After listening to Zuo Yuqing's words, Zuo Liangyu, who was already full of budding ambitions, was even more impatient, and he asked tentatively with red eyes: "Qing'er, can our Zuo family also sit in that seat?" ”

"Absolutely!" Zuo Yuqing said affirmatively: "Father, I think that Ming Taizu was originally only born in cloth clothes, and he even worked as a monk when he was young, he can still sit in the world, why can't we?" Father, you have an army of 100,000 at the moment, and the officials of the entire Jiangnan have to look at your face. What does this mean? This means that we already have nearly three to forty percent of the world's money, and with this silver, what can we do, recruit troops, build weapons, and dominate Jiangnan and even the world! ”

Speaking of this, Zuo Yuqing's originally emaciated face was rarely flushed red, and he waved his arms and said: "Father, we have soldiers and food, why do we have to be subservient to others, now that Chongzhen doesn't want to be this emperor, why don't you do it?" ”

Listening to Zuo Yuqing's words, Zuo Liangyu's eyes also flashed with a strange light, and something called ambition continued to expand in his heart.

And Zuo Yuliang, who was next to Zuo Liangyu, had even brighter eyes, and he immediately thought that if his father became the emperor and he was the eldest son, wouldn't he be able to inherit the throne in the future?

Thinking of this, Zuo Yuliang's heart also began to sprout, and he hurriedly said, "Yes, father, what are you waiting for?" Now that Hong Chengchou is still being dragged in Jining by the Great Zhou Water Master and can't move, who else can compete with you in the entire Jiangnan now! ”

Seeing that the two sons were agitating to set up their own doors, Zuo Liangyu laughed: "It's rare that Qing'er Liang'er is so united in one thing, so what else does the father have to say, since this is the case, then let's give it a go and see who is in this world!" ”

"Good!"

Seeing that Zuo Liangyu had finally made up his mind, Zuo Yuqing and Zuo Yuliang also stood up in unison and shouted in unison: "The child is willing to serve his father and work together for the great cause!" ”

"Hahaha"

Father and son laughed at the same time, and after a while. After laughing, Zuo Yuqing said with a calm face: "Father, since we have set our ambitions, let's first eradicate the nails left by Hong Chengchou by our side tomorrow, and we will do this tomorrow."

As Zuo Yuqing's voice sounded, a faint murderous aura came out from the lobby of the garrison mansion

Late at night on the fifth day of the eighth month of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen

There is a huge military camp outside the western suburbs of Jinling, and although it is late at night, from time to time in this barracks you can see groups of soldiers in full armor patrolling the barracks with knives and guns. It looks very heavily guarded.

A big tent stood in the middle of the barracks, and an emaciated figure was looking intently at a piece of information, this was a middle-aged man about forty years old, and what was impressive was that there was a big black mole on the corner of his mouth, and his expression was indescribably gloomy at the moment, he was Ding Qun, who was relied on by Hong Chengchou as a confidant.

After a long time, Ding Quncai slowly raised his head and sighed: "The mountain rain is coming, the wind is full of buildings, is Zuo Liangyu finally going to do it?" ”

Ding Qun thought about it and picked up the wolf hair on the bookcase. After being dipped in ink, he quickly wrote a few sentences, folded them a few times, and put them in an envelope, and then he immediately whispered: "Someone! ”

"Here!"

With Ding Qun's voice, a sergeant in a mandarin duck jacket immediately opened the tent and walked in. I saw him striding in front of Ding Qun and said in a deep voice: "Dare to ask Master Ding what he commands!" ”

Ding Qun stared at the sergeant and asked in a deep voice: "Hong Santong, you immediately take this letter, set off immediately, go to Jining, personally hand over this letter to Inspector Hong, and tell him that the matter of Jinling cannot be delayed, please return to the division immediately to eradicate the traitors, 100,000 urgent!" ”…,

After speaking. Ding Qun handed the letter into the hands of the sergeant.

The sergeant solemnly accepted the letter and said, "Please rest assured, Master Ding, even if you are fighting for your life, you will personally hand over this letter to Inspector Hong." With that, the sergeant immediately turned around and walked out of the tent.

After the sergeant went out, Ding Qun shouted loudly again: "Come on, hurry up and invite General Lin and General Du to come to the big tent to discuss matters." Just say that there is an urgent military situation, and ask them to come quickly."

The next day, when the sky was dark, all the sergeants in the barracks had already gotten up, and groups of sergeants were practicing in the barracks as usual. Ding Qun and two rough-faced generals were standing in the stands next to the playground silently watching the sergeants perform the drill, although they were only silently watching, but their faces seemed to have a faint worry.

"Newspaper"

At this time, a voice with a long accent reached everyone's ears from far to near, and then a sergeant with a spear ran to the stands, looked at the people in the stands and said loudly: "Your Excellency, General Zuo led a large group of people to come outside the camp, and asked us to open the camp door for them to come in. ”

Hearing this, Ding Qun sighed silently and sneered at the two generals on the left and right: "General Lin and Du Zongbing, I didn't coax you, right?" But since Zuo Liangyu resolutely decided to do it, let's do things according to the original agreed charter. ”

The two generals glanced at each other, and the older one nodded slowly: "Sure enough, as Ding Zanhua expected, Zuo Liangyu really did it, he didn't take our western suburbs camp for a day, and he won't die for a day." ”

The older military general on the left also nodded: "Master Ding, since Inspector Hong said before leaving, let the two of us obey your orders for the time being, the two of us will naturally follow Inspector Hong's generals, please rest assured." ”

"Well, that's good." Ding Qun nodded with satisfaction and said loudly: "Then let's go and meet the unkind Lord Zuo Liangyu." ”

"Obey Master Ding's orders!"

After the two of them answered in unison, they automatically followed behind Ding Qun, and the three of them came to the gate of the camp under the support of a large group of soldiers.

The entrance of the camp is made of thick logs and thick iron nails, which is exceptionally strong, and there are many triangular nails scattered on both sides of the camp, and there are tripwires, traps and other things, theoretically speaking, if there is no rush to the city to collide, unless the people in the camp open the door and let them out, they will not want to enter the camp.

At this time, there was a commotion outside the camp. After hearing this voice from a distance, Ding Qun's brows furrowed even more.

When he came to the entrance of the barracks and climbed on the railing of a dirt slope placed behind, Ding Qun saw Zuo Liangyu standing at the door about two hundred steps away from the barracks, his two sons guarding him, and behind them were dense soldiers.

Today, Zuo Liangyu's father and son are all wearing helmets and armor and are fully armed, and the three of them, father and son, are staring at the gate of the camp when they see Ding Qun appear on the railing. Zuo Liangyu shouted: "It's Master Ding in front? ”

"Exactly!"

Ding Qun replied without showing weakness, "Inspector Hong went to the capital to Qinwang, and before leaving, he ordered General Zuo to stay in Jinling, I don't know why General Zuo led the army here today?" ”

A trace of anger flashed on Zuo Liangyu's face, and he said loudly: "Master Ding, don't tell lies in front of real people, presumably you already know about the emperor's announcement of the Zen throne, right?" Inspector Hong went to the capital to King Qin, and now he doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, and Jiangnan can't be left without an owner for a day. Today, the official came with a large army to take over this large camp in the western suburbs. Master Ding, as the saying goes, a good bird chooses a tree to perch, if you and the general soldiers Lin and Du general soldiers around you take refuge in this official. This official will guarantee your glory and wealth, if you don't obey, don't blame this official for being polite! ”…,

When he said this, Zuo Liangyu's voice was fierce, and a trace of murderous intent appeared on his face.

"Hahaha"

Ding Qun laughed loudly, he pointed at Zuo Liangyu and said contemptuously: "Zuo Liangyu, Zuo Liangyu, you chaotic thief has finally shown your feet!" When Inspector Hong was there, he saw that you had always been opposed, so he specially ordered me and Lin Du to be stationed here, in order to keep an eye on you. Today you finally show your feet! ”

"Humph!" After listening to Ding Qun's words, Zuo Liangyu couldn't help but be a little annoyed and said angrily: "Okay, you are Ding Qun, the original official still cherished you as a talent, but since you toasted and didn't eat, then the official was not polite to you." ”

Then. Zuo Yuliang, who was beside Zuo Liangyu, also instigated: "Father, what are you waiting for, since this bullshit master doesn't know how to lift, let's beat his mother, and the child won't believe it." With his western camp, 20,000 horses can stop our 50,000 troops! ”

After listening to Zuo Yuqing's words, Zuo Liangyu did not hesitate, he immediately turned around and retreated, and soon Zuo Liangyu was surrounded by the soldiers behind him and disappeared, and then a group of soldiers pushed heavy things to the front of the camp, Ding Qun and others fixed their eyes and saw that it turned out to be a cannon.

Ding Qun's side Du Zongbing's face changed slightly: "Good guy, Zuo Liangyu's father and son are really poisonous, they even moved out of the artillery, do you really not remember the friendship of the past?" ”

Ding Qun sneered and said, "Hmph, for that chair in the Forbidden City, the old thief Zuo can't do anything." But when it's the turn of artillery, are they the only ones who are allowed to have a lot of artillery left for us by Inspector Hong! ”

Speaking of this, Ding Qun shouted loudly backwards: "Guerrilla Su, it's up to you to shoot the artillery battalion next!" ”

A muffled voice came from behind Ding Qun, "Master Ding, just take a look!" ”

After a while, there was such a scene in front of the camp in the western suburbs, the men and horses of the two sides set up artillery one after another, whether it was a general cannon or a Hongyi cannon, and both sides were wearing the same clothing and armor, and the army that was supposed to resist foreign insults together was aiming their weapons at each other at this moment.

I don't know how long it was, but a voice came from a cloud of darkness.

"Put!"

"Boom Boom"

The sound of artillery sounded almost at the same time, and on the positions of the two sides, the muzzles of dozens of artillery pieces spewed out tongues of fire almost at the same time, and puffs of white smoke rose into the air, and one by one the projectiles that were invisible to the naked eye broke free from the shackles of the cannon chamber and flew into the air, drawing a beautiful arc and falling into the opponent's camp.

"Bang Bang Bang"

One after another, the projectiles fell on the artillery camp position of the large battalion in the western suburbs, some of the projectiles fell on the open ground, and some of the projectiles fell into the place where the soldiers gathered.

A projectile fell on the artillery battalion's artillery mount, smashing the artillery to a pulp, the wooden artillery carriage was smashed by a projectile weighing ten catties to the sawdust, and the sawdust flying everywhere pierced the surroundings, some soldiers were stabbed by these sawdust in the face of the door and fell to the ground and screamed amazingly, for a while, the artillery battalion was slightly commotion, and the surrounding soldiers looked at the smashed artillery with some fear, for fear that this unfortunate thing would also fall on their own body.

"You bastards, don't hurry up and reload the projectile gunpowder and return fire. Do you want to wait for the official to do it for you? ”

Seeing this situation, Su Guji, who was supervising the battle in the back, angrily raised the horsewhip in his hand, and slashed his head on several slow gunners, ordering them to quickly return fire.

Under the supervision of the Soviet guerrillas, the gunners of the artillery battalion also gritted their teeth and fought back hard. …,

On a high ground outside the range of the artillery, Zuo Liangyu slowly put down the clairvoyant mirror in his hand, and said a little depressedly: "I really didn't expect it." There is still artillery in the camp in the western suburbs, it seems that Hong Chengchou, the old horseman, still left a hand when he left! ”

At this time, Zuo Liangyu was very depressed, he originally thought that with the dozens of artillery pieces he had collected from everywhere, as long as he bombarded the camp in the western suburbs, he would definitely be able to blast through their walled gates, and then rely on the numerical advantage of his army to annihilate the defenders inside in one fell swoop. Unexpectedly, the battalion in the western suburbs also moved out the artillery and played against themselves without showing weakness.

Seeing the destruction of his artillery in the artillery battle with the other party, Zuo Liangyu's heart kept twitching, these cannons were the belongings he had accumulated with great difficulty. If this day is destroyed, he will have to die of distress.

Zuo Yuqing, who had been watching Zuo Liangyu's face from the side, saw his thoughts, and hurriedly stepped forward and persuaded, "Father." As long as we can completely annihilate the artillery battalion inside, we can let the soldiers attack as much as they want, if we successfully destroy the nail left in our eyes by Hong Lao Pifu, how many artillery we want in the future! ”

"Yes!" Zuo Liangyu thought about it, as long as he could eliminate this nail left by Hong Chengchou, who else would dare to block his own path in Jiangnan? The artillery battalion is not afraid of anything, as long as there is silver, it is afraid that there will be no artillery, and it will be rebuilt.

Thinking of this, Zuo Liangyu didn't care about the artillery here. Turning to the herald behind him, he said: "Hurry up and order the artillery battalion, fire artillery on this officer, and flatten the western suburbs camp for me!" ”

The rumbling cannon continued for half an hour, and after destroying the last artillery of the western suburbs battalion, Zuo Liangyu's artillery battalion was only left to talk about the three or four Hongyi cannons. And these Hongyi cannons also cracked because they were continuously fired and forcibly cooled down by the gunners with cold water, and they were about to be scrapped.

Zuo Liangyu didn't care about the loss of the artillery battalion, and after seeing that the other party no more artillery was fired, he roared and shouted: "Someone! Give Lao Tzu an all-out attack! Rush in. Kill them all! ”

With Zuo Liangyu's order, countless soldiers wearing red mandarin duck battle jackets rushed towards the barracks under the supervision of the officers.

In the face of the swarming soldiers, rows of archers suddenly stood on the wooden wall of the military camp in the western suburbs, either holding longbows, and the arrows that flashed with cold light were aimed at the soldiers who were rushing towards them in front of them.

"Put!"

"Whoosh"

Countless arrows flew into the distance in an arc, and landed on the heads of the densely packed soldiers in front, many of the soldiers fell to the ground one after another, but more soldiers kept rushing forward under the orders of the officers behind them, and for a while, the killing sound in this large camp shook the sky and the blood flowed like a river

Just when Zuo Liangyu and Ding Qun were fighting for life and death, Hong Chengchou's fleet, which was hurrying back, had already arrived near Yangzhou Mansion.

The sails raised from time to time on the river and the fishing boats fishing, the weather and scenery in August are beautiful, and it is also a good time for literati and writers to lyricize, but at this time, Hong Chengchou is not in the mood to do these elegant things that he liked very much in the past.

At this time, his heart had been completely attracted by what was happening in Jinling and the capital.

Retracting his gaze from a distance, Hong Chengchou turned around silently, but saw Cao Huachun, a white-haired eunuch, standing behind him, holding a letter in his hand. Cao Huachun handed the letter to him after seeing Hong Chengchou turn around, and said softly: "Lord Hong, this is the latest news from the capital sent by Dongchang!" ”

"News from the capital?"

Hong Chengchou looked at Cao Huachun in surprise, this eunuch who was very loyal to Chongzhen seemed to be ten years old these days, and his face, which was originally well-maintained, became pale, and his forehead had some wrinkles. However, to this day, he, the governor of Dongchang, can still receive the news sent by the capital, which shows that he still has some energy in the capital.

After taking the letter, Hong Chengchou looked at it, and his already sad face became even more ugly.

Yang Guozhu, the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu, announced that in response to the emperor's decision to take the throne, he was ready to send an envoy to the capital to congratulate him, and honored that Pang Gang as the emperor. Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, and Zu Dashou, the chief soldier of Guanning, did not express any position on the emperor's decision to take the throne, and Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Shanxi, privately sent an envoy to the capital to congratulate him."

"Bang"

A sound came, Hong Chengchou's fist smashed on the wooden fence beside him, and his face was red, and he scolded angrily: "These traitors who have no king and no father are now starting to flatter Pang Gang, do they think that Pang Gang can have their good fruits to eat after sitting in the world?" ”

After a long time, Cao Huachun on the side said faintly: "Inspector Hong, for today's plan, as long as we rely on ourselves, hurry up and order the fleet to speed up and return to Jinling!" (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )