"You ......" Wu Yong came back to his senses at this moment.

But it was too late, and I saw that Zhu Yang had an extra dagger in his hand at some point, and stabbed it into Wu Yong's chest without hesitation.

Pulling out the dagger, Zhu Yang covered his nose and held back the nausea in his heart, and it took a long time to get used to it.

Standing straight at the head of the wall, Zhu Yang shouted: "Wu Yong is dead, brothers are now listening to my orders, open the city gate to welcome the imperial army into the city!" ”

At this moment, there are only more than 1,000 defenders on the city wall of Yangzhou, and they are still in a state of leaderlessness.

After hearing Zhu Yang's words, how dare he hesitate?

Hurried down the city and opened the gates.

Zhu Yang also walked down the city wall and came to the entrance of the city gate to welcome Sun Qicheng and lead people into the city.

Seeing Zhu Yang from a distance, Sun Qicheng jumped off the horse all of a sudden, walked quickly in front of Zhu Yang, hugged his fists and said: "This time I am sorry for the help of Brother Zhu, otherwise, the brothers will have to work hard to enter the city!" ”

"The prince is polite, it's all for Your Majesty!" Zhu Yang said modestly.

Watching Sun Qicheng's men escort these soldiers into the city, Zhu Yang asked, "Shizi, I don't know what you plan to do with these soldiers?" ”

Sun Qicheng said: "Except for the generals led by him, naturally all of them have been released, otherwise it will only be a waste of money and food." ”

Hearing this, Zhu Yang breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and said: "The lower officials here are going to ask the prince for a favor!" ”

"What?" Sun Qicheng was surprised, "But here are Brother Zhu's friends?" ”

"It's not a friend, it can only be regarded as an old friend!" Zhu Yang shook his head with a wry smile and said, "The guard general who was captured by the prince outside the city before is an old friend of the younger brother.

Although he was a thief this time, the younger brother dared to guarantee that he had never done a single evil thing. ”

"Since Brother Zhu said so, I will order someone to release him after a while, brother!" In Sun Qicheng's view. The guard general is also not very talented, and if he is released, he will be released, which is not worth a pity.

"In this way, little brother is here to thank the son!" Zhu Yang solemnly hugged his fists and thanked him.

"Our brothers, what are you doing with those polite words?" Sun Qicheng waved his hand and said.

I don't know, do you think Zhu Yang and Sun Qicheng have been friends for many years?

Actually, today is just the first time they have met.

"Oh! I almost forgot to get down to business! Suddenly remembering something, Zhu Yang hurriedly took out a roster from his arms and handed it to Sun Qicheng, and said: "These are the lists of Yangzhou gentry and thieves collected by the younger brother these days, I hope it will help the prince!" ”

"Brother, thank you for your great kindness!" Although he didn't look at the contents of the list, Sun Qicheng also knew the importance of this understanding.

"Our brothers, what are you doing with those polite words?" Zhu Yang said.

Sun Qicheng looked up at Zhu Yang suspiciously, as if he had heard what Fang Cai had said.

Glancing at each other, the two of them burst out laughing......

Although Sun Qicheng regained Yangzhou, by early December, the situation in Jiangnan had deteriorated further.

In the area south of the Yangtze River, except for Jiangning and Hangzhou, which were still under the control of the imperial court, the rest of the state capitals were controlled by the rebels.

However, whether it was Zhang Lingyang, who was far away in the capital, and Sun Dingan, who was still sitting in Luzhou, they did not panic at all.

In the capital, Zhang Lingyang still eats and drinks well every day to recuperate his body.

In Luzhou, Sun Ding'an, except for training the army from time to time, stayed alone in the tent most of the day, and no one knew what he dared.

In mid-December, Sun Ding'an received a letter from Jiangning.

After reading it, Sun Dingan chuckled lightly and said into the air: "The clowns who jumped off the beam have all shown their heads, and it's time to close the net!" ”

Then, Sun Dingan shouted: "Come on, raise the account!" ”

When all the soldiers arrived, without thinking, Sun Ding'an issued one military order after another: "Order Ma Jinzhong, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, to stick to the city of Hangzhou, and without the order of the old man, he must not go out of the city for half a step."

He ordered Sun Dingzong, the governor of Liangjiang, to set out from Jiangning and recover Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, Songjiang and other places to the east.

Order Jiangning General Sun Qicheng to be uncertain in Yangzhou and guard both sides of the canal! ”

"As for the old man?" Sun Dingan smiled slightly and said: "All the soldiers, go south with the old man to recover the lost state capitals of Anhui and Jiangxi!" ”

"No!" The soldiers answered, and went down to prepare.

After the soldiers came out of the military tent, Sun Dingan called a brocade guard wearing a flying fish suit and ordered: "Tell you that the commander Han Xiao can start the operation!"

This time, all the gentry who participated in the rebellion could not let go of one! ”

"Humble Order!" The brocade guard replied loudly with his fists, and then he went out of the camp on a fast horse and headed east......

The next day, the army marched, and Sun Ding'an led 10,000 Beijing battalions to Anqing Mansion in the south of Luzhou Mansion.

Anqing is the capital of Anhui Province, and the city is naturally very tall.

At the same time, because of the direct face of Sun Ding'an, heavy troops were deployed in Anqing Mansion to garrison the city.

But on the day Sun Ding'an arrived at Anqing City, Anqing Mansion was in a situation where there was no leader.

Yesterday night, the secret agents deployed by Jinyiwei in Anqing City assassinated the governor of Anhui and the political envoy, the prefect of Anqing, the commander of Anqing Wei, and many other high-ranking officials in Anqing City.

Therefore, Sun Ding'an can be said to have taken Anqing Mansion without bloodshed, and then recovered Ningguo, Chizhou, Huizhou and other southern Anhui prefectures to the south.

In particular, after the recovery of Ningguofu, the Hangzhou Prefecture, which was originally in an isolated state, immediately gained contact with the outside world.

At the same time, Ma Jinzhong, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, also began to prepare his own counteroffensive plan in full swing.

Although at this time, Sun Ding'an had not yet given the order to Ma Jinzhong to counterattack.

But Ma Jinzhong was already a little impatient.

However, fortunately, Ma Jinzhong has been fighting for many years after all, and he was not confused by the imminent achievements, but only formulated one counterattack plan after another, and did not implement it specifically.

In fact, more importantly, among the provinces south of the Yangtze River, the power of the Zhejiang gentry is the largest.

With the strength in Ma Jinzhong's hands now, compared with the gentry group, he is still at a disadvantage.

After Sun Ding'an recovered the entire territory of Anhui, he did not go east to Hangzhou to unite with Ma Jinzhong, but suddenly turned around and went up the river to attack Jiujiang, Nanchang and other state capitals in Jiangxi.

In Jiangsu, after Sun Dingzong, the governor of Liangjiang, entrusted all the affairs of Jiangning to Zhu Kaishan, the head of the household department, he led 30,000 horses and horses to the east of Zhenjiang.

At this time, Han Xiaozheng, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, took dozens of Jinyi Guards and entered the territory of Songjiang Mansion after dressing up.

Entering the city, Han Xiao and the others walked around, and it was not until almost evening that they came to an inn to rest.

In the dimly lit room, a secret agent was reporting the local news in Songjiang to Han Xiao: "Lord Commander, the news I just got in the morning of my humble post is that the Jiangnan clans of Zhou, Wu, Chen, and Shen have secretly transferred King Anping away by sea......