Hao Shaoqi sent people to send orders separately, gathered all the departments and returned to Puqi, and prepared to go to Jiangxi.

In this battle of Chongyang, he suffered a solid defeat, but fortunately, his vitality was not injured, and he only lost six or seven hundred soldiers, and there were nearly 30,000 horses under his command. Such a large army traveled hundreds of miles long distances, and there was a lot of preparatory work to be carried out before it could be drawn, and it was delayed for two more days in Puqi.

Suddenly, a scout came to report that a Qing army had come from the direction of Jiujiang and Huangzhou, with at least six or seven thousand troops. The combat effectiveness of the Qing army was too strong, Hao Shaoqi hurried to Jiangxi, although the troops were superior, he did not dare to entangle with them, and led his troops to leave Puqi in a hurry.

A few days after the departure of the Dashun army, this "Qing army" entered Puqi......

In May in the south of the Yangtze River, the wind and the sun are beautiful, and the traces of the war can still be seen outside the north gate of Chongyang, and a group of young people are busy non-stop, cleaning the moat, re-digging the trapped military pits, repairing various damaged city defense facilities, and demolishing the abandoned camps left by the Dashun army.

On the official road five miles away from the north gate, Wang Kefan and Xu Bingzhong stood side by side on the side of the road, the two chatted and laughed from time to time, and behind them, there were several generals of the Gongyi Battalion and Chongyang officials, as well as two hundred heavily armed soldiers of the Gongyi Battalion.

Suddenly there was a sound of horses' hooves, and a red flag fluttering in the wind flashed on the official road, under the red flag was a small cavalry team, and the horse galloped to the front in a blink of an eye.

There were still more than a dozen steps away from everyone, Ma Jinzhong rolled the saddle and dismounted, threw the reins to the soldiers behind him, and strode in front of Wang Kefan, smiling and saluting with fists.

"Brother Yuntai, Ben will come uninvited today, can I ask you for a glass of wine?" He bowed to Xu Bingzhong again: "Xu Daling dares to stay in Chongyang and not leave, and he is also a good civil official with a hard head, please accept the old horse!" ”

Xu Bingzhong hurriedly supported him: "General Ma endures humiliation and bears heavy burdens, lying on salary and tasting courage, is the pillar of my Ming Dynasty......"

"Hey, Xu Daling doesn't need to put gold on Lao Ma's face, I have neither a salary nor a guts, and I will coax the tartar around after shaving my head." Ma Jinzhong waved his hand as he spoke, and took off his helmet with his own soldiers, revealing more than a dozen big bald heads with no grass.

After the Manchu Qing entered the customs, they implemented the shaving order in the Gyeonggi region, but it was strongly resisted by the Han Chinese, and even the officials who surrendered in Beijing were unwilling to shave their hair.

However, as the Qing army continued to achieve victories, Dolgon saw that the world was about to be decided, and decided to re-implement the shaving order, he learned from the experience, first of all, the officialdom and the army, all Han officials and army soldiers who surrendered, to shave their hair "to see the sincerity of submission".

After this order was sent to the front line in Jiangxi, the officers and soldiers of the green battalion who surrendered were more or less resistant, and they were unwilling to carry it out, but Ma Jinzhong was the first to stand up, and all his subordinates were shaved into a "money rat tail", and the "loyalty" to the Manchu Qing Dynasty can be seen from the sun and the moon.

Azig praised him, promoted him on the spot, and put him in charge of escorting the artillery gunpowder of the Southern Expeditionary Army, and after Ma Jinzhong's unit acted independently, he threw all the artillery of the Qing army into the Yangtze River and returned to Huguang.

Anyway, after that, Ma Jinzhong's department shaved off the pigtails of the money rat tail, and the whole army was full of monks, in order to confuse the Qing army, they kept playing the banner of the green camp along the road, but inadvertently scared Hao Shaoqi away.

"If your hair is shaved, it can grow back again, General Ma's heart is to Daming, and he is a loyal general." Wang Kefan said with a smile: "Tan Xiao and Tan Qian in my camp are also good drinkers, so I must have a good drink today......"

Everyone entered the city together, and the county government had already set up a banquet, and when the banquet talked about the battle of Chongyang, Ma Jinzhong was full of praise for Wang Kefan.

"I stirred the horse spoon in a pot with Hao Shaoqi, and there were still two fights in that product, but I didn't expect to suffer a big loss here at Brother Yuntai......

Ma Jinzhong was also born in the peasant army of northern Shaanxi, and knew the roots of the Dashun army, and everyone asked him about the situation in Jiangxi, only to know that Azig was searching for Li Zicheng's whereabouts everywhere, and led the army to pursue Zuo Mengeng along the Yangtze River.

Ma Jinzhong slammed the wine glass and sighed: "Hey, who would have thought? Zuo Shuai's good and dignified is gone, Zuo Mengeng, this kid is not in trouble, and he is discussing surrender with Tartar! ”

Xu Bingzhong and the others were all shocked, after Zuo Liangyu suddenly died, the generals under his command were mainly based on his son Zuo Menggeng, if these hundreds of thousands of troops surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the strength of the other would be lost, and the future battle would be even more unbeatable.

Wang Kefan was silent, Zuo Mengeng's surrender to the Qing Dynasty was only the first step, and soon the four towns in the south of the Yangtze River would surrender three and a half, and the millions of troops in the Hongguang Imperial Court, more than half of them had become the green battalion of the Manchu Dynasty, among which Li Chengdong, Xu Yong, Jin Shenghuan, Li Guoying, Tian Xiong and other departments had very strong combat effectiveness, and later charged into battle for the Manchu Dynasty, and played a role no less than that of the Eight Banners, and after Li Chengdong and Jin Shenghuan returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, the Manchus also regarded them as a strong enemy, not only attached importance to them, but even were very afraid, and immediately contracted to take a defensive position on the whole line, and then mobilized heavy troops to kill them.

Speaking of Li Zicheng's whereabouts, everyone is also discussing, and there are rumors that he died in Jiugong Mountain in Tongshan County, but everyone doesn't believe it.

"Jiugong Mountain is poor and remote, there are no officers and soldiers and no Tartars, Li Chuang has seen a lot of winds and waves in his life, who can harm his life?" Although Ma Jinzhong surrendered to the imperial court and became an official soldier, he still admired Li Zicheng very much, and he was also more sympathetic to the Dashun army.

"It's hard to say." Wang Kefan shook his head and said lightly: "The wind and waves have passed, but the boat has capsized in the small river ditch, and there are many such things." ”

"That's right." Ma Jinzhong was begging, he didn't raise the bar with Wang Kefan, and said with a smile: "Brother Yuntai, I am a night owl who comes to the house and has nothing to do, I have something to ask you to do me a favor, no matter what, I have to give Lao Ma a face!" ”

Wang Kefan smiled slightly: "Do you want to borrow grain?" ”

"Well...... that's good." Ma Jinzhong got off the donkey along the slope: "I came back all the way from Jiangxi, and the army was about to run out of food, and I want to support three or five hundred stone of grain from the old brother of Yuntai, and I will definitely double it in the future!" ”

Xu Bingzhong and the others were stunned, they didn't expect Ma Jinzhong to borrow grain, and it was a few hundred stones when he opened his mouth, last time Hao Shaoqi put forward the same conditions, Wang Kefan did not hesitate to fight with him, how would he answer this time?

"Right now, it's the spring famine, General Ma's subordinates have thousands of men and horses, and three hundred stone of grain is missing, so let's make up five hundred stone for you."

"Good brother, righteous enough!" Ma Jinzhong was overjoyed: "If there is anything to do with the Yuntai brother in the future, just tell me, as long as the old horse can still run, he will definitely come to help the brother!" ”

"We are all allies, and we should help each other." Under the surprised gaze of Xu Bingzhong and others, Wang Kefan waved his hand and said lightly: "But I also lack some things here, just change with General Ma." ”

Xu Bingzhong suddenly realized that Wang Kefan has always been like this, he said it well, but there were a lot of conditions behind him.

Ma Jinzhong didn't understand this deeply, and he was still patting his chest in a big way: "Hey, what do you say that you can't change, everything is good to say between our brothers, this idea I brought, what does Yuntai brother like, just speak!" ”

He came with ten personal soldiers this time, and gave Wang Kefan ten war horses at most, and exchanged them for 500 stone of grain.

Wang Kefan's conditions were unexpected: "I heard that General Ma has a batch of gunpowder there, let's exchange one stone for another, and give me five hundred stones, well, send me two more thousand thunder cannons as a head, and don't want anything else." ”

“……”

Ma Jinzhong, who had been talking like a river, suddenly became mute, with a black face and did not speak, but Wang Kefan kept persuading wine and food like no one.

Ma Jinzhong was responsible for escorting the cannon gunpowder of the Qing army, and when he slipped away, he threw all the heavy cannons into the Yangtze River, but left behind hundreds of stone gunpowder and small artillery, which he brought back to Huguang all the way. These are all valuable military supplies, and they can't be bought with silver, Wang Kefan is extorting bamboo for stone!

"Hmm......" Ma Jinzhong was silent for a long time before he breathed a sigh: "Since the old brother of Yuntai has spoken, the old horse has nothing to be reluctant to, five hundred stone gunpowder, two thousand thunder cannons, I will have someone send it over tomorrow......"

I have to jump into it even if I know it's a pit!

He ran back from Jiangxi in a panic, the troops had actually run out of food, and the two days of food in Puqi were also not smooth, and the army could not go without food for a day, and if they could not get enough food, the troops would have the possibility of mutiny.

Ma Jinzhong, as a military general, has won a lot of battles, lost more battles, and killed a piece of armor not once or twice, in order to save the emergency, he will not be annoyed and angry, and he will turn his face and use force. Besides, he has already seen the defense of Chongyang City, it is simply an iron walnut, Hao Shaoqi does not believe in evil, and he broke his big teeth with one bite, Ma Jinzhong would rather exchange gunpowder for food than fight this tough battle.

"Well, it's really a refreshing person! Five hundred stone of grain, I will hand it over to General Ma tomorrow. Wang Kefan looked honest and honest, picked up the wine glass and touched it with Ma Jinzhong, and asked: "Zuo Shuai is no longer there, what are General Ma's plans in the future?" ”

"I heard that He Junmen is in Changsha Mansion, and I'm going to go there to have a look."

After He Tengjiao got out of Zuo Liangyu's army, he returned to Changsha, reopened the government there, and hung up the signboard of the governor of Huguang.

Wang Kefan nodded and didn't say anything more.

Ma Jinzhong was born in the peasant army, first surrendered to the official army, then to the Qing army, and then returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway...... He Tengjiao's qi is narrow, and he will definitely not be able to tolerate such a capricious person.

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