On September 23, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, a huge gust of wind and dust suddenly rose outside Jiujiang City.

"Look, what's that!" A group of soldiers guarding the gates looked there.

The wind and dust were getting closer and closer, and gradually there was the sound of footsteps, rumbling, accompanied by the neighing of horses, and a large number of figures appeared in the distance.

"Oh no, it's a big army!" The guard at the gate was a general, he exclaimed.

How could there be a large army here, could it be that the defense was brought over? But why didn't anyone inform him, could it be that it was the enemy army, Li Zicheng's thief army went south, and suddenly hit them Jiujiang?

"Quick, close the gates!" I can't help but wonder if the general is puzzled, for the sake of safety, it is better to close the city gate first.

Immediately, the city gate was closed, the suspension bridge of the moat was also closed, and someone immediately went to inform the governor of Jiujiang that Jiujiang City was guarding the waterway of the Yangtze River, the city was high and the river was deep, and there were 10,000 troops stationed there.

The army outside the city slowly came to the city, and finally let people see their outfits clearly, it was actually Daming's own army.

"City general, we are the headquarters of the Huang General Army of Luzhou, and we are under the order of the emperor to come to defend Jiujiang!" A knight approached with a decree in hand and shouted to the castle tower.

In the rear, Huang Degong frowned, faintly puzzled, the emperor asked him to move to Jiujiang, could it be that he didn't notify the governor of Jiujiang, why did no one come to greet the city gate?

Really? The general guarding the city was shocked, he recognized the famous Huang Degong, and looked at the holy decree, it should not be fake, but without the order of the governor, how could he dare to make decisions without authorization.

"Quickly open the city gate and let the army of General Huang enter the city." This is an old man over fifty years old, wearing an official uniform, and it is Gu Manxian, the governor of Jiujiang.

Gu Manxian suddenly received the emperor's holy decree from Jinyiwei half an hour ago, telling him that the army under Huang Degong, the general soldier of Luzhou, would come to take over Jiujiang, and ordered him to open the city to greet him.

"Yes, Governor!" The commander who defended the city obeyed.

"Put down the drawbridge, open the city gate, and let the general soldiers of Huang enter the city." As the order was handed down, the drawbridge was lowered and the gates were opened.

Seeing that the city gate was opened, Huang Degong breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hand, and led the army into the city.

"The army is in the city!"

As Huang Degong and other generals entered Jiujiang City first, the army behind them entered one after another, mighty, some people carefully estimated that there must be tens of thousands, and suddenly couldn't help swallowing saliva, this army is too much, can they use so many troops to garrison them in Jiujiang?

"Mr. Huang!"

"Governor Gu!"

Huang Degong and Gu Manxian arched their hands to each other as a sign of courtesy. According to the holy decree, Huang Degong came to Jiujiang and was the supreme governor of Jiujiang, and even Gu Manxian, the governor, was subordinate to him.

Gu Manxian looked at Huang Degong's army with so many troops, and his heart was faintly tight, and he secretly felt that something big was going to happen.

After Huang Degong led the army into Jiujiang City, he immediately ordered someone to inquire about the news of Zuo Liangyu in Wuchang, Hubei, and learned that Zuo Liangyu's army had expanded to 600,000 horses at this moment.

At the same time, Zuo Liangyu secretly sent an army of 100,000 people, led by his son Zuo Menggeng, into Henan and went to the Yellow River to meet him.

At this time, Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of troops were confronting the hundreds of thousands of Qing soldiers led by Wu Sangui and Duoduo, the prince of Yu of the Great Qing Dynasty.

Suddenly, on this night, a force of 5,000 Manchu Eight Banners, under the leadership of Batu Lu Aobai of the Great Qing Dynasty, bypassed Li Zicheng's defense line and rushed all the way to the Yellow River dozens of miles behind Li Zicheng.

After Li Zicheng got the news, he was shocked and hurriedly sent a scout to find out the movements of this Manchu Eight Banners in case anything happened.

"Lord Ao, Zuo Liangyu's army has arrived." On the edge of the Yellow River, a Qing soldier pointed to the road on the other side of the Yellow River.

"Well, immediately send someone to cross the river and inform Zuo Liangyu's people to come and get the silver." Ao Bai said with a smile, as Dolgon's henchman, Ao Bai had long known Dolgon's plan to kill two birds with one stone, so naturally he didn't feel sorry for so much silver.

On the other side of the Yellow River, Zuo Mengeng only sent 10,000 troops to cross the river to get the silver, which made Zuo Mengeng wonder that after the 10,000 army crossed the river, the Manchurians didn't say a word, so they carried out three million taels of silver and let them take them across the river, there was no accident, Zuo Mengeng was puzzled, and after getting the silver, he immediately led the army to turn back, which seemed to be a very common scene.

However, it was this ordinary scene that made Li Zicheng panic, thus disrupting Li Zicheng's deployment of hundreds of thousands of troops, revealing a fatal flaw, and a few days later it was defeated by the Qing army in one fell swoop, hundreds of thousands of troops were defeated, and the entire Shanxi fell into the hands of the Manchus, which also laid the groundwork for Li Zicheng's defeat.

Another storm is coming, and there are still more than a hundred miles away from Wuchang, and the money that Zhang Kuishan escorted to Zuo Liangyu's army is here to rest.

At this time, several Jinyi guards carried a large box and quickly walked towards Zhang Kuishan, and the leader was Tao Baoping, the head of Zhang Kuishan's subordinates, and he was also one of the twenty Ying Long troops who originally followed Zhang Kuishan to become Jinyiwei.

"My lord, my subordinates have already done everything according to your orders." Tao Baoping said.

"Well, quickly reseal the box and put it back on the silver cart." Zhang Kuishan nodded and said.

This box is exactly the same as the box containing silver at the back, with a seal and put together, no one can see that there is any change in it, in fact, it is the material that Zhang Kuishan added to Zuo Liangyu.

"Hehe, Zuo Liangyu Lao'er, if you don't vomit blood, Lao Tzu will have your surname!" Zhang Kuishan smiled, very confident in the materials he added, and he didn't believe that Zuo Liangyu was so angry that he vomited blood.

After Zhang Kuishan moved his hands and feet, he rested for half an hour, and finally began to set off slowly to Wuchang again, and there were still about three days to reach Wuchang.

In Wuchang City, Zuo Liangyu heard that the silver escorted by the imperial court had only arrived in three days, and his brows immediately furrowed.

"Why is it so slow, didn't you say that it would be there in twenty days, why is it almost a month before it approached Wuchang." Zuo Liangyu looked at Liu Xian Brown and said.

Liu Xian Brown smiled embarrassedly and said: "Dashuai, twenty days is our estimated time, maybe they have encountered any trouble on the road, they have waited for more than twenty days, not bad for these three days." ”

Three days later, Zhang Kuishan and others finally slowly escorted more than 8 million taels of silver to Wuchang City.

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