Six days later.

West of Jizhou City.

"Playing music!"

With Zhizhou's excited shouts, the gongs and drums on both sides immediately sounded, and there were even suona, and the noisy music was in stark contrast to the indifferent people around.

This is the front of the front.

The Hengshui Lake next to it is the dividing line between the two sides.

And Hengshui City, on the other side of Hengshui Lake, is the control area of Zhou Yuji's department, but it is not Zhou Yuji's Liaodong Iron Cavalry, but the local militia, which they call the county brigade.

In fact, so far the real army on the opposite side is only a cavalry army of Zhou Yuji, Yang Xin has not increased his troops to the south at all, and he has no troops to increase, and the city defense army he formed in the capital is still restoring order in all parts of Shuntianfu. And in other places, these generals are controlled by themselves, Sun Shoufa Baoding, Luo has always been really determined, Zhou Yuji half of Hejian, said half of the canal because the original Tianjin garrison and Yang Jiajiading were responsible for the canal, and he was only responsible for the road from Hejian Mansion to the south facing Jizhou.

After all, this kind of thing can't be eaten alone, and his subordinates have reaped enough benefits.

But when it comes to the county, it's the militia.

That is, the original poor people who had defected to the regiment and raised troops, and then he sent a few officers with a hundred and ten cavalry to come and sit in the town.

The rest is all militia.

But even so, the kings on this side did not dare to attack there......

I don't dare!

The militia who have just completed the fight against the local tyrants and divide the fields must resist desperately, and then as long as they can't attack it in two days, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry stationed in Shenzhou will arrive, although there are 20,000 Wang Divisions in Jizhou City alone, and there are 10,000 Zaoqiang, Xinhe, and Shulu, but if you really want to fight in the wild, it is estimated that these 50,000 will be put together, and the Liaodong Iron Cavalry will collapse at the touch of a touch in the face of Zhou Yuji......

In fact, there are 30,000 of these 50,000, which were originally collapsed at the touch of a button.

What's more, there are those Diao people who are waiting for the opportunity to move.

"Cheer up, put on a smiling face, forget how to teach you, you Diao people!"

Liu Zeqing waved his whip and scolded angrily.

Diao people looked at him with contempt, but no one cooperated, and the soldiers who maintained order around them lazily urged, but these soldiers were also a rabble from Henan, Xu Dingguo ate empty salaries until he was mad, and when he was fighting, he hurriedly hired cannon fodder to fill the number, these are cannon fodder, and the soldiers who can really fight are all around Xu Dingguo.

At this moment, a large number of cavalry in front of them were stopping, and the helmets of these half-armored Liaodong iron cavalry were bright and bright, and their temperament was completely different from that of the cannon fodder.

And among these cavalrymen was Hong Chengchou, who was dressed in a red robe......

Fellow Hung University.

"Brother Hengjiu, I'm looking forward to you!"

In the sound of gongs and drums, Cheng Ji took a step forward and said enthusiastically.

Beside him, Xu Dingguo and other generals also saluted.

Hong Chengchou didn't return the salute, just sat on the back of the horse and watched them.

Cheng Jiming's face was displeased, although now Hong Chengchou is higher than him, but in fact, his qualifications are higher than Hong Chengchou, he is a thirty-five year jinshi of Wanli, even if he was a squire before, he is also slightly higher than Hong Chengchou, the governor of the imperial history of the capital. However, he is also an old fox in the officialdom, so he will not show it at this time, at least for now, Hong Chengchou is still Hongguang's minister, and he is still here to inspect the armies, and he is only the governor of the military affairs.

"Elder Hong Ge, please come into the city and rest!"

He said with a smile.

Hong Chengchou still sat upright and didn't move, just looking at him with a smile.

"Elder Hong Ge, what do you mean by this, why do you look down on your brothers?"

Xu Dingguo, who greeted him together, said with a gloomy face.

He is not afraid of Hong Chengchou, now he has an army of 20,000 Xu Zongbing is already one of the two major army leaders under Hongguang, just like the four towns in Jiangbei, even if Cheng Ji has to coax him, since he was stationed in Jizhou, the beautiful concubines of the gentry family have snatched several to their beds, and the arrogant soldiers and fierce generals under his command have made the surrounding gentry miserable but helpless.

After all, the other side is the real enemy.

"Bold, how did you talk to the elder of the pavilion?"

An officer behind Hong Chengchou shouted unceremoniously.

This is a Liaodong accent, which should be under Wu Xiang's subordinates, in fact, the Hongguang Imperial Court is also quickly divided into several major factions......

What's wrong with the short time?

What's going on with the enemy?

The officials of our Ming Dynasty are priority in internal strife at all times, and the Hongguang Dynasty has only been established for more than a month, and it is already all there should be, including internal party strife, Wu Xiang and Hong Chengchou are in a group, Xu Dingguo and Guo Zengguang are in a group, and they are fighting openly and secretly inside and outside the court.

It's like a copy of the strange people in the original history of Hongguang.

After the officer finished speaking, he directly pulled out his short spear, and the cavalry behind him also drew their guns one after another, and the pro-soldiers behind Xu Dingguo were not to be outdone, and they also pulled out their short spears one by one, facing each other from the muzzle of the nearest ten meters. The officials and gentry who greeted them were panicked, but those ordinary people quickly came to their senses, and Liu Zeqing, who was originally maintaining order, hurriedly pulled out his short gun and led his subordinates forward to reinforce him. However, at this time, Cheng Jiming also came to his senses, and quickly grabbed Xu Dingguo, who was about to pull out his gun, and at the same time stretched out his hand to signal his soldiers to put down their guns quickly......

"Haha......"

Suddenly, Hong Chengchou's laughter rang out.

Cheng Jiming and Xu Dingguo looked at Hong Ge Lao in amazement.

"The edict has arrived, and the military and civilians of Jizhou have received the order!"

Hong Chengchou suddenly shouted.

"Quick, all put down their guns, all put down their guns, put them away, all kneel!"

Cheng Ji hurriedly shouted to the back.

Edict, this is not a holy decree for an official, but for everyone here, everyone must kneel to receive it, at the same time, Hong Chengchou took out the holy decree, Xu Dingguo immediately reacted when he saw it, and quickly signaled his subordinates to put away their guns to receive the order, the emperor's face still has to be given, those personal soldiers have put away their guns and knelt down, and even those ordinary people are kneeling down in the reprimand.

Hong Chengchou nodded with satisfaction, and then slowly unfolded the holy decree......

"Kill!"

He suddenly let out a loud shout.

Xu Dingguo subconsciously raised his head.

The officer on the other side was smiling strangely at him, and the short gun in this guy's hand, which was not put away like them, suddenly erupted into flames, and the bullet instantly hit Xu Dingguo's head, and in the burst of blood, he fell backwards with a coagulated consternation. At the same time, the short guns in the hands of the cavalry lined up behind Hong Chengchou also spewed flames, and the dense bullets swept through the kneeling crowd, and Xu Dingguo's personal soldiers fell one by one in the impact of the bullets. However, Liu Zeqing, who had just arrived, was spared, he just looked up and instantly saw the muzzle fire on the opposite side, and then instinctively rolled over.

Bullets splashed dirt from the side of his head.

He screamed, got up as fast as he could, and drew his gun.

However, it was too late.

The cavalry on the opposite side of the empty bullet pulled out the knife as quickly as possible, and then urged the war horse forward, trampling through the dead corpses everywhere, Liu Zeqing was so frightened that he threw away the gun without hesitation, and then knelt down with his head and begged for mercy, but the next moment a cavalryman's war horse knocked him over and trampled him.

Poor Liu Zeqing kept twitching under the horse's hooves, and soon closed his eyes.

And those remnants of Xu Dingguo's subordinates in the bullet shooting were also knocked over by the galloping war horses in the chaos, and their throats were cut by sabers, their screams were accompanied by the sound of horses' hooves, as well as the frightened screams of the cannon fodder and the people around them, turning the original welcoming ceremony into a hell of death.

Hong Chengchou smiled and urged his horse forward, standing between the dead body and blood, and next to his war horse, Cheng Jiming, who had been shot, raised his head with anger in a pool of blood.

"Why?"

He asked indignantly.

"Yang Sichang killed all those who supported King Fu in Jiujiang Suojiang Tower ten days ago, and then used the book to convey his sincerity to King Zhennan."

Hong Chengchou lowered his head and said with a smile.

At this time, the news still hasn't reached here, and Hongguang doesn't necessarily know about it.

Yang Sichang will definitely not send a letter to Hongguang, that is to say, there is no urgency at the post station, at most, someone in Jiujiang specially sent him a letter, but from Jiujiang to Luoyang more than a thousand miles, it takes half a month to ride a horse normally, and the speed may not be able to arrive within ten days, not to mention that after Hongguang gets the news, he has to distinguish the authenticity, and it takes time to get here from Luoyang, in short, if you want to receive the news here, I am afraid it will take at least twenty days.

This is convenient for him, and he can set traps as he pleases.

"You traitors!"

Cheng Jiming said sadly.

At this time, he was already dying, and he didn't even think about how Hong Chengchou knew, but fortunately, Hong Chengchou would explain it to him.

"By the way, I am actually the person of the King of Zhennan, I have always been, whether it is Feng Quan, King Xin, or King Fu, they have all been deceived by me, they don't jump out, how can King Zhennan clean them up? Although you are indeed unlucky, you can't blame me, after all, it's your own choice, but then this feeling of being a traitor is really good, and I kind of like this feeling of being a wolf in sheep's clothing in the flock. ”

Hong Chengchou said quite intoxicated.

However, Cheng Jiming couldn't hear it anymore, and he was already staring at his dead eyes.

Hong Chengchou casually threw the actual blank holy decree in his face, when he received Yang Xin's order, he was patrolling the front line instead of Hongguang, just in Wu Xiang's place, the blank holy decree brought a lot, Hongguang had absolute trust in him, just like Chongzhen's trust in him.

By this time the officer had returned with a bloodied knife, and behind him was a bloody patch.

All those officials and gentry who came out to greet them, as well as Xu Dingguo's subordinate generals and personal soldiers, have all turned into dead bodies, these people have not made any effective resistance at all, Hong Chengchou is too insidious and vicious, first deliberately created friction to let his subordinates take out their guns and prepare to shoot, and then coaxed these people to put down their weapons and kneel down with a holy decree, and as a result, they lay there like targets and let them kill.

A lot of people die without knowing what's going on!

"Military Gate."

The officer looked at Hong Chengchou with an inquiring gaze.

The latter waved his hand for him to step aside, and then urged his horse to look at the city gate in the distance.

It is impossible for Cheng Ji to meet directly near the city gate, it stands to reason that he is going to receive the official pavilion, but there is no official pavilion in the west of Jizhou City, so a shed was temporarily set up to fill the number, there is still a certain distance from the city gate, but the city wall must have known, but there is no time to react in the chaos. In fact, outside the city, not only Xu Dingguo's personal soldiers, but also a large number of ordinary soldiers who came out to maintain order, but now they are scattering in the wilderness like sheep......

I have to say that this combat effectiveness is really tragic.

However, this is also their normal performance, Xu Dingguobu is not much stronger than the group training,

And Hong Chengchou actually didn't bring too many people, he was just five hundred cavalry, as for Wu Xiang's main force had already gone south, according to the time, it had already passed Shunde Mansion at this time.

They will go straight to Luoyang.

As for Yang Xin's side, he didn't know how to arrange it, but he didn't need Yang Xin's side, because Sun Yuanhua was also an accomplice.

Last time, he went to persuade Sun Yuanhua to be neutral!

He just went to make a plan with Sun Yuanhua, Sun Yuanhua and his gang were not stupid, and followed Hongguang is head on the belt of his trousers, but he participated in this conspiracy and then took the opportunity to clean the gentry in Henan and Shandong, and the silver he made was real, he had already sent someone to send a letter to Sun Yuanhua, and Sun Yuanhua would also do it at the same time as Wu Xiang went south, and finally the north and south attacked Luoyang.

As for him......

His goal was Linqing.

The northern part of Daming can be called a commercial center.

The base of the Donglin Party in the north is, of course, the richest city.

"Don't you want to divide the land?"

He said, looking at the city wall in the distance.

A group of soldiers and civilians on the side of the road who had not had time to flee looked at him cautiously.

"Which end of the hell are you, this lord?"

One of the petty officers asked tremblingly.

"This official has abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, and this official wants to take you to meet the army of the king of Zhennan, so are you willing or not?"

Hong Chengchou said.

"Yes!"

A young man said excitedly.

"This official wants to take you to fight Linqing for the king of Zhennan, so are you willing?"

Hong Chengchou said.

"Yes!"

The petty officer shouted excitedly.

"So what are you waiting for?"

Hong Chengchou said.

"Let's go, go into the city and call the old and young masters to come out, the good days have come, and the days of dividing the fields have arrived!"

The young man shouted excitedly.

Then all the people rushed to the gate in an instant with the same excitement as he did.

"Brothers, don't run away, come back, the day of getting rich has come, follow the lord, let's go open Linqing City!"

The officer yelled into the distance.

A group of fleeing soldiers immediately stopped, then looked at him with puzzled eyes, and then came to their senses, and without hesitation, turned around and rushed to this side, and then the news spread across the wilderness, and the fleeing soldiers and civilians all switched states. Those who were originally scared were no longer afraid, and those who were originally panicked immediately became energetic, and those who had lost their armor directly raised their knives and guns and screamed, and the original sheep suddenly became hungry wolves.

They roared excitedly and rushed forward towards Jizhou City.

"I can see it, it's not that our Ming soldiers can't fight, it depends on how to use it, and if you use it right, this momentum is no worse than Jiannu!"

Hong Chengchou sighed.