Wang Jincai also knew the seriousness of the infighting in this situation, and said uncertainly: "Three days ago, Wu Yiding, the prefect of Boryeong, was going to Nanfang County to inspect, saying that he would inspect the planting of winter wheat this year, and it seems that he went to Nanfang County the day before yesterday. ”

Zhou Dazhu stood up in surprise and said in a trembling voice: "Why didn't you say it earlier, this Wu Yiding and Wu Hongrong have always been very close, if Wu Hongrong has the heart to subvert Bao Ning, he will definitely conspire with Wu Yiding." Hu Jijiang also regretted it very much, and said: "Go and control Wu Hongrong, and then send a fast horse to the southern county to control Wu Yiding." Zhou Dazhu hurriedly said: "Master Hu, you go and send someone to control Wu Yiding, and I will arrest Wu Hongrong." Hu Jijiang also knew that this was an extraordinary moment, and immediately sent people to the south.

At this time, Zhou Dazhu was also very anxious, and returned directly to the Dadu Governor's Mansion, and then took people directly to the Yamen of the Inspectorate. When I entered the door, I saw where there was Wu Hongrong's shadow, and the person sent to monitor also came to report that there was no one at Wu Hongrong's house. Zhou Dazhu grabbed the errand and said, "Where did Wu Hongrong go?" "The messenger saw Zhou Dazhu and the others breaking in with open fire, so he was not afraid. was frightened by Zhou Dazhu's drink, and he trembled with fright, and whispered: "Lord Wu, I went out an hour ago and didn't come back." Zhou Dazhu asked, "Do you know where he went?" The messenger said, "I don't know, Lord Wu didn't say it." ”

Zhou Dazhu saw that the messenger really didn't know, so he let him go, and said to Peng Changbao, the guard who came with him: "You take someone to immediately block the city gate, and if you find Wu Hongrong, you will be arrested directly." Peng Changbao said: "My lord, if this Wu Hongrong really wanted to run, he would have run away a long time ago, where would he still be waiting in the city to be arrested." Zhou Dazhu also knew that if Wu Hongrong wanted to run, he would definitely not be able to catch it now, but he still asked Peng Changbao to block the city gate.

Of course, Zhou Dazhu did not catch Wu Hongrong in Boryeong, and since Wu Hongrong ran away, Zhou Dazhu had to make adjustments to Boryeong's defense, and re-adjust the guards at various passes and city gates in Boryeong. What Zhou Dazhu didn't expect was that on the third day, Wu Hongrong actually returned to Boryeong from the north gate.

After Zhou Dazhu heard the news, he immediately rushed to the north gate and saw that Wu Hongrong was calmly guarded by several soldiers of the Restoration Army. Seeing Zhou Dazhu coming, Wu Hongrong smiled and said, "Zhou Dudu, what are you doing?" I just went to Jianzhou to inspect the defense, why did you send troops to arrest me? Zhou Dazhu said angrily: "You yourself know what you do, and besides, what kind of defense do you go to inspect as an inspector?" ”

Wu Hongrong said: "What did I do? I have been doing my own thing conscientiously, and when I saw that Zhou Dudu was worried about the military situation, I also gave Zhou Dudu an idea. Zhou Dudu is not grateful, how can he repay the revenge but arrest Wu. When the time comes, I am afraid that it will be difficult to explain to the governor of Zhou Du, after all, you are a military general, and I am a civil minister. ”

Zhou Dazhu looked at Wu Hongrong hatefully and said: "You asked me to go to King Qingyang, you want to subvert Baoning and destroy our foundation of resisting the Qing Dynasty." Wu Hongrong jumped and immediately retorted: "Zhou Dudu, don't talk nonsense, I gave you an idea, whether you listen to it or not, it is up to you whether you do it or not, why did it become that I want to destroy Baoning." Zhou Dudu's meal can be eaten indiscriminately, but he can't talk nonsense. Wu Hongrong didn't expect Zhou Dazhu to see his plan, and quickly calculated: "Oh no, I didn't expect this reckless man to see it." No, how can Zhou Dazhu see a mud leg? Last time, he was reckless, and he dared to directly convene all the generals, not like such a delicate person. No, oops, how did I forget Feng Shuangli, the old fox, he has experienced a lot of political overturns in Kunming, what a mistake. ”

Just when Wu Hongrong kept calculating, Zhou Dazhu said: "You don't talk about this nonsense, what you do is clear to me now, come with us now." Wait until Ping Hou comes back and see how he cleans you up. Wu Hongrong saw that he was surrounded by more than a dozen soldiers, and he couldn't run away. Then he said: "Hmph, just go, you Zhou Dazhu brutalized the civil minister when Pingyu was away, you are subverting Baoning, you are simply a wolf ambition." If you want to arrest me, you just want to take Baoning for yourself and sabotage the great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty. ”

Zhou Dazhu saw that Wu Hongrong was still beating upside down, looked at Wu Hongrong and said, "You don't need to say much, when Ping Yuhou comes back, he will make his own decision." Wu Hongrong didn't plan to let Zhou Dazhu release himself with these two sentences, but he just wanted to cause the Qing army spies hiding in the shadows to spread the news about him.

After Wu Hongrong finished speaking, he looked majestic and left with Zhou Dazhu in high spirits, people who didn't know the situation were indeed frightened by Wu Hongrong's righteousness, and they really thought that he was wronged. With Wu Hongrong being arrested, Zhou Dazhu wantonly searched for Wu Hongrong's comrades and Qing army spies in Baoning. But since the army didn't move, everyone could only talk about it behind their backs.

Here Zhou Dazhu was dealing with Wu Hongrong's comrades, and Zhu Dashan's military order came back two days later. Zhou Dazhu did not dare to delay, and immediately summoned all the generals in Boryeong to gather at the Dadu Governor's Mansion. What Zhou Dazhu did in Boryeong in the past two days was originally very delicate, but now all the generals were suddenly summoned, and for a while, many people thought that Zhou Dazhu had the idea of seizing Boryeong and standing on his own. For a while, there was a lot of discussion in Baoning City, but no matter how it was discussed, the generals had to obey the orders of the Dadu Governor's Mansion to gather at the Dadu Governor's Mansion.

After everyone arrived at the Dadu Governor's Mansion, they saw that as soon as the gate of the Dadu Governor's Mansion was closed, Zhou Dazhu walked to the main seat and said: "I know that there are many people in Baoning City who are talking about it now, and most of them are unfavorable words for me, but I don't want to explain this matter. And now the general of the Ping Prisoner has also arrived, and has told all the people in the army not to participate in the rumors. The Ping Hou will judge everything, and now I will arrange the appointment of the Ping Yu. ”

The people present heard that Pingyu Hou knew about Boryeong, and they were no longer as worried as when they first came in. Zhou Dazhu said: "There is an order to kill the captive guards to the south to assist in the defense, and the men and horses stationed in various places of the captive guards will be transferred back immediately, and they will go south to Nanchong and the peaceful captives together to meet the Qing army." Hearing Zhou Dazhu finish reading Zhu Dashan's order, Liu Yingnan said: "This is impossible, if you leave this Baoning City, won't Baoning become an empty city?" Zhou Dazhu said: "Pingyu Hou transferred Pingyu Guard back to defend Baoning." By the way, when you go to Nanchong, you can also take away all the firearms teams of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion Guards. Gou Xingwang shook his head and said: "No, then Baoning will be even more empty, if Baoning loses, we will have no place to stay." ”

Zhou Dazhu said with a smile: "Gou Xingwang, you don't have to worry, originally Pingyuhou was going to transfer a thousand households to Qinglinkou to assist in the defense, but two days ago, I asked Qihou and them to send reinforcements to Qinglinkou, so the soldiers of Pingyuwei don't need to be sent to Qinglinkou, so Baoning will use enough troops to defend." ”

Gou Xingwang saw that there was no problem with Zhou Dazhu's arrangement, so he stopped talking. He Zhen and Dang Shousu also said: "Since there is an arrangement for Pingyu, we will obey the order." Zhou Dazhu saw that everyone had no objections, so he quickly prepared for everyone to go.

When everyone else left, He Zhen, Dang Shousu and Gou Xingwang all stayed, and He Zhen said to Zhou Dazhu: "Ping Yuhou really let us two guards to resist Li Guoying's 80,000 people?" Zhou Dazhu said with a smile: "Qi Hou is too worried, Ping Yuhou also rushed over from Kuidong with two guards, this is the entire army of four guards." Dang Shousu said: "This is not enough, there are only more than 20,000 people in the four guards, less than 30,000, how can you fight with 80,000 people?" ”

Gou Xingwang frowned when he heard Zou and said: "Qi Hou is too worried, even if he Li Guoying comes to 100,000, isn't 200,000 the same fight?" What are you afraid of, we are going to cut off Li Guoying's head. Seeing that Gou Xingwang was not worried at all, Dang Shousu said: "I think we should concentrate our forces to defend Baoning, how can we still take the initiative to go out and fight Li Guoying?" Isn't this hitting a stone with an egg? ”

Zhou Dazhu also said: "The two marquis don't have to worry, I believe that the Pingyu Hou side has already been arranged, and the two of them will lead the army to Nanchong tomorrow." Seeing this, He Zhen and Dang Shousu had no choice but to stop talking, and if they continued to talk about it, they would really become afraid of the enemy. The two had to go back to the camp to prepare in fear, and the two of them left, and Gou Xingwang said: "Just return the Hou Ye, what kind of ability can they have compared with our Hou Ye?" ”

Zhou Dazhu said: "You don't have to say a word, after all, now that Hou Ye wants to use the power of Kuidong, how many troops can we have in Baoning, there are only three guards and 20,000 horses in total." Gou Xingwang said: "Okay, don't talk about this, wait until a few battles are fought, so that they can see what the Qing army looks like." Lao Zhou, tell me, do you really want to be self-reliant or what? ”

Zhou Dazhu was startled and said, "What nonsense are you talking about?" You can't think about it. Gou Xingwang said: "What am I thinking, I'm afraid that you will be thinking nonsense, do you think about it since the southern uprising, when is it not the Hou Ye who plans again, can you and I do with the Qing army?" That's why I advise you not to think that you will be proud when you see that this Boryeong has easily beaten down now. Do you want to try it with you and me? I don't dare to think about it anyway. ”

Zhou Dazhu looked around and found that there was no one, and then he leaned into Gou Xingwang's ear and said, "You don't care about this, Ping Yuhou already knows the situation in Baoning." This made Gou Xingwang startled and said, "What? Ping Yu Hou knows so that they can like this? Zhou Dazhu said: "Don't go out and talk nonsense, look at this." With that, Zhou Dazhu left, took out a note from his sleeve and handed it to Gou Xingwang. Gou Xingwang said: "You read it to me, Ping Yuhou wants us to learn words, but you know that my brain is not good at learning." ”

Zhou Dazhu had no choice but to take the note and read it. After reading it, Gou Xingwang said: "So you said that Ping Yuhou deliberately let them make trouble?" Zhou Dazhu said: "Of course, I would have started arresting people a long time ago, but I was a little surprised that Ping Yuhou could know so quickly." Gou Xingwang said disapprerovingly: "Of course, Lin Zhuang's Military Intelligence Department is specially designed to send news to Ping Yuhou, and now the Military Intelligence Department will send a message quickly." Zhou Dazhu muttered: "As far as I have observed during this time, I am afraid that the Military Intelligence Department is not only passing on the news. ”

Three words suddenly flashed in Gou Xingwang's mind: "Jinyiwei? Zhou Dazhu shook his head and said: "I don't know the specific situation, but judging from the rumors in Baoning this time, there must be another force in Pingyuhou to inquire about intelligence." So we don't need to do anything, just do the direct thing, do the right thing. Gou Xingwang said: "I'm still afraid that those dog-day days will make Baoning panic one day, now it's good that Ping Yu can control the situation, and Hou Ye can give you this news, it can be seen that you don't have those thoughts, I will be relieved." There aren't many of us coming out of the south, I calculated a few days ago, there were 150 people, and now it's 50 people. I don't know how many battles will be fought or how many people will die in the future. Don't hurt everyone's friendship in these things, and let our people die in these bullshit things. ”

Zhou Dazhu said: "Yes, Hou Ye still trusts us, these people who came out of the south at the beginning basically became officials, Hou Ye wants us to give him a firm look at the army, so we have to fight for Hou Ye." Most of the people who are talking about it these days are literati who have surrendered, so they must take a good look at the army, as long as the army is not chaotic, they will not be able to make any big waves. Gou Xingwang got up and said: "I'm relieved if you say this, I'm still worried that Baoning must not be messed up in the past two days, okay, I'll go and prepare, and I'll take the army to Nanchong tomorrow." ”

Zhou Dazhu hesitated and said: "Judging from today's situation, the two Hou Ye in Kuidong don't look like people who can fight tough battles, you have to be careful." Like you said, there aren't many of us coming out of the south. ”

Gou Xingwang said with a big grin: "I know this, don't worry." With that, he walked out.