The matter spread rapidly, there was a lot of discussion in the army, and the morale that was not high fell again. After Tang Tong was sentenced to leave, Hua Rong also led his troops to the south. Leaving Erdu with a sneer, looking at the back of Hua Rong leading his troops south, there was no nostalgia at all.

As for Hua Rong, he was deeply ashamed on the way south. As a general, he led his troops to retreat without fighting; As a general, he watched outsiders capture his subordinates......

But Sun Li was obviously regarded as a substitute for the dead ghost by the boss above, how could he fight? What he has to face is not a Tang Tongju, a Meng Zhizhou, but Du Chong in Yidu City, but Ma Zheng, the chief general of the official army on Jingdong East Road.

Of course, the friendship between the Xie brothers and Hua Rong is not as good as that of Song Heizi and Hua Rong, which is also a big reason.

There is suddenly more such a thing in the army, and the morale of the army is low, so how can he fight?

The soldiers have no fighting spirit, they will have no fighting spirit, at this time, to fight the Liangshan bandits, is it to fight, or to send heads?

So when Lu Zhishen led the forward soldiers and horses to the city of Zouping, what he saw was a city with the city gate wide open. It is said that the county lieutenant, who broke his leg while riding a horse, led the two heads, held the household registration book, and led more than 100 people to kneel at the gate of the city and beg to surrender.

Lu Zhishen led the army into Zouping, non-stop, and sent two deputy generals, Ou Peng and Wen Zhongrong, to lead troops to seize Gaoyuan and Changshan counties respectively, and then asked Wu Song to lead troops to seize Jinling Town, which is more than 30 miles northeast of Zizhou. This town is as important as that and Cai Town, and the location is specially marked on the map of Jingdong East Road drawn by the old Zhao family. It is located at the junction of Zizhou and Qingzhou Mansion, and is the only land road connecting Zizhou and Qingzhou Prefecture outside of Jishui.

After Jinling Town is Qingzhou, and thirty or forty miles to the southeast is Qingzhou Mansion Zhiyi Capital.

In the city of Nayidu, there is a lot of money and a martial arts, waiting for Tokyo's approval. As soon as the official document returned, he had to vigorously mobilize his troops and horses, and turn some of the money, food, soldiers and horses eastward to prepare for the future resistance. I don't want this official document to go for more than half a month, like a stone thrown into the sea, and there is no news. And the offensive of Naliang Shanbo has come.

Whether it is Du Chong or Ma Zheng, they don't have hope for Zizhou. Even if Du Chong sent Hua Rong, a good general, to Zizhou to die, it would only make the defense of Zizhou City change from the original layer of cobwebs to the current thin paper.

Ma Zheng is a martial artist in the end, as a veteran of officialdom, of course he will not fight with Du Chong, so he can only watch Hua Rong being sent to Zizhou to die. The latter is a military general he values very much, but the military attache of the old Zhao family is born soft in front of civilian officials. However, Ma Zheng is not the real stupid official and foolish, since the defeat of Dongping Mansion and retreat to Qingzhou, he first tried his existing strength to recruit and train 2,000 soldiers, and to a certain extent, he returned a little red, lest Liangshanbo suffer, and their remnants of the army could only be defeated.

Since Du Chong took office, although the time has not been long, and the situation has been tense, there has never been a good time to collect some folk gold and silver. But he is familiar with the officials in the yazhong, and he knows more about the local situation, and he also got a few sums of money, but the income is more than the dispatch of the pacification envoy, and it is completely less than Haoyue, too little and too little. I hate Liang Shanbo very much in my heart, Ma Zheng wants to recruit and train Minyong, he is fully supportive, anyway, there is money and food in the treasury, and he does not need to destroy his family to relieve difficulties.

On this day, Ma Zheng received an urgent report, so he hurriedly came to the public hall to pay respects. Du Chong and he are already very familiar with each other, and the two have a common little secret, and they have a close relationship. But at this time, Du Chong was drinking in the inner hall.

Ma Zheng opened the curtain and entered, and he had already seen the attendant set up a guest seat on the side of the desk. Du Chong got up and said: "Ma Fang came very well, the two errands in the Yanei, came back from Weizhou, brought fresh crabs and sea bass in the sea, quite delicious and delicious, now the fresh crab is cooked, the sea bass is still suffering, sit down and eat two bowls of wine first." ”

Both of these are famous products of Laizhou Bay. The fresh crab is the pike crab, the meat is delicious, it can be called "a must for seafood", and it has been a famous product in the Bohai Sea since ancient times. Its habitat varies with the season, and it comes to the sea in spring and summer, and is active near harbors and estuaries.

Ma Zheng looked at a table on the table, and said with a smile: "Xianggong is happy, but Ma Zheng is very anxious." ”

"Alas, the horse defense is also a little more worried. Now that the plan has been decided, we just have to act according to it. That is, the territory is lost, and my generation is free from sin, but what is afraid of him? This Jiangshan Sheji belongs to His Majesty, and the official document in Tokyo should always come, and it will not be possible that this Shandong land is my surname Du Yu and Ma Liang, but Cai Taishi, Yang Taiwei, and Liang Xianggong did not pay attention to it. Du Chong thought so, no wonder his eyebrows were burning now, and he was still so leisurely tasting seafood.

Ma Zheng said: "Although this is the case, if my generation behaves too badly, it is not good for the court to bypass." In my opinion, we still have to do our best in this fight, so that we can better get away with it in front of the ministers. Although he knew that no matter how good he was on the battlefield, it was not as effective as tens of thousands of gold and silver offerings. But this is the difference between Ma Zheng and Du Chong.

As they spoke, the two of them re-seated, and the attendants sifted wine aside. Du Chong said: "Ma Defense thinks that the Liangshan bandits will arrive in a few days?" ”

Ma Zheng pondered for a while, and said: "Although the thief vanguard has arrived in Jinling Town, its main force is still dragging in Zouping, and if you want to kill under Yidu City, it will take five or seven days at the earliest." "You must know that the current Liangshanbo is no longer the bandit and robber of the original, but has gone all the way to 'construction'. Don't think of this kind of thing as carrying water and chopping wood.

Du Chong's face was only two or three minutes difficult at this time, and it was five or seven days fast, and it would not be more than half a month. It seems that there are not many days left for him to live in Yidu City.

After sifting the wine about two or three times like this, a Yu Hou hurriedly ran in, saw Du Chong, bowed down and said, "Qi Xianggong, Huang Dujian is outside, please see you." ”

The hearts of the two people in the inner hall jumped together, but both of them had ghosts in their hearts.

Du Chong's face was not good-looking, if he could, he really didn't want to see Huang Xin now. He doesn't have Li Linfu's ability to speak a honey-bellied sword, since he has calculated people, it is best not to see it, and the province is uncomfortable in his heart.

However, Huang Xin is the supervisor of Qingzhou soldiers and horses, and he is also a major general in the army, so he can't see him here. At the moment, he hugged Ma Zheng and transferred to the back room to change his clothes and go straight out of the future.

That Huang Xin was led to the flower hall, saw Ma Zheng and Du Chong, and first greeted the two. Du Chong saw that Huang Xin was unconcealable anger, and he was obviously angry in his heart. He was shocked and asked, "What is it that makes the eunuch so angry?" ”

Huang Xinyu said: "So that the two ministers know, but it is the villain's father-in-law's family that has an accident." Seeing that the Liangshan bandit army was getting closer and closer, there was chaos in Qingzhou, and thieves were everywhere. There is news today, but there is a thief who is not long-eyed and gives the ancestral grave of the villain's father-in-law's family to ......" Speaking of this, Huang Xin's face was red, his teeth were gritted, and an uncontrollable anger flashed in his eyes, like an enraged lion.

Such a performance made Du Chong and Ma Zheng believe it on the spot. Even if Du Cheng agreed to Huang Xin's request, otherwise he would ask the officers and soldiers in the city to think and allow him to lead his own soldiers to kill the thief. Ma Zheng also parted ways with Du Chong after Huang Xin's departure.

"I don't want this guy's fate to be so clumsy." Ma Zheng said goodbye to Du Chong and returned home, thinking of Huang Xinlai on the way, he sighed in his heart. Until he saw his son Ma Kuo at home, Yu Ma Kuo said this, and he was very emotional.

Ma Kuo's eyes blinked, and he asked, "Father, when will Huang Dujian go to find Du Chong?" ”

"It's just that." Ma Zheng replied casually, waved his hand and went to the bedroom to rest. Leaving Ma Kuo alone, sitting in the hall, his eyes blinked, and he said in a loud voice: "This Huangdu Supervisor is alert. "In a short period of time, such a reason came to mind.

And looking at Huang Xin again, when the team left Yidu City, all the angry looks turned into a bitter gloom.

"Virtuous son-in-law, what is the matter? It's going to be this decision. His father-in-law rode an inferior horse, dressed as a pawn, and asked Huang Xin. Time was tight in the city before, and he didn't even have time to ask. just blindly obeyed Huang Xin's orders.

And thanks to his good health, although he is half a hundred years old, he rides an inferior horse.

Just when Huang Xin's father-in-law was asking, his second uncle also galloped over, and his two pairs of eyes were looking at Huang Xin.

Huang Xin smiled, out of this Yidu City, it made him feel relieved. At that moment, he told his father-in-law and his second uncle what happened, "There is no wind in the air, and such things would rather be believed than not." "Huang Xin's father-in-law and second uncle were stunned at first, Huang Xin is the eunuch of the soldiers and horses of the dignified government, in their eyes, he is a member of the state government, and he was dragged here to be a substitute for the dead ghost? Neither of them could believe their ears.

When they came back to their senses, they were all glad, and they were even more glad that they had listened to Huang Xin's words and asked his eldest brother to take his family to Dengzhou early to settle down.

Of course, the two of them are also doubting in their hearts, is this true or false? If Huang Xin is deceived, it will be a big joke in the world.

"Although the person who corresponded did not leave his name, he left half a piece of jade. Looking at this posture, there will be a day to meet in the future. This is also the biggest reason why Huang Xin chose to believe the words in this letter.

His father-in-law and second uncle glanced at each other, and they both saw the bitterness in each other's eyes. I think that their Liu family is also a rich man in Yidu City, but in the end they are just businessmen and the like, and now they are married to Huang Xin, so they think they are lucky. After all, Huang Xin is a prisoner of soldiers and horses, how can he be underestimated? But how could he have thought that Huang Xin, the dignified Qingzhou Mansion's soldiers and horses, also has today? Liu wants to clear up the relationship again, but it is too late.

"What do you want to do?" Huang Xinzhang asked after collecting his feelings.

Huang Xin's eyes flashed, "Don't worry, the little son-in-law will not go to that Liangshan Bo easily." It is difficult to distinguish between the truth and falsehood of this matter, and the son-in-law is allowed to sit and watch the changes. "But he planned to pull his henchmen to find a dangerous place to settle down first, and then wait and see what happened.

The Liangshanbo army has arrived in Zizhou, and it is not easy to enter Qingzhou? And he and Liang Shanbo have a little bit of incense, although this wall grass can't be done for a long time, it can also be left and right in the short term.

His father-in-law and second uncle listened to it and thought so. It's just that this matter still needs to be sent to inform Dengzhou, and Huang Xin's family must also be sent to inform Huang Xin's family and tell them to take precautions.

……

Zizhou Prefecture Ya.

At this time, it was a ghost crying wolf. It was Hua Rong who was draped all over his body, tied his bow and arrows, mounted his horse with a spear, and brought hundreds of henchmen and soldiers, all dragging guns and sticks, and murderously robbed and killed. When the soldiers in the government saw it, they dared to stop it; Seeing that the head was not good, everyone was surprised, and they all scattered in all directions.