Great Tang Southern Emperor

In this way, everyone will understand that there are many such retired veterans in Nanyang. Some of them are local garrisons. After spending a lot of money, they retired one after another, and settled down in the local area, and immigrated their family here by the way.

It's just that some old soldiers are obviously not convinced, or they joined the army since they were young, and they have been fighting in barracks and battlefields all these years, and they can't do anything except fight and kill.In order not to implicate the family, I gathered some like-minded people, raised the sword again and turned to become a mercenary or a bounty hunter (many mercenaries in later generations came this way, including the scorpion in "I Am a Special Forces", who used to be more Chinese soldiers, and many security companies in later generations, such as the famous Blackwater Security, are composed of retired soldiers).

Since the other party was formed by retired old soldiers, it is quite credible, because although they are all lawless mercenaries, these old soldiers are not without concerns, and their families are all under the rule of Datang Woolen cloth.So they may be enemies with anyone, but they will definitely not be enemies with Datang, let alone Li Zhen, and they will not dare to betray Li Zhen in the process of rescuing Li Zhen-in other words, because they As a retired soldier, he initially won the trust of the Tingfeng mercenaries, at least to ensure that they will not betray, and this is the most preliminary prerequisite for the cooperation between the two parties.

"And it's not just mercenaries, our equipment will also be provided by His Royal Highness." Creevey announced another good news: "His Royal Highness is willing to allocate some of our hot weapons, which can be regarded as adding a little combat power to everyone—of course, guns There must be none, just grenades and some explosives."

"Hahaha..." Everyone laughed. They didn't care if they had guns, and they didn't expect to have guns. After all, they were just mercenaries from Yeluzi. Although they were large in scale, Li Zhen didn't provide them with guns, so No one inside has received firearms training, which means that even if they are given firearms, they will not be able to play well. It is better to give them grenades and explosives-compared with firearms, they at least know how to use these two things.

"The equipment is in area [-], and our partner is waiting for us there. Now I give the order, listen to the wind mercenaries~ let's go." Finally, Ben Yin shouted loudly.

"Oh!"

Although 500 people can't be said to be large in scale, each of them is an elite group. The scale of gathering together is very attractive, especially when their target is the fifth area, it has attracted the attention of some people.

Benyin had just walked past with someone, and in a small tavern next to them, two people were sitting opposite each other drinking, one of them was dressed in black, a middle-aged man in white clothes who was about 30 years old looked at the dust raised by the mercenaries, and couldn't help but He smiled and said, "It seems that I bet right this time, Li Zhen can't die."

"That's not necessarily the case." Another young man dressed in black, who was younger, about 25, said dissatisfiedly, "Can't this group of people be the ones who support Zhong Licheng?"

"Affirmatively not." The middle-aged man in white said with a smile: "Think about it, Zhonglicheng and the others rebelled on a temporary basis, and they didn't even mobilize all their own strength. They just brought 2000 people out of the headquarters in a hurry and rebelled. How could they rebel?" Maybe arrange a mercenary in advance? What's more, don't even think about it. Now that Zhonglicheng has the upper hand, why should he hire another mercenary?

On the contrary, Li Zhen always likes to plan ahead when doing things. Since he dared to take risks alone, it shows that he has already prepared... It's not like we haven't confronted Li Zhen before. Think about it for yourself, in Li Zhen's confidence When he was full, when did he lose a battle?

Don't carry it to death, give the money and give the money. "

The young man in black was not as calm as the middle-aged man in white, and said eagerly: "So we did this time for nothing? Not only did we not kill Li Zhen? Instead, he found out the moths in Luzon's officialdom? Is this a loss for my wife? Broken soldiers?"

"Hey! How can it be for nothing? It's definitely not for nothing." The middle-aged man in white smiled more happily: "Actually, this time we didn't intend to kill Li Zhen at once. We just wanted to pass this rebellion. Find out the details of Li Zhen, and now it seems that he has exposed part of his family background...I really didn't expect that the famous Tingfeng mercenary would be a dog raised by our prince...It really is a big deal. "

"..." The young man in black didn't answer him, because he was immersed in depression right now—this time the plan was almost entirely made by him, and the result not only failed, but also turned into an accident in the eyes of his own people. It was too much to try and keep him in the dark.

Chapter 1097 Zhong Licheng's Small Abacus

Chapter 44 Zhongli's Abacus

"Oh, don't mind, this is actually a normal situation." Seeing the depressed young man in black, the middle-aged man in white couldn't help but smiled and comforted him: "You are still young, and it is normal for you to be inexperienced. And Li Zhen also Not so easy to deal with. If he is really a waste, he will not live today. It turns out that although he is not very old, he is also a thousand-year-old fox, and he is more cunning than us hunters. For such a person, just You can't beat him with tricks, but you can only defeat him with upright schemes."

"I'm not angry about this. Of course I know what Li Zhen is capable of. I have thoroughly researched his life." The young man in black took a sip of wine, looked at the middle-aged man in white and said angrily, "It's just...you don't Treat me as one of your own? Why don’t you tell me this kind of thing? Is this playing me like a monkey?”

The middle-aged man in white was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed: "Who played you like a monkey? Don't we have a little hope? And my character is that I will never express my opinion on something before the result comes out. Your strategy is still very good, we are actually holding a little bit of fluke mentality, if it succeeds, of course everyone will be happy... Obviously things are successful, but I contradict you in advance, that is not hitting myself face? Face slapping is the second priority, and our relationship will also be cracked. I will not do this kind of loss-making business."

"Forget it, whatever you want to say, let's do this matter like this, this is the money I lost to you." The young man in black threw out a gold ingot, raised his head and drank the wine in the glass, shaking his head. He left: "This Li Zhen has no other abilities, but the things he makes are really good. Kaoliang wine is indeed the best in wine... Okay, you can continue drinking. I'm going to the theater. It's rare that Li Zhen Zhen personally went off to perform for a while, no matter what she has to go to give others a show, isn't it..."

Looking at the young man's leaving back, a complex look flashed in the eyes of the middle-aged man. After a long time, he sighed and said, "Get someone to follow. Keep an eye on him and see what he has done."

"Yes, my lord." The waiter next to him had a sharp look in his eyes: "My lord, this person's background is unknown, should we..."

With a wave of his palm, he made an international general gesture.

"Don't worry, this person is still useful to us, we can't move him for now..." The middle-aged man shook his head, but he didn't explain too much, but judging from the meaning of his words, he and the young man should use each other and He is not from the same path, or he is only using the young people unilaterally, but the young people don't know that they are being used by others.

"Yes, this subordinate understands, and this subordinate will leave." Now that the boss has expressed his opinion, Xiaoer didn't say anything, and stepped back respectfully, and started to arrange tasks.

……

Li Zhen was well prepared for this rebellion, and the Tingfeng mercenaries were also prepared desperately for it. Although the origins of the young man in black and the middle-aged man in white were unknown, they still had a little bit of suspicion about Zhonglicheng's rebellion this time. Hope, I feel that Li Zhen may still die in the hands of the rebels. What happened under his nose would at least bring him a little bit of trouble and cause him to lose a lot of points in Chang'an.

In short, although Zhong Licheng's rebellion was hasty, everyone felt that he would at least bring some losses to Li Zhen this time. However, no one expected that at this time, there was a fire in the headquarters of the rebel camp. and event...

Zhongli City is one of the two deputy governors of the Luzon Capital Protectorate. Since Luzon belongs to the Upper Capital Protectorate (the Capital Protectorate is divided into upper, middle and lower levels, there is a Dadu Protectorate above these three levels, but The organizational structure is different from the normal Duhu Mansion, the chief officer is the Grand Duty, the deputy is two deputy Duihu, and there are two life deputy Duhu), so his deputy Duhu is also a high-ranking official of the fourth rank, such Rank may not be a big deal in Chang'an, but it is already considered a rare high-ranking official in the local area. What's more, he still controls a rich land like Luzon. His headquarters alone has a total of 5000 soldiers and horses. Sophisticated, he can definitely be regarded as a high-ranking and powerful person. If he didn't have a wife on top of his head, he would be the local emperor of Luzon.

Zhong Licheng is an old man from the Luzon Protectorate, and he is even one of the people who discovered Luzon. When Liu Rengui discovered Luzon, he served as the captain of an escort warship. At that time, someone needed to stay in Luzon. He took the initiative to apply to stay, and never went back to Datang again. It can be said that he paid a lot and was very loyal to the court.

Therefore, although his ability is not top-notch, considering his dedication and contributions, Li Zhen simply promoted him to the position of Lu Song's long history. Take the position of Deputy Chief Protector.

But people will change. With the gradual development of Luzon, it has become one of the most important places of Datang in the Nanyang Islands. More and more businessmen entered here, which further promoted the development of Luzon. In the end, it became one of the economic centers of Nanyang, and its status was no less than that of Sengzhou with Fuchun as the center, making money every day.

Under such delusion, Zhong Lixuan's heart was gradually corrupted by money, from a loyal and brave man in the Tang Dynasty to a corrupt official who is now obsessed with making money, even in order to make money, he supported him in illegal areas. He hired more than one spokesperson to make huge profits for himself.

And with Fang Yiai and Li Zhen's acquiescence, Zhong Lixuan became more and more rampant, not only supporting others to help him make money, but even himself participating in it. All kinds of contraband he smuggled by himself over the years are worth no less than One million guan—you must know that the taxes that Yegang paid to the court in the past few years were only 300 to [-] million guan, and the money he earned himself reached one-third of the tax revenue of Yegang a few years ago. How great is his ability, not to mention the money his spokesperson brought him, that is definitely an astronomical figure, if this money is exchanged for food, it is even enough to feed the people of the whole country for a year.

Zhong Lixuan knew Li Zhen. After all, Li Zhenlai personally appointed him when he was appointed as the Deputy Protector of the Luzon Protectorate. Pass Li Zhen.What's more, he was not in the barracks yesterday, so he didn't get the news immediately. When he got the report from his subordinates, after judging from the size of the escort fleet and the appearance of the 'Holy Prince' that it was Li Zhen, Li Zhen had already Entered the fifth area, and had a conflict with the trafficker Iron Boss.

That's right, the person who killed Xiangshuai was none other than Zhonglicheng's people, because Xiangshuai is Boss Tie's absolute confidant, and he holds a lot of secrets of Boss Tie, including the account books of Boss Tie's every transaction , and Boss Tie is also one of the spokespersons launched by Zhonglicheng, which means that his criminal record of Zhonglicheng is on the ledger.So when Zhong Lizhen found out that Xiangshuai was going to give away the account book of Boss Tie in order to beg for mercy, he immediately became murderous and ordered his subordinates to snipe Xiangshuai, which was very ruthless.

As for why not kill Li Zhen directly?

That's because Zhong Licheng is very aware of Li Zhen's identity and status. If he dies at this time, the mad emperor and the court will definitely investigate to the end. It's Fang Yiai, the second generation, who holds a lot of power, and I'm afraid he can't escape death, let alone a small deputy governor, and he will only be buried with him; Fang Yiai and Lin Fa, but he is very clear that there are many bodyguards hiding around Li Zhen, and he guarantees that once his gunmen aim at Li Zhen, it will be his confidant who will die.

But what Zhong Licheng didn't expect was that Li Zhen had premeditated it. Not only was her confidant captured alive, but it was too late to commit suicide, and she even blocked the fifth and sixth areas with thousands of people without knowing it—look at this It is clearly the rhythm of killing everything.

If Li Zhen asked something in the process of killing them all, then Zhonglicheng would really die without a place to bury him. Confess by himself... Assassinating the prince of the current dynasty, Zhong Licheng will only have a dead end.

At this time, the news came that Li Zhen had sealed off Area [-] and was going to court. Not only was Zhong Licheng frightened, but some people who were as unclean as him also couldn't sleep at night.

As the person with the second most power and status in the Luzon Dufu Mansion after the Duhu, Zhonglicheng quickly learned what these people were thinking now, and with a flash of inspiration, he called these people together to discuss countermeasures, and the results were discussed. In the future, they found that with the current situation, Li Zhen found out that they were almost a certainty, and it was only a matter of time.

To avoid this kind of thing from happening, one is to escape, but this is definitely not possible, they have no place to escape, so the only way left is to attack Li Zhen first, that is, to rebel... plus the side counselor Under their instigation, Zhong Licheng, who felt that the rebellion had a high success rate, was overwhelmed, and planned to act first and catch Li Zhen first.

Moreover, Zhonglicheng also has his own little plan - at that time, as long as Fang Yiai, Lin Fa and Cheng Chuliang are killed, and Li Zhen is arrested, then in the entire Yegang garrison, only himself has the greatest right (another deputy The guard is located in the south, not in the Yegang base), if you act fast enough and finish the action before others react, you can take the position of the guard temporarily, so that you can completely grasp Lu Song in your hands.

Even if things don’t go well, it’s enough to control Yegang——Yagang is the most important port in Luzon. There are 2 troops in the garrison alone, and the garrisons in the surrounding towns can add up to 2 people. , as long as these 3 people are in your hands, plus the [-] marines of the Yegang Fleet (a Class A fleet has [-] marines, but the Yegang Fleet is divided into three parts, so there are only [-] marines in Yegang. ), [-] people plus a third of the fleet, Zhonglicheng feels that he can completely keep the rights to Yegang, and even gobble up the surrounding territory. At least it is no problem to occupy the entire Luzon Island. As for whether to establish an independent country in the future Still accept the imperial court's offer, since he has enough capital, the imperial court has nothing to do with him.

Zhong Licheng's idea is beautiful, but the reality is naturally not as smooth as he thought. Although he is the deputy general guard, most of the troops under him are stationed outside. To call them all, not only the order of the general guard is required, And there was no time, so he could only hastily lead the 2000 people he could currently mobilize and the 1000 people gathered by the rest, planning to catch Li Zhen first and then talk about other things.

Fortunately, things went smoothly, at least at the beginning, things went according to his plan. After he shouted the slogan to rescue the prince, because of his sudden attack, and the equipment was better than the other party, but at this time Li Zhen was unable to appear in front of people because of her high fever due to illness, which caused the morale of Li Zhen's guards to plummet. Li Zhen's guards could hardly resist. There is only one way to go—failure—things went so well that it was incredible that Zhong Licheng felt that God was helping him, and that he was indeed a born emperor...

Just when Zhonglicheng felt that everything was going well and that he could immediately defeat the youth army, capture Li Zhen alive, and then start negotiations with the imperial court based on this, and finally establish an independent country and become king and hegemony, the temporary headquarters he set up in the fourth area They were suddenly kicked away, and then several people came in one after another.

"Mo Cong? Sima Qi? Xie Liang? Zhou Zhu?...Why did you come out? Come on, come on..." Zhong Licheng was shocked when he saw the people coming. He was very familiar with these people, because they all They are his colleagues, among them, Mo Cong is the long history, Sima Qi is Sima, Xie Liang is the military officer, Zhou Zhu is the deputy general... Although they are not very high-ranking, they are all powerful.And they all have one thing in common, that is, they are all Fang Yiai's confidantes.

Therefore, in order to prevent these people from making trouble for themselves or sending troops to rescue Li Zhen when they did it by themselves, they thought of a reason before Zhonglicheng launched an attack, coaxed these people over, and then put them under house arrest, leaving a confidant of their own The lieutenant general helped himself to stabilize the camp and forbade others to come to the rescue, so as to ensure that his affairs went smoothly.

But even though he, Zhong Licheng, never thought that just when he felt that the matter was about to end, the group of people under house arrest appeared in front of him majestically, and Zhong Licheng, who knew something was wrong in his heart, immediately started calling for help.

Chapter 1098 The situation is reversed

Chapter 45 Turning the tables

"Don't call Zhonglicheng." Chang Shi Mocong, who has the most power at present, sneered and said, "We have all appeared here, do you think your people are still there?"

"What did you do to them?" Zhong Licheng's bad premonition became more and more serious.

"...After all, you still want to see him, so bring it in." Sima Qi turned his head and shouted, and a person Zhong Licheng could never have imagined appeared in front of him, and in his hand, there were even a few The person who made Zhong Licheng panic even more... the head.

"Ah Yao? Why are you here?" Seeing the people coming, what Zhong Licheng first felt was not the anger of being betrayed, but sadness: "Why do you stand with them? Would you rather help outsiders than help others?" Is your brother? We want to be brothers."

The person who came in was called Zhong Liyao, he was Zhong Licheng's younger brother, and he was also a lieutenant under his command. The two brothers had a very good relationship and almost talked about everything. During this rebellion, Zhong Licheng even sent Zhong Liyao Arranged as the garrison captain of the headquarters, who is responsible for the security of the headquarters. On the one hand, he believed in his brother, and on the other hand, it was also for the sake of protecting him. After all, swords on the front line have no eyes. Then he will suffer the pain of bereavement.