After lying on the grass and soil in the forest for a night, after dawn, Wang Lanping twisted his neck and stood up with the tree, his posture was maintained for too long, and the bones in his whole body were moved, and it was uncomfortable to do anything.

The sky is already dawning, and the Dashun army has not yet appeared, so eighty percent will not come, it is better not to come, and if you fight again, you will have to give all your money here.

"Hah!" Wang Lanping let out a long yawn, and a soldier brought a water bag, he took some water and touched it on his face, washed the dust, and sobered up.

Zheng Sen simply lay on the ground, stretched out his arms and said, "General, it looks like they won't come."

Wang Lanping nodded, raised his eyes and glanced at the valley mouth, two fast horses came at a fast speed, and he said, "Well, the sentry is back."

Zheng Sen rolled over and stood up.

Two sentry cavalry came to the front, "Report, deputy commander-in-chief, Huaining City has been occupied by the Shun army, the Shun army is still stationed in the camp, has not entered the city, the city is very quiet, and there is no Shun army to chase until dawn"

Wang Lanping smiled, "Well, it's okay, this kid is quite obedient, give the order, withdraw the ambush, chase Song Qianhu, and immediately send spies in the direction of Anqing to find out the movements of Anqing."

"Yes!"

Anqing City, more than 200 miles to the south, is the seat of Anqing Mansion, where the city is tall and far from Huaining, the small city is comparable, the original garrison of 30,000 soldiers, the chief military officer is Liu Zeqing, the prefect Zhou Shining, is a few days ago to Huaining to welcome Wang Zhuangyuan back to his hometown, and heard that the Shun army besieged the city and fled in a hurry, Anqing Mansion is under the rule of Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, the original governor's palace is in Fengyang, the central capital, but because Fengyang was looted by Zhang Xianzhong the year before last, the government everywhere was seriously damaged, At this time, the Fengyang Governor's Mansion had been moved south to Luzhou City (now Hefei City, Anhui Province).

Ma Shiying, Wanli Jinshi, successively served as Yanzhou, Datong prefect, because of the attachment to the important ministers during his tenure, there were more than 1,000 taels of bribes to the emperors, this move was reported by the eunuchs of the town, Ma Shiying was taken away from his position, and he was demoted to Nanjing City to be an idle official who mixed up and waited for death, the head of the household department in Nanjing, during the Chongzhen period, Wei Zhongxian fell, Ma Shiying came back, awarded the governor of Fengyang, and then promoted to the governor of Fengyang, and became a veritable feudal official, with great power, the four major soldiers under his command, with 200,000 soldiers, but unfortunately, the era of civilian rule and military generals has passed, Since the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Ma Shiying has been unable to command these general soldiers.

People, there must be a loss, there must be a gain, seeing the power next to the fall, the world fell a big pie, Emperor Chongzhen martyred, now the Ming Dynasty has no leader, mixed with half a lifetime of officialdom Governor Ma can really be described as a candle, united the three general soldiers, hard to thwart the Donglin Party, the blessing of the king Zhu Youxiang to the position of the prison country, soon inherited the throne, the establishment of Jinling City, don't look at these general soldiers to the Governor Ma is not disrespectful on weekdays, but this is a good thing, the three general soldiers are a hit, this is the merit of supporting the policy, The future is immeasurable.

Among the four general soldiers, only Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Anqing, did not participate in this matter, because he didn't know at all, and no one informed him at all, everyone knew that this master had no ambitions, and his biggest hobby in life was silver, and he even dared to sell soldiers and horses or something, and the whole master who wanted money and didn't want to die, so Ma Shiying and the other three general soldiers didn't take him to play, and it was a scourge to come.

Ma Shiying, who has the ability to make decisions, has become the cabinet deputy assistant of the Hongguang Dynasty, Shi Kefa was originally the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, the head of the hundred officials, in order to appease the forces of all parties, this made Shi Shangshu promoted to the first assistant of the cabinet, Shi Kefa did not have Ma Shiying around these fierce generals with male soldiers, named Shoufu, in fact, the government of the Hongguang Dynasty fell into the hands of the second assistant Ma Shiying, Shi Daren was set aside, and there was always a danger of being replaced by Ma Shoufu, not for anything else, just because Ma Shoufu and the original general soldiers stood together again, A man has a soldier in his hand.

Then set their eyes back on Anqing Mansion, Wang Lanping and his entourage withdrew from Huaining, helped the old and the young, pulled the team of more than ten miles forward, more than 200 miles of road, it was hard to grind for seven days and seven nights, fortunately, the Shun army did not catch up, otherwise they all had to die, seven days later finally arrived outside Anqing City, these days along the road to collect the deserters and defeated generals, Wang Lanping chose the best and used, the people and horses soon expanded to nearly 1,000 people, who called Wang Lanping to have food in his hands, almost half of the grain in Huaining City was collected.

As early as four days ago, the spies sent by Wang Lanping to Anqing City had already told him about the situation in the city, an empty city, no Ming defenders left, the general soldier Liu Zeqing heard that the Shun army of 100,000 troops went south as soon as he returned to the city, and he was almost not scared to death, and immediately asked for help from Ma Shiying, the governor of Luzhou, who knew that the governor of the people and horses had already left Luzhou to go to Nanjing to fly Huang Tengda, and then inquired, almost vomited blood without anger, and the entire Jiangbei defense line was still poking stupidly here, and the other people were withdrawn to the area of Nanzhili to set up defenses, and the officials were added to the knight, Now all of them are in a good mood, and there are eight seats.

Liu Zeqing scolded these people for not being interesting enough, and immediately set out to march eastward, he also wanted to go to Nanjing to get a piece of the pie.

But thinking about his original belongings, after these years of demolition, demolition and sale, the 30,000 army has long been not even half of the people left, and he can't explain it when he goes to Nanjing, so he requisitioned a large number of guards around Anqing, no matter how good or bad, all of them are rowed over, and they can barely make up enough within a few days, and the army is pulled, and the civilian ships and merchant ships along the river in Anqing are requisitioned, that is, the gold and silver he has collected over the years are soft and soft and loaded ten big boats, and the lady and concubine have not been able to load a boat, just like that, just when he was ready to cross the river, Suddenly received a battle report from the direction of Huaining City, saying that Wang Lanping, the deputy commander of Anqing, led his subordinate Fengzi battalion to block the attack of the Shun army in Huaining City, which made him very happy, and thought: Now I have the capital, Wang Lanping is his subordinate, his success is not my success, he won the battle is naturally my command and dispatch, look at those people in Nanjing City dare not give me a waiting master.

Thinking of this, General Liu immediately reported the victory in the direction of Nanjing, and praised himself for his death, but his footsteps did not stop, and he was high-spirited, and went down the river and went straight to Nanjing.

Wang Lanping stood at the foot of Anqing City, looked at the empty city, shook his head and sighed, "Such a strong city, just give it away, Liu Zeqing should go to hell"

Zheng Sen said on the side, "Then what should we do?" Can't get into the city? ”

Now there is still a fart to enter the city, the soldiers and major generals are slight, and no matter how strong the city is, it is useless, so it is better to retreat to Nanjing.

Wang Lanping said, "The city will not be entered, so as not to harass the people, and this place is only a few miles away from the Yangtze River, so I ordered the whole army to camp by the river, send people to collect ships along the river, and cross the river tomorrow."

At this moment, the gate of Anqing City was opened, and a group of people came out of the city, led by Zhou Shining, the prefect of Anqing, who had escaped from Huaining City ten days ago.

In fact, Zhou Zhifu has long wanted to follow in the footsteps of Liu Zeqing, but he was unlucky, he just ran back to Anqing from Huaining City in one breath, Liu Zongbing didn't wait for him, left in advance, he was so angry, and then look at the treasury in the city, his eyes were green, it turned out that when Liu Da's soldiers withdrew, Anqing City had been searched for a claw, and the granary and silver warehouse were empty.

This next week, the prefect wants to escape and can't escape, he can't explain when he goes to Nanjing, he simply doesn't do two endlessly, and hangs it in the prefect's lobby, and wants to go back to his hometown directly to be an ordinary person, so as to save his life, but when he was about to leave, he heard that Wang Lanping under Huaining City actually blocked the Shun army, and he didn't expect that the general was coming to Anqing with people.

As soon as the city gate opened, Zhou Zhifu was trotting all the way, his mouth was grinning to the root of his ears, and he beckoned and shouted while running, "General Wang, Huaining battle, the general defeated the thief, the prestige has already spread all over the river, the palace admires it, quickly, quickly enter the city, the people of the city poured out of the city, want to see the general's demeanor, general, enter the city quickly"

The city gate cheered for a while, all kinds of colorful flags fluttered all over the sky, and there were all kinds of touted words such as "heroes of the world" and "a pillar in the north of the river" in the book.

Wang Lanping looked at Zheng Sen, raised his eyes, and said with a smile, "Zheng Qianhu, how is it?" Huaining's battle worked well."

Zheng Sen also smiled, "Thanks to the general's good transfer, your name has moved the world, it won't be long before heroes from all walks of life will hear the news, and the strength of the Fengzi battalion has increased greatly, Zheng Mou stopped the general from abandoning the city, he was really short-sighted, ashamed and ashamed."

Zheng Sen realized a truth, it is easy to die to martyrdom, want to achieve fame, turn the tide and be a famous general through the ages, the courage of the husband is really not advisable, Wang Zhuangyuan has 100,000 soldiers in his chest, far-sighted, full of strategy, not the general Ming army generals are comparable, with this person, the Ming Dynasty can be expected to recover, follow this person, it is worthwhile.

Wang Lanping is a little difficult now, the people's hearts and opinions are so surging, why can't he enter the city, but what if he enters the city? As soon as the Shun army brigade arrives, it is still necessary to go, do not go, with this point the men and horses can not resist at all, and finally retreat, and then go is not easy to say, Huaining City retreated, that is by the power of the great victory, retreat and protect the city, the merit is greater than the fault, Anqing City and then defend first and then retreat, then it will become a defeated general, and the reputation that has just been saved is all wasted here.

While thinking about it, Zhou Zhifu had come to the horse.

Governor Zhou bowed down, "The general is here, the city celebrates, the people of the city have spontaneously offered their own wine and food, served on both sides of the street, for the general's army to enjoy, with the general here, Anqing can be safe"

Wang Lanping looked at the scene of beating drums in the distance, no, this city cannot be entered, and the greater the hope of the people, the greater the disappointment in the future.

"Governor Zhou, I didn't plan to go into the city, thank the people for me, and come back to apologize in the future" Wang Lanping waved his hand and asked Zheng Sen to lead people to camp by the river and prepare boats.

Watching the army leave, Governor Zhou was anxious, grabbed the reins of Wang Lanping's mount, and said hurriedly, "General, you can't abandon the people of the whole city, General Liu has already run away, there is not a single defender in the whole city, who will protect the safety of the people, this is still the world of the Ming Dynasty, I hope the general will think twice."

Wang Lanping said, "Don't think I don't know, three days ago you hung the prefect's seal in the main hall, planning to leave, now run me to talk about the safety of the people in the city, why did you go earlier, ten days ago you also slapped your ass in Huaining City, where were you when Kongzhi County died in battle, now Anqing City has no soldiers, no money, no food and no ordnance, look at my soldiers, less than a thousand, most of them are injured, how do you let me defend such a big city"

The circumference of Huaining City is only five miles, it is easy to guard, Anqing City has been established for hundreds of years, the city is high and deep, the city wall is nearly eighteen miles long, such a long front, how to call thousands of people to defend the city, even a city gate can not be guarded, not to mention that Anqing has as many as six city gates, there is no tens of thousands of people can not hold it at all, and then when Liu Zeqing ran away, the official food and civilian food of the whole city have been drawn up, and the Shun army besieged the city, no need to fight, the whole city soldiers and civilians have become starving ghosts for a month.

Governor Zhou doesn't know soldiers, and he doesn't want to protect the city of the Ming Dynasty, Guan Jian is where he wants to go.

Zhou Shining no longer cared about what face was lost, and knelt down in front of Wang Lanping's horse with a 'poof', with a crying voice, he said very righteously and awe-inspiringly, "General, 300,000 living beings in Anqing City, all of them are looking forward to the general, if the general does not enter the city, how can I explain to the people, how can the general explain to the court."

Wang Lanping ignored him, and it happened that at this time, a sentry came from the direction of Huaining City, and Fu Er whispered to Wang Lanping.

Wang Lanping nodded, immediately changed his expression, pretended to be surprised, and said in a lost voice, "Ah, the 100,000 army of thieves is coming."

The Zhou prefect on the ground had a big buzzing brain, and he was so frightened that he sat down on the ground, his face was colorless, and he said hesitantly, "Ten, one hundred thousand, run, run, run, run" tremblingly got up from the ground, stumbled and ran towards the city, quickly packed up the softness, and it was important to escape, as for persuading General Wang to enter the city, he had already thrown it out of the clouds.

Looking at the dejected appearance of Zhou Zhifu, Wang Lanping smiled contemptuously and said softly, "Just your little courage is still pretending to be moral in front of me, run for your life, with you, sooner or later you will be a surrender faction, it is better to go home and be a common man."

In fact, the report from the sentry is not the arrival of the Shun army at all, but Wang Lanping is really not used to listening to this old boy's fake morality and real villain is talking nonsense, and he is not ashamed to run away if he can't beat him, so why pretend.

Governor Zhou ran back to the city in one go, and all the officials and people along the road looked at him, not knowing what was happening, and turned his gaze back to General Wang, who was walking slowly towards the city gate in the distance.

Wang Lanping came to the front of everyone, turned over and dismounted, bowed his hand, and said, "The fathers and villagers of Anqing City, in the lower Wang Lanping, the deputy chief military officer of Anqing, now the thieves and soldiers are in chaos, and the generals should live and die with the city, but Anqing City has never been at war for a hundred years, all industries are prosperous, and the people's livelihood is peacefulAs long as the whole city is saved, even if everyone in the world scolds me, I am willing, everyone, Wang Lanping apologized first."

A deep emotional words, coupled with a deep bow, this made these people don't know how to answer, people don't want to guard, but don't want to lead the war to this hundreds of years without war Anqing City, for this reason do not hesitate to bear a name, this kind of general, but there is a second one in the Ming Kingdom.

Just when everyone sighed at General Wang's true benevolence and righteousness, Wang Lanping had already jumped on horseback, raised his whip and left, and there were bursts of cheers behind him, "The general is benevolent and righteous, General Wang has a long life, and he is a good general in the world...... And so on and so forth."

Wang Lanping really didn't expect it, even running away can get such a farewell, it's really unprecedented, the people of Anqing City are too kind, when the army recovers this place in the future, come and repay them.

Just now, Wang Lanping received the news that the sentry cavalry came from Huaining City, and Huaining's Shun army moved, but the direction was not Anqing, but went back.