Chapter 42: The depressed Zheng Hongkui

Zheng Hongkui hasn't rested for long, and is contacting Zheng's people in Fuzhou to learn about the situation in Fuzhou City.

The Zheng family can be said to be deeply rooted in Fujian, even though Fuzhou is not the Zheng family's lair, but it is not difficult for Zheng Hongkui to know some news. Just looked at it in a hurry, Zheng Hongkui only felt that his head hurt.

He is no stranger to the situation in Fuzhou.

He stayed in Fuzhou for a period of time in order to take the martial arts exam. He still knows a lot about Fuzhou's military system, but when he looks at the situation in Fuzhou now, it is even worse than it was back then.

It was already rotten back then, coupled with Chongzhen's tax policy, all industries withered, and in the mountains to the west, there were already thieves everywhere.

The guards have fought several defeats, and in the mountains, a tacit understanding has been formed, that is, the local bandits do not go to fight the county seat, and Fuzhou should not know, in the official documents, all they see is the Haiyan River in Fuzhou, a piece of peace, and the dark tide is surging, but I don't know.

Because of this, Fuzhou's military strength is even more unbearable, and even the bandits in the mountains can't be suppressed, if they can resist Cao Ying's people.

In fact, this is the reason why Zheng's status in Fujian is getting higher and higher.

Zheng Hongkui actually knew that when Zheng Zhilong first defected to the imperial court, he was just a guerrilla position, and at that time he was still on guard everywhere, and the gentry from all walks of life looked down on Zheng Zhilong, a former pirate, but although the Fujian official army was becoming more and more unable to fight, the world was becoming more and more chaotic, and Zheng Zhilong's strength was becoming more and more relied on.

In this way, Zheng Zhilong's place in Fujian will rise to the top, and Zheng Sen can marry the daughter of the Jinshi family.

It was only when the officials and troops in various places were used at this moment that Zheng Hongkui knew that they were already too rotten to use.

"Your Excellency, the Governor, please." Someone came to report.

"Okay, I'll go over here." Zheng Hongkui said.

In fact, if Wu Zhiping doesn't come to him, he will also go to Wu Zhiping. After all, Wu Zhiping is the governor of Fujian, the highest official in Fuzhou City, and if he wants to hold Fuzhou City in this situation, it is not possible to rely on the men and horses he brought himself.

It is necessary to recruit the manpower and material resources in Fuzhou City, and almost all the strong men in Fuzhou City must be prepared to go to the city.

In any case, there are hundreds of thousands of people in Fuzhou. There are tens of thousands of strong men extracted, plus the city wall of Fuzhou, if you want to block Cao Zongyu, you can still do it.

Zheng Hongkui was thinking about what to say when he met Wu Zhiping in a while.

When he arrived at the governor's yamen, Zheng Hongkui saw Wu Zhiping waiting at the yamen, and immediately saluted and said, "The last general will meet the governor." ”

Wu Zhiping laughed and said, "Yugong, Fuzhou City, depends on you. Grabbing Zheng Hongkui's hand with one hand,

Walk arm in hand with Zheng Hongkui.

Zheng Hongkui's personal soldiers wanted to follow, but Yao Qisheng stepped forward and said, "Lord Governor, you have important matters to discuss with your general, just wait in front." ”

Zheng Hongkui also heard Yao Qisheng's words, but he didn't say anything at all, Zheng Hongkui's personal soldiers were naturally led to the front yard by Yao Qisheng, and prepared drinks and food for them to drink. This is Qiu Ba as soon as he saw the wine, he didn't look like it, and he was quiet at first, but after three glasses and two bowls, it became noisy.

This noisy sound faintly reached the ears of Wu Zhiping and Zheng Hongkui in the backyard.

At this moment, Wu Zhiping and Zheng Hongkui sat opposite each other, saying that it was a strategy to defend the war, Zheng Hongkui said his plan to take the Zheng family army as the elite and recruit the people of the whole city as the auxiliary, and asked Wu Zhiping to raise money from the major gentry and recruit the family soldiers of the gentry, and so on.

Wu Zhiping nodded again and again when he heard this, and said on the left, "If there is no Yu Gong, this official doesn't know what to do." The right sentence "Fortunately, Yu Gong is here, otherwise the official would not know what to do." ”

Zheng Hongkui heard the faint noise outside, and said: "My lord, my brothers, they are used to being wild, and they are presumptuous in your house, so I will punish them?" ”

"Hey---" Wu Zhiping stopped him and said: "Why do you need to be like this, this is the true character of a man, now is the time to employ people, how can you snub a strong man because of small things, and worry about hermitage." ”

"The students are here." Yao Qisheng has been standing in a gang.

"Go, give my treasured wine to all the strong men." Wu Zhiping said.

Yao Qisheng hurriedly said, "Yes." The student will go. ”

Yao Qisheng left with his front foot, and Wu Zhiping said with his back foot: "Yugong wait, let me change my clothes." ”

The ancients said that changing clothes is actually going to the toilet. I just wouldn't say that.

Zheng Hongkui immediately got up and said, "Congratulations to my lord." ”

Wu Zhiping left only for a moment, and Zheng Hongkui heard a sound of footsteps, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Without him, there were too many footsteps, too neat.

Almost everyone stepped on the same point, and the sound of footsteps was mixed with the sound of iron colliding. I wonder if it was the collision of the scabbard with the iron, or something else?

This is the army.

Zheng Hongkui is also a person who leads troops to fight, how can he not hear it, and where did such an elite person come from in the governor's yamen, how can he not know why these people suddenly went out at this time, countless questions came to his mind, and in an instant, an idea flashed, Zheng Hongkui's face changed greatly, and he was about to rush out of the door. But I saw a young general in his early twenties standing behind the gate, wearing an iron helmet on his head, wearing iron armor, and a knife on his waist. said: "General Zheng, General Cao has admired you for a long time. ”

When Zheng Hongkui was young, he also fought at sea

After that, although it is not as good as Zheng Zhilong's second brother Zheng Zhihu, it is also three or five people who can't get close. It was also Zheng Zhihu who fought too hard, and when he jumped into the gang, he was caught in a fishing net and died with a knife through his heart.

Although Zheng Hongkui is brave, but in the situation in front of him, he knows at a glance that he can't turn the game around.

Without him, Zheng Hongkui came to see Wu Zhiping, he was dressed as a scholar, and he was not unarmed, but he only brought a dagger, if he could fight the enemy who was covered in iron armor, not to mention, he was not alone.

"Hmph." Zheng Hongkui sat in his original position, not saying a word, just thinking of Wu Zhiping. I gritted my teeth in my heart. I can't wait to break Wu Zhiping's body into pieces.

At this time, if Zheng Hongkui still can't figure out what is going on, then he is too stupid.

Yesterday, when Wu Zhiping and Yao Qisheng discussed, Wu Zhiping was worried that he did not have the manpower to capture Zheng Hongkui, although Zheng Hongkui's personal soldiers were not many, but they were all elite, and there were many troops in Fuzhou City, but most of them were like goods. It is impossible to take Zheng Hongkui silently.

If Zheng Hongkui is killed, it will not be easy to do.

Wu Zhiping is an idiot and incompetent in the military, but he has a keen sense of smell in politics, and he smelled a different smell from Cao Zongyu's attempt to capture Zheng Hongkui alive, although he did not dare to let Zheng Hongkui die in his own hands.

It was still Yao Qisheng who made a plan, saying that this matter could be done by Cao Ying's people.

As a result, Qin Meng brought more than 100 personal soldiers to the governor's yamen and blocked Zheng Hongkui in one fell swoop.

As soon as Zheng Hongkui was taken, Zheng's forces in Fuzhou were leaderless, Wu Zhiping immediately opened the door to meet the enemy, and the team entered Fuzhou City, that is, there was some resistance among the Fujian General Army, and the entire Fuzhou City almost completely fell into the hands of Cao Zongyu.

Cao Zongyu breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and looked at an urgent letter in his hand, which said that Zheng Zhilong besieged Wenzhou City, and General Xu Du guarded it. It has been three days, and the news between the north and the south has been cut off.

Immediately, Cao Zongyu threw the letter into the fire.

With the support of food and materials in Fuzhou City, even if Zheng Zhilong really cut off the back road, Cao Zongyu himself has a way to kill it.

However, at this moment, Cao Zongyu is not thinking about retreating, but how to go further.

After settling down in Fuzhou City, Cao Zongyu called Qin Meng over and said, "Today's incident is very dangerous, once you lose, you may not be able to come back alive, do you dare to do it?" ”

Qin Meng said: "Teacher, please say, I, Qin Meng, have nothing else, but I am bold." ”

"Okay." Cao Zongyu said: "I want you to go to Nan'an on my behalf to visit Zheng Zhilong's mother, Mrs. Huang." This jade pendant is Zheng Hongkui's token, and he sent it to Mrs. Huang. Do you dare or don't dare? ”

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