Lu Jiude really did not refuse Ma Shiying's suggestion, Ma Shiying was even more convinced that what he expected was good, when Nanjing was in turmoil, Lu Jiude held 10,000 Beijing camps, but he did not make the slightest move; Coupled with the bad account of the death of King Lu of Hongze Lake, he clearly has no other choice.

It is unknown how long Zuo Mengeng can hold out, according to the news, Zheng Zhilong's sailors have already arrived near Huizhou Mansion, or it will not be long before they can approach Nanjing.

Therefore, the top priority is to go as fast as you can, and how far you can go.

The big event that was about to succeed disappeared in an instant, and although Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying were unwilling, they could only leave Nanjing gloomily.

The day after the discussion was settled, Liu Liangzuo led his subordinates to quickly withdraw from Nanjing and return to his hometown Shouzhou, without even saying hello to Ma Shiying and others before leaving. Ruan Dacheng and others shouted and scolded, but Ma Shiying was silent, the current situation has a bit of a sense of falling and scattering, Liu Liangzuo wants to leave, who can stop him?

On the third day of Liu Liangzuo's departure, Ma Shiying and others finally packed up and withdrew from Nanjing City with a gloomy expression. Lu Jiude led thousands of selected elite elites of the Beijing camp to protect and follow.

Out of the Dinghuai Gate, it is the confluence of the Qinhuai River and the Yangtze River, where Ma Shiying and others will board the boat and go all the way to the southwest.

Liu Kongzhao had already mobilized hundreds of civilian ships for crossing the river, but only more than 50 ships arrived at this time, which was far + far from satisfying the needs of thousands of people. Looking at Ma Shiying's angry look, Liu Kongzhao suddenly became afraid, and hurriedly scolded the subordinates in charge of deploying the ships, anxious for the ships to come and load the soldiers and horses.

The Spring Festival is approaching, but Ma Shiying can't feel the slightest atmosphere of celebrating the festival, and at his great age, he has to leave Nanjing and run to Guangxi to seek refuge with Jiang Yueguang and Gao Hongtu. In the future, it is inevitable to live a life under the fence, and when she thought of this, Ma Shiying's heart was suddenly full of suffocating feelings.

While thinking about it, the crowd around him was in a panic, and someone shouted loudly: "The pursuers have caught up!" ”

This sentence made Ma Shiying suddenly feel excited and looked sideways. Smoke and dust rose from afar along the river, but nothing could be seen clearly.

"Lu Gong, Lu Gong!" Ma Shiying was confused and hurriedly called Lu Jiude.

Lu Jiude was stationed on a high slope not far away, holding a clairvoyant mirror to observe the situation in the distance, but he didn't pay any attention to Ma Shiying's call.

Ma Shiying was helpless, and led Ruan Dacheng and others to climb the high slope, "Gong Lu, can you see clearly who is coming, didn't Liu Liangzuo send someone to answer?" ”

Lu Jiude put down the clairvoyant mirror. replied coldly: "I'm afraid Liu Liangzuo's soldiers and horses are already a hundred miles away at this time, where will they appear here!" If our guess is right, I'm afraid it's not good! ”

"Ahh Everyone gasped and immediately panicked, Ma Shiying grabbed Lu Jiude's arm, "Lu Gong, how is this good, there are several ferries in this area right now." Thousands of people and horses are difficult to cross the river for a while, so let's protect King Fu and board the boat first! ”

"Panic what!" Lu Jiude coldly put down a sentence. "Even if he is not good, but looking at the size of his formation, it is only more than a thousand cavalry, we have thousands of elites here, why are you afraid of it?"

Hearing Lu Jiude say this, Ma Shiying and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

At the time of the deliberation of the people. The more than 1,000 cavalrymen had stopped more than 200 steps away from Lu Jiude's Beijing camp, and the banners were unfurled, and they could already see the words on it, "Governor Shandong Soldiers and Horses Zhu."

"It's Zhu Ping'an's people!" Ma Shiying was shocked, "How can it be so fast?" I got the news a few days ago. Aren't they still fighting with Zuo Menggeng's army in Henan? How could it appear outside Nanjing in an instant? ”

"Let's go for a while!" Lu Jiude took the reins of his horse, "Since you can't hide, let's meet." According to our news, there is no main force of the Shandong Army in the land of Nanzhili, this should be a small force of soldiers and horses, if you can't talk about it, there will only be a bloody battle! ”

Lu Jiude didn't say much, but he was decisive and straightforward, and everyone finally had some confidence in their hearts.

At this time, more than 20 horsemen in the military formation of the Shandong army had jumped out of the formation and came to the front of Lu Jiude's soldiers and horses, and one of them shouted loudly: "Master of Ceremonies Lu Gongke is in the army, and my marshal asks to see him!" ”

Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng and the others glanced at each other, and a trace of fear flashed in their eyes at the same time, they never expected that Zhu Ping'an would be in danger and come to the foot of Nanjing.

Ma Shiying bit her lip and looked at Zhu Ping'an. As early as when Zhu Ping'an followed Emperor Yixing into Nanjing, the two had a relationship, but they didn't expect that the second meeting would become a sword and soldier meeting. In order to control Jiangnan, Ma Shiying chose Fuwang Zhu Yousong, which was already destined to Jianghe Zhu Ping'an not being able to stand on a front.

When Emperor Yixing alienated Zhu Ping'an, Ma Shiying, who was still in prison, intended to win over one or two, but Zhu Ping'an's clan identity and the military power he controlled made Ma Shiying finally give up this plan, and in comparison, Zhu Yousong was much easier to control. Once Zhu Ping'an is chosen, Ma Shiying can only be reduced to a supporting role.

A series of blows made the once high-spirited Ma Shiying a little stiff, the cheekbones of his cheeks rose high, and he said to Zhu Ping'an with a hint of banter: "Chief Zhu is not going to see his official killed, so he is willing to give up, right?" Otherwise, why would he be so anxious to go all the way to the foot of Nanjing? ”

Zhu Ping'an and Ma Shiying were only more than forty steps apart, and they were already within the range of the archers, but they didn't care at all, they took off the helmet they were wearing, and the black hair on the top of their heads steamed up with white gas all the way, which was very dazzling in this winter day.

Zhu Ping'an took the cotton towel handed over by Wang Jinfa, wiped the sweat off his head and neck, and let out a sigh, "Elder Ge is the best among people, and Ping An is really relieved!" In case it is slipped away by the elder of the pavilion, then there will be endless troubles in the future! In all fairness, Ge Lao's talent is not inferior to Yang Sichang and Zhou Yanru, and even surpasses it, but unfortunately he used his mind in the wrong place, so that he is in today's predicament. ”

Ma Shiying laughed, "Ma is a traitor who kills the king, Zhu Zongbing said this, but he is in love." The big thing can't be planned, just because the will of heaven does not belong to Ma, this. Naturally, I didn't have anything to say. only hated poor fundraising, but was taken advantage of by Zheng Zhilong's husband, so that he became his scapegoat! ”

Ma Shiying's voice paused, and he suddenly laughed angrily, "What are you talking about!" Success and defeat have come to this point. What else can't be seen. It was General Zhu who led these horses to dare to go deep into the hinterland of Nanjing, but he really underestimated Ma! ”

"No matter how bad Ma is, General Zhu wants to use these more than 1,000 cavalry to force Ma to submit, but it is a bit too big!"

Zhu Ping'an smiled heartily, "Actually, I came to meet the Pavilion Elder in the Starry Night today, in addition to wanting to stay with the Pavilion Elder here, there is another layer of meaning!" ”

Zhu Ping'an turned around to see where Zhu Yujian's car was, and it was determined that it was not within the current range. Only then did he say: "Speaking of which, Ping An would like to thank the elder Ge, these days in Nanjing, it is to help Ping An eradicate many political enemies, and Ping An will thank you in person!" ”

Ma Shiying was stunned, "Zhu Ping'an, what do you mean by this?" ”

"Mo Feige didn't think about it carefully, who are the people who have been destroyed by the rebels in Nanjing City these days?"

Ma Shiying is a smart person. Hearing Zhu Ping'an say this, he recalled it carefully. Ma Shiying was in charge of Lufeng and participated in the Nanjing government for many years. His wrist talent was outstanding throughout the Ming Dynasty. After forcing Zhu Cihong to death, Ma Shiying consciously began to restrain Liu Liangzuo's troops and horses, using military salaries, grain and grass as bargaining chips, so that Liu Liangzuo had to clean up military discipline. In this way, good results have also been achieved.

But the blame is that it hasn't stopped for a few days. The city of Nanjing suddenly fell into chaos again. Liu Liangzuo's subordinates didn't know what medicine they had taken wrongly, so they began to loot the rich families in the city even more intensively, and even the famous gentry, wealthy families, and even court officials in Jiangnan did not let go. Even if Liu Liangzuo sent his henchmen and family members to suppress them, it did not achieve much effect.

This also caused a rift between Ma Shiying and Liu Liangzuo.

Right now. Ma Shiying smoothed out the situation of the day from beginning to end, and couldn't help but be shocked. Some of the people who were looted and killed by Liu Liangzuo's subordinates were the backbone of the Donglin Party, they were all natives of Jiangnan, and some of the gentry and wealthy families were all the top figures in Jiangnan, so to speak, they were all the financial masters behind the magnates of the Nanjing court, and they had considerable influence on the government.

And these people also have a unified characteristic, that is, after Emperor Yixing moved into Nanjing, in order to maintain their influence in Jiangnan, they unanimously opposed Zhu Ping'an and Lu Zhenfei from outsiders entering the court.

Thinking of this, Ma Shiying was stunned and raised his trembling arm, "You, you, this qiē is designed by you behind your back?" ”

"No, it's down there!" Zhu Ping'an replied with a smile.

Ma Shiying was like falling into an ice cellar that had not melted for 10,000 years, and Zhou's body became cold up and down. Zhu Ping'an thought so far away, it was obvious that Sun Chuanting was trapped in Luyi, and Zhu Ping'an's army was close to Suizhou but did not send a single soldier to rescue, but his intention was obvious. Speaking of which, the death of Emperor Yixing was something he was happy to see.

There is also Zheng Zhilong, who is still in the Huizhou Mansion area at this time, but Zhu Ping'an has already arrived in the city of Nanjing, isn't this a clear opinion?

There is only one possibility, the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind, and Zhu Ping'an is the yellow finch hiding behind everyone!

The death of Emperor Yixing, the mutiny that he and others had to take risks to plan, Zheng Zhilong's active participation and sudden change of face, and Huang Degong's defection in Luzhou, these things are linked together, like an invisible hand behind his back. Today, Ma Shiying finally understands that this hand is Zhu Ping'an.

"Ferry! Where is the ferry going? Liu Kongzhao on the side suddenly exclaimed.

Ma Shiying turned his head to see that the only dozens of remaining ferries had already set sail and left the shore, Zhu Yousong, Ruan Dacheng and others looked ashen, and kept waving and shouting at the ferry, but the ferryboat had no intention of turning back. However, the soldiers of the Beijing camp were calm as usual.

Ma Shiying sighed and turned to look at Lu Jiude. Lu Jiude sat upright on the horse, his face was calm, and Ma Shiying smiled bitterly, "Lu Gong, it turns out that you are also Zhu Ping'an's person!" ”

Lu Jiude bowed slightly, "Elder Ge, I'm offended!" You can see the situation clearly, don't fight the trapped beast anymore! ”

"Good, good!" Ma Shiying said three "good" words in a row.

"The matter of Hongzehu seems to have been understood, no wonder Lu Gong made such a quick decision that day, it turned out to be premeditated! Originally, we waited to defend Nanjing, and we could support it for some more time, Nanjing's city defense was strong, and it was not so easy for Zhu Ping'an to take Nanjing, but now, haha......! We're really killing ourselves! ”

"Happy!" Ma Shiying looked up at the sky and smiled, "It's really happy!" It turns out that Zheng Zhilong, like me, made wedding dresses for others! For this alone, I, Ma Shiying, will die without regrets! (To be continued......) R1292