On the plains more than ten miles away from Chuzhou City, a person was galloping on horseback.

This horse was privately raised in the Lu Mansion, and it was not as fast as the military horses raised in the military camp in the city, and it was not smooth sailing when he went out of the city.

The servant left the house with his front foot, and immediately after that, he heard a chaotic sound of footsteps surrounding the Lu Mansion from far and near, and many officers and soldiers also appeared in the nearby street market to investigate along the street.

Rather than saying that these people are officers and soldiers, in fact, they are no longer anymore, they were originally just a temporary team put together for a living, and now they have become vassals of the Shandong Army.

The servants didn't dare to stay for a long time, but there were already several times more officers and soldiers in the city than usual, and it was too conspicuous to lead a horse around by himself.

Probably too careful, this servant only left the city not long ago, not long before the cavalry led by Li Jingguang.

Speaking of which, this servant is still an ordinary person after all, and suddenly there is such a big responsibility on his shoulders, it is inevitable that he will be a little flustered, and he will run in the wrong direction in a panic, and I don't know how long the trip has been delayed.

"Drive, drive~"

Suddenly, the servant heard the sound of horses' hooves getting closer and closer behind him, and while riding his horse, he turned his head to look and saw that the person who came was a dozen well-dressed officers and soldiers, and he already knew that it was Li Jingguang's family.

He naturally knew what the consequences would be if he was caught, and he suddenly panicked in his heart, and kept looking back, but no matter how hard he tried, the distance was still gradually shrinking.

Li Jingguang can only afford to raise these dozen or so family members, and of course the equipment is the best, although the horses are not as good as the Mongolian horses and Jurchen horses purchased by the Shandong army outside the Saiwai, but at least they are much better than the short-legged breeds of ordinary mule hybrids.

In addition, their boots are equipped with simple horse pins, and with a little stimulation, the horses can often run like crazy, so it is not difficult to catch up.

Soon, more than a dozen cavalrymen surrounded the servants inside, Li Jingguang felt that the night was long and dreamy, and he didn't want to talk nonsense with this servant at all, so he asked the family members to kill the horses as soon as he gave an order.

Shangguan had already given the order, and the family members drew their sabers one after another, and after a burst of sword light, the hind legs of the servant's mount were directly cut off, and they happened to pass by a dirt pit, and suddenly fell into it uncontrollably on their backs.

The cavalry stopped around, and seven or eight of them dismounted to check, and just in case, Li Jingguang and four or five people stayed on their horses.

Everyone carried the servant who had not yet recovered his breath out of the big pit, and searched for a letter on him, and at this time, Li Jingguang was completely relieved.

He jumped off his horse, took the letter, and stared at the servant for a long time, saying:

"I used to be quite an honest person, why didn't you come out, you would have the courage to go out of the city to deliver a letter?"

When the servant came back to his senses, he touched his bosom for the first time, and when he noticed that the letter was missing, he immediately scolded with wide eyes:

"Old dog, you are nearly half a hundred years old, and you are about to turn into rotten wood, and you don't think about yourself to protect the evening festival, but you are trapped in the city and become thieves!"

The servant stood up with difficulty, picked up a stone and threw it at Li Jingguang.

Caught off guard, Li Jingguang was smashed, his face was red and swollen and overflowing with pus and blood, he shouted angrily, snatched the horsewhip from the hand of the family, and said viciously while pumping:

"A house slave, short-sighted, what kind of truth do you know, tell you to throw it, and you throw it again?"

The servant was pressed to the ground by several servants, and he was covered in scars that made Li Jingguang twitch, knowing that it was his own ability to do bad things, he still scolded himself:

"Daming raised you for a thousand days, who would have thought that you didn't want to repay the favor, and actually wanted to take refuge in stealing the king and thief, how kind the Nanjing Military Department Shi Shangshu treated you, and now you are thinking of throwing in the thief, and launched a large army in Chuzhou City to surround Lu Mansion and control the whole city, so as to take refuge in the Shandong thief army, it is really ungrateful."

Scolded here, the servant spat out blood from his mouth, and said without stopping for a moment:

"How can you face the ancestors and ancestors under the Nine Springs, you, you will not die well!"

Hearing the servant's powerless curse, Li Jingguang laughed, stepped on his face, spat fiercely, and said with a lewd smile:

"Now that the era of his Ming court has passed, I have guarded this Chuzhou, for several years, how can I not fight to the death but be a thief, but what do I get?"

Li Jingguang had some indignation on his face, and pulled his neck and howled:

"Lao Tzu doesn't owe anything to the court at all, Shi Kefa is just a favor to me, and over the years, what should have been repaid has already been repaid."

"What's more, once a son of heaven and a courtier, throughout the ages, those who know the times are junjie, you still go to Huangquan Road to say what so-called loyalty!"

After that, Li Jingguang ignored the servant's scolding, threw down the horsewhip, hacked the servant to death, threw the body in the dirt pit to feed the wild dogs, and turned around and returned to Chuzhou City with a dozen family members.

......

Early the next morning, that is, the 16th day of July in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the fifth president of Qian and several family members set off from the west gate of Chuzhou with a letter.

After a while, the group finally came to Qingliu Pass, and saw from a distance that the flags were densely packed above, and a yellow dragon banner with a blue background of the word "king" was high above, and behind each battlement was a soldier of the Shandong army wearing red full-body armor and holding a shining tiger gun.

"Who's coming?"

Hearing the slightly majestic cheers from the city, the fifth child and the family members glanced at each other, knowing that they were not wrong, the Mingwei army was really a strong army in the world.

Several people swallowed their saliva silently, and this was the dismount with the fifth man respectfully, a few steps forward, and shouted respectfully:

"Wu Dai, the general manager of Chuzhou City, happened to catch a fine one last night, and found a letter, and heard that the king of Shandong came to Chuzhou, and was ordered to garrison, so he came to welcome the army into the city."

"By chance?"

The people of the city muttered, as if they were discussing something with each other.

This is also the usual procedure, the next step should be to put down a basket from the top for himself to put the letter in, Wu Dai bowed his head and held the letter, waiting, not daring to slack off in the slightest.

But after waiting for a long time, there were no baskets or remarks in the city.

Wu Dai didn't know why, and was about to look up to ask, but suddenly heard a heavy "squeak" sound, followed by a general wearing crimson iron armor and a leg skirt around his waist strode out with more than a dozen soldiers.

Wu Dai's face was full of surprise, the Shandong army actually opened the city gate directly, and he couldn't be stunned, as soon as he looked at the person's armor and momentum, he knew that he was the general of the Shandong army.

At that moment, he hurriedly took a few steps forward, carefully handed the letter to the man, and kept explaining how he caught the fine work in Yuan's mansion, as well as what Zhizhou Lu Wei did to fight against Anton Hou.

Huang Yang took the letter and read it for a long time, but he didn't actually pay attention to what was written in it, and the corner of his eye was paying attention to the Qian general manager who dedicated the letter.

What happened in Fengyang a while ago made the entire Shandong army wake up like a dream, and now is not an ordinary time, everything must be kept an eye on it, and that kind of thing can't happen again.

After looking at it for a long time, Huang Yang only saw the panic, joy and expectation on Wu Dai's face, so he put the letter in his hand in disbelief, turned around and said:

"Going into the city with Ben."