As the saying goes, take other people's soft hands and eat other people's shortest. Since Wang Dehua arrived in the jurisdiction of the Nanzhong Army, countless belongings have entered his pocket along the way in Guangzhou and other places. After a rough calculation, the jewelry alone has hundreds of thousands of silver dollars in the account. Of course, this is calculated according to the price in the north and south of the two capitals.

What's more, he came here this time to ask for help.

Based on the above two reasons, he was puzzled and frightened by all the places he saw after entering the hinterland of Nanzhong that did not conform to the ancestral system of ceremonial rules and regulations. Why do you want to elevate the status of craftsmen and doctors, who were originally lowly people, so high? Why should we put the status of scholars on the same level as ordinary people?

With these problems at the bottom, when he saw Shouhan's obviously over-the-top living style and palace architecture, Wang Dehua didn't feel anything. There are many people who bring soldiers and officers in various places to live and eat and go out to the police, and they are more than those who guard the Han.

"General, our family came to Nanzhong this time, first, to pass the decree, and the Holy Lord's decree ordered you to lead your troops to the north to King Qin to deal with the Liaodong thieves who entered the Kou and plundered."

In the palace of Shouhan in Hue, on the Yin'an Palace, the prince explained the holy decree and the emperor's mission to Li Shouhan.

"Second, our family is going to take up the post of the eunuch of the Nanzhong Military Qinwang Bingjian Army. I hope the general will take care of this in the future. ”

After revealing his identity, Wang Dehua smiled on his face and looked at Li Shouhan who was standing on the throne, lest he hear any unfavorable news from him.

After carefully reading Emperor Chongzhen's holy decree, Shouhan gently put down the scroll. Command the decree to be put away. Send it to the ancestral hall and worship it carefully. All this has made Wang Dehua's father-in-law, the master of ceremonies, the eunuch who holds the seal, find no loopholes in etiquette.

"My lord, the cabinet and the celebrant have asked His Majesty for his will, and it is not easy to dispatch officials because of the remote location in Nanzhong. The division of administrative regions, the setting of government agencies, the appointment and dismissal of officials, everything is under the general control of adults. The cabinet and the celebrant only need to do the archiving! ”

"I also hope that my lord will copy the city, population, and officials of Nanzhong into a book and hand it over to our family."

Hearing Wang Dehua's words, several officials and generals who accompanied Shouhan to receive Wang Dehua's father-in-law showed a burst of anger on their faces. This is clearly to find out the family background of Nanzhong!

"As for Taiwan, Guangzhou, and overseas, officials below the prefect. All were appointed and dismissed by the general. ”

saw Wang Dehua throw out a shiny, fat and thick pie. Shouhan was also happy to turn this pie into a banner to legitimize his newly acquired land.

"Thank you, father-in-law, and thank you for your grace. Then, General Ben will first propose to his father-in-law, and General Ben intends to appoint the dog Li Huayu as the commander of Taiwan's guard. ”

This time Wang Dehua was a little surprised.

One comes. Li Huayu: He has also seen it. Although there are some talents and insights. But he is a young man with a weak crown, and in the mainland, he is afraid that he is young and promising. Now it is going to become a five-grade prefect in one step. This one. Some promotions are too fast! However, when I thought about it again, I was relieved. Since the beginning of the thieves' rebellion, the rebellion of official promotions in various places has been far more excessive than this. What is the commander of a district guard station? This official position is also on your Li family's territory anyway, even if it is inherited from the world!

However, what surprised him was that as the eldest son of Shouhan, if he wanted to go through some training, increase some knowledge and knowledge, and accumulate some qualifications, he should naturally be familiar with government and military affairs by his father's side, but how to go to Taiwan? Lonely overseas, where the smoke miasma is everywhere?

Alas! I don't understand!

"Please rest assured, the general is the dragon and phoenix among the people, and our family is also shocked when he sees it. It's not our family's boasting, the title and official position of a commander are just wrapped up in our family! Over there in the cabinet, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of War, we will greet them in the name of the celebrant and supervisor! Please just tell Ling Gongzi that he is ready to take office! If anyone dares to come out to stop it, the adults just come to talk to our family! ”

"Thank you so much to my father-in-law. Come! ”

With Shouhan's command, several officials and generals present stood up and saluted together. "Subordinates listen to Jun's order!"

"First, select the elite from the 1st Guards Brigade to which the general belongs, and transfer a battalion of men and horses to serve as the prince's personal soldiers. 2. Each department shall quickly copy the names of the officials and the city of each department into a book, and send it to the prince's office, and ask the father-in-law to file it with the cabinet and the celebrant on his behalf. 3. The soldiers quickly organized money, food, soldiers, horses, and ships, and prepared to cross the sea to the north to King Qin! ”

"Ordered!"

At the sound of the order, everything began to get busy.

First of all, a well-equipped guard battalion capable of blinding the eyes of the prince and a dozen eunuchs of all sizes reported to the prince, and the whole team of 800 people, all with bright armor and shining swords and guns. And in terms of spiritual temperament and physique, Wang Dehua's eyes that are accustomed to looking at people can see at a glance that these people are by no means the kind of soldiers and horses with embroidered pillows and good-looking in the three major battalions of the Beijing Division! Absolute elite! Thinking that this team is now the personal soldier of the eunuch of the prison army, Wang Dehua can't help but laugh non-stop, and he generously put a reward of ten silver dollars for each soldier.

Then the officials copied the names and responsibilities of the officials in various places into several booklets and sent them over, although there were no soldiers, horses, money, food, population, etc., but the prince felt that he could also pay the errand.

In the next few days, the news came from all over the place to allocate grain, grass, military horses, and gather ships. Seeing that the southern Chinese army was about to march north.

However, there is another shocking piece of bad news.

Wang Chengen, the eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch, stumbled down from the sea boat, and rushed into the palace of the Shouhan with vain steps. Regardless of the fact that the servants in the house were cleaning the courtyard and preparing for the New Year, they crashed straight into the Yin'an Palace.

"General! Let's get started! Something is wrong! Lord Lu! Lord Lu! ……”

"What's wrong with Lord Lu?!" Shouhan's heart sank suddenly.

Since the Qing army entered the army, Lu Xiangsheng's situation has deteriorated. The biggest difficulty and enemy is not the Jiannu on the opposite side, but the cold arrows from the inside behind him. Most of these cold arrows came from Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian, Chen Xinjia and other people who advocated peace.

First of all, as the governor of the army, the great eunuch of the world's Qinwang soldiers and horses, Gao Qiqian. Divide tens of thousands of Guan Ning troops as their bodyguards. When he saw Jiannu, he didn't come out of the wall, and turned a blind eye to the burning, killing, and looting of these guys.

Later, Chen Xinjia divided half of the Xuanda army as the governor of Xuanda, and Lu Xiangsheng's direct subordinate troops, the Tianxiong Army, were also forcibly swept away.

In this way, although Lu Xiangsheng was nominally the governor of the world, in fact, there were less than 20,000 troops under his command, and even the soldiers of Xuanfu Town were much more than his troops.

"Lord Lu and the Dongnu army fought successively in Qingdu, Zhending (now Wangdu, Zhengding, Hebei) and other places, although they won many great victories and won very heavy, but there were Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian and others to hinder them. There are Zhang Qiping and others who act as tigers. Cut off the supply of food and grass, although the soldiers fought bravely to kill the enemy, and the equipment was quite sophisticated with the help of the general, but with 5,000 old, weak, sick, disabled, hungry and cold soldiers. How to endure this ice and snow. Tens of thousands of Jiannu took turns to besiege? ”

Wang Chengen wept bitterly. Eyes filled with tears.

"On December 12 of this year, Lord Lu moved to Julu Jiazhuang, and he has been out of food for seven days. It was all because the people voluntarily donated grain mixed with ice and snow for food, but none of the soldiers in the whole army rebelled. Gao Qi dived the thief and bird, commanded tens of thousands of troops in Jize, less than fifty miles away from Jiazhuang, Lord Lu sent his subordinate Yang Tinglin to ask for help, but Gao Qi ignored it. Governor Lu was inevitably determined to die and vowed to fight to the death with the Qing army. With the village out, the Qing army was decisive at the Artemisia Water Bridge. Riding tens of thousands of rings of three turns. Like the promotion of the army to fight, the cry moved the sky, since the dawn has not been completed, the artillery is exhausted. Fighting, the slaves rode in heavy armor, killed dozens of people with their hands, and had four arrows and three blades in their bodies, and they were servants. Yang Lukai, the shepherd, was afraid of the corpse of the crowd, and fell on it, carrying twenty-four arrows to death......"

"Smack!"

"Boom"!

Shouhan first slammed the table with his right hand in an attempt to vent his resentment, but the pen holder and paper on the table were shocked and flew up a few feet, and he didn't feel a little relieved, so he simply flew up and kicked the table that was several inches thick and weighed about hundreds of pounds out of the air, and the ink cinnabar splashed and got on the robes of Wang Chengen and Wang Dehua. Seeing this, the two made eye contact with each other and were quite happy.

"Da Ming will not die in Jiannu, but will die in the hands of his generation!" Shouhan's eyes were on fire, and his voice was hoarse. This sentence frightened Wang Chengen and Wang Dehua to their knees and kowtowed. On the territory of Shouhan, he will be fine even if he puts the spirit card of Emperor Taizu Gao in the toilet, but the two of them heard this, and they are afraid that whether these two fathers-in-law can see the sun tomorrow morning is a problem.

After a roar, Shouhan suddenly felt a burst of pain in his palm, and Fuzhong Langzhong came over to treat him, and exclaimed: "Lord, the ring finger and tail finger of this right hand have been broken, don't use any more force!" ”

After hastily bandaging and processing, Wang Chengen, who was trembling in clothes guarding the Han Dynasty, took a seat, intending to inquire about the situation before and after Lu Xiangsheng's death in battle.

"Let me ask you, Lord Lu's subordinates, especially his Tianxiong Army, are mostly the armor swords and guns that I am equipped with in Nanzhong, and their combat power is naturally extraordinary. How to be besieged by Jiannu and not break through? ”

"General, this time, although the Xuan army is well equipped, it has divided and transferred troops many times, and there are only a few thousand people under Lord Lu. Even the Tianxiong soldiers and horses were also transferred by Chen Xinjia. At this time, the military horse is no longer the one when it set out from Xuanda! What's more, it is already a great thing that the old and weak soldiers who have been starved and cold for several days can fight against tens of thousands of Jiannu iron cavalry! ”

Wang Chengen, who was frightened for a while, began to introduce the military situation before and after Lu Xiangsheng's death to Shouhan.

"And Gao Qiqian that guy, sitting on tens of thousands of elite Guanning army fifty miles away, never with a soldier, a soldier, an arrow and a gun to support, not to mention, heard that Lord Lu's soldiers were defeated and died, panicked, wanted to flee west, but in a panic, he actually led the army to the east for twenty miles, encountered Jiannu two white flag ambush soldiers, only escaped alone. Tens of thousands of Guanning troops were scattered everywhere, and a large number of heavy weapons were captured by the enemy. It is reported that more than 20,000 officers and soldiers were captured! ”

"The fan of the Dongchang incident happened to be plundered into the camp by Jiannu as a common man, and saw more than 100 large and small artillery, gunpowder projectiles, armor and weapons piled up. Jiannu selected the gunners of the Guanning Army from among the captives to form an artillery team to serve as a sharp weapon when attacking the city and plundering the land. All the prisoners of the Ning army were shaved and made up of the coats of the Dolgon and Duoduo brothers, and used as soldiers to charge into battle. This generation has no heart and liver, and he doesn't want to escape after being captured. but for the tiger. When the slave maid went out of Beijing, he built a slave chieftain Duoduo department, waved his army to the north, and took thousands of soldiers as the guide, intending to deceive Baoding Fucheng. Unexpectedly, it was seen through by the defenders at the head of the city. In a fit of rage, Dodor attacked the city. Zhang Qiping, the governor of Baoding, first cut off the grain and grass of Lu Xiangsheng's department, and at this time, seeing that Jiannu was in a hurry to attack the city, he abandoned the city and left, and gave up the gate of the capital. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses are all in the pockets of Jiannu! ”

I see!

Baoding, the southern gate of the capital. was given to Duoduo by Zhang Qiping! In this way, from the south of Zhuozhou, the entire North China Plain is the world of the Jiannu cavalry. And the entrance of the Dorgon brothers seems to have opened up a lot. No more simple killings. Instead, the captive population immediately shaved their hair. Cut off their way back. In this way, the subordinates will fight more and more!

No wonder Chongzhen will send his cronies and eunuchs to come again! It turns out that the situation is getting more and more critical!

After Lu Xiangsheng was defeated and martyred, the morale of the Qing army was like a rainbow. Another 20,000 prisoners of the Guanning army were used as cannon fodder to attack the city and plunder the land, so naturally they no longer had to worry about it. After conquering the important town of Baoding in Jifu for a while, Liu Yuliang, who asked himself to supervise the military situation, heard that Baoding had fallen from Zhuozhou, and immediately retreated into Jinzhou in a panic. However, the Qing army drove straight into Changping, Baodi, Pinggu and other places, and the Beijing division was shaken. On the 20th, Emperor Chongzhen issued an edict to recruit the governor Hong Chengchou to lead the army into the guard. Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, supervised the reinforcements for the military department.

"It's another stupid trick! In this way, the peasant army units in Shaanxi that have just been suppressed have no scruples, and they are bound to rise up immediately! ”

Shouhan couldn't help but shake his head. Next year, for Chongzhen, I am afraid it will be more and more sad.

"The prince is invited. In Xia Xi is a commander under the command of my father-in-law, there is something unclear, and I plan to ask my father-in-law for advice. ”

The commander Chen Tianhua bowed down and bowed to Wang Chengen, who had drunk two sips of tea and calmed down slightly.

"Don't dare to be! The general has something to say, please speak! ”

"As far as I know, the Guanning army is known as the elite, and there is a so-called Guanning iron horse. There are a large number of weapons in our Nanzhong in various ministries, and my father-in-law also said that more than 100 artillery pieces were captured by Jiannu alone, so why didn't he dare to fight? Lord Lu dared to confront tens of thousands of Jiannu with 5,000 hungry and exhausted soldiers, why did these tens of thousands of people collapse at one touch? ”

"If this generation can't fight and dare not fight, why is it like a wolf and a tiger once he shaves his hair and becomes an accomplice of Jiannu? Link Harden City? ”

Chen Tianhua's few words were unhurried or unhurried, but they were like a series of slaps that kept slapping Wang Chengen and others in the face, and Shouhan seemed to hear the crackling sound when he slapped his face.

Wang Chengen's face was red and white for a while, and he just sighed at the end, "Alas! The country is unfortunate and feeds a group of silverfish and national thieves with heavy pay! ”

"Chen Command! National affairs are naturally handled by the emperor and the princes of the court! But don't say much! The right to give orders on my behalf and gather people! The Liao Brigade of the garrison of Guangzhou was transferred to the town, and the Chaozhou Garrison Brigade carried all the combat equipment to the vicinity of the Pearl River Estuary to wait for the ships. As soon as the ships are mobilized, they will go north! ”

"Ordered!"

Chen Tianhua was stopped by Shouhan for questioning, which made Wang Chengen and others feel a lot relieved. The actions of the officers and soldiers made them very cold-hearted.

"The military division sent a fast boat to Huang Yi Mountain on Tamna Island, and ordered it to prepare for the expedition, two regiments of cavalry, and more mules and horses. This time, the troops going north did not bring mules and horses, and the mules and horses needed were all supplied by Tamna Island! ”

Huang Yishan has been raising horses and training cavalry on Tamluo Island for the past two years, and the four cavalry regiments under his department have more than 3,000 riders and more than 10,000 war horses.

Chongzhen sent a second angel urging King Qin to come, and this series of bad news brought by him completely disrupted Shouhan's original plan to send troops north after the New Year. Originally, I thought that after Lu Xiangsheng's careful rectification in the past two years, and with his own strong help, it should be said that the combat power has been greatly improved, but today I don't want Lu Xiangsheng to be defeated and martyred. And the Jiading and others raised in the towns of the Guanning Army, in the face of the fierce offensive of Jiannu, were still on the verge of collapse. And the Dolgon brothers, in order to expand their own strength, went further on the basis of the original compilation of Bao Yi into Jiala and Niu Lu, and directly organized the captured officers and soldiers of the Guanning Army into an army to expand their strength and become their own peripheral armament. These are all things that Shouhan did not expect.

After seeing the dazzling mobilization of people, money, food, guns, supplies, ammunition, arrangement, boarding order, and the contact signals of each ship during the sea march, it was already the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth month of the eleventh year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty.

Because the plan for the 30th Chinese New Year's Eve Guards Brigade, Liao Dongzhi Brigade, and Wu Biao Brigade to go north to King Qin had already been drawn up, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at the General's Mansion was held in advance on the 28th.

Amid the sound of firecrackers, Shouhan raised his glass to toast to the two eunuchs of the prison army.

"The two princes, this time they went north, guarding the tens of thousands of horses in the Han Dynasty, and asked the father-in-law to protect him more in front of the emperor. A certain family has thanked me in advance. ”

Hearing that the taste in Shouhan's words was wrong, Wang Chengen and Wang Dehua couldn't help but glance at each other, and then asked in surprise, "Why did the general say this?" Don't ruin the life of the slaves! ”

"Since ancient times, there have been no powerful ministers, and generals can make contributions to outsiders. Although Shouhan didn't read much, he had also heard this truth. Since the second year of Chongzhen, it is now the fourth time that Dongyu has committed a crime, and it is deeper than before. Every time the captives invaded the pass, it was martial law in the capital, and the imperial court was helpless, allowing the captives to ride rampantly and ravaging Jifu, and the state and county officials would only flee when they heard the wind, and did not dare to stick to the city. The local squires also fled first when they heard the news, and no one was willing to think about the country, and they had no loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, let alone calling on the people to protect Sangzi. When the officers and soldiers came, they were as fearful of the captives as tigers and leopards, and as fierce as jackals to the people. Every time a captive was convicted, houses were burned, women were raped, cattle, farm implements, livestock, and property were plundered, and the people were either killed by the soldiers or taken captive by the slaves. These are all things that Shouhan saw when he was King Qin two years ago. Now, Gao Qiqian has 30,000 Guanning iron cavalry and did not save the friendly army, and then he was defeated and fled, and gave more than 20,000 elites who spent the people's fat and people to feed Jiannu, becoming a sharp weapon in the hands of Jiannu! That Yang Sichang, Chen Xinjia, and Zhang Qiping framed their colleagues and did not hesitate to destroy state affairs, and their crimes were even more deserved! ”

"If the Shouhan and others are blessed by the ancestors' well-spirited and lucky victory, they must have the courage to speak to His Majesty and impeach Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian, Chen Xinjia, Zhang Qiping and others for the crime of corrupting state affairs for their own selfishness!"

When Wang Chengen and Wang Dehua heard this, their hearts burst with joy. It's done!

Gao Qiqian thought that he was a eunuch in the prison army, with heavy troops in his hands, and Yang Sichang, Chen Xinjia and others as Olympic aids, so he was not very respectful to the two of them. They had long planned to get rid of this person as soon as possible, but there was no strong evidence of high diving in their hands, and what was even worse was that there was no strong military leader to help.

Although most of Wang Chengen's words are true, they may not be without the elements of deduction and guidance for the Han Dynasty.

"If the adults want to commit rape for the country, the two of us are willing to follow the tail!" (To be continued......)