"Where do you start?"

Lang Tingzuo was confused, he ordered Daya Dali and other Manchurian soldiers to go to the upstream prefectures and counties to hunt down and kill the fleeing Zhekou and the big thief Zhang Huangyan, but he did not order the arrest of those bandit gentry, because he knew very well that now was not the time to settle accounts with those gangs, and he would have to rely on these wall grasses to restore local order, calm people's hearts, and re-establish the rule of the Qing Dynasty. www.biquge.infoOtherwise, in order to save their lives, those wall grasses will continue to make rebellion against the Qing Dynasty with their necks, which will be greatly detrimental to the stability of the situation. After all, the army of pirates had not really withdrawn, and if they knew that all parts of Jiangnan were still full of smoke, they would inevitably try to re-enter Jiangning.

Therefore, the thief can be tolerated for the time being, let alone the loyal officers and soldiers who did not surrender when the thief came? Lang Tingzuo was very angry about Jiang Guozhu's questioning, and when he was about to get up and reprimand him for his nonsense, he was a spirit: Could it be?

Lang Tingzuo thought of a possibility, and he immediately looked at Prince An Yue Le. Yue Le saw Lang Tingzuo looking at him, and only said that the other party thought that he had given an order, so he shook his head and said, "How can this king make the Manchurian soldiers do this." ”

"It's not the prince, that's it?"

Lang Tingzuo was confused, but after a few breaths, he and Yue Le thought of a possibility at the same time, but neither of them opened their mouths to say this possibility, but chose to be silent as if they were in their hearts.

Jiang Guozhu watched from the side, watching the changes in the demeanor of Lang Tingzuo and Prince An carefully, and after some hesitation, he was also silent, and the anger that he wanted to seek justice for his subordinates when he came before subsided on the spot.

The reason why Lang Tingzuo, Yue Le, and Jiang Guozhu were silent at the same time was that they all thought that they knew what was going on. Needless to say, it must have been the Manchurian soldiers who were released from Nanjing, and then started their old business -- burning, killing and looting the cities they "occupied".

This business is almost an unwritten rule in the Qing army, and it is precisely this rule that the surrendered Ming army is willing to actively work for the Qing Dynasty, for no other reason, after the city is broken, the city can be washed, that is, the city is washed with the Manmeng uncle and the Han army take the lion's head, and the green camp can also drink soup to some extent. Under the stimulus of money and women, and with the support of the Manmeng soldiers, no matter how cowardly the Ming soldiers turned into soldiers, they could become fierce pawns.

Jiang Guozhu sighed secretly in his heart, crying out for the people who were plagued by the Manchurian soldiers, and for the officers and soldiers who died in vain. You must know that if you don't kill these loyal Qing officers and soldiers, what reason do the Manchurian soldiers have to wash their own cities!

The innocent killing of those officers and soldiers is no less than a flying disaster!

Suddenly, Jiang Guozhu even thought that if he didn't come to aid Jiangning with Liang Huafeng, but stayed in Susong, would one day the Manchurian soldiers also come over and call them thieves and kill them all in one go?

Lang Tingzuo coughed and instructed Jiang Guozhu: "You send people to inspect various places, and if there are people who have suffered from the scourge of bandits, they will be resettled as much as possible, and the governor's yamen will allocate a special amount of money to go down." In addition, some severely affected prefectures and counties will be reported to the governor's yamen, and the governor will ask the imperial court to exempt them from paying taxes. You also have to do the aftermath of the local situation properly, and don't let any rumors from the outside world damage the reputation of our Manchurian soldiers. ”

"The subordinate knows what to do, and the governor can rest assured."

Jiang Guozhu responded in a muffled voice, if the green battalion did such a thing, he would still be able to go to the generals who led the troops, and the deputy general and below could even handle it directly, but in the face of the Manchurian soldiers, he had more than enough strength and insufficient strength.

Yue Le also spoke out, but he pretended to ask Lang Tingzuo and Jiang Guozhu to rectify military discipline, ensure local law and order, and prevent bandits from taking advantage of them. Lang and Jiang Dufu agreed to it, and Yue Le asked Jiang Guozhu about the situation of the allegiance to recover the lost land in Zhenjiang and Suzhou, and Jiang Guozhu said them one by one. Listening to Taicang, which was loyal to the army in Suzhou, and did not fight against the pirates with Ma Fengzhi, Yue Le felt that it was not appropriate, and was about to order Liang Huafeng to lead troops to Susong to monitor the bandits with heavy troops, so as not to make any mistakes, but he heard a sad cry from far away outside the hall.

"Your Excellency the Governor, are you going to exterminate all the meritorious soldiers?"

What's the killing?

Yue Le and Lang Tingzuo were stunned for a moment, and when they raised their eyes, they saw Liang Huafeng, the chief soldier who had made the first contribution to the battle of Jiangning, running over with a sad face, and he still had a few urgent reports in his hands.

"Mr. Liang, what happened?"

Liang Huafeng is his own subordinate, and Jiang Guozhu thought that something big had happened, so he was very concerned about it. Like Jiang Guozhu just now, when he found that Prince An was also there, Liang Huafeng hurriedly stepped forward to bow and salute, and then handed several urgent reports in his hand to Yue Le very sadly: "Please ask the prince to make the decision for me and wait for the soldiers guarding the city in Jiangning!" ”

"This? ...”

Yue Le was also as confused as Lang Tingzuo before, reached out to take the urgent report, and gave Lang Tingzuo a copy casually, and the two of them immediately looked at it. After reading it, it was both discolored.

There were three urgent reports, which were sent from Hezhou, Taiping, and Ningguo, saying that the officers and soldiers of the right battalion of the Navy Division, Wang Dacheng, the deputy general of Hezhou, Lai Tianguang, and Jiang Qing, the guerrilla of Dangtu, colluded with the pirates to make a rebellion, and as a result, they were pacified by the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers under the order of the Governor Yamen.

"How is this possible, when did I give such an order!"

Lang Tingzuo was stunned, others he didn't know, but Wang Dacheng, Lai Tianguang, and Jiang Qing were deeply impressed, because these three people led their troops to help when the bandits besieged the city, and they took the lead in making meritorious contributions when they attacked in the city, and it was precisely because of this that Lang Tingzuo ordered them to lead their troops out of the city to hunt and kill the pirates, in order to let them make some more contributions, and they would be of great use in the future. Who would have thought that such loyal officers and soldiers were also hanged as thieves, and those Manchurian soldiers were still on their orders, which is simply a big joke in the world!

"Thinking that the right battalion of the water division garrison Wang Dacheng in my Jiangning crisis, led 150 horse infantry through the siege of the bandits into the city to assist in the defense, and when the thieves fought fiercely, the body did not flinch with several arrows, the last general was admired in his eyes, today the bandits retreated, he was ordered to go out of the city to hunt and kill the bandits, but was killed by the order of the governor! ... Your Excellency is doing this, is it going to kill all our soldiers who defend the city? ... Lord, you have to make decisions for me! ”

Liang Huafeng was inexplicably sad and indignant, and even more cold from the rabbit and the dog cooking, he couldn't think about why Lang Tingzuo treated the meritorious soldiers who defended the city like this, was it really to rob the merit!

Yue Le was furious and asked Lang Tingzuo fiercely: "What the hell is going on!" ”

"Lord Wang, the lower officials really don't know!"

Lang Tingzuo is really hard to argue, the three mansions all said that those Manchu soldiers were on his orders, what the hell is going on!

(To be continued.) )