Chapter 62: People's Words Are Not Taken Seriously
"Aqiang, what's wrong with you? You look a little upset."
Li Dingguo returned to the Wang family compound in the county town. After dinner, he went back to his room and just finished washing up when Tang Guangqiang came to him with a gloomy face.
Seeing that this guy, who was always carefree, now had a strange expression, Li Dingguo asked curiously.
"Boss, I just heard some bad news, and I feel a little upset, don't I?"
Tang Guangqiang changed his nonchalant expression and said to Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi in the room, "I had nothing to do this afternoon, so I went to the nearby old camp and heard some news."
"I heard from two warriors from the old camp that our rebel army suddenly had guests this morning!"
"There are two people coming. They are representatives sent by Wang Jiayin, who is the most powerful among the rebel forces in Qin and Jin provinces."
"These two envoys are Zhang Liwei and Wang Guozhong, two trusted generals under Wang Jiayin."
"I heard that even the most powerful rebel leader in our Qin territory, Wang Ziyi, has recently joined Wang Jiayin."
He looked at Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi, who looked a little puzzled, and continued, "According to the two soldiers from the old camp, this is Wang Jiayin, who is known as the leader of the righteous army in the world. He sent two envoys with the cultivation level of Qi Refining Realm to call on the well-known righteous army leaders in the two provinces to go to Hequ to participate in the alliance and jointly deal with the anti-bandit army that the "Living King of Hell" Hong Chengchou is preparing to dispatch!"
"This summer, Hong Chengchou was appointed by the imperial court as the governor of Yansui. As soon as he took office, he killed all of Wang Zuogua's troops who had surrendered and then rebelled again. He did it without hesitation!"
"Wang Jiayin has received solid intelligence that Hong Chengchou, an extremely ruthless and resourceful man, has petitioned the court to mobilize He Renlong's personal guard battalion and Cao Wenzhao's deputy general of the East Route of Yansui Town to wipe out our rebel forces one by one in one fell swoop!"
"Dingbian City, which is not far from Yansui Town, is undoubtedly their first target!"
"Fortunately, they have to mobilize soldiers and collect military supplies and fodder. It will take a month or two for them to handle the complicated tasks. It will take at least two months for the soldiers to arrive at Dingbian City."
"But no matter what, we won't be staying in Dingbian City for long."
He was not only worried about these things, but also about another thing. "According to the two soldiers from the old camp who revealed the news to me, under the current situation, the king is very likely to agree to lead us, the rebel soldiers, to go south first and then take a detour to Hequ in the northwest of Shanxi to participate in the rebel alliance called by Wang Jiayin!"
"Only by uniting all the righteous soldiers in the two provinces today can we have the strength to fight against the elite army led by the "Living King of Hell" Hong Chengchou."
"In all likelihood, our king will also join Wang Jiayin and form an alliance with the rebel forces on all sides."
"At that time, we still don't know whether we can win the battle or not, but our rebel army will undoubtedly lose a lot of autonomy and must obey the orders of the chief leader Wang Jiayin."
"There is no other way. Even the powerful 'Purple Gold Beam' Wang Ziyong has gone to join Wang Jiayin. How can we, a newly formed rebel army, refuse him?"
To Tang Guangqiang, his current life is just like a paradise in his dream. When he thinks of the impending displacement and exile, he feels very depressed.
What bothered him most was that there might be a retired emperor above his own rebel army.
He didn't know how powerful Wang Jiayin or Wang Ziyong were, but no matter how he thought about it, they would not be stronger than his own king.
Tang Guangqiang is an extrovert and always lively. He often visits the old camp and becomes very familiar with some of the soldiers there.
Therefore, Tang Guangqiang learned this news, which had not yet spread among the rebel army, from the mouths of two soldiers from the old camp.
"Wang Jiayin?" "The envoys who came to invite the Eighth King Zhang Xianzhong to the alliance were Zhang Liwei and Wang Guozhong?"
Li Dingguo was stunned when he heard this, and then a strong chill arose in his heart!
In his previous life, he had read various books about the historical uprisings at the end of the Ming Dynasty. He had a relatively clear understanding of the two culprits who led to the great alliance of righteous armies throughout the world, which suddenly declined and was almost completely destroyed at the beginning of its prosperity.
This guy Zhang Liwei was the brother-in-law of Wang Jiayin, who was known as the leader of the righteous army in the world during the early days of the Ming Dynasty.
This guy was a grassroots general under Cao Wenzhao before he defected to Wang Jiayin.
He is an out-and-out spy sent by the government army, who tried every means to infiltrate Wang Jiayin's army, and is determined to get promoted and make a fortune!
Wang Guozhong was a brother of Wang Jiayin who followed him in rebellion and was Wang Jiayin's most trusted right-hand man.
But this guy didn't want to be a rebel at all. He only wanted to obtain amnesty from the court and give his wife and children a title. Ever since Zhang Liwei defected to his brother-in-law Wang Jiayin this year, he easily won him over and persuaded him to become a die-hard traitor.
In the history of the same period in the previous life, Zhang Liwei and Wang Guozhong, two traitors, suddenly killed Wang Jiayin with their own hands on the eve of the decisive battle between the rebel army and the government soldiers, causing a fire in the backyard of the rebel alliance and leading to the defeat of the leaderless Thirty-Six Battalion Rebel Alliance!
Just like in Li Dingguo’s previous life, the venue of this alliance was Hequ City in the northwest of Jin Province.
After the successful alliance between the rebel forces of the two provinces in Hequ, the rebel forces became more powerful. In order to avoid Hong Chengchou's troops, they would launch a large-scale attack and capture Yangcheng in one fell swoop. They would then use this sturdy city to hold on and fight against the government troops.
Zhang Xianzhong had to lead his rebel army, forced by the current severe situation, to join Wang Jiayin, which required a long journey.
Taking a detour to northwest Shanxi, in this big world, the journey is more than thousands of miles.
Thinking of this extremely bad situation, which was inevitable, Li Dingguo suddenly felt a tingling sensation on his scalp.
It's not that he didn't want to remind Zhang Xianzhong, but he was just a ten-year-old orphan, a beggar who knew nothing and had no food to eat. How could he expect Zhang Xianzhong to believe what Li Dingguo said and predicted?
After much thought, Li Dingguo was not at all sure that Zhang Xianzhong could believe what he said.
The biggest possibility is that you will be seen as a madman, the kind that has gone crazy.
If he really did this rashly, the result would definitely not be the approval of the Eighth King Zhang Xianzhong, but he would definitely be regarded as a daily joke of the rebel army.
For a moment, Li Dingguo felt a little cold all over and quickly shook his head to sober himself up.
In the face of the general trend, he, a person of little influence, had all kinds of thoughts flashing through his mind like lightning. But after thinking it over, he could only sigh inwardly.
With his foresight, he was naturally very clear about how miserable the rebel soldiers in Qin and Jin provinces would be in the next few years.
It is no exaggeration to say that one's future is in danger.
"Hey……"
Li Dingguo sighed in his heart and said to himself, "Don't think too much for now. I am willing but unable to do it now."
"Just take one step at a time and see what happens."
After hearing this shocking news from Tang Guangqiang, Li Dingguo felt as if a huge stone was pressing down on his heart, making it heavy.
For a moment, he stood there in a daze, silent.
(End of this chapter)
