Baoding, the red lady is in line.

Monk Zhang, who was covered with dust, walked in the company of Jing Maocheng, and the red lady who was dealing with military affairs couldn't help but stand up in surprise when she saw this, and said to Jing Maocheng without waiting for Monk Zhang to speak: "Senior brother, you go to the room and give an order, let them cook a few good dishes, and then blanch a pot of good wine." ”

"Okay."

Jing Maocheng patted Monk Zhang's shoulder, turned around and hurried away.

After Jing Maocheng was opened, the red lady asked, "Brother monk, why are you here?" ”

Monk Zhang lowered his voice and said: "Madam, Lord Hou has withdrawn his troops from Liaocheng, and Dolgon is now rushing back with the Jiannu army, let's withdraw our troops back to Henan quickly." ”

"Huh?" The red lady lost her voice and said, "Hou Ye withdrew his troops?" This is a good opportunity to clean up the slaves. ”

"Madame doesn't know." Monk Zhang sighed and said, "Zuo Liangyu rebelled, and Master Hou was also forced to do so." ”

"That's right." The red lady suddenly realized, thought about it and said, "What about Jiang inlaid them, do you want to send someone to inform them?" ”

"No need." Monk Zhang said, "Master Hou said, Jiang Jiao, these repeated villains, let them go and eat dogs with Jiannu." ”

The red lady said again: "Does the Hou Ye have any other orders?" ”

Monk Zhang said: "Hou Ye only said that let's train our troops well, hold Henan, don't rashly attack Yanjing, and don't take the initiative to provoke thieves, Hou Ye also said that he will transport 40,000 war horses to Jining at the right time, let us intercept this military horse halfway, and then train a strong cavalry." ”

The red lady's beautiful eyes lit up suddenly, and a sweet smile swelled up on her fair pink face, thinking that Wang Pu still felt sorry for her, and gave her 20,000 war horses without even frowning! In fact, how did the red lady know that Wang Pu was fighting the idea of the Henan Army.

But then again, now that the red lady is Wang Pu's person, the Henan army has naturally become Wang Pu's army.

Wang Pu's abacus is loud, and the 50,000 war horses brought to Jiangnan from Datong are also raised, not to mention the consumption of forage in vain, it is not of great use, because Jiangnan can't recruit soldiers who are familiar with equestrianism at all, and if you can't recruit soldiers, you can't form a cavalry battalion, since you can't form a cavalry battalion, why don't you give the war horses to the red lady?

First of all, Henan is located in the Central Plains, the terrain is open and flat, and it is a natural cavalry training ground.

Secondly, because of the war, a large number of refugees from Shanxi, Shaanxi, Beizhi, Shandong four provinces poured into Henan, many of these refugees are horse households who raise horses for the imperial court, skilled in bow horses, and even do not lose to the grassland people in terms of horsemanship, the red lady can completely recruit these horse children to form a strong cavalry.

Again, the Red Lady is Wang Pu's lover, and Monk Zhang is Wang Pu's henchman, and Wang Pu is absolutely relieved to hand over this powerful cavalry to the Red Lady and Monk Zhang.

In the end, the Central Army is now a complete firearms army, the cavalry because of the delicate horses, the cavalry riding training is not easy, and the consumption of forage is large, has become a high-input, low-combat power chicken rib troops, in the future to conquer the Mongolian steppe may also use cavalry, but the Central Plains is absolutely not used.

It is precisely because of this consideration that Wang Pu gave out 40,000 war horses and generously handed them over to the Red Lady, but the Red Lady who fell in love took these 40,000 war horses as Wang Pu's heart to her, and naturally she was infinitely happy and happy, if Wang Pu was in front of her, she really wanted to offer a fragrant kiss.

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It wasn't until four days later that Jiang Pai, outside Yanjing City, learned the news of the Henan Army's withdrawal.

When receiving the news, Jiang Jianzheng and Wang Chengyin and Tang Tong discussed the strategy of attacking Yanjing, although the thieves destroyed the Hongyi cannons on the city when they fled from Yanjing, but Jiannu's resistance was very tenacious, and the three-way army attacked for several days, with many dead and wounded but not even the trench could be filled.

As a last resort, Jiang Ji and the others had no choice but to suspend the attack and gather together to discuss countermeasures.

Wang Chengyin said to dig tunnels to blow up the city wall, Tang Tong said that felling wood to build a city car, Jiang Jian proposed to use the strategy of Jiannu to deal with Jiannu, urgently build a batch of shields, and cover the infantry wearing three layers of heavy armor to rush to the foot of the city wall, hollowing out the city wall, when the three of them were arguing, Jiang Xuan, the deputy chief soldier of Datong, came in in a hurry.

"Third child, are you back?" Jiang said, "Did the red lady agree?" ”

"Second brother, the Henan Army is gone!" Jiang Xuan spread his hands and said angrily, "When the little brother arrived, Baoding had completely become an empty city, not to mention the army, even the people were gone, and there were only a few beggars on the empty street." ”

"What?" Jiang Yan said in a speech, "Gone?" An army of tens of thousands of people is gone? ”

Jiang Xuan said: "The little brother inquired, and the Red Lady's men may have returned to Henan." ”

"Return to Henan?" Jiang Yan became more and more unconvinced, "No, even if the red lady doesn't want to enter Yanjing to get a piece of the pie, it's always okay to take the opportunity to occupy a few state capitals, why should she withdraw from the army?" It's weird, it's weird, it doesn't seem like it's the usual style of a thief......"

"It seems that the red lady is quite self-aware." Wang Chengyin said, "She may be worried that after the capture of Yanjing, we will join forces to deal with her." ”

Jiang Jian and Tang Tong's eyes flashed with a cold glint at the same time.

In fact, Jiang Ping, Wang Chengyin, and Tang Tong are not willing to share the results with others, don't look at them as good as brothers now, that is to join forces to deal with the Jiannu in Yanjing City, once Yanjing is defeated, they will immediately turn their faces.

As soon as Wang Chengyin finished speaking, Tang Qian, the younger brother of Tang Tong, suddenly entered the account and whispered a few words softly in Tang Tong's ear.

Tang Tong's face immediately changed when he heard this.

Jiang Jian and Wang Chengyin suddenly became alert, and asked in unison, "Chief soldier Tang, is something wrong?" ”

"Uh, huh? Yes. Tang Tong recovered from the shock and said in a deep voice, "Jiang Zongbing, Wang Zongbing, the younger brother just got the news, under the instigation of Jiannu, Huailai Prefecture and Baoan Prefecture have rebelled at the same time, and the younger brother has to immediately lead the troops to kill back, otherwise he won't even have to go back to his home, and he will leave." ”

After that, Tang Tong hurried away with Tang Qian.

Wang Chengyin thought about it for a while, and immediately understood what was going on, and quickly resigned.

Wang Chengyin's nest Xuanfu and Tang Tong's nest Baoan Prefecture and Huailai Prefecture are next to each other, Wang Chengyin is the most clear about Tang Tong's background, this time Tang Tong brought almost all the troops with him, where are there many troops in Baoan Prefecture and Huailai Prefecture? And how can there be a rebellion?

Baoding's red lady withdrew without warning, Tang Tong suddenly lied that the backyard was on fire, Wang Chengyin was ghostly, and immediately understood that it must be the result of Liaocheng, and eighty percent of Jiannu won, otherwise Tang Tong would not have run away without even saying hello.

Tang Tong is cunning, Wang Chengyin is a ghost, and Jiang Ji is not stupid.

After the two of them left, Jiang Xuan scratched his head and asked in confusion, "Second brother, what's wrong with these two guys?" ”

Jiang Jianning said in a condensed voice: "Eighty percent is that there is a result in Liaocheng, and Tang Tong and Wang Chengyin want to slip away." ”

"Slip away? No way! Jiang Xuan said in a speech, "Second brother, you mean, the battle of Liaocheng Jiannu won?" ”

"I don't know." Jiang Jian shook his head and said, "Even if you don't win, at least you don't lose, it can't be good news anyway, in my opinion, eighty percent of it was Dolgon who came back with the army of Jiannu, otherwise these two guys wouldn't be in a hurry like this." ”

"Huh?" Jiang Xuan said angrily, "Wang Pu can't stand it so soon?" What about the Central Army, the miscellaneous army is almost the same! This can make us miserable, Dolgon will definitely not spare us, Tang Tong and Wang Chengyin, the two stupid people, only want to escape, but they don't know that escaping separately can only be broken by Jiannu, and they can only die faster, second brother, what should we do? ”

"Now is not the time to complain." Jiang Jian said in a deep voice, "You send people to secretly keep an eye on Tang Tong and Wang Chengyin, as long as they withdraw from the camp and retreat, we will also withdraw immediately." ”

"Whoa."

Jiang Xuan answered and took the order.

That night, taking advantage of the night, Tang Tong and Wang Chengyin really secretly pulled out the camp and retreated, and Jiang Ping, who received the news, did not dare to slack off and retreated overnight.

The next morning, when Duoduo ascended the city gates, he saw that the rebels were no longer visible from outside the city.

Three days later, Dolgon appeared outside the Desheng Gate with an army of more than 100,000 Jiannu, and Duoduo, who stayed in Yanjing, hurriedly drove all the former Ming officials in Yanjing City to the Desheng Gate to line up the honor guard, and paved the ground with red felt, to welcome the emperor's etiquette to welcome Dolgon's triumphant return to Beijing.

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Nanjing, Ge Lao Mansion.

Wang Pu looked at Sun Chuanting, who was getting older and thinner in front of him, and suddenly felt a trace of apology in his heart, and said in a low voice: "Dad, you have lost a lot of weight. ”

"Huh." Sun Chuanting smiled faintly and said, "It's much older." ”

Wang Pu said: "Did you eat the wild ginseng I gave you last time?" ”

"Eat." Sun Chuanting smiled heartily and said, "It's already in my stomach." ”

"Who are you coaxing?" Wang Pu asked Lu Liu to put the two brocade boxes on the table, and said angrily, "These are the last two, don't take them to give them away, you don't feel sorry for yourself, I still feel sorry for your old bones, if you really die, your son won't come back even if he takes more ginseng." ”

"Stinky boy, there's nothing good to say when we meet." Sun Chuanting feigned anger and said, "Are you cursing the old man? ”

After that, Sun Chuanting and Wang Pu laughed at each other, the two are not father and son but are better than father and son, Sun Chuanting has completely regarded Wang Pu as his own son, and Wang Pu has completely regarded Sun Chuanting as his own son, and even thought of passing on his second son to Sun Chuanting as a grandson, continuing the incense of the Sun family.

"Daddy." Wang Puchong gave Sun Chuanting a thumbs up and praised, "Gao Jie, you handled it so beautifully. ”

"Don't mention it." Sun Chuanting said angrily, "This kind of thing, the old man really doesn't want to do it." ”

"That's politics." Wang Pudao, "Politics is dark, bloody, dirty, either you die or I die, as long as you can hit political opponents, what if you are framed?" ”

Sun Chuanting said: "Having said that, it is still against conscience to do this after all." ”

"Conscience?" Wang Pu said solemnly, "Benefiting the people is the conscience, and Zhongxing Daming is sincere!" There is one thing I have to tell you, since the Zuo Liangyu rebellion case has made Qu Shiyun an ironclad evidence, then you might as well involve Gao Hongtu, Shi Kefa and Ma Shiying, just take this opportunity to clean up all potential political enemies, so as not to jump out and spoil our big things at a critical time in the future. ”

Sun Chuanting frowned and was silent.

Wang Pudao: "Dad, think about Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng of the Longqing Dynasty, the two of them can be described as national soldiers, don't they also fight to the death?" In order to bring down the political enemy Gao Gong, didn't Zhang Juzheng also resort to the trick of planting dirt and framing him, and instructed the imperial historian to list a large number of false charges against Gao Gong? But can you deny Zhang Juzheng's contribution to the Ming Dynasty because of this? ”

Sun Chuanting was still silent.

Wang Pu continued: "Zhang Juzheng planted a dirty frame in order to bring down the high arch, and the high arch was brought down in order to enter the cabinet, and the cabinet was to implement the new policy, and the implementation of the new policy was for the people of the world, and for the people of the world is the real conscience, this is politics, this is the great conscience - conscience!" ”

Sun Chuanting finally nodded slightly, obviously persuaded by Wang Pu again.

Wang Pu said: "There is never right or wrong in the political field, but only success and failure!" There is never innocence and wrong, only pride and frustration, if you succeed, you are right, if you fail, you are wrong, innocent and wronged are just the excuses that the loser is looking for for his own incompetence. ”

"Ugh." Sun Chuanting sighed and said, "Boy, although the old man has lived decades longer than you, he hasn't seen it thoroughly, that's right, politics is like this, there is only success or failure, there is no right or wrong." ”

Wang Pu smiled: "Now you don't have to feel guilty, and you don't have to suffer, right?" ”

"Stinky boy."

Sun Chuanting smiled at Wang Pu, but he didn't know what to say, a kind of warmth that had never been before gradually rose from Sun Chuanting's heart, no matter how deep Wang Pu's scheming was, no matter how ruthless he was to others, but at least for Sun Chuanting, Wang Pu was sincere, and what he said was from the bottom of his heart.

"Oh, yes." Sun Chuanting suddenly remembered something and said, "There is a good thing, do you want to hear it?" ”

"A good thing?" Wang Pu said happily, "What's a good thing?" ”

Sun Chuanting smiled and said nothing, but just called his cronies to give Sun Maocheng a few words, and Sun Maocheng took the order.

Wang Pu said unhappily: "What are you doing? Mysterious. ”

Sun Chuanting smiled: "You'll know right away." ”

After less than a meal, Sun Maocheng came back, followed by a tall, blonde red-haired devil with blue eyes, Wang Pu couldn't help but be overjoyed after seeing this person's appearance: "John!?" ”

"Oh, dear General, it's a pleasure to see you again."

The foreigner excitedly rushed forward to give Wang Pu a warm hug.

Wang Pu couldn't wait to ask in English, "How are you doing?" ”

"Your Excellency, in accordance with your will, I have recruited thirty-six heretics for you, and in fact there are many more who are willing to travel far and wide to the distant Eastern Empire to seek the refuge of His Majesty the Emperor......," John said, rubbing the middle fingers of his right hand and the middle fingers of his fingers, "but unfortunately I am unable to provide enough entanglement for all the infidels, so I have only selected thirty-six of them. ”

(To be continued)