Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 102
Dabie Mountain, located at the junction of Hubei, Henan and Anhui provinces, is the watershed of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River.

If you control the Dabie Mountains, you will be able to look down from the heights, look west at the Jianghan Plain, and look at the Jianghuai area in the east.Li Guo led the army to occupy the Dabie Mountains, which shows that he has a strategic vision.

In Jinzhai County, Anhui Province, in a valley in the mountains, there is a small town where Li Guo's army is stationed.

The ancestral hall in the town was requisitioned as an army command post.After dinner, Li Guo enjoyed the cool in the courtyard, lying on the wicker chair tossing and turning, restless.

The Dashun court suddenly collapsed in a muddle-headed way, and the emperor and queen also died. Liu Fangliang, Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu and other generals withered one after another. It was like a nightmare, which caught people off guard.

Li Guo still hasn't come to his senses, he can't make up his mind what to do.

A few days ago, Chongzhen sent Ma Shiying, governor of Fengyang, to surrender, but Li Guo hesitated.When he went north to fight against the Tartars, he worried that he would follow in Liu Zongmin's footsteps; when he returned to the Ming Dynasty, he felt unwilling.

He also thought about restoring the country and recreating Dashun's glory in the past, so as to comfort Li Zicheng's spirit in heaven.

But Li Guo also understands that the present is not what it used to be, and the common people's aspirations to the Ming Dynasty can be seen even by a three-year-old child.What's more, the Tartars have gained a firm foothold in the Central Plains, leaving even more narrow and severe space for the peasant army.

"After all, I still have to blame that old bastard Niu Jinxing, who managed to completely destroy the imperial court in the hands of his father and son!" Li Guo gritted his teeth.

"General Li, you are like a mirror in your heart. Since you know that the culprits are Niu Jinxing and the Manchu Tartars, why don't you let go of your prejudices and surrender to me?" Zhang Huangyan walked in.

Li Guo said: "Ambassador Zhang, as long as he can comply with my request to Chongzhen, I will surrender immediately."

Zhang Huangyan sighed: "It doesn't make sense for you to ask me to kill meritorious persons to the emperor. General Li, our biggest enemy is Jiannu. Why are you still so stubborn at this time?"

Li Guo covered his face with a cattail fan, and said angrily, "You talk to me all day long, my ears are getting callused. Chongzhen can't show sincerity, how can I trust him? Ambassador Zhang, let's go. Go back to Nanjing to meet your emperor, there is no need to hide in the ravines with me and suffer."

"If I wanted to leave, I would have gone back with Ma Shiying a few days ago. The reason why I stayed was entirely for the sake of the general and the Ming Dynasty. If the general does not return to my dynasty, I will always be by your side!" Zhang Huang said firmly. .

"Why bother?" Li Guo laughed back angrily, got up and left.

As night fell, Li Guo lay on the simple bed, listening to the chirping of summer insects and the whistling of pine waves, drowsy and sleepy but unable to fall asleep.

Suddenly a gust of wind blew, and the window lattice rattled.The oil lamp went out with a puff, and there was a rustling sound on the beams.

"Who?" Li Guo stood up, pulled out the knife, and hurriedly went to light the oil lamp.

The lights were dim, and there were shadows on the beams, as if someone was lurking.Holding up the oil lamp to watch, Li Guo was stunned, he saw Li Zicheng's soul!

That soul wears the emperor's crown on his head, and his face is covered with blood. He is a one-eyed dragon with purple-black blood oozing from his one-eyed eyes. His appearance is exactly the same as Li Zicheng's.

Li Guo bowed his head and cried, "Your Majesty, uncle, is that you?"

"Li Guo, I died so tragically, so unjustly..." The voice was ghostly and full of resentment.

"Uncle, my nephew misses you every day and every night!" Li Guo broke down in tears.

The ghost said: "Since you miss me, why didn't you avenge me? Instead, you stayed in the Dabie Mountains for many days. Chongzhen intends to recruit you, so you should join the Ming Dynasty, and then kill the Tartars, so that I can die and rest in peace!"

"Uncle, do you also want me to return to Chongzhen?"

"Exactly! With your own strength alone, when will you be able to kill the Tartars, and you can only join hands with the Ming Dynasty..."

Li Guo gradually became more awake, and suddenly he heard something was wrong in his accent. He became suspicious and jumped up and said, "Who are you? If you dare to come here and pretend to be a ghost in front of me, I'll give you a knife!"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and threw out the knife, shooting at the beam of the house.

The ghost disappeared in a flash and disappeared.

Li Guo was extremely surprised. He bent down to pick up the knife from the ground. As soon as he straightened up, he glanced again and saw the ghost appearing on the beam.

"Kill the Tartars, kill the Tartars!" the ghosts shouted.

Li Guo threw the knife three times in a row, but couldn't hurt the ghost, he was terrified, and thought to himself, could it be that his uncle really appeared?
He knelt down and said, "I have a sworn feud with the Tartars, and I will never forget it in this life!"

But he couldn't hear any sound anymore, and when he raised his head, there was nothing above the beams of the house.After turning around the house a few times, there was no sign of ghosts.

"Uncle, please go away!" Li Guo was tearful and couldn't help himself.

In a dilapidated temple outside the town, Wang Yi and Princess Changping were very anxious and looked outside the door from time to time.At the beginning of Maoshi, the sky was slightly bright, the temple door was pushed open, and shadows and ghosts walked in.

Princess Changping screamed, patted her chest and said, "You're finally back! Oh, go wash your face, your makeup is too scary."

Wang Yi asked, "Shadow, how are things going?"

While taking off the emperor's crown from his head, the shadow panted, "Let me drink some water first, I'm dying of thirst!"

Gududu drank the water, but laughed: "Interesting, the emperor's method is really interesting! You are not present, I don't know how Li Guo was frightened by me, kowtowing and crying, a man turned into a little girl they..."

"What's the matter, girls?" Princess Changping snorted and asked, "Have you said everything the emperor told you? How did Li Guo react?"

Shadow said: "I said everything, without missing a single word. It's just that Li Guo is very smart. At first, he was suddenly startled, and then he became suspicious when he recovered. He slashed at me with a knife. Fortunately, I dodged it." But luckily, he finally believed me again, he really thought I was Li Zicheng's ghost!"

"That's good. Completing the task assigned by the emperor is the real business." Wang Yi said.

It turned out that after the three princesses of Changping received the letter from the emperor in Nanjing, they immediately set off for the north.When they arrived in Yangzhou, another order came, telling them to rush to Fengyang Mansion.

After seeing the emperor, the emperor gave the opportunity face to face and ordered the three of them to sneak into the Dabie Mountains, let the shadow pretend to be a ghost, and performed a good show for Li Guo that Li Zicheng's soul appeared.

Wang Yi fetched water from the creek with a broken wooden barrel, and Shadow washed his face.

The three of them were eating dry food, and Princess Changping still had some thoughts: "It's a pity that Wang Yi and I don't have shadow skills, so we couldn't watch the show live, and we couldn't see Li Guo's wonderful performance. It's really a pity."

After eating the dry food, Wang Yi stood up and said, "Let's go, let's leave Dabie Mountain and rush to the capital. There are more important tasks waiting for us! The emperor said that the shadow pretends to be a ghost, just to cause some troubles for Li Guo. Psychological hint. The emperor will deal with the remaining matters in person, and it is useless for us to stay here."

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, your three words cannot be separated from your Majesty, it's boring!" Princess Changping ran on Wang Yi and said, "Change clothes!"

Not long after, three people came out of the temple, two little Taoist priests and a delicate little Taoist nun, laughing and walking away all the way.

(End of this chapter)