Chapter 435 Cooperation
Li Kaiming's overall plan was that in the uprising in Jianzhou, he could raise another 100,000 troops within three months, with the two thousand soldiers of the old camp as the elite. He was not in a hurry to attack the city in Jianzhou. He first attacked a few county towns, obtained county town supplies and local wing army equipment, and trained 20,000 to 30,000 elite troops within half a year, and then defeated the local imperial guards and wing army in Fujian Road.
Li Kaiming's goal was to build a strong army of tens of thousands of elite troops and more than 100,000 peripheral troops in Jianzhou. He lies in Jianzhou for at least half a year to a year, defeat the troops who came to fight against Fujian Road, and then conquer Jianzhou Prefecture, and then capture Quzhou, Jianchang, Shaowu Army in a short period of time, and then go to Qianzhou, Fuzhou, and directly to Hongzhou.
Hongzhou is the military and political center of Jiangnan West Road. It is all in the pocket of Hongzhou, the entire Jiangnan West Road and Fujian halfway. It is also in Jingzhou and Tanzhou, and half of the south is conveniently in the palm of your hand.
In the southern routes, there are only twenty troops at most, and they are stationed in dozens of prefectures, prefectures, and hundreds of counties. As long as the troops are sent quickly and a large number of troops are surrounded and killed by a small number of imperial guards, of course, it is impossible to be the opponent of the bandits who have expanded to more than 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands of people.
If Li Kaiming's plan goes smoothly, two years later, the former bandits will have real foundations, with Hongzhou as the core, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Jingzhou and Tanzhou, all within the ruling scope. Except for Jiangling, which has dozens of armies, it is afraid that it will not be able to take it, and the southwest cannot be managed for the time being. The southeast wealth and grain output of the Great Wei will fall into the hands of Li Kaiming.
Within three or five years, if you train troops with financial resources in the southeast, you can get 200,000 elite troops and one million troops in the entire army, which is enough to fight against the main force of the Great Wei imperial guards who have escaped from the northern battlefield. You can use the natural dangers of the Yangtze River and a large number of lakes to fight a tug-of-war with the imperial guards going south in Jingzhou and Hongzhou.
As long as the war lasts for a few years, the Great Wei will be trapped in a powerful enemy in the north and lose the wealth and wealth in the southeast, so it will be unable to carry out large-scale wars.
By then, Li Kaiming planned to take advantage of the situation to go north when Donghu went south and make a fortune.
Of course, all this will not be as easy as imagined, and you will definitely encounter various difficulties and setbacks. For example, although nearly 2,000 people are following Li Kaiming to lurk south, most of them are in Fuzhou to Quzhou and Jianzhou, and in the deep mountains of Shaowu Army, hunting, picking wild fruits, and looting mountain people for a living. Anyway, there are many bandits in the mountainous areas of Jinghu area, and they are not afraid of exposure. Even if someone reports to the top, the court will at most be regarded as the remnants of the bandits and will not take them too seriously.
But when lurking, except for a small number of copycats that can accommodate horses and personnel, most places can barely survive at most. The mountain people are poor, and even if they grab all the villages within a radius of thousands of miles, they will not be able to gather the military supplies they need.
Once an uprising occurs, either repent to the old ways of thieves and robbing everywhere. If you want to establish a foundation, money and weapons are the most difficult places. Without the resources to raise troops, don’t talk about establishing a foundation. Even at the beginning of the uprising, many soldiers only had simple long scepters and soft bows, no fine iron weapons, shields, armor, stance bows made by precision craftsmen and military arrows. Not to mention the imperial guards, even if tens of thousands of soldiers came to fight, they would cause heavy losses to Li Kaiming and his subordinates.
"I have already gathered a thousand people." Liu Maoqitian said with his lips: "I asked them to build some weapons, but we have no money and food now, so we can only coax them with words. If these turtle grandsons want to support their families, they may not be able to do it for a long time."
Miners are just a big powder keg, just a little bit, but these people are unlikely to actively rebel without organization.
Even if Liu Maoqi and others used obscure methods to attract many miners to join, the effect would be poor. These people have families and have no money and food to give them, and most of them can't bear it after working for a few days. Many of them went to Fuzhou or Quzhou to do short-term work.
More importantly, the Nan'an Marquis Mansion has been recruiting soldiers continuously. In recent days, at least 10,000 miners and their families have left Jianzhou and been transported to the Dongfan in batches.
Li Kaiming was quite vigilant about Nan'an Hou and the current King of Zhongshan. He did not dare to make big moves, mainly because he was guarding against Xu Zixian's intervention.
Once the actions were made big, they would be exposed in the early days. Even if the officials on Fujian Road were as ruthless as the rest of the road, once the clues were discovered by the Zhongshan Prince's Mansion, more than 100 troops near the valley entrance could suppress Li Kaiming and others. Li Kaiming had no doubt about this.
Now Li Kaiming and his subordinates are empty-handed, like tigers with teeth drawn, with majestic past, but are sick beasts that can be bullied.
"There is really no way..." Li Kaiming said to Liu Maoqi helplessly: "Look for a few big players and quietly grab a vote."
"Zhong." Liu Maoqi smiled with a smile: "I have wanted to do this for a long time. If there is no money, there will be no soldiers, there will be no weapons, there will be no soldiers or guns. If there is no soldiers or guns, it will be difficult for us to think about it. Then, the Jianzhou General Group has done a lot of things in the dark and looting, and all the big families are wary and careful. Even if something really happens, they still think that it is the people of the General Group. In the eyes of our brothers, their defenses are nothing."
Li Kaiming grinned at the old guy. Liu Maoqi expressed his dissatisfaction in a curve. Li Kaiming patted the other party's generous and strong shoulders, which was a little apology.
It is true that Jianzhou has long been in chaos like a hornet's nest, bandits, poles, bandits, and thieves. There are robbers and thieves everywhere. Even if Li Kaiming and his group robbed several big families, who could suspect the thieves? Besides, who would come out to investigate the case in Jianzhou and take this matter as a major matter? This place, except for a few county towns and prefectures, has long been in chaos and has no order at all.
Before this, Li Kaiming was a little too cautious.
"Big Palm, Second Cabinet." A small leader crawled over from the foot of the mountain, greeting Li Kaiming and Liu Maoqi while moving up.
Li Kaiming nodded, and Liu Maoqi scolded, "Didn't you call the big boss or the big shopkeeper, he would scream again and cut your tongue and drink."
"Yes, the shopkeeper, I was wrong."
The little leader stuck out his tongue and smiled, but he did not dare to doubt Liu Maoqi's words. Li Kaiming was quite gentle and generous to his subordinates, but he would not forgive him even if he violated military laws. Liu Maoqi was even more irritable. Some people really didn't obey military orders and violated taboos. They did not do much in the second cabinet, and Li Kaiming would not stop him.
Even if a bandit team is in charge of the market and is unwilling to do the activities of the disabled, burning, killing, looting will inevitably happen. There are also some cruel and bloodthirsty people in the team... Without this, it is impossible to gather the team.
Only when the bandits have a stable territory and collect taxes can they discuss the rules and regulations of the country and laws, can they build the bandits into an army. Li Kaiming has his own ideas about these things.
Lee Kaiming asked concisely and clearly: "What's the matter?"
"Low Bald Master Luo is back." The little leader replied: "It's right at the foot of the mountain, and I didn't dare to come up directly, saying that I wanted the boss and the
The shopkeeper dared to come up only when he knew the bottom of the deal."
“What did you say?”
"He accidentally walked away from the water in Fuzhou..."
"Has he confessed?" Li Kaiming immediately pressed the sword hanging on his right waist with his wide palm, and a sharp look appeared in his eyes.
Even so, he was not nervous. If the government had sent a large group of troops to come, the news would have been gone long ago. The miners here might have had a good impression of the King of Zhongshan and had no good impression of the officials in Fuzhou City.
If it weren't for the indulgence of these officials and King Zhao's gang, Wang Yue's old man could have made such a mess, which would make everyone have no food to eat?
Even if a large group of people were sent over, it would be difficult to catch dozens of people in the mountains where there were mines everywhere. It would be difficult to find a needle in a haystack. No one showed any nervous expression on his face, whether it was Li Kaiming or the leader of the bandits who were surrounding him.
"Lower Luo said that he had not left the water. After being locked up, he was about to be released. A noble man found him and said he was willing to help us get up. Some people have seen his identity and all of us. Recently, some people have been staring at us and have long revealed their signs."
Li Kaiming loosened his hand at this time. He thought for a moment and said, "This is strange. Go down and bring Baw Zi Luo up. Tell the person who accompanied him that you either let Baw Zi Luo up or slap him apart."
"Yes, the boss."
The little leader hugged his fists, turned around and ran to the foot of the mountain.
There were shrubs and sparse forests. Not far away, there were mountains and streams flowing downwards. It was clear and green everywhere. Everyone was sitting or squatting, resting on the outside of this simple camp. When they heard the news that Luo Dwarf was brought back, more than 40 bandit leaders and old soldiers scattered, untied the bow handle, put the strings on, and tried their hand strength. Some people took out the long scepter, horizontal sword, ring-head sword, and crossbow, and took out all these weapons from the camp. A dozen people began to tie armor or iron armor on their bodies. Some were wearing cotton armor, which was a waste of time.
Li Kaiming looked around and felt quite satisfied. These people were old people who had followed him for many years, and basically at least they were low-level generals who had led hundreds or thousands of people.
The most important thing is that almost all of these people are from Yanzhou, which is also the place that Li Kaiming values the most. People from Yanzhou or from the Security Army can only serve as middle-level and above generals in Li Kaiming's soldiers, and lower-level generals. They are also given to people from Qinfeng Road, people from Hedong, people from Guanzhong, people from Henan Road, and people from Jinghu North Road. Even if they become old soldiers, they are only small leaders with dozens of people at most. It is quite difficult to stand out in the army.
At the moment, these people were not too nervous, scattered, but their eyes became extremely sharp. They looked around, looked around, looked around, looked at the mountains and hills, and observed whether there were any suspicious figures appearing at the distant peaks or at the foot of the mountain. But everything was as usual, looking at the past, the green green mountains continued endlessly, one peak after another, with high and low, rising and falling, like waves in the sea, surging through waves.
The scene in front of me is actually that these men who came out of the northwest were very uncomfortable. There was green everywhere, and people were almost trapped in the green ocean. The summer they were used to is the cruel sun, and the desert-like barren mountains were everywhere, and there was no tree or green at all. There was only yellow mountains one by one, and people like small ants could be seen dozens of miles away. It was quite difficult to set up an ambush with such a terrain, and it was simply impossible.
In the deep mountains of Fujian Road, there are dense forests and shrubs everywhere, and clean and smooth rocks washed by water. People use strongly tough branches to make rattan houses or rattan beds. They smoke mosquitoes every day. Even so, they can’t sleep. There are lees, mosquitoes with big fists, poisonous snakes, and all kinds of wild animals and birds at night. This ecological environment is actually quite excellent. After all, there are mine pits and blast furnaces everywhere. The ecological environment can be maintained because human mining is not as good as the industrialization of later generations, but it is also true that these northwestern men are difficult to adapt.
But these people are elite soldiers in all battles, tight inside and loose outside. Except for looking around with their eyes nervously, all preparations are also carried out in an orderly manner, without being too nervous.
Li Kaiming felt quite satisfied and said in his heart: "After all, he is still a party in Yanzhou Township. He has been following the old camp leader for many years and can rely on it!"
There was a group of five or six personal soldiers who were originally wearing armor, but were already standing around Li Kaiming with bows and slid into a semicircle.
These personal soldiers are not only from Yanzhou, but also from Li, who are all from Li Kaiming's relatives. Only with such an identity can they be his personal soldiers. Li Fuyu, the chief of the personal soldiers, is also Li Kaiming's nephew. He is over 20 years old and is brave and brave. He is a little too arrogant and sometimes he doesn't even listen to Liu Maoqi's words.
In less than two quarters of an hour, everyone saw Luo Dwarf strode up with the little leader. When a few steps apart, Luo Dwarf shouted: "Master, I have lost my wind, I am guilty."
Li Kaiming showed anger on his face and there was also suspicion in his eyes, but before he could make a sound, Liu Maoqi stepped forward a few steps, kicked Luo Dwarf over, pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist, put it on Luo Dwarf's neck, and shouted: "Master, let's kill this guy."
"Wait for the Ke'er." Li Kaiming said: "Luo Zhenbang, you will talk about the situation in detail."
Luo's short sweat was like rain. Before he came up, he knew that his life was between 55 and 5. If Li Kaiming discovered that he had been arrested, he sent someone to redeem it with money, or he escaped by himself, his life would be saved.
But being brought out by outsiders, losing the wind and revealing the truth. Li Kaiming, who has been in the past few years, would not care about the old friendships. These bandit leaders are cruel and ruthless. Although Li Kaiming has a great ambition, he has done nothing to kill thousands of people, including slaughtering villages and destroying towns, regardless of age or young, or men or women.
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Luo Zhenbang was in a state of life and said with a very fast speed: "I was not careful in my behavior. I was targeted by the people of the Execution Department. I caught me. I bit my mouth and didn't say it. I then made some decisions. I had already moved to the government office, but later I was taken out. My subordinate insisted that I was the prime minister who traveled all over the world. Unexpectedly, this person smiled and told me about his name, the owner, the owner, the shopkeeper, and the origin. It was said that I had seen our paintings and graphics in the Execution Department in the Execution Department in the Capital. At Gukou and Nan'an, and Fuzhou, our group had long been seen by others, and there were people staring at us afterwards..."
"Are they from the government?" Li Kaiming said calmly: "Why don't you arrest me?"
"It's the Zhao Mansion
"Luo Zhenbang said: "It is a coincidence that he recognized us. Since then, he has been sending people to stare at us, but he has not reported it to King Zhao and the government to know that he has been secretly obscene..."
Li Kaiming also believed more than 90%. From Jingbei to Fujian, it was always easy. Since the court was staring at the bandits who were wandering in Henan and Hedong, he didn't care much about Li Kaiming's defeat and fleeing the south. The world's great troubles have always been in the Central Plains, and the so-called chasing the Central Plains is the reason. Those who fled to the south have psychologically no ambitions and will not cause great troubles.
Because it was too smooth, when they arrived at Fujian Road, Li Kaiming and others did not disperse their clothes. The individual people covered up a little, and it didn't matter if they had pictures. They passed by the picture in a swagger. The wing army guarding the city gate was too lazy to take a look. And a group of people gathered together, as long as they were interested, it was not difficult to recognize them at first sight.
Li Kaiming said calmly: "We are too careless."
Liu Maoqi kicked Luo Zhenbang gently and scolded, "Dog cowardly, if you were not from Yanzhou, you could have been able to make some tricks, and now your head has fallen to the ground."
"I know, I know."
"Get out!"
“Yes, yes.”
Luo Zhenbang stood up and made Liu Maoqi and a group of generals around him burst into laughter. Li Kaiming also smiled. Luo Zhenbang knew that his life had been saved.
"What is this person's identity and purpose? Have you said it?"
"That's right." Luo Zhenbang said: "He wants to cooperate with us, so he also tells us that he is the confidant of King Zhao. Now the king of Zhongshan is in too strong momentum and threatens the position of King Zhao. King Zhao has some imperial guards and the wing army. If the local chaos suddenly occurs, the officials of the Fujian Road of King Zhao and his team will submit a memorial to the court and ask the two governments to grant Zhao Jianjie the power to open the government and hand over Fujian Road to King Zhao to take charge of the... "
"Oh, this is true!" Li Kaiming smiled coldly and said, "Under the threat of the King of Zhongshan, this is a good solution and the only way out for King Zhao."
Liu Maoqi also agreed: "This little maid is really gloomy and ruthless, has wrists, and is so powerful."
Li Kaiming nodded slightly. A royal family aides like Li Gu are extremely comparable to ordinary officials. Even if ordinary officials recognize Li Kaiming and others, they have already reported it to exchange for their contributions. Even ordinary royal family aides, they will report this matter to King Zhao, after all, a great achievement was obtained.
Li Gu hid this matter and acted as a line of undercover operations. If the operation was really successful and King Zhao successfully opened the mansion, this contribution should not be taken lightly. At least he had to pay a serious official position to Li Gu. Li Gu did not follow the path of imperial examinations, and it was very likely that he would be in the same position as Zhu Zi, and he could not be regarded as an ordinary person.
"What he meant was to ask us to raise a crime and then stretch our necks to attack King Zhao?" Liu Maoqi lowered his smile and said, "What does this guy mean?"
"Of course not." Luo Zhenbang smiled and said with a pity: "They sent people, money, equipment, and armor. We will launch a big deal and muddle the water of Fujian Road. As long as King Zhao takes office, we will give up Fujian Road, Jingnan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jingbei, Guangdong and Guangxi, and follow us to make trouble."
"They want to send someone to control some of the troops?"
Li Kaiming was a natural leader, and he understood the truth very well when he saw things, and he knew the key to the problem at first glance.
"Yes." Luo Zhenbang said: "After the uprising, we will definitely absorb a large number of soldiers and bravely join our country. We will use the means of tying people. Everyone in the Zhao Palace knows that they send some people, and we will divide tens of thousands of people to them, check and balance each other. When the Zhao King sends troops, those tens of thousands of people will be used to fill the knife head and count military merits. We can take most of the people away and leave Jianzhou, so there is no need to meet Zhao King's swords and weapons, and Zhao King will not seriously kill and chase after him."
Li Kaiming smiled and said, "In this way, they are quite confident in the imperial guards."
Luo Zhenbang said: "This is the reason. On the outside, they feel that the tens of thousands of troops on Fujian Road and more than 10,000 imperial guards are enough to deal with the temporary troops we have been recruiting, and they are not afraid that we will not leave. If we really don't leave, they will really fight."
Liu Maoqi said: "So, our advantage is that they give people hands, weapons, armor, food, and money, and they hold up the banner for us. Their advantage is to make peace with military achievements and help King Zhao get on the horse, right?"
"Yes, yes." Luo Zhenbang said: "After he said this, I knew that he really wanted to cooperate with us. If this matter is done, both sides will have great benefits. He has no reason to cheat us. Even if he wants to cheat, he doesn't have the ability. We are the least good, and we have money, armor and weapons to get it. Can we lose money? Once we get money, the situation in Jianzhou is like this again. Can we bear it and not take action? In this situation, no one can deceive anyone, and no one can cheat anyone."
All the people present were old. Before the uprising, Liu Maoqi was a robber of his head, and Li Kaiming was even a famous Lingxing person in all villages and villages. When Luo Zhenbang said that, Li Kaiming cursed in his heart, knowing that even if there was a trap in this matter, his side would have to take a trap.
Liu Maoqi turned around and squeezed at Li Kaiming, saying, "They're not bad at this plan. Brother Li, how should we take this job?"
"It must be taken." Li Kaiming was very excited. If the people from the Zhao Prince's Mansion were sleepy, he was anxious for money, grain and weapons here, and planned to raise flags first, gather thousands and tens of thousands of people before starting to attack the county town, and obtain some money and grain. In this way, they would not avoid plundering the wealth of the people, mainly for the large households. The poorest people would be happy and encouraged, and at the same time, military funds would be enriched and soldiers could be raised.
The disadvantage is that this will not lose its true nature of a bandit, which will make the scholars and officials disunited, and at least will not cooperate with Li Kaiming.
Li Kaiming's goal in the south is to stop wandering, build a territory to manage well, and watch the success or failure of the Wei Dynasty. If he destroys his own local foundation, it is not the result that Li Kaiming likes to see.
If he could receive a large sum of money, food, weapons and armor, Li Kaiming would be able to gather more than 100,000 people in just a few months. Jianzhou is already a large powder keg. With just a little spark, the large powder keg will explode violently.
Li Kaiming smiled at Liu Maoqi slightly. His deputy seemed rough and generous, but in fact he was also meticulous in his heart.
The people from the Zhao royal family have a good plan and are very clear in the calculations. On the surface, the people from the royal family have the dominance. In order to develop, Li Kaiming and others can only make trouble first, then withdraw, and then go to other roads to make trouble, which has nothing to do with Fujian Road. The King of Zhao can use this matter to successfully obtain the power of the founding house. It is really easy to calculate and make conspiracy.
But can a Northwest man like Li Kaiming and Liu Maoqi, who is determined and unmoved by external forces, be so controlled by others?
After the two thieves looked at each other, they both laughed.
Chapter completed!