On the day of sending off Fugou Liu Xiucai, Yuan Shizhong sent people north again, and quickly went to Kaifeng to meet with Gao Mingheng, the governor of Henan, and asked for appeasement as soon as possible, and sent ships to the Neixiang Wharf to help Xiao Yuanying's men and horses cross the turbulent water.

At the same time, Yuan Shizhong also asked Zhu Youhua, the king of Nanyang, for food, grass and ordnance, and some of the officers and soldiers of Lei Dahu's Nanyang battalion built a fortress in Neixiang County, preparing to meet the camp.

A few days later, Zhu Youhua's ordnance, grain and grass, and Governor Gao Mingheng's reply arrived in the morning and afternoon of the same day.

Zhu Youhua's efficiency made Yuan Shizhong, who was accustomed to seeing the speed of the imperial court's civil and military affairs, very surprised, he distributed grain, grass and ordnance, and Lei Dahu also specially said that this was the reward of the prince of Nanyang.

All the thieves thanked one after another, saying that they had received the silver, grain and grass from the prince of Nanyang in the past two days, and they were willing to fight to the death to resist the camp.

In the reply letter, Gao Mingheng did not relax his vigilance against Xiao Yuanying, he promised to accept Surrender, and promised to play the imperial court to confer the title of general on the southwest road of Zhongnanyang Mansion in Yuan Shi, but there was one condition.

This condition is that Yuan Shizhong must kill Li Zhongwen, the Fugou Xiucai who came to persuade him to surrender, and scold Li Zicheng in his reply, in order to show that Yuan Ying is sincere in surrendering to the imperial court.

As for the matter of sending ships to transport people and horses, Gao Mingheng said that he would discuss it after he surrendered to the imperial court.

Regarding Gao Mingheng's reply, Yuan Shizhong, Zhu Chengju and others were greatly disappointed, but in addition to being disappointed, they also had some confidence when they saw the grain, grass and ordnance that Zhu Youhua quickly sent.

At the very least, there are still people on their side on the side of the court.

Yuan Shizhong was a little dissatisfied with only giving the post of general, after all, he was born in mud, but now Liu Guoneng is the deputy commander-in-chief, but he has to control him, but he doesn't understand what the post of general represents.

Liu Yuqixiao first told Gao Mingheng what Yuan Shizhong, the general of the southwest road of Nanyang Mansion, meant, meant.

Once Yuan Shizhong became a general, the soldiers, horses, ordnance and equipment of the entire southwest road of Nanyang Mansion would be under his control.

Nanyang is a big house, leading two states and eleven counties, the southwest road is the beginning of resisting Shaanxi, Huguang thieves, Nanyang Wei more in the southwest road in the key place of more than 30 households, 1,000 households, each set up officers and soldiers stationed.

These are all under the jurisdiction of the Southwest Road General, that is, the future self.

Yuan Shizhong was thoughtful, both excited and hesitant, Liu Yuqi also said that when Liu Guoneng surrendered to the sky, the imperial court only awarded the position of garrison, and for many years he was promoted to deputy chief soldier by virtue of his exploits in suppressing bandits.

Yuan Shizhong laughed out loud at this time, and the Dao court still gave him a few thin noodles.

Zhu Chengju disagreed with what title he was awarded, "Master Yuan doesn't have to worry too much about the title, as long as the turbulent water passes, our little Yuan Ying won't do whatever he wants in Nanyang?" The governor can't, so what about us! ”

Hearing this, Liu Yuqi's face did not move, but he had killing intent in his heart.

It seems that some people in Xiao Yuanying's camp are still in the pretense of surrendering for a while, not listening to the order and waiting for an opportunity to rush into the hinterland, this kind of person should be eradicated as soon as possible, and put it in, which can only cause unwarranted trouble to the prince.

Yuan Shizhong also heard the meaning of Zhu Chengju's words, he had discussed it with Liu Yuqi, and this time it was a real surrender.

Since this is the case, there can be no hesitation, the most important thing at the moment is how to get the head of Liu Xiucai in Fugou, and then find a scholar who can write and scold Li Zicheng.

Regarding Zhu Chengju's words, Yuan Shizhong laughed and was also a little worried.

After discussing and discussing, everyone in Xiao Yuanying felt that the only feasible strategy was to reply to Chuang Ying, saying that he was willing to return to the banner of King Chuang, and after deceiving Liu Zhongwen, he would kill him in public, and take his head to prove his sincerity.

The reply to Liu Zhongwen took a few days, and sure enough, Li Zicheng was very satisfied with Yuan Shizhong's reply, and sent Liu Zhongwen and Yuan Shizhong's wife Yuan Huimei to discuss the final date of return.

put Yuan Huimei back, which Yuan Shizhong and Liu Yuqi didn't expect.

Originally, when the separated husband and wife met, it should be the time for Lang Qing to be a concubine, but Yuan Shizhong did not have this thought, and he came to Liu Yuqi's room alone that night to discuss strategies.

originally planned to kill Liu Zhongwen directly, and then write a letter to finish the matter, but now that Yuan Huimei is here, everything is uncertain.

Yuan Shizhong knows his mother-in-law very well, she was not surnamed Yuan in the past, but after marrying herself, she changed her surname to Yuan, and generally only called her Huimei.

After all, Yuan Huimei is a female streamer, seeing that Li Zicheng is powerful, and the court is detached from morality, she is sure that there is no way to live with the court, and when the husband and wife meet, they don't come out in three sentences, which is to persuade Yuan Shizhong to vote for Li Zicheng again.

Yuan Shizhong knew that she must have come back to persuade herself when she came back this time, so she didn't want to stay in the room longer at all.

Li Zicheng did a great job, which caught Yuan Shizhong off guard, and his abacus was all disrupted, after listening to these things, Liu Yuqi thought about it and said:

"I think this battle with the camp is unavoidable, so this Liu Zhongwen can't be killed easily, and I have to ask my sister-in-law to write a letter back to Li Zicheng as a delaying tactic."

"And then what to do?" Yuan Shizhong was a little irritable.

"I will leave for Nanyang tomorrow and persuade the prince to send troops to help Xiao Yuan's camp resist King Chuang, after all, the inner countryside has fallen, and the next one will be Nanyang, I believe the prince will understand." Liu Yuqi said.

Yuan Shizhong had nothing to do, so he had to nod, and then Liu Yuqi said again: "Then Zhu Chengju started an incident with his brother in the past, right?" ”

Yuan Shizhong nodded again and said, "You don't have to say more, I know that this person is a cancer, but he has a lot of cronies in Xiao Yuan's camp, and he can't move at the moment." ”

"It's good that my brother knows, before going to Nanyang, Zhang Huanghu and Zhu Chengju must be dealt with, otherwise they can't be trusted by the prince of Nanyang!"

Liu Yu said nothing, and a glass of old wine went straight into his stomach.

Xiao Yuanying's current situation is indeed very difficult, on the one hand, the imperial court will not easily believe them, on the other hand, although Li Zicheng has now divided his troops, he has not yet left.

Here, we have to wait for Li Zicheng to lead the main force to fight with Sun Chuanting and Yang Sichang before we have a chance to defeat the division of troops who broke into the camp.

If the heart of a complete break is exposed as soon as possible, I am afraid that Li Zicheng will be furious and personally lead the army to retaliate, and hundreds of thousands of troops will come down directly, even if the Xiao Yuan battalion adds the Nanyang battalion, it is tantamount to using the mantis arm as a car.

Liu Yuqi's strategy of delaying the army is indeed the best method that can be used at present.

It's just Huimei's side......

Seeing Yuan Shizhong's worries, Liu Yuqi said: "Sister-in-law may not write this letter, I found out, there is a person from the camp named Shao Shixin next to her, this person is not deep, but he is very careful." ”

Yuan Shizhong said: "Then wouldn't it be better for us to call this Shao Shixin to discuss together?" ”

"It's a solution, but the actual intention is never to let him know."

"That's nature."

Liu Yuqi nodded, and then walked out of the room.

After a while, Shao Shixin came, and Yuan Shizhong smiled first: "Brother Shixin, guess what is the important matter when I called you here?" ”

Shao Shixin was entrusted by Li Zicheng to look at Yuan Huimei here, and if he couldn't do it, he would threaten Yuan Shizhong with her, find out the true thoughts of Xiao Yuan Ying, and give Li Zicheng a true situation of which end comes first and which end lasts.

When he came with Liu Yuqi just now, he had already guessed that Yuan Shizhong's search for him was probably related to this matter, and he was a little apprehensive when he entered the house.

At this time, when I heard Yuan Shizhong call him 'Brother Shi Xin', I also had three points of confidence, and asked, "What's the matter, please tell Yuan Ye directly." ”

Yuan Shizhong said again: "A few days ago, Song Junshi sent someone to write to me and persuade me to go back, and I also said that I wanted to go back, have you heard about this?" ”

Shao Shixin was stunned for a moment, and then patted his thigh and said, "Ah! How did I not know about it at all? Master Yuan, the military advisor can write a letter to recruit you, this must be out of King Chuang's kindness! ”

"Of course, it's the kindness of King Chuang." Yuan Shizhong laughed a few times, and naturally understood that Shao Shixin was pretending to be stupid.

He broke into the camp, Bacheng was still sent by Li Zicheng, would he not know?