In the city of Wuchang, the palace of the king of Chu, which has now become the residence of Zuo Liangyu, the Marquis of Ningnan.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Zuo Liangyu was defeated by the army in Zhuxian Town, fled to Wuchang in embarrassment, and asked the king of Chu for food.

For a long time in the future, Zuo Liangyu stayed in Jiujiang to collect the rout army and forcibly recruit the people, and his troops grew to more than 200,000. At this time, Zuo Liangyu had already seen through the Ming Dynasty, and as long as there were soldiers in his hands, no one could do anything about him.

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to attack Wuchang, Zuo Liangyu had more than 200,000 troops, and sat back and watched Wuchang fall and the king of Chu was killed. Then when Zhang Xianzhong marched into Sichuan, Shi Shiran led his troops upriver from Jiujiang and recovered Wuchang.

Over the years, Zuo Liangyu and Zhang Xianzhong have chased after me, and they have always followed Zhang Xianzhong's ass to regain lost ground, but they also got the title of Earl of Ningnan and the official position of General Ping.

Chongzhen arrived in Nanjing to ascend the throne, Zuo Liangyu heard the news that Chongzhen was alive, cried with joy, and immediately sent the watch to Nanjing. In view of the importance of Wuchang and Zuo Liangyu's military strength, Chongzhen rewarded the meritorious heroes at the same time, and also crowned Zuo Liangyu as the Marquis of Ningnan. It was expected that he would be able to hold Wuchang and defend the upper reaches of Nanjing.

In fact, even Chongzhen himself knew that Zuo Liangyu had already become an outright warlord, and the court had nothing to do with him.

In this case, Zuo Liangyu's army is already one of the few main forces of the Ming Dynasty, and he can only choose to believe him, and he can't force him to the side of the thieves. Therefore, in the more than half a year since he arrived in Nanjing, what Chongzhen has been able to do is to comfort him from time to time, comfort him well, and pay his food and salary preferentially and generously.

For more than 20 years in the army, although Zuo Liangyu has been defeated repeatedly on the battlefield, he has fled from battle repeatedly, and killed Yang Sichang, Ding Qirui, Fu Zonglong and other governors, and the years have not spared him.

The whole family of the King of Chu was killed by Zhang Xianzhong, Zuo Liangyu simply lived in the empty Chu Wangfu based on Wuchang, and he didn't care whether he was more or less in Wuchang City, and now he was the biggest in the entire Wuchang City, and no one dared to talk much.

In the palace of the king of Chu, Zuo Liangyu reclined on the sickbed, his son Zuo Mengeng, Huang Shu, the superintendent of the army, and Lu Guangzu, Zhang Yingxiang, Xu Ensheng, Hao Xiaozhong, Chang Deng, Xu Yong, Wu Xueli, Zhang Yingyuan, Xu Yuxian and other battalion commanders surrounded, except for Li Guoying, the chief soldier who defended Hanyang, all the generals under Zuo Liangyu's jurisdiction were here.

Zuo Liangyu summoned them over, naturally to discuss things, and now the biggest thing in the left army is how to deal with the attack of the thieves.

The thieves are menacing, except for the city of Hanyang, all the other places in the north of the river under the rule of the left army have been captured by the thieves, and the city of Hanyang is crumbling under the attack of the army of thieves, and Li Guoying has sent people across the river several times a day to ask for help.

In fact, in the face of the vicious thieves, the left army was killed in Zhuxian Town as early as that year. Zuo Liangyu's elite accumulated over the years has lost seventy-seven eighty-eight in Zhuxian Town, and now don't look at the claim to have 800,000 troops, the real strength is more than 200,000, and most of them are collected rout soldiers and forcibly conscripted people, and there are not many truly elite troops.

Therefore, from Zuo Liangyu down to the major general soldiers, they are unwilling and dare not fight with the thieves. If it weren't for the urging of Huang Shu, the superintendent of the army, Zuo Liangyu would have ordered Li Guoying to retreat to Jiangnan with his troops and abandon Hanyang City.

In another time and space, Huang Shu, the superintendent of the army, because he was a member of the Donglin Party, had a holiday with Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng, and Ma Shiying had sent Jinyi Wei to arrest him and was protected by Zuo Liangyu. It happened that Zuo Liangyu was unwilling to fight with the Chuang army, so he took advantage of the situation to leave Wuchang and go down the river.

Of course, in this time and space, Emperor Chongzhen is still there, Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng and others have long been in different places, Huang Shu has no enemies, and naturally there is no reason to fool Zuo Liangyu anymore, on the contrary, his duty is to urge Zuo Liangyu to hold Wuchang and resist the attack of the thieves and the Manchurians.

"Master Hou, the thieves are already at the end of the road under the pursuit of the Manchu Tartars, as long as we defend the two cities of Hanyang and Wuchang, and block the Yangtze River to control the river defense, we will block the thieves in the north of the Jiangbei, and then we don't need to do it ourselves, and the Manchu Tartars will destroy them.

And when the thieves are defeated by the Tartars, our 200,000 troops will be able to repel and annihilate the thieves in one fell swoop. At that time, it will be no problem to be crowned a hereditary prince! ”

Huang Shu's eyes lit up as he spoke, and his words were extremely excited. If he can really annihilate the thieves and repel the Manchu Tartars, while Zuo Liangyu is rewarded for his meritorious service, his own imperial history of the supervising army will inevitably rise, and he will inevitably be able to change from the imperial history of the seventh-rank supervising army to a member of the governor's side!

Huang Shu was born as a Kaifeng pusher, and was promoted to the imperial history by the imperial court because of his meritorious service in assisting in defending the city when the thieves attacked Kaifeng for the first and second time, and patrolled Huguang.

In the Ming Dynasty, although the imperial history of the inspector is only the seventh grade, the official position is not high, but the power is great, and he can faintly compete with the governor of a province. After Chongzhen ascended the throne in Nanjing, he ordered Huang Shu to serve as a supervisor in Zuo Liangyu's army as a patrol of imperial history. It can be said that Huang Shu represents the imperial court and is the supervising army, and in the entire left army, except for Zuo Liangyu, his status is the most respectful.

Huang Shu's official position is not high, but he is bold and ambitious, in order to win a position of power unscrupulous, when he was defending the city in Kaifeng, in order to resist the thieves, he offered a plan to dig up the Yellow River to flood the thieves, and the thieves will also take advantage of the situation to dig the river, resulting in Kaifeng being flooded.

In another time and space, for the sake of fame, Huang Shu talked about Ma Shiying's ten major crimes, vigorously opposed Ma Shiying and the Hongguang court, and colluded with the generals of the left army to induce Zuo Liangyu to raise troops down the river to the "Qingjun side". Later, Zuo Mengeng led the army to surrender to the Manchu Qing Dynasty without a fight, and Huang Shu led the Qing army to break through Fujian for the sake of fame and fortune, and led the Qing army to break through Anping, causing the Qing army to ** Zheng Chenggong's mother. Huang Shu was originally from Huizhou, but the people of Huizhou all scolded Shu, and the difference in his reputation can be seen.

Of course, many things have not happened in another time and space now, Huang Shu is still a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, and he persuaded Zuo Liangyu to resist the thieves, even if it is for his own future, it is also beneficial to the Ming Dynasty.

Huang Shu said impassionedly, but Zuo Liangyu, who was leaning on the couch, showed a wry smile on his face. The generals of the Left Army talked a lot, and there were not many people who supported Huang Shu.

Huang Shu's mouth was dry, and when he saw the looks on the faces of the generals, he fell into despair in his heart, he knew that it was difficult for him to convince Zuo Liangyu.