In the early morning of the next day, the news of Zuo Liangyu's sudden death spread throughout the Governor's Palace. Zuo Mengeng secretly summoned the generals who were currently staying in Nanchang City, closed the door, and secretly announced Zuo Liangyu's death.

Zuo Liangyu was a man in troubled times, and he died suddenly and inexplicably, and the top and bottom of the Zuo Mansion and even the generals of the Left Army heard the news, but they did not make any waves.

First, because Zuo Liangyu's favorite and closest concubine Zhou, came out to testify that Zuo Liangyu was indeed a son who died suddenly and violently, and she witnessed it with her own eyes. Who could doubt her claims as anyone else who wasn't there? Even if some people are suspicious, there is Zuo Menggeng on the platform for the Zhou family, who would dare to come out and say nothing?

The second is that Zuo Mengeng's sister married Gan Huidang's wife, and he himself became friendly with Zheng Zhibao, the envoy sent by Fang Yuan, and is now the only person who can negotiate with Fang Yuan on behalf of the Left Army Alliance. The generals Duba hoped that he could come forward to negotiate the surrender with Fang Yuan as soon as possible, where would he care about Zuo Liangyu's death?

Before, they recognized Zuo Liangyu as the boss, but they were just looking for Zuo Liangyu, a tall man with the name of the governor of the imperial court, to top, so that they could openly loot under the banner of Ming officers and soldiers, with official licenses, without being regarded as rogues.

Today's Zuo Liangyu has long been an obstacle to their pursuit of glory and wealth, and they wish that Zuo Liangyu would die soon, and there would be one less eyesore. Since Zuo Mengeng announced that Zuo Liangyu died violently, then he died violently! The generals only care about what can bring them the greatest benefit, as for what the facts and truth are, it is their business?!

Zuo Mengeng murdered his father Zuo Liangyu, and the top priority was to take over the 80,000 personal soldiers belonging to Zuo Liangyu, which were led by Yuan Jixian and Wang Yuncheng.

Among the two, Wang Yuncheng is a confidant who accompanied Zuo Liangyu to raise troops, if he returns to Nanchang and knows about Zuo Liangyu's death, he will inevitably make waves again.

And Yuan Jixian is Zuo Liangyu's close friend, and he is a loyal minister of the Ming court, Yuan Jixian's attitude is estimated to be the same as Zuo Liangyu, and he will never agree to surrender.

Zuo Mengeng did not take over the power of the two of them, and he didn't want to sleep peacefully one day. He consulted with the generals to temporarily conceal the news of Zuo Liangyu's death, keep it secret, and then negotiate peace talks with Fang Yuan, summoned the two to Nanchang City to arrest them, and then sent people to take over the soldiers and horses of the two people.

The Zuo family wants to fight among themselves, and the generals have nothing to do with themselves, after listening to Zuo Menggeng's suggestion, they are fanning the flames and applauding again and again, and Qi Qi expressed his willingness to cooperate with Zuo Menggeng's plan.

Zuo Mengeng received verbal support from the generals, and immediately sent people to Wang Yuncheng and Yuan Jixian to send a message, claiming that Fang Yuan had sent a peace envoy and ordered them to come to Nanchang City to discuss important matters.

Yuan Jixian did not suspect that there was fraud, and he was even more worried that Zuo Liangyu would surrender to Fang Yuan because of this. If Fang Yuan had no worries, he would point his troops directly at the imperial court in the capital. So after getting the news, he only brought more than 100 personal soldiers and rushed to Nanchang City overnight.

As soon as Yuan Jixian entered Nanchang City, he was immediately arrested and imprisoned by Zuo Mengeng, and sent his cronies to take over the Zuo family's personal soldiers with Zuo Liangyu's handwriting.

Wang Yuncheng had more eyes than Yuan Jixian, and he already had important defenses, so he delayed for ten more days before rushing to Nanchang Mansion with more than 100 personal soldiers.

As soon as he was halfway there, several servants loyal to Zuo Liangyu in Zuofu fled, and sent him first-hand news from Zuofu, Zuo Liangyu had died violently, and it was privately rumored in the entire Zuofu that Zuo Mengeng colluded with his concubine Zhou to murder Zuo Liangyu.

And Zuo Mengeng summoned him and Yuan Jixian to Nanchang City, not for peace talks, but to take over the military power of the two. Yuan Jixian, who arrived first, has been detained by Zuo Mengeng, waiting for Wang Yuncheng to throw himself into the net.

Wang Yuncheng was shocked to get this shocking news, Zuo Liangyu has the grace of knowing him, and he is also his handsome. Now that Zuo Liangyu died suddenly, he can't sit idly by. The most important thing is that there is a precedent of Yuan Jixian, and Zuo Mengeng clearly wants to deprive him of his military power. In this troubled era, without guns, there will be no looted women, silver, and even wives, daughters, and heirs. Anyway, sticking out and shrinking your head is a death, so it's better to fight.

Wang Yuncheng immediately turned back to the barracks, and did not set off for Nanchang City again until ten days later, this time he ordered 50,000 soldiers and horses under his command to rush to Nanchang City.

In order to stand on the moral high ground of this dispatch to Nanchang City, Wang Yuncheng raised the banner of asking for Zuo Liangyu's death and denouncing Zuo Mengeng.

Zuo Mengeng took over Yuan Jixian's 50,000 personal soldiers, and when he saw Wang Yuncheng coming with murderous spirit, he even used the banner of Zuo Liangyu being murdered by him and exposing his ugly deeds, and the two sides had no room for maneuver. Zuo Mengeng immediately led the personal soldiers who had just taken over to attack, and asked the generals for reinforcements to attack Wang Yuncheng together.

In the face of Zuo Mengeng's request for help, after private discussion, Jin Shenghuan decided to support Zuo Mengeng and end this infighting as soon as possible. The generals each sent a detachment of men and horses, and gathered 50,000 soldiers and horses. Together with Zuo Mengeng's 50,000 personal soldiers, a total of 100,000 troops, Wang Yuncheng's 50,000 troops were given a head-on blow.

Wang Yuncheng's army is at an absolute disadvantage, and the generals under his command are not as brave and good at fighting as veterans like Jin Shenghuan, who have been fighting for a long time. Under the siege of the superior forces of the generals, Wang Yuncheng fled in defeat and led his army to retreat to Ji'an Mansion in southwest Hunan Province.

Wang Yuncheng contacted the local militia organization that had given alms to the old favor in Ji'an Province, and asked to join forces to jointly resist Zuo Menggeng's invasion.

The militia organizations in southwest Hunan already hated the left army to the core, and they were even more worried that the left army would come to southwest Hunan to plunder. But seeing that Wang Yuncheng was coming, he was grateful for his kindness in admonishing him several times before and saving southwest Hunan from plunder, so he shared the same hatred with him, and set up a banner of revenge for Zuo Liangyu in the entire southwest of Hunan, relying on the steep mountains, and continued to deal with Zuo Menggeng's forces in northern Xiangnan.

Zuo Mengeng defeated Wang Yuncheng's army, and he didn't bother to go to the poor mountains and rivers in southwest Hunan to pursue Wang Yuncheng. All the obstacles blocking the road had been removed, and Zuo Mengeng released Zheng Zhibao and readily agreed to all of Fang Yuan's requests for surrender.

In order to express his sincerity, Zuo Mengeng also abandoned Jiujiang City, an important town along the Yangtze River, and withdrew all the left troops to Nanchang Mansion, and then sent a letter to the commander of the Xuanjia Army in the north of the Yangtze River, his brother-in-law Gan Hui. The content of the letter is that the brother-in-law and brother-in-law are almost set to win over the relationship with Gan Hui; The second is to invite Gan Hui to lead the Xuanjia Army to come to Jiujiang to station.

Gan Hui saw that Zuo Mengeng suddenly sent such a big gift, and he was happy to accept it all, anyway, Xuanjia has a great advantage in the sailor, even if Zuo Mengeng is cheating, he can also lead the army to calmly return to Jiangbei.

He personally led 30,000 soldiers to cross the river and easily captured the important town of Jiujiang, which Zuo Liangyu had operated for two years to resist the offensive of the Xuanjia Army.

After capturing Jiujiang City, the entire Xiangbei Plain was exposed to the blow of the Xuanjia Army's heavy fist, but the commander Gan Hui was not in a hurry to continue to march to Nanchang Mansion, but turned to Zuo Mengeng to continue to set up a close relationship, and even arranged for his wife Zuo Nan to go to Nanchang Mansion to attend Zuo Liangyu's funeral.

Of course, before leaving, Gan Hui followed Fang Yuan's instructions and instructed his wife Zuo Nan to go to Nanchang City this time to persuade Zuo Mengeng to go to Nanzhili in person as soon as possible to ask Fang Yuan to surrender.

Zuo Nan is marrying a chicken and a dog and marrying a dog, and he is full of hope that her husband Gan Hui and her eldest brother Zuo Mengeng can live in peace, and the glory and wealth of the Zuo family can be preserved. When he arrived in Nanchang City, Zuo Nan persuaded Zuo Mengeng for three hours according to Gan Hui's words, and persuaded him to go to the Governor's Mansion in Nanzhili in person to meet Fang Yuan to show his sincerity.

Zuo Mengeng got the promise of Gan Hui, his sister, and Zheng Zhibao, and also dispelled the worries in his heart, and after Zuo Liangyu's funeral, he personally accompanied the envoy Zheng Zhibao to the governor's palace in Nanzhili to meet Fang Yuan and ask for surrender.