followed Zhang Kuang to negotiate, as well as his chief military officer Lu Ding, the general of the Chu army had such a tough attitude, but Lu Ding remained silent, just watching Zhang Kuang resist in front alone.

Zhang Kuang tried his best to speak, but Zhou Guodong and the others still refused to give in, except that the territory was not negotiable, and they were not even allowed to march by the road.

"Alas, since several generals are so suspicious, then we have to go to Dong'an County, in short, resisting the Qing Dynasty is the first priority at the moment, and please keep your promises, do not get involved in the west of the Xiangjiang River, lest the two armies clash again." Zhang Kuang arched his hand to Zhou Guodong, and he was quite emotional in his heart.

When the Song River water bandits were conquered, Wang Kefan was just a partial general under his account, Zhou Guodong and Tan Xiao were even one level apart, just low-level officers who could not be on the stage, and they were just two ordinary names on the roster, but now they are the generals who command the army, and they have eaten themselves to death, and this negotiation is a complete failure.

Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, Zhang Kuang put his posture so low, Zhou Guodong was not good at making things difficult, and said: "Zhang Junmen, please rest assured, as long as your ministry does not come to provoke, our army does not want to make extraneous branches, of course, even if your ministry sends troops to provoke, we don't care." ”

As he spoke, he glanced at Lu Ding coldly, and Lu Ding turned his face away from his gaze and concentrated on looking at the so-called scenery.

"That's good, if there is heavy grain and grass transported from the Xiangjiang waterway in the future, please also ask the generals to give it a convenience, Benfu will leave, goodbye." As Zhang Kuang spoke, he arched his hand to Zhou Guodong and the others, turned around and boarded the car and left.

When you come, you make a big splash, and when you go, you go quietly. The governor's guard of honor was put away, and Zhang Kuang took Lu Ding and the others away without looking back.

Looking at their distant backs, Tan Xiao still felt a little unconvinced: "Just left?" As the saying goes, a dog that bites doesn't bark. Will this Zhang Junmen hold back any bad ideas? ”

Wang Ding said: "I think it's okay, this Zhang Junmen is quite reasonable." ”

Zhou Guodong waved his hand: "Who cares about him, as long as he ties up his own fence, he can't get into the mad dogs and wild dogs, let's go, let's hurry back to the city to deploy, Wang Junmen will fight Hengyang next." We've got a lot to do......"

Zhang Kuang returned to the camp, Cao Zhijian was waiting in the camp, and heard that the Chu army refused to give up Lingling. Immediately screamed.

"Ha, these guys are really lawless, they don't even listen to He Dufu's orders, do they want to rebel? This matter can't just be left at that. It's a big deal to pull the soldiers up and fight them! ”

"I'm going to go, you're going. I don't want to provoke Chu Jun's bad luck, so as not to touch my nose and face to be swollen. Lu Ding knows more about the Chu army, and knows that his troops are never opponents, and they must be backed up by strength when they fight bravely, and they can't beat others and make trouble, that's not brave, but stupid.

"Just go, I'm still afraid that Zhou Guodong won't succeed!" Cao Zhijian was originally playing with mouth cannons. was ruthlessly exposed by Lu Ding, which is quite a bit difficult to ride a tiger.

Fortunately. Zhang Kuang relieved him in time.

"What nonsense! The Tartars still occupy most of Hunan, and they are all Ming officials and soldiers, can they still make their own fire? He said slowly: "The big husband can stretch and bend, and he can only compromise at the moment, Hunan is such a big place, since the Chu army is determined to occupy the east of the Xiangjiang River, let's go to Xiangxi, the strong enemy has not been eliminated, and we can't start an internal bar from home......

Zhang Kuang turned out to be He Tengjiao's staff, and he was branded by He Tengjiao's faction, but the two sides were not completely compatible in terms of political views, so they were refrigerated in recent years, and he has been serving as an idle post in the supervision of the military road, but he has watched Fu Shangrui and others soar. Not long ago, Fu Shangrui and a large number of civil and military officials surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty together, and He Tengjiao was unavailable, so Zhang Kuang was put in the position of governor.

At the beginning of Zhang Kuang's tenure, he caught up with Jiangxi and suddenly anyway, the Qing army immediately retreated northward, and the situation in Huguang suddenly improved, he was anxious to make a career, and he did not want to have a dispute with the Chu army at such a critical time, so he repeatedly made concessions in the negotiations.

On the way back, he thought about it again, and he formulated a new battle plan, and his troops and horses entered Huguang from Dong'an County, first captured Baoqing Mansion, and then captured Chenzhou Mansion, so that he basically controlled the southwest Hunan region, and gave a better explanation to He Tengjiao.

Ordering all departments to prepare and march to Dong'an County early tomorrow morning, Zhang Kuang returned to his camp tent and spread out a pen and paper to write a letter to He Tengjiao.

Today's negotiation did not meet He Tengjiao's requirements, most of it was Zhang Kuang's own opinion, how to explain it to He Tengjiao, which made him feel a big headache. Wrote Tu, scribbled, in the past, a thousand words were like flowing water, but today I have not been able to write this short sparse, Zhang Kuang seems to have seen that He Tengjiao was furious after hearing about it.

"Alas, it's not a human being inside or out."

Zhang Kuang and Wang Kefan have been in contact many times, and they despised him very much at first, but later they gradually developed a sense of identity, He Tengjiao has been running Huguang for several years without success, Zhang Kuang has long had an opinion on this, what makes him even more worried is that Emperor Longwu has just moved to Guilin, and his attitude towards Huguang is very ambiguous.

The taste of sandwich biscuits is not good, but the relationship between him and He Tengjiao is too deep, and it is impossible to change the court and stand in line again.

Early the next morning, the army set out camp and crossed the Nanling Mountains from Dong'an County, trekking hard for more than ten days, and finally entered the boundary of Baoqing Mansion.

……

Chen Youlong also arrived at Baoqing Mansion at this time.

Chen Youlong fought bravely and ruthlessly, so he got the nickname of "King of the Five Yamas", but he is not a martial artist who only knows how to do things blindly, if the situation is unfavorable, he will choose to compromise, forbearance and disguise.

After following Liu Chengyin to the Qing Dynasty, he actively sent troops to Guizhou and won the trust of Kong Youde, but when Liu Chengyin's head landed, Chen Youlong received the appointment of the deputy general of Baoqing Mansion.

On the way back to Hunan as ordered, he began to purge the troops, pulled out all the "nails" planted by the Manchus, and prepared to return to the Ming Dynasty anyway.

In order to control this force, Kong Youde sent dozens of officers, large and small, one of whom also served as Chen Youlong's deputy. Chen Youlong had a sudden attack, although he secretly executed all these people, but there were still hidden piles left by the Manchus in the army, and after discovering that the situation had changed, he found an opportunity to flee in a hurry, all the way to Shaoyang, the capital city of Baoqing Prefecture, and reported the warning to Peng Er, the governor of Guangxi of the Manchu Dynasty.

Peng Ershu was shocked and angry.

Angry, Kong Youde appreciated Chen Youlong very much, and repeatedly promoted and reused, but he didn't expect Chen Youlong to bite back at a critical moment, and the Southern Barbarian army was really unreliable.

Surprisingly, the Zhenxiao soldiers under Chen Youlong's command had very strong combat effectiveness, and if they came to attack Shaoyang, the defenders in the city might not be able to resist it.

Chen Youlong came too quickly, it was too late to ask for help from Changsha Prefecture, and now he had to deal with this crisis alone.

The scouts were quite competent, and soon caught several deserters from the townsmen.

The stakes were so high that Peng Ershu personally interrogated the deserters.

The leader of the deserters was a team officer, and after seeing Peng Ershu, he kowtowed again and again: "Please spare your life!" Chen Youlong intended to rebel, and I didn't want to do this murderous deed with him, so I became a deserter......"

"Oh? How many people did you run away? Peng Ershu's eyes lit up.

He was originally a Jinshi of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, and he did a good job in poetry, but the level of official governance was not good, and then his career was unfavorable, and he saw that the Manchu Qing was about to seize the world, so he immediately sold himself and took refuge, full of confidence and awe in the Manchu Dynasty, and pushed others by himself, and felt that everyone in the world had the same idea as him, and those who dared to fight against the Qing army were fools looking for death.

These deserters are smart people, and they know that the destiny of heaven is inviolable, and they are much stronger than Chen Youlong's guy who uses his mantis arm as a car, so he has to be encouraged anyway. More importantly, if the Zhenxiao soldiers were unstable, they would not be able to threaten Shaoyang's safety.

"Master Qiqi, the soldiers are now in chaos, and several generals are unwilling to rebel, and they have tried to persuade Chen Youlong several times, but Chen Youlong is ruthless and has cut off the heads of several generals, and the brothers have deserted for their lives." The officer said: "But everyone is in a mess, it has already alarmed Chen Youlong, and now the town soldiers are watching closely, and there are still many brothers who have not escaped, my own third brother now I don't know whether he is dead or alive, and please send troops as soon as possible, kill Chen Youlong's guy, and save the big guy!" ”

What are you kidding, if you can beat the townsmen, you still need to talk nonsense with you here? Peng Ershu didn't dare to send troops to death, but he was reluctant to take this good opportunity, thought about it and said, "Are you willing to go back and be an internal response?" If you can make great contributions to the imperial court, each person will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver, and the official will be promoted to the third level, how about it? ”

One hundred taels of silver per person! This reward can be called rich, the eyes of those deserters all flashed with greed, and the promotion of the third level of the official is even more tempting, and the small soldiers can become sentinels, and directly become the generals of the seventh grade.

The team officer's breathing became heavy, and he hesitated for a moment and said, "May I ask my lord, if I can capture Chen Youlong alive, can this reward be added?" ”

"Yes! If Chen Yi can be captured alive, in addition to being promoted to the third level of the official, each person will be rewarded with 500 taels of silver, and the flag will be carried into the gate of the King of Gongshun, how about it? ”

Peng Ershu was overjoyed, the ancients were honest and did not deceive me, the villain knew that it was profitable, and there must be a brave man under the heavy reward!

The officer thought for a while, and then said, "I have to find some brothers to help me with this matter, and ask the master to reward him together, can it be done?" ”

And will bargain? Peng Ershu felt that this team of officials was simple and cute, and his heart was really darkened by the desire for profit, and he didn't know if Lu Dao was doing death like this!

"Someone! Lead these strong men to the silver vault, you can move as much silver as you can, as long as you can capture Chen Re, Benfu will not hesitate to go bankrupt! ”

Now I will reward you with the silver, go back and wait to get Chen Youlong, and then cut these little soldiers with a knife. (To be continued......)