Chapter Thirty-Four: Raising the Army

drove away the Jinyi guard, and in the cheers of the whole battalion, Zuo Liangyu returned to the Chinese army tent alone. He wasn't much happy, he offended Jinyiwei today, and it has become a difficult trend to ride a tiger. Although he is not afraid that the imperial court will come to Xingshi to ask for guilt, but now that he is old and sick, it really takes great courage to put on his own clothes again and fight against the Central Plains.

"Dad, we offended Jinyiwei today, I'm afraid Ma Shiying and they won't give up, we still have to plan early." Zuo Menggeng's voice sounded behind him.

Don't look at Zuo Liangyu's dominance on one side, on the surface, it seems that there are many generals and unlimited scenery, but in fact, he is also a poor person. Born in the era of war, his parents died when he was a child. At the time of the Xuzhou Mutiny, even the family of his uncle who raised him was all killed, and only himself and his only son Zuo Mengeng were left in the clan.

Zuo Liangyu glanced back at his son and sighed lightly.

"Geng'er, your father is sitting in this position now, and there are many things that he can't control. Now that I have only half of the country left, Hongguang, a faint king, is under the control of Ma Shiying and a gang of eunuchs, and he does not want to forge ahead, and he only knows lewd pleasures and enjoyment all day long, which has made people angry. Master Shangshu Shi of the Ministry of War has invited me to send troops several times, and the Qing monarch is on the side, with the Zheng Dynasty Gang, but my father is old and no longer brave. ”

"Dad, what are you talking about? Now that we are strong, the entire court has to rely on us. As long as you give an order, the whole Ming Dynasty has to look at our faces, isn't it a good time for us to make contributions? ”

"Geng'er, some things are not as simple as you think."

Zuo Liangyu looked at his only beloved son, how good it would be if he was still as young and vigorous as him.

"General Zuo, Huang Jianjun invites you to come over, and I have something important to report to you." Zuo Liangyu was about to say something more to his son, but was interrupted by the sound of a report outside the account.

"Let's go, let's go see Huang Jianjun together. I'll talk about the rest later. ”

When he walked out of the Chinese military tent, he found that there were already soldiers standing outside the tent, and they were all looking at Zuo Liangyu with a complicated look.

In Huang Shu's tent, all the officers of the 36th Battalion had arrived, and Huang Shu still couldn't sit up, but judging from his face, after the treatment of the military doctor, he should have been much better.

"Huang Jianjun, is there anything you can't wait for you to recover from your injuries?" As soon as Zuo Liangyu walked into the tent, he had a feeling that something big would happen today.

"General Zuo, this is the prince's, handwritten letter." Huang Shu's trembling hands were holding a white handkerchief, on which something seemed to be written.

"Have you seen the prince?" Speaking of the crown prince, Zuo Liangyu suddenly had a sense of mission, as a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, the prince was the orthodoxy they should support.

"Prince, he is also imprisoned in the prison of Jinyiwei, General Zuo." Huang Shu seemed to use all his strength to say this sentence.

"What are you talking about, these rebels and thieves are so bold." Zuo Liangyu stretched out his hand and took the handkerchief, and the font on the handkerchief was beautiful, and it read: "General Zuo Liangyu, I still remember that my father ordered you to enter King Qin, but you were late." Today, the crown prince and I, Zhu Cihong, once again edict you to enter the king of Jingqin. I hope you can live up to the trust. The inscription reads: Prince Zhu Cihong.

"Please General Zuo send troops, enter the king of Beijing Qin, and the side of the Qing monarch." Zuo Liangyu looked up and saw that the generals of the 36th battalion in the camp tent had all knelt down on one knee and shouted slogans in unison.

"Father, don't hesitate any longer." Zuo Mengeng, who was standing behind him, also knelt down on one knee and echoed.

"Okay, since the court is so mediocre, then I, Zuo Liangyu, will send troops to the king and the king." So everyone knelt down, and Zuo Liangyu couldn't escape anymore. He raised his handkerchief high and waved it, then solemnly tugged it into his arms.

"Good, good, good, send troops to the king of Qin, Qingjun's side!" A deafening shout resounded in Zuo Liangyu's barracks.

In Ruan Dacheng's mansion in Nanjing City, Ma Jixiang was being reprimanded in disgrace. When he came back from Zuo Liangyu's camp, he didn't dare to go to the court to report, but came directly to Ruan Dacheng, he knew that if he reported the robbery of Huang Shu this time, he would definitely be laughed at by the emperor and the ministers, and even lose the black yarn hat of the Jinyi Guard's command history.

"Master Ma, what do you think about this matter?" Ruan Dacheng waited until Ma Shiying came, and left Ma Jixiang to discuss with him.

"This Zuo Liangyu has high self-sustaining merits, and he has long stopped taking our court seriously. I'm just afraid that if he rescues Huang Shu this time, he won't care about it anymore, and he will rebel. ”

"No, Master Ma, this Zuo Liangyu doesn't have such courage."

"It's hard to say, this Zuo Liangyu dominates the army and is self-respecting, and he has been secretly supporting the Donglin Party against us, you and I have to guard against it."

Ma Shiying frowned, he felt that what he was most worried about seemed to be about to happen.

"Lord Ruan, something is wrong, Zuo Liangyu has rebelled."

A little eunuch stumbled in outside the gate, sweating profusely, and he didn't even know where his hat had fallen.

"The emperor urgently recruited the three of them to return to the palace to discuss countermeasures."

Hearing the news of Zuo Liangyu's army, the happiest person was probably Shi Kefa. In order to allow Zuo Liangyu to raise troops on the side of Qingjun, he took great pains.

In order to dispel Zuo Liangyu's concerns, he also specially arranged a fake 'prince' in Jinyiwei's prison, shouting and screaming at night every day, making Huang Shu mistakenly think that the prince was also imprisoned in the prison. Then, he also found someone to imitate the prince's handwriting and wrote a prince's handwritten edict, so that the boat family must be handed over to Huang Shu. Of course, the premise of all this is that the son-in-law he relies on can rescue Huang Shu. What he didn't expect was that his son-in-law was really powerful, and he rescued Huang Shu without hurting anyone. This Shi Kefa was completely impressed by him.

"Tell me quickly, how did you rescue people from Jinyiwei's hands, and when did you have such great ability?"

As soon as Shi Kefa closed the door of the study, he couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart.

"Dad, I asked the master of Jiugong Mountain to help me with the Dao method this time, I can't say how to do it."

"Daofa! Awesome, awesome! Dad understands that the secret of heaven cannot be revealed. Okay, my son-in-law is really capable. Shi Kefa hasn't been in such a good mood for a long time, where does he still have the mind to explore whether the Dao Fa is true or false.

On March 23 of the second year of Shunzhi, Zuo Liangyu raised troops from Wuchang and marched into Nanjing in the name of the Qing monarch's side. From Hankou to Qizhou, warships more than 200 miles long lined up and marched down the river to the east. Ma Shiying hurriedly transferred Huang Degong, the four towns in Jiangbei, to cross the river for defense, so that the door of the Southern Ming Dynasty was wide open and out of control.