Gao Yihuan can be regarded as teaching Zhu Cihong a lesson, but at the same time, he can be regarded as offending Zhu Cihong.

In the future, what is Gao Yihuan talking about loyalty, Zhu Cihong is estimated to spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm, and he will not believe him anymore.

However, Gao Yihuan had already prepared for this, and he hoped to obtain more direct benefits than to deceive Zhu Cihong's trust.

Gao Yihuan's political ambition is not only to defeat the Qing army, but also to lead the brothers to break the old world, establish a new order, bring the world out of the reincarnation dilemma of the dynasty, realize the modernization of the country, and not be eliminated by the world trend.

His ambition is destined to conflict with the Zhu family, the ruler of the old world, whether it is violent overthrow or reform, the Zhu family must be handled, otherwise the Zhu family will always suck the blood of the country if there are so many vassal kings.

This is destined to make it impossible for Gao Yihuan to live in peace with Zhu Cihong, and it is only a matter of time before he turns his face.

Now Zhu Cihong doesn't talk about loyalty to him, and wants him to be selfless and dedicated, only about interests, which is actually not a bad thing for Gao Yihuan.

In the Nanjing Imperial Court, after Zhu Cihong consulted with his confidant ministers, he finally adopted He Tengjiao's opinion, first appeased Gao Jingzhong, and maintained stability in the west.

Now that Donglin has been defeated, there is a high probability that the new tax law will be passed, and Nanjing's taxes will inevitably increase.

Zhu Cihong needs stability and time, and he believes that as long as he is given two years, he will be able to recruit a new team and directly obey his orders to come out.

With an army that directly obeys his orders, he can slowly re-establish the authority of the central government, destroy warlords like Gao Yihuan, and restore the ancestral inheritance.

After Zhu Cihong considered it, he issued an order, adding Wang Yan as the Langzhong of the military department, Chen Zilong as the right temple of Dali Temple, with Wang Yan as the main and Chen Zilong as the deputy, to go to Huguang to mediate the contradiction between Gao Jingzhong and Zuo Liangyu, and let Gao Jingzhong collect the troops.

In order to deter Gao Yihuan, he ordered Zheng Hongkui, the chief soldier of the Zhenjiang Water Division, to lead the Jiang Water Division to accompany him, and give Zuo Liangyu support when necessary, forcing Gao Yihuan to retire.

Gao Yihuan expected that Nanjing would not sit idly by and watch him annex all of Chu, and would send an envoy to call for a halt to the war.

Now Gao Yihuan has no intention of breaking with the Ming Dynasty, and he has to work together in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so he has to give Nanjing some face.

Therefore, it is best for him to swallow what he wants before the envoy arrives, and then sell Nanjing to save face and ask for some benefits.

There is no doubt that Yuezhou is one of the things that Gao Yihuan wants, and in order to capture Yuezhou as soon as possible, the prisoners of the left army are a little miserable.

As soon as they arrived in Yuezhou, they didn't have time to take a breath before they were driven to fill the river day and night.

Under the oppression of Wei Wujun, the left army suffered 2,000 casualties, and in just five days, nearly 10,000 left army prisoners filled most of the moat in the northern city of Yuezhou.

In the wilderness outside the city, nearly 10,000 left army prisoners had a clear division of labor, some of them were sweating and raining in the distance to load the truck, and some of them were like ants moving, pushing wheelbarrows, dumping carts of earth into the moat, stirring up rolling turbidity waves.

The flow of people in the north of Yuezhou city shuttles non-stop, a team pushes the cart, carries the flat shoulder to the moat, and a team pushes the empty car back, the distinction is clear, the scene is very spectacular.

At the head of the city, the Ming soldiers fired a row of firecrackers, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, the projectiles were shot, and the left army who was transporting the soil was captured, and from time to time even people and carts rolled into the river.

Although they were captured by the Left Army, Gao Yihuan still paid great attention to their protection, after all, he had to let them attack the city.

Gao Yihuan had people erect wooden planks in front of the wheelbarrow, or hang shields and put on a layer of cotton armor to defend against the firearms and arrows on the city.

Although these things were not enough to completely prevent the shooting at the head of the city, they still had some effect, so that most of the prisoners of the left army who filled the river could operate safely.

In the distance, Gao Yihuan rode on his war horse, watched the progress of the river reclamation of the prisoners of the left army with a clairvoyant mirror, and found that the soil was almost close to the city wall, and the wide moat had turned into a small stream. ”

As he approached the city wall, the power of the fire gun increased greatly, and he continued to fill it, but the casualties were too great, in order to prevent being hit by the rolling wood and stones on the city, Gao Yihuan did not let the prisoners of Zuozhen continue to fill the river.

At this time, the remaining distance only needs to be paved with flying bridge planks, and the city wall can be approached, without increasing casualties.

Now the time is more urgent, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, Gao Yihuan decided to attack the city as soon as possible.

When the military order was issued, the golden sound of "ding ding ding" sounded, and the prisoners of the left army immediately retreated like a tide.

Not long after, in the wilderness outside the northern city of Yuezhou, dense figures retreated one after another, and the moat became deserted, leaving only wheelbarrows scattered everywhere and corpses lying around.

The team that filled the river retreated, and the defenders on the city of Yuezhou also stopped shooting, Wu Jinxi stood at the head of the city with Gao Yicheng and others, looking at the originally wide moat and turning into a small stream, and his eyes showed a grim color, knowing that he was about to start attacking the city.

For a while, the mood of the defenders of Yuezhou became heavy, but the prisoners of the retreating Left Army couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and they knew that the tall and handsome were not so ruthless, and they knew that they felt sorry for them.

However, they were not happy for long, and soon they were driven to participate in the direct attack on Yuezhou, and the prisoners of the left army suddenly sold their hearts for a while.

Fortunately, Gao Dashuai is still a particular person, he is full of food in the war, and there is meat to eat, cut one level, restore his free body, cut two levels and take silver, all of which are real money and silver, not playing false, and when he let the prisoners of the left army do the war, he is still playing with his life, and he has taken out part of his strength.

However, the quality of the prisoners of the left army was worrying after all, and with the support of artillery, earth-shaking thunder and other equipment, they fought for four days, killing and wounding more than 3,000 people, and they couldn't take Yuezhou.

On this day, Gao Yihuan was in the big tent, and when he heard the shouts of killing outside, it gradually became smaller, and he knew that the left army besieging the city had been beaten down again.

Gao Yihuan didn't care about this, he had nearly 40,000 prisoners of the left army, and after the consumption of this 10,000 was about the same, he could continue to transport it from the north bank, he didn't believe that he couldn't take Yuezhou.

Suddenly, there was a commotion outside the tent, and several generals entered the big tent while scolding their mothers.

"Straight lady thief, a bunch of waste in Zuozhen, if it were our own people today, we might be killed!" Wang Deren scolded and was very dissatisfied with Zuo Bing's performance.

"It's a shame today. Watching the people who went up was beaten down again, and we couldn't do it anymore, it was so fucking uncomfortable! Zhao Daxian echoed, and suddenly clenched his fists and said to Gao Yihuan: "Dashuai, I saw Yiqi again today!" “

Gao Yihuan frowned slightly, "What about him going to the city?" “

"Well, in Beicheng, they all went up, and this grandson personally supervised the battle, and beat down the left soldiers in Shangcheng." Zhao Zhuzi was a little annoyed.

Gao Yihuan groaned for a while, didn't speak, and said after half a sound: "Break Yuezhou, escort this ignorant thing back to Nanyang for me, let Xinghao watch it, and break his leg if he runs again." “

As he was talking, Gao Chengxun walked into the big tent and reported: "Dashuai, Li Hu has returned from Nanjing." ”

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