Ming Dynasty: Summoning game players at the beginning

Chapter 260 It’s the season of white photo albums again
As soon as the sky was light, he changed into casual clothes and quickly went to the barracks where Marshal Zhang was.

As the commander-in-chief of the Beiwei Army, Zhang Xianzhong did not live in a safe government office. Instead, he often mingled in a simple barracks with some nameless soldiers.

Although eating and living with the soldiers can help improve the morale of the soldiers, after the recovery of Liaodong, when the atmosphere of "merits surpassing the master" is prevalent, the safety of the commander-in-chief is related to the future of tens of thousands of soldiers, so he should be more cautious.

At that time, Yuan Chonghuan led his personal soldiers to attack Pi Island, drew his sword, confessed his crimes, and then killed Mao Wenlong.

After Mao Wenlong's death, the deputy generals of Dongjiang Town were leaderless and almost disappeared in internal strife and rebellion in just two years.

Chen Jinghe did not want to see the Beiwei Army end up in internal strife and self-destruction, as the remnants of the Tartars might make a comeback.

The soldiers of the Black Flag Battalion took over the city defense patrol, and teams of patrol soldiers kept passing by.

When the sun just rose, only a small number of patrol posts were withdrawn.

The strange thing is that the patrol leaders all knew him.

Logically speaking, this young officer shouldn't know who he is. Seeing that he is in casual clothes, he should just be thought of as a craftsman or a soldier's family member.

Chen Jinghe knew very well that these soldiers were not elite.

Veterans who have experienced many battles can sense the subtle difference -

The real elite of the Black Flag Battalion always exude a sense of "unrestrained" ease. They can handle everything and do not care about life and death.

It's like performing a play on stage, easy and natural. Even if you die, it's just a show effect and you won't really die.

It seems that Governor Li used some method.

For example, portraits were drawn for every middle and upper-level officer of the "collateral faction" so that the soldiers of the Black Flag Battalion could memorize them and accurately grasp the whereabouts of each "unstable factor".

He is truly worthy of being called Governor Li.

He was only in his early twenties but acted as if he had ten years of military experience. He was relaxed on the outside but strong on the inside, which made people admire him.

Admiring the shrewdness of Commander Li, Chen Jinghe quickly rushed to the barracks where Marshal Zhang was.

The generals still get up early as usual and start their daily morning exercises -

The morning exercises of the Beiwei Army soldiers were conducted in "squads", with a minimum of dozens of people and a maximum of two or three hundred people.

Some of them were practicing Tai Chi or Tai Chi sword in unison, chanting something.

Some began to maintain their own "armor" and clothes, including sets from ancient and modern times, both Chinese and foreign, and many of which Chen Jinghe had never seen in his life.

Some sit in a circle, drink morning tea and share their recent experiences in various places.

His mouth was full of fragmented vocabulary and hazy pronunciation. He would stop in the middle of a sentence and then continue with a completely illogical second half. It was as if he was speaking a dialect that Chen Jinghe could not understand at all, such as Cantonese, Wu, or Xiang...

Chen Jinghe mainly worked in the north and had no idea of ​​the differences between the various dialects in the south.

He was also very surprised. Most of the Beiwei Army were soldiers from Liaodong, so why were there so many people from the south, including Koreans, Japanese, Taixi people, "future people" and "science fiction people".

It is no wonder that the language and clothing of a few people are strange and bizarre.

However, this kind of "hodgepodge" situation is not uncommon in the army. In the past, General Liu Ting liked to collect soldiers from all walks of life - Miao soldiers, Tartar soldiers, Japanese soldiers, Korean soldiers...

It’s better to say that this is the specialty of the Beiwei Army, and you have to try it.

Since he was an old acquaintance of the Beiwei Army and spoke well, the player quickly brought him to the barracks where Zhang Xianzhong was.

As soon as Chen Jinghe entered the room, he saw Zhang Xianzhong, An Lushan, Huang Chao, Zhao Kuangmang, He Lusi, Abaddon... and other generals and deputy generals standing in a circle around a square table.

Seeing the generals who belonged to the "corruption faction" breaking in, they did not hesitate and continued to arrange the war chess.

There was a map on the square table. The map started from the capital in the west, connected Shanhaiguan in the middle, and extended all the way to Liaodong and Korea. Many war chess pieces were placed in Liaobei, Liaodong, and Korea.

Chen Jinghe only took a glance and guessed whether the marshals were going to take action against the Tartars entrenched in Korea?

However, this thought quickly left his mind. As soon as he saw Zhang Xianzhong, he knelt on one knee and said directly, "General, please dismiss your attendants."

"It doesn't matter, they are all brothers."

Zhang Xianzhong waved his hand nonchalantly, and the other deputy commanders also had meaningful smiles on their faces.

Chen Jinghe gritted his teeth and said, "I know that you generals have great ambitions and have long wanted to achieve great things, but today's recovery of Liaodong is already a great achievement that surpasses ours, and you have the loyal and brave general Li Mu watching over you.

The court's unclear rewards and punishments, its incompetence and lack of justice, its harsh criticism of loyal officials and its compromising attitude towards treacherous officials are a well-known fact.

If the imperial court is afraid of the Marshal's military power and imitates the story of Yuan Chonghuan killing Mao Wenlong and captures and kills the Marshal, my Beiwei Army will be torn apart and dealt with one by one by the imperial court. At that time, my brothers will be displaced and abandoned by the imperial court.

I have wholeheartedly surrendered to the Beiwei Army and have already sent my wife and children to Lushun and handed them over to the Beiwei Army. The lives of the soldiers have long been in the hands of the Marshal!
I implore the Marshal to consider your personal safety, the soldiers of the Beiwei Army, and the honor and disgrace of the soldiers of Liaodong, and be careful to prevent the court from making any plans in advance.

General Li is a die-hard loyalist to the imperial court, but he is ultimately a potential threat. It would be better to give him a large amount of gold, silver, and jewelry to persuade him to leave Liaodong. The soldiers under his command are all from the interior of the country, and they must be homesick after being away from their hometown for a long time.

As long as the strong army leaves, Liaodong will become my Beiwei Army's private town, and the Marshal can test the court.

Whether you choose to annex Korea or seize Liaoxi, you can do it calmly. Once you have seized all of Liaodong and managed it for a year or two to gather food, fodder, and weapons, the entire world will become your private property!"

"According to what you said, holding a banquet to kill General Li and annex the Black Flag Camp is the fastest and most effective way." An Lushan tried to test him.

Upon hearing this, Chen Jinghe looked up at the man, then slowly lowered his head like a scolded child.

"From what I have seen, Li Mu has won every battle, and now he has made great contributions to the restoration of Liao and the rescue of the emperor. The popularity, military and people's hearts all depend on him. If we rashly harm him, we will only bring him the curse of the world.

I know full well that the Beiwei army is strong and powerful, and its officers and men are brave and valiant, but they must also uphold the principles of justice and command the respect of the people. Otherwise, people will not be convinced, and the world will be in turmoil."

Chen Jinghe did not continue speaking. After all, there were two reasons for not killing Li Mu.

Yu Gong, there is what he said is a righteous cause, and there is also the reason why Li Mu's military deployment is loose on the outside but tight on the inside.

The probability of an ambush at a banquet is low, and it is even possible that Li Mu discovered it in advance.

You must know that Li Mu's Black Flag Camp has more than 20,000 auxiliary combat troops, and indirectly controls the troops in Baoding, Nanzhi, and Shandong. If a fight really breaks out, no matter how fierce the Beiwei Army is, it may not be able to win.

Moreover, Li Mu's current reputation is comparable to that of the Beiwei Army, so it is hard to say who the grassroots military and civilians will help.

Personally, although Li Mu was a loyal minister who was blindly loyal to the court, he was a righteous man after all, and people really couldn't bear to harm him.

If possible, he would rather defeat the Black Flag Battalion on the battlefield fairly than kill them in secret.

Of course, Chen Jinghe also knew that this was wishful thinking.

Both the Black Flag Battalion and the Beiwei Army are elite veterans who have fought their way through mountains of swords and seas of blood. If the potential enemy's commander is not killed, a civil war will break out between the two sides, which will cause earthquakes and landslides, and many more innocent people will die.

Which is more important, the life of one person or the life of millions of people?

Zhang Xianzhong, who had been listening for a long time, suddenly spoke up, "Do you know whose family members have been sent to Lushun?"

Chen Jinghe was slightly stunned. He didn't expect that the Marshal didn't ask about the "Hongmen Banquet" or the layout of Liaodong, but asked such a question?
Chen Jinghe thought about it and suddenly realized.

Families are the weak point of generals. If one side raises the flag to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, the family members on the other side will be taken hostage by the court, and the morale of the Beiwei army will inevitably be affected.

The lower-class soldiers were extremely poor, and almost none of them had families.

On the contrary, they fought back to Liaodong and made many military achievements. They were supervised by superiors who clearly distinguished between rewards and punishments and were rewarded. They accumulated a lot of money, food and supplies. Many soldiers got married and started a family in recent times and settled down in their hometown of Liaodong.

This shows that the Marshal is concerned about the safety of the generals!
As long as their families secretly run back to Liaodong, the soldiers will have nothing to worry about. Does the Marshal's words imply that he has made up his mind to rebel?
Chen Jinghe suddenly felt a surge of pride filling his chest, his hands trembling with excitement, "I remember most of it."

He added in his mind that he and other "corrupt factions" had secretly "won over" many generals and officers, and had succeeded.

"Then write down the list of military commanders."

As soon as Zhang Xianzhong finished speaking, He Lusi turned around and went to the inner room to get paper and pen.

Marshal Zhang then added that those who were still in Liaoyang should also be listed in detail, including which barracks and neighborhoods they lived in.

"clear."

Chen Jinghe suddenly felt a little puzzled. If the commander-in-chief wanted to summon his "loyal ministers" to discuss matters, he could just do so. There was no need to write a list...

Oh, right!
Currently, the city defense and patrols are all under the control of the Black Flag Camp. Even in the name of a military meeting, only the big boss Li Mu is qualified to organize it.

If the Marshal secretly colluded with "anti-Ming patriots", he would probably be caught by the loyal ministers and wiped out.

That's why we have to make a list and contact them one by one to avoid any breach of confidentiality.

Countless plots in ancient times had failed miserably due to the loss of confidentiality. Chen Jinghe's muddled thoughts suddenly became clear. No wonder someone else could become a commander-in-chief. The strategic thinking of those who controlled the overall situation was more thorough than he thought.

He suddenly felt inspired and frantically wrote down the relevant information he knew.

When he finished writing a large amount of information in one breath, the generals and deputy generals immediately took the manuscript paper and glanced at it. They seemed to find it difficult to memorize it, so they stuffed the manuscript paper into their arms and sleeves.

"We're going out to do something. Don't move around here. If someone calls you, just follow them obediently..."

After leaving these words, more than ten marshals and deputy marshals walked out of the camp gate.

When everyone's backs disappeared from his sight, Chen Jinghe came to his senses.

Is it necessary to contact the brothers on the list so urgently? Moreover, it would be too conspicuous for the Marshal and Deputy Marshal to act together, right?
Although the sun gradually rose and the patrols on the streets gradually decreased, more than a dozen high-ranking Beiwei Army officers were acting together. If they accidentally exposed their tracks, they would be finished.

Or is this a way of responding to "unchange" with "chaotic change", taking advantage of the unique attributes of the Beiwei Army so that General Li will not become suspicious?
Maybe.

Now is the time for all the Beiwei Army to be active. A large number of "weird" soldiers have to make moves inside and outside the city, just like spies infiltrating the downtown area. The more lively it is, the safer it is.

What does the second half of the Marshal's sentence mean?
Will someone come to call him?

Could it be that he wanted to immediately contact a large number of anti-Ming generals, summon their personal soldiers, and gather thousands of elite soldiers to launch a mutiny in a very short time?
Is it too hasty?

Moreover, launching a mutiny in a busy city is likely to be hindered, which is completely inconsistent with the logic.

Chen Jinghe felt like his brain was going to break down. The more he thought about it, the more complicated it became. He simply let his mind go and stopped thinking. He just did whatever the Marshal told him to do.

Sure enough, after a while, ten fully armed soldiers stepped into the camp and summoned Chen Jinghe.

"Excuse me, is this Lieutenant General Chen?"

Although this group of people were very polite, the spirit they exuded was quite similar to that of the elite soldiers of the Black Flag Battalion or the Beiwei Army, and they seemed to have a subtle sense of ease.

"it's me."

"Come with us. We have been ordered to bring Lieutenant General Chen safely to the designated location..."

"Specified place?"

Chen Jinghe didn't dare to ask more questions, nor did he dare to act rashly.

Although these people fulfilled the Marshal's words of "calling people", he was not sure whether these people were "his own people", so he obediently followed them away.

Just halfway through, Chen Jinghe suddenly realized something was wrong——

The street they were heading towards was the Liaodong Military Governor's Office. Everyone in the city's military knew about it, and Governor Li himself was temporarily staying here.

These people are the soldiers of General Li’s Black Flag Battalion!
Could it be that Governor Li discovered that they were colluding to rebel, so he took the initiative to attack and eradicate their Beiwei Army?!
Chen Jinghe's heart sank, and his whole body felt a biting chill as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

Suddenly at a crossroads, he saw several "escort teams" surrounded by familiar faces, all of whom were members of the "Corruption Faction" in the same camp as him.

There were even some that he had just revealed to the middle-level generals of the Beiwei Army.

They looked at each other through the "guards" and then lowered their heads dejectedly.

The originally secretive "anti-Ming patriots" were escorted together by armed personnel, and they all realized that their "intentions" had been exposed and they were about to face sanctions from loyal officials.

It is impossible to resist.

Most people didn't have time to put on armor, and they didn't even have a spare knife.

Fighting against more than ten heavily armored Black Flag elite soldiers with bare hands is like trying to stop a chariot with a mantis arm, which is a dead end.

Looking at the Dusi Yamen getting closer and closer, Chen Jinghe suddenly felt that the rhythm of his breathing through his nose and mouth became heavy and rapid, his chest felt blocked and uncomfortable, his blood vessels felt numb, and his limbs became sore and weak.

The scene in front of me was gradually shrouded by black fog, and my originally clear and rational mind became dizzy.

He's going to be... executed, right?
After decades of fighting for the country, they finally recovered their homeland and enjoyed a few days of peace. They were about to achieve great achievements in the future, but now they were exposed at the dawn of victory.

Only then did he realize that in front of the big shot, he was just a small ant that could be easily crushed to death.

He suddenly missed the relative peace he had enjoyed before.

If he had not been unwilling to accept the repeated oppression and the humiliation of his hometown's fall, and had just lived on in this muddle-headed way, he might have been able to take part in the recovery of Liaoning.

Then he gave his wife and son titles, promoted him to a higher position and made him rich. He stayed in Liaodong and became a loyal minister until he died of old age.

Ugh.

Chen Jinghe sighed, this was fate. Not only his family and relatives, but even those old brothers who had fought side by side with him were all gone.

Who told him to feel so resentful and humiliated that he wanted to bring down all the mediocre officials in the Ming court?

Chen Jinghe has arrived.

He, along with a dozen other middle and upper-level generals who "intended to rebel", was escorted to the lobby of the yamen by elite soldiers of the Black Flag Battalion.

"Marshal Zhang!"

Suddenly a burst of wailing was heard. Chen Jinghe and other "rebel generals" who came later looked in the direction of the sound. Unexpectedly, Marshal Zhang was also "captured" and brought here. Even He Lusi, Huang Chao and others were here.

Hundreds of strong men in heavy armor gathered around the lobby, and it was obvious that they were strong enough to fight ten people at once.

Fortunately, the guards around them did not stop them from contacting each other. Several generals knelt down before Zhang Xianzhong, crying and shouting that they were useless and had implicated the Marshal.

Chen Jinghe also came forward.

But when he saw the Marshal's fearless eyes, he was speechless.

He repeatedly regretted that he should not have acted rashly. Liaodong had already been taken, so why couldn't he be more cautious and wait for a more appropriate opportunity to contact the Marshal?
He was so anxious to expose his whereabouts that Governor Li became suspicious and eventually implicated everyone.

Now, all the "anti-Ming" members of the Beiwei Army were wiped out by General Li, and then completely annexed by General Li...

Chen Jinghe only felt a sharp pain in his heart.

Why does this happen?

For the first time, he had a lord he wanted to be loyal to and comrades in the Black Flag Camp who fought side by side. Together, they defeated the Tartars and recaptured Liaodong.

These happy things combined should have brought him more happiness and a sense of accomplishment, and he should have had a more dazzling and brilliant life.

But why did the two groups of brave and righteous men who had sacrificed countless blood and sweat for the world not join hands to overthrow the corrupt Ming court, but instead ended up in a tragic situation of killing each other?

Why do the heroes fight each other? Why does it turn out like this?
A group of generals, both big and small, were crying and snotting, as if they were acting out a high-quality tragedy. Some of them even accidentally rubbed their tears and snot on Zhang Xianzhong's trouser legs.

On the contrary, generals like Zhang Xianzhong and He Lusi remained calm and looked determined as if they were not afraid of death.

Unexpectedly, the generals could remain so calm and composed when facing death. This deeply moved the soldiers, and they felt even more regretful and self-blaming for their own incompetence and mediocrity, and they wished they could die a thousand times in their place.

At this time, an armored soldier raised his hands, pretending to be holding some machine and started working.

He explained in Cantonese, which none of the soldiers could understand:

"When the false is made true, the true becomes false; when nothing is made, something becomes nothing...

The conspiracy of the Beiwei army was exposed and they were in danger of genocide. At this time, a man who did not want to reveal his name suddenly appeared and sang loudly, "Don't you hear that there is always a way out for everyone?"

The current developments are beyond everyone's expectations, but they are also within reason. To find out what happens next, please listen to the next episode."

As this elite soldier finished speaking, another elite soldier shouted loudly, "Ka! The small chapter Liaoyang Desperate Situation was a complete success!"

"Everyone take a break, we're about to start filming the next scene!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the captured Liaodong generals were all bewildered, and their miserable cries of regret stopped abruptly. They had no idea what these strange-behaving soldiers were going to do.

At this time, a soldier holding a clapperboard came to the small door at the back of the hall and suddenly dropped the board into the air in front of the door.

"start!"

There was only a crisp sound, and dozens of armored soldiers acting as "green leaves" gathered around the door, leaning back, making flower-flipping gestures with their hands, and shouting in unison -

"Please welcome the real protagonist!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the small door at the back of the hall opened, and a commander in heavy armor walked out, surrounded by several elite soldiers.

(End of this chapter)