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"Five days ago, Duoduo had already led his army into Shaoxing Mansion." Zhu Cihong said calmly but with a little pride, "Wu Zheng led 2,000 cavalry to cross the river to meet the Boluo Division, was defeated, and fled to Pinggang Cottage. Wu Zheng commanded four guards, two guards were deployed in Jinhua and Yanzhou, one guard was in Lihai, three thousand people from Hangzhou Wei had entered Shaoxing Mansion, and only seven thousand people were left in Hangzhou City, and Wu Zheng had no reinforcements to adjust at this time. The only one who can save him is me. I naturally wanted to save him, and I had already ordered Liao Zhongping to be the main general and lead the army south to reinforce him...... But you also know that the treasury is tight, the army's grain and grass are still in preparation, and the army naturally cannot be pulled out without grain and grass, and the reason for the tightness of the treasury is naturally caused by the interception of the commercial tax that should have belonged to the imperial court...... This is self-inflicted iniquity, and you cannot live. ”

Zheng San was shocked, he suddenly understood something, he struggled and roared: "Your Majesty of the Yixing Dynasty actually colluded with foreign enemies in order to murder a courtier? ”

Zhu Cihong snorted coldly: "I'm not as unbearable as you think. I just seized this opportunity to get rid of the internal thieves first, and then the external troubles. ”

"Your Majesty, this is destroying the Great Wall!" Zheng San hissed and shouted.

Zhu Cihong's eyes shrank, this was the second sentence he heard in a day.

"He can't be called the Great Wall of the Yixing Dynasty. I also made a plan, with Liao Zhongping's Jingwei and Hangzhou City defenders, plus the Qiantang River, even if Duoduo occupied Shaoxing Mansion, he would not be able to go north. If Wu Zheng really has the world in his heart, he should naturally fight with Duoduo to the death and lose both, so that I can send a large army to recover Shaoxing Mansion after Wu Zheng's defeat. ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Cihong smiled coldly at Zheng San and said, "I've been waiting for this opportunity for a long time. I know that the eldest princess is deeply involved with Wu Zheng, and if you want to move Wu Zheng, you must first look at the eldest princess. I let out my mouth on the eldest princess, and I wanted to put Zhou Simin under house arrest, so I was forcing her to make a move...... Do you really think I don't know anything about your guards? ”

Zheng San gasped weakly: "The secret guard of the slave is definitely not aimed at Your Majesty. The eldest princess is definitely not likely to be unfavorable to His Majesty. ”

"I can take it." Zhu Cihong nodded very dryly, "But the imperial power can't allow the courtiers to get involved in sharing." Based on this, Wu Zheng deserves to die, and you deserve to die too. But I can give you a way out, if only you summon the Secret Guard. ”

"Your Majesty thinks that the slave will believe it? Your Majesty doesn't even believe in the eldest princess, how can you believe in slaves? ”

Zheng San smiled bitterly: "Heaven is evil, especially forgivable, self-inflicted, you can't live...... Then please let Your Majesty do it. The slaves and maids will watch the Yixing Dynasty fall under the Nine Springs...... It's just a pity for the eldest princess...... I'm afraid I'm going to suffer again. ”

Zhu Cihong's face changed several times, and he snorted coldly: "I have changed my mind, I will not kill you, I want you to hear the news of Wu Zheng's death with your own ears, and I want you to see the revitalization of the Yixing Dynasty in my hands...... When the time comes, I will take your cheap life again. ”

……。

Liao Zhong is honest and honest, but it doesn't mean that he is stupid.

He could hear the meaning of the emperor's words, and he knew what the emperor wanted him to do.

Although Liao Zhongping didn't want Wu Zheng to have anything to do, although Liao Zhongping also thought that Wu Zheng was useful to the state.

But since the emperor decreed, he had to do it.

The king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die.

Liao Zhongping comforted himself that he was loyal to the emperor, and there was nothing wrong with this.

If there is no mistake, you must obey the order, and you must persevere.

……。

Wu Zheng was very distressed in Pinggang Mountain.

Three days passed, and the Qing army did not attack Pinggang Mountain.

In addition to the corridors, there were occasional Qing army scouts "passing by", and Duoduo seemed to have forgotten his existence.

But in fact, Duoduo hoarded the army on the side of Pinggang Mountain, blocking Wu Zheng's way out of the mountain.

This made Wu Zheng very unhappy.

How can you be ignored by the enemy?

Wu Zheng knew that he had underestimated Duoduo.

Wu Zheng's original intention of retreating into Pinggang Mountain was to contain the Qing army.

As long as the Qing army attacked the mountain, with Wu Zheng's more than 4,000 troops on hand, it was enough to hold back tens of thousands of Qing troops.

Even if the Qing army occupied the eight counties of Shaoxing, as long as Lihai and Pinggangshan were still in their hands, the Qing army would not be able to live in peace.

If he chooses to withdraw to Hangzhou, this will be a huge blow to Wu Zheng's forces.

It's not easy to hold up this mess.

The imperial court can't pay the pension silver, but Wu Zheng can feed 40,000 troops, this silver is not just from "robbing the rich and helping the poor", if it is all plundered by the rich, Hangzhou and other places of the three provinces are afraid that they will already be in chaos.

The real wealth comes from the commercial taxes of Hangzhou and Songjiang, which is an inexhaustible mountain of gold, but it takes time and cannot be achieved in one fell swoop.

Once Wu Zheng withdrew to Hangzhou, the war would spread to the banks of the Qiantang River.

Businessmen are the most sensitive to risks, and no one is willing to risk the loss of wealth and life to continue to enter and exit the two ports of Hangzhou and Songjiang, then the daily capital flow will dry up, and the consequence is that the capital chain of Wu Zheng's forces will be broken.

This is very terrible, once the capital chain is broken, the Holy See behind Wei Kuangguo will no longer be able to let Wu Zheng "credit", and the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce, which has already formed a rudimentary form, will be scattered in a hurry, without these, the source of funds will be quickly exhausted, and everything such as military workshops, military academies, shipyards, ports, etc. will be wiped out.

Death, but also to drag the Qing army in Shaoxing Mansion, this is a bottom line drawn by Wu Zheng for himself, and it is also the main reason why Wu Zheng withdrew into Pinggang Mountain.

But obviously, Duoduo, who had suffered Wu Zheng's loss before, was obedient, and he chose to ignore the existence of Pinggang Mountain, preferring to strand the 20,000 Qing troops in Shaoxing Mansion to deter Pinggang Mountain and ignore Wu Zheng.

The falling flowers are intentional, but the flowing water is ruthless?

Three days was enough for the Qing army to occupy the entire eight counties under the jurisdiction of Shaoxing Prefecture.

Duoduo refused to move, Wu Zheng couldn't move, and Chen Sheng didn't dare to move.

But someone moved, for example, Song An, who was ordered by Wu Zheng to transfer 2,700 (300 were taken away by Shen Zhiyuan's kid) musketeers from Songjiang Mansion to cross the river, heard that Wu Zheng was defeated, and Song An immediately led the musketeers to attack Xiaoshan.

The Qing army, which had not yet established a firm foothold in Xiaoshan City, could hardly resist the sharpness of the musketeers, and after a day's work, they began to retreat.

Song An led his troops all the way forward, but this day's work was enough for the Qing army south of Xiaoshan to have enough time to complete the fortifications.

Guali, this small key pass that once disabled Zhou Dahu's department, has also become a hard bone that Song An can't gnaw at this time.

The musketeers really lacked the ability to attack fortifications.

Coupled with the lack of troops, in the face of the same number of defenders, but covered by the city wall, they could only sigh.

Although Song An was anxious, he could only wait for the arrival of the follow-up artillery.

The Zhoushan Landscape had just left the port at this time and had not yet entered the Cao'e River.

Therefore, the battle situation in Shaoxing Mansion, after a slight move, fell into a stalemate again.