The sky is getting brighter, the morning sun shows a ray of dawn in the eastern sky, the whole heaven and earth are shrouded in a half-light and half-darkness, the cicadas and frogs that have been screaming all night have also temporarily stopped, and the soldiers guarding the city have a rare time to repair, one by one hiding in the battlements at the head of the city, enjoying the rare coolness and quiet.

Zheng Sen dispatched troops quickly, but he attached great importance to the defense of Putian, Yang Chaodong, as a veteran of Zheng Jun, was famous for his calmness and seriousness, and he naturally did not dare to be careless after receiving Zheng Sen's thousands of instructions.

Before dawn, he had already sent his cronies to Simen to check on the defenders, and the fortresses such as Jiangkou Town outside the city had even sent people. And he himself got up early in the morning and went to the Gongchen Gate to inspect.

As a veteran of the Zheng army, he naturally has no good face for these surrendered troops under Luo Rucai. If it weren't for Luo Rucai's lone army guarding the Qianshan defense line, which bought time for the Zheng army to fully withdraw from Huguang at that time, I am afraid that it would be difficult to have a foothold in the Zheng army now.

Even so, Yang Chaodong still didn't have a good face for Luo Ruliang. In his opinion, these rogues are just some unfed lost dogs, with no faith at all, as long as they are for survival, for wealth, it makes no difference to them who they take refuge in. If it weren't for the lack of troops under Zheng Sen's command now, he would never use these people to guard the last nest of Putian.

Among the guards and horses of Gongchen Gate, Yang Chaodong installed a lot of his own manpower to monitor Luo Ruliang's every move in an all-round way. Luo Rucai has always been on the front line of Nanping with Zheng Zhilong, and now he doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, once there is a change, this Luo Ruliang doesn't know what tricks he will play, so Yang Chaodong doesn't dare to take it lightly.

Just now, the confidant hurriedly came to report, in the middle of the night. Luo Ruliang secretly sent a few people out of the city, and this time, Yang Chaodong couldn't sleep peacefully no matter what. Early in the morning, he came to Gongchenmen with hundreds of guards and several henchmen, and the adjustment of defense was certain, and the key was that he didn't know what medicine was sold in Luo Ruliang's gourd. Fortunately, Zheng Sen had already granted him the right to arbitrarily act on the fly before leaving, even if he killed Luo Ruliang, Zheng Sen would not say anything.

There are not many defenders of Luo Ruliang at the city gate, and his main force of more than 2,000 people is still in the military camp outside Jixiangfang, where they have sent their own soldiers and horses to monitor, and there is no way to make any mess. As long as you take down Luo Ruliang and ask him clearly, or kill him with a knife, Gongchenmen will be able to change hands without blood. As for whether there was a mistake in killing, whether Luo Ruliang really did something crooked, it has nothing to do with him Yang Chaodong.

What he Yang Chaodong wants to ensure is that the safety of the entire Putian and Zhu Yujian's family are still under control.

When they were about to reach the city gate, the defenders had already discovered that they could see Yang Chaodong and his party clearly by the light of the torches, and the defenders did not dare to stop them at all, after Luo Ruliang got the news. He also hurriedly trotted all the way down from the city.

"Yang Zhenfu, this early in the morning. How did you get here? Luo Ruliang spoke cautiously, bowing his hand while carefully checking Yang Chaodong's expression.

"It's okay!" Yang Chaodong waved his hand, but inadvertently threw a look at his subordinates, and his subordinates immediately dispersed, tightly surrounding Luo Ruliang and several personal soldiers in the middle.

"Now Fujian is in chaos. The Qing army is close at hand, and the official can't rest assured, so he came to check the city defense? Was it safe last night? ”

"Everything is normal!" Luo Ruliang's answer was absent-minded, but the corner of his eye was secretly vigilant against Yang Chaodong's personal soldiers who were gradually approaching around him. Such an expression made Yang Chaodong sit down with the suspicions in his heart.

Yang Chaodong suddenly became a little impatient. I didn't bother to have a good match with Luo Ruliang again, so I simply waved my hand, "According to the uncle's military order, Gongchen Gate is adjusted, Luo Ruliang secretly let the unknown person out of the city last night, and took it down to ask for the crime!" ”

The pro-soldiers rushed up and immediately pushed Luo Ruliang and several others to the ground. Luo Ruliang didn't resist either, let them untie their sabers, and knelt on the ground with their hands cut back.

Seeing Luo Ruliang being captured alive, Yang Chaodong was a lot more relaxed, and he was just about to give orders to let his people take over the city defense, but he heard a soft sound of "whoosh" in his ears. Before he could react, there was a chill in his throat, and blood gushed out with the hissing sound of breaking the wind.

Yang Chaodong was shocked, but at this time, he couldn't shout, he threw away his blade and blindly pressed the wound on his neck with both hands, but it was all in vain. The sound of bowstrings in my ears came and went, but countless black shadows appeared on the roofs of the surrounding houses.

Those figures didn't speak, but they kept bending bows and shooting arrows in their hands, and the more than 300 people brought by Yang Chaodong were caught off guard, and after a round of arrow rain, they began to scatter and flee, but in the streets and alleys, there were countless black shadows killed, and under the shadow of swords and swords, these pro-soldiers were scattered on the ground in an instant.

According to Luo Ruliang, several soldiers had already been shot to the ground by feather arrows, Luo Ruliang wiped the sweat from his forehead, slowly stood up, and the sound of fighting lasted for less than a cup of tea, and the streets and alleys returned to calm again. The black shadows were as silent as ever, coming and going, dragging the corpses on the ground to the streets.

Although Yang Chaodong was shot in the vital point, he couldn't die immediately for a while, lying on the ground and watching Luo Ruliang, who had a cold face, walk in front of him, his mouth kept making a "ho-ho" sound, and his body twitched.

Luo Rucai looked at Yang Chaodong's appearance and didn't speak, but Yang Chaodong's ears clearly heard a strange sound, which was the sound of the horn in the army. As far as the eye could see, Luo Ruliang's subordinates had already hurriedly opened the Gongchen Gate, and then the ground began to shake violently, and a large number of cavalry entered the city from far and near.

Yang Chaodong was extremely desperate in his heart, shouted hysterically, and used all his strength to pull out the feather arrow in his neck with his backhand, and died of anger instantly.

"Bury him well!" Luo Ruliang commanded, turned around and walked quickly to the city gate, and stood respectfully on the side of the road. After a short time, with the rolling iron flow into the city, several generals wearing the chain mail of the Ming army came to the side, and one of the white-faced thin generals with a short beard under the chin asked loudly: "But General Luo Ruliang?" ”

Luo Ruliang hurriedly bowed down and replied, "The last general is Luo Ruliang, who was ordered by the prince to dedicate Putian City to the king's master." Now that His Majesty, the Empress Mother, the King of Qin, and all the important ministers are in the city, how to act, please dispatch the general! ”

The general smiled slightly, jumped off the horse, and held his hands weakly, "General Luo is polite, this general Zhang Mingzhen is the prince driving the military plane in front of him, and the current governor of Fujian and Guangdong is in military affairs." In the future, please ask the general to teach me a lot! ”

Luo Ruliang didn't even dare to say it, but he was surprised in his heart. The Military Aircraft Department under Zhu Ping'an's command is in charge of the important military and political affairs of the Shandong Army, and it is simply a miniature version of the Daimyo Cabinet, among which Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Tinglin, Yin Shigang and others are all veterans in the Shandong Army, but Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan are the upstarts in the Shandong Army, although the grade is not high, but the status is extremely respectful, and even the veterans of the Shandong Army, Yue Jinfeng, Qiu Ze and others are difficult to compare. Zhu Ping'an actually sent his favorite generals and henchmen to Fujian, which shows that he attaches great importance to the war in Fujian, how dare Luo Ruliang hold up in front of Zhang Mingzhen.

After Zhang Mingzhen entered the city, he asked Luo Rucai to lead the way and immediately went to meet Zhu Yujian.

Since Zhu Yujian arrived in Putian, he has lived in the Zheng family's other courtyard in the city, and even Huang Daozhou, Fang Yuegong and others are also here.

Early in the morning, the courtyard door was knocked on the sky, Zou Jing and others in the house were frightened, thinking that the soldiers in the city had mutinied, so they took knives, guns and sticks with trepidation, and waited for them one by one.

When the soldiers and horses outside smashed the courtyard door open, these people were dumbfounded. The soldiers and horses that broke in in front of them were the appearance of the Shandong army, and the familiar black helmets and red tassels made Zou Jing and the others feel like they were in a dream, and they cried out for a long time.

In the past half a year, I have really had all kinds of feelings in my heart, and now I suddenly saw the soldiers of the Shandong Army, and even old ministers like Huang Daozhou were surprised, and their emotions were difficult to control.

Zhang Mingzhen greeted these people one by one, and comforted them with warm words, so he asked to meet Zhu Yujian, the Emperor of Longwu. When Zhu Yujian's family got the news, they also hurriedly ran out of the back house, and couldn't help but burst into tears when they saw the armor and banner of the Shandong Army.

Zhang Mingzhen hurriedly knelt down and persuaded him, "Your Majesty, don't be surprised, now that the king has arrived in Putian, the last general will be led by King Rui and enter Fujian by sea." The traitor Zheng Zhilong joined the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but he was already punished by heaven and died in Nanping. The minister also prepared a sea ship and escorted soldiers and horses, and His Majesty could immediately board the ship and return to Shandong. His Royal Highness King Rui is currently supervising the battle on the front line in Shandong, and he can't be there in person for a while, so please forgive your majesty! ”

Zhang Mingzhen's words made Zhu Yujian's face feverish, and he asked in a few words: "I don't know how Aiqing led his troops into Fujian?" ”

"Returning to Your Majesty, the minister led 30,000 land divisions to land in Pinghaiwei and ran all the way to Putian. General Shi Lang led 20,000 sailors to continue south, planning to land and march in Xiamen! ”

"Only 50,000 soldiers?" Zhu Yujian hesitated for a while, "Will it be too little?" The Qing army has more than 100,000 people in Fujian, and the Zheng army has nearly 100,000 troops. ”

Zhang Mingzhen smiled: "Your Majesty, please relax, all reinforcements will attack Fujian within a few days, Wu Sangui's department is just a rabble, and it will be difficult to resist my great army!" It's just that Zheng Sen is still fighting with Zheng Cai, and how to deal with these two people after that, please ask Your Majesty to show me! ”

As he spoke, Zhang Mingzhen peeked at Zhu Yujian.

Zhu Yujian thought for a moment, "Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and was a traitor to the country, but if Zheng Sen hadn't rescued him, I'm afraid I would have become a prisoner of the Qing army." Zheng Cai also knows the general situation, for these two people, let's open the net! ”

Zhang Mingzhen did not hesitate at all, and immediately nodded and agreed, "The minister respectfully obeys His Majesty's will!" But the corners of his mouth inadvertently sneered. (To be continued......)