He Wang Deren's subordinates also have tens of thousands of horses, and they have always been known for their tyranny, bravery, and courage in the left army. However, in the past few days, about 20 percent of the men and horses have been killed in battle, among them, the loss of the family is even greater, and the family and the elite soldiers are combined, and the number of people killed in the battle that day is as high as two or three thousand. In addition, in the past few days, soldiers have been fleeing, and the number of wounded and dead has increased, which has caused a lot of noise in his camp and panic.

In order to reduce the number of desertions and desertions, he had to send more soldiers and horses of his cronies to patrol all parts of the camp and strengthen patrols outside the camp. However, there are only 1,000 years of thieves, and there is no 1,000 years of thieves. Even so, the number of escapes is still increasing day by day, and even more so, many of them have escaped!

Wang Deren's words immediately aroused the consensus of the commanders of the battalions of the Left Army, and they nodded their heads one after another, and then complained bitterly. Since the battle of the Nanyue Army, their losses of soldiers and horses are roughly similar, and speaking of which, the losses of Zuo Menggeng's subordinates are even greater. Because the Nanyue Army put all the main forces of the attack on the direct troops of the Zuo family's father and son. However, it is impossible to stand Zuo Mengeng inherited Zuo Liangyu's old foundation, and in comparison, he is still much stronger than these general soldiers. Moreover, there are still some medical reserves in the large battalions of the Chinese army, so the death of the wounded is not as serious as that of the battalions, and there are not so many escapes. It's not that Zuo Mengeng has strong command ability and personality charm, or how strong the centripetal cohesion of Zuo Ying is, but that these soldiers and horses directly under the Zuo family know very well that with their own sins, even if they desert and escape, they will inevitably die in the hands of those revengeful villagers. Therefore, it is better to hide in the camp to keep warm than to leave the camp without permission.

Therefore, compared with the lost souls, frightened, and panicked of the commanders of each battalion, Zuo Mengeng still has some confidence in his heart.

Since it can't be fought, there are only two other paths left, go and surrender.

"If we go, we can only have one way, and that is to cross the river and go north. or partner with Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing and others in Jiangbei, or just don't do anything, just let us demote Prince Yu, and like the guy surnamed Xu, shave his head, change his banner, and continue to do our work! ”

However, if you want to go, you must first find a way to cross the Yangtze River with the remaining 100,000 horses, not only men and horses, but also the grain and grass carried by the army. This requires a large number of boats as well as time to cross the river.

"Will the Liang Kingdom Guild let us cross the river calmly?"

In a word, it is like pouring a scoop of cold water into a hot pot. Suddenly, the generals who were looking forward to recreating the glorious life of the past with their old friends from the four towns of Jiangbei after crossing the river calmed down. Oh, yes! Now, on the surface of the Yangtze River, the big devil Shi Lang and his scarlet-winged tiger's wife's sailor are showing off their might on the river, not to mention 100,000 people passing over, but I am afraid that it will be more difficult for the 1,000-strong troops of the Left Army to pass than to ascend to the sky!

"This is what Ben Shuai intends to do."

Zuo Mengeng said his plan in a slow tone. The strategy is also to be planned. However, it was not a large group of people who crossed the river together. Instead, he sent someone to carry a large amount of wealth, gold and silver, and took a trip to Jiangbei and Nanjing with the letters of his dead ghost father Zuo Liangyu. Those who are willing to talk about the money invite their colleagues and old friends in the four towns of Jiangbei to come forward to coordinate and intercede, and tell them that today is my Zuo Liangyu's bad luck. Tomorrow it's your turn! If you don't want to be kidnapped and sent to the execution ground together, then you have to huddle together to keep warm to deal with Liang Guogong. The same was true of the envoys to Nanjing. Ask the Donglin bigwigs in the court to mediate, and it is also a direct statement, the day when my Zuo Liangyu soldiers are defeated and die, it is the time when the princes of Jiangnan and Gungun, millions of living beings are wantonly ravaged by Li!

In addition to not hesitating to lower his identity and the four towns of Jiangbei to jointly protect themselves, he also sent a distress signal to Jiangnan Group. I don't have this knife, you are the fat sheep slaughtered by others under Liang Guogong's knife. With me here, Liang Guogong has to be a little taboo. You can also keep all your family property and enjoy the glory and wealth. Without me, I'm afraid that Lao Tzu's army will be defeated in the morning, and at noon Cha Baidi will come to the door to calculate your arrears of money and grain tax accounts!

This is the so-called "go" strategy formulated by Zuo Mengeng, not to retreat, let alone to escape, but to run the messenger and walk the door. To put it bluntly, it is to use various conditions to create a situation that is favorable to oneself to maintain the current strength.

"In addition, Ben Shuai sent Governor Yuan to Jiujiang City today, and asked him to come forward to mediate one or two and ask for peace with Liang Guogong."

"What?! Big young marshal, surrender?! ”

Jin Shengheng was the first to jump. "When the marshal was alive, it was always us to recruit and rebel to expand our strength, when will it be our turn to surrender?"

Although it is said that it is to ask for peace, but everyone knows that the war has become the way it is now, the so-called request for peace is actually a request to surrender, which is even more ugly, and it is no different from Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai's request to appease and recruit An!

"That's it! Zhang Xianzhong, the original king of Xiying, surrendered, wasn't he still watched by us in Gucheng? He is building a house and planting wheat in the valley city, and we will watch him at the mouth of the old river! He didn't dare to move at all! ”

Seeing that someone mentioned the old things in Gucheng when Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king of the Dashun Emperor of the Great Western Kingdom, was mentioned in the past, Zuo Mengeng just took advantage of this reason to talk about it.

"The eight kings of that year, Zhang Xianzhong, and Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, also accepted the court's appeasement at the end of their lives. Surrender, it's not a shame! As long as we can get through this most difficult period, as long as the old book is still there, there will be a time for us to make a comeback in the future! Could it be that just if he is surnamed Zhu, surnamed Li, and surnamed Zhang called him lonely and widowed, and called the king and hegemon, we will not be happy to have the addiction of being a prince? ”

For the generals of the Left Army such as Jin Shengheng and Wang Deren, it is useless for you to say anything else. Only by showing practical examples to them will they suddenly understand.

"That's it! We can also appease it! ”

"That's right! The turtle in front climbed the way, and the king in the back followed! ”

"Donkey balls! Who do you say is the eighth king?! ”

"Love who is who is! Lao Tzu will only let other men be the king! Don't forget, the women in Lao Tzu's camp are all other people's wives! ”

"Big young marshal! At the beginning, I listened to Liu Mazi's turtle grandson tell the story, and he said that Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of Taizu Gao, was also born as a thief! also accepted the official position of the Great Yuan Imperial Court, and fought with Zhang Shicheng, Chen Youliang, and Fang Guozhen in Jiangnan to win one Buddha and two Buddhas. When the competition was the fiercest, he didn't forget to send tribute to the city of Beijing, so that the Dayuan court would not beat him! He has so much strength to hit people! This trick, for his old Zhu family, we are allowed to use it! ”

mentioned the story of Emperor Taizu Gao who borrowed a knife to kill people, and these ruffian military leaders were immediately interested. They all set their eyes on Jin Shengheng: "Old Jin, tell us about it!" How did our monk emperor play? ”

"I heard that he also slept with the queen of the Mongol Tartars, is there such a thing? I heard that the fourth child of his family is the blood of the Tartar!? ”

"Whether Chengzu is the blood of the Tartars, we don't know. However, the good relationship between Chengzu and Tatar is ironclad! When snatching the throne of his nephew, the cavalry of Duoyan Sanwei did not help less. Otherwise, after Chengzu won the throne, why would he be so polite to this group of Tartars? Blame! Eat other people's short mouths, take other people's soft hands! ”

"Old Kim! That's not right! Chengzu became the emperor and grasped the power, but he fought Mongolia first! And it's also a couple of pro-conscriptions. Moreover, he also let the eunuchs of the Three Treasures go to the West to promote the prestige of the country. How can this be said to be on good terms with the Tartars? ”

"You know a ball! The big position, the so-called improper position. Then you need to be covered by martial arts! It's like a scholar in the drama who stole the daughters of a big family, made their daughters' stomachs bigger, and then took their own money to Beijing to take the exam. If this is an ordinary person, it is definitely an adulterous case, and there must be a crime of abducting property for the sake of wealth. However, when you look at the end of the play, it is often Xiucai who wins the jinshi, the champion or something. This kind of ugliness immediately turned into a beautiful story. The big ugly thing is just a bed of brocade that is covered. ”

"But, Wenzhi, then there are martial arts that come quickly? A victory, a big battle, everything has been done. Damn the damned, too! You will be able to sit in your own position! Then, I sent people everywhere to say hello to the foreign vassals and tell them that the Central Plains is now my master. Let's see! The foreign domain is not a fool! There is no benefit in going to the black with Emperor Jianwen, looking at walking with him, it is delicious and delicious to go to the Central Plains, and even eat and take, all kinds of benefits are great. You just have to admit that he is the scoop of the Central Plains. ”

A few soldiers and ruffians and military sticks were full of unobstructed words, and they told all the bad things that happened between the old Zhu family's uncles and nephews competing for the throne.

"And yes! We have all been to the Nanjing Jiaofang Division and the Qinhuai River, the bitch on the Qinhuai River, but many of the ancestors were either Zhang Shicheng or Chen Youliang's generals and officials, just because they lost the battle, and then brought their descendants to the Qinhuai River to do the work of this king and eight bitches. ”

"It's not just this, but also the people of Shandong! Our handsome is from Linqingzhou, Shandong. Everyone knows that there are many errands on this canal. But do you know that when the Yuan Tartars were in the country, the grain was transported to the south by sea, not to mention the short time, and the loss was small. But why did Chengzu change it to a canal to transport grain? One of the reasons is that when he was martyred, the battle in Shandong was too hard, and he wanted to get this evil breath out! This is the toss of the people of Shandong! What a canal servitude! What a few northern expeditions to Mongolia! All of them have to come out of Shandong, several northern expeditions, decades of canal conscription, you look at Shandong, the grass chicken that has been tossed a long time ago! ”

In the process of changing dynasties, people as individuals are often small and fragile. There will be ups and downs with the tide of the times, but only Zhu Di's behavior is the most easily criticized. And then there's the Ben Dynasty. For example, the media of a certain bird and the media of a certain party are all prone to show how the veteran officers of the ** were treated unfairly after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Unscrupulous authors wonder, why are they in this situation? Do they dare to talk about what they did in the liberated areas before liberation? Otherwise, how could they have been like this in the state described by the popular ballad that "those who are revolutionary are not as good as those who are not revolutionary, and those who are not revolutionary are not as good as counter-revolutionaries" in some areas after the reform? There must be a specific reason! Besides, no matter how unjust it is, at most it is to let them be reformed through labor, and the children are not sent to the Department of Education like Zhu Di. After the Hunan man who advocated that the whole people wear suits came to power, these people were liberated again, and it didn't matter whether your ancestors sold cigarettes or abducted people, acted as compradors for foreigners, or dozens of generations of Tusi The wealth accumulated from slaves and babies will be returned. Not only did they return their property, but they also arranged for high-ranking officials to hold their posts. And so. (Oh, what time is it today?) What day before yesterday was the day before yesterday? ）

After a group of people jokingly laughed for a while, they gradually turned to the main topic again.

"Young marshal, you say, what should we do?"

"I put Yuan Jixian back, that is, to show Liang Guogong and his old man's attitude, we have the heart to repair. Then, in the name of my father, I wrote a letter and ordered the messenger to present it. ”

"What does the letter say?!"

"I said, our Pingthief Army is willing to obey orders under the command of Guogong in accordance with the establishment standards of the Nanyue Army. Before and after the saddle, go forward. At present, our soldiers and horses can be cut out of the old and weak, selected and strong, and organized into four towns and two cavalry brigades according to the establishment standards of the Nanyue Army. At present, Wang Yuncheng, who is going to southern Jiangxi, has a town, the three of us, and you big guys," Zuo Mengeng pointed to his lieutenant generals and generals, "All of them are in these three towns and two brigades." ”

"The three of us, as well as Wang Yuncheng, are the town commanders that the Southern Army said?"

Wang Deren's eyes lit up with greed. They have all heard of the situation of the soldiers and horses in a town of the Nanyue Army, and how majestic the commander is. The commander is much more bullish than the general soldier who has rotted the street right now. Not to mention the more than 20,000 soldiers and horses under his subordinates, moreover, the grain, grass, military salaries, equipment, and military uniforms are all distributed in full according to the establishment. After winning the battle, you can share 40% of the proceeds of the seizure. Such a good thing, why not do it!

"Not bad. The four of us are commanders, and the two cavalry brigades are under my command. "As Zuo Liangyu's heir, Zuo Mengeng must of course have some privileges. As soon as these words came out, those subordinates only had some generals and guerrillas left in their own soldiers, and their eyes became extremely eager and flattering when they saw Zuo Mengeng!

"But this is our wishful thinking! It also depends on whether the old man Liang Guogong is willing to contain us! You know, this time, there are more than 100,000 people, how much money do you have to spend on food? His old man doesn't allow us to loot around to raise soldiers!"

"Simple! If you want to sell, you have to make people think you're worth the price! Of course I have to tell Liang Guogong where our value lies! Why can we offer the price of four towns and two brigades in one bite! ”

"Why are you? As far as I know, many old people who followed him to fight the world are still brigade commanders in what garrison brigade and mobilization brigade! Are you sure you're worth the price, those of us? ”

Facing the puzzled eyes of Jin Shengheng, Wang Deren and others, Zuo Mengeng looked around and made sure that all the people present were his own family members, so he lowered his voice and replied: "What do you think his old man wants most at the moment?" ”

"What does he want most from his old man?" The generals of the Left Army in the room began to rack their brains.

"Money? There is definitely no shortage! The market is full of Nanzhong Tongbao and silver dollars. All the money in the world is sent by him, will he still be short of money? ”

"Beauty? Nor will it! I have heard that dozens of ladies of Grandpa Guo are all beauties in the world. What a beauty of Tartar, the Oiran of the Qinhuai River, the princess of Franc Ji, Tianfang, Tianzhu, Fusang, everything! The emperor kid is also the beauty of our Central Plains, and the grandfather of the country is here from all over the world! ”

"Terracotta? Site? None of them! Is there anyone in the world who has more soldiers and horses than him, and the territory is bigger? ”

"I see! This pig is brighter than your head! That's right! He has no shortage of these old people, even a big one! What he lacks is a name! One location! You're thinking about it! We just talked about Emperor Taizu Gao for a long time! ”

Zuo Mengeng has said everything to this extent, these soldiers and ruffians can't imagine that they have really been messing around the rivers and lakes for so many years.

"Big young marshal! Do you mean to say that we will go ashore first late and pick up the hot fried dumplings with cold hands? ”

"That's right! Whether there is this great wealth or not depends on whether we can pull down our faces and do this work for the national government! ”

"Big young marshal! You say! Do we learn from Liao Yongzhong and give the emperor a shipwreck in Guazhou, or do we also learn from Duoyan Sanwei and help Liang Guogong raise troops to conquer Nanjing? ! ”

"That's it! No matter what, the matter of turning the python robe on the body of Grandpa Guo into a dragon robe and draping the yellow robe on his old man is none other than our brothers! This support for the dragon is enough for the children and grandchildren to be inexhaustible! ”

"I mentioned these things in my letter to Liang Guogong, and the specific details will be explained to his old man in person. Let's just wait here. ”

"Exactly! As long as he nods his head, we will immediately raise troops to the east, what bullshit Jiangbei Four Towns, what bullshit Li Zicheng Zhang Xianzhong, dare to block our road of allegiance, that is to find death! ”

"That's it! As long as we can be promoted and make a fortune with his old man, we will burn Jiangnan into a blank field, what can we do! ”

At this moment, suddenly a few soldiers with blue noses and swollen faces stumbled in: "Big young marshal!" Oh no! Our envoy was beaten out by the eldest lady of the Li family! ”

"Bastard thing! It must be that you didn't speak well and said something that you didn't like, which made the county lord angry and angry, so you were beaten out with a stick! "These people have interrupted their dreams of fame and wealth, how can Zuo Mengeng give them a good look?

When Zuo Mengeng was furious at the soldiers, a few panting messengers rushed into the hall and said in a loud voice: "Young marshal! Big young marshal! In the southern military camp, the lights are chaotic and the voices of people are noisy, something big may have happened! ”

"Big young marshal! It can't be that this group of guys has annoyed Guogong, and Guogong is going to send troops to attack us, right? ”

The generals present were all as earth-colored, and they did not have the high-spirited appearance just now.