Ten days later, Wang Pu arrived in Anqing with more than 30,000 elites of the Central Army.

Zhao Xin, Tang Tong, and Huang Degong came to the dock with dozens of generals to greet them, and at this time Anqing had restored calm, Jin Shengtan, Lu Guangzu and others had already led the army to withdraw to Jiujiang, and Wang Pu had also received news that Zuo Liangyu was planning to negotiate peace, and the envoy sent to negotiate peace had arrived in Anqing.

"Master Hou."

"Master Hou."

"Master Hou."

Seeing Wang Pu, Zhao Xin, Tang Sheng, and Huang Degong put their legs together and saluted with a military salute.

Wang Pu replied: "The three generals don't have to be polite. ”

Zhao Xin said with his hand: "Master Hou, please." ”

Wang Pu didn't push back, he went first, Zhao Xin and the three followed, Wang Pu asked as he walked: "General Zhao, how about the casualties in the battle of Anqing?" ”

Zhao Xin looked back at Tang Sheng and replied: "Master Hou, the biggest casualty is the White Lotus Battalion of General Tang's soldiers, when the lowly soldiers arrived, his 5,000 men and horses had already killed more than 3,000 people and seriously injured more than 8000 people, and the army led by Jin Shengtan, Lu Guangzu, Li Guoyong, and Xu Yong was still very combative, and after a few days of fierce fighting, the lowly Central Army also suffered more than 2,000 casualties. ”

Wang Pu nodded silently, such a result had long been expected by him.

Now Zuo Liangyu is the older the rivers and lakes, the less courageous he is, this guy is used to being pampered, and he is no longer used to licking blood at the tip of the knife, but the Guanzhong Army under his command is still the army that can fight well before, Jin Shengtan and Li Guoyong are Zuo Liangyu's descendants, and of course their combat effectiveness will not be bad.

Tang Sheng also said: "Zuo Liangyu's army is quite capable of fighting, but the military discipline is too poor. ”

Wang Pu originally still had the idea of incorporating the Left Army, and when he heard Tang Sheng's words, he immediately asked, "Oh, the military discipline of the Left Army is very poor?" ”

"It's just a bunch of beasts!" Tang Sheng nodded and said, "The thieves only harm the rich, but Zuo Liangyu's army does not even let go of the poor people, and they do all kinds of evil in destroying silver and plundering, even more vicious than Jiannu!" Moreover, it is not just a few generals who do this, but the entire army does it! ”

Zhao Xin also said: "I heard that more than half of the hundreds of thousands of people in Jiujiang City were killed by the rebels, and the rest were all gone, and the huge city finally became a ghost domain!" There are also women, there are tens of thousands of women in the Zuo Liang army, these damn brutes kill at will in addition to destroying silver! ”

Huang Degong also said: "Also, the rebels often catch obese people and boil oil to light lamps. ”

Wang Pu immediately raised a trace of black air between his eyebrows, and asked in a deep voice, "Where is Zuo Liangyu's rebels now?" ”

Zhao Xindao: "In return, Zuo Liangyu's main rebel army has retreated back to Wuchang, but the rebels of Jin Shengtan, Lu Guangzu, Li Guoyong and Li Yong are still burning and looting in Jiujiang and Nankang Mansion. ”

"How can it be?" Wang Pu was furious, turned around and shouted, "Shi Lang." ”

Shi Lang hurriedly stepped forward and responded: "Humble duty." ”

Wang Pu said fiercely: "The sailor doesn't have to stay, immediately transport the Central Army to Jiujiang, and annihilate the rebels in the four towns of Jin Shengtan, Lu Guangzu, Li Guoyong, and Li Yong on the spot!" ”

Shi Lang said loudly: "Yes! ”

Zhao Xindao: "Master Hou, the envoy sent by Zuo Liangyu to negotiate peace......

Wang Pu said: "Blood sacrifice." ”

After that, Wang Pu turned around and returned to the boat, and behind Wang Pu, Zhao Xin replied loudly: "Yes." ”

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Anqing Post House.

The envoys sent by Zuo Liangyu to negotiate peace, Liu Jingting and Huguang Xun, were anxiously waiting for Wang Pu to arrive, and the two were not too worried about their lives, after all, Zuo Liangyu still had seven or eight hundred thousand troops under him, and before the peace negotiations were fruitful, they felt that Wang Pu could not do anything to them.

When the two were waiting in a hurry, they saw Zhao Xin, Tang Sheng, and Huang Degong coming together.

Huang Shu hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Three generals, what about Governor Wang?" ”

A cold smile appeared on the corner of Zhao Xin's mouth, and he said solemnly: "Two gentlemen, please." ”

Huang Shu asked in a condensed voice, "Where are you going, are you going to see Governor Wang?" ”

Zhao Xin replied indifferently: "The two gentlemen will know if they go." ”

"Just go." Huang Shu said coldly, "Wang Pu still dares to kill us." ”

After that, Huang Shu and Liu Jingting followed Zhao Xin and the three out of the post house.

Outside the post house, a few fast horses have already been prepared, and a group of people changed to fast horses and came to the school field in the west of the city, Huang Shu and Liu Jingting looked at it, only to see that tens of thousands of soldiers of the Central Army had been gathered on the school field, hunting in the cold wind, rows and rows, indescribably majestic and majestic.

Huang Shu and Liu Jingting were still in a daze, four wolf-like soldiers of the Central Army had already pounced, and they were lifted off their horses and pressed to the ground, Huang Peng and Liu Jingting were shocked to realize that something was wrong, and immediately shouted like a pig: "Zhao Xin, what do you want to do?" Don't mess around. ”

Zhao Xin sneered twice, and with a wave of his hand, the four officers and soldiers of the Central Army had already escorted Huang Shu and Liu Jingting to the parade platform.

Seeing this scene, Liu Mazi was already stupid, Huang Shu was patrolling the imperial history after all, and shouted while struggling: "I want to see Wang Pu, let Wang Pu come to see me immediately, I want to see Wang Pu......"

"Huang Shu!" Tang Sheng kicked on Huang Shu's tail vertebrae and scolded angrily, "What the fuck are you, and Master Hou is also what you can see if you want to?" ”

Huang Shu was so painful that he was urinating, and said in a trembling voice: "You guys...... If you dare to kill me, Ning Nanhou will not let you go, don't forget that Ning Nanhou still has 800,000 troops under him......"

"Shut up!"

Huang Degong slapped Huang Shu in the face, Huang Shu suddenly screamed and spit out two mouthfuls of blood, and there were two teeth in the red blood water, Huang Degong's slap was extremely heavy, and half of Huang Shu's face immediately swollen, and his speech leaked, sounding indistinct.

Liu Mazi also said anxiously: "There is a way that the two countries do not kill the envoys when they fight each other, how can you kill the envoys who came to negotiate peace?" ”

"Two countries fighting?" Zhao Xin said coldly, "What country? Peace? Does Zuo Liangyu, a chaotic minister and thief, have this qualification? ”

Liu Mazi was speechless for a moment, and after a while, he begged again: "General, the villain is a storyteller, not someone from Zuo Liangyu, so you can be merciful and let the villain go." ”

"Let you go? Yes. Zhao Xin smiled cruelly, "But before I let you go, I have to borrow you something." ”

"Okay, okay, okay." Liu Mazi hurriedly said, "As long as you can release the little old man, you can borrow whatever you want, general." ”

Zhao Xin said: "This is what you said. ”

Liu Mazi said: "Yes, yes, yes, it was Xiao Lao'er who said it." ”

"That's good." Zhao Xin said, "This town wants to borrow your head for use." ”

"Ah......h

Liu Mazi was completely stupid when he heard this.

Zhao Xin waved his hand and shouted: "Come on, cut off these two chaotic ministers and thieves to sacrifice the flag!" ”

"Yes!"

Four gendarmes of the Central Army had already rushed forward to hold Huang Shu and Liu Mazi, and two executioners with ghost-headed knives also strode onto the parade platform, and four soldiers of the Central Army unfurled a plain white military flag on the parade platform, and the four gendarmes dragged Huang Shu and Liu Mazi forward and knelt on the military flag.

"Rustle!"

Two cold lights flashed, and the heads of Huang Shu and Liu Mazi had already rolled to the ground, and blood gushed out from the broken neck like a fountain of blood, splashing on the snow-white military flag, which was particularly dazzling.

Zhao Xin asked the soldiers to hold the blood-stained military flag high, and then pointed to the red blood marks on the flag and shouted: "Brothers, have you all seen it? ”

"See."

All the officers and men of the Central Army who heard the sound under the parade platform responded violently.

Zhao Xin asked loudly again, "Do you know what this means?" ”

"Yes." The officers and men of the Central Army who heard the question responded again, "Blood sacrifice!" ”

"Tell me out loud, what is a blood sacrifice?"

"Kill them all, don't leave any chickens and dogs!"

"Yes, kill them all!" Zhao Xin shouted fiercely, "The rebels put the butcher's knife on the heads of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and even their fathers, villagers, brothers and sisters did not let go, they are simply beasts that are inferior to beasts, such beasts are not enough to kill the people, and it is not enough to thank the world if they don't kill!" ”

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

Almost all the officers and men of the Central Army responded.

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Three days later, Shi Lang's sailors had already carried the Central Army to the mouth of the lake.

Wang Pu, who was standing on the bow of the boat and watching, saw a village from the lookout hole of the monoculars, this village had been destroyed, dozens of thatched houses had been reduced to ashes, only curling green smoke was still churning in the ruins, and a few big trees at the entrance of the village seemed to have something tied to them, which was swaying in the wind.

After Wang Pu moved his binoculars to see those things clearly, he almost plunged from the bow of the boat into the icy river.

It turned out to be a skinned corpse!

"Dock!" Wang Pu took a deep breath and ordered, "Dock immediately." ”

"Master Hou." Shi Lang suddenly shouted, "There are at least dozens of small boats in the fleet!" ”

"Oh?"

Wang Pu's eyes were cold, and he immediately turned the telescope.

Sure enough, dozens of small boats were found in the direction of Shi Lang's finger, and the boats behind were still within the lake, and the boats in front had rowed to the Yangtze River.

"Master Hou." Shi Lang said again, "It's a rebel!" ”

"Rebels!?" The corners of Wang Pu's mouth floated with a hideous murderous intent, and he said awe-inspiringly, "Catch up and intercept them!" ”

"Yes!"

Shi Lang responded, one by one assault boats from the big boat to the river, hundreds of sailors and soldiers fell to the assault boat agilely, Shi Lang gave an order, dozens of assault boats suddenly like arrows off the string, rowing towards the dozens of boats quickly, the dozens of boats in front of them have also found the abnormality, and are desperately trying to escape.

However, it was too late, and the speed of the sailor's assault boat was extremely fast, and the distance between the two sides was quickly reduced by half.

Finding that it was impossible to get rid of, the dozens of small boats gave up the idea of escaping and began to lean together, and the rebels on the boat also showed their bows and arrows, ready to release their arrows, seeing that the sailor light boat had entered the range of bows and arrows, and the rebels on dozens of small boats were about to release their arrows, when a dense burst of gunfire suddenly rang out, and the rebels crowded on the small boats immediately fell a dozen.

The remaining hundred or so rebels immediately blew up, and the leading general shouted: "Stop fighting, we surrender!" ”

In less than a meal, more than 20 small boats full of grain by the rebels were captured by the Central Army, and more than 100 rebels on board and more than 20 young women were also escorted to the big boat that Wang Pu was on! Looking at the rebels lined up in front of him, Wang Pu's eyes showed murderous intent, and he shouted: "Who is the leader?" ”

A strong man walked out in a huff, bowed his head and responded, "It's a villain." ”

"What position?"

"Thousand ...... Thousands of total. ”

"Wu Chang, Shi Chang, and the general and thousand presidents are listed."

More than a dozen rebel leaders stepped forward in fear.

Wang Pu waved his hand, and more than 20 soldiers of the Central Army pounced on him like wolves, pushed these dozen rebel leaders to the side of the boat, chopped off their heads one by one, and threw their bodies into the river to feed the fish, and the remaining hundred or so rebels were in an uproar when they saw this, but there were black holes around them, and no one dared to act rashly.

Wang Pu walked past the rebel army with murderous anger and shouted: "It is not too much to cut you all down with the boundless slaughter you have created!" But...... Ben Hou remembered that you are all only soldiers, and there is an order from above that you cannot fail to carry it out, so the death penalty can be avoided. ”

More than 100 rebels were overjoyed when they heard this.

Wang Pu's eyes were cold, and he shouted: "But ......"

The nerves of the more than 100 rebels that had just relaxed immediately tensed again.

Wang Pu's eyes flashed with a trace of inexplicable hideousness, and he shouted in a low voice: "Shi Lang! ”

Shi Lang hurriedly stepped forward and replied loudly: "Yes." ”

Wang Pu said fiercely: "Castrate them all and send them to the palace as errands!" ”

"Yes!"

Shi Lang responded violently, with a wave of his hand, more than 200 officers and soldiers of the Central Army had already rushed forward like tigers and wolves, two by one, and put more than 100 rebels on the edge of the deck.

You can't blame Wang Puxin for being ruthless, and it's helpless to do so.

Zuo Liangyu's rebel military discipline has not been corrupted for a day or two, these rebel soldiers have been used to killing the common people, they are like a group of vicious dogs who are used to eating meat, it is impossible to let them eat again, the eight major military regulations can restrain the central army, but they can definitely not restrain this group of beasts.

Wang Pu did not dare to want or want such an army, and if it was released to the local area, it would inevitably harm the people.

If the internal troubles of the Ming Dynasty have been eliminated, Wang Pu can consider organizing this group of beasts into a colonial army and putting them overseas to plague foreign races, but not now, now Wang Pu and the Ming Dynasty are facing the task of sweeping away the internal troubles, since it is an internal trouble, it is a struggle between their own nations, a struggle between their own nations, Wang Pu will never dare to use this group of beasts to go to the battlefield, otherwise it will be a disaster!

It is foreseeable that the number of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty will set a record again!

During the Jiajing and Wanli periods, the number of eunuchs once reached 100,000, but after the Zuo Liangyu rebellion was quelled, the number of eunuchs in the palace would increase to an unprecedented 500,000! If it is not properly settled, these 500,000 eunuchs will become a heavy burden, but if it is properly arranged, these 500,000 eunuchs will become the cheapest laborers!

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(To be continued)