When Huo Wu and his entourage arrived at the Chuzhou Prefecture, it was already dark.

At the gate of the state capital, the city gate was wide open and the lights were bright.

Headed by the owner of Ma Zhai, Li Qianhu, Song Erye and others, the leaders left behind in Chuzhou, except for the old monk who saw the head and did not see the tail, were all waiting here.

It is not to welcome the general's triumph, but to welcome the return of the heroic spirit.

Everyone changed into plain clothes, and no one laughed, and the atmosphere was very solemn.

The sound of horses' hooves, footsteps, the return of the army.

There was no greeting, everyone came into the city and went directly back to the state office.

The carriage pulling Tang Guang's coffin stopped at the gate of the state office.

Huo Wu and Deng Jian were the leaders, and the six people of Ma Zhai, Xue Biao, Du Laoba, Feng Monk, Huo Bao, and Qiu Wei were behind, and the eight people carried the coffin into the mourning hall.

Du Laoba and Monk Feng caught up with the large army in the afternoon.

As soon as the two of them took Shucheng yesterday, they got the news, and they didn't delay for a moment, and immediately set off from Shucheng, and they drove back to Chuzhou by car, and last night they rushed to the night road, so they barely caught up with the large army returning from Fuling in the afternoon.

The eight people wore the white vests of the white-shirted army, and they looked at the scene.

The mourning hall was set up during the day, and it was in the main hall of the state government.

One hundred and eight monks, one hundred and eight Taoist priests, all do waterway dojos.

Mrs. Tang is full of filial piety and is already waiting in the mourning hall.

Seeing the coffin come in, her body was weak and she could barely stand on her feet, Li Niangzi and Xiuxiu were on the side, and they were busy supporting her left and right.

Today is the third day of Tang Guang's death, the day of "connecting three".

It is rumored that the soul of the deceased will return this night, and relatives and friends will sit in the mourning hall for the night.

Huo Wu was the leader, and the leaders of the Chuzhou army paid tribute in front of the spirit in turn.

Qiu Wei took the filial piety stick and knelt in front of the coffin, and returned the salute to the leaders.

As soon as the process came down, Qiu Wei was also exhausted.

Tang Niangzi cried so much that she frightened Qiu Wei and became energetic again.

For fear that his uncle would have another case, he hurriedly asked Li Niangzi and Xiuxiu to help Tang Niangzi go down.

Huo Wu and the others rested for a while, and they all returned to the mourning hall to keep vigil.

On the main road of Ma Zhai, he talked about the pregnancy of Tang Guang's concubine, Huo Wu only saw Tang Niangzi alone, and no female dependents came out, so he couldn't help frowning, and asked in a low voice: "Is the situation of Old Tang's concubine very bad?" Can't even come out to worship? ”

According to the rules of funerals, pregnant women are taboo to collide, but it is not impossible to crack it.

After all, rules are dead, people are alive.

Pregnant women, mothers who are afraid of taboos, wear colorful clothes, they can break the trouble, and they can go to the mourning hall.

If Tang Guangzhen's soul returns, knowing that he has left his bloodline, he can be somewhat comforted.

Huo Wu's thoughts are the same as those of the owner of the horse village, and he has to help Tang Guang preserve this bit of blood.

The owner of Ma Zhai had a worried face: "Old Tang's concubine was bedridden before, and Tang Niangzi didn't dare to tell her about Old Tang's funeral, for fear that there would be a mistake...... The doctor checked it yesterday, and he was not optimistic, but he only said that he was depressed in his heart and hurt his spleen and stomach, so he didn't think about eating and drinking, and he vomited non-stop...... You have to think about it, this is still half a year before the melons are ripe, and if it goes on like this, it won't last half a year......"

Huo Wu was speechless for a while, and looked up in the direction of Monk Feng.

A woman only values her husband's children and her mother's family, Tang Guang is gone, the child is still a bud, and only her mother's family can comfort You's family.

There was really no way, so I could only send someone to Bozhou to pick up You's family and comfort You's family.

The You family is greedy and hateful, and they are not used to it, so they will dispose of it when the child is born.

Monk Feng sat not far away.

He is a child, deaf and clear-sighted.

Hearing the conversation between the two, he looked at Huo Wu again, understood what he meant, and said softly: "Let Ah Yin take someone to Bozhou tomorrow for a trip......

The You family was originally a house slave released by the Feng family, and it was also placed by Monk Feng in Bozhou.

Huo Wu nodded and said, "Then let General Yin go...... In any case, we have to help Don save this kid. ”

Monk Feng didn't have much to do with Tang Guang, but in the end, he belonged to the Chuzhou Army, and he fought side by side, and Na You was not an outsider, he was the daughter of his nursing father, so he took the initiative to help, and he really looked at the face of the monk and the face of the Buddha.

The owner of Ma Zhai hesitated for a moment and said: "Fifth brother, the third master is in Chuzhou, he also has a friendship with Lao Tang, I sent someone to Chuzhou this morning to report the funeral." ”

The owner of Ma Zhai reported the funeral, not only reciting the friendship between the third disciple and Tang Guang, but also taking this opportunity to give both sides a step.

The two forces are close together, and now is not the time to tear their faces.

Chuzhou wants to attack the south of the Yangtze River, and the three forces are stable, which is also to block the north for the Chuzhou army.

Huo Wu paused, nodded and said, "It's so close, it's time to report the funeral...... Don't skip Lingshui County, and send someone over tomorrow, you have to get by......

Speaking of Lingshui, he couldn't help but think of the little sect leader in Bozhou.

The Qing Dynasty was restored, and the year name was "Qilin", and now he is already the "emperor".

It's just that the name of this "emperor" doesn't live up to the truth, it's almost like a playhouse.

He shook his head and said: "I'm afraid that the king of Hades will come late, one by two will be emperors, and I'm happy to coax myself to play......

All the generals and leaders around him heard this sentence and looked up at Huo Wu.

Princes and generals, would you rather have a kind?

What are you doing with this desperate buying and selling chart?

Seeing this, Master Lin couldn't help but worry.

Now the Chuzhou army has divided the land of Sanzhou, with nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses, which seems to be infinitely beautiful, but in fact the foundation is not stable.

The occupation of various places was short, and the later soldiers had not yet been integrated.

Huo Wu had already looked back one by one and said, "Don't worry about asking me to learn from those two big fools...... The rafters rot first, and they are happy to daydream, but we don't...... The court is still there, where is this going, I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry! ”

Master Lin touched his beard, and suddenly became down-to-earth, and said: "The fifth master wants to take Jiangnan, is that to send an envoy to Bozhou to ask for a title?" ”

With the title of the little sect leader of Bozhou, the Chuzhou army can hide behind the small court of Bozhou.

When he turned back to Jinling, even if the imperial court wanted to conquer, he would go to the "old nest" of Bozhou first.

Just like now, the imperial court sent people from all over the country to Hangzhou, but the main force went to Qichun.

The imperial court is still there, and the traitors will open the national capital, how can this be tolerated?

is also the "founding of the country", the little sect leader in Bozhou is to close the door and play by himself, and the news spreads as far as Chuzhou; The right protector was prominent, and several people and horses were attacking, which attracted all the firepower of the imperial court.

If it weren't for the mourning hall, Huo Wu would have laughed out loud.

It is still a scholar who is a bad person, and he doesn't use a knife to kill people.

However, the small court of Bozhou is indeed the best choice for the Chuzhou army at the moment.

Nowadays, there are many white-shirted military commanders who have started trouble in one county and one state, but most of them are unknowns.

The biggest movement is the tripartite forces, the small sect leader of Bozhou, Qi Chunshou Tianwan, and Taizhou Yuan Guozhen.

Needless to say, the little sect leader, the son of the Maitreya Sect Tong Sect Master.

Even if he is now a young man, he is either a puppet of the Left Protector or a puppet of Marshal Sun, but the qualifications left by Lao Tzu are enough to make millions of Maitreya disciples in the world look sideways.

Shou Tianwan is the right protector of the Maitreya sect who once followed the head of the Tong sect.

Yuan Guozhen is a salt merchant in Zhejiang, and it has not been peaceful all these years, and the imperial court has surrendered, lowered and reversed, and repeated two or three times.

Now taking advantage of the uprising of the White Shirts, he began to rebel again, and when Xue Biao returned from Hangzhou, he had already occupied several state capitals in southern Zhejiang.

The Chuzhou army just ruined Shou Tianwan's good deeds and avoided it.

It's far away from Taizhou, and it can't be pasted to the edge, and the best name to use is the little sect leader in Bozhou.

After all, the Chuzhou Army was under the banner of Marshal Liu of Bozhou before.

Shou Tianwan acted under the banner of Maitreya in the two lakes, and if the Chuzhou Army won the "title" of the little sect leader in Bozhou, it would be more justifiable than Shou Tianwan's "Daqing Army".

Seeing that Huo Wu didn't speak, Master Lin said again: "It's good to ask for it early, and when the third apprentice takes Chuzhou, most of them will recover Bozhou first......"

Otherwise, if you directly hit Yangzhou, there would be a big gap in strength, and the rear would be unstable, which would make people feel at ease.

The little sect leader is a puppet, and whose hands this puppet is in has a different role.

Master Lin has dealt with apprentices and knows that although he is indecisive, he is also a hero.

Master Lin never underestimated the third apprentice.

On the contrary, he took the little sect leader and went to Xuzhou first, and then to Bozhou, the left protector, Master Lin did not take a picture, but he did not put it in his eyes.

Xuzhou is far away, the news is not clear, and everyone does not know what the situation was before.

Let's just talk about Bozhou.

Even if Marshal Sun was ambitious and tried to annex the forces of the other two marshals, he couldn't do anything about Marshal Liu, who was famous and loved by Bozhou Shishu.

As for Monk Feng, they are all elite soldiers and have backers, and he can't move.

The Bozhou pattern, from the parallel of the five marshals to the three-legged standing, should be the most stable time.

The left protector brought the little sect leader to Bozhou by Marshal Sun, but it broke the situation.

The left protector can't treat the three marshals equally, obviously he was ushered in by Marshal Sun, but he was friendly with Marshal Liu, but he was just under the idea of "uniting Liu and suppressing Sun".

Marshal Sun jumped over the wall in a hurry, trying to force the neutral Monk Feng to form an alliance.

As a result, Monk Feng led all the men and horses to run, and the forces of Sun and Liu completely turned their faces.

After a time of internal strife in Bozhou, it was swept away by the counterinsurgency of the imperial court, and it was already greatly damaged.

With Marshal Sun's arrogance, he monopolized Bozhou, where is the left protector good to go?

That's the pattern.

Only staring at the one-third of an acre of land in front of him, calculating temporary gains and losses, he is destined to not go long.

Compared with the right protector of the Chaohu Lake water division who planned thousands of miles in advance, this left protector who has now received the prime minister is really not enough.

Huo Wu understood the meaning of Master Lin's words.

If you want to pull the banner of the little sect leader, the sooner the better.

When the third disciple turns back to the north and "recovers" Bozhou, everyone will have to be restrained.

"Don't dare to be early, Ming'er will let Li Yao and Song Er take a trip......"

Li Yao is Li Qianhu, who is sleek and smart.

As for Second Master Song, he also went over because the Song family had an old relationship with Marshal Sun, and he prevented that Marshal Sun from going crazy.

The reason why Marshal Sun is the strongest is because he was the former Bozhou official, holding thousands of Bozhou soldiers in his hands.

Bozhou and Chuzhou are close to each other, and it is inevitable that the gentry will deal with each other.

Huo Bao sat down, listening to everyone's words, and felt a little regretful.

If you choose Jinling as the foundation, you must give up Yangzhou.

Across the Yangtze River, the two places operated, and the Chuzhou army was temporarily beyond its strength.

After taking Jinling, in order to stabilize, the Chuzhou Army will focus on developing the surrounding areas and operating Jiangnan.

When the imperial court fell apart, it was the time for the Chuzhou army to take the initiative to go north.

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Chuzhou, Hongze County, the gate of the city.

Looking at the people in front of him, the third disciple was very surprised.

It was not someone else who came, it was the little brother Lu Tou before the owner of the horse village, and the current Lu Qianhu.

He is an old man in Python Village, and he is familiar with the three disciples, so he was sent to deliver the letter.

It is one hundred and forty miles from Chuzhou to Hongze County, and there are thirty miles of mountain roads in the middle.

Lu Qianhu and his entourage set off early in the morning, and rushed to Hongze County in the middle of the night.

didn't dare to pass the time, and locked the city gate overnight.

The guards didn't dare to open the door and go in, but when they heard that someone from Chuzhou was coming, they didn't dare to ignore it, so they asked someone to report to the three places.

Disciple 3 came in person.

He knows Lu Qianhu and knows the weight of Lu Qianhu, so he will be so surprised.

Could it be that there is a change in Chuzhou?

Tusan's heart suddenly became tangled.

Is it over there in Lingshui......

The current momentum of the Chuzhou army, even if the main force is opened, is not something that Marshal Liu's thousands of men and horses can provoke.

If Marshal Liu was really instigated to act rashly, then even if he had his own face, the Chuzhou army would no longer allow him to occupy Lingshui County.

"Third master, Tang Ye is gone...... The sixth master sent the little one to report the funeral! ”

Lu Qianhu panted.

Disciple San was so shocked that he couldn't do it: "Okay, why did you leave?" But...... Hit and the state went wrong? ”

Speaking of the three village owners from Black Python Mountain, the third disciple was closer to Tang Guang.

Tang Guang was recruited by him.

Even if Tang Guang didn't choose to go with him after the change in Chuzhou, Tu San never held a grudge.

I didn't expect that the last time we parted was a farewell.

Jiang Ping handed Lu Qianhu a water bag on the side, and he also paused when he heard this.

Tang Guang is dead?

Did Huo Wu take advantage of the war to eliminate dissidents?

The purpose is the thousands of people under Tang Guang's command?

Lu Qianhu was already thirsty, and then poured two mouthfuls of water into the water bag before saying, "It's not in Hezhou, it's in Luzhou...... The day before yesterday, our Chuzhou army fought with the Luzhou soldiers by the Yuxi River, and won a complete victory...... Tonight's 'pick up three', the fifth master should have already helped the spirit back...... After booking the 'first seven' funeral, the sixth master thought about the relationship between the third master and Tang Ye, so he sent the little one to report the funeral......"

Tu San and Jiang Ping were stunned.

Since the beginning of June, more than three months have passed, and of course they have not forgotten the "Huainan Raiders" that everyone discussed when they were in Chuzhou.

First Hezhou, then Luzhou, and then Chaohu Water Division attacked Yangzhou.

Tusan smiled bitterly.

The time when the main force of the Chuzhou army started was not long behind the time when he entered Chuzhou.

I have only gained half of Chuzhou, and my brother-in-law has already obtained the land of two states.

The brother-in-law has such an ability, but he is the same as the owner of the horse village, he is indifferent and indisputable, so he will give up the Black Python Mountain forces and Quyang soldiers to himself at the beginning.

What did you do?

Jiang Ping felt a chill in his heart.

There was not much time left for the Bozhou Army.

Huo Wu, it's time to fight Yangzhou next.

After fighting Yangzhou, is the next thing to go north and level the state capitals of Huainan Province?