Ming Dynasty: Summoning game players at the beginning

Chapter 109: Firing three shots into the sky is a way to show my respect to the court
He looked around and saw familiar deputy generals and lieutenant generals lined up in two rows.

Excluding the governor's camp and foreign aid troops, almost all the generals who participated in the Battle of Southern Henan were seated here. The troops under their command accounted for 60% of the defending soldiers, more than 14,000 people.

It can be seen that the princes and gentry were stingy, and the governor's "unfair rewards" angered a large number of soldiers.

Another lieutenant general retorted, "Why surrender to him and beg for life? What great harm can a few tens of thousands of bandits accomplish? If we surrender to him with more than 10,000 men, he's afraid we'll feed him."

I've heard that the King of Zhou is wise and generous, so why not head north to Kaifeng? Maybe you can get some money."

"You didn't surrender to the beggars, but you went north without permission. If the court blames us, we can't bear the consequences." A guerrilla with an angular face looked worried.

"What's there to be afraid of? The year before last, Zuo Liangyu accepted gold and silver from bandits and set their soldiers free. Last year, Zuo Liangyu disobeyed orders and led his men to steal food and women. This year, Governor Xiong summoned him, but he ignored him, and the punishment he received in the end was nothing serious. Let's see who can do anything to him."

But now he's been defeated and killed, and the blame for his drunken mistakes is on him. It's because there are no soldiers left, so the masters don't fear them anymore. These days, if you have soldiers, you're the boss, and if you don't have soldiers, you're just a nobody."

"Well said!" At this moment, a man sitting at the end of the seat on the left stood up. "It's time for us warriors to rise up. Normally, they're ordered around like slaves by the civil officials. It's time to teach them a lesson."

After listening for a while, Chen Hongfan felt that this person spoke to the heart of his heart, which made him feel comfortable all over, as if he had let out a breath of anger.

But when he looked closely, he found that the man was Lin Dengtu, the second of the three Lin brothers.

Wasn't he affiliated with Li Futai's trusted confidant camp? Why was he participating in the "special" military meeting?

As the commander-in-chief, Chen Hongfan nominally has the command authority over all subordinate military officers, so it is reasonable for him to invite generals from all walks of life in the name of "military meeting" today.

However, the Ming Dynasty's custom was to "use civil officials to control military officials" and "check the big and small officials". The actual superiors of all military officers were civil officials, and the obedience between superiors and subordinates among military officers was not absolute.

The general does not have the absolute authority to command a subordinate unless it comes to a matter of life and death, or a complete break between the two.

Especially since the standard battalion is the direct force of the civilian official, a general who does not belong to his "sequence" obeys the orders of himself, the general, which seems to be a statement of secretly taking sides.

Chen Hongfan glared at his trusted guerrilla, who understood and spoke up, "Isn't your eldest brother the garrison commander? Why is he here to discuss matters?"

"The general has given the order, how can we, his subordinates, not come?" Lin Dengtu said as a matter of course, as if he was not the governor's battalion, but the general's personal guard.

"Then why didn't your eldest brother come?"

"My eldest brother, as the garrison commander of the standard battalion, must answer to the governor. My garrison commander is unwilling to risk his life defending the city for the despicable princes and evil gentry, losing his life in vain, and in the end not even receiving three taels of silver to collect his body! So they sent me to ask General Chen for instructions - should we defend the city or not?"

As soon as Lin Dengtu said this, all the military officers looked at the general sitting in the main seat.

Chen Hongfan refused to surrender the city.

He had no friendship with the beggars, no old acquaintances to help him, and the bandits had no experts to help them. If he suddenly defected to them, he would not be taken seriously, and his men might be absorbed and reorganized.

In addition, he knew very little about the beggar bandits and gathered intelligence through rumors and the "Iron Fist Bulletin" founded by the bandits.

The beggar thief hates the "powerful gentry" very much, as if he has a blood feud with the powerful and wealthy and has killed their entire family.

Even if the beggars showed mercy and spared some of the gentry and wealthy families in the "occupied areas", the latter would accidentally trigger the "new law" and have their properties confiscated and their families exterminated.

Chen Hongfan felt that the so-called new laws were just excuses, and were simply a pretext for the beggars to settle scores with the wealthy after they had established their foothold.

He listened to the copywriter reading the "Iron Fist Communiqué" to him, and could hear the beggar thief's hatred that resounded throughout the world from just a few simple lines -

The beggars killed the entire families of the criminals, dug up the ancestral graves of the wealthy and crushed their bones to ashes, burned down the ancestral halls and tablets of the wealthy, and even changed all traces of the wealthy that were recorded in the county annals.

It was as if the family that was wiped out had completely disappeared from history, with no trace of its existence left.

Chen Hongfan suspected that the top leaders of the beggar bandits had been humiliated and played with by the powerful and wealthy since childhood, and had become completely insane, so their minds were filled with deep hatred for the powerful and wealthy.

When they grew up, they raised the flag of rebellion and had the capital for revenge, so they were determined to kill all the powerful people in the world to vent their anger with the momentum of "trampling the bones of all the nobles in the streets".

If you think about it this way, since he is a general with such high position and power and a large army under his command, he is also a "powerful person" whom the beggars want to kill, so he cannot surrender to the beggars.

But it is impossible to fight.

The beggar thief is extremely brave, and there is a master who helps him with magic.

I think that in the night attack, perhaps it was because of the magic of a master that made the robbers invulnerable to swords and guns, and fearless of death, that they were able to defeat tens of thousands of government troops with only 800 bandits.

It was hateful that Governor Li did not believe in the "Samadhi True Fire" that he had seen with his own eyes, and forced him to hand over a scapegoat to take the blame for letting the bandits escape.

damn it!
Even if the emperor were to guard the east side of the city himself, he would not be able to stop the Samadhi Fire. How could a mortal man be able to match that "magic" that appeared out of thin air?

Defend the city?

What's the difference between defending a city that is bound to be broken and committing suicide!
This time he didn't have time to think of a strategy to crack the "Samadhi True Fire", so he could only change places and make further plans.

Moreover, this "disobedience and escape" can tie all the military officers together and form a "community of interests" that cannot be held accountable by the law.

The imperial court did not even dare to offend Zuo Liangyu, who had thousands of soldiers under his command, so how could it dare to take ruthless action against him who had gathered more than ten thousand soldiers?
After a brainstorming session, Chen Hongfan's eyes widened as he spoke in a trembling voice, "Today, notify all officers and soldiers to make full preparations. Tomorrow at 1:00 AM, we will leave the city and head north to Kaifeng."

Lindentu asked, "What if someone tries to stop me?" Chen Hongfan narrowed his eyes, raised his arm, and slashed fiercely at the air. His powerful voice exuded a strong sense of majesty, "Anyone who dares to block my way will be killed!"

……

After the plan of fleeing was decided, the generals of each department quickly returned to their bases to arrange affairs.

As soon as "Lindentu" returned to the officers' barracks of the garrison camp, he saw more than a hundred players crowded in. Those who couldn't stand were squatting on the tables and chairs, just like a group of monkeys from Mount Emei who gathered when they saw food.

He pushed the door open and entered the house, feeling as if he had stepped from the cold winter into the hot summer, and his whole body was hot.

"What does General Chen say? Did the rumors we spread work?" Lin Dengwan came up anxiously.

"Rumors are very useful. Many generals are almost angry to death, but General Chen refuses to surrender the city." Before Lin Dengtu finished speaking, the expectations of more than a hundred people suddenly disappeared, leaving only boredom and annoyance - the great contribution of the indirect vanguard was gone.

"Why don't you surrender! Why don't you surrender! Why don't you give us a chance to make merit? The main force of the Beggars' Army will arrive by tomorrow evening at the latest, and we're going to miss it!" A player sat on the shoulders of another, reminiscent of the scene in a shooting game where players stomped on teammates' heads.

"NPCs also have their own intelligence and logic. Put yourself in their shoes. I'm a general, and I wouldn't join an armed group that only cares about killing. I might get shot to death while hunting one day."

"Indeed, the Beggar Army should change its thinking and improve from the bulldozer mode to the fighting-and-building mode. At least we need to make more friends. Otherwise, there will be enemies everywhere, and how can the Beggar Army grow?

The Huguang guerrillas are thriving right now. If they create a second corps, we'll be under a lot of pressure to recruit new members in the future!"

"How can we not kill these powerful gentry? How can we clean up the house and build a new country without killing them?"

"Yes, yes. Now is the Age of Exploration. The great powers are busy grabbing colonies. We must quickly wipe out China and build a steam empire to swallow up the world."

"Why rush? Governing a country is like cooking. If the heat is too high, the food will burn. If the heat is too low, the food will not be cooked. If the heat is too high, the food will not be cooked. If the heat is too low, the food will not be cooked. You still need to be patient and take one step at a time. Once you have conquered the territory and digested it well, then take the next step. If you take a big step, it will easily cause trouble!"

"I'm just waiting for the next opportunity to get promoted and expand my army. From garrison commander to guerrilla commander, from guerrilla commander to lieutenant general, then to deputy general, and finally general... If one day I can lead troops into the capital, it would be fun to play the role of Dong Zhuo, the fat man."

"Then we'll flee with General Chen. What about Governor Li?"

"The moment he gave us and our guide official positions, he was no longer of any use—

Whether the general fled or Runing City fell, the Qihuo Army would not forgive him, and Chongzhen would not forgive him either."

"You make it sound like we're despicable people who scheme against others."

"Facts have proven that even if you work hard for a civil servant, he won't remember your kindness, unless your immediate superior is someone like Sun Chuanting or Lu Xiangsheng. I used to have shrewd ideas, but now that I've joined the Ming army and been exposed to a wave of official malpractices, I can only say one thing: go to hell, you insects."

"If we follow General Chen and flee, will we ever see these two tough guys from the late Ming Dynasty?"

"Sun Chuanting still has a chance. He will be thrown into prison by Chongzhen next year in a rage. You will be able to see him in Shaanxi three years later. As for Lu Xiangsheng, he was surrounded by the Jiannu and eventually died in battle in the past few months."

"No! I won't let him die! I want to gather the famous civil and military officials from the late Ming Dynasty! I want to save him!"

"Then I suggest you join the Qing-killing volunteer team—" a player said at this time, "Join chat group 534... Let's join forces to march north to save the suffering and kill the Tartars!"

"Hey, hey, we're an undercover independent group. What the hell are you doing here advertising and trying to poach us? Do you think we're quiet?"

"Hey, it's all a misunderstanding. This operation is a timed special mission initiated by the guide, and it will begin soon. A few wealthy players have funded offline training for the volunteers who will join the Qing-clearing expedition team to improve their combat effectiveness. They said there will also be armored combat and real-life shooting events."

"Ohhh! Training both online and offline, that's double the growth! I love it! I want to participate!"

"Join the group, the rich boss accepts everyone."

"Stop talking nonsense! Go tell the soldiers to prepare to march out tomorrow morning. Don't let us fall behind and be used as military merits by the remaining government troops."

"Alright, I will obey the orders of the military officer!"

The players were laughing and looking lazy, not considering the garrison officer as their leader at all, because they were all the leaders of this army, jointly in charge of hundreds of soldiers under their command.

If a war breaks out, Lin Dengwan is only the nominal commander, and the actual commander still has to be temporarily elected by the players.

Even if they do not meet the commander system threshold of 300 people, they still have to choose.

……

The next morning, the winter sun was shining brightly, and the people of the city once again welcomed a new day in peace.

But when they opened the door, they saw a shocking scene.

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