On the hill, Zhang Cheng rode his horse and stood facing the wind. He was wearing the gilt armor given by the emperor. His bright red cloak was constantly fluttering in the spring breeze. There was green all around. Only Zhang Cheng's golden armor and red clothes made his proud figure even more majestic.
After this experience of King Qin, he seemed much more mature. Looking at the team slowly advancing on the official road, his heart was extremely calm. Chen Zheng urged his horse to come to Zhang Cheng's side and asked softly: "General, please follow me."
Why can't the emperor give us credit for our contribution to a general, and still have to defend the road with guerrillas? Are you too petty..."
Zhang Cheng turned to look at him, and saw Wei Zhice beside his horse smiling and saying nothing, so he also smiled and said: "You won't know the twists and turns of this scholar, but you can ask the scholars around you for advice."
As he spoke, he pursed his lips towards Wei Zhice. Chen Zheng looked puzzled, turned his head and looked at Wei Zhice, and said, "What are you talking about?"
Wei Zhice looked at Chen Zheng who was full of doubts, but turned his eyes to Zhang Cheng, and heard Zhang Cheng say: "You should give a lecture to our future General Chen."
Wei Zhice said with a smile: "This is just a guess. I can't count. I don't know if this is the case!"
Chen Zheng said a little impatiently: "Oh, Mr. Wei Shao, don't worry about whether his guess is right or not, you have to say it."
"Haha." Wei Zhice saw that Chen Zheng was anxious and said with a smile: "That's what I thought. I'm afraid Governor Chen and Mr. Yang Ge have put some thought into this matter."
"What the hell, they two want to harm our general? I'll catch up and kill him first." Chen Zheng was a little anxious.
He is similar in age to Zhang Cheng, only two years older than Zhang Cheng. They were already like brothers, and they have experienced life and death together in Julu. Now that he has put his life in Zhang Cheng's hands, he naturally does not allow anyone to harm him.
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Next to him, Wei Zhice stretched out his hand to grab the reins of his war horse and said eagerly: "Hey, my boss Chen Dashio, please keep your voice down and listen to what I have to say first."
Chen Zheng was stunned when he heard this and said: "You said..."
"I guess that Mr. Yang Ge and Governor Chen deliberately suppressed our general's merits and refused to be promoted. They thought that in the near future, they would ask for rewards from the emperor as a show of favor to our general.
It’s easy to win the general’s favor, I wonder if your guess is correct?”
After Wei Zhice finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Cheng.
Zhang Cheng's lips raised. It turned out that after the imperial court awarded him a reward and a banquet, Chen Xinjia hurriedly invited him over and tried to persuade him. The imperial court did not hesitate to reward him, but deliberately lowered the reward out of love and care for him.
Chen Xinjia asked Zhang Cheng to calm down and train his troops in the field. As long as he made some minor achievements, he would recommend Zhang Cheng to the imperial court as a participating general. He also told Zhang Cheng that Yang Sichang, the elder of the imperial court, also admired him quite a lot.
As long as Zhang Cheng is loyal and serves the court well, it won't be a problem for him to be promoted to deputy commander-in-chief or commander-in-chief in the future.
At this time, seeing that Wei Zhice had already started talking, he smiled and said, "I think that's what they mean. They are trying to use this to bribe me and make me surrender to Governor Chen."
"Is this...is there any difference? If we weren't under the command of Governor Chen..."
Zhang Cheng looked at the confused Chen Zheng and said in a deep voice: "I, Zhang Cheng, have no longer been loyal to anyone since the Julu War. I am only loyal to myself. If you can trust me, then follow me."
Under my command, I will only try my best to protect you,
If you feel that I, Zhang Cheng, have deviated from the orthodoxy and are afraid of being killed, you can leave my team now. I won’t have any intention of blaming you.
If you don't leave today and abandon me in the future, it will be a treason. Even if you escape thousands of miles away, I will hunt him down and never allow him to exist in the world!"
When Wei Zhice heard this, he immediately got off his horse, pulled out his sword, held it in both hands, and handed it to Zhang Cheng in front of his horse. He knelt down on one knee and said in a deep voice: "Zhice, since the day I followed the general, I have entrusted my life and property to the general.
, The general has a destiny, he is not afraid of water and fire, he is not afraid of wind and rain, and he will fight with swords, mountains and seas of fire. If he knows the strategy, he will follow him to the death!"
Chen Zheng and Chen Zhong hurriedly dismounted their horses, raised their swords, knelt down and said in unison:
"General, as long as you have a destiny, you will not be afraid of water or fire, and will be with you regardless of wind or rain, swords, mountains, or seas of fire."
Zhang Chengce was on his horse, looking at the three people kneeling on the ground with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "They are all our brothers, get up."
Seeing the three people getting up and returning their swords to their sheaths, Zhang Cheng also got off his horse, walked up to the three people, looked at them and said, "I am determined to end this troubled and chaotic world where people are everywhere and the land is devastated.
Even if the road ahead is extremely dangerous, I will give it a try. The world is in chaos, and how can we survive alone? We can only use the steel swords in your hands to kill those thieves who are causing trouble and create a peaceful world."
"The general invited himself to camp in the fields and went all the way out of the town, hoping to establish a basic ground as a basis for future advancement and retreat?" Wei Zhice asked tentatively.
Zhang Cheng just smiled but did not answer him. Wei Zhice smiled knowingly and stopped talking.
"Chen Zheng, I leave this to you." Zhang Cheng said calmly.
"You go all the way back to Xuanfu. I'll go to the Xiaoxiao Valley to have a look first, and then I'll catch up with you."
"By the way, if that blind man can't stay still, tell him to ride a horse and keep an eye on Lao Wu. Don't let him move..."
Chen Zheng agreed, and told Zhang Cheng and others to pay attention to safety, then watched Zhang Cheng, Chen Zhong, Wei Zhice and more than 200 riders run away.
Although they only had 200 knights, they had 400 horses. They roared and galloped with an astonishing momentum. The sergeants on the official road looked at them sideways, not to mention the craftsmen, who were all stunned with shock.
"I'm a good boy..."
"It's really a god descending to earth..."
"That is, how can we kill the thief Yue Tuo in the midst of thousands of troops..."
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Just when Zhang Cheng and other officials of the Ming Dynasty were busy marching to Beijing to serve as kings, they were ambushed by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting in Tongguanyuan. Only eighteen riders fled into the Shangluo Mountains, where the rebellious Li Zicheng and others could take a breather.
With the help of Liu Zhongmin, Yuan Zongdi, Li Guo and others, nearly a thousand pieces of the Eighth Army's songs were collected. Moreover, at the end of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng ventured to Gucheng and met with the Eighth King Zhang Xianzhong in person.
He made an agreement with Zhang Xianzhong that in May of the next year, Zhang Xianzhong would harvest the wheat for that year, and one or two days after the Dragon Boat Festival, he would go out of Gucheng and start a big fight.
Moreover, Zhang Xianzhong also contacted Cao Cao, Luo Rucai, Lao Huihui, Ge Liyan, Zuo Jinwang and other veteran bandits, and agreed to jointly start a rebellion.
The turbulent Ming Dynasty is about to start the real hell mode. A group of old gangsters once again disrupted the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty until it was completely ended.
There is also Dongnu who is eyeing the Ming Dynasty. Next, he will annihilate the last elite of the Ming Dynasty in the battle of Jinzhou. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, he will invade the Ming Dynasty again.