Chapter 15 Leaving Beijing

Zhang Xuan was not the only one who left Beijing at the same time. Yuan Shizhong also had to leave Beijing early.

Zhang Xuan left Beijing because of the official and military affairs on Zhoushan Island, while Yuan Shizhong left Nanjing because of Gao Jie.

To be precise, it is because of Li Zicheng.

Because of the stimulation of Cao Ying, Li Zicheng's march speed has increased a lot, and at this moment he has crossed the Yellow River and entered Shanxi.

However, after entering the territory of Shanxi, the march slowed down, after all, the terrain of Shanxi is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it can be said that there are small basins, mountains and mountains, if you want to hold on, it is also very easy. Li Zicheng was the vanguard with his surrender, and most of the defenders surrendered. It's just that Gao Jie, who was stationed in the southwest of Shanxi, was frightened by Li Zicheng.

Before Li Zicheng's army could move south, he fled rampantly, retreating from Shanxi to Henan, and oppressing the area of Xuzhou.

Although the two sides have not yet started a war, an urgent document is coming to Nanjing as if it were flying. Especially Wang Daoshan, it seems that at this time, Wang Daoshan remembered that he had the title of Xuzhou defense envoy, and almost a letter of help came to Nanjing every day.

Cao Ying and the official army are in the territory of Lianghuai, almost a canine tooth mistake, you have me, I have you, but Lu Zhenfei turned his focus to Jiangnan, and the two sides did not start a big war, and Gao Jie came over and broke the balance between the two sides at once.

Gao Jie was promoted and reused by Sun Chuanting, and became one of the main battalion leaders in the Battle of Ruzhou, and accepted a lot of people along the way, who were unwilling to surrender and break into the camp.

At this time, how could Yuan Shizhong sit still in Nanjing.

Even if he doesn't care about the success or failure of Xuzhou, he also cares about Fengyang.

On a flower boat on the Qinhuai River in the city of Nanjing, Zhang Xuan picked up a glass of wine and said: "Farewell today, you and my brother don't know when we will see each other again, and my eldest brother will drink this cup full." ”

"Okay." Yuan Shizhong said.

The two drank a cup of wine, and Zhang Xuan asked, "After the eldest brother goes back, how should Gao Jie prepare to deal with it?" ”

Yuan Shizhong said: "What the king means is to defend the first line of the Huai River, as for the rest of the place, don't care too much, however, I want to try Gao Jie's weight, in front of the camp is a lost dog, in front of me ready to be majestic." ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Gao Jie, I didn't fight much, but I asked a few veterans, in the battle of Persimmon Garden, Gao Jie fought quite fiercely, big brother, you have to be careful." ”

"It's not the first day of the war, so I'll naturally be careful, but what are you going to do when you go to Jiangnan?" Yuan Shizhong said: "Your matter is even more tricky, the official army is at sea, and you don't have a sailor." I can only sigh with admiration. ”

Zhang Xuan said: "I'm going to talk to Zheng Zhilong. ”

Yuan Shizhong said: "Let's talk about it, with the meaning of the king, will Zheng Zhilong Shizhen be sealed in Fujian?" ”

"Let's not talk about that." Zhang Xuan said: "Let's talk about business first. I don't believe that Zheng Zhilong is really a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Zhang Xuan knew that when Zheng Zhilong was in Zhoushan, he was thinking of a way to break the game, and since he didn't have the strength to break it, he could only think of other ways. First of all, it is necessary to separate the official army from Zheng Zhilong. The official army is the official army, and Zheng Zhilong is Zheng Zhilong.

Zheng Zhilong sits on a fleet all over the South Seas of Japan, while Cao Ying occupies the gathering place of the main source of goods in the south of the Yangtze River, and when it comes to talking about business, there must be a common language.

However, for a while, I am afraid that I will not be able to talk about a reason, and I will have to talk about it for a long time in the future.

The two didn't say a few words, how could someone break into the boat and whisper in Yuan Shizhong's ear, Yuan Shizhong's face changed suddenly.

Zhang Xuan immediately asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Yuan Shizhong said: "Wang Daoshan surrendered to Gao Jie and was killed by Gao Jie. Happy fire and Xuzhou City, Xuzhou City has now fallen into the hands of the official army. ”

Zhang Xuan frowned suddenly, Xuzhou is a strategic place after all, and it is also the northernmost point of Cao Ying's power, although Wang Daoshan has been wavering, but now he also has Cao Ying's signboard on his head, and it is the order of King Wu. Xuzhou fell into the hands of the official army, which was not a good start for Cao Ying.

Zhang Xuan sighed slightly, he knew that Wang Daoshan was small, but he never thought that he was so stupid, and he didn't know what he thought, after surrendering, he could still be caught by people. Anyway, Wang Daoshan is an old man, and after he died, Zhang Xuan also felt a little melancholy.

Of course, it's just melancholy, and it's a pity that there is one less person in this world.

Zhang Xuan said: "In this way, you are about to leave. ”

"Yes," Yuan Shizhong picked up the wine jug and said, "Brother, I can only drink your practice wine on the road." Take care. ”

"Take care." Zhang Xuan said.

Then the two hurriedly said goodbye and went their separate ways.

Yuan Shizhong took a boat, under the protection of Zhou Fuchen, crossed the Yangtze River, changed horses on the north bank, and went all the way to Fengyang under the escort of cavalry, while Zhang Xuan went around the city, under the escort of more than 1,000 cavalry, all the way to Ningbo.

It's been a rush. When I arrived in Ningbo, it happened to be the fifteenth day of the first month.

In previous years, the Lantern Festival was like daylight, but this year's Lantern Festival, there are already many lanterns in Ningbo, but the flow of people is much less.

These fire lamps were all set up by Zhang Su under the supervision of the gentry everywhere, and a small half of them were set up at the expense of the government, although they are not as good as the mountains and seas and the cars like flowing water in previous years. Ma Rulong, under the quiet, has a different taste.

Just when the lantern was lit, Zhang Xuan arrived

Under the city of Ningbo.

Cao Zongyu and Zhang Su came to greet them outside the city.

Zhang Xuan saw the fire in the city from afar and asked, "Is this a lantern?" ”

"Exactly." Zhang Su said.

Zhang Xuan sighed leisurely, he naturally knew what Zhang Su meant, Zhang Su was whitewashing the peace.

Although in his previous life, when he was a small citizen, he felt that being an official was easy to fool people and do some useless things, but at this moment, he sat in this position, but he understood that this peace needs to be whitewashed, although now thousands of miles of coast, the sea is uneven. But Cao Ying's first task in Jiangnan was not to deal with Zheng Zhilong's death.

It is to calm the hearts of the people.

Stabilizing the people's hearts and whitewashing the peace may not be able to calm the people's hearts, but we must always do some such things.

"Rest outside the city for the night, and then enter the city tomorrow before it is too late, so as not to disturb the people." Zhang Xuan said

"Yes." He Hutou said.

He Hutou took thousands of guards to settle outside the city, Zhang Xuan, Zhang Su, Cao Zongyu and his party, walking among the lanterns, there were more than 100 guards around to protect them, and ordinary people avoided this formation one after another. Zhang Xuan swept through all kinds of lanterns.

These lanterns are much dimmer compared to the lanterns of later generations, so Zhang Xuan doesn't think there is anything good. While watching, he asked Cao Zongyu, "How is the situation near Ningbo?" ”

"It's not going to be good." Cao Zongyu said: "Opposite Ningbo is mostly Zhang Mingzhen and Wang Zhiren's department, as well as Ningbo gentry Yinghe, coastal guards, repeatedly lost, I sent people to rescue, they fled, and then withdrew, they occupied again. There are a few guards, and I can only let them occupy them. ”

"This is not only the case in Ningbo, but also in Wenzhou and Taizhou." Cao Zongyu said: "It's even more serious than Ningbo, Xu Du and Cheng Jikong, the two generals, I have already ordered them to garrison Wentai and Taipei, and the situation is better, and Wentai was almost unguarded before." ”

"That is, we are exhausted." Zhang Xuan said: "But it is rare to be able to fight with the official army? ”

Although Cao Zongyu didn't want to say this, his current state was like this, and he said, "Yes." ”

Zhang Xuan took a deep breath and shifted his attention from the lantern, he had already thought about this situation before, but how to solve it, for a while, Zhang Xuan couldn't think of any way, without a water master, everything he did was tied.

"At the end of the day, there are still not enough troops." Zhang Xuan said: "It seems that the matter of recruiting troops must be accelerated. ”

The place occupied by Zhang Xuan is the land of Jinhua, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Wenzhou, and Taizhou, and how many mobile troops Zhang Xuan has, Runing Army, Xuzhou Army, Jinhua Army, more than 30,000, plus more than 10,000 cavalry of Yang Shenzu, all add up, less than 50,000, on average, less than 10,000 people stationed in each province. Nature is not enough.

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