Just when Xu Hai was hesitating whether to attack Chen Dong, he suddenly received a letter, but this letter was not written to him, but to Ma Ye to Chen Dong, that's right, it was the letter that Hu Zongxian asked Ma Ye to write. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This was not a mistake on the part of the envoys under Hu Zongxian, but that Hu Zongxian had someone deliberately send it to Xu Hai. Hu Zongxian knew that Xu Hai would definitely hesitate, and at this time, he had to push him to a dead end, making him feel desperate and feeling that there was no way out, so he could only obey Hu Zongxian's arrangement wholeheartedly.

Sure enough, Hu Zongxian guessed correctly, when Xu Hai saw the letter, he was completely angry and completely desperate: the little trust he had in Chen Dong was completely gone, and this person was absolutely unreliable in his eyes.

Since this is the case, then strike first, and then suffer, so Xu Hai simply set a trap, caught Chen Dong, and recruited some of his subordinates.

However, when Xu Hai caught Chen Dong, he suddenly stopped moving, because he found a problem: now is different from the past, now that he has solved Chen Dong and Ma Ye, the internal trouble will be gone, and he will not have to worry about being plotted by others, so at this time, he will have to raise the price if he negotiates with Hu Zongxian.

But just as Xu Hai was dreaming of this, Hu Zongxian immediately sounded a warning bell for him: Xu Hai's troops were attacked and raided by the Ming army, and suffered heavy losses, with hundreds of casualties.

Xu Haifang's troops who went to besiege Chen Dong also suffered the same ambush, and after they subdued Chen Dong's troops, they were caught off guard by the Ming army who were waiting for an opportunity to ambush.

If you want to ask why the Ming army can be so clever, it is very simple, they have Ma Ye in their hands, and Ma Ye will tell Peng Yue and Hu Zongxian all of Xu Hai's strategic deployments, combat habits, internal secrets, etc.

At this moment, Xu Haike was dumbfounded, he realized that he was still too tender, and it was too late to wake up at this time, because he had already been held seven inches, and he could not enter or retreat, so he could only follow Hu Zongxian's "advice" and act according to the original plan.

So Xu Hai took all his family resources, about 10,000 people, and rushed to Pinghu City, where Hu Zongxian was stationed.

He wasn't going to fight, he was going to Toucheng, but Toucheng needed capital, so he brought all his family resources, which could not only prevent accidents, but also give Hu Zongxian a little deterrence: Lao Tzu is not easy to mess with!

But Xu Hai didn't know that his approach was exactly in line with Hu Zongxian's intentions.

Looking at the mighty procession outside the city, Peng Yue and Hu Zongxian were not afraid, they just smiled slightly, "Open the city gate and let them in." ”

Peng Yue and Hu Zongxian expected it right, Xu Hai didn't have the courage to fight to the death, the reason why he came to this point was nothing more than to let himself have a safer and more stable ending.

After Xu Hai entered the city, he was not attacked, although he had been on guard. On the contrary, Hu Zongxian treated him politely and invited Xu Hai to a good meal, which was not a Hongmen banquet, because the opportunity had not yet arrived.

Xu Hai was relieved, completely relieved, because Hu Zongxian's performance was really satisfactory to him, so he and his woman Wang Cuiqiao really had the dream of Hu Zongxian's wife and shadow son that Hu Zongxian promised him for a few days.

But just a few days later, this was all shattered, because the area where Xu Hai's troops were stationed was attacked, and it was not the Ming army that attacked him, but Chen Dong's troops.

This is the reason why Peng Yue and Hu Zongxian were reluctant to do it at first, firstly because they knew that Xu Hai would definitely be on guard, and secondly, because they always carried out one idea: let them kill each other, and their own side would not sacrifice without sacrificing.

After he surrendered Xu Hai, he specially found Chen Dong and asked him to write a letter to gather himself and Ma Ye's troops, with only one goal: to eat Xu Hai's troops.

Chen Dong already hated Xu Hai to the core, so he happily agreed to Hu Zongxian's conditions, not to mention that Hu Zongxian also promised himself a lot of profits.

So under the arrangement of Peng Yue and Hu Zongxian, the big group of Xu Hai, Chen Dong, and Ma Ye had a large-scale internal struggle outside the city.

The ending is also obvious, Xu Hai's troops were taken by surprise, and after a period of time, the whole army was annihilated, and Xu Hai and his wife Wang Cuiqiao also died directly in the chaos. is a poor woman Wang Cuiqiao, who originally wanted to have a stable life with her husband, but she pushed her husband into the fire pit with her own hands. Of course, Chen Dong and Ma Ye's troops are not much better, and it can be said that there are heavy casualties,

As the saying goes, the snipe and the clam compete with each other, and the fisherman profits, and Peng Yue and Hu Zongxian are the fishermen at this time. They did not show mercy to the "meritorious ministers" Chen Dong and Ma Ye, but beheaded them all, and together with Xu Hai's head, they were all sent to the capital.

At this point, the second largest smuggling pirate gang on the southeast coast was wiped out in one fell swoop, and the Ming army basically did not pay any price and ended in a complete victory.

After the news reached the capital, Zhu Houxi was also very happy, praised Peng Yue and Hu Zongxian, rewarded a lot of things, and even went to the Taimiao Temple to pay tribute to his ancestors to celebrate.

Indeed, things have developed to this point, and it is really worth celebrating a little, but after the joy, Peng Yue and Hu Zongxian have to face an even bigger problem: dealing with Wang Zhi.

You must know that Wang Zhi's power is much stronger than Xu Hai and others, so it is much more difficult to deal with him.

Moreover, things are more complicated than Xu Hai's, because Xu Hai is a self-employed person, and killing him will naturally solve the problem. But Wang Zhi could not die, because Wang Zhi controlled or indirectly controlled many pirate ronin in Japan.

In other words, Wang Zhi is equivalent to a gang boss, with him, robbery and smuggling are relatively orderly, especially after the powerful competitors have been eliminated. But if Wang Zhi died, then the gang of people he controlled and indirectly controlled would be in chaos, and the southeast coast would be completely out of order.

However, the government certainly could not allow a team as large as Wang Zhi to blatantly carry out orderly robbery, so Peng Yue and Hu Zongxian also established their goal: to really recruit Wang Zhi and use Wang Zhi's power to control these Japanese bandits.

What they gave Wang Zhi was the right to license and special protection to conduct trade with Japan. This condition is very lucrative, and Wang Zhi cannot refuse.

And Peng Yue and Hu Zongxian put forward this condition, which was also considered for a long time: if Wang Zhi really started a business with the Japanese, he didn't want those would-be robbers indiscriminately, because it would also cost to prevent them!

It was under such a "ghostly fetus" that the two sides began to negotiate... (To be continued.) )