Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers have been wiped out, and half of Huai'an Mansion is not guaranteed, this matter can never be hidden, and now that the news has reached Jinling, it will not be long before the entire Jiangnan will be in an uproar.

"What can I explain to Governor Lu? Could it be that what the second brother did had nothing to do with our Zhou Wangfu, and the second brother was expelled from the sect?"

Zhu Lunkui spread his hands, looking helpless. It is true that he and Zhu Lunsheng are brothers, but they have no power or power. With the current situation, no one will listen to what he says.

Could it be that he should go to Pizhou and persuade Zhu Lunsheng to be arrested?

At this point, Zhu Lunkui asked himself, if he was his younger brother Zhu Lunsheng, he would not be able to leave tens of thousands of soldiers and horses at risk his life at this time.

"Hey, our Ming dynasty is already a little dangerous, and now there are children of the clan who have raised troops to attack the officers and soldiers...... I really can't see through the current situation!"

Zhu Youxiang sighed. He waved his hand weakly.

After they fled to Huai'an Mansion, Lu Zhenfei treated them well, so he didn't want to see Lu Zhenfei impeached and removed from office because of this incident.

But as a vassal king, especially King Fu, his identity in the court was already a little sensitive.

When Emperor Wanli was in power, King Fu was originally the most promising person to inherit the throne, but he was boycotted by hundreds of officials in the imperial court.

Emperor Wanli finally compromised with the Donglin Party, which was the happiest at that time, in the matter of fighting for the country. As a result, King Fu lost the possibility of succession.

Since then, the vassal kings of King Fu's family have formed a grudge with the civil officials and scholars of Jiangnan Donglin, and once he intervenes, it is easy to touch the sensitive minds of those scholars and make things more and more out of control.

At this time, a subordinate walked lightly and said a word in Zhu Youxiang's ear.

Zhu Youxiang's expression changed slightly, and he immediately attracted the attention of several people next to him.

"I see, you go down!"

Zhu Youxiang casually sent his subordinates out, then swept his eyes over everyone, stopped at Zhu Lunkui, and said helplessly: "Governor Lu sent someone to pass the word, and asked our uncle and nephew to write a letter to your second brother and persuade him to rein in the precipice......

"Does this work?" Zhu Lunkui hesitated.

At present, the second brother Zhu Lunsheng has taken most of Huai'an Mansion, and he can capture Qinghe and Shanyang Mansion at any time. Write a letter and ask him to withdraw his troops, no matter how you think about it, you can't do it.

"Whether it's useful or not, just write one, Governor Lu naturally has his plans!"

Zhu Youxiang had some guesses in his heart.

Lu Zhenfei, the governor of Caoyun, the only thing he could handle in his hands was Jin Shengheng's 40,000 horses. Now that Jin Shengheng's entire army has been wiped out, there are only thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled people left in his hands.

At this time, it is too late to recruit new soldiers.

Let the two of them write a letter to persuade them, probably because they want to delay Zhu Lunsheng's time as much as possible.

If Zhu Lunsheng still had some filial piety in his heart and knew that the old King Zhou was living in Shanyang Fucheng, he would definitely not send troops to attack Fucheng.

As long as the recruitment of recruits can be delayed, Lu Zhenfei has soldiers and horses in his hands, and he is sure to keep the city.

Of course, this is also Zhu Youxiang's guess in his heart.

Maybe Lu Zhenfei really wanted Zhu Lunsheng to give up the soldiers and horses and capture them.

By the time Feng Yuan received the letter from the blessed king Zhu Youxiang and the cheap eldest brother Zhu Lunkui, it was already a day later.

"Let me take care of the safety of the old King Zhou and not attack the Huai'an Mansion City?"

After Feng Yuan read the letter, his eyes flashed slightly, Lu Zhenfei had no soldiers and horses in his hands, and he could only use this method to protect Huai'an Mansion City at the moment.

No wonder the other party is so nervous.

After Feng Yuan defeated Jin Shengheng, he took two states and four counties, and his territory suddenly expanded several times.

And Jiang Yingjie has already led a part of the soldiers and horses to garrison Taoyuan County, which is only a few dozen miles away from the Qinghe River downstream of the canal. A look of a tiger eyeing and annexing the entire Huai'an at any time.

Lu Zhenfei, the governor of Caoyun and the governor of Huaiyang, if he loses Huai'an Mansion and the governor's residence, he will lose all his face.

As long as he can keep the essence of Huai'an Mansion in the south of the Huai River, Lu Zhenfei is also thinking hard and meditating, and he has to play the cards of Lao Zhou Wang and Zhu Lunkui.

Now that the old King of Zhou is dying, if Feng Yuan's soldiers come to the city, causing the old King Zhou to not be able to come up in one breath, then Feng Yuan will have to carry the notoriety of forcing his grandfather to kill and disregard human morality.

The vassal king rebelled, and all the officials of the Ming court were not surprised, after all, there were precedents for Chengzu, King Ning and others.

But the rebellion of the vassal king directly forced his grandfather to be killed, which is a heinous crime, and Feng Yuan will no longer have a reputation to speak of in the future.

"I didn't have the idea of attacking Huai'an Mansion City, and I couldn't believe that Lu Zhenfei actually came up with this idea!"

In history, Lu Zhenfei was a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, and Feng Yuan naturally would not be dissatisfied with Lu Zhenfei because of this incident.

Anyway, his power has now expanded to the limit, and it will take a while to stabilize his foundation. It's nothing to give Lu Zhenfei and King Fu a face.

"It's the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen...... If the general trend remains unchanged, Li Zicheng will lead a large army into Beijing in February!"

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Jiashen Tianchang changed, and it was also the time recorded in the history books when the Ming Dynasty fell. After Emperor Chongzhen hanged the coal mountain, this year will become the first year of Shunzhi in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The change of the era name means that the Ming Dynasty is no longer orthodox in the Central Plains.

Feng Yuan still has a month or two to go.

Now that Lu Zhenfei of Huai'an has no soldiers or generals in his hands, Feng Yuan can also take the elite to the north with confidence. When Emperor Chongzhen is snatched up, even if Lu Zhenfei can recruit some soldiers and horses, it will be useless.

"Well, before going to Jingshi, you have to be fully prepared!"

The horse team under Li Zicheng is quite elite, and, if Feng Yuan's guess is correct, Li Zicheng also has Hu Tian and Miao Fan four guards by his side, and these four people are rare masters of the rivers and lakes.

Especially the "Flying Fox", the head of the four guards, is the ancestor of Hu Yidao and Hu Fei in the future. Martial arts are absolutely at the same level as Gui Xinshu and Yuan Chengzhi.

In case Li Zicheng sent four guards, as well as an elite horse team under his command. Even if Feng Yuan has the best martial arts in the world, he may not be able to bring Chongzhen and the others back to Huai'an Mansion safely.

The north of the Ming Dynasty is a flat river, which is most suitable for cavalry assault and killing, which is not conducive to retreat.

Feng Yuan's current plan is to buy a few large ships, and when he returns, he will set off from the port of Tianjin Wei, bypass Deng and Lai, and finally go ashore in the East China Sea of Haizhou in Huai'an Prefecture.

......

Time is in a hurry, and in the blink of an eye, the sixteenth year of Chongzhen has passed.

During this time, Feng Yuan and Tan Youdao, the chief bookkeeper, began to sort out the restless forces in the territory, and the strong men secretly recruited by the landlords and squires were forcibly absorbed by Zhao Heng and the cavalry team.

There are also green forest mountain bandits and bandits in Huaibei, with the support of Xiuyiwei intelligence, Huang Shouzheng led the newly trained recruits, constantly attacking and strangled, using these bandits to make the recruits see blood.