That night, there was not a single cloud in the sky, and a full moon sailed on this endless lake, scattering a cold glow alone, and the lake was sparkling, and the distant islands and trees were dyed with a layer of silvery white, and the night was very quiet. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In this silent night, a few logs floated silently in the water of the lake, gradually approaching the island of Chagong.

Qigong Island is a very unique island in Poyang Lake, the area is the third among hundreds of islands, a radius of about 20 miles, the island is full of large and small rocks and forests, the uniqueness of Qigong Island is that it is a circular island, looking down from the sky, the shape is like a sickle like a crescent, of course, the gap is very small, only more than 30 zhang wide, this gap connects the inner lake and the outer big lake as a whole.

Qigong Island is heavily guarded, and there is a guard tower every hundred steps along the outer lake, closely monitoring the movement on the lake.

At this time, a few pieces of wood gradually approached the shore, and a group of patrol soldiers passed by, and saw the wood on the water, and several soldiers looked at it for a moment and shouted: "Captain, it is a few pieces of broken wood, floating along the current, not a boat!" ”

"What's going on, wood has always been drifting in the past two days, is it where you are cutting trees to build houses?"

"It seems to be the side of the three mountains! Maybe the fishing village is going to build houses again. ”

"Is it easy to cut down the trees on the island all day, and this tree grows so big?" A bunch of losers, let's go! ”

The captain cursed, and continued to walk forward with the patrol soldiers, and when they were far away, two black-clad water ghosts dived out from under the two sections of wood, and they crept ashore cautiously, and then under the cover of the rocks, they quickly ran into the woods a few hundred paces away.

The forest is about several miles wide, there are a large number of water birds inhabiting the big trees, the two water ghosts try to walk as carefully as possible, lest they alarm the water birds on the big trees, at the third watch, they finally came to the inner edge of the woods, the inner edge of the forest is also a wide open space about one mile wide, and then there is the inner lake covering an area of thousands of acres, but at this time, the inner lake is full of large and small warships, enough for hundreds, and the open space on the edge of the inner lake is densely distributed with thousands of tents, as well as a large number of wooden and stone houses, like warehouses, This is Lin Shihong's lair of the army.

The two water ghosts observed for nearly an hour, and saw that it was almost the fourth watch, so they returned from the same way and dived into the lake again, and after leaving the Qigong Island for several miles, they came to another uninhabited island, and a small fishing boat was moored in the rocks, and the two got on the boat, changed into the fisherman's clothes, and rowed towards the east side of the lake.

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The news of Lin Shihong's death soon spread throughout the armies of Jiujiang, Poyang and Yuzhang counties, the news was like a thunderclap on the ground, so that all the soldiers of Chu were stunned, some were grief-stricken, some were secretly looking for a way out, but more people did not believe it, so far they had only fought with the Sui army, how could their lord die? This must be a rumor created by the other party.

But their lord Lin Shihong did not have any news, as if he disappeared out of thin air, so that many skeptical people began to panic, the initial change occurred in Jiujiang County, Huangcheng County, where 60,000 troops were stationed, commanded by six generals, when the news of Lin Shihong's disappearance reached Huancheng County, these six armies gradually became chaotic, before the generals were convinced, the death of the lord was a rumor, barely stabilized the army's heart, but the fact of Lin Shihong's disappearance confirmed that the previous rumors were not rumors, the lord may really die.

In just three days, more than 10,000 people fled from the barracks, which could not be stopped at all, and the morale of the troops was weakened and their morale was low.

In a big tent, the six generals urgently discussed countermeasures, and if they couldn't stop the soldiers from fleeing, then several of them would have to go home to farm.

"Listen to me!"

General Fan Ce said to the other five: "The only way is to determine the new lord, the navy army is very stable, because there is a second prince in charge, and the Zhenwei army is also very stable, because there is a fourth prince in power, if we want to stabilize, we must also have a new lord." ”

"Does General Fan want us to defect to the second son?" Another asked.

Fan Ce shook his head, "I actually mean the eldest prince!" ”

There was a sudden quarrel in the big tent, some people said that the eldest prince was too cowardly and not suitable for commanding the army, some people said that the second prince was a naval army and would not pay attention to them, the fourth prince was cold by nature, or the eldest prince was kind, and there were different opinions, and there was a dispute for a while.

"Everyone, be quiet! Be quiet! ”

Yang Houde, the other oldest general, shouted twice, and the big tent finally quieted down, and Yang Houde said to everyone: "Anyway, everyone is in charge of the army, and you can choose by yourself, either to support the eldest son, or to defect to the second son or the fourth son, everyone has their own ambitions, I think everyone should not force others." ”

Everyone agreed, this plan is good, you can choose by yourself, and you really don't have to force others, so as not to hurt your feelings.

That night, the two armies left the barracks one after another, one went to Poyang Lake to defect to the second son Lin Zhengwei, and the other went to Yuzhang County to defect to the fourth son Lin Zhengbiao.

In the afternoon of the next day, Lin Zhengtai, the chief son of the cavalry escort with more than 100 people, came to the barracks, and all the generals knelt down in front of the gate to salute, "See the eldest son!" ”

Lin Zhengtai was both moved and worried in his heart, moved that everyone was loyal to himself and supported himself as the Lord, and worried about what was going on with his father? Is it really misfortune?

"Generals, please excuse me, since everyone can trust me Lin Zhengtai, I will do my best to protect everyone's interests."

Everyone was overjoyed, although the eldest son was a little weaker, but he was not confused at all, everyone surrounded Lin Zhengtai into the Chinese army tent, Lin Zhengtai sat down in his father's seat, and said slowly: "From now on, I will be your lord, but I don't know much about the situation in the army, please tell me first, how many troops do we have?" How much more grain is left? ”

Yang Houde bowed and said: "Lord Qiqi, at present, the army's heart is unstable, and many soldiers have escaped, plus General Wang and General Qin left last night, we still have 28,000 troops now, and the food is relatively sufficient, and there are still 200,000 stone grain in Huangcheng County." ”

Lin Zhengtai frowned, there was less than half of the 60,000 army left, how could this be better than the Sui army.

At this time, Fan Ce asked, "Didn't the lord go to see the old prince a few days ago?" What is the situation of the prince? How can there be rumors that he is dead, and there is no news now, can the lord give us an explanation? ”

This is also the issue that everyone is most concerned about, everyone looked at Lin Zhengtai, Lin Zhengtai bit his lip and said: "Father is fine, there is no problem with his body, in fact, I suspect that something happened to Zhenwei Jun." ”

The crowd was puzzled and asked, "What's going on?" ”

"At that time, I was reporting to my father about the envoy to Jiangxia, and suddenly there was a news that my third brother Zhengxiong and sister-in-law Zhao Fang were killed by the assassins of the Sui army, and my father was furious, saying that it was a fart at all, and then we parted ways, I went back to Huangcheng County, and my father went to Jianchang County to investigate the truth, and then there was no news."

Everyone looked at each other, I am afraid that there is a huge human tragedy hidden here, and no one dares to continue to ask, at this time, Yang Houde diverted the topic and asked: "We heard that the lord went to Jiangxia to ask for help from the Tang army, I don't know what the situation is?" Is the Don Army willing to send troops to help us? ”

Lin Zhengtai sighed and said: "King Qin put forward two conditions, one is to ask us to pay 50,000 stone for military rations, and the other is for us to send a warship to transport the Tang army across the Yangtze River, the former condition is acceptable to my father, but the latter condition my father resolutely refused to agree, he said that Li Shimin is planning our warship, and our warship will not come back if we go to Wuchang." ”

"This is the attitude of the prince, what does the lord think?"

Lin Zhengtai smiled bitterly and said: "We don't have a warship, what's the point of talking about this issue?" ”

Yang Houde smiled and said: "We don't have warships, but there are still more than 200 cargo ships in Yuzhang County, let's see if there is any way to get them to Huancheng County." ”

Lin Zhengtai shook his head secretly, the fourth brother is stationed in Yuzhang County now, these cargo ships must have been obtained by him, how could he give them to himself.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this problem, let's discuss how to deal with the Sui army!"

There is silence in the big tent, no one can deal with this problem, the strength is here, once the main force of the Sui army comes to kill, what will they resist?

(To be continued.) )