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Xinchengji, inside the tent of the commander of the Yongyi Army.

Under everyone's expectant eyes, Earl Yongning said, "Take the battle of Kaifeng as an example. If we want to wipe out the bandit Li with this battle, it is just like a foolish dream. It will never come true."

He suddenly stood up from the tiger-skin chair and walked towards the curtain on the left, saying as he walked: "However... relying on the advantages of our elite soldiers and excellent guns and artillery, plus the convenient conditions of transporting goods across the river, I firmly believe that our army can be invincible and slowly wear down Li's hundreds of thousands of troops.

Once we defeat him and make him return in defeat outside the city of Kaifeng, and weaken the invincible military spirit of Li, we can further drive him out of Kaifeng Prefecture. Then we can gradually recover the surrounding counties, pacify the refugees, and resume production, so that the entire Kaifeng Prefecture can be stabilized.

By then, Sun Chuanting's Shaanxi troops must have taken shape and still have some combat effectiveness. He could then march out of Tongguan and station them in Henan Prefecture to prevent the bandits from entering Sichuan and Shaanxi; he could then transfer Zuo Liangyu to Nanyang Prefecture to prevent the bandits from entering Huguang; and Luo Rucai would defend Guide Prefecture to cut off the contact between Li the bandit and the Xian bandit and the Ge Zuo Wu bandit.

If that time comes, we can force Li into Ruzhou, and then use our Yongyi Army as the vanguard to take the lead in the attack, and use Sun Chuanting and Zuo Liangyu as the two wings to prevent the bandit from escaping. Perhaps we can fight a life-and-death battle with Li in Ruzhou."

Yongning Bo stopped talking here. He looked up at the bright sky outside the window, pondered for a moment, and then said to the others, "Luo Rucai is just like Yuan Shizhong."

He turned around abruptly and looked at Chen Zhong, Sun Shixiang and the others, and continued, "I want them to be a role model for the bandits in this world, and thereby induce the local bandits, big and small, to follow suit. Only in this way can we quickly put down the rebellion, restore the people's strength, and unite to resist the invaders!"

Finally, Earl Yongning's gaze stopped at Sun Shixiang's face and said, "Only if you win his heart can you use his strength!"

Sun Shixiang sighed secretly, but said: "My Lord, you are a great leader of the time. You are so courageous and brave. I admire you."

Yongning Bo smiled slightly and said, "Treating them with sincerity is to win their hearts. It doesn't mean that I will leave Luo Rucai's Cao Ying alone."

"My lord, you are a man of great wisdom and foresight. You must have a plan in mind!" Sun Shixiang praised.

Yongning Bo's face was still full of smiles, and he said: "Since Luo Rucai can arrange his assassins to cooperate with us in this play, it is enough to prove that he has broken with Li the thief. Even if he is reluctant to lead his troops to cooperate with our division to attack Li the thief, at least he will never collude with Li the thief again in the future.

Although there is still a bandit between Henan and Anhui, Zhang Xianzhong is now only able to maintain the situation with great effort, and is able to withstand the attack from Zhu Dadian, and it is already very difficult to achieve a stalemate. I think Luo Rucai will not go to join the bandit whose strength and situation are not as good as his at this time.

As for the future... after Luo Rucai sees the true combat power of our Yongyi Army, I think he will no longer have the courage to fight against our Yongyi Army!"

After hearing what Earl Yongning said, except for Sun Shixiang who still had a trace of worry on his face, everyone else showed their agreement.

Next, everyone discussed some news about Sun Chuanting and the capital...

"Sun Baigu is really courageous!" Zhang Cheng, the Earl of Yongning, expressed his heartfelt admiration when talking about Sun Chuanting.

Chen Zhong was quite puzzled by this. With a face full of questions, he blurted out, "He Renlong is also a fierce general. He is not necessarily worse than Zuo Ping. Why did Governor Sun insist on killing this famous madman He?"

Yongning Bo first glanced at Sun Shixiang, then looked at Hu Yiwen, and asked him: "Gongqiao, you tell me."

Hu Yiwen straightened his appearance and took the opportunity to think about it in his mind before speaking: "Master, in Yiwen's opinion, He Renlong deserves his crime. This thief has at least three major crimes, but if he is convicted of any one of them, he would be sentenced to death!"

"Oh. Please tell me in detail." "He made a noise in Kaixian County, causing the defeat of the Meng general with his lone army, and the two bandits Xian and Cao were able to escape from the cage. They have not been pacified until now. This is his biggest crime. And every time he faced a battle afterwards, he would abandon his general and flee first when he encountered the enemy. For example, when he encountered the bandits in Xincai, he fled before fighting, killing the governor of Shaanxi, Fu Zonglong. In the battle of Xiangcheng, this madman Zuo used the same trick again. He led his troops to flee before engaging the bandits, causing the governor of Shaanxi, Wang Qiaonian, to die for the country."

Hu Yiwen listed all of He Renlong's crimes one by one. If an ordinary person had committed any of these crimes, he would have been executed by the order of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty. So everyone was amazed that Crazy He could still live to this day, which was quite remarkable.

"But Crazy He is not the only one who runs away before a battle. Why did they chop off his head alone?" Chen Zhong still had some doubts.

Earl Yongning still said nothing, but smiled and encouraged Hu Yiwen, signaling him to speak up and help Chen Zhong resolve his doubts.

"What the court and the emperor cannot tolerate the most is that the generals abandon their commanders and flee first. Moreover, this crazy He has done it three times. How can we keep him here any longer?"

Hu Yiwen smiled and continued, "We allowed him to redeem himself before, but Shaanxi did not have a frontier official who could calm the situation, and we were afraid that this would cause chaos, so we allowed him to stay alive until now.

Now, Shaanxi has Sun Chuanting, the former governor, in charge, who is able to calm the situation and will naturally not allow Crazy He to continue to abuse his power. Can't we send him another governor of the three borders to help the thief?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Sun Shixiang said, "Killing He Renlong will intimidate the generals of the Shaanxi Army. From now on, no one will dare to follow suit and abandon the general and flee first. Governor Sun has established his power just right!"

Chen Zhong still didn't quite understand, and said to himself, "Isn't Governor Sun afraid that Crazy He's subordinates will rebel against him?"

“There will definitely be resistance.”

Yongning Bo finally spoke, and he continued, "Crazy He has led the army for many years, and there must be some loyal warriors under his command, but in the face of the righteousness of the court, they can't make any huge waves.

After all, Sun Chuanting has Liu Shizun's battalion of soldiers to keep him safe, and with the other generals from the three border towns in Shaanxi holding him hostage, what else can the generals under Crazy He do?"

When he said this, he fixed his eyes on Chen Zhong and said, "You should know how powerful Sun Chuanting is. He was the one who almost killed Li the bandit in front of the battle line. If the court had not hurriedly mobilized his Shaanxi troops to defend the king, Li the bandit would have died in the Shangluo Mountains. How could he have conquered Luoyang, besieged Kaifeng, and galloped across the Central Plains today!"

Everything was just as Earl Yongning expected...

After Sun Chuanting arrived in Xi'an, he immediately made a secret agreement with Shaanxi Governor Zhang Erzhong to summon all the generals of Shaanxi to Xi'an to attend a military meeting on the first day of June. Although He Renlong had doubts and worries in his heart, he could not refuse. He came to Xi'an under the escort of 3,000 elite cavalry.

However, he never expected that as soon as he entered the hall of Sun Chuanting's governor's office, he was tied up on the spot by his personal soldiers. After the three major crimes were briefly read out to him, he was pushed out of the hall and beheaded immediately.

After hearing the news, He Renlong's general Zhou Guoqing, together with other close generals including Wei Daheng, He Guoxian, Gao Jinku and others, led 500 personal soldiers to flee back to Jingyang to pick up their wives and children and go to seek refuge with the local bandits in Shaanxi.

However, they were defeated by Liu Shizun who had ambushed them in advance halfway through the journey. Zhou Guoqing was killed on the spot. Wei Daheng and others saw that the situation was hopeless and immediately gave up resistance.

Finally, all the tens of thousands of troops under He Renlong surrendered to the governor of the three borders, Sun Chuanting, and were still led by Gao Jie, Gao Ruli, He Yong, Dong Xueli and other fourteen people. (End of this chapter)