At the end of the first month, the weather was very good. The howling north wind was gone, and only the bright sun hung in the sky, making Zheng Zhilong warm.

The latter was lying on a chaise longue, resting in the sun, and the whole person was lazy.

Jiang Zhe held a battle report in his hand and read it clearly: "...... On the 22nd, Zuo Guangxian and Xue Dizhong were defeated and returned to Ziyang. On the 24th, Ma Ke and Bai Guangen were defeated in Yishui, pursued to the Baima River for the Jianyu Ma Army, and retreated to Zou County for defense; On the same day, Cao Bianjiao came from the west of Surabaya County, and with the strength of the Qingzhou and Denglai people's armies, the overseers stormed the Fangshan in the east of Qufu, and then forced the Jianyu Ma army to retreat. ……”

"It's not that our army doesn't work hard, but we really can't beat Jianyu." Hong Chengchou said to Wu Changshi with a helpless face.

Zheng Zhilong's eyes didn't open, if it weren't for the fingers that were flicking the armrest of the recliner for a while, Jiang Zhe really thought that Zheng Zhilong had fallen asleep.

"A big show, a big show."

Hong Chengchou still wants to have face, so he "actively" sent troops to relieve the siege of Qufu, but his generals were ineffective and lost in every battle, so there was nothing to be done, right?

That Cao Bianjiao was even assigned by him to go around Ningyang in a big circle, avoiding Qufu, along Jiufeng Mountain, and around Surabaya County east of Qufu. After gathering the Qingzhou People's Army and the Denglai People's Army there, on the 24th, they attacked and killed the two armies of Ma Ke and Bai Guangen in the east. But the result is still a 'defeat'!

Looking at the battle reports of the past few days, no one can say that Hong Chengchou is not doing his best, right? Wu Changshi sent another letter of impeachment to the capital, and with these defeats to lay the foundation, it can only be said that the result of the 'rescue' is not good, and it cannot be said that there is a problem with people's attitudes.

Both horizontally and vertically are defeated.

Those commanders-in-chief, tell them that it is difficult to win the battle against the Tartars, and is it not easy to defeat the battle? Although defeat is also death.

Jiang Zhe also had a smile on his face, it is said that Wu Changshi in the Ming army camp outside the city was scolding his mother all day long, and the impeachment notes were one after another. But is there a bird for it?

Zhou Yanru ate a reassuring pill from him - Zheng Zhilong guaranteed that Qufu's Kong family was fine, how could he guarantee it? Zhou Yanru didn't wonder in his heart - he didn't say anything again, even if he was worried now. But what can he do but accept it?

Without Zhou Yanru's support, what is it when he is just a Wu Chang?

"This Ming court is rotten at home. More than 100,000 troops gathered in one place, but they could only watch 40,000 or 50,000 Tartars run rampant. Lieutenant generals in the army are either cowards like rats, or they are people who harbor evil intentions like Ben Shuai. How many days do you think this Ming Dynasty can last? Zheng Zhilong said hehehe.

"Although Zhao Song has the shame of Jingkang, there is Grandpa Zong in front of him, Grandpa Yue in the back, Han Shizhong, Wu family brothers, and even Liu Qi and Yang Yizhong, all of whom are capable of fighting and are famous and brave. But what about the Ming Dynasty? The number of qi is really exhausted. In the end, in addition to Zheng Chenggong, a guy who sells dog meat with a sheep's head, it turned out to be the remnants of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. It's ridiculous to say it.

"Dashuai, this Ming is still loyal. On the orders of General Shi Zongxian, General Liu Zhaoji and General Liu led the Huaishang People's Army to the Taizhuang area, which will be three days as fast as possible and five days as slow as possible, and will definitely be able to reach Ziyang. ”

"Director Lu Jiude and Huang Degong also led the soldiers and horses to Xuzhou."

Liu Zhaoji, a general from the Liao army, was the biggest support in Shi Kefa's hands, who had gathered Ding Zhuang in Huai'an Mansion, and after hearing the news that Qufu was besieged, he immediately sent his most important general.

It's rare to get a fist, but it's not used in the right place.

Lu Jiude is also a good eunuch, he knows how to fight, and he is loyal, which is much stronger than Gao Qiqian.

Huang Degong Huang Chuangzi, the only person in the four towns of Jiangbei who was still loyal to the Ming Dynasty in later generations, was a man killed in the warrior camp. Although he had just defeated Zhang Xianzhong, with the strength of his men, he was helpless against the Tartars.

On the plains and wilderness, the current Ming army really can't help 40,000 or 50,000 Tartars.

"I'd better get sick." Zheng Zhilong sighed, with his brain, he couldn't think of a way to defeat the Tartar on the opposite side. Not even an attack on Jining Prefecture could be done. "You go to see Ma Ke, Bai Guangen, and Zuo Guangxian and ask them if they want a Tartar head." Dai Jiaji's victory in the first battle - the head of the Tartars, the heads of the two Tartars, can be more than thousands.

After deducting the business to Yanjing, the rest is no less than three or four hundred.

"Everything is on the outside?"

"Business as usual."

Zheng Zhilong has the first rank in hand, and it is a real feat, and Wu Changshi's impeachment cannot hurt his muscles and bones. If he sends people to the capital for another activity, it will be even more light. It's just that he doesn't want to throw any more money into the water. But the other chief officers were defeated again and again, and there were not a few heads to deal with, but it was inevitable that they would have to eat the first rank.

Jiang Zhe retreated, Zheng Zhilong was blind for a while, and now that the combat strength of the two sides was seriously unbalanced, it was better for a novice like him to shrink into the city.

So, why did he get sick?

Let's continue to get sick, and wait until the time for the tartar to leave, and see if there is any chance to take advantage of it. Or wait until the ice and snow melt, and he will take the navy to look for trouble outside the gate again.

In this way, he not only felt that he was more sure, grasped the initiative in the battle, and his life was safer, but also felt that this war was easier and more convenient to fight. Unlike the current battle, which has to consider all aspects, it makes him uneasy.

If you play the battle for the world as a game that cannot be saved, Zheng Zhilong is now a rookie who has just started it, and he is not familiar with many things, and his power has only developed slightly.

Of course, this is not a game. As soon as his eyes were closed, Zheng Zhilong saw the scene he had seen in many towns before, and he sat up.

At that time, he led his troops from Jinan Mansion in the north to Yanzhou Mansion, which was Lianshan Town in Ningyang, and he saw for the first time what it is like a mountain of corpses. In the past, I only heard people say it, but how can the appeal of words compare to the real picture?

Lianshan Town is a large town on the boundary of Ningyang, connecting Yanzhou Mansion and Jinan Mansion, and is a very prosperous place, with thousands of households.

He had already received a report from Zhou Yi that day, but when he walked into Lianshan Town, people immediately gasped.

I saw that on the wide east-west gate road, all the shops along the street had been burned down, and only charred remnants remained. On the ground were layers of corpses, and there was no interruption as far as the avenue could see.

The horses were impassable, Zheng Zhilong jumped off the horse and advanced in the pile of corpses, the blood stains on many corpses had turned into red ice, some women were all over their bodies, without a trace, the streets were full of blood, and the ditches on both sides of the road were all frozen red.

He didn't know why the people here didn't hide, or that they didn't have time to hide. And then they all die.

The inspection department in the town is the place with the highest concentration of corpses, and I am afraid that the people will not be able to escape, so they all come here. The corpses are so dense that you can't even get off your feet.

In his previous life, he had lived for more than 20 years and had never seen a corpse in the real sense, and after coming to this era, he had seen a lot of corpses, but when he looked at the corpses that seemed to be everywhere, he was still in a trance.

Therefore, when the Tartars drove the people to make offensive meat shields, Zheng Zhilong's spirit was so 'normal'. The scene in Lianshan Town was not the only scene he saw.

On the way from Ningyang to Ziyang......

So, this is by no means a game!

If Jiang Zhe was still standing by his side at this time, he would definitely be able to find that Zheng Zhilong, who was still lazy with a trace of helplessness and decadence a moment ago, is now like a different person, and his whole body is full of anger.

It took a while to calm down, but Zheng Zhilong sighed, and the person fell into the recliner like no bones.

It's not that he doesn't hate Jianyu, but his strength is not good now.

If you give him a few years, let Zheng Zhilong pile up hundreds of thousands of troops, and the guns are all neatly equipped, will you see if he will sit in the city?

"Master, Zhou Yi asks to see you."

Zheng Zhilong waved his hand, and the few attendants who were serving beside him were still those deaf people who could speak. Seeing Zheng Zhilong waving his hand, he immediately retreated, and after a while, Zhou Yi strode over.

"The marshal saw that the villain had been monitoring Wu Chang for many days, and today he saw him causing people to run south on horseback. He was captured at the White Horse River and a letter was found from the man. ”

After taking the envelope, Zheng Zhilong didn't rush to pull it out and see that Wu Changshi's impeachment letter sent to Jingshi had his name in it. And it's the blackest of blacks.

Jiang Dejing wrote to say that although the emperor had suppressed all the impeachments, there were already people in Jingshi Yanlu who wanted to do something, and Zheng Zhilong would obviously become one of the targets of the officials, so that his originally glorious reputation would be smeared with a layer of black ash. Tell him to think twice.

However, it doesn't hurt that he has Dai Jiaji in his hands.

Zheng Zhilong couldn't block the way, when he asked someone to quietly spy on Wu Chang, he was just thinking of finding an opportunity to hack him. But I didn't expect this guy to send someone south.

"Sure enough." After tearing open the envelope and seeing the contents of the letter inside, Zheng Zhilong smiled angrily.

This Wu Changshi wrote a letter to his friends in Jiangnan to complain, revealing a lot of inside stories in the army, if this letter arrived in Jiangnan, according to the status of the boss of Wu Changshi's restoration society, below Hong Chengchou, the reputation of many civil and military officials in Ziyang City was ruined.

The military generals do not contribute, and the civil officials do not contribute, this is because the Qiu Ba do not know the righteousness, and the scholars deceive the teachers and destroy the ancestors.

In fact, now the time is about to enter February, and it is not far from the time when the Tartars return north, and when there is no hair in Konglin Qufu, this matter will be over. At least it won't be the focus of the world's conversation.

But Wu Changshi is so messy, if this letter really reaches Jiangnan, "If it is really not enough to succeed, there is more than enough failure......

"Give this letter to Hong Chengchou and see how that guy handles it."