When Zhang Xianzhong entered Jiangxi, Zhu Cihong summoned Zuo Liangyu in Jiujiang Mansion.

Zuo Liangyu first fought against the Tartars in Liaodong, and was once promoted by Hou Sui, but later expanded his ranks in the war to suppress the Liukou, so that he is now increasingly arrogant and self-respecting.

At the beginning of the year, when Ma Shouying united with Zhang Xianzhong and other thieves and soldiers to commit Anqing, Zuo Liangyu, Liu Liangzuo, Cheng Long, Pan Keda and other officers and soldiers won battles one after another, driving Ma Shouying and Zhang Xianzhong into the Yinghuo Mountains.

Later, Zhang Guowei, the governor of Yingtian, issued a document three times to ask Zuo Liangyu to go into the mountains to search and suppress, but Zuo Liangyu did not respond, when he didn't hear it, not only that, but he also set up troops to kidnap women in the local area. Xichuan fell, Zuo Liangyu sat back and watched, not to rescue, garrisoned in Shucheng for more than a month, Henan eunuchs urged him to go, Zuo Liangyu went north to see, and when he arrived, the thieves had already looted things and ran away.

This time Zhang Xianzhong attacked **, captured Tianchang, and the soldiers occupied Guazhou and Yizhen in several ways, and laid down Xuyi, Zhang Guowei urged three times a day, and they all urged out the fire to prepare to play a copy of him, Zuo Liangyu still refused to go to the rescue, but asked the gentry of Jiujiang Mansion to jointly write a letter to keep themselves, and the play was very sufficient.

Knowing that the crown prince was summoned, Zuo Liangyu was afraid of being, so he and Liu Liangzuo ended up together, directly saying that he was sick and not going, and ordered his subordinates to strengthen their vigilance.

Zhu Cihong directly led the Tianwu Army to Zuo Liangyu's camp, and as soon as he arrived at the camp of the Left Army, he obviously felt that the camp of the Left Army was extremely tightly arranged, and the vigilance of the troops was also very strong, with the appearance of being ready to fight at any time, and dozens of artillery pieces were even arranged around the camp gate.

The vigilance of the left army was not because of good military discipline, on the contrary, the military discipline of the left army was extremely poor, and it was not much better than that of the army of the rogue army.

When Zuo Liangyu was fighting everywhere, because the military discipline of the Zuo army was too poor, and the local government had no food to provide to Zuo Liangyu who was passing by, he had to refuse them to enter the city.

Zuo Liangyu was furious, ordered to rob the city, and then led the army away, a few months ago in Wuchang Mansion also, the left army's military discipline is very famous, the local defenders are not willing to accept the left army, Zuo Liangyu robbed the civilian boats, and then retreated to Jiujiang.

Zuo Liangyu is in his forties, tall, with a short face and hair, and he has the appearance of a fierce general, but his eyes are gloomy, flickering, and he seems quite scheming.

His son Zuo Mengeng is in his twenties, his eyebrows are raised, he is quite proud and conceited, and he looks like the kind of young man who has not been beaten by society.

After the two sides met, Zuo Liangyu and other generals of the left army saluted Zhu Cihong and said: "The last general has seen His Royal Highness the crown prince!" ”

Zhu Cihong said lightly: "General Zuo is exempt, your training as a soldier is good, and you are always ready for battle." ”

Zuo Liangyupi smiled and said: "I don't dare to be praised by His Highness, if it is not peaceful today, the people of the headquarters are just defending as usual, and compared with His Highness's Tianwu Army, I am afraid that it will be worse than the first line." ”

Sun Yingyuan, who was on the side, snorted coldly and said, "Missing a line? How dare you overestimate your own people! ”

Zuo Liangyu Yin Yu (zhì) smiled and said: "This is General Sun Yingyuan, Zuo has heard of you, you have beaten the Tartars, and you will also beat the thieves everywhere, and you were promoted to the chief soldier at a young age, which is really terrifying!" ”

Sun Yingyuan said: "I am just doing my duty as a general, and I have fought a few victories to have today's status, how dare I be self-righteous, I have a decision between His Majesty and His Royal Highness in all matters, and I am just obeying the orders of the imperial court!" ”

Zuo Liangyu snorted, Sun Yingyuan was mocking himself for not listening to the orders of the imperial court, he was a little angry in his heart, but the crown prince was here, and he couldn't get angry, so he had to say: "Just now General Sun said that I overestimated my own people, Zuo's subordinates were also brought out from Liaodong, and I am afraid that the combat experience is no worse than that of the Tianwu Army!" ”

The generals of the Tianwu Army all sneered when they heard this, revealing disdain.

Zuo Liangyu glanced at the generals of the Tianwu Army with a gloomy face, and suddenly his face changed slightly, staring at Cao Bianjiao, and exclaimed: "General Cao, why are you here?" ”

Zuo Liangyu was originally mixed in Liaodong, and was later transferred to the Central Plains to suppress the Liukou, often under the same commander account as Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao, he admired the little Cao general of the three armies, and saw it in the crown prince's army at this time, which made Zuo Liangyu very surprised.

Cao Bianjiao casually hugged his fist and said lightly: "I have seen General Zuo, the last general has been transferred to serve in the Tianwu Army by His Highness." ”

Cao Bianjiao didn't have a good impression of Zuo Liangyu, who often released water in battle, originally everyone was at the same level, but now he was demoted by three levels, and he had to call himself the last general.

Zuo Liangyu smiled and said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has such means and abilities at a young age, and the last general will admire it!" ”

Zhu Cihong said lukewarmly: "Okay, this palace is not here to listen to nonsense today, the main thing in this palace is to ask General Zuo, now that Zhang Xianzhong has hid in the mountains of Huizhou Mansion, if he crosses the mountains and enters Jiangxi, I don't know what your plans are?" ”

Zuo Liangyu smiled and said, "I don't know what His Highness plans to do?" ”

Zhu Cihong frowned slightly and said: "If Zhang Xianzhong enters Jiangxi, General Zuo's headquarters is the closest to Jiangxi, so he should naturally march immediately, so that he will not have a chance to breathe, and he will never suffer in the future." ”

The more Zuo Liangyu listened, the more he didn't feel good, and said: "Your Highness can't help but underestimate Zhang Xianzhong, he has been dominating the world for ten years, how can it be easy to deal with, when he rebelled, His Royal Highness was only afraid that he was not yet born, although the last general had an army of 200,000, but he did not dare to underestimate the enemy!" ”

Seeing that he ridiculed himself for his youth, Zhu Cihong was not polite, and said: "The soldiers are expensive but not expensive, and they will be planning but not brave, otherwise even if they have hundreds of thousands of soldiers, they will blindly fear the enemy and not fight, and they will only steal their lives and save their own strength, what is the use?" Our Tianwu Army only sent more than 10,000 troops, but in the Yinghuo Mountains, the 100,000 troops of the 5th Battalion of the Revolution were still defeated and flattened in one fell swoop! ”

Of course, Zuo Liangyu could hear that Zhu Cihong was ridiculing him for shrinking in Jiujiang Mansion, and he didn't dare to fight with the Fifth Battalion of Ge Zuo and Zhang Xianzhong, and he couldn't help but be angry and said: "The last general is not afraid of any anti-thief, let alone Zhang Xianzhong, but Zhang Xianzhong's ability to escape is not small, and it is not easy for the last general to arrest him!" ”

After listening to this, Zhu Cihong couldn't help laughing and said: "It's not easy to catch, can't you deploy defense in Jiangxi first?" The Tianwu Army has already cleaned up the fifth battalion of Gezuo, and this credit is not small, this palace has always done things fairly, so naturally I want to share a part of the credit with you, and this dedication will be left to you, how about it? ”

Zuo Liangyu saw that he spread out his words, and said bluntly: "The last general can send troops to Jiangxi to encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong, but he also has to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to let Governor Zhang prepare the grain and grass of our army!" ”

Zhang Guowei urged Zuo Liangyu to aid Nanjing several times, but Zuo Liangyu was the wind in his ears, Zhang Guowei simply cut off his grain and grass and let Zuo Jun drink the northwest wind.

Zuo Liangyu has been worrying about the matter of grain and grass recently, and it just so happens that the crown prince is talking to him about sending troops, so when will he wait without mentioning the conditions?