The Nanjing court did not have a few soldiers and horses that obeyed orders, and there was no way to deal with these warlords now.

Wang Yan was silent for a while, and finally did not mention the matter of military discipline, but said directly: "Your Majesty is extremely dissatisfied with the Marquis of Nanning for provoking this incident, but considering that the Marquis of Nanning is loyal to the imperial court, he decided to deal with it lightly." Now the imperial court has sent me to deal with this matter, to appease Gao Jingzhong, and let him withdraw his troops, but Gao Jingzhong is in full swing, and it is unlikely that he will give up. ”

Wang Yan glanced at Zuo Liangyu, "This official is going to go to Gao Jingzhong's camp in the near future, here I make a request, I hope that the Marquis of Nanning will guard Wuchang well, don't lose too ugly, so that this official can negotiate with Gao Jingzhong and let him let Wuchang go!" ”

Zuo Liangyu put down the wine glass, he already had a bottom in his heart, and the court was really facing him.

A few days ago, the news of Nanjing reached Wuchang, which startled Zuo Liangyu, and he almost didn't listen to Huang Shu's suggestion, gave up Wuchang and went east to Nanjing, making a desperate bet.

Now that Nanjing is facing him, he can rest assured, and Zuozhen will not be attacked on his back.

Zuo Liangyu laughed and said, "Qin Cha rest assured, Ben Shuai has already sent troops to block Gao Jingzhong, and he is not so easy to kill Wuchang." ”

After speaking, he thought of the gap between his own people and Wei Wu, and suddenly added: "However, I am afraid of long nights and dreams for everything!" Although Ben Hou was prepared, he still had to ask Qin Cha to persuade Gao Jingzhong as soon as possible and let him withdraw his troops as soon as possible, so as not to change the situation. ”

Wang Yan nodded, "This official will leave tomorrow!" ”

Zuo Liangyu was overjoyed, "Come on, come on~ eat vegetables!" ”

"If you don't have an appetite, Nanning will eat it yourself!" Wang Yan stood up and left the wine table directly.

Xu Yong looked at Wang Yan's back and spat out, ", so horizontal!" As he spoke, he looked at Zuo Liangyu, "Dashuai, he doesn't give you face!" When that's done, I'll kill him on the way. ”

Zuo Liangyu waved his hand, "It's just a poor sour, there's no need." Come, let's drink! ”

Gao Jingzhong did not rebel directly, which means that he does not want to tear his face with the imperial court, so this matter has something to talk about.

With the imperial court intervening, Zuo Liangyu was determined that he only needed to hold Wuchang and wait for the results of the negotiations between Qin Cha and Gao Jingzhong.

After the left army lost more than 40,000 people in Jiangbei, Zuo Liangyu was afraid that Gao Yihuan would attack Wuchang, so he shrank his forces to Wuchang and deployed defenses along the Yangtze River.

However, Gao Yihuan did not force the Yangtze River, but entered the northern Hunan region in the upper reaches of Wuchang, which made Zuo Liangyu breathe a sigh of relief, but he also understood that Gao Yihuan's attack on Hunan was only temporary, and he would eventually kill Wuchang.

When Wei Wu's army was attacking the city in Hunan, Zuo Liangyu also paid attention to Gao Yihuan's movements, and when he learned that Wei Wu's army collected ships and attacked Yuezhou, he knew that Gao Yihuan still wanted to fight Wuchang.

Wuchang is a strong city, but the lonely city cannot be defended for a long time.

Wei Wujun built forts on the other side of the Yangtze River to control the waterway, if the army was under the city and surrounded the city, then Wuchang's connection with the outside world would be broken.

Zuo Liangyu does not have much food, and he needs a steady stream of food from the outside world to be transported into Wuchang in order to hold Wuchang, and once the city is besieged, no soldiers and horses in the Ming Dynasty will come to Wuchang to save him.

In response to this, Zuo Liangyu had only two ways, either to prevent the Wei Wu army from approaching Wuchang, or to build a large camp outside the city of Wuchang and use the horns of the city as a corner, so that the Wei Wu army could not trap the city to death and maintain a grain route south to Wuchang.

The Wei Wu army had the advantage of cavalry, and once it approached Wuchang, it would be difficult to maintain the land grain route in the case of the Wei Wu army's horse army being attacked and disturbed by the Wei Wu army's horse army when the land and water were blocked by the forts.

Therefore, Zuo Liangyu hesitated again and again, and finally decided to send 100,000 horses to the west, flank the defenders of Yuezhou, drag the Wei Wujun to Yuezhou, and prevent the Wei Wujun from approaching Wuchang.

It's just that Zuo Liangyu didn't give the salary for the opening, the 100,000 left army, the enthusiasm for fighting was not high, the army was delayed for a while, and just after setting off, he just walked to Jiayu County, and heard that Yuezhou had fallen, and the army retreated to the east bank of Jinshui to set up defenses.

At this time, the Wei Wu army had already occupied Jiayu County, and the forward sentry cavalry appeared on the west bank of Jinshui, and a big battle was just around the corner.

This made the soldiers of the Left Army on the east bank of Jinshui a little uneasy, and they didn't know if they could block the Wei Wu army in the west with the Jinshui River.

The left army camped by the river for dozens of miles, and the fire in the camp was lit, just like the bright Milky Way in the summer night sky, which looked very spectacular.

Outside the camp, the soldiers of the left army, carrying torches, patrolled along the riverside to prevent Wei Wu's army from crossing the river at night.

The camp of the left army was divided into dozens of camps along the Jinshui River, like a long snake.

On the day of the third watch, there was silence in the camp, and at this time, in a camp at the end of the snake, the tent where the Lord would live was still burning faintly.

Under a dim oil lamp in the big tent, a burly man in his thirties, with a square face, big eyes, a thick beard, and a burly body, was looking at the two letters by the light, his eyes were bright.

There was a person sitting opposite the man, but it was the gentry king of Hanchuan, who was smiling and waiting for the man to finish reading.

The man's name is Ma Jinzhong, a subordinate general under Zuo Liangyu, and like Jin Shenghuan, he is also a historical celebrity, and his ethics are much cleaner than Jin Shenghuan.

Ma Jinzhong was born in a rogue, and was forced to surrender to Zuo Liangyu after the defeat, but the identity of the rogue, it is impossible to mix into Zuo Liangyu's lineage.

In history, Zuo Liangyu put him on the front line, and when Li Zicheng fled into Huguang, he bore the brunt of the defeat and was defeated by Li Zicheng, with considerable losses.

After Zuo Liangyu rebelled eastward, on the way to death, his son Zuo Mengeng descended to the Qing Dynasty in Jiangxi, Ma Jinzhong and others did not follow, fled into Hunan, took refuge in He Tengjiao, and then served under the hands of Du Yinxi, Sun Kewang and others, and has been the king of Hanyang County in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

In order to disintegrate Zuo Town, Gao Yihuan asked Jin Shenghuan to use the old relationship to win over acquaintances and lead troops to take refuge.

Although Gao Yihuan can't look down on the left army, he always has some cannon fodder troops under his command, and he can't fight every battle by Wei Wujun's soldiers, and he has to let Wei Wujun take a breath.

Especially in the offensive battle, the consumption was huge, and Gao Yihuan felt distressed by using the Wei Wu army to directly attack the city, so he urgently needed an army that could be used for consumption.

In the correspondence conversation with Jin Shenghuan, Jin Shenghuan mentioned Ma Jinzhong, and Gao Yihuan and Jin Shenghuan each wrote a letter to persuade Ma Jinzhong to surrender.

Ma Jinzhong didn't know many words, and he struggled to read the letter, and the whole person was silent for a while.

Since the incident in Hanchuan, Wang Jinshi has been happy and convinced of Gao Yihuan, he is just an honest squire in Hanchuan, he is not happy, he insists on doing something for Gao Dashuai, and his heart is comfortable, so he took the initiative to take refuge in Gao Yihuan.

In fact, Wang Youcai saw the potential of Gao Yihuan and felt that he had the capital of a king and was worthy of political investment, so he begged to do things for Gao Yihuan.

Wang Youcai saw that Ma Jinzhong had finished reading the letter, and said with a slight smile: "General Ma, General Jin strongly recommends you in front of the marshal, the marshal attaches great importance to you and personally wrote a letter, as long as General Ma votes over, the marshal guarantees to be hired, and the food and salary of his subordinates are immediately replenished, what else does General Ma have to hesitate about?" ”

Wang Youcai looked at Ma Jinzhong, who was already tempted, and continued: "What is the situation in Zuozhen, General Ma knows better than anyone else, the soldiers can't eat enough, how to fight with the big handsome. Not to mention that the marshal easily captured 40,000 left troops on the north bank, and the combat power of Wei Wujun is far superior to Zuo Zhen, let's just say that the marshal has countless money and grain in his hands, and the marshal has a war knife in one hand and silver in the other, how can Zuo Zhen fight with the marshal? I advised General Ma to make a decision early, if it was too late, when Wei Wujun came, everything would be too late! ”

Ma Jinzhong clenched his fists with both hands, his joints were clenched, and he suddenly stood up violently, "Zuo Liangyu is unpopular, Ma supports the tall and handsome~"

(Thanks to the big guy for the 10,000 reward of the three armies, the title of the leader, the 6,000 from the front to the back, the title of the protector, the 1,000 reward of the servants in the ice room, and the support of the big guys.) ）

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