On March 15, the 60th year of Kangxi, Liu Ruhan, the head of the White Lotus Sect, launched an anti-Qing uprising in Jiugao Mountain, Henan, and the responders gathered for a while, in addition to a large number of peasants and displaced people, there were also some small landlords, who held sharpened bamboo spears, declaring that "the yellow sky will die, and the sky will live."

The White Lotus Sect army led by Liu Ruhan, although the weapons and equipment were extremely poor, but there were many people and extraordinary courage, so they quickly broke through Yiyang, enveloped a large number of people, developed more than 100,000 horses, called themselves the general of Pingtian to save the people, and soon sent troops to besiege Ruzhou, but because of the lack of offensive weapons, the city of Dun was stagnant for a long time.

Because of this, Liu Ruhan sent an envoy to the Fu Han army at this critical moment, hoping to obtain some artillery.

Since August last year, the Han Army has been in a situation of fighting alone, although the Qing army has been repeatedly defeated, but this feeling of being the enemy of the world is not so comfortable.

But now it is different, Liu Ruhan raised troops against the Qing Dynasty and stood up to Henan again, so that the Han army no longer has to worry about the movements of the Qing army in the direction of Henan, and the defensive pressure is much less. From another point of view, the Qing court faced the White Lotus Sect with more than 100,000 people, and it would not necessarily focus on the Fu Han army anymore, after all, the distance between the other party and the capital was much closer.

Ning Yu will meet with Ning Zhongjing in the Dadu Governor's Mansion to receive the envoys who came, in this matter, it is not convenient for Ning Zhongyuan to show up at the first time, but with the major general of the Fu Han Army, this face can be regarded as big enough.

After a while, two middle-aged men, one wearing a long shirt and the other wearing a strong suit, walked in and shook the ground.

"The leader of the White Lotus Sect asked me and the two of us to greet the young general, and expressed my willingness to follow the command of Duke Ming, drive out the Tartars, and return my Han family."

Ning Yu smiled slightly, and said: "The name of the leader of your sect, I have long known that now your sect is willing to devote itself to the great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty, which is naturally a feat that everyone in the world loves, but now that the Fu Han army is under attack, I am afraid it will be difficult to give more support." ”

Seeing that Ning Yu was not very enthusiastic, there seemed to be a sense of shirk in his tone, which made the middle-aged man a little surprised, you must know that with their understanding of the current Fu Han Army, the current Fu Han Army is lacking such a help. But now that we meet, we find that things are not as simple as I originally imagined.

One of the shorter men in strong suits had a little unbearable on his face, and said stupidly: "My brother is deeply aware of the righteousness of the Han Army, and he can't bear to see the Han Army now fighting alone, so he disregards the difficulties and dangers of the situation, and then devotes himself to the great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty. ”

The middle-aged man in the long robe immediately began to play round, pulled the short man, and said with a smile: "Please don't blame the young general, people from the countryside, naturally don't know how to speak etiquette, this is Liu Ruquan, the younger brother of the sect leader of Liu, spoke eagerly." However, the sect leader's thoughts are for the sun and the moon. ”

This one is red-faced, and the other is white-faced, but he bullied him Ning Yu is young? However, before Ning Yu could attack, Ning Zhongjing chuckled, and then spoke: "The sincerity of your sect and my restoration of the Han army naturally understand, everyone is for the great cause of restoring the Han Dynasty, so naturally there is no need to divide the high and low, but to make some points, there is anything to talk about." ”

At present, for the Fu Han Army, the White Lotus Sect can be used but must not be approached, because in these years, the reputation of the White Lotus Sect is really too bad, especially for those squires, these guys who pretend to be ghosts are even more hateful, and even the White Lotus Sect is infamous in the eyes of ordinary people.

However, at the moment, the White Lotus Sect is still needed to be in front, so Ning Zhongjing's words are also quite tactful, especially the words that do not distinguish between high and low, and even speak to Liu Ruquan's heart, in the eyes of them, the radicals of the White Lotus Sect, there is no need to unite with the Fu Han Army, they can fight the world on their own, so they are naturally deeply dissatisfied with the move of relying on the Fu Han Army.

But the middle-aged man next to him saw the subtlety, he himself was the thinker of the White Lotus Sect, named Xue Guan, and he also advocated temporary attachment to the Fu Han Army, and the purpose was naturally not simple, through the way of attaching to the Fu Han Army, he slowly infiltrated the top of the entire Fu Han Army, so as to realize the intention of seizing power from another level.

Therefore, the two of them themselves have different routes, and this time the envoy also reflects the two ideas within the White Lotus Sect, but Xue Guan understands that if he only relies on the mud legs of the White Lotus Sect itself, I am afraid it will be difficult to succeed, and he can't take care of it at the moment, so he said bluntly: "What the Major General and Senator Ning said is reasonable, this anti-Qing great cause is originally a matter of course, some people are out of the way, and they have a strong contribution, and my White Lotus Sect just wants to bring peace to the people of the world and bring peace to all generations." It's just that now that the Qing court is powerful, the two families need to work together to tide over the difficulties. ”

This is a lot more sincere, as long as you don't keep thinking about mixing with the Fu Han Army, can't you do your business honestly? If you are willing to be a stepping stone for the Han army, you will not lose the position of a prince in the future, wouldn't it be beautiful?

Ning Yu changed his attitude at the moment, pulled the two of them with enthusiasm, and said with a smile: "The anti-Qing righteous act needs the heroes of the world to work together, how can it be reasonable to fight alone, the White Lotus Sect is now setting off an anti-Qing righteous act, it is naturally worthy of admiration, if there is any difficulty, I can help the Han Army, it is naturally incumbent!" ”

Although the attitude is a little enthusiastic, but the words do not have much sincerity, what is called 'what the Fu Han army can help, it is naturally incumbent', which means that if it can't be helped or it is not easy to do, it will not help.

Xue Guan smiled slightly bitterly in his heart, and then his expression was also raised, and he said slightly seriously: "Now my White Lotus Righteous Army is fighting hard under the city of Ruzhou, but it is helpless to lack siege weapons, so it is difficult to succeed, and I hope that the young general can help and give twenty artillery, and our army will definitely succeed in a battle." ”

Ning Yu was very bold and arrogant in this matter, and said with a smile: "Although our army is also very lacking in equipment now, but the White Lotus Righteous Army is now at a critical moment, so I naturally can't help but say a thing or two. It just so happened that our army had captured dozens of Qing army cannons and Weiyuan cannons, and it didn't hurt to allocate 20 guns. ”

However, Xue Guan sighed and said with a wry smile: "I naturally know about this Qing army artillery, it is really useless, please ask the major general to allocate some of the thunder cannons." "This is a lack of greed.

Ning Yu naturally refused, Hugh said to give him a thunder cannon, even if he gave him a closer look, it would not work, after all, the technology of this kind of cannon is currently ahead of the entire era, how can it be easily given to others?

It's just that it's not convenient to refuse directly at the moment, so Ning Yu put on a worried look, "You don't know, although the power of this cannon is acceptable, but each one is quite difficult to cast, and now our army is only a dozen or so, but there is nothing we can do." ”

These words, coupled with this expression, made Ning Zhongjing feel that he was pretending to be a little overdone.