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Chapter 577 Array Meadow Lake

Meadow Lake Town, about [-] miles northeast of Kuizhou, is an open land. It used to be a piece of good land and green fields, but in the era of war and chaos, first natural disasters caused crop failure year after year, and then wars, and the people fled and became displaced. , have already run away.

Zhang Xianzhong led the 30 Daxi army and Zhu Yousong's 20 Ming army to form a formation here with Li Zicheng, the one-word side-by-side king, and Ainengqi, the fourth highness Dingbei king.

This is because Zhang Xianzhong adopted Xu Yixian's strategy and advocated defending the enemy outside the city of Kuizhou. In addition, his Chen Bing Caodian Lake also had the intention of testing Li Zicheng this time.

Zhang Xianzhong is not a suspicious person. He has no doubts about Li Zicheng's rebellion against Zhu Yousong, but he doesn't think that Li Zicheng is a thing in the pool, and he will be determined to keep himself as the emperor for the rest of his life.

Just as Li Zicheng knew Zhang Xianzhong best, Zhang Xianzhong also knew Li Zicheng best. These two people are indeed from the same hometown.And they were born in the same year and the same month, but Li Zicheng was born a few days earlier than Zhang Xianzhong.In the early days, both of them worked under King Gao Chuang, and they were comrades who respected each other.Later, they went through the period of the 72nd Battalion of the Thirteen Families. During this period, the two families separated and reunited. After more than ten years of reunion, the two knew each other best.

The big waves washed the sand, and the 72nd Battalion of Shisanjia was left with two teams later, and they all became climates. One Dashun, one Daxi, one occupied the northwest, and the other occupied the southwest, echoing each other from a distance. Now that the Dashun regime has died out, only Of course, Li Zicheng would not resign himself to failure, and made Zhu Yousong's rebellion. It must be an expedient measure to come to Zhang Xianzhong. When the right time comes, or when Li Zicheng's wings are full again, he will definitely leave himself to go it alone and make a comeback.This point in Zhang Xianzhong's heart is like a bright mirror, Li Zicheng is by no means the same thing in the pool, once the clouds and rains come to him, he will definitely rise into the sky and become a dragon.

His counselors Xu Yixian, Pan Dujiao and godson Ai Nengqi repeatedly persuaded him to make up his mind and take this opportunity to get rid of Li Zicheng. Sheng, the emaciated camels of the Ming Dynasty are bigger than horses. If Li Zicheng is removed at this time, he will undoubtedly lose a right-hand man. He feels a little powerless against the Ming Dynasty with the strength of his Daxi family. As for King Tang and King Lu, don't look at it Very fierce, he thinks that none of them are the ones who can achieve great things.

What he has to do now is to make Li Zicheng believe in him, he has completely believed in Li Zicheng, and then the two of them will do their best to deal with Zhu Yousong together, and wait for the opportunity to deal with Li Zicheng after destroying Daming. This is Zhang Xianzhong's wish , This is also the reason why he broke the rules and named Li Zi as the king of the word side by side.

But secretly Zhang Xianzhong had to be wary of Li Zicheng. At the beginning, he planned to reorganize the four or five thousand soldiers brought by Li Zicheng. This was also what Xu Yixian and Pan Dujiao meant.

Li Zicheng's current wings are undoubtedly the 5000 troops he brought to surrender to Zhang Xianzhong together, which is his original vanguard battalion.Of course it is inappropriate to kill these people, but it can be adapted, leaving him with only a bare-handed commander, so that Li Zicheng really can't make any troubles by himself, and he can decide at any time whether to kill or keep.

But Zhang Xianzhong didn't expect Li Zicheng to be superior. He is now the king of the side-by-side, so he immediately took the team he brought with him as his personal guard.In this way, Zhang Xianzhong intervened to reorganize his personal guards because he clearly distrusted Li Zicheng.

"How cunning Li Hongji!"

Zhang Xianzhong was a step too late, so he had to knock out his teeth and swallow it. He regretted that he was reckless in this matter, and he also underestimated Li Zicheng's thousands of people, because he now has tens of thousands of people, and Li Zicheng's thousands of people are of course It's not worth mentioning, but now he thinks that these are Li Zicheng's thousands of people after all. Back then, he could achieve great things by multiplying 10 people, let alone 17 people?It is unimaginable to reproduce.It is not too late to reorganize Li Zicheng's 5000 troops first, then seal him the throne, and then assign troops to generals.Since he came to surrender himself, he is his subject, and Li Zicheng's soldiers are his Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers, and it is only natural to adapt it immediately, but at that time, in order to dispel Li Zicheng's worries, he made Li Zicheng completely believe that he had completely trusted him. He immediately reorganized the army he brought with him, and he was the first to confer the title of side-by-side king on him. Now it seems that his steps are stinky enough!

Zhang Xianzhong regretted it in his heart, but there is no one who sells regret medicine in the world. After secretly scolding his mother, he had to put this matter aside for the time being and don't find a new plan.

Of course, on the surface, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng still called each other brothers and were very close. In a few days, Li Na came to Kuizhou from Chengdu by order. In order to make Li Zicheng happy, Zhang Xianzhong asked Li Na and Li Zicheng to meet alone.

Li Zicheng was looking forward to this day. Li Zicheng is now a minister. Although Li Na is Li Zicheng's biological daughter, she is a noble concubine.

Li Na hurriedly helped Li Zicheng up, screened him back and forth, and the father and daughter had a secret conversation.

First they cried, and then they complained about Li Zicheng. Of course Li Na was happy that he surrendered to Zhang Xianzhong, but why didn't he bring his mother and leave Gao Guiying in Mingying?Facing the questioning of his daughter crying into tears, Li Zicheng took out the secret decree from his arms after confirming his safety. After seeing it, Li Na opened his mouth in shock.Li Zicheng quickly put away the secret decree.

Since then, the father and daughter have never had the opportunity to see each other alone.

When one plan failed, Xu Yixian and Pan Dujiao gave Zhang Xianzhong a second plan, which was to test Li Zicheng's loyalty to him. The most effective way was to let Li Zicheng fight Zhu Yousong. Zhang Xianzhong agreed, and this time he dispatched 30 The army left Liu Jinzhong with 10 troops to defend Kuizhou City, Zhang Xianzhong led the five armies with a total of 30 troops and Zhu Yousong set up a battlefield at Meadow Lake.

On the surface, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng call themselves brothers and sisters, but in fact they came to monitor Li Zicheng personally, including King Ai Nengqi of Dingbei, military adviser Xu Yixian, Pan Dujiao and others, all of whom are supervisors. Li Zicheng is now fighting alone in the middle of the tiger's mouth His side-by-side king has already been emptied out, except for the four or five thousand personal guards he brought back from the Ming camp, his side-by-side king is just a decoration, without Zhang Xianzhong, it is difficult for him to mobilize the rest of the soldiers. One point is clear to Li Zicheng in his heart, but he still pretends to be confused on the surface.

Because Li Zicheng can't reveal the slightest flaw now, otherwise Zhang Xianzhong and others will get rid of him in a grand manner, trying to save his daughter Li Na from the tiger's mouth, but Kuizhou can only be a daydream, and he and Zhu Yousong's plan will be in vain , and the unspeakable turmoil and restlessness in his heart will only become a budding state forever and will not take root, sprout, blossom and bear fruit, then it will really lose everything.

Therefore, he must seize this rare opportunity and work hard towards his goal at all costs. What he needs to do now is to make Zhang Xianzhong believe in him as much as possible, and then he must come up with the actual practice of rebelling against Daming. Come.

Therefore, when the two sides lined up, Li Zicheng took the initiative to invite Ying to take the lead in the battle. Zhang Xianzhong was of course happy. Li Hongji knew practical things well, so he would not have to pass on the order, so he nodded and allowed him to go to the battle.

Li Zicheng held the Chuangwang Dao in his hand, and flew straight to the front of the two armies to fight and scold the enemy.

(End of this chapter)