. Even if he saw a few torches coming from Balipu along the official road, it would still be the same. Very calm, no panic at all. Because they can know who the other person is through the chat group.

After the distance between the two sides was relatively close, Zhang Xianzhong ordered everyone to stop advancing. He took a few close followers without lighting torches and just used the faint moonlight to greet them.

Of course, from this distance, others could vaguely see many people on the official road ahead. They were naturally curious, wondering who the other party was? However, none of them could have imagined that these people opposite would be acting county officials and soldiers.

"General Zhang Xianzhong, I have met Mr. Sun!" Zhang Xianzhong kept his posture very low. After greeting him, he greeted him in a low voice as a lower official.

Although at this time he was actually a guerrilla general recognized by the court, and Sun Chuanting was just a former official who resigned and returned home. But he knew that after this battle, Sun Chuanting would be reused by the court. A ruthless person who can put himself in danger, he has already thought about his attitude when contacting him.

Zhang Xianzhong's opening remarks made most of the county officials and soldiers breathe a sigh of relief. Master Sun is indeed not lying, there is really someone here to help!

When Sun Chuanting heard this, he suddenly felt good about this thief general. He knew that Zhang Dingguo in the chat group was his adopted son, so he did not dare to be too presumptuous and immediately responded in a low voice: "General, hard work, and also It will be dawn in half an hour, so you and I should prepare early!"

While speaking, he turned over and dismounted.

"Everything is at your command!" Zhang Xianzhong responded immediately.

Neither side needs to announce who they have brought, what preparations they will make, or what they will do next. Because all these details have been communicated in the chat group, and both parties are fully aware of them.

I saw that the county officials and soldiers did not need to give orders. Under Sun Chuanting's orders, they all quickly started unloading things from the backs of the animals and were busy preparing. About a quarter of an hour later, after they had completed their preparations, Zhang Xianzhong returned and brought his and Liu Guoneng's people over.

There were about 300 people on one side and more than 400 people on the other side. The two sides met under the night. Under the light of a few torches, people could finally see each other clearly.

At the beginning, when the bandit frontier army saw the other party wearing a Ming army uniform, they thought that the other party was just a frontier soldier in the peasant army just like themselves. But when they saw a person in civilian clothes standing at the head, they felt something was wrong. Because there is no such person among the bandits, this is certain. But no matter what, they didn't expect that the other party was a real official soldier.

Zhang Xianzhong stood next to Sun Chuanting. He glanced around and saw that he and Liu Guoneng's cronies were scattered in the team. He shouted sternly: "Zhang, Brother Liu and others have been recruited by the court and have been named guerrilla generals. We will cooperate tonight." Lord Sun, exterminate the bandits. Before the three armies of the imperial court meet tomorrow, we must make a contribution, so that everyone will have a bright future. If anyone refuses, don’t blame Zhang for being unkind!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the soldiers on the side of the bandit were shocked. Zhang Xianzhong's words revealed so much information that they had never thought of before.

First, Zhang Xianzhong and Liu Guoneng have been recruited by the imperial court and have been named guerrilla generals. And from what he said, it seemed that the leader was also recruited.

Second, these people in front of them turned out to be imperial officers and soldiers, or a commander named Sun Wenguan, who was higher than the guerrilla general, and came to exterminate the bandits.

Third, tomorrow, the other two imperial armies they are most worried about will arrive here.

Fourth, they are subordinates of Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng and others. Since Zhang Xianzhong and Liu Guoneng are guerrillas, if they make contributions in this battle, I am afraid they can also have an official position.

At this time, the benefits of Sun Chuanting's appearance with the acting county officials and troops came out. If it weren't for them, if Zhang Xianzhong and others wanted to incite them to rebel, even if their words were ridiculous, they would probably hesitate and not believe it.

But at this moment, they saw that officers and soldiers had indeed arrived, although it didn't seem like there were many in number. But they thought that this was just the vanguard, and there were civilian officials in charge, which strongly proved that what Zhang Xianzhong said was true.

As long as they are not fools, no one will jump out and accuse Zhang Xianzhong of betraying the enemy at this time. As Zhang Xianzhong said, most people were forced to rebel in order to survive. Who would be willing to be a thief when there is a better choice at this time!

It would be nonsense to say that anyone expected their rebellion to be successful at this time. For them at this time, one way is to hide in Tibet, fearful, not knowing when they will be caught up and exterminated by the army, and just live a day-to-day life; the other way is to completely get rid of the current predicament. , a sunshine avenue that can bring glory to our ancestors. No one can make the wrong choice with this kind of choice, not to mention the current situation. It is obvious that if you don't agree, you will be killed.

From a certain point of view, the fact that they were brought here to show off their cards at this moment meant that they were not given a chance to choose.

The cronies of Zhang Xianzhong and Liu Guoneng knew about this situation in advance, so they responded immediately.

"We listen to big brother, and whatever big brother says is whatever he says!"

"Brother is right, we are just forced to do it. If we have a way to survive, we will definitely not do such a stupid thing!"

"If you have such a good opportunity to return home in glory, do it!"

"..."

As soon as these people took the lead to express their stance, with so many officers and soldiers watching eagerly, the others did not hesitate and immediately followed suit. Even if some people take the loyalty of Jianghu seriously, they can at most express their opinions in a lower voice and not have such strong confidence.

Zhang Xianzhong was happy when he saw that the people he and Liu Guoneng selected did not disappoint him. He was not embarrassed in front of Sun Chuanting.

With this thought in mind, he turned around to face Sun Chuanting, clasped his fists and bowed, saying, "Sir, it's okay!"

Thanks to dhb for the reward! I still owe an update tomorrow.