Liu Yongxi felt that Xing Shengping said very well: "Brother Shengping is so right, we have always done everything for the court, but the court always has to give us a way to live, we can't hide the rabbit and the dead dog to cook, you must make this matter clear to Mrs. Xing!" ”

Xing Shengping nodded again and again: "My sister and brother-in-law handed it over to me, this time I will go to Yangzhou and let those brothers see the world well!" ”

It's just that Liu Yongxi and Xing Shengping's ideas can't affect the overall situation of the court, whether it is Emperor Hongguang, Ma Shiying, Shi Kefa, Lu Daqi, Liu Zongzhou, or even Liu Kongzhao, everyone thinks that "exterminating Kou" is a panacea for all diseases, and as long as Wu Sangui, who has a heavy army, can solve all problems.

Now everyone is concerned about what means to use to win over Wu Sangui, and how much gold, silver, money and food will be given to Wu Sangui when the time comes, as for the Jiangbei front, which is a mess of porridge, everyone pins all their hopes on Shi Kefa and Xingping Bo Gaojie, who he has tried every possible means to win over, and the direction of Fengyang, which everyone has not paid much attention to, has seen a new change in the situation.

Linhuai Pass.

In another time and space, it will experience great ups and downs, first in the Qianlong period when the county was abolished and merged into Fengyang, and then upgraded to a city at the beginning of the founding of the country, but soon it was downgraded to a district, and finally became Linhuaiguan Town.

Linhuai Pass is only thirty miles away from Fengyang City, which is the central capital Fengyang that "says Fengyang, Dao Fengyang, Fengyang is a good place, since there is an Emperor Zhu, there are nine years of famine in ten years".

The Ming generation of Fengyang has a very special status in politics, and even set up a special division to stay in the capital, but in the eighth year of Chongzhen, the Liukou led by Zhang Xianzhong broke through Fengyang City and annihilated the defenders, that is, from that day on, Fengyang entered a long-term state of war, and thieves broke out.

And now Linhuai Pass is even more tense, Liu Liangzuo's soldiers have been stationed under the city for half a month, more than a dozen large and small camps have formed a flanking attack on Linhuai Pass.

But after the first two siege setbacks, Liu Liangzuo was ready to get what he couldn't get on the battlefield at the negotiation table, after all, the people of Linhuai Pass were fierce, there were countless outlaws, and there was a strong city to defend, Liu Liangzuo's troops would definitely not be able to take Linhuai Pass without paying thousands of casualties.

However, Liu Liangzuo is the weakest existence among the four towns in Jiangbei, and Liu Liangzuo feels particularly distressed at the thought of the casualties that he may have to pay for thousands of children and eight hundred.

After all, Liu Liangzuo is now one of the four towns in Jiangbei, and it is difficult to provoke tens of thousands of generals under his command, and the imperial court has allowed Liu Liangzuo to open the town of Linhuai, and the actions of the officials and people of Linhuai Pass cannot be fully supported by the imperial court.

What's more, the entire Linhuai Pass has mobilized all the elites, that is, thousands of recruits who are not even equipped with weapons, and it is by no means Liu Liangzuo's opponent to really win or lose, but when the time comes, it will be the situation of slaughtering the city.

Both sides are a bit of a bogeyman and are thinking about how to end the game, but for the sake of face, no one can stop, and now they can only confront each other while constantly increasing the pressure on the other party.

After days of confrontation, both sides felt a little exhausted, and the military camp to the south suddenly welcomed a group of uninvited guests.

Liu Liangzuo's sentry felt that this group of guests from the south was simply unreasonable: "What? Liu Yongxi, the chief soldier of Linhuai Pass? What is this thing? Our Guangchang Bo was ordered by the imperial court to open the town of Linhuai, why is there now another Linhuai Pass chief soldier Liu Yongxi, and we want to let Linhuai Pass out? How much effort we have spent on the territory of Linhuaiguan, how many brothers have been killed and injured, and now we want to use a few words to let us hand over the territory, but there is no door! ”

And the group of uninvited guests on the opposite side immediately reasoned with Liu Liangzuo's subordinates: "Brothers, everyone is doing things for the imperial court, and the imperial court asked us to come to Linhuai Pass to take over the defense, and we can't help it, so we specially came to an outpost to avoid misunderstandings, and we discussed this matter carefully, so we can't hurt the harmony of both sides!" ”

To put it mildly, they finally met Cao Hu, a deputy chief soldier under Liu Liangzuo, in a few barracks.

When he learned that this was the new Linhuai Pass commander-in-chief Liu Yongxi sent to fight the outpost, and these people were old, weak, sick and disabled, they were fundamentally vulnerable, Cao Hu, who usually did not dare to breathe in front of Liu Liangzuo, did not take them into account at all, and directly played Liu Liangzuo's banner: "Our Guangchangbo is about to take Linhuai Pass, what does it mean that you Jingkou Town is here to pick up the cheap at this time!" ”

The little guy who took the lead could only nod and bow again: "Dashuai, we can't help it, the imperial court asked us to move to Linhuai Pass, is it any wonder that our Jingkou Town can still resist and disobey?" The imperial court means to let Guangchang Bo move to Shouzhou, and Linhuai Pass will be handed over to our head town, which is the best of both worlds! ”

Cao Hu glanced at Liu Yongxi's group of envoys, and found that there were sixteen or seventeen-year-old soldiers among them, and he felt more and more vulnerable to Jingkou Town.

Although the marshal Liu Liangzuo also had the idea of giving up Linhuai Pass and moving the town of Shouzhou, but now Cao Hu saw the group of shrimp soldiers and crab generals in Jingkou Town, but he suddenly had confidence: "Shouzhou was originally our Guangchangbo's territory, and I won't talk to your general soldiers about moving the town, your Jingkou Town will send soldiers to attack if you have the ability, as long as you win, this Linhuai Pass is your territory!" If you don't have the ability, hurry up and fuck me off! ”

A small group led by Jingkou Town begged bitterly: "This handsome, can we meet with Guangchang Bo, we are all a family, as long as Guangchang Boken moves the defense, our Liu Yongxi Town will definitely have a heavy gift!" ”

Cao Hu didn't ask Liu Liangzuo to turn his face directly: "Hurry up and get back to Jingkou, Linhuai and Fengyang are the territories allocated by the imperial court to us Guangchangbo, whoever dares to rob us of our territory, don't blame the brothers for killing people and not seeing blood!" ”

This group of envoys from Jingkou Town was so frightened that Qi Qi changed color and hurriedly said goodbye, while Cao Hu calmly went to inform Liu Liangzuo, the Marquis of Guangchang, himself: "Dashuai, what do you think I have done with this?" ”

Among the four towns in Jiangbei, Guangchangbo Liu Liangzuo is the weakest one, this weakest strength not only refers to the least number of troops, but also the weakest combat power of the four towns, if Liu Zeqing's department is a mixture of fish and dragons, it is a combination of outlaws and rabble, then Liu Liangzuo's department is almost all scattered by guerrillas, so it will not even be able to take down such a small county as Linhuaiguan.

But precisely because of the weakest strength, Liu Liangzuo is also the most obedient to the Hongguang small court in the four towns of Jiangbei, unlike Gao Jie, Huang Degong, and Liu Zeqing who don't take the court in their eyes at all, and do everything on their own, Liu Liangzuo has always respected the court, but this does not mean that he has to listen to the court in everything.