"It's finally fucking here!" Shang Laohan smashed his fist on Geng Jingzhong's handwritten letter, and his ugly face was full of smirks in addition to anger.

"The vassal king goes out on patrol, if the honor guard is too much, I am afraid that the place will be overwhelmed, and the people of Li will be overwhelmed, so the little nephew only brings fifty followers, and Uncle Wanwang will ............ the family and the country and the world." Gently reading Geng Jingzhong's handwritten letter, Yue Le couldn't help but laugh and muttered: "Good dog thief, really deceitful!" Only fifty followers each? When the time comes, as soon as your ambush comes out, the prince of Pingnan will be captured, right? ”

Hmph, Yue Le quickly turned around again, and asked at Shang Lao Hanji, "Old prince, is the situation over there arranged like this?" ”

"Lord An, rest assured, nothing goes wrong!" Shang Lao Han replied proudly: "Liu Jinzhong, the chief soldier of Chaozhou, has obeyed the decree of this Wang Jun and strictly investigated the area of the water dividing pass, as long as his Geng Jingzhong's ambush soldiers dare to go to the water dividing pass, it will be difficult to fly!" ”

Speaking of this, Shang Laohan couldn't help but snort proudly, "And for the sake of prudence, the old man didn't even tell Liu Jinzhong the truth, only told them that it was to arrest the jewelry smuggling (smuggling) thieves and large salt lords, and let them keep the news tightly sealed. ”

"This is the best, Chaozhou borders Fujian, and the local garrison must have people who collude with Geng Jingzhong's traitors, and only by hiding them all can we ensure that something happens." Yue Le nodded with satisfaction, and said uncomfortably: "Old prince, Geng Jingzhong Xiao'er agreed to bring fifty followers each, although in order to avoid startling the snake, you can only openly carry so many followers, but these people must be the best, all wearing soft armor, old prince, you also bring close soft armor, just in case." If the situation is wrong, immediately retreat and send a signal, and Xiao Wang will immediately come out with an ambush to meet you. ”

"Don't worry, don't look at the old man's nearly eighty years old, there is still no problem in dealing with Geng Jingzhong's child." Shang Lao Han snorted proudly, and persuaded again: "Lord An, according to the old man's opinion, you'd better not go to Chaozhou, or stay in Guangzhou, one is that it is more dangerous over there, and the other is that Guangzhou is inseparable from people, if the old man's disobedient son takes the opportunity to make trouble, things will not be easy to clean up." ”

"Old prince, your kindness Xiao Wang has received it, but Chaozhou Xiao Wang must go." Yue Le shook his head and said solemnly: "It's not that Xiao Wang doesn't worry about the old prince, the key is that there must be no mistake in this matter, and Geng Jingzhong must be captured by the thief and the king at the water dividing pass, otherwise, once he is allowed to escape, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

"As for the old prince's Ling Gongzi......." Yue Le hesitated for a moment, and finally lowered his voice and said: "With all due respect to Xiao Wang, although the eldest prince is bold and unruly, he is still very cautious in doing things and will not rush at will. Therefore, Xiao Wang believes that as long as the news that we have left Guangzhou is strictly sealed, he will definitely not dare to act rashly at will when he does not know what we are doing. At that time, as long as we succeed and first capture Geng Jingzhong's dog thief, the Fujian thief army will be scattered and cut off his foreign aid, and he will not dare to come arbitrarily. ”

"Well, since the prince insists on going, the old man can't stop him." Shang Lao Han was not reluctant, but just advised: "But please also ask the prince to tell General Shu Shu, after I leave Guangzhou, no matter what kind of chaos happens in Guangzhou City, he must guard the inner city of Guangzhou where the flag people live, as long as we persist until we are done and return to Guangdong, the old man's disobedient son is very capable, and he can't turn over the wind and waves." ”

Yue Le nodded and agreed, and the plan was certain at the moment, Shang Lao Han Jian immediately summoned Geng Jingzhong's envoy Lin Yueguang, and told himself that for the sake of the world friendship between Shang and Geng's two families, he agreed to Geng Jingzhong's request for a meeting, and agreed that each party would only bring fifty retinues, and would not wear royal clothes or honor guards so as not to disturb the people. The main reason is that the road from Guangzhou to Fuzhou is the smoothest in Chaozhou, and the water dividing pass is the boundary between Fujian and Guangdong, where it will be equally fair to face both sides who are suspicious of each other, so Lu Fatzi can easily guess in the plan.

Shang Lao Han Jian agreed to Geng Jingzhong's request so readily, and Lin Yueguang, the envoy of Jingnan Palace, was inevitably overjoyed, and hurriedly left Guangzhou and returned to Fujian to report to Geng Jingzhong. And at this moment, Geng Jingzhong had already gone to the capital of Zhangzhou to wait for the news, seeing that the old man agreed to his request, Geng Jingzhong was also overjoyed, and smiled at his accompanying uncle Geng Jishan: "Shang Kexi The old thief agreed to our request so easily, see that this old thing finally knows that it is wrong, if this king really wants to harm him, what about the last time he detoured to Jiangxi, this king can still send someone to rob and kill him halfway, anyway, Jiangxi's troops are concentrated in Nanchang and Ji'an, who else stops this king?" ”

"Virtuous nephew, it's better to be prepared with both hands." Geng Jishan reminded: "If Shang Kexi really has the heart to reconcile with our Jingnan Palace, of course we are willing, and we can also discuss with him how to share it in the sea to further stabilize him." But we can't take it completely lightly, we must prevent this old thing from suddenly making trouble, which is not good for you. ”

"Of course." Geng Jingzhong nodded and ordered: "Let's do this, uncle, you go to Haicheng Gong Huang Wu, borrow a thousand soldiers and horses from him, and when the little nephew goes to meet with Shang Kexi and the old thief, uncle, you personally lead this thousand troops to ambush ten miles north of the Fenshui Pass, with fireworks as the number, as soon as there is a situation, immediately go south to respond." ”

Geng Jishan agreed, hurriedly took the order, and went to the Haicheng Mansion in Zhangzhou City to borrow troops - why do you say that you borrowed troops? Here by the way, I will introduce the situation of this Haicheng Gong Huang Wu, Huang Wu turned out to be the general of Zheng Chenggong in Taiwan, the mite Qing Shunzhi 12 years is still gratifying the old Han to attack Jieyang, Huang Wu, who was the guard general of Haicheng, in order to seek glory and wealth, when the Qing army has not yet arrived in Haicheng, he actually led his henchmen Su Ming and others to launch a mutiny, killing thousands of Taiwanese troops in the city, and dedicated Haicheng to the Qing army, the grain and grass of Zheng Chenggong's army, and hoarded heavy land, causing the city's grain and ordnance to fall into the hands of the enemy. Zheng Chenggong's army on the mainland was forced to retreat to Xiamen, and Huang Wu was made Duke of Haicheng by the ecstatic Shunzhi, and opened the capital of Zhangzhou.

Later, Huang Wu was awarded the title of first-class Haicheng Duke because of his meritorious efforts to persuade the Han to annihilate Shi Lang, and the crown prince was added to the Taibao and allowed the hereditary twelfth, after Shi Lang's death, the military power of the Fujian Navy Division once fell into the hands of Geng Jingzhong, but it was soon deprived of the defeat in the battle with Zheng Jing's army - the incendiary bomb that Lu Fatzi gave to Chen Jinnan was troubled. Then the position of the admiral of the Fujian Navy stationed in Zhangzhou naturally fell into the hands of Huang Wu, who was loyal to the Qing court, and gave thirteen royal orders to transfer the troops of various provinces to pacify Zheng Jing, and Kang Mazi personally Xu Xu had the right to play directly, so that he could bypass all his superiors and directly deliver the recital to Kang Mazi. Such a character, although Geng Jingzhong is nominally his boss, he does not have the right to directly command him, so even if Geng Jingzhong wants to mobilize his army, he can only send his uncle to borrow it in a low voice.

Fortunately, after Huang Wu roughly understood the reason for borrowing troops from Geng Jishan, he readily agreed to let his son Huang Fangdu lead an army of 1,000 to cooperate with Geng Jingzhong's actions, and obeyed the command of Geng Jingzhong's uncle and nephew. Geng Jishan was overjoyed, and said goodbye with a thousand thanks, but what Geng Jishan never dreamed of was that as soon as he left with his front foot, Huang Wu called his son Huang Fangdu to the front with his hind foot, and whispered in his son's ear: "You must be careful with Geng Jingzhong's dog thief to the water division pass this time, Geng Jingzhong's dog thief is ambitious, and he has long been disobedient, this time he made an appointment to meet the old prince of Pingnan but borrowed troops from us, saying that it was a precaution, but what he planned to do, who has not been clear, so you must use your brains more, and you must not be used by Geng Jingzhong's dog thief." , falling into the catastrophe of disloyalty and injustice. ”

"The child understands." Huang Fangdu nodded vigorously, and asked in a low voice: "Father, if Geng Jingzhong's dog thief orders the child to be unfavorable to the old prince of Pingnan, what should the child do?" ”

"The old prince of Pingnan is loyal to the emperor and the imperial court, and he is the first pillar of my Qing Dynasty in the southeast." Huang Wu commanded in a deep voice: "If Geng Jingzhong's dog thief wants you to be unfavorable to the old prince, you immediately capture Geng Jingzhong's uncle and nephew of the dog thief, and then hand them over to the old prince of Pingnan and report to the saint for disposal!" ”

Huang Fangdu clenched his fists and solemnly arched his hand, and his slightly childish eyes also spewed out a firm and resolute look of loyalty and patriotism.

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After some intensive preparations, the agreed day of April 12 of the 12th year of Kang Mazi finally arrived, according to their respective distances, Geng Jingzhong's uncle and nephew and Yue Le, Shang Lao Han and others set off according to the distance of the distance, and they returned to the vicinity of the water branch between Fujian and Guangdong one night in advance. In order to facilitate the meeting of these two vassal kings, the Qing army of Chaozhou, which controlled the water distribution pass, had already posted a notice to seal the pass for 12 days in accordance with Shang Lao Han Zhan's order, and opened the south gate at night to wait for Shang Lao Han Zhan's team to enter the pass.

Because Shang Lao Han Jian strictly sealed the news in advance, when he saw Shang Lao Han Jian and Yue Le in civilian clothes personally leading a thousand elite soldiers to the gate, Yang Xizhen, a Chaozhou staff general who was ordered to be stationed here, was inevitably taken aback, and hurriedly stepped forward to kowtow and salute, and asked tentatively in great surprise: "Lord Wang, why did your old man come in person?" Didn't you just send the eleventh prince here to arrest the smugglers? ”

"Yang Xizhen, why are you here?" Shang Lao Han didn't answer the rhetorical question, and shouted at Yang Xizhen viciously: "You are a dignified general, how did you come to such a small place as Fenshui Pass?" ”

"Lord Wang, this is your old order." Yang Xizhen replied with a sad face: "You ordered Liu Junmen to strengthen the defense and investigation of the water dividing pass, and Liu Junmen sent the last general here to personally command in order to respect your old man. ”

"I see." Shang Lao Han breathed a sigh of relief, and asked again: "You have been at the water distribution pass for the past few days, have you noticed any abnormal movements?" In particular, did you find that the people of the brigade entered Guangdong from Fujian and wandered around the water dividing pass? Or have there been any cases of entrainment of weapons? ”

"Back to the prince, no." Yang Xizhen hurriedly saluted and replied: "The last general has been ordered to be stationed here for more than ten days, but except for catching a few smuggling salt dealers, he has not found the slightest abnormality, and the people entering and leaving the pass are also normal, and there is no sign of the assembly of the brigade or the illegal possession of weapons to pass the customs. ”

"It's for the best." Shang Lao Han nodded with satisfaction, and ordered: "Exchange defense immediately, this king's army will take over the water dividing pass, your team will leave the flag, all leave the gate from the south gate, go to the Huanggang outpost to temporarily station, send more people to patrol closely, if there is any abnormality, come to report immediately, this king will have a heavy reward." ”

"Order!" Yang Xizhen clenched his fists, readily agreed, and immediately commanded the defenders of Guanzhong to change their defenses.

"Wait!" Shang Lao Han Jian stopped Yang Xizhen again, and shouted in a low voice: "Listen, the matter of this king's personal visit to the water division must not be leaked to the outside world - especially your immediate boss Liu Jinzhong!" There is also the fact that this king has taken over the defense of the water distribution pass, and he can't leak the slightest rumor to the outside world! If there is a problem, this king will ask you for your head! ”

"Don't worry, the last general will never dare to joke with his head." Yang Xizhen solemnly agreed again, and Shang Kexi nodded with satisfaction, so Yang Xizhen went down to lead the army to hand over the defense.

"Old prince, what's going on?" Taking advantage of the gap in the army's change of defense, Yue Le asked Shang Lao Han in a low voice: "Listening to the tone of the old prince, it seems that he is not very relieved about this Chaozhou general soldier Liu Jinzhong?" ”

Shang Lao Han hesitated for a moment, and only replied after a while: "The prince is really like a torch, this king is indeed not very relieved of Liu Jinzhong, he is a subordinate of the former Ming general Ma Degong, I heard that when Ma Degong led the surrender of my Qing army in Zhenjiang, all the generals under Ma Degong supported his decision, but this Liu Jinzhong resolutely opposed it, and vowed to live and die with Zhenjiang, and finally Ma Degong let people tie him up, and then took him to surrender to our Qing Dynasty. It is precisely because of this that although this Liu Jinzhong fought quite bravely, he also climbed up for 18 years before climbing to the position of the general soldier. ”

"Such a dangerous person, why did you still keep him under the tent?" Yue Le was taken aback.

"In the eighth year of Kangxi's military department, he was transferred to Chaozhou as the chief soldier, what can the old man do?" Shang Laohan said helplessly: "For more than three years, the old man has been looking for a way to demote or drive this Liu Jinzhong out of Guangdong, but the cunning of this dog barbarian is comparable to that of Lu Yifeng's dog thief, and the old man has never caught his handle, so he has never been able to succeed." Now that the old man's rebellious son is making trouble like that in the city of Guangzhou, the old man will not dare to act rashly. ”

"Old prince, why are you ......?" Yue Le was anxious, but now it was too late to adjust, so he had to quickly grab the two henchmen and soldiers, and ordered in a low voice in their ears: "You two, go back to the outside of Chaozhou City immediately, closely monitor every move of the Chaozhou garrison, and report it immediately if there is any abnormality!" ”

At this time, Yang Xizhen had already led the 600 garrisons of the Fenshui Pass out of the south gate, and was ordered to withdraw to the Huanggang outpost ten miles away from the rear to station, and the team of Shang Lao Han and Yue Le was stationed in the Fenshui Pass, still playing the original defender flag, less torches, and no stove fires, so as not to find that the Fujian side had stationed heavy troops in Guanzhong overnight. But like Geng Jingzhong's uncle and nephew, Shang Lao Han Jian and Yue Le never dreamed that Liu Jinzhong, the Chaozhou general soldier they were quite afraid of, was not only not in Chaozhou City at this moment, but also happened to be in the outpost of Huanggang Outpost, the target of Yang Xizhen and others............

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"Shang Kexi, the old man is here in person?" After listening to the report of his henchman Yang Xizhen, Liu Jinzhong, who is already in his fifties this year, slapped the table and said with a cruel smile: "Lao Tzu just said, can you use strict search for ambushes to inspect salt dealers and smugglers?" Sure enough, there was a problem! Fortunately, Lao Tzu's scouts found the traces of his team, and Lao Tzu followed him here to investigate, otherwise, if this old man did some tricks, Lao Tzu would have been deceived by him. ”

"Junmen, what is the old man doing? Will it be bad for us? Yang Xizhen asked worriedly.

"Judging by his tone, it doesn't seem like he's trying to disadvantage us this time." Liu Jinzhong shook his head and muttered again: "But what tricks does this old thing want to play?" Why beware of ambushes, and why take over the water division overnight? This old immortal who betrayed the country and sought glory, what is he going to do to be sorry for his ancestors and compatriots? ”

After guessing for a long time, Liu Jinzhong, who still couldn't guess what the old man was going to do, shook his head, "I can't guess, I don't guess, in short, this old thing definitely doesn't have any good intentions, and it will definitely harm us Han people to please Mangou again." ”

"Junmen, the last general has found one more thing." Yang Xizhen reported in a low voice: "Shang Kexi's side is an old thief, there is also a middle-aged man in his forties, his expression is very majestic, and the monk Kexi old thief rides side by side, and his identity is definitely not simple." ”

"A middle-aged man in his forties? The monk and the old man rode together? Liu Jinzhong was a little surprised, but soon came to his senses again, and exclaimed in a low voice: "Could it be Yue Le?" Anjun Wang Yuele full of dogs? ”

"Possibly! Now in Guangdong Province, the only one who can be on an equal footing with the old monk is this full dog! Yang Xizhen slapped his thigh, and hurriedly said in surprise: "Junmen, this is a godsend, if we can kill this big dog and this old man, then we can avenge countless blood and hatred for the Ming soldiers and people!" ”

Liu Jinzhong also showed some excited expressions on his face, and after standing up and going around the small room for more than a dozen circles, Liu Jinzhong suddenly stopped, turned to Yang Xizhen and asked, "How many people did the old Han Jian bring this time?" ”

"Not much, about a thousand." Yang Xizhen replied truthfully, and hurriedly reminded: "But the last general can see that these thousand troops are the most elite soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is definitely very strong. ”

"A thousand soldiers." Liu Jinzhong's face was embarrassed, knowing that although he was determined to oppose the Qing Dynasty, the absolutely loyal army he could control was only two or three thousand people, and there might be hope for this strength to defeat the 1,000 elite soldiers of Shang Laohan, but if he wanted to annihilate them all, it would be extremely difficult.

"No, it's a good opportunity, and we can't miss it." After gritting his teeth, Liu Jinzhong ordered: "Xizhen, you immediately send someone to Chenghai, let Chen Lian use the excuse of assisting in the arrest of the smuggler of salt, and lead his 1,000 troops to the water distribution pass overnight, and ambush at the mouth of Huanggang Creek, waiting for orders." Then arrange for someone to return to Chaozhou City, and let my two sons restrain the army to get ready and wait for orders. ”

"Junmen, our troops are too small, why don't we let the two sons also lead the army out of the city to respond?" Yang Xizhen suggested.

"No, they can't move." Liu Jinzhong shook his head and said in a low voice: "Don't forget, there is still a family of Han Jian Shen Rui (Mites Qing Xu Shungong) living in Chaozhou City, and they also have more than 2,000 troops in their hands. ”

"Then we still have too few troops." Yang Xizhen reminded worriedly: "Brother Chen's 1,000 troops, plus my more than 600 troops here, there are only 1,600 people in total, and it is too difficult to annihilate the 1,000 elite soldiers full of dogs." ”

"We don't get the first shot." Liu Jinzhong shook his head and said in a low voice: "Since Shang Kexi old thief and Yue Lemangou took over the water dividing pass, and arranged an ambush in the water dividing pass, it shows that they are preparing to deal with someone, and this neighborhood can be worthy of their joint attack, except for Zheng Jing and Geng Jingzhong, if it is really these two guys, their subordinates will definitely not be fleshy feet, and they must be arranged." We can wait for them to fight and lose first, and then come to a praying mantis to catch cicadas, and the yellow finch is behind! ”

Note: Liu Jinzhong and Yang Xizhen are both historical figures, in history, after Wu Sangui Lao Han Zhan played the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, the text was transmitted to Guangdong, and the first to respond was not Wu Lao Han's cousin Zu Zeqing, but Liu Jinzhong, who was the general soldier of Chaozhou at the time. "Historical Materials of the Three Domains of the Qing Dynasty" also records that before Liu Jinzhong raised his army, Shang Lao Han reported to Kang Mazi, saying that Liu Jinzhong 'did not respect Zhengshuo in the years and months, and had rebelled', and asked Kang Mazi to confiscate Liu Jinzhong's military power. Subsequently, Liu Jinzhong could not wait for the support of friendly forces, and was attacked by Shang Lao Han and Huang Wu father and son in the north and south, but still resolutely refused to surrender to the Qing court, and was unswerving, until he died heroically on the battlefield against the Qing Dynasty.

(To be continued)