Wuchang, Hubei, Zuo Liangyu's line.

A conspiracy is underway, and Zuo Liangyu gathers his cronies and generals to discuss the arrangements that will determine their fate.

During this time, Zuo Liangyu was unable to sleep and eat, which was forced by Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting. The court was controlled by these two men, and the emperor became their puppet. The imperial court issued an edict to seize their military power, and ordered them, the commander-in-chief of the army, to take up their posts in Nanjing. Of course, Zuo Liangyu knew that this was what Cao Yue or Sun Chuanting meant that they didn't want to continue to lead the army, and wanted to put the army in the hands of the two of them.

has been a general for many years, Zuo Liangyu certainly knows the importance of having soldiers in his hands. As long as he continues to stay in Hubei to lead the army, then he is the emperor here, and at this time, everything is up to him, and he can ignore He Tengjiao, the governor of Hubei. If he accepted the will of the imperial court and really went to the governor's office of the five armies in Nanjing, then he would probably lose his status in the Ming Dynasty and end up with nothing.

When he arrived in Nanjing, no one knew if those people would find a reason to arrest him and punish him again. He has been in Hubei for many years, and he has done too many unsightly things, many of which are the great sin of beheading. If Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue wanted to kill him, it would be enough to turn out one of them. Zuo Liangyu and his cronies both believed that they should never go to Nanjing.

However, three of the general soldiers of the four towns in Jiangbei went to Nanjing, and they really served as the governor of the five armies, and they were not arrested, imprisoned or other embarrassments, and Liu Zeqing, who did not obey the will of the imperial court, finally ended up in a different place. If it is said that before Liu Zeqing's incident came out, Zuo Liangyu was resolutely unwilling to obey the orders of the imperial court, then after Liu Zeqing did not listen to the orders and was killed on the charge of "conspiracy to rebel", it is impossible for Zuo Liangyu not to think carefully.

The soldiers and horses in the hands of the general soldiers of these four towns are not less than him, so many soldiers and horses were easily packed up by Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting, and Liu Zeqing, who had 100,000 horses in his hands, was assassinated before he could fight with the counterinsurgency army. His generals immediately surrendered. This ending made Zuo Liangyu break out in a cold sweat, he knew that if he was as disobedient as Liu Zeqing, then the imperial court would definitely immediately announce that he was plotting rebellion, and then send a large army to quell the rebellion.

Zuo Liangyu, who was afraid that he would also be assassinated, strengthened his vigilance and strictly prevented strangers from approaching. But he did not dare to blatantly resist the imperial court, although he had hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands, but if the imperial court really sent a large army to attack, he felt that he was not sure of victory. The strong combat effectiveness of the army trained by Cao Yue is a bit frightening, and tens of thousands of Jiannu under Datong Cheng have been defeated miserably. Zuo Liangyu didn't dare to gamble easily.

There are also tens of thousands of elite soldiers of the Red Lady, which is located north of Xiangyang, which is also a headache army, and it is against him everywhere. He also vaguely heard that the Red Lady had been incorporated by Cao Yue, and now many leading generals in the Red Lady Army were personally sent by Cao Yue.

There are wolves in front and tigers in the back, and Zuo Liangyu is difficult to decide, so he can only adopt a delaying policy. But what is worse is that the imperial court gave a deadline. Seeing that the deadline was approaching, Zuo Liangyu was even more restless. He must make a choice, otherwise Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting, who control the government, will not let him go. How to choose. Zuo Liangyu is really difficult to decide.

But soon he saw an opportunity, and when Jiannu and Liukou were inseparable, Cao Yue actually led an army to the Northern Expedition to recover Beijing. This news made Zuo Liangyu breathe a sigh of relief. He knew that the imperial court had no strength to deal with him for the time being, relying on the tens of thousands of horses of the Red Lady and the tens of thousands of guards and new troops left behind. It can't deal with his hundreds of thousands of troops.

When Zuo Liangyu breathed a sigh of relief, things changed again. Jiannu actually sent someone to contact him and revealed a lot of "secrets" to him, saying that Cao Yue, Cao Yue, and Sun Chuanting supported the emperor. The envoy brought him a lot of unexpected news, one of which was that Dolgon wanted to form an alliance with him, hoping that he Zuo Liangyu would be in charge of the Ming dynasty.

In his secret letter, Dolgon told Zuo Liangyu that the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty had a common enemy, that is, the Liukou, and that the Qing army entered the customs because the Ming Dynasty invited Wu Sangui to join forces, and he hoped that the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty would unite to eliminate the Liukou. Dolgon hoped that Zuo Liangyu would be able to establish another king, and that the Qing Dynasty would recognize and cooperate with Zuo Liangyu's new emperor.

If the cooperation is successful, the Qing and Ming Dynasty can row the Yellow River and rule, the south will belong to Zuo Liangyu, and the north will return to the Qing Dynasty, and the two countries will form eternal allies.

In the letter, Dolgon told Zuo Liangyu that as long as he was willing to raise troops against the puppet Ming ******, the Qing would give his full support. Now that the Qing Dynasty has poured all its national strength into attacking Cao Yue's New Guards Army, the Puppet Ming Guards New Army, which is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength, is not the elite opponent of the Qing Dynasty at all, and it is only a matter of time before Cao Yue is eliminated. If Zuo Liangyu raised troops, the Qing army would send a strong force to help him destroy the Ming army that dared to attack.

After reading Dolgon's secret letter and talking with the secret envoy for a few hours, Zuo Liangyu finally made up his mind, and he was not willing to lose everything, and was ready to take a risk.

Zuo Liangyu has long been dissatisfied with Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue's control of the government, but he Zuo Liangyu has 800,000 male soldiers under him, and Cao Yue only has less than 200,000 soldiers and horses. And Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue didn't let him go, and pressed him to obey step by step. He wants to resist, he wants to use his strength to fight for everything he wants.

Cao Yue led the army to the north, and Dolgon led the main force of Jiannu to go out, Zuo Liangyu took it for granted that Cao Yue was defeated in this battle. If Cao Yue is defeated, it will definitely be him Zuo Liangyu who will clean up the mess. Therefore, Zuo Liangyu immediately began to arrange, and after the arrangement was completed, he prepared to start an incident.

When Li Zicheng led the Liukou into Beijing, Zhu Cizhao, Zhu Cijiong and all the sons of Emperor Chongzhen had been killed by Li Zicheng, and Cao Yue just found someone who was very similar to Zhu Cijiong to replace him. This person was found by Cao Yue, so he was naturally at his mercy and controlled. After listening to these secrets announced by Zuo Liangyu, the generals under him were dumbfounded. After "knowing" these secrets, Zuo Liangyu's agitation made these generals who were worried about being deprived of military power, and finally disposed of by the imperial court.

In the end, most of them agreed to follow Zuo Liangyu and raise troops to eliminate the "puppet Ming" regime in Nanjing, which was controlled by Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting.

Soon, Zuo Liangyu started an incident in Wuchang, and he raised troops under the slogan of "Qingjun side" to eradicate Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue, preparing to attack Nanjing.

He supported Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, as the emperor, and the country name was still Daming.

Zhu Changshu's fief is Henan, after Henan was occupied by Liukou and the Red Lady, Zhu Changshu had to defect to Zuo Liangyu, this time he was also encouraged by Zuo Liangyu, I really thought that Zhu Cijiong, who was the emperor in Nanjing, was just a person with a similar appearance that Cao Yue was looking for, the real Zhu Cijiong had already died, and Empress Zhou was just persecuted by Cao Yue.

After the news of Zuo Liangyu's army spread, it immediately shocked the world. (To be continued.) )