After resting for a day in Tongcheng, the peasant army pulled out its camp and turned to Yuezhou Mansion.

The old camp of the army moved slowly, Wang Kefan accompanied Tian Jianxiu and Yuan Zongdi to go first, each with only a dozen personal soldiers, riding light and fast horses, and went straight to Baling (Baling is now Yueyang, Yuezhou Mansion), twenty miles away from Baling, and met Ma Jinzhong, who came to greet him.

Ma Jinzhong surrendered to the Qing army, anyway, he defected to He Tengjiao, although he was Zuo Liangyu's subordinate, but in his early years he was also a "thief", He Tengjiao did not trust him, and kicked him out of Hunan when he was assigned to the flood land, and sent him directly to the front line in Yuezhou.

"Lao Tian, Lao Yuan, when everyone has to memorize words, don't cry like a dead mother and a sad face, since you have arrived at the land of my old horse, ensure that you cross the border safely, and you should see 'a tiger' (Li Guo)!"

Although he had surrendered to the official army a long time ago, there was always a bit of incense between him and the peasant army, and as soon as Tian Jianxiu sent an envoy to talk to him, he promised to help the peasant army and cross Dongting Lake by boat to join Li Guo.

Tian Jianxiu saluted and thanked him, and asked, "We have more than 50,000 people, and some baggage horses, how many boats do you have, is it enough?" ”

"More than 50,000 people? It's a little bit more ......, but it doesn't matter, Lao Tzu just got a sailor, more than 300 boats of all sizes, and a few more trips back and forth are enough. ”

The war in the south is inseparable from the water division, Yuezhou Mansion is close to the Yangtze River, and the water division is more important.

"Who is your commander of the water division, but is your name Hei Yunchang?" Wang Kefan interjected and asked.

"Yes, you're well-informed!" Ma Jinzhong was slightly surprised: "This kid is the head snake of Yuezhou, but he is quite honest under me, and our old Shaanxi will not fiddle with those boats, so let him continue to manage the sailors...... "Southerners are not good at riding horses, and northerners are not good at boating."

Wang Kefan nodded, although this Hei Yunchang is only a small character, but the name is very strange, he has some impressions, as if Zuihou surrendered to the Manchu Qing.

"Old Ma, tens of thousands of troops crossed the lake by boat, this matter must not be covered up, if He Tengjiao knows, will it cause you trouble?"

Tian Jianxiu led the peasant army out of Hunan, and he was in the hands of He Tengjiao, so he kept pretending to be deaf and dumb, and no matter where this army was going, whether it would surrender to the Manchus, and Ma Jinzhong and Wang Kefan would definitely offend He Tengjiao when they helped the peasant army, and the favor owed was not small.

"Cut, who is the bird with his surname He!" Ma Jinzhong pouted: "Since I let Lao Tzu be the watchdog, I can't cut off the meat buns, otherwise my old horse will leave and let the Tartars go directly into Hunan." ”

Hunan is not only well fed, but also a safe rear, Ma Jinzhong traveled thousands of miles to He Tengjiao, but was sent to the front line in Yuezhou as cannon fodder, and he had already held his stomach in his heart.

His subordinates are only third-rate troops at most, but compared with the Hunan warlords that He Tengjiao relied on, he is already a strong army among the strong army, the elite of the elite, bargaining, supporting the army and self-respect, he has this capital.

"Thanks to Lao Ma's help, everyone will be friendly in the future, and take care of each other more." Tian Jianxiu and Yuan Zongdi thanked again.

"What? Didn't you pull the flag and go it alone? Ma Jinzhong was stunned: "Tens of thousands of horses were pulled away without saying hello, can He Tengjiao still tolerate you?" ”

Tian Jianxiu and the others said goodbye without saying goodbye, Li Guo and Gao Yigong are still more than 100,000 horses and thieves, even if He Tengjiao does not dare to send troops to suppress them, he will not admit that this army is still an official army, let alone a copper military salary.

"If you leave Butcher Zhang, do you have to eat hairy pigs?" Tian Jianxiu smiled, pointed at Wang Kefan and said, "Yuntai gave us an idea, I think it's reliable." ”

Wang Kefan said with a smile: "He Jun's gate is narrow and can't accommodate your brothers, but he is not the emperor today, so he can't cover the sky with one hand, just find another way." ”

Since Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, is gone, the peasant army will not be able to break through, and returning to Nanming is the only way out.

"What you're looking for...... Whose doorway? Ma Jinzhong was even more puzzled.

"It's the emperor today!" Wang Kefan's answer was unexpected.

"Do you recognize the emperor?" Nanming is the son of today, he is the Longwu Emperor of Fujian, Wang Kefan is a small garrison in Huguang, how can he recognize him.

"I don't recognize it." Sure enough, Wang Kefan shook his head, but added: "But someone recognizes it." ”

"Who is it?"

"Hubei Governor Block Yinxi!"

At this time, Du Yinxi had been promoted to the governor of Hubei and was stationed in Changde.

This is also He Tengjiao's masterpiece of Ming Sheng's secret descent, and Du Yinxi was kicked out of Hunan officialdom because of this, making way for He Tengjiao's henchmen. Most of Hubei was controlled by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Du Yinxi was nominally the governor of Hubei, but the government decree did not go out of Changde, hanging the governor's signboard, and doing the prefect's errand.

But there is a disadvantage and there must be a benefit, although the name of Plug Yinxi is not worthy of the name, but he has also entered the ranks of the feudal officials, you can cross He Tengjiao, directly to Emperor Longwu to protect Li Guo, Tian Jianxiu and others, and appease this peasant army.

"I drafted a cantata, read it to all the brothers, and if there was no problem, I presented it to the military gate of Plug Yin Xi and asked him to forward it to the current saint."

(Junmen, originally an honorific title for the governor, but officialdom has always been popular to elevate the honorific title, and in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the governor was also commonly called the military gate, that is, both the governor and the governor can be called the military gate.) ）

Wang Kefan took out a manuscript and asked Tian Jianxiu and others to read it, this manuscript is written throughout the text, although Tian Jianxiu is rough and ink, he can't understand much, Yuan Zongdi and Ma Jinzhong are like a book from the sky, Wang Kefan explained it sentence by sentence for them.

"There are thieves Li Guo, Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Zongdi, Gao Yigong, Liu Fangliang, etc., who admired the hero, repented and surrendered to sincerity, fought for thousands of miles, killed more than 10,000 prisoners, and could ......see it."

Wang Kefan nodded to Tian Jianxiu and apologized: "Several brothers are all from the rebel army, and they must be called thieves in officialdom, don't mind." ”

"It doesn't matter, we were thieves in the first place, and we have to save face for the emperor." Tian Jianxiu and Yuan Zong waved their hands for the first time, not caring.

He Tengjiao reused Hao Shaoqi and promoted him to be the chief soldier of the supervising battalion, but he has not arranged the official positions of Tian Jianxiu and others, so they are still thieves, not to mention Li Guo and Gao Yigong, since they want to surrender to Shun, their posture should be lowered.

"And Weichen rode into the camp alone, there are no less than 200,000 people who are tigers, Wu Chu and Qin Jin want to swallow it with anger, this hundred battles of the lion, exhausting half of Chu's strength may not be able to overcome, and the sky is left to be ...... bixia"

I have seen in their army, there are a whole 200,000 tiger and wolf army, Huguang now only has half of the territory left, even if you try your best, you can't exterminate them, let alone try to exterminate them, this army is so strong, God specially stayed to help the emperor.

"Well, well said!" Tian Jianxiu and others clapped their hands and praised one after another, and even Ma Jinzhong gave a thumbs up: "General Wang, who wrote this piece of music of yours, what a good article!" When the emperor heard this, he would definitely reuse Lao Tian and they ......"

Wang Kefan only smiled, and then continued to read.

"Emperor Fu begging is difficult to accomplish, the opportunity is no longer there, break the mediocrity, quickly issue an edict to appease him, and get 200,000 elite soldiers out of the empty lord ......"

Please seize the opportunity to break the prejudice against "thieves", and quickly issue an edict to recruit this army, as long as a few officials are sealed, an edict can be exchanged for 200,000 elite soldiers......