The excitement of the welcome is needless to say. That night, Lu Xiangsheng sat in the study, sleepless for a long time, and what happened today made him sigh, and suddenly had a little idea in his heart.

Although Yu Guozhen's surname is arrogant, and he is not afraid of him, the military premier of the five provinces, he is respectful to Kong Zhi! Fang Kongzhi dared to come here to help defend when the Liukou approached Chuzhou, he was a brave and responsible, and he was also familiar with military affairs and paid attention to the overall situation when defending the city, and there was Yu Guozhen, a tiger general, to help...... As soon as he thought of this, Lu Xiangsheng was immediately overjoyed.

The position of the governor of Huguang is quite important, even after he resigned, he also hoped that this position would fall into the hands of Donglin, at least the Donglin branch, and that person could not be too bad, he must have a certain ability. Previously, he wanted Li Juesi, but it seemed that Li Juesi was frightened by the fate of his fellow countryman Yuan Chonghuan, and he shirked in every possible way, and compared to him, Fang Kongzhi was at least brave enough to do anything!

Thinking of this, he spread out his pen and paper and began to write, preparing to write to Emperor Chongzhen in Bei'jing.

At the beginning of the song, he heard the sound of footsteps outside, and then someone said: "Chief Soldier Zu asks to see!" ”

"Come in, please!"

Zu Kuan walked in with an unhappy face, his whole face stretched like a piece of linen. When he arrived in front of Lu Xiangsheng, he gave a symbolic salute: "The lower official has seen the prime minister...... That thief was not caught by a kid surnamed Yu! ”

"Oh, what do you mean by that?"

"If there is no prime minister to strategize, if there is no subordinate to charge into battle, if there is no bloody battle between the two armies of Ning and Tianxiong, how can the thieves be captured?"

When he said this, Zu Kuan's voice was raised, with undisguised anger: "He Yu Guozhen is just a person, and he has a white body, but he has raised so many families, secretly hides firearms and iron armor, and secretly gathers war horses...... This is clearly evidence of misdeeds! The general idea is that he has a little merit in him, and he is not held accountable, but only let him dismiss his family and sacrifice his military armor, then that's it, why do you still remember his first merit, and ask him to be knighted, that is the reward of the marquis, the marquis! ”

Lu Xiangsheng's gaze slowly became sharper, he didn't say a word, staring at Zu Kuan, after Zu Kuan finished speaking, he also didn't say a word, staring at Lu Xiangsheng.

"Let's talk about Yu Jimin's soldiers first, the ancestor general soldier, the salary given to you by the imperial court, I, Lu, have not moved, right? The imperial court gave you a full salary of 3,000 people, why are the soldiers registered in the imperial court roster in your hands in Guan Ning's soldiers, but far from 3,000, what is the identity of those who are not recorded in the imperial court roster? ”

Zu Kuan was stunned.

At this time, almost all the officers of the Ming Dynasty ate empty salaries, and used the money and food to privately save the dead soldiers, especially the Guan Ning Army. These dead soldiers are the elite of the elite, they are only loyal to their generals, but they don't know that there is a court and a son of heaven. is Zu Kuan, no exception, the three thousand Guan Ning troops around him are nominally three thousand, but in fact, many of them are his family members who are saved with the food of the imperial court!

"This ......" he hesitated slightly: "I am an official of the imperial court and a military general!" ”

"Yu Guozhen is a literati, what's so terrible about a literati raising a few families, but it's a military general's private family, don't you think it's against the ancestral system?"

Previously, Lu Xiangsheng favored Zu Kuan, because Zu Kuan was one of the best brave generals under his account. But now it's different, Lu Xiangsheng is a literati after all, and Zu Kuan is only temporarily transferred to his account, not his real descendant. But Yu Guozhen is a very important member of his future plans, and it is very likely that he will become another important force controlled by Donglin like Zuo Liangyu, so he can't help but defend Yu Guozhen.

When he said this, Zu Kuan's face suddenly sank: "The Prime Minister's intention, is he suspicious of me?" ”

"If I suspect you, do you think you can speak in front of me like this?" Lu Xiangsheng snorted: "What do you mean, don't I understand, I just feel that my family has fought thousands of miles, but the biggest credit has been taken by Yu Guozhen, and I am not angry...... But if you are not angry, can you accuse the good of it? You don't want to think about it, what kind of place is this! ”

Lu Xiangsheng was really angry, Zu Kuan was still a little afraid in his heart, he stiffened his neck, although he didn't continue, he still looked unconvinced.

"I don't know, why do you only have this point, no matter how much credit Yu Guozhen has, it is just to capture the thief, will the court forget the credit of our thousands of miles of battle?" Lu Xiangsheng also eased up when he saw him, and was a little distressed: "General Zu, a manly man, why worry about not having a reward for the marquis, you are such a hero, you just need to go and get it immediately, and you can stare at the small merits of others?" ”

These words praised Zu Kuan, making his face finally loosen, but he still felt a little unhappy after all.

"In this big victory, the court's reward will not be less, and the people of Chuzhou have also raised some silver taels, and Shi Daolin and Zhang Yuzhi will also have something to say. General Zu, after the big victory, when the celebration is, you are so foolish, it doesn't matter on my side, but if you go outside, others will say that you Guan Ningjun don't know the general situation. ”

One touch and a dozen, Zu Kuan's eyes showed greed, of course he knew that Shi Kefa of Anlu and Zhang Guowei of Jiangnan would take out some silver money to reward, listening to Lu Xiangsheng's words, this silver money will not be less!

Compared with the rewards of the imperial court that I don't know if it will be drifted away, these real silver are the king!

As for Zu Quan, Zu Kuan thought that he was robbing the villagers around, even if he found out that he had not come back after two days, he would not suspect him, after all, there were too many thieves, and it was normal to lose two hundred people.

After sending Zu Kuan away, Lu Xiangsheng continued to write his own recitals, but his excitement was interrupted by Zu Kuan, and when he wrote again, he felt a little uncomfortable.

When the country is troubled, talented people need to step up. Previously, Fang Kongzhi said that he would not let Yu Guozhen go out to protect him, Lu Xiangsheng was somewhat unimpressed, but with Zu Kuan's trouble, Lu Xiangsheng believed ten out of ten.

If Yu Guozhen is a general and is transferred to Zu Kuan's subordinates, with Zu Kuan's surname, will he be allowed to live?

Thinking of this, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but sigh deeply.

Just when Lu Xiangsheng sighed about Yu Guozhen's matter, outside the city, Zhang Xianzhong looked at the person opposite with a dumbfounded expression.

"Really?"

"That's true, until now, King Chuang has not come up to meet us, so I think it is more than lucky." Geri's eyes sighed, but there was a hint of weirdness in his eyes.

Cao Yingluo Rucai next to him didn't say anything, their group of people were extremely embarrassed, Zu Kuan chased them as the king of Chuang, and under the fierce pursuit, their troops were almost scattered. Originally, there were 150,000 people in the coalition army, and some of them were scattered for Yu Guozhen at the Zhegao River, and some were scattered in Chuzhou, and when they retreated, there were only about 100,000 people left. Under the fierce pursuit of Zu Kuan Guan Ning's iron cavalry, these 100,000 people scattered again, and the total number of those who followed them to Zhang Xianzhong's side was less than 30,000.

The old, weak, women and children were almost all abandoned.

Zhang Xianzhong swallowed his saliva, the fierceness in his eyes flashed, but then disappeared.

"King, seeing that the city can't hold it, should we work harder?" A thief next to him came up and asked.

"Attack your mother!" Zhang Xianzhong kicked him down, and said angrily: "Withdraw, withdraw, donkey said, King Chuang is obviously using you fools as bait, so Zu Kuan's donkey will follow you to chase and fight, King Chuang himself is afraid that he will get out of the north early, he must have an appointment with Zhu Dadian and Liu Zeqing's subordinates!" ”

When these words were spoken, all the thieves who were lucky enough to escape were stunned.

Zhang Xianzhong didn't convince King Chuang, everyone knew it, but he said so bluntly that King Chuang was a black-hearted Song Jiang who framed the brothers of all families, and that was the first time!

"Let's add up on both sides, and there are nearly 200,000 ......"

"And nearly 200,000 pigs! 300,000 can't beat others, 200,000 can't beat even more, our Lao Tzu has made you suffer, this time it's going to be miserable! ”

Zhang Xianzhong hated it, but he knew that there was no way to continue the battle until now. Before, their plan was completely in vain, but now that he has left the Yinghuo Mountains, he has reached this plain, if he is caught up by the Tianxiong Army, the Guan Ning Army or Yu Guozhen, then he will be a dead end!

"Immediately spread rumors everywhere, saying that King Chuang had already gone to Feng'yang Mansion from 'An', and was going to dig up Emperor Zhu's ancestral tomb again." Zhang Xianzhong muttered a few curses, and then said with a fierce light in his eyes: "Since he is unjust to his brothers, we have to use him, I hope this news can make those donkeys turn back, let's hurry back to Yinghuo Mountain, this Nanzhili can't be stunned, go to Huguang, have to go to Huguang!" ”

He is also cunning, in order to get himself out of trouble as much as possible, he did not hesitate to throw King Chuang Gao Yingxiang out as bait, but his conjecture was not wrong, and King Chuang did escape according to the route he wanted.

"Okay, let's go with the Eight Kings!"

Not only him, but also the rest of the thieves, at this time no one wanted to continue fighting, this time to the east, they suffered more setbacks than last year, did not capture a big city, only plundered a few county seats, and were beaten to the ground.

"But there's something to do before we go...... This big plan was a failure, all of which were done by the inaction-free young tiger, and we had to go and see him when we came to his house. When Zhang Xianzhong mentioned Yu Guozhen, he unconsciously had a trace of fear in his tone: "Do you want to go?" ”

"Is there anyone else in his house?" One by one, the thieves looked fierce.

They were scared by Yu Guozhen, and they naturally wanted to take revenge at this moment. Xiang'an is not far from Wuwei, hurry up, that is, a matter of two hours, and it is not wrong to go there.

However, Xiang'an was looted and burned down once last year, and most families chose to move south with Yu Guozhen to Xinxiang, leaving only a few people. As soon as the news of Liukou's re-entry into Nanzhili came out, there was no need for Yu Guo's vibrators, and these people took the initiative to evacuate, because everyone understood that as long as Liukou entered Wuwei, they would definitely come to Xiang'an to retaliate.

Therefore, in front of the head of the Zhukou Qu, there are a few scattered rooms. On the other hand, the fine willow courtyard on the bank of the West River looks very conspicuous.

"This is Yu Xiao'er's fine willow courtyard, you see, this is it...... Last year, it was expected to be burned once, and it took half a year to rebuild, and now we will destroy him again, which makes Yu Xiaoer feel distressed! ”

Hearing Zhang Xianzhong's words, everyone agreed in an uproar, and happily went to loot and destroy one by one. Seeing them leave, Zhang Xianzhong smiled bitterly, turned to Luo Rucai and said: "Cao Ying, we really stole chickens and rice this time, and the biggest opportunity is to burn down a courtyard where no one lives!" ”

Luo Rucai looked depressed and let out a long sigh.

(To be continued)