Wuchang, Zuo Liangyu's General Soldier's Mansion.

Zuo Liangyu was discussing some things with his son Zuo Mengeng, when suddenly, a person broke in.

"Marshal, great joy, the emperor is really afraid of the mighty of the marshal, and has already compromised, and assigned 10,000 Beijing battalions to send the army's salary to the marshal, and it is estimated that he will be able to arrive in twenty days." Liu Xianzhang said.

Liu Xian Brown had obeyed orders under Yang Sichang in his early years, and later after Yang Sichang's death, he was sent by the imperial court as Zuo Liangyu's deputy, and guarded Wuchang with Zuo Liangyu, but seeing that Zuo Liangyu was becoming more and more powerful, he took refuge in Zuo Liangyu for his own future and became Zuo Liangyu's right-hand man, and was very trusted by Zuo Liangyu.

"Okay, hahahaha." Zuo Liangyu laughed and said: "The regent of the Manchu Qing Dynasty has also informed Ben Shuai a few days ago, asking Ben Shuai to send an army of 100,000 to the Yellow River to receive the three million taels of silver given to Ben Shuai in ten days, so that Ben Shuai can get 10 million silver at a time, and a million army is just around the corner." ”

To say that Zuo Liangyu's dream of a million-strong army was formed because of Li Zicheng's relationship, a few years ago in the Battle of Zhuxian Town, Zuo Liangyu was defeated by Li Zicheng's hands, and his subordinates were almost wiped out, and he was seriously injured. At that time, Li Zicheng had hundreds of thousands of troops, Zuo Liangyu thought that his defeat was because of the small number of soldiers under his command, and later saw that after Li Zicheng got Henan, the army quickly developed to one million, and then Li Zicheng led a million army to sweep the world, and even the capital of the Ming Dynasty was beaten down, and the momentum was unmatched for a while.

Zuo Liangyu was thinking at that time, Li Zicheng was mediocre, but he could rely on a million army to dominate the world, unstoppable, if he Zuo Liangyu also had a million army in hand, he would be stronger than Li Zicheng, and it would not be a problem to dominate the world, since then, Zuo Liangyu began to desperately expand the army, luring him with three meals a day and two taels of silver a month, and gradually recruited an army composed of hundreds of thousands of refugees.

Of course, there are three meals a day, but Zuo Liangyu, the military salary, has never been paid to the soldiers below, the reason is that the court owes salaries. In this way, he was able to divert the resentment of his soldiers to the court, and he himself could save money to expand his army.

At this moment, another month has passed, in September of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, after this month's expansion, Zuo Liangyu's army finally broke through 600,000 people, nearly half of the dream of one million, although Zuo Liangyu faintly felt that Dolgon should not be so kind, and would give him three million taels of silver for nothing, it is likely that there is a place to use him, but so what, the temptation of three million taels of silver is too great, and the alliance between him and Dolgon has the seal of the Qing Dynasty and Dolgon's own signature, Zuo Liangyu is not afraid that Dolgon will break his promise, with those three million taels of silver, he can expand the army of more than 100,000 thousand, plus the more than 8 million taels of silver that the imperial court is transporting, he can even expand the army to 1.2 million in one fell swoop, with so many troops in hand, who else in the world is his opponent!

"Congratulations to my father!" Zuo Mengeng said with a smile.

Although Zuo Mengeng didn't care about his father's dream of a million-strong army, he didn't dare to show it.

Time passed day by day, Zhang Kuishan's 'military salary' escorted to Zuo Liangyu came halfway, and as this 'military salary' approached Wuchang day by day, once the matter was revealed at the last moment, it was hard to imagine how angry Zuo Liangyu should be, and the situation would inevitably change at that time.

In Luzhou, in Huang Degong's camp, Zhu Cihong sent Jinyi Wei to pass on the decree, so that Huang Degong led his 150,000 troops to prepare to move to Jiujiang.

Jiujiang is about 600 miles away from Luzhou, which is converted into kilometers, that is, more than 300 kilometers, according to the daily march of the army for 100 miles, it takes six days for Huang Degong's army to reach Jiujiang to take over the defense.

Zhu Cihong calculated the time, Zuo Liangyu got the information that Huang Degong moved to Jiujiang, Zhang Kuishan should have escorted the 'silver' outside Wuchang City, put down the 'silver' and returned immediately, Zuo Liangyu was too late to receive the news.

There is no doubt that Zhu Cihong is ready for Zuo Liangyu to raise a rebellion after knowing that he has been tricked.

"Yichun, is there still no movement in the Red Battalion of the thief army stationed in Fuyang?" Huang Degong asked at Feng Yichun.

"There's no movement." Feng Yichun shook his head, full of doubts: "As one of Li Zicheng's most elite five battalions of the left revolution, the Red Battalion did not participate in the decisive battle with the Manchus in Shanxi, but ran to Fuyang, which is not far from our Luzhou, and stationed there, I don't know if he Li Zicheng is stupid, or if there is some conspiracy, or just to prevent the imperial army from counterattacking Henan, but I can't think right, how could such an elite Gezuo soldiers and horses be sent to Fuyang to defend the city, I really don't understand-----"

It is said that after the Red Lady and Li Zicheng turned their faces that day, they took 10,000 Red Battalion soldiers and horses all the way south to Fuyang, and stationed here for more than two months, which had already attracted Huang Degong's attention.

Huang Degong was also puzzled, but although the Red Lady's Red Battalion soldiers and horses were experienced in a hundred battles, there were only 10,000 horses, and Huang Degong was not afraid.

"We will move to Jiujiang in three days, and when there is no one to guard this place in Luzhou, the red camp will be a trouble, and we have to guard against it, so we should inform the emperor of this matter." Huang Degong said.

Feng Yichun nodded approvingly.

If Huang Degong and Feng Yichun knew that Li Yan, the husband of the Red Lady, was in the hands of Zhu Cihong, they would not be puzzled, but when Zhu Cihong escorted Li Yan to Nanjing City that day, he directly threw him into the prison, and only said hello to let people take care of him, and did not tell anyone his identity, so no one in the court knew that Li Yan was in the prison.

Zhu Cihong also has the meaning of protecting Li Yan in it, otherwise if the courtiers knew that the emperor had caught Li Zicheng's right-hand man Li Yan, and the former emperor was killed by Li Zicheng, the courtiers would have to force Zhu Cihong to kill Li Yan and sacrifice the flag.

Huang Degong's recital was quickly delivered to Zhu Cihong's hands.

"The fifth battalion of the left of the revolution, the red lady?" Zhu Cihong looked strange, naturally knew the relationship between the Red Lady and Li Yan, and could guess what the Red Lady wanted to do, it was nothing more than trying to rescue Li Yan.

If it weren't for Huang Degong's report, Zhu Cihong would have really forgotten about Li Yan's stubble.

This is no wonder Zhu Cihong, Li Yan is very strong-minded, he refuses to surrender anything, Zhu Cihong cherishes talents, and is reluctant to kill him like this, and wants to wait until Li Zicheng is destroyed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and then use Li Yan in the line, so he has been throwing Li Yan in the prison, and after a few months, Zhu Cihong really almost forgot about him.

"This red lady has been coming to Fuyang for more than two months, and there is no movement? At this moment, he must have infiltrated Nanjing City and is inquiring about Li Yan's news, right? Zhu Cihong smiled a little strangely.

For the Red Lady, one of the strange women in history, Zhu Cihong still admires it very much, and if she wants to subdue Li Yan, the Red Lady is likely to be an opportunity, and at the same time, Zhu Cihong is also a little curious, what does the Red Lady, known as the strange woman, look like.

"Someone is coming, and Peng Cheng, the deputy commander of the Jinyi Guard, is coming to see me." Zhu Cihong commanded.

"Yes!"

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